On the sixteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the annual Imperial Council has been held three times so far, and today is the fourth. Each year's Imperial Conference means the development summary of the empire in the previous year and the work plan for the next year, and it is also the highest level of the Tang Empire's imperial conference, representing the highest policy guidance of the empire in economic, political, military and people's livelihood, etc., and it is also fully concerned by all strata of the empire. At this time of the year, the media group is fully committed to reporting on the various policy orientations of the empire, and quickly transmitting the latest imperial policies to all levels of society.

"Okay, this year's Imperial Conference is still the old rule, our three military, political and legal departments each report their work summary of the previous year, and report their respective shortcomings to the emperor, ask the emperor to make comments, and then each ministry formulates a follow-up treatment plan. Then discuss and discuss the work plan for the next year. Cen Tianshi was in charge of presiding over the annual meeting this year, so when he saw Li Xuanqing nodding, he immediately cleared his throat and said.

"Let's start with the cabinet, the affairs of the cabinet involve all aspects, and government affairs are the highlight of the four years of the apocalypse." Li Xuanqing looked at Cen Tianshi and said with a smile: "Since the Prime Minister is presiding over the meeting, let the cabinet come first." ”

"Since the emperor said so, then my cabinet should be in charge. Let me give you an idea, and then the Minister of Civil Affairs will report on the plans and summaries in place of the Cabinet. Cen Tianshi nodded and said: "According to the latest statistical method formulated by the Ministry of Finance in the third year of the Apocalypse, the overall economic growth of the empire is nearly 20% more than the second year of the Apocalypse, reaching about 8% of the income, which is not counting our overseas trade income. Cen Tianshi's face was obviously filled with joy and smiled: "Converted to the gross national income calculated by the emperor, we also have an increase of nearly one or two. ”

After Cen Tianshi's words, everyone present stood up and applauded, the efforts of the cabinet over the past year and the officials in various places have indeed made indelible contributions to the economic development of various regions, and because they are the first generation of founding ministers, basically most of the officials do not have too much thought.

"In addition to the efforts of the officials in the ministry, the rest of the cabinet is due to the efforts of the Law Court and the Tiance Mansion, without the struggle and sacrifice of the soldiers of the empire on the front line and the supervision of the Law Court at all times, otherwise our regime would still be very fragile." Speaking of this, Cen Tianshi's conversation box was opened all of a sudden, and he said eloquently: "Although the officials of our government affairs department are generally very hard-working, many officials still have the same kind of thinking as before when dealing with government affairs, or even worse. Therefore, I believe that one of the Cabinet's plans for the next fiscal year is to strengthen the capacity development of officials in various ministries, so that the majority of officials can keep up with our new political ideology, and in addition, we must strictly implement the regular re-education of officials, and resolutely withdraw from the system if they still fail to meet the standards after the expiration date. ”

"Yang Qiu is responsible for the summary of last year's work." Cen Tianshi's words made everyone think for a while. The Tang Empire established by Li Xuanqing brought a new political system and a completely different way of thinking, although the School of Administration did its best to train the new generation of officials, but in the face of the imperial territory of the University, the number of hundreds of students per year was still far from enough, so the local officials in these years still mostly relied on the previous kind of recommendation of the old officials.

"This matter requires more efforts from the people of the School of Administration, but I want to say that the political atmosphere of the empire does not allow these people to be crooked, so the legal court and the security department need to take responsibility, and they must take the responsibility of supervising the legal court as soon as possible, and weed out those unqualified officials." Li Xuanqing's statement can be regarded as a kind of support for the cabinet and Cen Tianshi.

