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Due to the proximity of Dangtu Industrial Zone to Nanjing, and the fact that this emerging city is one of the most important heavy industrial zones in China, coupled with the railway connection to Nanjing, Lin Zhe has been to the city several times in the past few years.

This visit to Dangtu is the third time Lin Zhe has come to this city, and every time he comes, he can see the obvious changes in this new city.

The former wilderness has risen from the ground, with one factory after another, and the tidal flats along the river have become wharves with a large number of ships moored.

Ships with plumes of smoke arrived in the city carrying various industrial products such as coal, or they carried steel and a large number of machinery products produced by Dangtu to other places.

Although the banks of the Yangtze River are not as prosperous as the Huangpu River in Shanghai, they are clearly busier than Nanjing, the political center.

This can be seen from the size and flow of Nanjing Railway Station and Dangtu Railway Station, Nanjing Railway Station is mainly for passenger transportation, and freight transportation is mainly the import of foreign products and agricultural products.

However, the scale of the freight yard of the Dangtu Railway Station is far greater than that of the Nanjing Railway Station, and the trains departing or arriving from here every day are full of debts and all kinds of goods. ，

For the discovery of Dangtu, Lin Zhe is still quite satisfied!

Accompanied by local officials, Lin Zhe inspected various parts of Dangtu as if he were sightseeing, and the next day, he focused on inspecting several core enterprises in the Dangtu Industrial Zone. One of the most important is the Jiangnan Mining Company.

Walking into the factory area of Jiangnan Mining Company, Lin Zhe couldn't help but sigh. Although this is only a nineteenth-century steel factory, it is in Lin Zhe's heart. It looks much grander than the big companies of later generations.

In the middle of the factory is the row of tall steel-making furnaces, flanked by more tall factories, and the interior of the factory is filled with a pungent smell of coal dust, and huge chimneys shoot into the sky, and then send out thick black plumes of smoke.

If this kind of iron and steel enterprise is placed in the future generations, it is a heavy polluting enterprise, and it will be banned 100%.

But in this era, the steel company represents the most advanced steelmaking technology of our time.

Jiangnan Mining Company is the largest in China. At the same time, the technical strength is also the strongest steel, coal joint ventures, its steelmaking technology has been closely following the footsteps of European steel enterprises, although most of the time European steel enterprises in order to protect the technology, unwilling to sell technology licensing to Jiangnan Mining Company, only willing to sell some relatively backward technology.

Although the technical level of Jiangnan Mining Company is slightly inferior to that of the top steel companies in Europe, it can be regarded as touching the threshold. This alkaline open-hearth steelmaking method was imitated by Jiangnan Mining Company alone.

Nowadays, most of the steelmaking furnaces under Jiangnan Mining Company have adopted the alkaline open-hearth steelmaking method, which can effectively improve the performance of steel, and the average cost is also decreasing with the increase of production capacity.

Although the current supply of steel in the empire is still in short supply. But the three major domestic mining companies, plus a newly established Fuxi Coal and Iron Company, are competing for domestic steel orders. However, there was a relatively fierce competition in technology and price.

For example, since Jiangnan Mining Company has promoted the acid open-hearth steelmaking method on a large scale, the performance of its steel has improved at the same time. Due to the increase in production, price reduction measures were also taken, in order to cope with the price reduction and technological improvement of Jiangnan Mining Company. The second largest steel company in China, the North Coal and Iron Company, has also begun a comprehensive technological upgrade, and at the same time, it has also taken measures to reduce prices.

Although most of the assets of Nanyang Mining Company are foreign, its market is still mainly domestic, and although its business is mainly the supply of raw materials, it is also involved in iron and steel enterprises, investing in the construction of a steel plant in Shanghai, and its iron ore comes from its Hainan iron ore, and its coal is also from its Vietnamese coal.

The strength of the newly established Fuxi Coal and Iron Company is weaker, and its current business is still mainly in the wrought iron business, and the steelmaking business has not yet been launched, and the large-scale steelmaking plant they invested in has not yet been completed.

The competition of these domestic iron and steel enterprises, and at the same time actively expanding the domestic market, made the empire's steel production maintain a rapid growth trend.

Last year, in 1870, the empire produced 90,000 tons of raw steel, 1.2 million tons of pig iron, and 15 million tons of coal.

The production of raw steel and pig iron is no worse than that of France, which is one of the great powers, and the production of coal is even more than that of France.

In terms of steel and coal production alone, the current empire ranks fourth in the world, behind Britain, Germany and the United States.

I have to say here that the Americans are perverted, a few years after the end of the Civil War, the speed of development is already quite terrifying, with the opening of the Pacific Railroad, the Americans set off an upsurge of industrial development, and its development speed is faster than the development speed of the empire.

France, on the other hand, was affected by the Franco-Prussian War, and then the revolution and all that was messy, and the industrial development was greatly affected.

In this era, all countries are maintaining rapid development, all kinds of industrial data are multiplied and multiplied, once stopped, there is no need to stop for long, a year or two may be overtaken by others, and then it is difficult to catch up again.

The stagnation of France's development also made Lin Zhe more cautious, and in this critical period, anything that could interfere with the internal development of the empire needed to be avoided as much as possible.

