One afternoon, Zhu Youxiao was sleepy and returned to the Ganqing Palace to take a nap. He just lay down and fell asleep.

The palace maid on the side looked at the emperor in a daze, not knowing what he was secretly looking forward to.

At this time, a rash little eunuch ran to the Ganqing Palace and shouted, "I heard it quickly, the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi Province urgently reported it-"

These few shouts made Zhu Youxiao, who had just fallen asleep, frowned slightly, turned over on the couch, and then stretched his eyebrows again.

The emperor just turned over, but shocked the people in the surrounding palaces.

Wang Chaofu stopped the eunuch and blamed him:

"Nonshu, this is the place, this is the Ganqing Palace! Is it a place where you can make noise? You can't wait for His Majesty to wake up in the afternoon before talking about anything?"

The little eunuch gasped, obviously he had just come from the palace, and he said anxiously:

"Dude, my father-in-law, it was the urgent memorial of the Governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi. Your Majesty once instructed that if the Governor Zhu came, he would have to read it in time."

When he heard this, even Wang Chaofu was in trouble.

Is this called or not...

Call me, Your Majesty has just lie down after all, and he is tired for a long time. He has finally had a rest for a while, and he really can't bear to disturb him.

But if it doesn’t, what if the Shanxi and Shaanxi newspapers are a big deal?

If you delay the big thing, it will be bad.

After thinking for a while, under the nervous gaze of the eunuch, Wang Chaofu grabbed the memorial and ordered:

"You go back, let's talk to His Majesty."

Seeing this, the little eunuch had to give up the opportunity to show his face in front of the emperor and turned around in one step.

But this is his villain's heart. The king of dynasties has been with the emperor for a long time and doesn't care about this opportunity to show his face.

It was not a good thing for this little castration to wake up the sleeping emperor.

Wang Chaofu came to the side of the imperial bed. Before he could wake up, he saw that Zhu Youxiao had opened his eyes and nodded slightly to him:

"Take it to me."

Wang Chaofu was stunned and immediately presented the memorial. When Zhu Youxiao got up, he stuffed a soft pillow into the gap.

Zhu Youxiao leaned against the imperial couch, turned a page of the memorial and yawned several times in a row. Wang Chaofu was worried and said:

"Master, if you are really sleepy, you can handle this matter in the afternoon."

"You have the heart."

Zhu Youxiao finished speaking casually, and did not care about anything else, looking at Zhu Xieyuan's memorials page by page.

This time, I was not angry, I just sighed and closed the memorial and said:

"Call the Minister of Revenue here."

When Zhao Bingzhong, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was sitting in the Forbidden City, he was confused at first.

But there must be something big when summoned by the emperor, but he really couldn't guess what it was.

There are indeed many major events in Beijing today, but these so-called major events are in the capital, where dragons and snakes are mixed, but they can only be said to be ordinary.

Since he couldn't guess it, he didn't guess it anymore. He naturally had a clear conscience.

When he arrived at the Ganqing Palace, outside the emperor's resting place, Zhao Bingzhong's thoughts were completely gone, and his heart was full of tension.

Wang Chaofu also stopped outside the palace with tactfulness and shouted:

"My Master, the Minister of Revenue has arrived."

Shao Qing, a slightly tired voice came from the inside: "Call him in."

Zhao Bingzhong hurriedly walked into the Ganqing Palace, but did not dare to look up at the surrounding layout. He lowered his head and knelt on the ground, bowed and said:

"My minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Zhao Bingzhong, please see Your Majesty, long live your life——!"

"Get up." To this day, Zhu Youxiao has long lost his feelings about these red tape. He held a memorial in his hand and said:

"I asked you to come today to ask you how much food income from the national military garrison last year."

Zhao Bingzhong was stunned and wondered why the emperor suddenly remembered this matter. Besides, the Ministry of Revenue had already drafted a memorial before.

The Ministry of Revenue will formulate the annual settlement memorial in detail every year and then submit it to the Ganqing Palace.

According to the memorial submitted by the Ministry of Revenue at the beginning of the fifth year of the Tianqi, as of the end of the fourth year of the Tianqi, the Ming Dynasty had 11.83 million households with a total of 78.15 million households.

