Chapter 46 [Blowing force still depends on me]
Emperor Long Xing was telling his recent achievements and looking forward to the future.
Lin Zhibai was eating happily, enjoying his father's feeding, and by the way, he improved his plan.
In general, creating wonders is not a bad thing, but the premise is to plan reasonably.
"Father, if you want to do so many projects, your tax income and snow salt income may not be enough. Maybe you can try to develop commercial taxes and charge some taxes for the shops in the city, as well as river and sea transportation exports from south to north.
"If all these are spread out, it is not a problem to increase the tax revenue of Dahua to 200 million taels in one fell swoop on the basis of 70 to 80 million taels today.
"But if you want to make sure to collect taxes and fees without causing chaos in the people, you must expand the number of minor officials below and increase their salary and status. In addition, you must strengthen the power of the Hongwei, so that they can be responsible for supervising the people and reporting all kinds of injustice."
After swallowing a sip of flamingo jerky, Lin Zhibai took a sip of ginseng tea and continued: "Actually, father, you don't have to wait until you build the grassland before starting these projects. Now, you can borrow money from those families.
"Then use this money to recruit young and strong laborers from all over the country to help them clear and repair the north and south canals, and even official roads and paths in various places. The money spent on these projects can be recovered with tolls.
"If we spend 1 billion taels to clear the construction of the North and South Canals, we will collect tolls for a hundred years. We will pay back the money in the first fifty years, and we can also pay dividends to the aristocratic families who borrowed money. In the next fifty years, we will make pure profits.
"In this way, although those aristocratic families were collected from commercial taxes and customs duties, these infrastructure projects can also bring benefits to them, bind them to our Dahua, and reduce their confrontation.
"When people in the people have money, they can have more children and reclaim more land, without worrying about starving to death. After consumption, they can also promote the circulation of goods and receive more commercial taxes. In addition, the increase in land tax brought by land reclamation will cause our tax sources to increase snowballs.
"In addition, the convenience of transportation can greatly deepen our royal family's control over the place."
Lin Zhibai briefly gave Longxingdi a brief introduction to the theory that consumer infrastructure drives social and economic development and increases social wealth.
Finally, he smiled and said, "My son probably calculated that the entire wasteland in Dahua has been reclaimed, and the farming area can be estimated to reach 2 billion mu, and the population can be expanded to 400 million or even 500 million people by then.
"After this, we can expand our excess population to the Nanyang grasslands, so that our Dahua may become the most powerful dynasty in history. Father, you may not be the emperor of the ages, but the emperor of the ages."
As for the contents of people practicing martial arts, education for all, a certain product of thousands of kilograms, exploring the end of the sky, and even going above the nine heavens, Lin Zhibai hasn't said it yet, but it has already made Emperor Longxing's blood boil.
After thinking for a moment, Emperor Long Xing didn't dare to imagine what kind of situation would it be if Lin Zhibai's explanation had all realized what he said.
He found that when it comes to creating wonders, his thinking and imagination are still too small. If he really has a big picture, his own prince is still.
Emperor Long Xing, with some excitement, handed Lin Zhibai a piece of dried fruit. Seeing that his son was less than twelve years old but had a 1.75-meter-old son, he smiled and said, "The emperor is getting older, but his intelligence is even more intelligent than before."
Seeing Emperor Longxing so happy, Lin Zhibai said shyly: "Father, in addition to the above, my son is actually trying to explore the essence of life recently, understand the causes of aging, and see if there is any possibility of finding a way to prolong life.
"But this process is extremely expensive. The martial arts training funds you granted to Erchen before are no longer enough..."
At first, Lin Zhibai wanted to force it directly. Although Emperor Longxing would give it, he was unwilling to give it. At this moment, Emperor Longxing would probably be willing to give it to him. He felt that it was worth it.
Emperor Long Xing, who was so excited by Lin Zhibai's blowing, waved his hand without waiting for Lin Zhibai to continue talking, said, "Do whatever the emperor wants to do, and the father is your strongest backing."
"Since you don't have enough money, my father will increase your annual funding to 5 million taels. In addition, as you grow older this year, you should have some fief. Then I will allocate the 800,000 acres of imperial villages in Yuyu County, Donghai County to you.
"In addition, all the land that this county reclaims will be given to you by the emperor."
The 800,000 mu of land, the imperial villages are all landed. Based on the average yield of 300 kilograms of grain per mu, it also produces 240 million kilograms of grain.
According to ten cents per kilogram of grain, a mu of land can generate a profit of three taels of silver, totaling 2.4 million taels. Even if the expenses such as eating and chewing by people are deducted, at least Lin Zhibai has to provide income of two million taels per year.
With the funds for martial arts practice, Lin Zhibai directly raised his salary by 5 million taels every year, which totaled 7 million taels.
This huge income is enough even if Lin Zhibai spends money like flowing water.
Emperor Longxing was so generous that Lin Zhibai reciprocated his love and stopped eating. Instead, he pulled his father and began to plan every step of creating a wonder plan for him from beginning to end, as well as some of the challenges he might encounter.
After all, it comes from a civilized and developed industrial society. These problems have appeared in that world, and there are specific solutions.
Emperor Long Xing felt an eye-opener when he listened to these contents.
After the conversation, Lin Zhibai escaped and still had no intention of going to the imperial study room to observe politics. He then studied martial arts.
After this training plan, Lin Zhibai's cultivation speed increased, but his time was further liberated, which gave him more enthusiasm and energy to study.
Without opening a new project, Lin Zhibai continued to study it according to the training plan, striving to improve every detail to prevent problems.
"With this training plan, my internal energy growth will become faster and faster in the visible future. What limits me at this time is the ability of my own meridian acupoints. In the next period of time, I need to focus more on tempering my body.
"Only when the body grows, can I carry more internal breath. Only when the meridians and acupoints are stronger can I exert all the combat power represented by these surge internal breaths."
With this idea, Lin Zhibai began to study while practicing.
Time passes through this process.
In a blink of an eye, Lin Zhibai is twelve years old.
It was at this time that his martial arts practice finally reached a crucial state.
Chapter completed!