The corridor in the palace.

Zhang Chao and Cheng Qian walked half a step apart one after another, but Cheng Qian was still very unhappy, "I can't let him do whatever he wants."

Zhang Chao smiled.

He never thought that Li Shimin would want to make Wu the Supreme Empress, which was unexpected. This old couple was in love and kill each other.

As a talented man, he was appointed as the Empress Dowager. Even if Li Shimin had abdicated, it was indeed his own business to establish Wu. But he had to consider Chengqian, who was the queen before. Li Shimin favored Wu, but Chengqian could not control him, but wanted to become the queen, but Chengqian refused to agree.

The status of the official wife should belong to his mother. Even if he has passed away, he cannot let others get involved in this position. Besides, if the Wu family becomes the Supreme Empress, then Li Hong will be considered a legitimate.

"Your Majesty has given up, it's good to have the Supreme Concubine of Wu. Anyway, the Supreme Emperor and the Supreme Concubine will go to America in two years."

Chengqian walked to the pavilion and sat down.

"Wu family is so fascinated by His Majesty?" Cheng Qian asked in confusion.

"The Emperor is lonely now, and Wu can understand the Emperor's intentions, so he is considered a soulmate."

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cabinet.

After the prime ministers came back, they couldn't help but say that Wu's name is worthy of Mei Niang and can charm people. The emperor is also an amazing emperor. Now they have made this teenage talented and charming person who wants to make her the Empress Dowager.

The teenage queen mother is amazing to think about.

"I don't know what method she used."

"No, I still remember that in the Ganlu Palace, she hit the emperor's head with a candlestick, but it knocked the emperor unconscious. At that time, the emperor wanted to hold his sword and chop her to death."

Zhang Chao, who rushed in, said, "Everyone has to ask King Zhao, Wu grew up in King Zhao's mansion, maybe there are a few tricks of military tactics that King Zhao learned from him."

Zhang Chao didn't care about his jokes either.

"Everyone is so relaxed and elegant. It seems that the fiscal budget for next year has been planned."

Chu Suiliang hurriedly said, "Not yet, the various departments are competing hard. The total budget is only so much, but there are expenses everywhere. It's not easy to tilt anywhere. It's a headache."

"We must leave more military expenditures. There are many places to use troops next year, so we have to reserve them early. Although we are nine of us, each of us has a special budget, but this one must be used to block holes at the most critical moment."

For the cabinet in charge of the court, maintaining the stable operation of the court is of course the primary priority. The most important thing about the operation of the court is of course tax collection and money.

Tax collection ensures tax revenue next year. The court made this year's financial revenue budget of 100 million next year, and the agricultural tax revenue of the two taxes is fixed. The court announced that it would never increase taxes a year ago.

Therefore, even though the imperial court has reclaimed more and more new arable land in border areas in recent years, many have passed the period of exemption and reduction of taxes, but the court has set a long time ago that the total amount of land taxes remains unchanged. Therefore, the more land taxes are collected, the less tax per acre of land each year.

However, no one now says that the land tax fixation is to be abolished. After all, the slogan of never adding taxes is still deeply loved by the people.

The land tax per mu is reduced, and the burden on the people is indeed reduced.

Besides, the main tax revenue of the imperial court is still in the aspects of industry and commerce, customs customs customs, monopoly sales, etc. This is the main one.

The never-added tax of land tax is actually a lot of money in a year, but it has won praise from countless peasants and people in the Tang Dynasty, which is also very worthwhile.

The annual tax revenue of 100 million yuan is quite amazing.

In addition to the prosperity of industry and commerce, the biggest reason for maintaining this wealth is that at the beginning of the reform, the court established a system for tax payments by officials, gentry and nobles.

In the Tang Dynasty, although there were thousands of nobles, the number of officials was even larger now, and the scholar class was quite amazing, they did not obtain any tax-free and service privileges like the Ming Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty's wars were all paid for money, and the Tang Dynasty's taxes were clearly there, and it was impossible to be tax-free.

Even Zhang Chao, the most nobleman of the Tang Dynasty, was an advanced taxpayer and never evaded taxes. The Zhang family on the Bashang family had a great business, and so many industries paid taxes to the court every year, which was quite huge, but there were quite a few.

For Zhang Chao, the Zhang family has actually gained many advantages in operating industries. Many industries are even monopolistic and have high profits. They don’t need to evade taxes. They just let their own accounts avoid taxes reasonably.

Tax avoidance is OK, but stealing cannot.

Think about the Ming Dynasty, after the Central Ming Dynasty, the rise of maritime trade, industry and commerce prospered, and capital was sprouted. However, the court was so poor that it sounded like a jingling sound. Why was there too many privileged classes who evaded taxes.

The richest people do not pay taxes. Every year, the huge expenses of the court are on the poorest people, and they often charge extra taxes. Local governments also pay various taxes. As a result, the people who cannot survive are uprising and ruin the Ming Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty divided the nobles of Xuqi and Qi and gave half of their territory tax income, which can be said to be an exchange that made the nobles willing to pay taxes.

