Chapter 393: Goxinga's Plan for Paradise on Earth

If you want to build up the vast countryside, you can't just turn everyone into flag-bearers, and then change the name of Pashiku to the captain. Although the selection of old farmers in Shandong can play a certain role, the most important thing is to have advanced agricultural tools and suitable crops.

In his previous life, he was Guoxinga from the Northeast, and the first thing that came to mind was to grow rice, and Northeast rice was the best! However, it was soon rejected by Pi Runmin, who knew a little bit about farming, and the current environment in the Northeast was rarely suitable for growing rice. Even if it is planted, it is enough for Guoxinga and the high-level people to eat, and it is basically impossible for the whole people to eat rice. Because rice has to be planted in paddy fields, although there are many big rivers in North Manchuria, but the paddy fields are only a little bit of the river, and most of them are dry fields. Moreover, the paddy fields near the river are not safe, and if there is nothing to do, there will be a big flood, and the yield is very problematic. Guo Xing'a recalled that the place he had traveled was different from his hometown in his previous life, and he also agreed with Pi Runmin's statement. In the northeast of Guoxinga's previous life, not to mention that every town had a reservoir, the water conservancy facilities were extremely developed, but now there is only wasteland in the northeast. Water conservancy facilities on millions of square kilometers of land cannot be built in a year and a half, so Guoxinga can only temporarily abandon the plan to plant rice on a large scale.

Several strategists from Zhili proposed to grow wheat, and they felt that the situation in the northeast was not much different from that of Zhili, and wheat should be good. But Guo Xing'a stubbornly refused, and Guo Xing'a couldn't say a reason, but in his memory of his previous life, there was almost no wheat production in the Northeast, so it was better not to plant it. Rice and wheat are removed, and the remaining options are simple, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, soybeans, these things are definitely grown in the Northeast, and they will be very high-yielding. Guo Xing'a planted sweet potatoes in junior high school in his previous life, and all of them were the size of a football, and it was still difficult to make a fortune, at least planting these things could solve the food problem of the North Manchurian government. In terms of fruits, there is no problem except tropical fruits on the land of North Manchuria, but Goxinga has higher requirements, and cash crops must be sold to foreigners to make money. The staff, who had already received a large amount of dividends from Chen Sanhe, thought that Guo Xing'a was talking about poppies, and almost killed Guo Xing'a. Because of economic and pharmaceutical needs, opium poppies do still have to be planted, but to plant this ghost thing on a large scale, Guo Xing'a is still very weak-minded, and the cash crop he is talking about is tobacco leaves. Kanto Taikata is a serious tribute, and the quality is quite high, and of course Goxinga will not let go of this kind of good thing, and of course large-scale cultivation should be encouraged. He is a smoker himself, so he naturally has feelings for tobacco.

After determining the varieties to be planted, in addition to searching for improved varieties in the customs, Guoxinga also set his sights on the world. Countries around the world have cultivated some high-yield crops, and we must learn from advanced places! In addition to the Yingkou Port that is still under construction, Guo Xing'a decided to build the Dalian Port as well, Lushun is a military port must be closed, Dalian can still be used, and now he has the final say, Dalian can become a treaty port at any time. But these are still assumptions, and if you want to buy things soon, you have to go to big docks like Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Tianjin.

After negotiating the issue of seeds, it is imperative to upgrade agricultural tools, and the combine harvester in Guoxinga's impression cannot be done at the moment, but there is still no problem with all kinds of agricultural tools with animal power. In the future, in addition to supplying the arsenal with high-precision products, they will also devote a part of their energy to civilian production, and although the quality of the products is inferior to that of military supplies, it is still more than enough to cope with agricultural production. Chemical factories can also produce fertilizers and pesticides, although not a good thing, but the problem of eating must be put in front of absolutely healthy and green.

Goxinga also knew that some small human machines, such as hand-held seeders and hand-pushed seeding and fertilizer applicators, were some of the small farming tools that were popularized before Goxinga was imprisoned. Don't look at them small, but they are very practical, although they are new inventions, but the technical content is not high. Guo Xinga didn't know much about how this thing was made, but he knew the general shape and working principle, and the technicians of the arsenal would definitely be able to figure it out after studying it for two months.

