As long as you farm, the government will give you a piece of land that can be paid in installments. The annual installment payment is similar to the agricultural tax.
This is a land-renting model, so tenants do not have to pay any agricultural taxes.
To put it bluntly, in fact, this installment payment is equivalent to turning agricultural taxes into tenant rent, which is no different from that of homesteaders.
However, the official land is purchased in installments and cannot be transferred until the remaining balance is paid.
In general, the land policy adopted in Liaodong region, like other regions, does not include free land allocation in a pure sense, nor does it restrict people's access to land.
But in essence, it is still mainly about free land allocation. The reason for making installment payment is just to take off your pants and fart, because the installment payment is no different from paying agricultural tax directly.
After all, many places now have fewer people and more land, especially the northern provinces and the Liaodong region that are protected against natural and man-made disasters. The large population in the past has disappeared in the long history. The empire is worried about the large amount of land that is uncultivated, so naturally it will not do anything. limit.
Only when the land is cultivated can there be agricultural taxes or official land leases, and can the food supply be increased.
No amount of food is too much.
However, in order to avoid land annexation, the official model of renting and purchasing land is limited, and sales are not allowed before the installment payment is completed.
Private land can be bought and sold, but in order to prevent the emergence of large-scale landowners, the Dachu Empire's agricultural tax has officially implemented a stepped tax rate. The more land, the higher the agricultural tax rate. When the land reaches a certain level, the income from the land will basically be used. to pay agricultural taxes.
This stepped agricultural tax policy forced a large number of medium and large landowners to start dividing their households to reduce the total amount of land owned by each household in order to meet the standard of not exceeding the stepped agricultural tax limit.
This kind of family separation may seem like taking off your pants and farting, but it has another obvious effect that the officials are happy to see, that is, everyone becomes smaller, which further shakes or even eliminates the power of local wealthy families and big families.
It is somewhat similar to the push of grace order in ancient times. It seems that the land is still circulated in the local vassal king system, but it gradually turns the big nobles into small nobles, reducing the ability of local nobles to rebel.
The so-called wealthy families do not rely on blood ties, but interest ties. Once these large families begin to divide their property and the land changes from collective ownership to individual small family ownership, then naturally there will be no interest ties. After some years, , everyone is at most a relative...
Suppressing local wealthy families and clan power is only a side effect of the laddered agricultural tax. More importantly, it is to prevent land annexation and at the same time force a large number of medium and large landowners to give up their land, collect funds by selling land, and then invest the funds in industry and commerce.
It can be said that the ladder agricultural tax policy is a comprehensive national policy that is comprehensive and multi-faceted. It also prevents land annexation, suppresses local clans, appeases and wins over landless/little land farmers, and stimulates industrial and commercial development.
Moreover, this policy, combined with the Chu Empire's use of various means in the early years to force large landowners to give up their land, and the Chu Empire's investment in industrial and commercial development, have caused these landowners to begin to shift their focus from land to industry and commerce. Come.
In the past two years, various industries and commerce, represented by the textile industry, have developed rapidly throughout the empire, which is due to the entry of a large amount of private landlord capital.
When engaging in industry and commerce, it doesn’t matter whether the technology is advanced or not, but you must first have funds.
These days, apart from the official government, it is these gentry who have a large amount of surplus funds. By guiding them to invest a large amount of surplus funds into industry and commerce, it is an established plan of the empire's top officials to stimulate the industrial and commercial development of the entire empire, and it will not be changed easily.
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In Liaodong, through the implementation of existing land policies, basically everyone can have land.
With the land now available, although there are fewer people, there are still millions of people. The next step is to resume normal agricultural production.
The Chu Empire cannot continue to transport large amounts of grain to the Liaodong region to feed millions of people...
The military is still counting on the food produced locally in Liaodong to help solve part of the food consumption of the Liaodong garrison. A large amount of food and grass must be transported from the south, which is too costly.
In order to reduce the cost of food transportation, and because the empire's top leaders have decided to gradually reduce military expenditures starting next year, the Liaodong garrison must also start to be self-reliant.
