(Ten years after graduation, I will go back to my alma mater to attend a party tomorrow and take three to four days off)
Haizhou prospered because of the military. The military port, camp city, and logistics system brought a large population. The huge military supply market attracted a large number of emerging factory owners, merchants, craftsmen, and hired workers, making Haizhou appear in a short period of time.
Thriving prosperity.
At the same time, Haizhou is a brand new seaport city, so Haizhou can be built more according to Lin Fu's ideas.
Lin Fu nominally came to Haizhou to supervise the army and take charge of the Northern Command. However, after he arrived in Haizhou, he left the daily military affairs to Gao Zongting, Wu Qi, and Ge Cunxin. His own thoughts were mainly focused on Haizhou City Port.
on the construction of.
In order to directly intervene in Haizhou's government affairs, Lin Fu sent Luo Yicheng, the prefect of Haizhou, to also lead Zuo Dianshu of the Northern Command.
The branch of Haizhou City originally had a plan and budget, but Lin Fu intervened, especially since Lin Fu came up with incredible new ideas from time to time. The local officials of Haizhou Prefecture were naturally happy, but they called Jianghuai Xuanfu
The Secretary and the Privy Council complained endlessly.
By November, seeing the situation uncontrollable, Lin Mengde had to come to Haizhou in person to persuade Lin Fu to intervene in local government affairs.
"My lord, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are," Lin Mengde complained bitterly, sitting in front of Lin Fu, "one month after you arrived in Haizhou, the Haizhou government reported to the Huaidong Xuanfu Envoy
The additional expenses of 300,000 silver dollars. This guy Luo Yicheng doesn’t have any good intentions. He is eager to get some money for Haizhou. With your words, he will support the Huaidong Xuanfu Secretary, and the Huaidong Xuanfu Secretary is not the same.
, but how can we allocate an additional three hundred thousand silver dollars this year? We can only go to the Privy Council - I have brought the request list from the Privy Council sent by Flying Cavalry in November. My lord, you can review them one by one for Mengde.
Let’s see which money should be allocated and which should not be allocated?”
In the Privy Council, Lin Mengde had the highest qualifications and the most outstanding achievements. Luo Yicheng said a few words to him and sat aside unable to say a word.
Lin Fu watched Lin Mengde open the small wooden basket he carried with him, took out a handful of folded letters, grinned, pushed the folded letters back to Lin Mengde, and said: "You are the big housekeeper, you can't approve the money."
Son, just reject it. That's good. Forget it this year, the Privy Council will squeeze out an extra 300,000 silver dollars for Haizhou next year. If there is any shortage, I will capture Qian Xiaowu and see if the inner government can squeeze it out.
Come on..."
"Two hundred thousand silver dollars is as high as the sky," Lin Mengde bargained. "My lord wants to ask for more. Let's see if the military department can squeeze some out from elsewhere. Next year, the Privy Council's allocation for the military will be increased to one thousand four hundred dollars."
It should be convenient to squeeze out an additional 100,000 and 200,000 silver dollars. If there is another major disaster like this in western Zhejiang next year, the Privy Council will have to keep the silver in their hands for emergency response..."
"The military department needs to support 400,000 people. Although the appropriation will increase, there will be 30,000 to 50,000 more troops next year, but there won't be much extra money." Gao Zongting sat aside and listened to Lin Mengde's plan to burn the fire.
If it gets on the head of the military department, quickly push it off.
"If the land tax from the new land tax is temporarily transferred to the local government, the central government should be able to get an additional four to five million silver dollars every year..." Liu Shidu, who served as the Jianghuai Propaganda Envoy, said from the sidelines.
"Sooner or later, this will be classified into the local government. We must make a decisive decision now. We cannot hesitate," Lin Fu said. "Two hundred thousand silver dollars is only two hundred thousand silver dollars. It is not necessary to make the dream more difficult..."
After the new tax policy, Lin Fu classified all basic land taxes into local finance.
In this way, the local finance can earn a total of four to five million silver dollars every year. Only in this way can the township system be supported and the local government have the financial resources to carry out large-scale construction of canals, roads, bridges, river embankments and other large-scale projects.
Construction of projects.
If local fiscal revenue increases, the central annual revenue will be reduced by a large amount accordingly.
Last year, the central government's annual revenue, combined with the Ministry of Revenue and the Privy Council, totaled 20 million silver dollars. This year after the Jingxiang Battle, as the local relations between the two lakes, Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangnan were further clarified, the annual revenue should be further improved.
A substantial increase.
However, due to the new tax policy implemented by Lin Fu after the year, this year's central annual income not only did not increase significantly, but also decreased slightly compared to last year, and did not even reach the scale of 20 million silver dollars.
