Wang Guorui still has to choose national security in terms of national security and national economic development, and if there is an all-round egalitarianism, then of course everyone has no opinion. However, anyone who has passed the political test knows that this kind of absolute egalitarianism is unacceptable, and absolute egalitarianism is looking for death. If there is absolute egalitarianism, then no one will be able to build their own industrial system in the last hundred years, and then no one will be able to obtain the security of the country. So the only thing that can be done is to use the selection of key cities for development, and then establish an industrial system, and then drive the surrounding industrial and economic development.

As for the rise in housing prices and the siphon effect in big cities, this is unavoidable, but it can only be used as a compromise with national security. There must be pros and cons to any policy, which can only measure whether the benefits are greater or the disadvantages are greater, and the rapid establishment of an industrial system is necessary for national security, and economic development can only be in second place. However, we can only temporarily sacrifice the interests of those places that do not have the conditions for development, and then let them gradually obtain funds to develop a small number of key areas, and then let them slowly lead it. Otherwise, it is absolutely average, it looks like hello, hello, hello, everyone, but this is definitely a brain-dead approach.

"Your Majesty, we have selected several places to focus on. As for us, there will be several key cities in the next arrangement, and these cities will become municipalities directly under our central government, and then the prefect of the municipality will be renamed Fuyin, and will adopt the same rank as the governor. The first batch of municipalities directly under the central government will be Shuntian Mansion in Beijing, Dongning Mansion in Taipei, and the name of Shanghai will remain unchanged, and it will continue to be Shanghai Mansion, and Quanzhou will be Chengtian Mansion, and Xi'an and Xianyang will be merged to form Chang'an Mansion. ”

An official took the initiative to propose the establishment of a municipality. And this municipality has actually existed since ancient times. The municipalities directly under the central government as early as the ancient Tang Dynasty also gradually began to mature, the Tang Dynasty divided the county into different grades, and one of the counties called Jing County, the grade is much higher than other counties, is the fifth grade. And this has a higher status later, and he directly belongs to several key cities. For example, the Tang Dynasty set up several key cities such as Chang'an Mansion, Luoyang Mansion, Taiyuan Mansion and so on. And these cities belong to the second grade if they are purely based on grade, but in fact they are led by the prince and are not directly managed. The two young Yin who are really responsible are the three grades, which are almost equivalent to the two Shangzhou Thorn History during the Tang Dynasty.

And these places are all key places, and their status is much higher than that of other places, so this is the stage when the municipality system has begun to mature. However, in the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial court directly managed the prefectures and counties, and there was no provincial level, so the role was not so prominent. Later, during the Song Dynasty, the "Four Capitals" of the Song Dynasty were established. And the governors of Sijing are all higher than Shilang and lower than Shangshu, so their status is much higher than that of other places. And the Song Dynasty already had the administrative unit of the road, and the Song Dynasty's Tokyo Kaifeng, Beijing Daimyo's Mansion, Xijing Henan Mansion, and Nanjing Yingtianfu would not be too affected by local officials and directly obeyed the orders of the central government. In this way, it is a further development of the municipality.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was even more mature, and Nanjing called it Yingtianfu. Beijing is the Shuntian Mansion, and there is even a Fengyang Mansion and so on. The Qing Dynasty also had the same two capital systems, namely Shuntianfu and Fengtianfu, that is, Beijing and Shenyang. In fact, such municipalities existed in ancient times, but their political significance was far greater than their economic significance.

Wang Guorui saw this about the division of municipalities directly under the central government, and then Beijing was Shuntianfu. This is very normal, there is nothing strange, after all, since ancient times, ancient and modern China and foreign countries have regarded the status of the capital as a very high level, and almost most countries have set up the capital as a first-level administrative region, even if the territory is small, it is the same status as other first-level administrative regions. Washington, D.C., in the United States, is also a first-class administrative region. Although the number of people is less than 300,000, it is definitely a first-class administrative region.

Therefore, since Beijing is the capital, there is no doubt that Shuntianfu is bound to be a first-class administrative region. As a bridgehead for future economic development, Shanghai is naturally a key place for development, and it is understandable to merge some regions to form a large administrative region.

The merger of Xi'an and Xianyang to form the new Chang'an Mansion was to balance the interests of the western region and balance the focus of the development of the western region, which could be regarded as a reassurance to the officials in the western region. And Chang'an and Xianyang are also ancient capitals since ancient times, and they still have an economic foundation. The reason why Chang'an was abandoned as the capital in ancient times was because of its poor transportation capacity. During the Tang Dynasty, why did Tang Gaozong Li Zhi almost move the capital to Luoyang? Although Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian did not move the capital in name, they had in fact moved the entire central organization to Luoyang?

