I want to be emperor

Chapter 558 Northeast Development (9K)

As long as you farm the land, the government will give you a piece of land that can be paid in installments. The annual cost of the installment payment is similar to the agricultural tax.

And this is a model of renting land, so the tenants do not have to pay any agricultural taxes.

To put it bluntly, in fact, this installment payment is tantamount to turning the agricultural tax into a tenant rent, which is no different from that of a self-cultivated farmer.

However, the purchase of Guantian by installments cannot be transferred until the remaining payment is paid.

On the whole, the land policy adopted in the Liaodong region is the same as other regions. There is no free distribution of land in a pure sense, nor does it restrict people's access to land.

But in essence, it is still based on free land distribution. The reason for the installment payment is purely to take off your pants and fart, because the installment payment is no different from paying the agricultural tax directly.

After all, there are many places with fewer people and more land, especially the conservative northern provinces and Liaodong region where natural and man-made disasters have occurred. The large population of the past has disappeared in the long river of history. limit.

Only when the land is cultivated can there be agricultural tax or official land rent, which can increase the food supply.

No amount of food is too much.

However, in order to avoid land mergers, the official mode of renting and purchasing land is limited, and sales are not allowed until the installment payment is paid.

Private land can be bought and sold, but in order to prevent the emergence of large-scale landlords, the agricultural tax of the Great Chu Empire has officially implemented a stepped tax rate. The more land, the higher the agricultural tax rate. to pay the agricultural tax.

This stepped agricultural tax policy has forced a large number of large and medium-sized landowners to reduce the total amount of land owned by each household through family separation, so as to meet the standard of not exceeding the limit of the stepped agricultural tax.

This kind of family division seems to take off their pants and fart, but it has another obvious effect that the officials are willing to see, that is, everyone becomes smaller, and further shakes or even eliminates the power of local wealthy and big families.

It is a bit similar to the Tweet Order in ancient times. It seems that the land is still transferred in the local vassal system, but it gradually turns the big nobles into small nobles, reducing the ability of the local nobles to rebel.

The so-called aristocratic families do not rely on blood ties, but interest ties. Once these big families start to divide their property, and the land changes from collective ownership to individual small families, then naturally there will be no interest ties. , everyone is at most a relative...

Suppressing local wealthy families and clan power is only a by-product of the laddered agricultural tax. More importantly, it is to prevent land mergers, and at the same time force a large number of middle and large landlords to give up the land in their hands, sell the land to return funds, and then invest the funds in industry and commerce.

It can be said that the stepped agricultural tax policy is a comprehensive national policy that prevents land mergers, suppresses local clans, appeases and wins over landless/less land farmers, and stimulates industrial and commercial development.

Moreover, this policy, coupled with the fact that the Great Chu Empire used various means in the early years to force the big landlords to give up their land, and the great Chu Empire paid for industrial and commercial development, has made these landlords begin to shift their attention from land to industry and commerce. Come.

In the past two years, the rapid development of various industries and commerce represented by the textile industry throughout the empire has benefited from the entry of a large number of private landlord capital.

To engage in industry and commerce, it doesn't matter whether the technology is advanced first, but you must first have funds.

In addition to the government these days, those who have a large amount of surplus funds are the gentry class. By guiding them to invest a large amount of surplus funds in industry and commerce to stimulate the development of industry and commerce in the entire empire is the established plan of the high-level empire, which will not be easily changed.

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In Liaodong, through the implementation of the existing land policy, basically everyone can have land.

With this land, although there are fewer people, there are still millions of people. The next step is to resume normal agricultural production.

The Great Chu Empire can't continue to send a large amount of food to the Liaodong area to feed millions of people, isn't it...

The military is still counting on the grain produced locally in Liaodong to help solve the food consumption of part of the Liaodong garrison. A large amount of grain has to be transported from the south, and the cost is too high.

In order to reduce the cost of food transportation, and the high-level empire has decided to gradually reduce military expenditures starting next year, the Liaodong garrison must also start to be self-reliant.

