Comprehensive martial arts: Summon the thunder and lightning general, I will rule the world

Seeing this income and expenditure, even Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be amazed.

This is 230 million taels of silver. In the past, Zhu Houzhao would not even dare to think about this number!
This is equivalent to how many years of Ming Dynasty's treasury revenue?!
Of course, this so-called treasury revenue was also the treasury revenue before Zhu Houzhao became emperor.

In fact, in the fifth year of Zhengde, the rate of increase in fiscal revenue was much slower than before. At least in Zhu Houzhao's view, the growth rate of fiscal revenue this year was somewhat slower than the previous year.

However, Zhu Houzhao can also be understood.

After all, the Ming Dynasty had been at war all year last year, and a lot of military supplies were not included in fiscal revenue.

Just like many cotton-padded coats and trousers, after they were made, they were directly sent to the battlefield by Zhu Houzhao.

But there is no tax during this period!
Of course, Zhu Houzhao believed that if there was no war this year, the Ming Dynasty’s fiscal revenue would most likely exceed 300 million, and it was not completely impossible to reach 400 million.

However, this was also the year with the highest fiscal expenditure in the Ming Dynasty after Zhu Houzhao's reforms. On the one hand, this was related to the war, and on the other hand, it was also related to helping with reconstruction.

But Zhu Houzhao believed that these expenditures were useful. Similarly, Zhu Houzhao generously distributed 20 million taels of silver to all the staff!
This amount of money is not small at all.

Nowadays, Zhu Houzhao would usually let Zhang Juzheng share this sum of money every year, but the amount varied.

At the same time, Zhu Houzhao also arranged for Zhang Juzheng to spend as much money as possible next year and spend all kinds of silver.

The Ming Dynasty's finances were now in too great a surplus, and the original Northern Song Dynasty also needed to be rebuilt. Zhu Houzhao decided to spend at least 200 million taels of silver to help rebuild the Northern Song Dynasty.

Not only did it help the Northern Song Dynasty rebuild, but the lands of the Jin Dynasty and Western Xia also needed to be rebuilt.

However, the land of the Northern Song Dynasty has completely different meanings from the land of the Western Xia and the Jin Dynasty.

If the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty can be rebuilt, it will bring a lot of benefits to Zhu Houzhao in the future.

Kublai Khan carried out a looting campaign on the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was both beneficial and detrimental to Zhu Houzhao.

Kublai Khan had dealt with all the landlords and gentry here, so there was no need for Zhu Houzhao to find them out one by one and then slaughter them.

Kublai Khan helped Zhu Houzhao to deal with all these people.

But if Zhu Houzhao had done so, he could at least have seized the property of these landlords. As a result, now Kublai Khan has plundered all of these properties.

That's a bit annoying.

In the previous wars, whether it was against the Qing Dynasty, the Tatars, or the Liao Dynasty, in fact, leaving aside the system, the Ming Dynasty made profits.

After all, they all won, and the benefits they gained in the end were enough to cover the military expenses during this period.

However, Zhu Houzhao did not gain much benefit in the battle with the Yuan Dynasty. It was true that Kublai Khan had plundered many places, but the Yuan Dynasty did not have much money.

They had already spent all the money they had looted.

Can you expect a group of robbers to keep their money?
Anyway, Kublai Khan cannot survive!
Although Zhu Houzhao won many battles, he did not gain much benefit. Apart from land, population, cattle and sheep, he did not gain much benefit from the war with Yuan Dynasty. Of course, if luxury goods are considered as benefits, then it is another matter. Generally, Zhu Houzhao distributed and gave away the so-called luxury goods and antiques.

Whoever likes it can give it to him/her below.

Anyway, Zhu Houzhao himself had no artistic talent, so he really couldn't appreciate these things.

He doesn't need these things to show that he is a cultured person.

Those who respect Zhu Houzhao all think that he is a very cultured and knowledgeable person.

After all, Shi Jieren told others that the so-called international trade was brought about by Zhu Houzhao.

Therefore, most people also regard Zhu Houzhao as the author of these books.

However, there were also many intellectuals who hated Zhu Houzhao, especially those poor scholars who only knew how to talk about various things all day long. Zhu Houzhao did not have much good feelings towards these people, so he did not support them at all.

Because Zhu Houzhao took action against the official gentry and landlord class, these people were more or less affected, and Zhu Houzhao himself would not care about these people.

What he hates most is these poor scholars!
Therefore, in the eyes of these people, Zhu Houzhao was not a good emperor!
Even many Confucian disciples are still dissatisfied with Zhu Houzhao. Even though they are working honestly in the Ming Dynasty, their dissatisfaction with Zhu Houzhao still persists.

It would be fine if they have no power, but once they have power, it will inevitably have an impact on reform.

"Your Majesty, Zhao Shirong requests to see you!" On this day, Ji Yanran found Zhu Houzhao to report the information about Zhu Houzhao's whereabouts.

"Zhao Shirong?" Zhu Houzhao was also stunned when he heard this.

To be honest, he hadn't heard the name Zhao Shirong for some time.

Ever since the last "alliance", Zhao Shirong has been staying in Yanjing and usually lives under Zhu Houzhao's nose.

Normally, Zhao Shirong didn't do anything rebellious, but recently, he spent more and more time at the Daming Royal Academy.

All this was done with Zhu Houzhao's tacit approval.

After all, Zhu Houzhao was still very supportive of Zhao Shirong going to the Ming Imperial Academy. Although Zhu Houzhao did not think that Zhao Kuangyin could still stir up any trouble, Zhu Houzhao did not want Zhao Shirong to just disappear like this and die!
Zhu Houzhao still hoped that Zhao Shirong could survive!
"Let her in!
I can meet him!" Zhu Houzhao chuckled, "I am very curious, what choice will Zhao Shirong make at this time?
Could it be that you are here to assassinate me?"

Of course, Zhu Houzhao also knew that Zhao Shirong would not come to assassinate him at this time.

After all, Zhao Shirong himself knew that it was almost impossible to assassinate Zhu Houzhao at this time.

Not to mention whether Zhu Houzhao would give Zhao Shirong a chance to assassinate him, even if she used the beauty trap and really got on Zhu Houzhao's bed, could she really assassinate Zhu Houzhao?
After all, Zhu Houzhao was a powerful immortal on earth, and moreover, he was the best among the immortals on earth.

Any murderous intention would be detected by Zhu Houzhao, and of course he could be poisoned, but could he really be killed by poison at will?
It would be strange if the emperor could be poisoned so easily. (End of this chapter)