Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 659, Gap
These officials argued for a long time, but Xu Wei did not agree with their ideas. Instead, he waited until the time was almost up and adjourned the meeting!
"In power, have you seen it now? The governors of various states really think that the imperial court has a golden mountain. Each of their plans is so big that even I, the prime minister, are surprised. The imperial court cannot bear it at all! How can such a financial budget be passed?"
However, Xu Wei understood the thoughts of the people below him very well. After all, he had seen many officials competing for projects in China.
"Everyone has good intentions and wants to develop Daqian well, but they can only see one area and cannot coordinate development like the imperial court. We must affirm everyone's ideas and this kind of initiative. Protect.
But as the Prime Minister of Da Gan, you must have your own persistence and cannot let the officials below do whatever they want. A project like they said will cost more than one billion dollars. If it fails, it will be extremely harmful to the entire Da Gan and the people. The court will be held accountable for irresponsible things, so our officials must be stopped in advance from making these unnecessary mistakes, because the tuition is too expensive!"
Paying tuition is probably what Xu Wei hears the most. Over the past few decades, Xu Wei has no idea how much tuition he has paid, but Xu Wei knows that the tuition every time is extremely painful. What kind of TV set has hundreds of production lines? It was quickly eliminated. If you buy a refrigerator production line but can only import it because you can't produce compressors, or you can invent VCD but because you can't produce laser heads, all the profits are taken away by foreign countries, but domestically there is a lot of chicken feathers left. This kind of Xu Wei has heard too many things. He doesn't want the world to have to pay tuition. Even if he has to pay, he should pay less!
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "To develop industry, especially the construction of a factory worth more than one billion, we cannot let the officials below act randomly. Instead, we need you, the prime minister, to make overall plans and arrange the financial and industrial layout of my Daqian." Build!”
Niu Guiwei: "Actually, my subordinates don't know much about factories, especially for such a large factory. I don't even know how they operate and how they should be laid out?"
In this era, industry has just begun to sprout. Many factories can even be said to be handicraft industries. Now let's talk about industrial layout for Niu Gui. Niu Gui himself doesn't have much experience. Now Niu Gui is worried that he has to pay the tuition fees just mentioned!
Xu Weidao: "You can gather some master-level craftsmen in Daqian and form an engineering department. This is the same as our staff department in Daqian, which is dedicated to providing advice for the industrial development of Daqian. These people are all front-line producers and Managers, they are professionals, they understand factories and machinery better than our officials, and their opinions are closer to reality than laymen like us!"
Niu Gui nodded and said: "In power, after this meeting, I will set up the engineering department."
But Niu Gui still asked: "But what about this fiscal budget meeting?"
Xu Wei said calmly: "All the projects they reported were rejected. Now we have only experienced 2 years of war in Dagang. Especially this time we have occupied 3 states. It can be said to be the largest annexation of land, and it is also a big man." It is not an exaggeration to say that the three largest states account for half of the Han Dynasty, and now we, the Han Dynasty, have been able to hold on."
"Our main tasks in the next few years are to find ways to relocate the wealthy gentry from Jiangnan, complete the task of equalizing land in the three states, build water conservancy facilities in the three states, and build primary schools and hospitals and other infrastructure. These tasks will make us do this. All the fiscal revenue in the past few years has been squeezed out, and industrial development can only be started after the imperial court has completely digested the three states of Han Dynasty. A small amount of funds can only be coordinated and arranged by the imperial court."
Niu Gui said distressedly: "I'm afraid these people won't be willing to accept it!"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Then let me inform them!"
The words were divided into two parts. Although the state representatives had a fierce argument just now, after the meeting, they gathered together in twos and threes, and Chen Deng, Tian Feng and Zhen Yan came to a teahouse not far from the street!
Then Chen Deng sighed: "I didn't expect to see brother Yuan Hao in Daqian's meeting!"
Does he know how seriously Da Qian has dealt a heavy blow to the noble families? Basically, the friends he knew in the past and the relatives related to his family are not seen in the upper echelons of Da Qian. Moreover, Chen Deng also knows that even the middle-level people are not able to see them. There were only a few members of the former powerful clansmen. It can be said that Da Qian cleaned the previous dynasty very clean. This intensity even exceeded the war at the end of Qin Dynasty. Families that had been inherited for hundreds of thousands of years were all overthrown to the ground, and the powerful clans were destroyed. To put it bluntly, this is simply the end of the Dharma era.
