At the end of January of the sixth year of Qingli, Yelu Zongzhen also got the news.

Hearing that Da Song had a sharp weapon that could move thousands of miles in a day, he was also shocked in his heart, and he was silent for a long time without speaking.

Whether it is for him or Li Yuanhao, there is obviously not much time left for them.

The only good news is that the Great Song Dynasty does not seem to have any intention of making enemies with Xia Liao at all, and not only did they send envoys to the Great Song Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty also gave back to them.

For this reason, Yelu Zong really remembered that at the beginning of the month, he also asked the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, saying that now that he has only stationed less than 100,000 troops in Hebei, he is not afraid of his Great Liao Iron Cavalry?

At that time, the envoy of the Song State just smiled and did not answer positively, but said that the Great Song Dynasty adhered to the friendly relations with the Liao State and would not send heavy troops to guard it.

Now it seems.

This sentence is obviously just a polite remark.

Maybe it's because they don't need to send heavy troops in Hebei anymore.

In February, Li Yuanhao's envoy also arrived in Zhongjing.

After talking between the two sides, Yelu Zongzhen decided to go to Yunnei Prefecture, which is later Baotou City, in the name of Western Hunting in March.

said that it was a western hunt, but in fact, it was to go to the Liaoxia border to make an alliance with Li Yuanhao.

The current situation is no longer something that can be done by sending envoys from both sides to communicate, and it is necessary to meet in person to negotiate.

And just when the brothers between Western Xia and Liao were getting along, the Great Song Dynasty was still carrying out their own plans and changes in an orderly manner.

In February of the sixth year of the Qingli calendar, all the data of last year have been released, and at the beginning of the year, we will be ready to start this year's plan.

February 2, Neutralization Day.

This festival began in the Tang Dynasty and was later known as the rise of the dragon.

However, this festival is not an important big festival now, and there will be no holiday, so everyone should go to work or work.

Today, the weather is clear, and the Constitutional Yuan is full of a lazy atmosphere.

It's really easy to get lazy this year.

After all, there will be no holiday on Chinese New Year's Eve in later generations, and Da Song not only has a holiday, but also has a lot of holidays.

From the winter solstice to the Lantern Festival next year, there are several festivals in the middle, plus Zhao Kuangyin's father's sacrifice day, Zhao Zhen's mother's birthday and Zhao Hengtian's birthday, adding up to thirty-three days.

From the beginning of December to the end of January, half of the two months are spent on holidays, and there is very little time to work, so it is difficult not to be lazy.

The seven-day holiday of the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has just ended, and it has only been a few days since I went to work in the Constitutional Yuan.

At this moment, many prime ministers in the house are all there except Jiang Tang and Cai Qi.

Because two prime ministers are required to be on duty during the holidays, Zhao Zhen is sympathetic to the old ministers, like Zhang Shixun, Li Di, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and several other elderly ministers do not need to be on duty.

The rest of the people took turns on duty, and it was Jiang Tang and Cai Qi during the Lantern Festival, so they had to make up a few days off after the Lantern Festival.

When the time was about the same, the official documents of each ministry were reported, and everyone went to the conference room for a meeting.

"This is last year's GDP report submitted by the Ministry of Statistics this year, this is last year's tax report submitted by the Ministry of Finance, this is last year's business report submitted by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and this is last year's agricultural report submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture"

Yan Shu put the official documents handed in by various departments this morning on the table, looked around, and said with a smile: "I just took a look at it, and the growth is very gratifying." ”

Lu Yijian looked at Zhao Zhen, and said with a smile: "In this situation, what does Han Long think of Da Song's achievements last year?" ”

"I still need to work hard, compared to our later generations, I only have one thing to say."

Zhao Jun said.

"What?"

Everyone was curious.

"I need a big Song joke to spur it on."

"Excuse me."

Everyone waved their hands again and again, this thing is easy to make people have high blood pressure.

Zhao Jun smiled.

In recent years, he hasn't told Da Song jokes for a long time.

One is that there is nothing to be sarcastic, and the other is that there is not much stock of jokes in the Great Song Dynasty.

Especially Zhao Guangyi's jokes, if he talks too much, it seems too verbose, and there is really nothing to talk about.

After making a joke, Zhao Jun also flipped through these official documents casually.

Last year's total fiscal revenue was the highest in recent years, reaching 139.25 million yuan.

Among them, the agricultural tax rose instead of falling after the apportionment into the mu, from 24 million guan in the fourth year of Qingli to 39.73 million guan, the commercial tax increased by 7 million guan to 65.06 million guan, and foreign trade increased by 3 million guan to 34.46 million guan.

