For example, the Army, Navy and Guards are also quarreling over the distribution of military expenditures. For example, the Guards are very strong. Although they only have two divisions, they spend 500 dollars in one breath. Military expenses of ten thousand taels of silver.
The navy also said that building warships is very expensive, recruiting and training sailors, building ports, etc. It also said that it requires at least six million taels of silver in military expenditures to barely maintain the situation...
In the end, the Army eldest brother laughed and said directly that you are all scum and you still want to spend millions on military expenditures, so just go ahead and dream.
In the end, the Navy only took two million... and the Guards only took two million.
But within a few days, Luo Zhixue and the Guards' military expenses were directly transferred to royal funds, making it clear that all subsequent expenses of the Guards would not be spent from regular military expenses, but would be supported by royal funds.
The status of the Guards is too special, and it is impossible for Luo Zhixue to let the Guards and the Army compete for military expenditures.
Overall, most of the military expenditures go to the Army.
As for the funds of the various ministries of the interior, most of them were taken away by the Department of Taxation, followed by the Ministry of Industry, and then the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which was responsible for relief. There were not many other departments.
This is mainly because the tax department has a heavy task and they also have a lot of employees. In the newly occupied areas, among the officials in a government, tax officials may account for more than half of all local officials in the early stage.
The other one is the armed tax police. This tax patrol is a serious armed organization, equipped with guns and cannons, and the total number of them is quite large.
At present, the Taxation Department of the Dachu Empire has an armed tax police team in each province. These armed tax policemen are stationed in prefectural cities, transportation arteries and other places according to the tax situation of each place.
In Jiangnan Province alone, the number of armed tax police has reached more than 4,000, equipped with four two-and-a-half-pound field cannons, a thousand muskets, other swords, spears, and even mules and horses.
If you bring them all together, this will be a mixed brigade!
These are just armed tax police, the kind that can forcibly attack the estates of powerful landlords.
In fact, within the tax bureau, every prefecture and every county also has ordinary tax patrol officers, that is, tax police, who are responsible for ordinary tax investigation and law enforcement work.
Then there are the general tax staff who do administrative work.
Taken together, there are tens of thousands of tax officials in Jiangnan Province alone.
The tax department has many people and requires a lot of funds.
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The Ministry of Industry, which is the major financial spender of the Chu Empire, as long as it builds several industrial bases and invests in the construction of factories, is only a Dangtu industrial base. Its expenses are multi-faceted, such as land acquisition in the early stage of the park, The cost of grading, building roads, digging sewers and other infrastructure.
Then there is the investment and construction of a series of factories such as Dangtu Iron Works, Dangtu Mines, Dangtu Wharf, Dangtu Arsenal, and Dangtu Machinery Factory.
The Ministry of Industry spent more than 200,000 taels on this poor place last year, and Chengshun's investment in three years will be even greater, at least 500,000 taels, and will continue to invest next year.
Generally speaking, a Dangtu Industrial Zone will cost the Ministry of Industry at least two to three million taels in three to four years.
However, the Ministry of Industry does not all rely on the funds allocated by the finance to survive. The companies under the Ministry of Industry also have profits. For example, although the profits of each arsenal are not high, they are enough to meet the expansion and research and development of each arsenal. Needed.
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There are also several factories such as Hantian Textile Factory, Large Smelting Iron Factory, and Hantian Machinery Factory. In addition to supplying military products, most of their products are actually supplied to civilians, and the profits gained from this are not low.
For example, Hantian Textile Factory made a lot of money last year. In addition to continuously expanding its branches, it also handed over nearly 100,000 taels of net profit to the Ministry of Industry.
There is also Hantian Machinery Factory. Although the core function of this factory is to provide various mechanical equipment to government-run enterprises, its managers are flexible and easy-to-use, taking advantage of the local steel industry in Daye, plus their machinery factory With its own equipment advantages, it has developed the production and external sales of various types of civil iron products on a large scale.
Including sewing needles, various farm tools, and cooking utensils.
If we compare the iron pot, a relatively typical iron product, the iron pot produced by Hantian Machinery Factory compares with other iron pots on the market during the contemporary Ming Dynasty.
In terms of quality, it is better than Huaiguo and Wuxi hotpot, inferior to Guangguo made in Foshan, and generally lies in between the two.
In terms of price, it is basically the same as Huaiguo and other iron pots. A two-foot-diameter iron pot costs about six cents and a half, but it is far cheaper than Guangguo. A two-foot iron pot in Guangguo usually costs one or two cents. Five cents.
In terms of craftsmanship, there is not much to say about Huaiguo, they are just ordinary goods.
