"I used to say that there were too many pitfalls but too few pitfalls, but now that the sub-bases have been opened, there are too many pitfalls and too few radishes." Liu Xiang shook his head and decided to make a list to sort out his thoughts.
From the current point of view, Vietnam is mainly positioned as a coal base and rice supply base. However, the Grand Library specially provides information on the war in the south. If you go to this area, you will probably engage in armed colonization? The human body has exploded to this point. Regardless of food or fuel, the demand for traveling through the group is like a black hole that suddenly explodes. The warm-hearted trade with Vietnam in the past could no longer satisfy the Senate's stomach—and its boiler. Judging from the recent "two publications and one newspaper", there are very high calls for more direct measures to be taken against Vietnam. The statement of "taking back the Jiuzhen and Rinan counties of our country" has appeared many times.
As for Ryukyu, after reading the "Historical Research" in the Great Library, Liu Xiang also roughly understood that the current historical period is the time when the Ryukyu-Diaoyu Islands issue has gone wrong "since ancient times": the Satsuma clan used force to force the Shō dynasty to pay tribute to the Satsuma clan. , and actually controlled Ryukyu. From this time on, Japan started the process of Japaneseization, colonization, and localization of Ryukyu. Although Ryukyu later surrendered to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it actually became a vassal of Satsuma.
Putting aside this hot historical issue that has just begun, Ryukyu is now an important maritime landmark on the Northeast Asia route in the entire East Asia region - except for the Senate. Judging from the topographic map, the trading ships from Fujian went north along the Ryukyu Islands, with islands and reefs along the way for route guidance and supply, making it an important central hub for navigation in East Asia. Controlling Ryukyu is of little significance to the Senate, which can rely on sea charts to sail along ocean currents, but it indirectly controls the Sino-Japanese trade routes of other maritime merchants, and monopolizing trade with Japan is just around the corner. The sulfur on several Ryukyu volcanic islands was an industrial raw material urgently needed by the Senate. Therefore, the goal of going to Ryukyu seems to be clear.
But Ryukyu is insignificant compared to Vietnam and Guangzhou. It is a casual move, and it doesn't matter whether it is won or not. As a local administrative official for many years, I was a bit overqualified when I was sent there.
"Guangzhou--" Liu Xiang began to mutter in his heart again. The hardest thing to guess is this. Speaking of Guangzhou, everyone in the Senate knows that it is the territory of Guo Dadong, the basic territory of the "Guanglei Department". In particular, the Great World project, which is about to complete its first phase in the near future, adds to this impression.
"Is it necessary to rotate cadres to prevent them from becoming powerful?" This question once again came to Liu Xiang's mind. Judging from the consistent policy of the Executive Committee, whether it is political factions or the personal political speculation of elders, as long as they do not exceed the line, they are generally allowed to move freely, but no faction or individual will be allowed to become powerful.
From the perspective of local factions, the weakest is the "main island faction" of Hainan Island. Even the Sanya region, where Wang Gong is personally in charge, is actually completely dependent on the central government. As for Vietnam, Hangzhou, Jeju Island, Shandong, and Taiwan Although some of the expatriate teams in other places have considerable strength, they are still extremely dependent on the central government.
Only the Guanglei Department controls the largest and most important trade gate of the Senate. Even after the Hangzhou Station opened the trade channel to Shanghai, more than 70% of the Senate's trade with the Ming Dynasty was still conducted through this portal. Not only that, but Leizhou's sugar industry can be called the money printing machine of the Senate. The importance is self-evident.
It is a matter of course that the Executive Committee should carry out certain personnel reorganization of the Guanglei Department to avoid losing the top position.
However, this matter is not easy to handle. Although Liu Xiang was looking forward to going to Guangzhou to show off his skills, his enthusiasm soon died out. The situation there is different. It is not possible to replace the director of the county office with a transfer order. If someone else takes over Guo Dongzhu's job at random, it will be easy for his own system to say that Guo Yi will never disobey the organization's orders. The problem is that his transfer will cause great shock to the local business circle in Guangzhou.
Do those who frequent Zizihao recognize you as your new owner? Liu Xiang has been a local official for several years and knows the thinking of the indigenous people very well. The idea of rule by man is really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Although everyone in Guangzhou knows that Guo Yi represents "Australians", Guo Dongzhu's transfer will not be considered It is his personal "loss of power", and it is normal for "people to die and government to cease" - let alone the 17th century now, even in the 21st century, if the sub-district office or county changes leaders, there will be cases where the predecessor's accounts will not be recognized.
Even if he takes over, the money temporarily stored in the purple cabinet will probably be withdrawn in a few days - after all, business credit in this era is based on individuals rather than legal entities. If this happens, it would be too embarrassing, regardless of whether something big happens or not.
