In terms of military expenditure, it is set at 40 million silver dollars, accounting for about 23% of the financial revenue of the empire in the first year. In terms of the expenditure of officials and civil servants, 12 million silver dollars were budgeted, plus administrative funds, and 8 million silver dollars were budgeted, totaling 20 million silver dollars.

The local system of the empire basically maintained the previous dynasty in terms of title, but the powers have changed drastically, and some new official positions have been added.

The number of officials increased first. A county had a county magistrate and judge, and there were various bureaus below, such as the State Administration of Taxation, Health Bureau, Education Bureau, Construction Bureau, and Police Bureau.

There are some civil servants in each bureau. Mingting usually finds civil servants casually. In a yamen, except for one county magistrate, county magistrate and chief clerk, the others are all without grades. These personnel are all found by the government themselves, that is, they have not been trained, and the personnel are very complicated, and the salary is not high. They are a bit like the auxiliary police officers in later generations.

Now the empire has completely abandoned that approach. All civil servants are trained in a centralized manner and appointed uniformly. The monthly salary is also given higher. Generally, there are three silver dollars a month, and there are also housing benefits.

At present, the number of officials and civil servants in the empire has reached nearly 100,000, and there are more than 100,000 armed police to be adapted into local police.

After calculating the cost of raising these officials, civil servants and police, tens of millions of silver dollars are used as the foundation.

Fortunately, for the empire's fiscal revenue, these expenses are still affordable. The remaining 120 million silver dollars are mainly used in four aspects: education, infrastructure construction, medical care, and scientific research.

In terms of education, after discussion with the cabinet, Zhao Yan decided to allocate 40 million silver dollars to education. After deducting the school's infrastructure construction and other early miscellaneous expenses, 50% of the empire's legally educated age can enjoy free education.

The current legal enrollment age is 8 to 15 years old. If children under the age of 8 want to enroll, they must pay the fee before enrolling. In this era, the concept of education is basically not popularized. Therefore, there are too many uneducated young people, so they are given priority to summon them to schools. Those who are younger are waiting. When the empire has enough teachers, they will continue to expand the scale of education.

At this time, the imperial teachers were still very nervous, but compared to before, they were much more abundant. They have entered the snowball stage. As long as they get out for another year, the teachers in primary schools will be enough.

Of course, the quality of teachers is relatively low now and it takes time to improve, which will be very fast.

Because of the current education system, teachers have very high division of labor, and specialized teachers cultivate students' ideological and moral qualities, which is quite accurate in personal quality.

The main purpose of education is to transform the character, and it does not require the high culture of students. It doesn’t matter if the culture is low, as long as the character passes the level. Among so many students, there must be many good students. If these good students learn, they can become senior talents in the empire, and the requirements for becoming senior talents are not high. After all, no matter what industry it is, even in scientific research, it only involves the primary level, and there are not so many things to learn.

Next year, all 8-15-year-old teenagers in the empire can be brought into school to school. The next year, the legal age can be reduced to 6 years old. Chengren School can be established, so Chengren can go to school for free.

30 million silver dollars have been invested in construction, and the focus of construction is still on rivers and water conservancy. The funds allocated in previous years have been enough to manage rivers, but it is not enough to build hydropower stations. This year, 10 million yuan will be invested to build two large hydropower stations.

The principles of hydropower and thermal power are the same. Thermal power uses steam turbines to drive power generation, while hydropower uses the potential energy of water flow to drive power generation. These two hydropower stations are expected to be completed within three years, which is a common sense investment to accumulate experience in hydropower generation.

The other 20 million yuan is used to build roads and railways, among which the colonial railways have been included in the construction scope.

The colonies can only expand inland with railways, and they can expand wherever the railway is built.

Because the colonies need to transport raw materials back to their homeland, if there is no railway, they cannot transport raw materials, so the colonies will have no meaning.

Currently, immigrants all settle in ports and rivers. Only those who settle in this way can transport things out. Otherwise, they will not be able to change their poverty. Perhaps it is just a little better than before immigration.

The railway construction funds in Australia and the Americas are not much, because transporting steel from the local area is too financially expensive. Therefore, Australia and the Americas will build a steel production that can produce rails next year. The railways built this year are only built where they have to be repaired.

In terms of medical care, 30 million yuan was allocated this year, and the Empire's free medical policy was declared bankrupt. The Empire did not have that much money at all. Therefore, Zhao Yan decided to restore medical fees, but only charged 100% of the cost of medicines. The Empire was responsible for maintaining medical personnel.

Under the condition of implementing the charge, Zhao Yan issued instructions to the medical department that the doctor must first save the person and then charge the fee. If someone cheats and refuses to pay, it cannot be charged forcibly.

The charging of medical expenses is entirely self-conscious. Now the empire has no money to implement free medical treatment and cannot be treated differently by region, so this strategy can only be used.

