Chapter Seventy-Two: Li Wei Goes to the Western Front, Zhang Xianzhong Enters Wusizang

The most important task of the Yaogang people next year is the affairs of the Western Front, which will involve the naval army and the army to participate in the war at the same time. In order to coordinate Jiang Pai in the north and Ningde in the south, it was decided that Li Wei would personally go to the Western Front and serve as the commander-in-chief of the entire Western Front, and he would also bring his newly formed armored division.

Of course, Li Wei was very happy to receive such a task, but he proposed that all the current planes be transferred to the Western Front. Now there are seven single-seater and two-seater planes each that can fly on the Yaogang side, but Ouyang He asked to keep two single-seat and two-seater planes each, and the others agreed to be assigned to Li Wei's command. Because Liu Chenghuang came back to form the Air Force, he couldn't do without planes, and even the pilots of the flight academy couldn't do without planes for training.

Since there have always been several planes on the western front, they have simple airports on their side of the Ural Mountains and Ningde on the Caspian Sea, and these planes only need to expand the scale of the airport in the past.

The entire Western Front, almost all places were taken from the side, so the map of the Western Front was the most detailed and accurate. The veteran airplane pilots of the Western Front were given a great workout. Later, when the new plane came to the front line, the old pilot flew the new plane, and after coming down, everyone was moved by his emotion. They got off the plane and stroked the new plane and said, compared with this plane, our old plane is a bullock cart, and the new plane is a car. But that's for later.

After the Yaogang people finished studying the affairs of the western front next year, the focus was to listen to Lu Chengxiang's report.

The economic recovery of the entire Ming Dynasty far exceeded the preparation of the kiln gang people. Agricultural taxes are levied according to the acres of land, which is much more than the original tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, in the Ming Dynasty, people who had a lot of land would find ways to pay less or no tax, but now although the tax is much lighter than before, the total amount is still much higher. What is even more gratifying is that the industrial and commercial tax revenue is much higher than before. Those landlords who had lost their land, with money in their hands, were working hard to participate in the industrial and commercial industry. However, the current good social environment, as well as the convenient transportation and financial environment, have also made the business environment much better.

Although the relationship between the Xiyi people and the Ming Dynasty was tense, and they did not dare to come to the Ming Dynasty in the past two years, the customs revenue was not less, and it increased sharply every year, especially the land trade tariffs in the Western Regions were doubling.

Another gratifying thing is that the consumption power of the Ming Dynasty itself has increased considerably, and the sales of many products in China are very hot. This shows that everyone has silver in their hands and dares to spend it.

However, Lu Chengxiang also raised a very thorny issue, that is, grain output has increased by a large margin for several years in a row, and imported grain has also increased, and peasants' incomes have been affected. Now that several large grain reserves in the country have been saturated, Lu Chengxiang is worried about what to do if grain production increases again?

"The grain that cannot be sold in the hands of the peasants must be collected, and the grain reserve must be expanded, and this matter must not be ambiguous!" Zhang Zhimu said, "However, we can develop the breeding industry on a large scale, and grain can be turned into feed and meat and eggs, so as to improve the living standards of the people." ”

"There should also be a limit to the construction of reserves, and it cannot be built indefinitely." We have been working hard to increase the income of peasants, but there is more grain, and the peasants will not get benefits, and this matter must be solved!" ”

"On the issue of peasants' incomes, I think we can set a minimum purchase price to ensure the peasants' lowest income. In addition, the retail price of our grain has always been under control, so can we raise it a little bit and give profits to the peasants? And then we can increase the peasants' income by reducing or reducing part of the agricultural tax? Zhang Zhimu suggested.

Yan Xing said: "Don't move the price of grain, that's something that affects many people." Our kiln workers have a very high income, and if we don't have a high salary, it will have a great impact on those who are barely making ends meet. I agree that according to the harvest situation in various places, some taxes can be reduced for those farmers who have reduced their production. Or we can provide farmers with cheaper fertilizers! ”

Yan Xing's opinion was unanimously agreed by everyone, and the people who had just gone through the famine were too sensitive to the price of grain, so they must not touch everyone on the price of grain. A small increase in grain prices is likely to cause panic.

Mr. Lu Bingyi introduced several projects under construction this year. One is the Songliao Grand Canal and the Western Grand Canal, both of which are in the excavation stage. The railways from Zhangjiakou to Beijing and from Zhengzhou to Hankou will basically be opened to traffic next year. Railways from Kaifeng to Jinan to Dongying and Jinan to Dengzhou (Penglai) are under construction. Next year, it is planned to design railways from Beijing to Tianjin, Jinan, Xuzhou, Huai'an, Yangzhou, Yingtianfu (Nanjing), and Hangzhou, as well as railways from Hankou to Yueyang and Changsha, and from Hankou to Jiujiang, Nanchang, Yingtan, and Fuzhou, and expand the wharves in Hankou, Yingtianfu (Nanjing), Huai'an, Quanzhou, Dengzhou, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou, and to build wharves that can quickly load and unload containers. In the Jialing River water diversion project, the second- and third-level reservoirs in the south are starting at the same time, and the second- and third-level reservoirs in the north are progressing smoothly. The project is also under large-scale construction. Next year, it is necessary to complete the double-track laying from naturalization (Hohhot) to Beihai (Lake Baikal), and strive to open to traffic in the second half of the year. It is necessary to determine the passage of the North Sea (Baikal) into the Heilongjiang River. Strive to start construction the year after the completion of the shooting in the current year. Next year, the railway subgrade project from Hami to Lake Balkhash will be completed, and the railway subgrade project from the Irtysh River to the Chinatown of the Ural Mountains will also be completed. To asphalt the road from the Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea. The asphalting of the Lake Balkhash to Caspian Sea road will also begin next year. General Qin Peng: Several of their main war-ready highways in Shannan Province will also be asphalted. The railway and highway planning work in the provinces of South Island and North Island must be completed next year.

