During this period, Taiwan did not have an obvious sense of reading, and the governor of Taiwan has always been a person supported by the five major families in the province, and the local provincial legislators generally belong to the Liberation Party, and there are fewer parties, and the current governor Lin Xiantang is from the Chifeng Lin family, and belongs to the local center-left political bigwigs.

However, Lin Xiantang himself is indeed a representative of the local autonomy faction, hoping to change Taiwan Province into an autonomous province of Taiwan, expand the real power of the provincial political axe and the provincial council, and become an autonomous province, the biggest advantage is that the central government and the province share 55 open taxes, and most of the autonomous provinces are relatively poor, and the central government will have a large amount of subsidies every year, although Taiwan is not an autonomous province, it has always had more subsidies from the central government in the past 20 years.

Since he was going to Taiwan, Emperor Song Biao naturally wanted to deal with the issue of Taiwan's autonomy by the way.

Before Christmas, in Winston. Before Prime Minister Churchill was about to visit the United States, Emperor Song Biao and Crown Prince Yuhua arrived in Tainan Mansion on a special plane, the Eastern Emperor.

Taiwan Province is currently set up with five provinces and one state, under the jurisdiction of Taipei Prefecture, Taichung Prefecture, Tainan Prefecture, Kaohsiung Prefecture, Taitung Prefecture and Yilan Zhili Prefecture, in the administrative division of the empire to adopt the provincial capital and county division, Zhili Prefecture is the same as the provincial level, Zhili County is administratively under the government level, but financially under the direct management of the provincial government, if a Zhili County has a higher level and basically enjoys various treatments at the provincial level, then it can be divided into a more unique Zhili Prefecture, basically the same as the administrative division at the provincial level.

The place where the magnitude 7 earthquake occurred was Zhongpu Township, Chiayi County, Tainan Prefecture, which is a very typical mountainous area, the local population is small, and the affected population is relatively small, but it is very difficult to rescue, and the Fuzhou Military Region has sent an airborne division to airdrop two regiments of soldiers and a large amount of materials for rescue, and the provincial political axe and patrol army have also all been put into the rescue work.

Because the Fuzhou Military Region responded very quickly, judging from the current situation, the situation of disaster relief is still relatively ideal, and the only problem is that the local land transportation is basically paralyzed, and it can only establish contact through the military's radio command vehicles, and constantly deliver disaster relief materials to the local area through airdrops.

At the time of the arrival of Emperor Song Biao, the helicopter rescue team of the Army Aviation Corps of the Fuzhou Military Region had already arrived, and this batch of helicopters still belonged to the old Z-3 series without turboshaft engines, with low deadweight tonnage and poor airworthiness, and it was difficult to adapt to the complex local mountain environment.

After Emperor Song Biao arrived, Lin Xiantang, governor of Taiwan Province, Yang Zhaoji, chief of the Taiwan Provincial Patrol, and Xie Jinyuan, commander of the 230th Airborne Division of the Fuzhou Military Region, who was in charge of rescue command, all arrived as soon as possible.

Although Chiayi County could not rule out the possibility of aftershocks, after arriving in Taichung Mansion, Emperor Song Biao continued to take the military department's off-road vehicle to Chiayi County.

Chiayi is a large agricultural county in Taiwan, the county ranks first in the province in terms of sugarcane and citrus production, and the scale of water conservancy facilities is also the largest and largest, the largest Fushan Reservoir in Taiwan Province is located in the county, only dozens of kilometers away from the earthquake area, fortunately, the reservoir did not appear in great danger.

Because he could not inspect the epicenter, Emperor Song Biao inspected the county town of Chiayi, which was also severely affected, met with some local representatives of public opinion and ordinary people, and left Crown Prince Yuhua to continue to inspect the local relief and relief situation, while he himself went to the Fushan Reservoir accompanied by Xie Jinyuan and Lin Xiantang.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources and the Central Geological Survey Bureau have directly appointed an expert group to inspect the Fushan Reservoir and the surrounding earthquake area to determine whether there will be new dangers in the Fushan Reservoir.

