Chapter 157 Funding of the Ministry of Industry

Moreover, a considerable part of these two million taels was distributed with grain, especially above the hundred officials, and the imperial court was also distributed with silver grain.

In this way, the household can spend more on food and save money.

After all, there is still a lot of wear and tear in transporting grain to other places.

Not to mention anything else, even if there is a gallop road, but the transportation of grain from Beijing to Luoyang, it also consumes a lot, at least the gallop repair, maintenance, and even the consumption of horses must be converted.

As Liu Dingzhi of the old household department, no one wants to play greasy in front of him, three times and two times, the routine usage of each department has been finalized.

Hundreds of officials plus some knighted ones. In total, there are three million stone grains, two million yuan.

Of course, at this time, Zhu Qizhen also had a big belly and exempted the gold and silver that the imperial court should have sent to the inner treasury at around two million taels, one million taels from Jiangnan, and one million taels from the customs tariff.

The rest is the big head.

The cost of raising soldiers in the imperial court was not low.

Because the armor, barracks, and other inputs are all one-time, and there is no need to increase them every year, unless the weapons are updated, but Zhu Qizhen does not have so much money, and today's weapons in the Beijing camp, although they are damaged every year, are still the weapons that fought the tile spurs at the beginning.

Therefore, it is compressed.

Eight million taels per year.

In order to save, Liu Dingzhi still distributed half of the money and grain, four million taels plus 12 million stone grain.

Today, the price of grain continues to fall, although it cannot reach the point of four stones of grain per yuan, but three stones is enough. If it weren't for the news of the use of troops in the Western Regions, the price of grain would have risen, and the price of grain would not have reached the level of one yuan and three stones.

As a result, the maintenance expenses of the imperial court amounted to 6 million yuan and 15 million stone grain.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ming Dynasty was centered on Beijing, and there were too many industries gathered in Tianjin, such a grain production would have caused grain prices to plummet.

This is also a last resort.

If on weekdays, generally speaking, the proportion of silver grain distribution can be adjusted.

But nowadays, the bulk of the money is in the Western Regions, and the consumption of transporting grain from here to the Western Regions is too great. It can only be carried up as far as possible with silver dollars in front.

Of course, this may have led to a rise in food prices on the front lines. In this way, there is enough price difference, and naturally there are people who are willing to transport grain to the front.

As for the rest of the side effects, it doesn't matter.

This is also the biggest difficulty in the use of troops in the Western Regions, a logistical problem.

Da Ming never worried about not being able to defeat the tile spurs, the only thing he was worried about was maintaining a large army in the Western Regions, which was too difficult. 200,000 elites can sweep everything in the Western Regions, but maintaining the logistics of 200,000 elite soldiers is enough to make the Ming Dynasty 100 in the northwest

The surname couldn't breathe.

If you just look at this, it seems that the imperial court is at ease.

The regular expenses of the imperial court were only 6 million yuan, plus 15 million stone of grain. There are also 14 million yuan, plus 10 million stone of grain, which is enough to support the army's expedition.

But the problem is that the Ministry of Industry spends.

Li Yonghe said: "There are three major projects being carried out by the Ministry of Industry, the first is the Northwest Chi Road Project, which has now been built, the Chi Road from Beijing to Xuzhou and Xuzhou to Luoyang. The section from Luoyang to Xi'an is being built, and this section is estimated to be able to be built this year, but it is not easy to build the section from Xi'an to Lanzhou in the second half of the year. ”

Zhu Qizhen also knows that from Luoyang to Xi'an, although there are all kinds of problems, it is still generally flat, but from Xi'an to Lanzhou, it will have to go over the mountains and mountains.

This is a very expensive thing to do.

The imperial court had previously built a gallop road over the grassland, and in general, the cost of crossing the Yanshan section was three times that of the flat land, or even more. Not to mention the detour, even after the construction is completed, the density of stations here is much higher than usual. And maintaining these stations in the middle of the mountains is even more expensive.

Of course, no matter how much this kind of cost is, it is much better than pushing a carriage directly over the mountain.

This project can't be cut.

Without him, this project is the key to supporting the battle of the Western Regions, even if this gallop road is built. It is very likely that the funds for the battle of the Western Regions will be directly halved.

