Although the New Year of the third year of the Apocalypse was shrouded in wind and snow in almost the entire Northern Empire, the people everywhere should celebrate as usual, and the wealthy people began to have other pursuits besides food and clothing after they had spare money in their hands. During the New Year, the tertiary industry such as shops and restaurants in various places developed rapidly, and the people demanded strongly, and the people spent much more generously than usual during the New Year. In the face of such strong demand, many large businesses directly hollowed out their warehouses and put all kinds of goods for the people to buy.

Li Xuanqing's idea of enriching the people was finally able to feed back economic development after three years of peace in the north. These people, who have greater purchasing power, have also gradually realized how wasteful it is for the previous dynasties and dynasties to only care about looting private wealth, so that the people have been in abject poverty for a long time, and have no purchasing power. The purchasing power displayed by these people during the New Year period alone was enough to overjoyed the merchants.

And when the major merchants were thinking about how to increase the income of the people so that they could have money to buy their own goods, the annual imperial meeting of Chang'an was also held on time in the Changqing Palace. The three major plans on the cabinet's side made the cabinet leaders led by Cen Tianshi do their best.

The first is transportation. According to the plan of the Ministry of Communications and the Department of Railways, in addition to the unfinished Changjin Line and the eastern section of the Fengzhou Railway Line, three more railways will be added in the new year to connect the economic development of various places. One of them was that Li Xuanqing and Yang Xingmi, the political envoy of Huainan Province, discussed the connection between the two Huai coal mines and Ma'anshan, so as to accelerate the development of this southern industrial center. The other two are beyond Li Xuanqing's expectations, and according to the plan of the Ministry of Communications, a local railway network will be formed on top of the railway routes that have been formed so far. For example, in the Bohai Bay area, preparations are being made to build a railway from Yanjun City to Tongzhou through Shenzhou in the north. The railway is part of the Cabinet's support for the development of Bohai and Songjiang provinces, and according to the plan of the Ministry of Railways, the railway will eventually be extended to the northernmost point of Shangjing, which has been renamed Binjiang, thus forming a railway line that runs through the northeast.

The last railway is planned to build a railway plan to directly connect the northern line from Hangzhou along the canal to Tianjin, Shenzhou and other places. However, the railway is only in the planning, because the current north-south traffic basically depends on the canal, and the newly dredged canal capacity has increased significantly, and the demand for this railway is not high after the popularization of new powered cargo ships.

However, Rao is like this, Li Xuanqing still has a high look at Wu Zuodong's Ministry of Communications, and can think of the layout from the whole country from the current few railways, and this vision alone is not something that ordinary people can have. Moreover, this railway plan not only has a current plan, but also a long-term plan, and even the regional branch line plans are also listed. It can be said that there is both an overall plan and the development of each province itself. On this point, the participants of the Tiance Mansion, including Xu Tianxiang, gave the Minister of Transportation a praising look.

Although in Li Xuanqing's view, this plan is still not perfect, and when considering the problem, it is still mainly in the north, and the path between Hangzhou and Guangzhou in the south has not been taken into account, Li Xuanqing still expressed his appreciation for the plan of the Ministry of Communications and encouraged them to work hard to realize their plan as soon as possible.

The construction of straight roads outside the railway was originally planned by the provincial government and the government, and then submitted to the Ministry of Communications for review and construction. However, there are still a few straight roads that still need to be completed under the auspices of the Ministry of Transportation and the Cabinet. One of them is the southwest straight road construction plan, from the province to Nanzhao straight road plan, because the terrain is complex, mountainous terrain, the difficulty of construction is not less than the railway, so the Ministry of Communications this report also added, according to their plan, in the next year to open up this straight road, and the south end to extend from Nanzhao to Lianzhou and Qinzhou, if there is spare power to connect with Guangzhou. At this point, the Ministry of Communications used Nanzhao's prisoners to the extreme. After the construction of the Fengling Railway, most of the Nanzhao prisoners were transferred south, basically for the sake of this straight road. In addition, along the way, the provincial government will also issue recruitment orders to gather local people to participate in the construction of roads. Because the Tang Empire abolished the previous labor system, replaced by a contract system of employment, all the people who were called together would have a salary, and in order to win the trust of the people, many projects were settled by wages a day, and meals were provided free of charge, so now all the imperial infrastructure projects, as long as there is a recruitment order, there will be a large number of people who flock to work to earn money, especially when the farming is not working, many people come with their families, just to make more money.

