Beijing is already full of snow.

In the small living room on the second floor of the Presidential Palace, Wang Zhengting, Yan Xishan, and other cabinet ministers sat in a circle. This is the form of fireside meetings that Yang Qiu has commonly used recently, there is no conference table, no stiff chairs, everyone sits on the sofa and talks freely about certain things and topics. Although this is inconsistent with the traditional authoritative way of the Chinese people, anyone who has participated in such a small meeting feels very cordial.

The meeting is aimed at the next step of economic arrangement, although Saudi Arabia has a crisis, but Beijing has kept a low profile, this is not to ignore but Yang Qiu needs to race against time to arrange economic work, no matter how bad the outside world is, practicing internal skills is always the first.

Since returning from the visit, Yang Qiu has been hoping to make arrangements for economic work as soon as possible. However, first, the 3010 plan was urgent, second, Saudi Arabia involved some energy, and third, the country's retreat and democratic reform was in the final stage at that time, and the start of the economic stimulus plan in the chaos would lead to more problems, so it was not deployed until Yan Xishan came to report on the completion.

After Yang Qiu came to power, he abolished the planned economic model, abolished the Reform and Development Commission, and gradually returned power to the presidential palace. Therefore, this round of economic stimulus will be directly led by the presidential office, and it will be modeled after the historical Roosevelt's New Deal.

The focus is on the automotive industry! According to Yang Qiu's idea, the state will use the last tractor subsidy model to subsidize the automobile manufacturing industry, strengthen the construction of automated assembly lines and industry standardization, and the ultimate goal is to have the capacity to make 2 million cars, 500,000 tractors and 500,000 motorcycles a year by 1940.

Infrastructure construction such as transportation, agriculture, forestry and water conservancy is also a priority, especially after the introduction of a large number of engineering and technical personnel from the United States, wharves and seaports, large-scale water conservancy, high-speed railways, light rail subways, urban renovation, government low-cost housing, etc. have all been put forward and required to accelerate construction. A number of large-scale hydroelectric power projects, such as the Yalu River, the Heilongjiang River, and the Xing'an River, should also start construction as soon as possible, and the nation's power generation capacity must reach 180 billion kilowatts per year by 1940, and the construction of a national high-voltage power line network will be accelerated, so that counties, cities, and villages in developed areas throughout the country can use electricity. As soon as possible, legislation should be enacted to gradually reduce the encroachment on cultivated land, protect vegetation, especially the conservation of water and soil in the Yellow River and the Central Plains, carry out large-scale dredging of the Yangtze River, Pearl River, Yellow River, and northeast water system networks, and deepen waterways to promote agricultural irrigation.

The biggest highlight of this round of infrastructure construction is the construction of education and public facilities. According to Yang Qiu's idea, the Ministry of Education will renovate and expand primary and secondary school buildings across the country from 1931, and all major cities in the country must have public reading halls, and at least 1,000 stadiums of different sizes will be built. Originally, these projects and funds should be supervised by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but after careful consideration, it was decided to let the Ministry of Education supervise the construction itself.

"Huh...... Heqing, Zhongkai. This time you will make a fortune, more than our Ministry of Communications. Hearing this, Cai Gongshi looked at Cai Yuanpei and Liao Zhongkai with envy. Several other ministers were also envious, and even the Minister of Civil Affairs, Zhang Wenjing, looked at the budget and smiled: "Good guy." It's almost time to catch up with the appropriation from our Ministry of Civil Affairs. ”

"A hundred-year plan, education and water conservancy come first." Cai Yuanpei, the new Minister of Education, was not embarrassed at all, and looked at Liao Zhongkai teasingly: "Did you say?" Zhong Kai. ”

Liao Zhongkai knew his identity, so the Minister of Water Resources was very low-key, smiling and not talking. Wang Zhengting cocked his thumb and said with a smile: "Okay." I think Heqing, you are about to become the second madman of Zhang, and the thickness of your skin is even worse. But you have to use this money well, and I can't keep it if something happens. ”

Cai Yuanpei understood what he meant, and said: "I don't dare to guarantee others, but no one wants to touch the money of our Ministry of Education!" He didn't tell a lie, the Republic of China is a famous literary and young era in history, and there are countless people who are high-spirited and bright, and whoever dares to hack the education money will have to face tens of thousands of "watering cans" and pen-rods. If these people make trouble, even the government will have a headache.

