African Nationhood

Chapter 250 A new journey (Part )

When Sansa Bruce heard Shi Jintang's teasing, she was not embarrassed. She stood up generously and opened the notebook in her hand.

“In fiscal year 1887, the company’s revenue from indigenous kingdom taxes totaled 38.12 billion yuan, including head tax, livestock tax, land tax, shed tax, game tax, tobacco tax, coffee tax, etc., totaling ten types of taxes.

The company's business tax revenue was 3.1 million yuan, and corporate dividends were 7.8 million yuan, making the total revenue in the last fiscal year 49.02 billion yuan.

Last year, various departments actually spent 22.12 billion yuan on military expenditures. In the last fiscal year, the company had a fiscal surplus of 26.9 billion yuan on military expenditures. "

Hearing that the company had such a huge revenue surplus, many company officials participating in the meeting felt better.

If the company makes money, the chances of passing the fiscal year 1888 budget will increase.

After all, money is needed everywhere in the company, so no matter how much budget you give them, they can spend it.

After listening to Sansa Bruce's accounts, Shi Jintang was not too optimistic.

The wealth in the hands of the natives of the two kingdoms is running out, and the oil and water squeezed out will only become less and less.

"Well, I understand. Commissioner Cai, please tell me."

Cai Shaoji nodded: "The company's financial budget for the past two years has been sufficient, but there are still many places where our work has not been done.

Since the "Compulsory Enrollment Order for School-age Children" promulgated by the company was implemented, the education department has enrolled 8.1 school-age children. The enrollment rate of school-age children has reached 98%, and the literacy rate of adolescents has increased to 95%.

The illiteracy rate among adult immigrants remains high, hovering at 82%.

We hope that the company will issue another decree to compel adults in factories and mines to learn literacy and arithmetic, and make the elimination of illiteracy an assessment criterion, and use this to influence the rigid indicators for each factory and mine to select Class A enterprises.

Those who fail to meet the targets will not be selected and will affect the company's annual bonus.

The major regions should also use the illiteracy rate as an assessment criterion. Regions with excessively high illiteracy rates will be forced to be exposed in the "Nanhua Newsletter", and the regional leaders will have to review them. "

Cai Shaoji's suggestion was quite appropriate. Shi Jintang nodded: "This suggestion is okay. I accept it. After the meeting, the company's General Affairs Department will issue the document."

"Thank you for the company's support. Let me talk about the company's dispatch of international students. The company has been sending international students since 1885.

At present, the company has sent 102 international students to study in major European universities.

At present, some students have returned to Southwest Africa after completing their studies. Their academic performance is good and their knowledge is solid.

They have been assigned to internships in the company's scientific research units, and I believe they will make greater contributions in the near future.

Our education department recommends increasing the scale of sending overseas students and allowing more students to go to European universities for further studies so that they can contribute better and stronger to the company's construction. "

Regarding Cai Shaoji's suggestion, Shi Jintang agreed in principle, "How many people do your department think is appropriate?"

"100, send 100 students to study abroad every year, limited to 3 years, and return after expiration."

"Okay, your department will issue a report and hand it over."

Cai Shaoji nodded, "Okay, Mr. Shi."

Shi Jintang looked at the female doctor Xia Yi in the corner, "Let the medical department tell you."

Xia Yi helped Boss Shi deliver all the children, so Ye Rong took care of the children at home and handed over the medical work to Xia Yi temporarily.

This was the first time for Xia Yi to hold a meeting on such an occasion. She took a deep breath, stood up and bowed to Boss Shi, and then said: "In the past year, our medical clinic has received 23.78 patients.

A total of 48 people have been vaccinated against smallpox and diphtheria. It has initially achieved 90% coverage of smallpox vaccine and 35% coverage of diphtheria vaccine for immigrants within the company.

As for the vaccine research on typhus and poliomyelitis, our department still needs to continue to work on key issues.

The company's newborn mortality rate has dropped to 36‰, and the death rate of pregnant women with dystocia has dropped to 18‰.

As the battle continues, it becomes increasingly difficult, but colleagues in our department are still working hard.

As for the company's proprietary Chinese medicine processing workshop, the scale has continued to expand. In addition to the previous four proprietary Chinese medicines, we have also developed several gynecological Chinese patent medicines such as Antai Pills and Xiaoyao Pills.

