Chapter 295: Budget
By the end of the year, six ministries and various new departments were calculating the budget funds needed for the coming year.
First of all, the budget was still military and administrative expenses. In terms of military expenditure, as four border towns have been abolished, the Central Army began to implement a compulsory military service system, and military expenditures were effectively controlled. However, because the formation of the production corps was accelerated and the navy plans to start a war against the Dutch in the coming year, the military budget still reached 40 million yuan.
"Now the production corps is enough to replace the nine-sided military households. The nine-sided military households can be completely abolished in the sixth year of the Tianqi period. At the same time, each province has established a garrison army, and all the garrisons in each province can be abolished. However, considering the issue of military households being transferred, the abolition of the garrisons in the Guannei can be carried out in three years, and a batch of abolitions will be abolished every year. Three years later, the national garrisons will be completely abolished and the military household registration will be completely abolished."
"This plan is implemented." Zhu Youxiao nodded and agreed to the military budget set out by the commander, and the plan has been reduced.
The Weishu system is no longer suitable for the current Ming Dynasty, or the officers and soldiers of the Weishu system are no longer able to fight. Instead, these military households have become some hidden time bombs, and no one knows when they will explode.
The system adopted by Zhu Youxiao today is similar to that of later China.
Armed police forces have begun to be established in Northern Zhili and other new policy areas to strengthen local government control over local areas.
There are also garrison brigades to suppress internal unrest.
The production corps is responsible for guarding the border and producing.
There are also twenty-five infantry divisions and ten cavalry divisions, which are field troops, and can be transferred to various battlefields to participate in the war at any time.
During the special period of the Ming Dynasty's critical survival, the treatment of soldiers must be guaranteed. The demise of the Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, lost the morale of the military and the people.
As long as the soldiers do not rebel, the rebellion of other groups will not cause too serious damage to the social production order. However, once the soldiers rebel, the destructive power will be too great.
Under normal circumstances, soldiers cannot rebel, just have a bite of food to eat and do not force them to death.
Now that the compulsory military service system is adopted, soldiers have sufficient food guarantees. At the same time, when marching and fighting, there are sufficient logistics guarantees.
Now under the gradual rectification of Zhu Youxiao, the military system in Ming Dynasty is unlikely to rebel because soldiers are not full of food. It is impossible for the army to mutiny halfway because they have no logistics support halfway.
Because the equipment cost of the Ming army was greatly reduced, musketeers became the main military and were no longer equipped with iron armor, so the equipment cost naturally decreased a lot.
What has been improved are the treatment of officers and professional soldiers. At the same time, the Navy's military expenditure is increasing year by year. The training costs of the Army and Navy have also increased.
40 million military expenditures are basically enough.
The administrative cost estimate submitted by the cabinet reached 30 million yuan. The increase in administrative costs is an inevitable result of institutional reform.
Civil servants have been added in the new policy area, police, armed police, tax bureau, court, and some small departments, and township governments have been added.
In addition, the treatment of officials has been increased, so the administrative costs are naturally rising.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty system had been divided by Zhu Youxiao, and was roughly divided into new policy areas and traditional regions. Zhu Youxiao's control over the northern provinces was also increasing. No one knew one day that the northern provinces would be included in the new policy system.
The southern aristocratic people occupied the area, and Zhu Youxiao's temporary attitude revealed some compromise, because Zhu Youxiao had no intention of moving the old system of the southern provinces.
Some members of the Southern gentry have clearly realized that the emperor will not be allowed to let the southern provinces ignore them, and they will definitely be reformed in the end.
However, the emperor did not burn the fire to the southern gentry after all. The southern gentry combined with capital also showed the weak characteristics of capitalism and did not dare to join forces to resist the emperor to carry out the new policies in Northern Zhili and Northeastern regions.
The best treatment of officials is in the newly recruited areas, but the anti-corruption efforts in the new policy areas are also the strictest. At the same time, the inability of officials to do business has become an unspoken rule in the administrative areas. This unspoken rule is the party program of the Han Emperor Party. Although only restraining Han Emperor Party officials within the Han Emperor Party, if officials are found to be engaged in business in the new policy areas, it will basically not take long to be removed from office.
The second is the officials from northern provinces. Officials such as the top leaders also have the benefits of high salaries and low-income benefits. But they are also not allowed to do business, and their families are not allowed to do business either.
Southern officials have not yet enjoyed the policy of maintaining high salaries and maintaining integrity, but anti-corruption is still being carried out. At this time, Zhu Youxiao did not expect officials from various southern provinces to raise taxes. He only asked them not to use administrative means to exploit the people.
Of course, this is easy for those officials of the Southern Aristocratic League to do this, because the Southern Aristocratic League has developed into a bureaucratic capital class. With the combination of officials and businessmen, these officials naturally do not have to directly embezzle them, so that their families can make money by doing business. Under the cover of power, many industries need these powers to serve as the entry threshold.
They only need to act as an image of a god. They can either not be corrupt or ignore things.
