Steam Daming: Stop calling me to supervise the country

Chapter 184 The First Five-Year Plan of the Pearl River Delta

On a crisp autumn day, on the hillside, Chu Er faced the breeze and walked up the hillside with her skirt up. The wind disturbed her long hair and messed up her hair accessories. The rouge gouache the girl used was obviously better than before. Delicate skin, with a slight smile, is better than the gentle wind and the warm sun.

"His Royal Highness, Your Highness." Chu'er's voice was sweet, and the gentle breeze blew past, making people feel sweet.

Zhu Zhanchang was lying on the grass, Zara was dancing with a wooden sword, she was wearing a white dress, she was melodious and moving gracefully.

Li Xiaozhu painted on the side, painting the mountains and waters, the blue sky and white clouds, and the lazy look of the young man in front of him.

Autumn without incident is better than spring.

Feudal society really grinds people's will.

"Chu'er, is there something wrong?"

"His Royal Highness is Shilang Yang who brought someone to invite you."

"Don't change your mind, now it's not Shi Lang Yang, he is the commander of my Guangdong vassal." Zhu Zhanzhen sat up and smiled.

Two months passed in a flash. Under Zhu Zhanchang's instruction, Huang Huihong, the commander of the original capital, was still very sensible. He returned home after a long illness. After reading for many years, he was considered a military meritorious person. Although it is a bit bad, Zhu Di is sure After he returned home safely, Yang Lu, the former minister of the Ministry of War, took over the command and envoy.

Zhu Zhanchang is now equal to the military, political and legal encyclopedia, but in detail, Fang Shi is still in charge of the law, and his position is difficult to shake, but now he is completely following Zhu Zhanchang.

If there is a piece of government affairs, the new chief envoy is expected to arrive after the year.

The entire army was in his hands, and Yang Lu was sent by Zhu Di to follow him. Of course, there was no doubt that Yang Lu was Zhu Di’s confidant. This itself was very obvious on the way Yang Lu came, and he did not avoid it.

Zhu Zhanchang also understood Zhu Di's thoughts, but he was still a little worried that he would not be able to manage so many troops, so he arranged for Yang Lu to come over.

Yang Lu and Fang Shi are both from their side. From top to bottom, two months can be regarded as rectifying the officialdom in Guangzhou. Some bad deeds have been cleared out, and the atmosphere is much better now.

However, the clan forces in the Guangdong vassal are very strong, and the local protection is a long-term problem that cannot be solved yet. There are changes and compromises.

Today, Yang Lu came here to report the current situation to Zhu Zhanchang, and secondly, Zhu Zhanchang prepared a meeting. All the officials of the prefect and above in the Guangdong vassal, and even some more important magistrates also came, such as Chen Youshan.

He immediately prepared to go to Nanyang to visit various countries. Before leaving, Zhu Zhanchang planned to hold a meeting for them.

Name of the meeting: The first five-year plan meeting in the Pearl River Delta.

The copy still has to continue to copy, and the five-year plan is effective.

And he has to confirm a lot of things he planned before in the form of documents.

The two came to the original Jinwu mansion. After the house was raided, Zhu Zhanchang felt that the location was very good, so he transformed it into a government affairs center, and knocked down the hall in the room and rebuilt it into a huge conference room.

Different from the mode of meeting in the Ming Dynasty, the form of the conference room refers to the fan-shaped conference hall of the United Nations.

When Zhu Zhanchang arrived, all the officials were already present, and Zhu Zhanchang didn't walk on stage.

"Welcome, His Royal Highness the Prince of Zhujiang County."

Many people saw Zhu Zhanchang for the first time, and were very curious about this county king who dared to kill the governor in the street.

Zhu Zhanchang came to the stage with a thick document, and all the participants had this document.

"All of you are my ministers of the Ming Dynasty and the pillars of Guangdong. Now Your Majesty has ordered me to control Guangdong's military and develop Guangdong's economy, and now the sea ban has been opened, the ports are getting busier, everything is changing, and the old system can't do new things. Therefore, at this meeting, I will announce the overall goals of the Guangdong vassal in the next five years, and establish an economic and political strategic plan for the delta area around Guangzhou Prefecture, Hong Kong Port, and the Pearl River."

Everyone looked at the document one after another, and the document contained the plan formulated by Zhu Zhanchang, Fang Shi and others.

"In the next five years, in the triangular area of ​​the Pearl River estuary, the economic center of Guangdong, there are three most important things."

"The first is to focus on developing maritime import and export trade, establish a standardized import and export system, and exchange gold and silver for goods and deposit them in the treasury."

"The second is to vigorously develop industrialization."

"The third is to ensure the implementation of three-year compulsory education. Today, five years later, it is necessary to ensure that more than 20% of the youth under the age of 60.00 in Guangdong Province have received a three-year new education."

Everyone looked at the thick documents, which recorded which projects were subsidized and which projects lost money to do. This kind of planned development method was very novel and unheard of for them.