As a result, after advancing the battle line to the Great Wall of Liaodong, the nearly 200,000 Chu army, except for some combat-ready troops, temporarily put down their swords and guns, picked up hoes, and began vigorous farming and breeding operations.
The intention was to provide food and meat needed by part of the garrison on the spot.
Whether it is the restoration of civilian production or the military settlement, it is all to solve the food problem in Liaodong.
In addition to food issues, the senior leaders of the Dachu Empire also adopted certain measures to develop and utilize the rich natural resources in the Liaodong region.
What natural resources does Liaodong region have?
It has abundant and high-quality mineral resources of various types, among which there are quite a lot of core minerals, namely coal and iron ore.
What was the core industry in early industries?
Steel!
The iron ore and coal in the mining industry are all used for iron-making, and with steel, there are all kinds of machinery, including the defense industry, as well as various agricultural tools and the like.
This is why modern countries often use steel production to measure a country's industrial strength.
Because steel is the basic industry among the foundations!
In the vast China region, although there are many iron ores and coal, there are relatively few high-quality coals and iron ores, and there are even fewer high-quality iron ores and coals that can be mined and refined at low cost.
It would be extremely rare if the two were still in the same place.
The Dachu Empire currently has two main steel bases, namely Daye Industrial Zone and Dangtu Industrial Zone. These two places are very typical iron ore areas. The large amount of coal required for ironmaking mainly relies on some small surrounding areas. Coal mines and coal mines in Pingxiang, Jiangxi.
It seems that it can be used now, but it has great limitations for large-scale iron-making industry, especially in the era before trains.
Coal in many places needs to be transported from the mountains by horse-drawn carriages, and then loaded onto ships and sent down the river.
For example, coal from Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, after being dug out of the mountains, has to go through more than 100 kilometers of land transportation to Zhuzhou before it can be loaded onto a ship, pass through the Xiangjiang River, then enter the Yangtze River, and then arrive at Daye or Dangtu.
Water transportation on this section of the road is done along the river. The transportation volume is large, the risk is small, and the time is relatively fast. However, even so, the transportation cost is relatively high.
In ironmaking, coal consumption is often several times that of iron ore, with the ratio reaching four to one or even higher.
To make one ton of iron, you need about one hundred tons of coal and thirty or forty tons of iron ore.
Therefore, it is actually best for iron smelting plants to be built in coal producing areas, which can effectively reduce transportation costs.
But again, in the era of lack of steam engines, there were no trains, and even inland waterway transportation was greatly restricted. It was not easy for people loaded with goods to go upstream... Even sea transportation was not very convenient.
Therefore, when the Da Chu Empire subsequently established a steel plant, more consideration was given to transportation factors.
The subsequent steel plant built in Tianjin was due to the Luanzhou Coal Mine and its proximity to the sea for easy transportation. There were also small and medium-sized iron ore in the surrounding area.
I had previously set up a Guangzhou Steel Plant in Guangzhou, but I found that it was okay to do it in a small way, but I couldn't do it if I wanted to make it bigger and stronger...
The reason why Foshan was able to become an important iron-making town during the Ming Dynasty was because there were some small iron mines in the surrounding area. The iron ore dug out of these small iron mines was generally crudely smelted locally using charcoal, and then the crude The iron is transported to Foshan for further finishing... It is said that it is an important iron-making town, let alone a rough iron processing center!
The steel industry of the Da Chu Empire, especially the large-scale steel plants built under the leadership of the Ministry of Industry, was all geared towards large-scale mass production. The small workshop-style iron-making model in Foshan in the past was not suitable because the cost was too high... …
However, there is also a lack of abundant coal resources around Guangzhou, so it cannot be started.
Recently, the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry discovered relatively large reserves of iron ore and small coal on Qiongzhou Island. Therefore, it has planned to build a steel plant directly on Qiongzhou Island to smelt iron on site and then process the refined iron. Shipped to Guangdong, Guangdong and other regions by sea.
