Wang Yucai, the Minister of Household Affairs of the Dahua Empire, rubbed his sore eyes and put down the accounting information in his hand. His recent work has been going smoothly, because at least judging from the accounts, the financial revenue of the Dahua Empire is increasing.
The originally unsatisfactory financial situation is improving, and many grants that were originally unaffordable can now be considered.
This is definitely a good thing for a household official in charge of money and food, and it is definitely good news for an empire.
There are many sources of income. Wang Yucai has been sorting out the accounts these days, trying to analyze something. To his relief, he actually saw something.
The biggest increase in finance comes from the prosperity of industry: the Dahua Empire has added a large number of factories in the past two years, and these factories have corresponding commercial operations, which have brought a large amount of tax revenue to the Dahua Empire.
The second half is agriculture. Because of the introduction of excellent varieties from the Tang Empire and the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, the Great China Empire also achieved a bumper harvest this year. The Great China Empire, which originally relied on agriculture as its main source of income, naturally also obtained a large amount of income from this bumper harvest.
The third piece of revenue is tariffs. As an important trading port, Fengjiang has become the richest city in the Great China Empire. Countless goods are settled there for customs clearance. The income of a Fengjiang City is almost higher than that of the southern region of the Great China Empire.
Not only did the trade taxes between the Tang Empire and the Dahua Empire increase massively, but the goods sold from the Qin State to the Tang Empire also had to pass through the Dahua Empire, and transit fees also had to be paid.
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These constant incomes every year made Wang Yucai, the Minister of Household Affairs, breathe a sigh of relief. During the court meeting, the weight of his words increased a lot.
Unfortunately, with the increase in income, Wang Yucai found that the speed at which various departments spent money was also increasing rapidly. No matter how it is suppressed, the expenses of the Dahua Empire have been rising in the past two years.
Investment in road construction began to increase dramatically. Due to the prosperity of business and the needs of production, transportation capacity must be strengthened. This is the spending that everyone agrees on because everyone is asking for better road traffic.
In turn, repairing and maintaining these roads requires money, and managing these roads and railways also requires a large group of people.
As the economic situation improved, in order to stabilize his position and appease his ministers and lower-level officials, the Emperor of the Great China Empire increased everyone's salary.
This kind of invitation to buy people's hearts became extremely correct under the premise that the Ministry of Household Affairs had money, so Wang Yucai had to agree to this salary increase plan. After all, in the past two years or so, these ministers have indeed done something for Dahua’s stability has made a certain contribution.
Finally, the biggest increase is in defense spending. The Great China Empire increased its defense spending budget as soon as its finances improved.
There is no way. It is now sandwiched between the Qin State and the Tang Empire. It is under huge security pressure, so it will inevitably strengthen its military capabilities to cope with the crisis of two-front operations that may occur at any time.
The strange thing is that the Dahua Empire is unwilling to purchase advanced weapons and equipment sold by the Datang Group. They insist on "independent research and development" of weapons and have invested a lot of money in this area.
Although this kind of thinking is not necessarily wrong, and the results may not be bad, it is obviously unreasonable to rashly develop more advanced weapons and equipment without fully understanding advanced technology.
Miraculously, they actually succeeded in the end. The Dahua Empire made a series of enhancements based on the Dahua 1 fighter jet it previously produced, and finally designed the Dahua 2 fighter jet.
With the support of Prince Zhao Yu and the forces behind him, the Dahua Empire's technicians designed a Dahua 2 fighter that is almost identical in appearance to the Italian G50 fighter. There is no need to elaborate on the reason. In short, the credit belongs to Zhao Yu, which makes Zhao Ji more and more anxious.
Dahua's so-called new fighter jet, the G50, in addition to adding a closed cockpit, also improved the performance of the hip-retracting engine a little bit, allowing the aircraft to barely fly at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
Its overall performance is at the same level as Qin's Gale fighter, and there is still a certain gap between the Tang Empire's butcher fighter, which is being phased out.
As a result, this OEM self-developed advanced fighter jet immediately received orders. In order to replace its own old fighter jets, the Dahua Empire purchased 1,000 of them in one go.
The Dahua Empire has no other choice. Their neighbor to the west, Qin, has begun mass production of Gale 2 fighter jets. If the Dahua Empire does not follow suit, it is likely to be surpassed by its neighbor.
In addition, the Dahua Empire improved its tanks and began to produce Type 3 tanks based on the original Type 2 tanks.
The performance of the new tank has basically caught up with the Tang Empire No. 4 tank. After all, vehicle-mounted radios are no longer a secret technology.
Although the military of the Great China Empire was not as well aware of this type of tank as the Leopard tanks of the Tang Empire, they still purchased a large number of such tanks.
Because they don't need to surpass the Tang Empire, they just need to be more advanced than the Qin State on the other side: Qin State has not yet equipped a large number of tanks, and the Great China Empire, which has a better economic situation, obviously has an advantage in the arms race.
It can be seen from the procurement of aircraft that the Dahua Empire's air force strategy has begun to undergo fundamental changes.
They did not rush to deploy new bombers, but instead concentrated funds to purchase a large number of fighter jets. This shows that the air force thinking of the Dahua Empire is mainly defensive, which is completely different from most countries in the eastern continent.
This is also determined by the special national conditions of the Great China Empire: their opponents are too powerful. They do not believe that their air force can control air power in front of the Great Tang Empire Air Force, so they are not prepared to waste precious funds on offensive bombers. superior.
The equipment of a large number of armored troops shows that the Dahua Empire attaches great importance to ground troops: they hope that their troops can withstand the enemy's attack and have the ability to launch a counterattack when necessary.
It has to be said that Shen Chuan, the Minister of War, is still quite good. After summing up the lessons learned from the failure of the last war, he formulated a relatively feasible plan to strengthen the army.
For the Tang Empire, the main focus was on defense and good relations, and war was avoided as much as possible. The main purpose was to use permanent defense fortifications to resist possible attacks by the Tang army. Even if the technical equipment is bad, if I can't catch up, I won't catch up, saving money and effort.
Facing its neighbor Qin to the west, the Great China Empire focused on deterrence and deployed a large number of tank troops to assume a posture that could fight Qin. Relying on sufficient funds, Dahua's Western Front troops did create huge pressure on Qin, forcing Qin to temporarily hide its small plans for Dahua.
Coupled with diplomatic operations, Dahua's external situation has been basically stabilized in the past two years, and there is even a faint tendency to overshadow Qin. However, all this seems to be based on the fact that the Tang Empire has no plans to expand westward.
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I have something to do at home today, so I can only update it once. I will make it up tomorrow, sorry.
