Daming 1805

Chapter 457 Local Training in the Last Stage
Ten years of Ankang is coming to an end, and Zhu Jingyuan's two-year tenure in Xi'an is also coming to an end.

Zhu Jingyuan's reform work in the northwestern provinces and vassal states can only be regarded as a beginning so far.

There are still various small problems, but the direction and solution ideas have basically been determined.

If you insist on statistics, you can see a lot of achievements now.

In the reports submitted by the chief secretaries, you can see the list of completed relocated settlements, which is densely arranged on many pages.

The first to migrate are those remote settlements with only a few dozen or even a dozen families.

It may be in the valley at the foot of the mountain, or in the oasis on the edge of the desert, or on a small grassland.

To go to this kind of place to repair roads, pull wires, organize the establishment of schools, go there regularly to register household registration, and deal with some disputed grassroots administrative affairs are things that real grassroots officials at the county and township levels in Daming hate.

Objectively speaking, with the current level of technology and productivity, it is basically impossible to fully realize.

Even in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, a super-industrial country in the 21st century, all residential areas were not connected to roads...

The vast majority of officials in charge of related affairs have been in a state of de facto slack for a long time.

There are requirements above, but in practice it cannot be done.

The settlements of this type of place are basically in a state of primitive autonomy.

Most grassroots officials only know that there is such a place and roughly how many families there are.

That is to say, when I first took office, I might go to visit once, and I will basically not go to the local area in the future.

The real-time situation cannot be said to be completely unknown, but it can only be said to be very limited.

Of course, this is already a huge improvement compared to any dynasty before the Renwu Dynasty.

In previous dynasties and regimes, for small settlements of similar level, they may not even know their existence.

Now it is the Daming Central Court, the Daming Royal Consortium, and Daming Airlines that jointly fund the money. The Daming Royal Consortium and Daming Airlines provide fairly good jobs at the same time, and give a relatively reasonable resettlement plan.

Now local grassroots officials are required to be responsible for relocating the population of such settlements to designated big cities.

Of course it was hard work.

Ordinary officials at the grassroots level are not very happy to do this kind of work.

It's just that once this matter is completed, the long-standing potential crisis of "slack governance" can be eliminated.

In the past, the censor wanted to investigate the negligence of these inherited officials, as long as he visited these registered remote villages, he could easily find out their reasons.

Coupled with the practical subsidies and the push-back of assessment tasks, officials from all over the country have the motivation to solve this kind of work no matter whether they really want to do it or not.

Specific to different regions, the place with the best migration effect is the snow-covered plateau.

Officials in other regions have to deal with the original daily management affairs, set up and organize government-run manufacturers.

Planning the urban expansion plan of the future core city, assessing the rate of population migration and arranging the construction of residential areas.

While handling these affairs, I will be responsible for relocation and arrangements for residents from remote places.

The tasks of the officials on the snowy plateau are relatively simple.

Except for big cities like the capital, Luoxi City, other affairs in other regions can basically be given up.

They just need to concentrate on migrating people out.

After the residents are sent outside, local officials are responsible for accepting and managing them.

Of course, the construction of corresponding target cities is also a matter for officials from other places.

The work arrangement of the relocated population is also a matter for the local government-run manufacturers, the royal consortium, and Daming Airlines.

As for the several yamen in Luoxie City, the capital of the Snowy Region, they have become the most idle departments in the past two years.

Since the Renwu Dynasty reformed the snowy plateau system, the snowy plateau has a tendency of spontaneous urbanization.

Luoxi City, the capital, originally had less than 2 people. After more than 100 years of continuous development, it now has 20 people.

At present, the population migration work plan for the entire northwest region is carried out in order from small to large.

The difference is that other areas migrate from remote settlements to local large cities.

The principle of Xueyugao is to move from remote settlements to big cities in other places.

Logical cities do not need to accept the remote real residents of the snowy plateau.

At the same time, since the residents of some cities will gradually move out in the future, several major reforms do not need to be implemented.

The residents of the subordinate areas of Luoxie Mansion moved out, and the affairs of Luoxie's own yamen also decreased simultaneously.

However, neither Zhu Jingyuan nor the corresponding departments of the imperial court could let these bureaucrats idle.

In the past two years, the officials of Luoxi Mansion have been transferred to other places to guide and lead the local residents to move out.

Only after the scattered population on the snow-covered plateau has all moved out will they consider moving to other big cities.

This is not a project that can be completed overnight.

Before Zhu Jingyuan left office this time, it was impossible to see the relevant progress change news.

Generally speaking, it has indeed achieved results, but it will take several years to truly achieve the expected final results.

