African Nationhood

July 1908, 7, Hanking, Central Parliament Hall.

The State Council of the South China Autonomous Territory will be held here soon.

The reason why the State Council was held here in the Central Parliament was because there was really no decent large-scale venue in Hanking (today's Pretoria).

Chairman Shi and Premier Ouyang have agreed to carry out major construction projects in Hanking within the next five years.

It is necessary to build a new government affairs center, military building and chairman's palace.

The Military Building was directly copied from the old American Pentagon. Anyway, there was no concept of the Pentagon at this time.

As for the government affairs center, Mr. Shi has no idea yet, but he must make it a landmark building (collect cases of the government affairs center building).

As for the Chairman's Palace, it is a building complex with both oriental garden style and later architectural style.

Shi Jintang planned to call this mansion "Xinghan Palace".

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When government officials enter the meeting, they will often ask each other, have the goals been achieved?

Everyone was smiling. After all, Nanhua Kingdom had just started and the mission could be completed with normal efforts.

Even the two ministers, Fu Tong and Liu Jiazhao, who had expressed difficulty in the meeting before, were smiling very happily today, indicating that they had accomplished their mission well.

When Chairman Shi Jintang and Prime Minister Ouyang Geng arrived, everyone immediately stood up and applauded to welcome the two heads of government.

Chairman Shi slowly walked onto the stage, waving to the officials present as he walked.

After the two leaders took their seats, many officials took their seats.

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Ouyang Geng picked up the document in his hand, nodded to Chairman Shi who was sitting alone, and then looked at the officials present.

"The document in my hand is a summary of the achievements of our South China Dominion's work in the past five years. Looking at this report card, my heart is surging and I feel honored. Here, on behalf of the cabinet, I would like to express my hard work to everyone here. ”

As soon as Premier Ouyang finished speaking, the audience burst into thunderous applause again, and Chairman Shi also smiled and applauded.

The applause stopped and Premier Ouyang continued to speak.

"In the past five years, our country has made many breakthroughs and many hard-won achievements. These are the fruits of your hard work and your merits!"

"Papa~~~"

Seeing that it was almost done, Prime Minister Ouyang Geng pressed his hand down, "I will talk about the summarized data here first, and then each department will report it separately.

The first is the agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry sector, which has achieved a breakthrough of three times the target set in 1903, which deserves encouragement! "

"Papa~"

"The second is the Ministry of Human Resources. As of June, the total population of South China has reached 6 million, which is an overfulfillment of the task!"

"Papa~"

"The results of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce are very good. The total industrial output value is 186.3 billion yuan, which is 56 billion yuan more than expected. It is an overfulfillment of the task!"

"Papa~"

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Every time Premier Ouyang Geng mentioned that a project was overfulfilled, everyone clapped during the first half of the meeting, and many people's palms were almost swollen from clapping. "Now, I would like to ask Minister Tan Yaoxun of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Animal Husbandry to report on the specific situation."

Tan Yaoxun stood up and opened his notebook, "Dear Chairman Shi Jintang and Prime Minister Ouyang Geng, let me report on the performance of the domestic agricultural sector in the past five years.

The current domestic annual wheat output is 980.5 million tons, the annual soybean output is 890.3 million tons, the annual rice output is 585.2 million tons, and the annual cotton output is 500 million bales.

The annual output of coffee beans is 451 million pounds, the annual output of tobacco is 178 million pounds, the annual output of sisal is 1.3 tons, the annual output of sucrose is 3400 tons, and the annual output of white sugar is 1001 tons.

The amount of domestic farmland cultivated has increased significantly, reaching a total of 1600 million hectares, and the number of pastures has reached 1805 million hectares.

The number of registered employees on state-owned farms has reached 809 million. These prime-age laborers have greatly accelerated the development of agriculture and animal husbandry on state-owned farms.

There are currently 2160 state-owned farm vehicles and 1328 diesel tractors. With the help of these agricultural machinery, our planting capabilities have been greatly improved.

There are more than 1890 agricultural machinery in the hands of farmers, mainly cars, and the share of diesel tractors is still very low.

We will increase the promotion of agricultural machinery in the future, and at the same time, we will cooperate with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to develop agricultural machinery that is more suitable for agricultural production.

The growth of the national treasury's material reserves has accelerated. Currently, there are 2550 million tons of wheat reserves, 3345 million tons of corn, 999 million tons of rice, 1422 million tons of soybeans, and 2122 million tons of dried sweet potatoes.

24.3 tons of dried sardines and sturgeons, 16.6 tons of dried beef and sheep, 351 million pieces of cotton cloth, 191.5 million pounds of tobacco, 5995 tons of sugar, and 1.3 tons of sucrose.

In addition, the number of cattle, sheep, and horses in state-owned pastures has also increased significantly, including 3217.6 million sheep, 371 million cattle, and 402 million horses.

Herdsmen raise 812 million sheep, 132 million cattle, and 88.4 horses.

Through these data, it can be seen that with the popularity of agricultural machinery, the role of horses among the people is declining, and people are increasingly inclined to purchase machinery.

After all, machinery only needs to be refueled to work well, while livestock require extra care, which consumes more energy and is gradually declining in cost performance. "

Tan Yaoxun's speech was clear and concise, and everyone responded with warm applause.

"The following is Minister Futong from the Ministry of Human Resources, who will talk about the country's population structure."

Futong stood up and opened his notebook, "As of June 1908, the total population of the mainland was 6 million.

Among them, there are 1520 million Chinese, 73 Koreans, 63 Japanese, 63 Russians, 53 British, 44 Boers (including Portuguese), 34 Germans, and various ethnic groups in Southeast Asia. There are 31.3 people, including 10.5 Italians and 6 Arabs.

Here, we would like to express our gratitude to our colleagues in the Department of Medicine. Without your hard work, our department would not be able to achieve the goals set by the cabinet so quickly. "

Xia Yi, the Minister of Medicine and Health, waved her hand, "Minister Fu is so polite, everyone is doing this for Nanhua."

"After talking about the population structure, let me talk about domestic civil welfare. In the past, our welfare system mainly targeted orphans and disabled soldiers.

As the number of immigrants from South China gradually increases, our orphan admission rate is also gradually increasing. Currently, there are a total of 23.8 registered orphans.

There are children of all ages. In order for young children to feel the warmth of family, our department would like to propose to the cabinet to open restrictions on family adoption.

The longer the government keeps people in custody, the more it will cost, easily causing a financial burden on the government.

Moreover, there are still many families in the folk who have good living conditions, but have few children, and are very eager to have children to maintain the family and family inheritance. "

Shi Jintang nodded gently after listening to Futong's suggestion, "The suggestion made by Minister Fu is very good. Before, we always thought of giving orphans something to rely on, but we did not consider the emotional needs of children and private families.

I think this matter can be left to the Central Parliament to issue a special law to regulate the conditions for the adoption of orphans, so that the children can feel the warmth of the family but also prevent the children from being abused and enslaved when they arrive in their new family. "

James Herzog from the Ministry of Justice immediately stood up and responded, "Okay, Chairman, we will handle this matter with the Central Council."

Ouyang Geng saw that Chairman Shi had no intention of continuing to speak. He looked at Liu Jiazhao and said, "Minister Liu, please tell me." (End of Chapter)