"Does your household department think my solution is acceptable?"
"The Ministry of Revenue has no objection." Yu De said hurriedly.
Although the Ministry of Revenue may have to bite the bullet again and even have to demolish the east wall and mend the west wall, it is at least better than directly breaking up with the military.
If there is a real conflict with the military, no one in the household department would like to see it.
"That's good," Li Xingchen nodded slightly, "Where are you going to go next?"
"The Ministry of Commerce is planning to open a new commercial port in the east of the city. I'm going to check the budget." Yu De said hurriedly.
"Let's go together." Li Xingchen smiled and said, "Come, ride with me."
Yu De was surprised and happy: "I don't dare!"
"Hahaha, I won't eat you." Li Xinchen laughed and said, "Li Ping, let someone bring the carriage over, and I won't go there!"
Seeing Li Ping go as ordered, Li Xingchen turned and asked: "After the promulgation of the new tax law, has the imperial court's income increased significantly?"
It has been two years since the taxation law was promulgated after Li Xingchen returned to the south. The original purpose of the taxation law was not only to gradually establish a complete legal system for the Han Dynasty based on it, but also to use the taxation law to systematize the annual income of the Han Dynasty.
transformation, and no longer gives anyone, especially aristocratic families, the possibility to seek benefits from it.
Of course, with the promulgation of these laws and the progress of the imperial examinations, the aristocratic families gradually faded out of the stage of history. It was not that the aristocratic families wanted to disappear, but that all the outstanding guys were wiped out by Li Xinchen with the thunderous plowing force.
As long as the other aristocratic families are not stupid, they will no longer have the courage to challenge Li Xingchen's majesty.
His Majesty's control over the army has obviously caused the family to lose the courage to go against His Majesty.
"Last year's annual revenue has increased significantly compared to the year before," Yu De said hurriedly, "but starting from this year, the court's new road management and other policies will begin, and the consumption will probably be much greater than last year, so the overall remaining annual revenue may not be as good as
last year."
Li Xingchen nodded slightly.
He knew what Chen Shushen, Yu De and others were worried about. If they continued to "squander" so excessively, the national treasury would not be able to retain any money at all, and there might even be a fiscal deficit.
"How much money is left in the treasury?"
"Now we have 200,000 taels of silver," Yu De said with a wry smile. "It is estimated that with the seizures from the south and transfer to the north at the end of the month, it should be more than enough to increase to 300,000 taels."
The silver output of this era is far less than that of later generations, so two hundred thousand taels of silver in this era is definitely not small. After all, silver is as precious as gold at this time. If the Ministry of Industry had not discovered two places last year
There is a large-scale silver mine, and I am afraid that the current silver reserves in the national treasury are even lower than this.
After three years of construction and development, Han Dynasty has gradually established a silver-standard financial system. At the same time, with the Ministry of Commerce's full promotion of the commercial economy and the construction of banks, banknotes, mainly silver notes, have gradually replaced the original copper coins and become the bulk of trade in various places.
The mainstream of transactions has promoted the stability of the silver standard system to a greater extent.
In another time and space, even in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the main trading tool on the market was copper coins. The real silver standard system would not be established until after the Song Dynasty. With the increase in overseas trade and the accumulation of wealth, the imperial court had capital.
Throw away the copper coin and establish a silver standard.
As for the safer gold standard compared to the huge output of silver, that would have to wait until the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, now that the Han Dynasty has begun to establish a silver standard, it is already ahead of its time. A gold standard is not what Li Xinchen intends to do. At this stage, the Han Dynasty can increase the production of silver to meet the needs of trade, and Li Xinchen is very pleased.
"That's enough. You don't need to keep so much. Use what you should use." Li Xingchen said in a deep voice the key point he wanted to express.
Yu Deden's eyes widened immediately?
Enough, enough?
Two hundred thousand taels is just a thin layer in a huge treasury. How can it be enough?
Li Xingchen glanced at him and understood what Yu De and others were worried about. For a long time, the abundant treasury has been the goal of the officials of the Ministry of Revenue. Since Zong Yuanrao, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue have been eager to use the empty treasury to make a profit.
Fill it completely.
But the direction of their efforts seems to be wrong.
"The Ministry of Household Affairs should focus on hoarding more daily necessities and food, rather than pure money." Li Xingchen said solemnly, "I also said in the shipyard just now that what is used now will be returned in double the amount in the future.
.If we only think about how to put money in the warehouse, then we will always only have this money. What we should be thinking about is how to get more money."
After a pause, Li Xingchen looked at Yu De, who had his mouth wide open: "For ordinary people, money is used to buy things, but for the country, money should be used to make money. If you don't get rid of the old ones, you won't get the new ones."
Come on, if this money is not spent, there will be no way to promote the circulation of materials in the market. If the entire market is like a pool of stagnant water, then the money will really rot in the warehouse."
Beads of sweat appeared on Yu De's forehead. This was something that he, Chen Shushen and others had never thought of before, or even dared to think about.
The treasury is empty, and according to the laws of the previous dynasty, they will lose their heads!
And Li Xingchen said directly: "Of course, the country cannot have nothing in its hands. What we should hold are food, cloth, silk and ore, which are indispensable to people's lives. Once these things are lacking in the market, prices will fluctuate.
, even if the enemy deliberately drives up prices, we can use these things in our hands to control the prices in the market, so that there will be no price fluctuations."
Li Xingchen looked at Yu De, who seemed to understand, and coughed lightly. He realized that he seemed to have used a lot of terms that people of this era should not understand.
"I'm stupid!" Yu De reacted.
"Can you understand?" Li Xingchen was a little helpless.
He wished he could just put a copy of "Das Kapital" into Yu De's hands. If he didn't have "Das Kapital", the next best thing would be "The Wealth of Nations". If not, "Currency War" would always make do.
Bar?
But this is obviously unrealistic.
Li Xingchen, who is not an economics major but is still a bit jealous, has a big head.
Although Li Xingchen only said a few words and pointed out a few words, and said many words, Yu De could only follow the meaning of the name, but he finally understood the general idea.
"I should understand what your majesty means." Yu De took a deep breath, "I need to discuss this matter with the minister and Zuo Shilang, and come up with a charter for your majesty as soon as possible."