Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 243 Infrastructure Startup
Infrastructure construction has an indescribable effect on a country's economy. A frequently used term is the multiplier effect, which means that the money invested in infrastructure construction can often bring about several times the increase in national income.

Nanming is now officially in the stage of promoting major development. Except for Shanghai New City, which is basically a relatively complete place, all other cities must attract new construction.The more important infrastructure construction is mainly transportation. Now the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Transport have proposed the preliminary construction of national highways, provincial highways and county roads to connect various provinces, and have proposed the first phase construction of three horizontal and three vertical railways.

Nanming already has a railway in operation in Australia, and Bai Mingxiu has also obtained related technology from the system. It's just that Bai Mingxiu has been busy fighting wars during this period, and has not spared any energy to build the railway.

But now, Nanming has greatly improved both in terms of financial resources and manpower, which also gave Bai Mingxiu the confidence to start large-scale projects.

The three-horizontal and three-vertical railway network, the three horizontals refer to the Xulan Railway, the Shanghai-Hanrong Railway, and the Guanghe-Kunming Railway, and the three verticals refer to the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and the Xirong-Kunming Railway.In fact, there are still some places inside that are not occupied by Da Ming at all, but this does not prevent Bai Mingxiu from starting planning and preliminary construction.

The two lines of Beijing-Shanghai and Beijing-Guangzhou connect the north and the south, and are an important way to replace water transport.The Xirong-Kunming Railway connects Xi'an and Chengdu-Kunming. It is a special line for the west. Bai Mingxiu hopes to promote the rapid development of the west to follow the east.However, in terms of the order of completion, the Xirong-Kunming Railway must be launched after the opening of the Beijing-Guangzhou and Beijing-Shanghai lines, and after the population of Sichuan has increased significantly, otherwise the cost of such a railway line will definitely not be recovered.After all, Bai Mingxiu is still counting on the railway to make more money.

The significance of the Xulan Railway is to communicate with the Northwest. The Shanghai-Hanrong Railway is a powerful supplement to the Yangtze River water transport. As for the Guanghe-Kunming Railway, it is of great significance to the Southwest economy, and this railway actually connects Guangzhou, Nanning and Kunming. The branch line leads from Nanning to Hanoi, and puts Cochin Province firmly on Daming's body.

It is naturally much cheaper to build railways these days than in later generations. The calculation of the Railway Corporation is that it will cost about 100 million taels to build a 100-kilometer railway. This is also due to Daming's rich timber sources in Southeast Asia and local steelmaking. The price of steel rails is not too expensive.

But even so, it will cost more than 1000 million taels to build a Beijing-Shanghai railway.

Bai Mingxiu made a final decision and started to build a part of the Majing-Guangzhou Railway, the Han-Guangzhou Line, from Wuchang to Guangzhou.For several other railway projects, take a long-term plan and take your time.

For the current Ming Dynasty, the construction of road networks and port terminals may have a slight priority over railway construction.The road network can send economic products scattered in various places to major port cities, and then transport them to other cities and even sell them to foreigners, bringing a lot of trade income.

Daming no longer takes a fee for business, and does not set up a large number of checkpoints and charge tolls, which naturally brings convenience to commercial activities.Through the new policy, many provinces in the south have seen a visible surge in business activities.Moreover, as estimated by the Council of Governors, the population flow has become more frequent.

In addition to the construction of transportation, the construction of various new buildings is also a focus.After all, from factory buildings, to schools and hospitals, to various new urban residences, there are more traditional construction methods, which are not only inefficient, but also unsuitable for large-scale utilization.This naturally requires the introduction of more modern architecture and construction techniques.In this regard, Bai Mingxiu directly recruited some systematic construction talents. Basically, whenever he saw relevant talents in this area, he would exchange them directly.

Now Daming has also formed a huge Daming Construction Group, and it has begun to have a presence in various places.Basically, there is a need to build new buildings in various places, and newer standards must be adopted, otherwise the government office and county office will not be able to obtain approval.Many people are still unaccustomed to the phenomenon of the government's wide control. Leaving aside building houses in rural areas, any building in the city must have a building permit approved by the government.

Mingjian Group is basically a handful of one or two architects and engineers taking the lead, and then recruits a group of laborers to teach them how to build reinforced concrete structures or other new-style houses.This also created a situation, that is, guys who have been involved in several projects with Mingjian's construction team, if their heads are spiritual and willing to learn and work, they often learn the skills and can pull a team to take over the project by themselves.Although they still lack design ability, even some designs of Mingjian Group are done by units such as planning institutes and architectural design institutes, and private bosses also follow suit.Not to mention the relatively standardized factory buildings, apartment buildings, teaching buildings, etc., a set of designs can be applied to many places, so only two or three years later, a group of private construction companies emerged and began to compete with Mingjian Group for business up.

This in itself is something that Bai Mingxiu is happy to see come to fruition. He brought up Mingjian as a demonstration. What he hopes is to see more companies learn to do things by themselves.

However, at this point in time, the cities that Mingjian Group can take care of are only a few large and medium-sized prefectures and counties, and the ability to settle down is still relatively lacking.However, Bai Mingxiu also believes that within a few years, a group of students who come out of the new education system of Ming Dynasty may have attended engineering schools and architecture schools, and they will gradually bring prosperity.

Bai Mingxiu also clearly realized that even if he holds a big golden finger, the law of the development of things cannot be violated. This country still needs to develop slowly, and he can only add some to the places he can touch. Assistance depends more on the country and the people themselves to perceive the context of the industrial age and gradually change society itself.

Reason says so, but Bai Mingxiu is still frantically squeezing any resources he can squeeze from the system, building more factories, building more roads, creating more industrial jobs, and opening more schools , Eliminate more illiteracy, and cultivate more talents.

Under the command of this central idea, Bai Mingxiu himself was very busy. "Da Ming Daily" even included a special report, telling how hard His Highness the Prince Jian Guo worked so hard to govern the country. The implication was that civil servants at all levels and even ordinary people must work hard.

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