At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

It actually requires careful exploration and thinking, as well as extremely standard surveying and demonstration, which was impossible before the great geographical discovery.

It is impossible before human beings have a concept of the whole world.

And someone Guo just knows the final result of thousands of years of human exploration.

He knows the earth, Asia, Europe, Africa, America, Oceania, and even Antarctica. He knows how big these places are, how rich they are, and how much population carrying capacity they have.

He has the bottom line in his heart, has a general understanding, can give the bottom line for his decision, and can overcome all opinions.

This is the root cause of his vision beyond all emperors and the implementation of this policy.

Therefore, Guo Peng set the future eastward expansion limit of the Wei Empire on Sakhalin Island, emigrated, and worked hard to develop the black land and rich mineral deposits there.

The limit of expansion to the north is set in the area of ​​Outer Mongolia, with [Beihai], where Suwu sheep herding is located, as the end point, vigorously develop grassland animal husbandry, and provide meat and dairy products for the people of the Central Plains.

The limit of westward expansion is set on the Pamirs, so as to gain enough strategic depth for the mainland of China, grasp the first stage of the Silk Road, and kill the middlemen who occupy this road.

The southward expansion limit is set to the entire territory of Jiaozhou, including the Honghe Plain, as well as Hainan Island and Taiwan Island. Efforts have been made to immigrate and develop, so that two or three crops a year can become a reality, and marine industries are operated.

If this plan is to be fully realized, it will take at least 100 years. Mr. Guo can only lay a foundation and make a plan, and then it will be completed. It is estimated that Guo Jin's sons, or even grandchildren, will have to wait.

Beyond this boundary, without a revolutionary leap in transportation, the county system will collapse, and the central government will be unable to govern, and the gains outweigh the losses, which is not what a qualified ruler should expect.

Beyond this, someone Guo will send the children to lands beyond this.

Or east, or south, or north, or west.

Help them lay down a piece of land, and give them population, resources, and wealth as the capital for their start-up.

Then go for self-development.

Let them build their own homeland, build their own country, develop by themselves, fight by themselves, expand by themselves, and strive for living space by themselves.

Outside the extreme wall of the empire, create a new era of their own, establish their own country, continue to develop, and realize their own ambitions without being confined to the struggle for the throne.

The love of the parents is far-reaching.

As a father, Guo has done his best.

As the emperor of the Wei Empire and the father of tens of millions of people, Guo is also doing his best to prevent civil strife in his country and the people from fighting each other.

He has done all he can, and he will leave a development path for future generations and set a precedent for future generations.

When the Wei Empire will be destroyed, how far these satellite countries can develop, what will happen in the future, and how far the fire of Chinese civilization will spread, those are all beyond his influence.

Based on the classical era, Guo was unable to bring the whole country to the colonial era with great strides. He believed that what he had done was already the limit.

He doesn't know how far the children can go, what kind of country they can build in the future, how much change they can bring to the world, and how they can change the world's political structure.

Enough is enough, really enough.

Human beings have limits, and so does Mr. Guo, and he is already powerless to do things beyond the limits.

Lying on the bed with Cao Lan in his arms, listening to his beloved wife's quiet breathing, Guo Peng also slowly closed his eyes.

Tomorrow is another brand new day, another day of fighting.

Chapter 965 Wu Guo's small treasury crisis

One item of the New Year holiday is five days. In the past few years, Guo has been outside Luoyang City for only these five days.

Taking the children to rest and play in the hot spring Huangzhuang, enjoying this wonderful atmosphere, is also an excellent life seasoning agent for Mr. Guo.

At the end of the holiday, on the morning of the fifth day, after breakfast, the royal family was preparing to return to Luoyang and return to their daily life.

When he was preparing to drive back to the palace, Su Yuan came up and handed the report he had prepared to Guo Peng.

"Your Majesty, according to your instructions, this old slave has already counted all the mineral deposits that can be explored and exploited in the whole country. Please read it, Your Majesty."

Guo Peng took Su Yuan's paper report and read it carefully.

At the end of the first year of Yande, Guo Peng had ordered Su Yuan to dispatch some capable people to leave the capital and go to various places to investigate the mineral deposits in various places, especially the deposits of important minerals such as gold, silver, copper and iron, and conduct a comprehensive investigation.

Mr. Guo needs to know the number and distribution of mineral deposits that have been discovered in the country, as well as those mineral deposits that have not been discovered yet but have huge reserves in Mr. Guo's memory.