After all the problems related to agriculture were settled in stages, Gohinga began to plan his government. Goxinga became the head of the Dominion as a general, yes, and he abdicated and was out of order. But in terms of system, there is almost no system, because Guo Xing'a's brain is a little messy, and it is still a bit early to mention what kind of system there is. After the abolition of all the family privileges, everyone is equal, and there is no checkpoint in North Manchuria, as long as everyone does not rebel, they can do whatever they want, so there is no need to specifically state what system. And now that he raised the issue of the social system, no one understood it at all, so everyone made do with it and went ahead and talked about it when they encountered problems.

Of course, the saying that there is no system is also Guoxinga's own idea, in fact, there are still some systems in North Manchuria. It is true that the city is similar to what Guo Xing'a thought, everyone is equal, and they can do whatever they want, but there are a large number of wealthy people gathered here, which is equivalent to a system that protects private ownership and encourages private economy. And the vast rural areas, because there are still a large number of remnants of the Eight Banners system, is a very strange collective ownership. All the poor clanks are naturally proletarians, and the land they cultivate can produce a large number of products, but these products do nominally belong to Goxinga, and they are only tenants of Goxinga. Of course, in addition to collecting a certain tax as rent, the agricultural products are still owned by the village, but because the land belongs to Goxinga, how to divide these things in the end is still a problem. But just like Guo Xing'a thought, at least there is nothing now, so there is no problem, and I will talk about it when I encounter a problem.

Politically, it was simple, Goxinga decided to set up a responsible cabinet, and he himself was not prepared to take care of anything except the army and the general political direction. As for the candidate for prime minister, Guo Xing'a hesitated for a long time, Pi Runmin and Zou Degui are good, and he prefers Zou Degui in his personal feelings. However, Pi Runmin performed better than Zou Degui in several decisions in the general direction, and his style of handling things was much tougher than Zou Degui, so in the end, Guoxinga still chose Pi Runmin. As compensation for Zou Degui, Goxinga did not appoint a foreign minister, but a secretary of state, and gave this position to Zou Degui. This arrangement is tantamount to handing over the government's major policies to Pi Runmin, and Zou Degui also has a great right to speak, after all, there is a lot of overlap in the powers of the secretary of state and the prime minister, and Zou Degui can manage internal affairs, foreign affairs, economy, and people's livelihood.

The cabinet of Gohinga has set up 13 departments, including the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Medical and Health, and the National Audit Office. Guoxinga has the idea of separation of powers among the executive, legislative, judicial, supervision, and examination, so the four ministers of the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Justice, and the Audit Office have the privilege of reporting to Guoxinga separately over Pi Runmin and Zou Degui. Because Zou Degui was the secretary of state in charge of foreign affairs, and military affairs were personally in charge of Guoxing'a, there was no Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of National Defense. Except for the four ministers of the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Justice, and the Audit Office, who were directly appointed by Guoxing'a, the other ministers were all discussed by Pi Runmin and Zou Degui, and then drafted on their own and submitted to Guoxing'a for signature.

As for the feudal officials and officials at all levels in the six provinces, there is no one, and it is good that these strategists can barely gather the number of cabinet members. Guo Xing'a thought of a way to deal with it, temporarily exercising military control when the officials were not yet in place, and then handing over the power after the officials were in place. Guoxinga's method of electing officials has been denied countless times, so Guoxinga didn't mention it. This time, Guoxing'a studied a new method, the provinces were temporarily under military control for three years, and during this three-year transition period, a new type of education was selected throughout North Manchuria, and after three years, the examination was held, and whoever was admitted was appointed. Although it is still the number of ways to take the scientific examination, it is no longer necessary to take the eight-share essay, and the routine of the civil service examination is completely changed, and the test and the argument are mixed, and finally there is the personal interview of the cabinet official.

