Building railways is a costly project, and although the returns are large, the returns are not yet there.

Naturally, Hong Jinglai came back to find Cui Zhengji, who was in charge of Xuanhui Office. How much money did the court have now? Only with money could he start the entire Jemulpo Railway project and make a profit.

But Cui Zhengji is also a clever woman who cannot make a living without rice. In the past, the imperial court was so poor that it could not even pay military salaries and official salaries. Local officials relied on self-financing, and officials in the capital relied on accepting bribes to receive filial piety and food. Those in Hanyang were not in the power department.

As a young official in the capital, I see a bit of meat all year round, when King Li gives out rewards during the New Year, and I am usually very poor.

There were too many moths attached to the tax line of the Li Dynasty, five to ten times the amount of money actually collected from the official tax, and in the end not even one out of ten was saved in the official warehouses of Hanyang Hucao and Xuanhui Hall.

The Beijing merchants who had just been eliminated were just one of the moths in the entire profit line, not to mention the huge amount of money they had confiscated. There were too many people clinging to this profit line, and besides, this was not the only one.

The Beijing merchants pressed on. It was still unknown how much tax money and grain they would receive in the new year. However, the money received in the late autumn and early winter of last year was almost enough to meet the expenses.

Moreover, after Hong Jinglai came to power, he spent a lot of money to reward the soldiers and then gradually disband and disband the old army gathered in Hanyang. They were originally soldiers, and although they were paid two months of salary every twelve months a year, that was not the case.

He's also a hardcore farmer, right? He does some small business and makes a good living.

If Hong Jinglai didn't give enough money and they rioted, their fighting power would definitely be a hundred times stronger than when they fought for King Li, Jin Zuchun, and Park Zongqing. If you fight for your own interests, you don't have to use all your strength. Not long ago, the levy was launched

Two thousand members of Hanyang's old army followed Li Xi to Jemulpo, and the scene was extremely noisy.

If it hadn't been for the payment of wages, I'm afraid they would have mutinied on the spot!

Even though they are like dead fish when fighting, when they are fighting for pay, they can only block the South Gate of Hanyang for you, then block traffic, block business travel, and play a big game with you.

At that time, Li Xi and thousands of sailors were guarding him. They just talked about it for a while, and then reluctantly rushed to Jemulpo, which was "far away" from Hanyang, the capital, at a turtle's speed.

Although it is natural for losers to be punished, after all, there are tens of thousands of old troops and tens of thousands of family members. If one person is not handled well, it will still have extremely bad effects. They have received military training and have a certain military quality and level.

The officers and soldiers of the feudal army cannot be ignored even more.

"So how much money can Xuanhui Hall still spend?" Hong Jinglai asked Cui Zhengji directly without even looking at the account.

"If you want it now, then there is still 200,000 taels in the treasury that were confiscated from the Beijing merchants last time. There is no need to pay for it yet." Cui Zhengji is quite capable of managing money. He moved around and provided support in all directions. Anyway, Hong Jinglai has always been

We have not received any reports of people causing trouble due to insufficient funding.

"Two hundred thousand?" After all, that's fifty thousand taels of silver, but I don't know if the cost of the entire project can be met.

Hong Jinglai has no experience in building railways, or in other words, no one in the entire world has experience in building a forty-kilometer commercial railway, let alone the project cost. If an individual can know the project cost, there will be no need to specialize in the future.

I have been studying in college for four years, so I can just find an accountant.

"But although there is no money that needs to be paid now, after this special trial, we still need to pay for the repairs of the palace and the expenses of this special trial. I'm afraid this will be difficult." Cui Zhengji flipped through the account book with a little worry.

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"Can the military pay and official salary be enough for the next eight months?" Hong Jinglai knew that Cui Zhengji was telling the truth, so he also sat down to understand the situation.

"In fact, it doesn't take eight months, but five months. This year's autumn tax and grain will be sent to Hanyang. At that time, the national treasury will be full and all expenses can be covered."

"Yes, yes, we just need to wait for the autumn taxes to come down."

"In the past five months, there has generally been no problem with military pay. As for official salaries, the salaries of the superior eunuchs are paid by the chief's office and have nothing to do with the lower officials. The rest of the officials can only pay half of it at most." Cui

Zhengji counted his fingers and roughly estimated the expenses with Hong Jinglai.

"So my salary has always been paid by the Lord?" Hong Jinglai has not rested in the past few months, and indeed he has not paid attention to this matter.

"Including the salary of the lower officials, it is also the Lord who distributes it!" Cui Zhengji looked at Hong Jinglai and thought that you are too arrogant.

"I'm used to not asking anything about the furniture in the house. My mother should be storing it."

"Although it's not much, the monthly payment is still a considerable amount of money."

"The Lord has been in exile for many years, where did the money come from?" Hong Jinglai and others are not sure, but it is certain that the person who is now on the throne could not even afford food when he was poor in the past.

"My lord has a palace! And don't you know how many palaces there are?"

Although Cui Zhengji could not get involved with King Li's income, he had worked as a councilor and supervisor of the Xuanhui Department for the past six months, and he already had a relatively basic understanding of the financial income of the entire Eighth Route Army in North Korea.

King Li had his own palace, village, and land. Hong Jinglai knew about this. At that time, Hong Jinglai served as Chang Ping Qianzheng of Xuanhui Hall, and he actually handled the payment of salaries to lower-level officials and soldiers. However, for officials of Shangguan and above in Zhengsanpintang,

I just simply knew that there were other organizations disbursing salaries.

When Hong Jinglai became the official and deputy minister of the third grade hall, he was as busy as a dog. He went to Gangwon Province to fight wits and help the victims. He didn't even think about salary matters at all. He was definitely his mother again.

I collected it for myself in Hanyang. As for after returning to Hanyang, something happened to those gangsters, so we ran away overnight.

At that time, my mother was completely focused on the marriage between Hong Jinglai and Xiao Baicai. In her eyes, apart from this being a serious matter, everything else was nothing. After receiving the salary, she just threw it away in the warehouse and it was done. As long as she became a court official

Yes, how could he starve to death because he didn't receive such a small salary?

North Korea's finances are a mess. In addition to the serious three political affairs and land tax, there are many things. It is simply a replica of his father next door, Daming.

This Gongzhuangtian basically has the same meaning as the Ming Dynasty's Huangzhuang. It's just that the Ming Dynasty's Huangzhuang is not so exaggerated that any favored concubine can occupy a vast local manor. But it is possible in North Korea, and our king's palace is

Concubine Hong has her own palace, village and land, and the other owners of palaces and pavilions are not like this.
Chapter completed!