Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1215 Alarm
Emperor Luo Cheng never forgot to manage his own small treasury. After the imperial court lowered the salt tax, the current annual fiscal revenue is more than 500 million shi, more than 500 million pieces of cloth and silk, and 500 million yuan. Yu Wanguan.And the emperor's internal treasury received more than [-] million silver tigers last year.

A silver tiger costs two thousand, which is equivalent to almost 3000 million yuan.

This income is quite amazing.

However, the royal family has its own advantages. Luo Cheng bought a large number of slaves brought by the war, and then opened mines and built workshops all over the country. Several important minerals such as gold, silver, copper and iron, now have a considerable share in the Royal Mining Bureau. , Royal mining, strong exploration technology, technical support from the Royal Research Institute, strong funds, and sufficient manpower.

The royal family is neither short of money nor slaves. Once high-quality minerals are explored, they will invest a huge amount of money in mining. On the other hand, they will immediately establish smelters and other supporting industries. From exploration to mining, to smelting and processing, Then to minting gold and silver coins, making gold and silver jewelry utensils, casting copper coins, iron castings, etc. Their complete industrial chain production, and large-scale, can greatly reduce costs and have a huge competitive advantage.

The royal family also has technologies for shipbuilding, porcelain, glass, papermaking, wine making, salt making, tea making, engraving printing, sugar making and many other in-demand commodities. In addition, the royal family also engages in sea trade and border market trade, which can be said to be the most profitable The royal family has a hand in the industry, and almost all of them are huge in scale and occupy a large share of the industry.

Not to mention that the royal family is also engaged in financial businesses such as coin minting, banks, and banks, lending, mortgages, exchange, etc. With the royal reputation as a gold medal, the royal family makes money like stealing money.

Luo Cheng replaced most of the Huangzhuang fields in the Central Plains to the border lands, and then used slaves to grow grain, sugarcane, etc., to engage in manor plantation, which was no less profitable than those lands in the Central Plains. After all, one mu of land in Luoyang , the frontier can be exchanged for ten acres.As long as there are enough slaves, cattle and horses, the income of ten mu of land is definitely higher than that of one mu of land.

In some important cities such as Luoyang, Chang'an, Fanyang, Taiyuan, Guangling, and Denglai, the royal family established many large workshops. Many pastures and fur processing workshops have been established in Longyou and Saishang.

In fact, Luo Cheng's doing these things is basically equivalent to the state-owned enterprises of later generations. He penetrated into various industries, relying on capital, technology and scale, as well as the emperor's credit.

This is also the place that has been attacked by many civil servants in the court for a long time. They think that the emperor competes with the people for profit, and they have to intervene in everything. Whoever makes money, the emperor will enter the industry.

The royal industry has even become a price butcher. Any industry with royal entry will inevitably have a sharp drop in commodity prices. However, the quality of royal products is still very strong, especially because they have a strong ability to mobilize commodities. The national market is a game of chess. Great, who can handle them.

Many people are clamoring that money is not easy to earn, especially in the past. In some places, powerful gentry and big households used their influence in the local area, and even the protection of officials and businessmen. They had pricing power and even market protection. What you earn is called comfort.

But now the royal brand is raiding everywhere. They are large in scale, low in cost, have a lot of goods, and have strong deployment capabilities, so everyone can only follow the price cuts, but their own costs are high, so profits are reduced.Either hold on, the market is seized, and the income is less.

But no matter how dissatisfied they were, Luo Cheng never paid any attention to them.

The royal firm has never evaded taxes. Although it has lowered some prices, it is not a dumping price war. It just lowered unreasonable prices a little. The prices are simply too high.

It was so high that even the emperor couldn't stand it.

Books are sold by the number of pages. A page of a book is often worth tens of pennies, and a volume of scriptures is often more than ten pennies or even more expensive.Even if it is paper, it is worth a few pennies per sheet.

The emperor's royal paper workshop produced all kinds of paper, from expensive rice paper to jute paper for the imperial court, to bamboo paper for printing. In the past, the paper of the same grade fell several times.In this regard, the emperor did not spare any effort and directly suppressed them. Countless paper mills closed down, but the emperor did not care. They were either bought by the royal paper mills or closed directly.

Paper is an important commodity for people's livelihood and must be reduced.

The emperor became ruthless, and even the important tax of the court, the salt tax, could be reduced by 2000 million yuan a year, so what else could he not be ruthless about.

Now the entire royal industry spreads all over the north and south of the river, and the number of slaves in the royal industry is as high as more than 100 million, which is very amazing. It can be said that Luo Cheng is a real big slave owner.

It is precisely because of this huge industrial scale that the royal industry only has an income of 3000 million guan a year, and it also contributes millions of guan in taxes to the court a year.

A large number of prisoners of war eventually became mine slaves in the royal mines, serfs in the farms, and labor slaves in the workshops. Because of the huge demand, the slave market was even stimulated to flourish. All slaves were sent.

Many surrounding vassal states and tribes have begun to engage in this amazingly profitable business. For example, the royal caravan in Lingnan sells all kinds of exquisite goods to the cave masters and barbarian kings in Lingnan. We have no money to pay?It's okay, you can pay on credit.If the payment cannot be made by the due date, the cave owners can be allowed to give their slaves to the caravan to pay off the debt.

