Chapter 322 Industrial Base

When I received the first battle report from Li Beiyang, the commander of the naval division, it was already the second half of the first month of the second year of Xianchun, and this battle report was written by Li Beiyang when he left Nanji Island in the east of Wenzhou Prefecture, and was sent to Wenzhou Mansion by speedboat, and then sent to the Lin'an Military Affairs Institute by 400 miles.

I opened the battle report and saw that it read: "More than 9,000 naval divisions led by the ministers, and a total of 64 warships of the three major fleets of the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the North Sea, gathered at the naval division base of Wenzhou Prefecture on the 7th day of the first lunar month, sailed out of the Wenzhou wharf in the early morning of the 8th, and arrived at the outer waters of the Nanji and Beiji Islands on the evening of the 14th. A total of 127 pirates were killed and 331 captured, and the rest of the pirates fled from the east. ”

From Li Beiyang's departure from Lin'an, to the time I saw this war report, it took about 20 days before and after, if this kind of communication speed was placed in later generations, it would be like a snail, and the next target of Li Beiyang's naval division was the Ryukyu Islands farther away, even if it did not count the combat time, not counting the storm on the way, it would take more than two months to come and go, perhaps when I saw Li Beiyang's next naval division battle report, it was already after April.

Although the carrier pigeon of the dragon's tooth has been put into use, it must be relayed in the middle of the way, and the distance between each station is not very long, so it is impossible to use the carrier pigeon at sea.

"Your Majesty, Lord Li's soldiers are well fed, and the equipment of our warships is far stronger than that of Zhang Xuan's group of pirates, Your Majesty doesn't need to worry."

"Hehe, Junshi, I'm not worried about whether Li Beiyang's battle will go smoothly this time, but I feel that the contact after the expedition of this sailor is really inconvenient."

Lu Xiufu said with a smile: "Your Majesty, long voyages are like this, like the cargo ship that goes south to overseas every time it goes to sea, it often takes at least a year and a half, and there is no way to contact it on the way." ”

"Well, let's not talk about Li Beiyang, Junshi, how is the training situation in various military regions."

Lu Xiufu said excitedly: "Your Majesty, according to the situation learned by the Military Affairs Academy, except for the Guangnan Military Region, which is not yet full and is recruiting troops, the enthusiasm for training in the other five military regions is unprecedentedly high, in accordance with Your Majesty's will, the newly established inspection teams of each military region are personally responsible for the military region's envoys, and strictly control the generals at all levels to withhold military rations and act recklessly, as long as the soldiers can meet the specified minimum military training goals, they can get full salaries, and the food in the army has also improved a lot, plus the generals set an example, The training enthusiasm of the soldiers was fully aroused. ”

"Okay, this first step has been done, the soldiers are willing, and the second step is to be able to practice and skillfully."

"Yes, Your Majesty, all military regions have thought of many ways to do this, and many of them have unique ideas.

"Well, by the way, Yin Yinglei's side."

"Your Majesty, the training of troops in the Lin'an Military Region is in the responsibility of General Wang Anjie, the deputy envoy, and Yin Yinglei still focuses on training generals, as for the effect, it can only be tested in wartime, but many experienced generals in the Lin'an Military Region think that Yin Yinglei's method is feasible."

"Those who have experience can corroborate the content taught by Yin Yinglei with their own experience, and there should be growth, what about those generals who have not been on the battlefield, what do they say."

Lu Xiufu said: "They even regard Yin Yinglei as the reincarnation of Zhuge . ”

"Haha, this Yin Yinglei is very capable of fooling people, but I just want Yin Yinglei to remind them not to be Zhao Kuo on paper."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Okay, Junshi, you can step aside, I will go to Yanhe Hall to hold this year's economic meeting."

After Lu Xiufu left, I saw that the time for the meeting was almost up, so I went to Yanhe Hall accompanied by Xiao Qi, and the meeting was attended by Jia Yidao, Wen Tianxiang, and the main officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Households.

"Your Majesty, Ministers."

