But Chang Lin naturally couldn't argue with Li Shimin here. He concentrated on doing his own thing.
Seeing that tomorrow is the New Year, this new year in the Tang Dynasty will probably be very exciting!
The Yuanzheng Dynasty Meeting of the Tang Dynasty and the Yuanzheng Dynasty Meeting of the Tang Dynasty are also constantly changing. It is estimated that it will be changed to New Year's Eve in two years, and the official holiday will begin on the first day of the New Year.
This year's Yuanzheng Dynasty Meeting can be regarded as a year of relatively big changes. The main reason is that many young officials have been added to this year's Yuanzheng Dynasty Meeting.
Other aspects regarding the business of various departments in Shangshu Province have also begun to change this year.
"Now please ask the Statistics Temple to report the Tang Dynasty's data on last year." After the etiquette at the beginning of the court meeting was completed, Chang Lin announced the first thing.
The Statistical Temple is a brand new department established just this year. It is independent from the Central Bank and is directly under the Shangshu Province. It is not under the jurisdiction of any department.
It was specially set up independently to be responsible for data statistics of the Tang Dynasty. Different from previous years, the current person in charge of the Statistics Temple is also a woman.
However, she is not the minister of statistics temple. The minister of statistics temple is temporarily held by Li Yan, and she serves as the young minister of statistics temple.
"I, Wang Ying, Shaoqing of the Statistical Temple, have met your Majesty." This woman in her twenties stood up and bowed in salute.
Speaking of which, this person was born in the Taiyuan Wang family, but she does not belong to the Wang family now. She was once a concubine of the Taiyuan Wang family, and was not considered the main lineage of the Taiyuan Wang family, so there were naturally no restrictions on marriages and other aspects.
After all, the Wang family in Taiyuan is very old, but she married a concubine son of the Xu family in Jingzhao. This man from the Xu family was a scholar and was very good at arithmetic and other aspects. It was a pity that he died young. , leaving behind two sons.
Wang Ying did not remarry, and the Xu family was doing well. After Xu's death, Wang Ying had been responsible for the family affairs. After she married Xu at the age of fourteen, she studied with her husband, so her He is actually pretty good in arithmetic and other areas.
This can be regarded as a talent discovered by Li Yan herself. It can be seen that in Datang, there are actually many outstanding women, but they are unable to get ahead most of the time.
"Well, tell me." Li Shimin waved his hand calmly.
"Your Majesty, your Royal Highnesses and colleagues. Last year was the 25th year of the Tang Dynasty. According to statistics from the Statistics Temple, in the 25th year of the Tang Dynasty, the tax revenue of the state treasury was 22.07 million yuan, and the profits handed over by state-owned commercial banks were 1,000 yuan. 7.5 million guan, the total fiscal revenue is 39.57 million guan..."
"...The total population of Datang is estimated to be approximately 36.8 million. It is estimated that this year, the twenty-sixth year of the Tang Dynasty, the total population of Datang will exceed 40 million, ranging from 41 million to 41 million. Between 42 million.”
"...The current main grain reserves in the country are about 30 million tons. This is enough to provide two years of food rations for the people of the Tang Dynasty. In addition, statistics show that the per capita grain consumption of the people of the Tang Dynasty has increased, but the per capita grain consumption near Chang'an has declined. "
"Currently, the consumption proportion of white flour and rice in Datang is on the rise, while the cultivation and production of traditional grains such as corn are declining."
"According to relevant data from the Ministry of Agriculture, the current potato output in Datang should reach almost 30 million tons. This amount is almost impossible for many ordinary people to eat."
"In addition, according to data from the Ministry of Industry, the country's steel production reached 5.2 million tons last year, of which steel production was close to 3 million tons."
"In addition, because there are no detailed statistics on coal and other related mineral resources, the current data is not very accurate. We are seeking to include these mineral resources in the resource statistics project in the new year."
"The above are the relevant statistics from the Datang Statistics Temple this year." Wang Ying read the report numbers they issued to everyone.
To be honest, this figure shocked everyone, because in the past, data statistics related to Datang were still very slow, and many data were not transparent, such as steel production, etc. Many state-owned commercial banks in these areas were producing in secret. and smelting.
Therefore, a lot of output was not reported, and even many merchants and courts were not clear about it.
But this figure... really makes everyone's scalp numb. Datang's treasury revenue is close to 40 million yuan. They know this. It has almost quadrupled from six years ago, and all of this is due to His Highness. .
The important thing is that this fourfold increase is because Datang has now abolished agricultural taxes. If Datang had not abolished agricultural taxes, this tax would inevitably increase based on the current amount of grain.
Now that the people are planting so much food, it is obvious that the people have money in their hands. When the people have money, it means that the people want to consume, whether it is salt, wearing better clothes, more clothes, As well as eating more delicious food, building houses, buying iron tools, buying animal power, etc., these are all consumption.
These consumptions drove the prosperity of Datang's business, and the prosperity of Datang's business gave Datang more tax revenue.
Although the current tax revenue of Datang is not enough to support the entire expenditure and development of Datang, this is not important. It is better to directly issue national debt. As long as Datang continues to develop rapidly, then there will be no problems with national debt.
In addition, with the continuous development of state-owned commercial banks and private commercial banks across the country, more people will invest in industry, and the income in factories will continue to rise.
But what shocked them was the steel output. What is the concept of five million tons? ! As an official of the Tang Dynasty, since the weights and measures of the Tang Dynasty began to be unified, everyone has a concept of the ton commonly used in large units.
One ton is almost equivalent to less than two thousand kilograms in the Tang Dynasty. Let's calculate it as two thousand kilograms. What is the equivalent of five million tons? This is equivalent to 10 billion kilograms! Before the Tang Dynasty, the national iron output was only a few hundred thousand jins, less than a million jins.
How many times has steel production increased now? More than a thousand times!
The point is not the output of pig iron, but the output of steel that is shocking. So is Datang now able to make steel like this?
"Duan Lun." Li Shimin also looked shocked. He hadn't paid attention to this for a long time. Now that he suddenly heard this shocking number, Li Shimin was a little unsteady.
"I'm here."
"Is Datang's steel production already so large now? In just a few years?" Li Shimin looked in disbelief.
"To tell you your Majesty, yes, this is all due to the new technology brought by the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty, the improvement of the iron and steelmaking industry, and of course the most important development of the coal production and coking industries."
"However, Datang's current steel production will probably maintain this number for many years." Duan Lun said quickly.
