Chapter 420: The Prologue That Swept the World

ps:ps: Transition chapter, lay out some things, and let's get into a fierce confrontation.

How difficult it is to complete a revolution that affects a country by individual strength. Not to mention anything else, just like industrialization, it made Yang Hao's family work hard.

In China, in addition to indirectly controlling various factories, countless second-hand and old production equipment obtained in the name of industrial museums and exporting to Africa, and spending a lot of money to set up many data groups to sort out and improve drawings, production processes, management regulations, production systems, and instructions for use, it also gathered a large number of retired old workers to form an equipment installation and commissioning advisory group, formulated an industrial layout for the B plane, and put together factories according to them, and then projected them onto the B plane.

In three years, Yang Hao only barely scraped together the industrial base of Shandong, Hebei, and Shanxi provinces in the second plane, and then expanded to the northeast, Henan, Jiangsu and other boundaries, and it is still far from completing the construction of basic industries.

It's a must-do. An indispensable condition for the revolutionary work he wants to carry out in the second plane is large-scale industrialization. It is necessary to industrialize agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery industries as much as possible in order to create a sufficient number of industrial population and working class. After that, the vanguard leaders can be selected from among them to develop into party members, and with them as the backbone, the national leadership class will be established.

After three years of exploration and practice, the B plane has basically formed a relatively complete set of work routines, roughly speaking, it is nothing more than a few big steps.

First of all, hundreds of advance working groups were formed based on the backbone of martial arts figures, dart masters, heroes and other martial arts figures, dart masters, and heroes under the jurisdiction of the National Art Museum, and the young scholars and students who have passed the strict political examination and assessment. Go to each of the major state capitals of the target province in a group.

Martial arts characters contact local tyrants, heroes, thieves, green forest heroes and the like. Find out what they do. Choose the more positive ones as the forces that can be united to do ideological work, and strive to turn them into helping forces. Collect evidence of the crimes of the evil people in the township, find out their actions and nest territory, and leave it for reckoning.

Under the guise of Shilin, the young scholars recruited local celebrities and gentry, outstanding talents, and first looked for people who could be converted into comrades to have deep friendships, and at the same time investigated and collected evidence of various illegal activities of bureaucrats and gentry, and drew a map. Quietly accumulate the power of cooperation.

At the same time, they will also conduct a joint investigation and assessment of factory owners and miners who have previously joined the China Chamber of Commerce and Industry to determine whether these people are serious about moving closer to the government.

Previously, when Yang Hao spread industry and commerce to the provinces of China, he used profits as bait to attract those who tried to join in and at the same time abide by the established system. Regardless of the production management, workers' welfare benefits, and the introduction of the trade union system in factories and mines, they are all norms that must be strictly implemented. Entrepreneurs who only want to make money for themselves, but treat the workers as cattle and horses, and as slaves to spoil them, are either dismissed. or be ordered to rectify.

At the end of the 19th century, China did not have any national industry. There are not many factories and mines, and most of them are in the hands of the government. Not to mention the very small quantities that are privately mined. The impact is also not great. But without exception, there is a status quo in these factories and mines that treat people as improper people, and it is common for people to die in accidents. The most outrageous things such as what happened in this world time and space, Xu Jianyin, an industrial genius who can be counted in the country, was actually killed by a plot! You can imagine how chaotic it was.

On the one hand, they refused to give good treatment to their workers, but on the other hand, they desperately squeezed their labor power to maximize their profits.

So everywhere you can see the workers in every factory and mine, in their teens and twenties, all black, thin and sluggish, like zombies crawling out of graves. They barely ate the same food as pig food every day, and they basically worked without or in the most torn clothes, and walked like mechanical puppets, swaying as if they could fall down at the slightest touch.

Landlords and old money are unwilling to invest money in advanced production equipment, let alone money to improve labor security, and people often die in permeable gas explosions in mines, and production accidents in factories are even more common. In addition to punishing workers more severely, they are unwilling to think about how to improve the production environment and workers' treatment to improve production efficiency.

