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"The most profitable among our government-owned assets in Dalei this year are the Nanjing Textile Factory, Suzhou Weaving Factory, Hangzhou Weaving Factory, Chengdu Shu Brocade Weaving Bureau and other weaving industries."

"All government-run weaving units made a total profit of 1355 yuan from the first day of December last year to the first day of December this year through maritime trade, domestic sales and other channels!"

"The next most profitable are a group of ceramic and glass manufacturing units such as Ruyang Glass Factory, Nanjing Glass Products Factory, Jiangxi Jingdezhen Porcelain Factory, etc. This year, the total profit is 1109 yuan!"

"Next to them are a group of roughening industrial units such as Da'ei Daily Chemical Manufacturing Company, Nanjing Paper Mill, Qianshan Paper Mill, etc. This year's total profit was 928 yuan!"

"The next most popular are Wuyang Iron and Steel Plant, Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant, and a number of other heavy industrial units that mainly focus on metal smelting. This year's total profit was 850 yuan!"

"Then there are a number of military industrial units such as Nanjing Arsenal, Nanjing Firearms Factory, and Ruyang Arsenal..."

With the report of Qian Yunsheng.

This year, the profits of various government-owned industries in Da'ei are known to all ministers.

Not surprisingly, the most profitable industries are still a group of traditional industries, mainly silk and porcelain.

Only two or three years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the chemical industry had only begun to develop, and the heavy industry had just begun to lay the foundation.

Many government-run industries are actually still handicraft workshops. At most, they have expanded their scale and added scientific production and management methods such as assembly line operations, reasonable improvement of workers' wages, and piece-rate commissions.

Even if production capacity is expanded, it will still be limited.

The textile industry and ceramics industry were inherited from the pre-Ming Dynasty.

China's silk and porcelain have been loved by overseas countries since the Han and Tang Dynasties.

By the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, silk and porcelain had become hard currencies for overseas trade, and demand exceeded supply in Europe.

After the great voyage began, European colonists brought ship after ship of silver from the Americas in exchange for silk, cotton, porcelain and other goods from the Ming Dynasty. They also exchanged goods such as spices in Southeast Asia and brought them back to Europe for sale in order to make huge profits.

In addition, there are nearly 200 million people in China, and there is also a large demand for silk, cotton, porcelain, etc.

The annual profits of the textile, ceramics and emerging glass industries have naturally become the top few among the many government-owned industries.

As for the profits of Da'ei's daily chemicals and paper industries, no one is surprised.

Paper is also one of China Dadi’s flagship products sold overseas.

In overseas sales and popularity, it is second only to silk, porcelain, spices and other in-demand and highly profitable goods.

As for chemical products in Dawei, although they have just been developed, they currently only have a few products such as soap, soap, toilet paper, and matches.

However, in the past year or two, it has become popular in the entire Da'ei domestic market and is even exported to surrounding countries and Europe.

Moreover, soaps and toilet soaps can earn high profits.

It’s not surprising that a lot of money can be made in related industries.

However, the profits of many military factories seem to be somewhat low.

However, the weapons and equipment currently produced by various military factories in Da'ei are only sold domestically to the Da'ei army, and the profits are slim.

Therefore, even if various military factories produce a lot of weapons and equipment in a year, they do not make much profit, and they rank very low among the government-owned industries...

After a while.

Qian Yunsheng just finished reporting the annual profits of various government-owned industries in Dalei.

As for the more detailed data, there were too many for him to report in person.

Relevant documents, account books, etc. have been submitted. If Liu Sheng wants to check something, he can easily see it.

At the end of the report, Qian Yunsheng took a breath and then said: "To sum up, the total profit of various government-owned industries in our country this year is 5112 yuan!"

Although they had expected it, many of the ministers and workers present at the meeting were still shocked when they heard this astonishing data from Qian Yunsheng.

