Daming 1805

Chapter 438 Time-Space Difference
Zhu Jingyuan's plan has been tested in Edo, and some relatively real data have been formed.

With the gradual spread of the second industrial revolution and the continuous development of Ming's economy, the middle class of Ming is rapidly expanding.

The groups that originally relied on renting houses to live have turned to buying their own houses on a large scale in recent years.

Against this background, the housing-related market in Edo continued to be sluggish.

At the same time, government-run manufacturers in various parts of Ming Dynasty are opening and expanding on a large scale, and many relevant personnel have already seen the huge potential contained in the housing market.

Therefore, government officials and heads of government-run manufacturers in other regions do not want to implement ticket and purchase restriction policies in their own jurisdictions.

This affects their test scores and performance.

However, Zhu Jingyuan presided over the pilot policy, and his status in the hearts of Emperor Ming and himself was also a big problem.

If it's just a pure test, then officials in other regions and government-run factory operators can temporarily ignore these things.

If the corresponding policies are not implemented in your location, then you can spend more time on real estate and other industries.

But if these policies were the real intentions of Emperor Ming and Zhu Jingyuan, and were policies that Ming would generally implement in the future, then the situation would be completely different.

Even if similar policies have not yet been piloted in other regions, officials in other regions dare not deliberately make choices that deviate from these policies.

Don't dare to stick to the time before the policy is implemented and deliberately make a lot of money in these industries.

That might be in the minds of Emperor Ming and Prince Dashi.

The laws of Ming Dynasty and the system of evaluation and promotion of officials are already very perfect in this world.

But the authority of the Ming emperor is still unprecedented.

The Ming Dynasty still does not have a constitution in the sense of future generations, and the power of the emperor still has no clear boundaries.

If the Emperor Ming discovered that officials in certain places deliberately opposed him, then the key officials in these places might have no future in their official careers.

Therefore, the problems of Liu Haidong and other Shaanxi government officials are not only their own problems, but also a common problem of a large number of local officials. They all want to know Zhu Jingyuan's attitude.

The final result surprised them very much.

This is not only the meaning of the emperor, but also the meaning of Zhu Jingyuan, which is recognized by both Emperor Ming and Prince Dashi.

And the attitude is very firm.

So in the next few years, ten years, or even decades, there is no need to think about this aspect.

Headed by Liu Haidong, officials from various yamen in Shaanxi, after Zhu Jingyuan finished his warning, bowed and agreed with very complicated emotions.

With the answer to this question, today's meeting is finally over.

The officials headed by Liu Haidong resigned, and Zhu Jingyuan began to look at the data and files of various yamen in Shaanxi in the past few years, as he did when he first arrived in Lion City and Edo, to understand the general situation of the local area.

After reading the local data, Zhu Jingyuan was a little surprised.

Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously thought that after the start of the second industrial revolution and the power system shifted to internal combustion engines and electricity, the original industrial cities based on coal fuel and steam machinery might decline rapidly in the process.

However, the local industrial and commercial development in Shaanxi is not only good, but the growth momentum is as strong as other regions.

But Zhu Jingyuan soon realized that he was misled by memory again.

I just remember that many important early industrial cities in my previous life had old industrial areas that were in a difficult situation.

There are also very famous "rust belts" in Europe and the United States, and there is Detroit, which has changed from "city of cars" to "capital of crime".

The memory of the previous life is subconsciously matched with the replacement of the two industrial revolutions in this world.

But the third industrial revolution is called the technological revolution.

The first two industrial revolutions were still industrial revolutions. In a sense, they were only different in scale.

The pillar industries in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places in Ming Dynasty include coal resources, steam machinery, and iron and steel industry.

These three categories of industries were indeed formed in the era of the first industrial revolution, but in the era of the second industrial revolution, they were not completely "outdated".

There is no traditional industrial area left to be important but impoverished as it was in the days of the technological revolution.

These industries are ushering in a new round of growth in the era of the second industrial revolution.

Although the power systems of military and civilian ships are rapidly turning to fuel power, the amount of coal consumed in ship power systems does not account for the majority in the entire industry.

During the transition from coal to oil for warships, Zhu Jingyuan made a special suggestion at the central court of the Ming Dynasty to transfer the corresponding industries and personnel to coal-fired power stations as much as possible.

Electricity and internal combustion engines are the "two legs" of the second industrial revolution, and coal-fired power stations are the most reasonable and convenient power supply solution for the northern regions of the Ming Dynasty.

