Financially-minded as the Sung dynasty was, the cost of the operation of the palace was calculated, so that the emperor had a budget: in 1068 the salaries of all officials in the capital amounted to 40,000 strings of money per month, the armies 100,000, and the emperor's ordinary monthly budget was 70,000 strings.

The Budget is a prosperity Budget.

In the first year of the war the Swedish budget was thirteen millions of dollars, of which nine and a half went for armaments.

Gladstone's budgets and Cobden's Free-Trade Treaty with France were the important events.