I want to be emperor

Chapter 564 Kong Kaikang in Liaodong
Liaoyang City, the resident of the Liaodong Governor of the Great Chu Empire, the resident of the Liaodong Garrison Command, and the resident of the Army's Third Army Command.

Unlike other provincial capitals in the Great Chu Empire, which had a large population and were very lively, Liaoyang City seemed a little deserted.

The people I occasionally see on the street are also administrative personnel or soldiers in the Great Chu Empire.

As for the civilians, there is none at the moment...

As the veritable administrative and military center of the Great Chu Empire in the Liaodong area, and in view of the fact that the Liaoyang area was occupied by the Dongyao people for many years before, although most of the Dongyao people have withdrawn, it is still difficult to say how many Dongyao people are willing to be Traitors, loyal to their Han existence.

Therefore, after the Great Chu Empire captured this place, it implemented military control there!
Through the period of military control, the military wiped out the many hidden forces left by the Dong captives in the city... and then forcibly moved the remaining civilians in the city to the outskirts of the city, so that there is not even a single aborigine in the city.

After all, this place is to serve as the political and military center of the Great Chu Empire in the Liaodong region, and any possible damage cannot be tolerated... In case there is a saboteur hiding in the city, and then finds an opportunity to throw it at the headquarters of the Third Army A few grenades go in, or use bows and arrows or muskets to assassinate the senior generals of the Chu army who enter and leave the headquarters, isn't it going to be over!
This kind of thing is not a blind worry from the Chu army, but a real existence.

During the Chu army’s battle in Liaodong, some high-ranking generals were assassinated by Dongyao people in the early days. Some Dongyao secret agents wore wigs and disguised themselves as Han laborers. They were hired by the Chu army to dig trenches outside the city. When the major general was inspecting the fortifications outside the city, he sneaked up close and assassinated him with a quick-fire pistol...

Fortunately, the distance is relatively far, and this pistol was produced by the Great Chu Empire, and the shooting accuracy is not good, so this major general of the Chu Army escaped, but the major general did not die. A second-class division who accompanied the inspection The Brigadier General and Brigadier Commander was hit and seriously injured, and then died.

As a result, he became the highest-ranking officer of the Great Chu Empire in a series of battles in Liaodong, and the only general who was killed in battle... This unlucky boy!
We must know that in the series of battles between the Chu army in Liaodong and Dongyaoren, it seemed that there were many troops and huge scenes, but in fact, except for the earliest cavalry battle in the northern suburbs of Zhongqiansuo, strictly speaking, there was no large-scale battle between the two sides. Battle in the wild.

Most of them were attacked by the Chu army and defended by the captives from the east. During the Battle of Jinzhou, the two sides fought a field battle in the area east of Tashan and west of Xingshan, but this battle was also like a battle. Not to mention, it was the Chu army chasing and the Dongcap fleeing. It seemed that there were tens of thousands of people, but the battlefield was relatively scattered, and the two sides did not have a serious confrontation.

As for the siege or pursuit combat effectiveness, the casualties of the Chu army were actually very small, because when the Chu army attacked the city, most of them relied on artillery bombardment, and when the infantry entered the field, the overall situation was basically settled.

Under such circumstances, the casualties in frontal battles would naturally not be very large, and among these casualties, ordinary soldiers and low-level officers were the main ones.

Because under normal circumstances, even brigadier generals are at the rank of brigade commander or deputy division commander and division chief of staff in the Chu army.

They are commanding tens of thousands of people. Unless there is a strategic decisive battle, tens of millions of people will line up to charge... Otherwise, the high-level generals will not lead the charge like the middle and low-level officers. They want casualties. Either they were unlucky enough to be hit by stray bullets, or they were defeated by the enemy and died.

Well, the cavalry is an exception. In the cavalry unit, even the brigade commander of the cavalry brigade needs to charge directly with the cavalry.

Under such circumstances, during the battle of the Chu army in Liaodong, none of the generals were killed in frontal battles... but a few were injured.

But it was a brigadier general who was killed by the assassins of the Eastern Captives...