The Wuhan Iron and Steel Plant will be able to put some blast furnaces into operation next year, the boiler plant, the steam turbine factory, and the steam engine plant are all under construction, and the Hankou Textile Plant will be put into operation normally. According to Lu Chengxiang's suggestion, a large textile factory is also located in Tianfu (Nanjing), striving to start construction next year.

When Yan Xing summed up the situation of this year's administrative work, he listed several tasks that attracted everyone's attention. One is the promulgation of the law on the unification of weights and measures standards, and the unified distribution of various measurement code container standard texts and physical objects to governments at all levels. The other is to increase the number of places to train midwives, electricians, teachers, and other personnel for various localities. In addition, the scale of returning land to forests on both sides of the river has been expanded. Unified textbooks for primary and secondary schools and high schools in various places. In order to give the students sent to the kiln gang, a preparatory school was established. Many of the students sent to the local area have a very low level of Chinese and must be trained before they can enter the academy. Within a year, Zhao Jinli successively sent more than 2,000 students of all ethnic groups to study in Yaogang, and these students were almost too high-level, and they needed to study in the preparatory class for a long time before they could enter the formal students.

As for the trainees sent by Zhao Jinli, Zhang Zhimu demanded that all arrangements must be made, and he knew that this was a long-term means for Zhao Jinli to do the work of the masses of all ethnic groups in the southwest. The trainees trained here will be an important backbone of the work in Southwest China in the future. They are easily receptive to new ideas in the kiln environment, and they come out of the mountains, and it is easy for them to blend in with the local society when they go back, and they can communicate with the people in their language. Let the local people realize that the outside world is different from them and they need to change. It's a long process that needs to start little by little. Zhao Jinli and they are both civil and military, which makes Zhang Zhimu feel particularly gratified.

There is another thing, which makes the whole kiln gang happy, Zhang Xianzhong and they cooperated with several people, smoothly attacked Wusizang, defeated several counterattacks of the Wusi Tibetans, and later the Wusizang Grand Lama sent people out for peace talks, saying that they would continue to submit to the Ming Dynasty and hand over the armed forces.

Zhang Xianzhong agreed to their request, and now Zhang Xianzhong has officially taken over the government affairs of Wusizang. But it was too backward, and Zhang Xianzhong asked the kiln gang to support them. Yaogang specially organized a team to cooperate with Zhao Jinli to deliver materials to Wusizang and support Wusizang. The Tibetans also sent some young people to study in the kiln.

Originally, Zhang Zhimu planned to set up a national college to train ethnic students. Later, I thought about it again, because the ethnic college in my previous life did not play a role in the integration of all ethnic groups, and I felt that no matter what ethnic groups were all equal, students of all ethnic groups studied together, and no longer could do anything that ethnic minorities should take priority care of. This kind of priority does not win the gratitude of ethnic minorities, but constantly reminds them that they are different from the Han Chinese. This is not a good thing.

There is another very important matter to be solved this year, and that is the issue of veterans being discharged. Many veterans say that they are not willing to leave the army, many of them are veterans who have been in the army since childhood, and when they arrive at the Yaogang army, it is like entering heaven, and their feelings for the army are really difficult for outsiders to understand. In fact, there is another very important reason, in addition to being able to fight, it is difficult for them to adapt to life outside. In addition, they are often away from home for many years, their hometown has long forgotten them, and they are also afraid to return to their hometown. Some people don't even know where their hometown is. However, it is necessary to replace the old and the new in the army, and the army must ensure that it is younger. Fortunately, in the Yaogang army, the soldiers are culturally educated, and many veterans can write letters, so they go to the local area to arrange work, which provides very good conditions. The good job is, of course, to enter the police force as a police officer. And then there are the government departments.

We must do a good job in arranging veterans, especially those veterans in remote areas, and try to arrange them to government departments, because they all have actual combat experience, and places with a bad environment can play a greater role.

On the other hand, when recruiting soldiers, it is also necessary to deliberately recruit more troops from minority nationalities and remote areas, and this is also a way to train cadres. The Yaogang people's care for the disabled soldiers makes everyone feel that this army is very humane. Whether it is a sports meeting or a concert, the first row is often a row of disabled veterans in wheelchairs. Disabled veterans are cared for and respected everywhere they go.

These days, people from all walks of life report their work, although Zhang Zhimu feels a little tired, but he is in a good mood, and everyone brings back good news.

However, when Zhang Zhimu came home that day, he felt that Huang Yukun's face was not very good, and he wanted to ask, but Huang Yukun stopped Zhang Zhimu with a look. Zhang Zhimu lived in Huang Yukun's house at night, and after Zhang Zhimu, who had not been together for a long time, and Huang Yukun made love, Huang Yukun said something difficult. At this time, Zhang Zhimu knew why Emperor Chongzhen wanted to stop talking one day!