Lin Yan stayed in the arbitration court for three days in a row before he finished dealing with the accumulated things, and it was time for the annual meeting.

The twenty-three councillors of the Sun Alliance and the representatives of each city had already arrived in Sun City in advance.

Lin Yan is back, and she has to do the main things of the conference herself, and the people in the entire chairman's office are busy.

With the increase of the alliance city, there are more and more branches, and they cooperate with each other, all of which are based on the actual management needs, adding and merging some institutions, and clarifying the division of functions of each institution.

In this year, the alliance did not expand externally, actively rectified internal affairs, and cleaned up and rectified a large number of management personnel.

The economic growth rate is obvious, and grain production has doubled. It is mainly the large-scale development of Wuhe City and Ningcheng that has contributed the most to the increase in grain production.

The bicycle factory is fully put into production and is a major industry with rapid economic growth.

The roads between the cities have been opened up one after another, the circulation is convenient, the transportation of goods is more convenient, and the economic prosperity is promoted.

A number of data show that the effect of recuperation is significant. At this rate, it is already predictable that the alliance will become stronger and stronger, and people's living standards will continue to improve.

This year, the transformation of Yuncheng was completed, and this city with a special geographical location, the surrounding area is mineral, which is not suitable for the development of agriculture.

Yuncheng has become the smelting industrial base of the alliance, focusing on the development of heavy industry. Half of the original population moved to Rivers City, except for those who stayed voluntarily.

Anseong and Heping City are densely populated, and some people have voluntarily relocated to Oreseong.

With its strategic location, abundant water sources and flat land for farming, Rivers City is a good place for many people who want to settle down and put down roots.

This has made Rivers City the largest agricultural production area in the Alliance.

Xu Yeshan, as the lord of Five Rivers City, has outstanding achievements and has been commended. When he stood on the stage and spoke as a representative of the cities, his mood was agitated, and his hand holding the carefully written manuscript trembled slightly.

He never thought that he would come to Sun City so soon and stand in front of a group of top-level leaders. At this moment, Xu Yeshan is extremely grateful, fate favored him, allowing him to meet the Sun Alliance.

In the first half of his life, he insisted on doing good deeds, and in the second half of his life, he had such great blessings.

He didn't dare to take credit, and modestly mentioned that the fact that Five Rivers City can be where it is today is the result of the joint efforts of the alliance people. The greatest contribution is the strong support and huge investment of the Court of Arbitration, which has brought about today's Wuhe City.

It took only one year to settle down for nearly 200,000 people and divide the land, and the grain warehouse was full and everyone could eat enough.

Such a scene was unimaginable to Xu Yeshan before. But when it really happened, he suddenly felt that he could do even better.

The year has been fruitful, the financial pressure has eased, and everyone is in a good mood.

Until the end of the congress, when the plan for the next year was mentioned in parliament, the military department planned to expand the Fifth Army.

The smiles on everyone's faces froze, and Shui Sheng turned his head to look at Lin Yan who was sitting on the left, "You know? ”

Lan Yue dared to mention it at this time, obviously someone supported it. Otherwise, with the current financial situation, the number of votes that can be drawn is very limited.

But with Lin Yan voting in favor, the situation will be very different.

In the current arbitration council, each arbitrator has two votes, and the chairman's one vote is equal to three votes. Ordinary members have one vote each, for a total of twenty-nine votes.

The proposal only needs to receive fifteen votes in favor and a majority of the votes to pass.

Lin Yan looked intently at Lan Yue, who was still speaking, and turned a deaf ear.

Shui Sheng gritted his teeth, "Don't pretend, I know you heard it." If you don't deny it, you know it. Okay, you know the financial situation so well, it's just eased, or it's a lot of debt, you can't make me feel better for a while. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Yan couldn't pretend to be dead anymore, "Shuisheng, don't be so excited, it's just a proposal, it's not necessarily whether it can be passed." ”

She is a little weak-hearted, she has tossed too much in the past few years, Ningcheng has just formed the Third Army and the Fourth Army for less than two years, and there are two big holes in Wuhe City and Nanhai Port City, and the pressure on the Ministry of Finance is huge.

The situation has just improved a little, and it has not yet filled the previous hole, and it is indeed not authentic to make the Ministry of Finance bleed.

Huang Ying sat on the right side of the water, heard the conversation between the two, and interjected, "The chairman took the lead in voting, and there was almost no suspense." ”

Most of the parliamentarians still have eyes and know who to listen to.

As long as Lin Yan raised his hand to agree when voting, the result was already doomed.

What's more, the five arbiters, Lan Yue and Shi Yong are both from the military department, so they must be supported, plus Lin Yan, the three of them will have seven votes.