In terms of Western medicine research and development, the new antibacterial drug Bailangduoxi, jointly developed by our medical school and Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals of the United States, has entered the stage of human trials.

We believe that we will be able to bring this drug to the market in the second half of this year.

At that time, there will be a rush for this new drug and a rush to buy it all over the world. "

At this point, Xia Yi breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the manuscript in her hand. It was almost done.

"I'm done." After saying that, she sat down without looking at Boss Shi. After sitting down, she remembered that she didn't get an order from Boss Shi, so she wanted to stand up again.

Shi Jintang waved his hand to the female doctor, then looked at Shi Jinyong next to him, "God of Wealth, please tell me."

Shi Jinyong nodded: "In the last fiscal year, various companies in the company achieved an explosion in profits, among which the shipping industry, clothing industry and military industry among the company's overseas industries were the most popular.

Especially in the military industry, total order revenue was 5.8 million yuan, of which 3.95 million yuan belonged to the company.

In addition, the shipping industry realized a profit of 5.5 million yuan for the whole year, and the clothing industry realized a profit of 10.3 billion yuan for the whole year. These three industries provided the company with dividend income of 8.1 million yuan.

The animal husbandry industry's revenue last year was 7.8 million yuan, and the output value of other directly affiliated companies reached 13 billion yuan.

As a result, the company's cumulative income from various industries is 32.85 billion yuan.

Two shipyards within the company's territory have begun operations. The first batch of orders came from the company's Transportation Department, for five 5-ton cargo ships and five 800-ton fishing ships.

The steel plant is divided into two plants, the Dutch-aided plant and the British cabinet joint-stock plant.

Among them, the one built with Dutch assistance should be put into operation in the second half of this year, while the joint-stock steel plant invested by the British cabinet is still under construction.

At present, only some factories have been built, and the output of steel is limited.

Due to the construction of workers and supporting factories, it is estimated that it will take 50 to reach the designed production capacity of 1890 tons.

As for the copper smelting plant built with assistance from the Dutch, it will only start trial operation in the second half of the year. At that time, it will be necessary to coordinate with the Dutch to determine the trial operation status.

As for the mineral resources in the two kingdoms, most of the industrial and mining enterprises that have been built so far are small-scale mining operations. There are two reasons why large-scale mining has not been achieved:
  1. Our transportation construction lags behind and it is not easy for foreign capital to enter.

The second is the harsh natural environment, which requires the pharmaceutical sector to increase research and development efforts and try to produce anti-disease drugs that can treat the original dense forest environment. "

Shi Jintang nodded, "Well, Commissioner Shi is right, but we still have to consider the constraints of objective conditions.

Don't be too stressed in the medical department, just be normal. "

Hearing that Mr. Shi was so considerate, Xia Yi glanced at Mr. Shi gratefully.

"Oh, I see."

Shi Jintang looked around and finally laid his eyes on Tie Lan, who was concentrating with his eyes closed, "Tie Lao, please tell me."

Tie Lan opened his eyes when he heard this, and directly opened his notebook and read from the script: "Last year, our justice system heard and sentenced 5238 cases of various types.

Among them, there were 3 extremely serious cases, 19 malignant cases, 214 illegal and criminal cases, and 5002 civil disputes.

Among the cases received by the police department, civil cases are the most common, followed by household registration issues, and criminal cases are rare.

The biggest problem in our two departments is that their budgets are seriously insufficient.

However, when the police department was first established, it distributed bicycles and rifles to grassroots police officers. Such excessive benefits are not too bad.

However, our department of justice has had its budget deducted year after year and lacks benefits.

Now that the company's financial situation has improved, I hope the company can treat everyone equally and give our justice department a sufficient budget. "

After listening to Tie Lan's words, Shi Jintang blushed slightly. Tie Lan deliberately gave him eye drops in front of everyone.

It's not the old man's fault. It's normal to be angry. The company's financial situation was not good before, so their budget was deducted.

"Okay, today I will make a promise to Mr. Tie that your department's budget will be fully approved this year."

Hearing what the boss said, Tie Lan's tense old face finally relaxed.

He couldn't express his gratitude, so he said calmly: "Yeah, okay."

“In the past year, various departments have made progress to varying degrees, and these are things of the past.

Next, everyone must be mentally prepared to overcome difficulties. Next is the time to fight a tough battle. "

Everyone answered in unison: "Yes."

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