Of course, it would be great if Xiao Guo's team could stay in office. But this matter is not something he can decide at all.
Let’s not talk about internal problems, but there are still three troubles in Guangzhou: the bureaucrats in Guangzhou, the Portuguese in Macau, and the elders in Hong Kong.
Fucheng is where the provincial bureaucracy is located. If people are sent here to establish the underground government and the shadow shogunate, then the dignitaries in Fucheng must not be as willing to cooperate as background props like Wu Mingjin. Guo Yi spent several years building relationships. Once he leaves, will he be able to take over?
Macau is currently in a "legally leased land" state with the Ming government. If there is an underground government, should we recognize the colonial state? From a national sentiment point of view, it should not be recognized. Although the colony of Macao is different from the five-port trade and various land cessions carried out by the "Qing Dynasty", and legally it is a normal land lease, a large part of the Senate still does not recognize that it is the core territory of the Chinese nation. There are colonies of other countries, whatever form they may be. Therefore, the call to drive away the Portuguese and take back Macau has always existed in the Senate, and it is still very loud.
But from the perspective of actual interests, Liu Xiang sees Macao as still the most important trading port for the Senate and the Portuguese. In particular, most of the Indian goods imported by the Senate were through Portuguese channels. Driving away the Portuguese would have no practical benefits other than satisfying national pride. What's more, the Portuguese who have lost their motherland are now extremely deferential to the Senate, which is far easier to deal with than the rebellious Dutch.
The most troublesome thing is actually Hong Kong. If Guangzhou is controlled, what kind of relationship will it have with Hong Kong? Liu Xiang knows that the current group of elders in Hong Kong are trying to do something big. However, the possibility of Hong Kong becoming the Pearl of the Orient in this time and space no longer exists. Since the Senate can directly rule Guangzhou, why bother using this small island at the mouth of the Pearl River that is short of resources in all aspects? In the past, the purpose of occupying Hong Kong and establishing a base was to monitor Guangzhou. Once Guangzhou fell under the control of the Senate, the value of Hong Kong would disappear.
At present, Hong Kong's industry has almost achieved a certain scale of shipbuilding industry development by relying on the primary labor cooperation provided by the craftsmen of Guangzhou Prefecture. In addition, its industry is very limited and has a strong color of supporting military services: light Almost all of the several agricultural product processing enterprises established in the industrial system serve the Lianqin headquarters, and they still rely on the supply of agricultural products from the Pearl River Delta.
In other words, apart from its function as a port, Hong Kong currently relies entirely on the mainland. Apart from being meaningful to the navy, the port function is completely meaningless in terms of trade: since we can directly control the various ports using Guangzhou, why bother to go to Hong Kong?
After taking office, how will he get along with the elders in Hong Kong? Should we demand that Hong Kong be classified as part of Guangzhou?
My brain hurts just thinking about it...
Opening the "Situation Compilation", Liu Xiang decided to focus on local sentiments first.
After years of intervention by the Senate, the economic and social structure of Guangzhou Prefecture has undergone earth-shaking changes, so this time the Great Library did not participate in the "Situation Compilation" at all. This important social survey document was mainly compiled by the Guangzhou Station, with full data support from the Intelligence Bureau. Precisely because the data is detailed, it is more suitable for Liu Xiang's reading habits than the collection of several historical documents crawled out of the big library.
Liu Xiang scanned the data again, wrote and drew on the paper, and made a coarse-grained clustering and classification of the data according to his own understanding, making the data more suitable for his understanding of political and economic aspects.
"Well, in terms of pop, this is the situation now!" Liu Xiang divided the data according to the classification model of Steel League in P Club's Four Meng, and divided the population into squires, bureaucrats, farmers, laborers, laborers, technicians, For large categories such as handicraftsmen, military households, etc., I took out a printed map of the administrative divisions of Guangfu, and marked different labels and numbers on different areas. After working hard for more than two hours, he filled out this chart - and then he took out another one that had already been filled in for comparison. This one was generated by a program he wrote in his spare time during the past few months when he was studying the three "included as gifts" documents. The processing process was similar to the manual one just now, except that all calculations were left to the computer.
In this comparison, sure enough, there are still many differences between the two pictures...
"I'm so idle!" Liu Xiang decisively abandoned the results of two hours of work and still used the computer-generated diagram for analysis. As for going back to check or something, Liu Xiang simply gave up - the laptop had been packed into boxes, and it was inconvenient to rummage through the boxes now. Anyway, there is only a sea route of more than 60 kilometers from Haikou to Lingao, and this regular tugboat with a turtle speed arrived just after dark. But after all, the data has been through the brain just now, and it is better to understand than simply looking at the computer-processed pictures. Many ideas came out in just a glance. r1152