During the period at the end of the year, Zhu Jingyuan browsed through various summary reports compiled by various yamen.

After knowing the local situation well, the main thoughts turned to the next stage of training.

After the 11-year New Year holiday in Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan received a new appointment from his father and the court.

This is the last stage of Zhu Jingyuan's administrative training at the local level.

Excluding the place where he has served as a supervisor before, and considering his current special status, Zhu Jingyuan has already guessed about his last mission in the place.

After the local administrative training is over, before returning to the capital, I now have only one place to go.

Jianghuai, Jiangnan.

In the end, news and appointments from his father and the court also verified Zhu Jingyuan's guess:

"Political envoy of Jianghuai Province, governor of military and political affairs in the southern region, and in charge of foreign affairs."

The southern region referred to by the Ming court refers to the local core provinces, most of which are located south of the Qinling-Huaihe River and north of Jiaozhi, including Jianghuai Province.

Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Huguang, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong.

Among them are the richest places in Ming Dynasty, and there are also real remote mountainous areas. The overall situation can be said to be very complicated.

Specific to possible problems, there are problems in the remote minority areas in Northwest China, problems in people's livelihood, capital, and bureaucracy in highly developed areas, as well as problems in foreign trade and emigration.

And, the clan forces that are common in these regions are stronger than those in the Northwest and the Central Plains...

This is likely to be one of my priorities for the next two years.

After Zhu Jingyuan received the letter of appointment, he said goodbye to officials from all over the Northwest, and took his family to the south again.

Among the family members who traveled together this time, Queen Charlotte of the United States was included.

During the Chinese New Year last year, Charlotte came to Xi'an to find Zhu Jingyuan, and then Charlotte started pre-pregnancy preparations.

Let the doctor do a physical examination, take care of your body according to Dr. Daming's suggestion, and start to quit drinking at the same time.

Two months later, Zhu Jingyuan and Charlotte began to work together to create a baby.

After three months of trying, Charlotte was finally pregnant.

That was in May of the tenth year of Ankang.

By the end of January 11 in Ankang, the child in Charlotte's womb is already eight months old.

Eight months has come to the maximum time, but it is time to go or go.

If he was allowed to give birth in Xi'an, he would have to wait another two months for the due date, and after giving birth, he would have to recuperate for a month or two before leaving.

After such a toss, it may not be until June when Zhu Jingyuan takes office in Ying Tianfu.

Zhu Jingyuan's other concubines also had seven or eight months of pregnancy when Zhu Jingyuan took office, and now it is impossible to stay alone just to take care of Charlotte.

Zhu Jingyuan is both a king and a prince, and there will be no shortage of caregivers around him, as well as special trains and ships.

As long as it is not really time to give birth, the wives and concubines are pregnant with children, which will not affect the travel.

Charlotte, meanwhile, is historically dead in childbirth.

Although the child's father has changed, and the child himself has also changed, it may not be difficult to give birth this time.

However, to be cautious, it is best to prepare for a caesarean section when you give birth.

In this world, caesarean section is not a particularly common technique, and it relies more on the experience of doctors.

Compared with Xi'an, which is deep inland, the doctors in Yingtianfu, the most prosperous area of ​​Ming Dynasty, have more experience.

The overall local medical level is also higher, and it is obviously safer to go to the Forbidden City in Nanjing to give birth.

Zhu Jingyuan can arrange for the royal doctors from Yingtian Mansion and Shuntian Mansion to be dispatched, but it is obviously safer for the doctors to work in places they are familiar with.

So Zhu Jingyuan had no reason for Charlotte to stay in Xi'an.

Two years later, Zhu Jingyuan got on the same train again and returned to Jiangnan by the same route he had come two years ago.

Zhu Jingyuan sat by the window again, admiring the scenery by the railway outside the window, or observing the scene on both sides.

As the train continued to move forward, Zhu Jingyuan slowly discovered that compared to two years ago, the surrounding countryside and urban scenes had changed again.

Zhu Jingyuan couldn't say it all at once, but after watching a lot, he realized that there were more machines and fewer people.

Two years ago, on the way Zhu Jingyuan came here, he could often see villages with a large number of people, many of which seemed to be inhabited by dozens of families.

There are quite a few figures inside and outside the village, as well as conspicuous stables and cattle pens, as well as farmers walking around on horseback.

That is the villages that have not yet replaced agricultural machinery on a large scale and still rely on manpower and horse plowing.

At that time, many villages had begun to replace the latest agricultural machinery.

The stables in many villages are empty, and some have been converted into garages.

There are also villages that have built simple airstrips, where agricultural aircraft can be seen flying.

In all villages of this type, the number of people in and around the village has also decreased, and there may be only a dozen families left, because there are not so many people working in the village.

