At this time, Zhu Youxiao already had the support of an interest group, and this interest group has become stronger and stronger, with incomparably huge resources and sufficient financial resources.

Reform of the provinces, the population has reached about 120 million, if you include those indigenous people or something, then the population is even more.

Moreover, at this time, the Ming New Deal area had completed the initial industrialization, leading the world for more than 200 years. Of course, this is under the premise that other countries do not have the awareness of industrialization, and the technology of the Ming Dynasty may not be blocked for long.

Today's Zhu Youxiao is no longer fighting alone.

After deciding to reform the south, Zhu Youxiao called Huang Zhoudao, the secretary of the ministry, and after continuous promotion, Huang Zhoudao was also promoted to the position of the secretary of the ministry by rocket. And the level is good, and the understanding of the core concept of the Han Emperor Party is very good, which is deeply favored by Zhu Youxiao.

"Aiqing, how is the administrative talent reserve doing?" Chu Yang asked Huang Zhoudao, after all, the reform is about to begin, and if there are not enough administrative talents, it will be difficult to carry out.

The party school of the Han Emperor Party first cultivated several years of internal strength, improved the quality of party members, grasped the ideological concepts and administrative style and other issues, and carried out a talent reserve.

"Today's administrative talent pool can probably lay two provinces." Huang Zhoudao replied, Zhu Youxiao thought about it, and it is obvious that the comprehensive reform in the south cannot be completed at one time.

Again, it needs to be gradual.

The end of the year came, and the central budget of the Ming Dynasty was also launched. This year, Daming's fiscal revenue finally exceeded one billion yuan, which is actually not much for a big country. The main reason is that the economically developed areas of the southern provinces have not been included in the New Deal reforms, and the northern provinces themselves are not as economically capable as the south, although they have an advantage in heavy industry.

And the Ming Dynasty is now in the northern provinces. In fact, there are still a lot of places that are very backward. However, with the popularization of railways, that backwardness will be improved.

In addition, the commodity economy is not completely widespread in the north. In many places where there are no railways, the natural economy in the countryside is still very prevalent.

The whole industrialization has only just begun, reaching a primary stage. It's just that the scale is relatively large.

However, compared with the previous Ming Dynasty, it is a very terrifying financial revenue, and the budget for the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse is set at 1.2 billion yuan.

With so much money, it is estimated that a lot of money will be wasted if there is no clean administrative system. Fortunately, the quality of officials in this era is not bad, and after grasping it, they have taken ********, and the results are still very good. The style of officialdom in the provinces of the New Deal has been cleared.

The next step is to attack the southern provinces. It's just that the province that will be reformed first has not yet been decided.

"Last year's war military expenditure was exactly about 200 million yuan. If the Mongol war can be ended before the end of this spring, then the war military expenditure can be reduced to less than 100 million yuan, and the military expenditure will need about 200 million yuan if the daily military expenditure and the replacement of army equipment are added. Jiang Dejing, the head of the household department, entered the palace to report some financial problems.

"How will we budget for next year?" Zhu Youxiao asked, he still understands the overall situation, but he is too lazy to study the details. It's better to leave these problems to the courtiers to do, and they don't have to work hard themselves.

"Next year, banks will continue to adopt monetary tightening. Therefore, the imperial court and state-owned enterprises still have to play a role in ensuring employment. Therefore, the imperial court should spend at least 400 million yuan on infrastructure construction. Investment in education can be reduced, and the educational hardware facilities in the provinces of the New Deal have basically been built. Only 200 million yuan needs to be invested. The remaining $400 million will be allocated to other fiscal expenditures. Jiang Dejing described the general situation, and these financial expenditure plans were decided after counting various data.

Zhu Youxiao carefully looked at the statements of various budgets, and then nodded, "Just follow this plan to formulate next year's budget." ”

Although the budget of 1.2 billion yuan is large, it is spread to all provinces across the country. Money is never enough, but the country is constantly improving.

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The end of the year has arrived, and it is the arrival of prosperous consumption before the Spring Festival. In the past year, the lives of ordinary people in the provinces of the Ming New Deal have not been affected by the war.

What kind of labor and money has not happened at all.

Life is still going on as usual. The money is still earned as usual. The economy has continued to develop steadily, and there will be no big upswings, let alone big downs.