This kind of thinking has been developed by the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and has been deeply rooted. In the 500 years from the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the yield of rice and wheat fields has not changed much, and it is not even as good as the Song Dynasty's initiative to introduce Champa rice from Southeast Asia to improve productivity. If it had not been for the introduction of drought-tolerant and high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and their vigorous promotion during the Kang Yongqian period, it would have been impossible to feed the population that had skyrocketed later.

It's just that the foundation laid by the Ming Dynasty was used by the Qing Dynasty, resulting in a short-lived so-called "prosperous era". After that, the rule of the gentry was restored, and the closed and ignorant virtues of the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty were immediately restored.

Productivity is the foundation of civilization, and when industry rises, it is doomed to the decline of agricultural civilization.

The rise of the Westernization Movement was only a reactive reaction of the Manchu rulers under the pressure of foreign enemies, but it did not really want to industrialize the country, so for several decades, the scope of influence was still limited to a few places in the coastal areas. The vast interior of Chinese mainland, even the coastal provinces, should still be the same.

It wasn't until Yang Hao personally vigorously promoted industrialization that he first lured some people to become rich, and slowly attracted greedy landlords and gentry from all over the country to join in.

From the very beginning, they set a rule that they must follow the rules and regulations set by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry headed by them while purchasing and introducing the machines and technicians provided by the Yang family and obtaining the production management and processing technology. In the areas controlled by the revolutionary army, all those who refused to abide by the law and act according to the rules were caught and killed, and after cleaning up, they were honest. In addition, most of them are under the shadow of Yang's large state-owned enterprises, and there is no possibility of resistance at all.

Where the revolutionary army cannot reach for the time being, there will inevitably be a large number of yang and yin violations. They felt that Yang Hao would not be able to reach there for a while, so they had to succeed for a while, and put the trade union representatives and technical experts sent to the air or put them under house arrest. There are even killings.

These blood debts. But they were all written down in a small notebook by the intelligence officers lurking there.

China at the end of the XIX century. The traffic everywhere is inconvenient, and the level of land transportation is not even comparable to that of modern country roads. Those who dare to go far must be armed forces such as dart masters, and most of them can only push wheelbarrows or two-wheeled vehicles.

Under such conditions, heavy industrial equipment simply cannot be transported. Most of the factories that can be built are still places where water transportation is relatively developed. Fortunately, China has the best inland waterway shipping conditions in the world, which has also made the boundaries of the factories opened in the past three years have been connected to the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and other large waterways, and penetrated into the major state capitals of most provinces such as Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Hunan.

These cities are the primary targets of the Civilian-Military Task Force.

After them. It is the power of civilians and small traders and hawkers who have come to the revolutionary army-controlled zhì area through various channels and experienced the benefits of the land reform. They have a low level of education and little social influence, but they are very numerous. These people have at least one year of work experience and have basically mastered all aspects of land reform work in small rural areas. With them as the backbone, they cooperated with the soldiers of the revolutionary army who came from various provinces to serve as soldiers and retire, and formed a second echelon to return to their hometowns, forming a spark and a slow influence to shake a small range.

Don't look at the weakness of these people's own strength, and after they go back, they dare not raise their voices because of their low social status, lest they be framed and killed by the landlords, gentry and bureaucrats. But they can quietly prepare. Don't forget that behind them is the incomparably powerful Yang Revolutionary Army group.

These people nominally acted as agents for all kinds of foreign goods, all kinds of small production equipment, and all kinds of advanced production technology from the east, and opened small shops and operated small factories. Little by little, they accumulated strength, and at the same time secretly spread all kinds of gossip about the revolutionary army, and developed the power to attract the small citizen class.

Each of them carried a radio and was able to pick up the national radio from the capital. In this era, the existence of an artifact, just being able to hear a voice thousands of miles away with one's own ears is enough to make those involved unable to hold back.

In a short period of time, all the major provinces, state capitals, counties and counties across the country have quietly gathered together, pricked up their ears and held their breath to listen to the crowd that lowered the volume of the broadcast. That kind of scene is like listening to the enemy's ...... during the special period of the world. To put it more broadly, just like the beginning of the TV in the countryside in the 80s, no matter who has this thing in their house, it is immediately crowded with people at night, and you can even lie on the wall and watch a small 12-inch black and white screen five or six meters away - the eyes are so good!

