“… As for Dongjiang Town, there are more than 110,000 people in Tuntian from Lushunkou, Changshan, Guanglu, Shicheng, Lu, and Zhangjia Islands to Phi Island and the coastal areas of Pyongan Province in North Korea.

Mao Shuai's ration to these Tuntian Liao people was 3 buckets per person per month, but it did not include the old and young and other people who were unable to work. The annual expenditure of Tunding rations is about 79,200 stones, and the harvest of Tunding grain is more than 110,000 stones.

In addition to the soldiers and the Liao people of Tuntian, there are still about 90,000 soldiers' families, merchants, and natives on each island. In addition, the Joseon Kingdom supplies about 38,000 stone of grain to Donggang Town every year, and in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, it reached 150,000 stone, and this year it delivered 97,000 stone.

Through the entrepot trade between Korea and the Jurchens in Liaodong, Dongjiang Town can still obtain 15-250,000 stone of grain every year. According to Lin Yuanzhong's summary of the population and food supply information in various parts of Dongjiang Town, he believes that the annual grain consumption quota of Dongjiang Town should be 1 million stones, and the minimum grain consumption limit should be 750,000 stones.

If Dongjiang Town receives less than 750,000 stone of grain every year, then the phenomenon of starvation will inevitably occur. This year, Dongjiang Town received 200,000 stone of grain from the imperial court in full, plus 300,000 stone of grain owed, plus 150,000 stone of income from Tuntian, 97,000 stone supplied by North Korea, and more than 300,000 stone of grain purchased from Korea, Ryukyu and Jiangnan through entrepot trade, the total amount has exceeded 1.05 million stone.

In addition, His Majesty relocated military families, women and children, and Liao people from Donggang Town to Tianjin, Shandong, Jeju Island, Taiwan, and other places, relocating a total of 19,000 people and saving 76,000 stones.

the construction of a fortress at the Port of Arthur, employing 1,900 people; develop 15,000 acres of wasteland in Lushunkou and absorb 2,500 people; Dongjiang Fishery Company was established, absorbing 1,100 people and harvesting more than 25,000 stone of fish and shrimp and other seafood. Another 47,000 stone was saved.

Therefore, Dongjiang Town's grain consumption this year should be about 880,000 stones, and the balance is about 178,000 stones. The trade volume between the Inner Government and North Korea was 147,000 taels, accounting for about 4 percent of the total trade volume of Ming Korea, and the profit was about 52,000 taels.

Of this, 25,000 taels were used to build hospitals, schools and relief for Liao people living in difficulty, and another 7,000 taels were allocated to the Dongjiang Town Social Investigation Office for recruitment and daily office expenses. ”

880,000 stones, that is, 80,000 tons of grain. After deducting the part supplied by Donggang Town and North Korea, that is, 600,000 stone of grain will be provided to Donggang Town every year. Now the largest grain ship on the Daming Sea is only 10,000 stones, which is 300 ships.

However, according to this year's customs registration of Daming merchant ships, there are about 3,000 ships larger than 60 tons that can sail in offshore waters; Of the ships larger than 100 tons, only 1,100 remained; As for 2,000 stones, that is, less than 400 ships of more than 180 tons.

There are more than 2,000 stone sea ships in the hands of the imperial court, and there are 43 ships in the hands of Tianjin and Denglai sailors. After June, the Nanjing Longjiang Shipyard built two 150-ton merchant ships, and immediately put into construction one ton of Fu ships each.

As for the shipyard in Tianjin, 30-60 ton fishing boats have been able to achieve the level of one every 10 days, but the type and structure of ships over 100 tons have not yet been formalized.

Grain shipping from the south to the north has occupied a lot of capacity. Then from Dengzhou to the islands of the Dongjiang River for transshipment, the old ships of the Denglai Naval Division, there is such a toss.

Zhu Youzhen thought about it, and asked Lu Qi to show himself the map of Liaodong, he held both ends of the map with both hands, looked at it carefully for a long time, and then said: "Let the General Logistics Department build a grain warehouse of 200,000 stone in Lushun, a grain warehouse of 50,000 stone in Guanglu Island, a grain warehouse of 10,000 stone on Seokseong Island, and a warehouse of 100,000 stone on the north and south sides of Jeju Island."

All of these warehouses are under the direct control of the General Logistics Department, and are equipped with a certain number of grain carriers. Except for the military and civilian logistics of the East Concord and Phi Island, which were handed over to Mao Shuai, the supply of military and civilian logistics in other areas was directly controlled by the general logistics department.

The general logistics department does not interfere in the affairs of Tuntian in Dongjiang Town, but except for Tunding, the old and weak women and children in all parts of Dongjiang Town are registered and distributed according to 15 buckets of rations per month, and this money is paid from the account in the palace.

In addition, 48,000 soldiers of the 4 Associations of Dongjiang Town will be given a battlefield subsidy of 1 yuan per person per month. The coastal defense battalion transferred to Lushunkou will be paid the same field allowance, and the navy will pay 15 yuan per person per month. Let the Four Seas Commercial Bank open shops in Lushun and other places to recycle these banknotes. ”

Lu Qi calculated for a while, and then said with some worry: "Your Majesty, this is an annual expenditure of nearly one million yuan, and there are only 3.75 million taels of silver left in the inner treasury. If you continue to spend like this, I'm afraid that the inner library will not be able to make ends meet. ”

Zhu Youzhen pursed his lips before he said, "What about the secret account number of the central bank?" How much deposit do you have now? ”

Because the treasury of the Ming Dynasty has always been empty, officials from top to bottom of the court and central government have been staring at the inner treasury of the palace all day long, wanting to take money out of it to subsidize state affairs. Although under Chongzhen's maneuvering, the insufficient funds of the state were made up by lending funds from banks in the form of public bonds.

