Hong Ren's appearance was just a small episode. When the surprise and inner flames gradually disappeared, this person seemed irrelevant. Then the first national annual plan and budget conference of the Kingdom of Heaven under the rule of the Western King began.

In fact, all dynasties also have annual budgets formulated by the government. In history, from the "Nine Fu and Nine Styles" in the Zhou Dynasty to the 34th year of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government promulgated the "Cleaning Financial Charter" and began to prepare the state budget, that is, the first time the feudal dynasty in China called the preparation of the national annual fiscal revenue and expenditure plan the first time. Xidian began to prepare this budget in the first year of Sufu Province. Xiao Yungui worked in his father's company before traveling through time and knew the importance of preparing annual plans and budgets. Therefore, Sufu Province promulgated the "Sufu Province Financial Budget Charter" and the "Sufu Province Military and Political Annual Policy Outline Charter", which clearly stipulates that at the end of or at the beginning of each year, all departments, departments, counties, counties and other government offices at all levels must prepare the annual budget and annual policy plans or military plans of the department.

After Xu Naizhao took over the Ministry of Revenue, the King of Western China entered Tianjing, Jiangxi, southern Anhui and other places, appointing officials, counting household registrations, measuring land and other trivial matters. Therefore, this year's conference was delayed until the beginning of spring. The King of Western China wanted the former subordinates of Tianjing to adapt to the pace and rules of the West Palace as soon as possible. It turned out that Tianjing had prepared similar budgets during the Eastern Kingdoms era, but the budget was relatively extensive, that is, counting the needs of officials, generals, soldiers and military subordinates, plus the cost of building mansions by the kings and princes was the main expenditure of a country. The income of a country was only counted as the money and grain paid by various places.

This old budget did not consider the investment budget for people's livelihood, industry and commerce, education, medical care, technology, transportation, etc., which means that in the Dongwang era, there was no systematic development of plans or charter for people's livelihood, industry and commerce, education, medical care, technology, transportation, etc., and the construction of a few places was only based on improvisation by local officials. For example, when Shi Dakai advanced to the west, he built some civil affairs facilities that benefit the people in Jiangxi and Hubei. But it was just a temporary preference.

Su Fusheng's approach was completely different. Xiao Yungui wanted to squeeze out the intelligence and talents of all officials, let them consider the future development of their own departments and counties alone, and systematically consider the development of people's livelihood, industry and commerce, education, medical care, science and technology, transportation and other aspects under the rule of a country. Every year, there is a detailed development and governance plan, which is coordinated with the money, grain, and funds that need to be invested. This will allow the fiscal revenue to maximize their role.

This year is different from the past. The King of Western power has entered Tianjing. With this year's governance, military plans and annual fiscal budget represent the plans and budgets that represent almost the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, rather than the previous one's words of Sufu Province and the West Palace.

After Xu Naizhao read the lengthy and dull numbers, many of the old subordinates in Tianjing were a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, the King of the West asked everyone to sit and listen from the beginning. Moreover, everyone issued the corresponding official documents, otherwise many people would probably not be able to remember Xu Naizhao's words.

In general, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom now occupy half of Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Jiangxi, one third of Anhui, one part of Hubei, and a small part of Hunan. Because the Taiping Army occupied densely populated areas in Jiangnan, the total population reached more than 110 million. The army included the East Hall, North Hall and Yidian soldiers and horses. More than 3 million rural soldiers, police forces, and more than 80,000 officials from all over the country, Tianjing, and more than 80,000 officials from all over the country.

For the annual income of the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom this year, Xu Naizhao and other officials from the Ministry of Revenue unanimously agreed that it should be more than 50 million taels. Compared with the number of income of 60 million taels per year in the Qing Dynasty, how many places did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupy? Two-thirds of the income of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom come from Sufu Province and Fujian Province, which have trade ports and relatively mature industrial and commercial systems, and naturally the income is higher than that of the mainland such as Jiangxi.

However, Xiao Yungui was not satisfied with this income budget. He still thought that Xu Naizhao and his estimation were too conservative. With the opening of the Yangtze River waterway, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will definitely encourage the development of industry and commerce in Jiangxi, Anhui and other places this year. The commercial profits brought by the Yangtze River Golden Waterway will definitely not be only more than 10 million taels. Moreover, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places are originally homelands of fish and rice, and with the expansion of their territory, the amount of copper, iron and gold mines they own under their jurisdiction has also increased significantly, especially the copper mines in Dexing, Jiangxi. Xiao Yungui believes that if these places can make full use of these resources, their income will be very considerable. Although it can reach the income level of Sufu Province and Fujian Province in a short time, it will not be even half of it.

The idea proposed by Xu Naizhao and others is also reasonable. This year, the newly occupied land is mainly to maintain stability and invest in development. It is impossible to have so much income at once. Moreover, the western part of Jiangxi is still under the control of Qingyao Jiang Zhongyuan. It is possible that war will occur at any time. The situation in Jiangxi is not too stable. Conservatively, it is estimated that there will be so much income.

Xiao Yungui temporarily recognized the statement of the Ministry of Revenue, but when he continued to talk about the expenditure, Xiao Yungui ran away. The entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's expenditure this year actually reached an astonishing 80 million taels. When he heard this total, Xiao Yungui's thick voice almost lifted the roof of the Golden Dragon Palace.

The old ministers of the West Palace were used to it. Such disputes on military and political affairs were common, while the old subordinates of the East Palace and the North Palace became a little trembling. In the era of the East King, if the East King had such a big temper, they would ask the Heavenly Father to come down to earth to kill people.

