Liaoyang City was the residence of the Liaodong Governor of the Chu Empire, the Liaodong Garrison Headquarters, and the Army's Third Army Headquarters.
Unlike the provincial capitals in other provinces of the Great Chu Empire, which had a large population and were bustling with activity, Liaoyang City seemed a little deserted.
The people I occasionally see on the street are all administrative staff or soldiers in the Chu Empire.
As for civilians, there are none for now...
As the veritable administrative and military center of the Great Chu Empire in the Liaodong region, and given that the Liaoyang area had been invaded by the Eastern captives for many years, although most of the Eastern captives have withdrawn, it is still difficult to say how many Eastern captives there are or are willing to be Traitors, the Han people loyal to them exist.
Therefore, after the Chu Empire captured this place, it implemented military control there!
Through the period of military control, the military wiped out many of the hidden forces left behind by the Japanese invaders in the city... and subsequently forcibly moved the remaining civilians in the city to the outskirts of the city, so that there is now not even a single aboriginal in the city.
After all, this place is to serve as the political and military center of the Chu Empire in the Liaodong region, and no possible destruction is tolerated... What if there are saboteurs hiding in the city, and then find an opportunity to throw them into the Third Army Headquarters? If you put in a few grenades or something, or use bows and arrows or muskets to assassinate the senior generals of the Chu army who are entering and exiting the headquarters, wouldn't it be doomed!
This kind of thing is not a blind worry on the part of the Chu army, but a real thing.
During the Chu Army's Liaodong Campaign, some high-ranking generals were assassinated by the Eastern captives in the early days. Some Eastern captives put on wigs and disguised themselves as Han laborers, and were hired by the Chu Army to dig trenches outside the city, and then attacked one of the Chu Army's soldiers. When the major general and division commander was inspecting the defenses outside the city, he secretly approached and assassinated him with a pistol...
Fortunately, the distance was relatively far, and the pistol was produced by the Great Chu Empire. Its shooting accuracy was not very good, so the major general of the Chu army escaped. However, the major general did not die. A second-class division accompanying the inspection The brigadier general was hit and seriously injured, and later died of his injuries.
As a result, he became the highest-ranking officer killed in the series of battles in Liaodong in the Chu Empire, and the only general killed in action... This unlucky boy!
We must know that in the series of battles between Liaodong and Dongqiu, the Chu army seemed to have a large number of troops and a grand scene. However, in fact, except for the earliest cavalry battle in the northern suburbs of Zhongqiansuo, strictly speaking, there were no large-scale battles between the two sides. Battle in the wild.
Most of the time, the Chu army attacked the city and the Dongji people defended it. During the Battle of Jinzhou, the two sides fought a field battle in the area east of Tashan and west of Xingshan, but this battle was also similar to a battle. It can't be said that it was a pursuit by the Chu army and the Dongji people fled. It seemed that there were tens of thousands of people, but the battlefield was relatively scattered and there was no serious confrontation between the two sides.
As for the siege or pursuit of combat power, the Chu army's casualties were actually very small, because when the Chu army attacked the city, most of them relied on artillery bombardment, and by the time the infantry came on stage, the overall situation was basically decided.
Under such circumstances, the casualties in frontal battles will naturally not be very large, and these casualties are mainly ordinary soldiers and low-level officers.
Because under normal circumstances, even a brigadier general would be at the level of brigade commander or deputy division commander and division chief of staff or above in the Chu Army.
They command tens of thousands of people. Unless there is a strategic decisive battle, tens of thousands of people line up and charge forward... Otherwise, senior generals will not lead troops to charge like mid-level and low-level officers. They want casualties. Either he was unlucky enough to be hit by a stray bullet, or he was defeated and killed by the enemy.
Well, the exception is the cavalry. In the cavalry unit, even the commander of the cavalry brigade needs to charge directly with the cavalry.
Under such circumstances, during the Chu army's battle in Liaodong, not a single general was killed in frontal combat...but there were a few injured.
However, a brigadier general was killed by the assassins of the Eastern Capture People...
