Xia Jun listened to Tao Chengzhang's analysis, and when the departments present thought that Xia Jun was going to find other excuses to cut education funds, Xia Jun said: "If you want to educate tens of millions of people, I am afraid that the Ministry of Education will have 160 million yuan next year." So be it! Next year, 300 million yuan will be allocated to the Ministry of Education, and school buildings will be built according to uniform standards. ”

"300 million yuan!"

"That's 37.5 percent of the revenue."

"What's the budget going down here?"

The departments discussed a lot, Tao Chengzhang was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, chairman." ”

Xia Jun nodded, got up and stretched out his hand to press, signaling everyone to be quiet, the scene suddenly quieted down, Xia Jun continued: "Everyone, education is related to the long-term future of a country, and everything else can be saved, but education can not be saved, although 300 million yuan of education funds is much, but if we can cultivate thousands of pillars, the rejuvenation of China is just around the corner, and every penny invested now will be rewarded in the future." ”

Xia Jun forcibly suppressed the voices of other departments, and soon entered the budgets of other departments.

Yang Xingye, Minister of Medical Affairs, reported the income of the Medical Department this year, "The Medical Department has a total revenue of 65 million yuan in medical expenses in the three quarters of this year, and the medical expenses are 78 million yuan, with a loss of 13 million yuan. The pharmaceutical industry made a profit of 180 million yuan in the three quarters of this year, which can be used for next year's budget. The Ministry of Health plans to reduce medical costs by 10% next year and increase the scale of medical care, without funding from the Ministry of Finance. ”

The Ministry of Health is one of the most financially well-off, because all the revenues from the pharmaceutical industry have been allocated to them, and now that penicillin and enzyme chain have begun to be produced on a large scale, the Ministry of Medicine's finances will definitely skyrocket next year.

After the medical department, there is the budget of the administrative department, and the budget of the administrative department is mainly about the salaries and benefits of administrative personnel, and at present, the salary of the lowest-ranking administrative personnel has been raised to 8 yuan, while the salary of court personnel is the highest, and the salary of the highest presiding judge is the same as that of Xia Jun, the chairman of the committee.

At the same time, the Administration Department also has a reward system and a welfare system.

After You Zhengbin finished his report, he took 23 million yuan from the budget, and all departments did not object, the money was their salary, and to oppose the administration department was to oppose their own welfare!

Li Yizhi, seeing that the budget still has 392 million yuan, said: "Next year, the Ministry of Water Resources plans to build flood control dams, hydropower stations, and irrigation projects on the major rivers of the Minjiang, Qiantang, and Ganjiang provinces, as well as other flood-prone areas...... A total of 80 million yuan is needed, and the hydropower station needs the cooperation of the East China Electric Power Company, which requires about 200 million yuan. In addition, the Ministry of Water Resources plans to reinforce dangerous sections of the Yellow River dam next year, which will cost 12 million yuan......"

"What! Repair the Yellow River? ”

"The Yellow River is not in our three autonomous provinces in East China!"

"That's Yuan Shikai's business! How did it become our three autonomous provinces in East China to repair? ”

"That's right! Yuan Shikai still owes us 22 million yuan! ”

In their eyes, the Ministry of Water Resources' repair of the Yellow River is like a dog meddling in the affairs of a mouse.

Li Yizhi looked around and said: "Everyone, the current situation of the Yellow River is very dangerous, if it is not repaired next year, there are more than ten places where the embankment may burst, you must know that our agricultural reclamation company will take action in the Yellow River area next year." Moreover, if the people along the Yellow River are affected by the disaster, it is not because we have to allocate funds for disaster relief in East China. Not to mention this disaster relief, we are indeed not short of food for disaster relief, but if the land of a farming company is flooded at that time, the loss may not be as simple as 13 million yuan? Who will be held accountable then? ”

"What the Ministry of Water Resources said is that next year there will be about eight farming companies growing cotton and wheat along the Yellow River, and the Yellow River water conservancy must be repaired." Yang Mingliu's Ministry of Agriculture began to support the Ministry of Water Resources' plan.

Everyone looked at their chairman, whether they could make a decision or not, or the chairman had the final say.

