The sun never sets in America

Chapter 138 The establishment of the Han Kingdom and its economy

The Han State Land Bureau is an institution that does not seem to have a big role, but it is a closely related government agency.

The main reason why the Land Bureau does not play a big role is that in today's Han Dynasty, there are only three types of land utilization. One is to allocate land to immigrants and local residents.

The second type is the land that needs to be occupied and utilized for the current roads and even railway construction in Han Dynasty. These lands need to be registered and planned with the Land Bureau...

The third type is the land needed for Han industry and urban construction. This part of the land is generally allocated by the local government. It is one of the local administrative rights and is a very important part... After all, even if you build a room Public toilets all require land.

Where did the land come from? Of course it came from the territory of the Han State, and which department currently manages the land of the Han State... the Land Bureau.

The local government offices in the Han Dynasty were actually very clear about the role of land. They would provide land for free and even build local water plants and roads to attract investment.

It can be said that the importance of land in the administrative system of Han Dynasty.

The Land Bureau is a Qingshui Yamen. The reason why it is called a Qingshui Yamen is because most land transaction changes are completed locally. The only thing they can do is register and stamp.

This is certainly not a good thing for the Land Bureau. From the first Director Guo to the current Director Hong, they have pursued the return of land distribution rights to the Land Bureau.

However, such plans often encounter strong local resistance. In the eyes of local officials, these lands belong to their jurisdiction and have nothing to do with the Land Bureau? ?
How they sell it and how they use it is their business. As for the Land Bureau, in the eyes of a certain mayor, it is just a rubber stamp. When to seal it, that is their business. If one day the rubber stamp comes out and wants to If they come to take care of the sealing matter, then they, the local officials, must unite and resist together, and break their greedy hands on land rights! !
Without real land management rights, the Land Bureau will always do some chores such as changing jurisdictions, stamping approval, and then receiving the budget issued by the cabinet to provide benefits to its own people within its capabilities.

This is undoubtedly a shame for all Land Bureau officials. Even a junior Land Bureau official once said: "I don't feel any respect in the Land Bureau. When confirming the land owned by a certain village, It was clear that they had invaded the local official land, but the local village chief said that this matter was not our responsibility, and then beat me out..."

Although the village chief and some extreme villagers in that village were later punished, the incident still caused a stir within the Land Bureau.

Some Land Bureau officials even ridiculed themselves that they had no control over the three things. They had no administrative control, no rights, and no land registration rights. In short, they had nothing.

So the Land Bureau has always wanted to obtain the rights belonging to their department, and now, this right has come.

According to the requirements of the lower levels of the cabinet, Han State will complete the division of provincial administrative agencies.

Because of its population and vast territory, the entire Han Kingdom will be divided into a four-level local administrative system.

From the province, which is the highest level, to the city, which is the second level, to the town, which is the third level, and to the village, which is the fourth and lowest level.

In fact, it was originally planned to establish a five-level administrative system, that is, in front of the town, below the city, plus a county.

If the general situation is followed, the administrative agency of county will be added anyway. However, in the end, due to population reasons, the administrative level of county level was temporarily canceled. As for whether it will appear in the future, it depends on the future of Han Dynasty. population growth, and whether the jurisdiction is saturated, and a new intermediate jurisdiction is needed to unify...

However, according to the latest statistics from the Bureau of Statistics, the total population of Han is more than 3203 million, an increase of nearly 310 from the original 10 million. Some of these [-] people fled to Han from inland areas due to the westward expansion of the United States. Indians from China, and some are recent immigrants from the Far East.

As for this group of people, except for those Indians who needed to be dispersed and re-educated, most of the Chinese from the Far East were resettled in or near cities.

And they are all next to roads and even railway lines.

As we all know, the value of an area does not depend on how beautiful the scenery is or how rich the products are, but on whether the transportation is convenient.

The current main population of Han Dynasty, especially the most elite Chinese, even white people, and mixed-race population, are actually concentrated on both sides of the highway and railway lines. This line is also called the lifeline and civilization line by Han scholars...

You can tell from the name that this line is an important line for the Han State. It can be said that as long as these lines are still there, the Han State can regain their strength and get it back even if they lose all their open areas.

But if this line is destroyed or even cut, then the Han Kingdom will be doomed.

This is also the problem with placing people on both sides of traffic lines.

The advantage is that this line can boost the Han economy very quickly.

Take the GDP theory of later generations. Essentially, the more frequently goods and services are traded and the larger the amount, the higher the economic aggregate.

It's just like Siberia cannot develop. It's that damn place. It's freezing cold. It's been hard to warm up for a few months. The local infrastructure has become muddy. In addition, the local population is already small. Finally, a cake shop appeared. Only a few cakes can be sold a week. With such a transaction speed, not to mention the economy, people will run out... (The Russian Far East in later generations is proof of this. All young people go to Eastern Europe, and those in Eastern Europe go to Moscow and St. Petersburg)

This is the current situation of Han's economy, because the convenient transportation lines and the population on both sides of the transportation lines have actually greatly flattened the production costs of Han's industrial goods.