This situation has to make the military more vigilant, so that after a certain place is captured, a serious clearing operation will be carried out.

Liaoyang City is the political and military center of the Great Chu Empire in the Liaodong area. There are a lot of senior civil servants and generals stationed here. Therefore, the purge operation is more serious. At the same time, in case of emergency, the remaining population in the city is forcibly relocated. out.

Therefore, the current Liaoyang City has become a purely official city within its walls, and the people inside are all official personnel or soldiers of the Great Chu Empire. In addition, some government officials recruited from other places and brought some administrative assistance. personnel.

As for the small number of remaining aboriginals in the area, the Chu army can't believe it for the time being, and they have all been forced to move out of the city. Naturally, there will be patrols and other personnel to conduct continuous investigations on them in the future. Naturally, the problematic personnel will not end well, and Those who have no problems can wait for a while, that is, wait until the military control period of Liaoyang City ends before returning to the city.

So the current Liaoyang City is very deserted... This makes Kong Kaikang, who came to the north from the bustling and lively Jinling City, seem a little uncomfortable!

Through the window of the carriage, looking at the deserted street outside, with no pedestrians in sight for a long time, Kong Kaikang had a very strange feeling.

This is the first time he has seen such a city.

The desolation, coupled with the constant cold wind blowing from the windows of the carriage, made Kong Kaikang miss Jinling again...

Although it is all winter, the winter in Liaoyang is much colder than that in Jinling.

Although it snows in Jinling City in winter, and sometimes it snows heavily, it is far less terrible than this poor place in Liaodong.

Last year, when he arrived at Liaohe Estuary by boat with other colleagues from the Ministry of Industry, he deeply felt the ice and snow here... Even though Liaohe Estuary is a seaport, it still snows.

Because the Liaohe River was frozen, he was not allowed to continue north in a carriage from the mouth of the Liaohe River.

Along the way, the convoy of the Ministry of Industry he belongs to accompanied the military's logistics convoy across hundreds of miles. What he saw along the way was nothing but ice and snow...

He didn't understand why Liaodong was called a place of bitter cold before, but when he saw Liaodong in winter along the way, he finally understood what a place of bitter cold is.

It's not easy to do anything in such a ghostly cold place!
Especially when they, officials from the Ministry of Industry, went to the field for investigation, it was even more difficult!
He is pretty good. After all, he is a traditional manager in the Ministry of Industry, not a technocrat. Therefore, although he also accompanied those survey officials and technicians to Anshan, and then went to Anshan again. Benxi.

But what he was doing was logistical work, not really running into the mountains to conduct surveys.

If so, running down this trip also tossed him half to death.

He is alright, but many colleagues in the survey department are even more miserable... There are not a few people with frostbite, and some are sick. After several field surveys, most of the surveyors have lost their human appearance.

Fortunately, the survey activities in the winter were only a preliminary survey. After the preliminary results were obtained, they stopped the field survey activities. The entire survey team temporarily returned to Liaoyang for the winter, and prepared to wait until the spring thawed, so it was not so cold Then go to conduct a more detailed mining survey, and start mineral surveys in other surrounding areas.

As a logistics support official of the Ministry of Industry, Kong Kaikang also went to Liaoyang City to spend the winter together.

It was just that he had just returned to Liaoyang, and before he had recovered, he received a transfer letter from his superiors. He was transferred to Benxi to serve as the co-organizer of the newly established Benxi Coal Mine Company.

Benxi Coal Mine Company, as you can tell from its name, is a company established by the Ministry of Industry of the Great Chu Empire to develop coal mines in the Benxi area.

At yesterday's meeting of senior officials dispatched by the Ministry of Industry to the Liaodong region, the head of the delegation sent by the Ministry of Industry, Mr. Deng Weiya, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, read out a series of imperial edicts urgently sent by Jinling.

The empire officially established the Liaoyang Industrial Base, and it is also a national industrial base. The Liaoyang Industrial Base is also different from other large industrial bases.

This so-called Liaoyang industrial base is not a single place, but a combination of multiple sub-bases.

