Chapter 225: The fine traditions of the Tang Dynasty: fines
So to put it bluntly, both sides are playing their own roles. The army's patrol boat units provide support to its own army, and the navy's river warships provide support to its own marines...
Therefore, this division of responsibilities and powers between the two sides does not mean that Navy warships are not allowed to enter other rivers, and Army patrol boats cannot go to sea. Navy warships can still penetrate into rivers and lakes in various places. Army patrol boats can still go to sea.
Can go to sea.
After all, a certain amount of leeway must be left for both parties.
Otherwise, both parties will disagree.
In fact, this kind of agreement is relatively consistent with the current status of the army and navy. The current Tang Dynasty army and navy are in this model. Even if it is still relatively vague, it still stipulates that both parties should play their own roles and do not have to deal with it.
No matter how bad it is, it is much better than the recent clamor of the Army to build battleships and the Navy to reorganize several Marine Corps.
After both sides retreated, the recent dispute between the army and navy came to an end.
It can be regarded as regulating the chaotic appearance of the army and navy to a certain extent.
Against this background, the Army began to prepare for the establishment of several Jianghu divisions. In addition to garrisoning the local area, it also garrisoned overseas areas. The more important areas are the two inland river divisions in the Vogar and Don river basins.
The Navy is not idle either, they are starting to make the Marine Corps heavy-duty!
According to the Navy, our Marine Corps has a small number of people and it is too difficult to defend the world, so it must be equipped with more heavy artillery and more horses. Well, we can also get a batch of the recent gasoline vehicles and the like.
Try the equipment.
The Army didn't bother to argue with them.
Point guard in the world? It’s just you, the Navy. That’s nonsense.
Even in the far-away Embassy District of London, England, the troops stationed there are all my army officers and have nothing to do with your Marine Corps.
The army and navy were tossing and turning. To a certain extent, this was the result of the Tang Empire cutting back on military spending and requiring the military to exercise restraint to make way for economic construction.
In the 41st year of Xuanping's reign, military expenditures did not increase but decreased compared to last year.
This is the biggest source of conflict between the army and the navy!
If they had enough money, their army and navy would do their own thing and not bother to talk to each other.
However, Li Xuan, the Holy Emperor of the Tang Empire, personally made a plan. In the next few years, in order to achieve the grand strategic goal of universal prosperity, I hope the military will be patient.
The Holy Emperor asked the military to endure it, so naturally the army and navy had no choice but to endure it first.
The total amount of military spending is not large enough, and the conflicts between the two sides have become more intense in the competition for limited funds.
However, with less military spending, more funds were used in other areas, especially the series of support policies promoted by the Tang Empire's basic economic development plan, which was a big money grabber.
In the forty-one years of Xuanping, the central finance of the Tang Empire planned to invest more than 17 million Tang yuan in water conservancy facilities, roads and other infrastructure in rural areas just to increase farmers' income.
This is only central government expenditure. If local government expenditures are included, the figure would be even larger.
At the same time, a total of approximately 30 million Tang Yuan of fiscal revenue was invested in coal, steel, transportation and other fields through tax exemptions, subsidies, etc.
This does not include reductions and exemptions in agricultural taxes for farmers with little land, personal income taxes for low-income workers, etc.
Under the large-scale system of the economic development plan, the Tang Empire is expected to invest approximately 80 million Tang Yuan in financial support for various industries through various methods.
This is 80 million Tang Yuan!
In the Tang Empire that implemented the gold standard, these 80 million Tang Yuan were equivalent to 80 million gold coins!
Each Tang Yuan banknote can be exchanged for gold of equivalent value at a bank.
The impact of this 80 million yuan in financial support is also huge.
Stimulated by favorable policies and under the deliberate guidance of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Royal Industry, the output of basic products such as coal and steel has continued to increase, and prices have continued to decline, thus driving down the prices of various industrial products on a large scale.
At the same time, we will guide various localities to increase the minimum wage level for workers based on economic growth.
For example, in Songjiang Prefecture, the minimum wage in the early years was 2.5 yuan per month. Now, the minimum wage income in Songjiang Prefecture has increased to 5 yuan per month.
It seems that the increase is only 2.5 yuan, but in fact it has directly doubled, and the income will be at least 20 to 30 yuan more in a year.
At the same time, you have to know that Tang Yuan is very valuable. An ordinary single man, commonly known as a single young man, rents an ordinary single apartment in Songjiang Prefecture, and the monthly rent is only one or two yuan...
The annual income of an ordinary middle-class family is only two to three hundred yuan.
And this is only the legal minimum wage. In fact, people's average income exceeds this number.
According to statistics, the average monthly income in Songjiang Prefecture has reached 8.5 yuan, ranking highest in the country.
If we take families as a statistical model, in the Songjiang Prefecture area, nearly 20% of the standard families of five people have an annual income of more than 200 yuan.
In addition to Songjiang Prefecture, the richest place in the Tang Empire, the minimum wage in other parts of the country has also increased. In the early years, it was generally around two yuan, but now it has gradually increased to around four yuan.
Even based on the minimum income, the annual income of a two-income family can reach about one hundred yuan.
Of course, this is only limited to cities and does not include vast rural areas.
In rural areas, the per capita income is lower, and much lower. This is because farmers in rural areas lack job opportunities and additional sources of income. If they only rely on farming, since there are more people and less land, it is good to have enough to eat.
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This is why the Tang Empire pursued urbanization and industrialization, in order to provide more job opportunities for the large number of rural surplus laborers.
At the same time, in order to prevent factories from treating ordinary workers who came to the city as slaves, the Tang Empire issued labor laws a long time ago.
However, the original labor protection law is already difficult to protect the rights and interests of ordinary workers, especially those at the bottom.
After all, capitalists are naturally profit-seeking, even the gentry capitalists unique to the Tang Empire were the same.
Most of these gentry capitalists in the Tang Dynasty may have looked like kind squires in their hometowns, building roads and bridges to help poor children study.
But in large factories invested in cities outside, those who should be exploited are still exploited, and they still don't admit it...
Because they themselves do not take care of business, these businesses are taken care of by professional managers. In their words: those managers who treat workers harshly are not us gentry...
The officials of the Tang Empire would never rely on the moral aspects of people's hearts to promote these things.
The Tang Dynasty has always promoted these things through various strict laws, and according to the fine tradition of the Tang Dynasty, such laws often have fine clauses...