This situation has to make the military more vigilant, so that after it captures a certain place, it will carry out serious purge operations.
Liaoyang City was the political and military center of the Chu Empire in the Liaodong region. There were a lot of senior civil servants and generals stationed here, so the purge operation was more serious. At the same time, as a precaution, the remaining population in the city was forcibly relocated. Got out.
Therefore, the current Liaoyang City has become a purely official city within its city walls. The people inside are all official personnel or soldiers of the Chu Empire. In addition, there are also some administrative assistants recruited by the government from other places and brought over. personnel.
As for the small number of remaining aboriginal people in the local area, the Chu army still cannot believe it for the time being, and they have all been forcibly relocated outside the city. Patrol police and other personnel will naturally continue to investigate them in the future. The fate of the problematic personnel will not be good, and Those who have no problem can only return to the city after waiting for a period of time, that is, until the military control period in Liaoyang City ends.
So the current Liaoyang City seems very deserted... This makes Kong Kaikang, who came north from the bustling Jinling City to take up a post, a little uncomfortable!
Through the window of the carriage, looking at the deserted street outside, with not a single pedestrian visible for a long time, Kong Kaikang had a very strange feeling.
This was the first time he had encountered such a city.
The desolation and the cold wind blowing constantly from the carriage window made Kong Kaikang miss Jinling again...
Although it is winter, the winter in Liaoyang is much colder than the winter in Jinling.
Although it does snow in Jinling City in winter, and sometimes it snows heavily, it is far less terrible than this miserable place in Liaodong.
Last year, he and other colleagues from the Ministry of Industry arrived at the mouth of the Liaohe River by boat and felt the ice and snow here... Even though the mouth of the Liaohe River is a seaport, it still snowed.
Because the Liaohe River was frozen, he was not allowed to take a carriage from the mouth of the Liaohe River and continue north.
Along the way, the convoy of the Ministry of Industry to which he belonged traveled hundreds of miles along with the military's logistics convoy. The sights he saw along the way were nothing but ice and snow...
Before, he didn't understand why Liaodong was said to be a land of bitter cold. But when he saw Liaodong in winter along the way, he finally understood what it meant.
It’s not easy to do anything in such a cold place!
Especially when officials from the Ministry of Industry go to conduct field surveys, it is even more difficult!
He is pretty good. After all, he is a traditional manager in the Ministry of Industry, not a technocrat. Therefore, although he accompanied the survey officials and technicians on a trip to Anshan, and later on Benxi.
But what he was doing was logistical work, not really running into the mountains for reconnaissance.
Even so, this trip had left him half to death.
He was relatively well, but many of his colleagues in the Survey Department were even more miserable... There were many people with frostbite, and there were also some who were sick. After several field surveys, most of the surveyors were no longer human.
Fortunately, the survey activities carried out in the winter were only preliminary surveys. After the preliminary results were obtained, they stopped the field survey activities. The entire survey team temporarily returned to Liaoyang for the winter, preparing to wait until the spring thaw, which is not so cold. Later, we will conduct more detailed mining area surveys and launch mineral surveys in other surrounding areas.
As a logistics support officer of the Ministry of Industry, Kong Kaikang also came to Liaoyang City to spend the winter.
Just after he returned to Liaoyang, he didn't recover for long before he received the transfer document from his superiors. He was transferred to Benxi as the co-organizer of the newly established Benxi Coal Mining Company.
Benxi Coal Mining Company, as you can see from the name, is a company established by the Industrial Department of the Dachu Empire specifically to develop coal mines in the Benxi area.
At yesterday's meeting of senior officials stationed by the Ministry of Industry in the Liaodong region, the head of the delegation of the Ministry of Industry and the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, Mr. Deng Weiya, read out a series of imperial edicts urgently sent from Jinling.
The empire has officially established the Liaoyang Industrial Base, which is also a national-level industrial base. The Liaoyang Industrial Base is also different from other large industrial bases.
This so-called Liaoyang Industrial Base is not a single place, but consists of multiple sub-bases.
