For a large country, normal administrative operations are the main body in 'daily life', and the elimination of spies is just a small condiment in life. Chen Ming and Chen Cong's uncle and nephew, who dominate the operation of this vast country, are now worried about how to push the court, and the other is worried about how to leave a strong pen mark for Chen Han in the last period of his term!

It is already the early summer of the tenth year of Chengtian, and the Tingtui will be launched in the early autumn, and the final results will be obtained before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the list of the next cabinet members will be finalized.

It has been reported that many officials interested in going further are now active.

As mentioned before, when the bribery and bribery of money transactions were curbed, the 'transactions' of the entire officialdom involuntarily entered a deeper level, and Chen Ming is now paying close attention to this.

You know, the first court push will be launched soon.

The red line of Chen Han's version of 'Tingtui' is drawn to the three products, whether it is the third product or the third product, he can express his own suggestions on the candidates for cabinet ministers. For a certain position, they all have the right to recommend candidates they approve, and then the emperor will unify and summarize them, and decide one candidate form from them - five to seven people. After that, the Sanpin Wenchen in Beijing and the local government can be nominated for this list.

Does Chen Han have a 'flying pigeon biography'? To a large extent, this saves the time of the 'ballots' on the road. Of course, confidentiality becomes even more important.

The final top three are submitted to the emperor for selection by the cabinet.

Therefore, Tingtui is not so awesome that it will go against the sky, it does not mean that the first place elected by these ministers themselves will definitely be able to sit on the cabinet throne, and the final decision is still in the hands of Emperor Chen.

But this is definitely a big deal for Chen Han, who 'inherited' the highly centralized tradition of the pseudo-Qing dynasty.

Chen Ming attaches great importance to this matter, and he believes that the political clusters of Chinese officialdom that have learned to 'exchange' and 'tolerance' in the struggle have a more profound impact on China's future.

But Chen Cong didn't care much about what Chen Ming liked, because he was already about to retire. His two sons will not stay in Middle-earth for long, and overseas feudalism is their ultimate fate.

Chen Cong knew the position of the third cabinet chief minister, and Chen Ming was interested in Liu Dezhao. This is not to say that Emperor Chen no longer likes Chen Ding, but instead likes the son of Liu Guifei. is a charter that has been set a long time ago, and if he takes another term, Liu Dezhao will also retire. The end of the third cabinet may be the end of the curtain on the founding ministers.

The next person to take the position will be Pang Zhenkun, Xiong Bingzhang, Wang Huizu and others.

In the last moments of his life, Chen Cong wisely discarded his political legacy, believing that his nephew would not want him to put someone in the ring with Liu Dezhao.

Therefore, Chen Cong directly chose to keep his mouth shut. He doesn't care about the election of the next cabinet, but only about how to make another wave of political achievements in the remaining half a year or so of this year.

"Your Majesty, the excerpt that King Song just handed over."

Zhang Dayong held a piece of music and sent it to Chen Ming's desk.

Chen Ming was noncommittal, and continued to write and draw on a fold in his hand with a pen, which was an excerpt from the horse farm in Inner Mongolia. Chen Han has been engaged in the horse breed improvement project for several years, and the results have begun to bear fruit.

Because the number of stallions introduced by Chen Han from foreign countries is sufficient.

In the horse farms of Mongolia, Xinjiang, Qinghai and other places, the average height of tens of thousands of new horses trained on the basis of Mongolian mares has increased to 4 feet 3 inches [143 cm] and the average weight is more than 550 catties [330kg], which has comprehensively surpassed the Mongolian horse, the mainstream horse breed in China. However, compared with Western military horses, there is still a difference of about 20 centimeters in body height, an average weight difference of 110 kilograms, and a difference of about 10 kilometers per hour in the average speed of sprinting. Of course, in the end, this data is not a long-distance run. Mongolian horses' super stamina is one of their greatest strengths.

Although it is difficult for China in this era to have a chance to fight with the great powers of Britain, France, Prussia and Austria, Russia is not among them. China's military horses have one of the most direct objects of comparison, that is, Russian war horses.

