Wen Jiming is eighteen years old, and it has been six years since he came to this other world.

In the past six years, he has developed from an ordinary first-order minor priest to the present, and has become the monarch of an empire, and his professional level has reached the seventeenth-order legendary existence.

But all this is just a new beginning for him.

When the country was first established, it was in ruins.

At the cabinet meeting held on July 2, the ministers of the imperial court put forward their views and suggestions on the first issues that need to be solved in the current situation.

The Ministry of Officials Shangshu Wenli was the first to express his opinion.

"Your Majesty, judging from the current situation, our primary problem is the serious shortage of government officials at all levels, but fortunately, we will usher in our first official scientific examination at the end of this month, and I hope that through this examination, the serious shortage of government officials at the grassroots level can be alleviated."

"In addition, I propose to build a large inland teleportation array in Diqiu, which is conducive to the infrastructure construction of the southern and central parts of the empire, and a large amount of construction materials can be transported through the teleportation array."

"I roughly calculated with Zhou Jun, the head of the household department, that if we want to quickly build a national transportation network, we need about 250 million gold yuan, which is still the minimum investment we calculated, and it is likely to be much more when it is actually operated."

After Wen Jiming finished speaking, he asked the ministers below.

"What do you think about these two things?"

Chen Ping, who had been promoted to the rank of servant of the ministry, took a step forward and bowed to salute, and said loudly.

"Your Majesty, I think transportation is the top priority, and we must establish a national transportation network as soon as possible, otherwise the infrastructure and materials in various places will not be able to circulate quickly, which will seriously affect the reform of various places, and will make those poor areas unable to get government assistance as soon as possible."

"So this money, even if it is more, has to be spent. In addition, Wen Shangshu about the construction of a large-scale inland teleportation array in Diqiu, I think it is also very necessary, and after the completion of this teleportation array, it will be of great help to the infrastructure construction in the central and southern parts of our country. ”

After Chen Ping finished speaking, several other ministers also expressed the same opinion.

Moon Jiming also agreed with Wen Li's proposal, and after everyone had spoken, he made a decision on the matter.

"In view of the fact that everyone's views are basically the same, I have decided to set aside 400 million gold yuan as the national transportation network construction fund, and start the full construction tomorrow.

The problem was thus settled, and the meeting moved on to the question of the tax rate for agriculture throughout the country.

Wen Jiming is quite resolute on this matter.

"The agricultural tax must be set at 20 percent, and we want to make the peasants' lives better, and the agricultural tax is enough for anything, and there is no need to worry about this amount of money."

After hearing Wen Jiming's words, Hubu Shangshu began to cry bitterly.

"Your Majesty, it is possible to reduce the agricultural tax, but if you drop it to 20 percent all of a sudden, then it will be impossible for our household department to have income from taxes this year, and the 400 million gold yuan will be spent, and the military investment will also exceed 100 million gold yuan, and this commercial tax will not be able to support these two expenditures at all."

Wen Jiming was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and after thinking about it, he also felt that Zhou Jun's words had some truth.

Although the Ming Empire had just received a war dividend of 1800 million gold yuan, it spent 500 million in the blink of an eye, and it cut off more than half of the agricultural taxes.

However, it is necessary to lower the agricultural tax, otherwise the peasants' incomes will not be able to rise, and it is a big deal that they will have to give up their own financial revenues this year.

If this is really not possible, the armed forces will maintain the status quo for the time being, will not continue to expand the armed forces, and will spend all the money saved on economic construction.

So Wen Jiming asked Zhou Jun, the head of the household.

"Isn't there some unnecessary expenses that can be cut first?"

Zhou Jun said with some embarrassment.

"Unless Your Majesty doesn't build a palace in the Magic New City first, this can save sixty million gold dollars."

Wen Jiming said directly after hearing this.

"Then don't build the palace first, this matter will be talked about when there is money later, and use the 60 million to spend the money, I heard that 40 million funds are needed to build a police system across the country, and this money is just used to expand the police system."

