Thousands of people rushed in in the convention hall of the Senate.⊙,

The Cabinet and the House of Parliament each occupy one side, which is clearly divided.

The budget report submitted by the cabinet to the Senate for the first time was rejected, especially the budget report that had actually been passed at the Prime Minister's meeting. Even the emperor nodded and passed it, but it was just taken to the Senate to go through the motions. As a result, the Senate was really put on a pig's nose and put on an elephant.

The cabinet was very dissatisfied, and even Yuan Jixian was not convinced. They did this, so how could they do this work in the future? Will the people in the House of Commons come here no matter what the cabinet reports here? Will they all oppose this? Will they not be able to show their existence if they do not oppose it?

Their cabinet is in charge, and these Senators of the House are much more arrogant than when they were talking to each other than when they were in the previous six subjects and the Secretariat. This time they must suppress their arrogance, otherwise, this matter will never end in the future.

Ni Yuanlu and a group of senators also stared at the cabinet officials. Most of these senators were from the Sixth Department or the Central Secretariat. Their original positions were specialized in administrative review, but in the past, they had a low status and were small officials of the seventh and eighth ranks. Even if the emperor gave them the power to review the Sixth Department, they were not as glorious as they are today.

Not to mention that the Senate was promoted directly from the seventh and eighth rank to the fifth rank, and the Senate was completely at the same level as the cabinet. They were no longer scattered six departments, but all cabinet executive orders could be reviewed. Especially for major events such as the most important financial budget, they also have the power to refute.

Since they have power, they naturally have to use it. They are no longer vassals of the cabinet, and they have to stop opposing the situation where they are inappropriate.

You glared at me on both sides, and I glared at you. After glaring for a long time, no one spoke first.

In the end, the congressman Yao Minggong spoke first to break the silence. Yao Minggong was a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet before, but he was old and had no ability to take charge. He was able to enter the Cabinet because he was a Dragon Sect. When the emperor asked him to enter the Cabinet, he just occupied a place.

Now he is no longer needed as a mascot. He resigned voluntarily and the emperor approved it, but the emperor asked him to use his remaining energy to come to the newly established House to be the Speaker of the House. Anyway, the House of Representatives is also a nursing home for senior officials, so Yao Minggong did not refuse.

In today's conflict, the cabinet is his former unit, and the House of Representatives is his current unit. Although the Senate and the House of Representatives do not have a connection, it is still good for him to be an intermediary.

"Everyone, it's all for the sake of official business. If we have something to say, don't turn into personal grudges because of official business."

The second assistant Li Banghua also spoke, "What the Speaker of the House makes sense, so we have something to say. Speaker Ni. We have also brought the report. Please give me some more advice."

"That's natural." Ni Yuanlu nodded.

He also had the report originally submitted by the cabinet, and at this time someone took it over.

"Everyone, we have something to say, just talk about the matter. We have submitted two reports. Let's not talk about the summary report of last year's fiscal expenditure for the time being. Let's put it aside first. Just say that this year's fiscal expenditure budget report is very problematic."

"If you have any questions, just say it. Let's explain it one by one." Yuan Jixian said with no good temper. The cabinet finally got full administrative power and got rid of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank

Ni Yuanlu snorted and opened the thick Longhan three-year fiscal expenditure budget report in his hand.

"Okay, let's talk about it one by one. The first is the administrative expenditure budget, and the salary of officials is expected to be 200 million silver dollars. Oh my God, 200 million silver dollars, you really dare to write it. Do you know how much these 200 million silver dollars are? It would take more than 80 million taels to be merged into silver ingots. In the late Ming Dynasty, the country's annual silver income was only more than 2 million taels. Now you actually pay 200 million yuan in the official salary of officials a year. Do you think this is normal?"

Secretary of Finance Lu Weizhang stood up.

"I'll answer this question to Speaker Ni. Our budget table is calculated very strictly by statistics, not randomly fabricated numbers. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, only one year of Taicang silver income, our annual salary of officials is indeed a lot, but this is not the same concept. These are two things and cannot be mixed together."

"The territory of the Han Dynasty is indeed larger than that of the Ming Dynasty, but the expenses will not be so much higher, right?" Ni Yuanlu asked.

Lu Weizhang replied, "Senator Ni just said that in the late Ming Dynasty, the annual silver income of Taicang was only more than 2 million taels, and the annual silver dollar was less than 5 million yuan. But how much is my Han’s wealth now? I am the Secretary of Finance, and I know this best. Let me tell Senator Ni. Last year, my Han Empire’s annual financial income exceeded 2 billion silver dollars. Five million and 2 billion. The territory of the Han Dynasty now expanded by at most more than twice as many as the Ming Dynasty, and its population increased by less than twice, but how many times our wealth income was in the late Ming Dynasty?"