Why not continue to do it in Guangzhou but do it in Hainan... This involves the issue of transportation costs.
These days, it takes more than a hundred tons of coal and dozens of tons of iron ore to produce a ton of iron.
And the shipping costs for both are the same... It won't be cheaper just because it's coal or iron ore, but it won't be more expensive because it's iron.
Assuming that a large steel plant with an annual output of 10,000 tons of iron is built in Guangzhou, it will need to transport more than one million tons of coal or charcoal, plus hundreds of thousands of tons of iron ore... Let’s not talk about the cost, let’s talk about it. This demand for transportation capacity cannot be solved.
Most contemporary sea-going ships have a displacement of only a few hundred tons... Those with a displacement of over a thousand tons are extremely large sea-going ships, which are extremely expensive to build. They travel across the world and specialize in transporting all kinds of expensive materials, such as those in the Americas. Silver and gold, Oriental porcelain, silk, tea, etc.
The transport ships in the coastal areas of East Asia are generally considered large with a few hundred tons, and many are still small ships with only a few dozen tons.
Even if we calculate based on large offshore ships, each of which is fully loaded with 500 tons of cargo, to meet the needs of this hypothetical Guangzhou iron smelting plant, thousands of ships/times of transportation capacity will be needed every year.
However, if you build the steel plant directly on Qiongzhou Island, then only twenty ships will be needed for export.
The comparison between the two is huge.
Between thousands of ships/time and dozens of ships/time, any fool knows how to choose!
Moreover, sea transportation is much more troublesome and risky than river transportation down the river.
Navigation in the age of sailing was still very risky. Even professional navies often had accidents. It was very common for a ship to go to sea and not come back.
The ruthlessness of the sea is no joke.
Therefore, except for special circumstances such as military needs or political needs that do not pay attention to cost at all and are unreasonable, commercial shipping in general transports high value-added things and rarely transports large quantities of cheap materials. …
Because I will lose all my pants...
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In an era before steam engines, trains, and steam ships, the choice of steel plants must take into account the crucial factor of transportation costs.
As for Liaodong, this place has an advantage that no other place has, that is, it has both iron ore and coal mines, which is extremely suitable for the large-scale industrial ironmaking of the Chu Empire.
Well, even the water-powered blower blowing method of the Great Chu Empire is mechanized industrial production and is not the same concept as small workshop-style manual ironmaking.
If a large steel plant can be built in Liaodong, a large amount of high-quality iron ore and coal can be obtained nearby, which can greatly reduce transportation costs and the cost of steel.
It is also convenient to transport the steel or corresponding iron products out of the country and can be transported directly by sea.
Iron ore and coal are both industrial raw materials, large in quantity and cheap. Sometimes their own value is not as high as the freight...
But the steel produced is a high value-added product. Even if there is no local market in Liaodong, it is still profitable to sell it by sea to the Central Plains.
Therefore, after learning that Liaodong, especially the Shenyang area, has relatively rich coal and iron ore resources, Ji Dehua, the governor of Liaodong, has been thinking about how to develop and utilize them in recent months to gain sufficient political capital.
As long as you can do well in Liaodong, it is not impossible to move back to the left and move to Jinling City to serve as the Zuo Shilang. If you stay in the position of Zuo Shilang for a few years, you will probably be able to become a minister, or become the Zuo Shilang of a powerful department. , and then naturally entered the imperial study room.
It is worth mentioning that in the past two years, the promotion scale of senior personnel in the Dachu Empire has changed. In the early years, it was the same as in the Ming Dynasty, and the status of local governors was weaker than that of ministers.
Therefore, at that time, if the governor of the Chu Empire rose further, he would enter the various ministries in the capital and become the right minister. The rank would remain the same, still from the second rank.
But the Chu Empire was different from the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty only had six ministries, but the Chu Empire had more than a dozen ministerial-level institutions in the civil service system.
How can I put it, the value of the minister has declined, let alone the minister.
In contrast, the actual power of the governor as a feudal official was not small. Although he no longer had military power, the governor of the Chu Empire actually had his actual power increased as the legitimate governor of a province.
