Hearing the ridicule of the generals of the army, the people of the navy were not convinced!

"Isn't it possible that the money is given in the first year of the five-year plan, and the money is not needed in the second year!" After speaking, he still looked contemptuous: "Do you think that everyone is like your army, when you expand the army, you can just recruit a few mud legs for a few months!" ”

"Who do you say is mud legs?"

"I'm talking about your army!"

"You wait for the navy turtles, you dare to insult our army officers and soldiers, look at the fist ......"

"You dare to do it, see if this official doesn't kill you!"

Liu Bagou looked at an army general and an admiral, and they were scuffling in the conference room on the spot, but they were not moved in the slightest.

In the annual budget meeting, this kind of scuffle is a must-play drama, and the difference is only that people from what department fight each other.

It's normal for the army and navy to fight, but now it's just a scuffle, mainly more than ten years ago, and it was all directly used with knives and guns.

And the other civil officials, in fact, are not much better, on weekdays, they are all a book, all the ministers on duty in the imperial study or the ministers on duty, but in the budget meeting, basically no one cares about any face, that is, if you can earn it, you can earn it, and if you can't earn it, you can earn it.

How to say it!

Because the budget meeting of the Tang Empire is not a very top-secret meeting, the ordinary middle-level officials outside can also know a little about what happened inside.

For example, a minister fights with someone, for example, who is injured during the competition for funds, for example, who slaps the table against the crowd.

And many middle and low-level officials also know that the bulk of the budget is basically determined, and the budget space that can be fought for is still relatively limited, but even in this limited space, it is good to have one percentage point more.

Because the Tang Empire's fiscal expenditure budget for the 22nd year of Xuanping has reached 190 million yuan, any percentage point is nearly 1.9 million yuan.

But in this way, we can increase the proportion and increase the budget, which depends on the ability of each department, especially the ability of the leaders of each department.

In fact, in this case, the scholars of various departments quarreled and slapped the table and even fought, many times for outsiders to see, especially for subordinates.

Regardless of whether the final funding has arrived, you have to let the officials or generals below know that you have worked hard, you have worked hard, and in the end you will not get the funds because you do not work hard, but because the enemy is too sinister.

How to put it, in fact, what the people below value is not the actual results, but your attitude.

Of course, if you have a good attitude and can get funding, then it will be even better.

Especially in today's era of economic explosion and tax revenue, even if you strive for an extra percentage point of funding, it is a huge number.

After all, next year's fiscal expenditure budget is 190 million, and in the 20th year of Xuanping, this figure was only 150 million, and this year, that is, in the 21st year of Xuanping, it has become 175 million.

The reason why the fiscal expenditure budget of 50 million yuan has been increased in just two years is naturally because the fiscal revenue has also increased by so much.

And the root cause of all this is that the empire's economy has exploded in recent years.

On the one hand, the construction of water conservancy facilities throughout the country has been basically completed, and these water conservancy facilities have not only put an end to large-scale famine, but also enabled a steady increase in grain production throughout the country.

At the same time, because of the needs of industrial and commercial development, cotton, mulberry and other cash crops are commonly planted in some areas in China, and at the same time, animal husbandry has begun to develop in the northern region to meet the huge demand for wool in the domestic textile industry, and at the same time, it also meets the domestic demand for horses and ordinary livestock.

The general development of agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, and fishing, which were typical of the primary industries, led to a general increase in the tax revenues received by the empire in the primary sector.

Of course, the main thing is the development of industry and commerce! Thanks to the widespread application of high-pressure steam engines in the past two years, which has brought about the construction of railways and ships, and brought a series of economic promotions, the secondary industry with manufacturing as the core has developed faster than even faster than the early stage of reunification in the past two or three years.

For example, the field with the most private capital investment is the textile industry!

Thanks to the decline in transportation costs and manufacturing costs, the cost of cotton cloth has generally declined, so that the price of cotton cloth at the retail terminal has dropped by at least 30 percent, and this decline has been achieved in just three years.