For example, those minor illnesses, the doctor usually pays money after seeing a doctor. If you are capable of not giving, there is a personality problem. As for those major disasters and major illnesses, many families can't bear it. Therefore, Zhao Yan allows them not to pay money, which is equivalent to charging for minor illnesses and major illnesses for free.

In this way, 30 million silver dollars is absolutely enough.

At the same time, 5 million silver dollars were allocated to scientific research funds.

There is still 15 million silver dollars left, and Zhao Yan asked the cabinet to keep emergency response.

The empire's annual fiscal revenue was basically spent that year, with almost no reserves. Without strong foreign enemies, reserves were basically unnecessary.

However, the empire did not have many reserves like Britain in history, because the empire is more conscious of development. I believe that as long as it lasts through the early stages of the empire, the empire will have huge reserves.

...The budget for the new year has been counted until the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is very lively this year, and all provinces of the empire celebrate this Spring Festival with singing and dancing.

The people of the entire empire were expecting this new dynasty to have enlightened politics to get them out of poverty.

There are many problems left by the Ming Dynasty, and the most important one is the gap between the rich and the poor. However, this gap between the rich and the poor is still relatively easy to regulate.

There was no population pressure in this era, and the resources occupied per capita made a huge leap in the rapid expansion before the founding of the empire.

In the new year, there has been new efforts to regulate land annexation.

The Agricultural Tax Reform Act was implemented throughout the empire, and this bill was revised at the end of last year and became more complete.

The prices of arable land in the empire have been falling sharply since the beginning of the year.

No landlord dares to keep the land in his hands again, because the more land, the more tax they will be collected. If the land reaches hundreds of thousands of acres, the family will be destroyed within that year. Of course, those with strong capital can last for two years.

However, basically no big landlord is willing to hold on. If you say you want to hold on, the small landlord is OK. After all, there is little land and although the taxes are high, it is not that it cannot be taken.

At the same time, there are not many landlords who intend to resist taxes, but they just want to evade taxes.

At this time, the empire arranged a large number of armed police in various provinces. It was no different from seeking death if they wanted to resist taxes. The landlords were not bandits, so they could run away from monks and temples.

As for tax evasion, many landlords have this idea and intend to steal agricultural tax by concealing the land, but this trick is of no use to imperial officials.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, Zhao Yan cut off more than 300 officials in Shandong. Regardless of their abilities and political achievements, these officials were cut off all because of their bribes and even skinned.

For the imperial officialdom, which was treated with high salaries and did not need to buy officials, 99% of officials were unwilling to accept bribes from landlords, and instead arrested them.

These officials who were transferred out of Shandong all experienced the major anti-corruption campaign.

Because there are precedents, the first thing they do when they arrive at the local area is to measure the land repeatedly, and there must be no errors in the data.

Some officials repeatedly measure without saying anything.

Some local officials are more insidious. They first notify the local landlords and ask them to measure them themselves, and then report the number of acres. Then the government will measure them again and again. They will measure them several times. Whoever conceals the number of acres to a certain extent will be sent to the court. To eliminate more landlords who violate the law and discipline, it will help improve their political achievements!

The new landlords who supported the empire all belonged to the kind that later rose. The landlords generally owned no more than 3,000 acres of land, and the development of the breeding industry was also a breeding industry. These landlords were cultivated by the empire and they supported the rule of the empire.

The traditional landlords were the supporters of the Ming Dynasty and occupied a large number of means of production. The empire's policy was to suppress the old landlords.

However, this kind of suppression is principled. You cannot deliberately suppress it before you catch the handle. However, once you catch the handle, you can immediately sublimate to a certain extent. The main means of punishment is to confiscate the land.

Land prices continued to fall, and in some places the land prices even dropped to five silver dollars per acre. The empire reduced the land prices through three aspects.

One is the agricultural tax reform. Landlords must sell land, otherwise they will be charged high agricultural taxes. As many landlords take over land, land prices begin to fall.

The second is that the empire stipulated that when landlords collect land rent, they must not exceed 20 kilograms of grain per mu. With such a meager tax, even if there are ten thousand acres of land, the collected grain will be sold at a price of one silver dollar per stone, and the income of more than one thousand silver dollars will not be deducted.

The third is that the empire is constantly immigrating overseas and there are fewer tenants.

In particular, the second article makes the landlords who rely on tenant farmers to pay rent without any profit. This policy was formulated by Zhao Yan to remove the landlords who parasitize the tenant farmers.

Zhao Yan actually does not oppose mergers because mergers will lead to more professional production methods, but they are definitely not the kind of mergers that are re-leased. The mergers can only be said to be parasitic. For example, renting 10,000 acres of land to many tenant farmers, who have no capital between these tenant farmers, and they will not invest too much money in the leased land. Although productivity will develop, it will definitely develop slowly.

