Zhu Jingyuan's plan has been piloted in Edo, and some relatively real data have been formed.
With the gradual spread of the second industrial revolution and the continued economic development of Ming Dynasty, the middle class group of Ming Dynasty is rapidly expanding.
Groups that originally relied on renting houses have been turning to purchasing self-owned houses on a large scale in recent years.
Against this background, the housing-related market in Edo continues to be sluggish.
At the same time, government-owned manufacturers across the Ming Dynasty are opening and expanding on a large scale, and many relevant personnel have seen the huge potential contained in the housing market.
Therefore, yamen officials and heads of government-owned manufacturers in other areas do not want to implement ticketing and purchase restriction policies in their own jurisdictions.
This will affect their assessment and performance.
However, the status of Zhu Jingyuan's pilot policy in the hearts of the Ming Emperor and himself was also a big problem.
If it is just a pure test, then officials in other regions and operators of government-owned manufacturers can ignore these things for the time being.
If the corresponding policies are not implemented in your own location, then you can spend more time on real estate and other industries.
But if these policies were the true intentions of Emperor Ming and Zhu Jingyuan, and were policies that Ming would generally implement in the future, then the situation would be completely different.
Even if other regions have not started piloting similar policies, officials in other regions do not dare to deliberately make choices that deviate from these policies.
We don’t dare to deliberately make a fortune in these industries before the policy is implemented.
That might register in the minds of Emperor Ming and Prince Dashi.
The Ming Dynasty's laws and official assessment and promotion system are already very complete in this world.
But the authority of the Ming Emperor was still unprecedented.
The Ming Dynasty still does not have a constitution in the later sense, and the emperor's power still has no clear boundaries.
If the Ming Emperor discovered that officials in certain places were deliberately working against him, then the key officials in these places might have no future in their official careers.
Therefore, the problem of Liu Haidong and other Shaanxi government officials is not only their own problem, but also a problem shared by a large number of local officials, who all want to know Zhu Jingyuan's attitude.
The final result shocked them greatly.
This was both the emperor's intention and Zhu Jingyuan's intention, which was recognized by both the Ming Emperor and Prince Dashi.
And the attitude is very determined.
Therefore, there is no need to make any decisions in this regard in the next few years, ten years, or even decades.
After Zhu Jingyuan finished his warning, the officials from various yamen in Shaanxi, headed by Liu Haidong, all bowed and agreed with very complicated emotions.
There is an answer to this question, and today's meeting is finally over.
The officials headed by Liu Haidong resigned. Zhu Jingyuan started as he did when he first arrived in Lion City and Edo. He first looked through the data and files of various yamen in Shaanxi in the past few years to understand the general situation in the local area.
After looking at the local data, Zhu Jingyuan was a little surprised.
Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously believed that after the second industrial revolution began and the power system shifted to internal combustion engines and electricity, the original industrial cities based on coal fuel and steam machinery might decline rapidly in the process.
However, Shaanxi's local industrial and commercial development is not only good, but its growth momentum is as strong as other regions.
However, Zhu Jingyuan soon realized that he had been misled by his memory again.
I just remember that many important early industrial cities in my previous life had old industrial areas that were in a difficult situation.
There are also very famous "Rust Belts" in European and American countries, including Detroit, which has transformed from the "Car City" to the "Sin City".
The memories of the previous life were subconsciously compared to the two industrial revolutions in this world.
But the third industrial revolution is called the technological revolution.
The first two industrial revolutions were still industrial revolutions. In a sense, they were just different in scale.
The pillar industries of Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places in the Ming Dynasty include coal resources, steam machinery, and steel industry.
These three categories of industries were indeed formed during the first industrial revolution, but in the second industrial revolution, they were not completely “outdated”.
Traditional industrial areas have not been left in an important but impoverished position, as was the case in the era of technological revolution.
These industries ushered in a new round of growth in the era of the second industrial revolution.
Although the power systems of military and civilian ships are rapidly switching to fuel power, the amount of coal consumed in ship power systems does not account for the majority of the entire industry.
During the process of converting warships from coal to oil, Zhu Jingyuan made special suggestions to the Central Court of the Ming Dynasty to transfer the corresponding industries and personnel to coal-fired power stations as much as possible.
Electricity and internal combustion engines are the "two legs" of the second industrial revolution, and coal-fired power stations are the most reasonable and convenient power supply solution in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.
