The nineteenth century was not a good time for Asian countries, as Russia's eastward expansion not only invaded the northern part of China, but also invaded the three Central Asian countries in the south, and historically, Russia not only used the Treaty of Aihun to occupy a large amount of Chinese territory, but also annexed the three Central Asian countries.

The British continued to invade Burma and Thailand, and the French gradually annexed part of Vietnam on the Indochina Peninsula.

In the mid-19th century, Japan and China were successively opened by European and American powers with naval guns, which led to the Westernization Movement in China and the Meiji Restoration in Japan.

In addition, there are some interesting problems, such as the Dutch East India Company in Nanyang successively defeated Dagang Company and Lanfang Company, which led to the collapse of the famous Lanfang Republic in history.

If Lin Zhe had not appeared in this time and space, then according to history, China would have suffered a crushing defeat in the First Opium War and the Second Opium War, and because of the Taiping Rebellion, the financial and military power was gradually controlled by the local governors, thus forming a unique supervision in the late Qing Dynasty against the central government, and even when the central government and foreign countries went to war, the local provinces also declared neutrality.

But this time and space has Lin Zhe!

The Chinese Army he founded not only won him the land of Kyushu and sat on the throne of the emperor, but also allowed him to defeat the Anglo-French alliance and drive out the British and French colonial invasion at the initial stage.

Although the country has been traumatized by the war for many years, especially the large-scale population reduction of Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei provinces, the agricultural industry has been greatly damaged, and the central coastal areas of the Yangtze River have been greatly damaged two years earlier. For example, the surroundings of Anqing, Nanjing, Jiujiang, and Wuchang are not exaggerated to say that there are no people for a hundred miles because of the repeated tug-of-war battles of the Taiping Army and the Qing Army.

But when the Chinese army began to occupy the above areas. After the Qing army and the Taiping army were expelled from these provinces, these areas began to recover rapidly.

Years have passed. Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and other areas in southern Jiangsu, where a large number of people had fled in large numbers, no trace of war was seen, and the fields in the fields were reclaimed, and the empty cities regained popularity.

After the end of the war, the cultivation and recuperation in the past few years have already made the early ruling areas of the Chinese army, such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and southern Anhui, no traces of the war can be seen, but there are some prosperous scenes unique to the post-war period.

However, this is only a small area, and for the huge China, it is still not reaping the damage of the past years of war.

At the same time, in a huge China, there are disasters at both ends of the three days. And at the same time, there are places that are flooded, but in another place, the sun is shining brightly, and the only thing that is the same is that the affected places will have no harvest.

At the same time, the industrial development is not smooth, although Lin Zhe has supported the development of industry as much as possible, but the current main domestic economic form is still dominated by small peasant economy, in addition to the industry around Shanghai is more active, there is only Dangtu in southern Anhui relying on a Dangtu industrial zone to develop is okay.

As for the rest of the world, it was and is still what it is.

The only thing to be thankful is. Although the speed of modern industrial development is not fast, the traditional handicraft industry and some traditional service business activities have recovered relatively quickly, mainly because the gentry and merchant class who have a lot of wealth in the inland areas still have a great distrust and do not understand modern industry. They would rather put their money into an industry they know than take the risk of opening a modern factory.

He has been in charge for several years, and now Lin Zhe also knows that he doesn't have what he wants. Even though he was the Emperor of the Empire, what he said was to be obeyed by all. But on the industrial development. Lin Zhe still looked a little helpless.

After all, he can't force the people to join the industry, especially some large investments. Heavy industrial projects with low benefits and long payback periods.

So far, the capital invested in heavy industry is still basically dominated by royal industries, and private capital is reluctant to get involved in these steel, machinery, chemical and other fields.

They would rather spend millions and millions of dollars to build light industries such as silk reeling factories and spinning mills, rather than invest even a dime in heavy industry.

Businessmen always like to make money quickly and at the same time have little risk.

Private capital does not like to invest in heavy industry, and it has entered light industry, especially the textile industry, so to build some heavy industry, especially heavy industry related to national defense and security, Lin Zhe can only rely on the royal industry.

It is also fortunate that there is a royal bank in the royal estate, and although the royal bank does not have much capital of its own, it has a large amount of deposits that can be used to lend.

And these loans are also the basis for the palace affairs department to invest in many heavy industries and even railways!

Interestingly, in the entire royal industry, in addition to the textile industry, most of the other enterprises are heavily indebted, such as Jiangnan Mining Company, don't look at the scale of this enterprise is getting bigger and bigger, but the money owed to the Royal Bank is also increasing, and now it has been owed almost more than three million.

