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Chapter 470 Five-Year Development Plan
Once the agricultural subsidy of 500 million taels was announced, it quickly aroused huge repercussions.

Many of them doubted the authenticity of this matter.

It's not about doubting the authenticity of the Great Chu Empire's agricultural subsidies, but doubting whether the Great Chu Empire can spend so much money for subsidies.

After all, that was 500 million taels of silver. Looking at the time of the Ming Dynasty, let alone tens of millions of taels, even a few million taels would not be available.

So if it is changed to the Great Chu Empire, can they spend so much money?

At this point, the outside world's worries are obviously superfluous.

First of all, this batch of money belongs to the total expenditure, and the specific expenditure will be shared by the local and central finances, such as subsidies for factories and workshops that produce farm tools, part of the local financial subsidy and the central financial subsidy part.

It is not to say that all expenditures are made by the central government.

Furthermore, the central fiscal revenue of the Great Chu Empire is quite a lot.

On December 28th, the Great Chu Empire had just finalized the financial budget for the next year, which is the fifth year of Chengshun.

Among them, the income budget is 100 million denarii.

In terms of regions, it is predicted that next year the Pan-Jiangnan region will make the most financial contribution, including northern Zhejiang, Jiangnan, Yingtianfu in Zhili, and southern Anhui in Anlu province.

These places alone are expected to directly contribute about 500 million taels of central fiscal revenue.

In addition to Jiangxi, the three places of Chubei and Chunan can also contribute about 1000 million taels of fiscal revenue.

In the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, there are rarely only 200 million in Guangxi, and about 400 million in Guangdong, which adds up to about 600 million.

Finally, there are Jiangbei, Anlu Gaoguanjiang, Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places. The fiscal revenue of these places is not high. At the same time, in order to restore the local people's livelihood, Luo Zhixue is still in the above-mentioned provinces. The local governments decree to exempt the agricultural tax, so don't look at these places, but next year the above-mentioned places will add up, and it is estimated that they will only contribute about 1000 million taels of central fiscal revenue.

This adds up to 100 million taels of central fiscal revenue.

If it is divided according to the type of tax, then the agricultural tax occupies a large part, which can be about 3000 million taels, accounting for about 50.00%. Then it is the salt revenue, which can be more than 500 million (including salt tax and Profits turned in), and then there are various industrial and commercial tax revenues and profits turned over by enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of Industry, which is about 1000 million, and finally there are miscellaneous incomes such as tariffs and coinage revenues in the millions.

It can also be seen from this that why the Great Chu Empire wanted to clean up illegal salt in Jiangbei and other places on a large scale in the fall. This is only about 500 million taels of salt revenue a year. All the industrial and commercial incomes of the Great Chu Empire add up to more...

During the Ming Dynasty, the income from the salt industry fattened up countless powerful salt merchants, which forced Yangzhou into a prosperous city with a population of tens of thousands.

In the Great Chu Empire, the income from the salt industry has become an important pillar of finance.

The above are only regular fiscal revenues, and do not include all kinds of confiscated income that may be obtained next year.

At the same time, the money that the Great Chu Empire can spend is not limited to these fiscal revenues, but also includes the fiscal surplus of hundreds of millions of taels of silver in the treasury...

Such a large fiscal surplus is not collected from taxes, but has been copied and confiscated over the past few years.

In the third year of Chengshun’s Dongjin Campaign, the Taxation Department raided Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Zhejiang and other areas, and obtained tens of millions of taels of confiscated income. After spending part of the money, there was still a lot left.

In the fourth year of Chengshun, that is, this year's Northern Expedition, coupled with the new round of suppression campaigns launched in autumn and winter, the gains were even greater. Tens of millions were confiscated in Youzhou City alone, and then they were also confiscated in Luoyang. A lot of money was confiscated, and tens of millions of funds were confiscated in Yangzhou and Huaihe in the end. After a busy year in the last year, the confiscated funds were more than [-] million.

Even though the Northern Expedition cost a lot, the Great Chu Empire itself had a regular fiscal revenue of more than 4000 million taels last year, so in the end, there was a surplus of more than 2000 million taels in the treasury.

Such a large treasury surplus is also the reason why the monarchs and ministers of the Great Chu Empire dared to launch large-scale agricultural subsidies.

To put it bluntly, in the five-year agricultural subsidy plan, half of the central budget’s expected expenditure, about 3000 million taels, can be directly used from the existing treasury surplus, and there is no need to use conventional fiscal revenue at all.

Today's Great Chu Empire is rich and self-willed, so it dares to boldly launch a five-year agricultural subsidy plan.

In fact, in the next five-year development plan, agricultural subsidies are only a relatively important part of it. At the same time, several development plans that have not been announced to the outside world are also reused, and the expenditure is expected to be large.

