Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2240, Great Henan
With Liu Jin's resignation as the chief assistant of the cabinet, Wang Shouren was appointed as the new chief assistant of the cabinet, Zhong Fan as the second assistant, and Li Kun entered the cabinet as the new cabinet elder.

The changes in the government and the opposition are still very stable, and it is still dominated by officials of the do-it-yourselfer school. Of course, there are not many officials left mainly from the old-fashioned school.

A large number of officials are almost all with resumes in local provinces and have relatively rich experience in local governance. They are also officials who pay attention to practical things, because officials who do not do things have already gone home for the elderly, or are sent to Nanjing went to retire.

Liu Jin's departure did not affect the existing national policy of Ming Dynasty. Wang Shouren, Zhong Fan, Li Kun and others still continued the set set by Liu Jin before.

This also made Liu Jin feel more at ease, that Daming would not lose his administration and ruin the achievements of decades of hard work.

Of course, after Liu Jin resigned, he almost completely let go of everything, and no longer cares about the affairs of the government and the opposition.

This is Liu Jin's consistent principle. If he is not in his position, he will not seek his own government. When he is not in charge of things, he should not mess around. If he is really in charge of things, he must work hard, do it well, and do it decently.

So when the government and the opposition were undergoing some personnel changes, and when all the officials were congratulating Wang Shouren, the new cabinet minister, Liu Jin had already brought his two wives and several concubines on the road. Journey around the world.

Henan Kaifeng Railway Station.

Accompanied by bursts of sirens, a train slowly drove into the platform.

Soon, a large number of passengers walked out of the station, including Liu Jin, who was dressed in ordinary clothes, and his family members.

Greater Henan is Liu Jin's first stop. When Liu Jin is going to stay in Henan for a month, he will have a good time here in Henan.

As soon as Liu Jin's family left the station, the servants of his family had already arrived here early, prepared vehicles, arranged accommodation and other places, making Liu Jin's travel and travel extremely comfortable.

The reason why Liu Jin chose Henan as his first stop was mainly because he wanted to come and see the origin of Chinese civilization.

In later generations, Henan Province has a large population, outstanding people, talents, and many celebrities and capable people. There are also a large number of historical buildings and places to visit here.

For example, Liu Jin is going to visit the Dishanghe River here in Kaifeng, the Eighteen Bronze Figures at the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, the stones at the Longmen Grottoes, etc. One month is enough to see all the famous places in Henan. read.

Liu Jin's car drove slowly on the streets of Kaifeng.

Different from later generations, the provincial capital of Henan is Zhengzhou. Zhengzhou is actually a new city. In fact, the city with the longest history in Henan should be Kaifeng. Kaifeng has always been the main city and provincial capital of Henan.

At this time, Kaifeng was the largest city in Henan and the seat of the provincial capital.

Because Henan is located in the middle, there are many major railway lines in Daming that converge here in Kaifeng, forming an extremely convenient transportation system in Kaifeng.

The railway from the capital of the Ming Dynasty to the western provinces passed here, and the railway to Chengdu, Guizhou, and Yunnan in the southwest also passed here; Both.

The transportation hub and center of the railway makes the railway transportation here extremely convenient and developed. At the same time, the main highway of Daming also connects here in Henan.

Convenient transportation and developed transportation made Kaifeng quickly become an important industrial and commercial city in the inland of the Ming Empire.

Henan's textile industry is extremely developed, if it benefits from Henan's own cotton planting industry.

The local provinces of the Ming Dynasty, especially the northern provinces, no longer grow grain. Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Shandong, and Beizhili provinces are mainly planted with special economic crops, the most important of which is cotton.

Because of the flat terrain and open land, Henan is very favorable for cotton planting, so it is a big province for cotton planting.

And different from later generations, the land of the Ming Empire is still highly concentrated in the hands of a few people, especially the land on the mainland of the Ming Dynasty is almost all concentrated in the hands of gentry, landlords, and big families.

