Dahan first prince

Chapter 100 The size of the confidence depends on the fatness and thinness of the pocket
Liu Ying made a posture of persuading with gentle words, but Yangcheng Yanzi could only put on a posture of listening attentively.

It's not the current Liu Ying, who already has the personal charm that makes Yang Chengyan shake his faith.

But from Liu Ying's mouth, when he heard the phrase "it must be used", Yang Chengyan remembered what they said when they returned to Chang'an in the same car with Prime Minister Xiao He and Ji Prime Minister Zhang Cang in the morning. .

"Those who want to use at home are not stone bricks, but stone bricks for building Chang'an..."

"For the labor required to renovate the Zhengguo Canal, you can count on this stone brick for 20..."

"Among the stone bricks, you can really jump out of it..."

Recalling the inexplicable words of Xiao He and Zhang Cang, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but sit up a little bit, raised his head suspiciously, and looked at Liu Ying who was sitting five steps away.

Seeing Yang Chengyan's behavior, Liu Ying couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief, pondered for a moment, then raised her head with a warm smile.

"Fangcai, the Shaofu also said: The emperor ordered the construction of the capital city Chang'an, but due to the emptiness of the treasury, Chang'an city has not been built for five years."

"Even if the Shaofu has exhausted all the spare power to make money, at the age of five, it can only get 20 stone bricks; if it is used to build the four walls of Chang'an, it is only half of the wall."

Speaking in a calm tone, Liu Ying couldn't help but smile gently.

"Since that's the case, the Shaofu might as well try to say: Why is the treasury empty now?"

Hearing Liu Ying's words, even though he was confident, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but say a little bit, and then bowed his hands with a serious expression.

"Although there is only one word for government treasury, it is actually divided into two parts, that is, government and treasury."

"The mansion refers to the money in the Shaofu under the leadership of the minister; the treasury refers to the state treasury under the control of Prime Minister Xiao."

"Most of the income from the national treasury comes from agricultural taxes; the income from internal funds is even more from oral taxes."

Speaking of this, Yang Chengyan couldn't help but sigh a little.

"Since His Majesty established the Han State, the people have been allowed to recuperate, and the taxes are light and thin. The agricultural tax is only one out of fifteen; the oral tax is calculated for each household, that is, one hundred and twenty dollars."

"One out of fifteen agricultural taxes will make the tax and food income of the national treasury directly determined by the harvest of the farmer's autumn harvest."

"If the farmers get plenty of grain, then the agricultural tax will be abundant; if there are few grain harvesters, the agricultural tax will be low."

"As for the oral tax, one hundred and twenty coins per household, so the amount of money in the Shaofu is determined by the number of households in the world."

"If there are many households, there will be more oral Fu; if there are few households, there will be less oral Fu."

After saying that, Yang Chengyan paused for a while, lowered his head and pinched his fingers to calculate silently for a while, then raised his head again, looking at Liu Ying with a heavy face.

"The family may not know: today, there are nearly 300 million households with rural registration, and nearly [-] million people."

"There are 300 million households of these people, about 28 households are eaten by the Marquis Che, and nearly 50 million households are the nationals of the princes."

"In Guanzhong, there are only more than 30 households in Guanzhong who donate agricultural taxes to the national treasury and pay taxes to Shaofu, and Hanzhong, Ba, Shu and other counties, a total of less than [-] million households."

"As far as Beidi and Longyou, but they are unable to pay taxes and taxes to enter the customs, it is necessary to allocate money and food from the court so that the people at the border will not starve to death..."

Listening to Yang Chengyan's data, which is not too accurate, but can intuitively show the current population and financial situation of the Han Dynasty, even though she had expected it in her heart, Liu Ying's face darkened.

With a population of 700 million and 300 million households, nearly one-tenth of them were entrusted to the Chihou class, and nearly half were divided among the various vassal states in the Kanto region.

Only more than 30 households in Guanzhong and nearly [-] households in Hanzhong and Bashu areas can directly collect taxes and taxes from the central government...
"The population is low..."

While Liu Ying was thinking, she saw Yang Chengyan cleared his throat again, and put more intuitive data in front of Liu Ying.

"In the lands of Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and Ba and Shu, there are 30 households of the people, and His Majesty grants the land to the people, and the households get [-] mu of land."

"If the average grain production in Guanzhong is based on last year, that is, two and a half shi of millet per mu is the standard, there are 30 million households in this population, and the agricultural tax paid by each household is nearly [-] shi, and the oral tax is [-] qian."

"In this way, the national treasury's annual agricultural tax is nearly 400 million shi; the Shaofu's oral tax is more than 5000 million yuan..."

Hearing Yang Chengyan said this string of data, Liu Ying couldn't help but nodded slightly with a heavy expression.

Although Liu Ying didn't know much about the specific financial revenue of the Han Dynasty before, she also roughly knew how much agricultural tax and oral tax the treasury and internal funds could receive each year.

Oral Fu, five years ago, when the father Liu Bang ascended the throne as the emperor, he was destined to die when the country was established: each family pays 120 yuan a year.

Since that year, Shaofu's oral tax income has increased year by year from [-] million, and has risen to nearly [-] in the past two years.

It's not that the population of the world has blown out substantially in the past five years, but as the world gradually stabilized, many people who hid in the deep mountains and old forests due to the war gradually came out of the "Peach Blossom Springs" to The government registered the information and household registration, and took away the [-] mu of farmland and a farm house given to him by the emperor Liu Bang.

As for the agricultural tax, there is not much difference.

