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Nanjing, Forbidden City.

Wenhua Hall.

At the end of the year, Liu Sheng began to listen to the year-end summary reports of various departments.

Today is the year-end summary report of the Ministry of Finance.

Three years have passed since the implementation of new policies such as the Land Clearing Order and the Census Order in the autumn of the fifth year of Qianyuan.

Now the new policy has been implemented in more than a dozen provinces including South and North Zhili, and more than two million hectares of hidden farmland have been identified for Damei!
If you don’t have any idea about this number, just compare the results of Zhang Juzheng’s clear land acres during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Zhang Juzheng was the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty. He was the leader of one man and more than ten thousand people. He carried out reforms with overwhelming power.

Even so, he first piloted land clearing in Fujian. After one year, he succeeded and accumulated some experience, and then it took three years to promote it to other provinces besides Guizhou.

Three years later, a total of more than two million hectares of hidden farmland were identified.

Nowadays, Da'ei has only carried out land clearing in a dozen provinces in the "inland", and has also identified more than two million hectares of hidden farmland. This shows that Da'ei's efforts in clearing land are huge.

In addition, the implementation of the census order has resulted in a significant increase in Da'ei's population compared with the paper figures at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

During the pre-Ming Dynasty, official population statistics were based on household registration and adult population, and women and children were not included.

Therefore, in official relevant files, you can only see how many households there are in a certain place and how many adults there are.

In addition, there are some hermits and some slaves who are not included in the population census of the Ming Dynasty.

Da'ei's current population census not only identified a large number of hidden households and unregistered slaves, but also included women and children over ten years old.

It's just that to facilitate local governance, women and children are listed separately - after all, women and children do not need to bear some of the obligations that adults need to bear, such as military service, poll tax, etc. (which have not yet been reformed).

Although some provinces have not yet conducted a census, based on the population data of more than a dozen provinces that have implemented census orders, the total population of Da'ei is likely to have exceeded 1.8 million!
It may even reach 2 million!

Land and population are the cornerstones of national fiscal revenue. Therefore, when the New Deal is implemented and the land and population controlled by the state increase significantly, fiscal revenue will naturally increase significantly.

However, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, what has contributed most to the growth of fiscal revenue is actually the reform of important industries related to the lifeblood of the country such as salt, tea, and mining a few years ago.

and national policies to encourage commerce, especially maritime trade.

This type of reform began as early as the second year of Qianyuan. Although the main part had been completed a few years earlier, it has not ended in these years, but has continued to deepen related reforms.

As for the results of this series of reforms, we can tell from the red light on the faces of Qian Yunsheng and other Ministry of Finance officials in the Wenhua Hall at this time.

The result is very gratifying.

"...Finally, our total fiscal revenue this year is 6 silver dollars!"

When Qian Yunsheng reported the fiscal revenue from the three major areas of taxation, government-owned assets, and confiscation of plagiarism and confiscation, as he did in previous years, and presented the final summary of the data, many Ministry of Finance officials suddenly had smiles on their lips.

It should be noted that this year is already the third year of the implementation of the New Deal. There are not many landlords and large households in various provinces who dare to obstruct the New Deal.

Therefore, the income obtained by suppressing and confiscating the property of criminals is not much. In Qian Yunsheng's previous report, the total value of this part of the income was only more than 30 million silver dollars.

As for the property confiscated in the process of conquering various parts of the Korean Peninsula, it is still being counted and has not been included in this year's total fiscal revenue.

In addition, according to discussions between Liu Sheng and a group of important ministers, most of the property obtained in North Korea will be used for immigration and construction of the Korean Peninsula in the future.

In other words, Da'ei's income from taxation and government-owned assets alone this year is close to 6 million silver dollars!
Compared with the third year of Qianyuan, it has increased five to six times!
It can also be said that in the past few years, Da'ei's average annual total fiscal revenue growth has been approximately 1 million silver dollars!
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Returning to the Tianxin Palace from the Wenhua Palace, Liu Sheng looked at the financial summary memorial for the eighth year of Daqiang and Qianyuan presented by the Ministry of Finance, but he was thinking about various plans for the coming year.

