After the Department of Scientific Research, there was the Department of Commerce, so Lao Yue Yue Zonglian simply talked about the affairs of the two departments of commerce and finance under his jurisdiction. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

......, in 1731, the Finance Department continued to run deficits, with a deficit of 63 percent, and for this reason, in August and September last year, in order to fill the deficit, the Donghai Bank had to issue a large number of additional banknotes, which caused a violent currency devaluation.

In the autumn and winter of last year, the value of the East China Sea currency fluctuated violently, and the fiscal deficit had been filled by the issuance of additional banknotes, but the value of the East China Sea currency in the four southern provinces and Yingzhou Province had not yet fully recovered. At the same time, the value of land tickets and silver coins was still strong, and there was an increase in value of one to three percent, and the Tokai Bank temporarily stopped the exchange of land tickets, and issued a large number of land tickets to calm the currency fluctuations.

In 1731, the precious metal reserves of the national treasury increased further, benefiting from the further exploitation of the gold and silver mines in Yingzhou and the winning of foreign trade, the precious metal reserves of the national treasury increased by 23.75 tons of gold and 583 tons of silver; At the same time, an additional 24 million silver coins were issued, which promoted commercial circulation and trade, and curbed the appreciation of silver coins.

In 1731, he won 24,700,000 taels of silver in trade with the imperial court, 8.1 tons of gold and 410 tons of silver in trade with the Netherlands and Europe; The Finance Division is considering the proportion of some precious metals converted into treasury reserves.

In the trade with the imperial court, ships, paper blocks, kerosene, tobacco and cigarettes, iron products, bicycles, rubber rickshaws, horse-drawn carriages, perfumes, soaps, cloths, cement, glass, precious wood, jewelry, steam engines, small generators, phonographs, electric lights, etc., were all bulk trade commodities, and the profits were also extremely rich; The purchased commodities mainly include cotton, rapeseed, fur, tea, pig bristles, lacquer, raw silk, etc., mainly industrial raw materials, as well as entrepot trade raw materials; The volume of trade is dominated by the official trade of Tanggu, Yangzhou, and Guangzhou, supplemented by the private trade of Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Songjiang, Xiamen, Chaoshan, Zhennanguan, Qingzhou Port, Lingshanwei, Laizhou Port, and other places.

Trade with the Netherlands and with Europe, now not only in the South Seas trade with the Netherlands, since last summer, the Department of Commerce has realized the bulk of goods in South Africa direct trade to Europe, the Department of Commerce has now been able to go to South Africa on a large scale, although the Dutch have a little opinion but are happy to see it, welcome the East China Sea Navy joint escort.

As long as the export goods of trade with the Netherlands and Europe include paper blocks, kerosene, cigarettes, iron products, horse-drawn carriages, cold weapons, steam engines, porcelain, tea, silk, cane sugar, spices and other items, the main items purchased are saltpeter, fur, copper ingots, lead and tin ingots, bauxite, sulfur, cotton, etc.

The Tianzhu people, the English people, the Marathas and other forces in Tianzhu are now mainly trading with the East China Sea and New Netherland, the East India Company of the English people is gradually expanding, and the connection with Europe through the direction of South Africa is gradually decreasing, and it is suppressed by the East China Sea and New Netherlands, and now they are honest and serious about doing business with us; The trade goods between the two sides are mainly cotton, tea, porcelain, silk, cold weapons, copper, zinc, tin and lead, furs, saltpeter and other items, or self-sale or re-export, but the trade volume between the two sides has not been large, and the bulk goods are mainly cotton and iron products.

The volume of trade in the Ottoman direction was also considerable, and we mainly exported iron products, cold weapons, porcelain, tea, silk, sugar, cloth, and imported wool, cotton, furs, copper, tin, lead, ingots, saltpeter, etc.;

Generally speaking, foreign trade has won a large number of gold, silver, copper, platinum, lead, tin and other metals, as well as cotton, wool, saltpeter, sulfur, bauxite and other resources, and it has shown an annual surge trend, which shows that the external market has been widely formed, and the trade will further increase, which is conducive to the commercial and financial development of the East China Sea.

