When Zhao Yan was running around the Academy of Science and Technology, Mao Yuanyi came rushing over, and shouted from afar: "Lord, great joy, great joy!" ”

"What's the happy event?" Zhao Yan smiled when he heard this.

"When the Liaodong Operational Command was cleaning up the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it found an account book." Mao Yuanyi said with a smile: "This account book is full of records of trade between the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Jin merchants, and there are thirteen Jin merchant caravans recorded on it, and the trade volume between the two sides is more than 20 million taels. ”

"With this book......"

"Haha!"

"Hey, hey!"

The two of them laughed at the same time...... With this account book, we will take the Jin merchants next year.

Each of the Jin merchants has a net worth of several million taels, and it is estimated that they can have an income of twenty or thirty million taels after raiding their homes.

Naturally, it is not okay to raid the house indiscriminately, there must be a reason, this account book unintentionally gave Zhao Yan a very good reason, and no one could stop the reason.

As long as this matter is reported to the "Daming Newspaper", it will immediately be pointed out by those Jin merchants who collaborated with the enemy, and their reputations will be ruined.

…… There were so many things going on in Liaodong that it was only in mid-January that the Liaodong Operational Command (General Staff) began to clean up all kinds of documents left behind by the Manchus.

Soon, ledgers of Manchu and Jin merchant transactions were found in these documents.

Through the ledger, it was found that the transactions between the Jin merchants and the Manchu Qing were sometimes in Zhangjiakou, and sometimes the Jin merchants directly sent caravans to Liaodong.

Every time the Jin merchants arrived, the Manchus would welcome them very warmly.

After discovering this account book, the Liaodong Operational Command hurriedly reported to Zhaojiabao.

After nearly half a month of fighting, almost the entire Liaodong Plain has been cleared, and the administrative personnel of various towns have also been dispatched.

The Han people in Liaodong also received winter rations, and the administrators were going door-to-door to register and ascend the throne.

In January, another 20 clippers were launched, and since the beginning of the eighth year, 60 clippers have been built so far, and two months later 30 more have been launched.

At present, there are only 20 clippers that can be called upon in Shandong, 30 of the remaining 40 clippers are carrying troops and horses to support California, and the other 10 are responsible for reconnaissance and information transmission tasks in various fleets.

Although there were only twenty clippers, the transport capacity was greatly increased.

There were already about 150 large merchant ships in Shandong, of which 100 were sent to Edo, and 50 were transported to and from Liaodong and Korea at night.

After continuous transportation, the materials needed by Liaodong were basically transported.

Those Shandong merchants also had to go to Liaodong to open shipyards, and Shandong also had to emigrate to Liaodong and North Korea.

…… The 11-year budget was reconvened in mid-January.

Because Zhao Yan has spent about 5 million taels on scientific research, plus he has to set up a 2 million taels foundation to set up the 'Production Progress Award', only 57 million taels can be budgeted.

This time, the budget is mainly to increase the development projects in Liaodong and North Korea, and there is no need to change the original budget.

For the development of Liaodong and North Korea, Zhao Yan plans to focus on the development of the Liaodong Plain and North Korea, and other places do not need to be developed for the time being.

The cultivated land area of Liaodong as a whole has not yet been counted, but the cultivated land area of North Korea has been counted.

The arable land area of the whole of North Korea is about 40 million mu, and even more if you count the mountainous areas, but Zhao Yan generally does not resettle in the mountainous areas. The 40 million acres of cultivated land are mainly distributed in relatively flat plains and hilly areas.

With 300 acres of land per household, the entire DPRK can accommodate 130,000 agricultural households, plus the population of other industries, and the entire DPRK must have a population of 150,000 households in the early stage.

According to the model of the farm, each labor force can feed 7~8 people on average, and the output is mostly meat, and each household has an average of three labor forces, which can export about 2.7 million people to Shandong every year.

The cost of immigration in the early stage is about 10 taels of silver per household, which is about 1.5 million taels, and about 1 million taels for water conservancy and roads, about 1 million taels for education and medical care, and 500,000 taels for other miscellaneous items.

North Korea's budget needs 4 million taels.

As for the development of Liaodong, the funds required are even more, and it is difficult to say how much arable land there is in Liaodong, after all, it is such a big place.

However, on the premise that the DPRK needs to resettle, it was agreed at the meeting that the number of immigrants this year will reach 400,000, 150,000 from the DPRK, and 250,000 from Liaodong.

250,000 households, 10 taels per household, 2.5 million taels of silver, water conservancy, road expenditure, the same as North Korea, allocated 1 million taels. Liaodong is a plain area, and the problems of water conservancy and roads are relatively simple. Education and medical care, 1.8 million taels and miscellaneous 1 million taels.

Liaodong needs a budget of 6.3 million taels.

Together, the two places need a budget of about 10.3 million taels, and about 500,000 Japanese slaves are needed for infrastructure construction.

Although the number is relatively high, but to a large extent, it is still based on the 500,000 Japanese slaves, Liaodong and North Korea lack labor, there must be Japanese slaves to be dispatched over, and if the Japanese slaves are used at the same time, the cost of infrastructure construction will be greatly reduced, otherwise the water conservancy and roads in North Korea and Liaodong, where is 1 million taels each, and this money is only enough to buy materials.

At the same time, the immigration of Hokkaido is about to begin.

