Naturalization in accordance with a pre-established travel plan and route,

The tugboat I was on traveled at a speed of no more than twenty or thirty miles a day, and after it came out of Xuzhou, which can be called a model of a new city for various immigrants, and the best place in Huaibei;

Continue to take a boat along the old canal road known as the Nanqing River to the north, and enter the territory of Yanzhou, which has the largest freshwater lake in the Central Plains, Weishan Lake, and the industrial belt/coal mining area distributed around the lake, and has become another industrial and mining center in addition to Qingzhou and Yizhou in Huaidong;

I stayed here for two days, and met with the relevant persons in charge and high-end technicians of the three major industrial categories of chemical, metallurgical and cement, as well as about 16 supporting fields and downstream industries, as well as the leaders of several industrial technical schools and night schools of industrial service, including Shen Yue, a semi-retired former master craftsman of the Chinese Dynasty. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

It can be regarded as taking the opportunity to make a useful discussion and guidance on the future development expectations and the general direction of production planning, combined with the local situation; By the way, for the problems raised in private, we will give several ideas to solve the technical bottleneck and the direction that can be explored in the future.

Then, a little later than expected, we arrived in Binzhou, which is close to the mouth of the Yellow River.

As the smallest and only three small counties under the rule of Huaizhen, Xiazhou originally only had some reclamation strongholds in addition to the short and narrow county seat; However, in recent years, it has gradually prospered in another way because of the long-term private trade and trade exchanges with Hebei, and the benefits of the secondary port city with access to the sea;

In addition, it subsequently controlled the enclave on the other side of Hebei, and was able to absorb a large number of resettled people from Hebei, and actually ranked first in last year's annual plan, becoming one of the major commercial tax payers in the Huaidi prefectures. As the largest local garrison base, Liangshan Town has become another naval training base at the turn of the river and the sea under the rule of Huaizhen.

Here, I also rarely brought three pieces ashore for a short time, reminiscing about some of the short years I spent in Liangshan and the Eight Hundred Miles of Water; I also traced some things in the past, and listened to some residual parties, descriptions and memories from various angles.

When starting again, continue along the local Caohe River trunk road into Jishui, and turn west all the way through Jeju and Qizhou, and finally arrive at the northwest corner of Huaizhen along the key border area of Yunzhou.

However, because of the long-term confrontation with the enemy and the preparation for war, the areas on the north and south banks of Jishui also presented two completely different development styles; On the south shore is a pastoral scene similar to that of the mainland, which is rich in people, connected by strange places, lined with villages, and where thousands of miles of chickens and dogs smell each other endlessly, and all kinds of peddlers and pawns are almost endless.

On the north shore, there is a fortress and watchtower, and the local household registration is also based on the compulsory restriction of the person and the scope of activities, and the nature of the military cantonment to prepare for the enemy is the main model; As a result, the population is highly concentrated in key areas, and the reclaimed areas are obviously much more uniform, and there are rarely single pedestrians and business travelers on the roads.

However, there seems to have been some improvement in recent years, mainly due to the introduction of a considerable number of Japanese from Fuso and exiled Tu from the Silla domain, as well as immigrants from other islands from overseas to fill the gaps, and gradually developed those originally barren lands in a mixed manner, creating a number of settlements with obvious overseas characteristics.

Although they do not necessarily have more advantages than the traditional Tang people in terms of labor performance and value creation, they are better in a sense by being hard-working, not picky eaters, obedient and extremely tolerant; Lower maintenance costs and management costs in a given environment, and can be used as a pioneer and chronic consumable in barren and barren lands.

During this period, except for the differences in specific data, the reports along the way were basically the same or similar;

Of course, this is not the product of the rigidity and dogma of the bureaucratic system, but represents a fairly stable daily situation in the locality, with neither great prosperity nor great change, but a gradual process of gradual development, which is the most common and coveted year in traditional agrarian societies.

Thanks to the supporting irrigation and climate regulation system of the canal water system, Huaizhen has not heard of climate-related disasters in these years, even if the Huaihe River flooded in the early years, or the locust plague that ravaged the two Huai in the future, it has not had a substantial impact on the core area of Huaizhen's key development.

