Wang Yucai, the Minister of Accounts of the Dahua Empire, rubbed his sore eyes and put down the accounting information in his hand. His recent work has been going smoothly, because at least judging from the accounts, the fiscal revenue of the Dahua Empire is increasing.
The originally unsatisfactory financial situation is improving, and many grants that were originally unaffordable can now be considered.
For a household official in charge of money and food, this is definitely a good thing, and for an empire, this is definitely good news.
There are many sources of income. Wang Yucai has been sorting out the account books these days, trying to analyze something. To his relief, he really saw something.
The biggest increase in finance comes from the prosperity of industry: the Dahua Empire has added a large number of factories in the past two years, and these factories have corresponding commercial operations, which have brought a large amount of tax revenue to the Dahua Empire.
The second half is agriculture. Because of the introduction of excellent varieties from the Tang Empire and the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, the Dahua Empire also achieved a bumper harvest this year. Dahua originally relied on agriculture as its main source of income.
The empire naturally also gained a lot of income from this harvest.
The third revenue is customs duties. As an important trading port, Fengjiang has become the richest city in the Great China Empire. Countless goods are settled there for customs clearance. The income of a Fengjiang city is almost as much as that of the southern part of the Great China Empire.
The income is even higher.
Not only did the trade taxes between the Tang Empire and the Great China Empire increase massively, but the goods that were sold to the Tang Empire in transit from the Qin State also had to pass through the Great China Empire, and transit fees also had to be paid.
These constant incomes every year made Wang Yucai, the Minister of Household Affairs, breathe a sigh of relief. During the court meeting, the weight of his words increased a lot.
Unfortunately, with the increase in income, Wang Yucai found that the speed of spending money in various departments was also increasing rapidly. No matter how he suppressed it, the expenses of the Dahua Empire in the past two years were also rising.
Investment in road construction began to increase dramatically. Because of the prosperity of business and the needs of production, transportation capacity must be strengthened. This is the expenditure that everyone agrees on, because everyone is asking for the improvement of road traffic conditions.
In turn, repairing and maintaining these roads requires money, and managing these roads and railways also requires a large group of people.
As the economic situation improved, the Emperor of the Great China Empire increased everyone's salary and salary in order to stabilize his position and appease his ministers and lower officials.
This kind of invitation to buy people's hearts became extremely correct under the premise that the Ministry of Household Affairs had money, so Wang Yucai had to agree to this salary increase plan. After all, in the past two years or so, these ministers have indeed done something for
Dahua’s stability has made a certain contribution.
Finally, the largest increase was in defense spending. The Great China Empire increased its defense spending budget as soon as its finances improved.
There is no way. It is now sandwiched between the Qin State and the Tang Empire. It is under huge security pressure, so it will inevitably strengthen its military capabilities to cope with the two-front war crisis that may arise at any time.
The strange thing is that the Dahua Empire is unwilling to purchase the advanced weapons and equipment sold by the Datang Group. They insist on "independent research and development" of weapons and have invested a lot of money in this area.
Although this idea is not necessarily wrong, and the results may not be bad, it is obviously unreasonable to rashly develop more advanced weapons and equipment without fully understanding advanced technology.
Miraculously, they actually succeeded in the end. The Dahua Empire made a series of enhancements based on the Dahua 1 fighter it had previously produced, and finally designed the Dahua 2 fighter.
With the support of the prince Zhao Yu and the forces behind him, the Dahua Empire's technicians designed the Dahua 2 fighter jet, which looks almost exactly the same as the Italian G50 fighter jet. Needless to say, the reason for this goes into detail. In short, the credit belongs to Zhao Yu.
This made Zhao Ji even more anxious.
Dahua's so-called new fighter jet, the G50, not only adds a closed cockpit, but also improves the performance of the low-profile engine a little bit, allowing the aircraft to barely fly at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.
Its overall performance is at the same level as Qin's Gale fighter, and there is still a certain gap between it and the Butcher fighter that is being phased out by the Tang Empire.
As a result, this OEM self-developed advanced fighter jet immediately received orders. In order to replace its own old fighter jets, the Dahua Empire purchased 1,000 of them in one go.
The Dahua Empire has no other choice. Their neighbor to the west, Qin, has begun mass production of Gale 2 fighter jets. If the Dahua Empire does not follow suit, it is likely to be surpassed by its neighbor.
In addition, the Dahua Empire improved its tanks and began to produce Type 3 tanks based on the original Type 2 tanks.
The performance of the new tank has generally caught up with the Tang Dynasty No. 4 tank. After all, vehicle-mounted radios are no longer a secret technology.
Although the military of the Great China Empire was not as well aware of this type of tank as the Leopard tanks of the Tang Empire, they still purchased large quantities of such tanks.
Because they don't need to surpass the Tang Empire, they just need to be more advanced than the Qin State on the other side: Qin State has not yet equipped a large number of tanks, and the Great China Empire, which has a better economic situation, obviously has an advantage in the arms race.
It can be seen from the procurement of aircraft that the Dahua Empire's air force strategy has begun to undergo fundamental changes.
They did not rush to deploy new bombers, but instead concentrated funds to purchase a large number of fighter jets. This shows that the air force of the Great China Empire is mainly defensive, which is completely different from most countries in the eastern continent.
This is also determined by the special national conditions of the Great China Empire: their opponents are too powerful, and they do not believe that their air force can control air power in front of the Great Tang Empire Air Force, so they are not prepared to waste precious funds on offensive bombers.
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The equipment of a large number of armored troops shows that the Dahua Empire attaches great importance to ground troops: they hope that their troops can withstand the enemy's attack and have the ability to launch a counterattack when necessary.
It has to be said that Shen Chuan, the Minister of War, is quite good. After summing up the lessons learned from the failure of the previous war, he formulated a relatively feasible plan to strengthen the army.
For the Tang Empire, we should focus on being on guard and making good friends, avoid war as much as possible, and mainly use permanent defense fortifications to resist possible attacks by the Tang army. We may even simply mess up the technical equipment. If I can't catch up, I won't pursue it. Save Save money and effort.
Facing its neighbor Qin to the west, the Great China Empire focused on deterrence, deploying a large number of tank troops and assuming a posture ready for a fight with Qin. Relying on sufficient funds, the Great China Western Front troops did create a problem for Qin. The huge pressure forced Qin to temporarily hide its small plans for great China.
In conjunction with diplomatic operations, Dahua's external situation has been basically stabilized in the past two years, and there is even a faint tendency to overshadow the Qin state. However, all this seems to be based on the fact that the Tang Empire has no plans to expand westward. On this basis.
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I have something to do at home today, so I can only update once, I will make it up tomorrow, sorry.