The New Year holiday is five days. For a few years, Mr. Guo has only been in Luoyang City but outside Luoyang City.

Taking the children to rest and have fun in the hot spring imperial village and enjoy this wonderful atmosphere is also an excellent seasoning for Mr. Guo.

At the end of the holiday, on the morning of the fifth day, after breakfast, the royal family was preparing to return to Luoyang and return to their daily lives.

While preparing to return to the palace, Su Yuan came up and handed the report he had prepared to Guo Peng.

"Your Majesty, as you told me, I have already counted all the minerals that can be developed that have been explored in the country. Please read it."

Guo Peng took Su Yuan’s paper report and started to read it carefully.

At the end of the first year of Yande, Guo Peng had ordered Su Yuan to draw some elite personnel to leave the capital and go to various places to investigate the mineral deposits in various places, especially the mineral deposits of important minerals such as gold, silver, copper and iron, and conduct a comprehensive investigation.

Mr. Guo should know the number and distribution of minerals that have been discovered across the country, as well as those minerals in Mr. Guo’s memory that have not been discovered yet but have indeed had a huge reserve.

Mr. Guo doesn’t know much.

It is also known that Shu is rich in minerals, and if you explore carefully, you can find many iron ore and copper ores.

Danyang County along the Yangtze River has a huge and abundant iron ore.

There are huge and abundant coal mines in Taiyuan and other places.

Qingzhou has rich gold mines, and Liaodong also has gold mines.

He only knows a broad range, but it is better than knowing nothing.

Later, he sent people from the inner court to take some old miners who have been engaged in the mining industry for many years to investigate and explore these places.

It took some time to discover unexploded iron ore in Danyang County and unexploded gold mines in Qingzhou.

So the long-planned work of using the inner court to start mining and enrich the source of funds in the inner warehouse is about to be carried out.

The dispute between the emperor's inner treasury and the imperial court's national treasury was quite interesting. Generally speaking, it has been found in all dynasties, but it was not as fierce as the Ming Dynasty.

The peak of the struggle in the Ming Dynasty was the mine tax, and the mine tax dispute was really fierce. It lasted for a long time. Many people died, many eunuchs died, and many thugs died, and they were all confused.

In short, the emperor and local forces rob money. If the local forces are unwilling, the emperor will force the robbery, which triggers a series of events.

This matter is still very interesting, and neither side is a good person.

The imperial officials wanted to eat this part of the profit themselves, so they tried every means to obstruct them. The emperor also wanted to eat it, and the food was ugly, and the tax prisons sent out were not fuel-efficient.

Basically, it's two assholes who are more assholes.

But at least one of the bastards could get some money for the emperor and put it in the inner culinary, while the other bastard was trying to find a way to take out the money from the emperor's inner culinary.

From the emperor's standpoint, he must have chosen the previous bastard.

However, in this way, those eunuchs in the mine tax will do whatever they want to do in the local area and destroy the local economy, which will indirectly reduce local taxes and treasury revenue, which will become a vicious cycle.

The emperor is rich, and the borers are rich, but the treasury is out of money. When something happens, everyone pretends to be deaf and shirks responsibility. No one wants to pay for it, and they have to pull each other back.

The people are the ones who suffer in the end.

From top to bottom, they are all bastards. They are not destroyed at this point. It is really supported by the reforms of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Juzheng.

In fact, the emperor's inner treasury can often play a role in providing a guarantee for the empire. Smart emperors will make rational use of their own inner treasury inventory. Once they want to do something and whether the inner treasury has sufficient deposits, they can dominate the direction of this matter.

Spending money to do business in the treasury is to argue with imperial officials. If you spend money to do business in the treasury, no one can say that it is wrong.

Mr. Guo’s internal treasury amount is huge, but his expenditure is just as huge.

It costs a lot of money to set up a secret workshop, and it is even more of a bottomless pit. It rewards officials during festivals and festivals, and the army has made contributions to military generals and soldiers. With the occasional care of ordinary people, this money is basically spent on the internal treasury.