The Don hippopotamus, the mainstream of Russian war horses of this era, had not yet been improved, and on the whole did not have much advantage over Mongolian horses. Or the most primitive basis of the Don hippopotamus is the Mongolian horse, the Mongolian horse of the countless steppes of Siberia. That would have some advantages over the Mongolian horses in the south, but it would not form a qualitative difference. The reason why it is called the Don hippopotamus is because Russia has established a series of huge horse farms in the Don River valley, which is suitable for horse breeding, based on Mongolian horses.

Now, Chen Han has introduced Turkmen horses, Arabian horses, as well as a series of purebred and mixed-breed horses from Britain, France, Spain, and Italy. Although this time has been short, these good stallions have been combined with Mongolian mares to create a number of good offspring.

These new horses are still carrying on the good traditions of their mothers, and they are hard-working, easy to raise, have endurance and are able to live in the frozen savannah. And he has a good temper and is adaptable, but he is not physically attractive.

Compared to their fathers, the new horses still have many shortcomings in physique and body structure, such as restricted movements, unnatural, unelegant and unsuitable, but military horses are not racing horses in the arena, horses in war do not need those fancy things, and few horses can work effectively in the snow-covered savannah at minus twenty or thirty degrees.

Chen Ming had a very strange feeling in his heart, he felt that if these new horses continued on the road of improvement, they would probably be the famous Cossack Don Hippopotamus in the original space-time plane. Don hippopotamus in the truest sense of the word! And not those primitive ones that the Russians are riding now.

In just a few years, the improvement of horse breeds can have such results, and Chen Ming is very happy. You must know that the improvement of horse breeds is a long, long project, with the first, second, and third phases, each of which takes twenty or thirty years.

Just like the little Japan in the original space-time plane, it has engaged in two connected horse-middle breeding projects, and each phase is thirty years. During the Anti-Japanese War, the 'Oriental Horse' was finally made by a tall horse.

has greatly improved in height and strength, but he also has a kind of 'delicate disease' that is going to die. There are few Oriental horses that have been captured by the Tsuchihachi Road that can survive. That standard of living is called a high pole.

If it were placed in the 21st century, it would be considered a cherished animal, and maybe it could be kept as a pet.

The little devil's horse breed improvement can't be considered a success, but it can't be considered a failure either. After all, they have improved their horses, which are shorter than donkeys, into tall horses.

And stay out of the way to watch the horse breed improvement project in the history of the little devil and the horse breed improvement carried out by Chen Han at present, and compare all kinds of details, why China's achievements in just a few years are so gratifying, it can only be said that there is a gap between the rich and the poor.

How big is Chen Han's horse breed improvement stall?

There are as many as two or three thousand high-breed stallions introduced from foreign countries one after another, but what about the little devils? After the Meiji Restoration, what was the basis for the improvement of horse breeds in Little Japan? It's just twenty-six stallions.

A year before the Meiji Restoration, Napoleon III of France presented 26 Arabian horses to Japan in gratitude to the Tokugawa shogunate for its contribution to saving the sericulture industry in France. The illiterate shogunate bestowed all of the world's best riding horses on the daimyo and his retainers. After the Meiji Restoration, these Arabian horses were recovered by the government as stallions to improve the native ponies.

After nearly 10 years of improvement, the average height of registered Japanese military horses has caught up with the average height of Mongolian horses. Attention, this is a registered military horse, how many registered military horses can there be at that time? Whether there is a large number of high-breed stallions introduced by Chen Han in recent years is two theories.

The reason why the improvement effect of the Japanese was not significant was that the population of excellent horse breeds was too small, and only the stallions of the 26 Arabian horses led to serious inbreeding.

In addition to improving the quality of military horses, Chen Han also started to improve horse breeds to cover the production areas of small horses, light horses, and heavy horses. The horse breeding bases established by Chen Han on the grassland are all specially classified, and special production areas for riding horses, small horses, light horses, and heavy horses have been established. The cross-breed offspring of the various types of introduced high-quality horses are used for specific purposes according to their own characteristics. For example, the cavalry war horses just mentioned, as well as the infantry, artillery, baggage troops, and the military police, which are widely used in the pull horses; Of course, the fast horse was also used for equestrian performances and horse racing, and was also used as a mount for high-ranking officers and heralds.