Therefore, since the fifth year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue has adjusted the promotion rules for senior officials. Governors with excellent work ability can be directly promoted to Zuo Shilang in a powerful department, Shangshu in an ordinary department, or Right Capital Yushi at the same level.
At the same time, the right ministers of important departments and the left ministers of general departments were selected to be transferred to local governors.
In this way, the political status of the governor was greatly improved.
In the past, in order of promotion, the ordinary provincial governor was the lowest, followed by the provincial governor and the right minister of the ordinary department, then the right minister of the weighted department, the left minister of the ordinary department, and then the right minister of the weighted department. Zuo Shilang.
It seems to be of the same grade, but in fact there are many differences in the middle!
Now, the governor's position has been directly raised three levels, surpassing the ordinary, powerful right minister and left minister of the ordinary department, and is just below the left minister of the powerful department.
This shows that Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to place.
Moreover, he felt that a senior official in the ministry who had only grown up in the capital and fought every day was of little use. Only a senior official who had experienced the capital, experienced local areas, and had been in charge of a party could take on important responsibilities.
In the past, there was no such condition. Now, he plans to gradually implement this new official promotion system.
And the governors of each province are the best backup candidates for the imperial study minister!
Ji Dehua naturally aimed to enter the royal study, otherwise he wouldn't have rushed from the bustling capital to become the governor of Liaodong, a place where birds don't poop and the winter is so long that even peeing can freeze the birds!
You must know that when he was in Jinling City, he was already the right minister of the Ministry of Industry. I dare not say that he was powerful, but he was still considered the number one figure in the huge Jinling City. His political status was below that of the left minister of various ministries and surpassed other ministries. The right servant.
At the same time, he has a background in industry and has a wide network of contacts in the empire's top management. He is also very capable. Recently, he is regarded by many as one of the senior officials who have the opportunity to enter the imperial study.
But... because he is from the Ministry of Industry, the first time he entered his official career was not through the imperial examination, but in the Xiangyang Arsenal...
When he was first, he was actually a mid-level official in the Xiangyang Arsenal, and his knowledge of technology was just that. He was good at administrative work in various factories, and he was promoted to supervisor in the Xiangyang Arsenal smoothly. This supervisor was... The rank of a fourth-grade official is not low.
Later, he was transferred to the Ministry of Industry and promoted to the third-grade deputy director of a department. He served as deputy director for more than a year. Due to his outstanding achievements, he was promoted and became the third-grade director.
After two years in the position of director, he was successfully promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Industry.
His promotion speed can be said to be extremely fast. This is not a special case. Generally speaking, middle and low-level officials who are focused on training and have outstanding work ability will be promoted very quickly.
But at this time, he encountered a bottleneck. If he wanted to be directly promoted to Zuo Shilang... that would be impossible!
The Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Industry is the powerful Zuo Shilang, the co-organizer of the imperial study, and the boss in charge of the national industrial development. He is still several levels away from this level.
And he also has a major flaw, that is, he has never been in charge of a local government.
Previously, he was promoted too quickly in the Ministry of Industry, and he didn't have time to go to the local area to become a prefect or chief envoy.
This is why Ji Dehua tried his best to become the governor of a province before, even if it was considered by many people as a frontier and more dangerous, and at the same time because of the war, he was willing to come to Liaodong, where the military was relatively strong.
Although this place is more dangerous, it has also been greatly suppressed and interfered by the military. You have to communicate with the military for everything you do.
However, Liaodong's status is extremely special. As long as we work well here, develop the people's livelihood in Liaodong, and successfully make Liaodong a logistics base for the empire to continue to conquer and expand the Northeast, then I will be transferred back to Gyeonggi and enter the imperial study room in the future. It's also possible.
It is not easy to enter the imperial study room nowadays. Except for the high-ranking imperial officials who entered the imperial study room in the early days, all the civil servants who entered the imperial study room in the next two or three years have experience in local administration.