This aspect is mainly the industrial sector.

In the next five years, the Great Chu Empire hopes to increase iron production to 20 tons per year and coal production capacity to 250 million tons.

The main projects include the fourth phase of Daye Ironworks, the third phase of Dangtu Ironworks, the proposed Guangzhou Ironworks, and the proposed Tianjin Ironworks, forming a pattern of four large ironworks, plus some Small and medium-sized ironworks eventually reached an annual production capacity of 20 tons.

The main coal projects include the second and third phases of Jiangxi Pingxiang Coal Mine, the first and second phases of Hebei Kaiping Coal Mine, and more than ten medium-sized coal mining projects all over the country.

Coal and steel are the foundation of the national defense industry and the foundation of agricultural development. Therefore, Luo Zhixue puts the focus of the early industrial development on the coal and steel industry, and is preparing to launch a number of key coal and steel projects.

In addition to coal and steel, the machinery industry is also a key support project. The machinery industry is the foundation of various factories. Without the various equipment produced by the machinery factory, it is impossible to start. In addition, the machinery industry is not only the production of equipment. In the Great Chu Empire , the one that produces farm tools is also considered a machinery factory...

Therefore, the Great Chu Empire plans to build machinery factories of various scales in all parts of the country according to local conditions, taking into account the local iron ore, coal resources, and transportation conditions. Generally, they will be built nearby ironworks or coal mines.

They are mainly small machinery factories. In addition to producing some machinery and equipment for local use, the main task is to produce iron products such as agricultural tools, cooking utensils, and civil hardware. This is actually a part of agricultural subsidies.

There are not enough small machinery factories all over the place, how can farmers get a lot of cheap iron farm tools.

In addition, it will focus on supporting the development of three machinery factories, Hantian Machinery Factory, Dangtu Machinery Factory, and Guangzhou Machinery Factory, to continue to expand their scale, carry out technology research and development, and upgrade and replace machinery products.

The chemical industry, which is a relatively pure defense industry at present, mainly produces gunpowder. At present, these ammunition factories are directly subordinate to the arsenal, so although there is some support, they will generally develop with the development of the arsenal.

However, the follow-up involves dyes, paints and other industries. In order to plan ahead, Luo Zhixue also instructed the Ministry of Industry to plan to build at least one large-scale chemical plant for research and development and production of various chemical products.

Finally, some more subdivided industries will invest in new construction, or support one or two factories.

For example, Hankou Telescope Factory in the optical industry, Xiangyang Bearing Factory in the bearing industry, and so on.

Finally, based on preliminary summaries, it is planned to support the expansion of 270 large-scale factories, build six new large-scale factories, and build or support [-] small and medium-sized factories.

All current industrial classifications are involved.

In other words, in order to formulate this five-year industrial development plan, the Ministry of Industry even created an industrial classification.

Including mining, smelting, chemical industry, machinery manufacturing, optics, shipbuilding, textiles, wood processing, paper making, tea making, grain processing and so on.

Basically, Luo Zhixue and others counted all the industries that can be thought of and have something to do with industry.

At present, six major categories and more than 100 sub-categories have been preliminarily divided.

Then the Ministry of Industry will ensure that each category has at least one government-run factory according to the classification, and provide support or simply build new ones.

Luo Zhixue still has great ambitions. He hopes to use five years to initially establish an industrial system, even if this industrial system is still very primitive, not even a single steam engine...

But as long as the system is in place, we can only use water power or animal power for the time being, or simply manual... Then it can be developed slowly in the future, and the steam engine will naturally emerge.

If there is no perfect system, and the steam engine is just stupidly used, then you can only get a kettle... If you are exhausted, you can build a laboratory product, but it is unlikely to be industrialized.

For example, for a steam engine, you must have a cylinder, and the cylinder of a steam engine works under high pressure, and you have to ensure that it does not leak, which requires a lot of materials and processing.

If you haven’t reached the corresponding material and processing level, you can’t make it even if you give you the drawings.

In the later 21st century, all kinds of engines, especially the engines of advanced fighter jets, are the flowers of industry, and the technology is extremely difficult.

So now in the seventeenth century, the steam engine, which is extremely crude in the eyes of later generations, is the flower of industry in this era, and countries with little ability cannot produce it.

What Luo Zhixue has to do now is to get the basic technology up first, especially the two basic materials and processing.

Then, based on the initial development of all walks of life, a major breakthrough in steam engine technology will be made to achieve zero breakthroughs in steam engine technology, and the steam engine will be applied to all walks of life, thereby improving production efficiency.

Outsiders don't know that when Luo Zhixue started the five-year industrial development plan, he was already aiming at the steam engine.

(End of this chapter)