"Your Majesty, how much gold and silver are left in the treasury and the inner treasury?" Wang Ju asked.

Although the gold mine and the silver mines of the Japanese kingdom continued to provide gold and silver, and took advantage of the trade gap to obtain a large amount of gold and silver from the West, there was also a need for money and silk on the other side.

And it is the economy of the entire Song Dynasty that is being leveraged, and at the moment these gold and silver seem to be a lot, but in fact there is really not much.

"Wang Qing, the two warehouses can transfer about 600,000 taels of gold and more than 4 million taels of silver." Zhao Ji summed up in his heart and said.

This illustrates two things.

Although the two wars were defeated, the two warehouses were not completely consumed, which also shows that Zhao Ji will reclaim the rights, otherwise he would not be so clear about the storage of the treasury.

"It seems that we have to find a few capable people to enter the three provinces." Wang Ju thought in his heart.

Everyone handled the official business together, and Zhao Ji wanted to deal with it, but he couldn't. Then you can live a few more years with less fatigue. Why do you have this idea, just like Zhang Zai, if you follow the trend of history, he died several years earlier. Because Wang Ju appeared, his life was worry-free, and he saw everything again, and he is still alive and well.

"In this way, the position of the banking department is more secure," Mr. Wang said.

This is added up to more than 2,000,000 taels of gold and 1,300 taels of silver.

In fact, there are still a lot of gold and silver among the people, which is recorded in the "Kaifeng Mansion":

Commander of the Daikin Deputy Marshal Office:

The two people of the deed d'are swore that they were willing to offer 1 million ingots of gold and 5 million ingots of silver. The first was to renew the gold of 247,600 taels, 49,520 ingots of affection, 7,728,000 taels of silver, and 1,545,600 ingots. I don't want to follow the old practice of fifty taels and one spindles, but I have shrunk a lot. It is the renewal of the contract by the people. Quasi-discounted gold 600,000 single 7,700 ingots. Two million five hundred eighty-three thousand ingots of silver. With a detailed and separate width, there are still 342,780 ingots of gold and 871,300 ingots of silver, and all the jins within five days.

The lower right Kaifeng Mansion is allowed to do this.

The Golden Heavenly Society is said on March 14 of the fifth year.

Alternate width:

The deed survey is staffed. The emperor and the princess are 1,000 gold ingots, the Zongji is 500 gold ingots, the clan concubine is 200 gold ingots, the clan wife is 500 silver ingots, the clan woman is 200 silver ingots, and the daughter of a good family is 100 silver ingots. According to the number of people who were repatriated according to the first renewal petition, the left division applied for the inspection of the roster, and those who did not enter the village should not be counted. Since the rest of the sight is in and the elimination of the name, with the statistics of the situation. Eighty-three concubines and twenty-four princesses were elected. The emperor and the princess were twenty-two, and they received 1,000 ingots of gold, and they received 134,000 ingots of gold. There are five concubines in the inner emperor, 98 concubines, 28 concubines, 52 concubines, 78 royal maids, 195 concubines, 500 gold ingots, and 225,500 gold ingots. One thousand two hundred and forty-one princesses, two hundred ingots of gold, and two hundred thousand two hundred ingots of gold. There were 479 palace maids, 600 women and 4 women, 2,000 women and 91 women, 500 silver ingots, and 1,587,000 silver ingots. There were two thousand women and seven women, and one thousand three hundred and fourteen singers, and two hundred ingots of silver, and 664,200 ingots of silver. There were 3,309 nobles, officials and women, and 100 ingots of silver were allowed, and 331,900 ingots of silver were obtained. All allowed to be 7,700 ingots of gold, 2,583,100 ingots of silver.

Ershu people refer to the two emperors, and one ingot is fifty taels.

According to the oath, the second emperor had to reward the Jin State with 50 million taels of gold and 250 million taels of silver.

Dizzy!

