Tiger Mountain Main Courtyard, Main Hall.

Before the end of the meeting, Zhu Daolin suddenly issued an important order: "Starting tomorrow, a notice of 12,000 conscripts will be posted, and the 100 veterans selected by the martial arts instructors of the Ziyang Martial Arts Hall and the Shangyuan Sailor will be in charge, and the first batch of the remaining 14,000 young people can also sign up for the recruitment, and strive to complete it in ten days, and all of them will be sent to the Lion Rock Xianan Camp for training!" ”

Everyone was quite surprised, Ye Liangchen knew that Zhu Daolin was preparing to enter Taiwan's Tamsui Port, but he couldn't say it, but the frank Zhao Xunting dared to question:

"My lord, 12,000 people is too many, not to mention the cost of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to equip it, the money spent on training for only half a year is a large amount, and our burden is already very heavy!"

Zhu Daolin explained: "Brother Monsan, please rest assured, this money is still out of my pocket, half of the 12,000 people entered the army, and the remaining 6,000 people formed two engineering battalions of 3,000 officers and soldiers, specializing in the construction of army barracks facilities, taking into account the construction of roads and bridges." ”

"These 6,000 people will return after three months of training, and they belong to the reserve army, which is under my direct supervision, and you only need to send ten senior craftsmen into it for a year of professional guidance...... I plan to hand over the Xiaobeishan military dock to them for repair, even if it is three more months. ”

"That's a good idea! I'm in favor. Ye Liangchen keenly saw the benefits brought by the permanent professional construction team and saw the far-reaching significance contained in it.

Zhao Xunting and the staff members had no opinion after listening to Zhu Daolin's explanation, although it cost a lot, but like other armies, they spent Zhu Daolin's private money, and once it was established, it could become a stable professional construction team in the hands of the staff team. In the future, many small and medium-sized construction projects will no longer need to recruit craftsmen and craftsmen again and again.

Who knew that Zhu Daolin's next words shattered everyone's good wishes: "Ladies and gentlemen, feeling the heavy affairs and heavy pressure you have undertaken, I have decided to transfer a group of officers from the army before the end of the year to set up a military order office, a military affairs office, and a quartermaster office directly under my own command, so as to completely separate military affairs. The armed forces no longer interfere in the industrial and commercial affairs and various construction projects under the collective jurisdiction of the staff, and the collective staff cannot interfere in the internal affairs of the armed forces. ”

The staff members were shocked and realized that Zhu Daolin's important decision broke the political system of the Ming Dynasty that lasted for more than 200 years, completely subverted the tradition of using civilian affairs to control the military, and the power of civilian officials was greatly weakened, and the status of military attachés rose rapidly.

Zhu Daolin didn't seem to see the drastic changes in the faces of the staff. Again, in a calm tone, he announced two more powerful commands:

"Starting on New Year's Day next year, all important decisions involving strategy will be jointly negotiated and made by the staff collective composed of you and the decision-making collective formed by the military!"

"Before the end of the year, the staff collective must draw up a clear revenue and expenditure system, which can be called the "fiscal budget system", and the specific requirement is that 10% of the annual fiscal expenditure should be used for the salary expenditure of administrative personnel. 20% will be used for the development of education and medical care, and 40% will be used for the development and expansion of industry and agriculture. 30% for military spending! ”

All the aides exclaimed, although nearly half of them have not yet closed the budget, no one wants to carry such heavy shackles, and no one is confident that in three years, so many enterprises and the ever-expanding army can be fed.

Zhu Daolin motioned to the excited Zhao Xunting, Feng Shengtai and others to remain quiet, and began to explain his decision: "In order to lay a good foundation for you. The first three years of the "financial budget system" will be a trial period, and within three years, according to the actual development and your reasonable suggestions and requirements, I will provide the construction funds of no less than 1 million taels of silver to the staff collective free of charge every year. ”

"At the same time, the auxiliary equipment, clothing, shoes and hats, daily necessities and other materials needed by the army. Buy from our workshops as much as possible, for three years in a row! Three years from now, when the "Budget System" is officially implemented, I will not give you another copper plate. ”

"No! I disagree! ”

Zhu Chongwen, the general manager of the ironwork workshop, stood up, the 42-year-old Jiangning native is also from the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, has a high attainment in the field of steelmaking and casting, he has an upright personality, loves his subordinates, and is quite a bit of Guan Yunchang's "arrogant and unbearable" style, so he was excluded and suppressed in the officialdom, and at the age of 18, he stepped into the official career as a person, and at the age of 41, he was still a workshop official.

But because of this, Zhu Chongwen was deeply respected and loved by his directors and craftsmen at all levels, and the ironwork workshop has developed to this day, and the number of employees has doubled without losing money, thanks to his strong leadership and shrewd calculations, so he has a high prestige among the staff and craftsmen.

Zhu Chongwen respected Zhu Daolin from the bottom of his heart who brought him a new life, and the reason why Huo Ran stood up to oppose it was because he had read the budget books lent to him by his friend Zhao Xunting, and knew that he was really not sure that he would meet Zhu Daolin's requirements within three years.

