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The festival ends in a grand and grand ceremony, followed by the spring wine time in Tang customs, where relatives and friends come and go, visit each other, and announce the arrival of a vigorous season of the year. However www.biquge.info when the people were still immersed in a group of joy and peace, the media in Yanjing began to pay attention to the frequent court discussions that began to take place in the central government after the Spring Festival, and everyone knew that the court discussions at this time would determine where the pace of the empire would go in the coming year, whether to continue to maintain the momentum of foreign expansion, strengthen military operations and military strength, or vigorously develop the economy and balance the extremely unbalanced economic system within the empire? This issue has always been an issue of concern to the media and all walks of life in the government and the opposition.

The representatives of the Senate and the House of Citizens from all the counties of the empire did not leave, and it was obvious that they would also take part in the planning of the central government for the political, economic, and cultural aspects of the empire in the coming year.

In the successive court meetings following the festival, the government council and the privy council were discussing the plans of the empire for the year 701, and it was clear that this year would be a year dominated by economic construction, as can be seen from the fact that the government council spent more than two-thirds of the time spent discussing government affairs in a row accounted for more than two-thirds of the time spent in the court meetings for a week. All departments have come up with their own ideas and plans, and they must expound their work plans for the year at this joint military-political meeting, and only after obtaining the approval of the joint military-political conference, especially His Majesty the Emperor, can they set the tone and formulate a standardized and complete plan, which will be uniformly determined by the Government Council and coordinated with the financial departments and then submitted to His Majesty the Emperor for approval.

The Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Construction proposed to use the funds raised from the first batch of treasury bonds issued by the empire to carry out a series of major construction projects to promote the balanced development of various regions of the empire, the construction of deep-water commercial ports in Taize Province in Binhai County and Fahan Province in West Indean, the construction and improvement of strategic communication roads from the provinces of Burma County and Central South County to the coastal port of Nanhai County, and the construction of a strategic transportation road from Shuangdui to the coastal port of Nam Hai County via Jaipudu, Sermus, The construction of the Lahore-Goa-Zize road that ran through the entire southern part of Indean was mainly focused on transportation and shipping, and was also an important measure for the empire to strengthen its rule and influence over the newly incorporated areas of the empire in the west.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources has also put forward its own three major projects: first, the overall flood control and irrigation project in the Wuhu area to ensure that the Wuhu region will maintain its status as the first granary of the empire in the next 20 years; the second is the Sanshui Project, which covers the entire Yanyun County, Jerok County, and the western part of Beiyuan County, and carries out all-round renovation of the three river systems of Huangshui, Weishui, and Daqingshui, and improves the embankment and storage reservoir projects, so that Yanyun County, Within five years, the western part of Bukwon County and Gerok County will gradually establish a perfect flood control and irrigation system, and strive to make the level of agricultural and water conservancy development in these three areas catch up with or approach the current level of the Heshuo area; third, it is preparing to build Solian County into the second largest granary of the empire after the Five Lakes area, and for this reason the empire will spend a huge amount of money to renovate the seriously aging water conservancy facilities in the Solian area, and strive to surpass the grain production of Gangnam County in the next five years.

The Ministry of Administrative Affairs and the Ministry of Construction also planned to continue and build several new prefectures, such as Wolf Mountain Prefecture in Jerok County, Kuiyang Prefecture and Pamir Prefecture in Northern Luzon Prefecture, and Okhotsk Prefecture in Pakwon County (changed from the Okhotsk Special Administrative Region), which are either located in the border areas or are of great significance to promoting the economy of a place, and both the military and the government attach great importance to this planning and construction project, especially the Okhotsk and Kuiyang, which are of great significance to the strategic layout of the empire after the post-Empire.

After careful analysis and argumentation, the Ministry of Finance and the Imperial Central Bank decided to follow the example of some economically developed countries and cities in the western continent in the middle of 701 to issue treasury bonds, the estimated amount of treasury bonds in 701 is 300 million imperial gold coins, for a period of fifteen years, the interest rate is slightly higher than that of commercial interest rate deposits, but far lower than the interest of commercial loans, this kind of treasury bonds have been enthusiastically sought after as soon as the issuance is announced, and the chambers of commerce in various counties of the empire have asked to underwrite this kind of treasury bonds, which makes the Imperial Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance somewhat unexpected.

