While Zhao Yan was running around in the Science and Technology Academy, Mao Yuanyi ran over excitedly and shouted from afar: "Lord, you're so happy, so happy!"

"What kind of happy event?" Zhao Yan smiled after hearing this.

"When the Liaodong Operations Command cleared the things from the Qing Dynasty, it found an account book." Mao Yuanyi smiled and said, "The account book is full of records of the Qing Dynasty's business with Shanxi merchants. There are thirteen Shanxi merchant caravans recorded on it, and the trade volume between the two sides is enough to reach more than 20 million taels."

"With this account book..."

"Ha ha!"

"hey-hey!"

The two of them laughed sinisterly at the same time... With this account book, they will take action against Shanxi merchants next year.

Each Shanxi merchant has a net worth of several million taels, and it is estimated that he will earn 20 to 30 million taels after the house is confiscated.

It is natural that it is not possible to search the house randomly. There must be a reason. This account book has given Zhao Yan a very sufficient reason unintentionally, and no one can stop it.

As long as the matter is reported with the "Da Ming Dynasty" to report it, the Shanxi merchants who colluded with the enemy will be ruined immediately.

...There are too many things happening in Liaodong now. It was not until mid-January that the Liaodong Operations Command (General Staff) began to clean up various documents left by the Qing Dynasty.

Soon, the account book of the transaction between the Qing Dynasty and Shanxi merchants was found in these documents.

Through the account book, it was found that the transaction between the Shanxi merchants and the Qing Dynasty was sometimes in Zhangjiakou, and sometimes the Shanxi merchants directly sent caravans to Liaodong.

Every time Shanxi merchants arrived, the Qing Dynasty would warmly welcome them.

After discovering this account book, the Liaodong Operations Command hurriedly reported to Zhaojiabao.

After nearly half a month of combat, almost all the Liaodong Plain has been cleared, and administrative personnel from various towns have also been sent.

The Han people in Liaodong also received food for winter, and administrative personnel were going door to door to register as the throne.

Twenty more fly-scissors were launched in January. From eight years to now, sixty more fly-scissors have been built, and two months later thirty more fly-scissors were launched.

Now there are only twenty flying scissor ships that have just been launched in Shandong. Thirty of the remaining forty flying scissor ships transported their troops to support California, and the other ten are responsible for reconnaissance and information transmission tasks in each fleet.

Although there are only twenty fly-scissor ships, their transportation capacity has been greatly improved.

There are about 150 large merchant ships in Shandong, of which 100 were sent to Edo, and fifty are still coming to Liaodong at night, and North Korea transport them.

After continuous transportation, the materials needed in Liaodong were basically shipped.

Those Shandong merchants also wanted to open shipyards in Liaodong, and Shandong also wanted to immigrate to Liaodong and North Korea.

...The eleventh fiscal budget was held again in mid-January.

Since Zhao Yan spent about 5 million taels on scientific research, and also had to set up a foundation of 2 million taels to establish a "Production Progress Award", only 57 million taels can be budgeted.

This budget mainly adds many development projects in Liaodong and North Korea, and the budget originally determined does not need to be changed.

Regarding the development of Liaodong and North Korea, Zhao Yan plans to focus on the development of Liaodong Plain and North Korea, and there is no need to develop it in other places for the time being.

The entire Liaodong arable land area has not been counted, but North Korea's arable land area has been counted.

The entire North Korea's arable land area is about 40 million mu, and if it is included in the mountainous areas, it will be more, but Zhao Yan generally does not immigrate to the mountainous areas. These 40 million mu of arable land are mainly distributed in relatively flat plains and hilly areas.

With 300 acres of land per household, the entire North Korea can resettle 130,000 agricultural population. In addition to the population of other industries, the entire North Korea must have a population of 150,000 in the early stage.

According to the farm model, each labor force can feed 7 to 8 people on average, and the output is mostly meat, with an average of three labor force per household, which can export about 2.7 million people to Shandong every year.

The early immigration costs are about 10 taels of silver per household, which is about 1.5 million taels. At the same time, water conservancy and roads also require about 1 million taels, education and medical care costs about 1 million taels, and other miscellaneous items are about 500,000 taels.

North Korea's budget requires 4 million taels.

The development problem in Liaodong requires more funds. It is hard to say how much arable land in Liaodong is, after all, it is such a large place.

However, under the premise of North Korea's immigration needs, the meeting agreed that the number of immigrants this year will reach 400,000, North Korea will immigrate 150,000, and Liaodong will also need 250,000.

For 250,000 households, each household needs 2.5 million taels of silver. The expenditure on water conservancy and roads is allocated 1 million taels like North Korea. Liaodong is a plain area, and water conservancy and road problems are relatively simple. Education and medical care are allocated 1.8 million taels, and miscellaneous items are allocated 1 million taels.

Liaodong's budget is 6.3 million taels.

Together, the budget required for the two places is about 10.3 million taels, and at the same time, it requires about 500,000 Japanese slaves to be used for infrastructure construction.

Although the number is relatively high, it is largely based on the 500,000 Japanese slaves. Liaodong and North Korea lack labor force, so Japanese slaves must be dispatched. If Japanese slaves are used at the same time, the cost of infrastructure construction will be greatly reduced. Otherwise, 1 million taels of water conservancy and roads in North Korea and Liaodong will be enough, and this money is only enough to buy materials.

