Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 531 How to Spend Money
The return of the Global Fleet is a big event for the entire Ming Dynasty. During this period, almost all the newspapers were talking about the Global Fleet of the Ming Dynasty.The journalists of Ming Dynasty, who had just formed a bit of professional awareness, wanted to interview almost everyone, because too many things happened during this nearly three-year trip.Many people are even gearing up to write a travel novel similar to "Journey to the West".

Fighting against the Mughal Empire in Bengal, establishing colonies in the wild black Africa, and teaching Europeans who have high aspirations in Europe, it seems that everything is worth writing about.

Naturally, what people are most concerned about is that after a few days of statistics, the total revenue of the Global Fleet's voyage was 1.4 million taels, an extremely astonishing figure.This includes the trade income of Ming Dynasty, as well as the large amount of wealth directly collected from the other party by defeating Mughal or Spanish empires.It was even heard that there were ships in the fleet loaded with nothing but gold and silver.Therefore, people call these ships "gold and silver treasure ships", which is quite vivid.

Some folks even suggested that such activities should be carried out frequently to make more money for Daming.

"This trip brought back a lot of money, but we also spent a lot." Bai Mingxiu sat in the Taiping Palace with a wry smile.

In order to allow the Global Fleet to complete this trip smoothly, Da Ming put a lot of effort into logistical supplies alone, established several supply bases, and invested a lot of money.Coupled with military expenses and various related fleet maintenance expenses, this time the Daming Global Fleet spent no less than 3000 million taels of Ming only.

But even so, the net income is more than [-] million taels, which can be regarded as blood earning.But Bai Mingxiu himself knew that the Mughals and Spain that were looted this time were considered extremely rich, and he couldn't loot a country every time in the future.The main reason is that this voyage can be regarded as opening up some direct markets, stimulating some countries and regions that did not consume Ming products before, but it also overdraws ordinary general trade in a disguised way.And the most important thing is that in the second half of the voyage through the Americas, there is basically no positive output, after all, it is still an area where economic activities are not intensively developed.

When Ming developed foreign trade, it was entirely possible to operate key routes and do it in a more targeted manner. There was no need to go to the Western Ocean seven times like Zheng He.

After receiving more than 1 million taels of cash at once, Bai Mingxiu also felt a little happy and confused.

"...If it is used as a national expenditure, it will be invested in social development at one time, such as increasing the construction of various infrastructures and strengthening investment in science, education, culture and health. It is more than our fiscal expenditure for a year, and it is possible to push up the inflation of our society and cause the price of gold and silver to fall." When Zhou Ziliang, the governor of the central bank, spoke, the few thin hairs on the front of his head trembled, Bai Ming When Xiu listened to what he was saying, it was easy to get distracted.

The development and progress of Daming is absolutely astonishing. Before the national recovery, the fiscal revenue was only a few million taels, and it is estimated to reach 3000 million taels in the four years of recovery.The reason why the growth is so fast is actually related to Bai Mingxiu's great efforts in investment, stimulating the domestic demand market and increasing trade. Therefore, Daming's fiscal revenue is growing at a rate of several times a year.It also includes part of restorative growth, economic recovery in a peaceful environment after the end of war, but more of the development of new economic forms.

Daming earned so much money and spent almost as much money.For example, the Council's fiscal budget for the next fiscal year plans to spend 1.28 million taels, which is equivalent to a slight surplus.Ming Dynasty has basically established an extremely advanced modern national financial system, which has also well supported the further development of Ming Dynasty.

Bai Mingxiu said to the cabinet ministers in front of him: "Inflation is nothing to be afraid of. The operation of the entire economic system of our Ming Dynasty is based on a market orientation and macro-control. We have received such a large sum of money this time. There are some ideas on how to use them, but in terms of application, the cabinet must do a good job in macro-control, so that these investments will become real industries, become industrial hematopoietic machines, and become our jobs, which can benefit people civil."

"The First Five-Year Plan will be successfully completed next year. The achievements we have made are remarkable. Next, we will launch a number of large-scale construction projects that will benefit the country and the people."

On the document in front of the cabinet members, there are a series of company names that do not exist yet, all of which were thought up by Bai Mingxiu last night.

Daming State Grid Corporation, Daming Petroleum Company, Daming Petrochemical Company, Daming First Automobile, Daming Second Automobile, Daming Heavy Machinery Company, Daming Agricultural Machinery Company, Daming Telecom and Telegraph Company... These names are basically Bai Mingxiu from other companies. It was grafted from one face.This time, these companies with big names are obviously established by Bai Mingxiu who is planning to exchange technology and complete sets of equipment from the system.

For example, technology has to be exchanged for Goldfinger coins, and even some of the more critical talents have to be exchanged directly from talents, and these all cost Goldfinger coins.Compared with spending a lot of money to exchange for some World War II-level mercenary troops, Bai Mingxiu still thinks that spending gold finger coins in this way is more cost-effective, because these will generate real industrial power and manufacturing power, and will also benefit the Ming Dynasty's military industry. .

As for most of the equipment, Bai Mingxiu intends to have Daming's existing enterprises produce it himself.There are technical standards and talents, and manufacturing can be supervised. The money from the Legislative Yuan is poured out. These big Ming companies get orders, have new equipment, and assemble production lines. Then the land and factory buildings are all in place. Naturally, new companies And it was built.

Among these enterprises, Bai Mingxiu's most important thing is the State Grid Corporation. He wants to stride into the electric age, at least to connect the whole country with electricity. Although Daming has built some power plants, most of them are mainly supplying cities. Bai Ming Xiu wants the whole of Daming to become a shining area in the night.Integrating regional power grids and establishing a national power grid, although there are still many technical obstacles, at least the layout and construction must be started in advance, and then gradually overcome.

As for oil and petrochemical companies, they are also very important. In fact, Daming has already tried to extract oil, but the technology is not very mature, especially in the application of oil.And now Daming will not only have diesel gasoline for vehicles, petroleum is also an important chemical raw material, which can produce chemical raw materials such as ethylene, and further Ming will have plastics and chemical fibers.

(End of this chapter)