Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 441 Xia Yuanji is up
Yang Shiqi couldn't figure out where the Mumbai port that Chen Yunfu was talking about, and what the expansion of the Mumbai port had anything to do with Daming.

Is the imperial court's policy of rewarding children related to the construction of a port in Mumbai?

Even Yang Shiqi couldn't understand things, and the military and political academies in the central government naturally couldn't understand things, but it didn't matter that they didn't understand.

Chen Yunfu didn't even intend to communicate with them about this policy at all, and he directly made the plan and arbitrarily let the company write.

I didn't attend the meeting.

Some policies need to be discussed, and some policies do not need to be discussed.

Because Chen Yunfu firmly believed that his policy was absolutely correct.

It's nice to be domineering once in a while.

It's just that Xia Yuanji is a little unhappy. The country's finances have not been good for two years, and Chen Yunfu has to make some troubles. If this is the case, can't he, the finance minister, live a prosperous life for two years?

Fortunately, this year, Liaozhou repaid the first installment of the debt.

310 million taels of cash plus various discounted resources were transported with 8707 laborers, and the total discounted price was [-] million taels.

After deducting 500 million yuan as interest, Liaozhou only repaid 3707 million taels of principal.

But this is only the first year. It is expected that as time goes by, Liaozhou will recover faster after recovering from the war.

"Guangdong's tax has hit a new high this year, which is probably the reason for the establishment of the Guangzhou Stock Exchange. This year, Guangdong's commercial tax plus the tax of the shipping company and the revenue of Guangdong's state-owned firms have exceeded 100 million taels, approaching the heyday of the Southern Song Dynasty. level of the times."

Xia Yuanji held the tax booklet and smiled like a 50-year-old child.

Liaozhou repays debts and Guangdong pays taxes.

The combination of the two places will almost reach Hongwu's 24 years of national fiscal revenue. Think about it, the development of the country in the past 12 years is like a mother's dream.

"Where is this going, to make you, the God of Wealth, happy like this?"

Chen Yunfu saw Xia Yuanji couldn't stop laughing like this, so he said: "Go, I will take you to see what is the real golden mountain and silver sea."

Jinshan, Yinhai?
The latter asked in surprise: "The sea of ​​gold and silver that I see every day in the treasury is gone. Where is the sea of ​​gold and silver that the king said?"

"Guangzhou!"

Chen Yunfu acted as soon as he said, packed up for seven or eight days, and took Yang Shiqi and Xia Yuanji to the south of Beijing after finishing some urgent business affairs at hand, and came to Guangzhou for the third time in his life.

When he arrived in Guangzhou, he went straight to Guangzhou Port under the leadership of Hu Sizong.

The newly expanded Guangzhou Port University is amazing. There are more than a dozen ports for ships to enter and exit. Standing on the tower and looking out to the sea, the flags on the masts of ships can be said to block the sky and the sea.

"Currently, the daily throughput of Guangzhou Port is as high as 680 ships at its peak."

When Hu Sizong introduced this number, he was amazed: "The Guangzhou Port Authority under the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou Shipping Department is definitely the largest bureau-level government office in the country at present, with [-] officials."

Three thousand seven hundred officials?
Isn't that more than the central office company?

Chen Yunfu also nodded in amazement, and did not forget to remind: "With so many establishments, the problem of empty pay cannot happen."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have always paid attention to this matter in Guangdong." Hu Sizong accompanied the inspection, and whispered beside him: "First, shipping is the most important thing in Guangdong, and second, the finances of the Guangzhou Shipping Department have been very tight , after all, this area is the big one, and it is also the place where problems are most likely to occur, so I will be very careful."

"That's fine."

Chen Yunfu still had great trust in Hu Sizong, so he didn't delay on this issue, and after a quick look, he went directly to the warehouse.

The expansion of Guangdong Port is so large, so the freight yard will naturally not be small.

Hundreds of huge warehouses are located in the freight yard in an orderly manner. Most of them are leased by businessmen in Guangzhou and Guangdong, and a small number are leased by foreign businessmen and local state-owned firms in Guangdong. Not many actually belong to the Guangdong government.

This is not a place to store food, and the imperial court does not do business, so why do they need warehouses.

There are about a dozen of them, all guarded by heavy soldiers.

"Three thousand officers and soldiers guarded ten warehouses, patrolling in three shifts for twelve hours, absolutely safe."

Hu Sizong said: "Just fifteen miles away from this freight yard is the Guangzhou Guard of the Southeast Navy, who can come to support at any time."

Yang Shiqi and Xia Yuanji beside Chen Yunfu became interested.

What is in the warehouse requires such a high standard of guarding.

"Yuanji, don't you want to see the mountains of gold and sea of ​​silver? I will take you to see it and open a position."

Eight soldiers guarding the barn door unlocked the huge copper lock, tore off the iron chain that was as thick as an adult's arm, and both sides worked together to open the barn door.

Sunlight shines into the warehouse, dispelling the darkness.

Immediately afterwards, the sunlight was refracted again.

Bright gold!
Xia Yuanji even closed his eyes subconsciously after being hit by the light.

A warehouse full of gold is placed on the shelves one by one. Looking around, there are hundreds of meters in depth and thousands of shelves, all of which are gold!
"This this."

Xia Yuanji stuttered when he spoke. He had worked in the former Ministry of Accounting and now the Ministry of Finance all his life, and managed the court's pockets for decades, but he had never seen so much gold.

"There are a total of 120 million taels of gold in this warehouse."

Hu Sizong added next to it: "There are 360 million taels of gold and 480 million taels of silver in the other nine warehouses."

Hearing a plop, Xia Yuanji was so frightened by this number that he sat down on the ground.

"I've been an official all my life, but I've never seen so much cash and silver. Hu Fantai, where did it all come from?"

480 million taels of gold and more than 3000 million taels of silver, how many years will it take for the Ming Dynasty to receive so much tax.

"Someone sent it."

Hu Sizong helped Xia Yuanji up, and the words he said made the latter say in disbelief: "My Ming Dynasty is rich and the world doesn't have so much gold and silver. Who can be so rich?"

"What you're seeing is just the tip of the iceberg."

Chen Yunfu took the words: "This is the first money sent, there will be more later."

Where did so much gold and silver come from, of course it was sent by Pu Shun.

This also made Chen Yunfu re-examine the strength of Pu Shun and the family behind him.

The Arab nobles who were able to capture slaves around Europe and Africa more than 400 years ago had unfathomable financial resources.

How many gold mines did this kid get in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula?

"Okay, Daming's God of Wealth, don't be so patronizing and shocked, this money is all for you, hurry up and arrange someone to transport it back to Nanjing."

Chen Yunfu patted Xia Yuanji's shoulder and said with a smile: "I'll save you from arguing with Gu every day about having no money and crying about being poor. You can arrange how and where the money is spent."

Xia Yuanji, who had never fought such a rich battle in three lifetimes, was so excited that he almost fainted.

In the future, I, Mr. Xia, won't be branched out?
(End of this chapter)