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Chapter 417: Amazing Change

At the end of the 12th year of the Apocalypse, the fiscal budget for the new year was finally released. The scale of the fiscal budget reached 1.2 billion yuan, plus 200 million yuan in seigniorage, and the growth of the fiscal budget for next year also sold 100 million yuan.&1t;/p>

Military expenditure support has reached an unprecedented scale of 300 million yuan, but it may not be enough. After years of development, labor costs are no longer as low as before. The treatment of officers and soldiers is now more than 5 yuan a month. Most of them are conscripts, and they do not need to pay military pay, they are only responsible for food, and they are given about 5 cents of pocket money every month.&1t;/p>

However, during the war, the soldiers who participated in the war were liberated from the military pay, and the casualties pension was also increased, and military expenditures were increased in all aspects.&1t;/p>

The war budget for military operations against Mongolia in the 13th year of the Apocalypse was 200 million yuan, so Zhu Youxiao had to stay calm in the battle this time, otherwise it would be easy to issue a war budget.&1t;/p>

In other budgets, administrative expenditure costs have increased to 80,000 yuan, accounting for less than 10% of fiscal revenue, and have not reached a very outrageous level, which is a normal level. Problems such as eating and drinking on public funds have been well managed in the 12th year of the Apocalypse, and the expenses of official personnel on business trips have also been controlled.&1t;/p>

The cost of education reached 300 million yuan in the 13th year of the Apocalypse, and the nine-year compulsory education system was fully implemented in the new policy provinces. At the same time, after the cabinet and Zhu Youzhai discussed it, it decided to launch official compulsory education in the southern provinces. The court will build primary and secondary education facilities in the southern provinces in the 13th year of the Apocalypse, and recruit students from the outside. First, start the education, and then talk about the reform.&1t;/p>

All types of construction funds reached 500 million yuan, including 200 million yuan strategic railway projects. This strategic railway is started on railway lines with less commercial significance such as Mongolia and the Western Regions. The money in this regard is directly allocated by the court. Commercial railways are invested and constructed by state-owned capital.&1t;/p>

At the same time, 200 million yuan was allocated to the construction of urban facilities to build various urban infrastructure. The remaining money was used to build highways and water conservancy facilities.&1t;/p>

After the twelve years of the Apocalypse, all the water conservancy projects in northern provinces have basically been completed, and there are not many large projects that need to be built. The remaining small projects can be built with local governments. The investment in water conservancy construction can be greatly reduced, and only a certain amount of funds will be needed every year in the future.&1t;/p>

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Facilities such as township highways need to be built. A local highway network is still very important. After all, trains cannot connect to every place. Horse transportation still accounts for a large proportion, but horse carriages are no longer used for long-distance transportation. Short-distance transportation often requires horse carriages.&1t;/p>

The main focus of construction is basically on railways and urban infrastructure at this time.&1t;/p>

Urban infrastructure and railway construction activities can provide a large number of jobs for workers entering towns. Commercial housing invested by state-owned enterprises can also solve the housing problems of workers. This aspect is not difficult to solve. Workers entering towns work hard as long as they work hard. Basically, they can buy a commercial housing for 4 to 5 years' wages, and the price of private housing will be even lower.&1t;/p>

Therefore, the workers who entered the town to work did not have the same way migrant workers who went to the city to buy a house. The main reason is that there were not so many people speculating in the house these days. After all, the imperial court did not seek income from land transactions, and the property rights of private houses were also recognized.&1t;/p>

As the saying goes, you will give in; if you are not enough, you will fight.&1t;/p>

When the property is insufficient, the more people rush to buy it, hype it up, and then wait for the price to sell, resulting in further insufficient market resources.&1t;/p>

When resources are sufficient, no one has a sense of urgency and will not rush to buy anything, and there is not that much room for speculation.&1t;/p>

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was carrying out a large-scale land enclosure movement, and more and more farmers entered towns. The court must also strengthen urban infrastructure construction, and state-owned capital must also increase the scale of real estate development to ensure that migrant workers entering the city do not have to be troubled by the problem of houses.&1t;/p>

Once you can't even achieve basic housing, social conflicts will become very sharp. Now the Ming Dynasty can plunder the outside world, and there are no external commodities to plunder the Ming Dynasty's market. The official does not need to rely on real estate to repatriate funds. If you can't even guarantee housing, you will be killed by hitting the head.&1t;/p>

The construction efforts have increased year by year. The Thirteenth Year of the Apocalypse is the year with the largest investment in urban construction. Private enterprises will have a harder life in the Thirteenth Year of the Apocalypse. The scale of investment by private merchants is reduced, and official and state-owned capital also needs to increase the construction scale to ensure employment.&1t;/p>

As for the war against Mongolia, it has not reached the level of mobilizing the people of the whole country. Therefore, it will not be implemented in wartime market controls, and there is no need to invest all factories and most of the population into war production. How should the market economy develop?&1t;/p>

The railway construction project in the 13th year of the Apocalypse will reach an unprecedented scale, and the number of workers directly involved in the construction will reach more than three million.&1t;/p>

