By the time the order of the General Staff reached the Jiangnan Command, the Eastern Route Army and the Central Route Army had already been merged, and the plan to attack the other prefectures of Fujian had already begun to be carried out. Wang Houchun's plan was that no matter how many routes Lu Guangchou's troops were divided into, the Tiance army would only advance from Fujian and attack the Lingnan Domain Alliance in a semi-encircled posture.

"Tiancheng, this is an order from the emperor and the General Staff." Wang Houchun handed the order he received to Yang Tiancheng and said: "The emperor vetoed the plan for a decisive battle in the southwest, but let the Western Route Army decide its own strategic goals. ”

Yang Tiancheng nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that the emperor is also worried about the difficulty and time of the Southwest Campaign. That's why Xue Yang will be able to deal with it himself. In this way, the Jiangnan Command will concentrate on taking the entire southeast. The Western Route Army copied the original text of the General Staff Order to Xue Yang, and he would handle it himself. ”

"What about Xu Ying's Hengzhou?" Wang Houchun said: "If you make such an adjustment, I'm afraid that Hengzhou will not last." It's better to do this, let Chai Jia send troops to unite with Xu Ying to take Hengzhou City first, and then send troops to hold Hengzhou, so as to form a stalemate in Hengzhou and attract Liu Shizheng's troops in Hengzhou, which is also conducive to Xue Yang's next move, and the main forces of the two roads can withdraw. ”

"Then let's give this order at the same time." Yang Tiancheng nodded and said, "Leave it to Chai Jia, let's immediately gather Chen Yu and Xue Wanli and them to study the plan of the Eastern Front as soon as possible." ”

Wang Houchun said with a smile while asking the staff officer to immediately draft the order and then send it out: "Actually, our attack on Fujian alone will inevitably exacerbate their internal contradictions, forcing Lu Guangchou and Lu Guangchang to adjust their deployment. At least the contradiction between Wang Chao and Fan Hui will not be resolved so easily. ”

"They were originally a nest of snakes and rats, and they couldn't have done anything, if it weren't for the terrain and environmental factors, we would have swept through it a long time ago." Yang Tiancheng was dismissive of the Lingnan Domain Alliance.

However, when the southern front was discussing the Lingnan Battle, Li Xuanqing also presided over the Bohai Bay Development Plan in Tianjin, and the heads of several regions of Youzhou, Shandong, and the Northeast Military Region gathered in Tianjin, including the cabinet led by Cen Tianshi. At the meeting, Li Xuanqing put forward for the first time the idea of building a railway around the Bohai Bay, with Tianjin as the central point, extending to Suzhou in the north around the Bohai Bay, and to Dengzhou and other places on the peninsula in the south.

However, according to the plan of the Railway Division, it will continue to bypass the peninsula from Dengzhou to Haizhou and other places in the later stage. But this plan was interrupted by the Ministry of Finance, and Qi Hong's special budget for the Ministry of Communications was enough to choke on Li Xuanqing's Bohai Bay Railway plan, which also considered a huge number of captives as free labor, otherwise the Ministry of Finance would have been driven crazy just by extending from Tianjin to Suzhou.

Originally, Cen Tianshi, Zhang Jianzhong and others were worried about this plan, but after the Ministry of Industry and Commerce led by Murong Hanhai announced the industrial and commercial development plan for Bohai Bay, this concern disappeared. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce is ready to join hands with the Equipment Department of the Logistics Department and the Qiaoxi Industrial Group to establish a series of complete heavy industry systems in several important cities in the Bohai Bay in about three years, and to develop a complete industrial system with a complete range of resources from all over the country and explored, so as to promote the vigorous development of the manufacturing industry and support the development of the entire Northeast China. To this end, Li Xuanqing put forward the concept and idea of an industrial city for the first time.

This new concept shocked everyone at the meeting, and for the first time, it also paid attention to the fact that industry and commerce have actually reached the point of equality with traditional agriculture in the development of the past few years. A large number of industrial and commercial leaders represented by the five wealthy merchants unwittingly led the economic development of the entire Tang Empire. In fact, Li Xuanqing also used this to force the cabinet and the people to redefine industry and commerce, and completely abandon the thousand-year-old concept of valuing agriculture and suppressing business.

