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Chapter 778 Making Money (Part 1)

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    During the Chinese New Year, the happiest people are undoubtedly the children.

    They are not very sensible. No matter how poor the family is, they have to try their best to get something delicious during the Chinese New Year, so this is the best time for children.

    But for adults, it is the most difficult.

    When the Chinese New Year comes, all kinds of debts will swarm in. Many people have to try every means to sell their property, or even sell their children and daughters, to pay for these debts.

    In ancient times, the Chinese New Year was called "Nian Guan", which means that celebrating the New Year is like passing a checkpoint.

    If the scope of this year is expanded a little, the court can be regarded as the parents and the whole world as the children.

    No government is short of money.

    No matter how much money you have, as long as you dare to distribute it, the people below will dare to use it up.

    A slight exception is that when Japan¡¯s bubble economy was at its worst in the late 1980s, the central government had too much money and distributed 200 million yen in cash to each municipal administrative unit.

    "Some places really have no money, so they cover them with bulletproof glass worth 200 million yuan for people to visit.

    Of course, this situation disappeared after the bubble economy collapsed. Japan¡¯s local governments were as poor as dogs and wanted to lick their shit.

    Dakang used to be pretty good, at least there would be some surplus every year, especially the grain from the state and the private sector were more abundant.

    ¡°Otherwise, Dakang will not be able to sustain the continuous super disasters in recent years.

    But this year we encountered such a large-scale foreign invasion again. The entire Gansu Province has been destroyed, the entire Western Liaoning Corridor has been almost destroyed, southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian have also been destroyed, and half of Jiangsu has been destroyed so  At the end of the round, even if Dakang had a little bit of food and money left over, he used it all.

    The emperor began to owe the court officials their salaries, and even the empress dowager had no money for the Spring Festival reward. You can imagine how serious it was!

    ¡° Calculated in this way, those who were hit by disasters in the past few years did not encounter wars, and those who were affected by wars this year did not encounter the disasters of previous years, but without exception, it basically happened again.

    It¡¯s really dumbfounding.

    But no matter what, life must go on and prosperity must continue to be maintained.

    So you have to make money.

    The accounts of the Dakang court generally consisted of two items: taxes and grain taxes.

    Food taxes are collected twice a year, summer tax and autumn tax, totaling 80 million tons of rice and wheat.

    The commercial tax revenue amounts to 96 million taels of silver a year, which is very terrifying and is also the main source of Dakang's finances.

    Food value is not high, but it is the most important factor that makes people feel stable.

    You say how much money you have, people may not know.

    But if you tell us how much food you have, the people will feel at ease.

    This year¡¯s food consumption in Dakang is very serious, but the consequences are not that serious.

    why?

    Because most of the cities that were besieged and attacked contained food from previous years.

    A few years ago, no matter how serious the floods or droughts were, the imperial court did not allocate food from these cities.

    it's good now.

    As soon as several major forces attacked or besieged the city, the food inside played a major role.

    An ordinary man may eat one kilogram of grain a day, but if it is a matter of fighting and defending a city, four or five kilograms of grain a day will not be enough.

    Without enough food, there will not be enough strength, let alone enough courage.

    So this is also an important reason why the food for defense of these big cities was not allocated before!

    This year is the time to get rewarded.

    Whether it is Tianshui, Jiayuguan, Yinchuan, Jinzhou, Datong, or Ningyuan, they all have sufficient troops and food to support this year's arduous war.

    And the second reason is that the major grain-producing provinces of Lianghu, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Shandong, which have been hit by disasters many times in the past few years, have not suffered from military disasters this year, and the weather and rainfall conditions are very good, so they have all obtained rare achievements in recent years.  Harvest.

    Their bumper harvest has in turn given back to Jiangnan and others who have supported them in the past few years.

    This is the true reincarnation of cause and effect, and good deeds are rewarded with good deeds!

    There is enough food.

    But fighting a war is not just about food.

    ¡°Soldiers must have military pay before they can buy things, build houses, buy land, and buy clothes¡±Emperor Jinghe was even more stunned when he heard this, "Honglian you, are you exaggerating? Isn't this forcing them to go bankrupt?"

    "Going bankrupt?" Ge Songdao snorted coldly, "Should temples, nunneries, and Taoist temples have property? They are all dedicated to Bodhisattvas and gods by believers and good women! Bodhisattvas and gods are compassionate, and at this time, they will definitely be willing to give it.  To resettle the suffering victims all over the world!

    If they are unwilling, it is against the tenets of Buddhism and Taoism. Then there is no need for these temples, monasteries and Taoism to exist. Just eradicate them!  "

    "this¡­¡­"

    Emperor Jinghe wanted to scold people, saying that if you dare to do this, wouldn't the Queen Mother be angry to death?

    But before he opened his mouth, Cao Yi next to him shook his head, "What Prime Minister Ge said is wrong. It is too rude and completely inconsistent with my Dakang's benevolence and righteousness."

    "Yes! The Prime Minister is right!" The emperor nodded repeatedly.

    But Cao Yi immediately added, "But the idea of ??your suggestion is still very good Your Majesty, on one side are the monks who have never given birth and only know how to enjoy incense and offerings, and on the other side are the suffering people who are waiting for food, protecting their homes and the country.  Which one do you think is more important, the warriors or the warriors¡¯ widows?¡±

    Emperor Jinghe was speechless!  !

    He can now see that these guys just want him to be a villain!

    It¡¯s not you who will be scolded then, so of course you can say it happily!

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