After the second industrial revolution, the scale of factories expanded rapidly, the household appliance industry grew rapidly, and the demand for electricity in industries and households expanded rapidly.

Much of this demand will translate into demand for coal.

So the demand for coal in the era of the second industrial revolution is higher than that in the era of the first industrial revolution.

Although the fuel of the new battleship has been replaced with fuel oil, the way of energy conversion still relies on steam, but it is changed from a piston steam engine to a steam turbine.

Although the correlation between these two technologies is not very high, but with the industrial foundation for research and development and production of steam engines, research and production of steam turbines are still one step ahead of laymen.

The new coal-fired power station will also use steam turbines on a large scale.

Finally, the demand for steel in the new round of industrial revolution has skyrocketed, and the demand for coal in the steel industry has also expanded simultaneously.

Therefore, the resource cities and traditional heavy industry cities in the inland Ming Dynasty are not in a bad state at present.

The plight of "rust belts" and "old industrial areas" around the world in later generations all appeared in traditional heavy industrial areas after the technological revolution, and more of them were caused by de-industrialization that turned from reality to fiction.

The sunset industries of later generations are still emerging sunrise industries in this era.

However, in inland areas including Shaanxi, there are also obvious problems.

That's what I found out on the road.

That is to say, a few important cities such as Xi'an and Lanzhou, and some of their own industries. In other places, if there are mines, everything will be fine, and if there are no mines, nothing will work.

The cultivation of land in the Guanzhong area is not as good as that in North China and the Jianghuai area.

In addition, the land has been completely merged, and after the large farms have begun to turn to mechanization, there are no people in the countryside.

Neither the elderly nor children.

There are no plains and no mines, and now there is really nothing.

The financial data gap between different prefectures and counties has even appeared an order of magnitude gap.

After all, some places have neither minerals nor basic industries, and there is basically no agricultural tax, and the population continues to flow out.

The situation in these places, as well as the gap between different places, really made Zhu Jingyuan feel shocking.

Zhu Jingyuan even thought of the Great Food Kingdom before the discovery of oil.

"These places... how should they develop? Or how should they save...

"How to deal with the issue of regional development balance..."

Zhu Jingyuan was sitting in the office, flipping through the data and slowly becoming dazed.

"Has the imperial court never cared about these issues?

"When grandpa was the emperor, and the father who is the emperor now, it's impossible for them not to know these things?"

Zhu Jingyuan thought for a long time by himself, and finally decided to call and ask.

In the past few years, Daming's telephone system has also taken shape rapidly.

The important cities in the mainland provinces of Ming Dynasty have already assumed public and commercial telephone lines.

Zhu Jingyuan's identity is of course qualified to use it directly, and he can also directly enter the Forbidden City.

Zhu Jingyuan picked up the phone, told the operator his identity, and asked directly to find his father's office.

Without any hesitation on the other side, he immediately tried to answer the phone.

After the call was connected, Zhu Jingyuan casually said hello, and then told about the problem he found.

Finally, I asked my father if he knew about these situations and if he had any corresponding plans.

The other side was silent for several seconds, and when Zhu Jingyuan was about to ask, he heard his father's voice.

Ming Emperor Zhu Jianyan asked Zhu Jingyuan with obvious doubts:

"Jing Yuan...why do you have such doubts?

"The current policy of the Ming court on regional balance should coincide with your choice in the Great Food Kingdom, right?

"The current Ming Dynasty is not what it was before Chongzhen, we don't really need to pay too much attention to regional balance, it should be said that we don't need to forcibly maintain regional balance.

"The land currently controlled by Daming is vast enough, and many places with superior natural conditions have not yet been developed.

"There is no need to spend too much energy on places where the land is barren and the environment is harsh, and they are not key strategic locations, and there is no need to forcibly retain the original population in those places.

"We should allow locals to move to better places to live...

"Isn't that what you did in the Great Food Country? Put the population in a place suitable for survival and development..."

Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realized before he finished listening, and then he felt a sense of space-time confusion again.

Once again, I realized that I was once again affected by the memory of the past life.

He himself refuses to immigrate to the mainland of the Great Food Country, and refuses to engage in agricultural and industrial construction in the mainland of the Great Food Country.

Because the local environment of Dashi Country is too bad, most of the areas are not suitable for human survival.

Therefore, I positioned the mainland of Dashi Country as the supply place of oil resources.

The industrial industries and native immigrants from the Great Food Country were put as far as possible in the eastern part of Mozhou, where the natural environment is better.

