In the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court's budget had also come out, and it was still vigorously building infrastructure, and there was no increase in military spending.

Among them, the investment in the construction of water conservancy facilities has been even greater. In particular, the southwest has also been included in the scope of construction, which is equivalent to incorporating the entire Ming Dynasty into the overall planning and construction.

At the same time, in terms of transportation construction, railway lines to the southwestern provinces will also be built. When these infrastructures are built first, the economy will naturally develop.

The point is that the railway will be built in, and it will be convenient for immigrants.

The population of southwest China is also very large, especially in Sichuan. These populations are of great significance to the development of industrialization and the occupation of overseas immigration, and the problem of the Ming Dynasty now is that as the development continues, the population will be insufficient.

In addition to infrastructure, education is the largest expenditure, followed by administration and military.

After the reform, the administrative model was different, and the number of officials and civil servants increased greatly, and the administrative cost naturally increased. Although Zhu Youxiao grasped the problem of eating and drinking with public funds very strictly, after all, the treatment should not be too bad.

The overall budget has reached 4 billion, which is only 500 million more than the budget for the 15th year of the Apocalypse, mainly considering that the national reform has basically been completed, and the situation of a sharp rise in taxes is unlikely. However, in terms of gold mining, the volume continues to rise.

In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, more than 20 million taels of gold were mined, that is, more than 600 tons, of which half of the gold was mined in the Outer Northeast.

In the South African region, a large amount of gold has been discovered, but there is not so much labor to mine.

In the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty will send workers from the mainland to South Africa to mine gold, and those gold mines are all nationalized, and private enterprises cannot touch them.

There are more than 50,000 tons of gold in South Africa, which now belong to Daming, and the mining of these gold can bring a lot of financial revenue to Daming.

Of course, for a big country like Daming, South Africa's gold cannot feed Daming's finances, after all, Daming is not a small country like the United Kingdom, and the money to spend is not known how many times more. But this gold is also a very good financial supplement.

The central bank of the Ming Dynasty does not need to reserve too much gold, because the Ming itself is a productive empire, there will be a large trade surplus, and the outflow of precious metals does not exist at all.

Therefore, a lot of the gold mined is sold in the market and used to make gold jewelry or something.

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In the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, just after the Spring Festival, the imperial court issued a decree announcing that the southwest had entered a comprehensive reform, and the administrative personnel sent by the imperial court were stationed in batches in the southwestern provinces, taking over the local administration from the original officials, and began to establish a new administrative system.

A commercial tax was levied, acres of land were measured, and agricultural taxes were levied on landlords.

The landlords in the southwest were already prepared, and many of them had already sold their land in advance, or registered agricultural companies as soon as the local industrial and commercial bureau was listed.

As for the incidents of violent resistance to the law, there are few, and the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse has punished those groups of violent resistance to the law like an autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, which has frightened the landlords in the southwest. And at this time, there is only one southwest left that has not completed the reform, the general trend of the world has been determined, and it is uncomfortable to go against the trend.

Except for some landlords and local tyrants who were closed to information, other landlords obediently accepted the reform. The vassal king of Sichuan owned a large area of land, and he cried and cried for a while, and Zhu Youxiao directly sent a telegram to the past, and ordered it to be enforced, no matter what clan or not, he had to pay taxes as usual.

In Chinese history, it has always been the Taoist who overthrew the unenlightened, and this reform is Zhu Youxiao's overthrow of the unTaoist system and re-establish the Taoist system.

The reform in the southwest is different from the previous reforms, that is, the land is changed and the river is returned.

The imperial court no longer allowed the autonomy of the Tusi, and all of them were included in the administrative management system of the imperial court, and Qin Liangyu, who was the Shizhu Tusi, took the lead in responding to the imperial court's policy, and Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an order to reward him.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty did not have any ethnic discrimination policy, that is, all were equal, but if they dared to make trouble, they would be forced to relocate and integrate into the Han culture and society.

Ethnic minorities in Daming can also enter the academy and mix with officialdom without any obstacles, but there will be no policy similar to the extra points in the college entrance examination.

In fact, many ethnic minorities have the same ancestry as the Han Chinese, such as the Tibetans, who have the same ancestry as the Han Chinese, but later there were different cultural developments. Because the Tibetans live in the plateau area, they look a little different in the plateau climate.