After Goh Chok-tung's plan was reported, it was the Ministry of Finance's tax cut plan. This is a tax reduction plan jointly produced with the Ministry of Agriculture. According to the Cabinet's plan, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture will spend five to ten years reducing agricultural taxes in the northern provinces and regions.

According to the current level of agricultural tax, it almost follows the standard set by Li Xuanqing during the Fengzhou period, and calculates it according to 40% of the yield per mu as the standard for collecting agricultural tax. In today's booming industry and commerce, this tax is too heavy and unfair to farmers. In the long run, this will inevitably greatly dampen the peasants' enthusiasm for farming, and thus the pace of agricultural development will not be able to keep up with the development of industry and commerce. Therefore, after Li Xuanqing raised this matter before, the cabinet has been thinking about how to reduce the burden on the peasants and reduce the standard of agricultural taxation.

However, once the agricultural tax is reduced, it will inevitably lead to a decline in the prices of agricultural products, which will inevitably cause fluctuations in the market prices of industrial commodities. Therefore, after a long period of deliberation, the cabinet formulated this tax reduction plan, that is, the implementation plan in different districts. According to the standard for collecting taxes from the Ministry of Agriculture, in a normal year, the tax per mu of rice is 110 Tang Yuan, which is about the price of 10 Tang Yuan per stone of rice, and 100 Tang Yuan in wheat-producing areas. In today's situation where the yield of rice per mu does not exceed four stones, this is already a quarter of the income. The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance intend to reduce this tax to about 50 yuan within five years, and correspondingly, after the popularization of double stone fertilizer and the latest chemical fertilizer, it is necessary to find a way to make the yield per mu of rice more than six stones, and the yield of wheat per mu must also reach more than four stones.

Li Xuanqing has no good way to produce wheat, but he has already found a way to rice, and at the southern end of Jiaozhou, he has arranged for the local political envoy and Xuan Yingwei to take joint action to find high-yield rice varieties, and prepare to find them and cultivate them locally, and then gradually promote them. Wasn't the Champa rice of the Ming Dynasty produced in that area?

The first step of the tax reduction plan is to be carried out in the northern provinces and autonomous regions, and in the south, especially in Jiangnan and other places, because the land reform has just been implemented, the enthusiasm of local farmers for farming is still on the rise, so the Jiangnan region will have to wait until the northern provinces and autonomous regions are completed before implementation. Here, Sichuan was separately proposed to be incorporated into the northern provinces and regions to implement the tax reduction plan. This is also considering that Sichuan has a relatively long recovery time and is relatively wealthy, so tax cuts are given priority.

The third plan of the cabinet was to increase the Ministry of Health proposed by Li Xuanqing to improve the medical level of the people of the empire, so as to reduce the number of sick and dead. In the new plan of the cabinet, in addition to completing the content that Li Xuanqing needed to complete when he discussed with Cen Tianshi, the newly-born Ministry of Health should also do a good job in the issue of the birth rate of the population in various places, reduce the unnatural death of infants, and do a good job in the safe birth of mothers. There is nothing good to do about this Li Xuanqing, because in this era, production is a ghost gate, and when he was born in the first place, even he, a guest from later generations, was in a cold sweat, which still concentrated the best medical conditions that Tiance Mansion could have at that time, otherwise it would be unimaginable.

This point was puzzled by others at first, but after seeing the increase in population, everyone stopped talking, this one alone is enough, and now with the gradual completion of the unification of the Tang Empire, almost all the high-level people feel that the future development of the empire population is one of the most restrictive conditions. And the fact that more babies can be born means that the source of population increase will be gradually and safely controlled.

These three main plans are the main content of the Cabinet's work and the areas in which the Cabinet will need to devote its main energy in the coming year. In addition, the industrial development plan and overseas trade plan of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce are also very important, covering the economic linkage development of all parts of the country, but now the imperial industry and commerce has a certain foundation, in addition to strengthening management and guidance, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is to formulate corresponding rules to ensure that the market is fair and just, so that economic development will naturally maintain a rapid growth momentum.

