Chapter 696: The First Five-Year Plan of the Empire (Part I)
In September of the second year of Taisheng, after two months of preparation, the cabinet of the Chinese Empire issued the country's first five-year development plan in accordance with the requirements of Emperor Feng Yunshan, covering all aspects of the empire. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
According to the plan, from the third year of Taisheng to the eighth year of Taisheng, during these five years, the central government of the empire will vigorously develop local construction on the basis of establishing military industry, developing banking and finance, and railway transportation.
In the entire five-year development plan, eight development tasks are mainly listed.
First, vigorously develop the military industry.
Funded by the state, four major shipbuilding bureaus were set up in Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Shanghai, and Dengzhou, and Western machinery and technicians were introduced, Western ship-making technology was learned, and warships were manufactured on a large scale. Guangzhou originally had the Cheung Chau Shipyard, which has begun to take shape. The other three shipyards require a large shipyard to be built within two years, and a supporting plant to be built within three years, and put into operation.
In addition, a general machine manufacturing bureau was set up in Shengjing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Wuchang. According to the plan, these four general bureaus of machinery manufacturing will not only help machine factories in various localities but also other industrial factories to manufacture machines needed for production, and the main target is also the production base of the four major arms factories.
Under each General Administration of Machinery Manufacturing, there are more than 10 factories such as steam furnace factory, steam hammer factory, machine factory, wrought iron factory, rifle factory, artillery factory, wood factory, copper and iron casting factory, steel factory, gunpowder factory, bullet factory, artillery shell factory, rocket factory, power factory, etc., with more than 20,000 employees, realizing the manufacture of guns, ammunition and machines, and also has cultural and educational institutions such as translation halls and design and development bureaus.
The heads of the four general directorates of machinery are the supervisors, and there are two or three deputy supervisors. More than 10 branches under each General Administration of Machinery have set up general offices and co-offices to be responsible for the management of each branch.
Other ancillary supporting raw materials are purchased nearby. Therefore, these four major manufacturing bureaus alone can pull a large number of small factories in the vicinity to come into being, forming a huge military industrial chain.
Second, develop agriculture.
According to Feng Yunshan's meaning, he did not neglect agriculture because he wanted to promote industrialization. Because he knows that even in the future more than 100 years later, when society has developed to that point, the country will always put agriculture first. "There is no stability without agriculture, and chaos without grain!" This is a famous quote from later generations.
The first plan is to prepare for the reform of agricultural policy. The State is led by the Ministry of Agriculture to set up agricultural institutes in various localities to provide guidance to local agriculture. Promote the establishment of peasant training centers, train agricultural knowledge, introduce improved seeds, plant crops according to local conditions, encourage land reclamation, implement three-year exemption from grain tax, reduce rent and interest, and let the people cultivate and recuperate.
Agriculture is mainly based on the development of water conservancy and irrigation. In this five-year plan, Feng Yunshan was established to build reservoirs, ponds, canals, and develop water conservancy facilities in the Great Leap Forward era. The local government organized and mobilized the squires and the common people to vigorously build basic water conservancy construction, with the local government contributing half of the funds, the local gentry raising half of the funds, and the common people contributing labor.
Second, agricultural equipment should be transformed and new farming methods should be implemented. Vigorously promote the new agricultural tools sold by Nanji hardware stores, and implement certain subsidies for farmers to purchase new large-scale agricultural tools. Develop the breeding of cultivated cattle, and prohibit the slaughter of cultivated cattle without reason. At the same time, agricultural institutes set up in various localities have promoted new farming methods, deep ploughing, and point tillage, so as to improve efficiency.
With regard to the organization of agricultural production, a major reform has been carried out. The local government encourages people to form cooperatives, buy agricultural tools together, and help each other to resist natural disasters and farming.
Vigorously promote phosphate fertilizer, and at the same time prepare to build more phosphate fertilizer plants, combined with fire composting, based on human and animal fertilizer, to increase crop yields. In addition, the planting of mulberry, cotton, and double-cropping rice is encouraged, and the optimal breeding is renewed.
