MTL - Black Iron’s Glory-Chapter 521 Prime Minister's Two Plans
Chapter 521 The Two Plans of the Prime Minister
The special envoy sent by Wang Ting soon arrived in the royal city of Polynesia. This is an old man who looks a little serious, about fifty years old, with a standard Mediterranean hairstyle and a bitter expression of bitterness. It seems that everyone owes him money in general. His name was Don Bargillo A. Davidellid, Viscount of the Kingdom. It is said that he has a relative with King Frederick I. His Majesty will call him a watchman and has been the Deputy Superintendent and Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom.
The special envoy Wang Ting also brought a regiment of guards and soldiers this time with the purpose of escorting the gold and silver reserves of the former Treasury of the Kingdom of Nasri, worth over one million kronor, back to the capital. Claude and General Bolognik held a welcome ceremony in accordance with the usual rules, and organized a banquet to welcome him. It just made Crowd feel a little strange that the Viscount Don Bagiro seemed to have some snacks, as if hiding something, and soon retired to rest on the excuse of excitement.
In the afternoon of the next day, the two sides began handing over. Claude provided the seized books of the Treasury of the Nasiri Kingdom and a list of gold and silver reserves, stating that he had not falsified in this regard. The value of the gold and silver coins and gold and silver ingots originally reserved in the treasury should be about 1.89 million kronor. According to the principle of seizing the treasury of the public treasury, the overseas autonomous command zone can obtain 30% of it, and reserve 20% as local maintenance funds. It was about 50% of those who turned in to the royal court.
It was only that Viscount Don Bagilo retreated, and made a private request to Claude and General Bolognik. He hoped that this time he would bring back gold and silver reserves worth about 1.5 million kronor to understand the kingdom's finances. crisis. You must know that the guards in the capital have owed their salaries for three months. Those local administrators in the capital have not paid any wages for six months. Now Wang Ting relies on this from the Treasury of the Nasiri Kingdom. Money to live ...
"No, Wang Ting was so poor?" Crowd was surprised.
Viscount Don Bagiro explained to the two generals with a bitter smile. Last year, the Alliance army was gifted out of the kingdom's homeland. When the enemy withdrew from the king, he took away everything he could with him, and even destroyed the eastern part of the kingdom's homeland. All mineral mining bases. When Frederick I and Wang Ting returned to the capital, they found that they were left with an empty shelf and nothing. There wasn't even a curtain cloth in the palace, which was ruined by the enemy ...
The entire kingdom has gone through the years of war, and people's livelihood has withered and business travel has been unsuccessful. The taxes that the king can receive can also maintain ample food and clothing. He has no money. Even Wang Ting ’s economic recovery plan cannot be implemented, just like the destruction of mineral resources in the eastern region. The base is the same. Two of the large-scale gold and silver mines that are landfilled need to invest hundreds of thousands of funds to re-dig through the mine channel before mining, so that gold and silver mines can mint coins.
But the Treasury has no money right now, and Wang Ting is helpless. The overseas autonomy is rich. However, Wang Ting has overdrawn the taxes and tribute to be paid by the overseas autonomy over the next ten years. Overdraft was okay during the war, but now that the war is over and you still want to overdraft, then you ca n’t justify it. The parliament said that you can lend money to Wang Ting, but you have to pay interest.
Wang Ting didn't care about borrowing money from overseas self-governing. Anyway, although the interest rate was high, it was not a usury. But the old noble family in the kingdom is unwilling. They think that this is because the overseas dominion has deliberately expanded its influence in the royal court, and it is not good intentions. Wang Ting wanted to borrow money from them, and with their family heritage, he could still provide millions of crowns. But they were really usury, eight out of thirteen, and they had to make a profit.
His Majesty was angry. The overseas dominion said that borrowing money was actually a loan, and the high interest rate was okay. It could be repaid in two years. But the old aristocratic family forces took out usury loans, and the profits were profitable. Maybe it would be unclear if the huge sum of millions of crowns was borrowed for a hundred years. Therefore, borrowing money from overseas self-governing leaders has been unanimously opposed by all the noble ministers. However, it is not a fool to borrow money from the old noble family forces. Knowing that it is a pit and jumping in, so no money, no money. .
