Chapter 328: Ximen County Magistrate
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July 7, Republic 2758 (1917), Ryukyu County, Ryukyu City, Taiwan Province.
At a time when the European and American powers are turning their brains into dog brains, China is burying its head in farming. Taking advantage of the spring breeze of the European war, China's annual economic growth rate has reached more than 25% in recent years, which is simply a fantastic speed, and in one lyric it is described as "feeling like flying".
It is not an exaggeration to describe the development of the country as "changing with each passing day", and many people may not know the road if they leave their hometown for more than a year and then go back. This change is particularly evident in the new Territories and Overseas Provinces. In addition to the consideration of developing the local economy, there are two important reasons. The first is to attract immigrants from the interior, and the second is to eliminate and dilute the traditional culture of the local aborigines more quickly and speed up the speed of "ethnic integration".
Ryukyu Prefecture is a typical example of this.
Ryukyu Prefecture is a new prefecture that has been established for less than five years. After the Sino-Japanese War in 1913, China recovered all of the Ryukyu Islands and set them up as Ryukyu City, which was assigned to Taiwan Province. Ryukyu City is divided into three prefectures: Naha Prefecture (southern part of the main island of the Ryukyus), Amami Prefecture (including the Amami Islands and the Grass Islands (formerly known as the Togara Islands)), Ryukyu Prefecture, and Ryukyu Prefecture (including the Ryunan Islands (formerly known as the Miyako Islands) and the Yaeyama Islands).
Ryukyu Prefecture is the largest and most populous of the three prefectures, with an area of about 1,250 square kilometers mainly over the central and northern parts of the main island of the Ryukyus, other islands of the Ryukyu Islands, and the Daito Islands, 400 kilometers to the east. On a national scale, a thousand square kilometers of territory is definitely not small, and many counties in the interior are at this level. However, the population of Ryukyu Prefecture is only a little more than 120,000, which is completely incomparable with the county-level units in the mainland.
Ryukyu Prefecture is located in Ryukyu Town, which is equivalent to the cities of Okinawa and Uruma in Japan, as well as Chatan Town, Kadena Town, Yomitan Village, and Kitanakajo Village. In addition to Ryukyu Township, the prefectural government also has four township units under its jurisdiction: Nago Township, Jinmu Township, Quy Non Township, and Kuntou Township.
The county government building is a five-story red brick building, and the county magistrate Ximen Fuxue is handling official business in his office on the fifth floor at this time.
"Ximen County Magistrate, this is a summary of the county's statistics in the first half of the year......" The secretary put a copy of the document on his desk.
"Okay, thanks. Simon nodded to the secretary and took it and looked at it.
"The agricultural output value increased by 29% over the same period last year, the industrial output value increased by 78% over the same period last year, and the output value of the tertiary industry increased by 146% over the same period last year...... Ximen said to himself while looking at it: "It seems that this year's grain in this county can finally be self-sufficient, and the soil here is too bad." The industrial chain of diesel trees and rubber trees is not bad, and it seems that this industry still has room for growth......"
Ryukyu Island is poor in resources and has poor soil, making traditional agriculture difficult to develop. Since taking office, Simon has vigorously promoted the cultivation of cash crops, and in addition to new crops such as diesel trees and temperate rubber trees, traditional crops such as sugar cane and pineapples have also been strengthened.
Ryukyu is an archipelago, and in addition to the main island, there are many small islands, and these islands are not suitable for growing grain. So the magistrate of Ximen asked the people to plant pasture on the islands, raise cows and sheep, and then build a dairy factory. The locals used special products such as cow and goat milk, pineapple juice and cane sugar to develop a kind of "pineapple milk candy", which sold very well.
Although it is not suitable for agriculture, it has good conditions for fishing. Using the knowledge he learned in school, it took him three years to integrate the entire Ryukyu Prefecture fishery industry into a complete industrial chain, and established a public-private joint venture "Ryukyu Prefecture Fishery Joint Stock Company", which covers everything from coastal aquaculture and deep-sea fishing to various deep processing. "Shenglian Ancient City" brand seafood series products have become famous in China, all kinds of dried seafood, canned seafood sold to the whole country, and many of the warring Europeans are also from the Ryukyu fishery.
