In the unstable environment of the border, Bi Yutong's proposal to hoard immigrants was strongly supported by Lin Zhe, and for a while, Bi Yutong was busy with this matter, and his busyness was not much worse than that of Guo Longyun, the Minister of Economy, and even busier.

But when Bi Yutong deliberately made a busy gesture and tried to seize Guo Longyun's recent limelight, Guo Longyun didn't care about Bi Yutong's actions at all, but quietly took a group of officials from the Economic Planning Commission out to inspect.

Guo Longyun's plan to go to Wuchang in the west, Tianjin in the north and then to Guangzhou, as for Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai, they are all in the ranks of the inspection, so many trips will take at least several months.

When Bi Yutong learned the news, there was a sour feeling in his heart, what is this, I have worked hard to compete with you for the limelight, you come out to inspect at this time, and I am left alone in Beijing to toss, this person who knows is okay, and people who don't know still think that I Bi Yutong is idle and has nothing to do.

Outsiders naturally don't know about these competitive ideas hidden in Bi Yutong's heart, and Guo Longyun naturally doesn't know either, and his plan to go out to inspect naturally has nothing to do with Bi Yutong.

His inspection plan was arranged as early as the beginning of his tenure, and he, the Minister of Economy, was responsible for coordinating the economic development of the whole country and guiding the balanced and healthy development of domestic industry, and in order to do this, he could not live in the temple every day like Bi Yu and these cabinet ministers, he needed to see with his own eyes all aspects of the current situation of the empire, and only after seeing with his own eyes at the local level could he know what methods to use to improve the economy.

Only then can we determine which cities will have industrial zones, and what should we do if they have industrial zones? Is it a heavy industrial zone or a light industry? What industry is it focusing on? What are the unique resources?

These are all things Guo Longyun needs to know!

Therefore, in this inspection plan, he focused on several cities that are scheduled to develop large-scale industries, Wuchang, Tianjin, and Guangzhou, the three major coastal cities. In addition, there are some cities that are already relatively prosperous, such as Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Changsha, Nanchang and other cities.

The empire is now in its infancy, and the resources in all aspects are extremely limited, and the investment required to build an industrial zone is huge, and not every place has the same unique advantages as Shanghai, and can build a light industrial zone on the north bank of Suzhou Creek with local finance.

Whether it's Guangzhou, Tianjin, or Wuchang. If these places want to build a large-scale industrial zone, the capital investment required in the early stage is quite large, the land must be requisitioned in the early stage, the land must be leveled, and even the factory buildings must be built in advance, and then the supply of roads, bridges, water, coal and other fuels. A modern marina capable of mooring large vessels, a road between the marina and the industrial area.

The investment required for these infrastructure projects was so large that even the central government of the empire could hardly support the development of several industrial zones at the same time.

After all, although there is a lot of fiscal revenue in the empire, there are more aspects of spending, the bulk is military spending, followed by administrative expenses, and the rest of the departments are divided, and the funds used to support industrial development are extremely limited. At most, it's just over 10 million, and if it's more, it's basically unlikely.

So although the Economic Planning Commission has already planned to prepare industrial zones in a number of places. However, there must be a distinction between priority and urgency, with those with strong support and those with little support, those who do it first and those who do it later.

Emperor Lin Zhe likes to run industries and promote industry and commerce, which is not a secret in imperial officialdom. Almost everyone knows it, and these officials also know that if you want to climb up quickly, if you want to occupy a certain position in the emperor's heart, there is nothing more effective than running an industry.

Bi Xuanxi in front. Guo Longyun and others are the most obvious examples!

These two people who are good at running industries have been extremely holy in the past two years, Guo Longyun will not talk about it when he is the governor of Anhui, and now as the minister of economy, it can be seen that he is extremely valued by His Majesty.

Bi Xuanxi's words, after Guo Longyun was transferred to the Minister of Economy, he directly crossed the rank of political envoy, and then directly promoted to the governor of Anhui and became a provincial minister.

Therefore, many people who are active and energetic want to run an industry or something, to win the favor of high-ranking officials, but most of the officials are traditional bureaucrats who have read the Four Books and the Five Classics, and you can ask them to say anything about agriculture, but if you let them go to industry, it is a little reluctant, and many of them don't even know what a steam engine is.

Therefore, in the past two years, many officials have wanted to do it, but they don't know how to do it, so they can only let businessmen make a small fuss on their own.

But now Guo Longyun's patrol has been notified in advance, and the first priority of this inspection is the preparation of the industry in various places!

