I want to be emperor

Chapter 722 Wang Tu's Promotion
When the huge fleet of the Great Chu Empire was floating on the sea, heading towards the Indian Peninsula, preparing to start a large-scale war, the country of the Great Chu Empire was still calm.

Most ordinary people don't even know that the military is out there preparing for war again...

Even the middle and high-level people in the empire who knew the inside story mostly didn't care much about this war. Instead, they paid more attention to the news that the Central Plains Railway was about to open to traffic.

This will be the second full-line trunk railway after the Jiangnan Railway!

The Central Plains Railway, with a total length of more than [-] kilometers, starts from Tianjin in the north and ends in Jinling and Jiangbei in the south. It passes through many cities in North China and then enters the eastern part of the Central Plains, then enters Xuzhou, Fengyang, and Chuzhou in the north of the Yangtze River, and finally arrives at Jiangpu County in Yingtianfu. It is Jinling City Jiangbei.

The whole line of this railway will run through, which means that the north-south travel of the Great Chu Empire will be more convenient and faster.

Departing from Jinling City by train, you can quickly reach Tianjin City, the most important industrial city of the Great Chu Empire in the north.

This has a huge strategic role in strengthening the connection between the north and the south and developing the local economy along the way.

Therefore, not only the subordinates are concerned, but Luo Zhixue is also very concerned about the construction of the Central Plains Railway.

On April 26, 21 of Chengshun, in this early summer season, Luo Zhixue personally led a group of military and political officials to preside over the opening ceremony of the entire line at Jinling Jiangpu Railway Station.

Heping County in the mountainous area of ​​northern Guangdong is such an economically backward and poor county that receives provincial financial support and even central financial support every year.

Just like Jiangxi, Jiangxi was actually very good in the traditional agricultural era. Many places in northern Jiangxi and central Jiangxi are lands of fish and rice. However, after entering the industrial age, the development has not kept up. The root cause is because The geographical location is not good, and facing the double competition of the Dangtu Industrial Zone in the east and the Daye Industrial Zone in the northwest, the industrial development has never been able to get up.

Similarly, Guangdong is also relying on the advantages of the Pearl River Basin and the coast to vigorously develop the industrial and commercial economy.

One of the two horizontal lines is the South East-West Railway from Ningbo to Hantian. Among them, the Jiangnan Railway has been completed, and the railway from Jiujiang to Hantian is currently under construction. The construction of this railway network is relatively fast. After all, the economy along the way is good. Passing through Daye, an important industrial town of the empire, and Hantian, the companion capital of the Great Chu Empire, the most important thing is that the railway is flat along the way, and the railway construction is relatively convenient.

This is true not only for many inland provinces, but also for many prefectures and counties in coastal provinces.

As for the other provinces, Zhejiang, Hebei, Liaodong and the two municipalities directly under the central government, namely the capital Yingtianfu and the accompanying capital Hantianfu, have better economies.

As a result, many Xinzhou capitals have emerged, some are prefectures under the prefecture, while others are under the prefecture of the province, and some states have been upgraded to prefectures.

Even the population is not much, so what to talk about the development of industry.

Only in this way did Tang Tiangui come to his senses completely, and began to make concessions on economic and people's livelihood matters, letting Cheng Yongfeng take the lead, while he retreated behind the scenes to control the overall situation.

The total economic output of Yingtianfu, the capital, is partly due to the financial and other service industries, that is, the tertiary industry, which is brought together by the addition of the capital's status. This part accounts for a relatively large proportion.

Moreover, there is a big gap between the second and the third-ranked capital Yingtianfu, the fourth-ranked Hebei, and the fifth-ranked Zhejiang.

Relying on this, um, coupled with his [-] connections, he was finally promoted. First, he was transferred to Guangzhou to enter the Provincial Governor's Yamen and worked as a fifth-rank idler for a few months, and then he was sent to Heyuan prefecture holds the post of magistrate, and is the fifth rank.

It was against this background that Heyuan Prefecture was established, and was later changed to a provincial prefecture.

The economy in the empire is the most powerful, with a large number of factories gathered, and the local agriculture is also very good. Jiangnan Province, a traditional land of fish and rice, has provided more than 25 million Chu yuan to the central finance of the Great Chu Empire in the 7000 years of Chengshun, accounting for four of the national central finances. 5000% of more than 15.00 million Chu Yuan.