The expert group also examines an issue that cannot be made public for the time being, that is, whether the Toyama Reservoir was the main cause of the earthquake, and the international world has already criticized large reservoirs to a certain extent, and the suspicion that the reservoir can cause shallow earthquakes has sparked a relatively wide debate.

The Fushan Reservoir has a great similarity with the Qiandao Lake Reservoir and even the Three Gorges Power Station under discussion, so there is an analogy between the local water, soil and mountain structure.

Of course, this series of questions cannot be made public for the time being.

The Toyama Reservoir is not only the largest reservoir in Taiwan, but also the largest freshwater lake area in Taiwan, it is still a certain distance from Toyama, at that time, considering that the meaning of this word has the meaning of wealthy mountain people, so the name of Toyama Reservoir was adopted, and the local Tai Po Township was also renamed Toyama Town.

Emperor Song Biao took a long ride on a mountain road to reach Fushan Town, and along the way also encountered several landslides that were being repaired, and he was going to live in Fushan Town tonight, and then return to Chiayi County at noon tomorrow.

Governor Lin Xiantang can only stay in Fushan Town at night, trembling, because no one is sure whether there will be a new big earthquake in the future, maybe the earthquake in front is only a front earthquake, and a bigger earthquake is still behind!

The military's arrangements were still very safe, and a number of helicopters were dispatched to Toyama Town for temporary treatment, and in the event of a new earthquake, the emperor would be picked up immediately, and even so, no one dared to guarantee that there would be no problems.

Emperor Song Biao did not have so many worries, after he arrived in Fushan Town, he could only stay in a local hotel, the conditions were very ordinary, when the sunset was shining, he was still very leisurely and leisurely to take a walk on the reservoir dam to see the beautiful scenery of Taiwan's first reservoir.

Today, Toyama is a real freshwater fish town, where the local people mainly rely on aquaculture and fishing for their livelihoods, and because of the lack of transportation, there are small factories such as fishmeal and fish ball factories.

After he returned to the hotel after a walk, the local mayor and the governor of Lin Xiantang also held a feast for reception.

Countryside.

It's really a rural place, and they don't understand the rules at all, and they don't know where the emperor's diet and daily life are their turns.

They didn't ask clearly, it seemed to be a big toss for the whole town like an unexpected surprise, killing chickens and slaughtering sheep was so lively, they Fushan Town for so many years, including the local tribes for generations, where did they have the opportunity to receive the emperor today, of course, they were really enthusiastic.

As a result, when they went to report to Chen Jiayou, the chief of the inner court, for a grand dinner, they knew that the emperor's diet and daily life would definitely not be done in the local government, otherwise what would they want their inner court to do?

Moreover, no matter where the emperor inspected, unless he was visiting abroad, the foreign royal family and the political axe would arrange a dinner, otherwise it was always according to the usual practice, and the experts of the inner court arranged it according to the time of the solar term and the emperor's recent health.

Song Biao only learned about this matter after he came back, so he asked Lin Xiantang and Chen Jiayou, the chief of the inner court, to attend the dinner organized by the local villagers on his behalf, and he still stayed in the hotel to eat his home-cooked meal.

Now that he is old, Emperor Song Biao doesn't like such tossing things, always the quieter the better, and when Governor Lin Xiantang went back in the company of Chen Jiayou, Emperor Song Biao rarely asked Sun Hengshan, the chef of the Imperial Catering Bureau who accompanied him to the south, to dine with him.

Sun Hengshan is a famous master of Huaiyang cuisine, also proficient in Yanjing cuisine, Lu cuisine and Shanghai cuisine, served in the royal family for 20 years, national special chef, and is characterized by being good at cooking various ingredients, with soup dishes as one of their musts.

This time I arrived in Fushan Town temporarily, and I arrived in the evening, where did Sun Hengshan have time to prepare the ingredients, so he had to temporarily choose the local unique perch eel and cherry salmon as the main material to make a red stewed sweet and sour perch eel, a Chinese salmon soup.

When he was a sweet and sour sea bass eel, he chose the local sugar cane as the sugar source, and did not use the sugar juice, because he also forgot to bring the sugar juice, and the sugar juice in the local restaurant was too poor, and he did not dare to use it.