The kind of landlords who hire long-term workers to operate are welcomed by Zhao Yan because they will invest money in the land to strengthen productivity and move towards a professional production route.

As for immigration, Zhao Yan stopped immigrating this year, only encouraging individuals to immigrate. The empire shared travel expenses and distributed land when going to the colony.

The population of 200 million appears to be small in the local area, especially after the territory in the west and north directions expands, the population appears to be even smaller.

After discussing with the senior officials of the empire at the beginning of the year, Zhao Yan decided to build Nanyang, Australia and America into land reserve areas, that is, no longer developing these areas except for developing some areas with extremely high economic benefits.

At the same time, the empire should implement a thorough expansion in these areas, completely clean up the indigenous peoples in these areas, and preferably turn these areas into unmanned areas.

80% of the empire's future reserve living space, and the colonization direction will shift to India and Europe.

This was mainly formulated by Zhao Yan after reflecting on the development route.

What Zhao Yan was thinking about was what is the main development direction of the empire in the future?

Will expand and expand again allow the Han people to spread all over the world? Will development and development again only pay attention to the economy like China in the future?

These are all incorrect routes.

Expansion is necessary, and all enemies need to be strangled in the cradle, but we cannot waste the earth randomly! Once the Han people who have entered the industrial age have been distributed all over the world, it will evolve into what later generations are like, with environmental pollution everywhere and a large number of creatures extinction.

At the same time, once the population is too large, the per capita resources will naturally be less. The population of the Han people must also be controlled to a certain extent. Zhao Yan believes that one billion is the dividing line, and seventy or eight hundred million people should be an ideal state.

Zhao Yan's main idea is sustainable development. First of all, there must be land reserves. The reserved living space cannot be affected by any race. When the empire has sufficient development and has a certain ability to control pollution, and at the same time, the population is too large, you can consider using reserved land.

In terms of colonization, it was to conquer India, including European countries, including Tsarist Russia, establish colonies there, and eliminate all countries that pose a potential threat to the empire. It also relied on exploiting India and Europe to make the empire rich.

Before completely conquering India and Europe, it was to dump goods from them, giving them the source of impetus for the development of the imperial industrial industry. In this way, the empire set a general development route.

In this general direction, the empire has abolished the distribution of land in Southeast Asia, Australia and America this year, but individual immigration is not prohibited. The empire will still pay travel expenses to individuals. At the same time, the cabinet has sent people to start demarcating reserve areas.

The reserve area is an important link in sustainable development. As long as a large enough reserve area is drawn, the Han people will have enough retreat.

The important development direction this year is still at home, and the empire does not have enough financial resources to expand comprehensively this year. In addition to the lack of financial resources required to eliminate indigenous people in the South China Sea, the westward and southward expansion are also underway.

Advance westward means toward the Western Regions, Tsarist Russia expands, and expansion in the southward means expansion on the Indochina Peninsula. The enemies they face are not strong. For the Emperor [***] team equipped with advanced weapons, the combat intensity is very weak and it also does not cost much military expenditure.

Because the Western Front is too far from the local area, it is not so easy to replenish supplies. While building railways, it is also encouraging immigration, and the policy of free land allocation is still retained.

And within the empire, land regulation has reached a critical moment.

While land prices plummeted, new landlords supported by the empire were expanding rapidly. Agricultural companies operating in the corporate model were invincible in this expansion and engulfed a large amount of land.

These companies are not single or several people, but dilute the shares to absorb a large amount of funds, and then quickly annex the land in the south.

Behind the expansion of these agricultural companies, Zhao Yan was secretly urging him. During the Spring Festival, Zhao Yan privately met dozens of businessmen, and Zhao Yan talked with them for a long time.

Soon, under the guidance of Zhao Yan, these merchants began land mergers, and agricultural companies covering an area of ​​millions of acres continued to emerge.

However, these agricultural companies have the highest land area of ​​only one million acres, and no matter how high they are, they will be gone. When these agricultural companies expand to the limit of one million acres, they stop. At the same time, there are many shareholders of these companies. The chairman with the largest shares only has tens of thousands of acres of land, and under the chairman, there are only five thousand acres at most.

These agricultural companies are still forming because Zhao Yan raised a group of obedient dogs. The merchant class he supported supported was supported by him and was tamed very obediently.

They set up agricultural companies, each of which broke through the boundary of one million acres, and no one's shares could be distributed to the income of more than ten thousand acres of land.

Zhao Yan supports land mergers, but it must be a merger with professional management and no excessive mergers. The company's model is most suitable.

These agricultural companies will hire the management team of Denglai Agricultural University to manage the company. These management teams are not civil servants, but management talents trained by Denglai Agricultural University for private companies. These management talents have studied agricultural management for so many years, have the most sophisticated and reasonable management methods at present, and have mastered the most professional production technology.
To be continued...