The price of industrial products is determined by the market, manpower, technology, and energy, but there is another thing, that is, the faster a product is sold, the faster the iteration speed will be, and the price will be cheaper and cheaper (of course, some basic commodities , note that steel and coal are not counted).

The fastest growing industry in Han State is light industry, because it is on the transportation line of Han State and the return of investment is too fast.

Suppose you open a toothbrush factory. You must first produce toothbrushes. During this process, you need to buy machines, build a factory, and recruit workers. After recruiting them, you need to train them, and then develop and manufacture your own toothbrushes. In the end, when these production factors are added together, these toothbrushes will definitely be very expensive and will not be recognized by the market.

So what should we do? This requires small profits but quick turnover. Small profits are not the key, but quick turnover is. And Han's traffic line population construction method is exactly the most friendly sales model for light industry. Just follow the roads and railways. Goods can be sold to the people who need them, and these people are basically the majority of the population of Han, and they are the people with spending power.

This is also the main reason for the rapid development of light industry in Han Dynasty.

The light industrial products of Han State are actually dominant in surrounding areas. Take Han State's neighboring Republic of Mexico as an example.

At present, at least one-third of the country's light industrial product market has been captured by the Han light industry. As for the remaining two-thirds, in addition to the blocked roads, resulting in higher prices, they are those anti-Han people who refuse to use Han products. .

Compared with the anti-Han people, the elite Han people always use Han products without rejecting them, from daily necessities to fortress series drinks...

It is even said that some printed fabrics produced in Han China have entered the Mexican market. This is a very remarkable achievement.

You must know that the entire Americas, except for a few areas in the United States, use cloth produced in Britain. In addition, British products are almost unimpeded throughout North and South America and dominate in many countries.

The southern states of the United States were actually the raw material base for the British.

The local farmers, while selling the cotton produced by the slaves with hard work, used the money they earned to buy British cloth, industrial products, and even luxury goods.

This is actually a typical relationship between resource countries and industrial countries in later generations.

This is also one of the causes of the Civil War. After all, the North of the United States is an industrial country, but the South is a resource country. Moreover, this resource country provides raw materials to outside industrial countries and then buys them back. What kind of behavior is this? ?

Resource countries provide energy, raw materials are sold to industrial countries, and then the industrial countries process them twice and sell them back to resource countries.

It seems that both resource countries and industrial countries have benefited, but if you look closely, you will find that the final winner is the industrial country.

For example, a stool is made of wood. The wood of this stool is provided by a lumberjack. It costs one yuan. After the carpenter processes it, it sells for one yuan and a half, and then the lumberjack buys it back. Although in reality, this may not always be the case. However, in the absence of third-party competition, resource countries cannot defeat industrial countries.

This is also the fate of many resource countries in later generations. Just like Russia in later generations, you are bringing Russia into the red-haired era. You have not seen that Russia is no longer an industrial country. It is a resource country. But it’s just a big killer.

Americans have seen this most clearly for a long time. Russia is a big Saudi Arabia with a big weapon! !
For resource countries, the best time is when resource prices rise and domestic industrial prices fall. At this time, resource countries' profits will often be very high, and domestic living conditions will be so good that they can take off. This was the case in Russia in the early days.The current situation of Han is actually the same as that of the United States. For strategic reasons, it has to grow cotton to provide raw materials to the British and act as a resource country. At the same time, it uses the money earned to vigorously develop industry.

This can be seen from the soaring machine import data in the second quarter of 1841. Han Dynasty was accelerating industrialization and increasing the penetration rate of machines.

In fact, Han and now the United States have a lot in common in terms of i-economy. The industrial technology is not too high, and there is still a big gap with Britain and France. The mainstream market is occupied by Britain and France, such as the South American market, Han It’s not that I didn’t want to go in. After entering, I discovered that except for some Han Chinese specialty products, such as the fortress series of drinks and drinks, other industrial products were no match for the British and French, and they were defeated.

In fact, the same is true for the United States. American products are also at the bottom of the world.

And both countries have one thing in common, that is, they have no colonies that can be dumped.

It seems that Han and the United States, two neighboring countries in North America, should work together to resist the ruling order of European powers. However, the reality is that, in the eyes of the Han people, the United States is the biggest threat to Han's survival in the Americas.

From the perspective of Americans, Han is a stumbling block and a stumbling block to the United States' unification of North America. It is the biggest threat. Get rid of it in advance and then quickly! !

The two sides seem to be different, but in fact the concept of reaching the same goal through different roads is actually the trigger for the future Sino-American war and has nothing to do with the promotion of the British.