In fact, Sun Hengshan has also experienced this kind of sudden situation several times in the past 20 years, and his experience in dealing with it is already very rich.

Emperor Song Biao is not a particularly picky gourmet, and after tasting it roughly, it feels very good, so he joked with Sun Hengshan that if he returns to Beijing in the future, I am afraid there will be no such oral administration.

After the time for the imperial meal was over, Emperor Song Biao went back to his guest room to deal with some official business after a little rinse, and read through the various disaster situations and disaster relief reports submitted by the Taiwan Provincial Political Axe and the Fuzhou Military Department.

The disaster is not serious on the whole, if there is no more severe aftershocks, it is expected that the rescue work at this stage will be basically completed before the middle of January next year, followed by the post-disaster reconstruction work, which requires a lot of funds, the central government axe has agreed to approve two million yuan of post-disaster rehabilitation funds, insurance companies will pay a part of the claim, the provincial government axe appropriation is in the scale of four million yuan, adding up to a large vacancy.

Emperor Song Biao made an estimate based on his own experience, and estimated that the funding gap was about three million yuan, which was not a lot of expenses for the royal family, and he planned to let the Royal Charity Federation, which Princess Yuanyuan currently presides, be responsible for making up for the shortfall in reconstruction funds.

He was more concerned about the situation of the indigenous people than about these things.

According to the investigation and research of the Central Academy of Social Sciences of the empire, the aboriginal tribes of Taiwan have a great relationship with the Polynesians, and basically belong to the same range in terms of culture, language, and population, and may be the source of the Polynesians.

This is of great benefit to the long-term consolidation of the Empire's rule in the Polynesian and South Pacific islands, but of course, the political factors behind this study cannot be denied.

During his visit to Taiwan, Emperor Song Biao had already intended to set up a special social fund to support the aborigines, and as for the so-called xenophobic voices of the people of Taiwan Province, he was still quite unhappy, because it was nothing more than a relationship that was hundreds of years earlier, and the language family and population were basically the same as those in Fujian Province.

If this is all about xenophobia in the province, then how can the whole empire be governed.

When Emperor Song finished reading these official documents in his hand, Governor Lin Xiantang happened to come to visit.

The hotel where Song Biao stayed was already the best place to stay in the local area, but there was no royal grandeur at all, if it wasn't for the urgent arrangement of the inner court a few days ago, I am afraid that it would not even be a single room in a three-star hotel.

Even so, Song Biao still had to work in the living room, and he met Lin Xiantang in the living room, although he didn't like this person, after all, the other party was also an elected governor and a local party boss, Song Biao still asked people to sit and let Lin Xiantang sit down and talk to him about official business.

As soon as Lin Xiantang sat down, he couldn't wait to plead guilty and apologize for the hasty arrangement of hospitality for him and the local villagers.

Emperor Song Biao didn't care too much about this, although he rarely encountered this situation, but it was not a clear culpability, so he staggered this question and asked Lin Xiantang: "You have been the governor of Taiwan Province for eleven years, and this is your last term, right?" ”

Emperor Song's words were very ordinary, his tone was gentle, Lin Xiantang was taking the tea cup from Jiang Shoulin's hand, and replied gratefully to Emperor Song: "The emperor is clear-sighted, and when this session is over, the minister will return to his hometown and return to Chifeng to be an old man who grows tea, and retires for the rest of his life." ”

Emperor Song Biao definitely didn't believe this nonsense, and seemed very kind and persuaded him: "You have the ability, you have fame, and you have the love of the villagers in this province, so you should do more." I see that you are in good health, do you want to serve in the central cabinet after the end of the current governor's term? ”

Lin Xiantang trembled for a while, how could he dare to enter Beijing to serve in the cabinet, the party is about factions, he can only be regarded as a local faction in his own province, and there is no hope of being selected by the three major factions of the central government.

At the local level, as long as he can clamp down on the ** party and prevent the ** party from reversing the election, it is the first merit of the local bigwigs in the party, you must know that the ** party is attacking in Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangzhou, but he is the only one in Taiwan Province.

