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No wonder some of the ministers present at the meeting were worried.

As far as Yang Tinglin and other ministers from the former Ming Dynasty know, the highest annual revenue for the treasury of the former Ming Dynasty was more than ten years after Zhang Juzheng initially implemented a series of reform policies.

That is, from the sixth year of Wanli to the twentieth year of Wanli.

Although Emperor Wanli launched various revenge on Zhang Juzheng after his death, and even overturned some of the policies he left behind, this did not happen overnight.

The whole process takes ten to twenty years, or even longer.

Moreover, until the Chongzhen period, some policies reformed by Zhang Juzheng were still retained.

The fiscal year of the Ming Dynasty took the sixth year of Wanli as an example.

The summer tax and autumn tax (agricultural tax) that year were approximately 2080 million taels of silver.

The commercial tax is approximately 224 million taels of silver.

Miscellaneous income (various taxes other than agricultural taxes and orthodox commercial taxes) is approximately 349 million taels of silver.

Even including some of the collected rice, wheat and other physical goods, it only converted into 1644 million taels of silver.

That is to say.

The total financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty in the sixth year of Wanli was approximately 4297 million taels.

In the opinion of Zhu Dadian and others, the income for this fiscal year is already quite large.

But even if all the fiscal revenue from the Wanli six years of the previous Ming Dynasty were taken, it would still not be enough to pay the standing army, navy, and garrison.

Damei was founded only a few years ago. Even though it implemented various fiscal and taxation policies that were better than those of Ming Dynasty, and opened many state-owned and government-run factories, even if its fiscal revenue was more than that of Wanli in six years, how much more could it be?

Can it really support such a large military expenditure?

Moreover, in addition to the Guards, the Standing Army, and the Guards, local civilians also have a small amount of military expenditures.

The main benefit for Da'ei Minyong was to reduce the land tax of 10%.

However, if the imperial court recruits civilian warriors to participate in the war, subsidies will be provided.

If the civilian brave is used as a civilian husband, a subsidy will be given based on the recruitment price of the civilian husband.

If civilian bravery is used as a garrison, a subsidy will be given according to the monthly salary of the garrison.

Pensions and rewards are not much lower than those of the garrison.

Coupled with the large number of civilian warriors, the annual military expenditure will not be too small.

No, Li Banghua then talked about this year’s military expenditures for the People’s Liberation Army——

"This year, we carried out two major battles to eliminate the traitors and the Ming Dynasty, and mobilized a total of more than 100,000 civilians."

"These civilian warriors basically serve as civilian laborers, assisting our army with logistics and transportation. Therefore, based on the recruitment price of civilian laborers, they will be given a monthly subsidy of two yuan."

"Coupled with the training costs of local civilian warriors and other expenses, the military expenditure of the civilian warriors last year was approximately 106 million yuan..."

Hear this.

Many military ministers breathed a sigh of relief.

The annual military expenditure of 106 million yuan is a large number compared with the previous Ming Dynasty, but it is nothing to Damei.

In other words, if you have too many debts, you don’t have to worry about them, and if you have too many lice, you don’t have to itch.

Later, Li Banghua reported on this year’s military expenditures in addition to military salaries.

The amount of this expenditure is related to the size of Da'ei's army, whether a campaign was conducted that year, and how many troops were replaced with equipment.

last year.

Da'ei mainly fought two battles to destroy the Puppet Shun and the Ming Dynasty, and then the battle of Longmenchuan in response to the invasion of the Qing Dynasty.

A total of more than 300,000 troops were mobilized before and after (not counting civilian bravery).

As for replacing equipment, it mainly involves replacing flintlock guns, artillery guns, and grenades for the Guards.

Each division of the standing army has also been equipped with a certain number of mortars, new grenades, and artillery shells.

However, the largest portion of military expenditure is the ordering of more than a dozen battleships and hundreds of other types of large and small warships from Longjiang Shipyard.

"... This year's military expenditures for the eight divisions of the Standing Army, other than military salaries, are 550 million 2455 yuan."

"The Navy's military expenditures this year, excluding military salaries, are 1025 million yuan."

"Military expenditures other than military pay for the garrison are NT$259."

"To sum up, the total military expenditure of our standing army, garrison army, and navy this year is approximately 7511 yuan!"

The total military expenditure for a year was as high as more than 75 million silver dollars!

Many ministers couldn't help but exclaimed in their hearts when they heard Li Banghua say the last number.

Moreover, this is because the standing army and garrison army did not undergo large-scale equipment changes this year, and the expenditure on armaments was relatively small.

If there is a large-scale change of uniforms, the military expenditure will probably be several million yuan higher!

'Military expenditures are the largest expenditure of the imperial court every year, but the imperial court's expenditures on other aspects, such as official salaries, water conservancy repairs, road construction, disaster relief, etc., add up to a lot. '

'I wonder if the imperial court's fiscal revenue is sufficient this year? '

'It's probably not enough, but I don't know how much less it is, and whether the money left in the treasury is enough to fill the hole. '

As a member of the Military Pay Division of the Military Academy, Yang Tinglin didn't know anything about the Ministry of Finance, so he could only make guesses based on past experience.

Thinking that the imperial court needed to use the national treasury reserves to fill the financial hole, it was not even enough.

His heart felt heavy.

Then he couldn't help but look up at Liu Sheng.

However, Liu Sheng looked calm and seemed not worried about this matter at all.

'Your Majesty's qi-nurturing skills are really good. '

Yang Tinglin could only sigh like this.

However, when Li Banghua finished his report and left, Yang Tinglin noticed that Li Banghua's expression seemed quite indifferent and he was not worried about the military expenditure of 70 to 80 million silver dollars.

'Could it be that the fiscal revenue is enough for expenditure? '

Yang Tinglin couldn't help but guess this.

But it feels incredible.

If Da'ei's total fiscal revenue is enough to cover total expenses, wouldn't it cost 100 million to tens of millions of silver dollars?

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On the throne.

Liu Sheng was also thinking about Da'ei's finances.

Military expenditures are the largest financial expenditure. If you include the approximately 2000 million military expenditures of the Guards this year, Da'ei's total military expenditures this year will be as high as more than million silver dollars!

Nearly 100 million!

Even based on the cost of casting silver coins in Da'ei (one silver dollar is about seven coins of real silver), that is more than 70 million taels of silver!

To say that there is no financial pressure is absolutely false.

Although the country is not financially unable to make ends meet, some military expenditures are no longer necessary and should indeed be reduced.

Therefore, after the ministers of other ministries of the Military Academy finished their reports, Liu Sheng asked: "Do you have any ideas about military expenditures?"

Yang Tinglin immediately stood up after hearing this, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, our army's military expenditure is too high. We must find ways to reduce it, otherwise we may not be able to support our finances!"

Liu Sheng asked, "How to reduce it?"

Yang Tinglin said nothing for a while, but he hadn't thought about it yet.

In fact, if it had been revealed earlier, Yang Tinglin would have spoken out some general thoughts in his mind.

But he knew that in Dawei, any suggestions must be meaningful.

What Liu Sheng dislikes the most is talking in general terms.

When Yang Tinglin was silent, Li Banghua stood up again.

"Your Majesty, I have summarized this year's military expenditures and found that the guard force accounts for the largest proportion of military expenditures."

"Nowadays, except for some wars in the northwest, Liaodi, and southwest, our country is basically at peace in the interior."