Lu Ming

Although strictly speaking, the government has only been established for more than a month, the former big office is actually performing the functions of the cabinet, and there have not been many adjustments in personnel after the founding of the country, so Lao Xia did not stumble, and went directly to the society for nearly a year. The development results are summarized.

After that, he looked forward to the future: including the expected actions and expected goals of the government in various aspects of society such as industry and agriculture, the military, medical care, technology and culture next year.

Finally, diplomacy: the relationship with Daming and various forces, as well as the list of forces to be wooed next year, and the list of forces to be dealt with...

After reading the not-so-long report, Xia Xianze quickly returned to his seat.After all, apart from some statistics, everyone actually knows the content of the report, and people usually browse and discuss it on the forum, so there is no need for a long speech.

Then the scene rudely entered the mode of their respective battles: According to the import volume of the previous year, from low to high, each department that needs to allocate imported materials took turns to come on stage, read reports, and talk about plans.

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"This group of heretics really dare to think!" Huo Xiong, who took off his motorcycle jacket and put on a purple windbreaker, looked more or less refined.

At this moment, he was sitting in the back row of the crowd, crossing his legs, tapping the report in his hand, and whispering to Comrade Mi Shuo next to him.

The people sitting in front of the hall on the left are basically Conservative Party members.Opposite them is the "heresy" of the Imperial Han faction.

As for the site near the door, it goes without saying that it is occupied by people without party affiliation and small gangs.

After hearing Huo Xiong's whisper, Mi Shuo first glanced at Yang Lei, the president of the newspaper who was giving a passionate speech in front of the microphone, and then the flesh on his face twitched slightly: "Yeah, it's just a paparazzi, to put it mildly, it's Yu Ji, His breath is bigger than that of a toad!"

At this moment, Mi Shuo didn't look like a chubby good guy at all, his words were harsh and full of aggression.

It's not to blame for Mi Shuo's harsh words, the competition for interests has never been tender.Yang Lei is not only a leftist "heretic", but now he is clamoring on stage to introduce a full set of laser typesetting and inkjet printing equipment, and he does not care about the self-production of consumables, so it is a high probability of being sprayed.

Sure enough, before the quarrel on the stage was over, there was the first "full booing" from the audience since the establishment of the parliament... Even the gang who were also emperors were not polite, after all, there were also people in the big gang Lots of little gangs.

The boos were so loud that the speaker Luo Lixian slammed the hammer for a long time before controlling the scene.

But the instigator, Yang Lei, had already yelled his stupid theories into the microphone, and at this time he had already stepped down triumphantly.

In fact, this guy is quite smart.He knew that it was impossible to get the equipment he wanted at this meeting - all kinds of consumables were not available in his low-ranking industry, such as toner cartridges and ink cartridges on printers.

So this guy did the opposite, and simply put forward a series of more exaggerated demands, first to make his reputation in the Jianghu...

It seems that this time he succeeded.

After Yang Lei, a group of experts in the "tertiary industry" similar to him came on stage one after another, advocating their respective small industries, hoping to steal a piece of meat from the distribution of materials in the coming year.

However, their hopes were doomed to fail.Except for the core equipment that was essential when they started, it is difficult for them to obtain import quotas, so let's honestly wait for the localization of equipment.

After the performances of these bastards were over, it was noon, and the nobles happened to have dinner, and then they would fight again in the afternoon.

However, the meeting in the afternoon will not be so easy, some middleweight players will play... There is no way to block out these divisions, and they will get quotas more or less, so the afternoon will be a tough battle.

Fortunately, Emperor Cao will not come out as a mascot in the afternoon, so everyone can let go of their hands and feet in the afternoon and "debate" as much as they want.

Chapter 327 Meeting ([-])

"North of the Yangtze River is the cotton-producing area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, especially Songjiang Prefecture and its surrounding areas. In fact, the cotton planting area in the entire Yangtze River Delta accounted for eighty-nine out of ten in the late Ming Dynasty. Everyone can buy it and ship it to West Asia and South America."

