This population plan of the Imperial Ministry of Civil Affairs was more thorough than the Manchu policy towards Mongolia, which was mainly based on marriage and preferential treatment, well, and at the same time constantly instilled religion, hedonism and other spiritual opium in Mongolia, so that the Mongols indulged in hedonism.

It has to be said that the Mongol policy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was actually quite successful, and the nomadic forces of the northern steppes that had threatened the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years were completely transformed into soft-footed shrimp during the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Now the empire's immigration policy is more extreme than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because the empire intends to directly change the local population ratio through immigration, and when the main population of Mongolia and Wutai provinces becomes Han Chinese, then the threat of the so-called northern steppe peoples will naturally disappear in the long river of history.

The empire pursued the same population policy not only in Mongolia, but also in the northwestern regions, and in 1860 the empire moved about 300,000 immigrants to the northwestern provinces.

In 1860, the empire moved a total of 1.2 million people in these three directions.

And this number was doubled in 1861, directly hitting 2.5 million people.

The reason why the number increased so quickly was that the Empire had gained enough experience through the migration in 1860, and the previous successful migration had given the Imperial immigration officials greater confidence, so the number of immigrants was increased in 1861.

Most of the 2.5 million new immigrants have migrated to the northeast, especially the Liaoyang region, which is just Liaoyang Province. It is to accept 1.6 million new immigrants

In addition, parts of Jilin and Heilongjiang, which are close to Liaoyang, also received a large number of immigrants, with Heilongjiang and Jilin receiving about 200,000 immigrants respectively.

Mongolia and Utai provinces remained stable. About 150,000 people were relocated.

The Northwest Territories also remained stable, with about 350,000 people relocated.

In the work of resettlement settlement. The reason why the northeast region headed by Liaoyang is mainly is inseparable from the excellent conditions of the northeast region.

Although the Northeast is bitterly cold, the southern part of the Northeast is a wide range of plains, especially the terrain around the Liaohe River is very flat, and the land is fertile enough.

If this northeastern plain is developed, it will be enough to feed tens of millions of people.

With relatively good agricultural conditions, it can accommodate a larger immigrant population.

However, the Imperial Ministry of Civil Affairs plans to increase the population of the Northeast region to more than 15 million within ten years, of which the population of Liaoyang Province will exceed 10 million.

In addition to the abundant land in the Northeast to supply the resettlement development. It also has a great deal to do with the various mineral resources in the northeast region that the empire covets.

In the past two years, not only the official Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Imperial Government has carried out detailed exploration of minerals in Northeast China, but also some mining enterprises, such as Jiangnan Mining Company, North Coal and Iron Company, Nanyang Mining Company, the three largest mining enterprises in China, and some small and medium-sized mining enterprises in China have successively carried out exploration and small-scale mining in the early stage.

Some areas in Liaoyang Province where rich minerals have been discovered have been developed in small quantities.

However, due to factors such as the number of local population, market and transportation, these mineral resources have not been developed on a large scale for the time being.

However, the empire's willingness and plan to develop the Northeast region is well known to the whole country, so whether it is the existing three major mining companies and those small and medium-sized mining companies staring at the Northeast region, even the practitioners of other related industries are also holding up the Northeast region.

As long as the conditions are ripe. Then a lot of capital will flock in.

The first two of the three regions, the Northern Steppe, the Northwest Regions, and the Northeast Provinces, were mainly for national defense considerations, and the immigrants were to consolidate the Empire's control over these regions. However, in the northeast, there are no ethnic problems, separatism, independence, rebellion, etc., and the main problem is the border conflict with Russia, which is currently mainly concentrated in the Outer Khing'an Mountains north of the Heilongjiang River.

Mass migration of the empire to the northeast. The main purpose is to develop the Northeast Plain, trying to build the Northeast Plain into a granary and a base for heavy industry.

Resettlement is a long-term basic national policy. If there were no drastic changes, the Empire's immigration measures to the frontiers were likely to last for a decade or more.

In addition to immigration matters. Many domestic affairs also need Lin Zhe's energy to deal with.

For example, the report of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Cabinet on further increasing investment in the two major industrial zones of Guangzhou and Tianjin.

According to the report, in order to further increase the speed of industrial development in the two cities of Guangzhou and Tianjin, and improve the investment environment in other places, it was planned to invest in the construction of large-scale infrastructure in these two cities in 1862!

Its infrastructure facilities are mainly divided into ports, the main roads leading from the port to the industrial zone, as well as the river channel in the lower reaches of the Pearl River, and the canal between Tianjin and Beiping.

In addition, there are plans for the railway from Tangshan, Luanzhou to Tianjin, etc.!

The scale of investment in these plans is relatively large, casually hundreds of thousands or even millions, and these infrastructure projects are difficult to complete if they only rely on local financial strength, so they need certain financial support from the central government.

After all, not every region has the same strong self-hematopoietic function as Shanghai, and it has a strong local financial capacity.

