Chapter 509: Double Star (11)
At the end of February 1895, Wei Ze received a letter from Wang Shizhen. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info thanks to the blessing of air express, and because Beijing is closer to the Western Regions Province than Nanjing, the letter arrived at its destination Beijing only three days later than the telegram.
Wang Shizhen had already used a small telegram to tell Weeser that the situation in the Hungarian revolution was not good. It is true that the Hungarian people, as an agricultural region, have a lot of dissatisfaction with the current regime, but Hungary is now in a stage of industrialization, the pace of development of the social productive forces is still reasonable, and the people's mood only exists in this stage of dissatisfaction.
The introduction in the letter is more detailed, and Wang Shizhen recounts his experience in the Hungarian capital in a thick stack of records. The country's industrial bourgeoisie began to try to seize the dominant position in the government, but it was inextricably linked to the traditional aristocracy, so it preferred a reformist model. As for the Marxist ones, they all thought that they 'ought' to belong to the aristocracy and the upper burghers, but in fact they did not blend in with the ruling class at all.
As for those 'progressive students', Wang Shizhen's evaluation is that 'they are all cannon fodder sent to the battlefield, and I really don't have the courage to entrust them with important tasks'. Wei Ze wanted to laugh after reading it, this kind of situation is a new experience for Wang Shizhen, and for Wei Ze, it is 'yesterday's reappearance'. Europe covers an area of 10 million square kilometers and is rich in natural resources, with a population of just over 300 million at its peak. Compared with Asia, it is definitely 'vast and sparsely populated'. Of course, there are social pressures, even intense. But nowhere near the level of China. After the Republic of China swallowed up the grain export areas of North America, international food prices were stable. Hungary belongs to the European granary type of country, and life is normal.
What made Weeser concerned was the level of revolution in Europe. Although Marxism was born in Europe, the level of understanding of revolution in Europe was quite limited. In other words, it is precisely because the economic level of Europe is relatively high, so if you want to make a revolution in Europe, you really have a kind of meaning of 'the benefits are not hundred, and the law will not change'.
Could it be that Uncle Eun is feeling hopeless? Weeser couldn't help but guess Uncle En's intention to point out Hungary. But he didn't want to think too much about these things, so Wei Ze sent a telegram to Wang Shizhen, asking him to continue to collect intelligence and see if there were any revolutionary forces worth contacting. After handling the matter, Weeser asked the Standing Committee whether the intelligence-gathering agencies, including the financial sector, had established a more systematic intelligence work.
"Governor. What storage device did you talk about last time have you solved? There is too much data now, and the amount of data to be updated is huge, and unless there is greater investment in intelligence gathering, the current work efficiency has reached a point where it is difficult to improve. Premier Wang Haiyang put forward his views.
Weser couldn't help but sigh. He found that when he returned to this era, all the things that he had previously been incomprehensible had been explained. The popularity of computers and the Internet is believed by many parents to make the game industry flourish and make a lot of money. But Weeser finally understood that this industry has provided a real and great help to social development. Although the outbreak of the information industry cannot be regarded as the third industrial revolution, it deserves the title of information industry revolution. A database alone makes information transfer countless times more efficient than before. Because many of the functions that computers and networks could accomplish in 1895 could not be achieved at all, and it was not possible to spend any money.
"Make a report, let's discuss it." Weese replied.
Seeing that Wei Ze agreed with this matter so easily, other comrades also made similar demands. Listening to the sincere questions of the crowd, Wei Ze smiled: "The budget is so much, and I can't conjure up money out of thin air." These things need to be discussed. ”
"Can we have people review some of the budgets?" Wang Haiyang immediately put forward a suggestion, "Every time people review the budget, it takes a lot of events. If we had relied on executive orders, we would have been much more efficient. ”
"Nope." Weser immediately shook his head. Such a statement is not new today, and since the establishment of the National People's Congress, such an opinion has become an inevitable formulation every year. And Weeser has always been resolutely opposed. "The people's congress now doesn't even have the original decision-making power, and it only has the power to supervise. If all the supervision power is stripped away, then the people's congress will be abolished! ”
Hearing this, no one dared to climb down the pole. Everyone knows that Governor Wei Ze has absolutely no intention of abolishing the National People's Congress, and those who have spoken like this in the past have been denounced by the Governor several times at the meeting as 'fooling around and playing the piano' indiscriminately, so he has not even been elected to the Central Committee. After knowing the governor's thoughts, everyone no longer dared to make such a suggestion. The people's congress is not liked by everyone, but he has lost his official position, and he is not even qualified to dislike the people's congress.
"Without propaganda and explanations from the National Congress, the people simply have no access to the policies of the central government. If the people are abolished, we will advance by leaps and bounds along the road of the destruction of all dynasties! Weese's voice wasn't very harsh, but what he said was very serious. After hearing this, Wang Haiyang immediately closed his mouth and said nothing.
