In terms of fiscal budget, there were also results before the New Year.

There are 55 million taels that can be budgeted, of which 5 million taels are given to the textile factory.

The Ministry of Education received 3 million taels, responsible for the education issues in Shandong. First, the treatment of teachers is increased, in the hope of recruiting more literati to engage in this industry. The biggest problem in the education industry is that there are not enough teachers, so the treatment of teachers has increased to a monthly salary of 5 taels of silver.

Denglai Institute of Science and Technology received 1 million taels of research funds, and the Military Weapons Bureau also received 1 million taels of weapon research funds. The Ministry of Agriculture received 3 million taels of funds to repair Shandong water conservancy.

The Ministry of Fisheries received 1 million taels for building fishing boats and prepared to develop the Zhoushan Fishery in Songjiang Prefecture. The Military Department received 15 million taels of military expenses, including 3 million taels of navy and 12 million taels of army.

There are also 3 million taels for building bastions in various parts of the East Three Prefectures and training the whole of Shandong to achieve youth and strong people. With such an expense, there are still 23 million taels of silver left.

After Zhao Yan considered it, he allocated 3 million taels to buy cattle and horses, and 5 million taels to repair Shandong roads, and 5 million taels to build nautical ships. In the end, there was still 10 million taels left.

The 10 million taels of silver were used for commercial stimulus by Zhao Yan. Since the commercial bank only retained the operations of six fields and the operation of grain banks, all the other industries were sold out. Any involved industry that did not conflict with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau could obtain a certain amount of interest-free loans from the bank.

The total amount of interest-free loans reaches 10 million taels, and at the same time, Denglai Bank will also take out a loan of 5 million taels.

Interest-free loans are mainly for small and medium-sized businessmen. The loan amount is small and the number of people is large, so as to encourage small and medium-sized businessmen to start their own businesses.

At the same time, Denglai Science and Technology Institute will provide comprehensive technical support to Shandong businessmen.

Zhao Yan also promulgated the article "Shandong Business Administration Regulations", which stipulates that any industry that uses advanced technology of the Academy of Sciences and has a market monopoly on the outside will be subject to taxes depending on the industry's profitability.

The meaning of this regulation is that as long as the industry uses the technology of the Academy of Sciences and forms a monopoly competitive advantage to the outside world, the Industrial and Commercial Bureau will increase taxes depending on the situation, or even charge heavy taxes.

With the development of science and technology, any current production process will one day be replaced. The introduction of this regulation means that Zhao Yan will continue to adjust commercial taxes in the future.

Commercial tax is a very difficult thing to adjust. As for Shandong's 10% commercial tax, some people would object to it. If Zhao Yan directly raised the commercial tax, it would definitely be opposed by Shandong merchants.

The speed of capital industrialization of these merchants really disappointed Zhao Yan. Many merchants still have the same old concept of Lu Business, and the speed of capital industrialization is very slow.

Therefore, Zhao Yan needed to support a group of new forces, so he took out 10 million taels of silver as an interest-free loan, mainly to those merchants with little capital or those without capital.

That's what next year's budget will be.

In general, next year, in terms of production, the main focus will be on developing the breeding industry in Qingzhou and Laizhou, and at the same time, the Zhoushan fishing ground will be developed, with a total budget of 4 million taels.

In terms of infrastructure, it focuses on road construction, water conservancy, and fortification construction, with a total budget of 8 million taels.

The military budget totaled 15 million taels.

The construction budget for ships is 5 million taels, and no all of them will be built. Next year, 50 frigates will start construction. The frigates are made of North American schooners, each with 600 tons and 30 artillery pieces. At the same time, 100 1,500-ton clippers will start construction.

Experiments have shown that every time a ship is expanded twice, the power required is only 1.5 times, so the larger the sailboat is built, the faster the speed. If it is a ship, the larger the fuel is built, the smaller the proportion of the loading of the cargo, and the larger the cargo loading capacity, so people like to build the ship larger and larger the ship.

This batch of ships will probably not be completed in the next year.

The 50 flying scissors that started construction last year have only been launched 20, and 30 more will not be launched until April next year.

In terms of colonial expansion, currently overseas colonies include Hawaii and California, and two regions will be included in the colonial plan next year. That is Alaska and Hokkaido.

In this era, no one visited Alaska, and Hokkaido was not under the control of Japan. The Japanese did not want Hokkaido at all, but regarded Hokkaido as a place to exile prisoners. The one living above was a tribe called "Xiaoyi".

Alaska has gold mines, salmon, fur, and Hokkaido has famous Hokkaido fishing grounds. Some people say that Japan's protein source is not beef, but fish! Because they own Hokkaido fishing grounds, which is the world's largest fishing grounds! China's Zhoushan fishing grounds are far from being compared with Hokkaido fishing grounds.

At the same time, half of Japan's coal mines are in Hokkaido, which is also an important agricultural product production base, which is very suitable for the development of animal husbandry. As long as Hokkaido is occupied, Japan's resources will be even scarce.