The magistrate of Dongguan County was the first to ask the question: "His Royal Highness, Dongguan County is in the triangle area. A few days ago, a teacher from a private school approached the county government and said that he had received the news that if the school is established, there will be government subsidies. Is this true? "

"You turn to page No. 40, the Ministry of Education has been established, and the former Guangdong chief envoy Zuo Senator is the Minister of the Ministry of Education. All school construction costs can be subsidized to a certain extent from the Ministry of Education, and three years The tuition fees for compulsory education will be covered by 80.00% of the funds allocated by the Ministry of Education.”

It can be said that all the money for running the school and for studying comes from the Guangzhou government, of course, it is aimed at the students with Guangzhou government household registration.

"Since I've talked about it here, let me talk about the two universities. One is the National Pearl River Military Academy and the other is the National Nanhai University. The Pearl River Military Academy is located on Changzhou Island, and Nanhai University is located on Xiangjiang Island."

"What is a university? Everyone's learning is not only the way of saints, but also mathematics, the power of all things, and so on."

"Pearl River Military Academy is mainly aimed at the officers of the guards. Commander Yang Lu is the first principal. He studies the art of war, the use of firearms, and new tactics. Officers from each guard can apply for admission. Of course, all Scholars under the age of 30 or students who have passed the three-year compulsory education examination from various schools can also enter the school."

Military academies are used to train officers. What they want is not only the officers in the guards, but also systematic study and professional training. At the same time, they also give students who are not guards the same opportunity to attend the military academy.

"Nanhai University is the first national university that I built with the salary of the Prince of Zhujiang County. All students who have received three-year compulsory education will be assessed. The outstanding ones will enter the study, and they will learn the latest knowledge. Steam engine knowledge, knowledge of telephones, etc."

In addition to the subsidies for education, the Pearl River Delta will continue to encourage industrialization on a large scale in the next two years, such as shuttle looms, mechanization of agricultural production, new steel smelting, and steam trains that are about to start construction.

It is planned that in the next five years, steam trains will be opened from Guangzhou to all provinces in Guangdong, and we will see if there is an opportunity to open up the train route to Yingtianfu.

Trains require a substantial increase in steel smelting capacity, so Zhu Zhanchang has almost spared no effort in rewarding craftsmen to develop new smelting technologies, and large-scale investment hopes to bring returns.

Where does the investment money come from? The bulk of it must be obtained from maritime trade. The land sales of Hong Kong Port in the early stage made the treasury very full. As long as the maritime trade is smooth in the future, the tax revenue alone can theoretically support Zhu Zhan. these investments.

Next, he continued to explain some difficult points, and then Zhu Zhanchang knocked on the table and said, "Ma Xiang, stand up."

"This is Ma Xiang, the president of the Guangdong Branch of the Central Bank of Daming. The current implementation of food stamps is due to President Ma's contribution, but this is not enough. When our trade method changed from domestic to foreign, our trading benchmarks changed. It has become gold. In addition to the above three centers of gravity, there is also a secondary center of gravity, that is, the issuance of treasure notes. This is not within the five-year plan, but I need to continuously improve the quality of paper and the ability to prevent counterfeiting. President Ma took the lead in formulating precious banknotes anchored to gold."

"Yes." Ma Xiang replied loudly.

Relying on Daming's national strength, if the treasured banknotes can be anchored to gold, and the treasured banknotes can be used to replace gold as the foreign trade currency in the future, then Daming's finances will be very happy.

It's just that it may not be possible at this stage, limited by the material of the paper and anti-counterfeiting methods, and Daming has just opened the sea ban and has no absolute right to speak in the sea. Zhu Zhanchang intends to put it in the second five-year plan, but We must also start to improve the material and anti-counterfeiting methods of paper now, and find ways.

This meeting was held for three consecutive days. In the face of this new administrative form, all the officials showed great enthusiasm. They also recognized this development method that clearly told you what to do.

And obviously they have already started to study the policy, and those projects with subsidies must be done.

The policy was set at the meeting, and Zhu Zhanchang made the final explanation: "Everyone, my goal is to make the Pearl River Delta a triangle with a high degree of industrialization, a prosperous economy, and a high level of national education. Everyone listens to it. , from today onwards, if you let me know that any of you who dare to make a stumbling block do not allow normal business activities, or imply that you need to pay bribes to you to obtain policy subsidies, the ugly words are ahead of you, and all of them will be punished severely, and those with serious circumstances will be beheaded."

After the meeting, Chen Youshan found Zhu Zhanchang, with a worried expression on his face: "His Royal Highness has no plans for agriculture in the five-year plan, so will there be a situation of heavy business and suppression of agriculture?"

"I have been thinking about the agricultural situation for a long time, but in the end I didn't add the fourth key project. There are different development directions in different places. We in the Pearl River Delta need to do industry and economy. As for food, I have already thought of a way. Granary."

"Big granary?" Chen Youshan was puzzled.

At this moment, Xiaosheng walked over quickly: "Your Highness, news has just arrived from Xiangjiang Port, and Lord Zheng He's fleet has docked."

Zhu Zhanchang smiled slightly: "No, the person who took me to the granary is here."

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　　The next step is to attack Jiaozhi. The means used by foreign enemies may be darker, so be prepared.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)