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Officials from the Qin Tianjian who accompanied the tour predicted that the East China Sea would be sunny in the next 10 days, and there would be no heavy rain or storms. Such weather was just right for the emperor to return to Beijing.

So on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, during the Chung Yeung Festival, the emperor's royal driver finally boarded the ship at the port of Tai Chan Bay, accompanied by the royal task force.

At the same time, there are countless transports that will go to Middle-earth. Galleons with three sails or even four masts, loaded with a shipload of gold, silver, and copper, as well as a large number of people, returned to Beijing.

Liu Yunsheng, the general of the Japanese army, also returned to Beijing with him, and most of the Japanese soldiers will then evacuate Japan in batches.

The Japanese governor Liu Yunsheng will take over the two provinces of Izumo and Fuso, and now the whole of Japan has been divided into eight prefectures, the four prefectures of Xihai, Sanyang, Donghai, and Kansai are under the jurisdiction of Izumo Province, and the four prefectures of Hokuriku, Kanto, Hokkai, and Higashiyama are Fuso Prefectures. Liu Yun was promoted to Governor of the Japanese Military Region and Governor of Izumo Province, and Zheng Lian, Commander of the Seventh Fleet of the East China Sea Fleet, was also promoted to Governor of Japan and Chief Military Officer of Izumo Province.

The garrison stationed in Japan is mainly based on the navy, and 20,000 troops of the four associations are also stationed in two provinces.

The naval fleets that had gathered in Japan also returned one after another. The Emperor has given new tasks to the fleets. In the future, Bohai Bay will be the defense area of the Royal Task Force, of which the Fifth Fleet will be stationed in Tianjin and the Sixth Fleet will be stationed in Lushun. The First Fleet of the North Sea Fleet is stationed in Qingdao, the Second Fleet is stationed in Seoul, the Third Fleet is stationed in Tamna, and the Fourth Fleet is stationed in Vladivostok.

The Seventh Fleet of the East China Sea Fleet is stationed in Japan, the Eighth Fleet is stationed in Japan, the Ninth Fleet is stationed in Hangzhou, and the Tenth Fleet is stationed in Fuzhou.

The 11th Fleet of the South China Sea Fleet is based in Guangzhou. The 12th Fleet is stationed in Beihai, Guangzhou, the 13th Fleet is stationed in Sanya, Hainan, and the 14th Fleet is stationed in Singapore in the South China Sea.

As for the West Sea Fleet, this last established fleet currently has only one first-class battleship, and there are less than ten second- and third-class capital battleships. In terms of strength, it is the weakest among all fleets, especially the lack of good and experienced crews. This is a fleet that is still running-in, and this time Liu Jun gave them a special task, asking them to go to the South Seas, temporarily borrow Singapore, the home port of the 14th Fleet, and then cross the Strait of Malacca, go around to the southern coast of the Donoo Kingdom, and attack Rangoon and other places, and cooperate with the support of the Southern Expeditionary Army in the north.

The West Sea Fleet was cut by three fleets. At present, only the 15th Squadron was retained, and the officers and men of the other three squadrons were added to the 15th Squadron. In this way, the 15th Squadron will also have one first-class battleship, plus four second-class battleships and four third-class battleships, plus those three-masted fourth, fifth, and sixth class warships, which will also reach nearly 100 class ships, and its strength will be greatly increased.

The Imperial Navy's defense zone was greatly changed, and the warships were also reclassified.

On the basis of the original sixth-tier battleship. A few more tweaks were made.

According to the new classification of warships, only ships with three gun decks are available. And only warships with at least 90 guns or more can be called battleships, and according to this new classification regulations, many of the original three-class capital ships with double gun decks in the navy are no longer classified as battleships.

And now the emperor's oversized giant ship with four gun decks and more than 140 guns is classified as a special battleship. And in the name of the ship, the Poseidon, in the future, this type of warship will be called the Poseidon class.

Battleships with more than 100 guns on three gun decks are called first-class battleships, and in the future, warships of this tonnage will be collectively called Jiaolong.

The new 3rd and 4th class ships have two gun decks. Three-masted battleships with sixty-four to eighty guns. They were also collectively referred to as cruisers.