The branch railway will start in large quantities, and workers will be recruited nearby.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the construction of three trunk railways to Sichuan, Huguang and Jiangnan will also start construction. After the reform of the new policy, the court has turned the provinces of the new policy into an environment where labor is of value. Unlike in the past, most of the population was nested in the countryside, and often they did nothing, labor was idle and wasted.&1t;/p>

When labor is valuable, people's livelihood will naturally improve.&1t;/p>

There are many projects that need to be built. In the economic model where state-owned capital dominates, ordinary people don’t have to worry about nothing to do. There are always jobs, but the difference is that the difference is that the difference is good.&1t;/p>

This war against Mongolia increased employment, and all kinds of combat materials were bought with money. Therefore, the economic situation in the 13th year of the Apocalypse will not be too bad. For ordinary people, such an economic situation is very good.&1t;/p>

After the fiscal budget is over, the Spring Festival will come.&1t;/p>

After the Spring Festival of the 13th year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty will increase its pace of external expansion and officially launch a new round of territory expansion into the vast hinterland of Asia and Europe.&1t;/p>

This Spring Festival was very comfortable. Zhu Youxiao held a banquet in the palace to entertain ministers in the court, as well as senior officials of the state-owned capital consortium and large capital businessmen in the consortium.&1t;/p>

This is a celebration moment for emerging interest groups that are rising, and this year, there are basically only Han Imperial Party officials left in the court. Even in the provinces of the Northern New Deal, most of the officials have become Han Imperial Party. So there are no flies at the scene. Zhu Youxiao was guarded by stars. As the absolute spokesperson for interests, no one in this interest group likes the emperor's accident, and finally no longer has the worrying life of the past.&1t;/p>

Today's capital can be said to be loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and is very cautious.&1t;/p>

There are a large number of factory and guard agents among the people who always report suspicious people. At the same time, those opposition officials have been cleared out of Beijing, and it is not so convenient to plan assassination, poisoning and other behaviors. The defense in the palace has been further improved, and the Imperial Guards have been carefully selected by Jin.&1t;/p>

The eunuchs and palace maids in the palace are well treated and are also very concerned about Zhu Youxiao's safety. As the royal family became rich, the wages of those eunuchs and palace maids rose sharply. Now even the young eunuchs who have just entered the palace have a salary of ten yuan a month. Of course, there are fewer eunuchs who have entered the palace, and it is strictly forbidden for the public to castrate boys privately.&1t;/p>

The eunuchs and palace maids usually don’t need money to spend. They can retire and retire when they are old, and the royal family helps them to bury their glory when they die. They choose Feng Shui treasure land.&1t;/p>

In the past, people outside the palace were able to bribe eunuchs and maids in the palace. Isn’t it just for money? Isn’t it that capital merchants penetrated into the palace after they got money.&1t;/p>

Nowadays, these eunuchs and palace maids are not short of money. As long as they are not really greedy, ordinary people are very satisfied with the treatment provided to them by the royal family. They have greatly eliminated the possibility that eunuchs and palace maids are bribed by people outside the palace with money.&1t;/p>

Moreover, these eunuchs and palace maids have money, and there are fewer dirty things in fighting for money, so the palace has been safe for this.&1t;/p>

In order to prevent Jiangnan capital from penetrating into the palace, the factory guards have also done a lot of work in secret, but have arrested many suspicious people who have tried to penetrate into the palace.&1t;/p>

When the large capital forces in Jiangnan are useless to penetrate the palace, this kind of infiltration activity has gradually decreased.&1t;/p>

It is only now that Zhu Youxiao feels safer, and he is not so panicked. The improvement in safety situation over the years is also closely related to the rise of the interest groups he has formed.&1t;/p>

The banquet in Huangji Hall was filled with wine and singing and dancing performances, and everyone had a smile on their faces. In the past year, everyone in the venue has enjoyed generous benefits, and among the people present, they have basically received profit dividends from the state-owned capital consortium.&1t;/p>

As senior executives and state-owned enterprise officials, everyone has certain shares to pay dividends, but they do not hold shares, and whoever takes any share will receive dividends.&1t;/p>

Have status and money. For some officials with dian ideals, they do not conflict with their own ideals. What is there a better situation than the current situation.&1t;/p>

But the appetite of capital is endless. At this banquet, these senior officials of the Ming Dynasty strongly supported the Ming Dynasty to continue to expand outward and even more support the conquest of Mongolia.&1t;/p>

Mongolia is a big threat, and no one knows that one day it will be attacked into the pass again. And attacking Mongolia has sufficient long-term interests. Mongolia's grassland economy, commodity market, and Mongolia's mineral resources are all of which have interests.&1t;/p>

Once capital holds power, its ambition is to control the world and eliminate all threats.&1t;/p>

Now Zhu Youxiao's feudal royal power has been capitalized and state-owned capital has taken shape. The ambition of this interest group has also begun to expand.&1t;/p>

In particular, this group has fully tasted the sweetness of external expansion and colonization. In addition, the Ming Dynasty has become more powerful after its reform, so we naturally have to deal with those restless hostile forces.&1t;/p>

