Zhao Yan suddenly found that under his own guidance, Shandong was moving towards the development model of the future European powers.

In the past, the Europeans' economy was very dependent on overseas colonization, and the colonies were important areas for them to dump goods, and if there were problems in the colonies, the economy would also have problems.

It was an export-oriented economy, and when something went wrong, there was a Great Depression. At the same time, the gap between the rich and the poor will continue to widen, and then become a very uneven state.

Several economic depressions in the world were largely caused by the lack of domestic demand due to the exploitation of workers.

Zhao Yan didn't want to experience such a depression.

Therefore, in terms of economic development, we should not rely too much on exports, but should rely more on domestic demand, of course, it is not that we cannot export, exports still need to, but in the absence of domestic demand, no matter how high exports are, they are floating clouds, once there is a problem in the export area, the economic chain will quickly collapse, and then produce a cycle of evil surnames.

Facts have proved that the market's ability to self-regulate is not so strong, and once it enters the economic depression of the evil cycle, it will not be able to recover in the short term without the intervention of the political axe. The Great Depression that preceded World War II was a case in point, and it was only after the intervention of the political axe that it recovered.

The current mode of economic development is problematic, Zhao Yan concluded.

We must not rely on exports, we must stimulate domestic demand, and if we want to have domestic demand, we must eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor and cultivate the middle class.

In fact, the easiest way to eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor is to regulate and control - inheritance tax!

When someone dies and the inheritance reaches a certain amount, they have to pay as much as they want, and if the inheritance does not reach that amount, they will not receive it, which is equivalent to robbing the rich and helping the poor.

However, this inheritance tax cannot be collected at present, after all, the impact is too bad.

And the inheritance tax, it is estimated that people will come up with many ways to circumvent it, and they must come up with a bill that cannot be circumvented, so it is not the time to levy the inheritance tax now, and the inheritance tax can only be levied until the situation is completely controlled.

After the gap between the rich and the poor is eliminated, a large middle class will be cultivated, so that there will be high domestic demand. In terms of the categories of goods in domestic demand, goods and luxury goods that have too much impact on the ecology should be restricted.

The most important thing is education, if everyone in a country has high moral character, then the future of the country must be very bright.

The export-oriented economy can be maintained for the time being, after all, there are still many colonies in the world.

India and Europe can be used as colonies of the Ming Dynasty, the export-oriented economy can develop for a long time, and the transformation of the domestic demand-oriented economy does not need to be so urgent.

At present, the labor force of Daming is still sufficient, even if the wages are raised, but the factory may not pay according to this standard, and the conditions for raising wages after the industrial scale reaches a certain scale.

…… By the end of the year, the commercial tax and salt tax have been counted, and this year's commercial tax revenue is more than 1,280 taels, compared with last year's commercial tax of 8 million taels, which is not much increase, and the silver will be handed over to the cabinet for use. For Zhao Yan, what the cabinet is his, and what is his is still his.

In terms of salt tax, the sea salt in Bohai Bay dominates the entire northern market, and this year, the armed police force has been dispatched everywhere to let Bohai Bay salt enter the southern market.

Throughout the year, more than 30 million taels of salt taxes were collected.

"There is a lot of money that can be budgeted for this year, in addition to the necessary budgets for education, health care, scientific research, infrastructure, etc., the other budgets will be used to achieve next year's goals." Zhao Yan unveiled a huge global map to the crowd at the budget meeting and said: "First of all, next year, we must ensure that there is enough food production and supply, and at the same time, we must have a certain degree of resistance to natural disasters." ”

"In terms of expansion in the north, Nuergandusi will continue to advance 1,000 kilometers to the west, and Moxi will temporarily stop expansion, and next year will strengthen the immigration and infrastructure construction of Mobei, Moxi, and Nuergandusi, with the intention of completely occupying this area." Zhao Yan set a plan for Nuergandusi to advance 1,000 kilometers, but Moxi stopped continuing to advance.

At present, the expansion of the north is relatively fast, but after all, the rear is unstable, and it will take at least two to three years to complete the construction of the railway.