In the fourth year of Qingli, the agricultural tax was 24 million guan, the commercial tax was 58 million guan, and the foreign trade tax was 31 million guan, and the total should be 113 million guan.

However, in fact, about 30% of the commercial tax and agricultural tax will be retained in the local government for large infrastructure construction, and about 20% of the foreign trade tax will be retained in the major ports for local expenditure.

Therefore, counting foreign trade, the actual revenue of commercial tax last year was 65 million yuan, and the agricultural tax was 16.8 million yuan, totaling 81.8 million yuan.

By this year, if the local interception is removed, then the income of the imperial treasury will officially exceed 100 million, reaching 100.921 million yuan.

This is also the reason why Lu Yijian said last year that last year's fiscal revenue may exceed 100 million yuan.

"This is a good result, if you count the gross domestic product, it is about 400 million yuan in agriculture, about 1.62 billion in commercial taxes, 490 million in foreign trade, and 2.51 billion in last year, an increase of 12 percent over 2.23 billion in the previous year."

Zhao Jun took out a brush and calculated it on paper with a formula, and the GDP grew at a rate of 12% per year, which is already very exaggerated.

But after he put down the pen, he said: "But this tax rate fluctuation is only a preliminary estimate, after all, last year's agricultural tax increase was because of the apportionment into the mu, I began to kill pigs and bloodlet the landlord, so that the landlord paid at least 8% more tax, so the total value should not be so high, about 2.4 billion yuan." ”

"That's good too."

"Yes, I remember Hanlong said that it would be very good for many countries to grow by single digits every year in later generations."

"The old man is still very satisfied with this growth rate."

Everyone said.

Now that data is king, Zhao Jun has also taken data into consideration.

Although GDP does not fully represent the country's development, it also represents most of the development rate, and from last year's data alone, the three growth rates are particularly obvious, especially the agricultural tax.

However, Zhao Jun knew what was going on with the increase in agricultural taxes, and it was entirely by apportioning the taxes to the landlords that this result was caused.

If in a normal age, it will increase from 24 million to 28 million, which is considered good.

However, the landlords who own a large amount of land in the country have to pay twice as much tax as before, so naturally there is a marked increase.

"Last year, this level of development was naturally very good in ancient times, but our goal is not to improve in ancient society, but to look forward and progress towards the industrial age."

Zhao Jun pondered for a moment, then thought for a while: "The Ministry of Statistics did not count the domestic steel production last year, which is my negligence, and this article must be added in the future, so as to measure the steel level of a country." ”

"Although the policy was liberalized last year, steel plants and cement factories were built all over the country, but from finding resources to selecting places, roads and rivers had to be built, and now steel and cement plants in most parts of the country may still be in the construction stage and have not been officially put into production.

Yan Shu said: "So the output of our current steel mill still mainly relies on Wu'an Iron and Steel and other original smelters, it should not be difficult to count this data, I will talk to Wu Yu later, and let him send someone to check." ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun said: "These steel mills should be on the right track this year, this year's focus of the Political Yuan should be adjusted, start the era of steelmaking, I want to make Da Song steel production reach more than 90% of the world's steel production within five years, so that Da Song officially entered the first stage of the industrial revolution." ”

"Huh?"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Song Shou said dumbly: "Is this possible?" Doesn't it mean that the annual steel output of the Great Song Dynasty will reach more than 100 times that of the previous one? ”

"How could it be?"

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "After the first industrial revolution in Britain, in 1850, steel production was 2.5 million tons per year, accounting for half of the world's steel production. At that time, the world's productivity had increased considerably, but the world's annual production was only 5 million tons. In this period, the world's annual output is not even 100,000 tons. ”

This is not an exaggeration, but a fact.

Later generations said on the Internet that the steel output in the Song Dynasty had reached 150,000 tons during the Yuanfeng period. But this is actually a false news fabricated by Song fans, and in fact, according to the "History of the Song Dynasty", it should be about 10,000 tons per year.

You must know that according to the research of the later archaeologist Mr. Li Jinghua, the total steel output of the entire Western Han Dynasty was only more than 40,000 tons.

It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that the steel frying method appeared, and then the Tang Dynasty appeared the steel filling method, and the annual output only reached more than 3,000 tons.

Therefore, according to the "History of the Song Dynasty", it is normal for the Great Song Dynasty to produce more than 10,000 tons per year.

At that time, the Great Song Dynasty was already the country with the highest economy, science and technology, culture and productivity in the world. Even the annual output of the Great Song Dynasty is only more than 10,000 tons of steel, and it is unknown that the rest of the world can produce 50,000 tons of steel combined.