Everyone knows that in the late Ming Dynasty, Taicang had an annual income of more than 2 million silver, which was actually only a small part of the Ming Dynasty's national income. The Ming Dynasty also had 20 to 30 million stones of grain income. These grains were worth at least 10 million yuan in the Han Dynasty. In addition, the three guarantors collected by the Ming Dynasty were nearly 20 million taels of silver a year, and it was converted into silver dollars. If salt tax and commercial tax tariffs were added, there were still many, not to mention that there were still a large amount of unpaid debts. But it is undeniable that the Han Dynasty's wealth was at least twenty or thirty times that of the Chongzhen period.

He continued to talk in a daze.

"How do you think the income of 2 billion yuan in annual wealth comes from? Even if the income of war is aside, it is still a huge amount of wealth. These incomes are inseparable from the imperial team of officials. Without so many officials' management, the empire would not have such prosperous industry and commerce today, and the imperial court would not have received so much taxes."

Ni Yuanlu ignored these things.

"For the salary of 200 million yuan, please tell me how many officials in the court now need so much salary?"

Lu Weizhang replied, "So far, the empire has about 200,000 civil servants, 150,000 military officers, and 850,000 civil servants."

As soon as this number came out, a burst of exclamations sounded in the hall. Most of these voices were the members of the congressmen who came to join in the fun, many of whom were originally just merchants, landlords and even farmers. They did not know how many officials there were in the empire, but when they heard this huge number of more than one million, they were still shocked.

Ni Yuanlu said loudly, "Two hundred thousand civil servants, fifty thousand military officers, and eighty-five thousand civil servants, and 1.2 million civil servants. Oh my God, one million. I have never heard of any dynasty that had so many officials. During the Song Dynasty, it was known as redundant officials, but when it was founded, there were only more than 7,000 officials, and at the most, less than 50,000 officials. Now, the empire has only been two years since its establishment, and there are actually 200,000 civil servants and 150,000 military officers. Don't you think this number is too shocking?"

"The empire's population is only more than 300 million now, but there are 1.2 million officials. Wouldn't this be necessary to support an official for every 250 people?"

Lu Weizhang didn't think so. As the secretary of finance who specializes in dealing with finance, he knew very well that the accounts could not be settled in this way.

In the hall, everyone was attracted by the question and answers of the two, but no one noticed that at some point, Emperor Liu Jun changed into the robe, dressed up and put on makeup and entered the hall.

Liu Jun chose a corner, sat down in a low profile, and then got involved in the fun.

There was such a big dispute between the cabinet and the House of Parliament, and Liu Jun rushed over immediately after hearing this. But he did not come out of his identity, but put on makeup. The dispute between the House of Parliament and the Cabinet was very normal if it was in the later parliamentary countries. But under the Han Dynasty and this new system, this kind of dispute between the cabinet seemed a bit unusual.

Liu Jun planned to take a look at what was going on in person.

In fact, from his heart, it is a good thing to have a dispute between the cabinet. If the House of Commons is green all the way to the matters of the cabinet, it will lose the fundamental intention of Liu Jun. However, he doesn't want to see them just confronting each other without cooperation. The Cabinet and the House of Commons should be checking and balancing each other and cooperating with each other, which is healthy.

The Han Dynasty now has more than one million officials, but Liu Jun has already known this number. Even after a major disarmament, it turned out that the court had more than one million troops, and the military officers of grades alone were more than two hundred thousand. After the two disarmaments, the number of military officers was still about 150,000, which has been reduced by half.

Lu Weizhang asked Ni Yuanlu at this time.

"Just just now, Speaker Ni used the previous dynasty to compare the current dynasty, so I will compare it. Speaker Ni, how many officials there were in a county in the previous dynasty? Just take a medium-sized county with a population of more than 20,000 per person and a population of about 100,000."

How many officials and officials were there in an ordinary county during the Ming Dynasty?

This problem is naturally difficult for Ni Yuanlu. He almost blurted out that in the Ming Dynasty, there were only magistrates, county magistrates, chief clerks, and generals. There were also some miscellaneous officials in some places, such as inspectors. As for officials, they were generally called civil servants, that is, officials with staff. Only such officials had salary and were entitled to eat imperial grain. In this kind of civil servants, there were very few civil servants in a county, and there were only a few civil servants and deputy inspectors.

In a medium-sized county with a population of 100,000, the number of officials and officials may be about ten.

In a province, the main officials are added together. The larger ones are 500, the smaller ones are 300, and the smaller ones are 300, and the more than 200 school officials, so the total number is 100, and the fewer is only 500,000. The total number of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty is only about 20,000.

Lu Weizhang smiled.

"That's just the surface. It shows that in the Ming Dynasty, a county with a population of 100,000, there were indeed only about ten officials and officials, but in fact? In fact, Speaker Ni would not deny that in addition to the official positions, there were other non-staff officials, and there were idle members in addition to the number of non-staff officials. As for the number of these people, everyone knows very well, there are thousands of large counties, six or seven hundred in central counties, and three or four hundred in small counties."
Chapter completed!