"Everyone loves Qing, don't be polite."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Ladies and gentlemen, the content of today's meeting is the overall plan for the economic development of our DPRK this year, if we say that the military strength is the guarantee of our DPRK's prosperity, and the government is the foundation of our DPRK's prosperity, then the success or failure of economic development is the key to our DPRK's prosperity, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, although last year's income has increased substantially, but due to the lack of precipitation of the state treasury, and this year's budget of all ministries is far greater than last year's, not to mention anything else, only the budget expenditure of military spending is double that of last year. Therefore, it is important to double the income this year. ”

"Of course, these new investments are very necessary and will have returns, and the reason why I will increase investment in various industries is for future returns." I continued, "The previous dynasties of our dynasty were based on agriculture, and the tax revenue of agriculture accounted for more than half of the total income, and in our dynasty, this situation began to change, and the tax revenue of handicrafts and commerce has reached about half of the total tax revenue. The Ministry of Agriculture has formulated a series of policies to support farmers, these policies have greatly improved the positive surname of farmers, and the labor required for the same yield has been greatly reduced, so that the countryside has begun to appear rich labor, this year, with the rise of the scientific and technological revolution, I believe that there will be more advanced agricultural tools, better crop seeds and more scientific planting methods, at the same time, the improvement of water conservancy facilities will also promote the development of agriculture, Zhao Aiqing. ”

Zhao Kui stood up and said, "The old minister is here." ”

"The Ministry of Agriculture should first sum up the measures set last year, which can promote the continued retention of production, otherwise, it needs to be improved or amended, or even abolished; on the premise of ensuring that the growth of basic crops such as rice and wheat is one and a half times, the Ministry of Agriculture should begin to guide the peasants to develop the cultivation of a variety of crops and expand the breeding industry according to the actual conditions in various localities, so as to increase the peasants' incomes, for example, planting fruit trees in areas where conditions permit, or opening breeding workshops."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the old minister obeys."

"In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the Ministry of Commerce, can try to guide the surplus labor in the rural areas to gradually transfer to the handicraft industry."

"Transferred to the craft industry."

"Well, Zhao Aiqing, my land of China has always been known as the Celestial Empire, the land is vast, rich in products, but many items can not be preserved and their added value is reduced, for example, the farmers who grow fruits because they have a timeliness surname, so it is not suitable to preserve, but through processing, the excess fresh fruits can be made into dried fruits, you all know, in my dynasty of Liangzhejiang Road, there are many farmers will make excess glutinous rice into wine or glutinous rice wine, which can expand the use of agricultural products, one can increase the income of farmers, enrich the goods of our dynasty, Second, you can make some of the wealthy laborers have something to do, and for this, your Ministry of Agriculture can do research first, and then put forward your views. ”

Zhao Kui said: "Your Majesty, the old minister will obey his will. ”

"Well, in terms of agriculture, I have accumulated a lot of experience, I will talk about this first, and then I will focus on industry, commerce, people in the world love money, but the social status of merchants has not been taken seriously, even in our dynasty, the trade industry has gradually developed, and its taxes account for half or more of the income of our dynasty, and the status of merchants is the same, therefore, I believe that the first thing is to break the hierarchical concept of people, whether it is officials, merchants, scholars, farmers, craftsmen or soldiers, etc., their status should be equal, This is the same as what I said before about the equality of nationalities, there can be no discrimination, master, do you say yes? ”

Jia Rudao replied absentmindedly: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

I smiled: "Back to the topic, Liao Yingzhong Liao Aiqing." ”

"The minister is here."

"I intend to set up an industrial department under the Ministry of Commerce, and refine the functional departments of the Ministry of Commerce into an industrial department, a commerce and trade department, and an overseas trade department, and most of the industries in our dynasty are small handicraft workshops, so I decided to first establish a number of industrial bases in the area of Liangzhejiang Road and Jiangnan East Road, so as to promote the development of industry and form large-scale centralized production, for example, to establish a shipbuilding base in Songjiang at the entrance of the Yangtze River, an iron production base in Suzhou Province, and a steel base in Jiankang Province (now Nanjing). In Lin'an Province, the establishment of official kiln production bases, etc., in these industrial bases, there can be state-owned workshops, there can also be private workshops, the imperial court will give tax exemptions and exemptions to large workshops, cheap land rent and other preferential policies, in order to support a number of leading workshops with large-scale production capacity, and then these leading workshops will drive the surrounding auxiliary workshops to form an overall industrial base, Liao Aiqing, your Ministry of Commerce according to what I just said, first submit a plan. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the ministers obey."

"If this law is feasible, and then gradually spread to other parts of the country, Song Rui, in the process of reforming the provincial system, your government council can discuss this matter with local officials by the way, I basically mean that the imperial court, the local government and the owners of local large handicraft workshops will carry out this matter together."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"The commerce and trade industry developed the fastest last year, and the tax growth created was also the largest, here I would like to praise all the officials of the Ministry of Commerce, I hope to continue to maintain, for the commerce and trade industry, I am very relieved, so I will not say much, and this year to focus on strengthening the overseas export trade, let's discuss together, how to improve export trade."