Chapter 42: To the north is Lushun, to the south is Yangzhou

Fu Ning always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with Donghaiguo's abandoned infant adoption policy, but he couldn't think of it, and he still couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for many days; Even Lao Yue and Yao Shizhu are aware of this, but they can't say why. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Not punishing parents of abandoned babies is one of the reasons for the high phenomenon of abandoned babies, but it is certainly not the main reason, so there must be other reasons, but the three of them haven't figured it out for a while.

The three of them sat at the dinner table of Fu Ning's house and chatted while eating, discussing the various reasons for the high phenomenon of abandoned babies, and even Yao Yun and Baoqin enthusiastically joined the discussion, but they still couldn't figure it out. In the end, Yuan Qi, who rushed over to eat, couldn't listen to it anymore.

"I said, do you really don't know or don't know?! -- The orphans in the orphanage are well fed, well dressed, well educated, and the key is that there is a file system to register the names of their biological parents; Send your daughter to the orphanage, and then take it home in a few years, save money and effort, and you can get a good daughter back, which parent is unwilling? Call me too, I want to save trouble! ”。

The few people who listened were stunned, and their faces were red; I can't think of such a simple question, and it's in vain to be the highest level of the East China Sea! Fu Ningdu suddenly felt that his face was a little feverish. "Emotionally, everyone treats the orphanage as a nursery! -- In vain, I thought it was a relic of feudal thinking! ”。

Figuring out the cause of the matter was easy to solve, so the General Staff and the Department of Culture soon issued a new policy:

1. Newly adopted babies will no longer be registered as their biological parents, and the policy of non-local adoption will be implemented; No matter how much anyone dares to abandon the baby, he will never return the abandoned daughter.

2. The Department of Culture began to establish a large number of nurseries and kindergartens, nurseries are responsible for assisting in the care of infants and toddlers aged one to three, kindergartens are responsible for the care and education of children aged four to six, and nurseries and kindergartens implement a policy of fees plus official subsidies.

3. The marriage law began to solicit proposals, and began to release rumors that those who were not meritorious to the state were not allowed to take concubines.

4. Strictly investigate the phenomenon of oppressing women and abusing girls, and strictly prohibit the illegal use of slave labor.

Sure enough, the abandonment of female babies has been greatly reduced and the status of women and girls has been greatly improved. The strange thing is that it was men who supported the new law and regulations, and women who opposed it!

At the end of July of 1723, the first year of the British Dynasty's Calendar, the "Northwest General Changwu" defeated the main force of the rebels in northern Xinjiang under the city of Datong and won a great victory; The rows of muskets and the new red-coated cannons played a great role, and the court officials who had asked Changwu to behead Changwu turned to chant Changwu, hating to annihilate all the rebels for Changwu in person, so that Changwu was also a little fluttering; However, when the imperial court's infantry counterattacked into the grassland, the problem came out, the infantry army against the cavalry, although they had the advantage of firearms, but still suffered defeats, Changwu had to retreat to the city of Suiyuan, operating the fortress-like tactics of advancing step by step, and began a scorching battle that lasted for more than three years.

Firearms and equipment also began to appear in the official military camps in the northwest, and they began to counterattack towards Gansu step by step; In 1724, the British Dynasty recovered Ganzhou in July of the second year and marched to Suzhou. Fu Ning also wondered why the British Dynasty hadn't used up those posterior gun bullets? Fu Ning was waiting to use ammunition to knock Emperor Shunhe's bamboo pole!

The intelligence department Yanshantang finally had news that the British Dynasty had secretly built a military factory imitating Liuqiu in Taiyuan City, and had already begun to produce breech guns and muskets, but the output and quality were very low, but now they can also imitate the rear gun and rear gun bullets, although its quality is much worse, but it can also be used. Emperor Shunhe kept too many people in the dark!

The land area of the British Dynasty is much larger than the land area of the East China Sea, the power of Yanshantang is in Beijing, Hebei, Luyu, Huaiyangtang's power is in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhejiang-Gantang and Minshantang have long been merged into Zhejiang-Mintang, and another is the Liangguangtang of Lingnan; Therefore, Shanxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet and other places in the northwest are places that the Intelligence Department has not taken into account, so it is not surprising that there is a lack of intelligence information, so it is not expected that Emperor Shunhe will secretly establish a military base in Taiyuan.