This time Viscount Don Bagilo came as the special envoy of the royal court to transport the funds, the most urgent being the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, Marquis Blanchard. He hoped that the gold and silver reserves of around 1.5 million kronor would be returned, so that Wang Ting's urgent needs could be resolved. Among them, half a million kronor is intended to be used to pay salaries to stabilize the minds of the officers and men of the Guards Corps and the administrative and civilian officials under the jurisdiction of the king.
Another half a million kronor is ready to invest in the capital, repairing commercial areas and road traffic damaged by the coalition forces, and attracting business travelers to return to the capital. As long as business is booming, the taxes received by the treasury will start to increase, which is a very good way to govern. The last 500,000 kroner royal court is ready to be used for the construction of mineral resource mining bases destroyed by the coalition army. As long as the two large gold and silver mines resume production and mining, the state treasury will have 100,000 gold per month. With the credit of the Krona account, the financial side can be more comfortable and do a lot of practical things ...
Viscount Don Bagilo was very sincere, and had placed the inside story of the financial distress facing the royal court in front of General Claude and General Bolognik. Claude had some regrets. If he knew this, then he should send troops early to harass the coalition camp, at least not to let the highest commander of that alliance army call him? It is said that it was the Duke of Hicks Kingdom, so easily withdrew the wounded soldiers of Hicks Kingdom and the property plundered from the king to Hicks Kingdom. Losing and losing, it is clear that the property the Alliance Army took away from the king is not a small amount.
No wonder that guy is so generous, leaving so much grain and grass reserves and armaments in the Allied Forces Camp, as well as weapons and ammunition, to keep them from being destroyed or burnt, just to let us easily give up the pursuit of their retreat. Obviously, the duke knew in his heart that if he burned these supplies, the Thunder Corps would die and they would not let go of their defeated defeated soldiers, even if they chased down the Kingdom of Menbamac, they would be expelled and killed ...
Really a sly guy, because it left a good coalition camp, so much forage and armament supplies, and weapons and ammunition, so Claude felt that there was no need to chase it and just let it go. Passed them. It turned out now that the duke had taken away so much property from the king when he evacuated the wounded, but now it was too late to regret it. Crowd only thought about the loss ...
"What are you thinking?" General Bolognik shoved Claude, knowing that he was stunned again: "I just agreed to the request of His Excellency the envoy and asked him to take away the gold and silver reserves of 1.5 million gold crowns. The financial woes of the kingdom ... "
"Please rest assured that the Kingdom will not forget your loyalty and dedication. The Lord Prime Minister charged me before I set off because the Kingdom has no money and cannot give the heroic soldiers the rewards they deserve, so he wants to send the seven The right to mine small and medium-sized gold, silver and copper mines is handed over to you for half a year. You only need to hand in one-third of Wang ’s share of all mineral resources that have been mined in this half year, and the rest are used as the two legions of your overseas autonomous command zone Use of funds.
You should be aware that the Kingdom's policy on gold and silver mineral resources is basically divided into 70% and 70% is returned to the treasury, and 30% is privately owned. However, within this half year, Wang Ting will give you a 70% distribution, which is an exception ... "Viscount Don Bagillo hastily threw out a long-established compensation plan.
There are seven small and medium-sized gold, silver and copper mines in the Nasseri region, which were the source of the gold and silver reserves of the former state treasure of the Nasseri Kingdom. As for copper ore, it is basically cast into copper coins directly at the mineral base, and then put into the market for circulation. Claude looked at the seized account books, which registered these seven small and medium-sized gold, silver, and copper mines, which would add about 1.4 million kronor to the Nasri Kingdom each year.
One third of the 1.4 million kroner mineral resources is about 400,000, so there are about one million remaining in the autonomous region. However, it is only half a year, open source and reduce expenditures, and the maximum income is only about 600,000 kronor.
