In short, everyone here understands that war is a matter of burning money and consuming food at any time. In a large-scale war, so many soldiers, civilians, mules and horses gather in the same place, the food and other supplies consumed every day are very amazing. In order to transport these supplies, it may cost many times the price. And as long as the supply is interrupted, the entire war machine will come to an abrupt end.

Therefore, both sides of the war must do whatever they want to ensure the supply of food and supplies, no matter how heavy the price is. If the war cannot be achieved, both sides of the war will be exhausted and exhausted until one of them is completely dragged down. Obviously, the little emperor is unwilling to be the defeated side, not only to defeat the Mongol Yuan, but also to drag them into a protracted war and torture them to death.

However, Xu Xiufu and others also understood the current family of the court. It took only two years to move back to Jiangnan. Compared with the fact that the fiscal revenue increased significantly when they were in Qiongzhou. However, with the increase of population and territory, the number of officials and troops also expanded several times, and expenditures inevitably increased significantly. In order to stabilize the hearts of the people, taxes were reduced and taxes were cleared for many areas, and tying taxes were cleared. Therefore, life was equally tight and he had to borrow from His Majesty from time to time.

In order to cope with the battle to recover the two Huaihe Rivers, the court has used all the surplus last year to increase military expenditure. As the war to advance to the Central Plains began, the outcome has not yet been decided. The court's fiscal expenditure has doubled, and the advance payment of the annual financial income is equivalent to eating the food for the first time. I don't know how to spend the next six months? In addition to food, there are also rewards and meritorious services, pensions for casualties, recruitment of new recruits, weapons production and other expenses, which makes people feel overwhelmed when thinking about it.

"Shangshu Chen, how much surplus grain is there in the official warehouse at present?" 6 Xiufu knew that he had raised tens of millions of stones of grain, and with the remaining funds of the imperial court, he could not pay any amount of money. He could only hope that there was still reserve in the official warehouse and could deal with it, so he turned to Chen Zeweng first and asked.

"According to the practice, the grain stored in the official warehouse should be able to meet the needs of two years to deal with famines and wars. However, one is that our dynasty has only been moved back to Jiangnan for two years, and Your Majesty has reduced the tax, so the grain tax has been greatly reduced, relying on the government's allocation to buy it from the people, so the granaries cannot be fully filled; the other is that our dynasty has been used last year to use the army to Sichuan and Sichuan and Yunnan, and the military rations are allocated by the Huguang Division, and most of the grain tax remains in the local area. Now, the court's grain tax is entirely based on Jiangdong, and only a few prefectures with large output in the official warehouse can have some surplus." Chen Zeweng pondered for a moment.

"I know these things, and I only say how much food is available to allocate!" The common people know that there is food at home and are not panicked. 6 Xiufu naturally knows that only the full official warehouse can make people feel at ease. However, the court's foundation is too thin, and the limited income is not only used to recruit soldiers and improve people's livelihood, so it is naturally difficult to take into account both. They can only follow the power in a hurry, but it is no wonder that the officials below are not doing their jobs effectively.

"Six ministers, now, except for the bottom line reserved for paying officials' wages and famine relief, the grain in the official warehouses in various places has about three million stones!" Chen Zeweng replied.

"The surplus grain in the warehouse is less than half of the required?" Liu Fu frowned after hearing this, and then asked, "Shangshu Chen, can the people have surplus grain in their hands?"

"Governor Liu, the weather has been good in the past two years, and autumn grain and summer grain have been produced successively. The court has light taxes and low taxes. The people have stored a large amount of surplus grain in their hands, which has led to a decline in the price of grain. Now, the Jiangdong market is waiting for rice, stone, gold and gold, and rice is about 600. Changping Municipality has requested the court to allocate funds to collect and store, but the amount allocated is too small, which is difficult to affect the price of grain!" Chen Zeweng said with a wry smile.

"It's a pity!" Liu Fu sighed. In order to adjust grain prices, the government set up a granary for the storage and storage of grain to supply food for officials and people. It mainly uses the law of value to adjust grain supply and fully utilize the role of stabilizing the market value of grain. When the market grain prices are low, the grain prices should be appropriately increased and large-scale purchases should be purchased. When the market grain prices are high, the price should be appropriately reduced and sold. This measure not only avoids "low grain to harm farmers" but also prevents "high grain to harm the people". Unfortunately, the court has no money to buy it, but the people have no way to sell grain.

"Governor Liu, are you planning to raise food from the people with the sacrificial food?" Seeing Liu Fu shook his head and sighed again, he said a pity, which made Chen Zeweng alert and asked.

"To put it too much, the prime minister is old, but he doesn't want to be cut off his head. Who dares to disobey the iron rules set by Your Majesty!" Liu Fu glared at him and said in a deep voice. In name, the imperial court paid to buy supplies and surplus grain from the people at a fair price, but in actual operations, it is often symbolic to give some money, or even not to give money, which is no different from forcing robbery. Therefore, it was criticized and made the people extremely dissatisfied. Therefore, after the founding of the government, Zhao Bing ordered that the price of forced materials should not be suppressed in the name of "Share", and all violators would be punished with the extreme punishment, which became a red line that officials could not touch.