In addition, in terms of agricultural development, Li Xuanqing also put forward a new concept for Wang Jingyu of the Ministry of Agriculture, the idea of agricultural industrialization and commercial grain base. According to Li Xuanqing's assumption, the future development of agriculture in Northeast China will no longer continue the idea of dividing fields and land as in other places, but will be changed to the model of state-run farms or private farms, concentrate land, develop large-scale agricultural planting, actively promote new agricultural technologies, adopt the latest farming technology, and apply the technologies of double stone fertilizer, four-ridge plough, and ploughing cattle to the extreme, and instruct the industrial group to develop new machines dedicated to agricultural production.

In addition, the processing of agricultural products has also been put on the table, due to the limitations of the times and technology, the processing of agricultural products has been developing slowly, but in Qiaoxi and Murong Feixue and the establishment of new agricultural products processing companies, the use of baking technology and new preservation and storage methods has brought new development opportunities for the deep processing of agricultural products. Even Yelu Aki began to notice this, and new steppe products such as beef jerky were gradually produced and transported south with the canal for sale.

The meeting lasted a whole day and a night before it ended. After attending the meeting, Murong Hanhai began to convene business representatives from all over the world, and began to inspect the current situation of cities in Northeast China, began to put forward opinions on the industrial planning sites of each city, and helped wealthy businessmen from all over the country to choose factory sites.

Cen Tianshi, on the other hand, was busy transferring manpower from other districts to urgently arrange for the prefectures and counties in the Bohai Bay to officially take up his post to assist Tuoba Sijian in handling local affairs. This time, a total of 11 officials at the state and county levels went to the northeast to take up their posts. Moreover, in the latest northeast map planned by the cabinet, several cities in Bohai Bay have also begun to change their names, changing Suzhou, which is duplicated with the south, to Dalian, and Shenzhou to Shenyang, as for other cities, Li Xuanqing does not have too many plans. After the Railway Department contacted Yang Yi, the latter mobilized nearly 100,000 captives from all over Northeast China to rush to Tianjin for advanced roadbed exploration. In addition, the construction personnel of the second phase also began to be transferred from the south and transported by the Xujia Canal Shipping Company.

Youzhou, the Central Plains and Hedong and other places of the three large railway equipment manufacturing enterprises responsible for the manufacture of rails and new cement sleepers, and in view of the fact that the primeval forests in Northeast China are rich in timber resources, the wooden sleepers were once again put forward by the Department of Railways, and the people in Northeast China were convened to participate in the manufacturing. The Northeast businessmen also saw the opportunity, and timber mills in various places also sprung up, and the national wood products market expanded rapidly under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, from traditional wooden furniture to the latest wooden equipment.

It can be said that after this meeting, the entire Bohai Bay region began to develop rapidly, and various industries began to blow out, Tianjin because it already had an industrial base in the early stage, and it is the starting point of the railway in the Northeast and the Central Plains, and it has become a city with the greatest advantages in the development process.

"Big brother, I plan to take advantage of the opportunity of Brother Xu's sailing fleet training to go to Dalian in advance to establish a brand new shipyard, and then all the warship manufacturing will be moved to Dalian, and the Tianjin shipyard will be transformed into a civilian ship manufacturing and design center after expansion, what do you think." After the meeting, Li Xuanqing did not interfere in specific political arrangements, and now the cabinet has its own schedule, and he is gradually freed from complicated trivial matters. This son of the next life looks very much like Li Xuanqing, and he was teased by the couple and giggled.

Li Xuanqing smiled when he heard this: "Qiaoxi, you are very ambitious, this is all prepared in advance?" I thought you should have built a shipyard after the railroad opened. So fast, huh? ”

"This is what the second brother Yin came to tell me, the industrial group is ready to reintegrate, the Chang'an headquarters is mainly responsible for the research and development of various new technologies and new inventions, Shenzhou and Yizhou are responsible for the development of large-scale manufacturing, Tianjin and Dalian are shipyards, and other cities in the Northeast will establish the manufacturing of downstream products in the future. However, this kind of integration is different from what I thought, so I need to think carefully about whether to establish a complete set of management system with reference to the model of later generations. Qiaoxi tilted her head and smiled.