However, although the annual income of 100 million yuan is high, the court's expenses are also large.

The accumulation of the fourteen years of Zhenguan has gone from the empty treasury in the past to the current treasury that it has saved 100 million yuan in copper.

Li Shimin still has a strong foundation.

However, when Zhang Chao was cheated once, the court had all kinds of gold, silver, copper ingots, and silk and grain, but it could not be cashed in to repay the people's banknotes. In addition, it was difficult to deal with it, and finally if a financial crisis occurred.

After the Southern Army entered Beijing, all the money hidden secretly by money shops in various places of Li Ji took out, and the money from all over the court quickly calmed down the financial turmoil.

Now the court's monetary reform has changed the past method of circulating paper money in an all-round way, but has carried out both money. On the one hand, the printing rights of the four major commercial banks are increased and the loan reserves are also increased.

On the other hand, the court kept minting new gold, silver and copper ingots and recycling old coins, which allowed people from all over the world to continuously strengthen their confidence in the market.

The cabinet headed by Zhang Chao now has a fundamental budget system that lives within one's means. The court will first make an estimate of the next year's financial revenue every year, and then take out 90% of it for next year's fiscal expenditure budget. The remaining 10% will be deposited into the treasury as reserve.

Zhenguan has been like this over the years, and he has only saved 100 million yuan.

100 million yuan of money was collected and 90 million yuan was spent, of which 80 million yuan was directly used to make a budget, and the remaining 10 million was allocated to nine cabinet prime ministers.

Of course, it is not to give them private parts, but to each person have a fund as the prime minister’s special budget and use it to urgently call funds for the part in charge of each person.

For example, the prime minister in charge of the Ministry of War has a special budget of one million. If the military budget for the second year is overspent, he has to call it from his money first. If it is not enough, there is also the special budget for the secondary and chief assistants.

As the chief assistant, Zhang Chao has a special budget of two million.

The tens of millions in the prime minister's hands seem to be too much, but it is very nervous to use it for the final adjustment. After all, every time I make a budget, I seem to do the same, but every year, there are always various places for asking for money. It would be nice to barely exceed the total budget in the last year.

If it really exceeds the situation, it can only fill the gap from the treasury.

If it were not for the strict control of this kind of expenditure budget, and the court's expenditures were not controlled and projects were randomly launched, then it would definitely not be enough to collect 100 million a year, or 200 million a year.

The larger the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the more officials there were, and the number of troops was equally large. The annual salary of officials and the expenditure of military food and salary was quite huge.

Once a war breaks out, the military budget will often be out of control and exceed the amount. If it weren't for the territorial taxes of the princes now, and with the abundant treasury, Zhang Chao wouldn't dare to say that he would beat this and that.

The war of credibility is still in battle this year.

Next year, all three places have made decisions to start war with Xue Yantuo, Silla, Baekje on the Korean Peninsula, and Zhenla in Nanyang.

On the battlefield, at least 200,000 troops or even 300,000 troops were used, and about 500,000 civilians were used.

The military expenditure is quite large. If it cannot be won, the court will not be able to afford to fill some expenses by seizing spoils.

If you are not in charge of your family, you don’t know that the food, food, oil and salt are expensive.

Zhang Chao was the home of 60 million people in the Tang Dynasty, and his budget for expenditure was calculated at least in tens of thousands of yuan.

The expenses of supporting the royal palace, the expenses of supporting the army, and the expenses of supporting officials and officials are the three common expenses, but these three are not as good as war.

When the cannon fires, there are ten thousand taels of gold.

Every time I fight, the money is like flowing water.

Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty has not fought a loss-making war yet, and in the end, it can basically make money. If you seize land, population, livestock and other property, if you fight quickly, you will have less expenses to make more money.

It is precisely because of this that even the central prime ministers such as Fang Xuanling do not oppose foreign military use. Anyway, war can still divert conflicts and even earn some external money, so why not?

The military reform that Zhang Chao had previously introduced changed the military troops into a standing army, and the military expenditure increased, but it could still be passed because the army could make money and the military expenditure was provided by the court.

If there was no money and lost money in war, the emperor and the prime minister would have long opposed it.

"The education expenditure budget for next year should be increased, and six years of compulsory education should be fully implemented. At the same time, special funds should be taken out to continue to literate the people and promote Mandarin. Especially for those barbarians who surrendered, since they have been included in the Tang Dynasty, they will be the people of the Tang Dynasty and Han people from now on. But we can't let these new Han people not even count on Chinese dialect and will not recognize Chinese characters."

"It must be guaranteed that within ten years, these people will not only change customs and change their clothes and clothes of the Han family, but also ensure that they will speak Chinese dialect and write Chinese characters in the future."

Zhang Chao also made a request that even vassal states such as Subi, Khitan, Xi, Xueyantuo, Silla, and Baekje would establish Han primary schools within their territory and promote Chinese education. For example, those border noble leaders such as Xindu and Monan, the foreigners and Han people lived in mixed families, and there were more and more foreign people. The number of schools and the quantity and quality of teachers and teachers should be guaranteed.
Chapter completed!