For the third time, the Katsura Taro Cabinet announced its general resignation during the Constitutional Protection Movement, which shouted the slogan "Maintain the Constitution and Defeat the Lords." One of the reasons that prompted the fall of Katsura Taro's cabinet was Yamamoto Gonbei's aggressive pressure on Katsura Taro to resign as soon as possible, and for this purpose, he visited Saionji Konobo to do work. Gonbei Yamamoto suddenly became a political star, and his relationship with the Masakatsukai was deliberately exaggerated.

In addition, most of the responsibility for this naval failure fell on Katsura Taro of the Army, and finally there was a cabinet prime minister in the Navy.

After the Southwest War, the term "navy and army" changed to "army and navy," and the navy suddenly became half a cut shorter, and since then it has lived in the shadow of the army boss, and the navy only dares to be angry but does not dare to speak.

In the First Sino-Japanese War, the navy performed well in the two wars, and its popularity and status also rose, and the army gave more and more face to the navy.

In February 1913, Admiral Gonbei Yamamoto became prime minister, and the navy finally reached its peak. This is not a trivial matter, the army may not be happy to have a prime minister or not a prime minister, because that thing seems to be "resident" in the army, Yama Prefecture Aritomo, Katsura Taro have been prime ministers, but for the navy this is the first time in the world, the sea minister is Saito Minoru who was in charge of logistics during the Russian War, the second officer is Yamamoto's son-in-law Caibu Biao, the chief of the naval command department is Goro Ijiin, and the commander of the combined fleet is Yuzaburo Kato, which is said to be the strongest lineup of the navy, and the navy has finally mixed up.

Against this background, the Navy has passed a naval budget of as much as 200 million yuan, and the naval budget of 200 million yuan is a heavy burden for the navy.

However, after the defeat of the navy, the people of the country had a strong sense of crisis, and the bonds issued by the navy were quickly snapped up.

After Gonbei Yamamoto allocated the budget of 200 million yuan to the navy, the navy planned to start the plan to build the 88th Fleet.

The 88th Fleet program included the construction of Fuso-class battleships and Kongo-class cruisers.

The construction plan of the Fuso-class battleships was part of the warship construction plan proposed by the Imperial Navy in the name of the 88th Fleet.

In 1911, the construction budget for the "Third Battleship" (Fuso) in the "Third Naval Ship Expansion Plan" was approved, and in the shipbuilding plan submitted by the Navy in 1910, it was planned to build seven more battleships, but the budget was cut and delayed.

In 1913, the Navy suffered heavy losses, which led the Cabinet to approve the construction plan for the other six Fuso-class battleships, and it was expected that six more Fuso-class battleships would be built within six years, for a total of seven.

At the same time, the Navy also approved a plan for the manufacture of Kongo-class cruisers, and planned to build four first-class cruisers within six years: Kongo, Hiei, Haruna, and Kirishima.

In the next six years, the government will allocate $158 million annually to gradually complete this grand naval plan.

At the same time, the navy began to salvage the warships sunk in the harbor, and the first team was in the harbor when it was attacked, so the salvage work was relatively simple.

These warships will be repaired after they are salvaged, and a large part of the budget of 200 million yuan will be used to repair these warships.

…… The navy of the three autonomous provinces of East China also has its own actions, Xie Baozhang got a budget of 70 million yuan, and is also planning to build new warships.

After consideration, Xie Baozhang proposed to Xia Jun a plan to build thirty destroyers and build five cruisers and one aircraft carrier within three years.

In terms of cost, the cost of the destroyer is the lowest, and in the case of the Zhendong Type 1 destroyer, the cost of one is 1.5 million yuan.

The cruiser is much higher, and the cost of a cruiser is at least 10 million, and the cost of the 8000-class cruiser that is being built now is as high as 140 million yuan.

Battleships have the highest cost, especially in the current era of super senseless ships, the cost of a super senseless ship is at least more than 25 million yuan.

As for the current main battle battleships, their cost is only tens of millions of yuan, which is a relatively outdated goods.

