1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Hearing this answer, Tao Donglai frowned slightly. The expected production capacity is indeed a little lower, and it seems that it doesn't match Maliko's yelling so hard.

Maliko quickly explained: "It can't be such a simple analogy! Changhua is currently the largest steel production base in my country, and it is also the first in the world. Even if it is one-tenth of the production capacity, it is already very impressive! "

Maliko quickly listed the steel production capacity data of the entire Ming Dynasty and the Foshan area. Even if Foshan's expected production capacity is only one-tenth of Changhua's, it has more than ten times that of the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, these smelting workshops were limited by technology in the past, and their production was mainly iron, and industrial upgrading will greatly increase the output ratio of high-quality steel.

Of course, the four words of industrial upgrading are just a touch of the upper and lower lips. Even if the two regions can raise their own funds, the Ministry of Industry must invest a lot of manpower and resources in order to implement them. And this is one of the main reasons why the project has been delayed in getting approval.

Qiao Zhiya also explained this: "The Ministry of Industry transferred more than 200 engineers and technicians from Sanya and Changhua last year, and sent them to Liaodong to assist in the construction of the local steel base project. In addition, the copper mines in the Luzon region and the Xingdao region The bauxite mines are also building smelters, and they are still queuing up to wait for the Ministry of Industry to transfer them over."

"To be honest, the smelting project in Foshan is not a key project to be implemented as soon as possible for the country, so the priority is not that high. Ma, if you want to promote the implementation of this project, the Ministry of Industry will definitely support it, but it is difficult to give special consideration , can only follow the normal process.”

Maliko said: "Old Qiao, just give me a letter of approval. When it will be done, I can return to Guangzhou so that I can give an explanation to the sponsors of the money."

Qiao Zhiya said: "The technicians will be ready at the end of this year or the beginning of next year at the earliest. As for the production equipment, it may take longer. The iron and steel base in Liaodong is currently our most important industrial project in the northern region. The equipment has to be provided there first."

Although Maiko was not satisfied with Qiao Zhiya's answer, he also knew that this was the biggest concession made by the Ministry of Industry.The project proposals submitted to the Ministry of Industry in the past few times received approvals that were not even as detailed as Qiao Zhiya's. Today, he can explain the inside story so patiently today, which is considered to be enough face.

Maiko stopped entangled with this at the moment, and turned to talk about other projects.

Although Maliko's trip to Hong Kong this time was a bit hasty, he came prepared. He has prepared related projects in various fields.It was a rare opportunity to meet the executive committee, so he naturally wanted to try his best to get more resources for the two regions.

The large-scale farm plan involving multiple state capitals in the Pearl River Basin is expected to build more than [-] large-scale farms in the name of the government, and reclaim one million mu of cultivated land for resettlement. Massive immigration to the area.

In terms of commerce, trade ports will be built in Yangjiang County and Suixi County respectively, so as to increase the access to the sea in central Guangdong and Guangxi.

In terms of cultural industries, Guangdong and Guangxi are planning to build [-] government-run primary schools and [-] government-run middle schools in the next five years, as well as the Guangdong-Guangzhou University, which is nearing completion in Guangzhou.

However, these educational projects require a large number of teacher resources, and the two districts alone cannot meet such a large demand. Naturally, the executive committee must provide help.

In addition, because the government-run Guangzhou Publishing House has been too busy in recent years, it plans to improve production efficiency through technological upgrades. It is currently waiting for the new printing equipment purchased in Sanya, which has spent a lot of money, to be in place as soon as possible.

This happened to be within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and this transaction had already collected money from the two districts in advance, and Maliko's reminder seemed justified.

Haihan's officials in charge of agriculture, commerce, culture and education were all present, so they could immediately respond to the projects Maliko mentioned in the most direct way.Regardless of whether Maliko's request can be met in the end, at least it gave him a decent explanation and saved time wasted in official documents and approvals.

The last topic is the most sensitive military field.

Different from the general process of occupying overseas regions, the process of Haihan seizing control of the Guangdong and Guangxi regions was relatively peaceful. Wherever the Haihan army went, they waited and surrendered, and there were almost no large-scale wars.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was in the midst of internal and external troubles. Compared with the civil strife created by the peasant army and the pressure from the invasion of the Qing army in the north, it was no longer possible to open up a new battlefield in the south and compete with the powerful Haihan for control of the Lingnan area. .

To complete the handover in a calm manner, it is also a kind of dignity for Daming.In the armistice agreement signed by the two countries in 1654, Haihan's right to rule the Guangdong and Guangxi regions was confirmed in black and white.

Because of this, the military pressure faced by the two large regions is not great, so the scale of the garrison and the military budget are almost the lowest among all the regions.

However, Maliko pointed out at this time that as Haihan's control area in Guangdong and Guangxi gradually extended northward, the original size of the garrison was no longer able to undertake the responsibility of protecting local security, and it was time to expand the size of the army.

Maliko's words are not nonsense. The maritime defense areas of the two large areas are not large, and the north and south overlap with the defense areas of Hainan Island and Fujian respectively. Therefore, only a few small-scale naval stations are reserved on the coastline. The size of the fleet It can't even compare to any of the four major detachments of the South China Sea Fleet.

The Lu Second Division stationed in the Liangguang area was dismantled into pieces and stationed in various state capitals.A large state capital has a battalion stationed, while a small state capital may only have a company of garrisons. The symbolic meaning is far greater than the actual effect.

In recent years, a large number of people have migrated from the inland Daming ruled area to settle in Liangguang area, and there are also some bandits and bandits who smell the smell.

Immigrants who entered the Liangguang area by land, as well as goods transported by land from Guangzhou to the northern inland, would be looted by these thieves on the way. Of course, the government could not just sit idly by.

Although the government has organized several bandits suppression operations, there are large areas of mountainous areas in northern Guangdong where they can hide, and the government can invest very limited troops, so the effect is not very good, and the activities of bandits in remote areas are still very rampant.

After consulting with the military, Maliko prepared to set up an armed force specializing in mountain warfare to wipe out the bandit forces hiding in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong.

People can be directly recruited locally, but the required training and equipment cannot be solved by the strength of the two regions alone, and they still need to turn to the Executive Committee and the Ministry of National Defense.