Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2114 Preparations ([-])

"Director, look, this is the preliminary future planning and design." On November 1690, 11, outside the city of Cordoba in La Plata, a young official of the Railway Administration was introducing Chen Jia.

Frowning, Chen Jia took the design book, flipped through it casually, and handed it over to the railway official within 5 minutes. He sighed softly and said, "The wool transportation railway is under construction in full swing, so where is the energy to do it?" Others? The No. [-] to No. [-] Bureaus of Communications Construction are busy working on two railway lines (the wool transportation line is composed of two railways, and finally meet at Yancheng Port), and the newly established No. [-] and No. [-] Bureaus also plan to send some personnel there. China Railway (Central Railway Company) Bureau [-] and Bureau [-] have also invested huge manpower and material resources on the extension and branch lines of the Forest Railway and the Great Northern Railway. This takes up so much construction labor. What about the railway across the Pampa Plains?"

No one can answer Chen Jia's complaints.The wool transportation special line railway is indeed a national key project in the past two years. The Ministry of Communications, the General Administration of Railways and the local government of the Southern Cone have invested a lot of manpower in the construction.Especially the counties in the southern cone where the railway passes know that this is related to the future of local development, so they have devoted great efforts to the construction.They not only squeezed out their own funds to hire non-national laborers, but also exercised the right to collect corvee in the county, using up all the days, and even extended the number of days of service, trying their best to catch up with the work and ensure the progress of the railway construction.You must know that after the completion of the wool transportation line, not only their wool can be sold for money, but also sheepskin, mutton, suet, fruits and other commodities can be sold for money, and external commodities, personnel, equipment and technology can also be sold at a lower cost. The benefits of coming in are self-evident, so everyone is working hard and working hard, taking this railway as the most important job.

Now, if the railway from Yancheng Port to Cordoba is to be launched at the same time, people will inevitably be drawn from the construction site of the wool transportation line, which will greatly affect its construction progress.Speaking of which, the country has been planning this railway many years ago, and has done a lot of work. During this period, it started and stopped for various reasons. In fact, it has failed the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people along the way.Now that their enthusiasm has been fully mobilized, if you suddenly say that you want to slow down and move part of the construction team and equipment to other places, isn't it a joke?

What is really feasible is to delay this railway for a few years, and wait until the wool transportation line in the south is completed and opened to traffic and obtain stable income. This income not only refers to the railway freight income, but also refers to the economic development along the railway. ——Let’s discuss this traffic artery leading to the future capital again.The government’s finances are already very tight. A while ago, it sold some state-owned enterprise shares to raise funds for the purchase of land for the Kingdom of Spain. In the future, there will be a large number of maturing bonds to be repaid. Is it urgent to start this railway now? point?

Chen Jia has already made up his mind. As the deputy director general of the General Administration of Railways and the president of the American Railway Company, he plans to put forward his opinions at the executive meeting next month.After all, the difficulties are real. Anyone with a discerning eye knows it. I believe there are many people in the bureau who are against it. What everyone has to do is to unite and make this planning document just a planning document.It doesn't cost much to do the preliminary survey, so just keep on surveying!

And when Chen Jia, president of the American Railway Company, was helpless for the new railway, Sun Dapeng, director of Dapeng Architectural Design Institute, was staring at a series of blueprints in a daze in a beautiful western-style villa in the city of Cordoba.

Some of these drawings were collected by people from their design institutes, some were handed over by people from the military, and some were bought from Spaniards. They are basically about various buildings in the city of Córdoba. information for their review and reference.

Yes, that's right, Dapeng Design Firm, which once designed many domestic landmark buildings on the east coast, has contracted another super-big project this time, which is to assist the executive committee to organize the establishment of the New Capital Development Leading Group. The new capital is well planned.Of course, this is not to say that Dapeng's office should be responsible for such a big stall in the new capital. That's unrealistic, and they don't have such strength.In fact, the new capital development leading group is personally headed by the Prime Minister of the Government Affairs Council, which can mobilize the energy of various central ministries and commissions. Dapeng Design Office only undertakes the design and planning of some buildings and blocks.