The reality is often so crazy. Two people who seem to belong to the same camp have to kill each other first and eat each other's corpse to obtain more powerful nutrients. I have to say that this is a great sadness.

Just like the great power trap, there must be a war between two great powers, and there is no room for maneuver.

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"Director Hong...this is our plan for provincial division." In the Land Bureau, Director Xu took the province-building plan that had been revised repeatedly during this period and submitted it to Director Hong's desk.

"Baja California Peninsula, do you want to separate it??" Director Hong looked up, a little surprised by the decision to separate the Baja California Peninsula and Greater California.

After all, no matter how you say this, it will weaken the entire California region! !
"Director Hong, our view is that California as a whole is big enough. If the Baja California Peninsula is also included, then what's the point of making our province a province?" Director Xu replied to Director Hong after hearing this. Tao, both inside and outside the words, are full of hints.

"What do you mean..." Director Hong looked at Director Xu in front of him and probably understood what he meant.

It’s just that California is too big and we want to split it up. However, if we split the core areas, we will easily encounter strong resistance, so we need to start from other core areas in California.

"And we are going to split up some cities this time..." Director Xu stood next to Director Hong and pointed to the Beimen City area on the map.

To be honest, the current city of Han is indeed too big, equivalent to the jurisdiction area of ​​several cities in later generations, so the cabinet is also preparing to split it up to a certain extent.

"What we did this time is all work that offends people..." Director Hong looked up and sighed with a bit of headache and gloating about the drastic plan to build a province and even split it up.

The headache is due to fear of the local government's verbal abuse of the Land Bureau in the future, and the schadenfreude is that the Land Bureau finally found a chance to fight back after being oppressed by those local bastards for so long.

This time we must deal with them severely.

"Director...we can also take this opportunity to negotiate with those people and get back the rights belonging to our Land Bureau, even if it is only part of it." Director Xu said to Director Hong with a playful look, "These guys are cheating. It’s time to pay back a little after you’ve given us up for so long.” Director Xu looked at the jurisdiction plan on the map and said with a sinister smile, his tone full of disgust for the place.

After all, if these guys hadn't overstepped their authority over and over again, why would their Land Bureau be in the situation it is in today?

"Okay..." Director Hong's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he couldn't help but yelled "Okay".

"I will submit this plan to the cabinet right away... and let's see how those guys react." Director Hong said happily, with a cheerful smile on his face.

This is a natural reaction after being pushed too hard by those local guys.

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"What, I don't agree, Baja California can't be rowed away."

“Greater California can no more lose the Baja California Peninsula than the West can lose Jerusalem.”

As expected, this division of jurisdictions inevitably caused huge controversy within the cabinet and even at the local level.

"If we want to divide our Beimen City into two cities, there is no way. Let me tell you, there is no way!!" When the mayor of Beimen learned that Beimen City was going to be split into two cities, he felt like his parents had died. "Unless you drive me out of the position of mayor, it is impossible. The 45 people in Beimen City will not agree to your crude decision..." the mayor of Beimen continued to yell.

And this kind of thing also happened in other places. I can sum it up in just one sentence:

"We disagree!!"

Among them, of course, there are indispensable accusations against the Land Bureau, which undermined the Han economy, undermined unity, etc.

He even labeled the Land Bureau and even Director Hong of the Land Bureau as a traitor.

What followed was negotiation with the Land Bureau, and some of the rights belonging to the Land Bureau were transferred. So after this division, everyone became a loser, and the Land Bureau became the winner.

This final revised province establishment treaty was inevitably sent to the desk of Liu Peng, King of Han Dynasty.

Liu Peng then gave the final instructions:
“Establishing a province is our country’s long-term plan for the next hundred or even hundreds of years... The original regional system was cumbersome and confusing, and it has been tried in our country, so it was changed to a province.”

"The change of jurisdiction in the original area is an act of reintegrating the territory and developing the country. It is not selfish..."

Liu Peng's last words brought an end to the establishment of the entire province and suppressed the restlessness of the local factions.

In the end, according to the final decision of the cabinet, the entire Han Dynasty was divided into six provinces and one city.

The largest province among them is the former California area (excluding the Baja California Peninsula), which was renamed Hanzhou Province, which means the place where the dragon of the Han Dynasty flourished.

The Baja California Peninsula was renamed Haixi Province, which means the west of the sea (of course, this west refers to the west coast of Han Dynasty)

The Nevada area was changed to Mobei Province, so the land is mostly desert.

Arizona was changed to Jiuyuan Province, taking the ancient place names from the Han Dynasty.

Sonora State was changed to Lingnan Province, taking the meaning of ancient Lingnan in China. (Also known as New Lingnan)
The state of Sinaloa was changed to Guangling Province, taking the name of the ancient Chinese state of Yangzhou.

And the first city is naturally Xijing, the capital of Han Dynasty.

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