Seeing that Zhang Lingyang had no objection to the education funds, Zhu Kaishan continued: "In addition, at the end of last year, after discussing with the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Wechen, it was planned to build more than 100 large-scale mines in various places this year, and the cost of silver taels was estimated to exceed 20 million taels.

In addition, the Superintendent of Commerce plans to build 10 more shipyards in the coastal areas, which is estimated to cost 10 million taels of silver. The Ministry of Industry plans to build more than 200 additional machinery factories, which will consume more than 20 million taels of silver. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and said: "Now that it is calculated, the financial budget for several years is about 250 million taels of silver, and the remaining 50 million taels of silver, what is the expenditure plan of the household department?" ”

Zhu Kaishan replied: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the remaining 50 million taels of silver are still good for emergencies. ”

"I don't think so!" Zhang Lingyang shook his head and said, "In this way, the household department will allocate another five million taels of silver to the military department to compensate the families of the soldiers who died in the war."

In addition, another 15,000,000 taels of silver were allocated to the Ministry of Rites for the printing of textbooks. Books will be distributed free of charge to all students who will go to school in various places in the future.

and the remaining thirty million taels of silver for an emergency. ”

"Wechen obeys!" In this regard, Zhu Kaishan had no objections, and he did not dare to have any objections, otherwise, the saliva of the military headquarters and the people alone would be enough to drown him.

Zhu Kaishan did not dare to object, and other ministers naturally did not dare to oppose either, and the motion proposed by Zhang Lingyang was completely passed.

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After the dispersal of the dynasty, Zhang Lingyang summoned the six Jiuqing and the military bosses to come to the Chen'an Palace.

Because there were too many court discussions, it was already noon at this time, and Zhang Lingyang left these bigwigs in the court and China to have lunch while saying: "I plan to make a five-year plan, and you Aiqing will give me staff officers." ”

When Zheng Yongji, the first assistant of the cabinet, heard this, put down his chopsticks and asked, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, I don't know what the five-year plan is?" ”

Zhang Lingyang said: "The five-year plan is a long-term plan for the development and construction of the Great Zhou in the future. With five years as a node, we will develop and build some major projects that are beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood. ”

"Let's give me an analogy!" Seeing that Zheng Yongji and the others still looked confused, Zhang Lingyang explained: "Just like Sichuan and Shu, for thousands of years, there has always been a saying in the history books that 'the world is not chaotic and Shu is chaotic, and the world has been determined and Shu is undecided', but why is there such a statement? I think all of you Aiqing are also very clear, that is, Sichuan and Shu are mountainous, and the traffic with the Central Plains is very inconvenient, so over time, this statement was formed.

But now? The imperial court made a plan to open three roads between Sichuan and Shu and the Central Plains within five years. Once these three roads are opened, the connection between Sichuan and Shu and the Central Plains will be very close, and the imperial court's rule over several southwestern provinces will also be strengthened a lot, which is a project of great interest to the national economy and people's livelihood.

For example, if in the next five or ten years, the imperial court will make a detailed plan for Jinzhong and completely build Jinzhong into the coal base of my Great Zhou, do you say, will this be beneficial to the national economy and people's livelihood?

If a factory is built in an area rich in mineral resources and turned into a huge industrial base, will it be good for the future of Dazhou?

Is it good for the people on both sides of the Yellow River to spend years building strong embankments that flood every year? ”

There is no need to ask at all, these must be things that are beneficial to the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"These are the major projects that the five-year plan says will be closed, with the national economy and people's livelihood."

After Zhang Lingyang's explanation, Zheng Yongji and others suddenly realized.

Zheng Yongji said: "According to Your Majesty's intentions, I don't know how to plan this five-year plan?" ”

Understand the meaning of the five-year plan, but how to plan and how to arrange, Zheng Yongji and others do not have a definite answer in their hearts, so Zheng Yongji asked.

Zhang Lingyang chuckled lightly and said: "There is a folk proverb that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, and the first plan of the five-year plan is naturally to build roads."

If you add the vassal states of Goryeo, Burma, Siam, and Annam, can you estimate how long the roads would have to be built if all the provinces of Da Zhou were connected with the vassal states. How long will it take? How many people do you need? Then, subdivide all of these into two and estimate how much the project can be completed within a few five-year nodes, and how much benefit it will be to the imperial court after completion, which is what the five-year plan does. ”

"Weichen understands what His Majesty means!" Zheng Yongji reacted quickly, just thought about it for a while, and then understood how to do this five-year plan, "The five-year plan that Your Majesty said is to subdivide a big goal that is difficult to complete in a short period of time into several small goals, and complete them one by one, I don't know if Weichen's understanding is correct?" ”

"Not bad!" Zhang Lingyang nodded and said: "You understand very correctly, this matter will be handed over to Zheng Aiqing, and I will not urge you, as long as the cabinet can come up with specific regulations within this year." ”

"Wechen promises to complete the task."

Zheng Yongji replied, and took the remaining six Jiuqing out of the Chen'an Palace.

Zheng Yongji's thorough understanding of the meaning of the Five-Year Plan does not mean that the other ministers also understand the meaning of the Five-Year Plan.

Zhu Kaishan, the head of the household, is one of them.

Out of the Chen'an Palace, Zhu Kaishan asked Zheng Yongji: "Elder Zheng Ge, how should the charter of this five-year plan be drafted?" Xia Guan still didn't understand, and asked Zheng Ge Lao to give advice. ”

Zheng Yongji patiently explained: "This five-year plan is difficult to say, and it is actually very simple to say simple words. ”

Seeing that the other ministers had looked at it, Zheng Yongji continued: "Take the household department in charge of Zhu Shangshu as an example, the tax revenue of the national treasury exceeded 30,000 taels of silver last year, so Zhu Shangshu can make an estimate of the tax revenue in the next five years to see how much it can increase."

For example, within five years, the household department plans to increase the tax revenue of the state treasury to 40,000,000 taels of silver, that is, the treasury revenue will increase by at least 20 million taels of silver every year.

If this growth rate is achieved, it is naturally good. But once the tax revenue did not increase by more than 20 million taels of silver in one year, then Zhu Shangshu had to think about why the growth rate of tax revenue would decline?

As long as this problem is solved, the five-year plan will naturally be completed.

Of course, the old man is not saying that Zhu Shangshu only cares about the income of the treasury, and he can't relax in terms of people's livelihood. Zhu Shangshu can send household officials to investigate the poor people across the country to see how many people's food problems can be solved within five years.

As long as the goal is set, the old man believes that the household will definitely try his best to solve this problem. ”

"In fact, in the final analysis, the so-called five-year plan is to formulate the major policies of the imperial court into small goals one by one, as long as we complete these small goals one by one, are we worried that the big goals will not be completed?" Finally, Zheng Yongji said......