The issue of ethnic minorities is easy to solve, and with this concept in mind, it is enough to be impartial.

With the development of military technology, any rebellion is simply impossible. The education system is universal, and even if there are some differences in customs, there will be no difference.

The reform of the imperial court completely abolished the agricultural tax on yeoman farmers, and also won the support of the majority of yeoman farmers, and the tenant farmers also supported the reform because of the interest rate reduction and rent reduction. The reform of the southwest was carried out smoothly in the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, and there was no big moth.

The construction of the imperial railway, too, gradually began.

Especially the railway into Sichuan, the Shu road is difficult to go to the blue sky, and the traffic problems in Sichuan are much better than ancient times to a certain extent in the Ming Dynasty, but it is still more difficult to walk.

As long as the railway is built, the traffic problem will be much more convenient, and this railway is also the most difficult to build since the Ming Dynasty built the railway, but this railway is directly supported by the central government, and the imperial court has the perseverance to build this railway. As long as this railway is completed, there will be a great improvement in railway construction technology.

The railway built by the imperial court in the south was already in full swing in the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, and there were construction sites everywhere.

In addition to the main line, there are also branch railways.

After the reform, many industrial zones were established in the south, and the railways were built directly into the industrial zones, and even connected to the factory gates.

In the days before the automobile, railways were like this, and there were railways everywhere. During the First and Second World Wars, Germany, a big country, built a railway network of 100,000 kilometers, and the construction cost of railways on flat land was actually not very high. The main cost is the construction of mountains and bridges under complex terrain.

Especially at this time, the steel smelting technology of the Ming Dynasty has developed by leaps and bounds, unlike in history, when Europeans first built railways, they had to use manual construction to build railway tracks.

In addition to the railways, the telegraph also began to spread throughout the country, and it began to be completely open to civilian use to facilitate the development of the economy.

Information is an important part of economic development, and the faster the speed of information transmission, the higher the efficiency of economic development, and it can be regarded as a kind of productivity.

The post and telecommunications bureaus opened by the state capital have also spread to every city along with the reform. As the reforms progressed, a large number of archives were established throughout the country. The streets, addresses, house numbers, and so on are all determined, and at the same time, the identity information of individuals is also being registered in large numbers, and everyone is issued with an ID card.

It is equivalent to the people of the Ming Dynasty today, and it is very convenient to write letters and send telegrams.

As long as you know the address, you can write letters, send telegrams, and send letters even to immigrants in North America.

The most direct benefit of the large-scale application and popularization of the telegraph is that if there is a problem in the administrative area or locality, Zhu Youxiao will be able to receive the telegram immediately in Beijing, and it will be convenient to issue an order, so he can just take a telegram and send it down.

In the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court launched the construction project of marine cables, planning to lay cables to Taiwan, Hainan, Nanyang islands, and Australia.

This project is not very technically difficult, it is just a very long cable, as long as it can release water, and then it can be laid all the way through with a sailboat, and the cost is not very high. It's just that the efficiency is still a little worse, and the local government sends a telegram to North America, and it is estimated that it will take two hours for the other side to receive it.

Cables will also be laid to the Korean Peninsula, Indochina, India, South Africa, and North America. In this way, the foreign trade and immigration of the Ming Dynasty will be much more convenient.

With the popularization and application of the telegraph, there is a lot more business for those street writers in the people, reading telegrams, writing telegrams, writing letters, etc., etc., after all, the illiteracy rate of the Ming Dynasty is not low, and there was no universal education in the past, because the society in the past did not need to popularize basic education, and only business and imperial examinations needed to enter the school.

After the reform of the imperial court, the strictest requirements for local governments are two, one is to maintain stability, and the other is to ensure the living needs of the people.

A long-term peaceful, harmonious and stable environment is the foundation of all development. Local officials are also held accountable for safety incidents such as mining accidents.

Ensuring the people's living needs is another important task. From the common people eating vegetables, to the housing, etc., what is lacking.