"According to the data jointly provided by the departments of civil affairs, construction, transportation, industry and commerce, and taxation, as well as the "East Coast Statistical Yearbook" published by the Bureau of Statistics, we probably already have a figure for the urbanization process in the eastern coastal areas over the years. Of course This is not enough. The planning of the capital in the future must have a forward-looking vision and cannot be limited to the present. We must believe that the development of the country is leaps and bounds beyond our imagination, so we must be bolder when planning, and be bolder. Have a forward-looking vision and enough design redundancy, and don’t let it go like a woman with small feet.” After putting down the milk tea in his hand, Sun Dapeng, wearing a pair of glasses, looked into the room where he was drinking afternoon tea All the subordinates said seriously.

In fact, there are currently two different definitions of the city concept on the east coast: one is to define the city from a legal perspective, which is considered to be a community formed by settlements with certain urban privileges or powers, such as urban residents do not have to pay land taxes, do not have to bear corvee, etc. Etc., people with some rural hukou cannot enjoy special rights; Another concept of city is a concept from a statistical perspective, which considers administrative regions or communities with a population of more than 1.It can be seen from this that a city in the legal sense focuses on the characteristics of citizens, while a city in the statistical sense tends to focus on population size. This will lead to urban planning, of course, starting from the city in the statistical sense.

The cities of the East Coast Republic of China are officially divided into seven types, namely: commercial and service cities, administrative and military fortress cities, university and leisure cities, mining and heavy industry cities, textile cities, other manufacturing cities, There are seven types of comprehensive cities.To be honest, this division is somewhat idealistic and nerdy, because many cities on the east coast today have more than one of the characteristics of the above seven categories.

Taking the capital Dongfang County as an example, the city should be classified into the second category, that is, administrative and military fortress cities, but there are also many manufacturing industries in the city, such as the Dayuhe Textile Factory that has been moved, and the Dayuhe Navy Shipbuilding factories, etc., and there are still enterprises such as Henan Glass Factory and Scientific Instrument Factory. The foundation of the manufacturing industry is still quite strong.

Or some people will say that this is a problem left over from history. The early founders landed here and built the first batch of construction here, so there are many industrial facilities here.However, with the development of the economy and society, the city will return to its true nature (that is, the administrative city), factories will gradually move out, and finally only government departments and corporate headquarters will be left, which will become the first purely official definition. Tier [-] cities.

Of course, things have changed a little now, that is, people from the east bank are going to move their capital.The name of the future capital has not yet been determined, but the location has been determined, which is Cordoba, which is located at the main traffic node leading to La Plata from Chile, Upper Peru and other places.Regarding the positioning of Córdoba in the future, the government only wants to regard it as a second-class city of administrative and military fortresses. That's all.Basically, there will be no large-scale manufacturing industry in the whole city. There are some moderate-scale food processing industries and transportation-related enterprises in the suburbs outside the city to control the population size of the city.

As for the manufacturing center of La Plata, it is basically in the lower reaches of the Parana River, namely Buenos Aires, Rosario, Santa Fe and other cities.These cities have convenient transportation, a suitable climate, and no shortage of water. The surrounding areas are basically fertile plains, and there will definitely be a large population in the future. These are essential elements for industrial development.Among these cities, Buenos Aires has the best location conditions and the most advantages. In the future, it may attract many industries including food processing, shipbuilding, equipment manufacturing, and iron and steel metallurgy.Especially the Hyundai Special Ship Factory located in Hekou Township, Zhenhai County in the north. The factory is located on the Lianghu Canal in Hekou Township. In recent years, as the tonnage of the ships built has increased and the draft has become deeper and deeper, I deeply feel that the location of the factory area has many advantages. Unwell, began to brew outward relocation.And their preferred relocation destination is actually Buenos Aires at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.The Zhenhai County government naturally obstructed this, not wanting to lose tax sources and jobs in vain, but the senior management of Hyundai Factory has made up their minds, and is currently formulating a relocation plan step by step.When the government officially takes over the entire La Plata, they can start the relocation work.

