Chapter 1223 The Country Is Rich and the People Are Strong
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Zhang Yu returned to Beiping, the newly built capital was very vibrant at this time.
As soon as Zhang Yu returned to Beiping, he simply held a cabinet meeting and let the cabinet handle some established matters.
"The war in the world is basically over now, and the next step is to let the people rest and recuperate. From now on, no major changes will be made, and the cabinet can handle daily affairs."
"But there are two things that must be pushed forward immediately. The first is to continue to build the canal, and the second is to build the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway. This highway will be paid for by the saved military expenses, and the cabinet will not need to allocate additional funds."
This time Zhang Yu plans to directly deploy some of the workers from the army.
Just let them retire to build roads, wait for them to repair for two years, save a lot of money, then let them go back, and give them some land, enough for them to live well.
In addition, some of them retired directly to become policemen and armed policemen, but this part could not absorb many people.
Most of them just retire and go back to be farmers.
This needs to be done slowly. Nowadays, the efficiency of local affairs is not high, and too many people cannot be retired at once.
The retirement of the army should be done slowly. There is a process. These are people who have made great contributions to the empire.
They must be properly arranged so that they can live a better life after they go back.
Several cabinet members can finally breathe a sigh of relief.
After tossing and tossing for so long, they are also very tired, and they have endless government affairs to deal with every day.
Now Zhang Yu began to recuperate and toss.
Although there is no tossing, there are still many remaining problems that need to be dealt with.
After dealing with these things, it is estimated that it is almost the same.
Now the entire empire is running in good condition, just develop slowly.
Zhang Yu has been hanging out with the harem since he came back, being a fool all day long, dealing with government affairs only once every three days, and spending most of his time hanging out with the wives in the harem.
This mix is half a year.
During the half year,
The empire is developing steadily, and all affairs are very good.
The most important thing is that the provinces and cities have slowly completed the replenishment, officials have been in place one after another, and all departments have also started to operate.
There are many problems in this process, which need to be dealt with slowly.
Handling is all delicate work, and it has to be handled and run-in slowly.
In fact, various places have been working together for a year, but the efficiency is still relatively low.
But no matter how low it is, it is much better than the county magistrate who was in charge of it alone.
In the past, a county magistrate was responsible for himself, and what a county magistrate could do.
Provinces, cities, and counties are dealt with at different levels, and the officials trained by the new learning are also relatively capable. The cabinet only needs to control it as a whole.
Although Zhang Yu didn't bother anymore, he let the cabinet do it. The cabinet members must go to the provinces for a period of time to inspect, and they have to stay at least half a year once.
Cabinet members, if they don't know the following situation, formulating policies in the cabinet is ignorant command.
Zhang Yu does not allow this kind of existence, let the cabinet handle it properly.
Time passed slowly, the expressway project progressed very slowly, and more than 100 kilometers were paved in half a year.
The 100-kilometer road cost a lot, much more than Zhang Yu's budget.
But it doesn't matter, a large sum of money has been deposited in the treasury now.
Now that military expenditures are slowly being reduced, at least weapons and equipment and various materials do not need to be prepared much.
It was actually not difficult to arrange for the army to retire, but it was much better than Zhang Yu expected.
The following is what Zhang Yu knew.
When the generals of each army ask soldiers to sign up voluntarily, they will be given ten silver coins when they retire, and their families will be allocated some upper-middle-level land, and the number of acres is two acres more than that of ordinary farmers.
That said, the entire army has to sign up.
In the end, as a last resort, quotas were assigned. There are quotas for how many people can retire in an army. The older ones will retire first, and some backbones in the army will stay first.
All of a sudden, Zhang Yu retired 300,000 people.
After that, some armies can only be decommissioned one after another every year.
These decommissioned troops must be managed to a certain extent when they are placed in the local area, at least they must be registered with the government.
Retiring so smoothly is something Zhang Yu never expected.
The army was decommissioned smoothly, saving a lot of military expenses at once.
Zhang Yu estimated that it would be enough to maintain 800,000 troops in the future. In order to promote reforms, Zhang Yu must maintain a certain number of troops and at the same time create an imaginary enemy.
This imaginary enemy is the West, and it can deceive others for at least ten years.
Ten years is enough for Zhang Yu to complete all the innovations.
Keep an imaginary enemy. If someone wants to rebel during the innovation, Zhang Yu will pull the army out for training.
Now the army is mainly placed in the north, and today's enemies can only come from the grasslands.
But the ethnic groups in the grassland were almost defeated by Zhang Yu.
When Zhang Yu recruits new soldiers in the future, there will be more soldiers from the north than from the south. At the same time, the southerners will go to the north to serve as soldiers, and the northern soldiers will also go to the south to serve as soldiers, so as to adapt to various climates.
Once there is a war in the north, those retired troops can be used quickly, without training, and immediately become an army.
After another half a year or so, under the strong pressure of the cabinet and the direct management of various departments in various places, all systems are going well.
Many officials in various provinces, cities and counties have also been replaced.
After more than a year of running-in, it finally took shape and has become a relatively complete system.
And during this year of recuperation, Zhang Yu's national treasury has accumulated a lot of money.
There are a lot of taxes, and the taxes alone are not enough to spend, and a lot of money is also shipped back from overseas.
Xu Jinghai alone transported back twice, one time more than 40 million silver coins, and one time more than 50 million silver coins.
And now the Silk Road has reopened.
The Silk Road was opened, and wealth was continuously transported.
Basically, Zhang Yu and the others sell things again, and the West doesn't know how to make things at all, and there is nothing to sell.
Zhang Yu brought a lot of knowledge to the West, such as mining and smelting, and taught them how to dig gold and silver mines.
Zhang Yu taught them how to develop, and how to have money to buy their own things if they don't develop.
To the west, Chang'an and Luoyang also developed rapidly, and areas such as Dunhuang also developed.
Zhang Yu is particularly concerned about protecting the ecology of the west. When he has money, he directly empties the population of many rural areas and concentrates them in all large towns. At the same time, he plants trees everywhere, and directly protects some remote places. Farming is not allowed.
After such a rectification, many places can be protected and the ecology will not be out of control.
Today's Chang'an Luoyang is still managed by Zhuge Liang, but Zhang Yu plans to transfer Zhuge Liang back to the capital and directly enter the cabinet.
Zhuge Liang has experienced many places, with rich experience and great talent.
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