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Chapter 1158 Li Tang Empire ([-]rd update, please subscribe)
After receiving the task instructed by His Majesty, Qian Zizhuang just nodded slightly.

"Your Majesty knows what to do."

All that's left is to do some preparatory work, such as making a plan, a plan that the pieces can't get rid of.Intelligence work is sometimes more important than patience.

As the head of the imperial intelligence agency, Qian Zizhuang has never lacked patience. He can spend more than ten years cultivating a person, or he can spend several years waiting for good news from the other party.

He never lacked patience.

As is the case with intelligence work, so is competition between nations.

However, this kind of competition is not based on days or months, but on years or even ten years.

Only countries with enough patience can win the final victory, especially after their ambitions are satisfied to a certain extent, patience is even more needed.

After several intense expansions in the past 20 years, Daming finally stopped.

Temporarily stopped.

Keep a low profile!

The empire has once again opened its mouth. The reason why it is open is because the expansion of the empire over the years has caused more than 2000 million square kilometers of land including the mainland and colonies.

Even if you don't hide it, it will make people jealous.

Therefore, 15 years after entering the empire, the empire has actually entered a period of strategic contraction, that is, it has completely stopped its expansion.

But this tao does not mean doing nothing.

While the empire is focusing on its own development, its overseas development has not stopped due to strategic contraction. At least there are more and more investments in China, both private and official, are increasing their investment in China.

A locomotive that looks somewhat similar to the Imperial Success-6 steam locomotive arrived at the railway station in Anshan, Liaodong Province, panting with black smoke.Although this is just a small station in Liaodong, it shows extraordinary vitality, a kind of industrial vitality.

There are several roaring trains parked on the parking line at the station, and there are tall factory buildings and warehouses everywhere near the station. From a distance, there are chimneys spewing black smoke and dust everywhere, and even the air is filled with the power of industrialization— - The characteristic soot smell of bituminous coal.

Since there are merchants and passengers in the station, most of them are bustling with coolies waiting to load and unload goods.The voices of the southern accent and the northern tune rang together.This hot scene is very common in the Kanto. For more than ten years, in order to make up for the shortage of grain and the rice grain crisis in the capital, at the suggestion of Mr. Li, who was still the governor of Zhili, the imperial court lifted the ban on the Kanto and accurately immigrated into the reclaimed land.

In the next ten years, millions of immigrants from Shandong and Zhili poured into Kanto, and this uninhabited hot land soon became another granary of China.But the real construction was after Xuzhou won the world.

"Three years ago, the army marched in the Tanggangzi area of ​​Anshan, and the compass failed twice, which attracted the attention of the leading officer, and a large amount of iron ore was discovered in the nearby Dagu Mountain..."

Sitting in a compartment of the train that just entered the station, Li Jingfang, the eldest son of the emperor, while drinking red wine, introduced the situation here to Zuo Xiaoxun in front of him. On the table in front of them were some simple Food and drink.

There were only the two of them in the luxury carriage they were in. This time Li Jingfang came to the Northeast as the eldest son of the emperor to inspect, not just for inspection, but for his appointment - he was the first governor of the three eastern provinces.

Years ago, after several discussions, the imperial court finally decided to establish the three provinces of Liaodong, Jilin, and Heilongjiang in the northeast. Who was the first governor?

It was none other than Li Jingfang, the eldest son of the emperor.

Of course, this appointment was a bit unexpected. It is true that Li Jingfang is the eldest son of the emperor, but... he is not Li Hongzhang's biological son, he is adopted.

At Governor Li's meeting in the past, no one thought it was a big deal.After all, at that time, the position of governor could not be inherited.Even the Huai Army Group is the same, it cannot be inherited, so is it a relative?

But now that the governor has become the emperor, this matter is different.It can even be said that it has become a bit embarrassing. Logically speaking, the eldest son of the emperor should inherit the throne. For example, the Ming Empire has a "primitive son inheritance system", although Huaxia has not established a law of succession to the throne.

But this thing is really a bit messy!

Li Jingfang is neither the eldest son nor the eldest son, he is just a stepson.None of them are the biological sons of Emperor Li.

He was not suitable for inheriting the throne because of emotion and reason, so Li Jing conveniently asked for it to be released.Why put it outside?Because there are a group of officials and generals around him in the court. After all, those who forced the old man to rebel were the Liuming faction, and he, as the core of the "Liuming faction", also acquiesced.

Because of this, from the day Mr. Li put on the dragon robe, there has been a big gap between the two of them. After all, Emperor Li is also afraid that one day, his eldest son will come to "Xuanwu Gate".

In this case, leaving the center became Li Jingfang's best choice.

And the newly established three eastern provinces are naturally the best place to go. The population here is sparse—the three provinces seem to have a lot of people, but their population is less than ten million, and they are far away from the center.

Ever since, under such circumstances, Li Jingfang, the eldest son of the emperor, took the initiative to apply for a local post, and Emperor Li naturally did not object to this.

Good place to go!
Being far away from the center will not pose too much threat to him. Of course, even if he goes to the place, he will not be able to control the military power. The current governor has no military power to control. Emperor Li, who started his business by relying on military power, of course knows The principle of releasing military power with a glass of wine.

As soon as the Manchus were forced to abdicate here, the Zeng family and others were forced to surrender their military power with the help of 40 elite Huai troops.The current governor is nothing more than a civil servant and does not hold military power.

Li Jingfang, who became the governor of the three eastern provinces, invited Zuo Xiaoxun to Anshan for inspection the day after he took office in Shenyang. The largest project of the Ming Empire in China.

Li Jingfang cherishes the opportunity to go outside. He plans to do something in his tenure, what to do?
Naturally, it is the construction of the Northeast.

This requires support from the empire, after all, the Ming Empire is the only one that can support him financially and technically.

"Brother Zuo Xian, look here..."

As soon as the train stopped, Li Jingfang pointed out the window and said.

"Now this steel city has begun to show its scale. Although the No. 30 blast furnace has not yet been put into operation, the prototype of the factory has already come out. According to the plan, the No. [-] blast furnace will produce iron at the beginning of next year. After it is put into operation, Huaxia's annual steel output It will be more than [-] tons, even the Russians, they can't make so much steel in a year..."

"Longbo-500 type blast furnace is so advanced in technology that it is rare in the world. That is to say, because it is China, if it is replaced by any country, the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry of the Empire may not agree to export it."

Zuo Xiaoxun smiled.

"Brother Li, as long as the Liaodong Iron and Steel Company is run well, it will be a great achievement for the country!"

"It's a great achievement, but..."

In front of Zuo Xiaoxun, Li Jingfang didn't hide it, he said it directly.

"Even if the credit is great, what does this Liaodong Iron and Steel Company do to me?"

(End of this chapter)