Although in the past two years, it has been a typical heavy industry and national defense enterprise that has been in the limelight in the domestic industrial and commercial circles, but in fact, a mere Fuyuan machine factory does not represent the development of domestic industry, at most it is only to play a leading role, and it is light industry that really makes contemporary China realize industrial urbanization and greatly improve its finances.

The most obvious is the textile and soybean industry, since Zhao Dongyun vigorously supported the textile industry and soybean industry, these two industries have become the pillar industries of the three eastern provinces, Zhili and other places.

In the past two years, the textile industry of Zhili and Fengtian provinces has developed surgingly, since the Russo-Japanese War squeezed out the original Oriental cloth market, after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, although the Oriental cloth has made a comeback, but it has been difficult to shake the market of domestic machine-made cloth, at present, the mechanism of China's machine-made cloth market, the domestic machine-made cloth occupies most of the market, the Oriental cloth occupies a certain market, and the foreign cloth of the United Kingdom and other European and American countries only occupies a small part of the market.

Thanks to the rapid development of the textile industry, a large number of industrial workers have been added in recent years, which has greatly promoted the development of only a few industrial cities in the northern provinces, such as Huludao, Tangshan, Yingkou, etc.

In addition to the textile industry, the soybean industry in Northeast China is also one of the two pillar industries, and for the three eastern provinces, the soybean industry is more important, because the soybean industry is a fairly close combination of the primary and secondary industries.

Countless farmers in Northeast China grow soybeans, which are then purchased by businessmen, some of which are directly exported or sold to the southern part of the country, and some are purchased by oil extractors, and then processed to produce soybean oil and soybean cake and export.

The soybean industry in Northeast China is a very typical export-oriented industry, which is very important for the international trade system of the Soviet Union, which can allow the Soviet Union to obtain extremely valuable foreign exchange.

More importantly, it can feed millions of people, including farmers who grow soybeans, including workers in oil mills.

It can even be said that the soybean industry in Northeast China is even more important than the abundant coal and iron resources in Northeast China.

In order to support the soybean industry, Zhao Dongyun has given a large number of preferential policies a few years ago, for farmers, the unification of agricultural taxes, the abolition of a large number of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, although from the level of paying state taxes, the burden on farmers is greater, but the actual situation is not so, without a large number of names, opaque harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, farmers do not have to face the pre-Qing era of various apportionments, tax officials to make it difficult, the actual burden can be said to be greatly reduced.

In terms of industry and commerce, Zhao Dongyun asked several large soybean industry firms in Northeast China to take the lead and set up a soybean chamber of commerce to compete with those foreign companies in the purchase of soybeans produced by farmers.

The implementation of these measures will inevitably require strong leadership from the government, such as when soybeans landed in the London market in the early years, it was the government that took the lead in contacting.

In a series of production and marketing processes in the soybean industry, the republican government received a large amount of tax revenue, as well as extremely valuable foreign exchange.

"Thanks to the development of the European market, we expect soybean exports to increase further this year, but it is worth noting that a considerable part of soybean production has started to flow to Lushun this year!" Zhao E, the general minister of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, held a thick report and opened it as he spoke.

Zhao Dongyun said: "What's going on? Something went wrong at Yingkou? ”

Hearing that Lushun had obtained a large amount of soybean production, Zhao Dongyun immediately thought that something was wrong in Yingkou.

After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Lushun became a port managed by many countries, and the board of directors of the Lushun Concession spent a lot of effort to build Lushun into a big city like Shanghai, a free port, and Lushun benefited from the convenience of railway transportation, and Lushun Port is a free port, which can berth ships, and these two alone have made Lushun have great commercial competitiveness.

However, although Lushun is still nominally a Chinese territory, the board of directors of the Lushun Concession will not transfer the tax revenue to Zhao Dongyun. Therefore, in order to restrict the development of Lushun and compete for investment with Lushun, Zhao Dongyun supported the establishment of Yingkou Industrial Zone.

And in order to compete with Lushun for investment, but a large number of preferential policies were given to Yingkou Industrial Zone, and even a branch railway from Yingkou to the Middle East Railway was built, Zhao Dongyun's goal for Yingkou Industrial Zone was very simple, not to ask you how good your development is, as long as you can grab the investment from Lushun, then even if the task is completed.

However, with the passage of time, Yingkou still shows the inconvenience of transportation, although Zhao Dongyun has repeatedly promised to protect foreign investment, but many foreign capital will still give priority to investment in Lushun.