The shogunate signed an unequal treaty given by Zhao Yan, and Hokkaido was included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

This year, it is expected that 20,000 families will be emigrated to Hokkaido and 5,000 soldiers and horses will be dispatched, which will cost about 2 million taels.

Hokkaido will be treated with special treatment because there are still many indigenous people in Hokkaido. The indigenous people of Hokkaido are called Ezo, and it is estimated that there are quite a lot of them.

The mission of the 5,000-strong garrison was to capture the indigenous people in Hokkaido and build infrastructure. Such as water conservancy, transportation and various related factories.

Hokkaido will focus on fisheries, and agriculture will be used to meet the needs of the island, so the budget will be larger, after all, the investment cost of fishing boats and fishery preservation facilities is relatively large.

Next year, we will basically develop these three regions, Liaodong, North Korea, and Hokkaido.

At the meeting, Zhao Yan changed Hokkaido to the northeast island, and Daming did not have the administrative unit of the province, so it was changed to an island. Beihai is relatively speaking, for the Ming Dynasty, Hokkaido is in the northeast, so it was changed to Northeast Island, and the Northeast Island was included in the jurisdiction of the Nurgan Prefecture.

The area under the jurisdiction of the Nurgan Metropolitan Division is bounded by the Tieling Ridge, and the area north of the Iron Ridge is under the jurisdiction of the Nurkan Metropolitan Division, and it also covers Sakhalin Island and Beihai Island.

This is the boundary drawn by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhao Yan also uses it as a boundary, but the boundaries of the Nuergandu Division can change at any time, because Zhao Yan regards the Nuergandu Division as an institution used to govern undeveloped areas.

In the future, the Northeast can also be divided into three provinces, as in later generations, and the boundaries of the Nurgan Division will continue to shift to the north and west, and the Nurgan Division will become a special institution to deal with aliens and immigrants in cold regions.

A specialized body dealing with specialized issues.

The Nurgan Metropolitan Division has a commander who is the supreme commander of the Nurkan Metropolitan Division, who is a military attaché and can only take office after a period of training.

There are two civil affairs supervision bodies, one by officials and one by local immigrants.

This is also one of the contents of this year's military reform.

After making a development budget for the ground, Zhao Yan began to refocus the budget on the military.

"Next year, our foreign combat target will be Mongolia, and at the same time, after the reform of the military system, we will comprehensively expand our territory, and the military expenditure required for the war against Mongolia must also be budgeted in advance." Zhao Yan said.

There will be no war dividends for fighting against the Mongols, that's for sure.

"In terms of military spending, we only counted the construction expenses after the restructuring. To fight against the Mongols, I think two million is quite enough. Zhang Zhi spoke.

"Two million taels, it's about the same."

The only thing that can be used to fight Mongolia is cavalry, as long as the problem of logistics supply and pension is considered, 2 million taels may not be used.

After the budget, only 14.3 million taels were spent.

There are still 43.7 million taels of silver left, and how to spend this money has become a headache.

In the end, Zhao Yan decided to allocate another 8 million taels to the navy, and 5 million taels were used to build 50 frigates of 1,000 tons.

Paulownia is only a temporary emergency use, after all, there are too few warships, but it is by no means a long-term solution.

This kind of frigate is very difficult to fight, a single shell can make a big hole, and it is completely equipped with sophisticated artillery and the enemy can fly kites.

However, the frigate made by Paulownia has a low cost and fast construction speed, and even if it sinks, it will not cause much damage, so it is really a 'cannon fodder ship'.

The remaining 3 million taels will be used to establish the 'Denglai Navigation University', which specializes in training nautical researchers and researching projects in ship design and ship construction. and to increase the funding of the Navigation Technical School, whose mission is to train 50,000 sailors within three years.

There are 35.7 million taels of silver left, and there is really no place to spend it, so 5 million taels are used for disaster relief, and the original task has not been completed in terms of merchant ship construction, and at the same time, merchant ships will be purchased from private shipyards in the future.

The remaining 30 million taels, of which 20 million taels are equivalent to 2 million taels of gold, are stored in the bank's vault, and the last 10 million taels are also saved!

Last year's fiscal revenue was so much that it could not be spent this year...... It's really speechless.

"Lord, you're about to get married, why don't you build a house!" At this time, Zhang Buyun said to Zhao Yan, and when Zhang Buyun mentioned it, everyone also felt that the place where Zhao Yan lived was too shabby.

The place where Zhao Yan lives is definitely not magnificent, it can only be said to be an ordinary small courtyard, although it is very comfortable, but it is not at all stylish.

"Wenlong said that it is good, the place where the lord lives now is too shabby." Mao Yuanyi also agreed, "In the future, the lord's family business will get bigger and bigger, and such a small house will not be able to live in." ”

What Mao Yuanyi said is indeed the truth, Zhao Yan's small courtyard is the old mansion left by his cheap father, and it is not very big.

In the future, if there are many wives and concubines, where can I live?

"Now the place of Zhaojiabao is too small, it is no longer convenient to work, I don't think it is as good as this, all departments have moved outside the fort, and then invite a few garden people to plan Zhaojiabao again." Zhang Zhi was even more desperate, and directly proposed to make a place as big as Zhaojiabao into Zhao Yan's private residence.

I'm going to ask someone to build a garden!

(To be continued)