Those retired officials, after returning to their hometowns, naturally became local big landlords and factory owners.

There is a saying that the butt decides the head, and when these officials themselves become factory owners and businessmen, their concepts will naturally change.

Moreover, many officials who returned to their hometowns used their wealth and resources to quickly return to the local political arena, and many of them became county and town level governors.

As for the original management of the factories in various places that have been rewarded, they will naturally be transferred and promoted if they do a good job, and at worst, they will have a retirement reward of hundreds of acres of land, but those managers who have made a mess of the factory operation want to get a retirement reward, then they must first go to the honest government manager specially established by Chen Xian.

After the first batch of factory managers with fat brains were fined and confiscated a huge amount of family property because of a novel crime of unknown origin of huge property, most of the factory managers behind obediently rolled up and left, and they didn't dare to let go of a fart.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of political reform to privatize a large number of factories that have shown signs of decline in their hands, and to comfort the officials who have stepped down, it can be said that they kill two birds with one stone.

In order to increase the output of iron, copper, coal, and other industrial raw materials in the East China Sea Kingdom, Chen Xian opened up the mining in the territory and allowed private purchases of mines for mining.

However, in order to obtain the right to exploit the mine, the merchant not only has to pay a large transfer fee, but also has to pay a mining tax every year based on the amount extracted.

Chen Xian did not set a high price for these two taxes, so the merchants still had considerable interest.

Through this privatization, Chen Xian eventually retained only a few large arsenals for the production of flintlock pistols and artillery, and a few large primitive coal-steel complexes that combined coking, blast furnace ironmaking, reverberatory furnace refining, and dry-pot steelmaking.

With the opening of mines and the privatization of factories, domestic industry and commerce in Tokai began to develop rapidly.

But at the same time, signs of overcapacity are also emerging.

Unlike people in this era, Chen Xian has a very clear understanding of the power of overcapacity.

Chen Xian noted that the most obvious overcapacity is in cement factories.

A few years ago, Chen Xian established a large number of cement factories in various places in order to build a large number of defensive fortress belts in the eastern and southern foothills of Taihang Mountain, the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, and the northern part of the Liaohe Plain.

Now that these forts have been completed, the demand for cement has naturally declined.

In this era, the preservation of cement was not easy, and at present, it is common to transport it in wooden barrels, and the inside of the barrel where the cement is preserved is repeatedly coated with tung oil, and the outside is painted with raw lacquer twist and seam to avoid moisture in the cement.

In recent years, with the increase in the price of wood, there is also a method of using large iron drums to preserve cement, that is, using thin iron sheet rolls, brazing and welding bottom plates at both ends, to make a cylindrical large iron drum like a gasoline drum to hold cement powder.

These two methods can make the cement stored for several years without breaking, but whether it is a barrel or an iron barrel, it itself has a bottomless cost, so when a large amount of cement is backlogged, when the barrel is insufficient, the backlog of bulk cement in the warehouse once it suffers from rainy weather, it will cause a large loss of cement, and the cement factory owners will inevitably lose their money.

Most of these factory owners are former officials who have just retired and have taken over a large number of cement factories from Chen Xian.

If such a thing really happened, then Chen Xian's previous efforts would be in vain.

Therefore, Chen Xian must solve the problem of cement overcapacity as soon as possible.

Although the unit price of cement in this era was much higher than that of later generations, it was heavy and costly, so it was not suitable for long-distance trafficking, and it was best to digest it nearby.

In order to absorb the cement, Chen Xian had to ask local governments to increase the construction of roads and water facilities.

In fact, there is no need for Chen Xian to promote, he just asked people to write a poster in the east to suggest that local governments increase infrastructure construction, which can not only help cement factory owners digest production capacity, but also benefit the local community.

After the publication of this article, cement factory owners everywhere began to promote local government infrastructure on their own.

At this time, the entire East China Sea Kingdom, except for Qingdao, Tianjin (Lugoukou, Chen Xian named Tianjin), Suzhou and other commercially developed coastal cities, most of the places were owned by the People's Conservative Party and other bureaucratic parties, which had an absolute advantage, so these retired officials promoted the construction of local infrastructure, which was quite smooth.

However, the government's financial resources in this era are actually very weak, and after the local taxes are handed over to the state treasury, the remaining local tax revenues are not much left after maintaining the operation of the government, and the so-called infrastructure construction can only be a small fight, which is not as effective as Chen Xian's encouragement of ordinary people to build houses with cement and bricks through newspapers and policy subsidies.

Not to mention the local government, even if it is the treasury of the East China Sea Kingdom, it is a little powerless in the face of the infrastructure construction of gold swallowing.

In the past, when Chen Xian requisitioned workers and materials, he did not consider the cost, and the cement factories in various places supplied them at low prices or even free of charge.

At this time, the construction of infrastructure in various localities naturally could not be done by the method of building military facilities, and it was impossible for Chen Xian to hand over the right to requisition materials and workers without compensation to the local government.

Even if he gives it, the local government may not dare to use it, because if it does, it is likely to lose a large number of votes.

In order to solve the problem of funding, Chen Xian had to think of other ways.

Chen Xian decided to open the shipyard to his own maritime merchants and sell Galen ships to obtain some funds.

The sale of Galen ships to maritime merchants would not only provide access to capital, but would also further facilitate maritime trade.

And the boom in trade naturally leads to more tax revenues.

Previously, Chen Xian's shipyard only produced warships and armed merchant ships for Chen Xian's own caravans, and was not open to the public, and he had tried to open it before, but was unanimously opposed by officials.

This time, after the political reform, the opposition was much quieter.

Hearing that Chen Xian's merchant ships were going to be opened to the outside world, large and small maritime merchants from the East China Sea flocked to Qingdao, hoping to book a large Galen ship.

The benefits of the Galen ship, these years have been seen by the maritime merchants, first of all, this kind of sailing ship structure is strong, the ability to resist the wind is very strong, the return rate of the voyage is much higher than that of the merchant ships of this era, so that I, this kind of ship sailing is faster than ordinary merchant ships, for transportation, speed is money.

In addition, the ship can be equipped with large guns, and the safety performance of maritime merchants is greatly guaranteed, and a maritime merchant, if there is a 200-ton Galen ship to escort the escort, can protect at least several ordinary merchant ships.

In recent years, with the promotion of Chen Xian, the maritime trade has been far more prosperous than in history, and piracy has naturally flourished.

Chen Xian's shipyard in Qingdao can wait for ten years to receive orders in a short period of time.

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