When they were together, these gentry and landlords could still live a good life by renting out land. However, as the Ming Empire continued to migrate a large number of people from the mainland to overseas, it led to the loss of a large number of labor forces.

The most important immigrant population is the low-level landless peasants. They migrated out of the native land, directly leaving the land of these landlords and gentry barren and uncultivated.

However, these gentry and landlords obviously would not really let their land go to waste. At the beginning, they naturally supported the conservative officials against external expansion, colonization and immigration, and wanted to continue to live a good life before.

But the result was obviously a failure. There was no other way. These gentry and landowners could only learn from Liaodong, Hezhong and other areas, adopting large-scale mechanized farming methods and using machines to cultivate the land.

In this way, only a small amount of labor is needed to cultivate a large amount of land, and this is also in the interests of these landlords and gentry.

They themselves have a lot of land, no one is cultivating it, so it is most appropriate to use mechanization, and these gentry landowners have the funds to play mechanized farming, they are not poor farmers.

In addition, the gentry and landowners are often more knowledgeable and cultured people. They know exactly what to plant to maximize their value.

Growing food is obviously the most stupid. The smart ones are growing cotton, flowers and trees, fruits, etc. The income of these is much higher than growing food.

Naturally, the scale of cotton planting in these northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty is increasing, especially in the Great Plains like Henan, where the amount of cotton planting is very large.

Many gentry and landlords have invested in textile factories. The cotton produced can also be used in their own textile factories to ensure the supply of raw materials for their own textile factories.

We must know that when cotton is most popular, not only is it expensive, but it is often difficult to buy cotton, which leads to the shutdown of our own textile factories.

I have my own land, so why not just grow cotton on my own land to meet my own needs?

We must know that in order to stabilize their raw material supply, many large textile factories will open up large-scale overseas land, establish cotton plantations, and grow cotton on a large scale to ensure their own cotton supply.

These factors have stimulated cotton planting in Henan, and also stimulated the rapid development of Henan's textile industry.

Here in Kaifeng, Henan, there are countless large and small textile factories, and the scale of its textile industry has surpassed that of Beijing and Tianjin.

Of course, the main reason is that the textile factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area are constantly moving out, because the wages in the Beijing-Tianjin area are high and the land use costs are expensive. The textile factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area are gradually unable to continue their production, and gradually migrate to Kaifeng and Chang'an. , Western Regions, Hezhong and other areas.

Kaifeng has become the choice of many people. This is also related to Fang Yongliang, who was in power in Henan at that time. A large number of textile factories were relocated.

In addition, the convenient transportation here in Kaifeng is also very important.

Whether the cloth produced is sold to the mainland of Ming Dynasty, or transported by train to Europe, the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire and other regions for sale, it is very convenient.

Almost all the cloth produced here is mainly exported to Europe, Persia, the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire and other places. Now the local side of the Ming Dynasty mainly sells ready-made clothes, and few people make clothes by themselves, so the cloth The sales are all large-scale sales to garment factories.

In addition to the well-developed clothing industry, another important industry here in Henan is the automobile manufacturing industry.

Because there is a locally born automobile brand 'Dafeng' in Henan, although Dafeng Auto cannot compare with luxury car brands such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW of the Ming Empire.

Dafeng cars are low-end cars, and the price of the cars produced will basically not exceed 1000 taels of silver. Such a price is very close to the people, and it also makes the sales of Dafeng cars higher and higher, and gradually develops a The huge automobile industry can produce and sell hundreds of thousands of cars a year, which is already extremely remarkable in this period.

Textile industry and automobile manufacturing industry, these are the two main industries in Henan, and also contributed to the prosperity and hustle and bustle of Kaifeng.

Liu Jin drove slowly on the road in a car. The road was well planned and very spacious. On both sides of the road, there were many high-rise buildings, many shops, and cars coming and going. It was a very busy scene.