In fact, it was because the transportation was inconvenient at that time, and the west could not carry so many people. In addition, merchants from Western countries also come to do business, and a large number of people are there. But what is even more deceptive is that the vast majority of these people do not produce food, but consume it. Even a large number of officials' relatives rushed up, which put a lot of pressure on Chang'an's food!

In later generations, Beijing also had great pressure on various resources, but it was able to persevere, because the transportation capacity of later generations was strengthened. The strengthening of transportation capacity will inevitably reduce losses, otherwise it will be impossible to bear the loss of 80 or 90 percent of the grain transported in the Tang Dynasty. In later generations, the development of various transportation equipment for trains and automobiles allowed him to transport a large number of materials, but the cost was very low.

Therefore, after the Tang Dynasty, no one dared to set up a capital in Chang'an, because the local area simply could not bear so much population pressure. The capitals of later dynasties were all chosen in the right place. The Song Dynasty chose Kaifeng, Henan is the main grain producing area, which can be carried. The Yuan Dynasty was established in Beijing, because of the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the pressure on grain was reduced. As for Nanjing and Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, it was also because of the role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, so that grain could communicate between the north and the south. Beijing can be the capital, and the transportation capacity of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is indispensable. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the central government was established in Luoyang, didn't it also value the transportation hub of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Luoyang?

However, when the time comes, the food pressure in Chang'an has also been solved. In particular, the passage of the current train and railway is enough to greatly improve the local transportation capacity, and there will not be the kind of transportation of 100 catties of grain in the past, but only 10 or 5 percent is left there. The transportation of this train not only saves manpower, but also has very low loss, and the transportation volume is large, which is enough to meet the local demand. Therefore, it is also appropriate to turn around and pay attention to the west.

"The establishment of a new Chang'an Mansion will also be conducive to the future control of land in the west, such as Xinjiang and Gansu. It is even conducive to the next war in the Middle East, becoming an important transportation hub to support the core of the front. Therefore, it is not impossible for this new Chang'an Mansion to drive the development of the surroundings. Wang Guorui recognized this new Chang'an Mansion.

As for that Taipei is called Dongning Mansion, this also has a history. The name Dongning is the name of the Shu Zheng regime in the past Ming Dynasty, and Dong Ning is the name of the Shu Zheng regime in Taiwan in that era.

The Zheng Jing of the Zheng period also used Dongning as the national name of Taiwan during that period, and foreign countries called Taiwan the Kingdom of Dongning, and the historical archives of the Manchu Qing Dynasty also called Taiwan at that time Dongning Province. Therefore, Dongning is already another synonym for Taiwan, and it is not impossible to change the name of Taipei to Dongningfu.

However, this Dongning Mansion and Quanzhou, which was renamed Chengtian Mansion, made Wang Guorui's brows furrow, obviously these two seem to have no scientific basis! Doesn't it seem like these two municipalities are too redundant? There is no need to set up such a municipality in the southeast region, especially if a municipality is established in the southeast area, what is its significance? Can municipalities be established if they want to? Municipalities directly under the Central Government must have their special significance, especially political, economic, military, and so on, and even political, economic, and military are indispensable.

Beijing is the capital, and it has political, economic, and military significance. The new Chang'an Mansion is an important hub to help control the northwest region and suppress the west, and even an important military logistics base responsible for the development of the Middle East in the future. As for Shanghai, which is a window for foreign exchanges and an important part of foreign trade in the future, militarily it is located on the edge of East China and belongs to the east of East China, and the establishment of a naval base in Shanghai in the future can completely radiate China's eastern coastal areas, which is of great significance to coastal security.

Therefore, the establishment of municipalities directly under the central government is political, economic, and military indispensable, and it cannot be established by casually patting one's head. But this Taipei and Quanzhou, these two cities are so close, why do they plan to set up municipalities directly under the central government? One belongs to Fujian, the other belongs to Taiwan, and they are very close to each other. What's more, their military significance is not obvious, Wang Guorui has the Nanyang region, so in the future, the focus of coastal defense will be in the Nanyang theater, not in Fujian and Taiwan. After taking control of the Nanyang region, the military significance of this Fujian and Taiwan was greatly reduced.

So if Wang Guorui agrees to set up these two regions as municipalities directly under the central government, it will really be a brain flood!

"Which of you can explain to me what is the significance of the establishment of municipalities in Taipei and Quanzhou?" Wang Guorui asked unceremoniously. (To be continued.) )