Fu Ning believed that Emperor Shunhe was a smart man, and he should have seen the strong rise of the East China Sea Kingdom very early, and spying and imitating the East China Sea Kingdom was an inevitable choice. Not only Emperor Shunhe, Fu Ning believes that there are not one or two "smart people" in the British Dynasty who can see the modernization power of the East China Sea, but those "enlightened" people cannot shake the inherent national policy of the British Dynasty, and the traditional power of the feudal scholars is extremely huge, so in the next few years, the British Dynasty will inevitably be a rigid and old feudal system, and occasionally some enlightened gentlemen and landlords and officials will try to reform, but they will definitely not be able to toss any big waves.

Fu Ning is concerned about three things, one is the industrial revolution and social development, the second is territorial expansion, and the third is "enjoying the women in the world of red mansions". The Industrial Revolution and social development mainly needed education and scientific research, territorial expansion needed military force, and "enjoying the women in the world of the Red Mansion" needed the privacy means of the Intelligence Division; Therefore, the things that Fu Ning needs to grasp will be sorted out clearly and in an orderly manner.

The leader of the industrial revolution and social development in the East China Sea is the island of Ryuqiu, and the most important industrial development plans on the island have now shifted to internal combustion engine power and electricity; Popularization of electricity is Fu Ning's ardent expectation, but it depends on breakthroughs in petroleum technology.

Polyethylene is the first plastic sample experimented by the Scientific Research Division, but the first industrialized is polyvinyl chloride; At the beginning, after the experimental breakthrough of polyethylene was ordered by Fu Ning to promote knowledge and technology to share with the entire scientific research department, and then in less than a month, the scientific research department found a more easily manufactured polyvinyl chloride, and quickly deduced the industrial production plan; Then ten possible industrial experimental production lines began to be laid, although eight were scrapped after failure, but after all, an industrial production line was selected in the fastest time. Then, ten PVC production lines began to be built and laid, a large number of insulating materials were produced, and the long-prepared electricity production and consumption plan was able to be fully rolled out; As soon as power plants, power transmission and transformation, power consumption, and industrial insulation materials appeared, all related power popularization plans began to be in full swing!

The construction of nine power plants in the four places, including the Jilong Power Plant, the Huwei Power Plant, the Chichi Power Plant, the Changhua Power Plant, and nine power plants in the four places, and even Manila, Cebu, Penghu, Boni, Xiaguan, Jeju, and Lushun have begun to select sites for planning and construction of power plants. Electric light factories, motor factories, power transmission line factories, substation factories, etc., all kinds of related equipment factories have begun to be established frantically and rapidly.

In Fu Ning's original life, the former Soviet Union spent two and a half five-year plans to build an agricultural country into a huge and powerful industrial country, and Hitler spent eight years to build a weak Weimar country into an incomparably powerful German Empire; Therefore, Fu Ning greatly admires state capitalism, or state socialism, and greatly likes the national development strategy model that concentrates state strength in education, scientific research, heavy industry and collective economy, and the current East China Sea is suitable for that model!

What was missing from the crazy development of Greater Germany and the former Soviet Union was agriculture, but the current East China Sea country will not lack agriculture, because the staple food of the East China Sea country now comes from fishing; The vigorous development of heavy industry can just increase shipbuilding, expand fishery production, and will not lead to famine; And there are a large number of alien elites in the surrounding area who can be caught for mining, which greatly accelerates the industrialization process of the East China Sea Kingdom, and will not hurt the vitality of the Han people, such favorable conditions are very pleasing to Fu Ning! The gold and iron mines of Luzon Province often consumed hundreds of thousands of alien strongmen, and now even the elite women of different races have become iron mine miners; A large number of free laborers are the basis for the take-off of the industry in the East China Sea, and Fu Ning never hesitates to use it, anyway, the surrounding alien races can't be caught!

According to the current rate of industrial development in the East China Sea, the estimates of the Department of Industry are that the open-pit coal mines on the islands south of Manila can be developed for about ten years, but the estimates of the General Staff and Fu Ning are only four years; Because the growth rate of coal use estimated by the Department of Industry is 40 percent, and the growth rate of coal use estimated by Fu Ning and the General Staff Department is at least 80 percent in the next few years! With the popularization of railways, shipbuilding, electricity, and internal combustion engines, Fu Ning feels that the growth rate of coal and iron in the next few years of 80% is undercounted, and may even be overturned. The construction plan of the chicken coop internal combustion engine plant alone is formulated with a plan to reach 5,000 units a year, 20,000 units in two years, and 50,000 units in three years, in addition to the expansion and construction plan of the agricultural machinery factory and automobile factory, as well as the railway expansion plan, the thermal power plant popularization plan and other plans, these plans are also plans to devour a large amount of coal, iron and oil; Even Fu Ning has already begun to order the construction of iron and steel, shipbuilding, locomotives, railways, thermal power and other heavy industry government enterprises in the place between Lushun and Jinzhou, the General Staff Department has already regarded Lushun as the northern capital and began to plan, various universities have begun to establish branch campuses in Lushun, and military forces have begun to gather in Lushun, "To the north!" Northward! This is the consensus known to the top of the East China Sea State! After all kinds of plans are fully rolled out, coal, iron and oil will be consumed wildly, and the entire high-level of the East China Sea Country is looking forward to the high-quality coal, iron and oil in the underground of the Bohai Sea Country described by Fu Ning!