It is difficult for the common people to eat vegetables, so they carry out the vegetable basket project, produce vegetables, breed chickens and ducks, and the government subsidizes them, and the common people cannot afford to live in the house, so they build affordable housing. Ensuring a stable and smooth supply of grain prices is the most basic requirement. In those places where there were no railways, even if there was not enough food to eat, they could report directly to the imperial court, and the imperial court would find a way to transport the grain over anyway.

With the reform, the imperial court required grain reserves in every state and county, and at the same time built three national strategic granaries in the south.

When grain prices are high, grain reserves are released to stabilize grain prices, and when grain prices are low, grain is purchased to raise grain prices. At present, in the areas where the Ming Dynasty has completed the reform, the price of grain is maintained at the price level of 1 yuan per stone.

The most basic requirement is that no one starves to death, and even if a beggar starves to death, local officials must be held accountable by the imperial court.

In every area where the reform was completed, there was a civil affairs bureau, and beggars could go to the civil affairs bureau to eat, bathe, and even pay a few pennies.

Whether they are beggars or not, as long as they go to the Civil Affairs Bureau, they will have food. Ordinary people who can eat enough will not go to the Civil Affairs Bureau. Those who will go to the Civil Affairs Bureau are forced to a certain extent.

On top of the basic requirement of eating, it is necessary to ensure that the people have food, housing, transportation and other issues. At the same time, when a disaster occurs, the local government should also organize the public security and armed police to rescue and provide disaster relief, and make proper arrangements for the affected people.

The court is like a parent, the common people are like a child, and parents have the responsibility to support their children, which is the most basic responsibility. It's not that if there are too many children to live, infanticide will be killed, which is simply unreasonable and incompetent.

As long as the Ming Dynasty completes the reform in an all-round way, no matter how poor the place is, there will be no problem of starving to death, and there will be no more problem of not being able to eat.

Moreover, the eradication of poverty is also a requirement of the imperial court to local governments.

What poverty-stricken counties, poverty-stricken towns, and villages are also easy to solve, and that is immigration. A place will be poor, there are only two reasons, either there are more people and less land, or the transportation is inconvenient and there are no other problems.

The first problem also includes the situation of a lot of land but poor land, and the second problem can be divided into those that can be solved by building roads, and those that are too expensive to build roads.

The first problem is very easy to solve, before the wild boar skin rebellion, the northeast was almost emptied, and the northwest has been expanded, and the cultivated land resources have risen in the mainland, although the land in the northwest is not suitable for cultivation and can not accommodate too many immigrants, but the northeast can accommodate a lot of immigrants.

The other is that the imperial court confiscated a lot of arable land in the provinces, and set up state farms in large areas, and sold small and scattered ones directly to homesteaders at low prices, or directly distributed to immigrants.

At the same time, there are also immigrants in South China, Australia, and North America.

The land is scarce and poor, and if a part of the population is directly immigrated, the land will be enough to feed the local people. Those who emigrated can also acquire land or become workers, and after completing the allocation of resources, they can also quickly get out of poverty.

In the second case, the local government and the imperial court could pay for the construction of roads, or through immigration, or both.

The essential purpose of Daming's reform is to ensure the survival of the people on the one hand, to eliminate poverty as much as possible on the one hand, and to popularize basic education on the other hand, as well as supporting middle and senior education, so that every child has a channel to rise in the future.

While allocating resources and infrastructure are the main measures to eradicate poverty, we will also ensure that the gap between the rich and the poor will not further widen by cracking down on the privileged class and cutting the umbilical cord of illegal benefits.

At the same time, in the 16th year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao and the cabinet agreed on the policy of completely abolishing the salt tax, and at this stage of development, the way of taxation no longer needs to be obtained through salt, and the existence of the salt tax has hindered the improvement of the people's living standards, which is already contrary to the development of productive forces.

With the progress of productivity, some things will eventually be eliminated.

Of course, the salt tax has been abolished, but the operation is still dominated by state-owned enterprises, so as to ensure that the people eat salt.

Of course, the salt tax was abolished, but it was actually replaced by a coal tax. In the agricultural era, salt was the most basic need, so taxes could be collected through salt. Productivity increased, steam engines began to be used in large numbers, and coal replaced the tax revenue of table salt.

This kind of tax also existed in later generations, but it became oil.

PS: Recently, someone in Xia has been in Sankai, tired into a dead dog, and the update is not very stable, forgive me.