Li Yonghe saw that Zhu Qizhen did not speak, so he continued: "The second project is the embankment along the Yangtze River. Especially the Jingzhou embankment. ”

"This is the Ministry of Industry and Water Department statistics of the world's flood-prone places, made statistics, the Huai River project is too big, the minister does not dare to act rashly, but the Yangtze River along the dangerous places, but can be repaired one by one. The Jingzhou embankment of the Yangtze River is just one of them. ”

Zhu Qizhen also knows that although in this era, there are not too many floods in the Yangtze River, but Jingzhou is an exception.

Once there is a flood, Jingzhou generation is a thousand miles of Zeguo, which has to be noted.

Li Yonghe said: "Then there is the seawall project in Ningbo, Songjiang and other prefectures and counties, in recent years, there have been repeated reports in various places, the tide has invaded the ground, drowning people and beasts. The Ministry of Industry and Water Division sent people to measure, a total of 90,000 zhang of seawall needs to be built, two zhang wide, seven feet high, all made of stone. Enough to protect against intrusion of waves. ”

"For these three items, 6 million taels are roughly needed, of which 3 million taels are needed for the Chidao, 1.2 million taels are needed for the Jingzhou embankment, and 1.8 million taels are needed for the seawall project."

Zhu Qizhen asked: "Is the seawall project in Jiangsu and Zhejiang not yet started?" ”

Li Yonghe already understood in his heart what Zhu Qizhen was going to say, and said, "Exactly." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "There are important things, this matter is temporary

Let's put it aside. ”

In this way, Zhu Qizhen cut it down with one stroke, 1.8 million taels.

It's just that even so, the Ministry of Industry needs as much as 4.4 million taels for the project.

The little money from the imperial court was no longer enough.

Zhu Qizhen has a number in his heart. Although there is no money in the household department, there is money in the inner treasury.

At this moment, Shaofu Ling Shi Jing and Huai En were quietly sitting in the corner, but even in the corner, no one could ignore them.

Without him, how much money is in the inner treasury, in fact, it is not clear from the outside.

But these ministers have an estimate.

That is, among the Shaofu, there are at least 10 million yuan.

Especially what Duanmurui did in Japan, even Liu Dingzhi called him a cadre. It's not for nothing.

After Duanmu Rui came to Japan, several wars broke out in Japan, such as the war between the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa family, the civil war of the Hatakeyama family, and the war of some local rebellions against the daimyo.

It is the consensus of all Japanese historians that Japan entered the Warring States period after the Onin War, and it broke out especially violently in this era.

Historically, the Ashikaga family also thought about reviving. But this time they betrayed what the emperor did, and the so-called righteous name was shattered at once, and if the Ashikaga family did not have enough Ming troops stationed in Kyoto to protect it.

Whether the Ashikaga family can survive or not is another matter.

In the eyes of many people, Ashikaga's aura is no longer sacred, and the Ashikaga family has become an ordinary daimyo who owns the Kyoto Plain, and even all the places such as Owari that they originally owned are no longer owned by the Ashikaga family.

There was also turmoil within the Spoo family.

And among these wars, there is a general contractor, that is, Duanmurui.

Although Duanmurui didn't like such things, he was born in Shaofu, and Zhu Qizhen had also instructed him before he came. It doesn't have much to do with whether he wants to do it or not.

In this way, a steady stream of gold and silver came out of the various mines, and the daimyo from all over the country were transferred to the hands of Shaofu before they were hot. Even Shaofu offers a large number of mining techniques, such as sootblowing.

As a result, Japan's mining technology has developed rapidly, reaching the level of a hundred years in history. Only then did a steady stream of silver and gold flow into the inner treasury.

In the largest year, Shaofu obtained as much as 4 million taels of silver from Japan alone.

One of the reasons why Zhu Qizhen can spend money lavishly.

This side has just finalized 4.4 million taels. Then it went to the top of the household. Zhu Qizhen said: "Why does the household department have such a large amount of money? Zhu Qizhen pointed to the summary bill in his hand, and under the name of the household department, there was a bill of up to 10 million stone of grain. This made Zhu Qizhen a little strange, this number was a little too strange. A little too much.