But after all, there was still interest on public bonds, and some officials apparently thought that it would be better to lend the emperor's treasury money than to pay interest to the banks.

Not only does the money in the inner treasury not need interest, but if the treasury really can't be repaid, the emperor is embarrassed to pursue it, after all, the Ming Dynasty is royal, is it possible to maintain its own industry, and it is impossible to expect others to pay money.

In the face of this kind of thinking held by most officials in the court, Chongzhen had to publish the accounts of the inner treasury, so that these courtiers knew how much silver was stored in the inner treasury, and also let the people of the world know that the silver taels in the inner treasury were not used for the emperor's personal consumption, but most of them were used for emergency reserves in the state in case of emergencies.

Zhu Youzhen made the accounts of the inner treasury public, and indicated the purpose of each fund, which immediately dispelled the cognition of many low-level officials, who originally thought that the reason why the treasury was empty was because the emperor moved the treasury deposit into the inner treasury. Therefore, when the state is insufficient, it must allocate money from the inner treasury.

There are also some ill-intentioned Donglin officials who talk about the emperor's inner treasury all day long, but in fact, the main purpose is to beat the emperor, afraid that Chongzhen will increase the tax amount. Now that Chongzhen has exposed the bottom of the inner library, the voices of these people inciting the people have also fallen.

However, before Zhu Youzhen made public the accounts of the inner treasury, he set up a secret account with the central bank, and the profits of the various workshops in the palace, customs taxes, the profits of the four seas commercial banks in which the inner government participated, and overseas trade, as well as some shady funds, were all remitted to this account of the central bank.

Obviously, it is much safer and more discreet to hide assets or make payments through a central bank than to move silver from the treasury in plain sight. Well, for this reason, there are many officials touting, saying that Chongzhen is the most upright emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and even the slightest entry and exit of the inner library is spread out for the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen was still afraid that someone would be idle, so he compared the accounts disclosed by the inner library every time, and he specially asked the published accounts to be divided into two parts, one with only one summary table, which was published in the Daming Times. The other is the original data, a total of hundreds of pages thick in one volume, put in the household department for public sale, 35 yuan per volume.

As he expected, ordinary people had no interest in spending money on a detailed account of the inner treasury expenditures, except for a few merchants. After that, the number of officials in the DPRK and China who talked about the inner treasury and silver all day was obviously reduced.

Lu Qi took a pamphlet from his bosom and looked at it, then looked up at the emperor and said, "As of the day before yesterday, the funds in the secret accounts of the central bank have reached two. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked up at Lu Qi with some astonishment and said, "How can there be so many?" Didn't there only be more than 4 million taels in the account last month? ”

Lu Qi lowered his head and looked at the booklet in his hand and read: "The customs handed over a total of 660,000 taels of silver; The cotton textile workshop handed over a profit of 200,000 taels; The textile machinery workshop handed over a profit of 150,000 taels; Sihai Commercial Bank paid dividends three times, totaling 248,000 taels; The cement workshop handed over a profit of 50,000 taels; The glass workshop handed over a profit of 630,000 taels;

The foreign trade between the Beijing branch of the Inner Government and Korea, Japan, and the Ryukyus made a profit of 386,000 taels; cooperated with Portugal, China and Japan merchant ships, and obtained a profit of 1.34 million taels;

The raw silk market established in Huzhou this year has reached 450,000 quintals of entry, of which 50,000 quintals are the best quality of lake silk.

Ordinary raw silk rises to 70 taels per quintal, while lake silk rises to 110 taels per quintal. The raw silk market changed hands to ordinary raw silk, with a profit of 15 taels per quintal, while Hu silk made a profit of 40 taels per quintal.

Another 10,000 quintals of lake silk were exported to Japan, and at that time, other merchant ships transported raw silk into Japan for sale, so the price of raw silk plummeted. 3,000 quintals of high-quality lake silk were sold at the highest price of 380 taels per quintal, 3,500 quintals of ordinary lake silk were sold at the median price of 285 taels per quintal, and the remaining 3,500 quintals of lake silk were sold at a low price of 220 taels per quintal.

Another 5,000 quintals of fine lake silk were shipped to Manila for 250 taels each. After deducting various expenses, the profit of the raw silk market this year was about 9.5 million taels. After deducting various taxes, the net profit was 8.5 million taels. The Ming Chamber of Commerce in the palace has 4% of the shares in the raw silk market, so it gets 3.4 million taels.

Originally, there should have been 15,000 pieces of high-grade tribute satin that Jiangnan weaving paid every 3 years, and 300,000 taels of silver were sold. Of the money, 50,000 taels were used to pay for the work materials, 100,000 taels were used to relieve the floods in Zhejiang, and 150,000 taels were handed over to the Zhejiang Haihu Stone Pond Construction Committee for the construction of the stone pond in Haiyan County.

In addition, the silk reeling factory made a profit of 50,000 taels this year, all of which were invested in reproduction, so there was no income. The Jingdezhen Royal Porcelain Factory has just been established and has not yet made a profit.

A total of 70.64 million taels of funds were obtained, and the remaining more than 1.6 million taels came from donations from King Rui, King Fu, King Chu and other clans. ”

Only then did Zhu Youzhen realize that it was the big head of the raw silk market that came in. The money of raw silk has really improved, no wonder these Jiangnan gentry are crying and shouting that they are going to ban the sea.

However, the raw silk market in Huzhou always feels not very safe, although the current governor of Zhejiang and Fujian is his own person, but Jiangnan gentry may not watch him and a gang of pirates divide the profits of raw silk.

With the profit of this raw silk, the silver taels knocked out from the clan vassal king are a little insufficient, Zhu Youzhen thought silently.