Jia Liu shouted loudly and waved his hands in Chongqing. People's hearts were in place, and Chongqing's green camp was also in place, but Sichuan's finances were dragged into a bottomless abyss.
"Do you know how much it will cost if you do this?"
The president's attitude is to settle the accounts in one fell swoop.
"What did I think it was about? Isn't it just money? Sichuan is a land of abundance. As a parent official of this land of abundance, how can you still have no money?"
Jia Liu looked disapproving. In his impression, Sichuan's economy was still very developed, and it should be no problem to support 20,000 soldiers with a high salary.
"You know shit!"
The president was so angry that he itched his teeth, "You just want to play with girls but don't want to spend money!"
Hey, why do these words sound so familiar?
Seeing that the chairman was excited, I quickly reassured him. What kind of difficulties did he encounter at work? I just asked everyone to discuss and solve it together, so as not to get angry.
The president shook his head helplessly: "You don't know the situation in Sichuan at all. Do you know that since the founding of the country, Sichuan has always asked the provinces to share their wages?"
Jia Liu asked what the "rate" meant.
The president explained that since the Qing Dynasty took over the Central Plains, the army has been distributed in various provinces. Some provinces have more soldiers, and some provinces have fewer soldiers.
In principle, the military pay for the troops stationed in these provinces is provided by the province where they are located.
However, military requirements are huge, and the financial resources of remote provinces are often insufficient to support them. Therefore, in order to ensure military requirements, tax revenue from rich provinces must be transferred to poor provinces, thus establishing a rate system.
Jia Liu thought thoughtfully: "Financial transfer?"
The president was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Jia Liu hurriedly said: "The rich help the poor."
"That's about it."
The chairman said that Sichuan was considered a wealthy country during the Ming Dynasty, but it has been in turmoil since the late Ming Dynasty. It has only been able to regain its vitality in the past few decades. However, compared with other provinces in the mainland, Sichuan's economy is generally underdeveloped, so the province's financial pressure is extremely great.
Since Kangxi, Sichuan has asked other provinces to pay more than 800,000 taels every year.
Since the Jinchuan Rebellion, the amount of this salary has reached 1.4 million taels.
Because the imperial court transferred troops from other provinces from various places and some expenses of the Eight Banners soldiers, Sichuan needed to pay part of it.
This is also the reason why Sichuan Province has a governor, because the governor is more convenient than the governor to deal with other provinces, and it is also easier to communicate with the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War.
The governor of Sichuan asking for money from the governors of Shaanxi and Hunan will definitely not be as effective as the governor-general asking for money.
"A deficit of 1.4 million taels?"
Jia Liu was also shocked, "Please tell me, how much does Sichuan earn in a year?"
The president didn't waste any time. He took out a piece of manuscript from the pile on the table and gave it to Jia Liu to read.
After seeing it, Jia Liu also had a big head.
According to the statistics of the chairman, there are only over 470,000 hectares of private land in Sichuan Province. Therefore, the land tax levied in this year is more than 669,000 taels, and an additional levy of more than 23,000 taels of silver is added in case of leap days. The two sums add up to the entire Sichuan land.
The provincial land and the amount of silver were less than 700,000 taels.
The remaining salt tax is 170,000 taels, and miscellaneous taxes and other items total less than 100,000 taels.
In other words, Sichuan Province’s total annual fiscal revenue is about one million taels.
In order to give Jia Liu a more intuitive understanding of Sichuan's financial situation, the chairman handed over a detailed breakdown of the garrison expenditure in Sichuan Province.
The first page shows the Eight Banners soldiers garrisoned in Chengdu. From the deputy capital commander on down, there are assistant leaders, 24 left leaders, 24 defense soldiers, 24 riders from the cavalry school, and 2,672 Eight Banners soldiers.
"In addition, there are more than 4,000 horses. Annual official salary, military pay, horse materials and other items require more than 400,000 taels of silver, accounting for half of our annual income in Sichuan Province.
There are a total of 19,320 green camp horse war garrison and navy soldiers in the province, and the annual salary requirement is more than 1.17 million taels. Two sums plus one yuan, just to pay the soldiers
We got more than 1.6 million taels, not to mention the salaries of officials of all sizes in the province."
Originally, because Sichuan could get rates from other provinces through the Ministry of Household Affairs, it could barely cover expenses.
Now Jia Liu is vigorously promoting the integration of flag and Han in Chongqing Green Camp. Calculated based on the existing Green Camp soldier roster alone, there will be more than 500,000 taels more every year.