The person who was talking on the stage was a professional who was interested in opening a cotton mill in Songjiang Prefecture.Needless to say, this gentleman must have worked in the textile industry "before his death", so he is very professional in market analysis.

"Whether it's raw materials or skilled workers, Songjiang can handle it on the spot, which is not available in other places. Once our machines enter, we can easily control the upstream cotton yarn industry, and then infiltrate downstream."

"I have no less than twenty 19th-century-level textile machine drawings here, which can be driven by steam, electricity, and even animal power. Only a few imported parts are needed, and the self-produced boiler can work."

Seeing that most of the people in the audience were listening, this man couldn't help feeling a little proud of the career he had prepared for a long time.

Before he finally stepped down, he also said a few words of a slightly encouraging nature: "At present, at least two-thirds of the workers who are fighting on various fronts are still wearing linen and Fujian homespun. caused by an unreasonable structure."

"Once we build a factory in Shanghai, Taiwan only needs to wait for ready-to-wear clothes. Including navy sails, I am confident that within eight months, all citizens will be able to wear work jackets and jeans, by the way. Then export some high-end cotton textiles to the gringos."

"I'm done."

Seeing this man walk down the stage with great ambition, Huo Xiong and Mi Shuo, who were still yelling at those unreliable people in the morning, did not make trouble this time, but put on a pensive expression and sat in the crowd Silent.

The people who came to the stage in the afternoon are not like the people in the morning who can be bombarded at will.Because by this time, most of the people who came to power belonged to the relatively important secondary industry. These people had data and plans in their hands, and most of their claims were related to the pillar industries of the national economy and the people's livelihood. .

Including the cotton spinning plan, there are also a number of light industry plans such as papermaking, porcelain, furniture, daily chemicals, etc., which were also proposed one after another during the rest of the afternoon.

Some of these plans went to the Ming Dynasty to set up camp, and some were based in the local area and wantonly exposed their products for dumping. In short, they were all mature plans that could make money and earn money.

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After the previous day's meeting, the real heavyweight industries came to power the next day: the military, heavy industry, and primary industry.

The army is a general concept, which includes the army and navy, the special forces, the General Intelligence Bureau, the police and the soon-to-be-established "Imperial Association Army" headquarters.

Each mountain has sent its own spokesperson to stress the importance of the department on stage.All kinds of weapons and equipment, cannons and giant ships spewed out of these people's mouths as if they didn't want money, as if brother Chongzhen would rush into the Taijiang River with a million cavalry tomorrow morning.

After the army representatives passed, there was only one person who read the report from Heavy Industry: Zou Guoqing.

Due to the strong correlation between the various factories in the heavy industry, overall planning is necessary, so there is no such thing as a mountain top.The industrial party has already held a meeting on the internal forum, and listed out the development plan for next year, and Zou Ge can just read it now.

Seeing the Industrial Party sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, like Huo Xiong and Mi Shuo who are big players in the primary industry in the audience, they can't help but feel cold: industry is too closely related. If you don't import equipment, you have to import it. It is really a headache to get the matching consumables and accessories production equipment together.

And in this regard they are not easy to oppose.For example, the 500-ton four-column hydraulic press project requested by Zou Guoqing and some special machine tools—although these equipment can be used to make cannons, the report said that they are used to improve the quality of tractors.

In this entanglement, the primary industry groups headed by Liang Letian came to power one after another.

Although the industrial base in the kiln area has been in full swing, and the various businesses of the empire have also been booming, the data will not lie: since landing in Dayuan, the primary industry that occupies the most imported materials is still the unobtrusive primary industry .

People tend to ignore such shabby professions as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline fishing, but as a high-level traveler with a normal IQ, he has never relaxed his investment in this area from the very beginning.