Yang Qiu followed Li Xuanqing's words and stood up to describe the economic development of the empire last year, and with Yang Qiu's words, the officials of the various ministries present also began to have a clear and clear concept, the degree of industrialization of the empire last year still reached more than 20% of the gross domestic product of the entire society, which was enough to make Li Xuanqing happy before the millennium when industrialization was almost starting from scratch or even zero. Moreover, Yang Qiu's report also clearly shows that the three economic centers in the north of the empire are significantly higher than those in the south on the road to industrialization. Taking Toyosu as an example, industrialization ranks first in the country, the proportion of industry in Toyosu has reached more than 60% of the gross social product, and the proportion of the total agricultural production value continues to decline. In particular, there has been no breakthrough in the development of the chemical industry, the tension has not been made, the chemical fertilizer has not come out, and Li Xuanqing does not have much memory in terms of improved seeds, resulting in the development of agriculture can only rely on traditional methods to slowly improve. However, the benefits are not without benefits; the agriculture in the north represented by the entire Yellow River Hetao Plain is also embarking on the road of intensification and large-scale, and when the commercial grain base is gradually divided into state-run farms in the vast plains of the northeast, grain output begins to rise by a large margin; as of the end of last year, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Logistics, the grain output of the national grain depot in the whole country has reached a record high, and just by a rough calculation, the grain output in the north last year was already the daily needs of the 30 million people of the empire. If we add to this the fact that the grain production in the south is even larger, the food problem that has plagued all the people of this land for thousands of years will be completely solved in this lifetime. The price of grain in the empire began to fall sharply after the autumn grain was put on the market, forcing the cabinet to start the method of purchasing grain at the protective price that Li Xuanqing had inadvertently mentioned before, and invested a lot of money in subsidies, and at the same time began to ask the Ministry of Agriculture to increase its support for agricultural product processing enterprises, and in order to deal with the excess grain as soon as possible, the wine industry, which was strictly controlled even in the previous prosperous era, was relaxed.

"Your Majesty, leaders, this is the end of the summary of the cabinet's work last year." Although Yang Qiuyang's speech of tens of thousands of words ended here, it echoed in everyone's ears for a long time. After four years of development, it is time for the empire to flourish.

"Please announce the Cabinet's development plans." Li Xuanqing stood up and applauded and said: "It has been four years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and our generation has done its best to make the empire stronger than before, I hope we can always uphold the original intention of serving the country and the people, seek a permanent foundation for all the people of the empire, and lay the foundation for the empire for all generations." ”

"Please rest assured, the emperor will not forget it at any time." Cen Tianshi arched his hand.

"The work plan of the empire this year is a bit special, according to the emperor's will, this year's cabinet plan is for the general development of the empire in the next five years, that is, to concentrate the strength of the entire empire to develop industry, so that our industrialization can reach more than half of it in five years." Cen Tianshi arched his hand at Li Xuanqing and said: "The five-year plan is the emperor's painstaking efforts during this time, so I hope that everyone here will show twelve points of spirit to let the empire realize the era of mechanical roar described by the emperor and everyone is like a dragon." ”

The five-year plan is divided into five aspects, which is to improve industrialization in the north through five years, establish the northern industrial belt, and radiate Guanzhong and Tianjin with Fengzhou as the center, so that the entire northern part of Datang will become the cradle of industry. To this end, the empire will spend five years to invest more than one billion Tang coins every year to support the development of the North Industry, and for this reason, the Joint Equipment Department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has established a complete set of 127 industries in 13 categories, with a total of 7,000 large and small industrial enterprises, and invested in the construction of more than five railways to help the development of the North Industry. Yang Qiu continued to follow Cen Tianshi's words. The core of this five-year plan is to develop industry in the north, and this time Li Xuanqing instructed Murong Hanhai of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to formulate a detailed industrial development plan, and also in the name of the empire to make large-scale investment in the steel smelting and chemical industry in a state-run way, to establish a complete set of steel from mining smelting to final processing and manufacturing, to create a complete steel industry chain. At the same time, the laboratory of the industrial group also disclosed to the whole society for the first time dozens of models and principles of the chemical industry, and promised to fund more than 100 professor-level talents in the School of Chemical Engineering within five years to help the level of Chinese workers in the empire meet the requirements of industrialization, and to train more than 3,000 basic workers and technicians for this purpose. In addition, the industrial group is also a separation, dividing all the talents and industries of the chemical industry to establish a chemical group, which undertakes the beginning and development of the imperial chemical industry. The experiments and production around the three acids and two alkalis will also take root in Fengzhou and other places. Mr. and Mrs. Li Xuanqing did their best to help solve the production and processing of three acids and two alkalis, and helped establish a complete set of processes. To Li Xuanqing's surprise is that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce originally formulated the plan to put the coal chemical industry in an important position, which has been recognized and supported by Li Xuanqing, the current coal chemical industry is actually just a beginning, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce with the help of the equipment department will be in Bingzhou and Hezhong to establish a large sulfur chemical base, the use of coal to push forward.

