The 10-year period of Ankang is coming to an end, and Zhu Jingyuan's two-year term in Xi'an is also coming to an end.

Zhu Jingyuan's reform work in the northwestern provinces and vassal states can only be regarded as a beginning so far.

There are still various minor problems, but the direction and solutions have been basically determined.

If you have to count it, you can see a lot of achievements now.

In the reports submitted by the various political secretaries, you can see the list of settlements that have been relocated, densely packed with many pages.

The first to migrate are remote settlements with only a few dozen or even a dozen households.

It could be in a valley at the foot of a mountain, in an oasis on the edge of a desert, or in a small grassland.

Repairing roads, pulling electric wires, organizing the construction of schools, regularly registering household registration, and handling certain disputes in such places are things that the real grassroots officials at the county and township levels in Daming deeply hate.

Objectively speaking, under the current level of science and technology and productivity, it is basically impossible to fully realize it.

Even in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, a super industrial country in the 21st century, all settlements were not connected to roads......

The vast majority of officials in charge of related affairs have been in a state of de facto neglect for a long time.

There are requirements on it, but it can't be done.

Settlements in this type of place are largely in a primitive state of self-government.

Most grassroots officials only know how many households there are in such a place.

That is, when I first took office, I might go over to visit once, and I basically won't go to the local area again.

The real-time situation cannot be said to be completely unknown, but it can only be said that it is very limited.

Of course, this is already a huge improvement compared to any dynasty before the Renmu Dynasty.

Previous dynasties and regimes, for small settlements of a similar level, may not have known about their existence at all.

Now it is the Daming Central Imperial Court, the Daming Royal Family Consortium, and the Daming Airlines jointly paying, and the Daming Royal Family Consortium and Daming Airlines provide fairly good jobs at the same time, giving a relatively reasonable resettlement plan.

Local officials are now held accountable for relocating the population of such settlements to designated large cities.

It's certainly hard work.

Ordinary officials at the grassroots level are not very willing to do this kind of work.

However, when this matter is completed, the long-standing potential crisis of "slacking off government" can be eliminated.

In the past, the imperial historian wanted to investigate the negligence of these inherited officials, and as long as they visited these registered remote villages, they could easily find their handles.

In addition, the actual subsidies and the postponement of assessment tasks have made it possible for officials in various localities to solve this kind of work, regardless of whether they are genuinely willing to do it or not.

In terms of different regions, the best place for migration is the snowy plateau.

Officials in other regions should handle the original day-to-day management affairs and set up and set up government-run manufacturers.

Plan urban expansion plans for future core cities, assess the rate of inflow and arrange for residential development.

While dealing with these matters, he was responsible for the relocation and arranging for the people from remote places.

The task of the officials of the snowy plateau is relatively pure.

With the exception of the capital city of Logos, all other affairs in other regions can be basically abandoned.

All they had to do was concentrate on moving people outward.

After the residents are sent outside, there are local officials who are responsible for receiving and managing them.

Of course, the construction of the target city is also the business of officials in other places.

The work arrangements for the emigrants are also a matter for the local government-owned manufacturers, the royal foundation, and Daming Airlines.

As for the several yamen in the snowy capital of Luoqicheng, they have become the most idle departments in the past two years.

Since the Renwu Dynasty reformed the system of the snowy plateau, there has been a tendency of spontaneous urbanization in the snowy plateau.

The capital, Logos, started with less than 20,000 people, but after more than 100 years of continuous development, it now has 200,000 people.

At present, the population migration work plan for the entire northwest region is carried out in the order from small to large.

The difference is that other areas are migrating from remote settlements to the local big cities.

The principle of snow is to move from remote settlements to large cities in other places.

The city of Logos does not need to accept the inhabitants of the remote snowy plateau.

At the same time, since the residents of the city will gradually move out in the future, several major reforms do not need to be implemented.

The residents of the subordinate areas of the Luo Prefecture moved out, and the affairs of the Luo Prefecture and their own yamen were reduced at the same time.

However, Zhu Jingyuan and the corresponding departments of the imperial court could not let these bureaucrats idle.

In the past two years, officials from the provinces have been transferred to other places to guide and lead the local residents to move outward.

After all the scattered populations on the snowy plateau have moved out, they will consider moving to large cities such as Logos.

This is not a project that can be completed overnight.

It is impossible for Zhu Jingyuan to see the news of the relevant progress changes before he leaves office this time.

Overall, it has worked, but it will take several years to achieve the expected final effect.

During this period at the end of the year, Zhu Jingyuan browsed the various summary reports sorted out by various yamen.

