After Qiang Quansheng's report was submitted to the Government Council, it was not surprising that it aroused heated discussions in the Government Council.

To tell the truth, the people who now manage the big and small country on the East Coast were just some small people before they crossed. Their pattern, knowledge, experience and other qualities may often be very average, so it is really not easy for them to stumble to develop the country into this way in the past ten years. Many times they don't know what to do, and they don't know how to formulate many policies. Fortunately, although everyone is not a genius, they are not stupid, so with the collective efforts of the people, the country has gradually functioned, and it seems to be running well.

However, they are not experts or professional politicians after all, and when the country is still small and the economy is not yet large, they may be able to fool around according to the experience of later generations. However, when the country has developed to a population of more than 80,000, several foreign institutions, thousands of troops, dozens of large ships, dozens of factories, tens of thousands of acres of farmland, and millions of annual imports and exports, their group of "old revolutionaries" have encountered a new situation, and the previous set of methods may need to be reformed, and the state's rules and regulations are also very sloppy, and they must also strengthen their exploration and study, otherwise they may not be able to keep pace with the times.

That's what they're facing today. When the total economic development reaches a new stage and the commodity economy begins to develop day by day, the work of managing the country becomes an increasingly elaborate work. It requires a wealth of knowledge, scientific tools, and a sharp mind, which is especially important in economic work. A group of monks who had become monks halfway through the government affairs really began to cross the river by feeling the stones at this time. Carefully control the direction of the giant ship on the east coast.

The report gave them a clearer picture of the complexity of economic work. Especially on the East Coast, where many resources need to be imported. Any change in external factors may make waves in the domestic market, thus affecting the stable operation of the economy and society. It is conceivable that in the event of war, the lives of ordinary citizens on the East Coast may drop directly to the level of those who have passed through the first few years. At that time, there will be no need to compile a table of changes in the price index, because the price index of the military period will be meaningless, and the people will spend the war years in a shortage of goods until the gradual recovery of foreign trade.

After several successive meetings of the bureaucrats in the House of Ministers. Finally an agreement was reached. They decided to immediately compile a more detailed price-weighted arithmetic index table that included more commodities, and at the same time set aside a special fund (no more than 30,000 yuan) every month to purchase some more important materials in the international market, so as to enrich the reserves of major domestic material warehouses. When necessary, the depot can directly sell off the inventory to temporarily stabilize prices, and then wait for the crisis to be resolved.

While the officials and gentlemen of the Government Council were discussing, Qiang Quansheng and several members of the Economic Countermeasures Committee had already taken separate actions to conduct research in various parts of the country. And the place where Qiang Quansheng goes is naturally Dongfang County. Dongfang County has one town and five townships. The level of economic development is not the same, and Qiang Quansheng takes a steamboat of an inland waterway transportation company. Along the golden waterway of the Dayu River, we conducted an in-depth investigation of Henan Township, Dingyuan Township, Cotton Farmer Township, Zhenyuan Township and Ranch Township along the way, and then returned to the capital office to draft a report.

The steamboat is the most common 72-ton inland steamer in China, carrying a lot of sorghum and a small amount of edible oil from South Africa. On the deck around the cabin sat a dozen or so passengers, all of whom had bought five-cent tickets at the ferry port to travel inland or visit family. There is also a small cabin in the amidships, which has about seven or eight seats, and the ticket price is a dime, and few people usually pay for this seat. At this time, this cabin has been occupied by Qiang Quansheng and his secretaries and guards, although the captain does not know Qiang Quansheng, but when he looks at this plane, he also knows that there is a big man coming, so he also sent a pot of yerba mate.

"After all, the volume of the big fish river is not big enough, although the river has been cutting and straightening, widening and deepening over the years, but after all, the river is congenitally insufficient, the silting is serious, and the capacity is limited after all, with the rapid development of the inland towns and villages, the former golden waterway of the big fish river has been a little overwhelmed, and gradually deserves its name. Now I want to say that the cargo volume of the Yihe River has caught up, and that is the real golden waterway. Qiang Quansheng sat on a wooden chair made of pine in Parana, looked out the window, and said with emotion.

