At the same time as the new capital was opened, this period of time was the most chaotic time within the empire, and it was impossible for the imperial government to stop all work and relocate, so it was necessary to move part of it, and then leave a part, and after the Zhongjing side was settled, the people who stayed in Beiping were carrying the rest of the things over. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fortunately, now that the section of the Jinghan Line from Beiping to Zhongjing has been completed and opened to traffic, with the help of the railway, the relocation of the imperial government is much faster than expected.

But even so, the Jinghan Line deliberately stopped operating for a whole week, and arranged hundreds of trains to join this large-scale relocation operation.

A week later, the completion was only half done, and many officials arranged for their families to come in advance, wait for the unit to allocate the house, and then clean it up.

Therefore, more than half of these hundreds of trains are passenger trains, and they have to depart more than ten times a day on average to meet the current needs.

Because the state administration has stopped operating halfway, there are gradually some discordant voices. Most people think that the relocation speed is too fast, which will leave more serious sequelae for Beiping, and at the same time, if the relocation speed is too fast, it is not a good thing for the country, many things can be done in one day, but now it takes two or three days, or even longer.

Speaking of which, the biggest complaints are still the local people in Beiping.

Although the feet of the Son of Heaven will make many people feel a little aggrieved, many things are taken away. But on the other hand, there are also benefits under the feet of the Son of Heaven.

For example, some people have invested in several shops, and there are many dignitaries and wealthy people in the imperial city, so their spending power is also quite strong, even if they don't do business, they can rent out the shops and collect a lot of rent every year.

And when the capital has been for hundreds of years, the people here have long been accustomed to the life of sitting on rent and living as an uncle, and they also feel that they are the capital, the imperial city, the closest place to the Son of Heaven, and those who can live here are all people with status.

Now that the capital has moved away, and a large number of dignitaries have been taken with them, the wealthy merchants will also follow the Son of Heaven to the new capital.

And Beiping will gradually be forgotten, it doesn't matter to businessmen, where to do business is different? But for the locals, it's like a disaster.

The rich are gone, who are their shops renting to? Even if someone is willing to rent, who would want to pay a high price for it? And now, many people have begun to have a headache.

Originally, some shops were about to expire, and according to the current market, the rent could go up a little more, but as soon as it was reported that the capital was going to move to Zhongjing, those shops immediately chose not to renew their contracts, and moved out after the rent expired, or simply quit.

How can this kind of gap between heaven and earth be accepted?

The local people in Beiping petitioned the Son of Heaven to set the capital as Beiping and not relocate, but the response given by the imperial government was that the Ming and Qing dynasties set the capital in Beiping, which was caused by the international situation at that time, that is, the reason for the propaganda of the 'Son of Heaven guarding the pass', but it is no longer the situation at that time, and the empire does not need the Son of Heaven to guard the pass, and the relocation of the capital to the central region of the empire is more conducive to the development of the empire.

Wang Sirui knows very well what the economic and political co-existence in the same city, what kind of consequences will be caused, just look at the later generations of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, it is a super city with a population of tens of millions at every turn, although it is conducive to concentrating resources, it has long been a developed city, but in the same way, this will make more and more elites gather in this city, and over time, the differences between regions will become bigger and bigger.

Wang Sirui doesn't want the empire in the future to become like the future generations, where the economy is good, all kinds of preferential policies can be obtained lying down, and where the economy is bad, even if you ask your grandfather to tell your grandmother, you can't get a preferential policy.

Therefore, in Wang Sirui's plan, the political center and the economic center are separated.

For example, moving the capital to Zhongjing, which was not well developed, and even before the opening of the Jinghan Railway, was just a dilapidated small county town. If you don't make a perfect plan, then in the future, Zhongjing will still become the next Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

And Wang Sirui's plan is that Zhongjing will only serve as the political center of the empire, and in addition to meeting the needs of the local population in Zhongjing, no business will be introduced, that is, everything that should be in the city must be there, but it will not be everywhere, this is the political center, and there is no need for so many businesses to settle in.

In the same way, economic centers do not need to be politically presiding. Avoid the political center sucking too much blood from the surrounding areas, like Hebei in later generations, the area next to the capital is very valuable, very rich, but a little more remote, that is poorer than anyone else.

"The empire will rearrange 35 political centers, 34 economic centers, the political center will be separated from the economic center, and the specific site selection arrangements will be taken care of by the imperial government, and a result will be come up before the end of the year, and it will be officially implemented next year." At the meeting, Wang Sirui directly opened his mouth and ordered.