Taking the horses introduced from Europe in this era as an example, for the same artillery carriage, six Chen Han military horses were quite difficult, while four European horses could pull the gun carriage and run like flying. That's the gap!

That's deadly enough on the battlefield.

Therefore, Chen Han's horse breed improvement is only the first step in the long march, and the future tasks are more important and the pressure is more important.

Because the horse breed improvement project is not half the success after a good start. On the contrary, a good start will only make them more stressful in the subsequent process. Isn't it too stupid to carry out a 'leveling' campaign on a good foundation, and if it still doesn't succeed?

Chen Ming left four or five hundred words of red on the fold, and then put down the fold and reached out to pick up the fold that Chen Cong had just handed over.

"Oh, King Song wants to carry out a pilot project of compulsory education in primary schools?"

It is nonsense to carry out compulsory universal education in primary schools in an all-round way. China's population of 200 million+, even if a large number of people have migrated to Nanyang and North America every year in recent years, the population in China has been growing steadily, with no less than 3 million school-age children attending school every year, and more than 20 million school-age children in the entire primary school stage, and not even 15% of the total number of children who can actually go to school.

Therefore, it is impossible to carry out compulsory universal education in this primary school in all aspects, and it is simply not affordable for China's finances.

However, this pilot project of compulsory education has not been carried out in earnest.

Chen Cong's proposal is to carry out compulsory universal education at the primary school stage in Sanjing, but the two capitals in the north and south + Lushan, the total population is more than 2 million, which means that there are people with household registration in Sanjing, and the total number is definitely less than 3 million. There are probably less than 250,000 school-age children at the primary school level. Moreover, these three places are the richest places in China, with a large number of powerful and wealthy businessmen, and the school enrollment rate is already the highest in China, and the school density is naturally the highest in China.

After the start of the pilot project of compulsory universal education, can it still be used to raise charity funds from the market? This will greatly reduce the pressure on the government's finances.

In addition, the location of the school can choose the nearest vacant mansion, and it is estimated that there will be a maximum of 100 campuses that need to be built with real investment.

The scale of the school is not large, one grade is based on two classes, a class of fifty people, six grades + preschool, a school is less than five or six hundred people, more is seven or eight hundred people, the classrooms, offices, logistics rooms, etc., a total of twenty to twenty-five houses, this investment is really not large.

If you don't count the land, the investment in building a primary school will not cost 2,000 yuan. And the total number of teachers needed by a school is only twenty or thirty when the main and deputy classes are counted. The teacher's salary is 100-150 yuan/person, 4000 yuan per month is enough, and counting the lunch that teachers and students eat in the school at noon, each person can't use 3 yuan/month, so the half-blood fund that a primary school needs to spend every month is about 6000 yuan. A year, 70,000 yuan.

There are three or four hundred primary schools in Sanjing a year, and the total annual expenditure is only 30 million! Compared with Chen Han's rapidly growing financial income, 30 million can only be said to be a small amount of money.

Chen Cong is ready to do a great deed for the people of Sanjing in the last days of his reign and earn the last glory for himself.

So how can we do it beautifully, and everyone applauds?

After thinking about it, Chen Cong finally set his sights on education, basic education at the primary school level.

He knew very well how huge Chen Han's fiscal growth would be this year, and that the new tax policy would be implemented for a whole year this year, which would bring an astronomical increase in the annual revenue of the imperial court.

Part of this money will be used to pay off debts, and the other part will be a large part of the money to increase education expenses.

The pilot project of compulsory education in primary schools in Sanjing only needs to spend 30 million yuan, which is only a small amount of money for the funds that have been added to education in this year's budget.

The only problem with this matter is that it is not in this year's budget, and when the budget was formulated last year, Chen Cong did not think of it at all. Therefore, although the expenditure of 30 million is not large, it needs to be pulled out of several projects.

Although Chen Cong is the first assistant of the cabinet and the king of Song, if his little abacus is not supported by Chen Ming, it may not be able to start.

And if with the support of the emperor, it would be a piece of cake to cut out 30 million from a few large pieces of capital expenditure.