Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2363 Float Parade ([-])

4 Float Parade ([-])

On January 1699, 1, a latest "American Star" locomotive pulled a full 15 carriages to a village on the bank of the Wujiang River.

8节车厢中2节是警卫人员车厢，1节随行官员及记者专用车厢、1节卧室兼书房、1节会议室、1节餐车、1节储藏室、1节煤水车。从构成就可以看出，这不是寻常的旅客或货运列车，而是领导人专列！

The places where the special train stops are not prosperous at all, not even the stations.There is only one maintenance point nearby, and there is a branch road for trains to come in, so as not to block the roads of other trains.

The maintenance site is surrounded by farmers, and there is a small village 500 meters away, which is a remote village below Xing'an Town, Xingguo County, with about a hundred families.Because of the proximity to the Wujiang River, villagers often fish in their spare time, so fishing nets are hung in front of every household.But fishing in the upper reaches of the Wujiang River is not an easy task. Because of the turbulent water flow and the large drop, when you are sailing on the river in a small boat, danger exists all the time. You must be very experienced Talent can survive on the river.

At this time, Shao Yaoguang thought of the construction of the railway bridge not far ahead, a railway bridge that cost more than 30 yuan to build, an engineering miracle that condensed technology and sweat.

"It's not easy!" he sighed.Without qualified railway bridge technology, it would be impossible for the Great Northern Railway to extend to the north of the Brazilian plateau, to connect various regions more closely, and to allow more people in the hinterland to enjoy the convenience of modern life.Therefore, technological progress is the most important thing for a modern country. It can enhance national pride, improve people's living standards, improve the unity of various ethnic groups in the country, and balance the development differences between regions.

Think about ancient times, if there is no such weapon as the Great Northern Railway, the authority of the central government will be easily blocked by mountains and rivers, and gradually weakened until it disappears in remote areas. Do what you do, as the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away.

There are several stone tables and chairs standing on the river bank under the railway bridge.Shao Yaoguang strolled over, and the secretary walked forward quickly, wiped the table and chairs with a towel, and then signaled a staff member to boil water and make tea.

Shao Yaoguang sat down with several accompanying scholars.Everyone looked at the roaring river and breathed the air mixed with the fragrance of wild flowers, and felt refreshed for a while.

"Little Qian, how do you think the development of our country's cultural and educational undertakings is?" After the tea was served, everyone tasted it for a while before hearing Shao Yaoguang ask.

Qian Qing is a standard insider in the cultural circle on the east coast.He came from a good family background and had good literary attainments. He had run magazines and published books. Although he wasn't the kind of big hit in the circle, he was pretty good.As for now, he has transformed into a consultant and scholar. He spends half of the year as a consultant, giving lectures, and meeting people, and the other half of the time is traveling abroad, or writing and painting at home, and playing music. This life is not good. too chic.

This time, Shao Yaoguang also invited Qian Qing to accompany him on the railway float parade before he left office.Thinking that there was nothing wrong with him, Qian Qing happily agreed, and planned to take a public trip by train.Before, Qian Qing felt very bored because he wandered around the industrial area a lot. He once stayed in the car to write manuscripts, and even put off a lot of social gatherings.After arriving at the majestic upper reaches of the Wujiang River today, he finally felt that the trip was worthwhile and felt very happy after seeing the beautiful scenery of the sky, the sky and the land, and the river and the sky.

This time I heard Shao Yaoguang asking himself, Qian Qing thought for a while, and then said: "Leader, since you asked, I'll talk about it. I don't like to say nice things, and I don't like to flatter. Leader, you may not want to hear this, so I will talk about the shortcomings based on my personal feelings. There will definitely be omissions, because this is just my personal feeling, everyone is welcome to add."

"The first thing to talk about is the library." Qian Qing said: "The capital library in Dongfang County currently has the largest collection of books in our country. It has more than 120 million volumes and covers everything, including science and technology, as well as geography and folklore. etc., and so on. But the problem is that at least a quarter of the books are not on loan, especially those out-of-print and out-of-print books from mainland China, as well as Latin literature from continental Europe. , you should hurry up and get some copies. I recently needed to check some Chinese county annals for writing an article, but I had to go to the library every day to check them. The number of people is seriously insufficient, seriously restricting the people's right to obtain information."

In fact, what Qian Qing said was correct.The current local governments on the east coast invest in infrastructure construction almost as soon as they have money, such as roads, docks, canals, reservoirs, etc., or invest in industrial construction, education, teachers, medical and health, etc. They seem to invest very little beyond making the rules.