After the second industrial revolution, the scale of factories expanded rapidly, the household appliance industry grew rapidly, and the demand for electricity in industry and households expanded rapidly.
Much of this demand will translate into demand for coal.
Therefore, the demand for coal in the era of the second industrial revolution was higher than that in the era of the first industrial revolution.
Although the fuel of the new battleship has been replaced by oil, the energy conversion method still relies on steam, but it has been changed from a piston steam engine to a steam turbine.
Although the correlation between these two technologies cannot be considered very high, with the industrial foundation for research, development and production of steam engines, it is still one step ahead of laymen when it comes to research and production of steam turbines.
New coal-fired power stations will also use steam turbines on a large scale to generate electricity.
Finally, the demand for steel in the new round of industrial revolution has skyrocketed, and the demand for coal in the steel industry has also expanded simultaneously.
Therefore, the current status of the resource cities and traditional heavy industry cities in the Ming Dynasty is not bad.
The plight of "rust belts" and "old industrial areas" in later generations around the world all appeared in traditional heavy industrial areas after the technological revolution, and were more often caused by deindustrialization that turned away from reality and turned into virtual reality.
The sunset industries of later generations are still emerging sunrise industries in this era.
However, problems in inland areas including Shaanxi are also obvious.
This is what I have discovered on the road.
That is to say, a few important cities such as Xi'an and Lanzhou still have some industrial industries of their own. In other places, if there are mines, everything will be good, but if there are no mines, nothing will work.
The current farming areas in Guanzhong are not as good as those in North China and Jianghuai areas.
In addition, after the land has been completely annexed and the large farms have begun to turn to mechanization, the countryside is completely deserted.
Neither the elderly nor children.
Where there were no plains and no mines, there really was nothing now.
There are even orders of magnitude differences in fiscal data between different prefectures and counties.
After all, some places have neither minerals nor basic industries, there are basically no agricultural taxes, and the population continues to emigrate.
The situation in these places and the differences between different places really shocked Zhu Jingyuan.
Zhu Jingyuan even thought of the food country before the discovery of oil.
"How should these places... be developed? Or how should they be saved...
"How to deal with the issue of regional development balance..."
Zhu Jingyuan was sitting in the office, looking through the data and slowly becoming dazed.
“Didn’t the imperial court pay attention to these issues?
"When my grandfather was the emperor, and my father is the emperor now, it's impossible that they didn't know these things, right?"
Zhu Jingyuan thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to call and ask.
In the past few years, Daming's telephone system has also been rapidly taking shape.
Important cities in the Ming Dynasty's home provinces have already installed public and commercial telephone lines.
Zhu Jingyuan's identity is of course qualified to be used directly, and he can directly enter the Forbidden City.
Zhu Jingyuan picked up the phone, told the operator his identity, and asked directly for his father's office.
The person on the other end didn't hesitate and immediately tried to answer the phone.
After the call was connected, Zhu Jingyuan asked casually, and then talked about the problems he discovered.
Finally, I asked my father if he knew about these situations and if he had any corresponding plans.
There was silence on the other side for several seconds. When Zhu Jingyuan was about to ask more questions, he heard his father's voice.
Emperor Zhu Jianyan of the Ming Dynasty asked Zhu Jingyuan with obvious doubts:
"Jingyuan...why do you have such questions?
"The current policy of the Ming Dynasty on regional balance should coincide with your choice in the Food Kingdom, right?
"The Ming Dynasty now is not the same as before Chongzhen. We actually don't need to pay too much attention to regional balance. It should be said that we don't need to forcefully maintain regional balance.
“The land that Ming Dynasty currently controls is vast enough, and many places with superior natural conditions have not yet been developed.
“There is no need to spend too much energy on areas with barren land and harsh environments that are not yet key strategic locations, and there is no need to forcefully retain the original population in those places.
"We should allow local people to move to places with better conditions...
"Isn't that what you do in the Big Food Country? Put the population in a place suitable for survival and development..."
Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized it before he finished listening, and then felt a sense of time and space confusion again.
I realized again that I was once again affected by my past life memories.
He refused to immigrate to the mainland of the food country, and refused to engage in agricultural and industrial construction in the country of food.
Because the local environment of the Big Food Country is so poor, most areas are not suitable for human survival.
Therefore, he positioned the mainland of the Big Food Country as a supplier of oil resources.
The industrial industries of the big food country and local immigrants were moved as much as possible to the eastern part of Mozhou where the natural environment was better.