Liu Shidu previously served as the Salt and Iron Envoy, assisting Lin Mengde, and Lin Xuwen sorted out the central finance. After the Autumn, Lin Fu split Jiangdong County into four Xuanfu Envoys: Jianghuai, Luzhou, Jiangning, and Chongzhou. Only then did Liu Shidu come down from the central government and take up the post.
The Jianghuai Xuanfu envoy, but when it comes to the balance of interests between the local government and the central government, his thinking habitually stops at the central government.
Lin Fu felt sad that the center suddenly lost such a large amount of income, but some things had to be done now.
The land tax and tax itself are annual revenues under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Lin Fu temporarily retained the Yuanyue Imperial Household and the six departments of the Zhengshitang. After allocating the land to the land, the basic land tax would be included in the local tax source, and the household department would no longer have financial power. In this way, the original Zhengshitang and the six departments would be
It was completely transformed into a piece of gorgeous leather and placed there.
On the other hand, the central government cannot get the basic land tax and wants to stabilize or increase its annual income, so its eyes and minds can only focus on maritime trade, emerging industries, mining, banks and other industries as well as additional land taxes, which can fundamentally make the central government
Pay attention to the development of maritime trade, develop industry and mining, and suppress the annexation of farmland and residential land.
This year, after a large chunk of the basic land tax was removed, central annual revenue has not dropped significantly, which shows that emerging industries such as maritime trade, industry and mining are still maintaining strong growth - this is the situation that Lin Fu hopes to see.
After the Jiangning War, the annual output of iron materials controlled by Huaidong would be 20 million kilograms. Lin Fu still insisted on asking Sun Dalu to build a larger-scale Putang Iron Works.
At that time, everyone thought that after the Putang Iron Works was completed, there would be a surplus of iron produced in the Jiangning area every year.
The actual situation is that after the Putang Iron Works was built, due to the widespread use of new craftsmanship, the annual output of iron materials was originally designed to be 10 million jins. By this year, the annual output of iron materials has reached a height of 20 million jins.
Putang, together with several large government-run iron yards in Chongzhou, Shanyang, Yizhou Zhuxi and other places, the total output of iron materials this year will exceed 50 million kilograms. With the establishment of a large number of private iron yards, the market has not overflowed.
Although iron prices have declined, they still remain at a level higher than before the war.
Not counting the profits of these government-run iron yards, the market tax paid to the Department of Taxation alone this year will be as high as one million silver dollars.
The tax-sharing thinking promoted by Lin Fu not only increased local finances, but also increased local capacity to implement projects such as canals, roads, bridges, embankments, etc. It also directly stimulated local purchasing power of primary industrial products.
, stimulate the further development of new industries.
This kind of simplified thinking on macroeconomic control will be commonplace for ordinary people in later generations, but in today's world, people still don't understand the whole picture.
Others can't understand the whole picture, but Lin Fu does it first and then talks about it. If he can achieve practical results, he will naturally be accepted by others; otherwise, spending time arguing with others is not what Lin Fu is good at.
When it comes to governance, although Lin Fu was scolded by Chen Xiyan as a pig in the early years, to this day, at least in the Privy Council, no one will question Lin Fu's governance ability; after all, Lin Fu has experience that is thousands of years ahead of his time.
What is more important to him is to connect the advanced political thinking of future generations with the reality of the current world, and to be ahead of the curve, but not too advanced or too out of touch.
In terms of mining, Lin Fu focuses on the development of coal and iron; in light industry, Lin Fu focuses on the development of textiles; in manufacturing, Lin Fu focuses on the development of shipbuilding, car building, textiles, and mining machinery; in terms of tax sources, Lin Fu mainly focuses on industrial and mining industries.
Lin Fu let go of the taxes and duties related to sea trade and other myriad government affairs as he could, and asked Lin Xuwen, Lin Mengde, Song Fu and others to share them.
Lin Fu has even begun to restrict the scale of government-run factories and mining areas. In addition to continuously innovating technology and improving productivity, he also strictly controls the scale of government-run factories and mines to increase the number of employees. Instead, he wants to give up the excess market space to the Jianghuai region.
The new factory owners, industrial and mine owners went to seek profits.
When discussing tax separately, Lin Fu alone more than doubled the municipal and commercial tax on charcoal, restricting households in counties and cities from using charcoal and firewood as fuel, which directly promoted the development of the coal mining industry in various places.
At present, there are eight government-run coal yards under the direct control of the Privy Council. However, this year's coal yard tax, government-run coal yards account for only three-fifths. In the next year, this proportion will further decline.
