Kai Fu Han

Chapter 490 Annual Budget
【It’s difficult! 】

Liu Xinqi murmured in his heart, suddenly thought of someone, and asked the two of them: "Do you know Yuan Li?"

"I know, the former commander of the No. 11 Field Regiment is now the commander-in-chief of the garrison." Jia Shangren replied.

"Do you think he is suitable?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"Well, I have dealt with him several times, and there is no doubt about this man's ability. But he is already in charge of a garrison force of more than 4 people. Does he still have the energy to be in charge of the economic force?" Jiang Xuefeng asked.

In fact, Liu Xinqi felt that the most suitable person was Tao Lu, who had both state management experience and management experience in the Koryo Army of the Xinghan League, and was also very business-minded.

However, this person is now fulfilling his revenge on Jeju Island, so don't bother him.

"Yes, the garrison does not have many affairs. In the future, if Yuan Li is the person in charge of the economic force, he can also coordinate with the garrison. It can be said that it is the best of both worlds." Liu Xinqi replied: "After Yuan Li trains more suitable people , we won’t eat it again.”

"it is good!"

……

After handling a few trivial matters, Liu Xinqi spent the few days before the New Year mainly reviewing Jingyan's four-year annual budget.

With last year’s experience, this year’s annual budget review was a lot easier.

The previous rounds of preliminary reviews have been completed by the deans of each academy, and the ministers of various departments of the Military Academy have also jointly reviewed Jingyan's four-year military budget.

Among the several academies, the simplest one is Dali Academy.Dali Yuan Jingyan's four-year budget is 200 million taels, of which the bulk is the establishment of county courts. This construction cost accounts for half of the budget.

Liu Xinqi, who knew that infrastructure could drive economic development, directly passed the Dali Yuan's budget.

Next is the budget of the Government Affairs Council: 500 million taels.The bulk is the official's monthly salary.With a team of nearly 5 officials, the total monthly salary expenditure reached 200 million taels.The remaining 300 million taels of major expenditure items are education, grain reserves and the establishment of economic troops.

Jingyan's four-year plan to popularize primary education in the forty newly occupied counties requires the construction of a number of new primary schools. The number of primary schools in each county is between ten and twenty. The standard is determined by the number of students. More than one hundred Primary schools will be established in towns and large villages where students come from.Villages that do not have a student population of [-] will divert their students to nearby primary schools.

The main expenses of the Grain Storage Department are granaries and grain purchases.Jingyan's four-year plan was to build standard granaries in the forty newly occupied counties and increase the scale of Xinghan League's grain storage to 4000 million shi, which is equivalent to two hundred kilograms per capita. It would be enough to save food for half a year.

Grain in the Shandong Peninsula is harvested twice a year, and half a year's grain reserves are enough to cope with emergencies. If there is a major disaster and the grain harvest is cut off, these grain reserves can support the Xinghan League until the next season's grain harvest, or purchase grains from other places. .

In the future, the scale of grain reserves will gradually increase until it can be enough for the entire population for two to three years.However, due to various factors, it will not be achieved in one step.

After the granary was built, it was natural to purchase grain to replenish the warehouse. This part of the cost was not included in Jingyan's four-year budget of the Ministry of Grain Reserves.Because food is also property, it is just a matter of exchanging coins for fixed assets. The money for food purchases will be directly withdrawn from the newly printed and minted third-generation coins, and will also assist in the issuance of new coins.As for the economic force, after discussions between Jiang Xue, Jia Shangren, Luo Cheng, Lu Ren and others, it was planned to recruit 1 people.

Of these 1 people, 50 people are allocated to each county; 5000 people are allocated to major commercial and trade locations such as state capitals, land transportation hubs, and ports; 1000 people are allocated to overseas territories such as Jeju Island, Juma Island, and the Twin Cities; the remaining One thousand stayed in Penglai and Baishiwan, the GDP of these two places accounted for half of the GDP of the entire Xinghan League.

The newly recruited [-] economic troops will first be arranged to train in the military academy's new military camp for two months, and then train at the economic troops headquarters for two months.The headquarters of the economic troops will be built within two months, and all economic troops will be trained here from time to time in the future.

The particularity of the economic force requires regular training for tax soldiers to adapt to changes in tax laws and economic policies and keep pace with the times.

...

After reviewing the budgets of the Dali Yuan and the Government Affairs Yuan, the last is the Military Aircraft Yuan.

The Military Academy set off a big firecracker for Liu Xinqi this year. Jingyan's total military budget for four years reached 500 million taels.

Faced with this huge number, Liu Xinqi had to call together several ministers from the Military Academy for discussion.

"The budget figures of the Ministry of War are not watery at all and are still a bit tight. You must know that after 15 new recruits were recruited this year, the total strength of the Ministry of War including the garrison has reached 600. These people only receive one year's military pay. Both exceed 9 million taels." Liu Xin'ang explained: "Besides, the [-] newly recruited soldiers must be fully equipped with weapons and equipment, which is also a huge expense."

The Ministry of War reported a budget of 1000 million to Liu Xinqi, and this figure seemed to be made up.

"The equipment and weapons for the [-] new recruits have been spent through special military expenditure channels. Jiang Xue reported this to me just a few days ago. This money is included in this year's expenditure. Finally, the Ministry of Finance Settlement with the Ministry of Industry." Liu Xinqi said.

"The Ministry of Finance is only responsible for accounting for armor, muskets and artillery. It does not include daggers, carts, horses, gunpowder, engineering equipment, etc., as well as the spring, summer, autumn and winter combat uniforms, training uniforms, food expenses, etc. of these soldiers. The costs for barracks construction and other expenses must be paid out of Jingyan's four-year military expenditure, and 1000 million taels is already the reduced budget." Liu Xin'ang replied.

"How dare you say that the Zhao State in the south doesn't even have a military budget of 1000 million taels for the entire year." Gao Yuan interjected.

"I don't know if Zhao State has a military budget of 1000 million taels, but I know that as long as I give 1000 million, I can suppress Zhao State next year and make them unable to fight back." Liu Xin'ang assured with a pat on his chest.

These army chiefs are indeed more arrogant than civilian officials, who are more reserved in their treatment of Zhao State, and military officers have already regarded Zhao State as their next target.

"Okay, even if what you say makes sense. But what is this item of 'Army River Marine Division'? To build river boats, but also to recruit river navy troops?" Liu Xinqi asked.

"Well..." Liu Xin'ang glanced at Gao Yuan, and continued to explain without paying attention to Gao Yuan's eyes: "In this year's western offensive strategy, many transportation tasks and troop transfers could have been carried out through waterways, but due to the lack of cooperation from the Navy Department, , which delayed us for a long time. So I think the army should also have its own inland water force. In this way, it will be freer and faster to transport supplies and troops from land and water in the future."

(End of this chapter)