Chapter 157 Building a New Taiwan
Zhao Xiaolong has been the vice governor of the archipelago province for more than half a year, and he has learned a lot of skills from the elite-level government official Governor Zheng Qiang, and he has not had room to play, and now he is the governor of Taiwan Province, and Taiwan Province, which has just been recovered from the Japanese, is like a blank canvas that needs him to create. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhang Wei asked that the provincial government be located in Taichung City, which is located in the middle of the island of Taiwan, which can easily connect the north and south.
The first department to start working after the local governments were in place was the courts. In Taichung, there are Taiwan Provincial Special Courts, intermediate courts in counties and cities, and there are not so many judges in the primary courts of townships and towns for the time being. The first task of the court is not to open the door to handle cases, but to vigorously publicize the laws of Lanfang, so that the people of Taiwan know what to do, what not to do, and what to do in the future, especially to publicize the constitution of the Lanfang Kingdom, so that everyone can experience the benefits of the Han people being the masters of the country; The second thing is to conduct screening training for existing legal personnel. The Provincial Court established a political science and law academy in Taichung City to train grassroots judges and lawyers.
The second thing the government did was to promote the use of shaved hair and clothing, and to abolish women's foot binding, otherwise they would be restricted in schooling, joining the army, entering politics, working, and allocating land.
The third thing is to recruit local garrisons and civil servants from grassroots governments. For those with military expertise, they will have the opportunity to study at the Royal Army Military Academy in Lanfang, and those with administrative specialties will also have the opportunity to study at the Lanfang Government College. This has broadened the sources of grassroots civil servants and opened up a channel for the people at the bottom to rise, and ensuring that the people at the grassroots level have a smooth channel for rising is one of the most basic elements for ensuring social stability. This time, the entire Taiwan Province recruited 500 grassroots government personnel, 1 division, and a garrison of 12,000 people, and the requirements and treatment were implemented in accordance with the unified requirements of the Lanfang Kingdom.
Now the first task is to build a railway from Keelung Port to Taichung City through Taoyuan to Tainan and Kaohsiung; At the same time, Taichung Port will be built into a commercial port to facilitate the entry and exit of materials, and the road between the port and Taichung City will be widened.
Under Japanese rule, Japan only regarded Taiwan as a production area for cheap crops, provided Japan with cheap grain, and forcibly purchased Japanese industrial products, and even implemented a monopoly on the necessities of daily life to seek huge profits, resulting in the common people of Taiwan working all day long, being poor and miserable, and living a life without food.
After Zhao Xiaolong took office, his key work was to expand infrastructure construction, provide jobs, improve the treatment of workers, and do his best to ensure that the income of workers can feed their families.
The first infrastructure project was to build roads, first to connect the north and south of Taiwan, and then to connect the roads between the towns and villages in the county, as for the railway, it was built with the captured Japanese, and the railway was divided into several working sections, and each working section arranged for thousands of Japanese to work, and there was a ration every day, and the meals that could not be completed were halved, and they were also ordered to explore the road from Taichung City to Hualien County, and after the railway was built, they sent these Japanese to build this road, and when the conditions were right, and then build a railway from Taichung to Hualien County to facilitate the communication between the east and west of the central mountain range; The second infrastructure is the construction of junior high schools, high schools and other schools in each county, the construction of several primary schools in each township, the complete abolition of Japanese language teaching, the use of Chinese teaching, the teaching materials are compiled by the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Lanfang; The third infrastructure is the expansion of military and police barracks in various places; The fourth government investment is to dredge rivers and build irrigation facilities for farmland; The fifth task is to clean up the sewers and roads in the city, and the renovation of shanty areas; The sixth is to open water plants in every county and city to ensure the safety of drinking water for residents, as well as other new markets, street greening, sanitation, garbage disposal, etc.
There are six measures to benefit the people, the first is to implement eight-year compulsory education; The second is to build a civilian grain store in each county, specializing in rice, white flour and salt, and abolish the monopoly on salt; The third is to ask Zhang Wei to build a royal special hospital in Taichung, and to open a Taiwan Medical College, and to build two high-level hospitals in Taipei and Tainan; The fourth is the establishment of the Taiwan Normal College in Taichung; The fifth is to distribute the land of the traitor family, the traitor and the Japanese to individuals according to the standard of 20 mu per person, and the policy is the same as that of other places in the Lanfang Kingdom; The sixth measure is to lighten the people's tax burden, exempt this year's agricultural tax and all commercial taxes, and implement the rest of the tax policies from next year.
After the recovery of Keelung Port, Chief of Staff Du suggested that the sacrificed soldiers be buried at the foot of Keelung Mountain, Zhang Wei agreed with this suggestion, and also proposed to establish a military cemetery and a monument to heroes in the Northern Theater in Keelung Mountain, which was unanimously approved by Li Zhaoshui and others.
For industrial construction, first of all, to support the development of national capital and private capital, in order to make the capital believe in the sincerity of the government, to dispel their concerns, Zhao Xiaolong decided to auction all the enterprises established by the original Japanese and traitor families, as long as they are Taiwanese Chinese, they can participate in the auction, the highest price wins, Zhao Xiaolong's action has won the unanimous applause of the national capitalists, and the provincial government has also won the trust and support of these people.
For the development of industries, priority is given to supporting light industries that require less capital, such as the food industry, garment processing industry, and trade industry, as well as Taiwan's advantageous sugar pressing industry and the textile printing and dyeing industry, which has a huge market.
The provincial government will strongly support the industries with local advantageous resources reported by various localities.
In order to support the marine fishing industry in the eastern counties, three canneries were established in the three eastern counties.
In Taitung County, Yilan County and Nanping County, three medium-sized cement plants have been established using local limestone resources, and will continue to expand the scale of production after they are officially put into operation and production and sales are stable.
A shipyard was established in Tainan City, and the shipyard and other equipment were purchased by Zhang Wei from the system, mainly producing civilian cargo ships, Taiwan is an island, and if foreign exchanges are inseparable, ships will be inseparable, and the shipbuilding and shipping industries will definitely flourish in the future.
The provincial government promised that when these enterprises are on the right track, they will all be auctioned on the market in order to support the rapid development of Taiwan's national capital.
Expand the amount of coal mining in Taipei, arrange some traitors and their families to dig coal in the coal mine until they die of old age, and apply for a set of modern coal mining machinery and a large pithead power plant from Zhang Wei, and the electricity generated can be supplied to Keelung, Taipei, Taoyuan and other places; Expand thermal power plants in Tainan and Taichung to meet the electricity needs of new enterprises.
To speed up the construction of ports and wharves in various parts of Taiwan, in this era of inconvenient transportation, it is still the most cost-effective to develop water transportation.
Now Taiwan is full of construction sites, construction is happening everywhere, and the scene of vigorous development makes all people full of confidence in the future of Taiwan and full of confidence in the Kingdom of Lanfang.
Due to preferential policies, a large number of factories began to be built, small handicraft workshops have sprung up, coupled with government investment to stimulate consumption, the service industry is booming, making Taiwan's employment tense.
Zhao Xiaolong asked Zhang Wei to immigrate from the mainland, and Zhang Wei was very supportive of this, so he told him that it was very convenient, that is, to build Taiwan into an immigration point, and transport immigrants from Shanghai, Wuhan, Hangzhou, and other places to Taiwan.
Zhang Wei is very satisfied with the changes in Taiwan over the past 10 days or so, and believes that he will definitely be able to win the support of the Taiwan people.
Zhao Xiaolong is full of confidence that he must build Taiwan Province into a rich and beautiful country worthy of the title of "treasure island."
(To be continued.) )