At the end of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the budget for the new year was finally released, with a budget scale of 1.2 billion yuan, plus 200 million yuan of seigniorage, and the growth of next year's budget was also thrown 100 million yuan.

Military support has reached an unprecedented scale of 300 million yuan, but it may not be enough, after these years of development, labor costs are not as low as in the past. The treatment of officers and soldiers is now more than 5 yuan a month. In peacetime, most of them are compulsory soldiers, they do not need to pay military salaries, they are only responsible for food, and they are given about 5 jiao of pocket money every month.

However, in wartime, military salaries were paid to soldiers participating in the war, and at the same time, pensions for the dead and wounded were increased, and military expenditures were increased in all aspects.

The war budget for the military operation against Mongolia in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse was 200 million yuan, so Zhu Youxiao still had to be more leisurely in his personal expedition to Mongolia this time, otherwise it would be easy to exceed the war budget.

In other budgets, the cost of administrative expenditure has risen to 80 million yuan, accounting for less than 10% of fiscal revenue, which is not yet a very outrageous level and is at a normal level. Problems such as eating and drinking at public expense were well managed in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and the cost of official business trips was also controlled.

The cost of education reached 300 million yuan in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, and the nine-year compulsory education system was fully implemented in all provinces of the New Deal. At the same time, after discussing with Zhu Youxiao, the cabinet decided to transfer official compulsory education to the southern provinces, and the imperial court would build primary schools, middle schools and other educational facilities in the southern provinces in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, and recruit students from outside. Let's start with education, and we'll talk about reform later.

The construction funds reached 500 million yuan, including 200 million yuan for strategic railway projects. The construction of this strategic railway, that is, on railway lines such as Mongolia and the Western Regions, which are not so commercially significant, is under construction. The money for this was allocated directly by the imperial court. The commercial railways are invested and built by state-owned capital.

At the same time, in the construction of urban facilities. 200 million yuan was allocated. It is used for the construction of various urban infrastructures. The rest of the money is used to build roads and water facilities.

Twelve years after the Apocalypse, the water conservancy projects in the northern provinces have basically been repaired, and there are not many large projects that need to be built, and the remaining small projects can be built by local governments. The investment in water conservancy construction can be greatly reduced, and only a certain amount of money needs to be invested every year in the future.

The construction of highways has also been basically completed, and the main trunk and main branch lines have been almost completed. Those who have not been repaired basically do not plan to build Mashan, after all, it is better to build roads than railways now. When the railways are repaired, we will consider building roads connecting some provinces.

Township roads and other facilities. This needs to be continued. The local road network is still very important, after all, it is impossible for trains to connect everywhere. Horse transportation still accounts for a large proportion, but horse-drawn carriages are no longer used for long-distance transportation, and horse-drawn carriages are often used for short-distance transportation.

At this time, the main focus of construction was basically on railways and urban infrastructure.

The construction of urban infrastructure and railways can provide a large number of jobs for workers entering the towns, and the commercial housing invested and built by state-owned enterprises can also solve the housing problem of workers. This aspect is not very difficult to solve, and the workers who enter the town, as long as they work hard. Basically, you can buy a commercial house with a salary of 4 to 5 years, and the price of private housing is even lower.

So workers who go into towns to work. No, like the migrant workers of later generations, they could not afford to buy a house. The main reason is that there are not so many people who speculate in real estate in these years, after all, the imperial court does not seek income from land transactions, and the property rights of private houses are also recognized.

As the saying goes, if you are enough, you will give way, and if you are insufficient, you will fight.

When the real estate is more insufficient, the more people rush to buy, speculate, and then sell at the price, resulting in a further shortage of market resources.

When the resources are more sufficient, everyone has no sense of urgency, and they will not rush to buy anything, and there is not so much room for speculation.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was carrying out a large-scale enclosure movement, more and more peasants entered the towns, the imperial court must also strengthen the construction of urban infrastructure, and the state-owned capital must also increase the scale of real estate development to ensure that the migrant workers in the city do not have to be troubled by the problem of houses.

Once even basic housing is not possible, social contradictions become acute. Now Daming can plunder the outside, and there is no external commodity to plunder the market of Daming, the official does not need to rely on real estate to recoup funds, if even the peace of life can not be guaranteed, it will be killed.

The construction intensity has increased year after year, and the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse is the year with the largest investment in urban construction. In the 13th year of the Apocalypse, the life of private-funded enterprises will be even more difficult, and the scale of investment by private businessmen will be reduced, and official and state-owned capital will also need to increase the scale of construction to ensure employment.

As for the war against Mongolia, it had not yet reached the point where it was necessary to mobilize the whole people, so it would be the same in peacetime, and there would be no wartime market control, and there would be no need to devote all the factories and most of the population to war production. How should the market economy be developed?

The railway construction project in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse will reach an unprecedented scale, and the number of workers directly involved in the construction will reach more than 3 million.