Agriculture is always the most important foundation of a country, and instability without agriculture is not just for fun. No matter how many high-tech equipment, no matter how fierce the cannons are, once they are hungry, hundreds of thousands of grassroots people under the rule of a certain force will show their fangs in an instant. , Created the rebellion of the gentlemen.

Therefore, imported materials have actually supported the primary industry the most, with a total amount exceeding 30%.This includes not only fine breeds, laboratories, and breeding cattle, but also reflected in the industry: the early tractors were grown out of hard seedlings. At that time, many parts, including gas engines, were imported by large offices. hold up.

The impact of this approach is far-reaching, leading to the fact that now the Industrial Party wants to import some equipment, and it has to find ways to link it with agriculture.

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Liang Letian, the Minister of Agriculture with a smile on his face, stepped onto the stage steadily, not paying attention to the worried eyes of the audience.

Sure enough, as the final BOSS, Liang Letian's first plan ignited the audience: 50 mu of rubber seedlings in Kenting + 500 mu of rubber seeds.

Kenting is located in the southernmost corner of Taiwan and is the only place on the island with tropical climate characteristics.

The plan of the Ministry of Agriculture is: first import a batch of 2-3-year-old rubber seedlings, and these low-slung seedlings will be transplanted into the newly-built heating greenhouses in Kenting. The quantity should not be less than 50 mu.

The next step is the 500-acre rubber seed project... "Don't worry everyone, the pure rubber seeds are not big, and they are about the same as red dates." Liang Letian added with a smile.

There was an uproar.

This plan is too vigorous: the volume of rubber seedlings is larger than that of seeds, how many seedlings are enough for 50 mu of land?What's more, the 500 mu of seeds are not vegetarian, even if they are small.

Roof-shattering hisses rang out for the first time today—everyone knew that if this danger was not suppressed, nothing would happen to anyone in the coming year 1629, because this damn rubber The plan is obviously only the first step for these mud legs, and there are still many evil plans lined up.

"Silence! Silence! Bastard, stop arguing!" The high-ranking Chairman Luo almost knocked the table to pieces.

However, the speaker seemed to have no authority. Not only did the boos get louder, but some people stood up and pointed their middle finger at Liang Letian on the stage.

At the critical moment, Zhou Tongcai, the Minister of Justice who was in charge of maintaining order at the venue, made a move, and then a few people with middle fingers were dragged out by the big-waisted guest security guards.

Now everyone is being honest... Those who are kicked out will lose their qualifications for the final vote on various proposals tomorrow.

"Agriculture lags behind. Even if the seedlings planted next year will not be tapped until four or five years later. By that time, our national strength will soar and we will be ready to attack from all directions."

Liang Letian, who was standing on the stage, waited for the scene to calm down, and then began to preach as if nothing had happened: "At that time, the only thing you will complain about is why didn't you plant more rubber trees? Because ocean freighters and artillery Cars need rubber."

"So it is right to start planting saplings now. After two years, after the army occupies the islands in Southeast Asia, they will be transplanted."

Liang Letian gave a very strong reason, but the audience still didn't buy it: "The quantity is too much."

A whisper sounded.

Liang Letian, who doesn't care about these gossips, has already started to read the plan... The report on the agricultural system is very long, and there is still more content in the future, and the introduction of various donkeys, horses, cattle and sheep has not been mentioned yet.As for the saplings... there is no 50 mu of land, but there will definitely be 30 mu of land, Liang Letian is not worried.

At the end of Liang Letian's report, he gave another blow to the people who eat melons: the agricultural system officially required the chemical plant to be separated and a new pesticide + fertilizer plant to be established, and he specifically applied to Emperor Cao on this matter, requesting " Supporting introduction of "3-5 corresponding technical personnel and corresponding equipment.

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After the turbulent meeting on the second day, people saw sorrow and helplessness on the faces of a large number of nobles who crossed the Taijiang River to go home.