The person in charge of the government does not have to be a governor. The chief envoy, the inspector general, and even the provincial inspectorate are all censors, provincial court judges, and provincial taxation department directors. Their service experience also counts, and some key government offices also have experience. The prefect is fine too.
Of course, the best of them all is the governorship!
If you do well in this position, you can rise to the top and directly become a minister. At a later time, you can also return to the capital and become the Zuo Shilang of a powerful department. You can also enter the imperial study and become the co-minister.
If you don’t do a good job... then what else is there to say? There are a bunch of people waiting to be promoted, and their work is average, but if there are merits, they will probably serve for a few more years, or continue to be governors of other provinces, and then consciously Get lost.
If something goes wrong, just get out.
In officialdom, you are sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. It is unlikely to give you any room for error.
You are already the governor of a province, and you are not a middle- or low-level official. Neither His Majesty nor the Counselor will give you any chance to try and make mistakes...
After all, this is not a strategic game... If it is not done well, it will affect the lives of millions or even tens of millions of people in a province, and even affect the implementation of national strategies...
How brave do you have to be to let millions or even tens of millions of people pay you for trial and error?
Beautiful thought!
Furthermore, there are so many officials of the third and second grades in the empire who are eyeing the real power positions of governor and minister... But the positions are only so small. If you don't step down, how can others come to power like this?
Is it possible that we really have to wait until you reach the age of seventy-eight and die? That would be too nonsense.
Therefore, if you don't do well, you should be wise enough to become an official yourself. Otherwise, you will offend everyone and it will be difficult to be kind.
Of course, in order to avoid excessive competition among officials and thus affect the operation of government affairs, and also to eliminate the worries of many middle- and senior-level officials, Luo Zhixue also set up the position of government affairs consultant in all levels of yamen, which has little actual power. At most, there is the power to impeach officials...
It is mainly used to place middle- and senior-level officials who have made no mistakes but are unable to be promoted, are approaching the end of their career, or are unable to continue to hold high-intensity official positions due to physical reasons.
Correspondingly, the age at which officials enter official service is traditionally seventy years old. However, most officials in the Chu Empire are relatively young. In addition, the Chu Empire implements the integration of officials and local staff, so it is necessary to maintain a huge channel for officials to rise. .
In addition, officials who are too old will have insufficient energy to handle affairs.
Therefore, it is stipulated that the first grade is seventy years old, the second grade and third grade are sixty-five years old, and the fourth grade and below are sixty years old.
This age is the upper limit. At this age, unless there is a special decree, you will become an official, regardless of whether you are willing or not...
After becoming an official, the post-official salary is also given according to tradition. Those of the third rank and above will be given 80% of the salary after becoming official, and those of the fourth rank and below will be given 60% of the salary.
The basic salary is based on the basic salary of local officials of the same level.
Some high-ranking officials may also obtain titles and receive regular court visits and other benefits when they become official.
The benefits after taking office are only limited to those who have taken office normally, and do not include those who have been dismissed.
This article, although the retirement age is relatively early, has actually been welcomed by a large number of low-level officials.
Because...there is a pension!
In traditional dynasties, generally only high-ranking officials would take up their official positions, and would be favored by the emperor to provide pensions, full or half-salary, etc. As for middle- and low-level officials, forget about it.
But in the Dachu Empire, even low-level officials are entitled to pensions when they become official. Although it is only 60%, it is still available.
As for whether issuing pensions will cause great financial pressure...
Well... the average life span in modern times is only about thirty years old. Even if there are no natural or man-made disasters, with today's medical supplies, any disease will be incurable... A cold will kill you. If you want to live to be sixty or seventy years old, , in addition to good living conditions and proper daily health care, you also need excellent luck.
Although officials live longer, it is actually difficult to live to the age of 60 when they normally enter the official service... It is really not optimistic to think how many years they can live after reaching the age of 60...
Therefore, providing retirement pensions to officials who enter the service after the age of 60 actually puts no financial pressure on them, and in turn can demonstrate benevolence.
