Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1415, Someone Did It Well
Now that Feng Shiyong, a typical chicken who was killed, was shown to many officials present in the frontier, the following debriefing meeting was completely changed.

Each of the feudal officials began to talk about what they did during their tenure, how much the population increased, how much tax they collected every year, what plans they had for the future, and so on.

Among them, there are indeed many practical officials who have done a lot of things.

Among them, Liu Jin had the impression that he was an official from the Golden Continent. During his tenure, he had already started to build the first railway in the Golden Continent.

This is a railway connecting Penglai City and a port city on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean, running through the east and west of the Golden Continent. With this railway, it will become more convenient to travel from the east coast to the west coast of the Golden Continent.

Although this railway construction has been carried out vigorously in Daming mainland, there is still no plan for overseas Daming.

Unexpectedly, the railway has already started to be built on the Golden Continent.

You must know that building a railway is not building a cement road. The investment in building a railway is huge, and it costs [-] taels of silver to build a mile of road. This is still in a plain area and the cost is high.

It would have been difficult to raise enough funds to build the railway without appropriating funds from the Ming court or raising funds through listing on the Tianjin Stock Exchange.

But on the Golden Isle side, this official actually raised enough funds to start building the first railway in the Golden Isle. He was eloquent and tricked the kings of the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire to invest in the construction of this railway.

In addition, this official was able to take into account the situation in Huangjinzhou and vigorously encouraged the Han people to take the native women of Huangjinzhou as concubines, which greatly eased the relationship between the Han people and the local aboriginals, promoted mutual integration, and consolidated Ming Dynasty's rule over all parts of Huangjinzhou. , more and more native tribes of the Golden Continent accepted the rule of the Ming Empire.

Of course, the most important thing is that because of this policy, the population of the Golden Continent has skyrocketed. When a Han passes by, there will often be dozens of children in just a few years. The mastery will be stronger and the development will be deeper.

It is not like now, even though the Golden Continent belongs to the Ming Empire, because there are too few people in the Golden Continent, most of the area cannot be developed, and it is still in the hands of tribes descended from the Yin and Shang dynasties.

In addition, there is also Zhong Fan, the political envoy from Guangdong, who also left a deep impression on Liu Jin. In the past few years, he has vigorously introduced investment and concentrated manpower and material resources to build ports. Attract more people to Guangdong to build factories, build commercial banks, conduct port trade and so on.

You must know that Guangdong at this time and Guangdong in later generations are completely two concepts.

Guangdong in later generations is the largest province, far surpassing other provinces in terms of population, economy and other aspects.

But in this era of Guangdong, it is definitely the little brother who is unknown. Not only is it not as good as Fujian, but it is far behind Huguang and Jiangxi in the north.

Whether it is population, economy or other aspects, among these provinces in the Ming Dynasty, Guangdong is considered a very backward place. After all, it has been said since ancient times that Lingnan is full of miasma and barren land. As for Qiongzhou, it has been a place since ancient times. They are places where prisoners are exiled.

You said that such a place, what attraction it can have, naturally cannot compare with these inland provinces.

That is to say, in later generations, because of the coastal areas and the support of policies, Guangdong took off, jumped up and became the big brother.

But the situation in Daming is completely different now.

First of all, Ming Dynasty’s earliest route to Nanyang was to take the route of Ryukyu and Luzon, which perfectly avoided Guangdong. After years of development, Ryukyu is already much stronger than Guangdong.

Not only are there a large number of plantations, the sugar industry is very developed, but now the shipbuilding industry in Ryukyu has also begun to rise. Tianjin Shipyard has set up a branch factory in Ryukyu. Driven by it, other local industries in Ryukyu are also developing rapidly.

More and more ports are built, relying on geographical advantages, trade exchanges are extremely prosperous.

Guangdong is miserable. Without the advantage of this route, there will be fewer ships traveling to and from Guangdong. In addition, there is no foundation in the first place, and even Ryukyu can't compare.

In the Nanyang region to the south, the provinces of Nanyang used to farm cattle, and now they have become the granaries and sugar warehouses of Ming Dynasty. The plantation economy is extremely developed. At the same time, because it is the ultimate route to the West, the sea trade is extremely developed.

As for the port, I don’t know how many good natural ports there are in the Nanyang region. The current population of Crescent City (formerly Manila) has exceeded one million, and it is the largest port city in Nanyang.

Because of these factors, Guangdong has completely lost the advantages of the coastal areas of later generations.

There is no way, Ming has too many coastal areas, from north to south all the way down is the territory of Ming, and when it comes to Nanyang, there are several Nanyang provinces, and even Australia, it is all territory of Ming.