Cheng Yongfeng also accepts as soon as he sees it. After all, he is just a chief executive. Even if the second in command has the support of his superiors, it is difficult to really shake the position of the first in command... and if he goes too far, the higher up will probably change him. Chief envoy, not a governor from the second rank.

Although the official has changed from a county magistrate of the sixth rank to a fifth rank, Wang Tu still dare not relax.

The Daye Industrial Zone next door belongs to Hantianfu, the accompanying capital. Relying on one of the large heavy industrial zones of the Great Chu Empire, and the fairly good light industry developed in Hankou, Hantianfu's economy is not bad.

A Dangtu industrial zone and the tertiary industry supported the economy of Yingtianfu. Otherwise, the traditional land of fish and rice, cultural centers and the like would have been reduced in the industrial age.

However, the Northwest Railway is extremely important for the Great Chu Empire to rule the Northwest region, avoiding centrifugal forces in the region, and at the same time strengthen its control over Central Asia. Not to mention not making money, it has to be repaired even if it loses money.

When he came to Beijing to report on his duties at the beginning of last year, Luo Zhixue didn't treat him well either.

In the end, the industrial and commercial economy cannot develop, and the economic data can only be maintained by traditional agriculture and a small number of factories.

Either the transportation is inconvenient, the climate is extreme, or there are few resources, and it is impossible to do it if you want to.

Cheng Yongfeng finally took control of the overall situation by adding prefectures, changing some prefectural prefectures to provincial prefectures, and promoting the personnel changes of some prefects.

Now it is waiting for the railway from Tianjin to Zhangjiakou to be opened to traffic first, and then it will be able to connect to the railway line in the mining area of ​​Datong, and finally achieve a large amount of coal export.

There is no way, who let people be the second largest economic province in the country, whether its economic aggregate or the finance it provides for the empire, it is second only to Jiangnan Province.

Its industrial and commercial economy is very prosperous.

He had no choice but to be the same as before, shamelessly looking for connections everywhere to attract investment, not only looking for new investment, but also actively contacting old acquaintances, Song Alin, who had invested in yuba processing and tea processing in Heping before.

Although he became a governor, he still did the work of a chief envoy.

These two provinces alone accounted for 20.00% of the central fiscal revenue of the Great Chu Empire[-]!

However, the development of large-scale industries is relatively limited these days, especially when the construction of the railway network is not perfect and the inland waterway transportation is also limited.

Although the bosses on both sides backed down, the turmoil of the Guangdong governor for more than a year has gradually calmed down.

No way, the south of Jiangxi and the north of Guangdong are both mountainous areas... It is very difficult for contemporary construction capabilities to build railways in these places.

In other words, this Northwest Railway will not be able to recover the investment cost for many years to come, let alone make extra money.

For example, the two northeastern provinces of Liaobei and Heishui, and the two grassland provinces of Monan and Mobei, actually have rich mineral resources.

At the same time, the climate is too cold to attract a large influx of people.

At present, the five provinces mentioned above and the two municipalities directly under the central government are the ones with better economic development, and the others are basically not doing well.

Announced that the north-south traffic has entered the train era!
Three days later, the latest Dachu Mansion Newspaper focused on the opening of the Central Plains Railway, and quoted Luo Zhixue's speech, declaring that the Great Chu Empire had entered a new era of railways.

If there is no accident, after 28 years of Chengshun, it will be able to further start from Xi'an, extend the railway line westward, and finally build it all the way to Lake Balkhash, which is the Northwest Railway in the East-West Railway Plan.

This is why Shanxi has been planning to build a railway for the past few years. Even before the Grassland Railway, that is, the section from Tianjin to Zhangjiakou, they have already raised funds to build a mining railway in Datong... they say it is a mining railway. , but in addition to connecting various coal mining areas, this mining railway also extends hundreds of kilometers in the direction of Zhangjiakou.

If it weren't for the economically developed Guangdong in the south, the Great Chu Empire would not have started the construction of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway now. The cost is too high...

The reason for changing it to a provincial state is also simple. This poor place is too poor, and when it directly belonged to Huizhou Prefecture, a group of officials in Huizhou Prefecture mainly focused on the economic development of the coastal areas and the lower reaches of the Dongjiang River. Not very concerned.