As a result, after pushing the battle line to the Great Wall of Liaodong, the nearly 20 Chu army temporarily put down their knives and guns, picked up hoes, and began vigorous reclamation and breeding operations except for some combat-ready troops.

The intention is to solve the food and meat needed by a part of the garrison on the spot.

Whether it is the resumption of production by the people or the reclamation by the military, it is all to solve the food problem in the Liaodong area.

In addition to the food issue, the top leaders of the Great Chu Empire also adopted certain measures to develop and utilize the rich natural resources in the Liaodong region.

What natural resources does Liaodong have?
There are abundant and high-quality mineral resources of various types, among which there are quite a lot of core minerals, that is, coal and iron ore.

What is the core industry in the early industry?
Steel!

The iron ore and coal in the mining business are all used for ironmaking, and with steel, there are all kinds of machinery, including the defense industry, and various agricultural tools.

This is why modern countries often use steel production to measure a country's industrial strength.

Because steel is the basic industry in the foundation!

In the huge Huaxia region, although there are a lot of iron ore and coal, there are relatively few high-quality coal and iron ore, and there are even fewer high-quality iron ore and coal that can be mined and refined at low cost.

It is extremely rare if both are still in the same place.

The two main iron and steel bases of the Great Chu Empire are Daye Industrial Zone and Dangtu Industrial Zone. These two places are very typical iron mining areas. Coal mines and coal mines in Pingxiang, Jiangxi.

It seems that it can be used now, but the limitations are very large for the large-scale ironmaking industry, especially in the era when there were no trains.

Coal in many places needs to be transported from the mountains by horse-drawn carts, and then loaded onto ships and flown down the river.

For example, the coal in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, after being dug out of the mountains, has to go through more than 100 kilometers of land transportation to reach Zhuzhou before it can be loaded on a ship, enter the Yangtze River through the Xiangjiang River, and then arrive at Daye or Dangtu.

The waterway transportation in this section of the road is all downstream, with large transportation volume, low risk and relatively fast time, but even so, the transportation cost is relatively high.

In ironmaking, the consumption of coal is often several times that of iron ore, and the ratio of the two is four to one or even higher.

The current ironmaking technology is too sloppy, and the content of iron ore is low, and the utilization rate is also low. If you want to refine one ton of iron, you need about ten tons of coal and three to four tons of iron ore.

Therefore, it is actually best to build ironworks in coal producing areas, which can effectively reduce transportation costs.

But still the same sentence, in the era of lack of steam engines, there were no trains, and even the inland river transportation was greatly restricted. It was not easy to go upstream with a full load of goods... Even sea transportation was actually not very convenient.

Therefore, when the Great Chu Empire built a steel factory in the future, more transportation factors were considered.

The subsequent iron and steel plant established in Tianjin is because there is a Luanzhou coal mine nearby, and it is also close to the sea to facilitate transportation, and there are also small and medium-sized iron ore in the surrounding area.

I also set up a Guangzhou Iron and Steel Factory in Guangzhou before, but I found that small troubles are fine, but I can't do it if I want to become bigger and stronger...

The reason why Foshan was able to become an important iron-making town during the Ming Dynasty was because there were some small iron mines nearby. The iron ore dug out of these small iron mines was generally roughed with charcoal locally, and then the rough The iron was transported to Foshan for further finishing... It is said to be an important iron-making town, let alone a crude iron processing center!
The iron and steel industry of the Great Chu Empire, especially the large-scale iron and steel factories led by the Ministry of Industry, are all aimed at mass production. In the past, the small workshop ironmaking model in Foshan was not suitable, and the cost was too high... …

However, there is also a lack of abundant coal resources around Guangzhou, so it cannot be done.

Recently, the Department of Mines of the Ministry of Industry discovered a relatively large amount of iron ore in Qiongzhou Island, as well as small coal. Therefore, it has been planned to build a steel factory directly on Qiongzhou Island, to make iron on the spot, and then make the refined iron By sea to Guangdong and Guangxi and other regions.