A large number of feeder railways will be started, and workers will be recruited nearby.

At the same time, the construction of three trunk railways to Sichuan, Huguang and Jiangnan will also be started. After the reform of the New Deal, the imperial court has turned the provinces of the New Deal into an environment where labor is valuable, unlike in the past, where most of the population was nested in the countryside, and many times there was nothing to do, and the labor force was idle and wasted.

When labor is valuable, people's livelihood will naturally improve.

There are many projects that need to be built, and in the economic model dominated by state-owned capital, the people have nothing to do, and there are always jobs, but the difference is a little better or worse.

The current war against Mongolia has increased the number of jobs, and all kinds of war materials have been bought with money. Therefore, the economic situation in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse will not be too bad, and for ordinary people, such an economic situation is very good.

After the end of the budget, the Spring Festival will also come.

After the Spring Festival of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty will accelerate the pace of external expansion and officially launch a new round of territorial expansion to the vast hinterland of the Eurasian continent.

And this Spring Festival is very pleasant. Zhu Youxiao set up a banquet in the palace. Banquet for the ministers of the DPRK and China. and high-level officials of state-owned capital consortia and big capital businessmen within consortia.

This is a moment of celebration for the emerging interest groups that are on the rise, and this year there are basically only Han Huangdang officials left in the DPRK and China, and even most of the officials in the northern provinces of the New Deal have become Han Huang. So there were no flies on the scene, Zhu Youxiao was guarded by the stars, as an absolute spokesperson for interests, no one in this interest group liked the emperor's accident, and finally he no longer had the life of fear.

Today's Kyoshi. It can be described as loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and the guard is tight.

There are a large number of factory and health agents in the private sector, and suspicious people are reported at all times. At the same time, those opposition officials have been cleared out of Beijing, and there is no such convenience in planning assassination, poisoning, and other acts. The defense in the palace has been further improved, and the Praetorian Guards have been carefully selected.

The eunuchs and maids in the palace are treated very well, and they are also very concerned about Zhu Youxiao's safety. As the royal family became rich, the salaries of those eunuchs and palace maids rose sharply, and now even the little eunuchs who have just entered the palace have ten yuan a month. Of course, there are fewer eunuchs entering the palace, and it is strictly forbidden for people to castrate boys without permission.

The eunuchs and palace ladies are usually not short of money to spend. When they are old, they can retire for the elderly, and when they die, the royal family helps them to bury them. The choice is still a treasure of feng shui.

In the past, people outside the palace were able to buy off the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, didn't they just use money, didn't they just use money, and after those capital businessmen had money, they wantonly infiltrated the palace.

Now these eunuchs and palace maids are not short of money, as long as they are not really greedy, ordinary people are very satisfied with the treatment provided to them by the royal family, and the possibility of eunuchs and palace maids being bought by people outside the palace has been greatly eliminated.

Moreover, these eunuchs and palace maids have money, and there are fewer dirty things to fight for money, and the palace has a lot of peace for this.

In terms of preventing Jiangnan capital from infiltrating into the palace, the factory guards also did a lot of work in secret, and arrested many suspicious people who tried to infiltrate the palace.

When the big capitalist forces in Jiangnan found that it was useless to infiltrate into the palace, this infiltration activity gradually decreased.

Only now did Zhu Youxiao feel that he was relatively safe, and he was finally not so panicked. The improvement of the security situation in recent years has also had a great deal to do with the rise of the interest groups that they have formed.

This banquet in the Imperial Palace, a period of staggering, various singing and dancing performances, everyone had a smile on their faces. In the past year, everyone in the market has enjoyed rich benefits, and among the people present, they have basically received the profit dividends of the state-owned capital consortium.

As high-level administrative and state-owned enterprise officials, everyone has a certain share dividend, but they do not hold shares, and whoever takes office gets the dividend.

There is status and money. For some officials who are a little idealistic, and there is no conflict with their own ideals, what better situation than the current situation.

But the appetite of capital is endless, and at this banquet, these high-level elements of the Ming Dynasty all strongly supported the Ming Dynasty to continue to expand outward, and even more supported the conquest of Mongolia.

Mongolia is a big threat, and no one knows when it will be invaded again. And there are enough long-term benefits to attack Mongolia. Mongolia's steppe economy, commodity markets, and Mongolia's mineral and other resources are all profitable.

Once capital is in power, its ambition is to control the world and eliminate all threats.

Now Zhu Youxiao's feudal royal power has been capitalized, and state-owned capital has taken shape. The ambitions of this interest group have also begun to swell.

In particular, this group has fully tasted the sweetness of foreign expansion and colonization, and the Ming Dynasty is now strong in force after reform, so it is natural to take care of those restless hostile forces.

In the vicinity of Daming, there is obvious malice towards Daming, that is, Lin Dan Khan of Mongolia, this old boy is still playing with Daming, he doesn't beat hard, and he doesn't know how many catties and taels he has.