At the end of the year, consumption was still relatively good. It's certainly not as prosperous as it used to be, but it's not bad. Nowadays, the northern provinces continue to carry out urbanization, a large number of peasants have entered the cities and towns to work, and railways are being built everywhere, and the employment is still relatively sufficient, and most of the income of ordinary people has not been affected much, but has lowered the gap between the rich and the poor, and the income is higher than that of many businessmen.

It's just that many ordinary Baixin make hard-earned money and will not waste it wantonly, so they are not so generous when they consume, so the market is not as good as when the economy was booming before.

However, the market is expanding, more people have entered the towns, and the market size is still expanding.

As soon as the end of the year arrives, all kinds of New Year's goods begin to sell very well again. Textiles were selling well at the end of the year, and the tailor's business was doing well. However, many people are still accustomed to buying cotton cloth and going back to make their own clothes, and in this era, female popularity is the basic handicraft of women, basically most women will.

High-end clothing such as fur jackets are not as popular as in previous years, there are not many businessmen who have broken out, and there are not so many partial wealth smashed out in the market.

The price of cane sugar from Nanyang and Honolulu is still the same, but it is cheaper than the previous Apocalypse Treasure banknotes.

There are also rice from the Indochina Peninsula, spices and fruits from the South Seas. Fishery, canned fish from Zhendong Province.

There are also some New Year's goods from India and the Americas.

Gu Jiang, who was walking in the market, found that this year, compared with last year, the variety of New Year's goods is richer. The people's livelihood in the northern provinces of the New Deal has also continued to improve compared with last year. The most intuitive is the increase in income, and the price of many industrialized good products has not increased much, with the increase in income naturally there is also the price of agricultural products, after all, farm products are consumables, and productivity is currently like that.

However, the rate of increase in agricultural productivity. But it shocked Gu Jiang, who had been traveling for a year. As a result of the continuous investment in the construction of water conservancy facilities in the northern provinces over the years, agricultural output has been greatly improved, and agricultural output in many places has doubled due to the improvement of irrigation facilities.

At the same time, the northern provinces have also become very common in the application of fertilizers, most of which are used in the use of farm fertilizers, but some places have begun to use some fertilizers.

With the advent of railways. At this time, Daming not only began to produce cement in large quantities, but also began to mine phosphate rock to make phosphate fertilizer, but the output was not high, and it was only used on a small scale.

In addition, agricultural machinery has also become more common in the northern provinces. In particular, agricultural companies have popularized a large number of agricultural machinery such as harvesters and seeders, and although most of them use animal power, the efficiency has improved considerably.

The most amazing thing is the railway. So that the grain along the line can be quickly transported to the place of sale. Gu Jiang, who has traveled to the northeast for the past year, has seen with his own eyes a large amount of grain and timber being transported into the customs by railway, and many areas have also prospered because of the opening of the railway.

In particular, many of the railway workers stayed near the warehouses that were built for the construction of the railroad, and new towns were formed.

Gu Jiang found a big regional difference, there is basically no rural natural economy in the northeast, only the existence of commodity economy.

At the same time, the Northeast region is highly urbanized, and the agricultural population basically carries out agricultural production according to the maximum production efficiency of individuals.

This is the area where agricultural machinery is most popular. Basically, everywhere agricultural production can use agricultural machinery. It is normal for a peasant to own several hundred acres of land in the northeast.

Here, farmers only have more land than they can grow, and at the same time, agriculture in the Northeast is dominated by agricultural companies.

The agricultural companies here were subject to the production arrangements of the imperial court. Most of the land is used for the production of commercial grains and crops such as maize for private use.

In Jilin and Heilongjiang, patches of soybeans and some corn are planted.

The reason why the Northeast region is different from the Kannai provinces is obviously because of the immigration, and when the imperial court arranged these immigrants, it did not intend to create a rural natural economy. The agricultural population is arranged according to the maximum individual productivity, with the rest of the population engaged in the production of industry and other raw materials.

Tens of millions of people in Northeast China. Nowadays, people's livelihood is very good. Because of the abundant resources and a high degree of urbanization, the people's income can basically reach the standard level, and horses are used in large quantities, there are traces of horse-drawn carriages everywhere, and the agricultural population is even more dependent on horses.