After the Battle of Datong at the end of July last year, he thought that he would soon use muskets to pacify the north, and then he would be able to free up his hands to govern people's livelihood and develop economy and industry, but he did not expect that after the musket troops entered the grassland, they would become "transport captains" and transport teams that specialized in "sending muskets" to the rebels! In the face of the rebels' huge mobile rangers and new-style musket infantry on the steppe, they were exhausted and vulnerable, so the ensuing battle became a scorching battle, which made people want to stop and have suffering! Therefore, Emperor Shunhe was slow to take action to govern internal affairs.

The consequence of Emperor Shunhe's failure to make a move was that his brothers were flooded with dregs, intriguing to make trouble for him, and domestic political disputes emerged one after another; The most typical example is Lin Lian Lin Ruhai, a scholar who wanted to be a pure minister, was killed in Yangzhou in office!

Lin Ruhai's death was a precursor! The original three princes, the current three princes Jin Rong is based in the south of the Yangtze River, although the Zhen family has fallen, but Jin Rong has a lot of hidden forces, plus Yangzhou has become an important place for foreign trade in recent years, and last year's trade volume alone exceeded the annual income of the British Dynasty, reaching 70 million taels of silver, so Yangzhou has already become a place where fish and dragons are mixed, and all parties play games; The four kings and eight princes, the old brothers of the new emperor, the corrupt officials and magnates from all over the country, the one who didn't stretch out his hand to get a little money, so Lin Ruhai, who was quite a pure minister and blocked everyone's wealth, was also very dangerous.

At this time, Yangzhou was like Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty in Fu Ning's original world, and it became a test field for adventurers, corrupt officials and magnates to make crazy games and profits! Lin Ruhai has long been overwhelmed by the flood of those hidden forces, and he is lucky to be able to survive until last year. In the summer of 1723, that is, in July of the first year of Shunhe of the British Dynasty, before the Battle of Datong, there was already the imperial history of Jinling Province impeaching Lin Ruhai, because Lin Ruhai, who wanted to be a pure minister, blocked too many people's way to get rich, so as soon as the excerpt of the impeachment of Lin Ruhai by the imperial history of Jinling Province appeared, more than 30 officials of Jinling Province immediately echoed the excerpt; Emperor Shunhe finally delayed for a while, and relied on the victory of the Datong War to relieve Lin Ruhai, which was the precursor to Lin Ruhai's death; If Lin Ruhai retreated at this time, maybe he would still have a way to live, but Lin Ruhai overestimated the deterrent power of Emperor Shunhe, thinking that no "Xiaoxiao" dared to give him a hard one, but he was assassinated in the bedroom at the beginning of this year, and when he died, his eyes were still wide open, and he seemed to be unwilling!

Lin Ruhai's death made the situation in Jinling Province even more weird, and even Jiangning City began to have a strict curfew, as for Yangzhou, the new Yangzhou Salt Patrol Imperial Shi Li Zhenhai immediately died old as soon as he received the appointment, because everyone knows that Yangzhou has become a land of gold and silver, but it is definitely a place of right and wrong, with gold everywhere and bones everywhere!

No one wants to serve in Yangzhou, the existing Yangzhou prefect is a slippery official, no one can be offended, and there are no days to go to the yamen a year, the new Jiangning weaving Zhang Qing simply did not go to Yangzhou to inspect, so Yangzhou has gradually become a "anarchic" place, the salt gang, the Cao gang, the secret guards of the princes, and other forces are very happy; People in Yangzhou's Caoyun wharf will feel unaccustomed to not picking up a few corpses every day. All kinds of underground forces in Yangzhou are intertwined, in fact, they rule the whole Yangzhou city, there are many mountains of sea trade goods, more than 50 wharves on the gold and silver seas of goods are traded and transported away like flowing water, grain, salt, tea, silk, ironware, porcelain, paper, department stores, leather goods and cloth, minerals and petroleum materials, pearl agate, medicinal materials and gold stones, etc., are busy transporting in and out, of course, there is no lack of swords and muskets smuggling, and the amount is very large!