However, these so-called villages are not the villages that Zhu Jingyuan was used to in his previous life, but labor gathering places on large farms.

Usually one or two families are the farmers, and most of the others are his hired hands.

Or all are hired workers.

The land around these villages is usually owned by one or two families.

Or directly the land of Huangzhuang.

The villagers living in these villages are basically hired laborers.

Now two years have passed, and there are basically no densely populated farms, and the stables are basically empty.

Instead, garages and airstrips have become almost universal.

The number of residents moving in and around the villages has dwindled again, and in most villages there are no people at all.

Only the well-planted land around it shows that there are still people in production here.

There may be only a few families left in a village that once housed hundreds of people.

Originally, there were only a dozen or so families on the farm, and there may even be only one family left, only the farmer's own family.

While Zhu Jingyuan was feeling emotional in his heart, he also subconsciously recalled the data he had seen.

Daming's local mechanical production capacity is really very strong.

We have designed mature diesel engines and agricultural machinery by ourselves, and after actual testing, they are spreading very quickly in the local market.

Whether it is a private farmer or a farm operator in Huangzhuang, they quickly purchased these agricultural machinery.

In the central plains of Daming, where the economy and industry were the most developed, the transition from animal power to mechanization was very fast, and it entered the final stage in just a few years.

At the same time, in the past few years, the scale of built-up areas in major cities in Ming Dynasty has also expanded.

This is especially evident on the Great Plains of the Central Plains.

But after entering the scope of Jianghuai Province, this trend slowed down slightly.

There are a lot of small towns here.

Zhu Jingyuan knew long ago that it is only in relatively affluent places that large-scale scattered small towns can be established.

Because the local area must have enough money and resources to provide relatively high-quality basic living facilities and services for the relatively small number of residential areas in the case of a relatively dispersed population.

The south-central region of the former South Zhili Province and the present Jianghuai Province is the most economically and industrially developed region in the world.

Traditional Ming people have a deep attachment to the land and their hometown.

Even though it has entered the industrial age, while the wealthy businessmen in the Jianghuai area opened factories, many people still retained or invested in traditional land and farms.

This has promoted the construction of small towns in the central and southern regions of Jianghuai Province. Many towns have private factories of various sizes.

At the level of the county seat, various medium-sized factories bloomed everywhere.

At the prefectural level, many local industries in big prefectures have already been able to lead the entire Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, at the level of the provincial capital, the scale of the city does not have much advantage compared with the subordinate prefectural cities and inland provincial capitals.

Yingtianfu is the capital of the country, but its overall economic strength is on the same level as Suzhou and Songjiang.

For people in the Jianghuai area, it may be that the provincial capital is regarded as another capital city.

Your Yingtian Mansion is a mansion, and my Suzhou Mansion is also a mansion...

The characteristics of bulk Jiangsu may have existed since the Ming Dynasty.

Nanzhili was originally a group of municipalities directly under the central government, and everyone was directly under the administration of Nanjing. There was no such province as Nanzhili.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has set up the Jianghuai Province, this kind of concept is difficult to get rid of in the short term...

When the provincial capital, prefectural capital, county seat, and built-up areas of towns and villages in Jianghuai Province gradually joined together, the train that Zhu Jingyuan took also entered the urban area of ​​Yingtianfu.

Yingtianfu is one of the most developed cities in Ming Dynasty, and it is also one of the most antique cities in terms of overall construction.

Because it is another capital of Ming Dynasty, even the real capital in spirit, there are a large number of official and royal buildings with political and cultural traditions in the city.

These buildings are the strongest in traditional style, and their existence has influenced the style of houses of the local wealthy class.

Therefore, in the residential areas of the city, you can often see traditional garden-style buildings with flying eaves, bucket arches, carved railings and painted buildings.

Zhu Jingyuan came back here after two years of absence, looking at these pictures with a little emotion.

Charlotte is the first time to come to the richest place in Ming Dynasty, and the first time to come to another nominal capital of Ming Dynasty.

Extraordinary novelty and excitement, the whole person lay on the window, staring at the surrounding scene with wide eyes.

"This is Yingtian Mansion, we have finally arrived at Yingtian Mansion, the heart of the largest empire in the world!"

Two maids from the Dashi King's Palace and two royal maids from England stood guard beside Charlotte.

They are all very worried about Charlotte's stomach. If something happens, they will not be able to escape responsibility.

Fortunately, this concern did not last long.

After the train entered the urban area of ​​Nanjing, it turned off the engine and continued to slide forward on the rails.

Finally, it stopped on the platform dedicated to the royal family in the imperial city.

(End of this chapter)