Bi Yutong, as the prime minister of the empire, is naturally unwilling to Guo Longyun to steal all the limelight, and even has a tendency to be on a par with him, he is not good at engaging in industry, but as a traditional Confucian bureaucrat, Bi Yutong's ability in other aspects is still barely enough.

Especially in agricultural and people's livelihood affairs, Bi Yutong still has a lot to say!

In the past two years, the empire has been fighting wars while restoring the livelihood of the people in the occupied areas, which are all delicate and tedious tasks, and Bi Yutong has been leading these tasks.

He is not good at playing industry, but it doesn't mean that he has no other talents, otherwise he would not have been placed in the position of prime minister by Lin Zhe.

At least so far, Lin Zhedu has not been able to find a person who can replace Bi Yutong as prime minister.

To serve as the prime minister of this cabinet, first of all, you must be a person whom Lin Zhe trusts, and you need a person who can faithfully implement Lin Zhe's policies, and then you must be tactful in dealing with people, who can coordinate the conflicts and contradictions of various cabinet departments, maintain the operation of the cabinet, and then this person must also have sufficient qualifications and prestige.

As for the so-called talent, it is not so important, because the prime minister of the cabinet is like a big butler, and he does not need to do any detailed affairs, he only needs to manage the people of the various ministries of the cabinet to complete the work.

Of course, although Lin Zhe does not have much talent requirements for the selection of the prime minister, since the person who can sit in the position of prime minister of the cabinet will not be sent there, after all, if he does not have the ability, he will not be able to accumulate enough qualifications and prestige, and he will not have a chance to enter the cabinet.

Bi Yutong felt that Guo Longyun had left him behind in industrial economic affairs. And he naturally has his own pride as a cabinet prime minister.

In the first few days, he held frequent meetings of the Cabinet on industrial economics. He also proposed a series of governance measures, and within a short period of time, the Ministry of Justice submitted the 'Civil Code of the Chinese Empire', which had been revised for more than two years.

Civil law, on the other hand, has a guiding role in commercial law. For example, the 'Company Law', one of the earliest laws issued in the empire, is strictly calculated as a special law belonging to the civil law, and there is a subordinate relationship between them.

The modern legal system generally includes the Constitution, criminal law, civil and commercial law, administrative law, social security law, etc., of course, these are the mature legal systems of later generations.

In the past three years, the Chinese Empire has successively promulgated many laws, including the Company Law, the Tenant Law, the Tax Law and other laws, but these laws are all detailed laws under a certain framework. At present, administrative regulations are used to enforce the law, but the real criminal law, civil and commercial law, administrative law and other systematic laws have not yet been promulgated.

It's just that Bi Yutong can't wait now, he desperately wants to use a big project to improve his status in Lin Zhe's heart, and it just so happens that the officials of the Ministry of Justice have finally compiled the civil and commercial laws belonging to the Chinese Empire in the laws of the Qing Dynasty and the legal system of the Taixi countries.

So Bi Yutong couldn't wait to take it out!

When he watched Lin Zhe sign his name on this civil and commercial law and stamp the national seal, he finally felt that he had regained the value of his existence.

Of course, the official issuance of this civil and commercial law is not enough, he needs more!

So he turned around and submitted a plan to Lin Zhe about immigrating to Tunbian!

"The Northeast and Mongolia are now heavily harassed by Russians. Although our soldiers fought bravely and foiled the Russians' plots several times, the sparse population of the northern border is still the main difficulty in completely controlling the northern border.

Although the northeast is bitterly cold, the terrain is flat. The soil is fertile, and if it is cultivated, at least tens of millions of people can be resettled.

At the same time, Shandong, Zhili, Henan, Shanxi and other provinces have many people and little land, and many people have no land to plant. If you can't get enough food, if you can lead these landless peasants to the northeast to reclaim. It not only solves the problem of a large number of locals and a lack of land, but also enriches the population of the Tohoku region. Take effective control of the border areas! ”

When Bi Yutong was talking there, Lin Zhe was also a little surprised, this Bi Yutong's brain was very active, and he was able to think of developing the Northeast.

This is thought of with Lin Zhe!

As a latecomer, Lin Zhe naturally knew that the Northeast in later generations was a huge granary, and at the same time, it was also a heavy industry base with great strategic value.

The Northeast is not only flat and fertile for farming, but also has a large amount of coal, iron ore and other metal resources, which are relatively easy to exploit, so it is undoubtedly an important strategic base for China's industrialization.

