On the afternoon of the 22nd, Zhang Wei changed planes from Los Angeles and landed at Zhongjing Air Base, where Feng Guohua, Song Shijie, Chen Yifeng, and Zheng Qiang were already waiting. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After dinner, Zhang Wei began to listen to their work report for the past six months.

Zhang Wei said: "Let's talk about the economic situation first, spending such a high price in North America, when will this side be able to stand on its own and start creating benefits?" ”

Song Shijie replied first: "Your Majesty, the country of Lu has been flat this year, and after taking into account Your Majesty's investment this year and this year's taxes and expenditures, the remaining currency is not much different from Your Majesty's investment this year; In 1910, there would have been no need for His Majesty to spend extra money on the state of Lu, and there would have been a large surplus after the price increase of agricultural products. ”

"Did you count the expenses that were not included in the expenses of the Lu State, such as the girls sent here, these expenses were counted in the military expenses elsewhere, and you only counted the income of the West Indies, did you count the expenses of the Southern Theater?"

"Your Majesty, the expenses of the Southern Theater have always been included in the expenses of the Lu country, and they are all counted, and what is not included in the accounting is the part of aid to the United States. The reasons for the substantial increase in income this year are: First, agriculture and animal husbandry have recovered to a certain extent, and a bumper harvest has been obtained, and the grain and cotton harvests have been very good, and the prices are also good; Secondly, the industry has recovered to the pre-war level of 70% in the United States, the output of the steel industry and the textile industry has grown rapidly, the annual output of steel has reached 28 million tons, and in 1910 it will strive to exceed 30 million tons, and the planned target will be completed ahead of schedule, and the export situation of textile products is very good, especially the demand in Europe is very large; Finally, a large number of free labor is used, which reduces labor costs a lot; The main expenditure is military spending, and there are nearly 2 million soldiers and police officers in the entire jurisdiction of the country, which is a very heavy burden. Song Shijie said.

Zhang Wei felt very satisfied, and they must have paid a lot to expel the Americans and restore agriculture and industry to their current level, so he said: "Very good, I am very satisfied with this achievement, what about Qi State?" ”

Zheng Qiang said with an innocent face: "Your Majesty, the economic recovery of Qi is very slow, and even the reconstruction work is very slow, and it cannot be leveled for the time being. ”

Zhang Wei knew their difficulties, he supported Qi too little, the population was small, and he used to think about restoring the economy of Lu as soon as possible, so he reduced the support for Qi State, so he said: "You still have to use more free labor for infrastructure construction, this you should contact the Southern Theater of Operations, it is not difficult for them to catch some free labor, you can't just do it, work should be proactive, in addition, I will arrange a population of 1 million for you this year, and it will continue to increase every year in the future, as long as there is a population, It is not difficult to develop the economy. ”

Since Zhang Wei can understand, Zheng Qiang is no longer good at complaining, this year's arrangement of 1 million people, the economic recovery will be much faster, so he replied: "Yes, Your Majesty." ”

Zhang Wei continued: "When Canada was first occupied, all the three major cities were in ruins, which made it more difficult to rebuild the country and recover the economy. This year, I plan to give 1 million people to the country of Lu, some of which will be arranged in Mexico and Central America, and some of which will be replaced by slaves in the West Indies, and the able-bodied blacks and natives will be captured in Qi and Lu as free labor. ”

Song Shijie hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, is 1 million too little?" There are not many parts of the southern theater of operations, which is equivalent to not increasing the population of Lu State. ”

The 200,000 couples left by Zhang Wei last time have migrated to Mexico, and this time the 1 million people are only 500,000 couples, but Mexico and Central America are not satisfied with the arrangement, and His Majesty does not allow immigration to the Americas, and the population problem is really a big problem.

Zhang Wei said: "There are many places for important people, besides, in the future, the Southern Theater will also be the territory of Lu State, the population will also be counted as Lu State, and the West Indies will also be counted as Lu State's territory; Mexico and Central America, the infrastructure is quite backward, much worse than the foundation of Qi country, now Lu country is not short of steel, or more free labor to build railways, highways, ports and other facilities, the construction of the Panama Canal also needs a large number of labor, these projects are also a major driving force for economic development, the population can only increase a little every year, will not increase a lot at a time. ”

Seeing Zhang Wei say this, Song Shijie was also very helpless.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Wei said: "For the products exported to Europe, we must maintain the established prices of the empire, and we can raise prices, and we are not allowed to compete with each other to lower prices. “

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"As for the export of Europe, I think it is still the same as the empire, a special material reserve center has been organized, and all exported materials must be approved by the department, so as to eliminate private price reduction and smuggling, and it can facilitate the empire to regulate export prices as a whole, I think it is still up to Pangshan to be responsible." Zhang Wei ordered.

