At the end of Chongzhen's tenth year, the Chinese New Year is approaching.

All parts of Shandong are busy with the New Year, in addition to the New Year, Zhao Yan's wedding also involves the nerves of many people.

The strategies of the various officials who pondered and meditated were also handed over one by one, and the number of officials under Zhao Yan has exceeded more than 8,000 people, divided into three categories.

One is the clerks in the enterprise, who are responsible for the operation of banks, grain banks, textile mills, iron and steel mills, glass factories, and breeding farms.

One is the local officials, who are responsible for managing all parts of Shandong, and the tunchang is the smallest local official.

One is the officials of Zhaojiabao, and these officials are from various departments.

The policies of these officials were handed over to a thick stack, and these policies were first screened and classified by the Ministry of Administration, and those with construction surnames were selected and submitted to Zhao Yan for reference.

As soon as these policies were handed in, Zhao Yan and the Administration Department were busy.

"This policy is very good, it is handed in by the Qingzhou No. 023 nursery, and the policy suggests that if the finance is abundant, some money can be allocated to subsidize the people to buy livestock seedlings, so as to increase the production of meat, eggs and milk." Zhang Buyun took out a policy and said, "At the same time, let the Propaganda Department increase publicity, so that the people can raise more livestock without hindering farming, and for private farms, some overseas workers can be issued to reduce their costs, so as not to make them have no money to make after the increase in eggs, meat and milk, and then develop economic animal breeding technology, such as mink, otter, fox, and seafood breeding, to make up for the loss of financial subsidies." ”

"This policy is good, next year we will increase investment in breeding technology research, build some new economic animal breeding test farms, and then take out some financial income to subsidize the seedling fees when the people raise livestock, and the Propaganda Department will also cooperate." Zhao Yan nodded approvingly, this strategy is indeed good.

Agricultural production is not viewed in terms of profit or loss. Rather, it depends on the gross domestic product, and the more it is produced, the better off the people's lives will be.

However, the more things produced, the lower the price, which will hurt the interests of the peasants.

In later generations of European and American countries, subsidies for agriculture can be said to spare no effort, and even give citizens a certain amount of security materials every month.

After all, the total output value of grain and livestock is in the case of commercial prosperity, and the output value is that much, and the political axe is fully capable of bearing the price subsidy.

With such a high fiscal revenue this year, there is no problem at all in subsidizing agriculture.

"In addition, farmers with 50 acres or less in Shandong will be exempted from land tax next year." Zhao Yan added, Zhang Buyun hesitated: "Lord, if agriculture is exempt from taxes, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, the agricultural tax is enough to generate tens of millions of taels, but most of it can't be budgeted, if the agricultural tax is exempted, this part will be lost." ”

"There is nothing inappropriate, next year after the farmers who own 50 acres and below are exempt from taxes, we will start to sweep away the tax-exempt class, although there is a loss, but the loss should not be large. In addition, after the exemption of farmers' land contributions, farmers do not need to worry about medical care and education, and domestic demand will be further expanded. Zhao Yan said.

"Over there?"

"On the side of the imperial court, he still wants our Tian Fu in Shandong, don't even think about it." Zhao Yan said categorically that since the signing of the agreement on Shandong's military privileges, Zhao Yan had separated Shandong from the rule of the imperial court.

"If the tax-exempt class moves them now, I'm afraid it will not be appropriate." Zhang Buyun said: "The two largest in Shandong, one is the Confucian Mansion and the other is the King of Lu, of which the Confucian Mansion has been operating for generations, owning more than 6 million acres of fertile land, and almost the entire Yanzhou Mansion is in their hands. Although King Lu is a little worse, there are more than 4 million acres in Jinan Mansion and Dongchang Mansion. King Lu is okay to say, but Confucius Mansion is a holy place for the world's corporals, if we move them......"

"How many teachers are currently being trained at the Teachers' College?" Zhao Yan asked.

"More than 33,000 teachers have been trained." Zhang Buyun replied, "This year, nearly 8,000 literati have been recruited, and they have not yet graduated. ”

"So we already have more than 40,000 teachers." Zhao Yan suddenly felt full of confidence, and said: "Next year, I will take Confucius Mansion and King Lu, and then increase the recruitment of literati, I don't believe that everyone in the world will ignore the temptation of money for the sake of Confucius." ”

"......" Zhang Buyun was speechless after hearing this, and at the same time knew that Zhao Yan did not agree with Confucianism at all, and he was sure to move the knife to Confucius, so he no longer persuaded him.