It is impossible to predict this year's trade volume and trade winnings for the time being, but the inherent growth rate is obvious, and there are detailed figures in the reports and plans of the two divisions, so I will not go into them here. ……”

After Yue Zong went down, it was the turn of the Traffic Division, and as soon as Zhou Runshui came to power, he had a black face,

"......, I won't say more, but briefly introduce the summary and plan of the Transportation Division;

From January to May 1731, the Department of Communications completed 470 kilometers of heavy gauge railways and 1,700 kilometers of light rail railways. In June and July of last year, due to the influence of the epidemic and the policy of cleaning up foreign laborers, a large number of personnel of the Department of Communications were transferred, and less than one percent remained, and there were no foreign laborers, and a large number of machinery, materials, cattle and horses were transferred to other departments and departments, and under the influence of this, from June to December 1731, the Department of Communications only completed 85 kilometers of heavy rail, 256 kilometers of light rail, and 1,100 kilometers of simple railways and highways at all levels;

According to the plans of the General Staff Department and the Military Affairs Department, this year's newly captured young and strong foreign laborers are mainly supplied to the two divisions of industry and government affairs, and it is impossible for the Transportation Department to get a single alien hard labor throughout the year, so the transportation department's heavy rail railway plan this year is only the construction plan of the four-line heavy rail railway from the new office of Australia to Pilbara, and the light rail railway paving plan is only the remaining light rail improvement plan of the Sanjiangkou-Harbin-Busan railway section, and the light rail paving plan is supplemented and improved by 390 kilometers; The remaining traffic paving plans are all simple rail or simple road paving plans between various government districts and between major districts and counties and major towns; In addition, when paving simple rails and simple roads in various places, a large number of idle agricultural personnel are needed, and strong support from the Secretary for Administration will be needed at that time;

This year, the Military Affairs Department has a plan for capturing 8 million prisoners in the south, while the two industrial and administrative departments have a shortage of more than 10 million laborers this year, that is to say, the Transportation Department will not be able to get the supply and use of foreign laborers until March or April next year at the earliest.

I'm done, and the materials and drawings have been sent to you, so let's see for yourself,......! ”

Zhou Runshui's words made Fu Ning frown, but he didn't say anything after all.

As soon as the Department of Communications passed over, it was the Department of Foreign Affairs, and Hong Bin's speech was very brief;

"......, in 1731, the Department of Foreign Affairs achieved two main achievements: first, it brought about an agreement with the imperial court, including the expansion of the number of overseas students, the increase of the variety of goods traded, and the opening of the expansion and trade of the small ports of Tanggu, Yangzhou, and Canton; Second, to bring about the re-signing and upgrading of the permanent peace charter between the East China Sea State and the New Netherlands in the South Seas to the charter of the permanent alliance, and the two countries will further strengthen cooperation in the fields of commerce and industry, and at the same time will be completely open to each other in the movement of people and migration, and the two countries will also be completely open and cooperative in the fields of navigation, study, employment, finance, law, and so on;

In the military field, the East China Sea State will support and guide the New Netherlands in establishing five light marine divisions, and provide arms support and supplies; In terms of the Dutch navy, the East China Sea State will gradually recover the two fleets that were sold to the New Netherlands, undertake the construction and sale of two new naval fleets to the Dutch, assist the Dutch in rebuilding the two ironclad fleets in the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic, and provide arms supply support; The two navies will achieve joint command, help the Dutch train new naval officers, and will also jointly establish two new naval home ports in South Africa and Ceylon;

In terms of power, the East China Sea State supported the cardinal of Batavia to the ruling Gilt of the New Netherlands? Francis for the coronation of the royal throne in favor of Geert? Francis was crowned King of New Netherlands;

It can be said that the two regimes do not interfere with each other, cooperate in all aspects of the military, and completely open up each other in other fields. A permanent alliance between the two countries.

In 1732, that is, this year, the main task of the Foreign Affairs Department was still to urge the imperial court to further open up the coastal ports, and strive to open one or more private trade ports as official trade ports in the seven ports of Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Chaoshan, Songjiang, and Qinglai;

Another plan was to reach an agreement with the Ottoman Empire to buy foreign young and strong laborers from the Ottoman direction;

Last year, the East China Sea State had purchased a small number of young and strong laborers from the Ottoman Empire, and now the East China Sea State is in urgent need of mining laborers, and a large amount of gold and silver can be won through trade, and a large amount of gold and silver can be purchased from the Ottomans, New Holland, Tianzhu and other places, and sent to the road and mining sites after sterilization;

The proprietor once said that gold and silver are dead things, and only when they are flowing; Now that the East China Sea has a full treasury and a large amount of trade has been won, the plan to purchase a large number of young and strong foreign laborers from the Ottomans, Tianzhu, and the Netherlands is extremely feasible after many consultations at the highest levels of the various departments and departments, and it is also the main goal of the Foreign Affairs Department's work plan this year. ……”