Xia Jun nodded and said: "The Yellow River water conservancy will have to be repaired sooner or later, and it will be the same now, so this plan will be passed!" ”

"Thank you, Chairman." Li Yizhi said excitedly, Xia Jun fulfilled his promise to him, and he also raised an extra three million yuan, which was also passed.

Since Xia Jun agreed, the other departments had no opinion, and they listened to the meaning of the chairman's words, which obviously meant that they would inevitably unify China in the future.

This encouraged them.

Next it was the turn of the Ministry of Agriculture, the budget of the Ministry of Agriculture was not too much, but it also got 20 million, mainly for the opening of agricultural stations and research on agricultural technology.

The budget was divided several times, and only 280 million yuan remained.

The Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Construction, and the Military Intelligence Bureau have not yet received their budgets.

The Ministry of Industry then only received 5 million yuan, and the Ministry of Industry really did not have much to spend money on, and the salaries of the administrative personnel were all paid by the Ministry of Administration, and they did not need to do anything to research technology, and they only needed to do a good job in industrial management.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs received 50 million yuan, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs is expected to adopt a new identity card next year, and completely sweep out the black households in the three provinces, establish a complete household registration system, and at the same time the 50 million yuan will also be used to help poor households.

Xu Wenbo, minister of construction, was very happy, and in the end, there were still 225 million in the budget, and the military intelligence bureau would definitely not be able to take much money, and a large share would still be left to the Ministry of Construction.

Sure enough, the Military Intelligence Bureau divided the 5 million yuan, and in the end, the Ministry of Construction got 200 million. The 200 million yuan will be mainly used to build township roads, as well as urban electricity, drainage networks and affordable housing.

The 13-year budget has been basically completed, but it is not only the 800 million yuan that can be budgeted, and 100 million yuan of banknotes have been printed before.

The 100 million yuan banknote has not been withdrawn for the time being, but with the arrival of loans from various banks, there is no problem in withdrawing this 100 million yuan.

………… East China Group has also launched a budget, and the profit of East China Group in three quarters this year has reached nearly 400 million yuan, and the profit has reached 60%.

If those basic industries are excluded, then the profit is as high as more than 100%, and some products even have 1000% profit.

Of course, that's very little.

The East China Group's budget was quickly completed, and almost all of the £176 million borrowed was used to expand production capacity, including the expansion of hydropower stations next year.

In particular, small and medium-sized hydropower stations have a short construction period and high economic benefits. Next year, the East China Electric Power Company will build 12,000 small hydropower stations and 21 medium-sized hydropower stations.

Xia Jun bought the hydropower station equipment directly from the exchange platform, and if he made it himself, it would be too slow, and at the same time, the crazy growth of industry also made power construction imminent.

In terms of energy, in addition to making full use of hydropower, the construction of the railway from Hangzhou to Shanxi should also be speeded up and strive to be completed within next year.

The year after that, the First World War broke out, and when industry was running in three shifts, there had to be an adequate supply of energy.

…… On October 18, 1912, on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the annual Chung Yeung Festival arrived.

On this day, Xia Jun wore Hanfu and took Li Shijing and Tana to the lonely mountain of West Lake to climb the heights.

Tana was almost giving birth, and it would be two months away.

When she climbed the heights, Tana didn't need to be pulled by people at all, she could still run and jump, and her body was so good, but Xia Jun was afraid that she would fall, so she still held her hand and went up the mountain.

On September 9, many people in the three provinces of East China Autonomous Region also climbed the heights, but more often than not, those wearing Hanfu on the streets.

The Double Ninth Festival in September is a traditional festival of the East China Autonomous Government, on which administrative staff must wear Hanfu, and teachers and students in school also need to wear Hanfu.

At the same time, each factory also called on employees to wear Hanfu on this day, so a large group of people wearing Hanfu can be seen on the street on this day.

There are many styles of these hanfu, among which the most people are dressed in Confucian skirts.

On September 9, I also have to eat new grain, that is, Chongyang cake. Anyway, the customs of this day have changed in various places, which is also a major phenomenon in China, and it can be highly unified in the festival period, but there are some differences in the customs of the festival.

As soon as the autumn harvest came to an end, the people in the countryside also had money in their pockets, and the number of jobs in the cities also increased significantly because of the autumn harvest.

The three autonomous provinces of East China were thriving at this time.