Today, Ryukyu Prefecture is thriving in the food industry, such as canned food and sugar refining, as well as shipbuilding, machinery, building materials, oil refining (biodiesel), and rubber.
However, the fastest growing tertiary industry is because of its good location, whether it is between the Pacific Coast, or between Japan and Southeast Asia, the fishing boats that are already nearby, often stop and rest here, naturally forming a large consumer market. Moreover, due to its special location, there are many military bases, not only important stations for the Pacific task force, but also bases for the air force and army. Just serving the garrison here is a big market.
With the support of the central government and the spring breeze in Europe, Ryukyu Prefecture has developed rapidly in recent years, and has been rated as a model county for two years. It is estimated that after this term, the county magistrate of Ximen will be promoted again.
Comrade Ximen was very proud of the previous content, but after seeing the "population" project, his brows furrowed: "It's a pity, the population of this county is still too small, and in the second half of the year, we will send people to the country to publicize more and get more immigrants to come." There are only 120,000 people in one county, which is really unusual......"
Before the Sino-Japanese War, there were originally 300,000 people in the Ryukyu Islands, but about half of these people were Japanese. After the return to China, due to the Japanese government's long-term demonization and scandalization propaganda, the Japanese in the Ryukyus did not have a high sense of identity with China, and most of them fled back to China, and less than 20,000 were willing to stay.
As a result, when these Japanese who ran away learned about the amazing changes in Ryukyu and suffered in Japan, most of them regretted it, and tried their best to run back, crying and shouting that they wanted to be Chinese. There are even some clever Japanese who have falsified genealogies and impersonated Chinese and Ryukyuan descendants in an attempt to renaturalize. However, everyone knows that the difficulty of naturalization in the Celestial Empire is famous all over the world, and it has been like this since the Qing Dynasty, and Mr. Wen has also inherited this style in his own plane, and it is difficult to come back after leaving. Of course, that's a story for now.
But right now, there is a shortage of people in the Ryukyus. After the return, the Ryukyus also engaged in the consolidation and relocation of villages, and the remaining 170,000 aborigines were scattered in small family units and distributed to various places, some went to Annam and Luzon, some went to Outer Mongolia and Northeast China, some went to Korea and Sakhalin Island, and more went to inland provinces. Anyway, it's like sprinkling a handful of sesame seeds in a lake, and about 130,000 people have been resettled in various places.
This is the case not only for the Ryukyus, but also for the indigenous people of the Chinese cultural circle in the new territories such as Korea and Annam. The indigenous people of the new territories outside the Chinese cultural sphere are rarely resettled in the core areas of the mainland, and are generally resettled in other new territories. For example, the indigenous people of Luzon are usually resettled in southern Tibet, the Gulf, northern Myanmar, Laos, Kashmir, and the same is true in these places. Yes, China's aboriginal resettlement policy is based on people's dishes, and is arranged by cultural and ancestral kinship. Of course, there will be exceptions.,If the Sinicization Cheng dΓΉ is high,,It can also be placed in the local core area.,But there are too few such people.,At least for now.γ
Of the current population of 120,000 in Ryukyu Prefecture, only 40,000 are indigenous people (Ryukyuan and Japanese), and the remaining 80,000 have migrated from other parts of the country in recent years. In the past, 120,000 people would have been enough, but now that the Ryukyus industries are developing rapidly, there is a shortage of people everywhere.
The Chinese government now encourages local people to emigrate to new territories, but the Chinese tradition is that "it is difficult to leave the homeland", and few people are willing to move elsewhere unless there is really no way. While the Chinese government has developed ways to promote the benefits of immigration, develop incentives and preferential policies, and keep the share of land allocated to the country very low, it will take time to change this view.
Now it is not only Comrade Simon who is worried about the population, but many officials in the new territories are also worried about this matter. Many local governments in the new territories have now organized their own propaganda departments to recruit immigrants in the country, and even come up with such a method as television advertising.
Well, that's right, this method was invented by the county magistrate Ximen, and he came up with the idea last year. In the first half of the year, he asked the county government to hire a film company to produce a propaganda film for immigrants in Ryukyu Prefecture. and then broadcast it on CCTV as a promotional film, this hand was so ruthless that even Mr. Wen was thundered. However, the effect is really good, and after the advertisement was broadcast, the number of immigrants to Ryukyu Prefecture during this period was more than seven times higher than the same period last year!