The Nurgandus, which had already advanced to the western shore of Lake Baikal, advanced another 1,000 kilometers to the west, just pushing the front line to the north of Moxi and connecting with the front line in Moxi.

"At the same time, we will pay close attention to the construction of the Beijing-Wheel Railway and the Shenxi Railway, and strive to complete the construction of these two strategic railways within three years, which is the goal of the entire north."

After Zhao Yan finished speaking, he pointed to the south, drew a big circle in the South Seas, and said: "Next year we will control the Strait of Malacca, and expel the Europeans from all of Southeast Asia, and at the same time open a trading base in India, and control the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and send the golden army to South Africa." ”

"If we expel those Europeans, our export trade will be affected in some way. It will also affect our trade relations with Europeans in the Americas. Liu Heng said.

"It doesn't matter, next year we will attack the Spaniards in the Americas to seize Central America and dig canals, the trade in the Americas will be affected for sure, but we have signed a settlement agreement with Britain, France and the Netherlands, and there will always be people who trade with us."

"In Asia, first of all, in Southeast Asia, next year we will set up a trading base in the Indochina Peninsula to find out the situation in the Indochina Peninsula and fully occupy the Indochina Peninsula the year after that. This year, it is attacking Malacca and Luzon. "In terms of commercial exports, we mainly do it with India and Indochina countries, and it is best to drive Europeans out of the Indian Ocean to monopolize the trade of the whole of India." ”

"And in this part of South Africa, where there is a lot of gold hidden underground, it is the place with the largest gold reserves in the world, and we must resolutely take this place and drive the Dutch away from Hoan Mong Kok." Zhao Yan said that although everyone didn't know how Zhao Yan knew that there was gold here, Zhao Yan's prediction every time was not far from ten, and no one asked why.

"In terms of immigration from the south, we will spend more effort next year, and the number of Han people in Taiwan must reach 150,000, the number of Han people in Nanyang must reach 300,000, and the number of Han people in Australia must reach 100,000."

"Childe, where do immigrants recruit from?" Zhao Quan asked.

"Shandong and Jiangnan regions." Zhao Yan said, "In the future, immigrants to overseas will be recruited from these two places." ”

The Jiangnan region is the center of Han people's activities, and the Han talents in this region are the most traditional, while the ideological propaganda in Shandong is very strong, and the Han people in Shandong have a national consciousness.

"In the Americas, we will conquer the whole of Central America next year, mainly by seizing the gold and silver mines of Central America and the isthmus of Central America, and for the time being, we will consolidate Central America first, and then we will talk about the East Coast, and next year we will emigrate 100,000 people to the Americas." Zhao Yan said.

"Basically, next year's expansion will be divided into these three parts, and immigration will also be divided into these three parts, and you can calculate the required budget!" After Zhao Yan set the target, he threw the matter down, he just had to wait for the result.

…… The whole budget has been carried out for nearly half a month, this year, in addition to the 'informal income' of the Shandong political axe, the comprehensive income has reached 180 million taels, and there are 150 million taels that can be called, plus more than 4,000 taels that have not been spent before, and 190 million taels can be used next year.

What kind of political axe deficit, Shandong has no political axe deficit at all.

The staff officers of the entire Shandong returned to Shandong and began to budget around the goals set by Zhao Yan.

Staff officers calculate military and immigration expenditures, while other departments budget first and wait for the military to pass the budget.

In terms of education expenses, last year was an education budget of tens of millions of yuan, and 2 million taels were overdrawn for this purpose.

This year's education budget has reached a new high, with a full 23 million taels. The 23 million taels of education funds cover the administrative territory currently under control.

Shandong, Shanxi, Liaodong, North Korea, Monan, Mobei, Moxi, Taiwan, Nanyang and other places are all within this education system.

The number of educated people has doubled, and the age of education has been lowered to 10~17 years old.

Education is a very expensive thing, the current level is far from enough, in the future the education group will be expanded to 6~20 years old, and the older may also have to organize them to go to night school.

It's just that the current teachers are not enough, so naturally they can't do that level.

After more than half a year of training, most of the students who graduated from primary school this year have completed their training.