Why not continue to do it in Guangzhou but in Hainan... This involves the issue of transportation costs.

These days, more than ten tons of coal and several tons of iron ore are needed to produce one ton of iron.

And the freight for the two is the same... It won't be cheaper just because it's coal or iron ore, but more expensive if it's iron.

Assuming that a large-scale iron and steel plant with an annual output of [-] tons of iron is to be built in Guangzhou, then more than [-] tons of coal or charcoal will need to be transported there, plus a few tons of iron ore. needs are also insurmountable.

Most contemporary sea ships have a displacement of only a few hundred tons...the ones with thousands of tons are super-large sea ships, and the cost is extremely expensive. Silver, gold, oriental porcelain, silk, tea, etc.

As for the transport ships in the coastal areas of East Asia, they are generally considered large with a few hundred tons, and many of them are small ships with only a few tens of tons.

Even if it is calculated based on the calculation of large offshore ships, each of which is fully loaded with [-] tons of cargo, to meet the needs of this hypothetical Guangzhou Iron Works, hundreds of ships/times of shipping capacity are required every year.

However, if you build the steel plant directly on Qiongzhou Island, then Sinotrans only needs [-] ships/time.

The contrast between the two is huge.

Hundreds of ships/time and dozens of ships/time, fools know how to choose!

Moreover, sea transportation is much more troublesome and risky than downstream river transportation.

In the age of sailing, the risk of sailing is still extremely high. Even professional navies often have accidents. It is very common for ships that run out to sea to fail to return.

The ruthlessness of the sea is no joke.

Therefore, in shipping these days, except for special cases such as military needs or political needs that do not pay attention to cost at all, let alone unreasonable, general commercial shipping transports high value-added items, and rarely transports large quantities of cheap materials. ...

Because it will lose all the pants...

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In the era when there were no steam engines, no trains, and no steamships, the choice of steel plants was a crucial factor that had to take into account the cost of transportation.

As for Liaodong, this place has an advantage that no other place has, that is, it has both iron and coal mines, which is very suitable for the large-scale industrial ironmaking of the Great Chu Empire.

Well, even if it is the water-powered blower blowing method of the Great Chu Empire, it is also a mechanized industrial production, which is not the same concept as small workshop-style manual ironmaking.

If a large iron and steel plant can be established in Liaodong, a large amount of high-quality iron ore and coal can be obtained nearby, which can greatly reduce transportation costs, and the cost of steel will also be greatly reduced.

It is also convenient to transport the tempered steel or corresponding iron products abroad, and can be directly transported by sea.

Iron ore and coal, both of which are industrial raw materials, are large in quantity and cheap, and sometimes their own value is not as high as the shipping cost...

But the steel produced is a high value-added product. Even if there is no local market in Liaodong, it is profitable to sell it to the Central Plains by sea.

Therefore, after learning that Liaodong, especially Shenyang, is rich in coal and iron ore resources, Ji Dehua, the governor of Liaodong, has been thinking about how to develop and utilize them in recent months to earn enough political capital.

As long as it can do well in Liaodong, it is not impossible to move to Jinling City to become a Zuo Shilang. After a few years in the position of Zuo Shilang, it is estimated that he can become a minister, or become the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Weights , and then entered the Imperial Study Room as a matter of course.

It is worth mentioning that in the past two years, the scale of promotion of high-level personnel in the Great Chu Empire has changed. In the early years, it was the same as the Ming Dynasty, and the status of the local governor was weaker than that of the minister.

Therefore, at that time, if the governor of the Great Chu Empire rises further, he will enter the various ministries of the capital and become the right servant, with the same rank, or from the second rank.

However, the Great Chu Empire was different from the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty had only six departments, but the Great Chu Empire had more than a dozen ministerial-level agencies in its civil service system.

How should I put it, the gold content of Shangshu has declined, let alone the servant.

In contrast, the actual power of the governor as a big official in the frontier is not small.Although there is no military power, in fact, the governor of the Great Chu Empire, as a legitimate governor of a province, has actually increased his actual power.