The benefits of greatly increasing iron production are obvious.
People in later generations are no strangers to coal, but many people think that coal is a product of modern industry.
In fact, Jiangning Prefecture alone has consumed more than one million baskets of coal every year in the past two hundred years - it can be said that coal mining is the oldest traditional industrial sector that coexists with porcelain making, iron smelting, and copper smelting.
Jiangning Prefecture has ten counties, with a population of more than 2.5 million, and urban households account for more than 40% of the total. If urban households do not use coal on a daily basis, but mainly use charcoal and firewood as fuel for cooking, the area around them will definitely be
There is no wood left.
At that time, the proportion of urban households was highest in the two capitals, followed by Hangzhou, Pingjiang, Chongzhou and other places. However, even in the most remote counties, urban households accounted for about 10% of the total population. And the oldest
Industrial sectors, such as iron smelting, copper smelting, silver smelting, tin smelting, porcelain burning, brick burning, lime burning, etc., are also in a critical period of using both charcoal and coal as fuel.
A step forward will promote the great development of the coal mining industry; a step back will lead to the contraction and stagnation of the coal mining industry.
The total output of the coal mining industry this year is approximately 30 million baskets, not including the nearly 2 million baskets of high-quality Shannan coal imported from Goryeo and specially used for glazing and high-quality refined iron.
There are also serious problems in the rapidly developing coal mining industry. The Lishui coal field collapsed this year, burying more than 100 people. Almost all officials have requested that the bids for coal fields in various places be stopped. Lin Fu, despite the pressure, will oppose
The voice was suppressed, and I just asked the coal mines to pay attention to the safety of mines.
Now that Lin Fu is in a high position, he is often exposed to all kinds of strange advice.
In order to strengthen their control over the people under their rule and prevent the recurrence of the Huaisi civil uprising, some officials even suggested restricting the use of kitchen knives, saw axes, shovels, plows and other iron tools. Lin Fu responded to this as he did in Guanyun County.
Zhou Zhiyun was dumbfounded and threw Jin Yan into the trash can. At the same time, he also put this official into a separate roll where he would be gradually eliminated and never promoted.
In light industry, Lin Fu was determined to develop textiles and sugar production.
Sugar production is mainly due to the fact that Yizhou has a sparse population, fertile land and hot climate, which is very suitable for planting sugarcane plantations.
Cloth, like rice and grain, is necessary for people's survival. The white cloth produced by the new textile industry has quality and cost advantages that homespun cloth cannot match.
In order to ensure the smoothness of the market and the formation of a unified market, Lin Fu determined Jiangning as the center of domestic trade, making Chongzhou, Mingzhou and Jin'an the center of foreign trade, and made the counties and counties where the Xuanfu envoys were located, the region.
In the centers of trade, there are commercial departments directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.
First, municipal commercial tax has become one of the main tax sources for local governments, and local officials are happy to see industrial products enter domestic trade; on the other hand, emerging industries have cost and quality advantages that traditional products cannot match. Perhaps more importantly,
One point is that the forces behind emerging industries cannot be competed by traditional forces.
Once the sales of Huaidong's new cloth, cane sugar, and ironware are hindered by local forces in a certain place, the forces behind the emerging industries will first think of replacing local officials, and the second thing they will think of is whether to kill some people to scare the chickens and monkeys...
Weaving and dyeing is also an emerging industry that Lin Fu first gave up market space. At present, in Chongzhou, Jiangning and Haiyu County, which has received new industry development next to Chongzhou, there are 80 textile factories using the new production method, together with those under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.
The textile factories employ 60,000 people. Surrounding the emerging textile industry are a series of dyeing, sail weaving, cotton planting, textile machinery manufacturing, clothing, shoemaking and other derivative industries.
It is a complete new industrial system. There are even specialized button-making factories and belt factories.
At that time, robes were still the main form of clothing, but military uniforms pursued simplicity and convenience, and mainly used half coats to kill enemies more effectively on the battlefield. Copper-tin buckles and armed belts were commonly used in military uniforms.
The uniforms of the Huaidong Army were directly shaped by Lin Fu. Although the armor was mainly of traditional style, the uniforms were as close as possible to the styles of later generations. Buttons and belts became the mainstream, but the colors were still traditional.
Mainly green and black. There were no plastic products in the world at that time, so only copper or tin metal buckles that were easily punched and forged could be used.
The Military Staff Department purchases more than 800,000 sets of military uniforms every year. The military's demand for metal buckles alone is three to four million pieces per year, worth almost 10,000 silver dollars, enough to support two or three buckle-making factories.
Lin Fu's current energy is almost entirely focused on the New Deal and the development of new industries.
