Chapter Seventy-Eight: Increasing the Potential for War
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Today, the republican government is no longer the small shrimp on the Jianghuai River as it used to be. As a party hegemon. Now his every move involves the nerves of the Quartet. First of all, this four-year plan, although there are some places that are not yet understood, such as rail transportation. But this series of numbers is still too challenging for people's nerves. First, there was 30,000 tons of steel, which was three times the amount of steel produced in the heyday of the Song Dynasty, and then there were 200 kilometers of railways paved from steel. and the huge production of auxiliary coal cement. When the literati saw this, they all claimed that this was an abuse of the people's power, and he had compared Cheng Pan's implementation of this policy with the excavation of the Grand Canal by Emperor Yang of Sui. However, the word abuse of people's power is somewhat unconfident. The current model of the republic has been well known to the world. Hu Weiyong, who had escaped trouble from Dingyuan County, had an understanding of the system of the republican government, and he denied the republican government's abuse of people's power. Hu Weiyong believes that the people who were originally "abused by the people's power" have been eliminated in the republican territory. Hu Weiyong believes that since ancient times, the local officials and herdsmen on behalf of the Son of Heaven have only asked the local people with high moral and respectable people, and the Son of Heaven has recruited the people's strength, in fact, the local officials have used the strength of these people, and once the Son of Heaven has obtained too much, the local forces in the world will not support the Son of Heaven. The use of the power of the people by the Son of Heaven is actually the power of the gentry in these places. However, the republic directly brought down the local clan forces, and their own officials personally recruited people to manage the place. Therefore, no other force in the local area dares to call out to the republican government, and if it loses any restraint, the republican government can use the people's power unscrupulously. Hu Weiyong's explanation was quickly questioned, "How can this kind of unkind government be implemented, and won't the small people appointed by the government flee and resist?" Hu Weiyong explained again helplessly: "The republican envoy is given money, and the money was originally used to support the gentry, but now that the local gentry have fallen, the money has been used by the republican government in this way." Hu Weiyong's simple analysis of the republican government blew a cold wind in the hearts of Jiangnan gentry. Jiangnan Shizi has such a way of buying small people in the world, and when he thinks of the republican government using his own family property and wealth to drive his usual disdainful mud legs. All of them have a chill in their hearts. Cheng Pan's doing so seemed to these literati to be a mere extinction of the Confucian Taoism established since the Han Dynasty. As for chemistry and physics, which are absolutely correct natural sciences, these literati did not refute them, nor did they say that natural sciences were miraculous and ingenious, and these literati did not have the pedantic disdain like the brain-dead of the Qing Dynasty, which could make steel and artillery, and had a discipline about national armament.
However, the Jiangnan literati were soon shocked again by the Zen concession system introduced by Cheng Pan, who had no intention of handing over the power to his children and grandchildren, but handed it over to the capable officials who had risen step by step from the grassroots level. Although these old literati thought that the officials of the Cheng Pan system were uncivilized and vulgar, they had to admit that they were capable officials. Putting the local administration in order is proof of the ability of the officials.
But in this way, it is impossible to use Confucianism to influence the next generation of Cheng Pan. If Cheng Pan wants to pass on his rights to his descendants, he must let his descendants learn Confucianism, which is first-class in expounding human nature and dealing with the relationship between people. As an emperor who inherits the throne of his ancestors, he can not do anything, but he must learn to manage people, he can't do things, someone helps to do it, at most the country has problems, but he can't manage people, there is only a dead end. But Cheng Pan once again came out of the common sense of these literati. If the country is run by capable people who are Zen, then there is no problem of the emperor's mental skills. According to the Zen concession system proposed by Cheng Pan, the objects of Zen concession are all talents who have been evaluated by ability and persuaded people by ability after three years of investigation. It is right for the capable to convince people anywhere, and the great ones do not need to rely on the small means of the emperor's mental tricks to govern the country, and the best way to govern the country for the great talents is to formulate rules and govern the country according to the law rather than the rule of man. After Confucianism lost the right to govern the locality, it also lost the right to influence the future high-level. If these old literati did not want to be marginalized by power, they had to study the physics and chemistry books edited by Cheng Pan, participate in the exam, and join Cheng Pan's system, in which Confucianism was by no means a necessary condition for promotion. The old literati who took office in the republican system can still adhere to Confucianism, and the greatest number of people is gone.
Confucianism, which had controlled China for thousands of years, was in jeopardy. There are still talented Confucian scholars in China, and the more rational way of governing the republic and the future state of Confucianism are deduced by these wise people. But even if it is deduced, no one can reverse it. The backward mode of governing the country with Confucianism will inevitably be replaced by the advanced rule of law in the right direction, and this is the wheel of historical progress.
However, in the face of this irresistible general trend, there are still some people who are unwilling to be defeated, and the Chinese landlord class is absolutely unwilling to voluntarily give up its rights, and a consensus has been formed among the landlord class throughout the world to resist the republic. A unified resistance began to form on Cheng Pan's revolutionary path.