However, in previous years, Zhang Quanfu of the Ministry of Water Resources and Environmental Protection, which basically occupied a small part of the content, unexpectedly talked about his environmental protection plan this year. According to his plan, in the next year, the northern provinces, autonomous regions, prefectures, and county-level cities must uniformly arrange the green vegetation in the city, so that the green vegetation area accounts for more than 20 percent of the urban area, and the cities with conditions must even reach 30 to 40 percent. Zhang Quanfu was a meticulous person, and after the New Year, he began to let his deputies take people to various places for specific guidance and planting all kinds of green plants.

After this content, his railway green belt plan has also received unanimous support from all states and counties along the way, because the railway and train are noisy, which will affect the production and life of people along the way, and Zhang Quanfu's green belt can not only suppress dust, but also reduce noise, which is very important. The green belt of the railway in the northwest has played a role in blocking the invasion of wind and sand on the railway line, and has been included in the necessary steps for the construction of the railway by the Ministry of Railways.

The Imperial Council lasted for three full days, and most of it was devoted to the Cabinet's plans and the summary of last year's work. Through these plans, the senior echelons of the empire who attended the meeting also had a clear understanding of the achievements of the cabinet last year and the new plans that will be started soon. This made the military personnel, who were basically not involved in civil affairs, gradually realize that the cabinet, which had only been formed for more than two years, already had the ability to preside over the economic development of the empire.

Compared with the cabinet's plan, the plan of the law court is much more insipid, but everyone does not dare to slack off, in addition to the new law school to train professional personnel last year, the law court has also used thunderous means to uproot nearly 500 corrupt officials, and the highest level has already sat in the position of assassin. In addition to conducting inspections, the courts have also cooperated with media groups so that people can use these ubiquitous journalists to convey the situation of corruption in various places.

This alone is enough to make everyone's hearts tremble, and it has only been two years since the founding of the empire that there has been so much corruption, which makes the hearts of all the high-level people attending the meeting tighten. In this year's plan, the Law Court will issue more than 300 new legal provisions and compile three new legal provisions in response to the new problems that are currently emerging, in order to adapt to the new economic development environment.

After the report of the plan of the law court is completed, it is the plan of the Tiance Mansion, in addition to the upgrade of the naval department reported to Li Xuanqing before, it is more about the preparations for the recovery of Anxi, after a year of preparation, Wan Yi has basically completed all the deployments on the Hexi side, and Li Xuanqing ordered to send troops after the weather warms up in spring. This is a major event that everyone is paying attention to at present, the Tang Empire is incomplete if there is no Anxi, so this is also the reason why no matter how much food and soldiers are needed to recover Anxi, the cabinet headed by Cen Tianshi has never discounted a little, and the Tang Dynasty's strategy for the Western Regions is very positive except for the national strength after the Anshi Rebellion, which is also the reason why the Anxi Army was able to send so many invincible iron cavalry back to China to quell the rebellion after the Anshi Rebellion.

After talking about Anthy, it was the plan for the establishment of overseas colonies reported by the navy, and the cabinet showed a happy attitude towards this plan, there was no way that the gold and silver brought back by the navy from two trips to sea were enough to build a fleet, and if you went to sea a few more times, wouldn't it be enough for a year's military expenses? Cen Tianshi immediately expressed his support for this plan, and directly said that if the military needs it, he can allocate additional military funds to support this plan.

The generosity of the Prime Minister made all the participating generals of the Tiance Mansion despise for a while, and the prime minister really fell into the eyes of money, as long as there is money to earn, everything can be done. However, Li Xuanqing was very pleased, after all, Cen Tianshi had changed from a former scholar who did not touch gold and silver to now he did not hesitate to use the army to grab money in order to develop the economy, which has to be said to be a big progress.

In this way, in everyone's secret contempt for the prime minister, this annual imperial meeting is coming to an end, and the development of the Tang Empire in the new year has been in the hands of these high-level leaders who hold the fate of the empire in the Chang'an base camp, and the next time is how to implement those plans that stay on paper. Qiaoxi stood outside the Changqing Hall and watched Li Xuanqing walk out with a haggard face and dark circles under his eyes, secretly distressed and happy at the same time, he and Li Xuanqing had worked hard for so many years, and the empire had finally embarked on another path.