Chapter 49 The Necessity of Environmental Protection

was said by his own teacher, even if Huo Shan had already honed a face as thick as the city wall, for a while, he was a little embarrassed, and touched his nose with a slight blush, Huo Shan continued the topic just now.

"The responsibility of your Ministry of Environmental Protection is to replant trees for me in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Ningxia, Suiyuan, Gansu, and even in the liberated areas we occupy! As for the workers who plant trees, you can find those peasants who live in the mountainous areas and on the Loess Plateau, where there is not much land and not much in their hands! Therefore, simply let them become special tree planting workers! Pay them every month! Every year, the Ministry of Environmental Protection will give the Ministry of Environmental Protection 2 million taels of silver as your funds! However, when the money arrives in your hands, you will hand over to me a guarantee to increase the number of saplings by 50 million a year in the northwest region! Moreover, in the future, the evaluation of our local officials, especially those in the northwest region, will not be based on the many pieces of economic development, but on whether they have fed the people under his rule! In addition, how many trees have been planted and how much barren mountain land has been greened!

Perhaps, many people feel that at a time when Huo Jiajun's finances were not yet rich and the country had not even been established, it was purely a pain in the air to care about environmental protection, to let his people plant trees and grass, and to green barren mountains! These things could be done after the country was rich! However, Huo Shan did not want to let the yellow sand in the northwest blow to the capital and then find a way to harness it! Moreover, this big river of Huang Sè burst its embankment almost every year, and repaired every year! The Qing Dynasty spent millions of taels of silver just on resting the embankment every year! This is really a bottomless pit that devours wealth! And if we want to completely cure this problem that has plagued all Chinese dynasties for thousands of years, there is no other way than to green the northwest!

"Oh, that's right! Now the peasants in the northwest have a low level of education, and they are basically illiterate! Therefore, your Ministry of Environmental Protection has to formulate specific environmental protection regulations, especially in the northwest where the environment is seriously deteriorating, and whoever cuts down a tree we plant, then let him go and plant a hundred of them for me! The more you cut down, the more you will enforce! Understand?"

"Understood, young master!" Huo Tianshen agreed solemnly. From the young master's words just now, it can be seen that he really attaches great importance to the Ministry of Environmental Protection!

"Alas, if it weren't for the fact that there are no conditions for industrial environmental protection, I wouldn't have let it go!" Huo Shan thought secretly in his heart!

"Well, the rest are basically the internal affairs department, and it's not too appropriate to make a plan, so I'll briefly explain your respective tasks! Start with Huo Feng's Supervision Department!" Huo Shan said with a smile to the beautiful woman sitting not far away. As the only woman in the Huo family's eighteen iron guards, she had been responsible for the Huo family's intelligence collection and the security of the female dependents in the backyard of the villa, and her own ability was also very outstanding!

"Everyone knows that the core idea of the political system of Western countries, whether it is a republic or a constitutional monarchy, is to maintain the balance of power, ensure that national policies and laws can be thoroughly implemented, and that the country will prosper and stabilize. Therefore, in order to ensure the purity of our internal officials, especially when we have not yet established the country, do not have our own constitution, and there are still many loopholes in all aspects, the duties of the Ministry of Supervision are very important! Therefore, Sister Feng! Don't relax!

"Yes, young master!"

"Well, your Ministry of Supervision will have two million financial funds every year!" Huo Shan said after thinking for a while.

Hearing his words, Huo Feng couldn't help but smile charmingly, the style of a mature beauty even Huo Shan, a well-informed guy from later generations, couldn't help but look a little sideways.

"Got it, young master!"

Letting Huo Feng be the minister of the Ministry of Supervision is also a last resort! There is no way, there are too few talents available within Huo Jiajun, and there are not many who can reassure him, so now he has to let Huo Feng take his place temporarily.

"Huo Huang, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Urban Construction, which you are in charge of, are very important, we first use the Jǐng Guards as ordinary security personnel, which is very imperfect, after all, the Jǐng Guards are second-line troops, and they are the reserve of our field troops, and it is really a bit of a waste to use them to manage the place! Therefore, your Ministry of Public Security should set up qualified inspection units as soon as possible, set up police stations in towns, set up inspection bureaus at the prefectural and county levels, and set up inspection offices at the provincial level, so as to liberate our second-line troops as soon as possible!"