In this case, in addition to the natural laws and cycles of crops, the annual cost of the annual cost has been reduced and the changes in profit and loss, as well as the cascading effects of disasters in some surrounding areas, it is difficult to have a significant impact on the overall trend of agricultural production under the rule of Huaizhen.

Moreover, even if these factors occur at the same time, under the organizational efficiency and mobilization ability of Huaizhen, they will be weakened and contained to a large extent, and even the influence will be eliminated invisibly.

After all, the traditional model of smallholder economy is of course quite fragile and resigned.

However, if it is replaced by a strong regime, the means of macroeconomic regulation and control under the executive power and organizational efficiency, and the collective production mode under the maximally optimized planned economy, coupled with the tools, technology and means of production provided by primary industrialization, and so on, it will become a completely different matter under the interlocking effect of multiple bonuses.

Even under the economic model of the past, it may take a relatively stable three to five years for a regime to accumulate the next year's corn, and it is accompanied by a series of collateral consequences of exhaustive civil scavenging.

Therefore, Guan Zi said: If Su travels for 300 miles, the country will not accumulate for a year; If the millet travels for 400 miles, the country will not accumulate for two years; If the millet travels for 500 miles, the people will be hungry.

However, if we add a series of additions to the various agricultural production increases brought about by advanced technological changes such as seeds, tools, and fertilizers, as well as a series of additions in logistics and transportation, grain preservation and processing, it can be described as a complete generation gap that has advanced by leaps and bounds.

Even if the same natural disaster is encountered**, it is completely possible to use social resources and the deployment capacity in the Hongguang plan more efficiently to minimize its impact and destruction, or control and limit it to a specific range;

Instead of producing a series of completely out-of-control chain reactions and rapid collapse of the situation, such as a series of completely out-of-control chain reactions and a great chaos after a major disaster, there will be a great epidemic, and a great disaster will be followed by a great disaster.

This is why in the series of major wars in modern society in the future, industrialized countries can easily defeat any agricultural country on the basis of continuous war mobilization potential and the use of social resources.

This is like why, even in the modern society with a high level of scientific and technological information, those African and South American countries are always hovering in a vicious circle of war, famine and disaster; However, many modern civilized countries in Eurasia, which are based on industrialization, can calmly turn into commonplace universal charity activities or government relief projects in the face of many disasters with little cost and greater efficiency under the joint efforts of the whole society.

Similarly, the population and territory of Huaizhen have been increasing, and the use of foreign troops of all sizes has been uninterrupted, but there has never been an obvious famine, but only a short-term shortage of materials and local supply shortages; The key reason for even the surplus and steady increase in production is possible.

Moreover, even in the most difficult and arduous period when Huaizhen was first established, few people were starved to death compared to the starvation in the surrounding areas, and there were only a few dozen to hundreds of deaths from overwork or malnutrition complications, which are the potential benefits of collective alms and organizational efficiency.

Therefore, those enclaves and newly managed populations can also rely on this mature operation system, and soon use a simple and crude digestion mode to begin to achieve partial self-sufficiency and self-sustaining capacity in the coming year, and even begin to directly or indirectly feed back into the Huaizhen system through various forms of resources and outputs.

And the food and various resources that can be left behind are also an incomparably powerful weapon and hole card in this still chaotic world.

For example, all kinds of processed food that is convenient for long-term storage are loaded into ships in the name of individuals and traveled up the Huaishui, Baigou and Bianhe rivers, and sold privately to those friendly troops and neighbors stationed in the north, and then exchanged for various local specialties, goods, and booty, and even women of the appropriate age to give birth and craftsmen with skills.

From this time to come, it can be said that they are gradually growing the latent power base of Huaizhen.

It's just that just before the boat was about to enter the territory of Yunzhou, an emergency report delivered by a fast horse slightly affected my mood on this trip

"What, I found that there are suspected spies and dead soldiers of the Western Army sneaking into my Xuzhou territory?"

"Four people were killed on the spot, and the remaining three are still at large?"

"The tentacles of these thieves are still stretched out." (To be continued.) )