The political center is divided according to one for each province, plus Zhongjing, where the imperial government is located, this political center is the seat of the provincial capital, and the economic center is dominated by another city.

Of course, China's characteristic is that the economic center must be the political center, because everyone can see the good places, just like Zhongjing, after the capital moved here, plus the Jinghan Railway passed here, the Zhongshang Railway is being built, and more railways will be built in the future, the transportation is convenient, and businessmen are also willing to come.

But this is a fucking embarrassment, the imperial government occupies such a good area, but does not allow commerce to settle in, and merchants can only choose other areas dozens of kilometers away, in that case, the cost will increase a lot, and it will be more troublesome.

Although Chukyo is large, the administrative area is only 10 square kilometers, all of which are west of the railway, and if commercial activities cannot be carried out east of the railway, it is tantamount to a waste of resources.

But they didn't dare to say these words, they chose Zhongjing, which was an order from the emperor himself, how many heads did they have enough to cut off? Dare to question the emperor's orders?

The people below don't dare, but it doesn't mean that some people don't, for example, Wang Shizhen, the imperial prime minister who is deeply trusted by Wang Sirui, he is a person who does not believe in evil.

"Your Majesty, it is not impossible to separate politics from economics, but in this way, the empire will spend more and waste more resources. We have spent a lot of money on railways, and we plan to build roads in the future, for what purpose? It was built mainly for the daily life of the people, not for administration.

If commerce can't settle in, then the government will have to use the infrastructure that has been built at a huge cost, so we will need to build a new railway and road for private use, which is not cost-effective.

Therefore, the opinion of the Prime Minister's Office is to make a more precise regional division, as is the case in Chukyo now, the imperial government has ten square kilometers of administrative area, although at present, these lands are sufficient, but will they be enough in the future? We can't say for sure yet, so we can temporarily expand these ten square kilometers to fifteen square kilometers, or twenty square kilometers.

In the administrative area, we do not allow any foreign commerce to enter, making it a purely political center, but outside the administrative area, they can be left to their own devices. All we need to do is plan and set a minimum standard that all regions are not allowed to fall below that standard. Wang Shizhen retorted, Wang Sirui's decision was too abrupt in his opinion, and it was simply unrealistic, if the empire really had the money to do this, then what else was there to say? Now there is no money, so it is necessary to concentrate all the resources that can be concentrated to avoid wasting resources.

With Wang Shizhen starting up, there are gradually more people who follow him, this is an unsolvable problem, and it is impossible to completely solve it in a short time.

Perhaps, Washington in the United States is a good case, but it was only produced under special circumstances, and Wang Sirui's desire to create a second Washington with manpower is somewhat unlikely and unrealistic.

In the end, under the persuasion of Yang Shiqi, Wang Sirui still gave up his idea, he also knew that it was not realistic, he just didn't want to personally cultivate a new batch of white-eyed wolves, fortunately, he was the emperor, as long as he didn't make any mistakes, he would have the opportunity to rectify this problem in the future.

Next, the meeting discussed the future development layout, for example, in the east of Zhongjing to build a large automobile industrial park, which produces civilian and military vehicles, as for the car or something, just say goodbye, with the current hardware level of the Chinese Empire, the car will not work at all, so if you want to do SUV.

Well, in fact, it is a pseudo-SUV wearing sedan underwear, based on Ford's best-selling E-type car chassis, engine, gearbox, and design concept, the chassis has been slightly changed, so that the minimum ground clearance of the chassis has reached 25 centimeters, and then the appearance of the car is also designed to be more aesthetic.

Although the internal devices such as the power have not changed, this car can still be used in the current country, at least it can be guaranteed to run in more than 70% of places.

And Wang Sirui also did not give up his own 'black technology', trucks, all kinds of trucks, this is an important supporting facility for the future mechanization of the army, once the deployment is completed, the Royal Army will enter the era of semi-mechanization, and it is not like playing with those armies of the great powers?

Let's put it simply, you ran hundreds of kilometers to fight, and the other party came in a truck, you are tired and tired, how can you have extra energy to fight? And the army that comes in a truck can go into battle almost immediately, and the truck still carries a lot of supplies and artillery, how can such a battle be fought?

Ordinary infantry trucks were finalized before the relocation of the capital, and the modified tanker trucks were about the same, this problem is not a big problem, and the tractor of the tank is also going very well, once the tank tractor is produced, then the combat effectiveness of the armored forces will last longer, and the benefits are self-evident.

The era of 'black technology' is coming, just thinking about it, Wang Sirui feels a little excited, and even he can't wait to look forward to the arrival of the First World War. (To be continued.) )