As far as the navy's military expenditure is concerned, it is 70 million yuan this year, and it will certainly not be less than this amount next year; after all, the economic development of the three provinces of East China Autonomous Region is rapid, and next year's fiscal revenue will be even higher, so the military expenditure for the next three years will be at least 210 million yuan.

The total cost of thirty destroyers is 45 million yuan, and even if the cost of one cruiser is 15 million yuan, that is, 75 million yuan.

These costs are far less than the Navy's budget, and the Navy will have a lot of money to use in the next three years, so Xie Baozhang plans to build an aircraft carrier that Xia Jun proposed when he lectured in the Navy.

In order to develop aircraft carriers, it is necessary to have the support of aircraft factories, after all, we must have aircraft to have aircraft carriers, and Xie Baozhang had already gone to the aircraft factory a few days ago to learn about the situation, and the aircraft factory was developing a dive torpedo bomber for the navy.

The Navy can fully have the basic conditions for building aircraft carriers.

Xie Baozhang summed up that the key to the navy's victory lies in the new way of maritime warfare, and if the East China Navy wants to defeat the East China Navy, it must take a new path of development, so Xie Baozhang thought of aircraft carriers, although he did not know what the specific effect of aircraft carriers would be, but this is the only route that the navy can innovate at present.

As for the rest of the money, Xie Baozhang plans to invest in submarine manufacturing, and at present, the Mawei shipyard has become mature in submarine manufacturing technology.

As far as the creation of Type VIIB submarines is concerned, there are basically no problems with technology.

Researchers have almost figured out the technology on the VIIB, and the remaining naval funds can be used to build the VIIB submarine.

As for the Reaper submarine, the technology is a bit too advanced and there is no way to build it at the moment. Xie Baozhang's plan was submitted to Xia Jun, and Xia Jun read it in detail and approved it directly.

As for the construction of aircraft carriers, Xia Jun told Xie Baozhang that he would buy two 20,000-ton merchant ships to renovate the navy to provide an opportunity for the navy to explore aircraft carriers.

…… The Spring Festival of 1912 was soon approaching, February 6 was the Spring Festival, and 1913 was the Year of the Ox.

This year's Spring Festival in the three provinces of East China is very lively, people who have been busy for a year have begun to celebrate this year's Spring Festival, and the biggest difference between this year's Spring Festival and previous years is prosperity.

After a year's development, the three provinces of East China Autonomous Region have basically solved the problem of food and clothing.

Even if there is not enough food and clothing, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will provide relief, and the people of the three provinces will directly solve the problem of food and clothing, and many people have set their sights on the housing problem.

After food and clothing, it is a problem of the house.

In terms of housing, Xia Junyou is engaged in affordable housing, which will be built by the political axe and various enterprises, and the political axe will be built first, and then distributed to the factories at half price.

Factories cannot use the affordable housing in their hands indiscriminately, they must only live for their own employees, and each enterprise can change hands in the process of increasing or decreasing employees.

Those companies that can't afford affordable housing, Xia Jun doesn't feel the need to let them exist.

Of course, not all affordable housing is bought by the factory, and the factory is only responsible for the housing of those workers who cannot afford it.

And most of the affordable housing still has to be built by the political axe.

Real estate is still very unpopular now, because there are a lot of investment opportunities in agriculture and industry, and few people will invest capital in real estate.

Therefore, the Ministry of Construction began to purchase a large number of land, and then built affordable housing on these lands. The reason why affordable housing is guaranteed is to sell it at the construction price to the extent that it does not lose money or make money.

To buy affordable housing, you must first apply for it, and first solve the housing problem of those ordinary workers.

For those who are more affluent, Xia Jun has launched a new model of building houses, that is, to build houses in groups, for example, to build a community, how much the housing price of this community is, and then subscribe before it is built, and then these homeowners will find someone to design together and find an engineering team to build.

It means that there are no developers, and the developers are the homeowners, and those homeowners can go to the bank for loans. At the same time, the political axe will be built on the house, and there will be no tax.

In addition, the land is private, and you can build it however you want, as long as it does not interfere with the operation of the city. Even if the land price in the downtown area is high, you can also build it to the suburbs, and the land price in the suburbs is definitely not high, so you can buy a transportation or take a bus to commute to work.