The ships of the fifth and sixth ranks, on the other hand, had a one-tier gun deck, three-masted galleons, and they had more than thirty to forty guns. These battleships were smaller and lighter than battleships and cruisers, and were faster and more agile. These ships are collectively referred to as destroyers.

In addition to the sixth-class ships, there are also two-masted and single-masted ships, which are also loaded with a dozen to twenty guns, undertaking escort, patrol and other tasks, and these two-masted gunboats and dhow clippers are also collectively called frigates.

Therefore, this new type of battleship class can actually be called the standard of nine-class battleships, from the super battleships of the special first class, to the battleships of the first and second classes, to the cruisers of the third and fourth classes, and the destroyers of the fifth and sixth classes, and finally the brigs and single-sloops frigates, each with a clear mission.

After the new warship class is established, a large number of warships will be decommissioned in each fleet of the Navy. Because in the past, many warships were actually converted from merchant ships, with different tonnages and different shapes.

After the empire settled Japan and stabilized the north, the empire's maritime security situation has now risen greatly. The Empire's greatest maritime defense targets are the countries of the South Seas.

However, the South China Sea is relatively far away, and the warships of various countries are not as good as those of a non-naval country like Japan, so they cannot be dealt with by numbers, but by giant ships and artillery, as well as excellent naval soldiers.

Therefore, many of the navy's merchant ships have been retired from active service and resold to maritime merchants for shipping. Many admirals were reluctant to reduce the size of their warships, but as soon as the emperor said that a batch of new ships from the shipyards would leave the factory, everyone happily agreed to eliminate and dismantle some modified merchant ships.

At the same time, the number of frigates below the level of ships has also been reduced, and ships of this class are needed, but not too much.

However, as a result, the number of capital ships of each fleet immediately dropped a lot, and even the number of capital ships was less than one-third of the original.

At present, the navy has 15 detachments, and the number of all the main warships is less than 100, and most of the 15 detachments have only one first-class ship and two second-class ships.

Only the Royal Fleet had the only Task Force 1st and four 1st and 8nd Ranks, and the Royal Task Force, with two squadrons, had more battleships than any fleet with 4 squadrons.

The size of the Yangtze River Fleet was also weakened, and after some streamlining, the size of the Yangtze River Naval Division Fleet was much reduced, and the entire fleet only had 20,000 men, 10,000 marines, and 10,000 sailors. They were also the only fleet without battleships. The emperor positioned the main responsibilities of the sailors as patrolling rivers and lakes such as Jianghuai and other inland lakes, patrolling rivers and lakes, and cracking down on water thieves.

However, the emperor set up a new Heilongjiang fleet, that is, the task force that went north to support the Sauron Department, with only one fifth-class ship and four sixth-class ships, as well as some smaller gunboat patrol ships, as well as some transport ships and a two-thousand-man marine, and now these five thousand people were directly organized into the Heilongjiang fleet. It is responsible for inland rivers such as the Heilongjiang River, the Jingqili River, the Ussuri River, and the Songhua River, as well as the sea area of the Heilongjiang estuary, which is officially known as the Heilong Sea.

On the Poseidon, the only super-battleship of the first class in Dahan, Liu Jun watched the fleet slowly leave the port, and his heart was also full of emotion.

Japan is now part of the Han Empire.

At sea, there were many ships entering and leaving various ports in Japan, and the fleet was in a hurry to bring the Japanese from the concentration camps back to the mainland, and then ships continued to transport many Han Chinese from the Central Plains to Japan.

This seemingly redundant action was supported by the majority of the people in the imperial court. To really occupy Japan. It may seem a bit stupid, but it's very effective.

However, it was not necessary to transport all the Japanese away, because Japan had rich reserves of gold, silver, iron, sulfur and other minerals, and the imperial court planned to continue to exploit them, and to increase the scale. This requires a large number of mining and smelting workers.

For example, although the previous Iwami Silver Mountain can produce one million taels of silver a year, there are as many as 200,000 workers in the entire Silver Mountain. In this era, mining was a labor-intensive industry. These silver and copper mines in Japan can produce millions of taels of silver for the empire every year. and tens of millions of pounds of copper.

