Chapter 597: Fengtian Reform
After discussing for a long time, the cabinet failed to come up with a way to give Guo Xinga the best of both worlds, and in the end it could only be a compromise and a compromise. The cabinet ordered Ma San to start cleaning up the Brazilians on the territory he controlled, Ma San's private plantation estate, and drive out the outsiders, and the Brazilian government could not say anything. When Brazilians and Chinese are all differentiated, it will be clear which side is whose territory.
Brazil's economy is very uneven, the developed areas of the country are concentrated in a few cities, and the estates of Ma San are in the vast countryside, so the people who are driven to several big cities such as Rio will not have much resistance. The cabinet's strategy was to use this kind of eviction to divide the territory, drive the Brazilians to the big cities, and then build a state in the cities, and the rest of the territory would go to North Manchuria.
This plan is quite easy to think about, but it is still very difficult to operate in practice, and millions of people are certainly not so easy to manipulate. So in order to make Ma San's operation easier, Zou Degui gave Ma San some small gifts. First, Ma San's Chinese employees were granted North Manchurian flag status to receive Manchurian medical vaccines, and then Zou Degui gave Ma 30 very cute mice. "These little things are cute, and they're best for free-range breeding, so don't lose them!" Zou Degui sent the white mouse, and was afraid that Ma San would not understand the meaning of this treasure, so he specially sent a telegram to Ma San to tell him.
"Send some to the United States! They've been fighting all the time, and they need some pet comfort! "Goxinga found that the civil war in the United States was coming to an end, so he was ready to help the Americans have some fun.
"Huh! General, I'll arrange for someone to send ten of them over! Zou Degui's ruthlessness towards Guo Xing'a is also secretly smacking.
"No, don't send ten, send fifty!" Guo Xinga was afraid that his American friends would have less fun.
The affairs of North and South America have been taken care of, and Guo Xing'a has to take care of the internal affairs of North Manchuria. In the far north, the cabinet and the general staff have already been completed, but Fengtian Province, Taiwan, and Zhoushan have not yet been settled, after all, it is a matter of the imperial court, and there may be changes in it, so it is better for Guo Xing'a to take charge of it himself. According to Guo Xing'a's meaning, it is good to take it all at once, build a base that should be built, and open up what should be opened, but Pi Runmin and others shook their heads like rattles, and replied with only one sentence: "It can't be done!" ”。
In the past year, North Manchurian has been too aggressive in expanding its territory, and many places in the outer northeast and Sakhalin Island have to build infrastructure, and they also have to conquer and provide assistance to foreign countries, so they really do not have the financial resources to fulfill the requirements of Guoxinga at once. The Zhoushan archipelago is really an island, and the output of the larger island of Taiwan is also limited, all of which are pure inputs, and the next difficulty is too great. Although Fengtian is also very poor, the property is quite abundant, and there is a certain foundation, and the financial burden is also smaller. And geographically speaking, Taiwan and Zhoushan are the best to hold in their hands, and they are not particularly big if they have no impact, and Mukden is the rib of North Manchuria, the connection point between the economic zone and the mainland, and it has to be taken. Therefore, the opinion of the cabinet is that Taiwan and Zhoushan will not move for the time being, and will still be managed by the imperial court, and it is the right thing to include Mukden in the territory first.
"You can't just think about it financially! Zhoushan will be let go as soon as it is released, but Taiwan will definitely not be able to let it go, and the reconstructed port will still be built. Taiwan is the connecting point between the South China Sea and the mainland, and it is also the barrier of China's open sea, and it must not be neglected. If there are financial difficulties, the port will be built first, and the opening up of the whole island will be delayed. "Goxinga is very sensitive to Taiwan.
"Hmmm! Taiwan's location is indeed important, and after the construction of the port is completed and the shipping route is opened, the island's products will be sold quickly and proudly, trade will flourish, and the cost of subsequent development of the island will be much smaller! "Zheng Qifeng has the fastest brain in terms of economics.
"Take the military port with the people's port, let the local economy develop freely! This proposal is possible! Guo Xing'a didn't understand, but Zou Degui reacted.
Guo Xing'a also thought it was good, but out of respect for the cabinet, he didn't make a decision directly, but looked at Pi Runmin. "Hmmm! It works, so let's do it! Pi Runmin pondered for a while before nodding slowly, confirming this strategy. However, when Pi Runmin raised his head, he inadvertently glanced at Zheng Qifeng from the corner of his eye.
"Fengtian has nothing to say, just accept it in full, the passes of Jinzhou and Changtu can be withdrawn, and in the future, it will be a synthetic family!" Guo Xing'a felt that Mukden had nothing to say.
"General, I'm afraid it's not easy to receive Fengtian, there are a lot of things to discuss!" Seeing that Guo Xing'a was about to run, Pi Runmin hurriedly spoke out and stopped the eldest young master who didn't know the price of firewood and rice.
"What's the problem? Jilin, Heilongjiang, Mengdong, Outer Manchuria, so many precedents are here, just accept them as usual! Guo Xing'a saw Pi Runmin's bitter face, and his brows furrowed.
