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Text 1021 [Financial Sufficiency]

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    In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China, in 4362 AD and 1665 AD, Zhao Han was 48 years old.

    Qian Qianyi died of illness at home.

    Song Yingxing was critically ill.

    Pang Chunlai was critically ill.

    ?Huang Shun, the governor of the rear army stationed in Beijing, asked to return to the south to recuperate because of a serious illness.  Hu Dinggui was transferred from Shenyang to Beijing to take over the entire northern military, and Wan Sitong, the deputy governor of the rear army, was promoted to Shenyang.

    ? In the previous year, the national annual income was 79.6 million taels (including local and provincial interceptions).

    Among them, the agricultural tax is 34.79 million taels (accounting for 43.7%), the industrial and commercial tax is 17.35 million taels (accounting for 21.8%), the tariff is 24.52 million taels (accounting for 30.8%), and the overseas deportation center is 2.94 million taels (accounting for 3.7%).

    Not only has the state's finances increased, but the structure of fiscal revenue has also undergone tremendous changes.

    Ten years ago, agricultural tax accounted for more than 60%, and now it has dropped by more than ten percentage points, but the total amount of agricultural tax has actually increased steadily.

    However, industrial and commercial taxes, tariffs, and overseas revenues are all increasing rapidly, and the tariffs of more than 24 million taels are really scary.

    The increase in industrial and commercial tax year by year is due to the promotion of steam engines.  Textile, mining, smelting and many other industries use steam engines more and more frequently.  Of course, the continuous increase of the national population is also one of the main reasons for the prosperity of industry and commerce.

    There is a lot of production and must be sold.

    In Japan, North Korea, the Western Regions, Southeast Asia, and Southeast Asia, international trade is almost monopolized by Chinese businessmen.

    Even the purchase channels of Nanyang and Southeast Asian spices are controlled by Chinese merchants. European, Persian, Arab and Indian merchants can only purchase and transship from Chinese merchants.  Unlike European countries, Zhao Han did not force small countries to grant monopoly rights, and it was purely Chinese businessmen who competed for it.

    Chinese merchants are too involved, not only competing with foreign businessmen, but also competing with their own people, constantly increasing the purchase price of spices and tobacco, and those small countries earn more by selling local products.

    ?With the expansion of Indian and American markets, tariffs have skyrocketed again, and more industrial products have been exported, especially textiles.

    Due to the excessive expropriation of the Mughal emperor (slaughtering Hindu businessmen as pigs), coupled with the alluvial accumulation of cheap cotton cloth in China, the traditional Indian textile industry in the Ganges River Basin has actually been in a semi-collapsed state.  After Aurangzeb ascended the throne, religious persecution was so severe that many Hindu businessmen even fled the Mughal land with their families and moved to Chinese ports to make a living.

    However, the development of the American market has improved the life of the American people, but it has destroyed the Dutch textile industry.

    Just last year, Jiangsu Mariners finally couldn't hold back.  This trading company lost the competition in Asia and decided to go to America with Li Quan. The first fleet consisted of only three merchant ships, but they made a trip back and forth, excluding various costs and expenses, and made a full eight times the net profit.

    Only eight times the net profit, this is because the crew wages are high.

    Five times the salary of senior crew members, three times the salary of junior crew members, and a settling allowance must be given in advance, otherwise no one is willing to take risks in America.

    Ministers can no longer understand the current financial situation.

    A few years ago, I was still worried about the fiscal deficit. In a blink of an eye, the court has money, and it can have a surplus of several million every year.

    Cabinet.

    Wu Yingji took out the data given by the Ministry of Finance: "In the past seven years, the average annual growth rate of industrial and commercial taxes and tariffs has exceeded 6%. Especially after Portugal married Chittagong, countless Indian cottons were shipped to Chittagong, which solved the cotton problem.  The problem of insufficient supply. The cotton spinning factories in the south of the Yangtze River are increasing their production, and more and more cotton spinning factories are newly opened.¡±

    Zhu Shunshui sighed and said, "I don't know whether it's good or bad. I went back to my hometown during the Chinese New Year. There are two textile factories in the town, and there are hundreds of male and female workers. Counting the boat transportation, more than a thousand people rely on it."  The two make a living by weaving. The chimney of the factory is tall and big, and black smoke is floating all day long, and the dining tables of nearby villagers can be stained with black ash."

    Chen Maosheng said: "Anyway, the life of ordinary people is better than before."

    "That's true," Zhu Shunshui nodded, "All those who work are considered well-off families, especially skilled female workers. The housework and children are all handed over to the parents-in-law, and the woman has become the pillar of the family. But there are fewer families without work.  An income. There are also those who spin and weave their own cloth, all of which are woven and worn by themselves, and they can¡¯t be sold at a good price.¡±

    Zhu Shunshui was talking about the situation in coastal provinces. His hometown had a thriving textile industry.

    ?The further inland you are, the weaker the industry, and you can't find a few steam engines in the whole province.  Those provinces are still stuck in the past, even the small peasant economy has not been destroyed, and there are still a large number of home weaving.

    Wu Yingji said: "The problem now is not to save money, but how to spend it. More and more silver is pouring into the coast, and the price of goods is going up. Give the Ministry of Industry morebsp; Japan's Satsuma domain is next to Ryukyu, although it was beaten up by the Datong army, the compensation was severely damaged.  However, due to the convenience of trade, smuggling is the most rampant, and the strength develops extremely fast, and there are a large number of wanderers who have access to China's advanced ideology, culture and technology.

    The Satsuma domain is brewing a ronin riot. The poor ronin want to lead the peasants to fight the "local tyrants" to divide the land.

    The Ronin uprising will definitely fail. Even if the Shimadzu family is killed, the shogunate army will be recruited to suppress the rebellion.  However, the follow-up impact is difficult to estimate. It may force the shogunate to close the country, or the failure of the shogunate may cause the prestige of the shogunate to plummet.

    "Your Majesty, Zhongyuzi sent a mission to Beijing to ask for your seal, and also sent a Princess Zhongyuzi over to present to Your Majesty." The Minister of Honglu Temple came to report.

    Zhao Han was very happy: "Kazakh asked for the seal? Can you know the details?"

    At this time, Xie Yuan was still in Madagascar and did not bring back relevant news, but he left an envoy as a guide for the Kazakhs.

    The information of Honglu Temple came from the guide messenger: "Your Majesty, Zhongyuzi is torn apart. This mission was sent by the son of Zhongyuzi's previous Khan, asking His Majesty to canonize him as the king of the Kazakh Khanate.  "

    Zhao Han said with a smile: "But he is a discerning one. Even if Zhongyuzi is not unified, he wants to be the king of Kazakhs."

    For westward expansion, Zhao Han only intends to occupy the territory of the Kyrgyz people, that is, the Kyrgyzstan of later generations. Taking it there is equivalent to regaining the homeland of the Tang Dynasty.  It is difficult to manage further west, mainly because of the terrain. Only Kyrgyzstan is good for defense and can be connected with the Kashgar area.

    Of course, if there is spare power, Tajikistan can also win, all of which are mountainous terrain that is conducive to defense.

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