Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 474 Economic Work ([-])

After Qiang Quansheng's report was submitted to the Government Affairs Council, it aroused heated discussions within the Council of Government Affairs, not surprisingly.

To be honest, the time travelers who manage the small country on the east coast are just small people before time travel.Their structure, knowledge, experience and other aspects of quality may often be very average, so it is really not easy for them to develop the country like this in the past ten years.Most of the time, they don't know what to do, and they don't know how to formulate many policies. Most of the time, they are crossing the river by feeling the stones, learning and summarizing while managing the country.Fortunately, although everyone is not a genius, they are not idiots either, so the country has gradually started to operate through the collective wisdom and efforts, and it seems to be working well.

However, they are not experts or professional politicians after all. When the country was still small and the total economic volume was not large at the beginning, they might still be able to fool them based on the experience of later generations.But when the country has grown to have a population of more than 8, several foreign agencies, thousands of troops, dozens of large ships, dozens of factories, tens of thousands of acres of farmland, and an annual import and export volume of millions, This group of "old revolutionaries" has encountered a new situation. Perhaps the previous methods should be reformed. The country's regulations and systems are also very rough. They must also strengthen their exploration and learning, otherwise they may not be able to keep pace with the times.

Now they are facing such a situation.When the total economic volume developed to a new stage and the commodity economy began to develop day by day, the job of managing the country became an increasingly delicate job.It requires a wealth of knowledge, scientific tools, and sharp minds, which are especially important in economic work.A group of half-way monks from the Government Affairs Council really started to cross the river by feeling the stones at this time, carefully controlling the direction of the giant ship on the east bank.

Qiang Quansheng's report made them more aware of the complexity of economic work, especially on the east coast where many resources need to be imported. Any change in external factors may cause waves in the domestic market, thus affecting the economy and stable operation of society.It is conceivable that once a war breaks out, the life of ordinary citizens on the east coast may drop directly to the level of the first few years.At that time, there is no need to compile the price index change table, because the price index during the military control period has no meaning, and the citizens will spend the war years in shortage of supplies until the gradual recovery of foreign trade.

The bureaucrats in the State Council finally reached a consensus after several meetings and discussions.They decided to immediately compile a more detailed price-weighted arithmetic index table that includes more commodities. At the same time, they set aside a special fund (no more than 3 yuan) every month to purchase some more important materials in the international market. Enrich the reserves of major material warehouses in China.When necessary, the material warehouse can directly sell the goods in stock to temporarily stabilize prices, and then wait for the crisis to be lifted.

While the officials and gentlemen of the Government Affairs Council were discussing, Qiang Quansheng had already split up with several members of the Economic Countermeasures Committee to conduct research in various parts of the country.And the place where Qiang Quansheng will go is naturally Dongfang County.There are one town and five townships in Dongfang County with different levels of economic development. Qiang Quansheng traveled upstream along the golden waterway of Dayu River on a steamboat of an inland river transportation company, and visited Henan Township and Dingyuan Township along the way. , Miannong Township, Zhenyuan Township, and Ranch Township to conduct in-depth research, and finally return to the capital office to draft a report.

The steamboat is the most common 72-ton inland river steamer in China, and it carries a lot of sorghum and a small amount of cooking oil shipped from South Africa.On the deck around the cabin, there were a dozen passengers sitting in the open air. They all bought five-cent standing tickets at the ferry, and went to the inland areas for business or to visit relatives.There is also a small cabin in the middle of the ship, which has about seven or eight seats, and the ticket price is [-] cents. Generally, few people spend this money to buy seats.At this time, the cabin was already fully occupied by Qiang Quansheng, his secretaries, and guards. Although the captain didn't know Qiang Quansheng, he knew from the posture that a big shot was coming, so he asked someone to send him here. A pot of mate tea.

"After all, the transportation capacity of Dayu River is still not big enough. Although the river course has been cut, straightened, widened and deepened over the years, the river course is inherently insufficient, seriously silted, and the transportation capacity is limited after all. With the rapid development of townships in inland areas , Dayu River, the golden waterway in the past, has been a bit overwhelmed, and it is gradually not worthy of its name. If I want to say now, the cargo volume of Yihe River has caught up, and that is the real golden waterway." Qiang Quansheng was sitting Looking out of the window on the wooden chair made of Parana pine, he said with emotion.

