Steel Dynasty - Chapter 875

[Chapter 873 Opportunity to go south]

“You are exempt from taxes when you have a child!”

“Each child is subsidized by a hardware dragon.”

“…”

In the festive atmosphere of the New Year, the policy of encouraging childbirth spread through newspapers in the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

Nowadays, for scholars in Dayu, newspapers are the weathervane of Dayu. Many readers even collect newspapers to check the policies that Dayu has historically promulgated.

The childish voice of the newsboy made many people laugh softly, and they took out their copper coins to buy newspapers to learn about this newly issued decree.

There is no doubt that this decree is a happy event for officials, businessmen or ordinary people, because for families who want to continue having children, they will receive a large amount of income.

Such a beneficial government order naturally spreads the fastest. After the New Year, this government order was passed from Qingzhou Prefecture to other prefectures, and each government also increased their publicity efforts.

Within half a year, all the people in the northern states and counties learned about this fertility encouragement policy.

The effect of this policy is that before the spring begins, many young and strong people in Dayu lose weight, and the trend of competing to have children gradually expands.

However, this decree also gave the ministers a reason to let Xiao Ming continue to have children. He had no choice but to jump into the hole he dug. After Cui Xueer became pregnant, Luluo and Aster also became pregnant successively, and the number of royal children was increased to four. Already.

When the North implemented childbirth as a war, the accumulated conflicts in Chu broke out.

On June 13, Li Chuyuan’s general Jiang Ying led 80,000 soldiers to attack Suzhou. The two sides fought at Wu County, the southern gate of Suzhou.

At the same time, two other generals, Huacheng and Liu Xu, each led 50,000 troops to attack Jiaxing and Songjiang. For a time, the south was filled with smoke.

“Your Majesty, the general has already transferred the soldiers equipped with Falcon rifles to Jinling City. The remaining 20,000 people are expected to be equipped and trained in September.”

Niu Benben, the staff officer of Qingzhou Camp, reported to Xiao Ming The deployment of the military.

After Niu Ben finished speaking, Luo Quan said: “We have conveyed orders to the Navy to keep them on standby at any time. The canneries in Dengzhou are also working day and night to produce cans for use in war.”

“Well, yes, the logistics this time are absolutely We can no longer use hundreds of thousands of civilians on a large scale as before. If we have cans, we must take advantage of them and use the army’s own logistics force as much as possible,” Xiao Ming ordered.

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Niu Ben and Luo Quan said at the same time.

Xiao Ming nodded. He had received the news in advance before the war in Chu State started.

For Li Chuyuan, the soldiers trained for more than half a year were enough to be used. With this confidence, he officially declared war on the Merchant Council.

As for Cao Kun, he did not have enough confidence to defeat Li Chuyuan at the beginning. After all, the strength of the Merchant Council was still somewhat weak.

But in the past six months, he has been actively expanding his army. The number of troops controlled by the Merchant Council has doubled, and his back has become stronger.

After deploying the army, Xiao Ming returned to the palace, and then he summoned Pang Yukun. During the Chinese New Year, the Chongqing cabinet was officially full.

In addition to Pang Yukun and Fiji, there are also Zhan Xingchang, Ge Yiren, Yang Chengye, Chang Yuchun, Kong Yongan, Chao Jun and others.

Pang Yukun is still the chief minister of the Ninth Middle School and is responsible for coordinating the overall situation, so sometimes Xiao Ming can just go to Pang Yukun directly.

According to the plan, he will go south this autumn. At this time, Li Chuyuan and Cao Kun, who have been fighting for three or four months, are probably exhausted. At that time, he can easily bulldoze them. However, compared with the vast area of Guandong and the small number of people, The south is a densely populated area with many cities.

Once a fight breaks out, people will inevitably be displaced, and this is the time to divert the flow.

This time he came to Pang Yukun for this matter.

“According to Lin Wentao’s statistics, Qingzhou Prefecture sold 2,000 steam engines to the private sector last year. Even if a businessman’s factory uses four steam engines, there are now 500 steam engine-powered factories in Dayu. This number increased even more rapidly in the first half of this year, reaching the number last year in half a year. It can be seen that since the railway was connected, businessmen’s enthusiasm for building factories has increased. “

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued:” The government-run factories of the imperial court developed faster than private factories and used more steam engines. However, the result of this is that there is now a shortage of workers in Qingzhou Prefecture. “

Pang Yukun nodded. Last year, Dayu State introduced some measures. List of special nouns, the workshop was officially renamed as a factory, and the craftsmen were also renamed as workers.

So he understood what Xiao Ming said.

“Xiaguan understands what the emperor means. At present, the industry in the Chongqing Kingdom is mainly concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River. This is difficult to change in the short term. Therefore, more people in the north of the Yangtze River need to enter the factory as workers, and the chaos in the south is giving If we handle this opportunity properly, the industry of Great Chongqing will win another explosion.”

A smile appeared on Xiao Ming’s lips, and Pang Yukun saw it with poison. One obvious fact is that the resources brought by the railway now are the dividends of the Northern Expedition. , the Korean market has brought funds, and now the bottleneck of industrial development is mobile workers. Now that the chaos in the south has made up for this shortcoming, industry will naturally explode, and the cities along the railway will definitely develop greatly.

“Yes, in addition, the cabinet must formulate a preferential decree for relocation to Guandong as soon as possible. I give you a fatal order. This time you must move at least three million people to settle in Guandong.” Xiao Ming said.

“Three million!” Pang Yukun suddenly felt a lot of pressure. Although this number is not large compared to the total population of Dayu, this project is not small, and he has to use a lot of officials for this.

Gritting his teeth, Pang Yukun felt relieved and said, “Yes, Your Majesty, I promise to complete it.”

“That’s very good.” Xiao Ming said, “By the way, how is the production in Guandong recovering now?”

Pang Yukun said: “After the war ended last year, the household registration system of the Guandong people has been improved, and the land has been distributed to the people of Guandong. At the same time, because Guandong was completely empty, the lower officials followed the emperor’s order and implemented a contract responsibility system for allocating fields to households. During production, Production is under the management of the team. According to the feedback received from the official, the people of Guandong welcome this land contract responsibility system and are very active in cultivating their own farmland. In addition, the land in Guandong is fertile, and a bumper harvest was completed two years ago. And this year The second season of wheat will be harvested soon. “

“If the results are good, Qingzhou and other prefectures will also gradually cancel the collective work of the production team. After all, collective production raises lazy people, but the production team cannot be cancelled. They still have to be responsible for supervision and assistance. People produce. “

In the past, Xiao Ming promoted collective production because production tools were scarce, but it is different now. The development of the breeding industry in recent years has increased the number of cattle.

Moreover, the development of the steel industry also brought sickles, steam threshing machines, seed drills, and animal-drawn harvesters into the private sector. For him, it was time to increase people’s enthusiasm for production and elevate agriculture to a higher level.

(End of chapter)