Seeing that the atmosphere in the hall was a little heavy, Zhao Zhen said loudly: "How to spend money and food in the army has its own conventions, and it can be explained clearly for a while. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info is to change in the future, and it also needs to be considered in the long run, where can it be decided in a hurry? This matter will be discussed later! ”

Xu Ping sighed in his heart, if he was not forced to have no way out, it seemed that military spending was difficult to move. The generals in the high positions in the army are either former ministers of the domain when Taizong Zhenzong was in power, or relatives, and many of them have two identities in one. These people are married to each other, and their relationship is so intertwined that unless the emperor makes up his mind, others will not be able to touch them at all. Zhao Zhen obviously has no intention of changing this situation now, and not only does he not change it, but he also uses the well-paid position of managing the army to give it directly to people close to him.

Seeing that the ministers didn't speak, Xu Ping said: "It's okay to discuss it later, but there must be an amount of money for raising the army, otherwise it will be really difficult for the three divisions to do." How to spend it can be left alone, the total amount of military spending must be determined, and the Privy Council can always do the main thing in this matter. The total amount of military spending for this year will be reported by the Privy Council according to last year's expenditure, and it is always possible to determine whether it will increase or decrease on this basis in the coming year. After it is decided, the three divisions will pay this amount month by month. ”

Zhang Shixun said: "In fact, this matter is also difficult to do. It is possible to give a certain amount of daily expenses, but it is difficult to determine the amount of annual rewards or rewards given by the state for major events. Besides, the army is out, and there is also a reward, who can understand the miscellaneous things? ”

"No matter what the reason for spending money is out, the Privy Council must always figure out the amount of military spending, otherwise the third division will have money in the treasury all year round and let you take it whenever you want? Where in the world is there such a truth! The three divisions collect the world's money and grain, and use it for the affairs of the world, how can they be used exclusively for raising the army! Whether it is more or less, the Privy Council must give a number! ”

Seeing that Xu Ping's expression was a little unsightly, Zhang Shixun was unmoved, just shook his head: "Difficult, difficult, difficult!" ”

In addition to the money and food received by the head of the people, a large part of the forbidden army is other unclear expenses. In peacetime, you should give a reward for training, if the army moves defense, if the weather is cloudy and rainy, if the road is muddy, you should give you money for shoes, if it is hot, you should give you money to buy ice, and when it is cold, you must pay for charcoal, not to mention that once you fight, you have to pay hard money before you start shooting arrows with knives, guns, bows and arrows. These expenses are unpredictable, the Privy Council has set a number, and it is better to say that if it is not enough, Zhang Shixun will pay for the hole himself.

Li Di had a hot temper, and when he looked at Zhang Shixun's appearance, he couldn't help it anymore, and said sharply: "What Xu Ping said makes sense, it's good for the state to pay for the army, and now it doesn't matter how much your Privy Council spends, there must be an amount of money!" Privy, you can't do this, that's difficult, what's the reason? After a few years in Xifu, don't you still know how much money you spend a year?! ”

Zhang Shixun lowered his eyebrows, didn't hear it, and didn't say a word.

Zhao Zhen said: "Military affairs are fickle, and it is indeed difficult to have certain rules for the cost of raising the army, and the Privy Council can't complain about them if they can't give a specific amount." Of course, it is difficult to do things without a specific amount, and this statement does make sense. It is better to set it according to last year's amount, in order to prevent accidents, add an extra one, and the three divisions will allocate according to this amount in the coming year. If you use money in an unexpected place, it is good to use it from the inner treasury. -- Of course, if there is a war, it is a different matter. ”

Zhang Shixun praised Wat: "Your Majesty is wise, and the ministers are respectfully obeyed." ”

Xu Ping had no choice but to take the decree with Li Di and others, and prepared to settle it like this. One more achievement, as long as there is an exact number, Xu Ping will arrange it. On the whole, it is not difficult to give this pair of Xu Ping.