After this situation fermented overnight, the result was that the meeting on the third day was full of heated debates and hysterical shouts - if you don't fight, there is no game.

The content of the meeting on the third day was free debate and voting.

Every time traveler who is willing to come to the stage to express his opinion can get 10 minutes to criticize someone's report or advocate for his cause again.

There aren't many people on stage today: people in a big industry like Liang Letian are sitting on the Diaoyutai and waiting for a vote... The rest of the players who know they have nothing to play will not go up and lose their share.

So it is no surprise that those who came to the stage to make noise today are those "middle-level people"-the group of people who originally felt that they had hope this year, but were squeezed out of resources by other industries.

In addition to the military people clamoring that the end is coming, the focus is on the light industry people who were beautiful yesterday: cotton spinning, paper making, porcelain, furniture, daily chemicals...

These people are crazy today.In order to win the approval of the project, he did not hesitate to use eighteen martial arts, including but not limited to sarcasm, tears, pills to break the country and other great prophecies, even if he was kicked out of the venue for insulting his colleagues and delaying his speech. not hesitate.

However, it turned out that it was an unexpected person who turned out to be the fantasy of this group of people: Prime Minister Xia.

Near noon, Lao Xia, who had been drowsy in his seat all morning, probably woke up, or he really didn't want to listen to some people's performances, so he stood up, came to the microphone, and put out made his own private speech on industrial structure.

Chapter 328 Meeting ([-])

"Let me first talk about the population issue."

"In the years to come, there will always be a theme that will run through the rest of your life, and that is colonization."

Standing on the stage, Xia Xianze's eyes were piercing, and he scanned the crowd below - everyone seemed to be listening carefully, and the idiot who dared to disrespect Lord Zhongtang hadn't noticed yet.

"North American plains, South American rainforests, Australian pastures, Alaskan salmon, South African gold mines... These vast lands and wealth require us to guide the subjects of the empire to conquer and occupy them."

"In this case, the population has become the most important colonial resource. Why do you say that? Because we are short on time, we can only use high consumption in exchange for the results of our plan."

"Look at the casinos in the Indian reservations in North America, and then at the protest marches of Taiwanese aborigines, as well as the extinct North American passenger pigeons, Chinese rhinos... from social politics to the natural environment, in the hundreds of years of colonization , the controllers have made too many mistakes, and those are the things we want to avoid."

"So we can't leave the problems to future generations... If you are not a traveler, you will not be able to realize which problems will eventually become social tumors. Yes, our generation must draw the borders and clean up the new country clean so that it can be passed on to future generations of the nation.”

When Xia Xianze said this, his face darkened: "This is our destiny, and it is also the blessing for our children and grandchildren to enjoy the country."

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After waiting for a while, feeling that everyone in the audience had understood what he meant, Xia Xianze continued: "Under this situation, population has become the most precious resource... I want to spend three to forty years to get rid of it." Consuming the population is the only way to finish what others have done for hundreds of years."

"So where did the population come from? There is only one answer: Daming."

"Some people in later generations argue that the final population is tens of millions, and others say it is [-] million to [-] million. These are all nonsense in my opinion, because there is no data that can count the number of people hidden by the landlord class. Even now, in the villages of the Ming Dynasty that we have contacted, the population there is extremely uneven."

"Now let's calculate based on an average of [-] million people."

Having said this, Xia Xianze turned around and took a piece of information from the table, then bowed his head and said: "The natural disasters during the Little Ice Age, the invasion of the northern barbarians, and the high government taxes caused by the above reasons, and the population exceeding the carrying capacity of the land The subsequent competitive demise. The above reasons caused the average population to decrease by about 200 million people every year at the end of the Ming Dynasty."

"This trend has already started, starting with those Hangzhou refugees we met when we first crossed."

Xia Xianze raised his head at this point: "So two years have passed, how many subjects are there in the empire today? 40. In other words, with our desperate efforts, those who should have died in these two years Of those 400 million people, only one in ten was changed."