Furthermore, Hokkaido and Alaska are located in the North Pacific Ocean. After occupying these two areas, they open up new waterways, and Hawaii - California is another waterway.

Before the year was over, Zhao Yan sent two fly-scissors to Hokkaido to investigate, and three fly-scissors were dispatched to carry a thousand marines to recover Sakhalin Island.

Sakhalin Island was under the jurisdiction of the Nurgan Dusi. In the tenth year of Xuande (1435 AD), the Nurgan Dusi was abolished, and the subordinate garrisons continued to exist. However, after the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty, the three garrisons on Sakhalin Island had been interrupted. According to the news sent back by the Liaodong Special Forces Brigade, Sakhalin Island was now under the control of the Qing Dynasty, and the three garrisons on Sakhalin Island no longer existed.

The Qing Dynasty on Sakhalin Island should not be strong, and one thousand people are enough to recover.

The resources that Sakhalin Island can use at present are minks, wood, fishery products, natural gas, oil, and coal, and they are not yet used, and their development value is not great.

...The New Year is here again. This year's Denglai Bi became much more prosperous last year. People no longer worry about food and clothing. Every household has too much food to eat. A large amount of money has caused the vigorous development of Shandong's economy.

During the Chinese New Year this year, Zhao Yan still visited the families of martyrs and the elderly and widowed, and distributed some New Year goods to those in need.

During the Chinese New Year in Shandong, there was no beggar, and there was nothing hungry. The porridge sheds in various counties in Shandong were open all year round, and there were so many sweet potatoes that could keep people alive.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, the first fleet returned to Qingdao and brought back twenty-one ships. Unfortunately, they did not grab any warships, and also brought back 8 million taels of cargo and silver.

"We have another 8 million taels budget. How can we spend this 8 million taels?" Zhao Yan called everyone and asked them.

"Lord, we can use it to build ships. As long as we have enough ships, we can plunder more gold and silver from overseas." Liu Heng suggested: "It is best to build more frigates, specifically used to intercept merchant ships from other countries. Our frigates have high speed and few manpower. In addition, advanced artillery is enough to challenge European warships. As long as there are enough frigates, we can completely paralyze the Dutch trade in Asia, and at the same time we can also plunder European ships in the Atlantic Ocean. At the same time, our frigates are very low, only ten thousand taels per ship, and the price ratio is very high."

At this time, Mao Yuanyi nodded and said, "Master, we can use Paulownia to make frigates. Paulownia is everywhere, and it is easy to dry, with straight texture, uniform structure, good water barrier, not easy to burn, deform, and moderate nail grip. It is very suitable for building frigates."

"Paulownia!" Zhao Yan thought for a while and said, "This kind of wood is not hard enough."

"The frigates are taking a dexterous route. Our gun range is enough to keep the frigate outside the range of enemy ships. If you use Paulownia to build a frigate, the construction speed can be much higher." Mao Yuanyi said, "Birch and oak can be used in some key areas."

"Well! Zhisheng has a good idea, so let the shipyard build a frigate with Paulownia." Zhao Yan said happily. Paulownia is indeed a kind of wood everywhere, and a fast-growing tree species. This thing grows faster than the poplar trees, but it is not hard enough. However, it is a good way to combine birch and oak in important parts of the sailing boat.

Birch is a medium wood, which is also very good for shipbuilding.

Oak is a tree species that is very similar to oak, and its structure is very similar. It is an excellent shipbuilding wood, but most of it is distributed in the Northeast, and only a small number are distributed in North China.

Anyway, the frigate's ship shape adopts the design of a "North American Sailboat", which is second only to the fly-scissor ship in terms of speed, and is higher than other types of sailboats, coupled with advanced artillery, which is enough to avoid close combat with enemy ships.

"But if we use Paulownia to build ships, how much is appropriate?" Zhao Yan asked.

"One hundred ships are almost the same! With the equipment like artillery, it only costs 1.5 million taels at most, and the remaining 6.5 million taels can be kept for later." Mao Yuanyi said.

"Okay! Then there are one hundred ships." Zhao Yan agreed. The number of frigates built has increased from 50 to 150. At present, shipyards are not unable to build larger warships, but obviously there is no need.

After Mao Yuanyi's suggestion was approved, the shipyard began to send people to cut down Paulownia everywhere.

In fact, as long as there are enough manpower and enough raw materials to supply, the speed can still be very fast, and the most time-consuming thing is wood.

When processing wood in the sun, it takes two or three years to use it. It is dried and can be put into use in just one week.

In Longkou, Qingdao and Songjiang, there are all large-scale wood processing plants, but what is troubled by shipbuilding is the shortage of raw material supply and craftsmen.

By the end of the year, more than 10,000 ship craftsmen had been agreed to give to the court, greatly alleviating the problem of insufficient craftsmen. At the same time, a ship manufacturing technical school was opened in Longkou, and Denglai University opened the subject of ship manufacturing. Zhao Yan had already begun to cultivate shipbuilding talents by himself. In a few years, the problem of insufficient ship craftsmen would be completely solved.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!