Guo doesn't know much.

I also know that central Sichuan is rich in mineral deposits, and if you explore carefully, you can find a lot of iron ore, copper ore and the like.

In Danyang County along the Yangtze River, there is a huge and rich iron mine.

Taiyuan and other places have huge and abundant coal mines.

Qingzhou has rich gold mines, and Liaodong also has gold mines.

He only knows a broad range, but it's better than knowing nothing.

After that, he sent people from the inner court to take some old miners who had been engaged in the mining industry for many years to explore these places.

It took some time, and iron ore that had never been mined was discovered in Danyang County, and gold ore that had never been mined was found in Qingzhou.

So Mr. Guo's long-planned work of using the inner court to mine and enrich the source of funds for the inner treasury is about to start.

The battle between the emperor's internal treasury and the court's treasury is quite interesting. Generally speaking, it has happened in all dynasties, but it has not been as intense as the Ming Dynasty.

The peak of the struggle in the Ming Dynasty was over the mining tax, and the dispute over the mining tax was really fierce and protracted, and many people died, many eunuchs died, and many thugs also died. The whole thing was a mess.

All in all, the emperor and the local powers robbed money, and the local powers were unwilling, so the emperor robbed them by force, which triggered a series of incidents.

This matter is still very interesting, and neither side is a good person.

The imperial officials wanted to eat this part of the profits themselves, so they obstructed it in every possible way. The emperor also wanted to eat it, and the food was ugly, and the tax inspectors sent were not very fuel-efficient.

It's basically two assholes who are more assholes.

But at least one of the bastards was able to get some money for the emperor and put it in the inner treasury, and the other bastard thought of a way to take money out of the emperor's inner treasury.

From the standpoint of the emperor, he must have chosen the former bastard.

But in this way, those mining tax eunuchs will run amok in the local area, destroying the local economy, and indirectly reducing local tax revenue and reducing the revenue of the treasury, turning into a vicious circle.

The emperor has money, and the moths have money, but the treasury has no money. When something goes wrong, everyone pretends to be deaf and dumb to shirk responsibility. No one wants to pay for things, and they have to hold each other back.

In the end, it is the common people who suffer.

Corruption from top to bottom, full of bastards, has not been destroyed at this point, it is really supported by Zhu Yuanzhang's legacy and Zhang Juzheng's reforms.

The emperor's internal treasury can actually serve as a backstop for the empire in many cases. A smart emperor will make reasonable use of his own internal treasury inventory, and once he wants to do something, whether the internal treasury is sufficient or not can lead the matter. where things are headed.

Spending money from the national treasury is arguing with imperial officials, and spending money from the internal treasury, no one can say no.

Guo has a huge amount of money in his internal treasury, but his expenditure is also huge.

It costs a lot of money to run a secret workshop, and it is a bottomless pit to run a Linzi camp. Officials are rewarded during festivals and festivals, and military generals and soldiers are rewarded for meritorious service in the army. Usually, occasional care, the money is basically in the internal treasury. expenditure.

The expenditures of thousands of people in the inner court have to go to the inner treasury. If there is any major or minor disaster, the emperor will also pay some money from the inner treasury.

The emperor seems to be the richest man in the world, owning the whole world, but in fact, he is also a poor character who can't wait to spend a penny in half.

In order to maintain a decent life and maintain the dignity of the emperor, there is no need to spend money. If you have no money, you should spend it as if you have money.

So at the end of the dynasty, the emperors' eating habits became ugly one by one, and they went off in person to grab money from the officials, and they almost lost the mystery of the emperor's aloofness.

It's not that the emperor is shameless, he really has no money to use, and the usual consumption is too big, if he doesn't make some money, there will really be problems.

Guo's consumption is also quite large.

Therefore, although there is a large amount of income, a lot of income is determined to be used. Mr. Guo himself does not use much, and the savings in the internal treasury are limited. He also tries to reduce expenditure in the inner court and strictly controls any expenditure.

Since the establishment of the Ten Inspectors of the Inner Court in the first year of Yande, through the checks of the Cabinet Audit Department, someone Guo has killed at least [-] unsightly eunuchs.

It's not that they are not allowed to get some oil and water for their own future considerations, so Guo turned a blind eye and closed his eyes and passed.

But some people are really unsightly in eating and have violated taboos, so let’s say nothing, treat them as fat sheep, fatten them up, and slaughter them, and the money will still belong to the emperor and the internal treasury.

