The changes in Datang in the past few years are the same every year, and there is no repetition at all.

Especially after the New Year's Day this year, the benefits brought by the major state capitals and important cities that have fully lifted the curfew can only be described as crazy.

At the cabinet meeting, the Ministry of Industry and Household Affairs and the Ministry of Development quickly came up with a new plan.

The plan was perfect enough for Li Yuanji to order the construction of a railway that would start at least 500 miles at the same time.

Money?

The problem that Li Yuanji was most worried about has now become the least problematic problem.

The tax revenue of the imperial court comes from the state capitals of the country, because the imperial court intends to cancel the people's taxes, which is a big blow to the local government, so last year, Huangfu Wuyi adjusted the tax plan.

That is, each county pays 60% of the annual tax to the state capital, leaving 40% as the development fund, and each state leaves 10% of the tax as the state's emergency regulation and control and its own expenses, and the rest is handed over to the household department.

In other words, the proportion of the entire tax is divided according to five, one, and four.

Although this limits the financial capacity of the state capitals, the pressure on the state capitals is not great, and all they have to do is to set the general direction of development of the entire state, and there are not many places where funds need to be used.

Moreover, the funds reserved by the counties are completely sufficient, and some large projects are funded by the imperial court.

Therefore, the real responsibility of the state government has been redivided, that is, to act as a medium between the court and the counties, from which to coordinate, arrange, etc.

Of course, this is under the premise of not too much corruption, which can save a lot of working time and pressure on the government, and a small number of officials can be arranged to complete this work with the bank, and detailed data can be seen at the same time.

Of course, the tax is counted on a monthly basis, there is an independent account, every three months, the tax account of each county will be transferred to the tax account of the state capital, after the state government confirms the funds, within one month after receiving the funds, ninety percent of the funds will be handed over to the account of the household.

The whole process does not require them to personally check whether the amount of money is correct, all they need to do is to confirm the amount of money on the agreement and then sign it.

In addition, this part of the tax is not allowed to be used in the current year, and the remaining funds will be retained, and recorded, and the next time the statistics are made, the remaining funds will be removed, and only the part of the new funds that need to be paid will be calculated.

After the New Year's Day, the funds in this account will be emptied and all transferred to another account, which is the capital budget of the government at all levels in the next year.

Of course, funds cannot be used indiscriminately, and they must be strictly approved before they can be used, and each county needs to be approved by the state government, and some large projects even have to be reported to the imperial court, and the states must be approved by the imperial court.

But when it comes to some emergencies, the states also have the power to cut before they happen, but everyone knows what this emergency refers to?

Looking at the two plans in his hand, Li Yuanji handed them out and let the other cabinet members look at them one by one.

He didn't expect that the household department was also very concerned about this matter.

Not only did we cooperate with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Development, but we also deliberately investigated the tax situation for the last time this year in advance, and made two plans, or one short and one long, according to the approximate revenue budget.

The short is naturally the expansion of the railway from Luozhou to Xingyang, and the long is the expansion of the railway planning of more than 600 miles from Luozhou to Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Bianzhou (Kaifeng), Jiyang (Lankao) to Songzhou (Shangqiu).

In other words, in this plan, the next railway to be built is the total length of the railway to be built this time.

They divided the distance of more than 1,200 miles into two stages, each stage of building 600 miles, and according to the current situation, as long as the railway built in this plan was completed, the next stage of construction could be directly started.

Because the plan is at least two years, and according to the current situation, the income of next year will be enough to pay the budget for this 600-mile railway, and within two years, the imperial court will be more nervous, and the money for the entire 1,200-mile railway can be saved.

"This plan is better than a stable word, but it will take five years to complete the rest of the whole process, and five years is enough to do a lot of things." Fang Xuanling shook his head, as members of the core group, they knew much more than the outside world.

For example, the entire cabinet knew that the imperial court was going to use troops in the east next, and it was going to attack the three countries of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Yamato by sea.

And every expedition requires a lot of manpower and material resources to support, and if this railway can be built earlier, the benefits are still many.

But if they don't repair, or if they repair according to the plan, then the expedition will definitely not stop, and they won't wait for five years, so the imperial court still has to gather a lot of manpower and material resources to prepare.

