Lu Ming

Chapter 327 Meeting ([-])

"North of the Yangtze River is the cotton-producing area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, especially Songjiang Prefecture and its surrounding areas. In fact, the cotton planting area in the entire Yangtze River Delta accounted for eighty-nine out of ten in the late Ming Dynasty. Everyone can buy it and ship it to West Asia and South America."

The person who was talking on the stage was a professional who was interested in opening a cotton mill in Songjiang Prefecture.Needless to say, this gentleman must have worked in the textile industry "before his death", so he is very professional in market analysis.

"Whether it's raw materials or skilled workers, Songjiang can handle it on the spot, which is not available in other places. Once our machines enter, we can easily control the upstream cotton yarn industry, and then infiltrate downstream."

"I have no less than twenty 19th-century-level textile machine drawings here, which can be driven by steam, electricity, and even animal power. Only a few imported parts are needed, and the self-produced boiler can work."

Seeing that most of the people in the audience were listening, this man couldn't help feeling a little proud of the career he had prepared for a long time.

Before he finally stepped down, he also said a few words of a slightly encouraging nature: "At present, at least two-thirds of the workers who are fighting on various fronts are still wearing linen and Fujian homespun. caused by an unreasonable structure."

"Once we build a factory in Shanghai, Taiwan only needs to wait for ready-to-wear clothes. Including navy sails, I am confident that within eight months, all citizens will be able to wear work jackets and jeans, by the way. Then export some high-end cotton textiles to the gringos."

"I'm done."

Seeing this man walk down the stage with great ambition, Huo Xiong and Mi Shuo, who were still yelling at those unreliable people in the morning, did not make trouble this time, but put on a pensive expression and sat in the crowd Silent.

The people who came to the stage in the afternoon are not like the people in the morning who can be bombarded at will.Because by this time, most of the people who came to power belonged to the relatively important secondary industry. These people had data and plans in their hands, and most of their claims were related to the pillar industries of the national economy and the people's livelihood. .

Including the cotton spinning plan, there are also a number of light industry plans such as papermaking, porcelain, furniture, daily chemicals, etc., which were also proposed one after another during the rest of the afternoon.

Some of these plans went to the Ming Dynasty to set up camp, and some were based in the local area and wantonly exposed their products for dumping. In short, they were all mature plans that could make money and earn money.

After the previous day's meeting, the real heavyweight industries came to power the next day: the military, heavy industry, and primary industry.

The army is a general concept, which includes the army and navy, the special forces, the General Intelligence Bureau, the police and the soon-to-be-established "Imperial Association Army" headquarters.

Each mountain has sent its own spokesperson to stress the importance of the department on stage.All kinds of weapons and equipment, cannons and giant ships spewed out of these people's mouths as if they didn't want money, as if brother Chongzhen would rush into the Taijiang River with a million cavalry tomorrow morning.

After the army representatives passed, there was only one person who read the report from Heavy Industry: Zou Guoqing.

Due to the strong correlation between the various factories in the heavy industry, overall planning is necessary, so there is no such thing as a mountain top.The industrial party has already held a meeting on the internal forum, and listed out the development plan for next year, and Zou Ge can just read it now.

Seeing the Industrial Party sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, like Huo Xiong and Mi Shuo who are big players in the primary industry in the audience, they can't help but feel cold: industry is too closely related. If you don't import equipment, you have to import it. It is really a headache to get the matching consumables and accessories production equipment together.

And in this regard they are not easy to oppose.For example, the 500-ton four-column hydraulic press project requested by Zou Guoqing and some special machine tools—although these equipment can be used to make cannons, the report said that they are used to improve the quality of tractors.

In this entanglement, the primary industry groups headed by Liang Letian came to power one after another.

Although the industrial base in the kiln area has been in full swing, and the various businesses of the empire have also been booming, the data will not lie: since landing in Dayuan, the primary industry that occupies the most imported materials is still the unobtrusive primary industry .

People tend to ignore such shabby professions as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline fishing, but as a high-level traveler with a normal IQ, he has never relaxed his investment in this area from the very beginning.

Agriculture is always the most important foundation of a country, and instability without agriculture is not just for fun. No matter how many high-tech equipment, no matter how fierce the cannons are, once they are hungry, hundreds of thousands of grassroots people under the rule of a certain force will show their fangs in an instant. , Created the rebellion of the gentlemen.

Therefore, imported materials have actually supported the primary industry the most, with a total amount exceeding 30%.This includes not only fine breeds, laboratories, and breeding cattle, but also reflected in the industry: the early tractors were grown out of hard seedlings. At that time, many parts, including gas engines, were imported by large offices. hold up.

