Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"The minister is here." The gray-haired Yu Shinan stood up.

"Yu Aiqing, sit down, the King of Qin will be crowned this year, and the wedding will be right after the crown, have you prepared for the Sixth Ceremony?" Li Shimin asked.

Li Yan in the crowd couldn't help but blushed slightly when she heard this, but now she is the Shangshu of the Central Bank of the Tang Dynasty, so she can only try to be as serious as possible.

"All the preparations have been completed, just wait for the execution according to the time." Yu Shinan said calmly.

"Well, yes, other things can go wrong, the king of Qin and the crown and the wedding can't go wrong, he prepares the dowry himself?" Li Shimin asked.

"Yes."

"Okay, he has money. I heard that King Qin's money is all in the treasury." Li Shimin waved his hands.

All the ministers; "..."

"Is Huangfulin there?" Li Shimin asked with a glance.

"Your Majesty, the 22nd year's revenue of the Tang Dynasty and related treasury revenues are being counted. Huangfu Shangshu went to the storage warehouse outside the city and is not in the city." Fang Xuanling said.

"Oh, I found the wrong person, it should be Shangshu Doulu (Doulu is a double surname), right, they are the Audit Department." Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "Hasn't the relevant financial revenue of the 22nd year of the Tang Dynasty been calculated yet? "

All the ministers: "..."

Everyone is completely speechless, my lord, don't you even know what your departments do?

"Your Majesty, the main role of the audit department is to audit and supervise the use of the imperial finance by various departments of the imperial court. Whether there is any illegal use of public funds is not responsible for financial statistics. The audit department is the busiest at the end of the year and the beginning of the year. Not here." Fang Xuanling hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"Okay, then Datang's fiscal revenue for 22 years hasn't come out yet, right? Do you expect it to exceed last year?" Li Shimin looked at them and asked, he was not embarrassed.

"Your Majesty, the exact figures have not yet been calculated, but the central bank has already obtained a rough figure through the reconciliation of data from various departments. The government tax revenue alone cannot exceed last year." Li Yan said.

"Tell me." Li Shimin immediately asked with interest.

"Yes, Datang's fiscal revenue in 21 years is about 1700 million guan, and this year's treasury tax revenue of Datang is about 1172 million guan, a decrease of about 600 million guan, mainly because all agricultural taxes have been subsidized, which is equivalent to canceling twice the agricultural tax. Taxes, agricultural tax subsidies paid by the central bank currently amount to 325 million guan. This number will continue to rise.”

"However, Datang's 22-year state-owned commercial bank can probably expect to hand in a profit of about 1077 million guan, that is to say, the total revenue of Datang treasury will exceed 100 million guan." Li Yan directly gave an approximate figure.

"Okay!" Li Shimin couldn't help shouting "Hello", even the other ministers looked sideways. Last year's agricultural tax subsidy was very outrageous to them. The imperial court's complete tax exemption is already an unprecedentedly powerful empire in the ages. .

Not to mention that not only is it exempt from tax, but it also pays back the money!Many of them actually wanted to oppose this matter at the time, but King Qin said at the time that he would make up for the lack of the court, anyway, he had to subsidize it.

In the end...it's really fucking good?Oh, that's not right, the tax revenue must be less. After all, the agricultural tax is not only cancelled, but also spent. This is equivalent to double the reduction of the previous agricultural tax, and there are still more than 1000 million taxes. How much income is there.

The focus is on the profits handed over by state-owned commercial banks. Are the profits of state-owned commercial banks so large? !

They couldn't turn around.

"So, our agricultural tax subsidy has succeeded?" Li Shimin asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, after monitoring the expenditures of state-owned commercial banks in related industries, we can probably predict that at least 90.00% of the funds we have distributed through agricultural tax subsidies and other methods will flow back through state-owned commercial banks."

"In addition, a lot of income from the common people's grain sales is also returned through state-owned commercial banks, mainly because the cost of state-owned commercial banks that have adopted new technologies is very low. In addition, last year, a large number of aristocratic families passed several state-owned machinery manufacturing The factory purchased a large number of looms, spinning machines and other machines."

"These machines themselves also have a lot of profits. And this trend will increase this year. Based on last year's calculations, the profits paid by the state-owned commercial banks across the country this year may be several times the tax revenue." Li Yan asked calmly.

All the ministers took a deep breath. Last year, the tax revenue was about 1000 million. Even if the tax revenue does not increase this year, the profits paid by the state-owned commercial banks are several times the tax revenue?Doesn't that mean that the tax revenue of Datang State Treasury this year, that is, Datang's 23 years, will exceed tens of millions? !

Where did all this money come from?

"Li Shangshu." Gao Shilian who was next to him hesitated and said.

"Shen Guogong." Li Yan slightly bowed to Gao Shilian.

"Li Shangshu, I have a question. The income of the Tang treasury has increased so rapidly. Is it because of printing too much money to cause false prosperity? Will it affect social stability? How did the money come from?" Gao Shilian asked.

Li Shimin smiled, he knew about this question, but now, he waved his hand and said: "Li Shangshu, I just want to know, so please explain."

"Yes, Your Majesty. Lord Shen, gentlemen, the Central Bank of the Tang Dynasty did not issue additional currency. The issuance of additional banknotes has a strict calculation formula, which is equivalent to the total value of commodities in circulation in the entire Tang Dynasty."

"The reason for such income mainly depends on several aspects. First, the income of the people has increased. They have grown high-yield grains. After these grains are produced, the added value will naturally increase. Datang last year How much more grain is collected than in previous years, the central bank will probably issue more currency."

"In addition, the state-owned company Datang Iron Industry Group has started to mine iron ore in various Daozhou states throughout Datang. The extra ore, as well as the monthly money of the people, are all commodity values."

"Now the steel factories smelt a large amount of steel all over the country. After the steel is sold to the people, there will be a lot of income."

"Of course, the price of steel is also constantly falling. The third reason is that because of the prosperity of the economy, the rapid development of commerce, and the rapid expansion of industry, the wealthy people from all over the world save their gold, silver and copper coins. They were all dug out, and then these copper coins were used to start depositing in the central bank, and this part of the money also began to enter the society of Tang Dynasty and began to circulate.”

"As long as money circulates, the government's fiscal revenue will naturally increase."

"If you have time, you can go to the homes of the people around Chang'an. In the homes of the people around Chang'an in the past, it was considered great if a family could find one piece of iron. But now, each family has at least several pieces of iron. Even iron pots have become popular rapidly." Li Yan said with a smile.