Xia Jun has already thought about the housing issue, and for a traveler from later generations, he has personally experienced the pressure of housing.

The biggest original sin of real estate in later generations is the state-owned land, and other black-hearted developers and speculation are secondary.

As far as a political axe is concerned, there are many ways to raise taxes, and using houses as a financial source is no different from a salt tax.

There is so much salt in the sea, and many people can't afford to eat salt because of the tax, which is an inexhaustible resource, but people can't enjoy it.

The principle of houses is the same, 1.3 billion people are more, but even if everyone builds a 100-square-meter house, it is only 130,000 square kilometers.

Housing is secure, which helps to improve people's happiness, so Xia Jun will not collect a dime tax on those ordinary houses, but for those luxury houses, taxes can be collected.

Xia Jun, who is sensitive to property speculation, even formulated a 'crime of inflating housing prices' in the economic law, that is, a household cannot have more than two properties in the city, and the total number of properties in different cities cannot exceed three. And those who register in other people's names and whatnot, if they find out, belong to the ranks of committing the crime of 'price gouging'.

In addition, banks should strictly control the issue of housing loans, and those who do not have a house can lend 85%, and those who have a house can only lend 30%.

Of course, some people can apply if they have a special reason.

The administrative core of East China's autonomous political axe is to revolve around 'people', and most of the construction mainly revolves around 'people', rather than people around construction, and as long as the special reasons cause trouble to the applicant, they can be passed.

Due to the loose policy on the housing issue, no taxes are levied on real estate, and the political axe is building affordable housing, so the housing prices in the three autonomous provinces of East China have not risen, but have fallen.

And such a low housing price, those factories are basically affordable, but the factory is called low-rent housing, and after they buy it, they rent it to workers, and the rent is fixed.

As far as the workers in the city are concerned, they are now waiting to live in the affordable housing of the political axe!

And in the countryside, you can build whatever you want. In Fujian, there are already many farmers who are planning to build new houses this year, and they want to build those comfortable small villas.

The land in the countryside is also privately owned, and the foundation is not distributed by the government, so the foundation needs to be purchased by yourself, and if you can't get along in the countryside, you can go to the city.

If you work in a factory, you can live in low-rent housing, and you can buy affordable housing with the minimum wage.

In 1913, the cities of the three autonomous provinces of East China officially entered the stage of transformation, and the urban planning was done very seriously, and the dilapidated and low-rise houses would gradually be built into tall houses made of reinforced concrete, and finally a prosperous city would be formed.

During this Spring Festival, many students from other provinces have moved their families to the three provinces of East China, and there are many cultural people from other provinces, most of whom have come to the three provinces of East China with their families.

In renting a house, Xia Jun assigned them a small villa. This kind of small villa is similar to the one he lives, and it belongs to the type that can be relocated with the entire villa, and the cost of this kind of small villa is very low, and it is similar to the kind of container that the snail dwellers lived in later generations, but it is much larger.

This kind of small villa is the affordable housing that Xia Jun promised them!

After all, the affordable housing has not yet been built, and this kind of affordable housing can only be used to fill the number, those farmers from other provinces live in tents, and many factory workers who have not yet built their houses also use tents.

They moved their families to the three autonomous provinces of East China, because they heard that it was better here.

For the families of students, as well as those cultured people, before they find a job, the house allows you to live for free, and the living materials are rationed every day, anyway, food, clothing and housing are not a problem.

It is also easier to find a job, and the families of those students come to the three provinces of East China Autonomous Region and are given priority to be assigned to factory positions that they are qualified for.

As for those cultural people who come to the three provinces of East China, most of them go directly to the training courses, and among them, the administrative and teacher salaries are the highest.

The lowest salary for teachers is 7 yuan per month, and the lowest salary for administrative staff is 7 yuan, but the benefits of administrative staff are higher, especially for excellent administrative tasks, they can get rewards.

In addition to these two occupations, the wages of those technicians who need education are also very high, generally at the level of five or six yuan, and the wages of those who do not need education are lower, three yuan are the lowest.

This year, the Ministry of Education wants to recruit 80,000 teachers, and this huge number is indeed very painful.

Of course, the Ministry of Education also has mature ideas.