"Also, what is your plan for expanding the army?"

Wei Chen, the secretary of the Ming Empire's military department, heard Wen Jiming ask him about this question, and hurriedly stood up and answered.

"Your Majesty, since the population of the whole country has exceeded more than 200 million, we plan to recruit eight more legions and expand the number of regular troops to two million."

Wen Jiming shook his head and directly rejected this plan.

"There is no need now, we will not start a war against foreign countries in the next two years, we must first use all our energy on economic construction, so it is enough for the army to maintain the defense of the homeland. In my opinion, this year and next, we will only expand the army by one regiment a year, and we will consider the issue of expanding the army after the economy has developed. ”

As soon as everyone saw that His Majesty the Emperor had directly ruled on these two matters, no one raised any objections, and the meeting proceeded directly to the next topic.

This agenda item is a bill on the construction of basic industries throughout the country and on the government's policy of supporting private enterprises.

Wei Ting, the young Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, stepped forward and said to Wen Jiming.

"Your Majesty, our Ministry of Industry has drawn up a preliminary plan for the construction of basic industries throughout the country and for the support of private enterprises. We are requesting $200 million to set up a fund for these two plans, and we hope that His Majesty will approve it. ”

Wen Jiming has no reason to refuse these two things, the construction of factories and the establishment of a national transportation network are inseparable from the support of basic industries, the construction of cement plants, brick factories and other basic industries throughout the country is very necessary, and the support of private enterprises is also of great significance.

Wen Jiming asked Zhou Jun again.

"Do banks have any preferential policies to support private enterprises?"

"Your Majesty, we have formulated a series of preferential policies, including applying for low-interest loans, special support funds and other private enterprise support policies."

Wen Jiming thought for a while, and then instructed Zhou Jun.

"Tomorrow in the newspapers it will be announced that in August the government will approve two private banking licenses, and one insurance company license. Let those private individuals who are interested in entering these two financial businesses prepare to raise funds in advance. The household department should come up with corresponding regulations and policies within this month. ”

Wen Jiming This is to thoroughly develop the private enterprises of the Ming Empire, after all, if everything has to be solved by the government, it takes too much manpower and material resources, and encouraging private enterprises is the best way, not to mention that private enterprises are active, which will play a huge role in promoting the economic development of the Ming Empire.

After instructing Zhou Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, Wen Jiming turned his head and said to the young Shangshu Wei Ting.

"I have approved the application of the Ministry of Industry, and I will send someone to the Ministry of Household tomorrow with a special fund of 200 million yuan, and you can ask your subordinates to wait in the Ministry of Household tomorrow, in addition, the Ministry of Industry will organize a national geological exploration, and you can ask Aristock to seek professionals, and you must do a serious survey of the country's underground resources."

"Also, this month, your Ministry of Industry will formulate policies and regulations on private transport companies, and also in August, the government will issue licenses for two private railway companies and five public transport companies, and the news will be published in the newspapers tomorrow."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

It is not possible to discourage private enterprises, hold such a meeting, and the 1.8 billion war dividends that have just arrived in hand will be lost by 700 million all of a sudden, and this has not yet involved other aspects, and at the end of this year, how can we also give some benefits to the people of the whole country, which will cost a lot of money.

Money, it's never enough to spend!

Thinking of the matter of sharing benefits, Wen Jiming said to Wenli, the head of the household.

"It is very important that a census be carried out throughout the country from August, especially to the hidden households that have been concealed by the nobles and the big families, and that all slaves must be registered, and that all slaves who do not have the formalities will be treated as fugitives and taken into state ownership."

"This time, we must find out how many household registrations there are in the country, as well as the specific numbers of each age group in the country, and then establish a unified file in the household department, and you ask Alistock to help you proofread the map of the whole country and develop a correct map of the Ming Empire, with an accuracy of up to meters!"

Wen Jiming sighed secretly in his heart.

There's so much to do, it's a waste of time!