It is said that the ** party once used the issue policy of Taiwan Province autonomy to win over them, the elected bigwigs of the province, and they were also close to it at that time, but Song Jiaoren was "short-sighted" and hastily suspended this policy.

Lin Xiantang didn't understand that although Song Jiaoren liked to play against the Central Committee and was eager to expand the party's electoral momentum, he was very principled on the major issues of right and wrong in his country.

Now the emperor personally proposed to let Lin Xiantang enter Beijing to serve in the cabinet, how could this not make Lin Xiantang's heart bloom, the political characteristics of the empire are very special, in fact, the real power of the provincial governor is not great.

The United States is a federal system, and the real power of its governors is very large, which is normal, but like Britain and France, the real power of local administrators is very ordinary, and the empire is centralized, and the real power of provincial governors is even lower.

The political structure of the empire is actually a dumbbell, the county government level at the grassroots level has more real power, the upper level of the central government has more real power, and the central provincial level is relatively weaker, and the empire is a very strict professional bureaucratic system, the vast majority of civil servants are professional and technical personnel, and a lot of administrative power is controlled in the hands of these people. The central departments have direct administrative power over the provincial functional departments, and the central government controls the appointment of the chief and deputy directors of the local provincial departments, while the local governors only have supervisory power.

Therefore, in terms of actual rights, a cabinet minister of the empire is usually much more powerful than the provincial governor, and the source is that the imperial constitution has a relationship with the distribution of power, and the government level is relatively much more powerful, in fact, many powers at the provincial level are directly delegated to the provincial level.

To a certain extent, you can think that the empire is more like the county system of the Qin Dynasty, and the reason why the empire wants to do this is largely to limit the internal separatist movements of the autonomous regions of Xinjiang, Tibet, and Mongolia, for example, the appointment of the chief of patrol and the head of the police department in each province is controlled by the central government, and the power to appoint prosecutors is in the hands of the governor of the province.

Therefore, a local political tycoon like Lin Xiantang, whose political path has reached the limit, actually wants to be promoted to the central level very much, even if he is the deputy director of the General Administration of Environmental Protection, he is very happy.

His level is different, he will have more opportunities to talk with those political bigwigs in the central government in the future, get to know more top-level politicians and bigwigs, and his connections are far from different levels.

Lin Xiantang was really happy at this moment, and the words of happiness were indescribable.

After all, he is still the kind of old squire left by the old era, so he can't wait to get up and bow deeply, thank you repeatedly, and he is really happy in his heart, because he was quite scared, this earthquake happened in Taiwan Province, and he may be dismissed by the emperor if he does not handle it properly.

The constitution stipulated that the emperor had the power to dismiss not only the prime minister and cabinet ministers, but also provincial officials.

Emperor Song Biao said casually, if Lin Xiantang wants to take it seriously, then take it seriously, he definitely doesn't care about this sesame thing, and after signaling Lin Xiantang to sit down, he continued to ask: "You have been the governor of Taiwan for more than ten years, in your opinion, can Taiwan Province be regarded as a place to be easy to govern?" ”

Lin Xiantang thought for a while, and immediately replied: "Taiwan's local people are pure, only the resources are poor, fortunately, the central government has helped, and there have been small achievements in the past 20 years. ”

Emperor Song Biao heard the meaning of his words, and replied-for-tat: "It was my original intention to establish the country when the governor's real power was limited, and there were many overseas provinces and frontier provinces in the empire, and it was inevitable that some people would fantasize about splitting. In the past 30 years, there have been only two major policies in China's governance: one is that the central government governs the country according to law, and the other is that the local governments have as little power as possible and have less management of affairs. If the central government cannot govern the country according to law, and the localities are desperately vying for power and profit, China will be as weak and chaotic as the Manchu Qing Dynasty. ”

Lin Xiantang didn't dare to say more, and replied cautiously: "The emperor is sage." ”

Emperor Song Biao did not like to be as aggressive as he did when he was young, and after a little thought, he continued to ask with Lin Xiantang: "What do you think about the province's request for autonomy?" ”