After knowing the local situation, the main focus shifted to the next stage of training.

After the New Year's holiday of the eleventh year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan received a new appointment from his father and the imperial court.

This is Zhu Jingyuan's last stage of practical training in local governance.

Excluding the places where he had already served as superintendents, and considering his current special status, Zhu Jingyuan had already guessed about his last local task.

After the local governance training is over, before returning to Beijing, I now have only one place to go.

Jianghuai, Jiangnan.

In the end, the news and appointments of his father and the imperial court also verified Zhu Jingyuan's guess:

"Political envoy of Jianghuai Province, governor of military and political affairs in the southern region, and foreign affairs."

The southern region referred to by the Ming court was the core province of the mainland, including Jianghuai Province, most of which was located south of the Qinling-Huai River and north of Jiaozhi.

Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Huguang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong.

Among them, there are currently the richest places in the Ming Dynasty, and there are also real remote mountainous areas, and the overall situation can be said to be very complicated.

In terms of possible problems, there are problems in the remote minority areas of the northwest region, problems in the people's livelihood, capital, and bureaucracy in the highly developed areas, as well as problems in foreign trade and emigration.

and the clan power that is more prevalent in these regions than in the Northwest and Central Plains......

This is likely to be one of my priorities for the next two years.

After Zhu Jingyuan got the letter of appointment, he said goodbye to officials from all over the northwest and took his family to the south again.

Among the family members who accompanied this time was Queen Charlotte of the United States.

During the Chinese New Year last year, Charlotte came to Xi'an to find Zhu Jingyuan, and then Charlotte began to prepare for pregnancy.

Let the doctor do a physical examination, follow the advice of Dr. Daming to recuperate, and at the same time start to quit drinking.

Two months later, Zhu Jingyuan began to work with Charlotte to create children.

After three months of hard work, Charlotte finally got pregnant.

It was in May of the 10th year of Ankang.

By the end of January of the 11th year of Ankang, the child in Charlotte's womb was eight months old.

Eight months has reached its maximum, but now it's time to go.

If he is allowed to give birth in Xi'an, he will have to wait another two months for the delivery period, and then recuperate for another month or two after giving birth before setting off.

After such a toss, when Zhu Jingyuan takes office in Yingtianfu, it may not be until June.

Zhu Jingyuan's other concubines, when Zhu Jingyuan took office, also followed with a big belly for seven or eight months, and now it is impossible to stay alone to take care of Charlotte.

Zhu Jingyuan is a king and a prince, and there will be no shortage of people around him to take care of him, as well as special trains and ships.

As long as it is not really the time of labor, the wife and concubine will not affect the travel when they are pregnant with the child.

At the same time, Charlotte died in childbirth in history.

Although the child's father has changed, the child itself has also changed, and this time it may not be difficult to give birth.

But to be cautious, it's best to be prepared for a caesarean section at the time of delivery.

In this world, caesarean section is not a particularly common technique and relies more on the experience of doctors.

Compared with Xi'an, which is deep inland, the doctors in Yingtianfu, the most prosperous area of the Ming Dynasty, are more experienced.

The overall level of medical care in the local area is also higher, and it is obviously safer to go to the Forbidden City in Nanjing to give birth.

Zhu Jingyuan can arrange for the royal doctors of Yingtianfu and Shuntianfu to be transferred, but it will obviously be safer to let the doctors work in the places they are familiar with.

So Zhu Jingyuan had no reason to let Charlotte continue to stay in Xi'an.

After a lapse of two years, Zhu Jingyuan got on the same train again and returned to Jiangnan by the same route two years ago.

Zhu Jingyuan sat by the window again, enjoying the scenery by the railway outside the window, or observing the scenes on both sides.

As the train continued to move forward, Zhu Jingyuan slowly noticed that compared with two years ago, the surrounding countryside and city scene had changed again.

Zhu Jingyuan couldn't say it at once, but after seeing more, he realized that there were more machines and fewer people.

Two years ago, on his way here, Zhu Jingyuan often saw villages with a large number of people, many of which seemed to have dozens of families living there.

There are many people inside and outside the village, as well as conspicuous horse sheds and cattle pens, and farmers who roam around on horseback.

That is the village that has not yet been replaced on a large scale and still relies on manpower and horse farming.

At that time, many villages had already started to replace the latest agricultural machinery.

In many villages, the stables were empty, and some were converted into garages.

There are also villages where improvised airstrips have been built where you can see flying agricultural planes.

In all of these villages, there are fewer people in and around the village, and there may be only a dozen families left, because there are not so many people working in the village.