Many Xitong bureaucrats are still in the tribal system, and they do have some slaves, but certainly not many.So in order to exchange the goods they wanted, they began to actively fight other tribes, plundering other tribesmen as slaves, and some cave owners even sold their cavemen to royal firms as slaves.

These cave people were originally poor people in the cave, and most of them borrowed money from the cave owner, and their debts were not cleared, so they were sold to Qin merchants by them.

Such a situation is happening everywhere in the grasslands of Mobei, in the mountains and forests of Baishan and Heishui in the northeast, in the deep mountains in the middle of Yunnan and Guizhou, even in Linyi and Chenla in the south of the sky, and in the countries of the Western Regions.

The goods of Qin merchants are deeply loved by them. These people began to consume ahead of schedule under the encouragement of Qin merchants, and finally they could not afford it. So they could only sell cattle, horses, wives and daughters, and some even sold themselves in the end. Pay debts for slaves.

Those chiefs and cave owners also began to attack each other, plundering each other's population and selling it to the Qin people as slaves.

As for the Qin merchants, they don't even need to do the dangerous business of catching slaves by themselves, they just need to bring their goods to trade, which is easy and profitable.

The speed at which the emperor made money was not even less than that of the court's tax collection, and he could be called a truly wealthy country.However, although he earned 3000 million yuan a year, the emperor was not indulging in enjoyment. He did not like extravagance, nor did he like to build palaces and palaces.

Compared with the imperial court's annual budget for the coming year, the emperor also asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dianzhong Province, and Secretary Province to make the budget for the coming year.

Just like the budget made this year, the main expenditure of the royal family next year will be to build hundreds of merchant ships of different sizes to increase the strength of the Bohai and South China Sea Fleets.

At the same time, the imperial court also planned to build a canal fleet and a Yangtze River fleet, as well as a Hetao fleet that ran from Lingwu to Yulin, as well as a Huaihe fleet and a Hanjiang fleet. Greatly improve the transportation capacity of royal industrial goods. At the same time, the guards equipped by each fleet can also become an elite royal army, which can play an important role at critical times.

Another large budget is that this year the Royal Plan will open Huimin Pharmacy and Anle Hospital in every county town, and even in some large counties. There are more than [-] counties, each of which has a Huimin pharmacy and Anle Hospital.

This year, more doctors and nurses will be recruited from military hospitals, and the royal family will pay for them. After training in military hospitals, they will be assigned to Huimin pharmacies and Anle hospitals in various places.

Building ships, forming new fleets, recruiting and hiring more fleet guards, adding Huimin pharmacies, Anle Hospital, and recruiting more medical and nursing committee trainees all require a lot of money.

The emperor's money comes in quickly, but the emperor's money also goes out quickly, but the money is not used for building palaces, not for various extravagant expenses, the emperor thinks it is worth it.

In addition to these major projects, the emperor also approved an increase in the budget for orphanages and nursing homes established by the royal family to accommodate more abandoned babies or orphans, and to support those who are lonely and poor.Although it is impossible to take in all the lonely old people, abandoned babies and orphans in the world, the emperor increases the budget every year and builds new orphanages and nursing homes every year. This is the responsibility of the imperial court, but now the emperor has let the royal family bear it silently part of it.

This year the imperial court will increase 1 soldiers and horses in Anxi, which is a huge expenditure, but fortunately last year, the imperial court acquired hundreds of thousands of slaves and millions of cattle, sheep and livestock for the extermination of rats in Nishi and Kucha. and countless riches.

According to Luo Cheng's instructions, this money should not be included in the fiscal revenue, but should be listed separately as the court's reserve funds.There was no snow in many places last winter, and officials have long warned that there may be a catastrophe this year.

There is no snow in winter, and the biggest disaster in the coming year may be the plague of locusts.

For this reason, the emperor deliberately set aside the money for destroying Kucha and Shunishi. Except for a part of the expenditure for the new [-] soldiers and horses in Anxi, the rest is kept, and no misappropriation is allowed. , are used for disaster relief emergency preparedness.

In order to cope with the possible catastrophe this year, the emperor even went to the Wufeng Building and did not forget to summon several frontier generals to discuss in detail.

Contrary to the guesses of the ministers, the emperor talked with these generals, not to make any big moves and prepare to destroy several countries, on the contrary.

When Luo Cheng talked to Li Jing, Xu Shiji, Su Dingfang and others, he repeatedly confessed that this year must be stable, that if he can not fight, he will not fight, and if he can defend, he will not attack.

Even though the battle in Anxi was not over yet, the emperor also asked Xu Shiji to control the scale of the battle and not fight any decisive battles for the time being, because the court had to take precautions in advance this year, and if the scale of the war in the border area expanded, the court might not be able to reinforce it at that time.

Everything is stable.

Safety comes first.

Even earlier, the emperor specially summoned the envoys of the San Francisco in the south of the Yangtze River, and praised the loyalty of the San Francisco, and also rewarded the San Francisco with a lot of royal objects.

(End of this chapter)