I want to be emperor

Chapter 666 6000 million [-] million

The development of the Northeast by the Great Chu Empire has been going on since the defeat of the Eastern Captives.

At the beginning of the early days, various settlements were organized. After discovering a large number of high-quality iron ore, coal mines and other metal minerals in the local area, the Ministry of Industry of the Great Chu Empire invested in the northeast, mainly in Liaodong Province. A number of coal mines, Iron ore as well as other types of minerals.

At the same time, several smelting factories were established to refine various local ores on the spot, and then transport a large amount of smelted pig iron and the current wrought iron to various coastal ports by sea.

Later, it invested in the development of several machinery industries, soybean oil, grain processing, production of daily-use iron products, mechanical equipment and other iron products, in order to develop the local economy and produce high value-added products.

After more than ten years of development, the population of Liaodong Province has now increased to more than 800 million. Of these 800 million, about 200 million are the local population and the subsequent birth population.

The remaining 600 million are basically immigrants from the provinces within the pass, mainly from the three provinces of Shandong, Hebei, and Shanxi.

And this refers to the local household registration population. In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of people who live and work in Liaodong, but have not actually immigrated with their families. These people basically came to work from other places.

For them, Liaodong Province is a place to work and earn money, but their home is still in their hometown.

Adding up the entire population, the permanent population of Liaodong Province can reach more than 900 million, which is not far from the tens of millions.

However, only Liaodong Province has a large population in the entire northeast region, while Liaobei Province and Heishui Province further north have small populations.

Northern Liaoning Province is better. They have a large area of ​​the Northeast Plain that can be developed and cultivated. Although the degree of development is not high, mainly along the main rivers, the population of Northern Liaoning Province is more than 300 million.

But Heishui Province is truly vast and sparsely populated. In terms of area, Heishui Province is the largest province in the Great Chu Empire.

Its jurisdiction includes the Songhua River Basin, the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, and then extends north to the Arctic Ocean, east to Sakhalin Island and the Bering Strait, and west to the small Beihai Prefecture in the Baikal Lake area.

This huge place is under the jurisdiction of Heishui Province. So far, even the Great Chu Empire has not figured out its total area... because the people of the Great Chu Empire have not really penetrated into the Arctic ice sheet, nor have they crossed Cross the Bering Strait to the Arctic Ocean.

According to the initial estimate of the empire on the fuzzy map, the total area of ​​Heishui Province is about 300 million square kilometers to 400 million square kilometers. Only when the topography of this place is clear can we know.

But no matter how much it is, there is definitely a base of 300 million square kilometers. Compared with other provinces in China, especially the traditional hinterland of China, Heishui Province is very large. After all, many provinces in China are only small in size Just over [-] square kilometers...

However, in such a huge area, there are very few people in the Great Chu Empire!

In such a huge Heishui Province, the army and civilians of the Great Chu are only a few hundred thousand people... and most of them are concentrated in the Songhua River Basin and the Nen River Basin, that is, the Songnen Plain...

There are very few ordinary people in other places, there are also some officially organized immigrants, hunters and businessmen engaged in fishing and hunting, etc.

The main local economy, besides reclamation and farming, is fur...

The middle and upper classes of the empire are very fond of fur from the north, and are willing to pay a high price for it... This has also prompted many professional fur hunters to continue marching northward, hunting fur by themselves, and on the other hand Some local barbarians traded for fur...

The local population is small, and the further north you go, the smaller the population.

After coming to Heilongjiang and continuing to go north, it is difficult to see the large cities built by pure agricultural immigrants in its inland hinterland.

The existence of the Great Chu Empire in the area north of Heilongjiang mainly existed in the form of small and medium garrison fortresses and fur trade bases.

What's interesting is that these strongholds north of Heilongjiang were basically snatched from the Russians.

Basically, the Great Chu Empire would not go directly to establish any colonial strongholds, but instead sent troops to patrol the vast northern ice sheet area, and would attack Russian colonial strongholds when they found them.