In order to maintain this level of extraction and to refine it directly in Japan, more manpower is needed. According to the calculations of the officials of the Ministry of Works, at least three million workers were needed to maintain this mining plan of the imperial court.

Liu Jun did not plan to transport Han Chinese from the Central Plains to mine, so he finally decided to leave millions of Japanese young men to mine, smelt and process in various places. In order to make the miners work with peace of mind, Liu Jun allowed their wives to stay. Children under the age of ten can also stay, but the children who have reached the age of ten must be sent to Middle-earth for education, and in the future they will have to accept the work arrangements of the imperial court, and women will even have to marry in the Central Plains.

Although Liu Yunsheng has not yet paid the general seal of the general to the Ministry of War. But now we have completed the journey.

"Your Majesty, this expedition to the east is really unexpectedly smooth. We won Japan in less than a year, and we almost completely won Japan, and we can't imagine what we have gained. ”

Liu Jun also nodded, not to mention the land and population, just the tens of millions of taels of silver and tens of millions of catties of copper and copper coins were enough for the empire to recover the cost of this war tenfold and hundredfold.

This battle was much more than the confiscation of the official property of the former dynasty and the property of the clan and the lords at the beginning of the founding of the country, plus the money collected from the deed tax.

With such a large war dividend, the imperial court has military spending for the next few years. Even the expenses for immigration, road construction, and education can be supplemented a lot.

Of course, the gold, silver, money, grain, cloth, and so on obtained can only be regarded as superficial dividends, and the real and most valuable thing is the more than 20 million Japanese population and such a vast Japanese archipelago.

"With this war dividend, this year's budget meeting is estimated to be much easier, and there is no need for various ministries to fight each other and not give an inch."

Liu Jun couldn't help but smile, today's court expenses are all budgeted first, and then withdrawn. Before the end of each year, we will start to estimate next year's expenditure according to the state treasury situation of this year and next year's fiscal revenue, and then make a budget table to allocate next year's income.

All departments attach great importance to this budget meeting.

How much can be allocated in the budget table, then only how much can be pulled out next year, of course, all departments hope that the more money they can pull out, the better, and only when there is money can it be easy to do things. Under the pressure of the test method, everyone wants to get results. can come up with results, and there is no confidence without money.

If you can't compete for the budget, then you won't be able to stiffen your waist in front of your subordinates next year.

But the total money is so much, if you divide a little more, then he will have to count less, so every time at this time, the heads of the major ministries in Beijing completely ignore the usual etiquette and righteousness, and for the sake of a little budget, they can't wait to roll up their sleeves and stage an all-martial arts.

In the first year's budget, everyone was still taking care of face, and there was a lot of money in the treasury at that time, so everyone was humble to each other, and they were able to share a lot of money.

But last year was different, last year lost a large amount of confiscated money from the previous dynasty and the one-time property tax levied, and the revenue was reduced by more than half. So last year's budget meeting was a bit of a gunpowder.

This year, all departments have found a big problem, that is, the money is not enough. At this time, the departments desperately asked for money from above, but if they wanted to get money from the finance secretary, it was more difficult than plucking the feathers on the iron rooster.

If it weren't for the emperor, there would be a rich inner library. In view of some urgently needed funds, we should pull out the internal funds in a timely manner, but I am afraid that many officials will be very sad this year.

With this lesson in mind, then at next year's budget meeting this year, officials have long been prepared to argue on the basis of reason, and they will not give in at all.

But now, with Japan's super war dividend, next year's budget meeting will certainly be easier.

"It's time to fight." Liu Jun is very satisfied with the current way of budgeting, which is actually living within your means. According to the fiscal revenue of the coming year. How much money you have, how much you do.

The total amount of money is there, and there are a lot of things to do, so it needs to be reasonably optimized and prioritized. What things have to be done, then give priority to the withdrawal, those things can be slowed down first, then you can put it later.

Through such a budget system, then every penny of the imperial court. can be used on the blade. There will never be a soldier raised by the state again. It turned out that there was no military pay to pay, and the soldiers on the front line of the country had no food to eat and no winter clothes to wear.

It will not appear, and in the event of a disaster, the government will not have any money and food to help the disaster.