After the previous decree came down, we also had to carefully consider matters such as pensions for wounded and disabled soldiers, building tombs, and funerals. The total expenditure for these items must be at least two hundred thousand taels.
With an annual income of one million taels, plus a salary of more than 800,000 taels, the president's annual disposable financial funds are more than 1.8 million taels.
Now Guang Jia Liu has raised the annual military pay for the Banner-Han integration to more than 1.6 million taels, not counting the Eight Banner garrison, civil service expenses, water conservancy and agriculture allocations, and other miscellaneous matters. Do you think this money is enough?
The president made a conservative calculation and found that if he wanted to move forward with various tasks this year, he would need at least one million taels.
The calculated result is half more than what Jia Liu calculated. Why?
Jia Liu only settled the accounts of Lvying, but the president had to settle the accounts of the whole Sichuan.
The Gongjinhui wants to firmly control Sichuan, but can it just settle military accounts?
It has to be political.
"As for the money, do you have the decimal point easily?"
It doesn't matter if Jia Liu's intention is to be short-changed, the governor will spend more money and list more names to ask for from the court.
"want?"
The president snorted coldly, "Do you think the money from the imperial court can be approved immediately if I send a report here?"
Everything has to go through a process. The Account Department has no money to begin with, and the deficit is bigger than that of the local government.
As for the process, the governor of Sichuan submitted the bill, and it would take four months at the earliest to get the result.
This result usually requires a few discounts. Emergency funds are paid first, and non-urgent ones have to wait slowly. When the money is available, we will allocate it.
Emergency funds are usually for military needs, and the Ministry of Finance does not dare to delay this because the emperor is very concerned about it.
Last year, Governor Fulhun of Sichuan reported to the Ministry of Household Affairs a total of more than 12.3 million taels for various expenditures and provincial rates.
In order to raise this military expenditure, the Ministry of Household Affairs did everything, making large and small donations, plagiarizing and killing salt merchants, and borrowing money here and there.
In the end, less than 10 million taels were actually allocated, and Fulehun had to settle the balance himself.
The current deficit in Sichuan is due to the infiltration and placement of the Gongjin Association, and because Jia Liu privately engaged in the integration of banners and Han in various names. It is certainly impossible to report these accounts on the grounds of military supplies, which means that most of them require Jia Liu
The initiator of this joint activity will be the first to step in.
If he doesn't make up for it, then the promises he made in Chongqing Green Camp will be nothing, and the work of the joint development association will be stagnant because of lack of money.
"I won't talk nonsense to you. Just give me one million taels first, and I'll take care of the immediate matters first."
There are three important things the president said.
The first one is the Sichuan Lvying Banner Han Unity Incident.
The second incident is that the Gongjin Association continues to infiltrate Sichuan officialdom.
The third item is the supporting industries for the new army that Jia Liu wants to develop, including the military industry system.
These three things are the key to whether the Guanxi Gongjin Association can take root in Sichuan.
The ones involved are soldiers, officials and civilians respectively.
Jia Liu pondered for a moment and asked the president Zhang Xianzhong when Shen Yin could start salvaging?
"That's far away water, how can we put out a nearby fire?"
The president asked Jia Liu to resolve the matter at hand.
"How can I have so much money?"
Jia Liudu groaned and handed the thirteen thousand taels of silver notes he had just received from Magistrate Song to the president, meaning that was all he wanted.
The president did not accept this trick and snorted slightly: "When you were working on the crime bank, you collected a lot of money from others. With your morality, it is impossible for all this money to be handed over to the inner treasury."
Jia Liu said nothing, silently taking stock in his mind.
The family's financial resources are indeed not very rich. The last time they robbed a cash transport truck, started a small village project, solicited sponsorship from my father-in-law, discussed the money for tickets, and spent all kinds of miscellaneous expenses, the total amount was only about one million taels.
It's okay to take it out, but then he'll be a pauper again.
In response to that sentence, I didn't think that the Manchus were poor people, but I was still poor when I became a Manchu. So didn't I think that I was a Manchu in vain?
Damn it, I even changed my last name to Manchurian!
"Methods are always what people think of. Your talents are like Xiao He's reincarnation, Zhuge's resurrection, Fang Xuanling who was older than Tang Zong, and Li Shan who was older than Mingzu. How can you handle trivial matters such as money?"
The president is an old bureaucrat, and Jia Liu thinks that if he exploits him, he should be able to find a way.
At the same time, I also realized a truth.
Rebellion may not cost money, but restoration definitely costs money.
Because the former is destruction and the latter is construction.
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Today, when you are playing mother-in-law, can you call me by my name...