Therefore, since the fifth year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue has adjusted the promotion rules for senior officials. A governor with excellent work ability will be directly promoted to the position of Zuo Shilang in the important department, or Shangshu in the ordinary department, or the same level as the right capital censor.

At the same time, one by one, the right servant of the heavyweight department and the left servant of the ordinary department were selected to be transferred to the local governors.

In this way, the political status of the governor has been greatly improved.

In the past, if they were sorted according to the order of promotion, the governor of ordinary provinces was the lowest, then the governor of large provinces and the right servant of ordinary departments, and then the right servant of the weight department, the left servant of the ordinary department, and then the weight department. Zuo Shilang.

It seems that the grades are the same, but in fact there are many layers of difference in the middle!
Now, the position of the governor has been directly raised by three ranks, surpassing the ordinary, right-handed servants and the left-handed servants of the ordinary departments, and is second only to the left-handed servants of the weighted departments.

This shows that Luo Zhixue attached great importance to locality.

Moreover, he feels that a high-ranking official who only goes around in the capital and grows up in intrigue every day is useless. Only a senior official who has experienced the capital, experienced the local area, and has been in power can take on the important role.

In the past, there was no such condition, but now, he plans to gradually implement this new official promotion system.

And the governors of the provinces are the best backup candidates for the Minister of the Imperial Study!
Naturally, Ji Dehua also aimed to enter the imperial study, otherwise he would run from the bustling capital to the bird's shit, and the winter is so long that even urinating can freeze the bird to be the governor of Liaodong!
You must know that when he was in Jinling City, he was already the right servant of the Ministry of Industry. He dare not say that he has great power, but he is still considered the number one person in the huge Jinling City. His political status is lower than that of the left servants of other ministries Right servant.

At the same time, he came from an industrial background and has a wide network of contacts in the high-level empire, and his practical ability is also very strong. Recently, he is regarded by many people as one of the senior officials who have the opportunity to enter the imperial study.

But... because he came from the Ministry of Industry, the first time he entered the official career was not through the imperial examination, but in the Xiangyang Arsenal...

He was originally a mid-level official in the Xiangyang Armory, and he was just like that about technology. He was good at administrative work in various factories, and he was promoted to supervisor in the Xiangyang Armory smoothly. The position of the fourth rank is not low.

Then he was transferred to the Ministry of Industry and promoted to the position of deputy director of a department of the third grade. He worked in the position of deputy director for more than a year. Because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted and became the director of the third grade.

After staying in the position of director for two years, he was successfully promoted to the right servant of the Ministry of Industry.

His promotion speed can be described as extremely fast, and this is not a special case. Generally speaking, mid-level and low-level officials who focus on training and have outstanding work ability will be promoted very quickly.

It's just that at this time, he has encountered a bottleneck. If he wants to go up and be directly promoted to Zuo Shilang... that's impossible!
The Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry, that is the powerful Zuo Shilang, the co-organizer of the Yushufang, the big man in charge of the national industrial development, he is still several levels away from this level.

And he still has a big flaw, that is, he has never been in power.

He had been promoted too quickly in the Ministry of Industry before, and he hadn't had time to become a magistrate or chief envoy in a local area.

This is why Ji Dehua tried his best to become a governor of a province before, even if it is a frontier in many people's eyes, it is more dangerous, and at the same time, because of the war, he is willing to come to Liaodong, where the military is relatively strong.

Although this place is a little more dangerous, and it has also been greatly suppressed and interfered by the military, you have to communicate with the military for everything you do.

However, the status of Liaodong is extremely special. As long as we can do a good job here, develop the people's livelihood in Liaodong, and successfully make Liaodong a logistics base for the empire to continue to conquer and expand the Northeast, then the credit will be great, and we will be transferred back to Gyeonggi to enter the Imperial Study Room It is also possible.

It is not easy to enter the imperial study now. Except for the high-ranking imperial officials who entered the imperial study in the early days, all the civil servants who entered the imperial study in the next two or three years all had the experience of being in charge of local government.

