Chapter 62: Return to Beijing

In fact, Zhu Xiongying didn't know that He Xi's chips were not so much.

The foundation of power is the human heart.

And the human heart is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it really affects the situation in the world.

He Xier is now in a high position, but the foundation of his power has been shaken. Just when he let out a wind and wanted to retreat. People walk tea cool. Sometimes people don't leave, and the tea will be cold.

He Xi seems to be powerful, but he is already empty inside.

A lot of clever ideas are not so unusual.

The general trend is surging, and the tide of people is surging. He Xi does not change the situation that he wants to retreat. Then his invisible power will be lost little by little.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang plotted behind him, it was very simple and rude. Because it is difficult to carry out a scheme that is too complicated.

Now, He Xi may not have any ideas about the future, but no matter what he thinks. It's just that no matter what you think, you can't resist the general trend. When heaven and earth come together, the heroes are not free.

It's just that his shell is still scary.

Zhu Xiongying eats this set.

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He Xi made a decree to move the capital to Beijing. No, it should be the patrol system of the north and south of Beijing, of course, the system is the system, and whether it is implemented or not depends on what the people below do.

Although the North-South Railway has not yet been fully connected, there are some places where it can already be used.

Crossing the Yangtze River, from Lianghuai to Shandong, this section is the canal.

He Xi is rushing to move the capital to the past. The cabinet system, the privy council system, almost all moved to Beijing, and there were almost no central organs left in the whole of Nanjing.

There are more than 100,000 Beijing battalions and troops from seven armies to escort them. Mighty to the north.

If we talk about Shandong, the two Huai line, you can still see some traces of war. But after Shandong, I saw Hebei Province, which was prosperous, and the traces left by the previous war were no longer there.

There are several reasons for this.

The first is the expansion of Beijing's industry.

Nanjing's industrialization is a planned adjustment and distribution. However, the development of northern industry is actually the spillover of industrialization from Beijing to Liaodong. In particular, He Xi made great efforts to improve the rural structure of Hebei.

Today's rural areas in Hebei are all farm systems, not tenant systems, and many people are paid wages instead of farming their own land. The capitalization of agriculture is also considered complete.

It's just a pity that Liu Jing has done a lot of things as the secretary of the Ministry of the People's Republic, and the advancement of this kind of agricultural capitalization has always been very slow. It is even much more difficult than reforming the prefecture and county system in the whole world.

Especially the further south you go, the harder it is.

And the north is different. After all, the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains region, almost a blank land. As for the people of the Ming Dynasty, they said that there was no century-old scholar clan in the Central Plains, that is, don't look at how many scholars and doctors there were in the Central Plains, their ancestors were all mud legs during the Hongwu period.

Therefore, the agrarian system was easy to implement in the north. And in the south it is difficult to implement. After all, the northern land can still be said to belong to itself. But there are too many layers of oppression behind the land property rights of southerners. Clan field, sacrificial field, official field, and private field. It's a mess.

Even the imperial court can't solve this problem.

The large-scale clean-up of the imperial court can actually solve the problem of collecting tax figures and reducing hidden fields, but it cannot change the production mode of acres of fields.

The biggest advantage of farming in the north is that the land is produced and directly becomes a commodity.

Large-scale specialized production, extensive use of new farm tools, large livestock. Improved food utilization. The food grown, or the cash crops in it, is supplied directly to the market.

In this case, Hebei's prosperity should also be.

After the reform of many local governments and counties in the south, many departments have been added and many new policies have been introduced. But in reality, the number of people doing business has not increased. People who run factories. In a county, it is also rare.

But this is not the case in Hebei.

Whether it is food coming out of the land, it is coarse

work, so easy to transport. Some cash crops, such as cotton, are processed locally and are easy to transport all the way.

It's all needed.

The rivers in Hebei are crisscrossed, although many of these rivers are seasonal. But it can still be used for repairs. Not to mention, there are already railroads that have already been built.

Together with the canal, a large artery is formed. We will supply a steady stream of raw materials from both sides of the strait to Beijing. It will also flow Beijing's advanced production tools into the local area in a steady stream.

Increased local production efficiency.

In every county in Hebei, there are probably at least a dozen factories. Although it is not large, it is all used to remove shells by machinery, or to process raw materials, etc. There are even some places where specialties have developed.

This prosperous county economy also supports the almost equal economic status of Hebei and Jiangnan.

Of course, this is also because Jiangnan's economy is in a difficult transformation, and Jiangnan's economy will definitely be able to surpass Hebei's in the future.

Second, it is Hebei's war dividend.