I did this in the Great Food Country because I didn't have deep feelings for the Great Food Country, and I didn't regard it as my "home country" psychologically, so I just left the bad land and put it to good use.

Now that he is in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, facing the inland areas of Ming Dynasty, he instinctively regards them as his home country.

Under the influence of past life memories, I instinctively want to take care of and develop backward areas.

Instinctively want to make the various regions of the entire country as balanced as possible.

However, as soon as his father opened his mouth, he quickly realized that the conditions in the home countries of the two worlds were completely different.

The area is ten times larger, but the population is less than half. The key is a large amount of undeveloped land.

Like the mother country in the previous life, if we try to develop remote, backward and difficult areas, in the eyes of Daming in this world, it is like leaving a large piece of good land and not planting it, but insisting on developing terraced fields on the mountains or reclaiming land from the sea.

However, the home country in the previous life did not have a large piece of good land to grow, so I had to find a way to plant food in every corner of the whole family.

In the current Daming, even a large piece of good land is still barren, so there is no need to toss around every corner.

As for the imbalance in regional development...

Wang Ya said at the time, how could such a big country be balanced.

And more importantly, good places are not filled with people, so why fill people in bad places?
Dragging the population to a place that is not suitable for development and forcing construction is a waste of Ming's manpower and material resources.

As for a certain county or a certain prefecture, there is almost no one left, so if there is no one, there will be no one...

If there are only a small number of people left in poor places, the standard of living may actually improve.

So after Zhu Jianyan finished speaking, Zhu Jingyuan was also silent.

Then Zhu Jianyan "understood" on his own:

"You probably haven't turned your head around, you should understand when you think about it yourself.

"However, this kind of thinking problem just shows that the local provinces of Daming are far more important in your mind than those of the Great Food Kingdom. I am very happy..."

Zhu Jingyuan finally came to his senses:
"Father, I really didn't react right away.

"But the problem now is that if I don't consider the regional balance, I don't seem to have much to do here in Shaanxi.

"The vast majority of the population here are pure Ming people, and the qualification certificates are basically issued directly.

"The construction of government-run manufacturers here is not a big problem, and the local industrial development is relatively smooth.

"At most, the ticket system and basic industry purchase restriction system that were experimented in Edo will be implemented...

"My main task is the areas that should be supervised, the provinces further west and north, and several vassal states in the northwest."

After hearing this, Zhu Jianyan responded directly:

"Indeed, that is your main task. I was going to arrange for you to go to Ili directly, and let you participate in politics in the Western Regions.

"But your mother is reluctant to part with you, and my father and I are also worried about your safety, so we changed you to Xi'an.

"However, you can directly recruit the heads of those provinces and the monarchs of those vassal states.

"You can ask them to arrange someone to stay by your side to convey your order and the local situation."

Zhu Jingyuan thought for a while:

"If there is no accident, they should take the initiative to come to see me, right?"

Zhu Jianyan also casually said:
"That's right, then just watch and deal with it."

Zhu Jingyuan chatted with his father for a while, discussing some strategies in the affairs of the northwestern provinces and feudal states.

After hanging up the phone, Zhu Jing continued to browse the local information.

I began to consider another strategy. For some places that have neither resources nor key transportation and strategic nodes, simply remove the local people and return the local land to wild animals.

Zhu Jingyuan's prediction was not wrong. On the next morning, Niu Jian, an aide in charge of Zhu Jingyuan's general affairs, sent Zhu Jingyuan a message that the king of the vassal state asked to see him.

Luo Yashan, Duke of Xianbei, wishes to visit Zhu Jingyuan in Xi'an.

Luo Yashan himself is still in Xianbei City, including them, the vassal monarchs and the provincial magistrates of Daming, and they cannot leave their posts without the permission of their superiors.

So you have to write a report application first, and you can come here only after you get permission.

Luo Yashan is the most special situation among all the vassal states of Ming Dynasty.

Luo Yashan's surname is Romanov, and he is the half-brother of Emperor Nicholas of Lucia.

At the same time, his daughter Luo Feiya is also one of Zhu Jingyuan's concubines and life secretaries of King Dashi.

The Xianbei Principality was forcibly separated from the peace treaty that ended the World War.

It is not the original countries like Kazakhstan, Khiva, and Persia.

Luo Yashan's attitude towards Daming is the most sensitive.

In addition, I definitely want to see my daughter, so I am the most active in coming.

Zhu Jingyuan also greeted directly without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)