Third, the establishment of civilian industries.
The state is ready to use five years to develop the Chinese Empire from a backward agricultural country into a certain industrial base, with a relatively developed handicraft industry and a machine industry in all provinces and provinces.
First of all, in the major state capitals of each province, a cement factory, a hardware factory, a phosphate fertilizer factory, a flour factory, a printing factory, a traditional Chinese medicine factory, a match factory, a soap factory, a sugar factory, an oil factory, a garment factory, a winery, a paper factory, a firewood furniture factory, a coal brick factory, and other livelihood factories related to production and life have been set up, so as to basically meet the living needs of the local people and seize the market.
Second, the main state capitals of several provinces are required to establish medical bureaus, post offices, and supply and marketing cooperatives to provide communication and retail services.
At the same time, private capital should be encouraged to enter civilian industries and set up industries. Incentives and support measures should be taken for private factories, factories, mines, and workshops, and some laws and policies conducive to the development of local industries should be formulated, loans should be granted, taxes should be reduced or exempted, and the establishment of factories such as tea brick factories and silk reeling factories for the development of foreign trade should be especially encouraged.
Fourth, the construction of transportation, the construction of railways and official roads, smooth freight transportation.
In terms of land routes, one-third of the funds were allocated by the state, one-third by the local government, and one-third by the local gentry and the people were raised to raise funds and recruit people, carry out large-scale repair and transformation of post roads and official roads, and implement all cement hardening of major official roads. Especially in the inland provinces, the toll stations have been reduced, and the original checkpoint stations on the official roads have been developed into small towns.
In addition, the state focuses on the construction of railways. In this five-year plan, it is planned to build several large railways spanning east, west, north and south.
The first is the South Beijing Railway, also known as the Guangdong-Straight Railway, which spans the north and south of the entire empire. Among them, this railway started from the city of Guangzhou in the south as the imperial Nanjing, passed through Munan, Mubei, and Henan, and arrived at Beijing in Zhili. The section from Shaozhou to Guangzhou, from Shaozhou, has been completed, and the section from Shaozhou to Guiyang, Hunan, will be completed in the near future, and only another section north of Guiyang needs to be built. In the five-year plan, this railway is divided into several sections, and the construction of the railway will start at the same time, from Beijing to Kaifeng, Kaifeng to Hankou, Hankou to Guiyang, and it will be completed and opened to traffic within five years.
The second railway is still the Dongshengbei Sanjing Railway that runs through the north and south, also known as the Suzhou-Zhizhi Railway. This railway, starting from the imperial city of Tokyo and Shanghai, passes through Shengjing, Huai'an, Xuzhou, Jinan, and Baoding, and joins the Guangdong-direct railway to Beijing.
The third railway is the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Railway from Shanghai to Ningbo via Hangzhou.
The fourth railway, Jiujiang through Nanchang, arrived in Jingdezhen, and connected with the Jiangxi-Fujian railway, which was already under construction. It is equivalent to connecting Jiujiang in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River with Fuzhou, a port to the sea.
The other sporadic short-distance railways were not specified in the Cabinet's Five-Year Plan, but were left to the local provinces to build on their own.
At the same time, the five-year plan proposes ways to vigorously improve surface freight transportation. At the same time, public warehouses and transportation agencies for major crops have been set up in various localities to facilitate storage and transshipment.
In terms of water transport, in addition to the Liangguang Ocean Shipping Company, the state set up the Southern Water Transport Company and handed over all the inland river transportation parts of the Liangguang Ocean Shipping Company to the Southern Water Transport Company, and the Liangguang Ocean Shipping Company concentrated on offshore shipping. The Southern Water Transport Company is divided into the Yangtze River Water Transport Company, the Pearl River Water Transport Company, the Zhejiang Water Transport Company, the Minjiang River Water Transport Company, etc., taking each inland river system as the location, and unifying the inland river transportation of the entire south of the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River basin to become bigger and stronger.
At the same time, private capital is encouraged to enter the water transport industry, subsidies are given, and private small shipping companies are extended to state capitals.