Chapter 62 Return to Beijing
In fact, Zhu Xiongying didn't know that He Xi didn't have that many chips.
The foundation of power is the human heart.
The human heart is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it really affects the situation in the world.
He Xi is now in a high and powerful position, but the foundation of his power has been shaken. Just when he let out the wind and wanted to retreat. When people leave, the tea is cool. Sometimes the tea will get cold without people leaving.
He Xi looks strong, but is already weak inside.
Many of the clever strategies are not that unusual.
The general trend is surging and the crowds are surging. He Xi didn't change the situation where he wanted to quit. Then his invisible power will be lost little by little.
Even if Zhu Yuanzhang planned something behind his back, it was very simple and crude. Because a strategy that is too complex is difficult to implement.
Now, He Xi may not have any ideas about the future, but no matter what he thinks. It’s just that no matter what your ideas are, you can’t resist the general trend. When the time comes, heaven and earth are all powerful, and the heroes are not free.
But his shell is still scary.
This is what Zhu Xiongying did.
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He Xi issued a decree to move the capital to Beijing. No, it should be the patrol system in the North and South Beijing. Of course, the system is a system. Whether it is implemented or not depends on what the people below do.
Although the North-South Railway has not yet been fully connected, some places are already operational.
Across the Yangtze River, from Lianghuai to Shandong, this section is a canal.
He Xi was rushing to move the capital there. Almost all of the cabinet system and the Privy Council system have moved to Beijing. There are almost no central organs left in Nanjing.
There were more than 100,000 Beijing troops escorting them from seven armies. Going north in a mighty way.
If we talk about Shandong, along the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River, we can still see some traces of the war. But after passing Shandong, I saw Hebei Province, which was prosperous and prosperous. The traces left by the previous war were no longer there.
There are several reasons for this.
The first is the expansion of Beijing’s industries.
Nanjing's industrialization is a matter of planned adjustment and distribution. But the development of northern industry is actually the spillover of industrialization from Beijing to Liaodong. In particular, He Xi made great efforts to improve the rural structure of Hebei.
Today's rural areas in Hebei are governed by a farm system rather than a tenant system. Many people receive wages instead of farming their own land. The capitalization of agriculture has been completed.
It's a pity that Liu Jing, as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, has done a lot of things, and the advancement of this kind of agricultural capitalization has always been very slow. It is even more difficult than reforming the prefecture and county system in the entire world.
Especially the further south you go, the harder it becomes.
The north is different. After all, during the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains area was almost completely wiped out. As for people in the Ming Dynasty, there are no gentry clans in the Central Plains that have lasted for a hundred years. In other words, regardless of how many gentry officials there are in the Central Plains, their ancestors were all mud-legged during the Hongwu period.
Therefore, the farm-based system is easy to implement in the north. But it is difficult to implement in the South. After all, the northern land can still be said to belong to us. But there are too many layers of oppression behind the land property rights of southerners. Clan land, sacrificial land, official land, and civilian land. It's a fool's errand.
Even the Qingzhang of the imperial court could not solve this problem.
The large-scale clearing of land by the imperial court could actually solve the problem by collecting tax figures and reducing the number of hidden fields, but it could not change the way the land was produced.
The biggest benefit of northern farming is that what is produced from the land directly becomes commodities.
Large-scale specialized production, extensive use of new farm tools, and large livestock. Improved grain utilization. The food grown, or cash crops among them, is directly supplied to the market.
In this case, Hebei deserves to be prosperous.
After the reforms in many local prefectures and counties in the South, many departments were added and many new policies were adopted. But in fact, the number of people doing business has not increased. People who run factories. In a county, it is also rare.
But this is not the case in Hebei.
Whether food comes out of the land or is processed roughly
Works great and is easy to transport. Some cash crops, such as cotton, are processed locally and are easily transported along the way.
This is all necessary.
There are many rivers in Hebei, although many of these rivers are seasonal. But it can still be used with some repairs. Not to mention, there are already railways built.
Together with the canal, a major artery is formed. Supply a steady stream of raw materials from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to Beijing. Beijing's advanced production tools will also continue to flow into the local area.
Improved local production efficiency.
There are probably at least a dozen factories in every county in Hebei. Although not big, they all use machinery to shell the shells, or process raw materials, etc. There are even some places that have developed specialties.
This prosperous county economy also supports the almost equal economic status of Hebei and Jiangnan regions.
Of course, this is also because Jiangnan's economy is undergoing a difficult transformation. In the future, Jiangnan's economy will definitely surpass Hebei's.
Second, it is the war dividend in Hebei.
