Chapter 7: Young People's Choices (7)
"The U.S. is driving Indians inside our borders?" Weeser was a little surprised after reading the report.
"Aren't these people afraid that we will cooperate with the Indians and fight back to the United States?" Shen Xin also felt that the United States was quite puzzled by its methods.
Hu Chenghe didn't think there was anything worth wondering about, "If you drive away, you will be driven away, the Americans will block the border, will we really dare to fight it?" And when the Indians come to our side, they may not be our help, but may become our trouble. ”
The areas conquered by China by force are good from any point of view, and the areas conquered by non-military force are not very good. For example, the mountainous areas of Myanmar are simply destructive, and the attempt to build roads and railways in that ghost place was first met with fierce opposition from local leaders. China's agrarian culture developed in mountainous and hilly areas is largely unworkable in mountainous areas. Occupying the mountain as king is not an adjective, but an accurate description of the facts. After dealing with these people, Hu Chenghe was deeply wary of all ethnic groups that were not Chinese in China. Compared with those frontier cultures, farming culture is too capable of production.
Weeser did not intend to start a war with the United States now, the railroad had not yet been built, and China could only suffer losses after the war. He made a judgment on this, "These things can be talked about later, but now we will judge whether the Americans have any plans to go to war with us." If they don't, the matter will be put aside for a while and then dealt with. Guarding the borders is the top priority. ”
"This immigration work is much harder than we thought!" Lei Hu sighed.
Hearing this sigh, people in their fifties, forties, and even in their thirties couldn't help but be happy.
The old guys here have a deep understanding of the conflict between the Turks and the Turks, and in those days, there were many people in various places and little land, and the immigrants had no place to go, and even if they went to a new place, there was no good land to plant. The Li people, Miao people, and Dai people were once forced to the desolate mountains by the Han people. Now, these areas where there was once a fierce conflict between Turks and Turks have launched a "downward movement". Efforts are being made to get the Li, Miao, and Dai people on the mountain to farm in the fertile fields below the mountain.
The provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi used to be places where they "went to the west", and after the development of the northeast, there was a trend of going to the eastern part of the country. When Shi Dakai was dealt with by force, Shi Dakai's subordinates all shot into the sky. After the Liberation Army "surrounded" them, the Taiping Army happily surrendered with the "Land Granting Order" that had already been issued to the Taiping Army. The Liberation Army fulfilled its promise, surrendered in the morning, and divided the land in the afternoon. The Taiping army of more than 100,000 really followed the "princes" to the Yinchuan defensive battle, and less than 3,000.
The total area of the Asian continent and the South China Sea is as much as 20 million, and 700 million people are thrown on this vast land. The large cultivators on the Nenjiang Plain cultivate 200 acres of fertile black soil. With such a large population in Henan, a family cultivating fifteen acres of land can make them satisfied. Educated young people do not want to go to distant places to become large farmers, but to live in the cities. Needless to say, no one wants to go to the Northeast, even if they go to the Northeast. Now that geography is a compulsory subject in schools, it has become difficult to motivate people to covet Siberia.
It's easy to shout a few words to expand the territory, and it really makes them drag their families north to grab the land, and I haven't seen the people really have this interest for the time being. Even if there are really those who have the courage to open up farmland, the state will stop them warmly and sincerely, "Dear, don't go to war and forget about life and death." Shall we develop the northeast, where the motherland is peaceful and tranquil? ”
Shen Xin is engaged in political work and also has administrative experience. He gave Lei Hu an estimate, "The population will probably reach one billion, and when hundreds of millions of young people grow up, we will probably be able to usher in a new wave of immigration." ”
Lei Hu was already fifty-five years old, and when he heard this, Lei Hu laughed loudly, "Haha! Wait for them to grow up? Ha ha! I'll be at least eighty years old when they grow up. It seems that I will not have a chance to see this with my own eyes. ”
Weser could only smile, as far as he knew, in the industrial countries, except for the United States, which was a country of immigration, the fertility level of all industrial countries was falling endlessly. In the latest data for the year in which Weeser passed, the Saudi fertility rate reached 2.1, and Iran, a country with its own industry, had a fertility rate that fell to 1.3. At that time, there were indeed some "countries" on the earth with extremely high fertility rates, but the question was whether those regions could really be called modern countries. Anyway, Weeser disagrees.
