Chapter 16: Going Out (4)
At the headquarters of the Goryeo Railway and Telegraph Company in Seoul, the capital of Goryeo, a group of Goryeo Kaihua Party members are studying the documents of the Fourth Five-Year Plan. After Jin Yujun finished reading the "Outline of Species Preservation", he couldn't help but sigh: "The Holy Mansion is kind-hearted and far-sighted, which is really admirable!" ”
A number of members of the Goryeo Kaihua Party also expressed their approval. With the Liberation Party in front of Kim Ok, it has become very fashionable to form a party in Goryeo and Japan. As a political party, it is necessary to have theories and political opinions, not to mention those vote-playing gangs that are purely trying to make things new, and the more decent political parties in Korea and Japan are now carefully studying and studying various documents of the China Liberation Party.
Kim Yoon-sik, Yu Yoon-jung, Kim Hong-ji, Kim Ok-kyun, Park Yong-hyo, Hong Young-sik, and other members of the "Central Committee" of the Goryeo Enlightenment Party were classmates, and they returned to work for the Goryeo Railway and Telegraph Company after graduating from the Nanjing Railway Institute. The Goryeo Railway and Telegraph Company is a Chinese-funded and owned state-owned enterprise.
Thirty percent of the personnel are appointed by China, and the other seventy percent are provided by Goryeo, which is audited by China, and the Goryeo government is responsible for the salaries of all personnel. The general manager of the Goryeo Railway and Telegraph Company was the equivalent of Shangshu in the Goryeo Imperial Court. He was in full charge of the railroad and telegraph company, and also had a little say in the national affairs of Goryeo.
Kim Ok-gyun and others were middle-level cadres at the Korea Railway and Telegraph Company, and they were able to play a relatively large role in using local employees in Korea. After several years of operation and running-in, the railway company's affairs are not as busy as they were at the beginning. Of course, in the winter after the end of China's three sessions, anything can be put aside first.
His Majesty Wei Ze, the co-emperor of China and Goryeo, did indeed write his insights in the Compendium for the Conservation of Species. The rationale, especially the scientific one, is easy to understand, and this "Outline of Species Conservation" is part of China's "environmental protection" proposed in the Fourth Five-Year Plan. Weeser hates "green terrorists", but that doesn't mean Weeser is against "environmental protection" and "species preservation." Establish nature reserves to ensure the normal maintenance of the ecosystem and ensure the diversity of the ecosystem. When Weeser came up with these theories, he gave some examples. These examples include ginseng cultivation.
Weeser's theories are all too common in the 21st century. In order to adapt to the natural environment, there are also various different types of ginseng. These different types of different medicinal properties are adapted to the different needs of human beings, and the development of ginseng cultivation is to select those types of ginseng that human beings need. However, the development of ginseng cultivation cannot destroy the ginseng producing areas in mountainous areas, let alone destroy the diversity of ginseng species. Ginseng did not evolve its current characteristics for the sake of humans, and humans choose species that are useful to them to cultivate, while keeping wild ginseng continuing to live and develop according to their own model, which is a relatively harmonious concept of "species conservation".
Species conservation is of course an important matter, but behind any political idea there is a political purpose and a political economic interest. The political purpose behind Weeser's propaganda and the concept he established was to get the people in the mountains from the mountains to the plains as much as possible, or at least to give them a place suitable for living and planting. The original mountainous area can be used as a nature reserve, and woods, orchards, and tea plantations can be cultivated. This is not just an environmental problem, not just an economic problem, but essentially a social problem that brings all Chinese people into the industrial society.
In the eyes of the Goryeo Enlightenment Party, Weyser's proposal took on a different view. After praising Wei Ze, Jin Yujun said with full emotion: "Your Majesty said that in order to be able to develop the industry well, it is necessary to remove the 'superstitious color shrouded in these industries', just like ginseng, if it is advertised to cure all diseases, or even bring the dead back to life, it is only harmful to the ginseng industry itself." Positioning ginseng as a health care product for everyone's daily consumption is the best positioning for the ginseng industry. ”
Many years ago, Goryeo gradually changed from collecting mountain ginseng to growing ginseng. Because of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, China has always been far away from the ginseng production area, so ginseng has gradually been mythologized by the people. With the rapid rise of Chinese cities, Korean ginseng began to be imported into China in large quantities. On the shelf behind the counter of the hotel, a glass wine jar soaked in huge ginseng is placed, and the restaurant also looks a little more classy.
"If we can open up arable land in Goryeo, we can grow more ginseng. This alone is enough to make the people of Korea worry about food and clothing. Speaking of this, Jin Yujun's tone became more and more excited, and he couldn't wait for everything he expected to come true in an instant.
