"So there are so many things here!" Zhao Bing muttered after listening to Wang De's explanation about the Inner Canal, which completely broke his inherent concept of the emperor spending money in the past.

Traditional China has an ancient system: only the king does not. It means that the emperor does not need to account or audit the cost of the emperor. This is also the legal basis for establishing the private treasury of the emperor in ancient times, that is, how much wealth the emperor has in the private treasury is squandered by the emperor and spent it all. As a result, in modern times, many people, including Zhao Bing, think that "the king's land is the king's land; the king's ministers are the king's people." In the era of the world where the emperor spent his own money, of course, he spent whatever he wanted, and no one could care about it.

Zhao Bing still believed this when he came to this era. When he opened the mansion, he blamed the emperor and the queen mother for rewarding him with such a little money and secretly complained, but after hearing Wang De's words, he forgave them. In fact, in the concept of the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty, it was not that the world belonged to the emperor, but that the king was selfless. The people needed to have clear private property rights, but the emperor should not have private property, and not all the things in the warehouse belonged to the emperor. All this started with Taizu's establishment of the sealed pile warehouse.

The original intention of the Fengzunku was to be used by Taizu to deal with wars in the north and to recover Yan Yun, which is the reward for Taizu used by later generations to buy the Khitan people's heads. Later, Taizong ascended the throne and inspected the warehouse and saw that the money was piled up like a mountain, he became jealous and said that the late emperor was still worried that he would not spend enough money, so let's just separate them. I'll save it for you and spend some money, so the national treasury was divided into internal warehouses and left warehouses.

According to the agreement between the monarch and his ministers at that time, Zuozangku was the national financial center, responsible for controlling the financial operation of the entire country, providing the salaries of Kyoto officials, military food, and bearing the cost of recruiting troops and rewards when war comes, as well as annual gifts for the southern suburbs, natural disaster relief expenses, etc. in daily life; the inner warehouse was responsible for making up for the shortcomings of the state's financial expenses; sponsoring military expenses; disaster relief and poverty relief; responsible for the investment of the imperial commercial institutions and the daily expenses of the royal family. Zuozangku's income mainly comes from two taxes and buying; the inner warehouse income comes from national surplus, gold and silver, pit smelting, mountain and monopoly profit, new coins, silk and local governments' offerings, and the net profit of the farm is also a fixed name for the inner warehouse.

At a glance, there is no problem. The inner warehouse does have the nature of the emperor's private warehouse, but if you think about it carefully, you will find that the inner warehouse is not so much a "secret of the emperor" as a strategic reserve warehouse. This concept is basically the same as Zhao Bing's idea when he was a prince. He thought that he was subsidizing the local government and the army, but now it seems that he should be paid. However, most of his money comes from the seizure of war and the income from printing counterfeit money, but he did not get a penny from taxes and profits. In this way, he really lost.

"Your Majesty, don't be cheated by them. These people will have the idea of ​​making an in-house warehouse without money. If we only enter and leave, we will be moved to the air one day sooner or later!" Although Wang De didn't know what the little emperor and Liu Xiufu said, he also knew that it would be difficult for His Majesty to speak without money, so he advised.

"Well, I understand!" Zhao Bing nodded. He had already woken up now. It turned out that the salt tax should belong to him. According to his previous idea, he would be used by the court. In addition to being a wise man, he also gave up the initiative of bargaining for nothing. But at this time he understood that it was Liu Xiufu who should say good things to him, so he should speak to him well...

"Your Majesty, I wonder how much salt can be produced in a year when drying salt?" The next day, Liu Xiufu and others came to chat with His Majesty early. After talking about the weather for a while, he talked about the customs of Qiongzhou for a while. Seeing that His Majesty did not mention yesterday, he could only ask first.

"The weather in Qiongzhou is hot, and salt can be dried all year round. If you find seawater with high salt content, you can get about half a kilogram of salt per stone. There is a 3,000 kilograms per acre of salt field per acre." Zhao Bing is really unsure. Based on the data known in his previous life, he roughly estimated that this should be a conservative output, and it should be higher than this output in Hainan.

"If you make a profit of twenty cents per kilogram of salt, you can make a profit of sixty cents per acre, and if you have tens of tens of millions of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents of cents!" After hearing this, Xiufu turned around and settled the small account.

"Hmph, you are too conservative!" Although they said a little, Zhao Bing, who was pricking his ears, could hear it clearly and thought to himself that his idea that 10,000 acres were just experimental fields. Anyway, salt was used for drying salt and would not occupy fertile fields. In this era, there would be no tidal flat breeding, which was just like waste utilization. The current salt price is between fifty cents and hundreds of cents. Even if the cost and consumption are deducted, the profit will be doubled.

"Your Majesty, if it can be really implemented, the income will be enough to maintain the expenses of the court." 6 Xiufu and his men muttered for a while and turned their heads and said.

"Well, we captured nearly 10,000 enemy troops in this battle. I want to organize them into a garrison army to open salt fields, and dry salt to make profits for the army and the inner shore!" Zhao Bing nodded and said.

"Your Majesty, this is not right!" 6 Xiufu was stunned when he heard this, and his face immediately turned dark. He heard this. The little emperor didn't want to use salt and profit with the court at all. He pondered for a moment.

"What's wrong? The court's expenses come from the Left Cangku, and the profits and monopoly are included in the Inner Cangku. I know that the current court's income is not much, so I divided the part of the inner Cangku to raise soldiers to reduce the burden on the court. Do you disagree?" Zhao Bing pretended to be surprised and asked.

"No, no, I don't agree, but..." Hideo Hideo waved his hands repeatedly, but he didn't know how to explain for a moment.

"Since the 6th Prime Minister agrees, just do it accordingly!" Zhao Bing smiled. Looking at the 6th Xiufu's face, he had to admire the political skills of his ancestors, collecting local money and grain to cut off the foundation of the rebellion of the generals, and the treasury division restrained the prime minister's power and strengthened the imperial power.

"Your Majesty, I just agreed to use salt profit to support military supplies, but I did not agree to allocate salt profit to the inner warehouse, but should be divided into the left warehouse to maintain the operation of the court." 6 Xiufu just pretended that the little emperor did not understand his meaning, and quickly explained, of course, what he said this time was very straightforward.

"Hiss... 6 is not appropriate. This is the case. This is established by our ancestors. I have not yet ruled. How can I change the laws of our ancestors without any effort? You still need to ask the Queen Mother!" Zhao Bing shook his head and said after hearing this.
Chapter completed!