Although Zhao Yan is not full of talents now, in a few years, the talents he has cultivated will be continuously supplied, and without the support of the world's scholars, he can still live.

Many of the officials of various departments have put forward many good suggestions on the current situation of their departments in their policy discussions, and some of them can save money, some can improve efficiency, and some can increase fiscal revenue.

The budget has also begun after these policies have been put together.

The financial budget, that is, agriculture, industry, transportation, education, military spending, scientific research, and medical care, is the seven major items, and the rest of the items are small.

The budget is generally calculated for military spending.

The War Department has 115,000 people in the main battle group, 30,000 second-line troops, 49,000 logistics personnel, and a total strength of 194,000.

Admiralty, 20,000 sailors, 38,340 marines, 13,000 logistics, and a total strength of 71,340 troops.

The total number of soldiers of the two armies was 265,340.

On average, each soldier is paid 3 taels a month and 36 taels a year, and the military salary expenditure reaches 9.6 million taels, close to 10 million taels, and in terms of equipment, the degree of expenditure is almost the same as the military salary, and 10 million taels also need to be allocated.

Next year's military spending will need about 20 million taels, and Zhao Yan can't bear it, and the professional army will be maintained at 260,000, which is almost the limit.

The regular army is already absolutely impossible to increase.

In the future, the expansion of the army will have to recruit conscripts, and the three-year conscripts can save half of the conscripts, but the conscripts are not professional, and if they are used to fight tough battles, the pension will increase a lot.

But conscripts are the best choice for defensive forces.

The use of professional armies as defenders is obviously too overkill, and it seems that the army needs to be expanded. Zhao Yan struggled for a long time, and finally decided to increase the number of conscripts by 100,000.

Conscripts only need to be used for defense and to participate in combat missions with low combat intensity, and the equipment is not so good, and the military salary is not paid at all.

The military expenditure is about 5 million taels.

In order to smoothly implement the conscription system in Shandong, Zhao Yan came up with a strategy, that is, the rural youth who joined the army could obtain a labor force of 'overseas laborers', and the overseas laborers were managed by the cantonment, but all the income from labor belonged to the conscripts.

This dispels the concerns of conscripts and does not disrupt agricultural production, which is not available to non-agricultural workers.

The concern of conscription is only that they are afraid of destroying agricultural production, and there are Japanese slaves, and this problem is easy to solve, because Japanese slaves have no human rights, and the income from labor and production does not belong to them.

Next year's military spending will reach 25 million taels.

Fifty percent of the fiscal revenue is used for military spending, which is a relatively normal rate in this era, and the proportion of war expenses in the finances of some countries is even higher.

There is also a budget of 33 million taels.

Another 1 million taels of water conservancy repair costs have been allocated for agriculture, and after several years of water conservancy repairs, Shandong's water conservancy has been almost repaired, and there is no need to invest money in it.

In addition, 3 million taels were allocated to study the breeding methods of various economic animals, and at the same time, the cultivation of new grain varieties and the agricultural investment was 4 million taels.

Industrially, 1 million taels were given for the opening of a steam engine manufacturing plant, and the form of the steam engine has entered the final stage, and the slowest is only a few months, and 2 million taels are used as the start-up capital for mining in various places.

In terms of transportation, Zhao Yan directly allocated 10 million taels, of which 6 million taels were used for railway construction, and the railway should be repaired as soon as possible, there is no problem with the railway. Another 2 million taels for the manufacture of clippers, after the shipyard was set up in Liaodong, plus the coolies were all prisoners and slaves, the cost of shipbuilding was reduced a lot, and a thousand-ton clipper ship only cost about 50,000 taels. That's enough to build 40 1,000-ton clippers.

The ships of the Navy did not continue to be manufactured, last year's shipyard orders were not completed, coupled with the lack of experienced sailors, blind expansion will not work.

The remaining 2 million taels were used to build roads.

After the budget for these projects, only 16 million taels of silver remained, leaving education, medical care, and scientific research.

In terms of education, according to statistics, there are now more than 500 primary schools in Shandong, with an average of more than 30 teachers in each primary school, and 750,000 primary school students have been educated, with an average of 1,500 students attending school in each school.

The middle school has already had the first batch of students, reaching more than 5,000 people, who are the first batch of students to receive education, all of whom are older.

There are more than 100 primary schools in Yingzhou and Handan, with 150,000 students educated.

Due to the shortage of teachers, the primary school halls are built in a large area, almost like the middle school, and the students have to leave the arms of their parents and go to the school to live.