Nor will it be said. While the soldiers of the country were still armed with spears and broadswords, or had muskets but no ammunition, the emperor was still building the palace and garden.

Although in fact, this kind of budget has existed in all dynasties and generations. Whether it is within the limits of income or within the limits of income, the central government will do such a co-ordination, but to be honest, the previous dynasties have done very little in this regard. Money is spent where it shouldn't be, but there's no money to spend where it should be.

Liu Jun supports this kind of budget system and strives to make the best use of money.

But on the other hand, Liu Jun also holds some of the country's most profitable industries, such as banking, coal and steel, mineral mining, ocean-going trade, shipping, monopoly sales of salt, tea, tobacco and alcohol, etc., Liu Jun does not care that some people say that he is competing with the people for profit.

His income is not even included in the state treasury but all in his inner treasury, but Liu Jun did not do this to spend money for himself.

His money is still used for state spending, but it is used by him to supplement the state budget. The state budget cannot be exhaustive, there are always some unexpected places where money is used, or disaster relief, or war, etc., the imperial court will also budget a sum of money every year, but this money will not be too much, and there are too many extrabudgetary requests every year.

More often, Liu Jun will use his inner treasury to withdraw money to those who ask for money.

The emperor's money is lubrication.

After the occupation of Japan this time, Liu Jun did not touch the various spoils obtained. But he plans to pocket all of Japan's minerals, and he plans to set up a separate Japanese energy company. He will not be less than the contract fees he should pay and the various taxes he should pay, but he plans to run the mines by himself, raise funds by issuing shares, raise share capital, and then contract these mines.

As for why this is done, first, these minerals are very profitable, and second, Liu Jun is really not at ease that a layman like the official will run it.

This kind of large-scale mineral resources company is still led by him, and it is better to have a special management team to run it, and the use of the shareholding system can also allow the people to also share dividends and profits, which is much more flexible than letting the government manage it.

The government is engaged in enterprise management, and it is completely an outsider who manages an insider, and it is easy to cause problems at every turn. Just like the shipping and salt industry in the Ming Dynasty, the golden rice bowl eventually became a job to ask for food.

Today's Han is very fierce, and traces of capital can be seen in every corner. All kinds of comptoirs, companies, and even various joint-stock companies, stocks, dividends, etc. There are also central banks, commercial banks, and even specialized agricultural banks, rural credit cooperatives, money banks, silver accounts, and so on.

Even the imperial court has specially promulgated the company law and the securities law, and there is a stock exchange in Beijing that specializes in the trading of company stocks, and there is also an official securities regulatory commission that specializes in supervising the securities market.

Sometimes, Liu Jun himself doesn't know whether many of his national policies are too indulgent to the power of capital. Compared with the budding capital in the late Ming Dynasty, today's Han has shown the power of capital.

Many workshops and factories have been set up, and countless surplus rural laborers have left the countryside and gone into factories and mines to do work. Many people have not only started to work in the factories for a whole year, but have begun to work in factories for a whole year, and many young men and girls have begun to work in workshops for a long time, earning far more income than helping to farm at home.

More and more big businessmen appeared, and the capital power in their hands was quite amazing, and many businessmen began to expand their operations through bank loans and private stock issuance to raise capital.

Another new change is that the circulation of goods in various places is getting faster and faster, and the circulation of money is also accelerating. On the one hand, some traditional commodities, such as grain, are rising in price, at the beginning of Chongzhen, one stone of rice was more than one or two silver, and a common man's monthly salary could buy more than one stone of rice, nearly two hundred catties of rice.

And now, two silver dollars for a load of rice, and two hundred catties of rice, need four silver dollars. The workers' income increased in silver dollars, but the rice they could buy was still about 200 catties. But on the other hand, many processed goods have been greatly reduced, benefiting from today's market capitalization, many workshops are larger, the lower the cost, and the competition in the industry, the price of goods is lower than in the past.

This is an era in which everyone has money in their hands, everyone's income is generally high, everyone has become accustomed to consumption, this is an era when money can buy everything, and this is an era in which the status of businessmen is constantly improving.

This is the best era in the eyes of businessmen, and it is also the worst era in the eyes of many conservative Confucian scholars!

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