Most of the others are acting on the opportunistic, and they don't know how to choose?

Shui Sheng naturally knew that this would be the direction, so he glared at Lin Yan angrily for the first time, "You can't let me take a breath, wait for two or three years, you can do whatever you want, why choose this time." ”

Lin Yan's words were uplifting, "It takes time to train soldiers, so you have to prepare early. It will take a few more years to build, and it will take a few more years to get into the fight. This delay is not good, not good. ”

Huang Ying didn't want to look at Lin Yan when she saw that the water was angry, so she took the initiative to say to the mud: "Although it makes sense, we also have to consider the current situation and start from reality." It's not as good as this, we can't become a big fat man in one bite, the Fifth Army should be formed and divided into several years, for example, in 27 years, we will expand by 5,000 people, how about it? ”

"I agree." Lin Yan was the first to say that the finances are indeed difficult and cannot be squandered wantonly.

The aquatic face was ugly, but he did not object again. It is not unacceptable for him to be able to cut from 25,000 to 5,000 in an army, and the pressure has dropped sharply.

After a few words were spoken, they all agreed when they expressed their attitudes, but Shui Sheng clearly put forward the financial difficulties, and the finance could only allocate half of the budget for the support of 5,000 people, and the remaining half had to be figured out by the military department itself.

Although Blue Moon was a little dissatisfied, she couldn't be too demanding. It's okay to raise 5,000 people first, it's better than nothing.

The other parliamentarians watched several arbitrators discuss fiercely, argued with reason, and shut up one after another, it is better not to be cannon fodder at this time.

After talking about the affairs of the military department, when he arrived at the Ministry of Finance, Shui Sheng said unceremoniously: "The financial affairs are cumbersome, the accounts are messy, and the accounts of each city still have to be sorted out by themselves and then reported, otherwise the work will be piled up to the Ministry of Finance, and we will not have enough people." I suggest that each city increase manpower to coordinate with taxation and auditing to sort out the accounts and then report, and the Ministry of Finance will arrange someone to verify it. ”

At present, the Ministry of Finance has subdivided a number of branches, the Ministry of Taxation is one of them, as well as the Inspection Department, the Supervision Department, the Budget Audit Department, the Sun Alliance Bank, etc.

The population of the alliance is increasing, the affairs are more complicated, and the pressure on each department is relatively great.

Among them, the Ministry of Government Affairs, the Ministry of Personnel Management and the Ministry of Finance are the busiest, everyone is working overtime, but they are always unable to finish. The backlog has not yet been completed, and new ones have been reported.

Lan Yue said: "There are still too few people. ”

"This is on the one hand, the main reason is that the division of authority is not streamlined enough, and the local government can do more, and I want to delegate part of the authority of the Court of Arbitration to the cities." Lin Yan has long had this idea, giving the local government greater rights and conducive to local development, "For example, the accounts of each city have been changed from four times a year to twice, once every six months, and the corresponding taxes have also been changed to be handed over once every six months." The Ministry of Personnel has given the city lord the authority to appoint certain ranks, and regularly approves and evaluates the ......"

Shui Sheng thought for a while and said: "What you said is reasonable, reducing the number of reports can indeed save a lot of time and manpower." However, it is necessary to strengthen supervision. ”

Lin Yan nodded: "When it comes to taxes and money, you really can't be sloppy." All ministries should think about it carefully, list the places for reform, and then we will meet and decide. ”

There is one day to go until next year, and the next meeting is not until the beginning of January.

Suddenly, Lin Yan had a flash of inspiration, and one day he saw a book that said to celebrate the New Year, which was not just in time. She smiled and said: "Let's talk about a happy thing, January 1 of every year is the beginning of the new year, why don't we treat this day as a new year, celebrate together, we can perform a show, eat a hearty meal as a family, or do something meaningful, how about it?" ”

In fact, there is a festival celebration on the side of Tianduan Mountain, but that time is not the alliance calendar, Lin Yan thought it would be better to unify it for everyone, and set a New Year according to the alliance calendar, so that the people of the alliance will celebrate together, and there will be the first festival.

Throughout the year, there is a special festival, and there is a sense of ritual, which everyone must be happy with.

It's like the last feast in Anseong, how lively it was. Lin Yan was busy and asked Shen Tianlin, the situation in the city in those days was much better than usual, the turnover of shops increased, and the crowds on the street were surging, the only bad thing was to strengthen the management of public security.

Shen Tianlin was the first to take the lead and said: "Okay, good New Year's Day, on this day, people can go to the streets to hang out and celebrate together, it must be very lively." It was so lively that day that I am very excited when I look back on it, and I want to hold it again this year. ”

None of the people in the room were stupid, and they immediately thought of the benefits of doing so. In particular, the person who served as the lord of the castle has decided to learn from Anseong.