The railway is still the most important, and the two main arteries are urgent, they are the famous Chengdu-Kunming Railway and the Qiqihar Central Line to Kashgar through the Mongolian Plateau. The former is the core of the southwest section of the Zhan Tianyou Ring China Railway, and the project is needless to say, and if it were not for the introduction of a large number of American engineers this time, it might have been five or six years late to start construction. The latter is the second major artery connecting the northeast, Mongolia and northwest, and its economic value is not high, but its strategic and military value is incomparable, and it cannot be measured by efficiency.

In addition, a number of difficult and dangerous highway projects such as the Yunnan-Burma Highway and the Sichuan-Tibet Highway have also been proposed.

The manufacturing sector is still focused on increasing steel production. According to the growth rate of domestic industry and housing. The current production is far from keeping up with the pace of development, so it was decided to build three more large steel bases in 10 years. And the current national steel plant capacity will be expanded and upgraded, and strive to increase from the current 13 million tons to 35 million tons! It is also necessary to begin to study a number of new metallurgical technologies proposed by Yang Qiu, such as bottom blowing furnace and electroslag remelting. Continue to enhance the ability of forging and processing large parts, enhance the ability of clamping molds, casting, and automation, make good use of foreign technical personnel, and strive to tap their potential and strive to learn some real skills in a few years.

Titanium sponges, plastics, and pharmaceuticals should be speeded up, and efforts should be concentrated on researching a number of technologies, such as biomedicine, nickel-based alloys, and copper-clad steel. The shipbuilding industry should also move forward to a higher goal, expand the slipway, increase the capacity of large-scale forging, and strive to have the ability to start 8-100,000 tons of ultra-large oil tankers in three years, so as to further solve the problem of long-distance transportation of domestic crude oil.

With the thick stimulus package in hand, the ministers were almost dizzy when they counted the programs. Even Yang Qiu knew that many of the projects could not be started according to the current technical capabilities of the Republic of China, and he didn't even dare to think about it, but with the influence of the "big propaganda" of the United States, more and more European and American technicians poured into China under the economic crisis, and finally enabled them to start construction a few years earlier.

In the final construction of national defense and military affairs, Yang Qiu also decided to gradually strengthen military spending, increase military spending by 30 percent on the current basis, increase the proportion of new weapons purchased by the navy, air force, and army, gradually replace old equipment, increase the salaries of noncommissioned officers, retain qualified personnel, increase the number of professional soldiers, and so on.

The scale of this round of economic stimulus is unprecedented, from the end of the Lunar New Year in 1931 to the end of the New Year in 1941, the total amount of major public and industrial and commercial investment in the government will be no less than 150 billion yuan, that is, 15 billion yuan per year! And that's not even counting normal government spending, and it's only a fraction of the total amount of Roosevelt's New Deal in a parallel world.

Such a large amount of money could not have been taken out, and even by means such as the return of government bonds, it was insufficient. But after the outbreak of the economic crisis, the Republic of China had abolished the gold standard, so all that had to be done was to start the money printing press. The risk of opening the money printing machine is also very large, not to mention the huge fiscal deficit, and the risk of currency depreciation will also intensify. In the past, everyone would definitely oppose it, but now it is a period of great opportunity that is rare in a century, and even the Soviet Union knows that it is hard work, and China, which has already gone through three five-year plans, has no reason to be left behind!

Debts can be repaid slowly, and opportunities are gone.

The numbers and the bright future are exciting. Who would have dared to think of this 20 years ago? If it weren't for the three five-year plans to lay the foundation, 20 years of cultivating education, sending hundreds of millions of funds to the public every year, and inviting professors and teachers from European and American universities to finally get to today's situation, even Yang Qiu would not dare to open the money printing machine, and the famous "gold and silver bills" tragedy in history could have been caused by the excessive issuance of money.