Cheng Pan did not care about the ideas of the outside world, and Cheng Pan always firmly believed that advanced productive forces were overwhelming. Now as the commander of the republic, Cheng Panzheng fully supports the construction of the railway from Huainan to Hanshan, and the 2o km railway from Hanshan to Jiangbian has long been built in the era of the Huangzhou territory. The 200 kilometers of railways being built now are the top priority of the five-year plan. It can be said that this railway is the artificial dragon vein of the republican government, and with this railway, the coal and iron industry complex industry will be connected together, and the road of unlimited expansion of the coal and iron industry will begin. With the east-west river navigation of this railway, and the north-south railway, the mainland territory can be completely connected. The movement of troops and the delivery of supplies are like being opened with gears. The native territory is like being opened up to the second line of the governor. Anhui, the land of four wars, has the capital to dominate the world, so this railway is an artificial dragon vein, which is related to the future national fortune of the republic.
Now a team of 100,000 people in this hilly area of central Anhui is busy day and night, illuminating with lanterns and torches, and digging with shovels, steel drills, sledgehammers, and pickaxes. The progress of the railway was unusually smooth. That's the power of the system. Cheng Pan didn't know that when New China was first established, TG led an army of 150,000 road builders to complete the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, which was to open caves, build bridges, and cross dangerous rivers with a mileage of 5o4 kilometers in two years and one month. Cheng Pan estimated that if it was at this level, the Huainan Hanshan Railway would be opened to traffic in one year at most.
The smooth progress of the railway made Cheng Pan feel good, but the good news of farming continued, and the excellent cement in the real room appeared. Cheng Pan, who came from later generations, certainly will not forget the excellent building materials of jì cement. But in the past, the cement burned in the real yàn room was brittle and compressed. After hardening, there is no domineering collision with the stone, so this cement republic territory was originally mixed with loess, as for the more advanced military buildings, such as the Beiping artillery fort is built with glutinous rice water mixed with cement bonded stones, but after the end of the Huaihe Campaign, the improvement of the cement process began, due to the mistakes made during the war, the workers accidentally clay the clay, but produced a furnace of excellent cement, The director of the cement plant was very interested, so he ordered the cement to be added to the clay and then the slag and coal powder to produce a new variety of cement. This kind of cement is already the cement in Cheng Pan's impression. Now the domineering artificial stone block of reinforced concrete has been used in the construction of Huainan Fortress. The cement in the realm is now the same as the Portland cement in the original plane. Industrial building materials appeared on this plane. After the emergence of this technology, Cheng Pan increased his investment in the cement industry, which will be turned into the war potential of the republic in the future.
Now there are a total of 5 million people in the Republic itself, and the people in the newly occupied areas have a low level of education and cannot immediately turn into an industrial population, but Cheng Pan will never let such a group of laborers act on their own. After giving them land and iron farming tools on credit, they were hired to build a new water conservancy with grain. More than 3 million people have been mobilized in a unified manner, and 40 percent of these 3 million people are women. The food employment policy maximizes the labour force of these rural women. Water conservancy is the guarantee of agricultural production, and it is not a particularly dry year in China in later generations, but under the guarantee of water conservancy, most of the non-agricultural people in Chinese cannot feel that the precipitation is decreasing, but Cheng Pan learned from the meteorological data over the years that China is in a strong drought period after the 21st century. But what is this done in Chinese agriculture? Cheng Pan was fortunate enough to witness this scene in the countryside, where a pumping machine poured water from the pond into the canal every few hundred meters, and the water in the canal flowed towards the farmland as if it were overflowing after a rainstorm. This is the power of industrialization to feed back to agriculture. With the current republican power, it is impossible to build a large number of pumps for irrigation, but ponds and canals still have to be dug. These water conservancy measures are the republican agriculture's increased resistance to drought and flood. The grain production of the republic is stable on a certain distance. The peasants of the newly occupied territories were also under unified command in this operation. In the subsequent training of the militia, the collective extermination of locusts, poultry farming on large farms, and other agricultural techniques, the people of the newly occupied territories followed the baton of the republic, and they have joined the republican system. In Cheng Pan's eyes, these junior farmers have been successfully trained, and the following is to help some of them become full-time industrial talents. A large number of textbooks of the same quality as straw paper were shipped to the newly occupied land, along with a large number of instructors who had been transferred from the military, and because of the shortage of female teachers, Cheng Pan was also afraid that the time of the principal in the future generations would affect the authority of the government, so only boys were included in this compulsory education plan. Because it is a military support, the style of the army has been brought to the school by a large number of people, and a month later, Cheng Pan inspected the newly built school. Seeing that every school was full of well-disciplined boys with neat poker faces, Cheng Pan had the illusion of coming to the juvenile correctional center. The teaching of these soldiers training the army is still effective for education, there is no other temptation and under the pressure of the instructor, these boys are very efficient in learning, but if the future generations do this, there will be bear children jumping off the building a long time ago, but in the current school where there is enough to eat, every boy who is trained like a dog wants to drop out of school every time he resists. Cheng Pan understood this situation and was a little unsure whether this was the legendary militarist education.
Cheng Pan farmed in Da 6 until a situation from the sea again attracted Cheng Pan's attention.