The government-owned assets made a profit of more than 51 million yuan a year!
Almost catching up with the total tax revenue!

If they hadn't heard Qian Yunsheng report various profit figures before, and even personally checked the accounts of certain industries, they probably wouldn't have believed it anyway.

But this is the fact!

The imperial court profited tens of millions of taels of silver from official assets, which was the first of its kind in history!
While the finance ministers in the palace were excited, Liu Sheng was secretly settling the accounts.

This year's military expenditures for the standing army, navy, garrison, and civilian bravery total more than 75 million yuan.

As for the military expenses of the Guards, although it was as high as 20 million yuan, a quarter of it was shared by the Da'ei royal family, and the imperial court only had to contribute 15 million yuan.

Therefore, the total military expenditures actually incurred by the imperial court this year are a little over 90 million yuan.

According to previous annual reports between the Ministry of Personnel and Guanglu Temple (Guanglu Temple in Da'ei is responsible for paying salaries to officials), Da'ei's expenditure on official salaries this year was more than 800 million yuan.

This is not a small amount of money.

As far as Liu Sheng knew, later generations had the Qing Dynasty to raise honest silver and have many more officials than in the Ming Dynasty. The combined annual salary expenditure for civil and military officials was only four to five million taels of silver.

The salaries of the generals in Da'ei are included in military expenses.

Official salary actually only includes the salary of civil servants, staff and patrol police.

Because there are too many officials and patrol police, the overexpenditure is as high as more than 8 million yuan.

In addition, Da'ei's third largest expenditure this year is the construction of basic transportation facilities such as railways and official roads, as well as the construction and excavation of basic water conservancy facilities such as rivers and ditches.

Because although Dawei did not completely abolish corvee labor, it gave considerable subsidies to the people. Some projects even hired people to work, and the food of the people was guaranteed.

Coupled with the cost of construction materials, the total annual expenditure is naturally quite large.

The total amount is nearly 10 million yuan.

This was followed by various public expenditures by the imperial court and local government.

The amount is neither too much nor too little, with a total expenditure of more than five million yuan.

As for the cost of education.

Because three-year compulsory education is currently only implemented in a few places such as Yingtianfu and Shuntianfu, the cost is not much.

As for other places, there is even less investment in traditional education.

The two added together are only over one million yuan.

There are some other expenses left, but they are less than one million yuan, and the total of all projects is only more than three million yuan.

Let’s do the math.

Da'ei's total annual expenditure is approximately 120 million yuan.

This year's tax and government asset income combined will be nearly 110 million yuan.

Comparing this year's total expenses, there is a difference of about 10 million yuan.

Next, it depends on whether the income from plagiarism and confiscation is sufficient.

Qian Yunsheng changed another brochure.

“The income from plagiarism and confiscation this year in our country mainly falls into three categories.”

"The first is to eradicate the hypocrisy this spring and confiscate the public and private properties of the hypocrisy."

"As well as the destruction of Can Ming's small imperial court and the confiscation of Can Ming's public and private properties this autumn."

"There are also properties confiscated by the bandits in these places. A total of 889 yuan was obtained!"

Liu Sheng looked calm after hearing this data.

He knew that the Yunnan Mu family had made a great contribution to earn so much revenue from the raids this year.

Not to mention anything else, the confiscated amount from the Duke of Guizhou alone amounted to three million taels of silver.

The total value of Mu's real estate confiscated by Damei was as high as ten million taels.

However, when the local government reported its financial affairs in early December, it was only a little more than a month since Damei captured Yunnan. The International Trade Department estimated that it had only sold a small part of Mu's real estate, and the income was not much.

In addition to the Mu family, in the process of taking over Yunnan, the Yi army also confiscated the properties of some chieftains, bandits, evil gentry and local tyrants, which added up to a large amount.

On the contrary, little was gained from the raids in the Mieshun campaign.

Li Zicheng took away most of the gold and silver treasures.

