Chapter 214: Government Reform
On the 16th day of the first lunar month, the Spring Festival was finally over, and all government departments began to work. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the early morning of March 1, Zhang Wei received the system score of the previous month, with 7.65 million points for land, 30.5 million points for population and colonization, and 850,000 points for killing enemies. The current Zhang Wei can be regarded as the richest individual in the world, and the royal family of the Xia Empire is also the richest royal family in the world.
On the morning of 1 March, Zhang Wei asked all departments to first hand in their annual work summaries and plans, and after carefully reading them, they should hold summing-up and planning meetings of government departments on 4 and 5 March, and summing-up and planning meetings of the troops on 6 March.
On the morning of March 2, Zheng Daoyou handed over the work report of the government to Zhang Wei, followed by the annual work summary of each department.
Zheng Daoyou said: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the Ministry of Communications are better to complete the task; The Ministry of Education is still lagging behind, with less than 50 per cent of primary school enrolment, mainly due to newcomers. The work of the Ministry of Civil Affairs also needs to be strengthened, especially the shortage of medical facilities, hospitals are only popularized at the city level, and less than one-third of the counties have modern hospitals, and the gap is still relatively large; The tax revenue of the tax bureau and the customs is relatively low, and the tax exemption policy required by His Majesty is implemented, so that if the government relies on taxes alone in the past few years, it will not even be able to pay the salaries of public servants. ”
Zhang Wei did not answer Zheng Daoyou's words, but said: "You put it here first, and then discuss it after I finish reading it, if there is really trouble on the government's side, I will not sit idly by." ”
When Zheng Daoyou heard Zhang Wei say this, he was relieved to leave and go back.
After Zheng Daoyou left, Zhang Wei thought to himself, Zheng Daoyou has also learned badly, and he actually wants to play tricks, saying that the two yuan of education and medical care funded by the royal family are so bad that he can't pay his salary, doesn't he just want to get more money from the royal family, and he still has so many hearts.
Zhang Wei first looked at the summary of the government's work, roughly browsed, on the whole, the project has been rolled out a lot, but it has not been completed, railways, docks, steel plants, power plants, large shipyards, large mines, large smelters, etc. are all under construction, the equipment purchased from Germany and France is now starting to run is the light industry equipment purchased by those private enterprises, such as sugar pressing, textiles, flour, food, etc., as well as some small products, such as match factories, soap factories, wood processing factories, garment factories, etc., Zhang Wei is more disappointed the more he looks, After a year of working in vain, there is no result, and this work summary is not of much significance.
Corresponding to this is the vigorous development of private enterprises, small shipyards, small machinery factories, supporting facilities processing plants, shipping industry, building materials factories, etc., all taking advantage of the opportunity of empire building to develop well.
I don't know if the form of this kind of large enterprise I chose is wrong, or is it that infrastructure construction will take so long?
The number of immigrants is quite large, reaching 3.2 million, and once dispersed, it will not feel much, and the nearby immigrants to Taiwan, Lelang Special Administrative Region, the Northern Theater Directly Administered Municipality, Xinzhou and Ezo account for a large part; 300,000 in Australia, less than 60,000 in Kalimantan and Sumatra, 2.6 million in Java Province and Shangjing Special Zone, there are not many people at all, according to the words of the previous life, just Java Island can feed hundreds of millions of people, and now the productivity is backward, how can it feed more than 40 million people, it seems that the population gap is too big.
After reading the report of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, I feel that the development of these two areas is really good, and they can reach the current level in more than half a year from scratch, which is already very good, but nearly 10,000 primary schools have been built and 115 hospitals have been built, Zhang Wei is very satisfied with this achievement.
After calming down and pondering, Zhang Wei felt that he had now entered a misunderstanding, and unconsciously adopted the government management model of the previous dynasty.
In the previous dynasty, the government made its own plans, budgets, and implementations, and finally made its own summaries, and when it came to the people's congress meeting, it was a formality, and the people's congress deputies were also government civil servants, accounting for the majority, plus many people who regarded the status of deputies as honors or talismans and people who were purely soy sauce, and the people's congress examination was tantamount to examining itself, so what problems could arise from the examination? What can be examined by a group of laymen? Besides, who dares to raise the problem if there is a problem?
In the absence of effective regulation and checks and balances, problems arise sooner or later. It is impossible for Zhang Wei to rely on Zhang Wei alone to know whether the plan of each department is reasonable, whether the budget is correct, whether the implementation is in place, and whether the results achieve the expected goal.
The more Zhang Wei thinks about it, the more he feels that his level is still too bad, in his previous life, as a small otaku, he has always sighed that he has no chance, but now he has a chance, but he finds that he can't control such a huge situation, this is still a synthetic person with very high loyalty, otherwise the government would have been paralyzed long ago, and it is really difficult to manage such a huge country.
Zhang Wei really had no choice, so he had to consult Xiao Yu'er: "Xiao Yu'er, do you have any good suggestions in this situation?" ”
Xiao Yu'er said: "Your Majesty, you don't need to worry so much, now that the empire has just been built, it is normal for many places to be imperfect, Your Majesty only needs to seize the financial power and the army There will be no major problems, and the government departments can be slowly improved." ”
"Am I just letting the government go?"
Xiao Yu'er said: "Your Majesty, it's good to control the big aspects, there is no need to take care of everything, now the government has not been corrupt, they are just competing with each other for limited resources, Your Majesty don't think too badly about them, in fact, this is also a good thing, and competition with each other can make progress." Also, if Your Majesty is involved in their planning and budgeting and summarizing the process, they will have a lot of excuses when there is a problem, just say that Your Majesty agreed to put all the responsibility on you, you might as well not participate, let them run by themselves for the time being, you have the right to check at any time, everyone is afraid of being settled after the autumn, and the work will be better. ”
"Xiao Yu'er, you are so funny, I can't even control small things, but I don't want to control big things, I feel that my ability and experience are insufficient!"
Xiao Yu'er said instead: "Your Majesty is right to think so, what I said about controlling the big thing is to control money and the army, the army is now obeying you, there will be no problem, no one can compare to you in terms of money, you can control the money of the entire empire as long as you control the Bank of Asia and the central bank in the future; In terms of government supervision, the Audit Office and the Ministry of Intelligence can be transferred from the government to the direct command of His Majesty, just like the courts, and only obey the orders of the emperor; In addition, the Ministry of Intelligence was divided into a domestic part and a foreign part, and the intelligence personnel of the domestic part could not be missing, and each county should set up a secret intelligence officer; The rest of the things are easy to do, leave the professional things to the professional people to do, you just check afterwards and settle the accounts after the autumn! ”
"You mean I even handed over the Red Triangle Company to the government?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, you are only responsible for providing technology, equipment and funds to the Red Triangle Company now, and now it is purely a bottomless pit, and the government still thinks that Your Majesty occupies the resources of the whole country, causing the government to make ends meet, it is better to directly push it to the government and let them manage it, anyway, you don't rely on these companies to make money for you now."
"I'm afraid that I don't care, some things are at a loss, and the government is unwilling to do it, such as immigration, immigration from the Qing Dynasty requires a lot of manpower and financial resources, and the government is definitely not willing to do it."
"This can be ordered to the government in the form of an order, and in addition, Your Majesty still has to subsidize this kind of thing, so that the government will rush to do it, which is much more efficient than simply letting Your Majesty worry about it alone!"
Zhang Wei thought about it for a long time and decided to adopt Xiao Yuer's suggestion and carry out these reforms when the government work conference was held.