However, these so-called villages are actually not the countryside that Zhu Jingyuan was accustomed to in his previous life, but the gathering place of laborers in large farms.

Usually one or two families are farmers, while most of the other families are his hired hands.

Or all of them are hired laborers.

The land around these villages is usually also the land of one or two families.

Or directly the land of the Imperial Village.

Most of the villagers living in these villages are wage laborers.

Now, two years later, there are hardly any densely populated farms to be seen, and the stables are mostly empty.

On the contrary, garages and airstrips are almost universal.

There were fewer people moving in and around the village again, and most of the villages were not visible at all.

Only the surrounding well-cultivated and sown land shows that there are still people producing here.

A village that used to live with a few hundred people may now have only a few families left.

The farm, which originally had only a dozen households, is likely to have only one family left, and only the farmer himself remains.

While Zhu Jingyuan sighed in his heart, he also subconsciously recalled the data he had seen.

Daming's local machinery production capacity is really very strong.

We have designed mature diesel engines and agricultural machinery, and after practical testing, they are spreading very quickly in the local market.

Whether it is a private farmer or a farm operator in Huangzhuang, they have quickly purchased these agricultural machinery.

In the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, which is the most economically and industrially developed, the transition from animal power to mechanization is very fast, and it has entered the final stage in just a few years.

At the same time, in the past few years, the scale of built-up areas in major cities in Daming has also swelled.

This is especially evident in the Great Plains of the Central Plains.

However, after entering the confines of Jianghuai province, this trend has slowed down slightly.

A large number of small towns have emerged here.

Zhu Jingyuan has long known that only in relatively wealthy places can large-scale scattered small towns be built.

This is because the local government needs to have enough money and resources to provide relatively high-quality basic living facilities and services to the small base of settlements when the population is relatively dispersed.

The former Nanzhili, now Jianghuai Province, its central and southern regions, is the most economically and industrially developed region in the world.

The traditional Ming people have a deep obsession with the land and their hometown.

Even in the industrial age, wealthy businessmen in the Jianghuai region will retain or invest in traditional land and farms while setting up factories.

This has promoted the construction of small towns in the central and southern regions of Jianghuai Province, and many towns and villages have all kinds of large and small private factories.

At the county level, all kinds of medium-sized factories are blooming everywhere.

When it comes to the level of the prefecture, many local industries in the big mansions have been able to take the lead in the whole Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, at the level of a provincial capital, the scale of the city does not have much advantage compared with the subordinate capital cities and inland provincial cities.

Yingtianfu is the national capital, but its overall economic strength is on the same level as Suzhou and Songjiang.

For the people in the Jianghuai region, it may be that the provincial capital is also regarded as another prefecture city.

You should be a mansion in heaven, and my Suzhou mansion is also a mansion......

The characteristics of bulk Jiangsu may have existed since the era of Southern Zhili in the Ming Dynasty.

Nanzhili was originally a group of directly governed provinces, and everyone was directly under the management of Nanjing, and there was no province of Nanzhili.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has set up Jianghuai Province, this concept is difficult to eliminate in the short term......

When the provincial capitals, prefecture towns, county seats, and the built-up areas of towns and villages in Jianghuai Province were gradually connected, Zhu Jingyuan's train also entered the urban area of Yingtianfu.

Yingtianfu is one of the most developed cities in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also one of the most antique cities in terms of overall construction.

Because it is another national capital of the Ming Dynasty, and even a real spiritual national capital, there are a large number of official and royal buildings with political and cultural traditional attributes in the city.

These buildings are the most traditional in style, and their presence has influenced the style of the houses of the local wealthy class.

Therefore, in the residential areas of the city, you can often see the traditional garden-style buildings with cornices and arches and carved railings.

Zhu Jingyuan returned here again after a two-year absence, and looked at these pictures with a little emotion.

Charlotte was the first time to come to the richest place in the Ming Dynasty, and the first time to come to the other nominal capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Particularly novel and excited, the whole person leaned on the window, staring at the surrounding scene with wide eyes.

"This is Ying Tianfu, we have finally arrived at Ying Tianfu, the heart of the world's largest empire!"

Two maids from the King's Mansion and two royal maids from England stood by Charlotte's side.

They are all very worried about Charlotte's stomach, and if something happens, they will not escape responsibility.

Thankfully, the concern didn't last long.

As soon as the train entered the city of Nanjing, it turned off its engine and continued to slide forward on the tracks.

Finally, it stopped at the platform dedicated to the royal family in the Imperial City.

(End of chapter)