The weather is getting hotter.

The climate of the Northern Song Dynasty was the warmest, unlike the Xiaoice River in the Ming Dynasty, and now the crops are harvested well, which is one of the main reasons why the Song Dynasty only has more than two million square kilometers, but can feed hundreds of millions of people.

The same is true of Bagan today.

In the morning, some of the craftsmen who were repairing the walls of the palace had already taken off their shirts and were shirtless.

Wang Chen and Xiao Jianhua walked through the gate, he glanced at it, pointed to the stones in the hands of those craftsmen and said: "The whole country should vigorously develop cement factories, Mr. Xiao, you can remember this piece and go back to make sure." ”

"Okay. Xiao Jianhua nodded.

The two of them said as they walked towards the council hall.

Wang Chen's parliamentary system of the Chinese Empire, which adopted the five-day parliamentary system, is about to "go to court" today.

Come inside.

The principal administrative officials were already waiting there.

Unlike the rows of officials in the feudal era, the Chinese Empire adopted a system of reporting at various levels, and there were not many officials participating in the May Day Council, only the top administrators of each part, such as the establishment committee in modern society, the Propaganda Department, etc., were temporarily assigned to the management of the Royal Office, which was managed by Ding Sign, but the arrest department was separated by him and constituted a new department, called the Royal Police Department, in addition to agriculture, taxation, commerce, military, There are about a dozen departments such as construction and development, and the institutions are not bloated or shabby, and the management of Bagan with only four or five million people is more than enough.

Of course, if we want to continue to develop, we will definitely need to fine-tune the rights of some departments and form more departments.

"Great President!"

"Great President!"

All the officials stood up in unison and saluted.

Wang Chen smiled and pressed his hand to everyone, motioning for them to sit down, and then he and Xiao Jianhua came to the front of the conference table and sat down.

Subsequently, Xiao Jianhua organized the meeting according to the previous practice.

The top executives of the departments reported the information and also identified a number of things.

The meeting lasted about half an hour.

Xu Mingdao, who was in charge of agriculture, said: "President, rice planting has been delayed for two days, and village chiefs from all over the country have reported to the county-level departments.

Wang Chen snorted, put his hands on the conference table, and said: "Mr. Xiao, although the rice seeds are delivered to the Ministry of Agriculture, and then distributed according to the amount of three catties of seeds per mu, by the way, only the farmers contracted by our state-owned land can receive the seeds, and when they harvest in the autumn, they need to repay the corresponding weight of grain. ”

Xiao Jianhua agreed: "Okay." ”

Today's Chinese Empire has more than 10 million acres of state-owned cultivated land, but the cultivated land in the whole country is not only these, but also in the hands of some small landlords.

However, there is a characteristic of this more than 10 million mu of cultivated land, the actual ownership rights are all owned by the state, and they are only contracted to the peasants, that is, the peasants no longer have to be exploited by the landlords as before, and only need to pay a certain amount of taxes directly to the state every year.

Moreover, in the first year, Wang Chen provided rice seeds and the like almost free of charge, so it can be said that this group of ordinary people has completely lived a good life.

After talking about rice.

He Lian, who was in charge of education, frowned and said: "President, two days ago, I received an order from Prime Minister Xiao that I should build a large number of schools across the country and establish a nine-year compulsory education, and you will be responsible for the content of textbooks, but I don't have any money on hand." ”

Wang Chen looked over and said, "What's the budget?"

He Lian said bluntly: "Because the content of the teaching has not been decided, the monthly dedication of the teaching and learning cannot be calculated, but the cost of building a school alone is at least not less than 160,000 yuan, I expect that the primary school you mentioned needs to be built more than 200 yuan, and the middle school corresponds, a total of 400 schools, a primary and secondary school in each township and town, and the construction cost of each college is about 400 yuan, and 400 is 160,000 yuan. ”

"Education is the foundation of the country, and it must keep up, no matter how much money the state approves. Wang Chen looked at Xiao Jianhua and said, "Mr. Xiao, I will give Mr. He 160,000 yuan later." ”

Xiao Jianhua smiled bitterly: "That big president, the treasury only has more than one million yuan of money and materials, if you give Mr. He 160,000 yuan at once......" He didn't continue, but the meaning was obvious, so much money was allocated for education, and other departments would not have much money to operate, especially if they had to recruit 50,000 troops next, it would be a lot of money.