But unexpectedly, Xu Naizhao, the Qing Dynasty's demoted official, was not afraid and slowly told the details. After listening, everyone suddenly realized that the biggest expenditure was still on military expenses. The entire military expenses cost more than 50 million taels, accounting for almost two-thirds of the annual expenditure budget.

The Ministry of War plans to reorganize the East Hall this year, with 500,000 troops and horses in the North Hall. Including the more than 100,000 troops in the West Hall, plus millions of township soldiers and police forces, the money is still saved. Moreover, in the General Staff’s plan, there are two major battles to fight this year, one is to go south to Guangdong and Guangxi, and the other is to launch a western expedition to attack the Qing demons in Hubei and Hunan. As the saying goes, a cannon fired, tens of taels of gold will be 10,000 taels of gold. After this calculation, the 50 million taels of military expenses calculated by Xu Naizhao and others from the Ministry of Revenue to help Xiao Yungui get the 50 million taels of military expenses.

Seeing the King of Western Paradise walking around the jade steps with a dark face, the officials in the East Palace and the North Palace sitting below were not daring to show up, Zuo Zongtang smiled and said, "His Highness of Western Paradise. Since the budget is deficit, we have to find a way to smooth it out, either increase income or reduce the budget."

Xu Naizhao also said: "If the Ministry of War can reduce the number of reorganized soldiers this year, for example, to 300,000. And if the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi alone is launched, I believe that military expenditure can be reduced to 30 million taels."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Kaifang, General Li Xiucheng and others stopped doing it, and stood up and said, "Guangdong and Guangxi must be captured within this year. Hubei and Hunan must send troops at the same time. Otherwise, the Qing demons from Hunan and Yunnan may reinforce Guangdong and Guangxi, causing an unfavorable situation." "There was originally a new army of 180,000 in the West Palace, and now it has to deal with Qing demons in several directions, and the territory has expanded more than twice. How can such a small force maintain the pressure on Qing demons on each front line? The reorganization of 500,000 troops is already considered small, please watch. After two major battles this year, 500,000 soldiers are definitely not enough. The more than 200,000 reserves in the future should still be pulled up!"

Xu Naizhao's ministers under the Ministry of Revenue were no longer doing it. Lu Xianba was the first to jump out and said, "The 500,000 new army is enough for the Northern Expedition. Can there be so many soldiers in the Qingyao direction? Your Ministry of War and General Staff always think about blooming from all directions, but you also have to think about whether our current money and food can support the war!" "Yes, Hubei has the winged king in charge. Are you still afraid that the Qingyao Xiang Army will aid Guangdong Province? The Qingyao Ye Mingchen was almost driven crazy by the British and French coalition fleet in Guangzhou. Why don't you consider joining forces with Britain and France and landing directly in Guangzhou to fight? This will at least reduce the cost of money and food!"

The Golden Dragon Palace started to argue like this, and the old ministers of the various departments in the West Palace were arguing fiercely. The East Palace, the North Palace and others were stunned. There were also people discussing things like this? It turned out that the East King came to decide the matter in one sentence, and there were rarely such scenes of scolding and fighting.

Zuo Zongtang frowned and listened for a while, and found that these people were only considering the budget between cutting and not cutting. They were really not creative and couldn't listen. So he shouted loudly: "Okay! After talking for a long time, no way can work! If you cut and don't let the cut, do you have any other ideas?"

After arguing, Xu Naizhao turned red. After a few breaths of tea, he stood up and said, "Your Highness, the Left Prime Minister, and the lower-level officials have also considered the method of opening up the source. But just as the junior said, the industry, commerce and other industries in Jiangxi, Anhui and other places have just started to recover this year, and they will definitely not be able to dig out more money and grain. If it is next year, it may be much better, but this year, there will be no large amount of money and taxes for the warehousing. Jiangxi and Anhui also have many civil affairs to invest, especially in rural schools, primary schools and other places. Jiangxi, Anhui and other places are poor and deserted. Do you need to reduce these investments?"

Xiao Yungui stood up and waved his hand and said, "No one of the funds for education and scientific research is allowed to be moved! Think about other methods of opening up the source! Xu Naizhao, I asked you to find a way to get money, not to let you deduct it this and that!"

Xu Naizhao also became angry. For this budget, he had not slept for several nights, so he could be considered to be able to reach this level. If the Western King saw that the first draft had a deficit of 60 million taels, he would be afraid that the table would be overturned immediately. Xu Naizhao snorted and said, "I am stupid in my post and can't think of a better way."

Xiao Yungui also knew Xu Naizhao's difficulties. Last year, he entered Tianjing and took over Jiangxi, and the West Palace spent a lot of money. Now he wants to reorganize. It is indeed very difficult to arm 500,000 troops, but the West Palace has already begun the combat mode of pure firearms. Xiao Yungui does not want to return to the mode of mixing hot and cold weapons, so the previous reorganization will be meaningless.

Hong Yuner, who had not spoken, suddenly stood up and looked at the East Palace, the North Palace and others asked, "Just just heard the people in the West Palace and others speak, why are you silent? There is a good way not to ask for advice."

"I came from Shanghai and saw that the people of Sufu and other places were rich and wealthy, and there were many wealthy families, and these people had a lot of money and food..." It was Hong Renyi who spoke. When he said this, everyone in the hall thought, did Hong Renyi want the Western King to re-engage these big families? Forced to confiscate their property?

Xiao Yungui frowned when he heard this. If he went to the big guys again, the germ of capitalism he had worked hard to establish would be truly abolished. Hong Renyu should not talk nonsense.

But Hong Renqi continued, "The wealth of the people is beyond our imagination. Since this is the case, why don't our heavenly kingdom follow the Western countries, run banks, issue national debts, collect private capital, and do major national affairs?" As soon as he finished speaking, the palace was silent.
Chapter completed!