The Grand Canal, which is being dredged and widened, is mainly on the line from Yangzhou to Huai'an, which is not particularly easy to walk. A variety of machinery, a large number of workers, and various boats lined up in rows make this section of the Grand Canal seem congested.

Wang Shuhui is now heading for Beijing in a medium-sized river gunboat.

After inspecting the Western, Middle, and Eastern Route armies of the plan to go north, Wang Shuhui prepared to go to Beijing to join the central government from the Central Plains to Beijing by land, and began to carry out the industrial and agricultural construction work in the Central Plains.

The plan to go north was very difficult to do, and it was very troublesome to organize, and the Central Exploration Bureau of the Baath Party, with a total number of more than 3,000 people, was already overwhelmed just to determine the various mineral deposits and resources on the path of the three-way army to the north.

But if you summarize it simply, the whole plan to go north is also very simple.

That is, the opening of the military highway on the west road. Wherever the highway is built, the local masses will be organized to resume agricultural production. Then choose places with good conditions to build state-owned farms, and choose places with abundant resources to build industrial and mining enterprises. Finally, the whole of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Beijing are connected by highway.

The Middle Route Army used railways to open the way. Wherever the railway is built, the local masses will be organized to resume agricultural production. Then choose places with good conditions to build state-owned farms, and choose places with abundant resources to build industrial and mining enterprises. Finally, the whole of Henan, Hebei and Beijing were connected by railway.

The Eastern Route Army used the Grand Canal to open the way. Wherever the Grand Canal was dredged and widened, the local people were organized to restore agricultural production. Then choose places with good conditions to build state-owned farms, and choose places with abundant resources to build industrial and mining enterprises. Finally, the new Grand Canal, which greatly increased the transport capacity, connected the whole of Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei and Beijing.

To complete the entire plan to go north, Wang Shuhui's modern think tank gave a time of five to seven years. The time given by the Ba'ath Party's own statistical bureau is relatively short. It can be done in three to four years. The gap between the two is mainly a gap in the understanding of the level of industrialization.

Modern think tanks feel that it will take at least five to seven years to build the kind of industrial and industrial agricultural belt that is at the level between the first and second industrial revolutions. They have high standards for industrialization.

And the "elites" of the Baath Party's Bureau of Statistics still have a sense of industrialization in the most basic steam power era. So they felt that it would only take three to four years to build the industrial and industrial agricultural belt at the current level of the Baath Party. They have a low standard for industrialization.

Wang Shuhui stayed in the late Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, and has changed from a young man in his early twenties to a middle-aged uncle in his thirties. His ideas are more realistic.

Regardless of whether it takes three or five years, as long as the population of the entire North China is concentrated in the real industrial and industrial agricultural belt built along the three routes of the West and the Middle East, the 50 or 60 million Chinese are transformed into an industrial population, and the entire North China is built into an industrialized society, then let alone five to seven years, it will take 10 years and 15 years, and Wang Shuhui is willing.

Under this kind of thinking, Wang Shuhui was very anxious when he saw that the banks of the Grand Canal from Huai'an to Xuzhou were still in the form of agricultural civilization with green mountains and clear waters. When he arrived at the eastern section of the Grand Canal, he saw that under the organization of the Shandong base area, the Shandong masses were in full swing carrying out the busy and chaotic canal dredging and widening project of the eastern section of the Grand Canal, and his mood became very comfortable.

Because the itinerary was rather anxious, Wang Shuhui did not disembark in Shandong, but met with the party committee of the Ludong base area, which had rushed to Linqing from Dengzhou, and the newly formed party committee of the Luxi base area, which had rushed to Linqing from Jinan, and listened to the reports on the recent work of the leading groups of the two base areas.

Because the construction of the Dengzhou Iron and Steel Plant has been completed for about three years, and the Yanzhou Iron and Steel Plant, which has just completed construction, has also begun formal production, the current steel supply in Shandong is still relatively sufficient. However, because state farms have been rapidly established in the two base areas, the supply of fertilizer in the two places is relatively tight.

After listening to their complaints, Wang Shuhui did not criticize them as usual, but asked Meng Li to send a telegram to Chen Feng, urging the implementation of the equipment and corresponding technical personnel of the fertilizer plant.

Because of the recent relocation of the central government, some work that should be implemented has indeed been delayed, and Wang Shuhui cannot blame the local comrades for their anxious mood for this.

Whether it's building railways, building machinery or producing fertilizer, the basis for all these things is steel and coal. This is why Wang Shuhui demanded that the implementation of the northbound plan must pay attention to the construction of steel plants and coal mines.