Even to pretend to be forced, even if the battle is won, how can the loot be brought back? If there is a railway, you don't have to worry so much at all, let alone organize a lot of manpower and material resources to transport.

It is precisely because of seeing these that Fang Xuanling felt that this plan was a little too conservative, and continued: "The construction of the railway, the significance is very significant, don't look at the current half-dead railway, but his benefits have been revealed, the reason for this is just because the distance is too short, if it can be built to Haicheng as soon as possible, then the grain and wine in the Central Plains of Guanzhong, seafood in the coastal areas, etc., can be transported by rail in large quantities, in addition, the strategic significance is also very significant."

Therefore, the minister felt that if he did not repair, he would inevitably overhaul if he wanted to repair, and within his own ability, he would do his best to make the railway form a scale as soon as possible, and in the future, he could even consider directly building the railway to the countries of the Western Regions, which would be conducive to the complete annexation of the Tang Dynasty. ”

People will change after all, and if someone dared to put forward such a shameless idea five years ago, they would inevitably suffer from the spit attack of the ministers.

But now the situation is different, first of all, no matter how big the project is, it is not a waste of money and money, as long as the court can pay for the work, the people will not have any complaints, and they even wish that the court would have more such big projects.

They can earn money, and when they are done, the railroad will reduce the cost of transportation, which means that their cost of living will be lower.

And......

Railways need to be maintained and inspected, so these smart people who are particularly serious about building railways and have mastered a certain amount of knowledge will naturally get a stable job, railway maintenance workers.

Although it is just an ordinary soldier, for people who can't read a single word, a stable job means that they have a fixed income every month, so that the family's life will be better, why not?

Therefore, when Fang Xuanling made this suggestion, the first thing that came to the minister's mind was not absurdity, nor was it against these words.

is thinking, is it possible for what Fang Xuanling said to become a reality?

This is the transformation of people, with the change of the times, everyone, will be subconsciously changed some ideas.

Ma Zhou is also thinking back to Fang Xuanling's words, from the overall situation, this idea is very reliable, but I don't know if the funds can keep up, obviously, in terms of the current situation, it is difficult.

Li Yuanji was also thinking about it, but he was not just thinking about what other ministers thought.

The benefits of the railway line, no one can know better than he, the posterity.

It is even more unimaginable how much benefit the railway lines crisscrossing the country have brought to the development of a country in later generations.

Among them, Li Yuanji was most impressed by the wars in Tibetan areas.

Some people say that Huaxia was timid at that time, and some people say that Huaxia wanted to save face and suffer crimes, so he returned the hard-fought area to the opponent for no reason.

In short, there is everything to say.

But are these really the real questions?

Of course not, the biggest problem is that the Qinghai-Tibet Highway has not been completed, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has not been built, and the logistics cannot keep up.

After the industrial reform, the importance that countries attach to the right of way of railways is enough to illustrate these problems.

If you master the railway, you will master the lifeblood of a region, which is a simple truth.

Obviously, the current Changluo Railway is being built in accordance with the line of the Longhai Railway in history, if you really want to consider Fang Xuanling's suggestion, then the next railway to start construction must be the Beijing-Guangzhou Line in later generations.

Once a crisscrossing railway is completed, then Datang's control over the entire territory will reach its peak, or that sentence, with what he has done now, as long as future generations do not die by themselves, it is difficult for Datang to be destroyed.

To put it more simply, Li Yuanji was moved.

"An east-west railway, a north-south railway, once completed, the benefits to Datang are obvious, as long as there is a problem along the railway, reinforcements can arrive within five days at the slatest, and the economic value is immeasurable!" Ma Zhou expressed his opinion, this was his original intention to propose to continue the expansion, but being reminded by Fang Xuanling, he felt that this plan could be made bigger.

Li Yuanji shook his head and threw out a question: "The east-west line is easy to say, but what about the north-south line?" No matter where you choose, the Great River and the Yangtze River are two insurmountable chasms, and the Ministry of Industry can find a way to build two bridges that are large enough for trains to pass safely? ”