The Economic Planning Commission was even afraid that the local officials would not know how to prepare, so they explained how to prepare for the inspection.

There are basically two, the first is what special resource advantages does the local government have? For example, iron ore, coal and other minerals, such as the production of a large number of mulberry cocoons, and for example, close to the inner lake or offshore, there are a large number of fish resources. No matter what the resource advantage is, it is said to come out.

The second is to test the local official's familiarity with industry, for example, if a merchant wants to set up a weaving factory in your jurisdiction one day, how do you go through the formalities for him? Then how to explain some of the preferential policies of the empire for the textile industry? Then how to solve the problem of land for setting up a factory?

How to provide for the large number of workers that the factory needs? Are there enough farmers in the vicinity and what are the salaries?

At the same time, if there are hundreds of people in a large factory, because it is impossible to get close to the urban area, how to solve the problem of eating, drinking and pulling water for these hundreds of people every day? In particular, how to solve the problem of eating? Whether there is sufficient rice and vegetables in the local area.

In addition, all high-tech factories now often have the existence of foreign engineers, and these foreigners are not allowed to appear outside the treaty ports according to the treaty restrictions, how to solve the problem of foreigners' identity in the local area, and then how to avoid conflicts and contradictions between foreigners and local people?

Setting up a factory in this year is not only a great test for investors, but also a very serious test for the local government, and if the local government is not adequately prepared, it will often cause all kinds of troubles.

Jiaxing is this kind of example, a businessman heard that Jiaxing has given a lot of preferential measures, so boldly ran over to build a tea brick factory, the local government is naturally laughing, but after the businessman smashed down tens of thousands of yuan to build the factory, and then learned that the land to build the factory is not official land, but privately owned land, Jiaxing County has not been expropriated directly to use, but now the original landlord said that this is their land, can not let the factory start, more absolutely is, the landlord is not short of money, The county government was unwilling to pay twice the market price afterwards, and the factory had to be moved out, and the so-called loss of green seedlings had to be compensated.

After the trouble, the local county government, landlords and investors are all headaches, especially the investment businessmen suffered extremely heavy losses, spent a high price to import precision equipment from Europe on the riverside wharf in the wind and rain, recruited hundreds of workers in advance to eat, drink and pull water every day but can not work, tossing a few months after people can't bear it, directly a complaint to the Zhejiang Provincial Court.

The result of the later trial of the Zhejiang Provincial Court was that Jiaxing County expropriated another piece of factory land to the investor, and was responsible for all the losses of the investor!

However, other investors are afraid of you, take the compensation and leave immediately, and then honestly run back to Shanghai to build a factory, although the cost of building a factory in Shanghai is at least twice as much, but spend money to buy rest assured.

In the end, not only the county magistrate of Jiaxing County was dismissed, but even the prefect at the top was given an 'inferior' performance evaluation, and finally was transferred to Guangxi as the prefect.

This is just one of the examples, in fact, there have been similar problems in many places, except for Shanghai and Dangtu Industrial Zone, other places including Suzhou, Hangzhou, the actual industry is not going well.

At the same time, many businessmen are accustomed to the political and business environment in Shanghai, which is changed to other places, although those local governments will give more preferential policies, but they will still be very unaccustomed, so many people would rather spend more costs in Shanghai to set up factories, rather than to Jiading, Songjiang and other places across the place to set up factories, as for the more inland areas there are even fewer people to go.

At present, China's top 20 raw silk reeling factories are all in Shanghai, none of them are in other cities, even Huzhou, the main production area of silkworm cocoons, there are no large-scale raw silk reeling factories, only a few small-scale silk reeling factories run by a few local businessmen.

It can be seen that in fact, although businessmen care about preferential policies, they care more about politics and business environment.

Guo Longyun didn't know much about these in the past, because he used to work in Shanghai and later in Anhui, and it was actually difficult for him to see the difficulties of some local governments in a high position.

When he went all the way west, through Anqing, Jiujiang, Wuchang, and then along the Yangtze River back to Nanjing, after a short rest, he went to Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Suzhou, and finally arrived in Shanghai.

When he set foot on the soil of Shanghai again, looked at the busy streets, and looked at the policemen in black uniforms on the streets helping to manage the many carriages on the streets, he felt that there was a clear gap between the rest of the city and Shanghai, which even the imperial capital of Nanjing could not be bridged.

That is, Shanghai is full of modern urban atmosphere, on the streets, the cinder pavement on the road, the steam gantry crane and other large tools on the wharf, the large ships moored are almost impossible to see, and there are constantly steam ships passing by with white smoke on the Huangpu River. (To be continued.) )