The training is mainly to teach them how to educate students, the focus is on quality education, and there is not much problem in terms of knowledge, the textbooks they use in teaching are all detailed editions, and they have been trained in the teacher training college for more than half a year, and they have mastered how to give lectures.

Those who did not master it continued to study in the colleges, and the teachers' colleges did not make up the numbers because of the lack of teachers, and they would not be allowed to graduate until they had passed the basic skills of expression and quality guidance.

Teacher training is actually very simple, at this time the Ministry of Education adopted the education system for teachers are not high, a teacher as long as the language passes, will not require mathematics to be proficient, teaching mathematics as long as the mathematics passes.

Teachers who teach Chinese and mathematics at the same time do not need to teach other subjects in school, and there are other teachers in other subjects with lower cultural requirements, and teachers of other subjects do not have such high requirements in terms of knowledge, but they have higher requirements in terms of morality.

In this way, teachers have a strict division of labor, teacher training is much simpler, the time gap between cultivating a specialist and a generalist is very large, and the all-rounder who knows everything often does not understand anything.

The teachers who have graduated from the teacher training college will continue their training in the future, and they will return to the teacher training college every summer.

The training of teachers is already on the right track, and this year's education funding is quite good, but if it is a few years later, I am afraid it will reach a point that is staggering to the extreme.

After all, there are only these territories controlled by Zhao Yan now, although they have surpassed the southern provinces in terms of area, they are far inferior to the southern provinces in terms of population.

In the future, the problem of education in the southern provinces will also be solved, and the age of education will develop in two directions: more and more desirable and larger, and the number of educated groups will continue to increase.

Such a small amount of education funding is nothing now, and the future expenditure on education will definitely reach hundreds of millions of silver dollars.

Nearly 70 percent of the teachers who graduated from the teacher training college this year were female students, and the time was ripe for the formation of girls' schools, so the primary school would be divided into classes.

There are also many older girls in primary schools, with the older ones attending specialized girls' colleges and the younger ones co-ed.

In terms of medical care, there are new plans for next year, and the Ministry of Medical Affairs plans to open medical stations in all provinces next year and send doctors from Shandong to various provinces to carry out epidemic prevention.

The main goal of epidemic prevention is to eliminate infectious diseases, mainly smallpox and plague, and the prevention of smallpox has become a safe cowpox. The Ministry of Medicine plans to vaccinate more than 30% of the people of Daming next year, and if there are enough people, it is possible to plant them all within a year, but the manpower is not as abundant as imagined.

In addition to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, affordable medical treatment will also be provided to the people in the provinces of Daming, that is, people will be treated at a lower cost.

For this purpose, the Ministry of Medical Affairs received a budget of 15 million silver dollars, 10 million taels for administrative areas and 5 million taels for extra-administrative areas.

The medical budget will also become terrifying in the future, but Zhao Yan is mentally prepared.

In terms of scientific research, more than 10 large experimental bases and hundreds of small laboratories will be established in various localities next year. Among them, a large-scale agricultural experimental base will be established on Hainan Island.

The Ministry of Scientific Research has obtained a budget of 10 million silver dollars, of which 3 million silver dollars will be used for rewards for R&D units and individuals, and those who can obtain scientific research patents will be rewarded with 10 silver dollars after the application is approved. Then, the patent is evaluated for practical surnames, and the evaluation registration is divided into ten levels, and the higher the evaluation, the higher the reward.

The patent offices under the Ministry of Scientific Research will set up patent applications in each province.

The administration department got a budget of 5 million silver dollars, and the salary was high! At present, there are nearly 50,000 officials in Shandong, and each official needs to pay an average salary of 80 silver dollars a year, and the other 1 million silver dollars are used for collective welfare expenses.

The Ministry of Communications received a budget of 5 million silver dollars, and although the bank took over a considerable part of the transportation construction, some roads with no rate of return still had to be brought forward by the Ministry of Transportation. Combined with the previous 20 million silver dollars railway construction cost of the Railway Bureau, the budget of the Ministry of Transportation is 23 million silver dollars.