Therefore, once steel mills are set up across the country, it only needs to reach one million tons of steel per year to achieve the target.

Even if one million tons per year is only a fraction of our annual output of 1 billion tons in later generations, it is really not nonsense to become the world's first in five years during the period of the Great Song Dynasty, accounting for more than 90% of the total steel production.

"Hmm"

Everyone looked at each other, and then they understood what an industrial society was.

Once industrialization begins, any previous data will be an infinite number of times worse than the industrial age.

"After the era of industrialization, steel production has increased, and then steel has been used in all walks of life to drive the development of other industries."

Zhao Jun said: "Railways, factories, shipyards are the majority of the steam engine and steel industry, in the final analysis, industrial development is inseparable from clothing, food, housing and transportation, so next year's priority is to raise steel production, and at the same time promote the national investment promotion, open all kinds of factories." ”

"Hmm."

Everyone took pen and paper and wrote it down.

After several rounds of Qingli New Deal reforms, the country's shortcomings are slowly getting rid of them.

Although there are still some affected areas, they have gotten better.

The main focus of development now should indeed be on the production of the industrial revolution.

"The steel plant on Jingnan Road has been under construction since the year before last, and it was officially put into operation at the end of last year, which means that they want the imperial court to allocate some more money, and they want to build their own railway."

Li Di said.

"It's a good thing that the local government has subjective initiative, and I will send someone to inspect this matter, and if there is no problem, I will approve it."

"Okay."

"Speaking of which, now that we have entered industrialization, it is time for us to set up a new department."

Zhao Jun pondered for a moment, and then said: "Let's start to set up the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Railways this year, and in the future, such things will be connected by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Railways, otherwise everything in the local government will have to wait for the approval of the Constitutional Yuan, and the efficiency will be too slow." ”

There will definitely be more and more things like this in the future.

The Constitutional Yuan has such a small number of manpower, and the main direction of attack must also be the national development strategy, and it cannot be applied for and reported locally and they have to give their approval, or it should be under the jurisdiction of the directly subordinate departments.

"Then prepare for the construction of these two departments and let the old man come, although the old man is older, he also wants to play a little spare heat for the country."

Lu Yijian didn't want to let go of the opportunity to seize power at all.

Zhao Jun glanced at it and said: "Wang Xiang is also a pillar of the country, so this matter will be co-organized by Lu Xiang and Wang Xiang." ”

He didn't want Lu Yijian to mix more sand.

Because Lu Yijian was in charge of personnel before, there were many of his protégés and former officials in more than 50 departments of the Great Song Dynasty. Although basically when Lu Laodeng hangs up, most of the power of people will be reduced.

But Lu Yijian's second son, Lu Gongbi, is already a Hebei Road transfer envoy, and the third son, Lu Gongzhu, is already a knowledgeable lawyer, and his promotion speed is very fast.

Lao Lu Tou is exerting his spare heat, obviously trying to pave the way for his son.

"Hmm."

Old Lu Tou just responded, and he didn't object.

In this situation, it would be good to be able to get some power, after all, his health is getting worse and worse, and no one knows how long he can live.

"Then today's meeting will be like this first, and then let the ministries plan their own development plans for this year and submit them to the Constitutional Yuan for approval, the income is getting higher and higher, but there are still a lot of fixed expenses, and the money still has to be spent on the blade."

Zhao Jun stood up and dismissed the meeting.

Don't look at last year's fiscal revenue of 100 million, but the Ministry of Education built schools and promoted the teaching system. The Ministry of Industry repaired rivers and canals, repaired roads, and built water conservancy and road construction in the local government, all of which required the imperial court to spend a lot of money.

In addition to the expenditure of officials and the army, the annual fixed expenditure is still 50 or 60 million yuan, and the remaining half can be used for other investment and construction.

But even if this is not bad, at least it is better than the previous five-sixths of the financial investment in the Great Song Dynasty into military spending, and the remaining one-sixth is occupied by officials and other redundant expenditures, and the state has no construction funds at all, and it is completely suspended.

At present, the Constitutional Yuan has made instructions in the new year, asking all departments to submit their own plans for this year, such as how many teachers the Ministry of Education will recruit this year to build and how many schools to build, how many rivers and canals the Ministry of Industry will build, how many roads to open up, and so on.

After the plan is handed in, there will be no problems, and the Constitutional Yuan will let the Ministry of Finance approve the funds as funds.

And so on.

In the sixth year of Qingli, the Great Song Dynasty was in full swing again.

(End of chapter)