Good guy!

Was the Song Dynasty rich?

Rich!

Rich and rich!

Is the Song Dynasty poor?

So poor!

So poor!

Rich refers to the wealth of officials and nobles.

Poverty refers to the poverty of the court and the people.

People in the 21st century mentioned the Song Dynasty and said that the Song Dynasty was well-developed, but after seeing these fiscal and tax revenues, Zhao Ning saw that no matter how developed the business was, he could not withstand this way of spending money!

What a shame, the salaries of officials are high.

The annual expenses of officials are too high!

Moreover, the annual military expenditure is no longer a waterfall, but a waterfall!

No wonder in the late Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Jing wanted to play the game of minting big coins and feeding wool because the expenses were too terrifying.

Behind the prosperity, the national fiscal crisis has become increasingly serious.

Military expenditure is high, why is the military still so weak?

It seems that officials of the Song Dynasty were not polite to drink soldiers’ blood!

So the question is, how much money is there now?

There are still 500,000 guan (also known as one liang, which is calculated based on the price of grain in the Song Dynasty, which is always equal to 500 yuan).

This number can't even afford the salary of officials, let alone military expenditures.

In other words, the mess that Zhao Ning took over now is not only the foreign enemy troops at the city, but the court's accounts are even more deficient.

In fact, the fiscal deficit in the late Northern Song Dynasty was always there, and there were many reasons for this, which is a later story.

If you don’t have money, you can fight a big fight!

The Song Dynasty had two tax laws, that is, two taxes in summer and autumn. This year's autumn tax was not yet available for collection.

Another part of the income of the court comes from the prohibited income.

The so-called prohibited income is the income monopolized by the state.

However, due to the war and the city of Tokyo was surrounded, these were basically in a semi-paralyzed state.

Zhao Ning suddenly felt a mountain suddenly pressing down.

The situation he faces is definitely not just a strong foreign enemy.

The internal worries are even worse!

The Song Dynasty used heavy taxes from the people of the country to support the bureaucrats and the powerful.

Moreover, because it faces military threats from several parties, military expenditures have increased year by year.

Zhao Ning is not sure how many of the huge military expenditures are embezzled.

He quickly flipped through the fish scale book again. Although the fish scale book was incomplete, Zhao Ning instantly felt the urge to lift the table.

His career in his previous life was to deal with money and was extremely sensitive to data and money.

Based on the limited information of the Fish Scale Book, it is speculated that the current land annexation has reached an outrageous level!

According to some historical records, the land annexation status in the late Northern Song Dynasty was that the powerful class had mastered more than 80% of the land, and the powerful class had partial privileges of exemption from taxes.

In addition, the Northern Song Dynasty adopted a policy of not inhibiting land annexation, so the powerful and powerful were still crazily annexing land.

The interest groups in this are intricate and difficult to understand for a while.

Half an hour later, Gao Qiu went to the outside of Wende Hall.

Gao Qiu was trembling at this time, not cold, but afraid.

Why did the emperor suddenly summon him?

I have resigned from my post and retired to hug the girl, and I have no longer participated in the court struggle. Why did I suddenly find myself on my head?

He walked along the way, stuffed Wang Huaiji a bag of bulging money bags and asked Wang Huaiji in a low voice: "Wang Zhongguan, what's wrong with the official family?"

"I don't know whether the high-ranking official is right. The official suddenly said he wanted to see you."

Gao Qiu was nervous, but he didn't ask any more questions. After coming, he stood outside honestly.

Wang Huaiji walked in and said carefully: "Official family, Gao Qiu is listening to the proclamation outside."

Zhao Ning didn't speak, Wang Huaiji thought he didn't hear it, so he repeated: "Officials, Gao Qiu is listening to the proclamation outside."

"knew."

Zhao Ning continued to read the fiscal, tax and expenditures, and became more and more angry as he looked at it.

The old Zhao family is so used to living a daily life, spending money indiscriminately!

For example, it is recorded here that Tong Guan bought 1 million yuan for empty city!

How much is 1 million guan?

In the Song Dynasty, especially during the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song, the court minted coins indiscriminately, commonly known as the printing press of a banknote, with 1 million guan equivalent to 500 million yuan.

An ordinary person in Tokyo city earns 20 cents a day, and 1 million cents is equal to 1 billion cents. It takes 50 million days for this ordinary person to not eat or drink, 140,000 years.

This happened in the seventh year of Xuanhe, which was three years ago, when the Song and Jin dynasties were still allies and destroyed the Liao Kingdom together.

Tong Guan led an army of 200,000 to attack Youzhou, but was pressed to the ground by thousands of Liao troops and rubbed back and forth a hundred times. Later, Youzhou was taken down by the Jin people.

Tong Guan, an old clever guy, discussed with Song Huizong: The official family has a brilliant plan, so we can buy Youzhou Prefecture directly if we don’t need 1 million yuan!

That's all. After spending the 1 million yuan, you must find a place to get it back. So Zhao Ji was painting and writing while saying to Cai Jing: Old Cai, you have no money, why bother?

Cai Jing waved his hand: Official, let’s continue printing money!

Zhao Ning continued to watch patiently. After reading some, half an hour had passed.

He took a deep breath.

Of course, the mess in the Song Dynasty was definitely not formed by the Song Huizong. Many policies during the founding of the country were problematic. After more than a hundred years of accumulation, the country was full of holes.

What was left to Zhao Ning was a Song Dynasty that was filled with gold and jade.

Forget it, digest these things slowly and stabilize the situation in front of you first.

Everything has to be done step by step.

Seeing that the emperor had finished reading, Wang Huaiji whispered: "Official family, Gao Qiu is outside..."

"I understand."

After a while, Zhao Ning said, "Let him come in."

"yes!"

Wang Huaiji hurried out, and Gao Qiu was trembling in the snow.

A man in his fifties, he was frozen like a grandson in the snow and ice.

"High officials, go in quickly, the official is waiting for you!"

Gao Qiu quickly took a step, but he almost fell to the ground because of the cold. Fortunately, Wang Huaiji supported him.

"High official, please slow down."

"I'm old."

Gao Qiu hurried into Wende Hall.

The Wende Hall is full of heat, and Gao Qiu feels comfortable as soon as he comes in.

"I will meet the official family, Sheng'an."

Although Gao Qiu no longer had a specific position, his official position was still retained. This was the characteristic of the Song Dynasty, and the official position and position were separated.

So he claimed to be a minister.

Zhao Ning held the book in his hand and glanced at Gao Qiu.

Gao Qiu's face is slightly fat, with a tender skin and flesh, and looks harmless. His two beards are wet with ice and snow, and his body is shaking uncontrollably.

Zhao Ning said lightly: "You are here."

"I don't know what the officials summoned to the ministers?"

"It's nothing, it's just someone reported you, and you're inappropriate in your plans, but is there any such thing?" Zhao Ning continued to look at the book, his tone casually.

Gao Qiu suddenly looked up and looked at the emperor in a confused look.

What's going on? I, Gao Qiu, have a bad plan?
To be continued...