When others were silent, President Shen Xin spoke: "Governor, now many provinces have raised the population issue. There is no one left in the countryside. Many provinces are worried that if this happens, the grain production in the provinces will only become bad. What do you think? ”
Wei Ze didn't speak for a while, he was afraid that he would show joy from the bottom of his heart when he spoke. As for the reports of a significant reduction in the rural population, Weeser has already seen it. Regarding such changes, Wei Ze really had fun secretly at home several times. determined to solve the land problem from the root, Wei Ze was really overjoyed, and his mouth couldn't close.
The Chinese people are industrious and brave, and the level of productivity is the highest in the world, so the Chinese population has always been the first in the world, and the contradiction between man and land has become a major problem in China's past dynasties. State ownership of land can solve the huge contradictions brought about by private ownership, but it cannot solve the big problem of population and land ratio. With the spirit of iron and blood, Wei Ze led the Chinese people to the east and west to fight the southern war and the northern expedition. 800 million people have 4 million square kilometers of arable land. Urbanization has led to a significant reduction in the absolute proportion of China's rural population. After seizing rubber plantations in the south, contraceptives were popularized, and women also held up half the sky, and generally entered a state of employment. The number of babies born in the new era of the twenties rarely exceeds four. After reading these data, he was so happy that he smirked, and it didn't make Wei Ze feel anything ashamed.
After the impulse to giggle passed, Wei Ze replied: "What about this kind of thing, I think it can be seen from two angles. First, we can wait for the follow-up results, and the world is not a pipe dream. Second, we should give full play to the comparative advantages of local industries. This will take more time for us to complete. ”
"Dudu, Jiangxi's citrus is the result of our promotion over the years. Lychee from Guangdong, venison from Jiangxi, and taro from Lipu, most of us are still giving full play to the advantages we had before. Shen Xin didn't quite agree with Wei Ze's opinion, "But after the population entered the city, I didn't see many people going back." ”
"We'll see. And those places that are not suitable for human survival can be engaged in planting. Or simply relocate the population and restore the forest areas for soil and water conservation. Weeser has a bit of stubbornness in this regard.
"Governor...... If this migration continues, the entire southwestern provinces will be transformed into forestry areas. Wang Haiyang couldn't help but say. In the early years, the government was very supportive of migration. The people in the deep mountains and old forests have also been relocated to live outside the mountains. Everything was beautiful. However, in the past 20 years, the population of remote areas has been reduced to the point that in some 'administrative areas' there are only comrades from the Forestry Bureau, except for a few officials. After conquering North America, a large number of people migrated to North America, which caused these already sparsely populated areas to suffer a stronger impact.
"It's good to get used to this kind of thing. Is it still a mistake to give people a better life? Weeser asked rhetorically. The urban population of the United States accounts for 80-90% of the country's population, and the Republic of China has managed to get 70% of the population, which is a long way to go.
In the end, we decided to look at the trend of population movement first. The next topic is the North American Total Agricultural Pesticide Program, as well as the North American grain and meat products to the Asian portion.
Provincial officials have not reacted so drastically to the population problem, and the people who have migrated have a better life because there is more land, and there are more people in the cities, and everyone can live a far better life than in the mountainous areas when they go to work or farm. However, North America imported a large number of cheap agricultural products into Asia, which directly made many provinces blew up.
East Africa imported a large amount of alfalfa to the Republic of China, which played a role in filling the gap in the demand for alfalfa from the Republic of China. The cattle bones originally imported from East Africa to Asia have become imported cattle bone pellets, which even made the bone china production enterprises of the Republic of China more satisfied. The shipping department is also very satisfied with the improved space utilization. Although the cattle bone particles have also caused a part of the competition with domestic production units, this competition belongs to a little benefit of the full use of cattle, so bone china production enterprises soon gained the upper hand.
But food is a different story. Originally, the grain supply of the people of the Republic of China was due to the supply of oilseeds, meat, poultry, eggs, fish, fruits, etc., and they encountered the problem of 'grain cheapness hurting the peasants'. But that's still a matter of eating better. Now that genuine cheap grain has entered the grain market, which is no longer sluggish, the agricultural provinces of the Republic of China are feeling extremely heavy pressure. These pressures have not only been concentrated on Premier Wang Haiyang, but also on other members of the Standing Committee except Wei Ze. They passed on the pressure to Wees.
After listening to everyone's complaints, Wei Ze wanted to treat it with a serious expression. But he couldn't hold back for a moment, and chuckled. For Weeser, the flooding of Asian markets with cheap North American grain is not a particularly outrageous thing. Such a change made Wei Ze feel very happy.
Wei Zeqiang resisted the urge to let the comrades accept this reality, and said in the voice as calm as possible: "For such a thing, we still try to let the people give full play to the local advantageous industries, if there is really none." It's also good to work in town. ”
Hearing that Weeser had turned the subject back to the original direction, the comrades only frowned this time, but did not mean to immediately oppose it again.