However, due to the small population in Northeast China, it is quite difficult to develop agricultural resources on a large scale or to develop minerals, so Lin Zhe has not done anything specific in the past period.

And he didn't say these things to Bi Yutong's courtiers, but this Bi Yutong was able to think of it with him, and submitted him this plan for immigration.

This made Lin Zhe a little surprised!

To be honest, he doesn't have much extravagant expectations for Bi Yutong's talent, and the reason why he has been using Bi Yutong as the prime minister of the cabinet all these years is not because of how talented he is, but because he can faithfully implement Lin Zhe's orders, and play a good role in connecting the previous and the next, which can make Lin Zhe's control over the cabinet departments easier.

And in the past, Bi Yutong has always been honest in the role of his cabinet butler!

However, after being stimulated by Guo Longyun during this time, he was not willing to be dull and began to plan various plans.

Today's programme to bring out the resettlement cantonment is a very clear example.

After Lin Zhe read the plan in his hand slightly, he looked up at Bi Yutong and found that this uncle still had some ability.

Although there are some differences between his resettlement and his expected development of Northeast China, to a certain extent, Bi Yutong's resettlement plan is more in line with the status quo.

Because they are all immigrants to the Northeast, but the starting point is different, Lin Zhe's own Northeast development plan, its main starting point is two, one is to build a third granary for China in addition to Jiangnan and Huguang, and the second is to establish a heavy industry base in the Northeast.

However, Bi Yutong's starting point was not these, his first starting point was to solve the problem of sparse population in the northern part of the northeast, which caused lax control over the border and difficulty in supplying border troops, that is, hoarding the border. The second is to solve the situation of many people and few places in the northern provinces of Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other provinces.

Of course, although the initial starting point is different, it has the same effect after actually doing it.

If we develop the Northeast, we can not only hoard the border, but also solve the problem of more people and less land in the Guannai, and at the same time build a third granary for China and establish a heavy industry base.

In addition, Bi Yutong's plan to resettle Tunbian is not only limited to the Northeast, in fact, the Northeast is only a part of the plan, in addition to the Northeast, the sparsely populated Mongolian steppe, the great northwest region, especially Gansu and Xinjiang provinces are also the main areas of immigration Tunbian.

Although the agricultural environment in the northwest is poor, it is impossible to develop a granary like the northeast, but the population is already sparse there, and no matter how it can resettle some immigrants, these immigrants can become an important support for the empire to control the frontiers.

If Lin Zhe's own plan for the development of the Northeast is a plan with the economy and people's livelihood as the core, then Bi Yutong's proposal for immigration to Tunbian is a plan with national defense as the core.

After a long time, Lin Zhecai said: "This immigration tunbian is generally good, but the plan is too large, and you should also take into account some detailed issues, in addition, the scale of the early stage of the plan should be too large, and the early pilot should be carried out, and after having enough experience, the scale is slowly expanding!" ”

Lin Zhe didn't want Bi Yu to be happy and immigrate hundreds of thousands and millions of people all at once, and if such a large-scale immigration was not done well, people would starve to death.

After all, you can't simply send people over to the migrant camp, you have to settle them.

Resettlement is not easy, you have to give them simple housing, but the land that has just been cleared in the early stage of the migration has not yet been produced, and in order to prevent these immigrants from starving to death, you have to provide a lot of food to get them through the difficult period of the first year.

At the same time, they had to provide immigrants with farm tools, seeds, and even cattle.

All of these require a lot of resources, as well as strong organizational skills.

In terms of resources, it is barely a problem, and now the empire has controlled most of China, except for a few provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Xinjiang, and Tibet, which are not under the control of the central government, and the rest of the regions are already under the control of the central government.

At the same time, the modern tax policy implemented by the empire, the reasonable taxation of industry and commerce, and the large-scale development of industry and commerce, so that the financial revenue of the Chinese empire far exceeded the income of the traditional feudal dynasty.

Historically, when the Manchu Dynasty did not implement the policy of centijin, the annual fiscal revenue was only tens of millions of taels, but after the Westernization Movement, especially after the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty, the Manchu Dynasty's fiscal revenue in the last years has reached more than 200 million yuan and close to 300 million taels of silver, which is more than double the current imperial fiscal revenue.

It can be seen that even in the feudal dynasty period, China has great potential to be tapped!

Now the empire's budget revenue for next year has also reached 200 million yuan, although it is not as close to 300 million taels as after the new policy in the last ten years of the Qing Dynasty, but it does not mean that the empire's financial system is inferior to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the empire was newly established, and the occupied areas that have just been taken over are all traumatized by war. (To be continued.) )