"Yes, young master! However, if you are recruited temporarily, you may have to train for a while, I don't know if you can let some of the officers and soldiers of the Jǐng Guard Corps be transferred to Jǐng Cha, and first enrich the Ministry of Public Security!" Huo Huang said an idea that he had been thinking about for a long time, after all, most of the Qing Dynasty's officials were uneven, and ordinary civilians were not qualified for the position of Jǐng Cha, and now it seems that the personnel of the troops who have been trained and have a decent level of education are undoubtedly the most suitable.

Huo Shan thought about it and agreed, now that Huo Jiajun's nearly 400,000 troops are placed there, there will be no big battle for a while, and it is also good to pay attention to managing local security first!

"We have just occupied Nanyang, and the construction of the local area will be rolled out in an all-round way, and soon there will be a large influx of immigrants from the country! Therefore, sufficient housing has become a prerequisite for resettlement, so your urban construction department should prepare more building materials! In particular, the expansion of the city is a very complicated and huge comprehensive project. What I want is not a pile of cold steel and concrete buildings, but a beautiful city with a sewage and drainage system, a water supply system, qualified urban greening facilities and other aspects organically combined, not a sewage-ridden imperial capital like the current běijīng, do you understand?" Huo Shan just stared at the tall and thin young man in front of him.

Since coming to this era, Huo Shan has rarely been to Taipei for nearly a year, because he has adapted to the modern city of his previous life, which is clean and tidy, full of green belts, and has perfect urban facilities, he really can't raise the slightest interest in the city that is more broken than the most broken county in China in later generations!

"Understood, young master, I will do as you instruct!" Huo Huang hurriedly agreed.

"I have a copy of the "Outline of Urban Construction Planning" written by myself here, you can take it back and read it when you leave!" Huo Shan got up and searched for the bookshelf behind him, took out a thick book and handed it to him.

"In addition, although our land in the South Seas is not small, it is basically an island surrounded by the sea! Therefore, excellent harbors and smooth shipping lanes are our lifeline, so your urban construction department should develop the deep-water harbors around the coastline of the islands, especially the cities of East Manlu, Kuching, Samarinda, Palu, and Manado, and build them into international deep-water ports! Therefore, your urban development department will get 90 million taels of silver in the next five years! I hope you can make good use of it! Don't let our money go to waste!" Huo Shanshen said solemnly.

"Yes, young master, the Ministry of Urban Construction will definitely not waste a tael of silver!"

His god was very excited, although he was also the main figure in charge of the Huo family's trade on the mainland in the past, but the silver taels he handled every year were only a few million taels! And now, he controlled the investment of nearly 100 million taels, and this feeling of being trusted was really touching! Of course, the sense of accomplishment of watching cities and seaports rise from the ground under his hands was also extremely attractive!

"Huo Dian, you are now in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Human Resources, and your most important task in the next five years is to do a good job in the census and immigration work! We must accurately know the number and age structure of the population in our jurisdiction, and this will have a bearing on the formulation and implementation of our policies in the future! In addition, in the areas under our control, the system of 'identity card' and 'household registration book' is implemented, and every household must apply for a household registration book, and every young man who has reached the age of 16 must apply for an identity card! There must be name, age, place of household registration, family relationship and other information on these two things, and after the implementation of these two systems, it will reduce the difficulty of our public security management and stabilize the place as soon as possible!"

"I understand!" Huo Dian's pen in his work record, carefully wrote down the requirements that the young master said, and then sat down.

"Hehe, Mr. Chen is now our Minister of Agriculture and Ministry of Water Resources, this is our most important department!

Chen Jitong was also one of the first batch of students of the Mawei Ship Master School, and he should have gone to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the most, but now that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still has such talents as Luo Fenglu, it would be a little redundant for him to go again! After all, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at this time had nothing to do! In addition, Huoshan was in dire need of talent in agriculture and water conservancy! Therefore, Chen Jitong, who had stayed abroad and was well-informed, naturally became the minister of the two ministries!

"Young master, you still assign me tasks, I am chasing ducks to the shelves in these two departments, and I am still a little blind now!" Chen Jitong said with a wry smile. He wasn't modest, he was a specialist in the navy or translation, but he was a complete white man in agriculture and water conservancy.

Hearing his words, Huo Shan smiled and said: "Mr. Chen doesn't need to be humble, I have a lot of books on this subject here, you can take them and read them! In addition, your management talent is what we need, there are many plains on the islands of the South Seas, and there are also many rivers and lakes, and the project of cultivating farmland and building water conservancy is very important! This is a big project that benefits the country and the people! I would rather be slower than build it well with quality and quantity! In addition, I have prepared 50 million taels of silver for you! You can do it boldly with confidence, and if you don't understand anything, you can find me! ”