In the Tang Empire, the most watched and heated meeting every year was nothing more than the expenditure budget allocation meeting at the end of each year.
At this time of year, the big bosses from all parties are shirtless and noisy at the most basic level. From time to time, you can see important officials of the empire taking action directly.
The support budget allocation meeting at the end of the year is so intense, and it is basically the same when it comes to funding issues.
This time, various expenditures were required to expand the scale of Southeast Asian immigrants, which also caused a bloody storm at the top of the empire.
Chen Bingquan claims to be someone who has seen the storm, but to be honest, he has never participated in these budget meetings, because in previous years, the Ministry of Health was a marginal department, and it was provided to them after other parties had completed their allocations.
Leave a little bit behind.
However, the spending of the Ministry of Health is not large in the first place, and the little bit left over after other powerful departments finish competing for it is enough to cover the expenses of the Ministry of Health.
How should I put it? The Tang Empire's central fiscal revenue is more than 400 million a year. If you can get a little bit of it here, it will be a matter of several million, which is enough for the Ministry of Health.
As for the financial subsidies required by government-run hospitals in various places, most of the financial subsidies are actually local financial support. Health bureaus in various places also have allocations from local finances, so the Gyeonggi Ministry of Health actually does not need to spend too much money.
Go to direct subsidies.
The Ministry of Health still does more administrative guidance work.
The reason why the Ministry of Health under the Tang Empire system was a marginal department is also related to this. There was no place to spend money and not much funding, so the sense of existence was naturally not strong.
But this time, their Ministry of Health was directly involved in this funding dispute.
In this regard, Chen Bingquan's feeling was that he was suddenly attacked by a stormy sea.
He started his career as an official at Taiyuan Hospital and has been engaged in medical administrative affairs for many years, but this is the first time he has truly felt the dangers of officialdom and the malice of colleagues in other departments.
This made him extremely exhausted physically and mentally, and he even had an idea that he shouldn't have, that he might as well retire half a year early. Anyway, he was already sixty-five years old this year, and he would retire next year.
Anyway, the imperial study room has already been visited, and the scenery has passed. If you retire in advance, you can avoid the current whirlpool.
You must know that the current Nanyang immigration expenses are no longer just medical and epidemic prevention expenses, but have expanded to many other immigration expenses. The total amount involved has exceeded 50 million Tang Yuan.
Now the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry and many other departments are noisy. One moment they talk about infrastructure construction, the next moment they talk about transportation issues, and even railway construction is mentioned.
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This topic became more and more involved, and later it was not limited to the issue of expanding immigration, but also involved the development of the entire Nanyang region.
At this time, it had actually risen to the level of the empire's overall strategy. How dare Chen Bingquan intervene in this kind of thing?
In the midst of the quarrel, the imperial study finally reached a tacit understanding, and finally submitted the Nanyang development plan to the Emperor Sheng.
The entire Nanyang development plan includes many aspects, including mineral resource development, water conservancy facilities, transportation facilities and other infrastructure construction, and support for local specialty industries, including expanding the planting, processing, and transportation of rubber, tropical fruits, and high-yield grains.
In the following years, the Tang Empire will implement a series of development plans around Annan Province, Siam Province, Myanmar Province, Malacca State, Luzon Province, Banten Province, and Australia in the Nanyang region, a total of five provinces and two states.
Treat the Nanyang region as our own country!
As for immigration, in the end it became a subsidiary plan.
How can I put it, as long as the Nanyang economy develops, the population will not decrease.
Li Xuan quickly approved this Nanyang development plan.
The Nanyang development plan will find its own position to develop the economy within the framework of the Tang Empire's global economic development plan, and strive to turn the Nanyang region into the prosperous hinterland of the empire as soon as possible.
Once the Nanyang Development Plan was announced, it naturally aroused a lot of discussion, and many capitals quickly followed suit.
The Nanyang Development Plan was only one part of the Tang Empire's global economic development plan.
For example, the previous extremely important steel and coal development plan!
There is also a new railway construction plan in the empire. Datang Railway Corporation will use the company's self-raised funds and external funds to carry out large-scale railway construction in many places in the country in the future.
In particular, we will promote the construction of main railway lines in remote and backward areas and the construction of branch railways in central areas.
The railway network in the Tang Empire seemed very huge, but the area of the empire was also huge!
Although the Tang Empire had previously abolished clearly differentiated titles such as overseas mainland and overseas territories, it only simply established overseas provinces and changed the titles. In fact, many things did not change.
From a theoretical point of view, the Tang Empire no longer has domestic and overseas territories, but in fact there are still some.
How should I put it? Only places where industrial development is unrestricted can be regarded as the mainland of the Tang Dynasty.
If you go north, you will naturally go all the way to the Arctic Ocean. However, in fact, there are basically no people north of Xiaohai (Lake Baikal). After all, the Tang Dynasty has no shortage of places, and few people are willing to live in the freezing Arctic plains.
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In the east, it extends to the Bering Strait, including the islands of Tokai Province (Fuso). Although the entire Northeastern region is also a bitter cold land, some ports along the coasts of the East China Sea (Fuso Sea) and the North Sea (Okhotsk Sea)
There is still a small population, and the population increases as you go south.
In the south, the southernmost part is Australia, including East China (New Zealand). This place has a small population, and Australia as a whole does not have a population of hundreds of thousands.
In the southwest, there is Myanmar Province (excluding the isolation zone of Bangladesh). In addition, there is a very special place called Ceylon Island. This place is actually considered a local area. Although it is only partially localized, it also has railways and factories. This is the only one.
The island of Ceylon has never been administrativeized and has long been used as a military base to implement military control.
To the west, the Tang Empire is about to turn the West Sea (Caspian Sea) into a lake, with the enclave of Baku. To the west, it has fought all the way to the lower reaches of the Don River, completely controlling the east of the lower reaches of the Don River.
The areas east of the middle and upper reaches of Lake Volga, although these places are far away from Jinling, they are still among the local ranks. Of course, because these places are still in war zones, and the places are too large, there are also more Tatar cavalry.
A large area is still mainly under military control, while the Central Asian region behind it is undergoing industrial and agricultural development.
To talk about how big the Tang Empire was, we can use some data to illustrate that the straight-line air distance from the Bering Strait to the Don River is about more than 7,000 kilometers, and the distance from Donghai Province to the Don River is even further, also seven thousand kilometers.
More than a thousand kilometers.
From the Australian East Island in the south to the Don River, this one is even further, more than 16,000 kilometers.
From the Arctic Ocean in the north to East Australia in the south, it is more than 14,000 kilometers.
The Datang Empire was tens of thousands of kilometers away at every turn. The territory seemed huge and majestic, but the construction of railways would make the Datang Railway Corporation extremely desperate.