Linde Machinery Factory also owes millions, not to mention Xuzhou Railway Company, which already owes millions.

The reason why there are so many debts is because these enterprises are basically established by relying on bank loans, and their expansion also depends on bank loans, but these are capital-intensive industries with slow cost recovery, so for a long time in the future, many enterprises controlled by the Finance Department of the Palace Department will owe a lot of debts to the Royal Bank.

The construction of the country after the end of a large-scale civil war may seem easy to say, but in fact it is more difficult than the war.

One of the characteristics of people's livelihood and economic problems is that it is cumbersome, there are things every day, and it is not a big deal, but the accumulation of these small things will make a qualitative change.

Lin Zhe, who was standing in front of the window, looked at the Xinhua Hall in the distance, and the plane tree on the left side of the Pingren Hall in front of the Xinhua Hall, had already begun to shed its leaves in the autumn wind at this time, and it must not be long before only the bare branches remained.

Before you know it, it's autumn again!

Lin Zhe seemed to feel that the day of becoming emperor was still yesterday, but if he didn't pay attention, several years had passed, and this time passed a little fast.

Although he has put more energy on domestic people's livelihood governance in the past year, it seems that he can not improve much even if he spends more time, the current industrial development can be said to be completely dependent on inertia to move forward, and the role of official promotion is quite limited.

Now there are some achievements in Shanghai and Dangtu Industrial Zone, but in addition to these two places, the industry in other areas is still blank, and this situation is difficult for Lin Zhe to accept.

He can't go on like this, he doesn't have decades to wait for the results of the development of domestic industry, he wants to build a huge empire, he wants an invincible army and navy to conquer the world, and these are all supported by domestic industry.

So what can be done to improve this situation?

Lin Zhe does not think that his own governance measures are problematic, on the contrary, he thinks that he has done enough, so why is this situation still happening?

The only reason Lin Zhe could think of was the inaction of the officials below!

Lin Zhe is not a noble person, he does not have the habit of taking responsibility on his body, when he thinks that he is not wrong, then it must be someone else who makes a mistake!

As a person who can pull out an army to dominate the world, Lin Zhe has never been a utopian person, on the contrary, he often does it immediately when he thinks of something, and he will not take too many details into account.

When he thought that the officials below were inactive in developing industry, he immediately took action!

On 24 November, Anhui Governor Guo Longyun returned to Beijing to report on his work and talked with Lin Zhechang for more than three hours.

On November 26, Lin Zhe personally made a decision without communicating with the cabinet, announcing the establishment of a new 'Economic Planning Committee' in the Palace Affairs Department, which was directly under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor and did not belong to the cabinet, and appointed Guo Longyun, the former governor of Anhui, as the first superintendent, and at the same time gave Guo Longyunxi a command to 'supervise economic affairs'.

This order allowed Guo Longyun to get the title not the traditional chairman, president, secretary and the like, but became the only three ad hoc ministers in the empire. That is, the 'Minister of Economy' is relatively equal to Lin Dabiao's 'Minister of Navy' and Shi Langyi's 'Minister of the Western Expedition' in terms of political level.

This title of 'minister' is not a minister, in other words, Guo Longyun's scope of authority as an economic minister is not limited to a certain department, but can intervene in matters related to the economy.

In terms of actual power, this Minister of Economy even wants the ministers of various ministries to be even bigger!

Just when outsiders still couldn't figure out what the Economic Planning Commission and Guo Longyun, the Minister of Economy, were doing, Guo Longyun was also thinking about the conversation with Lin Zhe two days ago in his house in the city.

"Now the development of the domestic industrial economy is still too conservative, and there is no unified planning, for example, this textile, where there are some capital people in Shanghai are not engaged in raw silk or spinning, but no one in the machinery and chemical industry is engaged in it, only relying on the royal industry to support a few enterprises, and this is extremely unhealthy for the industrial development of the empire!"

"It's understandable that businessmen have concerns about unfamiliar industries, but you can't stop trying them just because you're not familiar with them!"

"It is very necessary to unify the planning and formulate a series of development plans, and the local officials below want to develop the economy and the businessmen and people to invest in emerging industries, so we need to let them know what to do now and what to do in the future!"

"I hope you will come up with a feasible plan for the development of the industrial economy and make a reasonable layout for the industrial development of the whole country!"

"I hope that in the next five years, the industrial output value will increase more than three times, and the light and heavy industries will develop in a balanced manner, and the output value of heavy industry will reach more than five times. (To be continued.) )