Section 465 Move the capital to Nanjing

If the year before World War II is the most important, and even affected the occurrence of World War II, Yang Chao believes that it is definitely this year. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

This year's Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, the German economy collapsed, and the Dawes Plan was introduced, and at the same time, the two sources of war between Germany and Japan were forced to the road of war.

The Japanese had planned to rebuild with $3 billion in a delusional way, and soon their plans collapsed, and martial law remained in Tokyo, banning displaced people from entering the city, not only for fear of accidents, but also to prevent a cholera epidemic.

After the catastrophe, there is a great epidemic, which is the truth summed up by the ancestors, and the Japanese cannot avoid it.

At present, there is no reliable treatment for this disease, Chinese medicine treatment includes scraping, and Chinese medicine decoction, Western medicine is directly bloodletting therapy, killing more people than curing.

The Japanese could only choose traditional Chinese medicine, and one after another orders for traditional Chinese medicine made Chinese and Korean medicinal herb dealers full of gratitude for the disaster of the Japanese, and even the French took a piece of the pie and scavenged Chinese medicinal materials everywhere in Vietnam.

The purchase of large quantities of Japanese has made the price of aconite, ginseng, dried ginger, licorice, atractylodes and other medicinal materials rise sharply, because these medicinal materials are important medicinal materials in the prescription for the treatment of cholera, especially aconite is considered to be "the first product of Huiyang to save adversity", and it is only produced in Sichuan, Hunan and other places in China, and the price has soared to the ginseng level for a while, and ginseng and atractylodes are relatively rare medicinal materials, the price is high, and now it has risen by more than half.

It is calculated that it costs at least $50 or more to treat a person, and if Japan is sick at 100,000, the cost of medicine will go out for $5 million. Coupled with medical facilities for the sick and wounded, the cost of additional human resources required for isolation has increased several times. And these are more indispensable than medicines, to prevent the sick from collapsing and rioting, and for the Japanese government, even more important than treating them.

Japan must allocate $100 million in special funds to fight cholera, which adds to the cost of reconstruction.

At the same time, the homes of more than 2 million people have been destroyed, and the economy has been cut off, which is equivalent to more than 2 million mouths, and the Japanese have to feed these people, even if the Japanese have less to eat, they have to come up with extra funds to help them.

At the same time, the Japanese are facing the destruction of industrial centers and the predictable economic depression that can last for several years or even more than ten years, and the future of the Japanese is uncertain.

Therefore, despite the help of countries around the world, and China showing the bearing of a responsible power, the Japanese are still depressed, and the suicide rate has increased significantly.

In the end, this is a nation with amazing obedience, and in the case of the government's best efforts to rescue, the Japanese people waited patiently, even if people continued to die of disease, they also endured silently.

The reason why the US imperialists in later generations have always established military bases in Japan is not only aimed at China, and China has never opposed the stationing of US troops in Japan, but has quite a lot of criticism about the US stationing of troops in South Korea, and the reason is very simple, that is, to prevent this nation from standing up again.

At the end of the year, the Japanese victims were equipped with tents and quilts and other warm supplies, Yang Chao led the Chinese disaster relief team to reap a lot of praise in the front, and the textile enterprises in Shanghai and Dongying made a lot of money, with cotton clothes, quilts and tents for two million people, which is a big market of hundreds of millions of taels.

North Koreans also make a lot of money by selling wood, and the demand for construction, railways, etc., is also a huge market, and North Koreans can use this opportunity to greatly improve their timber industry.

At this time, Yang Chao sang in the newspapers about the achievements of disaster relief, claiming that through their efforts, more than 2 million Japanese victims would be able to live a warm winter.

At the same time, Yang Chao also returned to China and handed over the disaster relief work to Ma Tengfei, he is a symbolic meaning here, after earning enough image points, it is time to leave, there is no need to stay in Japan to serve the Japanese.

After the year, the capital of China will be relocated to Nanjing, and this kind of prosperous Yang Chao will naturally be cheered.

The move of the capital to Nanjing was proposed by Yang Chao five years ago, and after Mi Qing's four years in power, extensive discussions were held in society, and the time was ripe for Pan Xun's hands.

Experts from all walks of life have analyzed the pros and cons clearly, the advantages of moving the capital to Nanjing are too many, and the direct relocation of the capital to the Yangtze River basin will promote the economy of the Yangtze River basin, and at the same time, the capital is in the position of the center of economic gravity, which is more conducive to the supply of various materials needed by the capital, which will greatly reduce unnecessary consumption.

There are also people who believe that the population of the south is much larger than that of the north, and moving the capital here is more conducive to maintaining social stability.

Naturally, there are political forces behind it, and southerners generally welcome the relocation of the capital to the south, which means the rise of the status of the south, and also means the end of the political situation in which the north has dominated the south for thousands of years.