When he came to Haizhou, Lin Fu's main intention was to take advantage of the huge military supply market of the Northern Army to promote the rooting and development of new industries in Haizhou. He spent a lot of money in Haizhou to do some auxiliary and promotional work.
For example, he established a high school and built the country's first museum in Haizhou with his ideas, so that people can see the world at home without traveling far.
Although to the north of the Yihai defense line, Yanhu's defense line construction in northern Shandong was also intensively and increasingly perfected, Lin Fu didn't care much about it. In Lin Fu's deployment, no matter how perfect Yanhu's defense line construction was, it was impossible to withstand it.
A powerful army supported by a new industrial system.
Lin Fu is the one who spends money. He gets excited when he thinks about how to spend money. Lin Mengde is the one who manages money. Thinking about spending money naturally gives him a headache. Unexpectedly, he made a special trip to Haizhou and the Privy Council will give him two more votes next year.
Lin Mengde was not in a good mood after giving 100,000 silver dollars to Haizhou.
Lin Mengde wanted to cheer himself up, not to dispel Lin Fu's interest, but thought of other things, and asked: "I heard in Jiangning that the Fuhuo giant crossbow was quite effective in Haizhou. Will the warships be assembled in the near future?"
If the Ministry has this plan, it is better to tell it earlier so as not to catch the Privy Council off guard..."
"The money is spent on building a museum, and there is no benefit in sight, so the dream makes you anxious; at this time, he is rushing to equip the fire-subdued giant crossbow, look at his quick and easy temper..." Lin Fu turned around and teased Lin Mengde with Gao Zongting.
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Lin Mengde smiled awkwardly.
"Meng Degong is eager to win the battle," Lin Fu teased Lin Meng De casually, but Gao Zongting wanted to cover it up for him and said to Lin Meng De, "There is still a possibility of the Fuhuo Crossbow exploding. It should be made of iron.
It’s not pure enough yet, so several ironworks have been asked to send people to do this, and it will take some time to test; if all copper materials are used, the cost will be too high..."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter," Lin Mengde said, "Each giant fire-burdening crossbow weighs more than a thousand kilograms, and one hundred of them only costs about one hundred thousand kilograms of copper. The Privy Council can allocate extra..."
"But what my lord wants is that each of the newly built Jinhai-class warships will be equipped with forty to fifty fire-fighting crossbows. Is the Privy Council still willing to let go?" Gao Zongting asked with a smile.
Lin Mengde was stunned for a moment, a little stupid, and asked in surprise: "How can we spread the cloth so densely?"
There are only eight Lin Zhengjun-class warships, scorpion crossbows, and bed crossbows. All of them are equipped with submersible fire crossbows. The density will be increased six to seven times, which will indeed make Lin Mengde stunned.
At present, the copper material collected by the Privy Council every year is only about one million kilograms, which cannot meet the requirements of the Mint.
Lin Mengde thought that he would be able to squeeze out more than ten or two hundred thousand kilograms of copper next year, which he thought was quite generous, but he did not expect that he could only equip two Jinhai-class warships.
Lin Fu spread out a drawing on his desk and asked Lin Mengde to look at it: "This is the drawing of the new Lin Zhengjun-class warship. Don't bite your tongue after reading it..."
The Huaidong battleship currently uses the scorpion crossbow and bed crossbow as its main long-range weapons.
The Scorpion Crossbow is a projectile weapon and needs to be mounted on the unobstructed deck above. However, the Bed Crossbow has been set up in the cabin, with a crossbow port on the side to attack enemy ships. It no longer takes up space on the upper deck. It is just the Bed Crossbow and the Scorpion Crossbow.
The range was very limited, so naval warfare tactics could not break away from the traditional scope. Therefore, Lin Fu did not go crazy and set up crossbow ports densely in the lower cabin of the warship.
The blueprint that Lin Mengde was asked to look at at this time was the latest warship designed by the Huaidong Shipbuilding Department, and only the blueprint existed.
The upper deck of the new warship is still a traditional sea sailing ship, with five giant masts standing tall and a total of forty-two sails. However, below the deck, two layers of crossbow cabins are added above the water, and the sides are equipped with crossbow ports.
The crossbow ports are densely packed, with at least fifty or sixty on one side.
The complicated drawings made Lin Mengde dizzy, and he did not dare to ask the cost of such a battleship.
Every upgrade of the Huaidong warship, as Huaidong's chief steward and the person who takes out the money, Lin Mengde is naturally involved in it personally. He knows that such a warship cannot be built without five or six million silver dollars; if it starts next year
Building two new warships will directly consume more than half of the additional money for the military next year...