Industrial expansion, after Cen Tianshi finished talking about the administrative divisions and personnel arrangements in the northwest, in fact, the content of this imperial conference has been basically completed. But everyone present at the meeting obviously had no intention of leaving, but stared at the cabinet group with more and more interest.

"The emperor won't tell them the work plan of the cabinet in advance, right?" Cen Tianshi immediately smiled bitterly when he saw everyone's appearance, turned his head to Murong Hanhai and said: "Murong, now is your time, the work plan of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Education will be arranged to meet everyone's wishes." ”

"Well, in fact, most of the plans of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce are formulated according to the laws of industrial development summarized by the emperor and the queen." Murong Hanhai saw that Qi Hong and the others beside him were looking at him, and immediately took over the conversation and said: "Since our basic industries in the northern provinces have been basically distributed last year, it means that the basic industries will become more and more complete over time. After the development of basic industry, the manufacturing industry and other industries that rely on basic industry will become more and more perfect. Murong Hanhai explained a little, but everyone present was confused except for a very small number of people like Zuo Tiancheng and Qi Hong, who had dealt with industry and commerce a lot of time. So Li Xuanqing went on to explain: "In fact, it is a kind of driving and pushing effect. After the development of basic industry, it will be able to provide more machines and raw materials for other industries, for example, the development of the chemical industry can drive the development of the military industry and the plastic industry, and only with new materials can more products be developed. "When Li Xuanqing formulated the five-year development plan, a major focus was to concentrate the strength of the empire and the six major families to deepen the basic industry, similar to the mining industry, the steel industry and the chemical industry, etc., involving the basic categories of all industrial industries, whether mature or immature in the last year, have completed the distribution, in addition to relying on the power of the empire to develop the chemical industry, the royal family led the investment cycle is long and low efficiency, but it is the basic new materials and new machinery research and development and other industries have also taken root in Fengzhou and other places, It is now also being put into production. Once there is a breakthrough in these basic industries, other industries need to be able to keep up in time, so that the finished products of these basic industries can be quickly put into practical use and turned into a terminal product into the consumer field. This is an important aspect that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce wants to talk about today. In addition to geographical duplication, the expansion of industry should be more of an increase in this industry. This is one of the driving forces behind the continuous advancement of industrial development, and the five-year industrial plan promoted by Li Xuanqing single-handedly when the population and consumer market can not play a leading role in driving development, continuous investment and development need to be the internal connection in the industrial industry.

"What the emperor said is that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Finance have jointly formulated corresponding policies, in addition to this year to land several important heavy industry bases in the Central Plains and several provinces and regions in the northeast, the main task is to study the internal connections of all walks of life, and then let them pull each other, so that they can develop together." Murong Hanhai nodded and said, "The north is still the main area dominated by the empire during the five-year industrial plan, and other places like Jiangnan and Lingnan may not be able to take care of the empire's finances in addition to their own geographical advantages. However, according to the deployment of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, although the southern region cannot achieve development in a piece, we also have corresponding plans in key areas, which is a key point in the south, so as to pull the surrounding areas so that the region can be twisted into a rope. Therefore, we will also focus on the three regional economic centers of Hangzhou, Chengdu and Guangzhou, and focus on support, so that they can get out of their own characteristics as soon as possible and develop advantageous industries. ”

Murong Hanhai's words made everyone nod for a while, although the northern industrial belt is the focus of the current development of the empire, but the empire has only concentrated most of its energy, and other regions, especially these three major economic centers, are also the focus of the empire's attention, at least on the Guangzhou side, relying on the location advantage of the Nanyang route, Guangzhou's prosperity has been able to pull almost ten states near the Pearl River Estuary in Guangzhou to catch up with the surrounding areas at a relatively fast speed, and the grand situation of Guangzhou City in the past is also recovering little by little. Moreover, the development of the Nanyang route has also brought many new affairs, and it can be said that the Lingnan region, led by Guangzhou and several important cities such as Jiaozhou, has become one of the most developed areas for shipping, and its vitality even surpasses that of the northern shipping center led by Tianjin.

