Chapter 216: Inside and Outside Shanhaiguan (2)

"It's not a problem to fight next year or the year after. It would be completely different if the railway started a year later than a year later. Even if it is not to move other areas first, land reform in the areas along the railway line must start now. "Nguyen has a lot of work to do. The Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway south of the Yangtze River on the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway encountered too many nonsense things along the way. The demolition of houses and the relocation of cemeteries are extremely difficult at the local level. The government had to introduce many new policies, including new funeral methods, all cremation, and the establishment of spiritual pagodas for centralized worship.

The deceased don't really care about the funeral at all, it's the living who care about it. In order to gain support, the government launched a propaganda machine to promote the new concept of industrial society. Everyone is an equal member of society, and we do not disrespect the dead, but we must have more advanced social concepts and lifestyles.

There is a lot of room for discussion on whether the people's way of life and social concepts are advanced. But there is no doubt that the armies that are driving change in the way society is moving with the most advanced weapons in their hands. The ancestral graves of officials and party members were the first to be relocated en masse, followed by the relocation of the ancestral graves of former Qing officials and other sinners, followed by the collective relocation of the ancestral graves of military dependents. With many precedents, the situation in the South has changed.

The situation is very different in the north, where the new government has not had the same deep social foundation as the south, but it has a more urgent need for construction than the south. These have to look at the army's table.

After the political commissar of the Northern Command, Ruan Xihao, finished speaking, the ensuing discussion was very bloody, "Now you have to stand up!" Xianfeng's grave has been dug up, Daoguang's grave has also begun to be dug, and the graves in the Zhili Huangzhuang have also been flattened. It's still not enough, who to start? ”

"The north still depends on immigrants, so many imperial villages, so many land full of people, after we get it, we will pull down the people in some places directly immigrating. With more land, there may be less backlash from the people. ”

"This doesn't solve the problem, there is a lot of land, and everyone has a big appetite for the land they want to share. Or have to be Liwei, what do you think of Shandong Xiangma? ”

As soon as the famous Shandong Xiangma was mentioned, the comrades of the Northern Military Region came to the spirit. After the Manchu forces were destroyed, the Guangfu Army only occupied large cities, and the grassroots organizations were still very weak. No matter how many grassroots problems there are in the South, there are so many veterans who have returned to their hometowns, and they can at least act as the core of the grassroots level. Now the North has not yet begun to recruit troops, where is there so much available manpower. If you can annihilate the ringing horse, there is no shortage of good ways to stand your way.

The report was sent to Nanjing, and it was immediately approved by Wei Ze. After giving instructions to "play the piano indiscriminately", Wei Ze finally suppressed the unhappiness in his heart. His first thought was to personally go to Beijing to administer the four northern provinces, which can be regarded as the essence of traditional China.

But the current situation is really different, relying on the development of maritime trade and shipbuilding industry, especially after the war, shattering the traditional society of the south, the development of the south has a kind of rapid progress.

As a simple example, Vietnam's Hung Kai coal mine was completely in Chinese hands at this time. Thanks to the Hongji Coal Mine, China's coal mining volume easily exceeded 50 million tons. The coastal areas around Lingnan use coal from the Hongji Coal Mine. About half of this coal is used as fuel, and cities with hundreds of thousands of people who rely on burning grass and trees for fuel will not be enough to run out of trees and grass around them.

The British used gas street lamps in 1807, and now there is still a big gap in technology from the large-scale use of natural gas, and Weeser has considered taking the lead in starting to use coal-to-gas in Guangzhou. China's industrial development has been short, but it is not as good as Britain in 1807. Without the emergence of new industries, it will be impossible to expand economic capacity, let alone promote social development.

Not only Guangzhou, but also Shanghai, Nanjing, and Wuhan are the three towns of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Wuhan, and there are too many southern cities that can be built, which are the engines of the regional economy and are also very important fulcrums in the First Five-Year Plan.

It was precisely because he knew the importance of the southern and coastal cities that Wei Ze found that deep down he could not ignore the four northern provinces. Most of the heavy industry in New China is still south of the Yangtze River, and the heavy industry in the northeast has historical factors in it, but the entire heavy industry in the north is really not a simple policy issue.

In addition to typhoons, because of the hot and humid weather, the ironclad ships encountered very strict rust problems during the construction process. The same coast, the same problems encountered by the Shanghai shipyard are much better. It is really rare to see large shipyards in the tropics, and the southernmost of the major shipyards in New China is the Jiangnan Shipyard. It stands to reason that after the reopening, Guangdong's economic development is good, and in terms of economic strength, it is not without the ability to support large shipyards, but in fact, this kind of thing has not happened.

After thinking about it, Wei Ze felt that he might be just making excuses, he just couldn't let go of the four northern provinces, and he just didn't feel at ease if he handed it over to someone else.

The next day, Wei Ze put forward the idea of going to the north in person at the Political Bureau, and this idea immediately caused a sensation in the Political Bureau.

"Your Majesty, are you going to move the capital?" Wei Changrong immediately asked.

After the defeat of Beijing, everyone also had the idea of moving the capital, but no one had such a strong desire. The climate and products in Jiangnan are much better than those in Lingnan. Although the city of Beijing was also the ancient capital of the two dynasties, the newly built city of Nanjing was so beautiful that when the comrades who came back from Beijing told everyone about the garbage-like appearance of Beijing, people who wanted to go to Beijing immediately lost interest.

It's just that Wei Ze means the central government, and if Wei Ze goes to Beijing, the central government will naturally go to Beijing too. Naturally, the issue of moving the capital was raised again.

Wei Ze also considered these problems, he said: "I am not at ease with the four northern provinces, I want to go there in person." ”

"Isn't the central government going?" Bi Qingshan hurriedly asked.

"What did the central government do?" Wei Ze asked rhetorically, "Beijing is a wild place, the transportation is inconvenient, and the telegraph is also very unstable now. The central government moved to Beijing, and I think it was too much of a toss-up. ”

"Is it appropriate for you to put the central government in Nanjing?" Wei Changrong opposed Wei Ze's opinion.

After discussing it for a day during the day, when he went home at night, Wei Ze couldn't help but talk about it with his wife, but he didn't expect Qi Hongyi to frown after hearing it, and she said: "If Your Majesty must go to the north, then let the prince supervise the country!" ”

Listening to his wife's words, Wei Ze was dumbfounded.