The reason why I did this in the Big Food Country was because I didn't have deep feelings for the Big Food Country, and I didn't regard it as my "mother country" psychologically, so I just left the bad land unused and used the good land.
Now that I have arrived in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, facing the inland areas of the Ming Dynasty, I instinctively regard them as my mother country.
Under the influence of the memory of his past life, he instinctively wants to take care of and develop backward areas.
The instinct is to make all regions of the country as balanced as possible.
However, as soon as his father spoke, he quickly realized that the situation in the mother country of the two worlds was completely different.
The area is ten times larger, but the population is less than half. The key is a large amount of undeveloped land.
Like the mother country in the previous life, if we strive to develop remote, backward and difficult areas, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty in this world, it is like leaving large tracts of good land without planting, insisting on developing terraces in the mountains, and reclamation of land.
But the mother country in the previous life did not have large areas of good land to plant, so they had to find ways to grow food in every corner of the family.
In today's Ming Dynasty, large areas of good farmland are still uncultivated, so there is no need to worry about every nook and cranny.
As for uneven regional development...
Wang Ya said at the time, how could such a large country be balanced?
And more importantly, the good places are not filled with people, so why should we fill the bad places with people?
Dragging the population to a place that is not suitable for development and forcing construction will be a waste of Ming Dynasty's manpower and material resources.
As for a certain county or a certain prefecture that is almost deserted, there will be no one if there is no one...
If only a small population is left in an originally relatively poor place, living standards may actually improve.
So after Zhu Jianyan finished speaking, Zhu Jingyuan also fell silent.
Then Zhu Jianyan "understood" on his own:
"You must have lost your mind, you should understand it if you think about it yourself.
"But this kind of thinking problem just shows that the importance of the mainland provinces of the Ming Dynasty in your mind is far more important than that of the Great Food Country. I am very happy..."
Zhu Jingyuan finally recovered:
"Father, I really didn't react right away.
“But the problem now is that if we don’t consider the issue of regional balance, I don’t seem to have much to do here in Shaanxi.
"The vast majority of the population here are pure Ming people, and the certificates are basically issued directly.
“There are no major problems with the construction of government-owned manufacturers here, and local industrial development is relatively smooth.
“At most, the ticket system and basic industry purchase restriction system that were tested in Edo will be implemented...
"My main task is to supervise the areas further west and north, as well as several vassal states in the northwest."
Zhu Jianyan responded directly after hearing this:
"Indeed, that is your main task. I was going to arrange for you to go to Yili directly and let you participate in politics in the Western Region.
"But your mother couldn't let you go, and my father and I were also worried about your safety, so we changed your stay to Xi'an.
“But you can directly recruit the heads of those provinces and the kings of those vassal states.
"You can ask them to arrange for someone to stay with you to convey your orders and the local situation."
Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while:
"If nothing else happens, they should take the initiative to come see me, right?"
Zhu Jianyan also said casually:
"That's right, then just watch and deal with it."
Zhu Jingyuan chatted with his father for a while, discussing some strategies for affairs in the northwestern provinces and vassal states.
After hanging up the phone, Zhu Jing continued to browse local information.
I began to consider another strategy. For some places that have few resources and are not key transportation or strategic nodes, simply relocate the local people and return the local land to wild animals.
Zhu Jingyuan's prediction was not wrong. In the morning of the next day, Niu Jian, the staff member responsible for Zhu Jingyuan's general affairs, sent Zhu Jingyuan a message that the king of the vassal state had requested an audience.
Luo Yashan, the Duke of Xianbei, hoped to visit Zhu Jingyuan in Xi'an.
Luo Yashan himself was still in Xianbei City, and they, including the vassal monarchs and provincial and local officials of the Ming Dynasty, could not leave their posts without permission from their superiors.
So you have to write a report application first, and then you can come here after getting permission.
Luo Yashan has the most special situation among all the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.
Royashan's real surname was Romanov, and he was the half-brother of Emperor Nicholas of Lucia.
At the same time, his daughter Luo Feiya is also one of Zhu Jingyuan's concubines and life secretaries of the King of Dashi.
The Principality of Xianbei is a country that was forcibly separated from the country by the peace treaty that ended the World War.
It is not the original countries like Kazakhstan, Khiva and Persia.
Luo Yashan is the most sensitive to Daming's attitude.
In addition, I definitely wanted to come and see my daughter, so I came most actively.
Zhu Jingyuan returned the welcome without hesitation.
(End of chapter)
