Steel Dynasty - Chapter 714

[Chapter 713 Three-Year Plan]

At some point, fine snowflakes suddenly fell from the sky.

Standing in front of the window and looking at this scene, Xiao Ming sighed in his heart that another year was about to pass, and in this past time, he finally completed the preliminary unification of the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

Li Kaiyuan noticed Xiao Ming’s expression. It seemed to him that Xiao Ming had a soft spot for winter, and he didn’t know why.

“I won’t disturb the Emperor’s viewing of the snow. I will go back and prepare the “Business Law”.” Li Kaiyuan said. He was still a little stressed in front of Xiao Ming. After all, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger.

Nodding, he said to Li Kaiyuan: “I will choose a day to designate the Chamber of Commerce as the Department of Commerce. From then on, you will officially become officials of the imperial court. I have told you many times about the functions of the Department of Commerce. You can follow these functional scopes.” From now on, he will be responsible for the commercial administration of the Great Chongqing. “

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Li Kaiyuan responded, tightening his cotton clothes and walking into the snow. This winter is getting colder every year.

After watching Li Kaiyuan leave, Xiao Ming looked to the north. This year’s winter was colder than previous years, and this time it was probably hard enough for the barbarians.

He could predict that livestock would freeze to death again in the northern grasslands this year, which would make the barbarians’ lives even more difficult.

The barbarians who are short of food and clothing can only do one thing, and that is to rob. From this, it can be predicted that the war between the barbarians and Dayu is imminent. After all, the food output on this land is so much, and Dayu will eat more. The barbarians would have to starve to death.

In fact, the history of mankind is just a history of people eating people. The difference is whether they eat others or eat their own people.

During the Age of Discovery, the West chose to eat people from other continents, which led to the prosperity and strength of the West today. However, in the land of Great Chongqing, its own people have always eaten their own people.

After stopping to look at the snow for a while, Xiao Ming returned to immersing himself in designing the industrial plans for the six states.

There were only 100 steam engines at this auction, but in fact the steam engine workshop produced a total of 300 steam engines during this period.

After getting this number, he ordered that only 100 units be given to merchants. After all, compared to private workshops, the most important thing was government-run workshops.

After all, these private workshops provide various goods to the public, and it is the government-run workshops that can really guide the development of the country.

In his plan, he plans to build two more large-scale steel workshops. These steel workshops are not in Qingzhou, but in Laiwu and Kaiping Prefecture near Youzhou.

Needless to say, Laiwu is the largest coal and iron producing area in Shandong. Building the Laiwu Steel Mill here will greatly reduce the transportation cost of ore.

And this Kaiping Prefecture is Kaiping Town in the late Qing Dynasty, which is also famous. In fact, it is contemporary Tangshan. This place is rich in coal and iron. He plans to build the Kaiping Iron and Steel Mill here.

Attached to these steel mills are naturally coal mines and iron mines, but in addition to these two minerals, Xiao Ming is also preparing to develop gold and silver mines in Laizhou at the same time.

Coal and iron are for industry, while gold and silver are for finance. Taking advantage of this rare period of peace, he must start up industry as soon as possible.

During the Meiji Restoration, Japan only took forty years to become a powerful country. This was still the period when Japan directly transitioned from feudal society to the West during the second revolution.

Therefore, for Xiao Ming, he didn’t need forty years at all. As long as he was given ten or eight years, he would be able to catch up with the industry of the West and then completely destroy the West.

However, in order to concentrate his efforts on big things, he now has to solve a problem, which is the problem of population mobility in the Great Yu Kingdom.

In the feudal dynasty, the population was almost non-mobile, mainly to avoid the unstable factor of refugees.

But now Xiao Ming wants to engage in industry and capital, which will inevitably require a large population.

The population of the six states is limited, and most of them have their own land. These people are not enthusiastic about entering workshops. Therefore, now both he and the merchants of Qingzhou need a large number of people to develop industry.

So at this time, he naturally focused on the refugees produced by the northern war. The chaotic war for more than a year not only caused the north to lose a lot of people, but also gave birth to a large number of refugees.

If according to previous practice, these refugees would have to return to their hometowns to farm, but now there are two ways, which is to enter the workshop.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming put away his pen. He wrote down this question and prepared to discuss it together in the morning meeting tomorrow.

In addition to this, he also prepared some other matters, and also gave it a famous name called the three-year plan.

The next day, Qingzhou City was covered in silvery white snow that had fallen all night.

After playing with Fei Yue’er and his son in the dormitory for a while, he went to the Yizheng Hall with his three-year plan.

After a heavy snowfall, the clothes worn by the ministers became obviously thicker. Xiao Ming smiled and said, “Did all of you, dear ministers, wear cotton-padded jackets sewn in textile workshops in their official robes?”

Pang Yukun took the lead and said, “Your Majesty, this The cotton-padded jackets are thick and cold-resistant. This year, not only the officials, but also the common people are wearing these cotton-padded jackets. “

“I have lived in Chang’an for decades. I thought that Chang’an was the richest place in the world. I never thought that it was just May or Six. Years ago, the people in Qingzhou lived more comfortably than the people in Chang’an. In the past, not everyone in Chang’an had cotton-padded jackets to wear,” Fiji said with a smile.

When the officials heard the words, they agreed, and Chao Jun said: “This shows that the emperor is far-sighted. The people of Qingzhou live so comfortably because of the rich products, and the rich products are inseparable from commerce and industry.”

“Chao Shangshu said it very well, this Qingzhou is indeed richer in products than Chang’an. “

“It seems that commerce and industry are also beneficial.”

“…”

Facts speak louder than words, and the officials agreed one by one.

Slightly satisfied with the performance of the officials in the hall, Xiao Ming brought up the most important national plan of the year. He said: “All of you, dear friends, are sensible people. You have lived in Qingzhou for a long time, and you can see clearly the right and wrong. Now, The next morning, I didn’t care about anything else but the development of industry and commerce. For this reason, I made a three-year plan. “

As he said that, Xiao Ming asked Qian Dafu to distribute the printed pamphlets.

Fiji and Pang Yukun looked at it immediately after getting it, and they suddenly looked shocked.

This booklet clearly records the major events that the court will do in the next three years, from farming to commerce, from government affairs to military affairs.

“What I want to say this time is all in it. In the next three years, the six state government offices must strictly follow the above plan. If it cannot be completed in three years, I will question whoever is holding back, so I will take advantage of this opportunity. Now, just ask whatever you want. “

The officials raised their heads at this time. This was the first time they had seen this kind of government affairs.

(End of chapter)