At the same time, immigration in Hokkaido will also be launched.

The shogunate signed an unequal treaty given by Zhao Yan, and Hokkaido had been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

This year, it is expected to immigrate 20,000 households to Hokkaido and send 5,000 troops, which will cost about 2 million taels.

Hokkaido will treat it specially because there are still many indigenous people on Hokkaido. Hokkaido is called Hokkaido, and the number is estimated to be quite large.

The task of the 5,000 garrison troops is to capture indigenous people in Hokkaido to build infrastructure, such as water conservancy, transportation and various related factories.

Hokkaido will focus on developing fisheries, while agriculture is used to ensure the needs of the island, so the budget will be larger. After all, the investment costs of fishing boats and preservation facilities for fishing products are relatively large.

Next year, these three regions will be basically developed, Liaodong, North Korea, and Hokkaido.

At the meeting, Zhao Yan changed Hokkaido to Tohoku Island. The Ming Dynasty did not have the administrative unit of Dakai, so it was changed to an island. The Beihai was relative to Japan. For the Ming Dynasty, Hokkaido was in the northeast, so it was changed to Tohoku Island, and the Northeast Island was included in the jurisdiction of Nurkandus.

The scope under the jurisdiction of the Nurkanduis is based on the Tieling, and the areas north of the Tieling are under the jurisdiction of the Nurkanduis, covering both Sakhalin Island and the North Sea Island.

This is the boundary set by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhao Yan also used this as the boundary, but the boundary of Nurkan Dusi will change at any time because Zhao Yan regards Nurkan Dusi as an institution used to govern undeveloped areas.

The Northeast can also be divided into three provinces in the future like later generations, and the boundaries of Nurkandus will continue to shift northward and westward. Nurkandus will become an institution dedicated to dealing with alien races and immigrants in cold areas.

A professional institution that deals with specialized problems.

The commander of the Nurgan Dushi was the highest commander of the Nurgan Dushi, and was appointed as the military officer. He had to undergo a period of training before he could take office.

It has two civil affairs supervision agencies, one is dispatched by official personnel and the other is established by local immigrants.

This is also one of the contents of this year's military reform.

After making a development budget for the captured territory, Zhao Yan began to refocus the budget on the military.

"Next year our foreign combat goal will be Mongolia. At the same time, after the military system reform, we will fully expand the territory and expand the military expenditures required for combat against Mongolia must also be budgeted in advance." Zhao Yan said.

There will be no war bonuses for Mongolian combat, that's for sure.

"In terms of military expenditure, we only count the construction funds after the reform. I think two million is enough for the war against Mongolia." Zhang Zhi said.

"Two million taels are indeed about the same."

The only thing you use to fight Mongolia is the cavalry. Just consider the issue of logistics supply and pension issues. 2 million taels may not be used.

After budgeting, only 14.3 million taels were used.

There are still 43.7 million taels of silver left, but how to spend this money has become a headache.

In the end, Zhao Yan decided to allocate another 8 million taels to the Navy, 5 million taels to build 50 frigates of 1,000 tons, made of real materials, without Paulownia.

Paulownia is just a temporary emergency use. After all, there are too few warships, but it is by no means a long-term solution.

This type of frigate is very impatient and can make a big hole with a shell. It must be equipped with excellent artillery and enemy flying kites.

However, the frigate made by Paulownia is low in cost and is built at a fast speed. Even if it sinks, it will not cause too much loss. It is really a "cannon fodder ship".

The remaining 3 million taels will be used to establish the "Denglai Nautical University", which will specialize in training navigation researchers and research projects in ship design and ship manufacturing. It will increase the funds of the Nautical Technical School. The Nautical Technical School's task is to train 50,000 sailors within three years.

There was still 35.7 million taels of silver left, and there was no place to spend it, so he took out 5 million taels for emergency use in disaster relief. In terms of merchant ship construction, the original task had not been completed, and merchant ships would be purchased from private shipyards in the future.

The remaining 30 million taels, of which 20 million taels are equivalent to 2 million taels of gold, are stored in the bank's vault, and the last 10 million taels are also stored!

The fiscal revenue last year was so much that I couldn’t spend it this year... It was really speechless.

"Lord, you are about to get married, why not build a house!" Zhang Buyun said to Zhao Yan at this time. When Zhang Buyun mentioned it, everyone also felt that Zhao Yan's place was too shabby.

The place where Zhao Yan lives is definitely not magnificent. It can only be said to be an ordinary small courtyard. Although it is very comfortable, it is not stylish at all.

"Wenlong said it's good. The place where the lord lives is too shabby now." Mao Yuanyi also agreed, "In the future, the lord's family business will become bigger and bigger, and he will not be able to live in such a small house."

What Mao Yuanyi said is indeed the truth. Zhao Yan's small courtyard is the old house left by his cheap father, and it is not very big.

If there are too many wives and concubines in the future, how can I live there?

"Now the Zhaojiabao is too small and it is not convenient to work. I think it is better. All departments moved outside the fort and then invited a few gardens to plan Zhaojiabao." Zhang Zhi was even more acquainted and directly proposed to turn such a large place as Zhaojiabao into Zhao Yan's private residence.

I also have to invite someone to build a garden!
Chapter completed!