Therefore, many of the officials from the Southern gentry looked very honest. Sometimes it is difficult to catch their handles against corruption, and they do not charge them if they ask them to collect taxes. They are mandatory to collect commercial taxes, and they stop when they reach the indicators, which is a matter of dealing with the central government.
Behind such integrity is the more serious collusion between officials and businessmen. These gentry have monopolized a large number of social resources and become a serious cancer.
To remove these cancers, you will suffer a lot of pain. Zhu Youxiao is currently raising these southern gentry as pigs. Anyway, they will vomit out any amount of money and profit after eating. Therefore, there is no rush to deal with these southern gentry for the time being. The most important thing is to put the Ming Dynasty in a stable state first.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao focused his main energy on operating the new policy area and first built a mature new policy system.
Nowadays, reform has gradually been subtly accepted by all classes in Northern Zhili, and some classes have to accept it even if they do not accept it. The resistance to reform in Northern Zhili is getting smaller and smaller, while in areas such as the Northeast where vested interest class forces are blank, reform has even less resistance.
The increase in administrative costs is, on the one hand, the increase in the new policy areas has increased significantly, on the other hand, the increase in the northern provinces has increased slightly, while the administrative costs in the southern region have not increased at all.
Anyway, those officials from the gentry look very honest and do not need any high salary to support the innocent. That is just a waste of money!
With the expansion of the new policy area, administrative costs will be further increased in the future.
The increase in the cost of the new policy is not a bad thing. Only high investment can lead to high returns, finance can be collected, and the officials have sufficient control to develop the economy and people's livelihood.
When the official has controlled enough resources, it will be easier to change the current chaotic social values.
After the Ministry of Personnel’s administrative cost budget of 30 million yuan, the Ministry of Revenue also had to use a disaster relief budget of 30 million yuan and clarified the principles of disaster relief.
Disaster relief in the north is to exempt agricultural taxes, immigration, and work-for-relief as the core method, while disaster relief in the south is to exempt taxes, grain distribution and immigration.
The northern disaster relief no longer directly distributes food, but is carried out through the labor-for-relief model, mainly because the central government has improved its control over the local area. For those special disaster-affected groups, disaster relief supplies are still directly distributed.
The imperial court still lacked control over the southern provinces, and it is easy to cause a lot of trouble by using labor instead of relief, so it simply uses food distribution and immigration.
The basic principle is that no one can starve to death. The huge sum of 30 million yuan can theoretically achieve this, and it depends on the specific implementation.
The Ministry of Industry has come up with a highway construction plan that connects northern provinces. At the same time, in accordance with Zhu Youxiao's requirements, it has a plan for the Yellow River governance, and large-scale water conservancy construction projects in northern provinces, and has applied for a fiscal budget of 100 million yuan.
Next year, the Ministry of Industry will bid for the main roads that run through various provinces. The main roads that run through various provinces will be built within three years. At that time, heavy carriages can carry goods unimpeded and transport goods to all northern provinces.
Transportation must be continuously improved. There is no train yet, so it is still okay to use heavy carriages to make do with it. This time, the Ministry of Industry's construction project branch is in northern provinces, and is also preparing for larger-scale construction in the future.
Because the issuance of paper money is already very fast, as long as there is a year of excessive growth, inflation can be carried out later. The method of inflation is to build a large number of projects, so as to directly spread the money to the lower-level workers, and then the production scale of goods needed by the lower-level people.
For example, food!
Water conservancy projects are naturally the top priority, and water conservancy projects are particularly important in the face of constant natural disasters. The Yellow River has reached a stage where it has to be managed. The Yellow River area is full of disasters every year, which has a great impact on social stability.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao had already begun to transfer finances to subsidize those provinces with economic backwardness, thus achieving an overall stable situation.
It is unlikely that the southern provinces will become chaotic. The southern gentry has formed a highly autonomous system and a subtle social welfare system. As rulers, the southern gentry naturally cannot make the southern provinces chaotic.
Major water conservancy construction projects in northern provinces will no longer be built in the form of corvee, but will be built through recruitment.
The remaining 90 million yuan budget and 30 million yuan have been allocated to education, which is only the first time that the official has made efforts in education investment.
The remaining 60 million yuan is used for all expenses.
The royal family had too many people, and the salary alone was more than 10 million yuan. In the past, these salary was mainly paid directly with grain, but now it is not distributed with grain, but with money directly.
Social welfare, as well as vegetation restoration, sanitation investment, and various miscellaneous expenses in the north, add up to these budgets.
The issuance plan for the banknote has been put out, and Zhu Youxiao has also completed preparations for the nationalization of the Royal Bank.
It is very easy to nationalize Royal Bank, it is nothing more than turning the senior management of Royal Bank into government officials, and nothing else.
After all, Royal Bank was established by the emperor.
After the nationalization of the Royal Bank, the royal family retained only 5% of the shares and had decision-making power.
In fact, a lot of paper money have been printed. This thing has been prepared since Zhu Youxiao established the Royal Bank. In a few years, the Royal Bank has also successfully developed some new technologies for anti-counterfeiting of paper money.
Chapter completed!