Having said that, everyone understands that the current market is rich in materials and has not affected the lives of the people. But now the poor court is the court, and he really can't afford to buy it. It can be said that it is hard for a good cook to cook without rice. The court's income mainly comes from customs duties, commercial taxes and land taxes, as well as the state's monopoly salt and wine taxes.

But now it is March, and merchant ships from overseas have just arrived, so there are naturally not much tariffs and commercial taxes; land taxes can only be paid after summer grain is harvested; as for the alcohol tax, the more stable and continuous tax source must be after the new wine in Qingming Festival is launched, the only tax is salt tax. In other words, at least after June, local taxes will be sent to the court, so that the financial difficulties will be slightly alleviated.

However, even if the summer tax is still not enough to cover the current needs, a big hole will still be left, and the autumn harvest cannot be filled. It will take several years for the imperial court to fill the deficit, which is based on the end of the war this year. What’s more serious is that the distant water cannot quench the near thirst, and they need a lot of funds in front of them.

"Why not auction some public fields to solve the urgent problem?" Liu Fu slowly suggested.

At that time, the imperial court confiscated a huge amount of property from the powerful people of the Yuan Dynasty and the rebels of the Song Dynasty. At that time, all the ministers wanted to allocate the land to the people to gain support from the bottom. However, the young emperor opposed the opposition. In addition to redistributing some of the land, he also left a large amount of land as public land to recruit refugees and lack of enemies to cultivate and collect rent. The fields left were mostly fertile land, accounting for about 30% of the total land acres, so he did not worry about not being able to sell it.

In terms of land system, the Song Dynasty inherited the practices after the Middle Tang tax laws, and private land transactions and possession were not subject to any restrictions. This policy can be attributed to two sentences and eight words: not establishing a land system, not suppressing annexation. There is also a share of the country, which is the so-called official land, mainly from households to abandon land, land abandoned, abandoned fields, sand field or field surrounds the river and coastal areas. In addition, there are also land or military farms on the border.

In order to solve financial difficulties, the imperial court raised funds, selling official land became one of the methods. Of course, in addition to insufficient military expenditure, there were also many disadvantages in the management and operation of public land at that time: First, the government was not able to manage these public lands effectively, and tenants who rented public lands would cheat, and often owed land rent, and the government could not collect all the rents they deserved, and the land rent was seriously lost. Second, the government needed to pay a considerable amount of governance costs to manage these public lands.

By selling public land and land is managed by privately, the government can reduce the burden of governance. Not only does it obtain a large amount of money, it no longer needs to worry about the loss of state-owned assets. The government only collects taxes. In order to encourage private buying of public land, the government has also adopted a series of preferential policies. Any private rented land for more than 30 years will be reduced by 20%; any private rented land for three years if you buy one thousand guan for public land for three years, one thousand guan for more than 1,000 guan for five years, and one more than 5,000 guan for ten years; those who buy a deserted land for three years will be exempted from land for three years.

"Governor Liu, after His Majesty entered Jiangnan, he ordered that the official land betrayed, so the matter of selling land was difficult to obtain the approval of His Majesty's imperial guards." Zhuang Shilin smiled and shook his head.

"This dynasty has always had the practice of selling official land to raise military expenses. Why did Your Majesty strictly prohibit it?" Liu Fu naturally knew about this, but he was still very puzzled.

"The emperor has also asked Your Majesty about this." Zhuang Shilin said with a smile.

"Your Majesty said that although this dynasty did not suppress land annexation, it also prohibited officials and powerful people from annexation land. The sale of public land was equivalent to indulging the tyrants in disguise. Secondly, the rich bought public land, that is, those with property, but many tenants and plowers were unable to afford it, and they would lose the cultivated land from then on and become unemployed, which increased many unstable factors. Moreover, the powerful officials relied on their own power and funds to occupy the rich public land, and then manipulated the land price and sold public land at a low price. However, no one was willing to buy medium or barren land, or because it was about to be sold, the people were not afraid to rent it and were put on hold. The court could not collect land rent, which would naturally lead to the loss of taxes in the court."

"In addition, the court retained a large amount of public land and rented it to tenants, which not only reduced refugees and stabilized the people's hearts. It also allowed the court to obtain stable tax revenue based on this, ensuring the supply of officials' salaries and rice and military food, which also ensured the stability of national rule. As for the difficulties of renting out public land that everyone was worried about, it was an excuse for the officials to be lazy in their rule, rather than a reason for betraying official land!"

"Well, I think Your Majesty's words are justified. Betrayal of public land is a fishing act. Although it can raise funds for emergency response in the short term, in the long run, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages!" Ying Jieyan expressed his agreement with Your Majesty's opinion and did not agree to betray the public land.

"With my father, Jia Sidao, the traitor, implemented the public land law back then, which caused anger among the heavens and people. The country is not a country!" Liu Fu softly reminded Ying Jieyan.
Chapter completed!