Chapter 202: Carrying on the Past and Forging Ahead (11)

"As representatives of the people, I think everyone knows very well that we have to eat, drink and live every day. What is the job of the government? It's about being in charge of these things. In the past, the Manchus didn't care about this, let alone everyone's life or death. And the new dynasty wants to take care of all this. As people's representatives, we must understand what the government wants to do, and we must also tell the government about the problems we encounter. Times are different, comrades, times are different. In this new era that has begun, please note that in the new era that has begun, only when the government and the working people stand together, the government can do it, the people can do it, the government wants to do it, and the people want to do it, and both sides can make it clear, so that we can overcome one difficulty after another and make life better! ”

As soon as Wei Ze finished speaking, someone below immediately shouted, "Long live my emperor!" Long live our emperor! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

Weser waved his hand vigorously, and the shouting quickly subsided. The deputies were all red-faced, and even if they were "suppressed" and shouted by Wei Ze, no one felt that there was any loss of face. Being able to listen to Emperor Wei Ze talk about these biggest political directions is already an extremely exciting thing for ordinary people, not to mention that Wei Ze's words sound extremely operable. The deputies are all beneficiaries of the new era of the new government, and the reason for the benefits is undoubtedly that they have followed the Liberation Party led by Wei Ze. At least the government has not forgotten everyone.

In addition to the national congress, Weese also began to participate in the provincial congress one by one. The time of liberation in each province is different, and the level of industrial development is different. For example, the Sichuan deputies, who had not been liberated for a long time, actually did not know anything, did not understand anything. It's just that the love is extremely exciting. The Guangdong deputies raised a number of questions, one of which was quite acute, and the Guangdong deputies were extremely concerned about the establishment of Qiongzhou as a province.

Qiongzhou is Hainan Island, and in addition to tropical crops, the most famous specialty of Hainan Island is steel. The high-quality ore source of Shilu Iron Mine is supplied in large quantities to iron and steel mills in Guangdong. Once Qiongzhou becomes an independent province, the supply of iron ore will only have problems. After all, from a cost point of view, the cost of transporting coal from Hongji Coal to Qiongzhou is cheaper than transporting coal and iron ore to Guangdong. At present, railways are being built all over the country, and there is a huge demand for rails. Foshan's steel conglomerate is now the most important industrial enterprise in Guangdong, not only for the railroad tracks, but also for the shipyard business. If Qiongzhou gets all these industrial enterprises into its own hands, Guangdong's economy will immediately run into great trouble. It is not simply a problem of tens of thousands of workers in iron and steel enterprises, but also a problem involving the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of workers in upstream and downstream enterprises.

The problem in Hunan and Hubei is another representative, and they have put forward requirements for the supply of palm oil. Palm oil is a mixture of fatty acids, palm oil with a melting point of 40 degrees (note: refers to palm oil that can be melted into a liquid at 40 degrees), which can only be used to make soaps and cosmetics; With a melting point of 24 degrees, it can be used to fry instant noodles and make pastries; Those with a melting point of 12 degrees can be used as edible vegetable oil. These complex chemical problems are reduced to two points on the Hunan and Hubei sides. Whether more edible oil can be provided, and whether more soap factories can be established in Hunan and Hubei.

Both vegetable and animal oils can be used to make soap, and there is no difference in the decontamination effect. The problem is that soap made from vegetable oil has a vegetal fragrance, while soap made from animal oil has a peculiar animal odor. For example, soap factories used to make mutton fat soap in small quantities. As a result, there is a smell of mutton smell that cannot be eliminated after washing the clothes with soap.

Hunan has not yet found a very suitable industrial project, and the ones that can make money are light industries such as soap factories. At this stage, the soap factory project is basically monopolized by Guangdong, Zhejiang and other coastal provinces. The state treasury can pay the wages of government departments, enterprises, and institutions, but the local people have to pay for the purchase of industrial products, and Hunan, Hubei, and other places have fallen into the dilemma of being sucked by the blood of coastal cities with a large number of light industrial products.

As a young man in the 21st century, Weeser was extremely disgusted with local protectionism, which he once thought was extremely backward. Now Wei Ze never expected that local protectionism itself is not simply because the local government is extremely selfish, and adopts the attitude of drawing the land as a prison and beggar-thy-neighbor. A lot of times there are quite valid reasons for that.

The Zhejiang delegates were more blunt, and they simply quarreled with the Jiangsu counterparts over the supply of ore from the Ma'anshan iron ore mine. In the last four or five years, Shanghai has been greatly developed, and a series of heavy industrial enterprises such as Jiangnan Heavy Industry have been built in Shanghai to produce new ships. Steel needs to be poured, and there is no iron ore in Shanghai at all, so iron ore is smelted in Shanghai after getting iron ore from Ma'anshan. The new government abolished the originally small concession, but after all, Shanghai has been open for more than 20 years, and there is a bit of a trade foundation, and the local government of Shanghai has given full play to the power of Zhejiang craftsmen and craftsmen, and organized them to build a lot of small hardware enterprises. Jiangsu is not short of craftsmen, with the experience of blacksmiths in Foshan, Guangdong, Jiangsu also engaged in small hardware. The two sides immediately fell out over the matter. Zhejiang accused Jiangsu of not giving them iron ore, and Jiangsu accused Zhejiang of wanting too much, and Zhejiang simply couldn't mine so much iron ore.

As soon as the raw materials are stuck in the neck, any industrial enterprise has to kneel. In fact, this lawsuit was not just started by the National People's Congress, but it seems that the two provincial governments are very close to each other, and they also want to make full use of the platform of the National People's Congress to exert influence. And the one who can make the final decision is undoubtedly Wei Ze.

The market is so realistic, the origin of raw materials can be stuck, and the industrial provinces that need raw materials will have to resist. The industrial provinces could not digest so many products on their own, so they had to find a sales market for the industrial goods, and the provinces that had been sucked by the economy after buying the industrial goods began to revolt.

Fortunately, China is a unified country, and many of the contradictions in the European countries are actually the same as those in China led by Weizer, but there are no people in Europe who can coordinate with the European countries through administration. European countries are fiercely contradictory, and it is not uncommon for them to end up fighting.

As a pioneer, Wei Ze dragged China into the industrial age, and all kinds of contradictions in the industrial age also rushed in. Listening to all kinds of complaints, watching arguments, disputes, and even quarrels, Wei Ze felt that he had a sweet annoyance at this time. The era was finally beginning to feel like the one he once knew so well.