Wang Chen snorted, "Where's the money?"

Xiao Jianhua blinked and said, "Didn't you take all the gold?"

All right.

The gold, jewelry, and the like were taken away by themselves.

Wang Chen was really speechless, and the materials of this million yuan of money were probably still the savings of the Bagan Kingdom and the Chin State for many years, he thought about it, "In the future, all the money earned by Wang Ji will be owned by the state treasury, which should be enough for the time being, as for the future, I will think of a way to discuss it at a later date." "Two-thirds of the money Wang Ji makes now is in his private account, and one-third is in the account of the Jinghai Prefecture Ya, and now the Jinghai Prefecture Ya has been hollowed out, of course Wang Chen is too lazy to give the one-third of the money to the state government to earn, why do you have the money of the buddies to give the officials sent by the Great Song Dynasty to get political achievements?

As for how the money earned by Wang Ji became in the treasury of the Chinese Empire, it was very simple, Wang Chen only needed to "take international trade", which was equivalent to taking one more form, like ancient Burma, including the surrounding stick country, ancient Vietnam, etc., and even the Liao country, the currency of the Song Dynasty was in circulation, which was better than the later dollar, which also led to the Song court later ordering that copper money should not flow out.

Before the development of his own currency, Wang Chen was ready to vigorously promote the copper coins of the Song Dynasty as a monetary standard, anyway, sooner or later he would have to incorporate the Song Dynasty, Liao and other places into his own territory, there was nothing wrong with doing so, on the contrary, when he wanted to unify the entire Asian region in the future and wanted to replace copper coins with other currencies, it would become relatively simple because of the unity of currency.

"Yes. Xiao Jianhua agreed.

Looking at the people present, it seemed that everything that should be discussed had been discussed, Wang Chen asked casually, "Is there anything else to report?"

Generally speaking, it should be gone, including Xiao Jianhua, who also thinks so.

Who knew that Xiao Feng, who was in charge of the military, raised his hand, "President, I received news from the border of Zhang Qing, saying that Dali and Chan have some friction with our army, and they almost fought several times. ”

Hearing this, Wang Chen squinted his eyes and said, "Didn't you order Zhang Qing to kill them all?"

Xiao Feng complained bitterly: "We are short of ammunition, and we are not equipped with swords and armor, so we can't meet them head-on. ”

"Okay, I see, you stay, the others disperse. Wang Chen patted the table.

The group got up and left.

There were only three people left in the entire conference room.

As soon as the people left, Xiao Jianhua immediately said with a solemn face: "Lord, Dali and Chan are obviously testing our country's military strength, if we don't respond, I'm afraid that their army will be pressed next!"

Xiao Feng was puzzled: "Isn't it an accident?"

Wang Chen also felt that it should be an accident.

"No, absolutely not. Xiao Jianhua said very categorically: "The Chinese Empire has been established for more than a month, and a lot of post-war work has not been dealt with, giving the impression to the surrounding countries that there is an opportunity, but they are taken by the divine power when we attacked Bagan, and they dare not attack at once, if Xiao is not mistaken, they should want to use the small number of troops that 'strayed' to test our reaction, if we fight back strongly, or even exterminate, it shows that our military strength is indeed as fierce as rumored, and the two countries will immediately shrink and control the border soldiers, if they are indifferent." ……”

Wang Chen said: "Will they send troops to attack?"

"That's right!" Xiao Jianhua said, "And I estimate that the two countries should be secretly united, and it is very likely that they will send troops to attack together, and once they succeed, they will divide the results equally, so we have to respond strongly." ”

"But we only have 10,000 regular troops, all of them defend various cities, and the rest of the Bagan army that surrenders is not to mention whether it has combat strength or not, and the trust is not high. Xiao Feng said worriedly.

Wang Chen asked, "How many troops have Dali and Chan Bang stationed on the border of our country?"

"There are more than 10,000 people in Dali and about 8,000 in Chan. Xiao Feng knew everything about it.

Ten thousand and eight thousand?

That's not a lot of people.

