The East India Company definitely does not have that many warships, at most more than forty ships.

In other words, did the East India Company deploy all thirty or forty warships from the Dutch Navy?

Isn't it bankrupt yet?

The Netherlands East India Company is a stock-based private company with a state-controlled 18% and pays 18% dividends to the Netherlands every year.

At the same time, the Dutch East India Company has the right to mint coins and sign an agreement overseas to hire the Dutch Navy to fight.

Note that this is employment.

Hiring costs money, and the salary is paid by the East India Company.

Now that the warships, officers and soldiers are all finished, they will probably have to pay a large amount of money to the Dutch political axe. Bankruptcy is indeed a very likely situation.

The Dutch East India Company is the richest private company in this era, but it can't withstand such troubles! More than 30 warships cost at least five million taels, and they just want to build a few if they want to. In addition, they will have more money to compensate the losses of the soldiers who were killed in battle and captured.

In the report, Wen Bangliang predicts that the value of the goods on the merchant ships he has grabbed in the past six months is about 15 million taels. Wen Bangliang is an old world who is familiar with the import and export prices of marine trade, and the estimated value is not much different.

This year, Zhao Yan definitely made a fortune in the war, and the war dividend has reached about 40 million taels. He robbed overseas and made money in wars.

Although there was a lot of silver in the Ming Dynasty, its GDP was very high and silver was very valuable. It was far from easy to make money in the Ming Dynasty.

Overseas, productivity is backward, gross GDP is low, and silver is produced more places, so it would be much easier to get money.

A Western pirate who grabs a gold coin may only be able to buy two or three cows, but in the Ming Dynasty, he can buy five or six cows.

This is the gap.

The precious metals earned by using regular channels and violent means overseas can exert stronger purchasing power by getting the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Ming Dynasty has the largest manpower and material resources in the world at present, and grabs precious metals from overseas and transports them back to the Ming Dynasty. This is the kingdom of making money.

But this pure precious metal plunder is not the kingly way to develop.

Spain has plundered a lot of precious metals in the Americas, right? Why is the national strength getting weaker and weaker?

This is entirely because the Spaniards did not have enough industrial support and could only plunder precious metals. However, precious metals are not valuable in their own country, and many things are imported, and precious metals are outflowing in large quantities.

The reason why it is the king of wealth is based on a very high GDP.

Therefore, the kingly way to development is to vigorously develop industry, and it is not only precious metals, but also overseas raw materials.

As long as the production is always high, precious metals will continue to be valuable and will not flow out.

The total amount of precious metals in the Ming Dynasty is not equal to the GDP, not only because precious metals are not as large as the GDP, but also because the gap between the rich and the poor is large, and a lot of money is placed in the warehouse to play.

Zhao Yan is robbing gold and silver overseas, which is equivalent to printing money, which is possible. Therefore, production must keep up so that inflation will not occur.

However, inflation is also good in one situation, that is, it is to spill money to the civilians, repair roads, repair water conservancy, etc., and spread the money to the lower classes.

Those who keep money in the warehouse to play wealth will continue to shrink, and the gap between the rich and the poor will gradually narrow.

This is just thinking about it. Zhao Yan doesn’t have that much money to spend. Although his fiscal revenue hits a new high this year, it is far from the point of spending money everywhere.

By the end of the year, the time for financial summary is here again.

...The income of the salt administration revenue of 9 million taels did not increase much, and it was distributed to Chongzhen by one third, and there was still a profit of 6 million taels. This year, Zhao Yan did not intend to share half of Chongzhen, and one third was about the same!

Textile income is about 6 million taels, and the capital of the textile factory has increased to 20 million taels of silver. It is expected that only 10 million taels of capital will be left next year. After the other 10 million taels are cashed out, it will be taken out for other purposes.

The revenue of the glass industry is about 5 million taels, and the sales of glass mirrors are no longer as popular as before. Prices can be reduced again next year to expand profits.

In the steel industry, the income is about 6 million taels, half of which is contributed by military expenditure, and it is self-produced and sold. This is because of reading accounting. In addition to supplying the military equipment bureau, the other profit is only about 3 million taels.

The bank has an income of about 1 million taels, and its deposits have reached 30 million taels.

The business tax is about 5 million taels, nearly half of which is collected by oneself, and the remaining half is collected from other merchants.

The import taxes in those industries are very high, some even reaching 30%. However, the Denglai market is too attractive, and foreign merchants are still constantly transporting goods to Denglai. Due to the high import taxes and the high prices of imported goods, it gives local industries huge development opportunities.