Of course, this hand was immediately copied by the officials of the other new territories. Now, this kind of soft advertising is found on TV shows everywhere.
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In the afternoon, after getting off work, the county magistrate of Ximen did not go home directly. He called his wives and rode a government electric car to a teahouse in town.
This is Comrade Simon's routine, and he has to take two days a week to sit in the teahouse, on the one hand, to fart and brag with everyone and relax his spirit. On the one hand, it is also to learn about public sentiment and public opinion trends and other information by the way.
"Boss, is there a place upstairs?" asked the boss as Ximen Fuxue stopped the car. At this time, Comrade Simon had changed greatly, wearing a cool hat on his head, a pair of black-framed glasses on his face, and a mustache on his lips. Well, just a little bit of makeup. No way, there are still more people in this county who know him.
"Yo, there is a place, please inside, please inside. The store is air-conditioned...... "The boss hurriedly welcomed him in.
As mentioned earlier, with the opening of people's wisdom and the rapid development of media such as radio, film and television. Many teahouses in China have undergone fundamental changes, and they are no longer simple teahouses, but have become a kind of club, salon, or a physical version of BBS.
This Anqing teahouse is no exception, which is equivalent to a local military and political salon, or a physical version of the military history BBS.
As soon as the west gate went upstairs, he heard a commotion inside, and when he opened the door, he saw several people standing in the middle of the hall with red ears and shouting.
One of the student-looking guys was yelling excitedly.
"Hmph, what Ministry of Foreign Affairs! I think it's the takeaway department! These cowards who have no self-confidence! China is now a first-class power, and if we don't take advantage of Russia's bad luck to take the territory east of the Ural Mountains and turn Lao Maozi into a purely European country, I am too sorry for hundreds of millions of Chinese!"
A few other lads also coaxed.
β...... That's right, the takeaway department is just a bunch of waste, and they actually care about the "Treaty of Nebuchu". At the very least, it should be restored to the Lingbei Province and Liaoyang Province during the Yuan Dynasty......"
"That is, we want to fight to the Arctic Ocean and take the whole of Siberia!"
Damn, where did these guys come from? Ximen Fuxue was immediately embarrassed. He also comes to this teahouse often, and these guys are really not impressed.
He looked around and found that many familiar old customers were watching these young people perform with the expression of watching the play. He couldn't help but find a place to sit down, and the waiter in the hall hurriedly came up to serve.
He ordered a cup of green tea and a few plates of snacks, and whispered to an old customer next to him, "Brother, what's going on with these guys?"
The old customer shook his head and said, "Hehe, what else can it be?" It's the news at noon. β
"Do you mean the news of the fiasco of the Russian army?" Ximen Chuixue nodded, he also read the news at noon today, and the most sensational thing in it was the news of another fiasco of the Russian army on the Eastern Front.
"That's right, this Mao Zi Prime Minister is really stupid, the country has just been revolutionized, and a lot of things in his own family have not been sorted out, so he went to fight the Germans again, isn't it stupid? I see, this old man is going to be finished!" said the old customer with a look of disdain. Well, it's a "Russian pill party".
"Oh, seeing that Maozi was unlucky, they thought that the opportunity had come. Simon Fuxue smiled. "I haven't seen these guys before, where did they come from?"
The old customer smiled: "Hehe, these are all newcomers, they seem to be high school graduates...... Isn't this a summer vacation? They're here to travel to the Ryukyus. β
At this time, a regular customer couldn't listen anymore, so he stood up and laughed: "Hey, I said what did you rely on to hit the Arctic Ocean?
"We have an invincible army!" one student exclaimed.
The familiar customer said sarcastically: "The army needs to eat, drink, feed, and ammunition, what method are you going to use to send things there? Have you seen the map? What else is Siberia to take, do you know what Siberia is like? Do you know how much the army consumes in a day? This war is not fought by mouths......
"I ......," the students were speechless for a moment.
"Since you like Siberia so much, do you want to live there for a few years?" another person laughed and said: "I have a company in Outer Mongolia, which is very close to there, if you want to go, I can help you......"
The crowd burst into laughter. Several students choked and their faces flushed.
At this moment, a waiter suddenly ran in and shouted: "What's new! What's new! There's a civil war in Russia! Fighting in Petrograd!"