The palace is in the middle of the road.
Zhang Chao and Cheng Qian walked half a step apart, and Cheng Qian was still very unhappy, "I can't let him come nonsense." ” Zhang Chao smiled.
He couldn't have imagined that Li Shimin would want to make the Wu clan the Empress Taishang, which was unexpected.
The old husband and young wife are simply in love with each other.
From a talented person to the empress dowager, even if Li Shimin has abdicated, the Liwu clan is indeed almost his own business.
But you also have to consider Cheng Qian, Bi Jing and his mother used to be the queen.
Li Shimin favored the Wu family, and Cheng Qian couldn't control it, but he wanted to be the queen, but Cheng Qian didn't agree.
The status of the main room should belong to his mother, even if he has died, this position cannot let others intervene.
Besides, if the Wu family becomes the queen of Taishang, then Li Hong will be regarded as a concubine.
"Your Majesty hasn't already given in a step, it's not bad for the Taishang Concubine of the Feng Wu Clan, anyway, in two years, the Taishang Emperor and the Taishang Guifei will both go to the Americas."
Cheng Qian walked to the side and sat down in the gazebo.
"Why did the Wu clan turn around His Majesty's fans," Cheng Qian asked puzzled.
"The emperor is lonely now, and the Wu family can understand the emperor's mind, so he can be regarded as a bosom friend."
Cabinet.
After the prime ministers came back, they couldn't help but say that the Wu family was worthy of the name Mei Niang, and it could charm people.
The emperor is also a great emperor, and now he actually makes this teenage talent fascinated, and he wants to make her the queen mother.
The teenage Empress Dowager is amazing to think about.
"I don't know what method she used."
"No, I still remember that in the Manna Palace, she smashed a candlestick on the emperor's head, but she knocked the emperor unconscious.
At that time, the emperor wanted to kill her with a sword. ” Zhang Chao, who rushed in with the eldest grandson Wuji, said, "Everyone has to ask King Zhao, the Wu clan grew up in King Zhao's mansion, maybe a few tricks of war learned here by King Zhao." ” Zhang Chao didn't care about his jokes.
"Everyone is so relaxed, it seems that next year's budget has been prepared."
Chu Suiliang hurriedly said, "Not yet, the various ministries are fighting fiercely, this total budget is so much, but you have to spend everywhere, and it's not easy to get it in which way to tilt, it's a headache." ” "There must be more military spending, and there will be more places to use troops next year, so we must reserve them as soon as possible.
Although there are nine of us, each of us has a special budget, but this has to be used to plug the hole at the most critical time. ” For the cabinet in charge of the imperial court, maintaining the stable operation of the imperial court is of course the first priority.
And the most important thing in the operation of the imperial court is, of course, to collect taxes and spend money.
Collect taxes and guarantee tax revenue for next year.
The budget made by the imperial court this year is that it is expected to earn 100 million yuan next year, of which the agricultural tax part of the two taxes is fixed, and the imperial court announced a few years ago that it will never be added.
Therefore, even if more and more new cultivated land on the border land has been cultivated by the imperial court in recent years, and many of them have passed the period of exemption and reduction, the imperial court has already set the total amount of land in the two taxes to remain unchanged.
Therefore, the more fields are paid, the less per mu of land is given each year.
However, now no one has said that they want to cancel this fixed field endowment, after all, the slogan of never adding endowment is shouted out, and it is still deeply loved by the people.
The reduction of the land per mu has indeed reduced the burden on the people.
Besides, the majority of the imperial court's tax revenue is still in the aspects of industry and commerce, customs clearance, monopoly, etc., which is the big head.
A field endowment will never be increased, in fact, it does not harvest much less in a year, but it has won the praise of countless farmers and people in Datang, which is also very worthwhile.
The tax income of 100 million a year is quite amazing.
In addition to the prosperity of industry and commerce, the biggest reason for maintaining this revenue is that at the beginning of the reform, the imperial court set up a system of integrated taxation of officials and gentry and nobles.
In the Tang Dynasty, although there were thousands of nobles, the number of officials was even larger, and the scholar class was quite amazing, they did not get any tax exemption and exemption privileges like the Ming Dynasty.
Datang's service is all discounted, and Datang's taxes are clearly there, and it is impossible to be exempt from taxes.
Even Zhang Chao, the first aristocrat of the Tang Dynasty, is an advanced taxpayer and has never evaded taxes.
The Zhang family has a big business, so many industries, and the annual tax paid to the imperial court is also quite huge, but it is not less.
For Zhang Chao, in fact, the Zhang family has taken many advantages in running industries, many industries are even monopolistic operations, and the profits are very high, so there is no need to evade that little tax, he just will let his own account house reasonably avoid taxes.
It's okay to avoid taxes, but it's not okay to evade.
Think about the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty, the rise of maritime trade, the prosperity of industry and commerce, and the budding of capital.
But the court is poor, why, there are too many privileged people evading taxes.
The richest people don't pay taxes, and every year the huge expenses of the imperial court are pressed on the poorest people who are not poor, and they also levy and increase taxes at every turn, and the local government also appropriates various fire consumption, and the result is that the people who can't survive the peasant uprising and bury the Ming Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty gave the nobles and nobles half of the tax income of their territory, which can be said to be an exchange for the nobles to be willing to pay taxes.
However, although the income of 100 million yuan a year is a lot, the expenses of the imperial court are also large.