Export tax revenue is not high, mostly at 10%. However, this year, except for land exports, the marine trade organized by Zhao Yan himself has completely stagnated because he has been fighting all year round and there is no free transportation force to conduct marine trade. At the same time, Japan's special treatment has also caused Shandong to lose the Japanese market. Except for Zhao Yan, no one in Shandong has done this, which has caused some industries related to maritime trade to suffer a heavy blow. Just developed two years ago, many industries have lost the shipping channel of maritime trade this year and have completely collapsed.

The total income of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery is 4 million taels, most of which is contributed by fisheries. The fishery has developed greatly this year. In addition to the increase in the number of fishing boats, fishing technology is also constantly improving.

The grain stored in the warehouse is not considered fiscal revenue, but how much the old grain sold out is sold as agricultural income for that year. The livestock stored in the warehouse is not considered fiscal revenue. Only those sold for money are considered income.

The livestock stocks have made great progress this year. Each village has a special breeding farm that uses professional methods to raise pigs, cattle, sheep, chicken, duck, geese and fish.

There are also free-range livestock at the homes of the people.

There are also many farms for reading power. The farms for reading power are large in scale and more professional in techniques. In addition to breeding, there are also special seedling farms.

The livestock raised by the people are their own. Except for the livestock raised in the garrison, the rest are used to supply market needs.

The workers in the farm are all idle laborers. For example, those with physical defects and those who cannot work in high-intensity work, they will allocate an easy and manpower work in the farm.

For example, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc., many elderly people can deal with it. Those heavy work such as preparing and carrying feed will be done by others.

Recently, the benefits of the farms have improved a lot, because the farms are equipped with Japanese slaves named "Overseas Laborers". These Japanese slaves only need to give them food and give them two cotton coats a year, and they don't need wages at all. The farms set up by Zhao Yan in each town are the wages of workers and the needs of training. Now they can lay off employees, but those idle laborers cannot be laid off because this is a place for them to find employment. Those young and strong laborers can engage in other industries. Slaughtering livestock during training should continue, and letting those young and strong eat more meat to improve the overall quality of the soldiers. Therefore, it doesn't matter how much profit the farm in the village makes, but it is important to raise more livestock without losing money.

The grain store has no profit, and the money it earns is basically used to stabilize grain prices.

There are only these industries and main income involved in the Ming Dynasty, with a total fiscal revenue of 33 million taels, and the textile industry extracted another 4 million taels of capital, which is equivalent to 37 million taels.

The Mixed Brigade of Our State robbed about 20 million taels of goods in Japan, and it is estimated that it will increase in the future. The Nanyang team robbed 15 million taels of goods in Nanyang.

A profit of 72 million taels!

The fiscal expenditure for the whole year this year was overdrawn by 14 million taels. One was military expenditure overdrawn, which was originally considered as the current navy and military expenditure for the Qing Dynasty.

As a result, wars were frequent this year. After the east and west confrontation, and the army expansion was severe, the military expenditure was overdrawn by about 7 million taels, the road water conservancy repair was overdrawn by 2 million taels, the war horses and ship construction was overdrawn by 3 million taels, and the other budgets were overdrawn by more than 2 million.

This year, only 58 million taels can be budgeted, but the fiscal revenue of nearly 60 million taels will be very broad next year.

The income from the California colonies and Hawaiian colonies has not been reported, but it will certainly not be less than 10 million taels.

Zhao Yan felt very satisfied.

Although you can't spend money randomly, you can still spend a little next year.

The local fiscal revenue is not too high. The high ones are still the benefits gained from overseas. Most of them are robbed nakedly. There are so many precious metals such as gold and silver overseas. If you don’t go out to grab money, you can’t have free money to make long-term investments.

With so much money, how to spend it is really a big problem.

Of course, you should not spend money randomly, you should spend money on the edge. When various departments learned about the total fiscal revenue this year, they were shocked.

People have always been violent in Qin Dynasty because of war, but Shandong has become richer and stronger as it fights. In general, it is still good to make money.

Using violent methods to plunder overseas wealth is the fastest way for Shandong Group to get rich.

Violence = getting rich!

War is like doing business. Some people are not good at managing, and fighting a war makes the people so poor that they are so poor that their national strength is seriously damaged, which is a loss-making type. Some people are good at managing and can make money even more prosperous in war, and the people will not be beaten poor. This is a profit-making type.

Choosing the right way of business is the core of building a war machine.

How to spend money has become the main content of discussion among various departments at the end of the year. This money is not used to build palaces, nor to build yamen, nor to raise salaries.

But how to develop better.

The core of development is to strengthen the country and enrich the people, and expand territory.

Anyone can make any suggestions that meet these two points. Before the fiscal budget, Zhao Yan issued an order to the officials in Shandong and each person gave a policy statement.

It can also be regarded as a test for assessing the ability of an officer.
Chapter completed!