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Yang Yi wants to give credit to the New Party, as a member of the New Party, how many people will think this monument is too majestic?

As soon as Yang Yi's words fell, more than half of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty stood up to support his expansion plan, most of them were officials from his department, and there were also many officials who did not belong to his department.

At this moment, Yang Yi finally tasted the taste of a hundred responses, which felt really good.

What's even more surprising is that Cai Jing, who should have been the most fiercely opposed, also stood up and played at this time: "Queen Mother, this autumn tax has basically been paid, and there are currently more than 230 million yuan of silver left in the treasury.

Coupled with the officials' salaries and the budgets of various departments, the minister estimated that the total expenditure of the imperial court in the coming year should be about 100 million yuan. According to the resolution passed by the imperial court at the beginning, the treasury set aside 50 million yuan of silver every year to deal with sudden situations.

Yang Taifu proposed an expansion budget of 90 million yuan, which the imperial court could fully pay, and this expenditure would have a huge effect on promoting the economic and people's livelihood development of the Great Song Dynasty, so the minister thought that Yang Taifu's expansion plan should be carried out. ”

Cai Jing's words reminded many people of a resolution passed by the imperial court at the beginning, that is, the treasury should be kept 50 million yuan every year to deal with sudden wars or disasters, and more surplus should not be allowed to rot in the treasury, but must be spent so that it can continue to drive the economic development of the Great Song Dynasty.

The money has to be spent. Let it produce more benefits, so that the imperial court can get more taxes. The ministers of the DPRK and China have reached a consensus on this point.

As Cai Jing analyzed, in previous years, because of the war. The military expenditure of the imperial court was as high as 170 million guan, and now that the great war has been fought, the military expenditure will be sharply reduced, and the original 30 million to 40 million guan after the disarmament will be restored.

Even if there are still some small-scale wars in the Western Regions, the cost will not exceed 50 million.

In addition, the operating expenses of officials and various yamen are also 60 or 70 million yuan, and together with military expenditures, the expenditure is 120 million yuan, and now the annual tax revenue has exceeded 300 million yuan. In the future, there are more than 150 million yuan of spare money to find a place to spend it.

Now spending this money on the expansion of the capital can not only make a contribution to the new party, but also promote the development of the people's livelihood in the Great Song Dynasty, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

The power to the position of Zhang Dun is only to leave the future generations behind, and to serve as the prime minister of the empire. If he can build the imperial capital majestic and magnificent in his tenure, future generations will definitely remember his merits when they see this majestic city.

plus Cai Jing's account. It is true that there is no need to save too much money, and he is as shrewd as Zhang Dun, Yang Yi can think of it after it is completed. If the court can make a lot of money, he can also think of it; In this matter. Zhang Dian really had no reason to object.

Seeing that most of the officials in the DPRK have come out to support it, but no one has come forward to oppose it. Comrade Liu Qingjing, the "female middle Yaoshun", said impatiently: "Since the expansion plan is considered feasible by all the ministers, it has been decided. ”

As soon as Liu Qingjing's words landed, Yang Yi didn't wait for hundreds of officials to say more, and rushed to say again: "Queen Mother, now the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the imperial court has moved a large number of people to the real side over the years, resulting in a very lack of labor.

This expansion project requires at least 60,000 laborers, which is not a problem when the farm is slack, but when the farm is busy, I am afraid that the work will be stopped;

This will greatly prolong the construction period and increase the cost, and the lack of labor is not limited to the expansion project, the reason why the industry and commerce of our Great Song Dynasty have made great progress compared with the previous dynasties, and provided a large amount of taxes to the imperial court, which is mainly due to the national policy of our dynasty to emphasize agriculture and not suppress commerce;

In addition, there is another important reason, because the land annexation of our dynasty is more serious than that of all previous dynasties, so that many people have lost their land for cultivation and can only enter industry and commerce in order to survive; This provided sufficient labor for industry and commerce, and further promoted the development of industry and commerce;

But now, because of the prosperity of the people's livelihood and the implementation of policies such as relocating the people to the real border, there is an extreme shortage of manpower in the agriculture, industry and commerce industries.

Farmers and businessmen will soon be constrained by the lack of labor and stagnate, so the imperial court must pay enough attention to this problem and make solving this problem a top priority. ”

As soon as this question was raised, it immediately aroused a heated discussion among the officials, and there was a buzz in the Jinluan Palace, and the officials in the palace had a deep understanding of this question, because they had always been the largest employers of labor;

Whose field is not hired to cultivate, whose property is not hired to take care of, in the past, the labor in the streets and alleys was everywhere, dozens of dollars a day to rush to do, now the family wants to dig a pond, build a pavilion, out of two hundred Wen can not hire people;

In other words, the lack of manpower has led to an increase in the cost of living for officials, and at the same time caused them a lot of inconvenience.