Lin Xiantang had already faintly felt that the emperor's southern tour was really a bit unkind, so he replied lightly: "All provinces have the selfishness of autonomy, and it is just that the non-autonomous ones have different taxes. ”

Emperor Song Biao did not investigate in detail, and replied to Lin Xiantang: "The backbone of the empire is my Han compatriots, and the autonomous people of various provinces, where the population of ethnic minority compatriots reaches 30%, they can consider establishing autonomous provinces as a gesture of support." It is permissible for Taiwan Province to demand autonomy, as long as the local compatriots of the Gaoshan ethnic group account for 30 percent. As for your so-called people from this province, as long as you find a way to prove that you are not Han Chinese, you can also be given a quota in the autonomous province. ”

Lin Xiantang didn't dare to breathe.

This person has accumulated a high national prestige in the short period of fifteen years, and he often has trouble getting along with Yue himself, because he is a local big clan, and he has no way to take him.

He has the integrity of the Han people, which is worth affirming, but does he have a provincial plot?

Of course, there are.

Taiwan maintained a relatively long distance from the mainland throughout the Qing Dynasty, unlike places like Henan and Hebei, and the 15 years of rule also brought some special experiences to Taiwan, including the fact that the espionage and separatist activities in Taiwan were still rampant, and indeed caused some relatively bad effects.

Of course, these are not important reasons why Taiwan demands autonomy from this province.

After the end of the Xinhai War, in the first ten years after the recovery of Taiwan Province, the five major families based on the province still developed very well, but after 1930, with the local major consortia began to fully intervene in the Taiwan market, especially the promulgation of the land restriction bill, and the accelerated influx of Fujian's population, contradictions began to emerge gradually.

Behind this is an economic dispute.

In fact, the more poor and remote the place, the more xenophobic it is, this is a very simple truth, and this is the case in Taiwan now, and the problem in this province is far from being as severe as it was during the rule of the Kuomintang, but it will take time to solve it.

For the people of Taiwan Province, one of the biggest psychological obstacles for them is that they were once abandoned by the mainland, and later they said that they were really good to them, much stronger than the Qing political axe, which is a very powerful estrangement.

Song Biao can only say that he has beaten a little, first of all, the problem is not so severe and complicated, and secondly, it takes time to digest it, according to the current trend for another 20 years, there will be no more such problems in the future, because this is the problem of the generation of Yuzhi.

It is said that the fifteenth year of the rule of the empire left such problems, and if the rule of the rule lasts for sixty years, it is conceivable how deep the problems of the province will be left behind.

Song Biao did not discuss much on this issue, and said with Lin Xiantang: "For the government of a country, we should solve problems, not create problems, and we should serve 50,000 compatriots, not cause trouble for 50,000 compatriots." You are a person who can make great contributions to the country and our nation and do great things on many issues, as long as you have a correct mind. On this issue, let's talk about it here, about the disaster relief in Chiayi County, I estimate that even if the central government comes up with 3 million reconstruction, the amount on your side is far from enough, I will instruct the central government to come up with 7 million yuan for reconstruction, and the Royal Charity Federation will donate another 3 million, in addition, regarding the long-term support for ethnic minorities in this province, the central government and the Charity Federation will do their own special work, aiming to protect the national culture of the local ethnic groups at the same time, and promote their development and progress. ”

Lin Xiantang's mood couldn't help but be heavy.

People are like this, and now that he feels that he has the opportunity to enter the central government, he thinks about the problem from the perspective of the central government, and inevitably feels that some things in this province are really wrong in recent years.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiantang replied: "The emperor is really a wise monarch through the ages, and his ministers are willing to serve the work of dogs and horses." ”

Song Biao didn't have anything else to say to Lin Xiantang, and instructed: "Ming, I want to continue to go to a few disaster-stricken areas to inspect and see the actual situation. ”

Lin Xiantang immediately replied: "I respectfully obey the holy decree." ”

Hearing this, Song Biao bowed slightly, signaling that he could retreat.

After Lin Xiantang left, Song Biao sat at his desk and thought about it for a long time, and felt quite emotional in his heart, if Taiwan thought that it had been abandoned by the mainland, it would be normal for it to have a crack.