After killing the Russians, the colonial strongholds established by these Russians often serve as the garrison fortress of the Chu army, and carry out certain military reclamation, and then attract some fur merchants who want money and life. Merchants gradually attract other types of merchants and other adventurers.

In the end, a small stronghold will gradually be formed, starting with the garrison, focusing on fur trade and supplemented by reclamation.

These strongholds range from two to 300 people to more than a thousand people. They are generally built along the coast or along the river, and the transportation to and from the inland mainly depends on shipping in summer.

As for land transportation... Unless there are special circumstances, such as urgent military needs, no one would foolishly walk on the ground on the Arctic ice sheet.

That's hundreds of kilometers at every turn, and the deserted journey along the way is better in summer. If it's autumn and winter, don't expect to be able to move at all.

In winter in this place, if you pee directly outside, the urine will turn into ice flowers before it hits the ground!

The extreme cold and long distances have greatly hindered the expansion of the empire to the north.

And there is no way to solve these problems in a short period of time, and the empire has no need to solve them, at least not for decades.

The empire's core strategy for the northern region, especially the region north of Heilongjiang, is to drive the Russians away first, and draw these territories into its own bowl first. As for when it will really eat it... I will talk about it later.

Therefore, the empire will not spend a lot of manpower and materials at this time, insisting on going to the freezing Arctic region for development.

As it is now, it would be good to set up a fortress stronghold to station some troops, and then get some furs or something.

What Luo Zhixue wants to develop is not the area north of Heilongjiang, but the area south of Heilongjiang.

To be precise, they are the three major plains in Northeast China, including the Sanjiang Plain, Songnen Plain, and Liaohe Plain. The Liaohe Plain and part of the Songnen Plain were mainly developed by the empire in the past decade or so.

Now, Luo Zhixue wants to intensify his efforts to further develop the three major plains in the Northeast region, so that the Northeast region will completely transform from a land of crying and crying in the traditional sense to a land of fish and rice.

This is not impossible. Over the past decade or so, the Great Chu Empire has developed the Liaohe Plain very well. The development of the Liaohe Plain has allowed the Great Chu Empire to have millions of people in the area, and it has made the Northeast region It completely got rid of the embarrassing situation of needing to import food from the pass.

The food produced locally is completely self-sufficient, and in turn exports food to the customs.

What Luo Zhixue has to do is to further increase efforts to develop the Liaohe Plain, then invest manpower and material resources to focus on the development of the Songnen Plain, and then tentatively develop the Sanjiang Plain.

This kind of large-scale development naturally cannot do without the policy and financial support of the empire.

There is nothing to say about the policy. Over the past decade or so, the Great Chu Empire has perfected various immigration policies. Whenever there are natural disasters in many places in the pass, officials will be organized to recruit official immigrants.

Funding is a little more troublesome. Regardless of the fact that the central fiscal revenue of the Great Chu Empire has increased year after year, it has reached 6000 million Chu Yuan in central fiscal revenue, but there are also many places to spend money.

The annual military expenditure alone is tens of millions, and then there are also tens of millions of administrative expenditures. The annual investment in various infrastructure fields, especially water conservancy facilities such as flood control and irrigation, roads, bridges and other transportation facilities is also very huge. .

Then various agricultural support funds, you must know that the farm tool subsidies of the Great Chu Empire have never been canceled since it was implemented... Then there will also be some subsidies for large horse farms run by some companies in places with a lot of people and little land.

All kinds of relief and disaster relief are needed every year... The Great Chu Empire is too big. Its territory spans from the Arctic ice sheet to the southern tropical heat. There are various climates. In such a huge territory, there are always some places that are affected by various natural disasters every year There are disasters, earthquakes, floods, droughts, and everything, and farmers these days are very weak in self-rescue ability, so every year the government has to invest a certain amount of funds for various disaster relief.

Then there are various industrial and commercial support development funds. For example, to set up an industrial zone, the government must invest in the construction of various infrastructures. This is all money. Generally, part of the money is paid by the local finance and the central finance. of.