Although He Xi has not made specific statistics. But he roughly understood that generals from Hebei were at the battalion level. Probably more than half of the battle. This is a very large number.
In other words, in the military, the Huaixi Group is already a thing of the past. Hebei Military Group is the real hidden dragon.
Of course, you probably can’t see it all these years ago. That's because some of the veterans are still there.
Wait until these veterans are gone. Go and see at that time, the generals born in Hebei will influence the Ming Dynasty for decades, or even longer. And this influence has already appeared.
That is, the state has invested particularly heavily in Hebei.
Whether it is the expedited construction of the Hebei section of the North-South Railway or the policy tilt of Tianjin Port. Even the generals of various families who made fortunes abroad sent home gold and silver. All have become the foundation for Hebei's economic rise.
Just like, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hunan was very wealthy and talented for a long time. During the Republic of China and even the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were many powerful figures from Hunan.
But how rich is Hunan?
It was the Hunanese who followed Zeng Guofan to fight the long hair, and the whole city of Nanjing was looted. Only then can we have a prosperous Hunan, and only with money can we talk about education.
The situation today is not much different from that time.
In order to stabilize the military power, He Xi gave many extra benefits to the meritorious officials in the army, which could be regarded as a bridge between emerging nobles and emerging capital.
Stabilize the political system he created.
Of course. Under the same conditions, some people do well and some do poorly.
It depends on the individual situation.
However, Hebei is really on the rise.
If Hebei is still on the rise.
So the prosperity of Beijing made He Xi feel a little dazed.
I don’t know if he has been to Nanjing in the past few years and no one is in charge of Beijing anymore, or for other reasons. Time seems to be speeding up in Beijing.
During the Civil War, there were still some open spaces in Beijing. Some of them were specially left by He Xi. But today’s Beijing city is already packed to the brim.
What is even more frightening is that there is a situation of disorderly expansion outside the city wall.
That feeling made He Xi feel as uncomfortable as the urban-rural fringe area of later generations.
The most uncomfortable thing is probably the city wall.
Because of the Beijing City Wall, it has seriously affected traffic inside and outside Beijing. What's more, the house has already surrounded the city wall of Beijing. The city wall of Beijing no longer has any military function.
At least in He Xi's view, the military role is approximately zero.
After all, when the West Route Army attacked Shaanxi, Geng Bingwen no longer fought around the city. .
Now there are so many houses outside and no open space. It is even more difficult to exert the power of the heavy artillery on the city wall. If someone really comes to the city one day, and if the defenders are resolute, it will probably be a street battle like the Battle of Stalingrad.
The walls were still useless.
He Xi is strict with himself
Seriously underestimated the speed of development of the times.
When he first built the city wall, he thought about abandoning the city wall. It's just that he felt that it was not developing so fast, but now he finds that as long as everything goes on track, economic development and take-off may not be too difficult.
However, He Xi could also see the hidden worries in the prosperous times in Beijing.
That is, as far as Hebei is concerned, there are many agricultural workers and the number of homesteaders is already very small. There will be fewer and fewer in the future. Not even that. The reason why Beijing has developed so greatly is that it has absorbed the human, material and financial resources of the entire north and even the Ming Dynasty.
There will be a siphon effect economically.
However, the originally stable three-dimensional structure of emperor, gentry, and common people is moving towards a two-dimensional structure of capitalists and workers. Other buffering social classes will quickly dissolve and melt into the two classes during the economic boom.
The traditional Confucian political structure is very anti-war. This is because the ultra-stable structure of ancient China could only collapse when faced with huge internal and external blows. Foreign enemies and internal strife. Civil strife is hard to describe, but external enemies are, in other words, war.
So Confucians hate war.
But He Xi saw that once the Ming Dynasty truly entered the capitalist society and the buffer layer in the dual structure disappeared, there would be only one way to go to war and pass on the contradictions.
Once it cannot fight externally, it will fall apart internally.
Beijing is the fastest on this front, racing ahead under the trend of interests. At present, the Northeast has not yet been developed, and the Northeast is Beijing's buffer pool. The most typical.
Once there is no more war with foreign countries. The Ming Dynasty must have fallen into a more terrifying war, that is, revolution.
This is one of the reasons why He Xi doesn't want to continue.
Ming imperialism has been unleashed by He Xi and feeds on war. This monster, which would die without a war, has already begun its first cry, and there is no need to worry about what is coming next.
Presumably they will automatically follow the path they are going to take.
It doesn't matter whether there is a date or not.
There are many things that He Xi knows about, such as developing industry, passing on conflicts, expanding externally, and boosting the economy.