The first thing to consider is military expenditure.

Although Da'ei's garrison has now shrunk to more than 700,000 (more than 800,000 in the third year of Qianyuan), the standing army has expanded to nine divisions. Coupled with the Guards and the five major naval forces, even if Dawei did not fight, military expenditures on military pay and other aspects would reach hundreds of millions of silver dollars a year.

What's more, the Nanyang Navy is still under construction and training, and it is expected that millions of silver dollars will have to be invested next year.

If there is a war, military spending will inevitably be higher.

Previously, Da'ei had used troops against the Northeast for three or four consecutive years, so the additional military expenditure was approximately 10 million to 30 million silver dollars.

After all, it was only a crushing war involving one corner of the world. In the war against the Northeast in the past few years, Da'ei only mobilized two standing armies and several brigades of garrison troops, plus one or two brigades of naval forces.

The total number of troops mobilized was only a few hundred thousand, and even if civilians were included, it would not exceed 300,000.

In addition, there are relatively few battle losses in crushing battles, and there are not many military expenses such as pensions.

Therefore, the additional military expenditures due to the Northeast War are not too much.

Now that North Korea has been determined, there will be no need to use troops against Northeast China next year.

According to Liu Sheng's original plan, he needed to rest for a year.

But now he has changed his mind.

The reason is the telegram sent back by the North Pacific Exploration Fleet a few days ago - the China on the other side of the time and space gate is actually a country called Dachu!

This country most likely appeared because of some huge changes in history after the Northern Song Dynasty.

In fact, that Chu Taizu Xiong Mingyuan might be a time traveler like him!
This made Liu Sheng even more eager to go there to find out what was going on, and even find out whether there was a space-time gate in Tianmu Mountain in Henan Province, China!

And if he wants to cause trouble there, it will take at least four or five years before he comes back.

Therefore, Liu Sheng thought about it and decided to make the prince a prince before leaving, and let the prince supervise the country after leaving.

In this way, even if something happens to him, the prince can directly ascend the throne as emperor without shaking the country.

Of course, even if he makes his eldest son Liu Rui the crown prince, he won't be able to leave next year. After all, Liu Rui is still too young, only eight years old this year.

Liu Sheng's plan is to spend eight years stabilizing Da'ei Jiangshan, and then decide whether to leave based on the situation.

The so-called stability of the country involves not only internal affairs but also national borders.

In the Northeast, whether it is the Eastern Qing Dynasty of the Dorgon tribe who crossed east to Ezo, or Japan under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, or Tsarist Russia, which has just explored the Heilongjiang Basin, there will be no attack on Dawei within twenty years. What a threat the Northeast poses.

In Guangxi and Yunnan in the southwest, Li Dingguo and Zhang Ao each led a division of standing armies stationed there. They used small-scale troops on the border all year round, and they all achieved consecutive battles and victories.

Not only did it stabilize the existing border lines when Damei first conquered Guangxi and Yunnan, it also expanded the territory by dozens or hundreds of miles.

As for capturing the entire Indochina Peninsula and establishing a provincial capital, hundreds of thousands of troops must be mobilized for a large-scale deployment.

The time is not yet ripe.

This is not to say that Damei cannot be captured, but that after it is captured, under the existing internal affairs, transportation and communication conditions, the cost of governance will be too high and the gains will outweigh the losses.

Therefore, it will take ten or twenty years for Da'ei to become stronger as a nation, and during this period, it will take the initiative to penetrate the Indochina peninsula commercially and culturally, and then attack and seize it, so that this land can truly be owned by Da'ei.

For this reason, in the next few years, Liu Sheng prepared to expand Dawei's territory westward.

And if Da'ei wants to expand westward, the first thing to do is to drive Li Shun's forces out of Gansu! (End of chapter)