Daming 1805

Chapter 269 Who pays for the Mozhou inspection?
Zhu Jingyuan is the king of the Great Food Kingdom. It is definitely a big event for the Great Food Kingdom to leave the capital and the palace and go to a distant overseas "colony" to "inspect".

Of course, it is impossible to just leave, you have to prepare the ship and escort troops in advance, and you have to arrange things after you leave.

Zhu Jingyuan immediately summoned the main officials of the Great Food Kingdom, the directors of Daming Airlines and several laboratories.

Half an hour later, the relevant personnel rushed to the palace one after another and met at the Qingshu Hall, which is similar to the Wenhua Hall in the Forbidden City.

Zhu Jingyuan made a special arrangement. In summer, officials don't need to wear formal robes, but can wear short singles.

But even so, there are fans in the places where the meetings are held several times, and the summer in Dashi Country is still very difficult.

After all the staff arrived, Zhu Jingyuan didn't write any ink, and directly explained his thoughts:
"The eastern part of Mozhou, where Meng County is located, has been assigned to our Dashi Kingdom.

"Moreover, the industrial zone under construction around Meng County will be the future textile and garment industrial base of Dashi Country.

"It is very important to the food country, and it is also very important to me.

"I received a message from Lin Zexu today that the trial production of the new military equipment I designed has basically been completed.

"So I'm going to visit Meng County and the eastern part of Mozhou in the near future.

"Know the local situation personally, and condolences to the officials, artisans, and workers who have worked hard in Meng County.

"The local affairs are temporarily left to you to handle by yourself. There is no special important matter, so you don't need to notify me."

The officials and craftsmen were all taken aback when they heard this, but they didn't expect Zhu Jingyuan to summon everyone for this matter.

Everyone was obviously very surprised about this, but they didn't expect that Zhu Jingyuan was going to escape the summer heat.

People who have never lived in the middle of Mozhou will not immediately realize that summer there is cooler than that in Beimozhou.

But there were still people who instinctively resisted Zhu Jingyuan leaving.

Liu Zhixin, the left chief of the Great Food Kingdom, said subconsciously:

"Your Majesty, the eastern part of Mozhou is a newly attached land, and there must be many barbarians in the area who do not accept the king's transformation.

"Moreover, it may be a land of miasma, full of poisonous insects and diseases, and there are many Mo people and savages.

"This kind of place is too dangerous, the king must never go into danger personally."

Zhu Jingyuan immediately waved his hands with a smile and said:

"Old Liu, you are ignorant and ignorant, Meng County was called Man Basa in ancient times, but it was a thousand-year-old name.

"So every place is a familiar place, not a place of miasma.

"My lord is going to visit our own factory, and won't go deep into the inland and places where savages live."

Liu Zhixin still instinctively does not want Zhu Jingyuan to leave:

"Your Majesty is the king of my Great Food Kingdom, the backbone of us. If you leave, how will the court work..."

The courtiers of several other Great Food Kingdoms subconsciously followed suit.

In most kingdoms, this is a very natural thing, how can the king go out and run casually.

Even if you want to patrol, travel and play, at least put it in the local area.

Just like the former ruler of Fengyuan Kingdom lived in Nagasaki for a long time, the courtiers of Fengyuan Kingdom were not doing well.

Zhu Jingyuan is going to a colony, which is thousands of kilometers across the sea.

Just like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was going to Jiangnan for inspection, most of the old gentlemen in the court would not persuade him too hard.

Whether it is by boat or by train, it will not waste people's money.

But if Emperor Ming is going to Tiannan Continent, everyone will definitely try to dissuade him.

Among the vassal kingdoms, the Great Food Kingdom itself is outrageous, with a large land area, and the distance between the two parts is also far.

The land in Mozhou is like a colony.

The ancient big food country in history, and later the Sultanate of Oman, have established colonial strongholds there,

Facing this group of courtiers, Zhu Jingyuan waved his hands seriously again and said:
"Everyone, don't try to persuade me anymore, have you forgotten that I am not just the king of the Great Food Kingdom,

"At the same time, I am also the prince of Ming Dynasty, and I am staying in the Great Food Kingdom, which is actually in the state of administrative training.