Horse-drawn carriage plus train. The transportation is very efficient.

There is also a steady stream of new immigrants coming to the Northeast, and many of them come directly by train, the court helps pay the fare, and there are a series of resettlement policies after coming to the Northeast, you can choose to work, or you can choose to reclaim the farm yourself, and the government will distribute the land.

In general, there is no risk in working and the income is stable. Cultivating farms is more tiring and risky, but after the initial stage, it is a small farmer, if it is in a colder place like Heilongjiang, a household is allocated at least 300 acres of land, and the further north it goes, the more land is allocated.

The biggest feature of the Northeast is that there are many state-owned farms and pastures, some of which are run by state-owned enterprises and some by the Production Corps. However, in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, many production corps were transferred to Mongolia to fight, and agricultural production was entrusted to state-owned enterprises.

Most of these state farms and ranches produce commercial grain and raise horses. By running those military horse farms, the imperial court has moved away from the history of relying on the outside world for war horses. However, the number of cavalry in the imperial court has always been maintained at 100,000 and has not continued to rise.

The imperial court, local governments and state-owned enterprises are still building infrastructure in Northeast China and improving people's livelihood. The people's livelihood in the northeast is not worse than the people in the south of the Yangtze River, or even better.

After coming to the Northeast, Gu Jiang understood how the imperial court maintained such a huge scale of construction, this model was nothing more than the centralized production of commercial grain in the Northeast and other commercial grain producing areas, and it was a highly commercialized production, the efficiency of agricultural labor force was maximized, and each agricultural population produced a large amount of commercial grain.

It then supplies the consumption of the non-agricultural population, which in turn derives its income through industry, which is generally a policy of division of labor, making both production and construction more specialized. Through the development of technology, improve the efficiency of people's commodity production.

The reason why the people in the Jiangnan area have a good livelihood is mainly because of more advanced production technology. It's just that compared with these New Deal provinces, the productivity gap in the Jiangnan region has been widened.

In addition, through the monopoly of state-owned enterprises in many fields, the imperial court and state-owned enterprises have sufficient financial resources to organize the population to carry out various construction activities that are beneficial to the country.

The Northeast region can be said to be a standard model of the era of urbanization and industrialization constructed by the imperial court. Because of the ravages of slave construction, there is no powerful force, and there is no rural natural economy, so it can be built to such a standard.

Basically, the people who have just come to the Northeast have already completed the standard resource allocation. Because these people who came to the Northeast are all immigrants. If the immigrants do not have access to the allocation of resources, and the people cannot live a better life than in their homeland, then the immigration policy will be a failure.

However, many provinces in the Guannai are still carrying out basic resource allocation adjustments at this time, and this process has not been completed, and there are still many agricultural populations that have not been released from the land.

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At the end of the year, the imperial court began to continuously publicize the victory of the Mongol war. In winter, Mongolia is already covered with snow and ice. All military operations and construction activities had stopped, and the Mongol nobles who were still resisting were mostly unable to support themselves in the winter under the sweep of the Ming army.

It's just hunger and cold.

In the past year, Mongolia's production has been greatly damaged by the war, and of course many people have died. When the livestock could not outrun the Ming army, the most heavy losses under the Ming army's sweep were the livestock of the Mongols. A large number of cattle and sheep were driven back by the Ming army, and then distributed to the Mongolian herders who had accepted the Ming resettlement.

A cold snap in Siberia continues to hit. In a cold and bitter place like Mobei, winter is extremely difficult. The Ming army, on the other hand, stayed in towns along the railway with sufficient food and heating facilities, and the snow could not hinder the passage of trains, unless the snow was too heavy and the supplies were insufficient, and the rear would be replenished.

The imperial court has begun to transport a large number of New Year's goods to the front line, and these soldiers who can't live home during the Spring Festival also get rich New Year's goods on the front line.

The eastern Mongolian steppe has been largely swept away, and all the Mongolian herders have been resettled in the eastern steppe area. These Mongolian herdsmen also received winter rations, and after the beginning of spring, the imperial court will bring more resettlement materials to help these Mongolian herdsmen resume production.

As long as production resumes, these Mongolian herders will be able to live with peace of mind. (To be continued.) )