It currently consists of four branches: Benxi Base, Liaoyang Base, Anshan Base, and Liaohekou Base, which are set up according to the locations of iron ore and coal mines and subsequent processing areas.
Or it can also be understood that the Chu Empire established four national-level industrial zones in Liaodong.
Now that a national-level industrial zone has been established and policies are in place, the natural next step is to invest in setting up factories.
The Liaodong Governor's Yamen has made a guarantee and will fully cooperate with the Ministry of Industry to recruit workers from the Guan area. At the same time, it will also provide local transportation and many supporting facilities in the industrial zone, mainly roads and ports.
As for actual investment, this kind of thing will naturally come from the Ministry of Industry.
As for private investment, don't count on it for the time being... The investment in heavy industry is too big, and it can easily cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. This puts too much pressure on private capital, and the Dachu Empire does not have a mature financing system these days. category, which limits large-scale investment by private capital.
Even if private capital invests in heavy industry, people still have many other options. China is a vast country with abundant resources. It is not just the Northeast that has a lot of coal and iron ore. There are also many other places, and there are many.
Although most of them are small and medium-sized mineral veins, and no one pays attention to them in later generations, these minerals still have huge value, and if you invest in mining, you can also make a lot of profits.
Therefore, currently within the empire, a lot of private capital has actually invested in various minerals, iron smelting plants, etc., but the scale is generally small.
However, it does not affect other people’s ability to make money!
Under such circumstances, mineral development in harsh and cold places like Northeast China can basically only rely on official capital in the early stage.
To this end, the Ministry of Industry has made plans to invest in and build 27 factories/mines of various sizes in Liaodong Province. Benxi Coal Mining Company is one of them, and it is relatively large in scale and belongs to the first echelon.
With so many companies, it is natural that they need managers. According to the empire's management, the senior managers of the above-mentioned companies are also on-the-job officials.
As a result, Kong Kaikang, the fifth-rank director of the Ministry of Industry, was transferred to the Benxi Coal Mining Company to co-organize the work, from the fourth rank.
This is not the first time that Kong Kaikang has been transferred to work in a government-run enterprise. In fact, like many senior officials of the Ministry of Industry, he grew up in a government-run enterprise. Before being transferred to the Ministry of Industry, he worked in Changsha Machinery Supervise in the factory.
So he was mentally prepared to be transferred to a local place to become a corporate executive, but...he was still a little uncomfortable about being transferred to Liaodong.
I was transferred from Jinling to serve in a bitter and cold place outside the Pass. If I were to switch to a traditional dynasty, wouldn't I be exiled for three thousand miles...
Alas, so after yesterday’s meeting, Kong Kaikang felt quite complicated in his heart!
Originally, he thought that the trip to Liaodong with the group was just to make a hard trip, get some gold, get some qualifications, then go back to Jinling City, and then wait for two or three years before being transferred to another place, whether it is to work in an enterprise or to work in a local government office. It will be all right.
It's just that I didn't expect to come to Liaodong. Before I returned to Jinling City, I was directly appointed to stay in Liaoyang.
No, it's not even Liaoyang City, but Benxi, which is northeast of Liaoyang City and has nothing to offer... There is only a small village and fort in that wretched place, not even a city!
He felt bad when he thought that he would have to work in a small ravine for several years.
Even if his grade changes from the fifth grade to the fourth grade, it's not good!
Kong Kaikang, who was not in a good mood, rode a carriage from the Ministry of Industry delegation to the Liaoyang government office.
Although he has just taken up the post of co-organizer of Benxi Coal Mining Company, and Benxi Coal Mining Company only has one signboard for the time being... No, there is not even a signboard yet. For the time being, there is only a piece of paper and an official seal approved by the superiors, and there are only a few employees. There are currently no office locations.
But what needs to be done still needs to be done.
The superiors have informed us that the Ministry of Civil Affairs is currently selecting talents from across the country to be stationed in Liaodong, and it is expected that several officials will be transferred to Benxi Coal Mining Company as senior managers in the future.
According to the relevant rules and regulations of the Dachu Empire's Ministry of Industry, government-run enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry will generally have one person to supervise, one person to co-organize, and one person to manage. If it is a technical enterprise, there will also be one chief engineer.