Guangguo, on the other hand, adopts a very unique red mold casting method, and the quality of the iron pot produced is very outstanding. This thing was even used by the palace.
But precisely because the industry is complex and the quality is good, the production capacity is not very good.
The iron pots produced by Hantian Machinery Factory are widely produced using water conservancy machinery and equipment in many processes, so the quality is highly stable and will not be too affected by the performance of skilled workers, although there is no particularly complicated process. , but still achieves high quality and high stability.
The combination of these three is also reflected in the market.
The iron pans produced by Hantian Machinery Factory are of high quality and the price is only the same as that of ordinary iron pans. They are a typical example of high quality and low price.
Therefore, this kind of iron pot is not only sold locally, but has been sold on a large scale to the Jiangnan area before the Chu army marched eastward. It was even taken by some merchants and sold northward through the canal, and it was also called 'Han pot'. '.
In the second year of Chengshun, Hantian Machinery Factory produced and sold 200,000 iron pots at one go, with sales reaching 120,000 taels of silver.
In addition to iron pots, Hantian Machinery Factory also mass-produces various farm tools and other iron products such as cooking utensils. Its annual sales combined are probably more than 500,000 taels of silver.
Of course, this is just sales, and the profit is not that much. After deducting various costs and expenses, including taxes, the profit is only about 100,000 taels.
That's right, even Hantian Machinery Factory and even enterprises under the Ministry of Industry such as Hantian Arsenal must pay taxes according to regulations.
The gross profits earned by so many factories under the Ministry of Industry, after deducting taxes and expenses for its own expansion or research and development, were handed over to the Ministry of Industry last year about 800,000 silver. This money will be used by the Ministry of Industry to invest in other industries. On the construction of new enterprises.
It is worth noting that this does not include two very special enterprises in the Dachu Empire, namely the Dachu Grain Corporation and the Dachu Salt Corporation.
The Grain Company was originally directly affiliated with the Grain Storage Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and later it was directly affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. However, its supervision was at the second-grade level, the same level as the governors and ministers.
However, considering the high business connection with the Grain Reserves Department, the general supervisor of a grain company will also serve as the director of the Grain Reserves Department. The entire operation method belongs to one team and two yamen.
It's just that this company has basically no profit. After all, what they do is mainly to stabilize food prices, not to make money.
Even if there is a small profit, the profit is turned into food reserves, and the profit is basically not turned over.
The Dachu Salt Service Corporation is quite special. In ancient times, it was very profitable to specialize in salt.
In the hands of the Dachu Empire, there was no exception. In the second year of Chengshun alone, the Salt Service Company turned over more than one million taels of profit.
This one million is just profit, excluding the salt tax, which is collected by the tax department. The combined profit and tax of the two is even higher, estimated to reach three million taels of silver.
And this is because I worked as a second-hand dealer for most of last year, because at that time, there were no coastal salt fields in the area controlled by the Dachu Empire, and there were not too many mineral salts and well salts. Therefore, most of the table salt sold in the Dachu Empire at that time was It was purchased from salt merchants in the Xuhuai area.
At the same time, there were not many areas actually controlled by the Chu Empire last year. Even Chunan was only conquered last spring. As for Jiangxi and Jiangnan, that was only after autumn and winter.
But this year, the profits handed over by the salt company will surge significantly.
The Salt Service Company expects its net profit to increase to about 4 million taels, and the salt tax is expected to increase to more than 5 million taels.
Adding the two together, the base price is nine million. If you are lucky, you might even break through the ten million mark.
This is mainly due to the acquisition of large markets such as Jiangxi and Jiangnan, as well as some salt fields in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the construction of local salt fields will be increased.
After successfully getting on the right track, and continuing to control more areas, and even after unifying China, the annual profits and taxes contributed by this salt company will probably add up to tens of millions of taels.
Because the company is so important and special, it is not under the jurisdiction of any department. Instead, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Government Affairs Council and supervised by the Dachu Empire Salt Company. It is a senior official of the second rank and the same level as a monk.
Moreover, there is a formal imperial decree, so the people are also called the Minister of Salt Affairs or the Governor of Salt Affairs. When writing official documents, the supervisor of the salt affairs company can include the sentence "I supervise the administration of salt affairs by decree", which is somewhat similar. Imperial envoy.
After all, the current profits and taxes provided by the Salt Company account for more than 20% of the Dachu Empire's fiscal revenue. In the future, this proportion may be even higher.
Such a company cannot be viewed from the perspective of an ordinary government-owned enterprise.
This thing is more powerful than a money printing machine. It cannot belong to a separate department, and the political status of its supervision cannot be too low.
Luo Zhixue has always been very serious about money.