Then there is the expenditure on education. The largest expenditure on education is education. The Great Chu Empire has established many government-run primary schools on a large scale.

The Great Chu Empire is not interested in popularizing higher education, but it is still very concerned about the popularization of primary education. In the past ten years or so, it has continuously established various elementary schools and higher primary schools.

The establishment of these government-run schools is all funded by the government. Not only does it cost money to build the school, but the teachers and administrators in the government-run schools also eat financially.

Although nominally, the salaries of these local administrators and teachers are borne by the local finance, but in fact many local finances have little money, and relying on their own financial strength cannot afford large-scale popularization of education.

Even the financial input in many places cannot even afford the salaries of ordinary administrative staff.

And these all need the support of the higher-level finances.

The central finance of the Great Chu Empire needs to allocate tens of millions of funds to impoverished areas every year to maintain the operation of local administrative agencies and educational institutions, and to build infrastructure such as flood control and road transportation.

Adding all these together, although the Great Chu Empire has a lot of central finance, there are more places to spend money.

Over the years, the central fiscal revenue of the Great Chu Empire has increased year after year, but in fact the use of funds is very tight.

Of course, this is also related to the actions of the monarchs and ministers of the Great Chu Empire... thinking about doing something with some money in hand!
Saving money or something does not exist for the empire. It is good that it does not create a fiscal deficit.

Under such circumstances, it is not easy for the empire to spend a large sum of money to develop the Northeast.

If the money is moved out, some items that cost money will be squeezed out from other places.

When it comes to matters such as the use and distribution of funds, there are often very big disputes. Naturally, Luo Zhixue will not end the matter easily in person, but as usual, he will order the task of developing the Northeast, and let those ministers, co-organizers Ministers figured out how to raise money on their own.

This kind of offending others and damaging his own prestige, Luo Zhixue will never end in person, but will sit on the dragon chair as the referee, and after the subordinates have quarreled among themselves, they will discuss a compromise plan for all parties. It will be finalized.

Amid the noise, a group of ministers from the Great Chu Empire finally reached a compromise, planning to allocate a total of 200 million Chu Yuan for the development of the Northeast within the next five years.

The 200 million Chu Yuan includes immigration costs, construction costs of various local infrastructure, resources and mineral development, subsidies for setting up factories, and so on.

Except for immigration and infrastructure costs that need to be paid directly in cash, other support funds for the industrial sector will be promoted through tax rebates.

This is also a method often adopted by the Great Chu Empire in supporting industry and commerce, that is, various industrial and commercial capital subsidies, not directly giving money to enterprises, but through tax relief and return.

The most established thing is the export of machine-made cloth!
In order to further improve the overseas competitiveness of the machine-made cloth of the Great Chu Empire, and strive to kill the indigenous textile industry in overseas regions one day earlier, the Great Chu Empire has a tariff rebate policy for the export of machine-made cloth in many regions. To put it bluntly, it is zero. export tax.

Of course, these export tax rebates are only limited to some areas where the machine-made cloth of the Great Chu Empire has not yet been occupied and has crushed the local homemade cloth industry.

As for those regions or countries that have fully opened their markets to the empire, or have not fully opened their markets, but they do not have an advantage in the textile industry, the Great Chu Empire still continues to collect export tariffs.

There is also a more typical subsidy for farm tools. For agricultural machinery enterprises, tax relief was adopted in the early stage. After the tax relief period, agricultural machinery enterprises can continue to receive subsidies by applying for tax rebates.

And these tax reliefs and tax rebate subsidies are quite huge numbers every year.

However, even so, the tax revenue provided by the industry and commerce of the Great Chu Empire has been rising steadily, and has already surpassed the agricultural tax, becoming the main tax revenue of the Great Chu Empire, accounting for more than 80.00%.

　There are a lot of things in the past two days, and the code word update is lacking. Please forgive me for a few days. After a few days of rainy days, it will reply to six or seven thousand words a day, and it will be updated regularly.

　　
　
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