Although Damei acquired a lot of real estate after taking over Shaanxi, not many of them were valuable, and even fewer could be sold at a profit this year.

As for the evil gentry and local tyrants in Shaanxi, they had long been defeated by the compliant army. Even some gentry with a fair reputation would have their property confiscated if they did not want to surrender.

When the Tai army took over Shaanxi, they tried to find the evil gentry and local tyrants to fight, but they couldn't find them.

"The second is to confiscate the property of private businessmen and other criminals."

"Because this year the imperial court vigorously cracked down on private money merchants, there was a lot of plagiarism in this area. A total of 612 yuan." This summer, when Da'ei was about to issue new money, thirteen private money merchants were arrested in Yingtian Prefecture. , and confiscated gold and silver treasures worth more than one million taels.

As for real estate such as fields and shops, their value is over one million taels.

Even if other local governments did not gain as much as Ying Tianfu from cracking down on private money dealers, the sum of sixteen and seventeen provinces combined would definitely not be small.

From this point of view, Liu Sheng even felt that more than six million yuan was too small, and might even be problematic.

It should be noted that private criminals are not limited to businessmen with private money. Although the majority of criminals are poor, there are also many wealthy gentry, landowners, businessmen, etc.

Liu Sheng could guess that cover-up and corruption must have occurred during the raids and confiscations.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang punished corrupt officials so harshly that some people dared to commit crimes.

Although Da'ei's administration is relatively clear now, it is impossible not to be free from corruption.

Perhaps in some places far away from the imperial power and where the court does not pay much attention, corruption has become more serious, but no major cases have broken out yet.

Although Liu Sheng had suspicions, he was not angry either.

Corruption is like a stain on a person's body. Even if you take a shower every day, you still can't wash it away.

But for health and comfort, you'd better wash every day.

But fighting corruption is not as easy as taking a bath, as it will cost administrative costs.

In the two or three years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Sheng has gradually improved the Supervisory Office, a supervisory agency for officials and other government departments, so that the officialdom of Da'ei is generally clean and efficient.

On the other hand, the Xiuyi Guards were asked to secretly monitor local officials, pay attention to collecting information and evidence of crimes against unjust officials, and avoid exposing them.

The purpose is to create a clean government storm at the right time that will impress Da'ei officials and shock people's hearts.

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In Liu Sheng's eyes, Da'ei's officials are clean and efficient enough, and he may be able to keep his anti-corruption strategy in his hands for a few more years.

But now it seems that if it is delayed for a few more years, the corruption of Da'ei's officials may be serious, far beyond his expectation.

Maybe next year or the year after that, he should find an excuse to unleash his big move on clean government...
When Liu Sheng was thinking about when to rectify the officialdom, Qian Yunsheng also talked about this matter.

"The third category is the confiscation of property belonging to corrupt and illegal officials, totaling 103 yuan."

"To sum up, our total income from the early plagiarism and confiscation this year was 1605 yuan!"

"Finally, our total fiscal revenue this year is 1 yuan!"

After hearing Qian Yunsheng's report of Dawei's total income this year, all the ministers in the finance department couldn't help but secretly marvel.

More than 120 million silver dollars!

Even if it were exchanged for silver, it would be close to 100 million taels.

It is more than four or five times the total fiscal revenue of the previous year!
How can people not be amazed?
On the throne, Liu Sheng's mood was actually not as calm as he appeared on the surface.

He knew this data in advance.

Before he knew it, he was actually a little worried, worried that his finances would not make ends meet this year.

In fact, this year we established three major naval divisions in the East China Sea, South China Sea, and Yellow River, and fought two "country-destroying" wars. Military expenditures are too high.

After all, it had only been two or three years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the economy had not developed yet.

It now seems that if the royal family had not borne a quarter of the military expenses of the Guards, Da'ei's fiscal revenue this year would be just enough to cover expenses.

There is no fiscal deficit these days.