The ruling party does not have to be the governor. The chief minister, the procuratorate, and even the provincial inspectorate are all censors, provincial court judges, and the director of the provincial taxation department. The magistrate is also fine.

Of course, the best of them all is the governorship!

If you do a good job in this position, you will be able to ascend to the sky in one step and directly become a minister, and then you can return to Beijing to become the left servant of the important department, and it is hopeful to enter the imperial study to become the co-organizing minister.

Can't do well... Then there's nothing to say, there are a bunch of people behind waiting for the top position, the work is so-so, but if there are merits, it is estimated that I will serve for a few more years, or continue to be the governor of other provinces on a flat basis, and then consciously fuck off.

If something goes wrong, just fuck off.

If you are sailing against the current in the officialdom, if you do not advance, you will retreat. It is unlikely to give you any room for error.

They are all governors of a province, and they are not middle-level and low-level officials. Neither His Majesty nor the Minister of Counsel will give you any chance of trial and error...

After all, this is not a strategic game... A poor job will affect the lives of millions or even tens of millions of people in a province, and even affect the implementation of national strategies...

How big of a face do you have to let millions or even tens of millions of people pay you the cost of trial and error?

Think beautiful!
Furthermore, there are so many officials from the third rank to the second rank in the empire, all staring at the real power positions such as governors and ministers... But the position is so small, if you don't step down, why do they come to power like this?

Could it be that you really have to wait until you die at 78 and die... that would be nonsense.

Therefore, if you don't do well, you can become an official if you are more sensible, otherwise it will be difficult to be kind if you offend everyone.

Of course, in order to avoid too fierce competition among officials, which would affect the operation of government affairs, and to relieve the worries of many middle and senior officials, Luo Zhixue also set up the post of government affairs consultant in all levels of yamen, with little actual power. More than one has the power to impeach officials...

It is mainly used to place mid-to-high-level officials who have not committed any mistakes, but cannot be promoted, are approaching retirement age, or are unable to continue to serve as high-intensity chief officials due to physical reasons.

Correspondingly, the age of official appointment is traditionally 70 years old, but most of the officials in the Great Chu Empire are relatively young. In addition, the Great Chu Empire implements the integration of officials and officials, so it is necessary to maintain a huge channel for officials to rise.

In addition, officials who are too old will have insufficient energy to deal with affairs.

Therefore, it is stipulated that the age of the first rank is 70 years old, that of the second and third ranks is 65 years old, and that of the fourth rank and below is 60 years old.

This age is the upper limit, and when you reach the age, unless you are specifically authorized to do so, you will be retired, whether you want to or not...

After becoming an official, the post-office salary is also given in accordance with the tradition. For those with the third rank and above, [-]% of the salary will be issued after graduation, and for those with the fourth rank and below, [-]% of the salary will be issued.

The basic salary is based on the basic salary of local officials of the same level.

Some high-ranking officials may also obtain knighthoods, and at the same time receive some treatment such as regular audiences.

The post-retirement treatment is limited to normal service, excluding those who have been dismissed.

This article, although the retirement age is relatively early, has actually been welcomed by a large number of low-level officials.

Because... there is a pension!
In traditional dynasties, generally only high-ranking officials would serve in office, and would be given pensions by the emperor's grace, or full salary or half salary, etc. Don't even think about middle and low-level officials.

But in the Great Chu Empire, even low-level officials have pensions when they become officials. Although it is only [-]%, there are still some.

As for what you said about distributing pensions, will it lead to great financial pressure...

Well...the average life expectancy in modern times is only about thirty years old. Even if there are no natural disasters and man-made disasters, it's just medical supplies these days. Any disease will be incurable...a cold will kill you. If you want to live to 70 or [-] years old, In addition to good living conditions and proper daily health care, excellent luck is also required.

Although officials live longer, it is actually difficult to live to the age of 60, which is the normal age for serving as an official... It is really not optimistic that they can live for a few years after they retire at the age of 60...

