Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 506 Railroad Bonds
There is a lot of discussion in the Ming Dynasty. There is no doubt that the re-establishment of the Western Qing Dynasty has given the people some shock and stimulation. Many people still remember the fear when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs. However, some people are already very confident and think that the Tartars have already It is a bereaved dog, unable to cause any damage to Daming at all.

Bai Mingxiu had dinner with Su Wanxi and sent her back to school, while he went to the Council for a meeting.The cabinet has moved from Shanghai to the capital, and the Lizhengyuan has also built a building for office.

When Bai Mingxiu went to the cabinet meeting, he saw a large map of Eurasia posted on a whiteboard in the meeting room. Several lines were drawn on the map. Bai Mingxiu knew at a glance that it was a railway map.

Everyone bowed to Bai Mingxiu, and Bai Mingxiu waved his hand to order everyone to sit down, and asked, "Is the Osha (Asia) Railway going to be reviewed today?"

Prime Minister Tang Beilu nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty."

Bai Mingxiu smiled and said, "To be honest, I'm still a little skeptical about this matter. After all, there are so many places in our inland area where there are no trains. The Beijing-Shanghai Railway, which opened to traffic this year, has greatly stimulated the surrounding economies. Great, everyone can see that the Beijing-Guangzhou line is estimated to be completed early next year, and the Longhai line is also half built. The transportation between Jiangsu and Henan is really convenient. We are determined to cover every province with railways, and drive the overall economy and development of Ming Dynasty. The blood is flowing. On the contrary, most of the areas that this railway that runs through the mainland is still deserted.”

The planned O-Xia Railway is part of the Longhai Line, from Haizhou (Lianyungang) in Huai'an Prefecture to Lanzhou, passing through Urumqi and Alashankou, across the entire Kazakhstan, and reaching the city of Azov around the Sea of ​​Azov.At this stage, all the areas along the line are under the control of Daming, but it is true that as Bai Mingxiu said, the construction of this line is not easy, and a large number of people say that the economy is underdeveloped, and there are even few people.

Tang Beilu responded: "There was no one before, and there will be people when the train is repaired. The construction of the railway network in the mainland will not be delayed because of the construction of the Oxia Railway. This can be guaranteed to His Majesty."

Bai Mingxiu also knew that Fei Yanggu led the Tartars to kill all the way, basically killing all the western regions.Once the railway is built, the Han people can follow the railway to extend their residence to the lower reaches of the Volga River.Although he does not expect this railway to continue to bring economic effects like the Yuxinou Railway, from the perspective of population flow, this railway is really useful.

Not to mention from the point of view of national defense and territory guarding.

Bai Mingxiu joked and said, "Well, the people of Ming Dynasty also have a happy trouble now. If they want to venture out, there are too many choices. They can go to Nanyang, cross North America, go to South Asia, or go to Go north to Beihai Lake, and go west to the Western Regions and Anxi."

Tang Beilu also sighed: "Everywhere basically spends a lot of energy to attract new immigrants, and there has even been some chaos. Many people from the Xuanwei Department have begun to go to Beijing to lobby people from the Ministry of Immigration Affairs. Allocating some immigration quotas to them, Wu Min has done the most drastic work."

The Meng-Myanmar Propaganda and Consolation Department has been promoted to the most economically valuable colony of Ming Dynasty. Wu Min began to strategize, lay out the industrial development of the Meng-Myanmar area, and combine it with the economy of Ming Dynasty.However, the Meng-Myanmar Propaganda Department has a population of more than 2000 million, and the proportion of Han nationality is very small. For Ming Dynasty, it is not a simple economic plunder like Britain in another plane, but to integrate it into Ming Dynasty, so it promotes Chinese and Ming Dynasty Culture matters.And all of these require a large number of native populations to immigrate to do so.

Bai Mingxiu also heard that the people sent by Wu Min were simply asking the Ministry of Immigration to tilt the population towards them. Wu Min even called out the goal of immigrating at least [-] Han people a year.

Sometimes Bai Mingxiu really feels that managing a huge country is exhausting.The interests of all parties are intertwined and have different aspects, which is really difficult.

"I heard that you are planning to issue bonds for the construction of this Osha Railway, and can you exchange the bonds for land?"

Tang Beilu replied: "That's right. In fact, this is also a way to combine colonization and railway construction. The minimum denomination of our railway bonds sold is only 10 taels. After the railway is completed in the future, each railway bond can be directly exchanged for land. But those who buy bonds do not have the right to choose. It is up to us to determine where it is. The land that is close to the railway and can be cultivated will be given less, and the land farther away and more barren can be given more.”

Bai Mingxiu asked again: "What if there are mines underground in the land you gave me?"

"Private mining standards are strict. Just applying for exploration rights and mining is not something ordinary people can do. Even if the person who gets the land is a big chaebol, it will be very difficult. Not to mention, in fact, if there is an economically valuable Mines are beneficial to our local economic development and immigration. Besides, we will conduct a rough survey before allocating land. If there are really large mineral deposits, we will not easily distribute them to people, right? The main allocated land is agricultural land and construction land.”

Bai Mingxiu knows that this routine is actually similar to the old American railroad routine. Every mile of railway construction can get 1 square miles of land, but Daming is used to building with state-owned capital entities, directly issuing railway bonds, and then not repaying the money , to exchange railway bonds for land.This is of course not friendly to large private capital, but it is a good choice for those who really want to go to the west to pan for gold.Maybe a bond bought for 10 taels of silver will become dozens of acres of fields, which may contain minerals, which may be turned into towns, and resell them to make a fortune.

It is conceivable that Osha's railroad bonds will sell extremely well then.

Tang Beilu said again: "In other provinces in the interior, if you own such a large amount of land, you have to pay a high land tax, but from Mobei Province to Anxi Xuanweisi and Volga Xuanweisi, there is no limit to these lands. We're rewarding brave adventurers who come here to pan for gold."

Bai Mingxiu didn't need to think carefully to understand the operations of the cabinet bosses.First, a wave of news spread, using land to attract people, and then there was some news about someone buying railway bonds in exchange for oil under the land, and finally a story about getting rich from 10 taels into 10 taels - this is for The lethality of ordinary people can be said to be extremely huge.

(End of this chapter)