Without "The Wealth of Nations", it is possible that the national policy of changing rice to mulberry in the future would become a laughing stock, or even a money-making tool for bureaucrats.

The implementation of policies is not just a bureaucratic matter.

In particular, it involves multiple complex factors such as agriculture, planting and commerce, as well as people's livelihood security.

It is composed of various natural environments, people from all walks of life, as well as currency, economic and other factors, and the people in it are likely to change all the time.

The gathering of huge interests makes those involved inevitably become extremely greedy, and those with power will find it easy to obtain benefits.

In the end, it is possible that the national policy of converting rice to mulberry was not pushed forward, and the pockets of those in power were bulging, while the common people's fields were left with no harvest, which was counterproductive.

Therefore, the operation of many things in the world does not change with the change of personal will.

Zhao Ning already knew the basic operation method of converting rice into mulberry, but he needed someone to implement it according to his set of ideas to ensure that it would be effective and not cause anger and resentment.

Prime Minister Zhao Ding and Minister of Revenue Mei Zhili came in and interrupted Zhao Ning's idea.

"His Majesty."

Zhao Ning stopped writing.

"Your Majesty, this is the expenditure of the imperial court this year." Mei Zhili presented a financial summary.

Zhao Ning started to look.

Most of the time, people can spend their money happily without looking at their accounts.

But when I looked at the accounts, my head got bigger.

In the seventh year of Jingkang's reign, Shaanxi's basic military expenditure was 6 million yuan.

There are currently more than 10,000 people killed in the war at Weirong Village, and the pensions are as high as more than 300,000 yuan.

Wu Jie of Hedong's military expenditure reached an astonishing 3 million yuan.

As for the military expenditures of Hebei and Hebei Provinces, the combined total is nearly 4 million yuan.

As for the expenses for immigrating to Fuzhou, 2 million guan have been spent. Including the 3 million military expenses in Liaodong, the total is 5 million guan.

And Annan also invested a high investment of 1 million yuan.

And the navy in the South China Sea has 1 million guan.

It actually reached an astonishing 20.3 million yuan!

Let’s take a look at the salary of bureaucrats this year. It has risen to 14 million yuan!

This is also the result of the expansion of town officials, state-owned trading companies, and banks.

Just these two items alone have reached 34.3 million yuan.

Not counting the local Xiang troops and the Guards Brigade stationed in Gyeonggi Province.

After this calculation, it has reached 36 million yuan.

In addition, official expenses, expenses for maintaining the inn, etc.

In the end, the total amount directly exceeded 40 million yuan.

Let’s look at income.

Zhao Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief. This year's income reached 49 million yuan!

It is normal income, not counting any income from house confiscation.

Zhao Ning quickly read through it again.

Mei Zhili stated on the side: "Your Majesty, all the criminal and prison departments in Gyeonggi Road, Lianghuai, Liangjiang, and Liangzhejiang have gradually begun to separate grain storage cooperatives. This policy is indeed effective."

"After the grain storage cooperatives became responsible for their own profits and losses, various localities distributed part of the previously unattended grain and sold it on the market, making considerable profits."

The former granary, which was under the unified jurisdiction of the Tiju Changping Division, has simply become a centralized place for bureaucrats to carve up at will.

But now, after the restructuring of state-owned trading companies, the self-profit and loss of every transaction is recorded, unless the accounts are falsified.

Of course there are those who make false accounts, but they are also equipped with audits and verifications.

This is indeed less laborious than in the past.

"In addition, Tokyo Post wants to apply for a budget of up to 1 million."

"Let them go to banks to borrow money. They can't just go to them to get money for everything."

Mei Zhili said: "They are worried that the establishment expenses are not managed well and they will owe the bank money, and the bank will not let it go."

"What!" Zhao Ning got angry immediately, "Afraid of owing money to the bank, so you go to the treasury to get money? If the management is not good, the treasury's money is not money if it is lost?"

"this……"

"What does the General Administration of State-owned Commerce do? All state-owned trading companies have allocated start-up capital, and now they are asking for money. In the future, if all state-owned trading companies want money, they will either earn it themselves or borrow it from a bank. They are afraid of offending the people in the bank.

Aren’t you afraid of offending the treasury?”

"Your Majesty, a total of 100,000 horses were purchased in the northwest this year, at a cost of up to 10 million guan, of which 6 million guan were used in banknotes, and 4 million guan were used in copper coins and tea. I calculated this expense separately from military expenses, but also divided it into each

The configuration of war horses in a military town."

"The 6 million banknotes were printed from the bank and have not been included in the national treasury for the time being, but the 4 million guan will be included in the national treasury."

Zhao Ning continued to read.

The food purchased from Champa actually made a fortune.

You can earn 700 wen per stone, because the bank printed money to buy it, making a full 3 million wen.

It is tantamount to printing money directly to plunder the labor force of Champa.

In addition, he also made nearly 300,000 yuan from trading with Japan.

Zhao Ning feels that Japan is making a little little money.

"How many war horses does Yue Fei have now?"

Zhao Ding said: "This year's allocation has reached 30,000 horses, and the number of cavalry has reached 10,000."

This scale is already very impressive. When Huo Qubing swept across Hexi, he only used 10,000 cavalry and about 30,000 horses.

If the Jin Army really invades, Hebei can completely accompany the Jin Army to conduct frontal, deep and high-mobility operations.

"How many war horses has Han Shizhong deployed this year?"

"Han Shizhong has allocated 10,000 horses and has been dispatching them to the Fuzhou area one after another."

"Can there be more?" Zhao Ning looked at the map of Liaodong, "Liaoyang to the north of Fuzhou is a plain. If Han Shizhong can train me a group of elite cavalry, we can quickly fight against the hinterland of Liaoyang at any time and advance and retreat freely. If the Yalu River

If it is controlled by our army, it can form a constraint on both sides of the Jin army in Liaodong."

"If the overall situation is certain, I can destroy Xixia with peace of mind!"

"According to the news coming from the northwest, the Xixia people have recently been strictly investigating the smuggling of war horses." Zhao Ding said, "Maybe the Xixia people also noticed our cavalry during the battle at Weirong Village."

"Let Zhe Yanzhi think of a way to raise the price. There will be a brave man under the heavy reward." Zhao Ning said quite proudly, "Paying banknotes is still the same in Xixia. Anyway, the money for buying horses is printed and used as special funds for the country.

, how much did one cost before?”

"One hundred guan is already very high. It has been increased to 150 guan per horse!"

"Will this release a large amount of cash to the northwest and trigger an increase in prices?"

"It is the rise in domestic prices in Xixia that has nothing to do with us." Zhao Ningyan pointed out the key point succinctly and comprehensively, "When Xixia horse dealers sell horses, they don't realize that the extra money they get will lead to the increase in prices in Xixia."

If prices rise, individuals will not consider the interests of the group."

He continued: "From the moment Li Qianshun accepted the banknotes, he began to dig his own grave. Huizhou I can imprison him at any time, but the banknotes that penetrated into Xixia are held by many Xixia people, and he himself has a lot of them. After paying the money, is he willing to abolish it immediately? Buy it for me, buy a large number of war horses, regardless of the cost, I want to arm a large number of troops in a short time!"
Chapter completed!