Of course, the internal threat has not been solved, and the biggest threat is still those big capital businessmen in Jiangnan. But the political power of the big capitalist businessmen in the south had been suppressed at this time, and they had little military power in their hands. The threat of force is minimal.

After basically solving the problem, this interest group will focus its main expansion on the comprehensive reform of the Ming Dynasty.

This Spring Festival is a scene of celebration, and the Spring Festival in various provinces is very lively. The royal family has royal celebrations, the ordinary people also have their own celebrations, there are people with good incomes, a large number of consumers of various goods, and the New Deal provinces are singing and dancing.

If it weren't for the fact that the southern provinces had not yet been included in the reform, it would have been a peaceful and prosperous era.

Before the Spring Festival this year, a young man named Gu Jiang came to the north alone and began his journey of traveling thousands of miles and reading thousands of books.

What I saw along the way was extremely shocking.

When they come from the sea, thousands of sails race, and those who go to the sea do not know how many.

When he disembarked in Jiaozhou Bay, he saw that the port was only busy with cargo shipments, and all kinds of goods were transported from overseas to the mainland.

As the New Year approached, the people of Qingdao bought a large number of various commodities, and the degree of affluence was even better than that of Jiangnan. Especially the shipbuilders here, who are well paid and have very strong purchasing power after a year of hard work.

There are spices, rice, and fruits shipped back from the South Seas, Indochina Peninsula, and India in the market. There are also marine fish and whale meat brought from Zhendong Province.

There are also a variety of jewelry and curiosities shipped back from overseas. At the same time, there are a large number of industrial products, textiles, furs, and other various household goods and luxury goods.

The once poor and backward northern provinces are now prosperous in industry and commerce, and horse-drawn carriages loaded with goods can be seen everywhere on the roads. The steam roared in the industrial area, and what shocked him the most was the railway built to Qingdao.

This was the first time Gu Jiang had seen the railway, and he was deeply shocked by the changes in the north.

He did not stop in Qingdao, but traveled to other prefectures and counties in Shandong to continue to gain an in-depth understanding of the reform changes in the north. Along the way, what shocked Gu Jiang the most was the reform of the northern government and the large-scale enclosure movement.

The rule of officials in the north is not as propagated by the Jiangnan scholars, what is dark after being controlled by the eunuch party, but it is clear and judicial justice.

Moreover, after the reform, the imperial court increased the establishment of the township government, and its ability to control the local government became very strong. Moreover, no official dares to openly oppress the people, and even if there are still some injustices, they have been reined in a lot, and they dare not do it blatantly.

The land enclosure movement shocked Gu Jiang, agricultural companies annexed a large number of land, and a large number of peasants left the land, changing the way of life for thousands of years, and entering towns or agricultural companies to become workers.

This made Gu Jiang finally see the suffering of these ordinary people, some farmers who left the land had no long things, and some of them were separated in the process of migration.

But on the other hand, those workers who enter the towns can easily find work. Officials and state-owned enterprises are building construction and facilities everywhere.

There are many questions that Gu Jiang can't figure out.

He didn't understand how such a pattern could be sustained for a long time. Will there always be so many jobs? But despite the problems of one kind or another, they are all in the throes of reform. The workers who moved into the towns and cities were able to find jobs and their living standards improved very rapidly.

Some of the workers who had entered the town earlier had already generally owned their own houses in the town.

And for those workers who could not get along in the towns, the imperial court also implemented various policies to ensure their survival. Moreover, Gu Jiang visited many places and asked many people of different classes, and learned that the northern provinces, which often suffered from disasters and starved to death in the past, had not starved to death for many years.

At this time, even if the northern provinces were affected by the disaster, even if the government did not provide relief, it was impossible for the common people to starve to death. Because there are jobs everywhere, you can't starve to death if you have a lot of strength.

However, the most concentrated place of social contradictions in the northern provinces is no longer the contradiction between the common people and the government, but the contradiction brought about by the rapid development and widening of the gap between the rich and the poor. The workers who had just entered the towns had nothing, and the merchants had a lot of money.

Not everyone is satisfied with the current social situation, but when it comes to the impression of the emperor, the vast majority of all class groups think that the current saint is a good emperor, and the biggest complaints are those private businessmen, who feel that the banks are not lending money, but they only complain.

This young man named Gu Jiang gradually realized that there was a huge change that would surely sweep the entire Ming Dynasty in the future. Today, the cohesion of the northern provinces has become unprecedentedly strong.

Gu Jiang is also the future Gu Yanwu.

He decided to continue to travel to the north, to Beijing, the Northeast, the Western Regions and other places to see, he had completely given up the imperial examination at this time, and now after the new policy of the Ming Dynasty, the entrance to the official is no longer only the imperial examination. (To be continued.) )