In the past three years, Wang Tu has used all his spells, and he has used his only contacts to the limit. In the end, he brought down a dozen companies to settle down, and finally allowed the economy of this poor place to develop slightly.

The east-west railway plan is expected to last for many years, especially the mountainous terrain along the northwest railway will make it difficult to repair. Therefore, it is estimated that by the 35th year of Chengshun, the railway may not be able to be repaired to Lake Balkhash.

The governor of the Great Chu Empire is a great history of feudal borders in charge of one party's power. He is responsible for the strategic development of the entire province. Developing the economy and people's livelihood is only a part of many local affairs. Tang Tiangui, who just took office as governor, obviously has not realized this a little.

Guangdong's economic external radiation mainly relies on foreign trade such as Southeast Asia and India, and the proportion of foreign trade is relatively large.

They are looking forward to this railway.

Because if Heping is one of the poorest counties in Guangdong, then Heyuan Prefecture is the poorest state capital in Guangdong, bar none!

Other provinces also have their own troubles, either the transportation is inconvenient, or there are no special resources, or the climate is not good.

And this is also the reason why Wang Tu was able to be promoted to the magistrate of Heyuan Prefecture.

Relatively speaking, the repair of several other main railway lines is relatively fast.

The Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, one of the north-south trunk line railways, is more difficult to construct and is expected to open to traffic later.

As for the other part, it relies on the Dangtu Industrial Zone.

In this regard, the governor Tang Tiangui also started from being strong at the beginning, then gradually retreated, and finally changed his role from the former chief minister to the real governor.

This is quite exaggerated data, and such exaggerated data is because Jiangnan Province relies on the geographical advantages and transportation advantages of the Yangtze River Basin and the middle point of the local coast, and brings together industrial raw materials and funds from the Yangtze River Basin and coastal areas. At the same time, it is also possible to sell industrial products to the above-mentioned places.

On a bigger scale, this is related to the power competition between Cheng Yongfeng and Governor Tang Tiangui.

In recent years, the Great Chu Empire has actually been adjusting the administrative jurisdictions of various places, mainly based on regional, economic and other factors.

However, other railway lines have also been more or less under construction. The Haizhou-Xi’an railway section in the east-west railway plan has completed the Haizhou-Xuzhou section, Zhengzhou-Luoyang section, and is currently under construction in multiple directions at the same time. The construction of the entire railway line will be completed in two years, and then the Haixi Railway, an important part of this east-west railway, will be connected.

Although the total economic volume is still not comparable to those economically good counties, it is not even as good as a village in the Pearl River Delta... But it is not easy, at least the economic growth data is very high, every year for the past three years Double the growth.

Its political and military value exceeds its economic value.

Such economic data naturally cannot be seen there.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Guangdong's economy can develop so rapidly is that it relies on the huge indigenous market in Southeast Asia and the Indian Peninsula.

However, the transportation is really inconvenient. With precious various minerals and even animal husbandry resources, it is difficult to transport them on a large scale.

This prefecture and each prefecture were gradually contested, and Cheng Yongfeng's career as a chief minister in Guangdong was slowly unfolding, otherwise no one would listen to his words.

Relatively speaking, the construction progress of the Zhengzhou-Zhuhai Railway, one of the two longitudinal railways, that is, the railway from Zhengzhou to Hantianfu Hankou, and from Hantianfu Wuchang to Changsha Zhuzhou, is still relatively behind. However, it also passes through flat terrain along the way. 28 years can also be completed.

By the way, in the 25th year of Chengshun, Heyuan Prefecture, which was originally under the jurisdiction of Huizhou Prefecture, was changed to Provincial Lizhou. Although the administrative level is still the top five, it is still one of the dozen or so prefectures in Guangdong.

Next is Guangdong, which handed over 6000 million Chu Yuan to the central finance last year, accounting for [-] percent.

It is to make the railway operation profits in some areas to support the railway construction in economically backward areas.

Now, he is facing a Heyuan state that is too poor.

But Guangdong is an exception!

It is different from Jiangnan Province's ability to expand its economic influence radiation circle to the local coastal areas, such as the northern coastal provinces, the northeast, and even Fusang.

The Western Trading Company of the Great Chu Empire, in order to save transportation costs, etc., their goods sold to India, Africa, and Europe were all purchased in the Pearl River Delta economic circle in Guangdong.