"At the end of this year at the earliest, and next year at the latest, I will have to leave the Great Food Country and go to other places for training.

"At the same time, I'm still holding the position of governor of Dashi, Daqinhai, and Mozhou's military, political and foreign affairs.

"Because of emotion and reason, I should take a tour of these places. If I don't go now, I won't have a chance."

Zhu Jingyuan had too many excuses to get away.

After Zhu Jingyuan said this, everyone suddenly realized that Zhu Jingyuan's identity is really not just the king of food.

With so many excuses presented, the officials of the Great Food Kingdom headed by Liu Zhixin have no reason to stop them.

Although very reluctant, but also had to accept the reality.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the officials at the scene, and found that only Niu Jian's official title was not from the Great Food Kingdom.

So he appointed Niu Jian to accompany him and be responsible for arranging travel matters, including contacting the shipping company and contacting all parties.

Niu Jian got up immediately to take the order, and asked a soul torture at the same time:
"Your Highness, will the expenses for this trip go through the financial appropriation of the Great Food Kingdom, or through your personal account?"

Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously said:

"Just use my personal account."

Liu Zhixin immediately said loudly:

"It's absolutely impossible. Your majesty inspects the overseas territory of the Great Food Kingdom, of course he has to take the account of the Great Food Kingdom."

A group of kingdom officials immediately echoed.

Niu Jian seemed to have expected this, and looked at Zhu Jingyuan with a calm and helpless expression:

"So... Your Highness..."

Zhu Jingyuan looked at Liu Zhixin and the others:

"My trip this time is not just about the official business of Dashi Kingdom, but also my personal affairs, so I should pay for it."

Liu Zhixin did not give an inch:

"Your Majesty is the king of the Great Food Kingdom, and all your expenses should be borne by the kingdom, even if it is a private matter."

Zhu Jingyuan was speechless.

The emperors of all dynasties, as well as most of the Ming emperors, usually find ways to deduct money from the court.

When it comes to the palace, the royal family, and the emperor's personal expenses, the court will find a way to let the emperor pay for it himself.

In fact, most of the kingdoms are in a similar situation, and they all want to spend less money.

But when it comes to the Great Food Country, the situation is inexplicably reversed.

The king Zhu Jingyuan and the court headed by Liu Zhixin all wanted to spend some money on their own.

Looking at it from every special angle, the reason for these two situations is even the same, which is that the financial budget is not easy to do.

In the previous courts and ordinary kingdoms, income and expenditure were relatively fixed.

To add an additional expenditure, it has to be deducted from other fixed expenditures, and the corresponding items will be affected.

Which one to deduct is the question.

On the side of the big food country, the income is still growing at a high speed, but the expenditure items are tending to be fixed, or even declining.

A large amount of fiscal surplus cannot be arranged, so we need to find reasonable reasons everywhere and find ways to spend the money.

The source of fiscal revenue of Dashiguo is mainly from direct sales of crude oil.

In the past two years, the output of crude oil in Dashiguo has been rising continuously, and the demand for fuel oil in Daming has also been rising at the same time.

Oil prices not only did not fall with the increase in production, but showed signs of a slow rise.

Therefore, the crude oil sales revenue of the big food country has also continued to soar along with the production.

As for other sources of income, such as the business tax of individual industrial and commercial households, a small amount of import and export tariffs within the Ming system, and the local refined oil sales that have just begun to make profits, the amount is really inconspicuous compared to the profits of crude oil sales.

The source of fiscal revenue of the Dashi Country is so single, but for the sparsely populated Dashi Country, it is so abundant.

Correspondingly, the financial expenditure of the Great Food Country is also very limited.

In addition to transporting immigrants and purchasing living materials, it is mainly all aspects of engineering construction.

The Ming mainland can't provide too many immigrants now, if the Dashi Kingdom invites immigrants at a high price, it will definitely cost a lot of money.

But Zhu Jingyuan made a plan from the very beginning to control the scale of immigrants from the Dashi Kingdom.

After the number of immigrants in Quicksand City reached [-], they stopped taking the initiative to hire people.

Among the construction projects, the most important new palace project was fully completed in the second half of last year.

The large oil refinery was also completed at the end of last year, and the oil pipeline connecting the oil refining industrial zone has also been built.

