Chapter Fifty-Five: The Chaotic Territory of the Nation
In 1936, the market was full of products, such as fish, meat, fish oil, caviar, saltwater fish and freshwater fish. With the use of railways and new containers, these products appeared in South Baikal and Dunhuang. All kinds of meat products are abundant, and the price is very inexpensive, which meets the needs of the Han people. There are some ethnic groups that have some taboos, but they are not without choice.
When physical education is taught in schools, there are diet and nutrition classes. Physical education classes that talk about exercise alone and don't talk about nutrition are incomplete, which is in the original textbook written by Darkmoon. Later, it was gradually enriched and refined. These courses have changed people's diets and habits.
The government acquiesced in the division of human physique levels, and many recruitment positions that did not meet the physical requirements were naturally brushed off. Moreover, occupations such as forest rangers, pastures and even fishery keepers, if their physical fitness does not meet the requirements, it is indeed very dangerous.
In the north, it is better, that is, in some waters in the south, fishermen have also begun to buy some large boats and fish collectively. Because the fish are getting bigger, there are more and more large animals in the lake.
In the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, large Chinese fishing boats gradually increased, all of which appeared in droves and crossed the Ryukyu Islands into the Pacific Ocean. The ships are all over 2,000 tons, and the largest is a 5,000-ton ship, all of which are armed. With such a luxurious fishing fleet, both the safety and the amount of fish caught are amazing.
It's just that not only do they fish themselves, but the fishery administration ships also monitor the fishing gear and nets used by fishermen in the Ryukyus and Japan.
In Chinese waters, they are not forbidden to fish. However, the requirements for fishing nets are extremely strict, and juvenile fish or young marine creatures such as sea turtles are forcibly released. Fishing gear will also be confiscated.
Chinese maritime surveillance ships are doing these things, and Chinese ships always magically catch up with large schools of fish. This also amazed Ryukyu and Japanese fishermen.
They began to follow the Chinese fleet and fish according to the rules of the Chinese, and the harvest was not small.
Most of the fish are processed on board and then sent to the processing plant in the fishing port for finishing, packaging and onto the train to be sent to various places.
In Jianghuai province, the abundance of meat reduces the demand for food crops. Wetlands and forests along the Yangtze River and transportation systems have been restored. Jianghuai Province is the most densely populated Chinese, with a population density greater than that of Sichuan, which fills the problem of Jiangxi's rapid population decline. Hunan has also started applying for transfer students. In recent years, the central part of the country, including Sichuan, has almost a net population output.
The birth rate of the whole population is about 15%, and the death rate is about 8%. The net population growth is around 7 per cent. It is mainly the high mortality rate of the population in the new provinces. The mortality rate in the central part of the population is only about 6 per cent, and there is a downward trend, but the birth rate in the central part is only a little more than 12 per cent. Net population growth is below average.
At the beginning of the war, there were nearly 32 million people. Now it's down to about 26 million. Jiangxi and Hubei have maintained 13 million without declining. Combined, the two provinces are only about the same as Jianghuai.
Most of these populations are concentrated in the water network of the Grand Canal.
The Bureau of Statistics believes that the population in central Hubei is now too low, and some shortcomings have emerged in the local economy and management. They are in the process of redeploying the population. The main thing is to increase the population of the central provinces without affecting the integration of ethnic groups.
Lin Yunan is also troubled by this large-scale population movement, because the transportation system in Jianghuai Province has not been fully completed, and the people here are more conservative and homesick. The migration is a big deal. will cause a backlash. Schooling has not yet fully caught up.
After the Yellow River went south, Hongze Lake and Gaoyou Lake were connected. In the case that the Huai River has not yet been completely controlled, the pressure of flood control is still a little large, and the water volume of the canal has also increased, and part of the water of the Yellow River flows into the sea through the Yangtze River. Although it has been planned, the flooded area is quite large. Nearly six million people moved into Jiangxi and Hubei, making Lin Yunan seem a few years older.
"The construction of river embankments, the restoration of vegetation, land reform, education reform, population resettlement, and the construction of the transportation system are still a little hasty, and now they are backlogged together, and it is a bit difficult."
Lin Yunan took Zhang Chun to visit the newly built school.