But the huge inner court always needs someone to do things.

Now that the amount of expenditure is increasing, but the source of income has not increased, Mr. Guo’s small treasury will have problems sooner or later, so mining to earn money is also regarded by Mr. Guo as a good way to open source.

In this regard, he is different from the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

When the emperor of the Ming Dynasty opened mines, some eunuchs did make money for him, but there were still some who could not open mines at all.

At that time, the emperor didn't even want to find professionals to explore. He went to check out the sites in advance. He often heard that there were mines somewhere, so he sent people to open them. As a result, there were no mines at all.

The mine tax eunuch finally came out, just to make money. Maybe they colluded with local officials and released the news of mines in this place to deceive the emperor. They finally came out. How could it be so easy to leave?

He just wants to collect mining taxes, and if there are no mines, he still needs to collect taxes.

Where does the tax come from?

Who is the unlucky one?

Emperor Wanli was known to be greedy and shrewd, but he was not a professional, and he didn't know where there were mines and where there were no mines, so he recognized money, and he was happy whoever gave him money, regardless of other things.

So some of the mining tax eunuchs were beaten and killed, and some of them really asked for it.

The people of the Li people were so oppressed that they had no choice but to riot, mob riots, and beat around the residence of the mining tax eunuch. The mining tax eunuch would die without a place to bury him.

The anger of the public is hard to offend. If someone is about to die, the emperor dare not pursue it. The officials are even more happy to hear it, and they want to speak for the common people.

That is a muddled account.

The bureaucratic group itself is not unified on the issue of mining or not. The so-called [civilian group] has never had a unified position.

Mr. Guo is much better. At least he still has some knowledge of the location of famous mines in his head. He also respects professionals and gives them a higher status and voice.

Although he doesn't know the exact location, he only needs to know the general range. He drew a circle and asked professionals to explore it.

Of course, it is one thing to find a mine, but it is another thing to be able to mine it with the current technology, so Mr. Guo also asked professionals to evaluate it and tell him whether the mine can be opened, how to open it, how much it will cost, and the output. How many wait.

The most important thing is, of course, whether you can make money. If you can’t make money and you still need to post money, then just leave this mine to future generations, and wait for their technology to improve before mining.

Anyway, one has to understand one's position in order to understand, and Mr. Guo did not relax in the slightest.

After more than a year of tossing, the exploration team sent by Mr. Guo reported the good news one after another, and finally confirmed seven new mines that can be mined by sending people, one gold mine, two coal mines, two iron mines, and two copper mines.

Regardless of how much is expected, it is definitely possible to make money anyway, and the mining cost is not very high.

Someone Guo is very happy.

The small treasury can be regarded as having an effective guarantee.

Chapter 966. 970 Six is ​​called Dongchang

In this era, there is no such thing as a mining tax, and the main mineral products in circulation are iron products.

At this time, people's understanding of mineral deposits was relatively shallow, basically they had some understanding of gold, silver, copper and iron, metals that were once used for currency exchange.

Even if other mineral deposits are discovered, they don't know how to refine and use them, so they can only use them to make elixir for the emperor to seek immortality.

This is enough to prove that except for traditional metals such as gold, silver, copper and iron, most of the mineral deposits have not been rationally utilized in the social economy.

So before someone Guo mined the raw materials for making gunpowder, no one really knew that sulfur and saltpeter had such uses, and they were all used to refine elixir.

After Guo established the Duke of Wei, he began to design some systems for mineral deposits.

While establishing the official system of salt and iron, it also determined that all mineral deposits belong to the public and private mining is not allowed, and laws were established to confirm it.

The mines are all managed by the government, and the government sends people to mine, and then make various finished products, or turn them into commodities for sale, or turn them into weapons and put them in the arsenal, or send them to the central government to make coins.

All revenue then goes to the state treasury.

Although it is said that a part of the annual treasury revenue is allocated to the internal treasury as royal funds, it is obviously not worth mentioning compared to Guo's huge expenditure.

Therefore, Mr. Guo thought of actively sending people to explore undiscovered mineral deposits to mine, and use the manpower and material resources of the two major caravans to organize mining and production, and the income will be charged to the internal treasury to increase the source of income for the internal treasury.

Even the courtiers did not dare to talk nonsense.

If they make more money, don't they get more rewards?

The emperor is so willful when he does things.

So someone Guo happily praised Su Yuan.

"You did a good job with this."