The scale of the large seawater desalination plant is also sufficient, and there is no need to expand it if there is no increase in immigration.

The construction of the large wharf is basically completed, and there is no need to invest in it in the short term.

Although the profitability of Dashiguo's own refinery is limited, it offsets the cost of Dashiguo's refined oil imports.

Although the main railway road connecting the Red Sea, the Dashi Sea, the Daqin Sea, and the Mesopotamia from Liusand City has not been completed yet, these railways are not the projects of Dashi Kingdom itself.

The railways in the area directly under the jurisdiction of the Dashi Kingdom were borne by the Dashi Kingdom itself, and the railways in the surrounding areas under the jurisdiction of the chief minister were shared by the Dashi Kingdom, the chief minister's locality, and the central court of the Ming Dynasty.

The proportion to be borne by the big food country is calculated according to the local indigenous population.

Since there are basically no indigenous people in these places, the Great Food Country basically does not have to bear the relevant expenses.

The railways in Dashi Kingdom's own direct-administered area have almost been repaired now, and the investment has basically ended.

In other words, the money earned by the Great Food Country is still increasing, but the expenditure on large-scale construction projects is decreasing.

Therefore, the surplus figure of fiscal revenue began to rise continuously.

This made the officials of the Great Food Kingdom very worried. Their most important task now was to spend money.

For a political entity, fiscal revenue is just a piece of data stored in the account, which is equivalent to holding a bunch of IOUs from Wuxi.

If the numbers on the account are not used, it is equivalent to not earning the money.

To spend them out, through the hands of citizens and workers, to turn them into infrastructure, means of production, and living materials, can be regarded as a real role.

Even if it is spent wastefully, it can promote the circulation and activity of the market and make it easier for citizens to earn more money.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan researched petrochemical products, built petrochemical plants, and built synthetic fiber textile and garment factories, all of which were fully supported by the imperial court.

The Ming Dynasty gave the eastern part of Mozhou to the Dashi Kingdom, and this became the latest investment direction of the Dashi Dynasty.

Zhu Jingyuan wanted to build railways and factories in the eastern part of Mozhou, and the imperial court of the Great Food Kingdom also fully supported it.

But these construction projects are also long-term, not overnight, and the key is probably to start making money.

The cost of rayon products is actually very low, but some products can be sold as luxury goods for a period of time.

The speed of spending money still cannot keep up with the speed of selling oil to make money, so we have to find a way to spend money in other areas.

Zhu Jingyuan was going to Mozhou to inspect, and the imperial court of the Great Food Kingdom was also very happy to spend this money, which happened to relieve part of the pressure on expenditure.

But Zhu Jingyuan has money himself.

After the Xiyang Haijiao peace talks were over, Zhu Jianyan gave Zhu Jingyuan [-]% of the royal family's dividends in Xintianfu Huangzhuang, and also gave several pieces of overseas land, all of which were Zhu Jingyuan's personal income.

Zhu Jingyuan also bought the Baku oil field from Persia. After Zheng Fuguang led a team to dig out the oil well, he handed it over to the Royal Petroleum Company for operation, and sold it to Lucia and other Western countries. Zhu Jingyuan directly received dividends from the income.

Daming Airlines holds the patent of flying machines and the Aviation Industry Association. The Military Orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the Five Armed Forces are overwhelmed, and the private orders are also continuous. There are also prepaid orders with long delivery times from Thailand and Western countries, and the profits are also very considerable. .

There is also the Dashi Clothing Trading Firm managed by Chu Yuqiang. The scale in Taixi is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more branches. It has spread all over most of the big cities in Taixi. Clothing for businessmen and nobles has high profits. Outrageous.

As the Prince of Daming, Zhu Jingyuan's personal income has reached the point where he can't spend it without wasting it.

The key point is that Zhu Jingyuan has basically no personal expenses. As the living expenses of the kingdom, they are all provided by the court of the Great Food Kingdom.

At present, the places where I can directly invest money are Daming Airlines and clothing companies, but their own profits can fully meet their own normal expansion.

The income from the new Tianfu Huangzhuang and Baku oilfields is a pure number wherever they are placed.

(End of this chapter)