It takes steel to build railways, steel to build machines, and there is no steel without coal and iron, and the production of chemical fertilizers seems to be the same industrial thing, because the production of synthetic ammonia requires coal as a raw material, and equipment that can withstand high temperature and high pressure, but in fact, because the basis of industrial agricultural production is chemical fertilizers, pesticides and agricultural machinery, so if you want to develop agricultural production, you still need steel and coal.

The reason why Wang Shuhui emphasized "taking steel as the key link" and "coal as the key link" in various places during his inspection was precisely because Wang Shuhui neglected agricultural production, but because if he wanted to feed all Chinese, he must achieve high agricultural yields. It is still not enough to achieve high agricultural yields by relying only on the best seeds from modern times. Because high agricultural yields require fertilizers produced by fertilizer plants, pesticides produced by pesticide factories, and steam pumps produced by machinery factories.

Therefore, from this point of view, "taking steel as the key link" and "coal as the key link" are actually "taking grain as the key link". Industry and agriculture are tied to each other.

Because the industrial construction of the Baxing Party in Shandong and Liaoning is relatively good, and a certain industrial foundation has been established, Wang Shuhui can allocate equipment and technical personnel to them with more confidence. If, like many people in the Third Route Army in the plan to go north, they clamored for the central government to provide them with equipment and personnel to support local construction when there was no local industrial base, Wang Shuhui would have scolded them a long time ago.

Wang Shuhui took a boat to Tianjin, and received a big surprise as soon as he got off the ship. The Beijing-Tianjin Highway, which was presided over by the main force of the Fuxing Army and involved nearly 80,000 people in Beijing and Tianjin, has been opened.

It took more than three months and 80,000 people to complete a standard temporary road with a mud and gravel road of 300 miles. In Wang Shuhui's opinion, this matter is not very exciting.

Almost all of the road works were completed with manpower, which was not at all a joy for Wang Shuhui. However, for Wang Shuhui, this idea of organizing and training the local people while employing local people for construction is still correct. Let's talk about the construction of this Beijing-Tianjin temporary highway, in addition to further improving the transportation in the Beijing-Tianjin area, more than 80,000 construction workers who have been organized and trained are what makes Wang Shuhui very happy.

In this era, it is really not as important to have more gold and silver than to have food in hand.

As long as there is grain in hand, China really does not have to worry about finding manpower at this time.

Which is easier, rebuilding a new city or renovating an old city? It is clear that it is easier to build a new city on a blank slate.

The urban construction of the Ming Dynasty was no matter how advanced and civilized it was in the eyes of Western missionaries, it was also a city in the agricultural era. As an industrialized organization, there is absolutely no need for the Baath Party to waste so much energy and energy to renovate old cities that are completely unable to adapt to the industrial age.

More importantly, the most basic way to build a new city is to directly provide a real job for the residents of the city. Moreover, under the organization and training of the Ba'ath Party, all residents who participated in the construction of the new city were trained in industrialization in the process of participating in the construction.

It is for this reason that the Baath Party, the only party in China with a large amount of grain in its hands, decided not to preserve the old city of Beijing. The Baath Party decided to establish a new Beijing in Tongzhou.

The million-dollar population in the Beijing area will be diverted in the process of building a new Beijing by the Ba'ath Party. Except for the maximum population of about 300,000 who will remain in Beijing after the completion of the new Beijing City, the other more than 700,000 people will be diverted to industrial and mining enterprises around Beijing and in Tangshan, Qinhuangdao and other places.

However, at this stage, the demolition and leveling of the old Beijing City (except for the Forbidden City, which will be temporarily sealed as a national museum, all other buildings in Beijing will be demolished.) and the subsequent construction of artificial forests (all fast-growing trees and fruit trees) on the ruins of the old Beijing city were undertaken by the residents of the former Beijing city under the leadership of the Fuxing Army.

So what Wang Shuhui saw in Tongzhou was a huge construction site, and what he saw in Beijing was still a huge construction site.

Of the more than 70,000 Renaissance Army, 50,000 were sent out to undertake the organization and training of Beijing citizens. At present, more than 30,000 production and construction troops from the southern Liaoning base areas and the eastern and western Luxi base areas are responsible for the preliminary construction work of the new Beijing. However, by August 1632 at most, they could directly lead hundreds of thousands of trained new production and construction troops in the construction of the new Beijing and the Northeast Hebei Industrial Zone.

According to the Ba'ath Party's plan, the new Beijing will not assume the functions of industrial production or agricultural production. New Beijing, the capital of the new China, which retains only about 300,000 people, will retain only its political functions.

