Zhang Yu returned to Beiping, the newly built capital, which was very energetic at this time.

As soon as Zhang Yu returned to Beiping, he simply held a cabinet meeting and asked the cabinet to handle some established matters.

"If the war is basically over today, and then the people can rest and recuperate, from now on, there will be no major changes, and the cabinet can handle the daily affairs."

"But there are two things that must be pushed forward immediately, the first is to continue to build the canal, and the second is to build the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, which will be financed by the saved military expenditure, and the cabinet does not need to allocate additional funds."

Zhang Yu: This time, the workers plan to directly transfer some of them from the army.

Directly let them retire and build roads, wait for them to build for two years, accumulate a lot of money, and then let them go back, and then give them some land, enough for them to live a good life.

In addition, some of them directly retired as police officers and armed police, but this part can't digest many people.

More often than not, they retired and went back to become farmers.

This needs to be done slowly, and the local work efficiency is not high nowadays, and too many people cannot be retired at once.

The army is retired, you have to take it slowly, there is a process, these are people who have made a lot of contributions to the empire, they can't be used up, give some money and send it away.

They must be properly arranged so that they can return to have a better life.

Several cabinet members can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

After tossing for so long, they are also very tired, and they have endless government affairs to deal with every day.

Now Zhang Yu has begun to recuperate and toss.

Although it is not a toss, there are still many remaining issues that need to be dealt with.

After dealing with these things, it is estimated that it will be about the same.

Now the whole empire is running well, and it can be developed slowly.

Since Zhang Yu came back, he has been messing with the harem, being a faint gentleman all day long, only dealing with government affairs once every three days, and mixing with several wives in the harem most of the time.

This mix is half a year.

In the past six months, the empire has developed steadily, and all affairs have been very good.

The most important thing is that the provinces and cities have slowly completed the replenishment, the officials have been put in place, and the departments are also operational.

There are a lot of problems in this process that need to be dealt with slowly.

It is all fine work, and it has to be processed and run-in slowly.

In fact, the various places have been running in for a year, but they are still relatively inefficient.

But no matter how low it is, it's much better than the previous county order was in charge alone.

In the past, a county order was responsible for itself, and a county order could do anything.

Provinces, cities, and counties are handled at different levels, and the ability of the officials trained by the new school is also relatively high, and the cabinet only needs to control it as a whole.

Although Zhang Yu doesn't toss, let the cabinet toss, cabinet members, must go to the provinces to inspect for a period of time, and go to at least half a year at a time, and supervise all places if there is no important matter.

Cabinet members, if they do not know what is going on, will be blind in formulating policies in the Cabinet.

Zhang Yu did not allow such an existence, and let the cabinet handle it well.

Time passed slowly, and the progress of the expressway project was very slow, and more than 100 kilometers were paved in half a year.

The cost of this more than 100 kilometers of road is also very large, much more than Zhang Yu's budget.

But it doesn't matter, now there is a lot of money in the treasury.

Now that military spending is slowly being reduced, at least weapons and equipment, and all kinds of materials do not need to be prepared.

It was actually not difficult to arrange for the army to retire, but it was much better than Zhang Yu expected.

The following is what Zhang Yu knows.

When the commanders of each army asked the soldiers to voluntarily sign up, and when they retired, they were given ten silver coins, and some land was allocated to the local area of the middle and upper range, and the number of acres was two acres more than that of ordinary peasant households.

This is said that the entire army has to sign up.

In the end, as a last resort, the quota is allocated, and there are quotas for how many people can be retired from an army, and the older ones will retire first, and some backbone cadres in the army will stay first.

All of a sudden, Zhang Yu retired 300,000 people.

After that, some armies could only be decommissioned every year.

These retired troops must also be managed to a certain extent when they are put into the localities, and at least they must be registered with the government.

The retirement was so smooth, which Zhang Yu did not expect.

The army was successfully decommissioned, and a lot of military expenses were saved at once.

Zhang Yu estimated that in the future, it would be enough to maintain about 800,000 troops, and in order to promote reform, Zhang Yu must maintain a certain army, and at the same time, he must also create an imaginary enemy.

This imaginary enemy is the West, and it can deceive others for at least ten years.

Ten years is enough time for Zhang Yu to complete all the innovations.

Maintain an imaginary enemy, if someone wants to rebel during the innovation, Zhang Yu will pull the army out and train and practice.

Now the army is mainly in the north, and now the enemy can only come from the steppe.

But the peoples of the steppe were almost defeated by Zhang Yu.

When Zhang Yu recruits new soldiers in the future, there will be more people in the north than in the south, and at the same time, the southerners will go to the north to serve as soldiers, and the soldiers from the north will also go to the south to serve as soldiers to adapt to various climates.

Once there is a war in the north, those retired troops can be quickly activated, without training, and immediately become an army.

After another half a year or so, under the pressure of the cabinet and the direct management of various departments, all localities carried out all kinds of systems well.

Officials in various provinces, cities and counties have also been replaced a lot, and if it doesn't work, they will be replaced directly, and they don't care if they are young and inexperienced.

After more than a year of running-in, it has finally taken shape and has become a relatively complete system.

And in this year of recuperation, Zhang Yu's treasury has invested a lot of money.

There are a lot of taxes, and the taxes alone can't be spent, and a lot of money is shipped back from overseas.

Xu Jinghai alone transported back twice, once more than 40 million yuan and once more than 50 million silver coins.

And now the Silk Road has also been reopened.

The Silk Road was opened, and wealth flowed through.

Basically, Zhang Yu and they sell things, and the West will not make things at all, and there is nothing to sell.

Zhang Yu brought a lot of knowledge from the past to the West, such as mining and smelting, and taught them to dig gold and silver mines.

Zhang Yu taught them how to develop, and how to have money to buy their own things if they don't develop.

In the west, Luoyang, Chang'an, also developed rapidly, and Dunhuang and other areas also developed.

Zhang Yu was particularly concerned about protecting the ecology of the west, and when he had money, he directly emptied the population of many rural areas and concentrated them in all large towns, and at the same time planted trees everywhere, and some remote places were directly protected, and trees were not allowed to be cut down or cultivated.

In this way, many places can be protected without letting the ecology get out of control.

Today's Chang'an Luoyang is still managed by Zhuge Liang, but Zhang Yu plans to transfer Zhuge Liang back to the capital and directly enter the cabinet.

Zhuge Liang has experienced many places, has rich experience, and his talent is also powerful.

(End of chapter)