Zhang Shixun said: "Last year's army raising expenses, many rewards, many of them came from the inner treasury, how to calculate these money?" ”

"Add up the total report to the three divisions, and then the money will be paid by the Zuo Zangku. Raising soldiers was originally a state affair, and the left treasury was empty, so the money from the inner treasury had to be used. Xu Ping is a financial manager, and I think this kind of thing will not happen again in the future. ”

As soon as Zhao Zhen's words came out, Li Di was a little anxious, according to this algorithm, wouldn't the military spending next year rise by more than two percent. If the military budget is too much, there will be no money available for other things, and in the event of floods and droughts, will it be time to borrow money from the inner treasury? Just about to object, he saw Xu Ping shake his head lightly and forcibly swallowed the words that came to his mouth.

Zhao Zhen did this, of course, to ensure the financial resources of the inner treasury and ensure that his private wealth of the Son of Heaven had enough ability to influence the country's finances. From the time of Taizong, the inner treasury and the treasury were completely separated, and the emperor completely controlled it, this article became the ancestral family law, and the emperor easily refused to give up. The Privy Council was used to control the finances and personnel of the forbidden army, and then the treasury was used to influence the country's finances, and the reward money sent to the forbidden army at the critical moment was the private property of the Son of Heaven, so that the officers and soldiers were grateful to the emperor. The core of the ancestral family law is to let the forbidden army, the pillar of power, know who they are, who can pay them, and who they should work for.

Xu Ping is too lazy to worry about these with Zhao Zhen, what he needs is to fix the current financial pattern, don't make money from the three divisions, all parties will look at it, the emperor will draw it into the inner treasury, and the army will reward more money, and finally it will become a bad account. In the past, he was a third envoy who was good at financial management, not to talk about Chen Shu, just to say that Ding Wei, what he could do was nothing more than a lack of use, and there was still a huge deficit after supporting Emperor Zhenzong's worship in the east and west. Xu Ping wants to change the tradition that the three divisions have always owed money in his own office.

This situation may not be what Zhao Zhen wants to see, but it is what the country's social development needs, just to patch up, how to move forward in the social economy?

Set the standard of the military budget, and nothing else will be a big deal. The world's money and grain were originally in the hands of the three divisions, and from the time of Taizu, the power to collect troops and cut the domain, the core was actually to receive the local financial power to the central government. Local states and counties basically have no financial rights, and the vast majority of the taxes received are provincial property, and the ownership is in the three divisions, and the local government must agree to use the three divisions. In fact, there are only a few items of money and grain that can be used by the state and county, the minister's money allocated by the three divisions, the vinegar interest money from the government-run wine store, and the others are all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes collected under the name of ingenuity, and Xu Ping has to cancel them step by step. The reason why the transshipment envoy can allocate the department of this road is to save money and materials because the transshipment envoy is theoretically a dispatched agency of the central government, acting as the authority of the three divisions.

When proposing a budget system, Xu Ping's ideal situation is to sort out military expenditures together, list personnel expenses, training expenses, equipment expenses, office expenses, and so on, and use the budget and final account system to control the army's expenditures and use the money in useful places. Xu Ping also led troops in Yongzhou back then, and it was possible to do it at that time, otherwise even if there was a sugar cane business, how could a state fight that kind of big battle? If we continue to follow the trajectory of history, military spending increases year by year, and whenever there is a war, it explodes, but I don't know where the money goes. The Qingli Song-Xia War in history was almost unaffordable for the Song Dynasty, and in the later period, it directly provoked a peasant uprising in southern Shaanxi. In the end, the two sides made peace without saying anything, and financial difficulties and the popular uprising in Shaanxi were important reasons.

War is about money and food, and everyone knows this truth. But spending money is inefficient, using 10 million yuan, only 1 million yuan has been done, who can afford to fight this kind of battle?

If the ideal situation is not reached, the amount of military must be fixed, even if it increases every year, Xu Ping also admits it. But we must no longer send out the money in the Zuo Treasury without a plan and for a reason, as before.