And when the overall average life expectancy increases in the future, the Chu Empire will probably be able to almost complete industrialization, and the pensions of some officials will not be a big financial pressure by then.
After all, although the Great Chu Empire adopted the integration of officials and officials, the overall number of officials was still small, even in a feudal dynasty.
Although there were only a few serious officials in the feudal dynasty, behind every official there were a bunch of staff.
In an ordinary county, there may be only a dozen official officials with official hats, but these dozen people alone cannot maintain the operation of the local county government. Behind them, there are also six officials and a large number of patrols. It is normal to have hundreds of people in total. If it is a high-level county, it is possible to have more than a thousand officials.
Don’t think that the imperial government’s finances only need to support a dozen officials. In fact, most of the officials in the government also rely on the finance. Some of them are directly allocated by the finance, and some are in the name of the county magistrate. But in fact, they are still funded by the finance. Money supports.
For example, the annual salary of a county magistrate in the Qing Dynasty often reached more than a thousand taels or more, but don't think that he got it all by himself. In fact, he had to support a lot of people... He couldn't support so many people with just salary.
Of course, there are many ways for people to make money!
If he doesn't give money to recruit people, who will do the work for him? Is it possible that the county magistrate really needs to do so many things himself?
Therefore, the personnel cost of maintaining local rule in the Chu Empire was actually not much higher than that of the feudal dynasty, and even lower per capita due to unified management.
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Many systems of the Dachu Empire were being improved step by step, so the overall look was very different from the traditional feudal dynasty.
For example, entering the imperial study room is somewhat similar to the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to enter the cabinet, you have to have a good reputation and most likely have a background in the Hanlin Academy.
But the cabinet promotion system of the Ming Dynasty was a bit strange...it didn't require officials to climb up step by step, but they had to let the officials endure, and they didn't need any experience in governing. They just survived, and then as they endured, the daughters-in-law became mothers-in-law. From a young Hanlin to a high-ranking official like a minister overnight... they would then have the opportunity to enter the cabinet.
Looking at the cabinet members of the Ming Dynasty, especially those in the middle and late stages, few had experience in governing, and many even did not understand the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty itself.
To put it bluntly, they are all flowers grown in a greenhouse and cannot withstand the ravages of the storm!
The Great Chu Empire was different. Senior officials basically worked their way up from the grassroots level, especially at the local level.
If it were true that they were capable of intrigues and intrigues, these high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty who were born in the Imperial Academy and had always raised hopes and then rose to the top, were really not as good as these professional bureaucrats in the Great Chu Empire.
Except for the high-ranking officials of the empire who have been promoted in the past few years, the senior officials of the Chu Empire who were promoted later all worked their way up from the grassroots level. Regardless of their abilities, they all killed countless competitors along the way. Just got up.
Such people are all human beings!
When it comes to intrigues, they can beat the crap out of those so-called senior officials of the Ming Dynasty!
Ji Dehua is also such a person. He can climb so fast not only because of his outstanding abilities... but also because he has killed a lot of competitors!
When I was at the Xiangyang Arsenal, there were many people who wanted to be the supervisor, but why did he get the job? Then he successfully entered the high-level scene and was transferred back to the Gyeonggi Industry Ministry.
There are naturally many inside stories here that are not known to outsiders.
The same is true for the subsequent promotion to the right minister of the Ministry of Industry. It is still relatively possible to be directly promoted from the third-level director to the right minister. However, when there was no promotion reform in the early years, this kind of promotion was a leapfrog. Promotion, how is it possible without a story behind it.
It's just that things were changing, and when he wanted to continue to climb up, he found that if he wanted to enter the imperial study room, he needed experience in the administration...
Then, Ji Dehua discovered that he lacked experience in governing the party.
This is embarrassing...
Otherwise, after getting the position of governor of Liaodong, Ji Dehua would still have to think about making achievements. If he couldn't make achievements, it would be of no use. Don't expect to continue to be promoted, and the imperial study room was even more extravagant.
To this end, he set two major development directions.