Now that the world has changed for the better, the people of the three provinces are looking forward to the autonomous political axe to lead them to a better life, and many citizens have responded to the action of wearing Hanfu launched by the political axe during the Chung Yeung Festival. Less than a year after the East China Autonomous Axe came to power, it has already raised the national cohesion of the three provinces of East China.

…… This autumn harvest, Jiangsu Governor Cheng Quande did not even dare to collect taxes from the agricultural reclamation companies from the three provinces of East China, and the six agricultural reclamation companies that planted cotton in Jiangsu made a profit of 500 million yuan as soon as the autumn harvest arrived.

Zhu Chengjia of the Ministry of Taxation collected a windfall profit tax, and the profit was reduced to 400 million yuan.

However, the capital invested by the six nongkeng companies was only 100 million yuan, and the capital had skyrocketed to 500 million yuan at this time, and although it was impossible to sell all the cotton at once, the six agricultural reclamation companies began to continue to enclose land while selling cotton.

Huadong Group has a large stake in these agricultural reclamation companies, and it is expected to have a profit of about 130 million yuan, and these funds will be siphoned off.

Because Xia Jun is a shareholder of agricultural technology and machine farming equipment, not a capital shareholder, for these companies with good profitability, East China Group has always taken away the profits.

The huge profits of the agricultural reclamation companies caused the stock prices of the six agricultural reclamation companies to rise for five consecutive days, and these six agricultural reclamation companies raised nearly 200 million yuan in half a month.

With a capital of nearly 600 million yuan, the agricultural reclamation company began to enclose land in Jiangsu, Anhui, Hebei, Shandong, and Guangdong, and the six agricultural reclamation companies became more proficient in enclosing land this time.

It is easy to enclose land, especially for tenants and yeoman farmers, and the farming company will offer free schooling for their children and free medical care for them.

These conditions are all paid for by the East China Autonomous Government, and they don't have to pay a dime.

For poor families, it is a very precious opportunity for their children to go to school and study, and only by reading can they get ahead, which is a law formed by Chinese feudal society for thousands of years.

And you can also get free medical care, so you don't have to worry about getting sick.

Therefore, the yeoman farmers and tenants are happy to rent or sublease to the farming companies, and as for the landlords who are unwilling to cooperate, the farming companies often force them to sign lease agreements.

In the case of Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, the local governors are afraid of the East China Autonomous Government, so they will also intervene to suppress it.

In Hebei, this is Yuan Shikai's hometown, Henan overseer (Yuan Shikai changed the capital to overseer after taking office) is Zhang Zhenfang (Yuan's cousin), in order to win over Xia Jun, let Zhang Zhenfang cooperate with the operation of the agricultural reclamation company, which also opened the door for the agricultural reclamation company. As for Shandong, it was also under Yuan Shikai's control, and the overseer was Zhang Huaizhi.

Guangdong is the territory of Chen Jiongming, who is not a member of the Kuomintang, but a member of the China Zhi Gong Party, which is the evolution of Hongmen, the largest organization of overseas Chinese.

Xia Jun's recovery meeting was very frequent in Nanyang, especially this year Xia Jun began to immigrate to Nanyang and Australia, and there was some contact with the Zhi Gong Party, and the relationship between the two sides was not bad.

When the East China Autonomous Government sent people to Guangdong to communicate with Chen Jiongming, Chen Jiongming also expressed his willingness to assist the Agricultural Reclamation Company in its business in Guangdong.

As a token of appreciation, the East China Commercial Hall sent Chen Jiongming 1,000 rifles and 2 million rounds of ammunition that day.

Chen Jiongming, who is in Guangdong, naturally knows that the three provinces of East China Autonomous Province are big benefactors, so he does not dare to offend, because the East China Autonomous Government can make munitions, and it can make a lot of munitions, which is the only one in China.

…… Yuan Shikai's life in Yanjing was not so good, he began to find that he could not collect any taxes at all, except for the land taxes of the four central provinces, the taxes of other provinces were either intercepted by the big warlords or embezzled by the Turkish army leaders.

Yuan Shikai thought twice and decided to order arms from the East China Autonomous Government.

The arms of the East China Autonomous Political Axe are not only the cheapest, but also have good quality goods, but Yuan Shikai thought about it first, and it was still cost-effective to buy the kind of rifle that cost 25 yuan a piece.