Is there so much gold and silver on the whole earth now?

The Song Dynasty had originally paid 247,600 taels of gold and 7,728,000 taels of silver to the Jin people, which was obviously not enough, so they looted in the city, and how much they looted out was not recorded, but the Jin people used the "affectionate" figure to be 49,520 ingots of gold (nearly 2.5 million taels) and 1,545,600 ingots of silver (more than 77 million taels).

It's still too bad, what should I do, use women to compensate, concubines, princesses, princesses can be worth 1,000 ingots of gold, concubines, concubines, royal maids, and concubines of the near branch can be worth 500 ingots of gold, clan concubines can be worth 200 ingots of gold, palace maids, pickers, and clan women can be worth 500 ingots of silver, clan women, singers (mostly referring to more noble official prostitutes) can be worth 200 ingots of silver, and nobles, officials and women can be worth 100 ingots of silver.

As a result, all the women with more status in the city were mortgaged, and 342,780 gold ingots and 871,300 silver ingots were still not paid off......

This is the greatest shame in the history of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, a country that is not martial arts, no matter how big the country is and how large the population is, will end up very miserable.

But it shows that in the homes of various wealthy people in the Song Dynasty, there were still countless gold and silver hidden.

Once the banking department is established, some of the gold and silver will also be deposited in the various banks.

"yes," Zhao said.

Wang Ju's eyes swept over the ministers, and most of them were also pleased.

After all, Wang Ju built a beautiful picture for them.

However, a few people's eyes flashed with displeasure, not only the old party, but also some new parties did not like Wang Ju either.

So Wang Ju said: "Ladies and gentlemen, in the past, because I had a little martial arts, some scholars, including Duke Wen, Duke Sun, and Duke An, did not like war in the country, so they also did not like me to open the border. ”

An Tao's face changed.

In fact, among the people present, not only An Tao, but also Li Qingchen, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Xie Jingwen, the servant of the Ministry of Households, and Zeng Gong of Taichang Temple, all opposed Wang Ju Kaibian.

But Wang Ju can't point the finger at too many people.

Actually, this is a sentence to Zhao Ji, although you cleaned some people, there are still people who have not been cleaned, I am not very satisfied......

Zhao Ji will understand, if he is sincere, this guy will also go down.

Although An Tao can't make big waves, Wang Ju needs to use An Tao to build his prestige.

Wang Ju continued: "I implemented the reform of the land in the south, and divided the farmland and houses, so that some scholars and doctors did not like it, thinking that I wanted to implement the ancient well field system and equal wealth and poverty. In fact, I am wrong, if the real wealth is equalized, and the people have no motivation, the country will not develop. ”

The big collective is a good lesson, the selfish side of people is better than the public side, so can it be so conscious?

"At that time, this was done because the barbarians in the south had land and soldiers in their hands. The imperial court was difficult to control. So suppress them. And divide the homestead land together. There is no land, no wealth, and even if there are barbarian chieftains, there is no power to rebel. Therefore, I was in charge of Liangguang at that time, and I only moved Guangnan West Road. Tianjue, you've also been to the other side, how about the taxes over there? I'm sorry to tell you. ”

The tax over there is an absolute Qi merchant tax.

Any sale or purchase of goods, including pit mines. Houses, workshops, and the goods themselves, within a city to tax three percent, tax two percent, within a province in different cities will add one more tax, if it is within the other shore, it is two taxes, if it is outside the other shore, whether it is the Song Dynasty or the Wa Kingdom or the Great Food. then add an additional tax.

And then there was nothing.

But in order to evade taxes, the officials have the right to question. For example, A wants to buy B's house, the house is worth 100 yuan, the two of them combined, let's save a little tax, and quote 10 yuan. When the official saw that the price was unreasonable, he immediately questioned it, but to prevent the official from exploiting it, he had the right to question, but he did not have the right to deal with it, and he needed to report it to the officials in the town immediately. The town then sent officials to investigate, and if it was true, a certain percentage of the officials who questioned it were immediately rewarded.