Those who are not very good teachers are assigned to young students, and the foundation of these students is grasped, and those who are not very good teachers are asked to give lessons to teenagers and girls who are about to enter society at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and the requirements are not high, as long as these teenagers and girls can know how to read.

As for quality education, there are special social education teachers in charge, and social science teachers do not require too good culture, as long as they have good moral character, a strong sense of responsibility, and basic culture, they can take on the role, but they need to be trained for a period of time.

At the same time, this year, the Ministry of Education will also set up Chengren Literacy Night Schools in cities and towns, as well as literacy classes during the day. At the same time, there are also Mandarin popularization classes, which specialize in teaching Mandarin.

The difference between Xia Jun's Mandarin and later generations, as for the difference, you can refer to Guo Degang and Meng Fei of XX TV's "Very Amazing" in later generations, one is a Mandarin accent in the north, and the other is a Mandarin accent in the south. The Mandarin accent of the three provinces of East China can be understood as the Mandarin accent of Meng Fei, which is characterized by the absence of that Yanjing accent.

The traditional center of Han Chinese activities is still in the Jiangnan area, of course, with a southern Mandarin accent.

In this era, there were many illiterate people and the language was not uniform, which brought great trouble to Xia Jun's administration, and these two problems were also to be solved by the Ministry of Education.

Most of the cultural people attracted by the policy were absorbed by the Ministry of Education.

Anyway, there are 400 million people in China who need to be literate now, and those teachers who are not very good do not need to be eliminated in the future, just let them do literacy work. However, those young children need to be trained with excellent teachers, which is the hope of the future.

At this year's Spring Festival Gala, Zhao Zhongqi, who was selected by Xia Jun, took the stage to sing "Dream Camel Bell" and "A Cut Plum", these two classic songs of later generations have become the main theme of the new year.

In addition, at the 13th Spring Festival Gala, Xia Jun announced the plan for the new year to the people of the three provinces in East China.

The plan for the new year is to let the children go to school, strive to raise the wages of workers to two and a half yuan, and at the same time increase infrastructure construction, increase medical coverage, and so on. On the most important issue of food and clothing, we will also strive to maintain the momentum of this year.

At the Spring Festival Gala, Xia Jun launched a fundraiser.

Xia Jun took the lead in donating 20 million yuan, which was donated in the name of East China Group, and was evenly distributed to four departments, each with 5 million yuan.

Xia Jun's East China Group transfused nearly 200 million yuan to the Ministry of Finance last year, and 20 million yuan is really nothing at this time. Then, the two giants of Zhongsheng and Huasheng, as well as those wealthy businessmen from the three provinces of East China, began to donate money.

Li Shilin is Xia Jun's father-in-law, so naturally he wanted to save face, and followed Xia Jun to donate 5 million to the Ministry of Education, 5 million to the Ministry of Medicine, and 5 million to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, for a total of 15 million.

After Li Shilin walked down, he sat in the audience and looked at Liu Jinshan with some pride, 15 million yuan, can you Liu Jinshan compare with me?

Liu Jinshan glanced at Li Shilin's position, then walked onto the stage with his head held high, and said loudly: "All the employees of Huasheng Group have decided to donate 10 million yuan to the Ministry of Education, 10 million yuan to the Ministry of Health, 5 million yuan to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and 5 million yuan to the Ministry of Construction. ”

"Okay." Xia Jun took the lead in applauding Liu Jinshan.

Li Shilin below had nothing to say, so he could only keep nodding and giving a thumbs up to Liu Jinshan, Liu Jinshan, this guy dared to take out 30 million yuan today, and he was convinced today.

Then, one by one, the big businessmen came to the stage and dropped their cheques into the donation box.

These big businessmen are very enthusiastic in donating money, because they trust that the East China Autonomous Political Axe will not embezzle the money, and at the same time, they are also deeply taken care of by the political axe, and most of them have made a fortune this year, so they naturally want to give back.

Of course, these big businessmen cannot be as generous as Zhongsheng Group and Huasheng Group, which are groups, operate extensively, and have large profits and projects that are basically involved in both major groups. And most of them run one or two projects, and it's good to be able to donate millions.

(To be continued)