It can be seen from this that the eastern coastal area, which developed earlier on the east coast, has now begun to slowly transform.Among them, there are both active ones and passive transformation after the completion of primitive accumulation in late-developing areas. In the front, there is the relocation of Dayuhe Textile Factory and Dayuhe Naval Shipyard, and in the back there is the relocation of modern special shipyards.Needless to say, the loss of these industrial enterprises is what every local government is trying to avoid.The existence of these large enterprises and a series of supporting factories means tax revenue and jobs, and it is indeed difficult to make up for the loss.

According to the data analysis of the East Coast Bureau of Statistics for many years, between 1660 and 1690, some emerging textile cities in the southern cone had the fastest population growth rate. Although their population growth rate has slowed down in the last ten years, The overall growth rate still ranks first.The population growth rate of mining and heavy industry cities and other manufacturing cities is also relatively fast, far exceeding the average population growth rate of cities across the country. The population growth rate of commercial and service industry cities is similar to the national average rate, while administrative and military The population growth rate of universities and leisure cities (several Corps Forts, resort cities in Tierra del Fuego, etc.) is lower than the average population growth rate of cities across the country.

Of course, with the deepening of the economic development of the east coast, the trend of heavy industrialization has gradually become obvious. The textile industry is no longer the leading industry of the east coast industry, and the proportion of employed people it absorbs has gradually decreased.In contrast, the number of employees in heavy industry is increasing day by day, and it has gradually become the leading industry on the east coast.Compared with light industries such as textiles, heavy industries have the characteristics of long industrial chains, lower transportation costs, and greater economies of scale.And its characteristics determine its great driving effect on the upstream and downstream industries.Take the Tieling Heavy Industry Consortium in Tieling County as an example. This heavy industry enterprise provides materials including steel bars, steel ingots, various alloys and hot-rolled steel plates for the local machinery processing industry, and provides power systems such as steam boilers for all enterprises. etc.At the same time, the enterprise consumes a lot, generating huge demand for related industries including coal, iron ore, grain, and leather.These two reasons work together, and it is not surprising that the ability of heavy industry cities to gather population has been greatly enhanced.

"The new capital will undoubtedly be a purely administrative city. We have no precedent for how such a city should be designed, but one thing you need to grasp is that administrative cities are the same as commercial or leisure cities, and the proportion of women in the labor force exceeds The national average, the number of taxpayers per 10 employees is lower than the national average, the average tax payment of taxpayers is higher than the national average, and the proportion of every 20 households employing maids (mainly from Italy) is higher than the national average Average level. Therefore, I think that in such a city, more shopping malls, more hospitals, more restaurants, and more entertainment venues should be designed in the future to better meet the consumption needs of the main residents of the city.” Sun Dapeng said: "Of course there is no need to increase the number of schools, because the birth rate of commercial, academic or administrative cities is lower than the national average, especially compared with those heavy industrial cities, the birth rate of commercial, leisure or administrative cities is [-]% lower. -[-]%, which cannot be ignored."

Everyone in the room nodded after hearing the words, expressing their understanding.Commercial and service industries, universities and leisure, administrative and military strongholds have a low birth rate, so there is no need to set up more schools, but with a large floating population, more entertainment, restaurants, shopping malls and other facilities can be set up, all of which are determined by the characteristics of the city Yes, this cannot be ignored when designing.You know, the New Capital Development Leading Group has already discussed with them before, which roughly means that the leaders are very tired of the capital of Dongfang County, which is actually a comprehensive city. End-industrial workers poured into the city and hated the congestion of urban roads. Therefore, they repeatedly requested that these problems be taken into account in the planning and design stage of the new capital, so as to avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future.

To be honest, Sun Dapeng felt that the ideas of the leaders were too idealistic.He thinks that despite the well-designed functions of the capital, it is hard to say what the future will look like. It may change drastically. In the end, it will still be a comprehensive city, and the population size will also increase. This is very important. things that could happen.But this is all for the future, and has little to do with him. All he has to do now is to get the part he is responsible for under the command of the new capital leadership team, and that is enough.

(End of this chapter)