The first is to recruit immigrants from various provinces within the customs, especially places with small land and large populations, to colonize in Liaodong outside the customs. However, the source of immigrants is more troublesome.
After the nearby Hebei, Shandong, Henan and even Shanxi were devastated by the war, although there were still many people and little land, it was not serious after all... Nowadays, the empire's many policies to restore people's livelihood in several northern provinces are quite effective. , life is much better than before. Although some immigrants can be recruited under such circumstances, it may be difficult to obtain a large immigrant population. After all, few people are willing to drag their families and families to the bitter cold land of Liaodong if they can survive. To open up wasteland.
As for places, distance is a factor, as is not living in extreme hardship.
Therefore, it is still relatively difficult to recruit immigrants to Liaodong, especially since Liaodong is poor and has nothing to do and is a typical bitter and cold place in people's mouth.
So he is planning to do more. On the one hand, he is recruiting immigrants from the northern provinces. How can I put it, there are fewer people, which does not mean there are no people. No matter where there are, there will always be people who cannot survive. On the other hand, he is going to some disaster-stricken areas. Disaster victims are recruited from various areas, as well as some coastal areas with few people and many land, such as the mountainous areas in southern Fujian and Zhejiang. These places have always had many people but few land, and the locals also have a tradition of immigrating to other places to make a living.
In addition to directly recruiting immigrants, Ji Dehua actually paid more attention to developing local minerals and engaging in industry!
He comes from an industrial background and is very aware of the huge development boost that industry brings to local areas.
Not to mention anything else, as long as a large steel plant can be built in Liaodong, Liaodong's economy can be boosted overnight.
With a steel plant, there will be supporting upstream and downstream factories, and various mechanical and hardware factories will come, even arsenals are no exception.
It is more convenient to directly manufacture guns and ammunition for war in Liaodong than to transport them all the way from Jiangnan.
And with factories, there will be jobs, and with jobs, there will be consumption by ordinary residents. At that time, a large number of ordinary people will come here even to make a living or do some small business.
This population will naturally increase.
During this stage, the Liaodong government could also obtain a large amount of tax revenue, especially commercial tax revenue, and then use these taxes to improve infrastructure, such as building roads, bridges, and so on.
It is even used to recruit immigrants to subsidize agricultural production and so on.
The agricultural development in Liaodong can in turn supply the consumption of industrial employees and even the needs of the military.
Finally, the whole chess game came to life.
The plan is already in place. The only problem is how to convince the empire's senior officials to spend huge sums of money to invest in Liaodong and build a series of factories such as steel plants in the distant frontier, facing the threat of the Eastern capturers!
He has been thinking about this for several months and has come up with many various plans.
But Ji Dehua never expected that before he could finalize the plan and seek support from his superiors, an inspection team from the Ministry of Industry had already arrived in Liaodong on a sea ship, landed at Yingkou, and then went straight to Liaodong, where the Liaodong Governor's Yamen is located. The town is coming from the direction of Liaoyang City.
But before arriving at Liaoyang City, they stayed at Anshan Fort along the way for several days.
These officials from the Ministry of Industry came here precisely for the rich mineral resources in Liaodong.
No matter what plans Ji Dehua has, how can Luo Zhixue have a clear positioning on the development of Liaodong!
What is suitable for development in Liaodong? What else could it be? Heavy industry is the main one and agriculture is the supplement!
Otherwise, the rich mineral resources in the Liaodong region will be wasted.
No matter how scarce Luo Zhixue's knowledge is, he still knows that Northeast China is the base of China's heavy industry. What else does he want to do if he doesn't engage in heavy industry? Is it possible that we should follow the example of kidnapping people from the East and other barbarians, and engage in nomadic herding, fishing and hunting... That's nonsense!
The Chu Empire even engaged in industry on Qiongzhou Island, let alone in the Northeast.
As for the threat from the Eastern Captives, the Chu Imperial Army is not a freeloader. There are still nearly 200,000 troops in Liaodong. They will continue to attack northward in the spring of next year. The Eastern Captives can no longer make trouble. .
"Treading on the Stars"