The light-hearted fireside meeting brought smiles to the faces of the ministers. Murong Han alone frowned. What is the concept of spending 150 billion in 10 years? According to the current population ratio, it is equivalent to stuffing more than 300 yuan per person into the pockets of all the people! How many cases of greed for ink will be generated! This 10 years...... The Independent Commission Against Corruption, the police, the tax and other law enforcement agencies under the Ministry of Justice must not be busy yet.

Yang Qiu saw his worry and said with a smile: "Don't worry too much, Haoyu. I will ask everyone to help the judicial department to take some of the responsibility, whether it is our National Society or the Democratic Party, newspapers, radio stations, and even the Ministry of Education must all mobilize and do a good job of supervision! Also, I know that you can't tolerate sand in your eyes when you do things seriously, but some things might as well grasp the big and let go of the small, and take the money and don't do the work to eradicate it. If you take money to do things, let him do things well and then consider it, and if you can do things well without money, you have to record it, publish it in the newspaper and commend him, and promote him to an official. ”

Everyone still understands the saying that the water is clear and there are no fish, so Murong Han nodded and said, "Don't worry, president, I know how to do it." ”

Murong Han has a straightforward personality, and after so many years of training, he still does not change the radical and idealized thinking on the ship, this kind of character is not good for the prime minister's position, and it is not good for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that needs to go around in circles to make fakes, only the cold and hard-framed place of the Ministry of Justice is the most suitable. But to make the Ministry of Justice work better. It is also necessary to attract a group of people who are not afraid of power and interests from other channels to replenish their blood.

So Yang Qiu thought about it and suddenly said, "You have thought about using the method of publishing in the newspaper." Is there an open recruitment for government and Ministry of Justice executives? There are many aspiring young people in the country, and I believe that many of them hate corrupt officials. Give it a try. ”

"Open recruitment of officials from the Ministry of Justice and government administration?"

You must know that the current official system of the Republic of China is still based on party affiliation, and through internal selection methods, if open recruitment does not mean that everyone can enter the door of the government?

Before Wang Zhengting and the others could come back to their senses, the door of the living room was suddenly pushed open, and Chen Guofu walked in with Wu Peifu. Seeing him, Yang Qiu raised his eyebrows suddenly, knowing that something must have happened. asked, "Ziyu, what's wrong?" ”

"Report to the President, we have just received a telegram from Minister Song from Riyadh that the destroyer Nan-17, escorting the oil convoy, clashed with the British Navy interceptor warship before entering the Strait of Hormuz, and collided with the opposing cruiser in order to protect the tanker...... Sunk!

Captain Jiang Wennian was seriously wounded, 19 people were killed on the ship, and more than 30 were injured to varying degrees, and the rescued officers and men were all taken away by the British Navy and imprisoned in Muscat. Three 50,000-ton tankers Gulf 2, 5 and 6 were seized there. ”

"Wow!"

The news made several ministers suddenly rise, and Wang Zhengting immediately looked at Yang Qiu, who was sitting still, everyone didn't expect to spend so much effort to make Britain fall into an economic crisis and find it difficult to extricate themselves.

Only Yang Qiu sat quietly.

Although he had arranged all of this and deployed it himself, he found that he still somewhat underestimated the British resolve. Historically, Britain was able to tolerate the United States controlling the Persian Gulf, but today it does not want China to enter, which shows that there is still a big gap in national status! Although it was not sunk, it was able to force Jiang Wennian to use ramming tactics, which also shows how serious the situation is, is Britain really determined to go to war?

He didn't want to go to war, that would be a big bad thing. In the unlikely event that European and American technicians flee due to the war, more than half of the economic stimulus package alone may not want to start work on time.

It's annoying.

In the face of the sudden wind and waves, Yang Qiu did not have any nervousness, which was what he wanted to see. It doesn't matter if you lose an old destroyer and three tankers, he just cares about the result and what the world will be churned up by this storm!