Wang Chen narrowed his eyes, since the other party deliberately provoked and wanted to test his military strength, then I'm sorry, even if my buddy can't send a large number of soldiers to attack the two countries for the time being, he can still be deterred, the thirty-two chariot troops have just been established, and they haven't experienced actual combat, and these two countries are purely sent to the door for buddies to practice actual combat.

"yes, I see. Wang Chen leaned back in his chair, "Mr. Xiao, write two official letters asking Dali and Chan Bang to pay tribute." ”

Xiao Feng wondered: "Let them pay tribute......?"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Jianhua clapped his hands and interrupted: "Wonderful! The lord's plan is very clever, I will go and ask people to expedite the official document asking for tribute for 800 li." ”

Wang Chen smiled and said, "Don't forget to let the chariot troops practice in the past two days." ”

"The subordinates understand. Xiao Jianhua laughed.

Listening to the two of them playing dumb riddles, Xiao Feng was stunned!

……

It's almost evening.

Wang Chen had just returned from training with the chariot troops, and news came from the mining area.

In the study.

Xiang Xianglun raised his eyebrows and said: "President, Mo Moliang has a very rich harvest from mining today, a very rich harvest!"

Listening to Li Qing's translation, Wang Chen looked over with a smile, "How much Mo Moliang has been mined today?"

Maung Maung Lun said excitedly: "Not counting the rough stones that have not yet been chiseled, Mo Moliang alone is more than a thousand catties, which is equivalent to the amount of more than a month before, President, the power of the immortal weapon you brought is really extraordinary, a mining machine and a rock drill are more powerful than the power of hundreds of people in a month!"

Wang Chen sighed, "More than 1,000 catties mined in a day? ”

Maung Lun said a little inflated: "If there are more mining machines and rock drills, I believe it is possible to mine 10,000 catties of Mo Moliang in a day!" After that, he sighed a little regretfully, "It's a pity that Mo Moliang has been mining here for a long time, if you want to continue mining, I'm afraid you have to develop a new mining area." ”

Wang Chen snorted, "I'll get some mining machines and rock drills in a few days, and you can let people develop new mining areas first." ”

"It's the president. Maung Maung Lun retreated.

Wang Chen sat on the chair and laughed happily, he didn't expect that only one mining machine and rock drill would be added, and the number of jadeite mining would increase to this point.

The reason why this is so, he analyzed, the biggest reason is that ancient Burmese jadeite has not been mined much, and modern society is overexploited, and many times the excavated stones do not contain jadeite, which is useless.

Now it's different, the jadeite here is basically not mined much, like more than 600 tons of jadeite before, which is said to be the savings of the Bagan Kingdom and the previous kingdom for hundreds of years.

More than 100 years, only 600 tons have been mined!

And how many tons of jadeite were mined each year during the peak of modern Myanmar?

32,000 tons!

This is after more than 1,000 years of mining.

It is conceivable how rich the reserves of Myanmar jadeite in the Northern Song Dynasty were, so to speak, as long as it is determined to be a jadeite mining area, a few stones can be dug casually to produce good jadeite, and this grand occasion in modern society is impossible to see, the main reason is that after more than 1,000 years of mining, the modern society of Burmese jadeite has faced depletion, and the number of natural mining can not be compared with ancient times.

A thousand catties of jadeite were mined in one day.

Even if you remove a series of accidents, if you mine for 300 days a year, it will be 300,000 catties, almost 150 tons, and it is enough to supply Western silver and jade, and there is still room to sell it to other jade merchants!

Of course, Wang Chen is not satisfied, his goal is to mine 500 tons of jadeite per year, of which 200 tons are sold in the form of jadeite, and the other 300 tons are sold in the nature of the original stone, the most important point is that if it is sold in the nature of the original stone, the quantity will be more considerable, 300 tons of jadeite, the original stone is at least more than 3,000 tons, of course, if according to the ratio of jadeite and rough in modern society, 10,000 tons of rough stone, 30,000 tons can be, it completely depends on how black his heart is.

Tens of thousands of tons of rough stones!

It is okay to set up two or three public markets with a scale equivalent to the nature of Myanmar public market.

Wang Chen can already see countless jade merchants constantly stuffing money into their hands, making it so easy to get rich, making jade more violent, buddy wants to be the richest man in the world!