"You have a good abacus. You do n’t need a black penny, you can take it for nothing. Give us these seven small and medium-sized mineral resources, and we have to recruit miners, renovate machinery, equip with refining equipment, and invest first. One hundred thousand gold crowns can go in to mine these gold and silver minerals. "Claude shook his head:" And why is it only half a year, this time is too short, at least one year. "
Viscount Don Bagilo also smiled bitterly: "To be honest, I want to give you a longer time, but neither the Prime Minister nor I know what will change in six months. Maybe these seven small and medium-sized gold, silver, copper and copper mineral resources reach It is no longer known who owns it, and we have to re-sign a mining agreement with the owners of these mineral resources ...
As for handing over the mining rights of these mineral resources to you now, you should go to mining and digging as soon as possible, and send more staff to dig as much as you can. When the deadline is reached, if we don't notify you, then you will continue to mine. If there are owners of these mineral resources, they will not take over these mineral resources until the half-year period expires ... "
Crowder became more and more surprised: "This half-year period seems to have something else. Can you tell me what is going on? Or is Wang Ting going to sell all these gold, silver and copper mineral resources in exchange for funds? "
"Forget it, you two are not outsiders, but also the hereditary nobles of the kingdom. I'll tell you what's going on." Viscount Don Bagilo looked around, noting that no one else was in the room. Relieved.
"Don't worry, no one dares to eavesdrop on our conversation." General Bolognik gave the envoy His Excellency a peace of mind.
"Yes, Prime Minister Blanchard submitted a plan for the restoration of the kingdom, which was unanimously approved by the National Assembly. Even the aristocratic parliament believes that if the plan can be implemented, it will bring the kingdom in the shortest time. Li returned to the top and became one of the most powerful nations on the continent.
In this plan, Prime Minister Blanchard hopes to introduce trains from overseas dominions, build railways, and connect the entire eastern region by rail to speed up the flow of goods and goods and the convenience of people. Rebuild waterways and irrigation systems throughout the kingdom to ensure the stability and harvest of agricultural production. Support various manufacturing workshops and commercial banks that are beneficial to people's livelihood products, accelerate their development, and make them compete with the goods produced by overseas dominions ...
There is also the reorganization of the kingdom's armaments, the updating of the equipment of the three major legions, the learning of new tactics and tactics from the two major legions of the overseas autonomous command areas, and the goal of becoming a reliable military guarantee for the kingdom. At the same time, a state-of-the-art Iron Armored Ocean Fleet must be recompiled, and new iron armoured warships will be manufactured in cooperation with overseas dominions to safeguard the interests of the Kingdom's ocean shipping and the safety of the coastal waters of the entire eastern region.
In addition, there are many details of various aspects of tax adjustment in the development of economic rectification. I will not go into details one by one. The Kingdom Revival Plan considers the current status and difficult situation of the Kingdom in great detail, and proposes various targeted solutions. There is only one problem that cannot be solved, and that is that the kingdom's treasury is empty and there is no funding to implement this plan.
The most conservative estimate of this kingdom revival plan is also over 50 million kronor. Prime Minister Blanchard hopes to complete the implementation and implementation of the projects in this plan within five years, so as not to delay the best time for development. But what can you do if you don't have the money, and the investment in the first year is more than 10 million kronor, how can you get this huge sum from there?
The Prime Minister decided to decompose some of the items in the plan, such as railways and trains. The largest expenditures. The construction of railway transportation lines throughout the eastern region requires at least 20 million kronor construction capital. Study, raise railway construction funds and issue railway shares in the private sector.
However, there is also a big head in the plan for the cost of armament renewal and the preparation of the armored fleet. This part of Prime Minister Blanchard is preparing to issue national bonds, which are based on three-year, five-year, eight-year and ten-year terms. Progressive interest rate of 5%. For example, if you buy a ten-year national bond of one hundred gold crowns, then ten years later you can get one hundred and twenty gold crowns.
The Prime Minister hopes to use the issuance of the national debt to raise 15 million kronor in arms construction funds, but his proposal to issue the national debt has been ridiculed by many people. Many economic experts are not optimistic that the interest rate is too low. A nobleman just said to the Prime Minister that he took one hundred kronor to do business. If he did not earn more than three hundred or four hundred kronor within ten years, his business would have failed too. nothing.
