The latest census has come out. It is not the 590 million expected by Mrs. Sharon, but 630 million. The extra population was dug out from the remote mountains and old forests where people live in seclusion.
This is also the limit, but for a country with a land area of more than 26 million square kilometers and a population of more than 600 million, it can still only be described as vast land and sparsely populated.
"You need money everywhere?" Wilson picked up the documents and walked to Essien's office. He wanted to find this old guy for help.
Entering Essien's office, he happened to be scratching his hair with both hands, looking like he was about to go crazy.
"If you come to me to talk about money, then don't talk about it." As soon as Essien saw Wilson, he refused directly.
Wilson sat silently on the sofa opposite Essien.
Today Wilson is Chancellor of the Imperial Exchequer and Governor of the Imperial Central Bank.
He is truly the man who controls the empire's purse strings.
Essien is the Minister of Imperial Administration, responsible for all administrative tasks of the Empire. In theory, he is only responsible to His Majesty the Emperor, and has twenty-eight ministers under him.
Imperial officials are divided into twelve levels. Minister is the highest official rank in the empire. There are three in total, namely the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Administration and the Minister of Military Affairs.
The Imperial Minister of Military Affairs is Arturia.
The ministers below the ministers represent the highest officials of each department. Below the ministers are the provincial governors, also known as ministers.
The fourth level is the city lord, the fifth level is the county lord, and the sixth level is the town order.
The city department chief is one level below the city chief, followed by ordinary civil servants, and so on.
The recently established Imperial Population Council was one of them. The minister was Thomson. In addition to asking for money from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he also asked the Minister of Administration for money.
Every year, the special funds for each department will be allocated to the Executive Yuan in batches from the Finance Yuan, and then allocated to each department at the discretion of the Minister of Administration. Under normal circumstances, the Minister of Administration will keep an active fund in his hands.
This is also the reason why Wilson came to Essien.
The two were silent for a long time before Essien spoke.
"There is a shortage of money everywhere, especially in the original northern and southern provinces. The economy has not yet been completely stabilized, the food harvest has not yet been harvested, and various welfare benefits are being carried out at the same time..."
After hearing this, Wilson also grimaced and vomited his bitterness.
"In the final analysis, it is still developing too fast. If His Majesty had not attacked the northern and southern provinces and gradually encroached on them, we would not be so stretched."
"If we continue to attack the northern and southern provinces according to the digestion speed, we will need at least five years, or even more, to completely unify the Merlocks Empire. These five years will be enough to reduce the population of 600 million by another 100 million.
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A familiar voice sounded next to him, it was Alfonso's wife, the great scholar Hilkin, who had been hired as Essien's administrative assistant due to manpower shortages.
Silkin poured a cup of black tea for each of them.
"Well, we don't know, but the stalls are now too big, and it is impossible to block all the holes in an hour and a half. Fortunately, the two provinces of Gaoerlan and the two autonomous regions of Beifeng and Changfeng have started construction very early.
Now it has begun to feed back the empire, and the provinces of Merlox and Yalanshi have already become important economic provinces of the empire."
"But there are still more than twenty provinces that are lagging behind, even the once most prosperous province of Cleveland. The welfare of the people must keep up, otherwise it will be easy for people to use it to attack the empire.
Essien said while taking a sip of black tea.
"We can advance slowly, for example, each province selects one area to implement it, and slows down implementation in other areas. It does not need to be implemented in all. For example, area A first builds hospital facilities, area B first builds roads, etc., so that the people have peace of mind.
And the factory speed can also be appropriately slowed down." Silkin's words made Essien and Wilson's eyes light up.
"A good idea, but some policies must not be slowed down. Education and medical care are the foundation of the future empire and must not be sloppy." Wilson quickly set the tone.
Essien nodded in agreement.
"And we can mobilize funds from Dongyap Company." Silkin said with eyes shining.
Hearing this, Wilson suddenly woke up and said: "Yes, how could I forget about this? Some time ago, His Majesty had planned to incorporate 51% of the shares of Dongyapu Company into the imperial finance. We can definitely do so."
Execute in advance.”
"Is there such a thing?" Essien suddenly became interested.
Dongyapu Company is now very prosperous in the Asian Eastern Subcontinent. With the Prince Federation as the center, its business radiates to half of the Asian Eastern Subcontinent. To avoid conflicts with the Maxim Chamber of Commerce, their main business is closely related to the Maxim Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber of Commerce has completely avoided it, and the two sides have even begun to cooperate.
Nowadays, Dongyapu Company earns over 100 million gold coins in the Yadong subcontinent every year. As long as half of the gold coins are transferred back, it will be enough to solve the empire's urgent needs.
"But this is not easy!" Silkin said.
Wilson and Essien both showed solemn expressions.
For no other reason than the top person in charge of Dongyap Company, Lan Malok and Vlada, joined forces to run the entire Dongyap Company like a metal barrel. It is not that easy for them to order Dongyap Company.
"We can send people to contact us, but in the end if that doesn't work, we'll ask His Majesty to come forward. Dong Yapu Company has grown so big, even if Mr. Nomeli is behind it, it won't work." Silkin said with a serious face.
His husband is Alfonso, and Alfonso is a direct subordinate of Artoria, so she is naturally a member of Her Highness Artoria's faction.
Upon hearing Sirkin's words, Wilson and Essien both showed worried expressions.
Now that the empire has just been established, several ladies around His Majesty have begun to compete for power.
Among them, the officials from the Enomiri and Artoria factions are the most obvious, and they have begun to contain each other's power.
Essien noticed this very early and told Aslan about it, but Aslan just smiled and did not answer.
There is no other reason. This is inevitable in the development of every force. As the saying goes, if there are no factions in the party, there will be all kinds of strange things.
Mutual containment and mutual promotion are also beneficial to the development of the empire.
If both parties look like good guys, there are only two possibilities.
The empire has long been hollowed out, or else it has lost its vitality, and the entire empire has fallen into a cycle of lifelessness.
Only competition can make people progress. What Aslan has to do is to balance the struggle between the two sides, and at the same time standardize the laws of the empire to keep everything within the rules. Whoever dares to take a step beyond the thunder will be struck by thunder.
Aslan's purpose is simple. On the one hand, he encourages fighting, and on the other hand, he regulates the scope of fighting.