Around the Ming Dynasty, Lin Danhan, the Mongolian man, was still showing off his own illusion to Daming. If he didn't beat him hard, he didn't know how much he was.&1t;/p>

Of course, the internal threats have not been resolved, and the biggest threats are still those big capital merchants in Jiangnan. However, the political power of the large capital merchants in the south has been suppressed at this time, and they have no military power. The threat of force is very small.&1t;/p>

After basically solving the problem, this interest group will focus its main expansion on the comprehensive reform of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

This Spring Festival is a celebration, and the Spring Festival in each province is very lively. The royal family has the festiveness of the royal family, and the common people also have their own festiveness. With a good income, a large number of consumers and various products, the New Year is lively, and the new provinces are full of singing and dancing to bring peace.&1t;/p>

If the southern provinces had not yet been included in the reform, it would have been a peaceful and prosperous era.&1t;/p>

Before the Spring Festival this year, a young man named Gu Jiang came to the north alone and began his journey of traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books.&1t;/p>

What I saw along the way was extremely shocking.&1t;/p>

When coming from the sea, thousands of sails competed, and countless people from the ocean knew how many.&1t;/p>

When he disembarked in Jiaozhou Bay, he saw that the port was busy with cargo shipments, and various goods were shipped from overseas to the local area.&1t;/p>

As the end of the year approaches, the people in Qingdao are buying a large number of goods, and their wealth is better than Jiangnan. Especially the shipbuilders here, they have a rich income and have a very strong purchasing power after working hard for a year.&1t;/p>

There are spices, rice, and fruits shipped from Nanyang, Indochina Peninsula, India on the market. There are also sea fish and whale meat transported from Zhendong Province.&1t;/p>

There are also various jewelry and rare treasures shipped from overseas on the market. There are also a large number of industrial products, textiles, furs, and other daily necessities and luxury goods.&1t;/p>

The once poor and backward northern provinces are now prosperous in business, and carriages filled with goods can be seen everywhere shuttled on the highway. Steam roars in the industrial zones, and what shocked him the most was the construction of the railway to Qingdao.&1t;/p>

This is the first time Gu Jiang has seen the railway and is deeply shocked by the changes in the north.&1t;/p>

He did not stay in Qingdao, but traveled in other prefectures and counties in Shandong to continue to understand the reforms and changes in the north. What shocked Gu Jiang the most along the way was the reform of the northern administration and the huge enclosure movement.&1t;/p>

The administration of officials in the north is not as advertised by the gentry in Jiangnan. It was dark after being controlled by the eunuch party. Instead, the administration of officials is clear and judicial justice is fair.&1t;/p>

Moreover, after the reform, the imperial court increased the township government and became very powerful in control of the local government. Moreover, no officials dared to openly oppress the people. Even if there were still some injustice, they had already restrained a lot and did not dare to do it blatantly.&1t;/p>

The land enclosure movement shocked Gu Jiang. Agricultural companies merged a large number of land, and a large number of farmers left the land, changing their lifestyle for thousands of years, entering towns or agricultural companies and becoming workers.&1t;/p>

This made Gu Jiang finally see the sufferings of these ordinary people. Some farmers who left the land had no life, while some of them had their wives and children separated during the migration.&1t;/p>

But on the other hand, those workers entering towns can easily find jobs. Officials and state-owned enterprises are building constructions everywhere and building various facilities.&1t;/p>

Many questions made Gu Jiang unable to understand.&1t;/p>

He didn't understand how this model would last for a long time. Do we always have so many jobs? But despite all these or those problems, they are all pains of reform. Those workers who entered towns, because they obtained jobs, their living standards improved very quickly.&1t;/p>

Some workers who entered the town earlier have generally owned their own houses in the town.&1t;/p>

For those workers who could not survive in towns, the court also had various policies to ensure their survival. Moreover, Gu Jiang visited many places and asked many people from different classes. He learned that the northern provinces that were often affected by disasters and starved to death had not starved to death for many years.&1t;/p>

At this time, even if local governments in northern provinces are affected by disasters, even if the government does not provide relief, the people will not be starved to death. Because workers are recruiting everywhere, they will not starve to death with just one effort.&1t;/p>

The social conflicts in northern provinces are the most concentrated areas where the people and the government are no longer the conflicts between the people and the government, but the conflicts caused by the rapid development and rapid gap between the rich and the poor. The workers who just entered the town even had nothing, while those merchants had a huge fortune.&1t;/p>

Not everyone is satisfied with the current social situation, but when it comes to the impression of the emperor, most of the groups of all classes think that the emperor is a good emperor today. The biggest complaints are those private businessmen. They feel that the bank will not lend money, but they are just complaining.&1t;/p>

This young man named Gu Jiang gradually realized that a huge change would surely sweep the entire Ming Dynasty in the future. Now the cohesion of northern provinces has become unprecedentedly powerful.&1t;/p>

Gu Jiang is also the future Gu Yanwu.&1t;/p>

He decided to continue traveling to the north and visit the capital, the northeast, the western regions and other places. He had completely given up the imperial examination at this time. Now, after the new policy of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination is no longer the only way to enter the officialdom. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
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