Zhu Daolin not only was not angry, but asked with a pleasant face: "I wish the eldest brother not to be excited, can you tell me the reason for disagreeing?" ”

Zhu Chongwen said hello without timidity, and talked eloquently in front of everyone: "I wonder if you have calculated the total investment of the major workshops of Hushan Manor and Zizhuyuan?" ”

"I've calculated, over the past six months, the land, plant, capital, machinery, raw materials, etc. invested by the adults in the five major workshops have added up to more than 3.5 million taels of silver, which does not include the hundreds of advanced technologies and design drawings that cannot be measured in money secretly taught by adults."

"Although the major workshops began to make profits, and are expanding step by step, but still unable to earn back the 3.5 million investment in three years, I have calculated that the major workshops will double on the basis of stable development, and it will take six years to recover the investment!"

"Even if two large smelters, two cement plants and a glass factory in Longtan can be put into operation before the end of next year, it will take five years to recover a huge investment of 5.5 million yuan, and it will be considered truly profitable from the sixth year, which is one of them."

Zhu Chongwen grabbed the cup and poured a sip of tea, moistened his throat and continued: "Second, although the adults promised to invest 1 million taels of silver every year free of charge, and for three consecutive years, where do you think these 1 million taels of silver can be invested in order to make profits?" Who can be sure that they will be able to make a profit after investing? Anyway, I wish someone someone can't do it. My lord, I'm done. ”

Zhu Daolin nodded and looked around: "Who else needs to speak?" ”

The worried staff were silent, and Zhu Chongwen's reasons generally represented their meaning, but the chief staff Ye Liangchen still had a faint smile on his face.

Seeing that no one spoke, Zhu Daolin shook his head slightly: "Everyone, it's not that I am too demanding, but that you don't look at the problem from a higher place and don't look at development from the perspective of the overall situation. ”

"Not to mention how to determine the depreciation period of fixed asset investment, just how to use my annual investment of 1 million taels of silver and how to increase the value, I can give a few examples of making money quickly: Aren't you envious of me for making a lot of money by reselling the porcelain of Tianshu Pavilion? You can go to Jingdezhen with your silver on your back, go to several famous kilns in the south of Shaoxing to dig people, buy kaolin and porcelain clay mines from the local area and Jinling for a long time for hundreds of miles, go to Longtan to build a large ceramic factory with an annual output of 10 million pieces of porcelain, and I will provide all the technology, as long as you work hard to produce qualified, I can sell as much as I can to the West! ”

"The second method is to make some effort to integrate the carriage factory and machine factory under the iron workshop, and to set up a large hardware factory specializing in the production of all kinds of tools, nails, wires, screws and nuts, metric rulers, platform scales, rod scales, etc., and then set up a large machine factory to manufacture rice mills, windmills, axles, marine steering wheels, various pulleys, and strive to succeed in copying ball bearings as soon as possible, etc., and then buy the mountain pond on the north shore of Xuanwu Lake, and build a super-large textile mill with 5,000 spinning machines and looms and tens of thousands of female workers. Move the Zizhuyuan Textile Workshop over, and leave all the Zizhuyuan to the shoemaking workshop to expand the scale! ”

"As long as I do this, I dare to assert that I can earn back all my investments in less than two years, and then earn back 3 million taels of silver every year is still less!"

"Other such as the acquisition of mines, the purchase of coal mines, etc., as long as it is an important raw material needed for production, as soon as possible in their own hands, if 1 million a year is not enough, go to Bofu Money Bank for a loan, a loan of 2 million a year to him, they want you to borrow more!"

"You make a lot of money by opening factories and building machines, but the businessmen in the north and south of the country, the lakes and the Sichuan don't want to make money? They want to build factories and build machines, who else can they find if they don't ask you to buy machines and accessories? Use your brains, gold everywhere! ”

The staff members suddenly brightened, and their original sad faces turned into happy smiles, as if they saw the hope of achieving something great in three years.

Ye Liangchen, the chief staff member who had been listening with a smile, spoke at this time: "My lord, I suggest that it is best to extend the trial period of the "Budget System" for two years...... Five years, five years is more secure, besides, we also have to save a little, we can't learn from the two Beijing households to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, Yin eat grain! ”

"That's right! Mr. Li is right! ”

"Lao Cheng's words of planning, resolutely agree!"

"Isn't it? At least five years, 20% of the annual expenditure to build a school is indispensable! ”

"It is indeed indispensable, today's apprentices need to concentrate on learning and practice in order to quickly take up their posts, we should have followed the example of Ziyang Academy and Ziyang Martial Arts Hall to build an industrial school for cultivating talents!"

"Five years is not enough, at least six years ......"

Zhu Daolin's head was big, and he stood up and asked everyone to be quiet: "Okay, okay!" I'll obey you, then five years, okay, only five years, and it must be implemented from the sixth year! ”

The hall burst into laughter, defeating Zhu Daolin for the first time in a major resolution, and the staff danced happily and celebrated, as if they had forgotten that the rise of the army and the elevation of the status of the military had weakened their power.

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