"Industrial planning is widespread in the north, and priority development is in the south." Li Xuanqing said to himself that he always felt that the economic development strategy he set at the beginning was a bit strange, but this was also in line with the model and law of industrial development in later generations. At the beginning of the industrial revolution, resource-based cities were bound to be able to rely on mineral resources to develop one step ahead. It is only after the development of such heavy industry to a certain extent that the comprehensive city similar to that of later generations can be further developed. At least now, all the heavy industrial equipment and almost all the finished industrial products in Guangzhou still need to be transported from the north and then transferred out, which Li Xuanqing is very helpless. However, in her clever planning, she has already aimed at several important areas in the south in the future, and is ready to take the lead in opening the way with the help of the strong capital of the royal family and the vision and memory of the two of them in their past lives.

"Because of the need for the empire's control of the northwest, our Ministry of Communications needs to develop railway transportation and straight road construction on a large scale in the northwest, so the industrial development of Hexi Province will also be included in the list of the northern industrial belt this year." Murong Hanhai saw Li Xuanqing's pensive face, thinking that he was listening to his plan, so he continued: "The plan of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is to mainly focus on the steel and chemical industries in Hexi Province, and use this as a support point to develop Hexi's industry, and all output will be nearby to support the front line. As soon as Murong Hanhai finished speaking, Qi Hong said: "For the plan of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the Ministry of Finance is preparing to invest a total of 400 million Tang yuan in the construction of Suzhou and Liangzhou Industrial Cities over a three-year period, so that the two main industrial bases, one in the south and one in the north, are enough to support the empire to firmly rule a large area of land in the northwest. "In fact, only two industrial bases can't use so much money as 400 million Tang yuan, but because of the harsh environment in Hexi, Zhang Quanfu is more strict about the development of various industries, even if the Ministry of Industry and Commerce formulates the two industrial bases, all the factories still need to be tracked by the Ministry of Water Resources and Environmental Protection. The entire environment in Hexi was run out and planted by Zhang Quanfu and his subordinates little by little, so Zhang Quanfu listened to the industrial development plan in Hexi very carefully, and asked questions from time to time, and the whole venue was like Murong Hanhai and Qi Hong joining forces to answer Zhang Quanfu.

However, Li Xuanqing's reaction to Zhang Quanfu is in his eyes, the head of the Ministry of Water Conservancy and Environmental Protection he chose is really very competent, not only has talent for water conservancy and environmental protection, but also has an unimaginable perseverance and perseverance, for environmental protection, which is still beyond the times today, the concept can not only be understood, but also can be implemented in every word and deed, so far Li Xuanqing has only found him.

"Zhang Quanfu, the descendants of the Tang Empire will thank you for your persistence and persistence." Li Xuanqing couldn't help but praise, "And you have contributed to the environmental protection in the northwest to do so well, which is a great achievement for the present and future generations." Li Xuanqing looked at everyone's eyes and sighed: "You may not know much about the Ministry of Water Resources and Environmental Protection, but what I want to say is that we not only want to develop industry and develop the economy, but also need to pass on this vast land to our next generation." Although industrial development has led the people and the empire to become rich and powerful rapidly, the development of any era at any time has to pay a price, and what Zhang Quanfu is doing now is to choose a two-way strategy between the two. "The industrial revolution in this era is still the only one in Datang, which means that at this time, only Datang is engaged in industry in the world, so pollution will only appear in Datang. Li Xuanqing didn't want to be able to finally break this central empire to the straight road, but finally become a sinner in this land because of pollution. Therefore, for Zhang Quanfu's persistence and the increasingly formal strength of the Ministry of Water Resources and Environmental Protection, Li Xuanqing adheres to a supportive attitude. Even if today's technology level does not have a variety of ways to eliminate pollution like later generations, Zhang Quanfu uses his talent in this area to protect the environment and land as much as possible based on the most basic principles. Nowadays, in the major cities and major industrial zones of the Northern Industrial Belt, countless trees and grasses have been completed and grown along with these bases, relying on the coverage of vegetation and the protection of the environment, maintaining the balance of heaven and earth as much as possible. And now the banks of the Yellow River have changed from the Yellow River to the Green River under the banner of planting trees and grass to protect the empire.

"The emperor praised falsely, Weichen just did his best, served the empire, and escorted industrial development." Zhang Quanfu was a little honored and disgraced.

"Okay, Murong, you can continue." Li Xuanqing was very satisfied with Zhang Quanfu's performance, nodded and let Murong Hanhai continue.