Therefore, there is actually no financial pressure to provide pensions to officials who have retired after the age of 60, which in turn can demonstrate benevolence.

And when the overall average life expectancy is raised in the future, it is estimated that the Great Chu Empire will almost complete industrialization, and the pensions of some officials will not be too much financial pressure by then.

After all, although the Great Chu Empire adopted the integration of officials and officials, the overall number of officials is still not large, even in the feudal dynasty.

Although there are only a few serious officials in the feudal dynasty, behind every official is a bunch of officials.

In an ordinary county, there may be only a dozen official officials with official hats, but these dozen people alone cannot maintain the operation of the local county government. It is normal for all kinds of people to add up to hundreds of people. If it is a high-level county, it is possible to have more than a thousand officials.

Don’t think that the imperial government’s finances only need to support a dozen officials. In fact, most of the officials in the government are also fed by finances. Money is supported.

For example, the county magistrate in the Qing Dynasty often had an annual salary of more than 1000 taels or even more, but don’t think that he got it all by himself. In fact, he still had to support a lot of people...the salary alone could not support so many people.

Of course, there are more ways for people to make money!
If you don't pay to recruit people, who will do things for him? Is it possible that the magistrate really has to do so many things himself.

Therefore, the personnel cost of the Great Chu Empire to maintain local rule is actually not much higher than that of the feudal dynasty, and it is even lower per capita because of the unified management.

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Many systems of the Great Chu Empire are being perfected step by step, so the overall appearance is very different from the traditional feudal dynasty.

For example, entering the Imperial Study Room, this Imperial Study Room is somewhat similar to the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to enter the cabinet, you have to be educated, and there is a high probability that you must be born in the Imperial Academy.

But the cabinet promotion system of the Ming Dynasty is a bit weird... It doesn’t require officials to climb up step by step, but to let officials endure, and they don’t need any experience in governing. From a young Hanlin to a senior official at the level of a minister overnight...then they have the opportunity to enter the cabinet.

Looking at the cabinet members of the Ming Dynasty, especially the cabinet members in the middle and late stages, few of them had the experience of being in power, and many of them even did not understand the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty itself.

To put it bluntly, all are flowers grown in greenhouses, which cannot withstand the ravages of storms!

The Great Chu Empire is different, senior officials are basically working from the grassroots, especially from the local level.

If it is really the ability to intrigue, these high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty, who were born in the Imperial Academy, have been raised and then ascended to the sky, are really inferior to these professional bureaucrats of the Great Chu Empire.

Except for the high-ranking officials of the empire who have been promoted in the past few years, the high-ranking officials of the ministries and halls who were promoted in the Great Chu Empire in the next few days all climbed up from the grassroots all the way, regardless of their ability, but they all killed countless competitors along the way I just got up.

Such people are all human beings!

In terms of intrigue, they can beat the so-called high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty to shit!
Ji Dehua is also such a person. He can climb so fast not only because of his outstanding ability... but also because he has killed a large number of competitors!
When I was in the Xiangyang Arsenal, there were many people who wanted to be a supervisor, but why did he get the job, and then he successfully entered the high-level vision and was transferred back to the Ministry of Industry of Gyeonggi.

There are naturally many inside stories that are not known to outsiders.

The same is true for the subsequent promotion to the right servant of the Ministry of Industry. There is still a relatively high possibility of being promoted directly from the director of Zhengsanpin to the right servant. However, when there was no promotion reform in the early years, this kind of promotion was a leapfrog Promotion, how could it be possible without a story behind it.

It's just that, the feng shui turns, and when he wants to continue to climb up, he finds that if he wants to enter the imperial study, he needs the experience of the party in charge...

Then, Ji Dehua found that he lacked experience on the ruling side.

This is awkward...

Otherwise, after getting the position of governor of Liaodong, Ji Dehua still has to think about making achievements. If he can't make achievements, it's useless. Don't expect to continue to be promoted, and Yushufang is even more extravagant.

To this end, he set two development directions.