In the past two or three years, Song Alin's business has grown bigger and bigger, and six new non-staple food processing factories have been built. Last year, he also invested in the construction of a large-scale fruit canning factory in Dongguan, Guangzhou.

Future railway construction is not just a slogan, but what the Great Chu Empire is currently doing!

These two provinces have unique geographical advantages in developing the industrial and commercial economy, which cannot be learned from other provinces.

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As a result, in the first year, not only did he fight with Cheng Yongfeng, the political envoy, but he also fell behind in many other convenient matters. For this reason, he was instructed several times by the big bosses of the Senate.

In order to develop the economy of backward areas, and to better support and support the development of remote mountainous areas, of course, the promotion of Chief Minister Cheng Yongfeng is indispensable.

Even in a large economical province like Guangdong, not all places are economically developed areas. In fact, only the Pearl River Delta area has good economic development, while other places are generally not doing well, and are even extremely poor.

Canned food can be regarded as a leading industry in the contemporary food processing industry, with a huge output value.

Since the 21st year of Chengshun, after the Great Chu Empire launched large-scale railway construction, a large number of railway lines have been approved to start construction every year.

In the future, the Great Chu Empire will build more railway lines, and strive to make every province accessible by train.

Due to cost issues, the Great Chu Empire currently has no plans to enter the Sichuan Railway, nor has it planned to build railways in Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Fujian and other places.The cost of building railways in these mountainous and economically poor places is too high.

Even in Shanxi, a province where a large amount of coal has been surveyed, the current economy is not doing well... There is no way, Shanxi is mountainous, and it is not easy to transport coal out and sell it to make money.

This place is one of the major heavy industrial areas of the Great Chu Empire. It has a series of large enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry, such as Dangtu Machinery Company, the three major steam engine manufacturers, and Dangtu Iron and Steel Company, which ranks fifth in the country. The headquarters of Jiangnan Arms Company, one of the companies, and its main subsidiaries: Dangtu Armory Factory, Dangtu Artillery Factory, Dangtu Ammunition Factory and other enterprises.

The construction of war-ready railways is also the main political task of the Railway Corporation. If it were not for the repair of these loss-making war-ready railways, the Great Chu Empire would not engage in railway monopoly.

Especially important officials like the governor of Guangdong.

Therefore, the construction of the Jiuhan railway section is relatively fast, and many sections have been completed so far. It is expected to be completed by this winter, and the southern east-west trunk railway, one of the two horizontal lines, will be completed by then.

Because Wang Tu is a member of Cheng Yongfeng's faction, and the prefect of Huizhou Prefecture is the core cadre of Tang Tiangui's faction, Cheng Yongfeng single-handedly pushed Heyuan Prefecture to be changed to a provincial jurisdiction in order to control more authority.

Wang Tu also took advantage of this wave of good external environment, coupled with Cheng Yongfeng's strong support, was able to be promoted to the prefect of Heyuan Prefecture.

However, if Xi’an goes westward, the population along the way is small, the economy is backward, and neither agriculture nor industry is strong. Therefore, the Northwest Railway belongs to the railway planning of the Great Chu Empire in the railway planning.

The economy of Huizhou Prefecture itself is actually not good, and it cannot be compared with a super-large government like Guangzhou Prefecture. Therefore, it is difficult to provide much support for the poor and remote Heyuan Prefecture on its own.

It is unreliable to discuss GDP and the like, because the Great Chu Empire does not currently have sound economic statistics, but the economic strength of each province can still be seen from the central fiscal revenue.

This is all thanks to Wang Tu's hard work in the past three years!
Before Wang Tu became the magistrate of Heping County three years ago, the economy of this poor place could not even compare with many poor counties in the interior!
If you want population but no population, you need resources but no resources, you need transportation but no transportation, no matter how you look at it, you are still poor...

As for the two vertical, two horizontal and four main railway lines, construction has actually started in full swing, but only the Jiangnan Railway and the Central Plains Railway are currently running through the entire line.

All kinds of canned food have not only entered the military supply system, but also widely entered the civilian market. There are canned meat, canned fruit, and other messy canned food.

As a businessman focusing on the food processing industry, Song Alin naturally got involved in the canned food industry early, mainly engaged in various canned fruits.

At the same time, there are many other food processing industries.

Wang Tu found Song Alin because he wanted to build a real large-scale tea industry base.

(End of this chapter)