Primary schools have the largest number of teachers, at 20,000 teachers, but each teacher teaches an average of 50 students, and classes are required throughout the day.

Therefore, in the curriculum, there are more physical education classes, physical education classes, nature classes, etiquette classes, ideological classes, art classes, and music classes, and students only need to take half a day for the two courses of Chinese and mathematics. The other half day is spent arranging other classes, and in the evening there are thought classes.

The so-called ideological class is to instill national thoughts, as well as to expand students' thinking ability and imagination. Physical education classes are taught with knives, arrows, muskets, and equestrianism. In nature class, when you go to the fields, each school has a piece of land, and each class is responsible for a piece of land, and you can plant whatever you want. Sometimes I go to visit some other things, such as visiting military camps, factories, etc.

The previous policy of separating men and women into classes has been cancelled, and there is no point in dividing classes in elementary school, anyway, children don't understand anything, and it's okay to put them together.

Moreover, there are no special female teachers, so it is better to train a group of female teachers first, and then divide the classes in middle school, and use male teachers first if there are no female teachers.

The etiquette class teaches etiquette, but in fact, there are not many etiquettes taught, they are all very simple, completely abandoning the cumbersome etiquette in the current society, and simplifying the etiquette, but the bottom line is still there. It is more about instilling behavioral qualities in students, what to do and what not to do, and often take them to do public welfare activities.

In addition to primary schools, secondary schools and universities account for fewer teachers because there are few students. Other teachers are scattered in the army and night schools, and there are many teachers in the army, and every soldier is given a literacy education. Evening classes are open to the public, so you can sign up as long as you have time in the evening.

This year, there is a large overdraft in the area of education.

Next year's teachers will be expanded, so the budget is 50,000 people, and the salary of each teacher is 3 taels of silver per month, one stone of rice and wheat, which is almost 4 taels, and each teacher needs an annual salary of 48 taels of silver, 2.4 million taels for the whole year.

The number of students can at least be doubled, and all students over 10 years old and under 15 years old must be enrolled, and the number of students will be expanded to more than 1 million, and if the teacher training is faster, this number will increase.

A student's monthly food allowance of 3 yuan of silver needs 3.6 million taels a year, plus the construction of school facilities, it needs 3 million taels.

Education requires 9 million taels, what a terrifying number!

And Zhao Yan also came up with new tricks, in response to the problem that students are older, Zhao Yan opened a skipping system, as long as students finish learning things at this age, they can skip a grade after passing the assessment.

If you successfully skip a level, you will be rewarded with 2 taels of silver, plus a scholarship or something, 500,000 taels will be about the same. In fact, there is still money to be earned for skipping grades, a student needs 3.6 taels of food expenses a year, and if you jump to the next level, you will have less food expenses for one year.

In addition, Denley University will add five new departments, including the original three departments of "Department of Agriculture", "Department of Industry", "Department of Physical Resources and Chemistry", and "Department", "Department of Business Administration", "Department of Finance", and "Department of Geography".

The department is mainly responsible for the transformation of classical Chinese into vernacular Chinese, and usually writes more articles, and the good ones can be selected into textbooks to promote the process of vernacular transformation.

The Department of Business Administration is a relatively large department, and after graduation, he will be engaged in business management.

The Department of Finance, which was only established first, lacks a lot of things, and the number of students enrolled will not be too much.

The Department of Geography is responsible for the study of geography and the exploration of minerals.

In addition, manpower will be transferred from the new barracks to form the 'Denglai Military Academy,' which will be divided into three categories: the army, navy, and air force, and will specialize in training specialized officers.

Although the Air Force does not have it now, it is good to put on a name, and only a small number of cadets will be recruited for the time being.

In addition, Zhao Yan also wants to add four technical schools: 'Industrial Technical School', 'Navigation Technical School', 'Agricultural Technical School', and 'Engineering Technical School'.

These secondary schools, universities, will need a budget of 2 million taels.

The sky-high education budget of 10.5 million yuan has been released, and the expenditure on education can be said to be the highest expenditure in addition to military spending.

In the end, Zhao Yan gritted his teeth and said: "It's just to tighten the belt of your pants, how much money does education cost, you have to save how much money." ”

As soon as Zhao Yan spoke, he suppressed the opinions of various departments.

But as soon as the Ministry of Education's budget ended, only 5.5 million dollars remained. At this time, the budget for medical treatment and scientific research is insufficient, but the normal budget still needs to be budgeted, and medical and scientific research funds cannot be deducted.

This year's budget will inevitably have to run a deficit, and everyone can't help but sigh, it's really like water!

(To be continued)