After Hong Bin spoke, he didn't care about the division, and Zhang Hui's words were equally brief;

"......, in 1731, the inquiry office of the department reached a total of 51,000 inquiries, the temporary management office temporarily took over 4,126 incidents, punished 21,000 wrongdoers, and effectively realized the supervision and supervision of other departments and departments;

The source of information for the problems that have been discovered is still provided by the Intelligence Division, and the main problems are still concentrated in the three Divisions of Government Affairs, Industry, and Culture; The main mistakes are unclear responsibility, eating and taking cards, incompetence in office, and violation of the system; Regardless of the basic starting point of the department's handling of the incident, it is mainly to supervise the work, punish the past and punish the latter, and education, so last year's handling of personnel was mainly in three ways: supervision, education, and service light labor, and a very small number of people were sentenced to heavy labor or transferred to the Antarctic Government for processing;

In 1732, that is, this year, in accordance with the spirit of the resolution of the General Staff Department and the General Division, regardless of whether the Department would continue the policy of 1731, the main direction of inquiry was still the four aspects of unclear responsibility, eating and taking cards, incompetence in office, and violation of the system.

Due to the unusual lack of foreign labor in the departments and departments this year, this year, the personnel who have been punished by the department will mainly supply the transportation department to support the road repair, and according to the size of the mistake of the person who made the mistake, they will be subjected to road repair labor of varying duration.

It's still the same sentence, no matter what the department hopes for the personnel of each department and department to do more and make fewer mistakes!

That's all I have to say! ”

The divisions spoke in order, so that the remaining divisions were the Military Affairs Division, the Intelligence Division, and the General Staff Division;

Sheng Shiran, the Department of Military Affairs, is like a scholar, but no one dares to despise it, although he is silent, but every sentence is extremely heavy,

"In 1731, the work of the Supervision Department made mistakes, resulting in an accident in the Southeast Iron Mine, with many associated problems and great losses. It is still under the direct jurisdiction of the General Staff Department, with the Military Affairs and Government Affairs Divisions co-managing it, and the Culture Department being responsible for education.

1. The Ministry of Supervision still uses Wei Chengchen as the minister, which will be divided into nine halls, including field patrol, forest, gold, public security, marine, road and mine, agriculture and soldiers, fire protection, and special A total of nine inspectors;

Field Patrol Inspector's Hall; It will be organized according to the light cavalry division of the War Department, equipped with light and heavy firepower, and will be mainly responsible for the pursuit of escaped laborers, the cleaning up of the remnants of foreign races, and the capture of prisoners;

The Forest Inspectorate Hall will be organized according to the light Marine Division of the Marine War Department, equipped with light firepower, and will be mainly responsible for mountain and forest protection and inspection, as well as cleaning up wild animals in developed areas;

The Gold Inspectorate Hall, equipped with light firepower, is mainly responsible for gold and silver mining and management;

The Public Security Inspectorate, armed with pistols, is mainly responsible for the security of the city and towns,

The Marine Inspectorate, equipped with small fast warships, is mainly responsible for pirate clearance, ocean cruise, and marine rescue, and is also responsible for marine surveys;

The Road and Mine Inspectorate Hall, equipped with light firepower, is mainly responsible for the supervision of mine laborers and road construction laborers.

The Peasant Inspectorate Hall, equipped with rifles and uniform clothing, is mainly responsible for the safety of farms and plantations in various places, and manages the alien laborers in the field of planting, and is responsible for managing the alien laborers in the agricultural field to assist in road construction and the development of farmland and water conservancy during the agricultural slack season;

The fire inspectorate hall is equipped with fire-fighting equipment and is mainly responsible for urban fire protection;

The Special Inspectorate Hall, imitating the light firepower training and establishment of the Special Regiment of the Second Guards Division, is mainly responsible for heavy crimes in the field of urban public security and killing serious criminal offenders;

2. Last year, the military plan to vacate the Indochina Peninsula failed, resulting in heavy losses in the Marine Division, so Song Guilong, Minister of Marine Warfare, was demoted to vice minister and transferred to the East China Naval Affairs University to study advanced command and strengthen the study of operational command in the large corps. Zhang Lianxiang, a second-level staff officer of the Deliberation Department of the General Staff Department, was transferred to concurrently serve as the Minister of the Marine War Department, and Ma Yongtian, a third-level staff officer of the Deliberation Department of the General Staff Department, was transferred to concurrently serve as the Deputy Minister of the Marine War Department;

3. In view of the fact that the alien races in Siberia, Central Asia, and the Western Regions have been largely cleared and have been relegated to the wilderness, the targets of the alien raids in 1732 continued to be set in the south; Zhang Lianxiang, Ma Yongtian, Zhang Qi, and Luo Bin were responsible for formulating a new southern raiding plan, reopening the war in Indochina and Australia, and cleaning up and plundering Ayutthaya, Donghu and southern Australia.