Look at the people here in Kaifeng, all of them are well-dressed and well-dressed. There are a lot of people driving cars to and from get off work, and motorcycles and bicycles can be seen everywhere. It can be seen that the living standards of the people here are no better than those in the Beijing-Tianjin area. How much is the difference between people.

Thinking about later generations, Henan has a large population, with a population of over [-] million. Such a large population is crowded on this land, resulting in extremely fierce competition.

From the beginning of school, the college entrance examination here in Henan is a hell mode. There are many candidates, few places for admission, and the admission rate is extremely low; People are prejudiced against Henan people.

Liu Jin, who traveled over here, paid special attention to the balanced development of various places.

The extremely unbalanced development of the eastern, central and western regions in later generations led to many problems. Liu Jin fully absorbed this lesson and paid more attention to balance in development.

For example, building a railway to Chengdu is to drive the development of the southwest region. Now the southwest region has gradually caught up with the development pace of Ming Dynasty. Chengdu's automobile manufacturing, motorcycle manufacturing, and steel industries are all very developed.

There is also the dredging of the Yangtze River and the improvement of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. These are all for the development of Huguang and Jiangxi. With the golden river of the Yangtze River playing a role, there is not much difference between Huguang and Jiangxi and the coastal areas.

Over the years, the development of these places has also been extremely rapid, gradually catching up with the pace of development of the Ming Dynasty, and it will not be like the later generations, where there is a huge difference between the east, the middle and the west.

A large number of people in the western and central regions have to leave their hometowns to work in the eastern region. The developed regions in the east are comparable to the developed countries, while the backward regions in the west can be compared to Africa. This is very unbalanced, and it is easy to cause many problems.

The current Ming Dynasty is different. Not only Kaifeng in Henan has developed, but also Chengdu in the southwest, Huguang and Jiangxi in the Yangtze River Basin, Guangdong, Fujian, Ryukyu, Lusong in the south, and the Western Regions and Hezhong in the west. , Nanyun and other places have developed.

The gap between each other will not be too large, and the economy will develop in an all-round way and develop in a balanced way. The development of the Ming Empire will be very stable, and it can continue to develop, and there will be few problems of various kinds.

Among other things, there are very few problems with hell discrimination alone.

It will not appear that people here look down on people from other places, discriminate against people from certain places, have colored glasses, and so on.

Driving around Kaifeng City a few times in a car gave Liu Jin a good overall feeling.

In the following days, Liu Jin stayed here in Kaifeng, and went to play every day, to see the scenery and taste the delicacies from all over the place.

Compared with Kaifeng in later generations, Kaifeng at this time not only retains a large number of traditional elements, such as the old city, city walls, houses, etc., but also continuously incorporates a large number of new elements.

The new urban area is lined with high-rise buildings, commercial streets, football fields, racetracks, theaters, cinemas, etc. These new elements and old elements are perfectly integrated, and people are placed in the unique environment of this era.

In the land of China in later generations, the ancient elements are getting less and less. The long-term lack of self-confidence has led to the gradual elimination of many excellent traditions and things, and they are slowly buried in history. On the contrary, they are the things and elements of Westerners. It's getting richer.

Especially the western festivals, the more lively they are, the traditional festivals are getting weaker and weaker, and they have less and less flavor of the past.

Looking at Kaifeng now, you can see many blond and blue-eyed people here. Although these people have different appearances from Daming people, they all wear Ming costumes and speak fluent Minghua.

These people are basically female slaves bought from the West. As for the males, they are basically of mixed blood. They are descendants of Ming people mixed with these female slaves. Although they look like foreigners, they are actually made by Ming Dynasty. , grew up in Daming, ate Ming dishes, wore Ming clothes, and spoke Daming dialect.

"It's still better in this era!"

Liu Jin couldn't help sighing, and also showed a gratified smile. Sometimes Liu Jin likes to see this scene the most.

PS: I moved to a new house today, so everyone has been waiting for a long time. I took the time to code a big chapter, and today is the first chapter~~
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