Although He Xi has not made specific statistics. But he probably learned that the generals from Hebei were at the battalion level. Probably more than half of the battle. That's a lot of money.

In other words, in the army, the Huaixi Group is already a thing of the past. Hebei Military Merit Group is the real hidden dragon.

Of course, I probably haven't seen it all these years. That's because some of the veterans are still there.

Wait for this group of veterans to be gone. At that time, go and see, the generals from Hebei will affect the Ming Dynasty for decades, or even longer. And this influence, has emerged.

That is, the state has invested a lot in Hebei.

Whether it is the expedited construction of the Hebei section of the North-South Railway, or the policy tilt of Tianjin Port. Even the generals of various families made a fortune outside and sent home gold and silver. All of them have become the foundation of Hebei's economic rise.

It's like, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, for a long time, Hunan was very rich and talented. In the Republic of China and even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were many powerful figures from Hunan.

But how is Hunan rich.

It was the Hunan people who followed Zeng Guofan to fight Changmao, and the city of Nanjing was looted. Only then can we have a rich Hunan, and only with money can we talk about education.

The situation today is not much different from that time.

In order to stabilize the military power, He Xi gave many additional benefits to the meritorious men in the army, which can be regarded as a bridge between the emerging nobles and the emerging capital.

Solidify the political system he pioneered.

Of course. Under the same conditions, some people do well, and some people do poorly.

It just depends on the individual.

However, Hebei is really rising.

If Hebei is still rising.

Then the prosperity of Beijing made He Xi a little trance.

I don't know, he went to Nanjing in the past few years, whether Beijing is no longer in charge, or for other reasons, time seems to have accelerated in Beijing.

During the Civil War, there were still some open spaces in Beijing. Some of them were specially left behind by He Xi. But now the city of Beijing is already full.

What is even more terrifying is the formation of a disorderly expansion outside the city walls.

That feeling, like the urban-rural junction of later generations, made He Xi feel uncomfortable.

Probably the most uncomfortable thing is the city wall.

Because of the city wall of Beijing, it has seriously affected the traffic inside and outside Beijing. What's more, the house has already surrounded the city wall of Beijing. The walls of Beijing no longer have any military role.

At least in He Xi's view, the role of the military is about equal to zero.

After all, when the Western Route Army fought Shaanxi, Geng Bingwen no longer fought around the city.

Now there are so many houses outside, and there is no open area. It is even more difficult to exert the power of the heavy artillery on the city wall. If there really were soldiers coming to the city one day, if the defenders were resolute, it would probably be a street battle in the Battle of Stalingrad.

The walls remained useless.

He Xi is strict with himself

Heavy underestimates the speed of the times.

When he built the wall, he thought about giving it up. It's just that he doesn't think it's developing so fast, and now he finds that as long as everything is normalized, economic development and take-off may not be too difficult.

It's just that He Xi can also see that there are hidden worries about the prosperity of Beijing.

That is, as far as Hebei is concerned, there are agricultural workers, and the number of yeoman farmers is already very small. There will be fewer and fewer in the future. Not even yet. The reason why Beijing has developed so much is that it has absorbed the human, material and financial resources of the entire north and even the Ming Dynasty.

There is already a siphon effect in the economy.

It's just that the originally stable emperor, gentry, common people, and the three-dimensional structure are running fast, and the dualistic structure of capitalists and workers is running wildly. The other buffered social strata will quickly dissolve and melt into the two strata in the midst of economic take-off.

The traditional Confucian political structure was very anti-war. This is because the super-stable structure of ancient China can only collapse when it encounters a huge blow from inside and outside. Foreign enemies and internal strife. Internal strife is hard to say, and external enemies are wars in other words.

So Confucianism hates war.

But He Xi saw that once the Ming Dynasty really entered the capitalist society and the buffer layer in the dualistic structure disappeared, then there was only one way, which was to start a war with the outside world and transfer the contradictions.

Once it can't be fought externally, it will fall apart internally.

Beijing has gone the fastest in this regard, and under the trend of interests, it has been rushing all the way, and now the northeast has not yet been developed, and the northeast is Beijing's buffer pool. The most typical.

Once there is no war with the outside world. The Ming Dynasty must have fallen into an even more terrible war, that is, the revolution.

This is also one of the reasons why He Xi doesn't want to continue.

Ming imperialism has been unleashed by He Xi to feed on war. This monster, which would have died without war, has already begun to cry for the first time, and there is no need to worry about what is coming.

Presumably they will automatically go down the path they are going to take.

It doesn't matter if there is a day or not.

There are a lot of things that understand He Xi's set, such as developing industry, passing on contradictions, expanding externally, and invigorating the economy.