The land was cultivated in the book, of which 2.96 million hectares of military garrison were 2.96 million hectares. The total amount of land acres in the country was 2 million hectares less than the settlement in the last year of Jiajing.

Zhejiang, Zhili, Nanzhili, Beijing Taicang tea tax, 3.25 million taels of silver, 31 million coins, and 4 million stones of grain.

Northern Zhili sent 1.2 million taels of military service, and other provinces sent 5.38 million taels of silver for new recruits.

In the first year of Tianqi, 30% of the tariffs on Beijing and Hangzhou were added, and the Supervisory Office was the governing department, and the treasury of Emperor Jieyun was 6.22 million taels. The total silver income on the books in the fourth year of Tianqi was about 16 million taels.

In addition, there are also land taxes of 21.49 million stones, wheat tax of 4.3 million stones, cloth brocade of 1.36 million pieces, and silk cotton of 300,000 jin.

The annual output is 2596 kilograms of copper, 8200 kilograms of iron, 5000 kilograms of lead, 2000 jin of cinnabar, 2000 jin of tea, 1400 jin of salt, and 9.790 jin of grain in the army.

At this point, it’s the focus of Zhu Youxiao’s attention.

The garrisons were spread all over the country, and there were a lot of military farmland on the accounts, but the food in the garrisons' military farmlands was far less than half of the country's land tax.

This is because the national land tax was reduced from the third year of the Apocalypse, otherwise the gap would be even bigger.

So the question is, where should the military garrisons, which should have been self-sufficient, pay the grain and taxes every year, go?

Next, let’s look at the expenditure. The expenditures in the four years of the Apocalypse have a huge amount of 52.7 million silver alone.

Where are they used?

During the Ming Dynasty, the salaries of officials were not high at all. In the fourth year of Tianqi, the salary expenses of civil and military officials at all levels in the country were the highest in history, and it had just exceeded 4 million taels.

I thought the proportion of the largest expense would be military expenditure.

In fact, it is almost the same. The military expenditure has always been the big part of the Apocalypse. After all, the luck in the future was not good, so Zhu Youxiao had to maintain a large number of elite border troops.

In the fourth year of Tianqi, the military pay for nine towns in Liaodong, Jizhou, Xuanfu, Datong, Taiyuan, Yansui, Ningxia, Guyuan and Gansu was as high as 8.26 million taels.

Except for the Nine Borders, the remaining military expenditures in the Central Plains and Jiangnan were only 3.04 million taels.

This is still the time when the war has not started. Once the war starts, the military expenditure will go up crazily every day, almost an astronomical figure!

This is why Zhu Youxiao almost ended his life when he attacked Chahar the year before yesterday!

Fighting war and raising soldiers is too expensive!

Military expenditure is already very high, but no one would have thought that this is not the highest.

The highest is the consumption expenditure of the royal family in the country.

Even after the implementation of the royal family's wealth restriction method in the first year of Tianqi, the national royal consumption reached an astonishing more than 17 million taels in the fourth year of Tianqi!

What is this concept? Zhu Youxiao can use the expenses of these royal children to build two important towns in the nine borders!

No matter how bad it is, you can use this money to make the decaying Central Plains official army new!

If I really had that strength, who would the Ming Dynasty be afraid of now in the field?

In addition to military expenditure and royal expenses, the remaining few large sums are the annual investments used by the Military Equipment Department for "scientific research" and the maintenance costs of local towns and governments.

The military weapon department costs 1.8 million taels, the cost of the palace and the maintenance costs of the governments in various places are not considered high.

However, starting from the fourth year of Apocalypse, there was another new expense, which was still a big deal.

In the fourth year of Tianqi, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces were famined. The imperial court repeatedly provided relief, spending a total of 15 million taels of silver and more than 11 million stones of food, and this was just the beginning.

From this point of view, the annual income is less than 20 million taels, but the expense is as high as more than 5 million taels, and the finances are still collapsed!

In fact, this is not the case, Zhu Youxiao was not panicked at all.

Why?

Because of the high income from invisibility!

After Zhu Youxiao’s years of treason, it’s time for the Ming Dynasty to live by simply collecting taxes!
Chapter completed!