It's a miracle that a fish like him slipped through the net! He had never seen officials from the Han Dynasty or people from the noble family in Daqian before. But this time he actually saw Tian Feng at the meeting, and he was surprised at the time. Incomparable.
Did he know that Tian Feng was Yuan Shao's important counselor and had been exiled overseas by Da Gan, so he was so surprised to see Tian Feng!
Tian Feng said calmly: "I am still a guilty person, but Governor Bao Xin happened to take it seriously, so I have the opportunity to return to the Central Plains."
Tian Feng originally wanted to say that he was a big man, but he immediately thought that the world was dominated by Da Qian now, so he changed his mind!
Zhen Yan smiled and said: "Tian Gong, the time has come. With Tian Gong's ability, he will definitely be able to show his ambitions in the Daqian court!"
Zhen Yan is considered the luckiest among these people. His sister married Wang Guojun, the governor of Jizhou, and then under the operation of Guojun, he became a minor official in the Jizhou government, and then became a Cao Cao. This time, Ji came with Jizhou Governor Shi. Although he was very knowledgeable, he never expected that he would see Tian Feng and Chen Deng in Jidu. The three of them were originally from the noble clan, so they naturally came together!
But Tian Feng said calmly: "I haven't done many things that are beneficial to the world in half my life. Now I just want to do some facts. Although these people in the Daqian court are not highly educated, they can do things down-to-earth. Many people in the Han Dynasty There are things that cannot be done at all, but even a prefecture magistrate can do them here. Without the burden of being a big man, I feel that it is more comfortable to work here in Daqian!"
This is Tian Feng's true thoughts. When he first became an official in Jizhou, he was well-known among scholars and wanted to change the situation of refugees in Jizhou. However, the reality soon left him with a bloody head. He served as an official in Jizhou for more than ten years. , it can be said that Dahan has not changed at all. When he took refuge in Yuan Shao, he also wanted to rely on Yuan Shao to change Dahan, but in the end he was defeated by Daqian's army and became a prisoner of his subordinates. However, he did not expect that he could change Dahan now. Do something you want to do.
Daqian is a brand new world. Although the scene today is noisy, it is not something that the Han Dynasty can see. Officials of the Han Dynasty will not care about local development. They don't care about the life and death of the people. As long as the people do not rebel against them, it will be a prosperous time. But this kind of cover-up was finally broken by Zhang Jiao, and the big man came to his end step by step.
Today he saw the entire Daqian gathering together to discuss any local development matters. Not only could this not be seen in Jizhou, but it could not even be seen in Luoyang City. Although the officials of Daqian did not understand the Six Classics, they were doing better than the officials of Dahan. Things were ten times better. With such a strong contrast, Tian Feng knew that the Han Dynasty's demise was inevitable, and even his sadness was alleviated.
Chen Deng agreed and said: "The officials in Daqian are indeed good at doing things. When I wanted to recruit refugees in Xuzhou and stabilize the place, the officials in Xuzhou, the local powerful and even the nobles tried their best to hinder me. As for me, I was useless for several years."
Now, in less than five years since Daqian occupied Xuzhou, it has already built hundreds of miles of canals, adding millions of acres of irrigated land to Xuzhou. With the advent of steam engines, it has exceeded 10 million. Now Xuzhou alone has The local tax is higher than that of the Han Dynasty. Such a thing is unimaginable in the Han Dynasty!
Zhen Yan was surprised and said: "Xuzhou Yi, you have an income of several billions. Brother Yuanlong, why are you still here to do this project?"
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Chen Deng said with a smile: "Xuzhou has a lot of fiscal revenue, but it also spends a lot. Not to mention the frontline support of 200,000 troops, most of which is borne by the court, but it costs nothing to build hundreds of miles of canals, and now Xuzhou is in Docks are being built aggressively along the coast, and every dock is swallowed by gold beasts. In addition to the costs of repairing roads and expanding the city, the court has to support Xuzhou with 1 billion in money every year. This is how to maintain the current development situation of Xuzhou!"
Although Chen Deng has a long history, because Wang Lei is on the front line, Chen Deng is basically responsible for the development of Xuzhou. It can be said that his original ideas for the development of Xuzhou have been realized one by one in the past few years, and there are even many more He is doing things that he never thought of before. It is precisely because he has been an official in both Dahan and Daqian that he knows how lucky he is to be an official in Daqian.