As for the two sides of tax evasion, they will be punished with a cane and fines, and if they are in the middle, they will be disqualified, and if they are serious, they will abandon the market.

Of course, there is also supervision of officials, in addition to the investigation of the inspection team, at the same time encourage the people to report the illegal corruption of local officials, and protect and reward the people who report it.

There will still be people who are greedy for ink, but don't let everyone find out, even the common people can't let them find out, otherwise the incident will happen, and in the end, the officials will also be sad, and they will be dismissed at least and beheaded at worst!

In fact, this tax ratio is not too high.

Just like a pit mine, after paying the 5% tax rate, there is no need to pay any taxes, and the government wants to buy ore, and the two sides negotiate, if the mine owner does not agree to the price, he has the right not to sell it. Wang Anshi scored 28 points, and the court also got 20 percent of the lessons.

But there is only one, and that is the protection of arable land and pastureland.

If it is due to urban expansion, or the occupation of pit mines and workshops, each mu of Shangtian needs to be compensated with five times, three times in the middle field, and the same in the field. If a private person wants to buy a merger, Ueda must pay a tax of two kans, Nakata consistently, and Shimoda 500 bun.

In fact, the cultivated land on the other side is so expensive?

Not to mention that each family has been allocated so much land, and after the children of each family grow up, they will report to the government, and if our family has many children and all of them have grown up, then it is allowed to divide the family and set up a household after getting married, and then go to the new development area to redistribute farmland to the children who have grown up and become married.

But why do it? The people of the Central Plains still attach too much importance to arable land, even if they migrate to the other side. If there is no heavy tax, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and perhaps after more than ten years of primitive accumulation, many families with good conditions will begin to annex cultivated land on a large scale.

After Zhang Shangying finished his introduction, Wang Ju asked again: "Tianjue, in addition to the few poor people over there, is there absolutely equal wealth and poverty?" ”

Zhang Shangying shook his head: "Although there are few wealthy families, there are many relatively wealthy families, otherwise they would not have the assets to buy pit mining workshops and purchase various industries." Your Majesty, this time the other side brought back so much gold and silver, not only from trade, but also from the sale of a large number of workshops and mines by these maritime merchants. ”

This has to be made clear, otherwise these ministers still think that there is a lot of income overseas.

They were silent.

Wang Ju said: "Therefore, the Qi business tax is not equal to the rich and the poor, on the contrary, because it stimulates more people to get rich, and with a rich environment, then the rich will be richer, but some crooked businessmen are eliminated." The other side is the best example, now the time is short, the population is small, and in more than ten years, I believe that outside the non-seamaster alliance, there will also be a group of huge riches. And the third gift will make many people richer! ”

After Wang Ju finished speaking, he waved his hand again.

Dozens of seafarers carried down many large boxes from another ship, then unpacked them and began to install a huge machine.

"Your Majesty, it's a steam engine."

Everyone watched.

Just put it on the test ship, it does not represent its role.

But Wang Ju regarded it as a gift, and it was listed with so much gold and silver, such an important grain, and probably had other important functions.

It will be installed in a moment.

And there is also a thick iron pipe inserted into the Wuzhang River.

One man lit the coal in the boiler and added water to the furnace above.

After waiting for a while, the machines began to turn, driven by steam.

And then a huge amount of river water spewed out of the huge iron pipe.

Almost everyone's eyes lit up.

It's not the slow pumping of a waterwheel. It's too fast.

Wang Ju made a gesture. The people took the charcoal away. The steam engine slowly stopped again.

"This is its first function, drought prevention and drainage, and it can also pump water from various pits and mines."

The earliest steam engine was not invented by Watt, the inventor is said to be a Suckeland iron named Newkerman, the French physicist Papin made the first sample, and the Englishman Seville put it into practical use for the first time, that is, pumping water.