After Yang Qiu finished speaking, Murong Hanhai immediately stood up and began to pay attention to reporting the list of industrial industries planned by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to be established in the northern provinces, and Guanzhong began to develop large-scale industrial research and development according to the current foundation, based on the major laboratories of the industrial group, and set up large-scale laboratories with the headquarters of the six major families in Chang'an, responsible for leading and leading the new wave of industrial development of the entire empire. As the center, Fengzhou carries the backbone of the development of the entire northern industrial belt of the empire, and the basic industry and smelting production of various materials led by Fengzhou mean the foundation of mechanical processing and manufacturing of the entire empire. Originally, Li Xuanqing planned to develop the Northeast, but when he thought of the population there, Li Xuanqing still suppressed the plan in his heart to develop the Northeast. At the current stage, after the development of the northern industrial belt, the industrial development can radiate to the periphery according to inertia. What really satisfies Li Xuanqing is the mechanical processing and manufacturing represented by Shenzhou and Tianjin, as well as the final finished product manufacturing industry. Tianjin's shipbuilding industry and Shenzhou's large-scale machinery manufacturing industry carry the dream of the empire's take-off. The development of the engine in this era, to be precise, the development of power has just begun, and the steam engine is still at the beginning when the popularization industry cannot develop the automobile industry, so the terminal point chosen by Li Xuanqing is the textile industry and the shipbuilding industry. The former represents the development and popularization of light industry, and the latter represents the extreme development of heavy industry. Therefore, in the five-year plan, Shenzhou and its surrounding cities will focus on the development of manufacturing, so that Shenzhou will become the center of industrial manufacturing, for which the industrial group will expand the manufacturing plant in Shenzhou, establish a complete manufacturing center, and the manufacturing industry of the Murong family and the Yuwen family will also be concentrated to focus on development and support. In this way, the Deep State truly became an industrial city. Tianjin, not far from Shenzhou, has established a large-scale manufacturing terminal centered on the shipbuilding industry, and the shipbuilding industry involves hundreds of upstream and downstream industries, large and small, and this industry alone can drive the development and improvement of the entire industrial chain. This is also the reason why Li Xuanqing chose to focus on the shipbuilding industry. In this era, it can even be said that the industrial shipbuilding industry in the steam age is definitely greater than the automobile industry in later generations.

"We will hand over the development of light industry to the industrial and commercial class of the country, and I have said hello to the six major families, and in the next five years, we will jointly provide 500 million Tang yuan to fund light industry, and promise to play the role of a leader in the industry, and strive to develop the light industry of the empire, after all, light industry is less than heavy industry, the investment is small, the effect is fast and the cycle is short, it is easy to develop, and it can be developed quickly by relying on the power of the people." Murong Hanhai's attainments in industrial development have now reached a very high level, so Li Xuanqing's understanding of industrial development is amazing.

"In these five years, the industrial group will unite the Xu family, the Murong family and the Zhang family to develop overseas trade, in addition to the northwest trade route, the empire's maritime trade will be the way out of the future empire's industrialization. The vast amount of industrial and commercial goods we produce need to be sent to distant places through the Empire's fleets to be sold, so I ask the Imperial military and caravans to open up more sea routes. After listening to Murong Hanhai's words, Li Xuanqing clapped his hands and said: "The future sea route needs the Imperial Navy to contribute more strength, so it is imperative to say in advance that the navy will grow, and we must use our steel warships to help the empire's caravans open up sales channels and create a future for the development of the empire's industry." Li Xuanqing interjected and looked at Murong Hanhai, who nodded and continued: "Let's continue, from this year onwards, the Imperial Ministry of Finance and Qian Zhuang will implement the latest currency settlement methods, and any trade with the empire in the future must be settled in Tang currency, and we must inform the whole country to tell everyone that Tang currency will be the only legal currency in the future business circle of the empire, whether it is domestic or foreign." Although Murong Hanhai's words made everyone a little puzzled, then Murong Hanhai stood up and the Minister of Finance and the General Office of Qian Zhuang, everyone was waiting for the explanation of these two.

"We're going to build a Tang coin settlement circle." Li Xuanqing looked at the two and smiled slightly, which was regarded as a starting point for the two of them, but it also made everyone understand what it meant in an instant.