Chapter 579: Great stride

What was once a joint firm is now no longer a huge industry built by Chen Xie, and now it is only a part of some heavy industry. The business profit of this part of the business is still very large, and after several rectifications, it is now a United Business Group, which is handed over to the two women in Zhangjiazhuang to be in charge. Fifty percent of the profits are handed over every year, and the rest is at their own disposal. Zhangjiazhuang is the core, rapidly expanding in the direction of Dengzhou, and now it is impossible to distinguish between the countryside and the city, except for the city wall, there is not much difference between inside and outside the city.

The heavy industry project in Dengzhou, after being transferred to Liaodong, was given a new name, Liaodong Heavy Industry Group. The core industries are iron and steel, machinery manufacturing, and related technological reform departments, which are the so-called scientific research institutions, but scientific research can only be regarded as a prototype. Dengzhou's education cannot produce modern college students, and the highest level is the level of barely graduating from junior high school in modern society. But these graduates have one characteristic, strong hands-on ability. There wasn't much that school taught them, it was all practiced.

The shipbuilding industry was concentrated in two places, one was Jiaozhou Bay (Qingdao) and the other was Huating (now Shanghai), and the military industrial enterprises were also divided into two parts, one part in Liaodong and one part in Huating. In Dengzhou's industry, there are now some light industries operated by private capital. In Liaodong, light industry was also handed over to the civilian sector and the original Guanning Army.

The advantage of this is that Chen Xie can concentrate on doing great things, but the disadvantage is that the exploitation of workers by these industrial capitalists in light industry is really a bone sucking the marrow. When he was still in Dengzhou, Chen Xie implemented an eight-hour work system, and overtime was paid for overtime. It's different when it comes to the private capitalists, the Ming people are protected by Master Chen's system, and they can find other people to do it. North Korea, Dongying, some are women. These women were thrown into the textile factory, which is the so-called "body worker" version of the Ming Dynasty.

This female worker is all fooled by some local businessmen, and she came to Daming to work, including food and accommodation, and how many silver yuan can be earned every month. Then their parents were moved. Anyway, the girl is not worth much, and the settling-in fee of ten silver yuan for a girl depends on luck whether she can come back alive. When I arrived in Liaodong, I got on the plane after a simple training, and I had a few days of rest all year round. Working, working, non-stop. The salary of two silver yuan a month, the food is miscellaneous noodles, and the salary of ten silver yuan can be sent home every year. Even if the boss is more conscientious.

Even with this brutal exploitation, this part of the job has a strong appeal in Dongying and North Korea. Some women who boast of being good come with a dream of finding a man in Daming and becoming a big celebrity. If you are lucky, the woman who is really picked out and sent to the "red line agency" may be able to get married, and the chance of being a concubine is relatively high.

In less than three years. Nearly a million Korean and Dongying women poured into Liaodong. Or get married, or enter the factory.

For this status quo. Chen Xie didn't know, even if he knew, his conscience index would not do anything for the life or death of these foreign women. When has capital ever been kind? For the direction of many things, Chen Xie has long been mentally prepared. How can a country approach capitalism without experiencing these things? There is not a huge capitalist class. How to promote fundamental changes in society. Chen Xie alone, all he can do is a top-down point. Specifically, there has to be a class to do it.

The development of Liaodong as a heavy industry base is the result of Chen Xie's laziness. In fact, in Daming, it is a suitable place for the development of heavy industry. The premise is that there are many rivers and resources, and Liaodong is indeed the most suitable place. What is lacking is high-grade iron ore, but the current steelmaking of this thing is not so demanding.

In the afternoon, Chen Xie convened a meeting of the heads and brains in the northeast. Zhang Bingwen, the governor, didn't have a good face when he saw Chen Xie. At the beginning, this governor was recommended by Chen Xie to be the governor, but the governor of Liaodong did not have the freedom to come from the political secretary of Shandong.

"Lord Cabinet, Zhang has made you miserable, the boundary of Liaodong is full of people. This governor is so uncomfortable that if you kidnap me, you have to get me away. Zhang Bingwen was not polite at all, and complained when he saw Chen Xie. After a few words of appeasement, Chen Xie asked him: "Is it hard to work in Liaodong?" ”

Zhang Bingwen thought for a while and said: "It's not hard work, it's just tired." You don't know how difficult it is for the people here. Last month, the butler of the chief secretary of the government called someone to shoot a black gun. Just for the sake of a tiger skin, the murderer has not been found until now. ”

Chen Xie smiled slightly when he heard this: "Zhang Zhongcheng, when you and I are together, why bother to come to this set." You pressed this case, right? Zhang Bingwen sighed heavily and said, "What if you don't press down?" As an official of the imperial court, he indulged his family to rob the people of their belongings on the street. The people were disabled, and someone from the army came to ask, but the housekeeper hid directly and didn't come out to see anyone. After a few days, the rumors passed, and those who came out to show off their might again were targeted. Master Li is a newcomer who doesn't know how awesome, hehe! ”

Chen Xie said lightly: "What kind of big thing should I be, it turned out to be this little thing." If you press it down, you will press it down, and I will have to impeach him if I hand over the case file to me. Zhang Bingwen didn't say anything, just sighed heavily. The implication is self-explanatory. The Ming Dynasty valued literature, and in this place in Liaodong, it was actually a place where martial artists were rampant. There are a lot of Diao people, he is a little better as a governor, and Lord Li, the chief secretary of the government, has been called back many times.

