Ruan Dacheng gave a brief explanation. First of all, of course, the fields were re-cleared and the taxed acres were unified. Most of the unclear problems in the yellow books in the past were sorted out. Then, after the officials and gentry paid the grain to the farmers in the acres, the actual

Landowners and gentry are the main taxpayers, and there are fewer cases of underpayment, and tax exemptions and exemptions have also been blocked.

In addition, many new tax sources were added. The largest tax source was the old guard posts and military camps. The imperial court cut off all the past guard posts and took back all the military camp fields. There was no need to fill in the guard posts anymore.

If you are short of grain, you can still use the large amounts of released land to sell, rent, and collect taxes and rents to expand your income. The difference between the inside and the outside is several times.

Another thing that was not mentioned directly is that during this turmoil, many surrendered traitors, corrupt officials, and evil businessmen were captured, and many desolate fields, terra nullius, etc. were even recovered.

Dr. Zuo Jianyi waited for Ruan Dacheng to finish his report, and then asked first, "Since the financial revenue is so good this year, there should be no problem with expenditures. Why did Ruan Shangshu say that expenditures were insufficient before?"

"Don't worry, Dean Hong. Next, I will talk about the specific situation of expenditures. Among all expenditures, the largest item is military expenditures, which includes military pay, ordnance, military rations, as well as military expenditures for wars, building cities and forts.

, building military depots, as well as rewards, pensions and other major items!"

"At present, our Ming army is mainly divided into two parts: the imperial camp and the local provincial town camp troops. The imperial camp is divided into the imperial camp armies in Beiya and the Beijing camp armies in Nanya.

According to the latest establishment, the imperial camp now has a total of 21 towns of the three armies, as well as four military camps of Huguang, Fujian, Shaanxi-Gansu, and Yunnan-Guizhou. According to the plan, these 21 towns, plus the four external battalions, are all required to complete eight

With the full quota of one thousand combat soldiers, each town would have eight thousand combat soldiers and three thousand auxiliary soldiers.

Nanya Jingying Camp will also complete the full quota of 8,000 soldiers in each of the three towns.

In addition, the imperial court plans to build three more camps in Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Yunnan starting this autumn, each with 8,000 troops."

"Each province must complete the reorganization of two towns in each province, each worth 5,000."

There are many imperial censors and officials there who are already silently calculating how many soldiers there are in the imperial court now.

First of all, the three armies of the Beijing camp have 24,000 combat troops and 9,000 auxiliary troops, which adds up to 33,000.

According to the current standards for raising an army, an average soldier needs to be paid at least 50 taels of silver per year. Not counting other things, the military salary alone will cost 1.5 million taels per year for the three armies of the Beijing Camp.

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As for the three armies of the imperial camp headquarters, there are currently 21 towns, with 168,000 combat troops and 60,000 auxiliary troops. This adds up to 220,000, and the military salary is 11 million taels a year.

There are still four camps left, and military pay is another 2.2 million.

The twenty-eight towns of Yuyingjingying are equivalent to 15 million taels of silver, which is only military pay, not counting pensions, rewards, ordnance, food, and other expenses. Under normal circumstances, military pay during such a long war period is at most

It accounts for one-third, so if you triple it, you get 45 million taels of silver.

It’s too late to count at this point.

Forty-five million taels of silver, the emperor wants to set up three more camps and add more than 30,000 troops.

And this does not include the local provincial and town camps, Liaodong, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Huguang, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Gansu. Now the imperial court actually controls about ten

four provinces.

With one province and two towns, there will be 28 towns and 280,000 soldiers.

Liu Zongzhou, the censor of Zuodu, couldn't help but stand up.
Chapter completed!