Kim Yoon-sik, Yu Yoon-jung, and Kim Hong-ji were older and had always been pro-China and "big things" (serving China, a great power), and they did not believe that selling ginseng to China alone could solve the financial problems of the whole of Goryeo, and they did not refute Kim Ok-kyun's argument that it was not a bad thing to increase Goryeo's income by adding more income. Kim Yoon-sik asked Kim Ok-kyun, "Do you want to go to the king?" ”
Jin Yujun said with a smile: "I have to ask Mr. to plan more." This is a very big matter, and it needs to be carefully documented. If you rush to see the king and are rejected, you will only delay too many things. ”
The most sociable person in the Kaihua Party is Jin Yujun, and he volunteered, and the other members of the Kaihua Party have no intention of fighting for this. Yu Yunzhong said: "It's best to do both in this matter, although it is important to see the king, our country's ginseng farmers must also have someone to contact." ”
Kim Yoon-sik agreed with Yu Yoon-jung's point of view, and he nodded and replied, "Someone has to contact the local ginseng growers when they go to the north." ”
Park Yong-hyo immediately volunteered: "I'm going to check on the north in a few days, let me go to this matter." ”
Seeing that everyone in the Kaihua Party was very active, Jin Yujun sighed: "When I was in school in China before, I only heard that there was no concept of rest on this railway, and after I did it myself, I realized that there was no rest during the Chinese New Year, but it became busier and busier the New Year." It's not easy. ”
Kim Yoon-sik also deeply felt this, at this time, the Chinese New Year is approaching, and everyone has to buy New Year's goods and go home for the New Year after a busy year. Only the railway will increase manpower to cope with the peak traffic before the Chinese New Year. If a figure of the Enlightenment Party were an official in the court, he would have been in full swing at this time, and all the other officials who had come to meet and give gifts would have been ushered in. At this time, they are busy all day, but they are working hard for other people's trips. Although there are bonuses and allowances for the New Year, and there are some rewards in income, this feeling is indeed weird. Kim Yoon-sik sighed: "It is not easy for the country to be civilized. This kind of hard work is just a trivial matter, and if the old system of the country is not changed, it will never work. ”
After the individual said what he was going to do, the meeting was dismissed for the time being. The managers of the Korea Railway and Telegraph Corporation were all personnel from the Ministry of Railways in China, and there were many rules and regulations in the Ministry of Railways. Of the dozens of people who came in together, seven or eight unlucky ghosts had already been expelled. Everyone knows that they can't afford to provoke Chinese officials, they don't care if they are happy inside, and they don't dare to delay what they should do.
The study of Chinese documents was not limited to Koreans, but also to high-ranking officials of the Meiji government in Tokyo, Japan. The Southwest War finally ended in 1882, and the war that lasted for several years made Japan's already terrible situation even worse. In the first few years of the war in Kyushu, the army of the Satsuma clan was strong, and Saigo Takamori had a great appeal, and as the war progressed, the Shikoku Honshu island began to gradually respond to Saigo Takamori's call.
Okubo Ritsu took extremely tough measures against the Shikoku and Honshu rebels, arresting, imprisoning, and killing a group. With such high-pressure methods, even Ito Hirobumi couldn't stand it. In November 1879, Okubo was assassinated by the Shizu. As a result, Ito Hirobumi, who was in authority in Okubo Ritsu, did not compromise with the Shiclan, and he and Yama Prefecture Aritomo and other Choshu factions continued to take measures against Kyushu.
When the attack failed, the Meiji government first pretended to allow Kyushu to be autonomous. At the end of 1881, he took advantage of Saigo Takamori's increase in taxes in Kyushu in order to protect himself, which made the local wealthy families in Kyushu quite dissatisfied, and bribed the local wealthy families to assassinate Saigo Takamori. Government forces then launched an offensive against the leaderless Kyushu. After more than half a year of bloody battles, the local gentry clan in Kyushu was finally completely suppressed. Unify Japan again.
For Japan, the best model for what to do next is to learn from China. China's five-year plan is the most important thing for the governments of the world's industrialized countries. When an industry rises, everyone borrows money to start a business in the financial market, and the industry bubble is super hot. When the industry is under-profitable, starting with the sale of stocks in the industry, first the stock crash, then the stock market collapse, and a large number of financial companies have gone bankrupt and collapsed, and the country has entered an economic crisis. After several years of recovery, new hype themes appeared, so the economy began to recover, and a new round of economic recovery.
In China, this irrational investment has been replaced by a five-year plan. The state invests in large industries, and all investments are planned and processed. No one has been able to engage in financial speculation in these industries, and no one has been hurt by the ups and downs of these industries. Because of social stability, China has been able to calmly deploy in education, industry, agriculture, science and technology, and military. The process looks calm, but in fact it is extremely rapid. If you really dare to believe the economic data released by China that can scare people to death, China is already the world's largest power.
As soon as China's Three Sessions ended, Japan's Meiji government tried to collect all the Chinese documents it could get its hands on, and through careful study, it was able to find the secret of China's rise and find a suitable method for Japan to borrow.
At the beginning of 1884, the Japanese government valued the "joint-stock company".