There are no nobles or other officials holding back, and he has abundant money. He can show his inner ambitions and talents, and see them realized bit by bit. The inner satisfaction is not comparable to that of the Han Dynasty. He is now He is extremely lucky that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao destroyed his family, otherwise he would not have been able to enter the Daqian court so easily to realize his ambitions!
Then Chen Deng said with a smile: "You Jizhou is one of the top three richest states in the country. Xuzhou's financial situation is probably not even comparable to that of Jizhou's glass factory. Your Jizhou is better. With such a big financial source, even without the support of the imperial court, We still have enough financial resources to build a new factory!”
Zhen Yan shook his head and said: "Jizhou also has troubles in Jizhou. The governor plans to build a canal running through Jizhou to solve the problem of cargo transportation. Originally, this plan has been rejected by the court, thinking that now is not the right time, but the governor is not worried about it. I gave up and planned to use Jizhou's finances to develop this project. Now Jizhou is not as rich as it was back then, otherwise I wouldn't be here. The governor thinks that steam engines will be the focus of future economic development, and the profits earned are even It may be more than the glass factory, so I want to build a steam engine factory in Jizhou!"
Tian Feng said: "Prince Wang has a good vision. I won't talk about it in the future. The widespread use of steam pumps has increased the amount of irrigated land in Dagan by 100 million acres. This is equivalent to an additional output of more than 200 acres of land every year." Billions of grains, this is not the only use of the steam engine. It can also transport. The cargo it pulls is not much different than that of a small boat, but the speed is dozens of times faster. It can also weave cloth. These alone can give us a lot of work every year. Bringing hundreds of billions of wealth, this is much more important than any glass factory!"
Neither Chen Deng nor Zhen Yan thought that the steam engine would have such a big role, but now they realized that the steam engine was far more important than they thought.
So Chen Deng asked: "Tian Gong also wants to bring a steam engine factory to Yizhou?"
But Tian Feng smiled bitterly and said: "Yizhou does not have such conditions. I came here just to ask the court to recruit more immigrants to Yizhou. It would be best if I could recruit some craftsmen! I dare not ask for it in the wilderness. too much!"
But Chen Deng said: "Yizhou is still called a barbaric land. One brown sugar is enough to feed the entire Yizhou. Your brown sugar can earn more than one billion yuan from Xuzhou every year. If the climate is not suitable, I would like it all." A sugarcane plantation is being built in Xuzhou!”
Xuzhou can only grow some wheat, soybeans, and even the most profitable cotton, but the profit is several times worse than brown sugar. Chen Deng estimates that the income from brown sugar alone can make Yizhou ranked among the top ten rich counties. The fiscal revenue of Xuzhou as a whole is not as good as that of Yizhou.
Tian Feng said: "But it is impossible for Yizhou to develop just by relying on a brown sugar industry. Now the price of brown sugar has dropped three times, not to mention that the Han Dynasty has already occupied Jiangnan. Sugar cane can also be grown in these places. We If we don’t find a way to develop other industries, I’m afraid other places will soon catch up!”
Chen Deng and the others suddenly realized that Yizhou, which seemed to be the richest, was actually the most dangerous. If the development was not careful, it would completely stagnate! It seems that everyone has their own difficulties!
The next day, everyone gathered together again.
Xu Wei said to these state representatives: "Let me first tell you the court's conclusion about your plans! That is, the court does not agree with the industrial development plans submitted by the states!"
With a buzz, the representatives below couldn't help but raise their voices. They knew that the court would definitely veto some plans. After all, the factories they wanted to build would cost the family tens of billions in total, which was simply not what the current government could afford. But They did not expect that no one from the imperial court agreed.
Xu Wei continued: "I know everyone is surprised, but the reason is very simple. The development of industry has not been the focus of the imperial court in the past two years. The imperial court's financial expenditure has to be invested in the newly occupied three states of Han Dynasty. Everyone knows this. The three prefectures are vast, almost as large as the nine prefectures of the imperial court. The imperial court's financial balance will be allocated to Jiangnan immigration and the construction of infrastructure such as water conservancy facilities and roads. This investment will be extremely huge, so the imperial court will not have any funds in the next 2-3 years. Maybe a big factory will be built!”
After hearing Xu Wei's words, the representatives from various states were weak and a little tired. They fought for half a month, but in the end they were lonely.
Xu Wei continued: "The development of Daqian industry will be coordinated by the imperial court in the future. Where the factory will be placed, the imperial court will inform you in advance. Everyone has the same opportunity, so there is no point in grabbing it!"