Of course, almost all government-run enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry are technical enterprises. Even the Dachu Salt Company and the Dachu Grain Company seem to have nothing to do with technology, but in fact they also have the position of chief engineer. .
Salt production also requires technology. For example, the salt production process of coastal salt fields that salt companies are developing; the grain storage and grain processing industries that grain companies are engaged in require technical support.
Therefore, enterprises directly under the Industrial Department of the Dachu Empire often have the position of chief engineer. Therefore, the management of government-run enterprises directly under the Industrial Department of the Dachu Empire basically consists of four people.
These four people are the highest-level managers of the company, supervising and coordinating all affairs, the co-organizer is in charge of administrative management, the general manager is responsible for finance, and the chief engineer is responsible for technology.
"One Sword Dominates"
Further down, senior positions such as factory directors and division directors will be set up depending on the situation, and these positions in large enterprises are often held by serving officials.
Government-run enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry do this, and some provincial government-run enterprises run by local provincial industrial departments, or government-run enterprises run by prefectural-level industrial offices, basically imitate the model of enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry.
It is worth noting that if these local agencies want to establish government-run enterprises, they cannot do it on their own. They must submit to the Ministry of Industry for approval, obtain approval, and be included in the unified management scope of the Ministry of Industry.
The management models of government-run enterprises at all levels are highly consistent.
Kong Kaikang, the co-organizer, is the person responsible for the administrative management of Benxi Coal Mining Company, and several officials will serve under him in the future.
However, it is impossible to support a large coal mining company with just these dozen officials. Therefore, the Ministry of Industry also coordinates from government-owned enterprises in various places to transfer middle and low-level managers, technicians and even ordinary workers. However, These people are all civilians, and they work for money, and the contracts are not signed with the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Public Affairs, but with various enterprises.
Therefore, even the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Civil Affairs cannot directly transfer ordinary people to work across enterprises through administrative orders... They are not officials, so they are not under your control!
If you want to mobilize them, you have to follow folk rules, negotiate with them, and then change the work contract.
It's just that this job is not easy. For most people, they would stay away from their hometown and work in the cold and cold places of Liaodong because they are crazy.
Therefore, the superiors have no intention of mobilizing this model to meet the large demand for labor. The most they can do is to recruit some technical backbones and middle- and low-level managers, and the money must be sufficient.
As for the ordinary labor force, such as a large number of miners, then we can only think of other methods, such as recruiting locally, or traveling to other places to recruit.
Kong Kaikang went to the Liaoyang government office just to discuss the recruitment of local labor...
However, the result of the discussion made Kong Kaikang very disappointed... It's not that the prefect's Yamen was uncooperative, they were already very cooperative.
The key is that there are not many people in Liaoyang Mansion...
And for Liaoyang Prefecture, agriculture is the most important in a short period of time. Factories and making money are not as important as having enough to eat.
Nowadays, the grain officially transported by the Dachu Empire to Liaodong is extremely expensive. However, in order to prevent the high price of grain from affecting people's livelihood, the grain must be sold at a fair price... Therefore, every kilogram of grain shipped will lose money. , the more you sell, the more you will lose.
The Dachu Grain Corporation has already stated that it is their responsibility to raise grain to Liaodong for the expansion of the empire. Even if they suffer huge losses, they will grit their teeth and hold on.
But it can't go on like this forever.
After the local grain harvest in Liaodong next year, the Grain Corporation will significantly reduce grain input to Liaodong!
Even if the Dachu Empire Grain Corporation is a big business, it is impossible for it to continue to suffer such losses in Liaodong for a long time.
Therefore, solving the food problem on the spot, especially solving the food needs of ordinary people, is the highest priority issue placed by the government offices at all levels in Liaodong. As for the development of industry and commerce, that has to be put back...
Secondly, more food is grown to support military supplies.
Although the military and political affairs are separated, the military also has its own food transportation channels. At the same time, the Third Army and the Liaodong Garrison Command have also launched local reclamation operations to raise their own food.