After the general pattern was established, Goxinga began to plan the overall direction of development, the first is to improve the living standards of the vast number of rural people, and the shadow left on him by the three bannermen who accommodated the Russian army was too deep. Guoxinga should invest a large amount of money in agriculture and build a water conservancy and irrigation network covering the entire northern Manchurian region, so as to restore the prosperity of the rice industry in the northeast at an early date, and at the same time make every effort to improve the living standards of the peasants. Food, clothing, shelter and transportation are the foundation of human life, so Guoxinga should also do the same. The first point is clothing, Guoxinga should encourage the eight banners in the city to invest in cotton spinning and garment manufacturing industries, so that clothes, a daily necessity, can become cheap, so that farmers can take off their cotton robes in summer. The second point is food, Guoxinga should be funded by the government in each township and township, set up breeding farms, vigorously breed pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and other meat, and set aside vegetable plots in each village to ensure that the peasants can have a rich diet, so that they will no longer be in a state of malnutrition, and can also supply the towns. The third point is housing, and the most unsightly thing in Goxinga is the shack, so the accommodation conditions of the peasants must be improved. He decided to build brick houses for all the peasants at the government's expense. It will not only allow farmers to have spacious and bright houses to live in, but also stimulate the development of cement and other factories separated from the arsenal, and lay a solid industrial foundation for large-scale infrastructure construction in the future.

In addition, Guoxinga should also vigorously invest in heavy industry, and at the same time take advantage of the uneven development of its golden fingers, it should also take advantage of the lack of awareness of technological blockade by the European powers to move all their industrial achievements to Manchuria, and strive to build Manchuria into an industrial country that is not inferior to the moderately developed countries in Europe within five years.

At the same time, Goxinga attaches great importance to education, and he demanded that the cabinet complete the training of a sufficient number of teachers within three years, and that all schools in all regions must be prepared within five years. In the early stage, soldiers dispatched from various localities will complete the literacy education at the grassroots level, and outstanding talents will be selected for the training of new education in key directional specialties, and the construction of the education system must be completed within three years. Changchun and Harbin have set up two universities, each province must set up a specialized training school with a capacity of more than 2,000 people, each county must set up a high school, each town must set up a junior high school, and each village must have its own primary school. The textbooks for high school, junior high school, and elementary school are compiled by Guo Xing'a himself, and the university is taught by Guo Xing'a himself. Tuition and miscellaneous fees are borne by the Government in all schools, with the exception of literacy classes, and a monthly stipend is paid to students.

Then there is transportation, which is not only a peasant's business, but also a military and economic necessity. Guo Xinga almost suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, but finally recalled the railway network in the northeast, and underwent a massive expansion. At the same time, according to the existing roads in North Manchuria, the road network of North Manchuria was designed. In the design of Goxinga, all the county towns of North Manchurian should be connected to railways, and the main towns along the way should also set up stations, no matter who and where, they can find stations within a radius of 100 miles. At the same time, the existing roads are all expanded and renovated, all kinds of dirt roads are upgraded to asphalt roads, the width of the provincial trunk line cannot be less than 10 meters, the municipal auxiliary road can not be less than 8 meters, the county and township roads can not be less than 6 meters, and the village road does not use asphalt, but also has to be a smooth mountain road. For such a large project, the time given by Guoxinga is five years.

In fact, this is a wasteful behavior, just to run a carriage, not to make such a big deal at all. But Guo Xinga is a man with dreams, and he thinks that within 15 years, he will definitely be able to build a car, and it is also to stimulate the chemical industry. Engaging in some chemical fertilizers and producing some pesticides, although it can also stimulate the development of chemical industry, but asphalt is different after all. Asphalt is natural, but it is mainly extracted from crude oil, and Guo Xinga always wanted to get in touch with oil as soon as possible, so he got asphalt out. Now there is no internal combustion engine, the price of oil in the world is very cheap, and Guoxinga can also take the opportunity to hoard some oil in the name of construction, and the world will definitely not suspect him, at most he is an infrastructure maniac. Guoxinga just knows the method of producing asphalt, which is distillation, and the remaining residue is asphalt, and the liquid that comes out is gasoline, kerosene, and diesel.

After listening to Guoxinga's grand idea, the senior officials of the new government are all stupid, is Guoxinga going to change Hong Xiuquan and engage in the kingdom of heaven on earth? However, if you think about it carefully, Guo Xing'a's request, according to the current strength of the North Manchurian government, it is really possible to do it, but it may be delayed a little in time. Pi Runmin, Zou Degui, and Zheng Qifeng didn't think of anything unusual, and when they were about to unanimously pass Guo Xing's resolution, the mathematical genius Xuan Suning stood up, and a basin of cold water almost provoked Guo Xing'a to death.