Temporarily, it consists of four branches: Benxi Base, Liaoyang Base, Anshan Base, and Liaohekou Base, which are set according to the location of iron ore and coal mines and subsequent processing areas.

Or it can be understood that the Great Chu Empire established four national-level industrial zones in one place in Liaodong.

Now that a national-level industrial zone has been established and the policies are in place, the next step is naturally to invest in setting up factories.

The Liaodong Governor's Yamen has already laid a guarantee, and will fully cooperate with the Ministry of Industry to recruit workers from the Guanzhong area. At the same time, it will also provide local transportation and many supporting facilities in the industrial zone, mainly roads and ports.

As for the actual investment, this kind of thing naturally has to be done by the Ministry of Industry.

As for private investment, don't count on it for the time being... The investment in heavy industry is too large, and it can be tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver. The pressure on private capital is too great, and the Chu Empire does not have a mature financing system these days. category, which limits the large-scale investment of private capital.

Even if private capital invests in heavy industry, people also have many other choices. China is vast and rich in resources, and it is not only in the Northeast that there are many coal and iron mines. There are also many other places, and there are many.

Although most of them are small and medium-sized mine veins, and no one pays attention to them in later generations, these minerals still have huge value. If you invest in mining, you can also get a lot of profits.

Therefore, in the current empire, there are actually quite a few private capitals that have invested in various minerals, ironworks and the like, but the scale is generally small.

However, it does not affect others to make money!

Under such circumstances, the development of minerals in a bitterly cold place like the Northeast can basically only rely on official capital in the early stage.

For this reason, the Ministry of Industry plans to invest in the construction of 27 large and small factories/mines in Liaodong Province. Benxi Coal Mine Company belongs to one of them, and it is relatively large in scale and belongs to the first echelon.

So many companies naturally need managers. According to the management of the empire, the senior managers of the above-mentioned companies are also serving officials.

Ever since, Kong Kaikang, the director of the fifth rank in the Ministry of Industry, was transferred to Benxi Coal Mine Company to co-organize it, from the fourth rank.

This is not the first time that Kong Kaikang has been transferred to work in a government-run enterprise. In fact, like many senior officials of the Ministry of Industry, he grew up from a government-run enterprise. Before being transferred to the Ministry of Industry, he worked in Changsha Machinery Work as supervisor in the factory.

So he was prepared to be transferred to other places as a corporate executive, but... he was still somewhat uncomfortable about being transferred to Liaodong.

I was transferred from Jinling to work in a bitterly cold place outside the customs. If I were to change to a traditional dynasty, wouldn't I be exiled for three thousand miles...

Alas, so after yesterday's meeting, Kong Kaikang's heart was more complicated!
Originally, he thought that when he came to Liaodong with the group, he just came to work hard, get gold plated, and get some qualifications before he can return to Jinling City. It will be all right.

It's just that, I didn't expect to come to Liaodong. Before returning to Jinling City, I was directly appointed by a piece of paper to stay in Liaoyang.

No, it's not even Liaoyang City, but Benxi, to the northeast of Liaoyang City, where there is nothing to ask for... There is only a small village fort in that wretched place, not even a city!
When he thought that he was going to work in a small ravine, and expected to work for several years, he was in a bad mood.

It's not good even if one's grade changes from the fifth grade to the fourth grade!

Kong Kaikang, who was not in a good mood, came to the Yamen of Liaoyang Prefecture from the residence of the delegation of the Ministry of Industry in a carriage.

Although he has just been appointed as the co-organizer of Benxi Coal Mine Company, and Benxi Coal Mine Company only has one signboard for the time being... No, there is not even a signboard yet, only a piece of paper and official seal approved by the superior for the time being, and there are only a few personnel. There is no office space yet.

But what has to be done still needs to be done.

The higher-ups have already informed that the Ministry of Civil Affairs is currently selecting talents from all over the country to station in Liaodong, and it is expected that several officials will be transferred to Benxi Coal Mine Company as senior managers in the future.