Because Dawei is the largest and richest country in the East, and even the largest and richest country in the world. Even if we want to borrow money to fill the hole, we have no place to borrow it.

A real fiscal deficit will only cause Da'ei's military strength and administrative efficiency to decline year by year.

Never a good thing.

As for issuing national bonds to borrow money from the people.

How many years has it been since the founding of the People's Republic of China? I'm afraid I don't have that credit yet.

This is also an important reason why Liu Sheng only dared to engage in metal currency this summer and did not dare to directly engage in banknotes (Da'ei banknotes are only in secret preparation and are far from being issued).

'It seems that next year, in addition to streamlining the police force and saving some military expenditures, we will also have to increase revenue to increase national fiscal revenue. '

In Liu Sheng's mind, saving money is only a last resort.

The best way to solve financial problems is always open source.

His first target was salt merchants and the salt industry.

The second goal is to rectify the tea industry, mining and many other industries with lucrative trade.

And at the same time, it develops light industry mainly based on textiles, heavy industry mainly based on steel and coal, etc.

A multi-pronged approach can make Da'ei's finances healthier and grow year by year.

As for reforms such as clearing land ownership and integrating grain payments between officials and gentry, they will also be carried out at the right time in the next few years - this is expected to cause a big storm and even local unrest.

But he is not afraid.

His knife is very sharp now.

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to the day before the New Year.

That is to say, on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the various annual reporting tasks of the Da'ei imperial court came to an end.

Only then did all the ministries and departments of the central government seal their offices and put them on holiday.

Unless there are special events, the offices of various ministries and departments will not open until the eighth day of the first lunar month.

Some officials with unimportant positions take leave in advance and can even get ten days of leave.

On the afternoon of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month.

Liu Sheng, who was finally free, came to Kunning Palace and prepared to accompany the Red Lady, Liu Rui and Liu Yao.

When I arrived, I found the matchmaker looking at the account book.

After the red lady bowed, they both sat down by the charcoal stove.

Liu Sheng glanced at it and said, "The accounts of the Internal Affairs Department? Didn't you read them a few days ago?"

The red lady smiled and said, "I've seen it before, but it's just because I have nothing to do, so I want to think about it more."

After Lady Hong was canonized as Empress Da'ei, although she did not interfere in military and political affairs, Liu Sheng would tell her about some major military and political affairs in the court every time she came over.

I will only tell her.

During this period, Liu Sheng and his ministers made various annual reports, and the financial issue was mentioned most often by the Red Lady.

Therefore, Lady Matchmaker also knows that the gap between Da'ei's fiscal revenue and expenditure this year is relatively small, which is a bit dangerous.

She was in charge of the Internal Affairs Department, so she thought about increasing the royal family's income so as to reduce Liu Sheng's burden.

Speaking of which, the Da'ei royal family now has a lot of assets, with an income of more than eight million taels of silver this year.

As for the gold and silver treasures in the internal funds, they are piled up like mountains, and when converted into silver, they amount to hundreds of millions of taels!

If we only bear the expenses of the royal family, even overhauling the palace in the Forbidden City in Nanjing will be more than enough.

But after all, the royal family still bears a quarter of the military expenses of the Guards.

And as Liu Sheng had more and more heirs, the palace expenses also increased day by day.

When it comes to the third generation, the expenses will definitely be higher.

As a queen, she naturally had to make plans in advance.

Liu Sheng cannot be allowed to worry about the royal family and the harem anymore.

Liu Sheng saw Liu Rui and Liu Yao reading comic strips not far away. The palace ladies also lowered their eyebrows and lowered their eyes. Without looking here, he sat closer to the red lady.

Hold one of the red lady's hands.

The little hands are slightly cold.

He could feel that the red lady's body seemed not as healthy as before in the past two years.

So he held the matchmaker's hand tightly and asked warmly: "Then what have you figured out?" (End of Chapter)