The style of bureaucratic landlords and local tyrants in the late Qing Dynasty was not much better than that in the late Ming Dynasty. It is also common for them to take advantage of the things they like, and the small people in the market naturally can't fight them. There were a lot of people who were robbed of their property and equipment, and the radios and other things were confiscated, but then they were put into the homes of those officials and tyrants.

What can Yang Hao's wireless radio put on? In addition to the crosstalk opera news programs that the masses of the people like to see, there are a lot of interpretations of the policies of the revolutionary military government, warnings to reactionary and stubborn forces, and the transmission of cipher instructions to the hidden staff.

Whether it is a radio that you can buy or grab, put this thing all day long, the landlords, old financial officials and gentry choose to listen, but don't forget that there are restless young people in their families! After listening to those carefully compiled programs, they could not help but yearn for an enlightened, free, and colorful world under the rule of the revolutionary army.

Once a young man has an external heart, it cannot be restrained by sticks and ropes. As a result, many bureaucrats and tyrants regretted it, but it was too late.

Along with the second-echelon functionaries of these "homecoming regiments," there were also various newspapers and periodicals of the revolutionary army, which were constantly spread among the batches of goods, and the magistrates could not stop their spread by all means.

After these preparatory work, it was the official expansion of the revolutionary army.

At this time, the revolutionary army, which had defeated the world powers several times in a row, had a great reputation and great threat, and was well known to everyone. When the troops composed of the newly formed soldiers drove to any state capital, the old local army fled in despair, and could only protect their masters and flee westward, never daring to fight by force.

Subsequently, these recruits immediately followed the investigation notebook of the antiquities working group and launched a clean-up operation against the local bandit and bully dark forces. It doesn't matter if you're a cottage in the mountains or a nest in the jungle; It doesn't matter if it's a tyrant who owns a fortress, or a bandit who hides a prodigal son in a lake. The revolutionary army is well-trained, backed by a plane's top-level experience in suppressing bandits, no matter how much it tosses, in the end, none of them can escape.

Bandits, bullies, rogues, and gangsters. All the people who were arrested were engaged in the labor transformation of building roads, digging ditches, and carrying out projects. Those who have done many evils and have great anger among the people. It is gathered. Accept the public trial together with those local tyrants and shoddy gentry who are boiling with public resentment, and shoot them en masse.

The security problem was solved, and the engineering corps and the construction leading group that followed behind were stationed. They divided into small groups and went deep into the folk villages and towns, and first assumed that the cable broadcast was made to ensure that the spiritual policy above could be heard by everyone at any time. Subsequently, the land reform was organized in an orderly manner, the fields were redivided, and the labor force was liberated to build roads and repair farmland and water conservancy. Repair of barrage dams, dams, and factories...... The process of industrialization has been vigorously pursued at all levels.

Yang Hao pursued a radical one-step operation, with the convenient state capital as the center, directly demarcating the new industrial area and the surrounding urban area, and setting the development space for the next 50 years according to the scale of the world. With the construction of power plants as the center, we will comprehensively promote industrial construction based on coal-fired steam power and electricity. Five small industries or something are necessary, but the scale of production is many times larger than in the seventies and eighties of this world.

That's why he wanted to set up a separate steam-powered business in the world. He bypassed the primitive steam engine and implemented a more technologically advanced steam turbine system with higher output. These system boilers can be powered by any fuel, whether straw or firewood, coal or heavy oil. Biogas, natural gas, or coal gas can be used. It can be driven by low-pressure steam below 200 degrees, and directly transforms the voltage to output 220V AC or 380V power electricity.

Most of China's provinces have coal mines. With the extension of highways, the development of railways, and the development of simultaneous water transportation, it is not a problem to ensure the initial supply of fuel to the factory.

In this way, the wave of land reform and industrial construction with the state capital as the unit swept every corner and everyone. At the same time, at least half of those who were mobilized to join the collective labour were divided into factories and collective farms and farms. They work together during the day, learn literacy at night, receive ideological education, all school-age children are required to attend classes, and young children are gathered into the cadets.

In addition, the people joked that "the military government is in charge of the world, the land and the air in the middle", but they are really grateful from the bottom of their hearts, and this day is no different from heaven!