Jiang Nanqi, a senior investigator of the Ministry of Justice who went to the mainland with Qiang Quansheng to conduct research, smiled after hearing this, and said: "In fact, the main reason is that there are fewer boats, and although the river is narrow, if the boats are carried out 24 hours a day, the transfer of materials and personnel in several townships in the inland area and even the adjacent Xiling area Bingtuan Fort and Invalids Farm is actually not too busy. However, now the country's focus is on the development of the Yihe region, and the newly built inland steamboats are given priority there, which has caused the poor transportation of materials in this section of the Dayu River. Shipping is not smooth, but the land transportation of Highway 1 next to the Dayu River is developing very well. Especially after the timber processing factories in Henan Township were all converted to civilian products, the heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages that were focused on development began to have a market. Wang De co-founded a transportation company with others a while ago, specializing in short-distance transportation by land, and the business was okay. ”

Jiang Nanqi said that Wang De was the former president of the Dongfang County People's Court, and he was later shot, and a bunch of bad things were pulled out, so he went to work in disgrace and went to Xiayihe Fort and Changshan Fort to serve as the president of the circuit court. All day long, with a little donkey and two or three retinues, I went over the mountains and mountains to deal with some trivial things, which was very painful. However, after the new government came to power, this government came to work from time to time, and was promoted to the president of the newly established Yihe District Circuit Court, and became a senior official at the deputy bureau level at the regional level.

And Jiang Nanqi himself was also a member of the famous legal department in the early political arena of the Republic. This gentleman is 43 years old this year, graduated with a bachelor's degree in law, and worked in a county-level judicial organ for 3 years before crossing, and was selected to enter a provincial organ, which can be regarded as a young ambition. However, after the crossing, this person was affected by the overall decline of the law department, and he collapsed in the political arena, first in the Ministry of Justice, then in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and then in the Ministry of Education for a while, very depressed. This time, also taking advantage of the new government's coming to power, this gentleman became the president of the Dongfang County People's Court, serving as the president of perhaps the most important court (deputy bureau level) in China.

The officials of the law department seem to have ushered in spring in an instant, and their former leader Bai Siwen has also been quite active recently. Bai Siwen, who has just stepped down from his position as the director of the "Office of Historical Invention" ridiculed by the traversers, has been frequently seen frequently in and out of the homes of several members of the Central Executive Committee recently, and it is rumored that Bai Siwen will be transferred to the president of the soon-to-be-established Yazihu District Circuit Court and the president of the Ping'an County People's Court, which can be regarded as a comeback.

"Dongfang County is densely populated, accounting for almost a quarter of the country's population, and now that all kinds of economies have developed, there are indeed many opportunities. wood products from Henan Township, building supplies, grain and aquatic products from Dingyuan Township, cotton from Cotton Farming Township, wool, sheepskin, cured meat and animal fat from Zhenyuan Township, cowhide and beef from Ranch Township (where the meat factory is located); Coupled with the grain from the neighboring Invalides Farm and the cotton from the Corps Fort, there is a great deal to be done in the development of short-distance transportation by road. Qiang Quansheng also said with some agreement, "It's a pity that the boss has no plans to build a railway here, otherwise it would be good to build a railway." ”

"Isn't building a railway to grab business with our road transportation?" Jiang Nanqi joked.

Qiang Quansheng also laughed and did not continue the topic.

Henan Township soon arrived, Qiang Quansheng said goodbye to Jiang Nanqi and then took his entourage to the countryside to investigate, and the objects he focused on were two local medium-sized state-owned enterprises: Henan Glass Factory and Henan Wood Products Factory.

The Henan Wood Products Factory has been stripped of its military operations and is now moving to the West Lake Timber Processing Plant, located on the banks of the Xiaoxi River on the west bank of Yazi Lake, to take advantage of the abundant timber resources in the primeval forests there. Therefore, the Henan Wood Products Factory later mainly produced some wooden dishes and chopsticks, musical instruments, furniture, horse-drawn carriages and other civilian goods, mainly from the wood transported back from the New China colony. Now, they are reluctant to produce even low-margin wooden dishes and chopsticks, and have instead abandoned them to small private workshops, concentrating on producing higher-margin goods, such as the boxes of heavy carriages.

In addition to these, another major task of the Henan Wood Products Factory is to plant trees in a large grassland next to the sparse woods, that is, to plant plantations. Although it is a grassland terrain, it receives about 1,000 mm of rainfall a year, which is not comparable to the semi-arid grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China, which receive less than 250 mm of rainfall a year, so it is still suitable for planting plantations, which was indeed done by the Uruguayan government. Uruguayans have grown large areas of the coast with economic species such as oaks, pines and eucalyptus trees for harvesting and exporting abroad, reaping considerable economic benefits.

At this time, although the forest coverage rate in the eastern republic was extremely high, most of them were concentrated in the area of Duck Lake in the north, and there were few native forests on the steppe on the eastern coast in the south. Therefore, the Executive Committee decided to follow the example of the Uruguayan government and vigorously plant fast-growing plantations in this grassland to reduce the logging of primary forests, and at the same time provide rich raw materials for its own gradually developed timber processing industry. (To be continued......)