Zhao E said: "The development of Yingkou is still smooth, but the development momentum of Lushun is really beyond our previous expectations, and I am afraid that Lushun will attract more capital investment in the next few years!" ”

Zhao Dongyun frowned after hearing this, if Lushun develops well, it means that Yingkou's development is poor, which means that he can collect less taxes.

Zhao Dongyun thought for a while and said: "We can't control Lushun, Yingkou is limited by congenital restrictions and it is difficult to compete face-to-face with Lushun, but our thinking should be broader, we can't control the flow of soybeans to Lushun, but we can still control the flow of soybeans, in the future, your Ministry of Industry and Commerce still has to cooperate with the Northeast Soybean Chamber of Commerce to further control the purchase of soybeans, I don't believe that they can't buy soybeans and can still open the oil mill!" ”

As a landlord, the Su family has a great advantage, that is, relying on the joint efforts of the government and the chamber of commerce, they are fully able to control the planting and purchase of soybeans, as long as they control these two items, they do not have to worry about those oil mills in Lushun will compete with the oil mills in Yingkou, Huludao and other places to grab business.

Zhao Dongyun is determined to completely control the soybean industry!

When he was worried about the development of industry and commerce, Zhao Dongyun also needed to put a lot of energy into the rectification of the financial system and land reform.

Land reform is nothing new, and historically radical and moderate policies have been used by those in power, and Zhao Dongyun is not essentially a person who worries about the country and the people, so he will not carry out land reform from any radical angle, and then shake the foundation of his rule.

Therefore, the land policy adopted by Zhao Dongyun is still very relaxed, he did not engage in any land equalization policy, nor did he confiscate the landlords and other things, the first and most important point of the land policy he adopted was 'resettlement and reclamation'.

At present, the total population of the three eastern provinces is only about 10 million, but the land resources of the three eastern provinces are very rich, enough to feed tens of millions of agricultural population, so since Zhao Dongyun moved into Beijing last year, the most thing the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry under his command has done is to recruit a large number of landless peasants from Shandong, Zhili, and Henan to go to the three eastern provinces for reclamation.

Cheap land was very attractive to those landless peasants, many of whom dragged their families to the northeast under the guidance of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, forming a large-scale wave of immigration, and in the period from June 1907 to June 1908 alone, the three eastern provinces received up to 2 million immigrants.

On the one hand, the resettlement of land has alleviated the land pressure in several northern provinces in Guannai, and the departure of a large number of landless peasants has also alleviated the contradiction between the rich and the poor in the local area, and effectively maintained the local social stability. On the other hand, it is more important, that is, a large number of agricultural people went to the three eastern provinces, and the three eastern provinces developed a large amount of arable land in a short period of time, further increasing the output of rice and soybeans in the three eastern provinces, and the increase in soybean production in turn promoted the development of a series of soybean industries.

Resettlement was the core of the Soviet land policy in the past two years, and the second land policy of the Soviet system was the rent restriction order.

The Soviet Union has taken the lead in launching rent restriction orders in several prefectures and counties in Mukden Province, and the rent restriction order is very simple, that is, the land rent must not exceed 50% of the annual output.

Although the land rent of 50 percent is still very high in fact, and it does not play a big role in reducing the burden on the peasants, the purpose of Zhao Dongyun's policy is not to reduce the burden on the peasants in a short period of time, he just wants to convey a message to the outside world, that is, he Zhao Dongyun is going to start land reform, and the current rent restriction order is just the beginning, and a series of land policies will continue to be adopted in the future.

These policies adopted by Zhao Dongyun can be regarded as a kind of model of boiling frogs in warm water, reducing the land rent a little in a few years, and at the same time vigorously guiding the landlord class to devote themselves to industry and commerce, hoping that after ten or twenty years, a relatively relaxed land environment can be formed in China.

As for saying that those landlords and rich peasants raided their homes and then distributed the land to landless peasants, this kind of bandit and bandit-like behavior Zhao Dongyun did not refuse in his heart, the key is that he can't do this.

Although the main support group of the contemporary Soviet system is said to be the industrial and commercial class, in fact, these industrial and commercial classes are also from landlord families, and those officers and officials are all from landlord families.

Just like the Nanjing government in later generations, it was not that they did not want to carry out a radical land policy and solve the problem at once so as to gain the support of a large number of peasants, but that they could not do it.

Moreover, the so-called land problem only exists in the feudal agricultural society, and as long as your country has not developed into a modern industrial industry, then there will always be a land problem, regardless of whether you adopt land state ownership or private ownership or other chaotic land policies.

Why? Because land is finite and people are increasing, when land cannot support the population, the contradiction comes.