After returning from Dangtu, Lin Zhe officially approved the request of Dangtu to build a city, and Dangtu County will be independent from Taiping Mansion and changed to Dangtu City, but this Dangtu City is not directly under the jurisdiction of the cabinet, but a city directly under the jurisdiction of Anhui Province, and its administrative level is equivalent to that of the provincial capital.

This is also the third city in China to be called "city", namely Shanghai, Nanjing and Dangtu.

However, as a new industrial city, Dangtu City's pattern is naturally not comparable with Shanghai and Nanjing. It can't be compared with Tianjin, Guangzhou, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, and there is only one advantage of Dangtu from beginning to end. That's heavy industry.

Other than that, Dangtu is not a very special city.

And the administrative reform of the first half of 1871. It is not limited to Dangtu, in fact, the scope is quite extensive, since then, several other cities with important economic or political status in China, and at the same time not provincial capitals or prefecture-governed cities have been adjusted, raised the administrative level, arranged for counties and prefectures directly under the jurisdiction of the province.

For example, Yuyao County, as the land of imperial dragons, is not only the hometown of the royal family. It is also the hometown of a large number of military and political dignitaries in the empire, with greater symbolic significance, and in order to improve the economic development of this small county, it was specially upgraded to a county directly under the provincial government, and the Zhejiang provincial government is directly under the central government.

In addition, Ninghe County of Beiping Prefecture was included in Zunhua Prefecture, and after the merger of the two places, it was renamed Tangshan Prefecture.

In addition, it is another large-scale adjustment and merger of the three administrative regions of counties, prefectures, and prefectures. Especially the state, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many kinds of states. However, there are prefectures and provinces, some of which are smaller than counties, but some of which are larger than prefectures.

In the early years, the empire also abolished and merged a number of states. But it still hasn't been completely cleaned up, and this time, the empire has cleaned up all the states. Through the state to the county, the state to the government. Or directly guess that the region is divided into other prefectures and counties to take over.

Cleaned up all the states that existed in the empire.

At the same time, due to the fact that some provinces have more prefecture-level units. Some are relatively few, so they are also merged or split. The big mansion was split and the small mansion was merged.

In principle, a county has jurisdiction over 20 to 30 townships and towns, four or five counties form a government, and a province has several provinces depending on the specific situation.

As for the fact that there are many provincial governors, the factors that will cause the inefficiency of the management of the provincial government can be solved by adding Taoist officers who are in charge of the affairs of a number of prefectures or provincial government agencies under the guidance of the provincial governor.

Some provinces have fewer prefectures, so there are fewer Taoists, and some provinces and counties have more, so there will be more Taoists, and there are no mandatory hard and fast rules.

The main purpose of the adjustment of administrative regions is to solve some problems left over from the Ming and Qing dynasties, so that administrative institutions at all levels can govern more efficiently.

At the same time as adjusting the administrative level, Lin Zhe also accelerated the pace of domestic industrial development, and this time, he will not only directly give instructions to the central cabinet departments below, but personally go out, and rarely held a big court meeting in June, Lin Zhe on the throne of the dragon chair did not watch the play as dumb as those traditional feudal emperors.

Rather, he talked about the determination and confidence of the empire to continue to develop its industry, and claimed that the subjects of the world worked hard for the prosperity of the imperial state.

And put forward the three slogans of a strong country in education, a strong country in science and technology, and a strong country in industry!

This time, Lin Zhe held the big court meeting as a speech, and the hundreds of military and political officials below listened to Lin Zhe's speech word for word.

Soon, the official internal publication published Lin Zhe's speech at the Great Pilgrimage Meeting, of course, this must not be written as a speech, but as a hadith.

Immediately afterwards, under the promotion of the government, non-governmental newspapers also successively published Lin Zhe's speeches, and for a time, the word 'hadith' could be frequently heard throughout the country, and the two words of hadith were followed by the word "strong country", and then the three major words of education, science and technology, and industry.

This was Lin Zhe's first public, large-scale, nationwide speech, which triggered a nationwide wave of learning, which, alas, cannot be said to be the spirit of learning, but the understanding of the hadith, or the contemplation of the holy will.

This wave will soon spread to specific matters, such as the Ministry of Education, which announced the day after the hadith was published, that it would increase its investment and start the construction of at least three comprehensive universities this year......

Shanghai also responded quickly, saying that in the following years, at least 5% of the local fiscal revenue will be used every year to reward and support various new technologies, and various new technology industries will be included in the ranks of tax incentives and given tax incentives.

Shanxi Province issued a notice that it will conduct public bidding for a number of coal mines in Shanxi Province in the second half of this year, and at the same time, in order to break through the obstacles to the export of coal, starting this year, the local finance of Shanxi Province will give no less than 3 million tax incentives every year to subsidize the construction of railway transportation in Shanxi Province.

Liaoyang Province, which has just developed for a few years, also quickly followed up, saying that it has reached a relevant agreement with the China Railway Company to build a branch railway from Shenyang to Lushun in addition to the existing Northeast Railway, and said that once the construction of this railway is completed, it will bring great convenience to the export of coal, steel, soybeans and other products in Liaoyang Province.

In 1871, under the vigorous promotion of Lin Zhe, the empire set off an unprecedented construction climax!

Ps. chasing more children's shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins~ The countdown to the 515 red envelope list is over, I'll pull a ticket, ask for an increase and appreciation vote, and finally rush a handful! (To be continued.) )