One is to recruit immigrants from the provinces inside the pass, especially places with little land and a lot of people, to go to Liaodong outside the pass for reclamation, but the source of immigrants is more troublesome.

After the nearby Hebei, Shandong, Henan and even Shanxi were devastated by the war, although there are still more people and less land, it is not serious after all... Nowadays, many policies of the empire to restore people's livelihood in the northern provinces are quite effective , life is much better than before. Although some immigrants can be recruited under such circumstances, it may be difficult to obtain a large number of immigrants. After all, few people are willing to drag their families to the bitter cold land of Liaodong if they can survive. wasteland.

As for the place, the distance is a factor, and the fact that life is not in extreme difficulties is also a factor.

Therefore, it is quite difficult to recruit immigrants to Liaodong, especially when Liaodong is poor and white, which is a typical bitter cold place in people's mouth.

So he is going to make more flowers. On the one hand, he recruits immigrants in the northern provinces. How should I put it, the lack of people does not mean that there are no people. No matter where, there will always be people who cannot survive. The region recruits victims, and there are some coastal areas with few people and a lot of land, such as the mountainous areas in southern Fujian and Zhejiang. These places have always had a lot of people and little land, and the locals also have a tradition of immigrating to other places to make a living.

In addition to directly recruiting immigrants, Ji Dehua actually pays more attention to the development of local minerals and industries!

He comes from an industrial background, and he is well aware of the huge development that industry has brought to the local area.

Not to mention anything else, as long as a large steel plant can be built in Liaodong, the economy of Liaodong can be boosted overnight.

With a steel factory, there will be matching upstream and downstream factories, and various machinery and hardware factories will smell it, even the arsenal is no exception.

It is more convenient to manufacture guns and ammunition directly in Liaodong than to transport them all the way from the south of the Yangtze River, isn't it?

And with factories, there will be jobs, and with jobs, there will be consumption by ordinary residents. At that time, a large number of ordinary people will come even if they want to earn a wage or start a small business.

This population will naturally increase.

At this stage, the Liaodong government can also obtain a large amount of tax revenue, especially commercial tax revenue, and then use these tax revenues to improve infrastructure, such as building roads and bridges.

It is even used to recruit immigrants to subsidize agricultural production and so on.

The development of agriculture in Liaodong can in turn supply the consumption of industrial employees and even the needs of the military.

In the end, the whole game of chess was over.

The plan is already in place, and the only problem is how to convince the high-level empire to spend huge sums of money to invest in Liaodong and build a series of factories such as steel plants in the remote frontier, under the threat of the Dong captives!

For this reason, he has been thinking about it for several months, and he has already conceived a lot of various plans.

But Ji Dehua did not expect that before he finalized the plan and asked for support from his superiors, an inspection team from the Ministry of Industry had already arrived in Liaodong by sea boat, landed in Yingkou, and then went straight to Liaodong Town, where the Liaodong Governor's Yamen is located. , that is, from the direction of Liaoyang City.

But before arriving in Liaoyang City, they stayed in the Anshan Fort area along the way for several days.

These officials from the Ministry of Industry came here precisely for the rich mineral resources in Liaodong.

No matter how Ji Dehua has any plans, how can Luo Zhixue have a clear positioning for Liaodong's development!
What is Liaodong suitable for development?What else can it be, heavy industry is the mainstay, and agriculture is supplemented!

Otherwise, wouldn't you be blind to the rich mineral resources in the Liaodong region?

No matter how scarce Luo Zhixue's common sense for later generations is, he also knows that Northeast China is the base of China's heavy industry. What else do you want to do if you don't engage in heavy industry?Could it be possible to learn from the captives and other barbarians, and engage in nomadic animal husbandry, fishing and hunting... Isn't that nonsense!

The Great Chu Empire engaged in industry in Qiongzhou Island, let alone in the Northeast.

As for the threat of the Dongyao people, the army of the Great Chu Empire is not for nothing. There are still nearly 20 troops in Liaodong. They will continue to attack the north when the spring of next year. The Dongyao people can no longer turn the tide .

(End of this chapter)