"I think it's better to let Yin Hongfeng and them explore it on their own, if it doesn't work, let's make a move, if we need to mention everything, I'm afraid that over time it will make them lose their pioneering vision and courage, and it's not good to become marionettes." Li Xuanqing didn't have so many worries and smiled: "Anyway, even if this kind of thing is messed up, it's nothing, it's better to let them try." ”

"Okay then, then let Second Brother Yin arrange it himself." Qiaoxi smiled: "By the way, big brother, I plan to integrate the non-industrial industries in our hands into another group, where do you say the headquarters is more appropriate?" ”

"Put it in Chang'an, where the capital of the empire is located, and when the world is unified, it will be the political center of the whole country, and it is also the cultural center that will be built, so it is appropriate to put it in Chang'an. Besides, our family's non-industrial industries are basically cultural industries, and the others that are not suitable can be sold. Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "Let the media group work harder, and when we have time, we will come up with ideas and show them the way, otherwise we will not be able to support ourselves if we rely on the current distribution of newspapers." ”

Qiaoxi nodded and said: "It's time to think of a way, but this aspect is too advanced, there is no suitable talent to preside, and we have a slow development." ”

"Then set up a special journalism school in Chang'an. To cultivate this kind of talent, let's put forward the basic elements of the media, and then ask the Ministry of Education to find some idle literati to enrich the content, write textbooks as teaching materials, and then summarize the media methods and skills of later generations, so that we will not mislead people's children. In the early stage, the internal staff of the media group can be selected for training and further study, and in the later stage, it can be recruited from the society. Li Xuanqing thought about it, and suddenly came up with an idea, and smiled.

"That's a good idea, big brother, you're too smart, why didn't I think of it." Qiaoxi clapped his hands and cheered: "In this way, maybe those who are interested in the media industry will be allowed to develop new companies on their own, which can be regarded as cultivating the industrial foundation." ”

The couple originally planned to continue to talk about this topic, but Cen Tianshi walked in outside the door, and Qiao Xi hurriedly shouted like smoke and took Xiao Tianqi out to play.

"Your Majesty, I'm here to see if I can customize a few passenger ferries in the name of the cabinet." Cen Tianshi walked in and said with a smile: "The official affairs of the cabinet are becoming more and more numerous, and the role of the canal in the eastern region is also increasing, so I think that government affairs need passenger ships." ”

Cen Tianshi's words made Li Xuanqing suddenly remember that this kind of official exchange was transmitted by post stations on the road before, and waterway ships had not been developed before because the slow speed of wooden sailing ships was not suitable for riding horses. But at this time, the shipyard's free-powered passenger liners can meet this demand.

"Mr. Cen, how about I ask the shipyard to design a special passenger ship for you? It is used as a special vessel for official travel. Qiaoxi nodded and smiled: "The interior decoration is slightly better, and the cabinets of the states and counties along the route and the provincial and regional cabinets can allocate a part of the quota to them." ”

"Speaking of which, I think there is one thing that the cabinet needs to focus on, and the port cities along the river and along the coast need to focus on renovating the wharves and redesigning the wharf warehouse area and supply area. The military port city also needs to set aside a special military wharf, starting with several major port cities in Bohai Bay, and let Zhang Jianzhong and Tuoba Sizhi arrange it, and take this into account at the beginning of the port design. ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the Logistics Department has received inspiration from this report of the Navy. Their logistics department will get in touch with the cities in advance, set aside special military docks, and arrange corresponding measures, civilian ports will also be added to the division of warehouse areas and supply areas, and plan for the focus of coal supply. Cen Tianshi said with a smile: "I heard that there is already a special port transportation company in Tianjin, which can be regarded as solving a lot of labor problems and feeding a lot of people." ”

Several people continued to discuss these trivial matters, and then the cabinet conveyed them to the local yamen, urging them to speed up the steps. Throughout July and the second half of the second year of the Apocalypse, the south continued to fight and reconquista, while the new industrial zones represented by the Bohai Bay in the north were booming, the mineral resources in the northeast developed rapidly under the capital injection of the major wealthy merchants, and the mining industry led by the logistics department was put into operation one after another, so that the heavy industry industries had the nearest raw material production areas, and they began to take root. Moreover, after half a year of planning, the Bohai Bay Railway officially started construction in Tianjin, which later became the bloodline of the northern industrial belt and attracted the attention of countless people as soon as it started. This time, the cabinet went all out for the stability of the Northeast, not only by arranging sufficient funds, but also by coordinating the National Guard to transport all the prisoners of the Great War in the South to speed up the construction progress. Industrial groups in Shenzhou and Yizhou, as well as large-scale steelmaking enterprises, have ordered them to prepare sufficient raw materials and railway equipment to ensure that the railway can be opened to traffic as soon as possible.