Strictly speaking, Guangdong is not a coastal area anymore, it is considered to be along the inland sea. Naturally, it has no geographical advantage, and there is no advantage in policy.

Daming's current policy is to support immigrants to go overseas and support the development of several provinces in Nanyang. As for the younger brother of Guangdong, it has to organize some of the immigrants to go out of the original two capitals and thirteen provinces.

Under these factors, it is almost impossible for Guangdong to develop as rapidly as later generations and become a big brother, and it will even take a long time to develop.

However, Zhong Fan, the chief political envoy of Guangdong, was very thoughtful and accomplished.

First of all, it relied on the iron mines in Qiongzhou (at this time Qiongzhou was under the jurisdiction of Guangdong), which attracted Miyun Iron Works to establish a large-scale steel plant in Qiongzhou to smelt steel, which in turn drove the development of a series of related industries.

At the same time, the shipbuilding industry was developed in Qiongzhou and Guangzhou. Following the rise of maritime trade in the Ming Dynasty, the rapid development of the shipbuilding industry has also become one of the most important shipbuilding centers in the south of the Ming Dynasty. Tianjin Shipyard has a branch in Guangdong.

In addition, Guangdong also has Guangdong's advantages. Guangdong has many excellent natural harbors, and the Pearl River estuary has flat, open, and fertile land. In addition, Guangdong is not cold all year round.

So he focused on raising funds to build ports and wharves, and introduced major commercial firms and factories to build factories and invest in Guangdong. In addition, Guangdong is also an important transportation hub for going west to Guangxi, Jiaozhi, and Xianglin provinces. a route.

At the same time, Guangdong is connected to the two inland provinces of Huguang and Jiangxi in the north. After the construction of roads, many important business exchanges will be more convenient, which is much more convenient than taking the Yangtze River.

Making full use of its own favorable conditions, seizing the opportunity, and vigorously introducing factories and commercial firms has made Guangdong develop extremely rapidly.

Shipbuilding, iron and steel, and textile industries are developing rapidly, and they are doing so impressively that they feel like they are catching up from behind.

This had to make Liu Jin sigh. Sure enough, the most important thing is people. As long as you are willing to do it and think about it, everything is possible and turn disadvantages into benefits.

Originally, I thought it would take at least one or two hundred years for Guangdong to develop. After all, Daming has too many good places in his hands now.

In the north, there are the rapidly developing North Zhili, Liaodong, and Shandong, and in the middle there is the already affluent South Zhili Jiangnan. Even the inland side, relying on the convenience of the Yangtze River, with steam ships, river and sea transportation are actually not the same. There isn't much of a difference anymore.

Huguang and Jiangxi are also rapidly keeping up with the trend and pace of development, not much behind the coastal areas.

Going south, Zhejiang, Ryukyu, and Fujian needless to say. The four provinces of Nanyang have developed rapidly relying on the plantation economy. Even Australia, relying on the large land and sparse population, the breeding industry has taken off rapidly. The wool and mutton produced are estimated to be In a few years, it will surpass the Northern Prairie Province.

In the west, the Western Regions, Hezhong, and Nanyun are developing faster than each other. Relying on safe land transportation, east-west trade is booming, driving the development of many industries along the way.

It can be said that the entire Ming Dynasty, each province is taking off, one is better than the other, Guangdong really does not have much advantage, and it is really impossible to be a big brother like the later generations, and it has already been placed on the same level as Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. place.

Unexpectedly, under Zhong Fan's governance, it would slowly catch up with the pace of development, which is rare.

The debriefing meeting is like an exam, a summary of the work of the past three years, and see what kind of report card you have handed over.

Some people are positive and lead the places they manage to make breakthroughs one after another. Some are engaged in infrastructure construction, such as cement roads, ports, bridges, reservoirs, dams, etc., which can be regarded as handing over good results.

There are also people who are similar to Feng Shiyong, who keep their legs up and continue to be their traditional official style, guarding a good place, but have not made any political achievements.

There are also people who want to deceive the superior and the inferior, and use lies to deceive the superiors, but they are exposed on the spot and dismissed on the spot; there are also some corrupt officials who were imprisoned by Emperor Hongzhi on the spot in.

This is the purpose of the debriefing meeting. Talk about the past and then plan for the future. It will also benefit the emperor and the court to control these big officials in various places. Killing chickens to show monkeys is also a warning to these big officials Don't think that the Emperor Tiangao has nothing to do with you if you are far away. If you don't do well, you will be removed at any time, so as to consolidate Daming's rule over the entire huge territory.

One by one, the officials continued to go to the previous posts. Many of them were covered in cold sweat when they came down. The officials who did not do anything were dismissed on the spot, and the officials who did well were promoted and rewarded on the spot.

(End of this chapter)