Pan Xun chose to move the capital, it must also be out of political considerations, first, there will be a general election next year, the Jiangnan region is the largest vote base, if the capital is moved to Nanjing, obviously the original Jiangnan Province, the current Anhui, Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces will definitely support him, and second, because Zaifeng was driven out of the Forbidden City, hundreds of thousands of Manchu descendants in Beijing City have a very bad impression of him, and use Zhili Province in exchange for Jiangnan's support, this deal is very cost-effective.

What's more, there are more southern provinces that will firmly support him, such as Sichuan and Huguang in the Yangtze River basin, which are all big ticket warehouses, and moving the capital is also to curry favor with them, and with the support of the provinces in the Yangtze River basin, he can basically guarantee re-election.

Of course, the motion to move the capital was originally proposed by Yang Chao, and Yang Chao's considerations were simpler, and there were also political considerations, that is, to stabilize the south, which had been the source of unrest in China since the end of the Qing Dynasty, replacing the northwest region, so it was necessary to move the capital here, but it was mainly an economic consideration.

Beijing's environmental carrying capacity is far from supporting a capital of hundreds of millions of people, and many large-scale projects such as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project have been built in later generations for Beijing's good operation, but they have not been able to solve Beijing's severe smog. The ring road has been built one ring after another, all of which are more than the Olympics, but it still can't solve the problem of traffic congestion.

It is much easier to choose Nanjing, first of all, the city of Nanjing is different from Beijing, it is not the economic center of Jiangsu, the population will not grow to a terrible extent, there are surrounding economic cities such as Suzhou and Wuxi to compete, and Shanghai is the economic center to share, even if Nanjing becomes the capital, it is impossible to attract too many people.

Keeping the people of Beijing away from smog is a meritorious achievement.

After the New Year, the work of moving the capital began, and it was not as difficult as imagined, and everything was done in an orderly manner.

Because Pan Xun began to operate very early, he was active in the National Assembly and allocated funds to build government facilities such as the Presidential Palace in Nanjing, and after two years of preparation, the Presidential Palace, the National Assembly and other facilities were completed, and the National Assembly also approved it last year, and the relocation work was carried out at the beginning of this year.

Taking advantage of the Chinese New Year for the common people, the government officials of the presidential palace moved south to Nanjing first.

A large number of documents, archives, urgent transfers.

But most of the other departments are still in Beijing, such as various ministries, diplomatic agencies, and so on.

But none of this can stop Pan Xun from entering the presidential palace and the reopening of the National Assembly.

The president and the Congress, that means the country.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Nanjing was extremely lively, and with the momentum of the New Year, the relocation was carried out in a joyful atmosphere.

Tens of thousands of social elites and politicians gathered in Nanjing, and for a time it was difficult to find a room in Nanjing's major hotels and hotels, so that Nanjing people could feel the life of Beijing in the future generations in advance.

Housing prices, prices began to soar, people with economic vision have already bought a large number of fixed assets, this time a lot of money, prices, housing prices soared, but also let the people of Nanjing experience the breath of the capital, but at this time let Nanjing people, they would rather endure these losses, but also willing to be a capital people, all the cities in the country probably will not choose no.

With Nanjing officially becoming the capital, a series of development and transformation plans have also been launched, first of all, the expansion of Nanjing's river port wharf, the construction progress of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge should also be accelerated, in 1917, Yang Chao promised to build the bridge when he ran for the provisional president, and it has been 8 years since the beginning of construction, and it is about to come to an end, Pan Xun asked that the bridge must be built before the election, which obviously can add a lot of points to him.

The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, which was built earlier than the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, has been basically completed, tested, and has not yet been officially opened to traffic, but a large number of technical personnel can withdraw from the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge to tackle key engineering problems, so there is still a good chance to open to traffic ahead of schedule.

"Moving the capital to Nanjing will play a greater role in promoting the future development of our country. And it can reduce the office expenses by at least 100 million taels every year, and every cent of the people's money must be used on the people! ”

In the auditorium of the presidential palace, Pan Xun stood at the front desk, giving an impassioned speech, his voice was transmitted to everyone's ears through the microphone in front of him, through the loudspeakers hanging around, as if it was echoing in the ears, obviously this auditorium has been cleverly designed.

The theme of Pan Xun's speech focused on cutting costs, which was the main idea of his administration in recent years.

"This is a huge help for the government to continue to reduce debt. Over the past two years, we have cut $3 billion in debt through disarmament and redundancy. In parallel with debt reduction, we have built 20,000 primary schools, 9,000 colleges and universities, and 30 universities. ”

Due to the frequent wars in recent years, the scale of the national debt has reached 30 billion taels, and now the price of silver is high, 1 tael of silver is worth 1.33 yuan of US dollars, which is equivalent to 40 billion US dollars of debt, which is even larger than the scale of the US national debt. The main thing is military spending, behind Pan Xun's reduction of 3 billion taels in two years, it is the reduction of 3 million troops. (To be continued.) )