However, Weeser did not immediately support this simple hope that a large population is a good attitude, "I am not so pessimistic about the population, although the more the population, the better, but the population must also be educated enough." If you only give birth to a group of children, you don't get them enough education. That would be a failure of the state. The more educated the people, the stronger the country. ”
"Governor, the popularization of education in the Third Five-Year Plan has been promoted. We think it's done well. Zhou Bin, the new head of the logistics department, picked up the content that Wei Ze liked and said.
Wei Ze was noncommittal about this, and Lei Hu stared at Zhou Bin a few times. Except for Ruan Xihao, the bigwigs all had a little contempt on their faces. Slapping Weese's sycophants is not only useless, but harmful. Weser wasn't complaining now, let alone lamenting when he felt powerless, which meant that Weeser didn't need anyone to comfort him. Zhou Bin spoke for the education department purely asking for his own hardships. That is, Wei Ze does not like to embarrass his comrades, according to the temperament of these bigwigs, they dare to sneer and even have a seizure if they are afraid.
Wei Ze didn't pay attention to Zhou Bin, he said to Lei Hu: "Speaking of which, the property rights of the army farms in the Fourth and Fifth Plan will be transferred to the local government. I don't know if this will encourage more people to move out of the countryside, or if more people will not want to go out. ”
The bigwigs are silent, and the army is not only facing disarmament, but the army's former industries have also begun to be stripped off in large quantities. Army farms played a great role in the early and middle periods, and without the army's hard work, there would be no food supply in the Northeast and even North America.
Weeser is now beginning to strip the army of agricultural produce in Asia, and the provinces hope that the army will hand over the farms in order to house the labor force in the provinces and increase the food production in the provinces. With the improvement of agricultural water conservancy projects, the former army farms have shown their geographical superiority.
"Can we wait another two years?" Ruan Xihao asked. He has recently received pleas from many of his old subordinates, most of whom are members of the Northern Military District, which has the largest troop farm. The impact of this adjustment is significant, very significant.
"This industrial transfer is to be completed in the fourth and fifth plan stages, five or six years, and there is plenty of time." Weeser explained. But no concessions were made.
"The army farms are doing well, and the percentage of land they occupy is not high. It's okay to cut some more, there's no need to strip them all, right? Nguyen Hee Ho is also trying to bargain with Wei Ze.
Wei Ze also tried to convince Ruan Xihao, "If you talk about breeding farms, vegetable fields, and even alfalfa fields, this will definitely be left behind for the troops." Of course, the troops have to learn to farm, this is the tradition of our great army. But what is it that the troops occupy tens of thousands of acres of fertile land? After all, the army is for fighting, not for farming. Mastering farming skills is not the same thing as farming professionally. ”
Ruan Xihao didn't dare to defend too much, and he also knew some things in the army farm. Theoretically, all the grain produced in the army farms should be used as military rations, but some of the grain eventually circulated to the market, and this kind of thing exists. Northeast China is already the country's largest producer of commercial grain for export, and it is not for nothing that military personnel want to take this train.
"Since the governor said so, I think it is better to communicate with the comrades first and persuade more." Nguyen Hee Ho is still trying to get a buffer period.
"Why don't you go to the Northeast to take charge of this?" Hu Chenghe said with seemingly ill intentions.
Ruan Xihao was not angry, and it would not be bad if he could go to the northeast to solve these things at this time. Ruan Xihao didn't want the old subordinates in the Northeast to end up with a bad result. This disarmament is a matter of contradictions, and it is not impossible for people to want to go home, but it is by no means the mainstream. More people want to stay in the military, and the competition is already fierce. If something comes out, it's not just a matter of facts, but I'm afraid that something big will happen.
Hu Chenghe's statement is actually very considerate, if Ruan Xihao asks for orders to deal with the issue of the army farm, this is the same thing, and it is logical to be entrusted to deal with the matter of the army farm. Even if someone is behind the scenes, it will not make Ruan Xihao unable to come to the stage in the end.
"I think so." Weese replied.