Shanghai can spend millions of yuan on its own to complete the initial construction of the industrial zone on the north bank, complete the construction of ports along the Huangpu River at its own expense, and complete the construction of major roads and bridges on its own, without the support of the central government.

But it is difficult to do this in other places, not to mention those inland second- and third-tier cities, even large cities such as Guangzhou, Tianjin, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Beiping, whose own local fiscal revenue is difficult to create a large industrial city.

After all, building an industrial city is not just about setting aside a piece of land and then hanging an industrial zone sign. In order to attract capital, local governments need to solve many problems.

For example, port facilities. inland waterway transportation, land transportation from ports to industrial zones, etc., and then how to ensure the living needs of a large number of people after the development of industrial zones, etc.

These large amounts of infrastructure construction require real money from local policies in the early stage. If you don't build ports and roads and bridges, no businessman will stupidly come to you to invest.

This is also for the empire began to support other parts of the country two years ago to prepare for industry, but at present, when the capital chooses to invest in the construction of new factories, it will still be the first choice in Shanghai, even if it is not in Shanghai, but it will also be in some of the surrounding counties of Shanghai, such as the surrounding counties of Songjiang Prefecture, which has relied on the geographical advantage of being close to Shanghai to achieve greater development.

In a plan to support infrastructure construction in Guangzhou and Tianjin, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce proposed that the central government would need to invest about 2 million yuan in support funds for the two cities next year.

Of course. For the industrial development of these two cities, just two million is far from enough, in fact, whether it is Guangzhou or Tianjin, if they want to develop industry, they mainly have to rely on their own strength, and the financial support of the central government is only a small part.

After all, the central government's fiscal revenue seems to be hundreds of millions of dollars a year on the surface, but most of them have a fixed place to go, and all aspects need money, which can squeeze out the funds to support the development of local industries is actually not much. At the same time, there are so many empires, not only Guangzhou and Tianjin, but other places also need the support of the imperial finance, such as Wuchang in Hubei, Dangtu in Anhui, Ningbo and Hangzhou in Zhejiang, Nantong, Suzhou, Zhenjiang and other cities in Jiangsu are waiting for the support of the central government.

Here's a little bit. As a result, the financial support from the central government is relatively limited for each city. Guangzhou and Tianjin are the most, but on average, each is about one million.

And the funds needed to develop industry are far from being satisfied by millions. So where will the rest of the money come from?

Most of them need to be solved by provincial finance, such as Guangzhou's industrial development. Most of its funds are actually supported by the Guangdong provincial finance, in addition, the Guangzhou government itself as an important tax supplier in Guangdong, its government finance is not weak, although it is not as good as the special existence of Shanghai, but Shanghai is not an ordinary state capital jurisdiction, but a cabinet directly under the central government, belongs to the central intuitive area, and its political status is the same as that of the provincial unit.

However, if we only talk about the state capital, then the local fiscal revenue of Guangzhou is also the first in the country, which is stronger than Songjiang Prefecture, which is close to Shanghai, and Suzhou, the traditional land of fish and rice in China.

You must know that Guangdong Province, which has Guangzhou Prefecture, is second only to Jiangsu in terms of taxes contributed to the central government every year, but Jiangsu's economic development is more balanced, and Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Taicang Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, etc. are not weak, so if they are allocated to each state capital, they will lose slightly to Guangzhou Prefecture.

The economic status of Guangzhou Prefecture is an absolute leading position in Guangdong, and there are no counties with great competitiveness in the surrounding areas.

If the prefectures and counties in southern Jiangsu are full of flowers, then Guangdong is the only one in Guangzhou!

In terms of the economic strength of a single-round city, Guangzhou is second only to Shanghai, but the gap between this and Shanghai is a bit large.

In 1861, Shanghai's industrial output value had exceeded 800 million yuan, and this output value only refers to the output value of modern factories using machines, and does not include traditional handicrafts.

However, at the same time, Guangzhou's modern industrial output value was less than 50 million, and its local fiscal revenue still mainly relied on agriculture, trade and commerce in the Pearl River Delta region.

At the same time, Guangzhou's industrial development is relatively concentrated, mainly around tea processing, that is, tea brick factories and the emerging cotton spinning industry, not to mention that there are all walks of life like Shanghai.

Guangzhou still has a long way to go if it wants to catch up with Shanghai in terms of industrial economy.

In order to develop the industrial economy, the government of Guangzhou is also thrifty, and the government revenue collected from agriculture and traditional commerce, such as import and export trade, basically changes hands every year and is invested in various infrastructure construction.

This model can be broadly described as agricultural subsidy industry.

With local state and provincial finances as the mainstay, and the central government giving some support, this is the current model for the development of industrial economy in various parts of the empire.

Guangzhou and Tianjin are no exception!

After a few years of fragmented industrial construction, Guangzhou and Tianjin have been planning to establish a formal large-scale industrial zone, Tianjin is preparing to follow the example of Shanghai's North Shore Industrial Zone, in Tianjin's Haihe River area on both sides of the Haihe River is preparing to establish a huge area of Haihe Industrial Zone, trying to build the largest industrial base in northern China. (To be continued.) )