Some of the literate ones entered the school as activists and apprentices in the factories, gradually forming a close-knit and stable middle class, replacing the original clan gentry and bureaucracy, and holding the power of regional governance and influence.

After the tide of reform swept away, the entire new district will completely change. A large number of reservoirs and rivers have been combed and intercepted to store water for power generation. All farmland was rezoned, water ditches were excavated, and agricultural mechanics were trained to manage the seeds. A large number of laborers have been liberated to participate in new city construction, new factory construction, water and land transportation construction and other projects, which seem to be endless.

It can be said that as long as this work has passed, the old forces will basically have no chance to fight back. Even if the landlords who have not been liquidated only have land in their hands, they are either forced to join the agricultural cooperatives to accept unified management and scheduling, or they are stubbornly holding on, and the result is that there is only a poor yield of 100 catties per mu, but there is still no one to cultivate. Anyone whose land has been abandoned for more than a year will have to be repossessed by the government. In the end, they can only reluctantly accept the reality.

The resources required for such a way of moving forward are unprecedented, first and foremost manpower. In order to fully mobilize the masses, guide the masses, and educate the masses, it is necessary to have a sufficient number of guides. More than 100 state capitals in a province can only be covered by a team of more than 10,000 people. Accordingly, 100,000 troops are needed to ensure their safety.

The second is material resources. The cost of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses is actually not large, and the largest is all the construction expenses such as road repairs and factory repairs. Food and tools must be provided for millions of people participating in the workforce, various construction machinery, tractors, trucks, school construction and kindergartens in a province, hospitals and nursing homes, and government office buildings, etc.

Even if Yang Hao has standardized it from the beginning, the building scale and drawings of each level of government office building, the construction project of each school, the hospital factory, etc., a province has invested 100 million taels of silver into it, that is, it can barely run.

Fortunately, in the past three years, he has accumulated countless real money and silver, and the generosity of the imperialist powers has given the junta the confidence to issue paper money on a large scale. In the new revolutionary areas, the financial system was introduced, paper money was issued to promote government credit, and at the same time, the industrial and commercial forces built in the provinces of the rear were put in, which did not need to be driven by exports, and naturally formed a large-scale economic operation.

Yang Hao is purely concentrating the power of the overall situation, and promoting one province after another. The disadvantage is that the speed is very slow, and the upfront investment is staggering. The advantage is that once the province implements it, you don't have to worry about repeating it. And immediately add one more province of vitality, and then attack the next province, which can add half of the help.

In this way, a rolling development will be formed, one province a year, two provinces in two years, four provinces in three years, eight provinces in four years, and five years, and it will be rolled to the whole country.

At the beginning, neither the revolutionary military government, nor the governors of the provinces, nor even the great powers could understand Yang Hao's routine. Do they think this guy has something wrong with his head? Hundreds of millions of funds have been invested in land reform, but the powerful army is not used to expand the territory, is this cowardice or inexperience?

They all used the thinking routine of being an emperor to deduct Yang Hao, and they all failed without exception. It wasn't until he began to pass through Henan and Shanxi that he suddenly realized it after a lot of twists and turns.

Then, it was terrifying!

What do they see? Every soldier of the Chinese Revolutionary Army has personally participated in the anti-bandit operation and gained basic experience; Participated in the land reform operation, successfully integrated into the people, formed a family between the army and the people, and deeply rooted the image of "the people's sons and soldiers" in the hearts of the people. As a result, the troops became staunch supporters of Yang Hao and the military government, and at the same time led more young people to join the army enthusiastically, completely changing the evil custom of "a good man should not be a soldier" and turning it into a positive one of "one person is a soldier and the whole family is glorious".

Almost all the people at the grassroots level support and love the new government, and are enthusiastically engaged in infrastructure construction. The combined force of tens of millions of people can change the color of heaven and earth! The numerous advantages of the Chinese population were displayed, and all the powers completely cut off the intention of invading!

They are even more worried that once Yang Hao completes the national reform, ninety percent of China's middle and junior high school youth will get rid of illiteracy and create tens of millions of workers, what a terrible strength China will have at that time! (To be continued......) R1292