In addition to the New Year, they can also hold a city founding day. One more festival, one more festive. It can attract people from other cities to participate, and the circulation of people and goods is better.

Only when money flows can it create greater value. This year, the Union University has launched a newspaper called the University Newspaper, which is published irregularly.

There are many people who pay attention, and there is an article in an issue that discusses the benefits of the circulation of goods and people, which mentions the essence of the Sun Coin, which is to make the alliance more prosperous.

This article was written by a teacher at the Union University, who has specialized in some economic works over the years (Lin Yan moved out of the Science and Technology Museum) and has achieved some success so far.

It can be said that in recent years, newspapers have developed rapidly, and all walks of life rely on newspapers to make more people aware of them.

With Shen Tianlin taking the lead in responding, the parliamentarians were enthusiastic and expressed that they would like to see the first New Year's celebration.

Lin Yan directly named the General Propaganda Office, a subordinate agency of the Ministry of Government Affairs, to be responsible for the event, mainly because the General Propaganda Office often contacts the people, knows more about the people in the city, and knows which people have unique skills.

There is only one day, and there is only one requirement, that is, to be lively.

An hour after the meeting, the news spread, and Sun City immediately boiled.

The New Year's event, which can be attended by all, will be held on Xicheng Central Avenue.

The vendors were the most keen, with a keen sense of smell, and immediately spotted the business opportunity. No one needs to be reminded that they have already spontaneously prepared what can be sold on the day of the event.

At night, when Lin Yan arrived home, it was already past ten o'clock, and everyone in the family slept at this point. But today, he sat in the living room unusually neatly.

The oil light is not lit enough, and everyone is used to going to bed early at night.

As soon as he entered the door, everyone was looking at him in unison, and Lin Yan was stunned, "What are you doing here?" ”

Gu Yi reacted the fastest: "Chairman, we are all waiting for you to come back." I thought it would only be eleven o'clock, and if you didn't come back, we'd go to sleep. It's eleven o'clock in ten minutes. ”

"yes, we all thought that you wouldn't be home today, but we didn't expect you to come back." Hua Hong beckoned to Lin Yan, "Come here, we have something to ask you." ”

The little girl also joined in the fun with the adults, so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes, and insisted on not sleeping to death.

When Lin Yan saw her like this, he sneered, took the maid from Gu Yi's daughter-in-law, Liu Amei, and reached out and nodded her forehead.

"Auntie, what are you waiting for me to ask?"

Hua Hong said with great interest: "Today, there is a sudden rumor in the city that a New Year's party is going to be held, but the Court of Arbitration has not issued a notice, and everyone is skeptical. But some people say that they have noses and eyes, and it is not like nonsense, and we want to know whether it is true or false. ”

With such a big news, if you want to confirm the authenticity, of course, it is most convenient to ask Lin Yan. So, everyone waited for her to come home.

Lin Yan couldn't cry or laugh: "New Year's event, are you looking forward to it like this?" It's the same to ask tomorrow, but I can't wait for one night. ”

"Of course you can't wait. I heard that the New Year's festival is a festival that is held on January 1 every year, and there are already shops promoting new clothes for the New Year, and many people have bought them. Some businesses have launched New Year's gift boxes for relatives to give gifts. The business of selling fireworks and firecrackers is the most popular, saying that as long as you set off more fireworks in the New Year, you will be safe and smooth in the new year. Anyway, there are a lot of theories, and there is still one day to go, so if it is true, we have to prepare for it. We won't have to wait for you to come back to make sure, and if it's true, we'll have to get up early tomorrow to make all sorts of preparations. ”

Everyone stared at him, and Lin Yan couldn't help but ask, "Where did all these celebrations come from?" ”

Gu Yi: "I said that I saw it from a book in the library, and I used to think it was useless, but we don't have our own New Year's Festival, I don't know who mentioned it first, and everyone agrees." ”

Hua Hong urged: "Lin Yan, say it quickly, is it true?" ”

"Teacher, Yaya also wants to know."

Lin Yan didn't sell it, and said directly: "It's true." The alliance has established January 1 as the New Year's festival every year, which is celebrated by the whole city and participated by the whole people. The announcement will be sent out tomorrow. ”

Today's meeting ended late, and the good news can only be released tomorrow.

As soon as she finished speaking, Hua Hong got up and said, "I have to go to sleep quickly, I have to get up early tomorrow to get up and go shopping first." ”

Hua Hong walked a few steps, turned around and took Yaya's hand and left.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Yi's family also said goodbye to Lin Yan and went back to sleep.

Leaving Lin Yan alone, I only felt that everything was too unreal just now, when had she been treated like this.