Chapter 545 (2/2)

The royal government and the Government Council will work together to compete with each other in the research and development of heavy industry, military industry and new technology.

For example, a shipyard, an ironmaking plant, a royal office, a government council office, and an arsenal. The quality of that one is good and cheap. The military and Government Council will purchase which one, and so will the Research Institute. The Tiangong institute belongs to the royal family, and the Government Council will set up another Baigong Institute.

No one expected that this temporary joint meeting would last three days, and more and more people would attend. Finally, they had to move from the imperial study to the Fengtian hall.

Qin Huan basically arranged what he would do next year. The house of internal affairs and the government council would spend 800 million taels of silver, including two wooden tracks, which would cost nearly 100 million taels of silver.

One of the two wooden tracks is from Beijing to Wuhan, and the other is from Lanzhou to Kaifeng. All local people are employed to build the subgrade, which is also equivalent to work for relief. After all, the people in the north and northwest are now unable to open the pot and just waiting for relief.

Will throwing so much money at once cause inflation?

This is certain, but as long as it is controlled within a reasonable range, there will not be much problem.

After all, most of the money will be spent on ordinary people and craftsmen. 800 million sounds terrible in ancient times, but if it is shared among thousands of households, it will be nothing.

What will people do with money?

Nothing more than buying salt, grain, cloth and iron. As long as these four commodities are not out of stock, the purchasing power of treasure money will not depreciate.

The output of these four commodities has now fully doubled or tripled compared with that of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to well salt and Huai salt, several seaside salt drying farms built last year have also been completed, which can fully meet the needs of 200 million people.

The number of Xichuan iron factories has also doubled. With the addition of small iron factories around the country, the consumption of weapons and firearms will be reduced, so as to free up more wrought iron and make agricultural tools and appliances for the people. I believe that the price of iron should not be too expensive.

Only the prices of grain and cloth may rise significantly. Although the cotton in Kaifeng has been harvested for two seasons, and the fields in Jiangnan are being destroyed on a large scale, the demand for these two things is too great.

The former is due to the continuous natural disasters, the production has not been resumed in the north and northwest, coupled with the consumption of long-distance transportation, it will certainly not be able to completely meet the needs of the north and northwest. I'm afraid we can only buy in limited quantities to ensure that we don't starve.

The production process of cloth is cumbersome. Whether it is cotton or silk, it takes dozens of hundreds of processes from sericulture and cotton planting to weaving into cloth, so I'm afraid it can't meet everyone's dressing needs in the short term.

As for a few quilts in a family, let alone.

In fact, Qin Huan didn't know much about finance, but he knew that as long as the treasure money in people's hands could buy what they wanted to buy, and could not go to the bank to exchange it for Yuanbao, the treasure money would not depreciate.

He thought about it. If the supply of salt, grain, cloth and iron was really short of demand, he would send troops to conquer the Japanese country. If the goods were not enough, he would use women to collect them.

It can not only be sold to those singles to be their wives at one time, but also be operated in Fengyue place to recycle treasure money for a long time!

Of course, the imperial court and the royal family will not do such uncivilized things.