Chapter 56: During New Year's Day

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During the New Year's Day of 2013, it can be said that it is the first national holiday since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, from January 1st to 5th, there are 5 days of national holiday. . .

Many companies and enterprises began to have normal holidays, and court officials, as well as some tourism and catering industries, worked overtime to receive tourists during the New Year's Day.

At present, only six countries such as China, the United States, Russia, Japan, South Korea and Singapore have opened direct passenger routes, and tourists from European countries and other places want to travel to Ming, they can only choose these six countries as transit stations, but the United States and Japan are the first choice, and the United States, Japan's aviation and shipping companies have also seized the resources of tourists to Ming, increased the number of flights and ships, and made a large number of tourists to Mingming's demand, but also made a lot of money.

This situation will be maintained until the completion of the Daming Imperial Capital International Airport, of course, the United States and Japan are also happy to maintain this situation for a long time, the United States, Japan is not far from the Ming Dynasty, and taking a boat to Daming is also a different kind of journey, which is worth publicizing......

Today, the daily cargo throughput of Panlong Port has exceeded 20,000 tons, and the passenger transport has exceeded one million passengers.

This is already a terrible statistic, of course, compared to Daming, an island country with a population of less than one million, this is far from reaching the ranks of the world's top ports.

However, Liu Xiuguang, general manager of Panlong Port Management, believes that it is not far from the world's No. 1 seaport plus-size!

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Compared with the prosperity and compactness of Panlong Port, the palace of the ancient city of Zhongdu is much more serious.

The establishment of the imperial cabinet made the implementation of imperial decrees easier and faster.

Above the court, Luo Yuying first made a simple general report on this year's finances, although Zhu Wei had already learned the total amount, but he was still surprised by the income generated by the Ming court in the past few months!

The largest revenue generation is the monopoly of products and special products (Petroleum Monopoly Bureau, Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, Tea Industry Monopoly Bureau, Salt Monopoly Bureau, Mingfu Monopoly Bureau, Telecommunications and Communications, Specialty Wine and Beverages, Specialty Drinking Water, Specialty Agricultural Products, Hydropower Companies, etc....... The largest amount of income is generated by the large exporters of specialty liquor and special agricultural products, followed by tea and oil.

In 2012, from October to December, the total revenue generated by the Daming Monopoly Administration was more than 3,456 million gold yuan, which did not include Daming Guojiu, because Tiandi Liquor was the exclusive property of the Daming royal family.

The second is enterprise taxes and fees, and administrative service fees, as well as local independent revenue, totaling more than 140 million gold yuan, which can be left after the salaries of court officials and Ming soldiers are paid.

You must know that there are less than 8,000 officials in the Ming Dynasty, and there are only more than 13,000 people in the army, so you can know how good the welfare of Ming officials is, and the average monthly gold is 2,080 gold yuan! About 7,000 US dollars.

No country can have such high welfare as Daming!

Of course, the 3.49 billion yuan of imperial court finances is really not much compared to other countries, but don't forget! The Ming Kingdom is only an island country of 73,000 square kilometers, and its national population base is less than one million.

Subsequently, the plan for the development of the next year is submitted:

First, take out 1.4 billion gold yuan as a special fund for Daming education, and at the same time establish two top universities in Daming, Tai College and Hanlin Academy.

Second, the seven counties of the northern capital were newly built, and the northern capital was moved to the Beibu Gulf of Yingzhou, and the two counties of Nangang and Xuanbei were Xuanzhou County. In the northeast of Yingzhou Island, the three counties of the eastern capital were newly built, the southern capital was abolished, the central capital was renamed the imperial capital, and the two counties of Hewangjiao and Nanyang were Nanyang counties, which were assigned to the imperial capital, and Zhongdu County was renamed the imperial capital. In addition, the central capital was set up in Xiulin County, and Bishi County was divided into Xishan and Xiulin counties, and two counties of East Lake and West Lake were established in the east and west of Jasper Lake, and Xichuan County was established in the north of Xishan County. The two counties of Zuyuan were combined into one county, named Zuyuan County. The construction fund budget is 12 billion, the imperial court will take out 2 billion, and the remaining 10 billion funds will be borrowed from the Ming Central Bank by the Ming court.

In addition, the central part of Yingzhou Island will be built into a 50,000 square kilometers of tourism-type natural ecological reserve, which is wholly owned by the Ming royal family, and the Ming court is responsible for management, and half of the income from the reserve will be included in the national treasury (imperial court finance).

This can be regarded as Zhu Wei's disguised support for the imperial court, there must be no hungry soldiers under the emperor, and he must not treat the Manchu Dynasty civil and military badly.

Well, in the end, it is also the Ming army that Zhu Wei is most concerned about, and Zhang Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, proposed to expand the Ming army to 20,000, of which 500 people in the imperial guard battalion and 1,500 people in the Praetorian Guard will remain unchanged, and the navy will be expanded to 8,000 people, 7,000 people in the army, and 3,000 people in the air force. This is equivalent to tripling the current base!

Not only that, Daming will form two special forces of 100 people, one is the Marine Striker Team, and the other is the Customs Special Service Team. Zhang Hu specially pointed out in the court that the members of these two special forces will be selected from the existing Ming soldiers to absolutely guarantee the loyalty of the troops!

After the minister finished talking about the court, Zhu Wei said solemnly: "You Aiqing have been busy for several months, and it is rare to stay on New Year's Day and celebrate New Year's Day with me......

After Zhu Wei said some official words, the Internal Affairs Office arranged a banquet according to Zhu Wei's instructions, and the shopkeeper Hu brought several chefs from the only family in the world to the palace, and they were busy for the first banquet of the Ming court......

On the other hand, Daming Public Television Station, Daming Royal Family Cultural Communication Television Station, and Daming Pearl Radio and Television Station all launched a New Year's Day party on New Year's Day, inviting dozens of stars from Europe, America, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea to sing on stage, and at the same time, several newcomers cultivated by Daming Royal Group also made their debut......

Daming's New Year's Day party was a great success! According to statistics, the number of people who directly and indirectly watched the Daming New Year's Day party was as high as 3.5 billion, and at the same time, several newcomers trained by the Daming royal family group were like rockets, and the stars were brilliant!!

On January 6th, Dai Deli, the secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Ma Debang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Li Tianen, the head of the Ministry of Industry, John Steven, the envoy of the Ministry of Rites, and Deng Cichao, the governor of the Central Bank of Daming, came to the front of the US Embassy in Ming on the side of Linjiang Road on the Xiulong River in Imperial Capital County.

The attendants went to make an announcement, and everyone entered the embassy. This embassy is built near the river, the style reflects the solemnity of the Ming Dynasty and also has a slight western architectural style, the shape of the castle, the overall height is not more than 15 meters, and the observation tower at the top of the house can better appreciate the beauty of the Xiulong River.

The embassy was completed in early December 2012, and the United States immediately sent an ambassador to Daming, as well as some officials and soldiers stationed abroad.

The soldiers of the U.S. Embassy led Tedley and his entourage directly to the office of Mr. U.S. Ambassador to Ming, and the soldiers knocked lightly on the door, and then a loud American English with a slight American accent came out.

"Please come in. ”

The soldiers invited the officials to enter and left on their own, the US ambassador to Ming, George, put down his hand, looked up, and was really not startled, hula a group of Ming officials, surprised that they were doing this?

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