Even if Prime Minister Blanchard has raised enough funds to issue national bonds, there is still a shortfall of 15 million kronor in funds relative to the implementation of the entire Kingdom's recovery plan. Originally, I hoped to use the fast-growing economy and taxes in the next few years to make up for the lack of funds, but it is not possible to think about it carefully. After the war, the entire eastern region's economy was in a depression and could not recover in a few years.
Because the Prime Minister's proposal for the Kingdom Revival was perfect, but because of lack of funds, it was impossible to implement it. Therefore, Prime Minister Blanchard was ridiculed by many aristocrats and considered him a daydreamer. The reason why this kingdom revival plan will be unanimously adopted in the National Assembly and the Noble Assembly is that everyone knows that there is no possibility of achieving it, so they are too lazy to argue and spend their own saliva ...
So the unwilling Prime Minister secretly submitted another secret plan to His Majesty, which was only known to very few people. The content of the plan is to suggest that the kingdom re-adopt the feudal system of the lord, that is, the feudal system of the territories and nobles, and re-grant the nobles with hereditary feudal territories in exchange for the support and financial assistance of the kingdom's old noble families ... "
"Wait, isn't it, re-giving the noble hereditary territories, isn't this a retrogression of the kingdom system? First King Sterling IX, in order to cancel the noble hereditary territories, won the final victory of the kingdom's civil war for six years, Isn't this the old way of restoring the feudal system of the territories? "Gen. Bolonick and Crow looked at each other, and after a moment of General Gen. Bolonick's return to God, he stood up and interrupted Viscount Don Bagilo's words.
"No, no, no, don't misunderstand General Bolognik, don't be so excited. Naturally, the secret proposal of the Prime Minister's proposal has his reason, and has been approved by your Majesty, please listen to me slowly." Tang Viscount Bagillo signaled for General Bolognik to calm down, and Claude got up and took General Bolognik to sit down again.
"Speaking of the proposal of the Prime Minister, I would also like to thank the two generals and the generals of your overseas self-governing corps for their **** battles, which killed the enemy of the kingdom, the kingdom of Nasri and the Duchy of Kanas, and recovered all the lost land. Let the kingdom unify the entire eastern region. It is you who have laid a solid foundation for the kingdom's revival, so the prime minister has the emergence of a hereditary plan for the nobility ... "
Viscount Don Bagilo pointed at his feet: "This is the place where the Prime Minister proposed to seal the noble hereditary territory, not the kingdom."
Claude glanced at the floor on which the Special Envoy stepped, and suddenly understood: "Do you mean this Nasseri area?"
Viscount Don Bagilo nodded approvingly: "The kingdom of Nasser has always practiced the feudal gift system of the nobles of the territory. The people here are also used to being lords and rely on the lives of lords. The four-people system in the Kingdom, at the very least, needs to invest a lot of money to set up civilian education, and it will take 20 to 30 years to take effect.
But the kingdom has no money, and the people in this area have always been hostile to our kingdom. Under such circumstances, it is not a good thing for our kingdom to implement the same policies as the kingdom itself in this area, and it will make it easy for the people here to be instigated by the people to riot and rebel. At that time, the four frontier counties who had been taken over from the Nasiri Kingdom for more than ten years also had civil unrest and had given us the most profound lessons.
Therefore, since the people here rely on lords, then we will give them a lord, and the peace and development of this territory will naturally be borne by these lords, which can also reduce the burden on our kingdom. The Kingdom will impose a tithe system on these territories, levying 10% of taxes and tribute, and verifying taxes on each territory once every ten years.
In addition, only the hereditary nobles were given the land this time, and the land was given the same area according to the size of the title. If you want to choose your own territory, you can pay the land selection fee before you can change your chosen territory. In addition, if the third nobles and honorary nobles also want to obtain hereditary territories, they need to pay royal court fees to the royal court and promote the ranks to hereditary nobles.
For example, if the baron of honour wants to be a hereditary baron, you need to pay 100,000 kronor to become the baron III, and then pay 200,000 kronor to be promoted from the third baron to the hereditary baron. . Both of you are already hereditary nobles of the kingdom, and you can directly obtain hereditary territory. But if you want to choose a good hereditary territory, then you need to pay a land selection fee ... "
