I am Da Song

Chapter 364

In addition to land tax and industrial and commercial tax, another eye-catching item in the court discussion is the national patent.

That is, how much profit do state-run ranches, official land leases, and various government-run workshops and shops make.

Yang Shi introduced to Zhao Huan: "The main achievements of the country's patents last year are divided into two aspects: money and goods."

"The money income totals 8000 million guan, mainly the profits handed over by the workshops of the Third Military Supervision Collection. The lease of official land only accounts for 2000%, about [-] million guan."

"In terms of physical objects, the main achievements of the temple supervisors are that the state-run ranch has opened up 23 new pastures in the border areas, especially in the newly opened land in the north, with many pastures covering thousands of acres."

"With this vast pasture as a background, last year, a total of 23 war horses, [-] pack horses and mules, [-] cattle, and [-] sheep were delivered to the army and the government."

"A total of 270 million bolts of silk and silk were sent to Taicang. Tea was 20 shi, and salt 17 shi."

Zhao Huan nodded, as expected, the power of the state is still needed.

The total amount of cattle, sheep, mules and horses delivered by the state-run ranch is more than 40, which is already comparable to the entire assets of a nomadic tribe.

With this as a basis, the mobility of the Song army will not be weaker than that of the Hu people in the north.

Yang Shi continued: "Last year's fiscal revenue totaled 4000 billion 2000 million guan, and [-] million guan was printed."

"But this year's finances are tighter than the previous year. There is almost no fiscal surplus."

Speaking of this, Yang Shi solemnly looked at the Privy Council, and asked fiercely: "I really don't understand, now that the world is peaceful, how did the Privy Council propose such a military expenditure, which is as high as 8000 million yuan!"

"Military expenditure exceeds [-]% of total fiscal revenue!"

Yang Shi's voice fell, and the whole hall was in an uproar.

A group of civil servants looked at the ministers of the Privy Council in horror.

Is this military spending crazy?
Now that the world is peaceful and the frontiers are safe, how could the military expenditure be as high as nearly [-] million guan!
Zhang Jun, the left chancellor of the Political Affairs Hall, got up immediately, and said to Zhao Huan in a stern voice: "Officials, I suggest sending a supervisory censor to the Privy Council to investigate the military accounts of the Privy Council in detail. I seriously suspect that the Privy Council is corrupt from top to bottom. , pocketed."

"Before Jingkang, the country fought wars year after year, and the military expenditure was only tens of millions of guan. But now, the world is peaceful, and the military expenditure has been inflated all the way, so that it has increased more than ten times in a few years, and it has risen to [-] to [-] million guan."

"Where did the army spend so much money?"

It is really too much for Zhang Jun not to doubt.The national finance will give [-]% of the income to the royal family every year.

That is to say, the income of the royal family is only [-] million yuan. If the royal family uses this money, even if they eat delicacies every day and spend money like water, they will not be able to spend it all.

The ministers work in the palace every day, and they are very sure that the palace will never run out of [-] million yuan.

This is the emperor who supports the king and the world and is rich all over the world.

Even if the [-] million yuan is like this, how can the army's [-] million yuan be spent?
Do they want each soldier's food to be richer than the inner court?

All the ministers looked towards the Privy Council, waiting for their solution.

Yue Fei was about to get up immediately, but Zhang Shuye stopped him, and stood up firmly by himself.

The Zhu Guoshen of the Song Dynasty will not be able to bear the reputation of corruption, otherwise the army will no longer be able to control their greed when faced with such ample military expenditures.

Facing everyone's scrutinizing and sarcastic gazes, Zhang Shuye solemnly saluted Zhao Huan, and said, "I guarantee with integrity that the Privy Council is absolutely free from collusion and corruption. All accounts of the Privy Council can withstand the inspection of the Inspectorate."

Zhang Jun has always had a reputation for being clean and honest, so he flinched without any fear, and immediately said: "Since there is no corruption, then the Prime Minister is talking about where the nearly [-] million yuan of money was spent. The world is peaceful, why did the army spend so much military expenditure?"

"When the country implemented the conscription system, the military expenditure was only tens of millions of guan, but when the conscription system was implemented, the military expenditure swelled all the way to [-] million guan?"

Zhang Shuye immediately said: "Since ancient times, soldiers have been the most important weapon of a country. A country cannot be strong without its soldiers, and its prosperity cannot be achieved without virtue. Therefore, military equipment and military equipment have always been expensive. Sun Tzu said, the method of using soldiers is to drive thousands of chariots and leather chariots." Carrying a hundred thousand armor, feeding food for thousands of miles, internal and external expenses, the use of guests, materials for glue and paint, and armor for the car, cost thousands of gold a day, and then a hundred thousand teachers will be raised."

"We have an army of one million, and all the uniforms and armors are ten times that. It is not enough to spend a thousand dollars a day."

"And the sharp increase in military spending this year is more critical to the replacement of armaments and the iteration of the entire army's weapons."

"A cast copper cannon consumes more than 1000 catties of copper material alone, which is equivalent to more than [-] guan of copper coins. In addition to the cost of scientific research, transshipment, and construction, the cost of a cannon is as high as [-] guan."

Zhang Jun still had a firm attitude and said: "Master Shu, let alone more than 100 guan. Even if it is 1000 guan for one cannon, one hundred cannons are only [-] million guan. One thousand cannons cost [-] million guan."

"This [-] million military expenditure can build [-] artillery pieces!"

With [-] cannons, Zhao Huan looked sideways.

If the Song Army really had [-] artillery pieces, it would be the artillery in the absolute sense of the army.

Meeting any opponent is a plan, and the cannons are fired to bombard his mother.

Only artillery bombarded indiscriminately, and no opponent could resist.

And this ratio is not high for Song Jun.

The finances of the Ming Dynasty were so hip, and the 13 troops in the Songjin Battle were equipped with [-] artillery pieces.

According to the size of the army multiplied by ten, it is also [-] artillery pieces.

The Ming army paid for empty pay, but the cost of army construction was paid out in full.

So in the astonishment of everyone, Zhao Huan said: "I think 1 cannons are just enough. On average, there is only one cannon for [-] soldiers. One of the five divisions of an elite field army has [-] talents There are five hundred cannons, which is a little small."

Zhang Shuye immediately said: "Officials, even if there are 1 people and [-] artillery pieces in the army, the scale is not enough. What I just said is only the casting price of the artillery. In order to support the artillery, at least three cannons must be prepared. Ten powder packs, thirty cannonballs, and a lot of spare parts. Each of these is worth a fortune."

"In addition, there are muskets. In order to reduce the bombing rate, brass is also used. The cost is close to ten guns, but the purchase is in the millions."

In millions!

It has to be said that Da Song is really rich.

Even though there is still a lot of room for improvement in muskets, the army still spends tens of millions of guns, directly replacing the entire army with the current style of the first generation.

Millions of Song troops, all of them changed their outfits at one time, and they were familiar with using new weapons and tactics.

Zhang Shuye said: "The cost of refitting muskets is not worth mentioning, but in order for everyone to use muskets proficiently, the army has purchased a large amount of gunpowder. Make sure that every soldier has enough ammunition to shoot targets."

(End of this chapter)