The price of cotton cloth continues to fall, which does not mean that the profits of textile enterprises have decreased, on the contrary, the profits of textile enterprises have become more.

Because the price is lower, there are more people who can afford cotton cloth, and people who originally bought a small amount of cotton cloth bought more, and at the same time in the foreign market, the competitiveness of the cloth of the Tang Empire is also greater, three years ago, there are still a lot of native cloth in various parts of the South Seas, but after three years of continuous low-price dumping, there is basically no trace of large-scale homespun cloth, and all kinds of cotton cloth from the Tang Empire appear on the market.

Lower costs, lower selling prices, and greater sales volume while maintaining gross margins, resulting in more profits.

At the same time, the scale of production is large, and more costs can be shared, and finally a virtuous circle is formed.

From the eighteenth year of Xuanping to the twenty-first year of Xuanping, the output of cotton cloth in the textile industry has increased by at least three times, and the major textile enterprises have made great efforts to expand production and try to seize more markets.

The primary and secondary industries are closely linked with the tertiary industry, that is, the service industry, which has brought about the rapid development of the service industry.

In the end, these three industries complemented each other and eventually led to the rapid growth of the empire's economy.

As the economy grows, so do taxes.

With this budget of 190 million yuan for fiscal expenditure, it is foreseeable that the funds received by various departments will increase to a certain extent, but the amount of increase depends on the situation of each department.

For example, judging from the current scale of the army and last year's army spending, this year's army military expenditure will be guaranteed to be about 35 million, because last year, the army's military expenditure reached 35 million, and this year, even if the same proportion of military spending is maintained as last year, it will exceed 35 million.

The bottom line within the army is 38 million for next year's total military spending, and it cannot be lower than this figure, and it would be even better if it could win about 40 million yuan.

Don't look at it as just one or two million more, but the extra two million is enough for the army to do a lot of things, save some, and even expand one more division.

The budget meeting on fiscal expenditure is still going on, and Liu Bagou, as in previous years, when he is the head of his cabinet, he sits back and watches his colleagues quarrel, and with Liu Bagou's current status, it is no longer suitable to personally end up and fight for anything with his colleagues.

Especially last year, Liu Bagou begged for bones, and Li Xuan kept it again and again, but in the end, Liu Bagou insisted, and in the end, Li Xuan only approved his resignation from the post of Shangshu of the Ministry of Agriculture, but continued to retain his title of scholar of the Jianji Palace and the title of Minister on duty in the Imperial Study.

Therefore, today's Liu Bagou continues to sit in the imperial study as the only current scholar in the Tang Empire.

It's just that he rarely participates in any government affairs personally.

Liu Bagou has always been a person who understands measure, what should be done and what should not be done, he is very clear.

Liu Bagou didn't talk much at the budget expenditure meeting, as if he had joined the old monk, and even the army and navy scuffled and couldn't make him move his eyelids.

And others have long been accustomed to Liu Bagou's attitude.

So continue to quarrel with those who should be noisy, and continue to scold those who should be scolded!

This group of people quarreled for a long time, and under the mutual compromise and threat of all parties, this was the final budget of 60 million to be divided up

The budget of 190 million is 190 million, and 130 million is already a destination, which belongs to the most basic budget and cannot be moved, and the remaining 60 million budget, the army and navy in the military have just finished fighting, and the back foot is to unite to put pressure on various cabinet departments, and even secretly support the immigration plan of the Immigration and Reclamation Division through the military, so as to obtain the support of the Ministry of Agriculture on the cabinet side, and finally succeeded in snatching 12 million.

The remaining 48 million was divided among other departments.

Don't think that the 12 million that the military has stolen is less, you must know that before this, the military has already taken away a total of 40 million military spending!

Add that to the 12 million, and the total is 52 million.

After a quarrel between the army and the navy, the army received 40 million of them, and the navy received 1,200.

The military has received enough military spending, and the civilian officials in the cabinet are also satisfied with this result, because even though the total military spending this year is higher than last year, they have once again succeeded in bringing the proportion of military spending down to less than 28 percent!