Jiang Nanqi, a senior investigator of the Ministry of Justice who went to the inland with Qiang Quansheng to conduct research, smiled after hearing this, and said: "Actually, the main reason is that there are fewer boats. Although the river is narrow, if the boats are sailing non-stop for 24 hours, the inland areas will be almost The transfer of materials and personnel in this township and even the adjacent Xiling area Bingtuanbao and Rongjun Farm is not too busy. But now the country is focusing on the development of the Yihe area, and the newly built inland steamboats are given priority there. As a result, the transportation of materials on this section of the Dayu River is not smooth. The shipping is not smooth, but the land transportation on the No. 1 highway next to the Dayu River is developing very well. Especially in Henan Township, all the wood processing plants have been converted to production After the civilian products, the heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages that were mainly developed began to be sold. A while ago, Wang De and others jointly established a transportation company, which specializes in short-distance land transportation, and the business is still good."

The Wang De that Jiang Nanqi said was the former president of the People's Court of Dongfang County. He was shot and a bunch of bad things were pulled out. He resigned in disgrace and went to Xiayihe Fort and Changshan Fort. Served as Circuit Court Judge.Taking a little donkey and two or three entourages with me all day, going over mountains and mountains to deal with some trivial matters, it is very hard.However, after the new government came to power, this guy turned around again, and was promoted to the president of the newly established Yihe District Circuit Court, and became a senior official at the deputy bureau level at the district level.

And Jiang Nanqi himself was also a member of the famous legal department in the political arena in the early days of the Republic.This gentleman is 43 years old this year, graduated with a bachelor's degree in law, worked in a county-level judiciary for 3 years before crossing, and was selected to enter a provincial-level organ, which can be regarded as a success at a young age.However, after the time travel, this person was affected by the overall decline of the legal department, and he was in a slump in the political arena. He first hung out in the Ministry of Justice, then went to do odd jobs in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and then stayed in the Ministry of Education for a while, very depressed.This time, riding on the wind of the new government coming to power, this gentleman jumped to become the president of the Dongfang County People's Court, and served as the president of this perhaps the most important court (deputy bureau level) in the country.

The officials of the law department seem to have ushered in spring in an instant, and their former leader Bai Siwen has also been quite active recently.Bai Siwen, who has just stepped down from his position as the director of the "Historical Invention Office" ridiculed by the time-traversing people, has been frequently seen frequenting the homes of several Central Executive Committee members recently. It is rumored that Bai Siwen will be transferred to the soon-to-be-established Duck Lake The president of the District Circuit Court and the president of the People's Court of Ping'an County is about to make a comeback.

"Dongfang County is densely populated, accounting for almost a quarter of the country's population. Now that various economies have developed, there are indeed many opportunities. Henan Township's wood products, Dingyuan Township's construction supplies, grain and aquatic products, Miannong Township's Cotton from Zhenyuan Township, wool, sheepskin, bacon and tallow from Zhenyuan Township, cowhide and beef from Muchang Township (where the meat factory is located); plus grain from the nearby Invalids Farm, and cotton from Bingtuanbao, there is great potential for short-distance road transportation. "Qiang Quansheng also said in agreement, "It's a pity that the higher-ups have no plans to build a railway here, otherwise it would be good to build a railway."

"Isn't the construction of the railway competing with our road transportation business?" Jiang Nanqi joked.

Qiang Quansheng also laughed, and did not continue this topic.

He arrived in Henan Township soon. After bidding farewell to Jiang Nanqi, Qiang Quansheng took his entourage to the countryside to investigate. He focused on two local medium-sized state-owned enterprises: Henan Glass Factory and Henan Wood Products Factory.

The military business of the Henan Wood Products Factory has been spun off, and it is currently transferred to the West Lake Wood Processing Factory located on the west bank of the Xiaoxi River on the west bank of Duck Lake to make use of the rich wood resources in the virgin forest there.Therefore, the Henan Wooden Products Factory mainly produced some civilian items such as wooden tableware, musical instruments, furniture, and carriages, mainly the wood transported back from the New China colony.But now, they are not even willing to produce wooden tableware and chopsticks with low profit margins. Such as the box of a heavy carriage.

In addition to these, another major task of Henan Wood Products Factory is to plant trees on the large grassland next to the sparse forest, that is, to plant artificial forests.Although this is a grassland terrain, the annual rainfall has reached about 1000 millimeters, which is quite different from the semi-arid grasslands in Inner Mongolia, China, where the annual rainfall is less than 250 millimeters. Therefore, it is still very suitable for planting artificial forests, and Uruguay in later generations And that's exactly what the government does.Uruguayans have planted a large number of economic tree species such as oak, pine, and eucalyptus in large areas along the coast for logging and exporting abroad, and have gained considerable economic benefits.

At this time, although the forest coverage rate in the East Coast Republic was extremely high, most of them were concentrated in the area around Duck Lake in the north, and there were few native forests on the prairie on the south east coast.Therefore, the executive committee decided to imitate the Uruguayan government of later generations and vigorously plant fast-growing artificial forests on this grassland to reduce the logging of virgin forests, and at the same time provide abundant raw material resources for its gradually developing wood processing industry.

(End of this chapter)