As for Taiwan's local conglomerates, they are indeed the driving force behind the movement in this province, and their crimes are difficult to correct, but they are also the unraveling hand in resolving this dispute.

In the early years of the empire, Taiwan's local consortiums were not weak, but the local market was small, and they were isolated from the mainland, and they only hoped to keep this bit of meat in the bowl, but after waiting for more than ten years, they were vulnerable in front of the consortiums in the mainland provinces, taking the Keelung coal mine as an example, the Chifeng Lin family operated for 30 years, but the result was still inferior to the Fuzhou consortium.

Under the large-scale attack of the Fuzhou consortium, the Nanyang consortium and the Jiangnan consortium, the five major local families could not stop it, and the local shipbuilding and sugar and other industries that had been operating for decades fell into losses and could only be swallowed up by the giants of other consortiums.

After all, the empire is not a republic, it does not have the planning power of the socialist system, and the differences in the development of the provinces are still very large. Taiwan, in recent years, is still a relatively poor place, because its entire social resources, human resources and mineral resources are still too weak, but this position is very special, and it is also a necessary place for major consortia in the process of expansion, such as Kaohsiung Port and Keelung Port, the local consortia have been lost more than ten years ago, and there is no chance at all.

Capitalism is this inevitable situation, if you don't rise up to develop, then sooner or later it will be annexed, for each region, that development after seventy or eighty years may reach a relatively balanced situation on the whole, now the gap is relatively large is also normal, the central government has also issued a lot of policies to support the common development of backward areas, but this always takes a lot of time.

In other words, there is still a difference between the folk customs on the Taiwan side and those on the mainland, and it may be that the island areas are like this, and they are relatively more inclined to conservative and closed-mindedness, local protectionism, and a petty mentality, and lack the open-minded mentality of the mainland provinces.

Song Biao's view on this issue has always been that "the problem is not very big, but it is not very easy to deal with", and strengthening the flow of people is the key, and it may be much better in more than ten years.

Since Song Biao came to Taiwan to inspect this time, he also hoped to make some contributions to this matter, so he also worked tirelessly to inspect and comfort more than a dozen disaster-stricken townships and towns in Chiayi County, and also participated in the welcome meeting of the squires of various counties in the province, and also personally visited various alpine tribes in Taiwan, and visited more than a dozen tribes.

In fact, he came in person, which is more important than the dozens of lenient support policies issued by the central political axe, and the emperor came together with the crown prince this time, if nothing else, it is equivalent to two generations of emperors ** touring Taiwan Province in the south, which is really very useful to the people of this province.

Emperor Song made a trip and inspected it, and it was estimated that the provincial council would not mention the matter of autonomy again for more than ten years. After all, he and Jiang Zhongzheng are still different weights, that is the grass of the grass, the king of the mountain, he is the orthodox founding emperor of the empire, the son of heaven of China.

Emperor Song Biao inspected Taiwan for seven days, just in time for Winston. Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Yanjing on a special plane, and the emperor took the plane back.

One thing is still worth mentioning, and that is Winston. Prime Minister Churchill's landline is the SE105 passenger aircraft produced by the Shenyang Aircraft Manufacturing Company under the Northeast Consortium, which should be the largest propeller passenger aircraft in human history, with a passenger capacity of 80-110 people according to different models, and the passenger capacity of the standard model is 105 people.

The SE105 passenger aircraft uses the Hornet star-shaped double-row 28-cylinder engine, which is also the largest propeller engine in human history, this engine also uses the Reich's H-22 heavy bomber, and the range limit of the SE105 passenger aircraft is a record-breaking 14,000 kilometers, because it is the only passenger aircraft capable of flying across the Pacific Ocean at this stage, so it has also become a landline aircraft that both Churchill and Roosevelt must use.

Churchill's theory of white supremacy was still very stubborn, and he would never have done it if it had not been for the fact that this reality forced him to adopt the SE105 airliner.

Emperor Song Biao also took the SE105 passenger plane, in fact, he also did not choose, the territory of the empire is too vast, only the SE105 passenger plane can meet his requirements for patrolling the country, but next year, he can take the new SE205 jet airliner.

(To be continued)