certainly.
Naturally, the entire content of the meeting could not be decided and implemented so hastily.
Since the Constitutional Council has proposed this direction, we must first implement it on a pilot basis. For example, we can start with compulsory education in Bianliang to see the results. If there are no problems, we can promote it nationwide and make good budgets and preparations.
It may take several years for it to be truly implemented. Although it is a bit slow, the scale of the project is huge, and many things are interconnected, so we must be cautious.
This is also the strategic policy that our country has adopted in any reform in later generations to avoid mistakes.
In addition to education, as the School of Physics deepens its research on electromagnetism, electricity has also begun to be widely used in industry.
And ordinary people also need electricity, whether it is electric lights or electric fans, they can all be commercialized.
Therefore, it is imperative to build a large number of power stations.
Both thermal and hydropower generation require construction and hiring. The 30% of fiscal revenue retained by local governments alone is definitely not enough; central government funding is also needed.
Plus the remaining directions and previously formulated plans.
The result was that by the end of the 13th year, the taxes that had just been collected had almost all been distributed before they could even be warmed in the hands.
This made many prime ministers, including Zhao Jun, feel very emotional.
The more money you have, the less you spend it.
In the past, the annual income hovered around ten thousand strings of cash, which was enough to cover military expenses, officials' salaries and other miscellaneous expenses.
The annual income has now reached 500 million guan, and military spending has been greatly reduced. Although the salaries of officials have not been greatly reduced, they have increased to more than 20 million guan due to the increasing number of officials each year.
But compared with today's fiscal revenue, both military expenditure and officials' salaries are just a drop in the bucket, and the total amount does not exceed 40 million strings of cash.
As a result, the remaining 400 million guan were used to spend on infrastructure, scientific research, innovation subsidies, social security, medical expenses, transportation, state-owned companies, naval fleet, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, etc.
Not only was all the fiscal revenue for the year spent, but even the money earned from the large number of gifts presented by various nations at the end of last year, as well as the money earned from selling outdated firearms, was still not enough.
Everyone sighed and said that the country's development and construction is indeed a huge hole that can never be filled.
Just when the Song Dynasty was worried that its annual income of 500 million strings of cash was too little.
At this moment, Wanyan Wugunai, who was far away in Liaodong, was sitting in the imperial palace in Shangjing of the Liao Kingdom, looking at the mountains of gold, silver and jewelry in front of him with great joy.
The imperial palace in Shangjing of the Liao Dynasty was the earliest palace of the Liao Dynasty. It was not actually very large in scale, but it was the birthplace of the Khitan. A large number of Khitan nobles lived here and left behind a lot of wealth.
After Ugunai captured Shangjing, many Khitan nobles fled and a large amount of wealth was plundered by the Jurchens, including various Song Dynasty coins, some gold, silver and jewelry.
All together, there may be dozens of boxes.
"Your Majesty, let's see. We have over 1.8 million strings of Song Dynasty currency, and all the jewelry we have is probably worth 1 or 2 million strings of Song Dynasty currency."
Tangkugut, who was named Guolun Bogile, reported to Wanyan Ugunai.
“Hahahahahahahaha.”
Wanyan Wugunai was very happy. He had never seen so much money in his life.
"Your Majesty, what should be done with these?"
Tangkugut asked.
"Keep it for now and tell all the soldiers that this money will be their reward once we capture Zhongjing."
Wanyan Wugunai waved his hand and made the decision.
He knows it very well.
Now is not the time to slack off.
A few months ago, both he and the Liao Kingdom sent envoys to the Song Dynasty.
However, the attitude of the Song Dynasty was very ambiguous, neither helping Liao nor intending to help Jin.
It seems that neither side is helping each other. They are just playing Tai Chi and passing the buck. There is no definite news.
This made Wanyan Wugunai a little worried, fearing that the Song State would take advantage of the conflict between the two countries and profit from it.
Therefore, he had to fight quickly and decisively. Taking over the Liao Dynasty's Shangjing Linhuang Prefecture was not enough to secure victory, and he had to continue the attack.
We must capture Zhongjing Dading Prefecture, completely eliminate the Liao people, and let the matter settle.
When the time comes, the Jin Kingdom will replace the Liao Kingdom, and they will immediately send envoys to the Song Dynasty to pay tribute and pledge allegiance, making every effort to appear as a vassal state of the Song Dynasty.
I don't think the Song Dynasty would risk the world's condemnation and attack its own vassal state just for the sake of the barren land in the north.
As for this money.
Although this was the most wealth Wanyan Wugunai had ever seen, he understood that only by letting his soldiers fight to the death could the Liao Kingdom be quickly conquered.
Therefore, money must be spent to encourage soldiers to fight to the death.
After making the decision to fight a quick battle, Ugunai only rested in Shangjing for two days before leading his army south without stopping.
When he first rebelled six years ago, there were only a few thousand people from the Wanyan and Tangku tribes combined.
But as it has continued to grow over the past six years, various tribes have joined in one after another, and the number of soldiers and horses has reached tens of thousands.
He also recruited surrenders and rebellions along the way, not only gathering troops from the Shiwei, Bohai, Xi and other tribes, but also incorporating the surrendered Khitan troops.
Soon the situation snowballed, and by the time Wanyan Wugunai reached the vicinity of Zhongjing, he already had an army of over 100,000.
This is very similar to the later Jin Dynasty.
Or it can be said that this is the normal direction of war. For example, Cao Cao's army of hundreds of thousands at Chibi was also composed of surrendered troops from various places.
Under the rapid offensive of the Jin Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty's already corrupt and decadent system quickly collapsed.
Although they had artillery, the army was severely corrupt, lacked gunpowder and ammunition, and had a very high grenade dud rate, so they suffered heavy losses in battle.
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