According to the relevant rules and regulations of the Ministry of Industry of the Great Chu Empire, government-run enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry generally have a supervisor, a co-organizer, and a master manager. If it is a technology-based enterprise, there will also be a chief engineer.

Of course, the government-run enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry are almost all technical enterprises. Even the Dachu Salt Company and the Dachu Grain Company seem to have nothing to do with technology, but in fact they also set up the post of chief engineer. .

The production of salt industry is also a test of technology, such as the salt production process in coastal salt farms that the salt company is doing; the grain storage and grain processing industry that the grain company is doing, all of which require technical support.

Therefore, the enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry of the Great Chu Empire often have the post of chief engineer. Therefore, the government-run enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry of the Great Chu Empire basically have four people in their management.

These four are the highest-level managers of the company. They oversee and coordinate all affairs, assist in administrative management, will be in charge of finance, and the chief engineer is in charge of technology.

Further down, depending on the situation, senior positions such as factory directors and division chiefs will be set up, and these positions in large enterprises are often held by serving officials.

The government-run enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry do this, and some provincial government-run enterprises established by local provincial industry departments, or government-owned enterprises established by provincial-level industrial departments, basically follow the model of enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry.

It is worth noting that if these local organizations want to set up government-run enterprises, they cannot do it on their own. They need to submit to the Ministry of Industry for approval, and after obtaining the approval, they will be included in the unified management of the Ministry of Industry.

The management models of government-run enterprises at all levels are highly consistent.

Kong Kaikang, the co-organizer, is the person in charge of the administrative management of the Benxi Coal Mine Company, and several officials will serve under him in the future.

However, it is impossible to support a large coal mining company with just a dozen officials. Therefore, the Ministry of Industry also coordinated from government-run enterprises all over the country to transfer middle and low-level managers, technicians, and even ordinary workers. These people are all civilians, and they are paid to work, and the contracts are not signed with the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but with various enterprises.

Therefore, even if it is the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it is impossible to directly transfer ordinary people to work across enterprises through administrative orders... They are not officials, so it is not up to you!

If you want to mobilize them, you have to follow the folk rules, negotiate with them, and then replace the work contract.

It's just that this job is not easy. For most people, they will leave their hometowns and go to work in the bitter cold of Liaodong when their brains are twitching.

Therefore, the higher-ups didn't think about mobilizing this model to meet a large number of labor needs. At most, they just poached some technical backbones and middle and low-level managers, and they had to pay enough money.

As for ordinary labor, such as a large number of miners, then you can only think of other methods, such as recruiting on the spot, or going to other places to recruit.

Kong Kaikang went to the Yamen of Liaoyang Prefecture to discuss the recruitment of local laborers...

However, the result of the discussion made Kong Kaikang very disappointed... It's not that the magistrate Yamen didn't cooperate, he was already very cooperative.

The key is that there are not many people in Liaoyang Mansion...

And for Liaoyang Prefecture, agriculture is the most important thing in a short period of time. Factories and making money are not as important as having enough food.

Nowadays, the official grain transported by the Great Chu Empire to Liaodong is extremely expensive, but in order to avoid the high grain price from affecting people's livelihood, these grains have to be sold at a par price...so, every catty of grain transported over is sold at a loss , the more you sell, the more you lose.

The Dachu Grain Corporation has already stated that it is their responsibility to raise grain to Liaodong for the expansion of the empire. Even if the loss is huge, they will grit their teeth and hold on.

However, it is impossible to go on like this forever.

After the local grain harvest in Liaodong next year, the Grain Corporation will greatly reduce the grain imports to Liaodong!

Even if the Great Chu Empire Grain Corporation has a big business, it is impossible for it to lose money in Liaodong for a long time.

Therefore, to solve the food problem on the spot, especially to solve the ration needs of ordinary people, this is the top priority for the government offices at all levels in Liaodong. As for the development of industry and commerce, it has to rely on the back...

Secondly, it is to grow more food to support military supplies.

Although the military and government are separated, the military also has its own military food transportation channels. At the same time, the Third Army and the Liaodong Garrison Command have also launched operations to cultivate and raise food locally.