In order to arm the Beiyang Army so that the central government could collect taxes, Yuan Shikai first ordered 5 million yuan of arms from the East China Autonomous Government in December.

The 5 million yuan in arms is 100,000 Mauser rifles, with a total price of 2.5 million yuan, plus Makqin heavy machine guns, ZB-26 light machine guns, ammunition, and 20 105mm howitzers that have just left the Jian'an Arsenal, as well as a number of artillery shells.

As soon as the news came out, Sun Dapao was anxious in his heart.

Seeing that the power of the Beiyang political axe is getting bigger and bigger, and the strength of the autonomous political axe in East China is also getting stronger and stronger, his dream of a centralized president is about to be shattered.

However, the Kuomintang was no longer under his control, and Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren and others were not very interested in Sun Yat-sen at this time.

The biggest difference between Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen is on the question of the presidential system or the republican system, and at the dinner last year, Song Jiaoren talked about the republic system for two hours, but it made Sun Dacang win, leaving a pimple in his heart.

As for Huang Xing, the running general, he is the head of the European Affairs Study Club.

At this time, there was a change in the cabinet of Kamoto, and as Emperor Meiji was suspended in July, the cabinet of Saionji Konobu also fell in November.

Katsura Taro, who threatened to retire from politics, formed a new political party, and when Aritomo Yamayama, the political opponent of Saionji Gongwang, saw it, he immediately asked Katsura Taro to form a new cabinet.

Since Emperor Meiji was hung up in July, Emperor Taisho was said to have cerebral palsy and had little political ability, and was at the mercy of Katsura Taro, so Katsura Taro himself was called "the man who hid behind the dragon's sleeves."

The first thing Katsura Taro did after coming to power was to ask for the 40 million yuan in compensation from the East China Autonomous Axe, and the other refusal, the Samoto Axe, soon under the instructions of Katsura Taro, the Samoto Navy began to retaliate against the East China Autonomous Axe.

On 26 December, the Third Squadron launched an artillery bombardment on a 10,000-ton merchant ship carrying iron ore from the East China Ocean Shipping Company in the Taiwan Strait.

The shelling lasted three rounds, and the cargo ship of the East China Ocean Shipping Company, which had no armor protection, was sunk on the spot, and the 30 Chinese sailors who fell into the water were shot and killed.

After the incident, he once again demanded compensation from the East China Autonomous Government.

The East China Autonomous Politics that learned of this news was shaken.

On this day, when Tana was about to give birth, Xia Jun suddenly saw Zhou Shunze hurriedly running in the hospital and said to him: "Chairman, urgent military situation." ”

Xia Jun suddenly stood up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"The subordinates don't know very well, this is a report submitted by the Navy." Zhou Shunze handed the report to Xia Jun, and Xia Jun took the report and read it.

The sunken merchant ship was sunk in the Taiwan Strait, and when the warship attacked the merchant ship, the merchant ship sent a distress telegram.

At this time, Xie Baozhang hurriedly came to the hospital.

"Chairman of the Committee, please allow our navy to retaliate against Yueben." Xie Baozhang's eyes erupted with fire, and he came to Xia Jun to ask him for instructions.

"You immediately dispatch the submarine to the waters of the country and wait for the attack order at any time." Xia Jun ordered Xie Baozhang.

"Yes." Xie Baozhang gave a military salute, then turned around and walked away quickly.

"Go to the administration building and hold an urgent diplomatic press conference." Xia Jun said to Zhou Shunze.

"Yes."

…… The press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was soon held in the administrative building of the East China Autonomous Government in Hangzhou, and dozens of Chinese and foreign reporters suddenly received the news that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the East China Autonomous Government had held a press conference in such a hurry, and they knew that something big had happened and rushed to the administrative building one after another.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Xiyu did not talk nonsense, and after the reporters arrived, he said to these reporters: "Just three hours ago, a merchant ship of our East China Ocean Shipping Company was sunk by the warship of Yueben in the Taiwan Strait, and was killed by the navy along with 20 crew members. If we do not explain and compensate for this incident, it will be tantamount to declaring war on the three provinces of East China, and our East China Autonomous Axe will make the cost ten times greater. ”

―――――― dizzy after reading the data all day

(To be continued)