But it's not about irrigation, it's about mine pumping.

Now the Song Dynasty pit mines also need it.

Coal mines, in particular, are the saddest. Because it is a coal seam, it is not as strong as other pit mines, and it is most likely to cause landslide accidents.

And there is the harm of gas, and it is not possible to take precautions, often some sealed high-concentration gas, chiseled with a hammer, and when it encounters oxygen in the air, it will immediately explode.

In addition to the harm of gas, it is the damage of groundwater.

Although it is impossible for the pit mines of the Song Dynasty to be thousands of meters deep, but because of the popularization of gunpowder. It is also very deep once the groundwater is poured. Everyone will be helpless, and a huge pit mine will be scrapped.

However, with the steam engine, this problem can be solved.

Of course, compared with pit mines, irrigation and drainage are more effective, and irrigation and drought resistance are used in the northern and mountainous areas, while drainage and fishing are carried out in the southern polders. With it, the efficiency will be dozens or hundreds of times higher than that of the original water wheel! And the operation of a steam engine is equivalent to saving dozens of people and hundreds of people slowly pumping in water trucks, which undoubtedly saves a lot of manpower.

But it's not just that.

Wang Ju signaled again, and dozens of people took out a machine again and began to assemble it.

That is, the patent that Wang Ju bought from Zu Yang.

According to the new loom invented by Zuyang, especially the shuttle technology, and then improved, a new loom was introduced.

After assembling it, put on the leather cord, and the charcoal burning on the other side began again.

After a while, the flywheel began to rotate with the loom.

Rolls of wool quickly twist up silk threads and quickly turn into cloth.

After Zhao Ji and the ministers saw it, they gasped together.

It's not over yet.

Wang Ju signaled again, and another subordinate moved over the railroad track, which was not the rail of later generations, and it was relatively narrow. After twenty or thirty meters of paving, a special vehicle was brought down from the ship, which was filled with stones, and iron wheels and belts were attached under the steam engine.

Well, the steam engine dragged the dozen or so carts and started running.

In fact, the period from steam engine to steam locomotive is not long, but more than 100 years. After improving the steam engine from Watt, seeing its high efficiency, the British laid the Darlington Railroad and experimented with five locomotives, the first of which consisted of a locomotive, a coal and water car, 32 wagons and 1 passenger car, and ran more than 30 kilometers at an average speed of 13 kilometers per hour.

But note that this is a wagon, not a train, and a wagon may weigh less than a ton, not a wagon, like later trains, and a wagon may weigh fifty or sixty tons.

If you want to get on the train, the technology is too complicated, and even the bridge can't get through.

However, Wang Ju didn't want to get on the train, its role was quite similar to that of a locomotive in another time and space, mainly serving the pit mines.

By laying a simple track, workers in the pit can quickly transport ore from tens of meters deep underground to the surface.

Or the technology is a little better, lay a railroad track on the side of Sanmenxia, and now Sanmenxia still follows the Tang system, and the cargo ships are moored far up and down Sanmenxia, and then the goods are moved down, transported from the land to the other side, and then loaded onto ships.

These dozens of miles of mountain roads alone consumed countless manpower and materials. Therefore, the Song Dynasty once set up three Baibo shipping envoys and Shaanxi Sanmen shipping envoys, which were in charge of the dispatch of dozens of miles of mountain roads.

If a larger steam engine can be introduced, even if it can only pull a hundred tons of goods at a time, it is better than pushing a small cart by car. And this cost and technical requirements are not very high.

That would result in greater cost savings and a faster flow of goods between the two places.

Especially when it comes to launching a war to destroy the summer, it will play a huge role.

"That's a great gift," Wang muttered.

Wang Ju was also complacent: "Your Majesty, in the past, the ministers wrote math books, and some people impeached the ministers for promoting strange tricks and tricks, is it still tricks and tricks?" (To be continued.) )