The expenses of thousands of people in the inner court must be taken to the inner warehouse. If there are any major disasters, the emperor will also pay some money from the inner warehouse.

The emperor seems to be rich in the world and possesses all over the world, but in fact, he is also a poor character who wishes to spend a penny in half.

In order to maintain a decent life and maintain the dignity of the emperor, spending money is nothing. Even if you don’t have money, you should spend it as money.

Therefore, every time at the end of the dynasty, the emperors' eating habits became ugly one by one. They personally robbed money from their ministers, and they even wanted the emperor's mystery.

It’s not that the emperor is shameless. He really has no money to use it. His daily consumption is very large. If he doesn’t make some money, there will be a problem.

Mr. Guo’s consumption is also quite large.

So although there is a large amount of income, many of them are determined by their usefulness. Guo himself does not use much, and the internal treasury savings are limited. He also tries to reduce expenditures in the inner court and strictly control any expenditures.

Since the establishment of the Tenth Inspectorate of the Inner Court in Yande in the first year, through the inspection of the Cabinet Audit Department, Guo has killed at least thirty eunuchs who are ugly.

It’s not that they didn’t let them get some oil and water, and they took some oil and water for their future considerations. Guo turned a blind eye and went over.

But some people have a bad attitude towards eating and are taboos, so they are not allowed to treat them as fat sheep, fatten them, and slaughter them, and the money will still be returned to the emperor and the inner treasury.

But there is always someone to do the work in the huge inner court.

Now the amount of expenditure is increasing, but the sources of income have not increased. Guo’s small treasury will have problems sooner or later, so the money earned by Guo is also regarded as a good way to open source for himself.

This is different from that of the Ming emperors.

When the emperor of the Ming Dynasty opened a mine, some eunuchs did make money for him, but there was still a part that could not open a mine at all.

At that time, the emperor didn't want to find professionals to explore and search in advance. Often, he heard that there were mines in some places, so he sent people to open them, but there were no mines there at all.

The eunuchs of the mine taxation finally came out just to make money. Maybe the news about the mines in this place were all colluded with local officials to release them to deceive the emperor. After finally coming out, how could it be so easy to leave?

He even needs to collect taxes for mines. Without mines, he also needs to collect taxes.

Where does the tax come from?

Who is the unlucky one?

Emperor Wanli was famously greedy and shrewd, but he was not a professional. He didn't know where there were mines and where there were no mines. He recognized the money. He would be happy if he gave him money, no matter what else.

So some of the mine tax eunuchs were beaten and killed, but some of them really made themselves demands.

The people were so overwhelmed that they had no choice but to riot, and they made trouble in groups, and they would beat the eunuchs around the residence of the eunuchs of the mine tax. Then the eunuchs of the mine tax will die without a place to bury them.

The public is angry and infringed. If someone is really dead, the emperor dares not pursue it. The ministers are even more happy and want to speak for the people.

That's a confusing account.

The bureaucratic group itself is inconsistent on the issue of whether to start a mining business. The so-called [civilian group] has never had a unified position. There are many people who bite each other, and those who die, and those who are irreconcilable.

Mr. Guo is much better. At least he also has some knowledge of the location of famous minerals in his mind. He also respects professionals very much and also improves his status and voice.

Although he didn't know the specific location and just knew the approximate range, he drew a circle for professionals to explore. After a few years, he could do it.

Of course, discovering mineral deposits is one thing, and whether current technology can be mined is another thing, so Mr. Guo also needs to ask professionals to evaluate whether the mine can be opened, how it will be opened, how it will be opened, how much cost, how much output, etc.

The most important thing is of course whether you can make money. If you can’t make money, you have to pay for money. Then leave this mineral for future generations. When their technology improves, you will come to mine it. Don’t be too stupid.

Anyway, you must understand it well, and Mr. Guo did not relax at all.

After more than a year of hard work, the exploration team sent by Mr. Guo reported good news and finally determined that seven new mines could be sent to mine, one gold mine, two coal mines, two iron mines, and two copper mines.

Not to mention how much you expect, you can definitely make money anyway, and the mining cost is not very high.

Mr. Guo is very happy.
Chapter completed!