But, Liaodong cannot really care about the life and death of the military...
Moreover, it had been decided at the imperial council that Liaodong would be used as a logistics base for the Northeast expansion, and meeting military requirements and food was their unshirkable responsibility.
Therefore, the most urgent task in Liaodong now is farming...
The local population in Liaodong is not large in the first place, less than one million people can support it. Most of the people are farming, and the number of people who can be freed to engage in industry and commerce is naturally very small.
At the same time, the Ministry of Industry has opened a relatively large store in the Liaodong region. It has established more than 20 factories/mines in one go. According to the production capacity plan, at least 200,000 people will be needed.
And most of these 200,000 people must be young and strong laborers.
After all, ordinary people cannot do things like mining and smelting iron.
There was not such a large labor force in Liaodong. After being rejected by the local government, Kong Kaikang was a little disappointed, but he would not give up easily and turned around and went to the Liaodong Garrison Headquarters.
Why go to the garrison headquarters...because they have a large number of prisoners of war!
In the process of conquering Liaodong, the Great Chu Empire obtained a large number of prisoners of war captured from the East. The Chu army also conducted differentiated management of these prisoners of war captured from the East.
All the generals and officer leaders of the Eastern Banners were selected. Among these people, some of the more stubborn ones or those with special status should be killed and buried. For example, the traitors who actively worked for the Eastern Banners were mainly those in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. Those generals, one by one, were all slaughtered.
Traitors are always more hateful than enemies, especially national traitors!
The remaining prisoner-of-war officers were collectively detained in special prisoner-of-war camps to engage in heavy manual labor.
Except for officers, other ordinary prisoners of war were treated better. They were basically incorporated into prisoner-of-war camps to engage in labor, mainly for farming.
In order to have enough to eat, the officers and soldiers of the Third Army had to temporarily put down their swords and guns and pick up hoes for farming. Naturally, these prisoners of war could not live a comfortable life lying in their cells. They all had to work and build prisoner of war barracks for themselves. In addition to farming to support himself, he also supported more soldiers of the Chu army.
According to the rules, these prisoners of war are under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Garrison Command. The Third Army is a field force. They only capture the enemy to gain military merit. As for how to manage the subsequent prisoners, it has nothing to do with them. They are all under the jurisdiction of the local garrison headquarters. thing.
Now, Kong Kaikang is interested in the hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war in the Hebei garrison headquarters.
These are the best young and strong labor force, which is perfect for mining. The most important thing is that they don't need to be paid... They are used by the military to cultivate and farm. To be honest, it is wasted.
However, as soon as Kong Kaikang started talking about this, he was driven away by people from the Liaodong Garrison Command...
One of the army lieutenant colonels who was driving them away cursed: "Guanggun, it's a beautiful thought. If you take away our prisoners of war and don't give compensation, will you grow enough for us to eat 200,000 yuan of military rations next year?"
Hearing this, Kong Kaikang's face turned green... I have kindly offered to help you solve the food ration problem for 10,000 prisoners of war, but your military actually asked our company for a large amount of food compensation... How can there be such a reason in the world? .
But the military's attitude is very tough. Prisoners of war are to be used for farming and growing food. If you want the prisoners of war to mine, you can also provide the food back to us...
As long as you transport the food, the prisoners of war on hand can go mining, but if there is no food... get lost.
As Kong Kaikang stepped out, he cursed in his heart: "Does our company look like a victim?" '; 'Lowly martial artist, unreasonable'
The prisoners of war were provided with food and shelter, and a large amount of grain was required to be given to the military as compensation. When grain prices in Liaodong were abnormal and local grain production was insufficient, the military required a large amount of grain compensation. This cost was more than recruiting miners in the customs. Much more expensive.
After leaving the gate of the Liaodong Garrison Headquarters, Kong Kaikang looked at the gloomy sky with flying snowflakes. After spitting on the ground, he then looked back at the gate of the Garrison Headquarters and said: "There is something wrong with everything." !”
"Even God has something wrong with him. It's fucking snowing again. It's snowing every day. There's no end!"