The Ministry of Agriculture has the largest budget this year, in addition to the 20 million water conservancy construction costs that were previously smashed, and has received a budget of 20 million silver dollars.

With so much money thrown down, it is natural to overhaul water conservancy.

"We expect to overhaul the three major water systems of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Huai River next year, and build another 39 small water systems to comprehensively enhance the ability to resist disasters. If there is enough supply of Japanese slaves, and if there is a supply of Japanese slaves, these budgets can build more water conservancy. Tang Zhengze said at the budget meeting.

"Then let the garrison catch more Japanese slaves next year!" Liu Heng nodded.

Compared with traditional forced labor, such a small amount of money is indeed not enough to repair water conservancy, although 80 million taels have been successively invested in water conservancy, but nearly half of it is labor consumption.

But I can't stand throwing money like this, 80 million taels to smash it, what kind of concept is that! Coupled with the command of the professional engineering team, this year's budget is so allocated, and the water conservancy of the main water system of Daming will be renovated next year.

At the general level, this money is almost enough, and small-level water conservancy projects are generally built by local governments, but in areas where the administrative areas are not controlled, the engineering team will repair them first.

With so much money smashed, in the next few years, there is no need for much investment in water conservancy, and Daming can also restore its prosperity with the recovery of agriculture.

In terms of horse breeding, the investment is also relatively large, with a total investment of 3 million silver dollars in each horse breeding base, and a scale with an annual output of more than 5 million horses will be built within three years.

These horses are divided into military horses (war horses, logistics horses), agricultural horses, pack horses and other types.

With the development of agriculture, industry, and commerce, transportation requires a lot of horses, and after the completion of these horse farms, they can create a lot of profits every year.

The demand for private horses has increased, but the folk are very amateur in raising horses, which belongs to the breeding mode of half the effort, mainly because there are problems with horse breeds, followed by unprofessional breeding methods.

After conquering the vast land of the north, suitable horse farms are everywhere, and low-cost horses can be bred professionally to supply the market.

The profit and loss of the horse farm mainly depends on the future operation, but the profit is certain, although the train appeared, but the use of horses still exists, and with the development of the economy, the demand continues to increase.

In addition to these budgets, the rest is military spending.

A total of 71 million silver dollars were spent on these budgets, and another 119 million silver dollars will be spent on next year's budget.

The army's military budget for next year has allocated 40 million silver dollars, and the army will basically have no mission next year, but Zhao Yan has not disarmed, and still maintains the current huge military strength.

The navy was given a budget of 60 million silver dollars, and with the previous 5 million shipbuilding costs, the navy's budget reached 65 million silver dollars.

The reason why there is such a high budget is mainly that the General Staff has formulated a 'sea supremacy plan' in response to the goals set by Zhao Yan.

The plan is to build 150 Glory-class battleships (30 million silver dollars) and 300 frigates (500 tons, cost 50,000 silver dollars per ship, cost 15 million silver dollars) over a three-year period.

A total of 45 million silver dollars were invested in the Sea Supremacy Plan, and the General Staff believed that after the completion of this plan, it would be possible for the Ming Dynasty to achieve at least 30 years of maritime supremacy.

The remaining 20 million taels of budget is for the current navy's expenses for the maintenance of warships and the salaries of sailors, as well as the replacement of equipment (artillery renewal).

After Zhao Yan read the document of the "Ocean Overlord Plan", he put pen to paper and approved this plan, in his opinion, this plan can at least maintain the maritime hegemony of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years.

As long as this plan is successfully completed, Zhao Yan will not need to build large-scale warships for the navy for a long time in the future, as long as he continues to experiment and build new warships, the navy's military expenditure will not need to invest so much money.

For example, the year after tomorrow, Zhao Yan only needs to give the navy the cost of military salary, warship maintenance, and equipment replacement, if the equipment replacement is completed next year, then there is no need to spend money on equipment replacement in the year after tomorrow, but if the "Ocean Overlord Plan" is completed in the year after tomorrow, then the equipment will cost silver, but it is also a once-in-a-glance, as long as the equipment is completed, there will be no other expenses later.

(To be continued)