The impact of this approach is far-reaching, leading to the fact that now the Industrial Party wants to import some equipment, and it has to find ways to link it with agriculture.

Liang Letian, the Minister of Agriculture with a smile on his face, stepped onto the stage steadily, not paying attention to the worried eyes of the audience.

Sure enough, as the final BOSS, Liang Letian's first plan ignited the audience: 50 mu of rubber seedlings in Kenting + 500 mu of rubber seeds.

Kenting is located in the southernmost corner of Taiwan and is the only place on the island with tropical climate characteristics.

The plan of the Ministry of Agriculture is: first import a batch of 2-3-year-old rubber seedlings, and these low-slung seedlings will be transplanted into the newly-built heating greenhouses in Kenting. The quantity should not be less than 50 mu.

The next step is the 500-acre rubber seed project. "Don't worry, the pure rubber seeds are not big, and they are about the same size as red dates." Liang Letian added with a smile.

There was an uproar.

This plan is too vigorous: the volume of rubber seedlings is larger than that of seeds, how many seedlings are enough for 50 mu of land?What's more, the 500 mu of seeds are not vegetarian, even if they are small.

Roof-shattering hisses rang out for the first time today—everyone knew that if this danger was not suppressed, nothing would happen to anyone in the coming year 1629, because this damn rubber The plan is obviously only the first step for these mud legs, and there are still many evil plans lined up.

"Silence! Silence! Bastard, stop arguing!" The high-ranking Chairman Luo almost knocked the table to pieces.

However, the speaker seemed to have no authority. Not only did the boos get louder, but some people stood up and pointed their middle finger at Liang Letian on the stage.

At the critical moment, Zhou Tongcai, the Minister of Justice who was in charge of maintaining order at the venue, made a move, and then a few people with middle fingers were dragged out by the big-waisted guest security guards.

Now everyone is honest. Those who are kicked out will lose their qualifications for the final voting on various proposals tomorrow.

"Agriculture lags behind. Even if the seedlings planted next year will not be tapped until four or five years later. By that time, our national strength will soar and we will be ready to attack from all directions."

Liang Letian, who was standing on the stage, waited for the scene to calm down, and then began to preach as if nothing had happened: "At that time, the only thing you will complain about is why didn't you plant more rubber trees? Because ocean freighters and artillery Cars need rubber."

"So it is right to start planting saplings now. After two years, after the army occupies the islands in Southeast Asia, they will be transplanted."

Liang Letian gave a very strong reason, but the audience still didn't buy it: "The quantity is too much."

A whisper sounded.

Liang Letian, who doesn't care about these gossips, has already started to read the plan. The report on the agricultural system is very long, and there is still more content in the future, and the introduction of various donkeys, horses, cattle and sheep has not been mentioned yet.As for the lack of 50 mu of land for saplings, there will definitely be 30 mu of land, Liang Letian is not worried at all.

At the end of Liang Letian's report, he gave another blow to the melon-eating masses: the agricultural system officially required the chemical plant to be separated and a new pesticide + chemical fertilizer plant to be established, and he specifically applied to Emperor Cao on this matter, requesting " Supporting introduction of "3-5 corresponding technical personnel and corresponding equipment.

After the turbulent meeting on the second day, people saw sorrow and helplessness on the faces of a large number of nobles who crossed the Taijiang River to go home.

After this situation fermented overnight, the result was that the meeting on the third day was full of heated debates and hysterical shouts - if you don't fight, there is no game.

The content of the meeting on the third day was free debate and voting.

Every time traveler who is willing to come to the stage to express his opinion can get 10 minutes to criticize someone's report or advocate for his cause again.

There are not many people on stage today: people in a big industry like Liang Letian are all sitting on the Diaoyutai and waiting to vote for the rest.

So it is no surprise that those who came to the stage to make noise today are those "middle-level people"-the group of people who originally felt that they had hope this year, but were squeezed out of resources by other industries.

In addition to the military people clamoring that the end is coming, the focus is on the light industry people who were beautiful yesterday: cotton spinning, paper making, porcelain, furniture, and daily chemicals.
These people are crazy today.In order to win the approval of the project, he did not hesitate to use eighteen martial arts, including but not limited to sarcasm, tears, pills to break the country and other great prophecies, even if he was kicked out of the venue for insulting his colleagues and delaying his speech. not hesitate.

However, it turned out that it was an unexpected person who turned out to be the fantasy of this group of people: Prime Minister Xia.

Near noon, Lao Xia, who had been drowsy in his seat all morning, probably woke up, or he really didn't want to listen to some people's performances, so he stood up, came to the microphone, and put out made his own private speech on industrial structure.

(End of this chapter)