The 28 percent ratio is almost a red line that the Cabinet and the military have been arguing over in recent years, and the military has gone to great lengths to bring the proportion of military spending down to more than 28 percent, and the Cabinet has tried by all means to bring it below 28 percent.

If you look at the proportions alone, this year's budget allocation, or the military has made concessions!

However, in order to make concessions to the military, the cabinet has compensated in other ways, that is, it needs to invest a lot of money in the construction of transportation, especially railways and ships.

In fact, the military cares more about transportation construction than the cabinet!

The army is eager to have a railway network and high-level official roads all over the country, and the navy is also eager to have all the merchant ships in the country are steamships, so that the navy can recruit ships with much less effort when fighting a war, and at the same time, it can better carry out the plan for the Americas.

The common interest in the construction of transport, this is the point of making mutual concessions on the part of the military and the cabinet this year!

After the budget meeting ended, and Li Xuan also officially approved the fiscal expenditure budget for Xuanping for the 22nd year, the time also entered the 22nd year of Xuanping.

This year, a huge fleet of ships once again left Shanghai, ready to go to New Jinshan on the North American continent!

Unlike previous fleets to the Americas, this fleet was unusually large, with dozens of ships, and quite a few of them were steamships emitting smoke!

This fleet that is preparing to go to the Americas is mainly composed of migrant fleets organized by the Department of Immigration and Reclamation of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the number of migrant ships alone has reached nearly twenty!

In addition, there are more than a dozen merchant ships, these merchant ships are the ships of the Tang Empire American Trading Company, which are loaded with all kinds of goods, in addition to the various construction weapons and goods that are ready to be transported to Sandalwood Island and Xinjinshan, and more are also all kinds of goods that are ready to be shipped to Mexico in the Americas and prepare to trade with the Spaniards.

And the ships of the Navy remain!

The ships of the Navy are not only warships, but also a significant number of transport ships.

Among them were a 1,300-ton battleship, two 800-ton cruisers and three frigates, in addition to four coal carriers and three supply ships.

In addition to coal carriers and supply ships, these warships are actually six warships full of all kinds of supplies!

The total number of the above-mentioned emigrant ships, merchant ships, and warships reached forty-three, the smallest of which had a standard displacement of more than 400 tons, and the largest battleship reached more than 1,300 tons.

The standard tonnage of the ships of the entire fleet was added up to the point that the total tonnage of the entire fleet amounted to more than twenty-three thousand tons!

Well, it is worth noting that almost every ship in the fleet was overloaded, and even the battleships, in addition to carrying supplies, carried a considerable number of immigrants, which in more practical words were: crowded with people everywhere!

This entire fleet carried nearly 10,000 immigrants in total!

Such a large fleet of ships ready to sail the oceans has never appeared even in the history of overseas trade in the Tang Empire for more than ten years!

Although in Li Xuan's opinion, this is only more than 20,000 tons, and the tonnage of any cargo ship in the future will exceed the large!

But in this era, more than 20,000 tons represent almost the top seafaring power, even the Spaniards or the Portuguese, it is difficult to organize such a large fleet in non-war times.

This fleet is not only the largest fleet organized by the Tang Dynasty, but also the largest number of immigrants at one time, with tens of thousands of immigrants in the fleet, of which about 1,000 will go to the Honolulu Islands to enrich the local population and carry out agricultural development and construction, and build Honolulu Island into a strategic transit and supply station for the empire in the Pacific.

However, more people will take a break in the Honolulu Islands and continue to live in North America's New Gold Mountain.

Previously, there were about 4,000 immigrants in the Honolulu Islands area and about 2,000 immigrants in the New Kanesan area.

If this trip is successful, then the total number of immigrants in the Tang Empire on the Sandalwood Islands will exceed 5,000, and the number of immigrants in the Xinjinshan area will also reach more than 10,000!

And these populations will become the most solid foundation for the empire's expansion in the Americas!