No one asked a question before, and everyone just felt that it was not cheap, but after Yang Yi pointed out the seriousness of the problem, everyone really realized that the lack of labor is not only their own family, but the whole world.

Shangshu Zuo Cheng Fan Chunren immediately went out and said: "The Queen Mother, what Mrs. Yang said, can be described as a serious problem, the lack of labor, the court should indeed pay attention to it, otherwise it will be extremely unfavorable to the development of people's livelihood, the old minister thinks that the court should encourage the people to have more children, Cai Shangshu didn't say that the treasury surplus is a lot, the old minister suggested that the court come up with a sum of money, to those families who are in difficulty and willing to have more children to give some living subsidies, or by the local government to set aside some public land, Every year, the output of public land is used to support those poor families who are willing to have more children, reduce the worries of the people, and promote the population growth of our country. ”

Zhang Dian also said: "The Empress Dowager, the old minister also thinks that Fan Zuocheng's suggestion is feasible, in addition, the imperial court should improve the corresponding regulations, punish those who deliberately drown newborn babies, take the increase in population as an aspect of the performance evaluation of local officials, and improve the management of the Salesian Bureaus in each prefecture and county, so as to accommodate more orphans." ”

Li Qingchen then said: "The minister thinks that the imperial court does not need to allocate additional funds to encourage the people to have children, and the original Yicang under the jurisdiction of Sinong Temple can help the people who have more children and have poor families, and they can be supported through the Yicang, and the people in the lower households who have more than three children can receive a certain amount of food subsidies from the Yicang." ”

The bigwigs in the DPRK and China stood up one after another, Yang Yi didn't expect this question to cause such a big reaction from them, but after thinking about it carefully, it is clear that the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is so large, the population is so small, before the arrival of mechanization, everything is done by manpower, more people means great power, and all dynasties have actually attached great importance to increasing the population.

I remember that in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, in order to increase the population, Li Shimin even came up with a method of official matching, and the government came forward to match unmarried men and women, saying that the fun thing is that the government will give you a daughter-in-law, and you can't marry if you don't want to.

Now that the territory of the Great Song Dynasty has increased many times at once, and human resources are so lacking, it is no wonder that as soon as Yang Yi raised this issue, the bigwigs of the DPRK and China did not wait for the minions to take the lead, and they stood up and spoke one after another.

Now that everyone is on the same page, this is easy to do.

Yang Yi continued: "After the Great Queen, the suggestions of all the ministers are all sincere words, and the imperial court should implement various policies to promote childbirth. However, it always takes a process to encourage fertility to increase the population, and it will take at least ten or twenty years to achieve results.

In order not to suffer a heavy setback to the development of the people's livelihood in the Great Song Dynasty, the minister thought that the threshold for the population of the surrounding countries to enter the Great Song Dynasty should be lowered, and the people should be allowed to come to the Great Song Dynasty to recruit workers, and encourage the people of our dynasty to go to the surrounding countries to recruit labor, so as to solve the dilemma of labor shortage in our country. ”

Yang Yi's words were high-sounding, but the hundred officials in the palace still smelled an unusual smell from it, these years the traffic is difficult, the news is blocked, in addition to businessmen, how many people are willing to go to other countries to recruit workers, I am afraid that Yang Taifu This is going to plunder the population in disguise, but no matter what, Yang Taifu didn't say to plunder, this is recruitment, it is recruitment, and this is also the only way to solve the urgent needs of the Great Song Dynasty.

Lin Xi was the first to stand up and said: "Mrs. Yang's words are wrong, what threshold has I set in the Great Song Dynasty, since the founding of the country, countless Hu people have come to naturalize and buy real estate, how can I have a rule that prohibits Hu people from naturalization?" If the people of all countries are willing to come to our court to recruit workers, it is unwanted, and the court has never restricted them from entering the country. ”

Wan Shifang, who had just been promoted, also came out of the class and said: "What Lord Lin said is extremely true, and the official thinks that the people need labor, and the imperial court can't ban it even if it wants to, and there is no need to ban it, the more people from other countries come to recruit workers, the more beneficial it is to the country and the people. ”

Yang Yi felt that his ideas were indeed too advanced, too detached from reality, in this era, plundering the population is definitely not an uncommon thing, everyone even takes it for granted, in the wars of various countries, population is often one of the main resources that the two sides compete for. Especially when foreign invasions were made, they never gave up the act of plundering the population. The words "predatory population" have never been far from this era.

Yang Yi was worried that the officials of the DPRK and China would oppose the "introduction of labor", and he made it for a long time, which was completely unfounded for him, and he couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly, it seems that he has not fully integrated into this era! (To be continued.) )