Song Shijie asked: "Your Majesty, this will increase the cost and reduce the work efficiency, is it a temporary implementation?" “

"No, this is convenient to control export prices, but the price of this part of the increase far exceeds the increase in costs and the loss caused by the reduction of efficiency, and this sector will not exist for more than 15 years, in the future, the export of all kinds of materials must be strictly controlled in quantity, only in a slight shortage, the price will be higher and higher, the control will be more and more strict, when the time comes, the empire will be controlled by adjusting tariffs and other controls, I am worried that smuggling will be rampant, from now on we must pay attention, otherwise the market will not adapt to it, It will also affect the overall strategy of the empire. Zhang Wei said.

Now that the world's major grain-producing areas are under the control of the empire, the population of Europe has skyrocketed, and there will definitely be a shortage of food and other materials, and the more scarce these materials are, the more they will plan internal contradictions in Europe, and if there is a war in Europe, the prices of these materials will increase by a large margin.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Pangshan is very good at this." Song Shijie said: "Your Majesty, now that the number of births is gradually increasing, there is a serious shortage of escorts in the obstetrics and gynecology department, and there is a serious shortage of middle and low-level administrative cadres, I hope Your Majesty can equip some." “

"I will equip some more doctors and nurses, these things are indispensable, and the demand will continue to increase in the future; For the middle and low-level administrative cadres or gradually increase, otherwise together with the future together with the retirement of the future? That would lead to a fault line in the administration of the country, and it would have to be divided into levels, and the newcomers had to be given a chance to rise, otherwise the administration of the empire would become a stagnant pool, and it would be a heavy blow to the empire at that time. Zhang Wei explained: 'This time I can allocate some provincial and municipal cadres, and some county-level cadres, but now the population is small, and middle-level cadres have to be one person and have multiple positions, so they don't need to be equipped with everything.'"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Song Shijie also felt that Zhang Wei's concerns were reasonable, first, he was afraid that there would be a fault when the time came, second, he was too well equipped to affect the channels for newcomers to rise, and third, the current population was too small, and one person could hold multiple positions, so he could only agree with Zhang Wei's opinion, otherwise it would be detrimental to the empire.

Zheng Qiang suggested: "Your Majesty, the empire's territory is expanding very rapidly, and you can also equip more cadres on the existing territory, train first, and transfer abroad in the future; For example, the occupation of South America would require a large number of administrative cadres. ”

Zhang Wei smiled and said: "You can raise this question, it also shows that you have used your brain to think, I didn't want to say it too early, now I will explain to you, now the empire is only elite-level officers and government personnel, and there are many imperial heroes, the number is very large, in the post-war empire is not able to arrange so many people, then there will be many feudal countries, some of you will go to the feudal country, and some of you will divide a piece of land to establish a hou state, and at that time, the branch will transfer some of the existing administrative cadres, Otherwise, the fault will be more serious at that time, and there are already a lot of cadres now, but how many are at the elite level? There are more middle and high-level administrative cadres, and they are not very old, you can estimate for yourself what will happen to the empire in the future? There must be enough upward channels for newcomers and natural people, otherwise the empire will lose its vitality and the consequences will be even more terrible, so now we can only work hard for everyone. ”

Zhang Wei's original intention was to synthesize fewer junior and middle-level administrative cadres, and to use the quota for synthesis technology and research and development in the future.

Song Shijie continued: "Your Majesty, if you want to talk about faults, I am now more worried about the population fault and the fault in technology research and development, the population of Qi and Lu from 3 years old to more than 20 years old is a fault, and the fault line of technology research and development is even greater, and now the people engaged in R&D and technology in Lu are white people with green cards, which is a fatal threat to the empire." ”

"I'm not afraid of the population fault, every year there will be systematic people, just to fill this gap, and when the people born now grow up, they will just connect; As for technology research and development, it is now placed in the empire itself, because the empire's technology is too advanced, and I don't want these white people with green cards to learn, so we have not strengthened the scientific research of the two countries in Qilu, and in the future, these personnel will be assigned to the feudal country, and then transfer technology research and development to North America, you have to understand. Zhang Wei explained.

"Yes, Your Majesty! We understand! ”

"In the next step, Qilu and Qilu are still vigorously developing coal, steel, copper smelting, textile, animal husbandry and other major industries, to focus on the development of petroleum refining, cement and other industries, the sales of cars will be very large in the future, basically every household has at least one car, so the next step is to develop highways, now we must start planning, construction of national highways, provincial roads, county roads and rural roads, railway construction can not lag behind, otherwise so much free labor will be wasted; Don't forget about environmental protection when building, because it will be difficult to restore after environmental pollution is damaged. Zhang Wei arranged.

Song Shijie said: "Yes, Your Majesty, this year's task is the construction of a number of railway networks and road networks connecting Qilu and Qilu, as well as the construction of roads and railways in Mexico and Central America, and the expansion of these newly occupied ports, and the Panama Canal is also a key project; Due to the temporary poor sales of automobiles, this year the focus is on the development of the shipping industry and shipbuilding industry. ”

After stretching his waist, Zhang Wei said: "That's all for tonight, after the meeting, the Government Council will implement the plan one by one according to the minutes of the meeting, and discuss the military issue and the issue of aid to the United States tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" (To be continued.) )