——From the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, the treasury revenue from agricultural taxes was 900 million shi, and in the past few years, it has gradually increased to about 400 million shi.

In fact, based on 130 million households, each household has an agricultural tax of about 100 shi, and the annual agricultural tax should actually be between 200 million and [-] million shi.

However, as the only government revenue of the Han Dynasty, the agricultural tax is not all paid to the treasury.

After the annual agricultural tax comes up, each locality will retain [-]% to [-]% of the agricultural tax collected under its own governance, which will be used as the administrative expenditure of the local government for the next year.

As for the [-]% to [-]% sent to the treasury...
"From the fifth year of the Han Dynasty to the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, the Shaofu received more than [-] yuan of mouth money, and now it has melted nearly [-] million yuan to cast three baht of money."

"In the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, most of the oral Fu was three bahts of money privately minted by the common people; last year and this year, there was almost no money and half a tael."

When Liu Ying was thinking about it, she heard that Yang Chengyan said: "Although the agricultural tax income from the national treasury is more than one thousand ten thousand shi, more than half of it is used for the salaries of courtiers, hundreds of officials and local officials."

"The rest are also mostly used by His Majesty to lead the army to quell the rebellion of princes with different surnames."

With a heavy face, he made the last addition, Yang Chengyan finally straightened up a little, and bowed to Liu Ying.

"This is the answer to the family's question 'Why are the mansion and library empty'?"

"—The agricultural tax of the national treasury is all used for the salaries of officials and the consumption of food and grass for the army; the oral tax of the Shaofu is also used for the melting and casting of three bahts."

"Since the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, when most of the oral gifts were three baht, the money in the Shaofu has really existed in name only..."

After speaking, Yang Chengyan bowed slightly to show that he had finished speaking.

When Liu Ying heard the words, she only let out a long and sad sigh, and looked at Yang Chengyan with a little sigh.

"This is the reason why Gu Qiang ordered the Shaofu not to mint another three baht..."

"If you don't stop minting three baht of money immediately, and wait until half of the money saved by the Shaofu is melted, the Shaofu will have no power at all..."

The reason couldn't be simpler: as the emperor's private treasury, the power of the Shaofu is almost firmly tied to financial resources!

As the only department in the court of Chang'an, and even in the entire political system of the Han Dynasty, which is independent of the administrative system and is directly responsible to the emperor alone, the only way for the Shaofu to compete for the right to speak in the court is to throw money!
Take this time, for example, when the Zhengguo Canal was renovated in the court hall, the Shaofu (Emperor) and the treasury (outside court) had no money, so everyone could only discuss and communicate politely.

But if the Shaofu is rich?
Don't talk about discussing with the court, the emperor Liu Bang gave an order, and the Shaofu can handle the matter by himself, without bringing foreigners to play at all!
The Shaofu completed it all by himself, and all the money paid out was internal funds. For this credit, the foreign court can't even touch it, let alone a piece of it!
But if it is the opposite situation, that is, the treasury (Waichao) has money, but the Shaofu has no money, it will be a bit embarrassing.

As the saying goes, if you ask for something from others, you must be courteous to others.

As the founding emperor, Liu Bang naturally possessed the energy of 'all the world must listen to me'.

However, if after Liu Ying came to the throne, she encountered a place that needed money, and the treasury was full and the internal funds were empty, then she would have to discuss it with Prime Minister Xiao He in a gentle manner, or even put down her body to ask for it.

To put it bluntly, the relationship between the treasury and the Shaofu is like a pair of partners who cooperate with each other and compete with each other at the same time.

The Shaofu represents the Son of Heaven, that is, the monarchy; the treasury represents the outer dynasty, which can also be roughly understood as the power of the prime minister.

In the competition between the two parties, whoever has more money will have more confidence and have a greater right to speak.

The outer court is powerful (rich) and the monarchy is weak (no money), that is, like Liu Ying's previous life, if the prime minister sprays out the phrase "hanging down and governing the emperor", he will be autistic in the palace for several years.

If the foreign dynasty is weak (without money) and the monarchy is strong (with money), then it will be like the historical Emperor Wu Liu Che, who has the constitution of heaven in his mouth and follows the law when he says it.

Fighting the Xiongnu, the foreign court disagrees?
——It’s okay, I pay for the military expenses out of my own pocket!

The courtiers have opinions on building a palace?
——It’s okay, I will use the money from the internal treasury as funds!

Although it sounds outrageous, in this era, the essence of power struggle between monarchs and ministers is indeed like this.

Whoever has money has the confidence; if he has the confidence, he has a loud voice, and if he has a loud voice, he has the right to speak!

In the past, it was precisely for this reason that Liu Ying used the excuse of "official slaves to use it to repair canals" to forcibly stop Shaofu's process of casting three baht coins.

—— Today’s Shaofu is collecting useless three baht coins from the common people in the name of “oral taxation”, while melting half of the two taels in their hands into three baht coins that are not tradable !
If Liu Ying doesn't call to stop, after more than a year when Liu Ying ascends the throne, Shaofu will be out of money!

With daddy here, it's okay if the young mansion doesn't have money—the founding emperor, the whole world belongs to him, and no one dares to stab him.

Even if he made the move of 'allocating half of the national treasury to the Shaofu', absolutely no one would dare to say 'no' to Liu Bang.

But Liu Ying, a boy who is not yet 20 years old and has not yet carried out the coronation ceremony, if he has no money after he ascends the throne, how can he fight those old foxes in the outer dynasty?

(End of this chapter)