I am Da Song

Chapter 343 Fiscal Surplus
Hearing Zhao Huan's question, the eloquent Zhang Jun froze.

There was a brief silence in the imperial tent, and finally Zhang Jun replied slowly: "One mu is charged for one money."

"How much?!" Zhao Huan exclaimed in shock.

A penny!

The rent for an acre in the interior is four hundred yuan.

That is to say, renting one hectare of land here is only a quarter of the rent of one mu of land in the interior.

"Why is it so low?"

Zhang Jun said: "The main reason is that the leased land is wasteland, and you may not see a single rabbit in a year. Therefore, the hunting grounds are calculated on the basis of hectares, with a minimum of [-] hectares and a fee of ten guan."

Zhao Huan quickly calculated in his mind that the arable land area of ​​Hei Province in later generations is 700 million mu.Cultivated land area, not land area.Based on this figure, Da Song can also collect 5000 million yuan in land rent.About 25 guan.

Of course, the Heishui Protectorate of the Great Song Dynasty has a very large area, reaching all the way to Beihai and Sakhalin Island.

So if we only talk about the land, it may be about ten to twenty times the cultivated land area of ​​a province in Heilongjiang.

Ten thousand mu of fertile land can be contracted in the Heishui Protectorate Mansion with ten pennies. This figure should be very attractive to Central Plains businessmen.

If some people were more ambitious and took out a few thousand guns, they could even take over the entire Sakhalin Island directly in the Heishui Protectorate, achieving the feat of owning hundreds of thousands of acres of land.

Reasonably speaking, on such a vast land, as long as a businessman seriously develops and develops it, the profit will be more than a few thousand dollars.

Zhao Huan couldn't help but imagine how to develop it if he was a businessman and bought the entire Sakhalin Island.

If you build a mansion on it, you can earn a lot of money by raising hundreds of horses.

On the huge Sakhalin Island, horses are run casually on it, and a thousand or ten thousand horses are also raised.Not to mention that there are a lot of gold mines on it.

By employing local people to casually produce some supplies, one can become a wealthy nobleman.

If the ambition is a little bigger, then buy a few boats, [-] kilometers south of Sakhalin Island is Hokkaido, Japan.It takes less than half an hour for Shunfeng to arrive, and a lot of wealth can be traded.

While Zhao Huan was thinking about it, Zhang Jun said: "The tax is indeed slightly lower, but the main purpose is to attract wealthy businessmen from the mainland to go to the Heishui Dufu to develop the area. Secondly, it is to win over local chiefs and heroes. You can get about 30 Guansui at the fastest speed. The income is enough to meet the financial and military needs of the Heishui Protectorate, and to stabilize the local rule. After the economy is prosperous, the rent can be re-determined according to demand."

30 yuan is indeed a lot.

At the beginning of the Chanyuan Alliance, the Song Dynasty gave the Liao Kingdom a total of about 30 taels of silver.

If you don't count the army's armor, armaments, etc., the 30 yuan can at least solve the garrison cost of [-] Song troops.There is even a lot of surplus to save food and grass for sending troops to fight.

In this land of the North Sea, being able to station [-] elite troops in the Central Plains is definitely a remarkable achievement, and it is a height that has never been reached by previous dynasties.

Zhang Jun respectfully persuaded Zhao Huan: "Officials, the country is actually not short of taxes. According to the documents from Tokyo, the national audit in the twelfth lunar month shows that the country's tax revenue this year is 7000 million guan, and the coinage is 8000 million. Wanguan, the fiscal expenditure is 2000 million guan, and Taicang still has a fiscal surplus of 3000 million guan.”

"The country does not lack the taxation of northern Xinjiang. Consolidating the rule is the top priority."

Zhao Huan was finally persuaded by Zhang Jun that even if the 30 guan was expanded tenfold, it was only 300 million guan, and if it was expanded by a hundred times, it was only 3000 million guan, which was just a fraction of the fiscal surplus.

With such a rich country, it is not unacceptable to exempt new land from taxes to win the hearts of the people.

Taxation is only to establish the authority of the government in local rule, so that the local people know which country they belong to now.

Speaking of minting coins, Zhao Huan remembered that most of the minting coins were lent to Zhuqi Bank by the third division.

This shows that the mainland of Song Dynasty needs a lot of currency to invest in development.How should currency be resolved in this newly expanded land?

Zhao Huan asked: "In the north of Yanyun, although the population is only more than [-] million, it is still nearly ten million people, accounting for about one tenth of our dynasty. How can the imperial banknotes of our dynasty meet the one-tenth of the gap?" ?”

Zhang Jun talked calmly, and said: "Officials, wealth is not only counted by population. Although the newly expanded territory is vast, its wealth is far from that of our dynasty. Between one-twentieth to one-twentieth."

"The Zhengshitang intends to order the three divisions to mint [-] million coins to directly replace various other coins from the people."

"At the same time, Zhuqi Bank will buy low-interest loans here to encourage businessmen to invest in workshops and open shops here."

"After the Kingdom of Jin is conquered, the tariffs will be cancelled. This will be the best place for businessmen to make a fortune. They will come here most actively to engage in business activities."

Zhao Huan suddenly remembered that for Song, one of the biggest gains from conquering the Jin Kingdom was to completely eliminate all kinds of messy checkpoints and tariffs set up by the northern Jin Kingdom.

The industry and commerce of the Song Dynasty gained the largest raw material production area and sales market in the north.

No wonder Zhengshitang has been emphasizing on attracting businessmen to the north.

If they don't come, the abundant timber, coal, leather, gold, ore, war horses, cattle and sheep in the north really cannot form wealth.

The meeting came to an end, and Zhao Huan asked, "Where is the other administrative division?"

Zhang Jun said: "The remaining one is the grassland along the fishing sea in the west, which is compiled as Dongsheng Road. The police of the big captives are guarding Dongsheng."

"Two field armies are guarding the north and south sides of Dongsheng Road, and one hundred thousand elite infantry are waiting to defend Mongolia."

Dongsheng Road is basically Inner Mongolia for later generations.

It is an administrative division from northeast to southwest.

As Zhang Jun said, the main positioning here is to defend Mongolia, build an important military town ahead, and deter Mongolia's ambitions.

With so many elite soldiers stationed here, it is natural that this place cannot be like the Protectorate's Mansion, where the local generals have a lot of power.

So even though it is a border area, it is still directly under the central government.All official appointments come from the imperial court.Finance and logistics came from Song Dynasty Beijing.

After the imperial meeting ended, Zhao Huan immediately issued an imperial edict and passed a series of appointments.

The commander of the Jingsai Army, Han Shizhong, was promoted to the deputy envoy of the privy, the British public, the Jiedu envoy of the two towns of Wuning and Anhua, stationed in Linhuangfu, and the governor's side affairs.The commander of the right army of Longxiang, Wang Bolong, was promoted to the founding county of Yuyang, and the Jiedu envoy of the Weisheng army, and his deputy.

Li Guang, one of ZTE's famous ministers, served as the Xuanfu envoy of Dongsheng Road and the prime minister of Dongsheng Road's government affairs to provide backup for the army.

After arranging the affairs of northern Xinjiang properly, Zhao Huan formally led his own troops to return to the imperial court. The 20 troops followed the imperial battalion and returned to the Central Plains, ready to receive a formal large-scale reward from the imperial court.

(End of this chapter)