Heavenly Dao Formula

As for the consequences of Eunuch Li and Hong Siqi's warning, Xia Fan is also well aware.

In the final analysis, it is still a matter of "money".

Not enough land for living in the city? Expansion to the suburbs is.

Food consumption is fast? It is possible to increase investment in beach salt fields and strive to double the harvest in the coming year.

These problems are not difficult to deal with as long as you have money on hand.

The General Affairs Bureau invests in new projects while providing a large number of jobs, all of which require a lot of money to support, but correspondingly, the Bureau does not receive much profit. Since taking over all functions of the government office, Jinxia's only stable income comes from commercial taxes. It's just that this amount of money is not enough compared to the expenses, especially after the bottomless pit of opening schools and promoting primary education, the secretariat loses tens of thousands of taels of silver every month.

From Eunuch Li's point of view, he is simply pouring his own money to the people like water. Once the money in the pocket is used up, the policies built on this system will collapse with a crash.

In his view, a balance of payments, or a financial situation in which income is slightly greater than expenditure is the most ideal situation.

This will ensure that Ning Wanjun's treasury will have a surplus every year, and the wealth will accumulate more and more.

But Xia Fan knows that this is not what a leading government should do.

On the contrary, the expenditure of the Bureau should be greater than the income, and the expenditure should be increased every year, so that the social wealth can be moderately inflated, so as to make the economy full of vitality.

To put it simply, it is to increase the money in private circulation.

Therefore, there is no problem with the status quo of Jinxia City. The only problem is that silver taels are real objects, unlike banknotes that can be printed as much as you want.

In other words, it is precisely because of the emergence of banknotes that the shackles of currencies such as gold and silver were completely liberated, and the speed of social development took off rapidly.

Xia Fan also really wanted to do this, but unfortunately Jinxia City is still under-developed, and printing money directly is prone to a series of problems.

The most important thing is the product.

Apart from salt and houses, Jinxia had no necessities for life, which left the government with no channels other than decrees to encourage residents to convert their silver taels into banknotes, or vice versa to prevent them from exchanging banknotes for silver taels.

Out of concerns about new things, after the people get the banknotes issued as salaries, they will definitely try their best to exchange them for silver. If the established banks cannot exchange enough cash, the banknotes that do not have much credit will go bankrupt immediately.

Of course, he can also increase the selling price of salt and houses, and stipulate that transactions must be made in paper money. This will indeed allow people to hold a certain amount of banknotes for a long time, but the high prices of salt and houses will greatly reduce the willingness of migrants to move in, and the result is putting the cart before the horse.

After the large-scale harvest in Yantian, the idea of ​​printing money may be possible by using grain as an intermediate equivalent, but it is definitely a matter of doing more harm than good now.

Jinxia needs to use more direct means to solve this shortfall.

After dinner, Xia Fan directly asked the princess to call his subordinates and held a small meeting in the classroom.

"Master Xia, I haven't seen you for a month, and you are stronger than before." Eunuch Li said with a smile, "I heard that you want to solve the problem of the empty internal storage this time?"

Probably because of the rapid changes in Jinxia City recently, all the way up, even the oldest veteran in the princess team has become respectful.

"Indeed." Xia Fan said frankly, "If you don't have any money on hand, you will have less confidence in doing things, right?"

"You're right." He almost frowned and smiled. After all, he was the one who proposed this matter. If the financial crisis can be avoided, it would be a credit to the princess. "Does it need to stop which project, or add a new tax?"

"Neither." Xia Fan shook his head. "The current projects promoted by the Bureau not only cannot be stopped, but must be promoted more vigorously. It is easier to increase taxes than to reduce them, and we should not increase them hastily because of temporary difficulties."

Eunuch Li was stunned, "Then how do you reduce the deficit in the internal treasury? Could it be...you are waiting for the tribute from the Yama Kingdom?"

"That amount of money is certainly considerable, but we don't know when the ships across the sea will arrive." Staff officer He Guicai expressed concern.

"Of course I won't pin my hopes on uncertain things." Xia Fan spread out the big map of Shenzhou in front of everyone, "The silver balance should be settled from within Shenzhou."

Army Commander Xu Sanzhong's eyes lit up, "You mean... robbery?"

"——It is to take back the power to Jinxia." Xia Fan corrected, "It is foreseeable that the Privy Council will take action against Jinxia in the coming year. Our original plan was to take Shenzhou slowly, but the matter has come to this point. There is not much need either. Sending troops to take down the surrounding cities and towns and replace these local governments is the task to be completed this winter!"

Ning Wanjun stood up suddenly, "Good idea!" Her eyes were full of excitement, "These government must have collected a lot of money, if they can rob them all - gather them together, it is equivalent to being another royal family." accumulation."

For Shenzhou locals, the snow season will only cause difficulties for the army to march and supply, and it is not to the extent that it is impassable. And the only garrison in Shenzhou is far to the west, and Jinxia City is undoubtedly the overlord of the entire southeast region.

"If you include clearing up old accounts, there are several royal families." Xia Fan laughed, especially local squires such as squires and big landlords, there are absolutely very few who have not committed violations of law and discipline. After taking down the government office, it is estimated that many cases can be found by searching according to the documents and decrees of the government office. "Of course, the purpose of this matter is not just to enrich the pockets."

He held out three fingers.

"The air rifles have been assembled in the troops, and five or six machine beasts have been built. This operation can be used as an actual combat exercise. It will not only allow the troops to familiarize themselves with the usage of these new equipment, but also an opportunity to test their actual effects."

In a sense, this is a Butan collaboration with Jinxia's characteristics. Mechanized beasts are far less flexible than horses, but their durability and load capacity are not comparable to horses. How much this kind of war equipment can play in actual combat is unknown to Xia Fan, so it is absolutely necessary to use weak enemies to practice in advance.

"Secondly, the officials prepared for these towns can also be seamlessly integrated into the new plan, so after the government is banned, these towns will not lose order. On the contrary, they can be used by Jinxia immediately to supplement our single resources and deficiencies.”

"Finally, I hope that when the Privy Council takes targeted action, the front line of the war will not start near Jinxia City." Xia Fan said solemnly, "A last stand shows determination, but it is also another manifestation of the end of the road. If you want to fight with the Privy Council Confrontation, this winter we should at least take the whole of Shenzhou into our hands, and compete with them within the boundaries of Shenzhou."