In 1732, the War Department's plan for foreign hunting and plundering was a minimum of 8 million foreign races, and the pressure on the Marine War Department, the Navy Department, and the Logistics Department of the Military Affairs Department was extremely heavy.

4. In May and June 1731, when the epidemic broke out in the Lushun Department and the Kwantung Prefecture, the General Staff Department responded to the epidemic excessively, and in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the Military Affairs Department concentrated on cleaning up some foreign laborers; At that time, the policy was correct, the work was correct, and the General Staff had already made up its mind on the matter, so no one should mention it again, and no one should complain again, otherwise he would pay the consequences!

5. The Military Affairs Department has submitted a new application for equipment, and the General Staff Department has also approved it, and this matter will be a task that must be completed by the Logistics Department, the Industry Department, the Scientific Research Department, and the Political Affairs Department of the Military Affairs Department at an early date.

The new equipment applications are: the First Fleet of the Navy and the Third Fleet of the Navy, the ships of the two fleets are old and must be gradually recycled, and the First and Third Fleets of the Navy must be rebuilt according to the model of the Fourth Fleet; Now that the area of the sea that the Navy needs to protect is proliferating, the two fleets previously sold to the Dutch will be bought back at a low price, and the two fleets will be rebuilt according to the Navy's Fourth Fleet model and sold to the new Netherlands at a high price, so as to protect the maritime interests of South Africa and the Indian Ocean; At the same time, in order to cope with the maritime risks in the Pacific region, the Fifth Fleet of the Navy will be established in accordance with the model of the Fourth Fleet.

Because of the drastic expansion of the Navy's protective area, this year and next year, the Logistics Department, the Industry Department, the Scientific Research Department, and the Political Affairs Department will jointly build five fleets one after another.

In terms of Marine Divisions, the 22nd Marine Division will be newly built to garrison Ceylon, the 23rd Marine Division will be newly built to garrison the Australian New Office and the Pilbara Iron Ore Mine, and the 24th and 25th Marine Divisions will be newly built to garrison South Africa; The 26th and 27th Marine Divisions were newly established to defend the northwest of Annan Province and the direction of Guangxi and Yunnan against the imperial court, and to encroach on the northern part of the Indochina Peninsula and the border areas of Guangxi and Yunnan; At the same time, the Military Affairs Department assisted and guided the formation of five Dutch Marine Divisions in New Netherlands, so the Logistics Department of the Military Affairs Department had to expand its own military production, increase military procurement from the Industrial Division, and complete the supply and replenishment of equipment.

6. All departments of the Military Affairs Department, as well as all field divisions, marine divisions, cavalry divisions, and Mongolian cavalry divisions, must improve their establishment by the end of this year and complete the work of veterans' retirement specialties and the uniforms and training of new recruits. The field division has 8,000 men, and the marine, cavalry, and Mongolian cavalry divisions each have 5,000 men, which must be fully staffed;

According to the information of the Intelligence Department, the class contradictions in Lianghu, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other regions under the jurisdiction of the imperial court have a tendency to intensify, and peasant uprisings are frequent; In order to prevent large-scale turmoil in the area under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, all field divisions, cavalry divisions, and Mongolian cavalry divisions of the Ministry of War must make emergency plans and annex the imperial court; As we all know, once a large-scale peasant uprising occurs in the imperial court's jurisdiction, it will inevitably reduce the Han population on a large scale, so the East China Sea State cannot sit idly by and watch the situation happen, and will definitely annex the British Dynasty in advance, stabilize the situation, and appease the displaced people, so from now on, all divisions must reserve a large amount of grain, salted fish, and epidemic prevention materials; The General Staff Department has a plan, and in a few days it will issue a training policy for reserve management personnel, and all departments and departments should conscientiously implement it!

Okay, that's all I have to say, after the Intelligence Department speaks, the owner will issue a plan for the General Staff Division! ”