Except for the wasted part given to the Liaodong warlords, the military expenditures in southern Liaoning and the military expenditures for sending troops to the grasslands are really not much, not to mention the cost of building roads.

After all, the new army of the imperial court is not the former garrison soldiers. Those Liaodong warlords have to pay the deployment fee when they go on an expedition. If they don't have money, they are just dawdling. Not to mention their efforts, it is difficult to get work done.

In fact, we can't blame the guardsmen. They usually don't get military pay throughout the year. Now when there's a war, they have to pay some money, right?

This resulted in many border troops. Every year, the court not only allocated money and food, but also issued a departure fee to reward the military morale before the war.

But the new army will not be like this.

The new army's money and food are distributed to individuals every month. The officers and soldiers of the new army can really get their own share of the money and food. There is no shortage of money and food on weekdays, and they train continuously every day. They can use it directly in the face of battle.

There is no need for departure fees or to encourage military morale.

As long as the court orders it, it can be pulled out anytime and anywhere, and it can be beaten after being pulled out.

This is the difference between the new army and the old army.

Therefore, the imperial court did not spend much on military expenditures, and the reward money and food were not actually spent much. The largest expenditures were only gunpowder, cannons, civilians and levied food.

But compared with the projects of the Ming Dynasty today, these really pale into insignificance.

Nowadays, in addition to building roads around Gyeonggi, the imperial court has also extended roads to the basic area of ​​Shandong, connecting Shandong and Gyeonggi. In addition, a series of plans for digging canals, building reservoirs, and repairing official roads in Henan and Shanxi have added up.

It is the one that accounts for the bulk of the fiscal revenue.

The official road project connecting Shandong and Gyeonggi Province alone cost more money and food than the reward for the entire Liaonan army. Adding in other projects, looking at the expenditures one after another, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue felt distressed.

However, Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Haogu hold different opinions. If this money is kept in the treasury, it will die if it is not spent. No matter how much you save, if you don't use it, doesn't it mean that the money is gone?

Money that is not circulated is not money. Only when money is circulated can it play a role and make Ming Dynasty run.

Money is the blood of the giant Ming Dynasty. If the blood does not flow, the giant will be doomed.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Haogu’s opinion is: Spend! You must spend as much as you can. Spend the money to activate the entire Ming Dynasty market and let the blood in the blood vessels of the giant Ming Dynasty circulate.

rather than being fixed in the mind and heart.

Leaning on the small table, Zhu Youxiao looked through the documents: "Last year, the imperial court's tax revenue was good. This year, although there was the impact of the war with Liaodong and the grasslands, they all won after all, and the harvest was not small. Just that alone

With millions of livestock, I think the tax revenue this year should be pretty good."

"When the imperial court has money, it must spend it. The series of plans proposed by Master before are called basic projects. I have seen them and they are all plans that benefit the country and the people."

"These plans must be carried out step by step by the court, such as the reinforcement of the embankments of the Yellow River and the dredging of river channels in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong. These cannot be omitted, they must be done, and they must be done quickly and well."

"If we don't take advantage of the lack of rain now to complete the river dredging, it will be even worse until the beginning of winter or even the beginning of spring next year."

Zhang Haogu took over the conversation and looked at Zhang Ruitu: "Mr. Zhang Ge, you are the Minister of Rites, and you must publicize the Ming Dynasty newspaper to let the people of Shaanxi and Shanxi know how to manage the Yellow River. This must be done through the Ming Dynasty newspaper.

To encourage people to take the initiative to plant trees on both sides of the rivers in Shanxi and Shaanxi to consolidate the soil on the riverbanks and avoid siltation in the rivers."

"As for the clean-up of the river, the Ministry of Industry must work hard. If there is a shortage of workers, it will recruit civilian laborers. If there is a shortage of mules and horses, all the prefectures and counties that the Yellow River passes through will be mobilized. The first dredging will be completed by the end of this year."

"This silt is precious. When spread on the Gobi, wasteland, or dry land, it will be a good fertilizer."

The silt in this river is really precious. There is no industrial pollution or heavy metal pollution at the moment. The silt in the Yellow River is filled with fish and shrimp carcasses and soil. It is full of nutrients and covers the cultivated land. It can speed up re-cultivation.

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The silt cleaned up along the river can greatly increase the yield of farmland in these places.

After talking about the dredging of the river, Zhang Haogu raised another topic: "Now, Zuo Yizhi is responsible for the court's water conservancy, building river embankments, diverting water to irrigate canals, and everyone can see the results of what he has done in the capital in the past two years.

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"This year, Zuo Yizhi's water conservancy office also performed well in Henan, Shanxi and other places."

"I have discussed with the emperor that this water conservancy yamen has been established independently for some time, and everyone has seen the results. We might as well set up a separate department to be responsible for the national water conservancy work in the future."

Zhu Youxiao also said: "Well, Zuo Yizhi works hard and the four reservoirs in Gyeonggi are well built. I can rest assured that the water conservancy aspect will be left to him."

Zuo Guangdou's water conservancy yamen became a separate unit?

With six ministries turning into seven ministries, wouldn’t Zhang Party’s power be expanding again?

Although Huang Liji did not want to go against Zhang Haogu, he still held an opposition attitude in this regard: "The Water Conservancy Yamen also does the work of the Ministry of Works. It can be directly merged into the Ministry of Works, or it can be responsible to the cabinet. Why?

We have to set up another one? Isn’t it strange that these six parts have become seven?”

Wei Guangwei also said: "We also understand what Yuan Fu means. Zuo Yizhi has achieved great results, so just reward him. Why bother to set up a department? Now he is a Jiayi doctor, and I think he should be promoted to a Tongyi doctor.

is allowed."
Chapter completed!