Take the library as an example. There are nearly 30 counties in the country, but only [-] have county libraries. Most of the counties do not have libraries. How to talk about enriching the cultural life of the people.In addition, people from the east coast have collected all kinds of books from all over the world for decades, including Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Persian, and European. Anyway, valuable and collectable books have been obtained through various means. , some of which are even orphans.But it is a pity that the translation, copying, and photocopying of these books are progressing so slowly that most of the books are still lying in the capital library, which cannot be saved at all, which is a pity.

"Second, it's about newspapers and magazines." Qian Qing continued: "To be honest, I don't know much about the current policy. For example, the Horse Carriage Transport Association wants to launch a "Cargo Transport Monthly", and it has applied for a semi-annual issue. It was not approved. I don’t know what the motives of the reviewers of the Ministry of Culture are. Someone wrote a lot of things about the former shareholders of the East Coast Company in the "Economic Intelligence" magazine, which caused a bad influence, but after thinking about it, it is actually not a big deal. Please, the government should be a little more confident. In fact, you have done a very good job That’s right, it has gained a lot of benefits for the people, and everyone generally supports it, so why make it look like this?”

It is said that there are so many domestic newspapers and magazines on the east coast that the people in the Ministry of Culture feel panicked, feel that they cannot be supervised, and want to control them properly.These newspapers and magazines are both official and private, and most of them are the latter.From the perspective of classification, the economic field is the most popular. For example, the "Economic Information" and "Industrial Statistics" that have suffered bad luck before are all outstanding.

In addition to the economic field, there are "East Coast Review", "Minsheng", and "Xintiandi" in the political field, which are the top three.In the field of industry and mining, the top rankings are "Gazette of the Civil Engineering and Construction Association", "Invention", "East Bank of Miners", in the field of transportation are "Yuejin", "Locomotive", "Transportation Information", and in agriculture, there is "Xing Agriculture, Diseases and Insects Times, Horticultural Agriculture Journal, Science Research Report of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Engineering Academy Report, Medicine East Coast, Oriental Medical Journal, New World Pharmaceutical Journal ", and the best sellers in the financial field are "Financial and Economic Statistics", "Expo Street Insights" and so on.

The above-mentioned magazines are the best-selling magazines in each subdivision. They are generally monthly, and quarterly and annual magazines are rare.The popularity of these magazines shows that the consumption taste of the people on the east coast has been greatly improved, and they have begun to pay attention to these cultural consumer goods. This is a sign of the growing stability and growth of the middle class group.Food, clothing, housing and transportation are no longer a problem for them. They begin to pursue spiritual enjoyment more. Listening to music, watching dramas, buying magazines, and traveling around have become their first choice. Therefore, the book and magazine market is becoming more and more prosperous. So incomprehensible.

However, the Ministry of Culture on the East Coast has limited manpower, is insufficiently prepared for the explosive growth of the cultural market, and has serious fear of supervision.One is that people who are not afraid of death will speak out on it and criticize the members of the Founders Parliament. The other is that they are afraid that the content will be leaked. Some information books are of high value, and the scope of distribution must be limited. In the past, they could supervise one or two, but now there are many books and periodicals Well, how can I manage them one by one.Therefore, they are very cautious, procrastinated, and very reluctant to issue new issues, so that there are many illegally published underground publications in the East Coast, which makes people very speechless.

"Third, state-level financial subsidies will be given to the new drama genres, music genres, literature genres, clothing genres, architecture genres, and even food genres that are different from traditional Chinese genres on the east coast. The subsidies are directly distributed without going through government departments. To the various associations to stimulate the growth and development of the local culture on the east coast. Our country is so strong, and the culture was born from the mother body of China, and the blue is better than the blue, so there is no reason not to export it.” Money Qing also said: "Cultural export is a great science, which can greatly reduce our cost of establishing a new world order."

Shao Yaoguang smiled and nodded.As No. [-] on the East Coast, he has to admit that he has neglected cultural development over the years. Although there has been no shortage of funds, the problem is that the budget for financial expenditure itself is too small, and there is still room for expansion.He now also agrees with some of Qian Qing's views. It is not enough for a country to develop its industry, trade, economy, and military. The cultural industry as a national identity and national brand must also be developed to become bigger and stronger and go hand in hand.In this way, such a country can stand on top of the world for a longer period of time, instead of taking down half of the world like the Mongols, and then collapsed and disappeared in every corner of the world.

The cultural industry on the east coast has grown to such a large scale. The government can no longer turn a blind eye and be restrained. Instead, it should reform and guide correctly.I hope that the next government can do something in this regard, so that the cultural industry on the east coast can make great strides forward.

(End of this chapter)