But, the Liaodong region can't really ignore the life and death of the military...

Moreover, it had already been finalized in the Imperial Counselor Meeting. Liaodong was to be used as a logistics base for the Northeast expansion, and it was their unshirkable responsibility to meet military supplies and food.

Therefore, the most urgent task in Liaodong now is farming...

However, the local population in Liaodong is not large, less than 100 million people, and most of the population is farming, so the number of people who can be freed to engage in industry and commerce is naturally very small.

At the same time, the Ministry of Industry has set up a relatively large shop in the Liaodong area, setting up more than 20 factories/mines in one go. According to the production capacity planning, at least 20 people are needed.

And most of these 20 people have to be young and strong laborers.

After all, ordinary people cannot do things like mining and iron making.

There is not so much labor force in Liaodong. Although Kong Kaikang was a little disappointed after being shut down in the local yamen, he would not give up easily. He turned around and went to the Liaodong garrison headquarters.

Why go to the garrison headquarters... because they have a lot of prisoners of war in their hands!

In the process of the Great Chu Empire's capture of Liaodong, it obtained a large number of prisoners of war from the East, and the Chu army also managed these prisoners of war differently.

All the generals and officers of the Eastern captives were selected. Among these people, some of the more stubborn or special people should be killed and buried. For example, the traitors who actively worked for the Eastern captives were mainly Han Baqi Of those generals, one counted as one and all of them were slaughtered.

Traitors are always more hateful than enemies, especially national traitors!
The remaining prisoners of war officers were collectively detained in special prisoner-of-war camps for heavy physical labor.

Except for officers, other ordinary prisoners of war were treated better. Basically, they were assigned to work in prisoner-of-war camps, mainly for reclamation.

In order to have enough food, the soldiers of the Third Group Army had to temporarily put down their knives and guns and pick up hoes to start reclamation. Naturally, these prisoners of war could not live in style in their cells. They all had to work and build prisoner-of-war camps for themselves. In addition to farming to support himself, he also supported more soldiers of the Chu army.

And these prisoners of war, according to the rules, belong to the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Defense Command. The Third Army is a field force. They just capture the enemy and get the battle merit. As for how to manage the follow-up prisoners, it has nothing to do with them. thing.

Today, Kong Kaikang has taken a fancy to the 10,000+ prisoners of war in the Hebei Garrison Command.

These are all high-quality young and strong laborers, and they are perfect for mining. The most important thing is that they don't need to be paid... They are used by the military to cultivate and farm. To be honest, they are wasted.

However, as soon as Kong Kaikang spoke about it, he was driven away by the people from the Liaodong Garrison Command...

A lieutenant colonel in the army who chased them away also cursed: "Fuck you, it's a beautiful idea. Take our prisoners of war away without compensation. Next year, you will plant 20 rations for us?"

Hearing this, Kong Kaikang's face turned green... Nima I kindly offered to help you solve the ration problem of 1 prisoners of war, and your military even asked our company for a large amount of food compensation... How can there be such a thing in the world? reason.

But the military has a very tough attitude. Prisoners of war are to be used to farm and grow food. If you want prisoners of war to mine, you can also give us the food...

As long as you transport the food, all the prisoners on hand can go to mine, but there is no food... Get out.

Kong Kaikang stepped forward and cursed in his heart: "Does our company look so taken advantage of?" ';'Low martial artist, unreasonable'

Prisoners of war are provided with food and housing, and a large amount of food has to be given to the military as compensation. When the price of food in Liaodong is not normal and the local food production is not enough, the military needs a large amount of food compensation, which is more costly than recruiting miners in the pass. Much more expensive.

After leaving the gate of the Liaodong Defense Command, Kong Kaikang looked at the gloomy sky with snowflakes fluttering, and after spitting on the ground, he looked back at the gate of the Garrison Command and said, "There's something fucking wrong with it." !"

"Even this god has something wrong with it, and it's fucking snowing, it's snowing every day, it's endless!"

(End of this chapter)