At present, outside the old Beijing city, the view will give people a sense of bleakness of a refugee camp. But for the former Beijing citizens living in the camps, living in the "refugee camp" is much better than living in the city of Beijing at the feet of the Son of Heaven.

A large amount of grain and materials transported from Shandong, Liaoning and Tianjin to Beijing by sea and land have effectively solved the existential crisis hanging over the heads of the former Beijing citizens. The influx of massive amounts of grain made hundreds of thousands and nearly millions of former Beijing citizens finally live a life of food and clothing for the first time after the collapse of the Ming and Dashun dynasties.

If we had not experienced the terrible urban famine of the Ming Dynasty and the Great Shun Dynasties, as the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the citizens of Beijing might still have some resistance to the Baath Party that took over Beijing.

However, the hellish famine and famine followed, followed by the bloody conflicts caused by the Great Rebellion and the establishment of the Great Shun, the great trials and executions of the unscrupulous bastards of the Ming and Dashun after the Renaissance Army took over the city of Beijing, and the lightning-lightning campaign of suppressing and striking hard in the Beijing area personally presided over by the Central Committee of the Baath Party after it moved to Tongzhou a month earlier. On the one hand, the citizens of Beijing are very grateful to the Baath Party, and on the other hand, they are very afraid of the Baath Party.

In this way, the organization and training of the masses in the Beijing area by the main force of the Renaissance Army went very smoothly. The first batch of 80,000 highway production and construction troops is the most direct result.

The promotion of Baath banknotes was carried out in parallel with the process of transforming the organization and training of the masses by the Baath Party.

In Beijing, for example, the Baath Party directly promoted the renminbi of the Ba'ath Party in Beijing on the basis of a large amount of food and materials.

The people of the Ming Dynasty had learned the profound experience of the Ming Dynasty government's indiscriminate issuance of paper money, so when they received RMB as a reward in the process of receiving the organization and training of the Ba'ath Party, they would go to the Ba'ath Party supply and marketing cooperatives and grain stores set up in temporary camps to exchange for food and materials as soon as possible.

But it won't last long. After all, the renminbi issued by the Ba'ath Party was based on the party's strong agricultural and industrial production capacity. The Baath Party, which can guarantee that all the renminbi will be able to buy the corresponding goods and materials, is not worried that the masses will not accept the renminbi and do not believe in the credibility of the renminbi.

You must know that in the Hubei, Ludong, Luxi, and Liaoning base areas, the 15 million people under the rule of the Ba'ath Party have already established full confidence in the renminbi.

However, the vast majority of Beijing residents who currently live in camps made up of simple wooden houses have begun to accept the renminbi, and it is really not because of the purchasing power of the renminbi. It's a desperate move.

No matter how strong the Ba'ath Party's industrial and agricultural production capacity is, because at present the Ba'ath Party's industrial and agricultural production bases are mainly concentrated in Hubei and North China, which are now limited by relatively backward transportation conditions, and the commercial establishments set up by the Baath Party in the camps can only provide basic daily necessities to the new production and construction soldiers who are undergoing transformation and training.

In other words, the supply and marketing cooperatives and shops in the camp can only sell food, clothing, soap, towels, and products such as canned food, cigarettes, and liquor.

Hundreds of thousands of former Beijing citizens and recruits of the current production and construction army live a collective life in the camp. In other words, the clothes that everyone wore were provided by the Baath Party, and the meals that everyone ate were big pot meals in the big cafeteria. Even if everyone exchanges all the RMB in their hands for commodities, they can only pile these things in their dormitories, and they have to worry about their things being stolen every day.

The first thing that a young person who wants to do to get paid every ten days is to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a bunch of "luxury goods" such as cigarette cans and liquor, and eat all the time. But most people don't think so, they will use RMB to buy grain, bricks and clothing, which are necessities of life.

But after a few times of this behavior, everyone was desperate not to do it.

When the food is bought, it can only be left there waiting for it to spoil, and the clothes are not very useful when they are bought. As a result, most people became more and more open in desperation, and the sales of food and ready-to-wear in the Baath Party's supply and marketing cooperatives and stores began to plummet, while all kinds of non-staple foods were sold in large quantities.

As long as the renminbi can buy things, as long as the renminbi can always buy things and there are more and more things available for purchase, the renminbi will inevitably be accepted by everyone.

Therefore, it only took about two months, and the masses, who have always been industrious and simple, have changed their bold style of eating nonsense, except for those young people who want to open the behavior is still the same, most of the masses will hide the wages and allowances they have received, and they will not spend a penny easily.