The 300 million national bonds were not even met by the Jiangnan County Chamber of Commerce, and later the Imperial Central Bank had to urgently negotiate with the Imperial Ministry of Finance to increase the issuance of 700 million imperial gold coins of the national bonds, but this is still a drop in the bucket to meet the demand, especially in the Indean regions, the rich gentry who have a large amount of funds hope to use the purchase of treasury bonds to obtain stable and risk-free returns, and the amount of 100 million tightly allocated to each county in the Indean region is almost empty, and even caused chaos, and the counties in the interior of the empire also expressed dissatisfaction with the Imperial Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank giving priority to the Indean regionIt even triggered the intervention of the Inspectorate and the litigation of the Tribunal, demanding that the Imperial Inspectorate and the Tribunal correct this distribution scheme that clearly discriminated against regions.

Eventually, the Imperial Treasury and the Central Bank increased the treasury bonds by 500 million Imperial Gold Coins after considering the Empire's financial repayment ability, and said that they would increase the treasury bonds of 500 million Imperial Gold Coins in the second half of 701 to barely calm down the turmoil.

The great success of the issuance of imperial treasury bonds has provided the empire with abundant financial support, and it has also given the imperial ministries of economic development, construction, and agriculture and water conservancy the confidence to put forward their respective plans in a big way.

The Privy Council also put forward its own ideas, in view of the emperor [***] On the premise of preserving the current 14 army corps and 10 cavalry regiments, we should disband and reorganize some other irregularly organized army units, reorganize and supplement them to other army corps in their respective theaters in the vicinity, and conduct large-scale exercises to enhance the army's mobile combat capability and sustained combat capability, so as to ensure that under any circumstances, the empire can complete the projection of the strength of one corps to any place within the territory of the empire within two months, and the troop projection of three to four corps within three months。

In terms of the planning for the construction of the navy, the Privy Council has also regularized the adjustment of the naval military system, and the navy no longer has the post of naval commander-in-chief, but only the commander-in-chief of the navy (navy), and the commander-in-chief of the navy concurrently serves as the assistant to the privy council of the Imperial Privy Council, and the imperial navy has three ocean-wide fleets, one inland water fleet, nine marine divisions, and a special naval intelligence bureau, a naval staff training bureau, and a naval logistics bureau.

Although the Privy Council has given up large-scale expansion in the army, the lion's big mouth in the navy still makes the government Council complain, especially the rapid expansion of the establishment of the Marine Division, which makes many political leaders think that this is the Privy Council in disguised expansion, as many as nine divisions of the Marine Division are equivalent to two army corps, and a special naval intelligence bureau has been established, which is separate from the two intelligence agencies of the empire, which is equivalent to throwing all the funds cut in the army to the navy, in fact, the emperor[***] fees did not decrease in the 701 year, and even tended to increase.

However, the officials of the Privy Council also argued on the basis of reason, especially Lichen, due to the inclusion of Sikkim Island in the southwest region and the inclusion of the Sporades Islands in the Baltic Sea and the Aegean Sea, the empire has become a maritime power with a long coastline on three sides of the sea, and if it wants to better defend the maritime rights and interests of the empire, it is necessary to build a strong imperial navy, and at this stage, the imperial navy has not even built a basic structure, and there is still a long way to go to compete with those naval powers in the western continent. Therefore, the empire had to invest more and spend more in the initial construction, and only in this way could the distance between the imperial navy and the navies of other powerful countries be gradually reduced.

The discussion on the direction of the empire in 701 and in the next few years lasted for two weeks before the tone was barely set, during which the representatives of the imperial senate and the citizens' house also put forward a number of demands and ideas representing their respective regions and classes, and the emperor [***] The plan was debated on a very small scale, and there was a lot of debate about whether or not to agree with Choi Moon-so's proposal to seize Nanmeili and Northwest Indian in 701, and it was finally decided that he did not support large-scale military operations in principle in 701, but as the military commander of the Central Continental Theater, he also had the right to take necessary actions under special circumstances. If military action is taken in an emergency, there must be sufficient and sufficient reasons to explain the reasons for the action, and some of these ambiguous and vague words are used to find excuses for Choi Wenxiu's military action, and of course he will bear greater responsibility.

The Imperial Privy Council also confirmed that after the end of the autumn of 701, the imperial [***] side would complete the preparations for the operation of the Macedan [***] affairs, and the first stage was planned to prepare for the completion of the crossing of the capital of the Macedhans in 702. In the military operations of Anjie and Romania, the work of the military in 701 was more to prepare for the operation at the end of the year, and the diplomatic department would cooperate with the military to do a good job of persuading the Triple Alliance led by Milan to consolidate the cooperative relationship with the Triple Alliance and prevent it from falling into or joining the alliance with the Macedhans and the Nanyang Alliance.

(To be continued)