"This calculation makes it very clear: If we recruit less than 200 million refugees every year in the future, it will be a loss. Where is the loss? The loss is in the vast new world!"

Pointing to the world map on the side wall and drawing a circle, Xia Xianze said loudly: "Even if we pull [-] million people from the Ming Dynasty to fill the new world, it will not be enough! What's more, our current containment capacity is still weak. The level needs to develop, develop, and develop again!"

"So we are racing now, we are racing against the butcher's knife of the Qing Dynasty, and the natural disaster of the Little Ice River. In the Ming Dynasty, countless people are dying every moment, and these people will become cannon fodder to open up a new world. If they had to die, they should have died of malaria and fighting against the natives!"

"My fellow ministers, people are not leeks, which can grow back soon after cutting off a crop. It takes at least 18 years for a child to grow to a 'useful' age."

When Xia Xianze said this, his agitated tone just now softened: "The population at the end of the Ming Dynasty seemed to explode, but it was accumulated in the previous hundreds of years. If we missed this crop, we will wait until 10 years later to think about a large number of people. Yunren, I'm sorry, tens of millions of people died at that time, and the population is not so easy to collect."

"...Having said so much, the core idea I want to express is: for at least the next 10 years, all development plans of our emerging country should be formulated around the core issue of population."

At this time, Xia Xianze finally put forward his proposition: "Headless and chaotic development is not acceptable. There must be priorities. The battleships proposed by the Navy can wait and free up resources to build inland river gunships— —In this way, people can be traced back to the interior of the Ming Dynasty to introduce people.”

"There are people who have everything. Without people, can the giant ship and cannon kill the natives in the Madagascar rainforest?"

"As for why you went to the Yangtze River Delta to open a spinning mill, that's an even more insane idea!" Xia Xianze said, tapping the table with his knuckles, his face became serious: "Not to mention that touching the cheese of the gentry in Songjiang will incur What kind of counterattack is the establishment of the factory itself, is this kind of action used by capitalism to drastically change society, is it in our current interests?"

"Originally, a large number of people were on the verge of starvation because of our lack of accommodation capacity. It's good now, you go to open a yarn factory, a paper factory, a clothing factory, and break through the old social system that was barely maintained before. Caused a large number of weavers and rural handicraftsmen to go bankrupt and die..."

"I didn't have the ability to take over the business, but went to the Ming country to play some shit industrial tycoon. Is it because Ming people didn't die enough? Doubling every year, is 400 million enough?"

When Xia Xianze said this, he angrily tapped his fist on the table: "This is governing the country, not playing tricks! What kind of shit is opening a porcelain kiln and reading too many novels alone?"

"Policies are never good or bad, only inappropriate."

Xia Xianze finally concluded: "In the next ten years...maybe eight years, in short, before the Ming Dynasty court completely collapses, our policy should be to help Ming Dynasty maintain the current mess."

"We shouldn't touch all traditional industries of the Ming Dynasty, such as weaving and papermaking. On the contrary, the empire will send orders to these industries in order to revitalize the economy of the Ming Dynasty, so that the workshop owner can have money to hire two more people. .”

"As for going to the Ming Dynasty to engage in industry, please use your shrinking brains to choose a suitable job!"

Xia Xianze cast an annoyed glance at a small group in the crowd: "A matchbox factory that can accommodate refugees will not suffer retaliation from vested interests, and will allow these people to survive until we have the ability to transport them away." One day, isn't this much better than a cotton mill?"

"In short, some primary processing enterprises that do not touch the original system and are labor-intensive are the focus of our future layout in the Ming Dynasty."

"Gentlemen, across the strait is a society that is slowly collapsing. How to help this society HOLD the situation and allow more people to survive before we have enough appetite for ourselves is a very test of skill. To the colonization of the empire!"