"O general! It's too simple! Mukden is different from these places! Pi Runmin saw the innocence of Guo Xing's face, and he was a little helpless.
"What's going on?" Guo Xing'a became alert, and he thought that someone under General Sheng Jing was going to make trouble.
"Jilin and Heilongjiang are almost all in the nationality of the banner, and the so-called people are also in the nationality, no matter who they are, they are under the control of the Eight Banners. At that time, you were also a great general, and you were able to manage Heiji in one fell swoop with the strategy of managing the army in wartime. Zou Degui also had to come out to help Pi Runmin, and explain the difference in the actual situation in various places to Guo Xing'a, the shopkeeper who threw his hands away.
"Although Mengdong is not in the banner, he is also under the control of the princely tribe, and there is not much difference from Heiji!" Zheng Qifeng also added.
"The places such as Outer Manchuria that have just been received are simpler, they are completely no-man's land, and a small number of local people have never even seen iron, so naturally we say what we say!" Pi Runmin made up for the last time to Guo Xing'a.
"Is Mukden any different?" Guo Xing's head was paste, and he could understand what several important ministers said, but he couldn't understand what it meant.
"Heiji, Mengdong, Outer Manchuria and other places are not normal places, or the army and the people are united like troops, or the barbaric and uncivilized people can be punished by punishment, so your reforms and systems can be implemented smoothly. Fengtian is different, although Fengtian is nominally also a general's territory, but it is almost the same as the places in Guannai, scholars, merchants, landlords, poor peasants, all kinds of people, etc., our reform is not easy to implement! Pi Runmin summarized and analyzed Guo Xing'a.
"Take the lead in making trouble, ......" Guo Xing'a's thinking still stopped at the time of subduing Jilin.
"It won't work! Only a very small part of the Eight Banners officials in Jilin are making trouble, and killing them will suppress them. There are many people who want to make trouble in Fengtian, scholars want to make trouble, the landlords want to make trouble, the original officials want to make trouble, and even some squires and ordinary people want to make trouble. Pi Runmin knew that Guoxing's method was to kill people, but there were too many people in Fengtian to kill them at all.
"Will the people make trouble?" Guoxinga felt that the people should support things like land division.
"Our reform is all-round, and it is not just about dividing land, how can the people not make trouble about such a major event as changing customs and customs. The people of Mukden have some little knowledge, and many of them contradict the new education, and we can't control the public opinion of Mukden, so they will naturally follow suit! "Zou Degui still supports Pi Runmin this time, and the big man will make trouble, and he will not make trouble in a small place.
"The population of Fengtian Province is more than 7 million, and the number of landlords involved is not small, and we can't divide much land after calculating it! Besides, the cost of redeeming the land in the hands of these landlords will be very huge, and our finances will certainly be unbearable. If you use strong words, not to mention the many people who offend, it will be difficult for Fengtian Province to settle down in a short time! "Pi Runmin is a cabinet of states, and he is naturally more thoughtful.
"What do you say?" Guoxing'a also understood that Heiji and other places were not a complete social structure, but Mukden was a completed social structure of the Qing Dynasty, and it was indeed not easy for such a place to make a smooth transition without using violent measures.
"A few of us discussed it, and we felt that this matter should not be rushed, it is better to be still, it is better to take your time! We first built up the administrative, educational, medical, police and other systems in various places, slowly Manchurianized Mukden, and then relocated the population of Mukden, and slowly integrated Mukden into it. Pi Runmin also had a plan, that is, to let himself go and slowly affect the backward Fengtian region.
"If you let it go, I'm afraid that the Fengtian region will fall too far behind, and you have to give the people some way out, otherwise there will still be chaos in Fengtian in the future!" Guo Xing'a also knows that it is easier to let things go, but if you just change the ownership without any reforms, Fengtian will still be poor, and poverty is the source of turmoil!
"The economic zones of Dalian, Yingkou and other places have a large number of labor gaps, which can provide a lot of jobs in Fengtian, and Changchun and other places should also be able to provide some!" Zheng Qifeng is still very clear about his territory.
"The people in the land of Fengtian have limited knowledge and other aspects, can they adapt to the current work in the factory? And the economic zone and Changchun can't provide too many jobs! "Guo Xing'a calculated, at most there will be a gap of more than 100,000 people, and Mukden is a total population of 7 million people.
"There is a shortage of rickshaw pullers, men, sanitation workers, etc., these jobs used to be mostly done by Koreans and Japanese, and people in the Mukden area must be better than them if they can speak Chinese!" What Zheng Qifeng said was not the worker's position that Manchurians were accustomed to at all, but the service industry in society.
"This is very unfair to the people of Mukden!" Goxinga is still very kind to his own people.
"General, everything can't be perfect. If the people of Mukden want to be like the people of Heiji, they can take the initiative to integrate into the new system, just like those immigrants. Outer Manchuria, Alaska and other places have land, industry and mining, as long as they are willing to come, they can also be workers! Pi Runmin also knows that it is unfair, and it is impossible to be all-encompassing.
"Alright! So do it! You've arranged it, and we'll do it. When I go to Shengjing to handle the reception, I will go too, I should go and visit the old general Tepchin! Guo Xing'a nodded helplessly.