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Zhenguan's fourteen years of accumulation, from the past treasury empty, to the current treasury savings of 100 million copper.
The foundation left by Li Shimin is still very thick.
It's just that Zhang Chao was pitted once, and the imperial court had all kinds of gold bricks, silver ingots, copper ingots, and all kinds of silk cloth grain, but it couldn't cash out the people's paper money for a while, and the response was at a loss, and finally there was a financial crisis.
After the Southern Army entered Beijing, all the money secretly hidden by the money houses in various parts of Li Ji was taken out, plus the money from all over the imperial court, which quickly quelled the financial turmoil.
Nowadays, the imperial court's monetary reform has changed the method of fully circulating paper money in the past, but has both banknotes and coins.
On the one hand, the four major commercial banks have increased their power to print money, and although they can still print money, the reserve for the issuance of paper money has been increased, and the reserve for loans has also been increased a lot.
On the other hand, the imperial court kept minting new gold, silver and copper ingots, and recovering old money, so that the confidence of the people everywhere in the market was constantly strengthened.
The cabinet presided over by Zhang Chao has a fundamental budget system today, which is to live within the limits of income.
Every year, the imperial court will first make a forecast of the next year's revenue, and then take out ninety percent of it for next year's financial expenditure budget.
The remaining 10% is deposited in the national treasury as a reserve.
Zhenguan has been like this all these years, and he has accumulated 100 million. 100 million revenues and 90 million expenditures, of which 80 million are directly budgeted, and the remaining 10 million is allocated to nine cabinet prime ministers.
Of course, it is not for them to divide privately, but for each person to hold a special budget fund for the prime minister, which is used for the part of the emergency transfer fund that they are in charge of.
For example, the prime minister in charge of the military department has a special budget of one million yuan in his hand.
In case the military budget for the second year is overrun, this time it will have to be called in from his money first.
If that weren't enough, there were special budget sections for the secondary and primary supporters.
Zhang Chao, as the first assistant, has a special budget of two million in his hand.
The 10 million in the prime minister's hands seems to be a lot, but it is also very nervous to use it for the final adjustment.
After all, every time you make a budget, it seems to be about the same, but at the end of each year, there are always various places to ask for money, and it would be good to barely exceed the total budget in the last year.
If it is really excessive, it can only fill the deficit from the treasury.
If it weren't for the strict control of this kind of expenditure budget, the expenditure of various parts of the imperial court would not be controlled, and the projects would be messed up, not to mention 100 million a year, 200 million a year would definitely not be enough.
The larger the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the greater the number of officials, and the same number of troops.
And once a war is fought, the military budget will often get out of control and be exceeded.
If it weren't for the fact that there were still princes' territorial taxes that could be filled a little, coupled with the abundance of the treasury, Zhang Chao would not dare to say that he would fight this and that.
This year's war of faith is still being fought.
And next year, with Xue Yantuo, with Silla and Baekje on the Korean Peninsula, and with Chenla in the South Seas, these three places have already made a decision to go to war.
On the battlefield, at least 200,000 or even 300,000 troops must be used, and about 500,000 civilians will be used.
The military expenditure is quite large, and if it cannot be won, it will not be able to afford to fight the war by capturing some of the expenses and making up for some of the expenses.
If you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are not at home.
And Zhang Chao is the home of 60 million people in Datang, and the minimum expenditure budget in his hand is calculated in tens of thousands.
The expenses of supporting the royal court, the expenses of supporting the army, and the expenses of supporting officials and officials are the three major regular expenses, but these three are not comparable to the war.
As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold.
Every time there is a war, this money is really like flowing water.
Fortunately, Datang has not fought a loss-making battle yet, and it can basically make money in the end.
Seize land, people, livestock and other property, if you fight quickly, you will earn more with less expenses.
It is precisely because of this that even Fang Xuanling and other central prime ministers are not opposed to the use of troops abroad.
Anyway, fighting a war can also divert contradictions, and even earn some extra money, so why not.
Zhang Chao's previous military reform changed the government soldiers into a standing army, and the cost of military spending increased, but it was still passed, or because the army could make money, and the military expenditure was supplied by the imperial court.
If there was no money and the war was lost, the emperor and the prime ministers would have opposed it a long time ago.
"Next year's education expenditure budget should be raised, and the six-year compulsory education should be fully implemented.
At the same time, it is necessary to allocate special funds to continue to eradicate illiteracy among the people and popularize the official language.
Especially for those barbarians who are attached, since they have entered the nationality of my Tang Dynasty, they will be the people of the Tang Dynasty and the Han people from now on.
But we can't let these new Han people not even speak Chinese, and they can't recognize Chinese characters. ” "It must be ensured that within ten years, these people will not only change their customs and change the clothes of the Han family, but also ensure that they will speak Chinese and write Chinese characters in the future."
Zhang Chao also demanded that autonomous states such as Subi, Khitan, and Xi, as well as vassal states such as Xue Yantuo, Silla, and Baekje, should also establish Han primary schools in their territories and promote Sinicized education.
For example, those frontier aristocratic leaders such as Xindu and Mo Nan, where the Tibetan and Han people live together, and there are many Tibetan people, it is more and more necessary to ensure the number of schools, as well as the quantity and quality of teachers and teachers.
"A sword in one hand and a Confucian scripture in the other, this is the basis of our expansion.
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