"This was originally a private school, and the old-style education in this area is very developed, after all, it is a place for businessmen and masters. It is still difficult to change to a new type of education, because it is necessary to resettle the personnel of the old education system. The merchants moved the factories away, but the workers remained. Often, a family of more than 10 people has no place to live, and the labor force that can be produced is limited. JAC's finances were all consumed in the process. If it weren't for the education fund to sustain the school. I really don't have any money. ”
Zhang Chun sighed and said, "The diversion of the Yellow River has indeed brought some trouble to Jianghuai. ”
"The diversion of the Yellow River is troublesome, but the most troublesome old concept is economic reconstruction. The people here do not support the state-owned factories, and when the yield per mu of the peasant households increases, they do not use it for processing, but try to sell it to the nationalized areas, where the price of grain has risen insanely. When he came back with the money, he thought about building a house. The enrolment rate of the children is not as high as in the north, because they all want to learn a trade and start a business. ”
Zhang Chun has discovered this problem along the way. Because the people in this area have some assets, the traditional mercantile thinking is very heavy. Hui merchants used to be called Jin merchants.
"A lot of people sell bicycles from the mainland to the Kuomintang area, and the profits are very high, as well as cameras, watches, and so on."
"The Jianghuai people who migrated to Jiangxi and Hubei also have this characteristic." Zhang Chun affirmed this statement.
"But they caused price fluctuations. If you want to solve this problem, you must take Zhejiang. And so they stopped. ”
Even Lizhi smiled and said, "I'm afraid I have to take the national control area." ”
Lin Yunan smiled.
Zhang Chun also smiled: "I think you still have a way, and the last sentence is the real purpose of what you said for a long time." ”
South of the Yangtze River, Nanjing, Tongling and Shanghai, high-rise buildings are also being built, but these high-rise buildings are densely built. The mountains are already bare, and people are gnawing at them like ants. The banks of the Yangtze River are completely devoid of trees and grass, and a Great Wall-like wall rises above it, with artillery batteries and anti-aircraft positions on top.
Some of the hills and mountainous areas abandoned by the CCP are now lined with cement factories, stone factories, and mines. Although the scale is not large, it can't stop the crowd. In just two years, the mountain has become a mountain.
Especially in the Tongling generation, there are many foreign-funded enterprises introduced, and these foreigners have demarcated their sphere of influence, except for paying taxes to the government, ordinary people can't even enter, and they have become independent kingdoms. Flying the flags of all nations.
Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou generation, built a large industrial zone. A large amount of peasant land was further annexed, and peasants flocked to the cities to survive, and entered various foundries. Living conditions there are extremely poor, there are problems with the supply of goods, there are problems with road traffic. The large number of slums poses security problems.
Although the Kuomintang government wanted to build roads, the state government only bought some hills and mountains, and these lands changed hands and went into the pockets of several large families. There is no difference between not having a redemption. If the road wants to pass through here, there will be a sky-high land acquisition fee. Do you want to forcibly expropriate? That's impossible, the major families, the major chambers of commerce have huge power in the government. Whoever dares to mention it is not only a matter of difficult to protect his official position, but also difficult to protect his life.
Song Meiling often wrote letters to complain to Song Qingling that the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Gang and the Fujian Gang were not in harmony, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Liangguang were not in harmony, and Yungui became an independent kingdom. In the past, they were still in charge of their own affairs, but now the chambers of commerce in various places have used foreigners to invade other provinces and completely mixed together.
The chambers of commerce quarreled all day long for the sake of interests, and some chambers of commerce formed self-defense forces, and whenever there was a conflict, they pulled out and confronted each other with guns. The underworld is prevalent, and businesses are often wiped out. The police station is a virtual entity, and it does not dare to manage it at all, but colludes with the Chamber of Commerce, and a large number of criminal cases are not solved.
Song Ziwen had no choice but to set up an armed tax police corps in Nanjing, so he had a conflict with Chiang Kai-shek.
But Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to do anything about Soong Ziwen, who was the governor of the central bank during his tenure as finance minister, forcibly unified the finances, although it brought huge benefits to the government. But it also gained the support of Freemasonry for this. If it weren't for Song Meiling mediating in the middle, and both of them had a little bit of patriotism and supported each other in the government, I am afraid that there would be a lot of trouble.
Soong Ching-ling also advised Soong Mei-ling to warn Chiang Kai-shek, saying that when resources are always exhausted, once the resources are exhausted, the withdrawal of foreign capital will have extremely terrible consequences.
But this is not something that Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling can control. The combination of local forces and foreigner forces is intertwined and intricately linked, leading to a movement that affects the whole body. Everyone turned a blind eye.
The situation in the Kuomintang has now become a negative example for the students. (To be continued......)