"The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has one last work plan, and that is overseas trade." Murong Hanhai saw Li Xuanqing's gesture and immediately said: "At present, in addition to the South Sea and the East Ocean, we have already made a plan with the Xu family, the Zhang family and the Ma family, and from next year, the three will join forces to form a new expedition team, open up new routes and expand new trade locations. Murong Hanhai was obviously also very excited and said: "In addition, after we set up a Western fleet on the West Sea side, we can also set up a Western fleet nearby, and then directly go to trade with the countries over there, and continue to expand the empire's trade circle, so as to bring a larger market for industrial development." ”

Li Xuanqing is not surprised by the market on the Western side, in fact, a lot of trade on today's Nanyang route is the demand of the Western Ocean, especially the South Asian continent that is the body poison, that is, the later generations, there is a civilization that is almost not inferior to the Tang Dynasty, where the population is dense, the products are abundant, and the wealth accumulated for thousands of years is amazing, which are recorded in the classics. So Li Xuanqing was not worried about this, but was very surprised that they planned to open up a route in other directions, if the Tang Dynasty started to explore at this time, maybe it would really be able to rely on the industrial technology and navigation technology he brought to go further, and then the flag of the empire would be planted even further.

"In addition, we plan to use large cargo ships to transport mineral resources back to China from the outside." Murong Hanhai suddenly said a sentence that almost made Li Xuanqing bite his tongue. Isn't this already a shift from plundering money to plundering resources?

As if knowing that everyone was listening to the book of heaven, Murong Hanhai explained: "Because the Zhang family discovered an iron mine in Nanyang last time, and the quality is very good, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has formulated a plan, and the qualified areas and caravans can try to transport bulk materials and mineral resources back to China to make up for domestic consumption." But he didn't finish speaking, Cen Tianshi and Xu Tianxiang both spoke up in support, to put it bluntly, for this kind of thing of using other people's things to develop themselves, these two people are not under any pressure to do it now. And Cen Tianshi was also inspired by Li Xuanqing's previous sentence, since he wants to pass on this land to future generations, then these mineral resources dug out of the ground will be used less, originally he was still thinking about how to make up for it, but now Murong Hanhai's method made him lose his worries in an instant, so he directly smiled and said: "Murong This plan of your Ministry of Industry and Commerce is good, I support it." But you don't seem to have submitted it for review, right? ”

"That's a good idea, but how much capacity do you have on your current freighters? Don't lose more than you gain. Li Xuanqing was clear about the thoughts of a few people, and he also knew what kind of mentality he had when he heard that he had nothing to do with himself, but his eyes were different after hearing that he could take advantage, so he asked: "I don't remember that the shipyard has mature technology that can manufacture large-tonnage freighters on a large scale, and the three of them are afraid that they have other plans, right?" ”

Murong Hanhai nodded, it is normal for the three maritime trade giants to have their own ideas about the mining and transportation of overseas minerals, but Li Xuanqing said at this time: "There is one principle that everyone needs to remember, that is, the empire can export finished products when developing industry, but it must not export equipment and equipment and the technology that we have worked so hard to develop, this is an iron law." The General Staff Department and the National Guard and the Customs Department must prepare to crack down on smuggling, and we at Datang absolutely cannot tolerate the technology and machinery and equipment that we have developed with great difficulty being taken out of the country and then cheapened by others. Li Xuanqing's face also became very stern, which can be regarded as pouring cold water on everyone. It is inevitable that the industrial development will eventually export technology, but Li Xuanqing doesn't want the results he made so quickly to be given to others in vain like the four major inventions in his previous life.

"As for the ocean transportation of raw materials that you are ready to try, you can consider it. I will arrange for the shipyard to seize the time to develop high-horsepower and large-tonnage cargo ships, and I wish you all a hand. Li Xuanqing's words affirmed Murong Hanhai's plan and made everyone understand the meaning. And Cen Tianshi and the others, who were excited before, were also thoughtful.

"Okay guys, the development of the Tang Empire is now a step a year. In addition to the diligence of our people and your efforts, what is more important is that our industrial development is unique in the whole world, which is my Chinese treasure and the foundation of the empire's future forever erected on the top of all regions. Li Xuanqing clapped his hands and stood up and said: "So the more everyone is in the rapid development of industry, the more important it is to understand this, and the core technology must always remain in the country." Li Xuanqing's words were conclusive, but everyone was solemn.