This is a characteristic of Liaodong, the people below feel that your order is unreasonable, so they dare to dismiss it. Zhang Bingwen's orders have been rejected several times, and he was proved wrong after his death, so he was not pursued. Officialdom has never been a place to talk about right and wrong, it's better to meet an official like Zhang Bingwen, and when you meet an official who wants to save face, you naturally have to do something. Master Li, the chief secretary of the government, is like this, he has made trouble many times, but no one has ever killed him. In a fit of rage, I didn't go to work anymore. Unexpectedly, the housekeeper caused trouble in the market, and the army in charge of security came to ask for someone, and he didn't like anyone at all.

After understanding what had happened, Chen Xie snorted twice and said, "If he doesn't give face to the garrison, won't he give me the face of the governor?" After speaking, he picked up the post in front of him and gently threw it on the table. There's no post on him here.

"I heard that he was transferred away in operation, and Li Yuzhi, the heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials, was his distant relative."

Chen Xie snorted, he is a political secretary anyway, even if he is the governor, he has no choice but to impeach him. Since this is the case, then let him go, anyway, he can't set off waves in Liaodong.

After meeting the cadres one by one, Chen Xie stayed in Shenyang for three days before he basically met him. Zu Dashou, who came from afar, failed to catch up with Chen Xie, and now Zu Dashou is no longer the Ningyuan warlord of the year. Hiding in Tongliao and not being able to come out, making a fortune in a muffled voice, it is the Guan Ning Army. When it comes to fighting, they don't fight much, they just helped Wang Ben fight once or twice against the Chahar side, and the number of troops they contributed was only a few thousand cavalry. Zu Dashou is a man with his tail between his legs, and Zhu Youzhen has no intention of settling accounts after the autumn, so he lets him live happily in Tongliao, and also acquiesces to this reality.

All the way to the west, to Shanhaiguan, into the North Zhili, Chen Xie's guards are extremely conspicuous on the official road. The post stations along the way are very thoughtful, and they are picked up by officials wherever they go, which shows that the message transmission of this post station system is still very smooth. Chen Xie is still a pity, there is no train to do. It seems that the next step is to build a railway from Shenyang to Tianjin. In Liaodong, Chen Xie can do whatever he wants, but it is different in Beizhili. The matter of repairing the railway must be explained to Zhu Youzhen thoroughly. And this thing is a new thing, and it has to be paved in public opinion, so as not to be scared when the gentry and people of the Ming Dynasty see it.

Sitting in the carriage, Chen Xie never stopped dictating, recorded by his personal secretary and concubine Liu, Chen Xie took her back along the way, the reason was that she took the initiative and wanted a child. "If the country is a person, passing the car is the second pulse of the human body." Chen Xie originally wanted to talk about arteries, but he was afraid that people would not understand. "The second pulse of the governor is unblocked, and once the country has something, the transfer is extremely fast. After many years of war, the Ming Dynasty has been recuperating for many years, taking the railway construction as an opportunity to stimulate the rapid recovery of the domestic economy and people's livelihood. ”

These words are said to the emperor, and the words to the people of the world are another set, and in general, they are to introduce what a train is. The image is a little bit, and the picture is also drawn, and it is sent to Ming Pao and Jinan newspapers for publication. In the future, when the railway is built, Jiangnan will definitely take the first step, then Shandong, and finally other places. Something new requires a slow process of acceptance.

For example, when the battleship first sailed to Nanjing, the people in the city were frightened. Such a big ship, so many guns. Later, it was parked on the pier and could be seen almost every day, so no one cared too much. Anything is like this, it takes a process of adaptation. It's just that this railroad is no better than a warship, and this thing will kill people. Therefore, we must be careful and careful in publicity, and be careful and careful. The question of how to publicize it has to be made up of a plan.

With the railway, the capitalist era in Chen Xie's mind will make great strides.

"By the way, record it, let those non-governmental propagandists put this sentence on their lips more. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, have more children, and grow more trees. "Well, Chen Xie changed one word, but the meaning is very different. In these years, it is unrealistic to persuade people to have fewer children, in fact, Daming is expanding according to Chen Xie's meaning, and you can expand without population.

Throughout the Peasant War, the population of Shaanxi, Ningxia, Shanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Huguang, and Jiangbei decreased sharply. The population of the Ming Dynasty is no longer 180 million, according to Chen Xie's estimate, it is 150 million. (To be continued......)