For Wang Guojun, the biggest advantage of the elders retiring to found the country in the New World is that there are no big obstacles in governance!
He was considered to be the first among the second generation, but at that time he was only a junior among the dozen or so governors and had no right to speak at all. He was also naturally weak in competing for projects. Fortunately, he was in charge of Jizhou, which was Daqian was in a wealthy state, so he could use the state's finances to carry out the projects he wanted to do. At the same time, because Jizhou was at the center of Daqian's rule, it was also one of the focuses of the court's investment.
Many times, projects came to him without fighting for them. The only project he took the initiative to build was the Grand Canal that ran through the entire Jizhou, but this was also completed with the help of merchants' funds, and now the Grand Canal has run through Youzhou and Yanzhou. , now leads to Luoyang City and has become the most important water transportation road connecting Hebei and the Central Plains. This can be regarded as his greatest achievement in Jizhou back then.
But he had seen many scenes of elders competing for projects. At that time, the elders had high positions and had the ambition to change the world. They all formulated huge development plans. Niu Gui, the prime minister at the time, briefly explained the financial difficulties.
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They will shout: "The imperial court only cares about Hebei and government-run enterprises, and does not care about our place at all. We want to develop on our own, but the imperial court refuses to give us any financial support and wants us to fend for ourselves!"
But Wang Guojun knew that their infrastructure and industrial projects exceeded the imperial government's finances several times. They could not get so much money even if they sold to the imperial court, and they did not have enough materials to build these projects. Because of this incident that year, The most serious inflation in Daqian. The ruling party severely criticized these elders several times before they learned to declare projects according to the court's system.
But great success is the characteristic of these veterans. They can apply for some infrastructure construction, and they will not suffer any loss no matter what they do. However, it is difficult to say that local officials build factories. It is not that local factories have not developed, but because The local area lacked enough technical talents and skilled workers. Most of the factories produced products of poor quality and high prices, and soon these factories were insolvent.
Then they tried to find ways to cut back on the financial support distributed by the imperial court to local governments. At that time, the ruling government allocated funds for local compulsory education and local infrastructure costs. Such veterans were often invested in insolvent factories, with great consequences. Not only did part of the funds go to waste, it also made local officials miserable because a large part of the funds they saved came from their salaries.
In the end, there was no choice but to leave it to the imperial court to take over. The ruling government was also very troubled by this problem. He could only cut off his strength, let these factories go bankrupt, and redistribute personnel. But because of such a hole, local development has to be It has been stagnant for several years!
It can be said that after more than ten years of lessons, these elders understand that industry is not easy to develop. Only the development of plantations has the highest success rate. But because their court has paid enough tuition fees, even the government is very helpless. After all, these elders are In order to develop cadres rather than corruption, he would not severely punish these elders.
When these elders retired, their influence completely faded, and the court's control over local areas was also comprehensively improved. The court vertically controlled local factories, strengthened the management system of money shops, and made it more difficult for local officials to
Control the funds.
As a result, local officials who want to act recklessly have no financial support, and at the same time, their prestige is not enough. Wang Guojun, who was a junior at the time, has now become the leader. At least these governors do not dare to say anything at the meeting.
, the imperial court only cares about Hebei, and at the same time they dare not save money!
However, their tradition of competing for projects has been preserved. After all, as long as they grab a project from the imperial court, it will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, or even more than a billion or even billions of dollars, which can benefit hundreds of thousands of people.
"Prime Minister, you were once the governor of Xiliang and an old Shangguan of us Xiliang people. You can't ignore us. You also know that Xiliang is full of sand. There was originally a Silk Road that could make money.
, but the development of the Maritime Silk Road in recent years has caused them to lose half of their merchants in Xiliang. If you don't care about us anymore, the people of Xiliang will have to eat sand!" Lu Yao, the governor of Xiliang, said with a bitter face.
Xiliang can be said to be the biggest loser in the Age of Discovery. There was originally no Maritime Silk Road. Xiliang's trade routes were the richest in the entire Daqian. In addition, Daqian controlled the Western Regions, and the Kushan Empire was also in its prime.
Have enough purchasing power.
A large amount of silk, tea, sugar and porcelain can trigger the Kushan elites to go crazy. In this case, merchants are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the qualifications to do business in the Western Regions. But now no one is willing to spend this wasted money. Everyone
They all bought sea ships to sell silk to countries like Tianzhu and Tianfang.
If Xiliang had not vigorously developed animal husbandry in recent years and reclaimed a large amount of land to grow cotton and grapes, I am afraid that Xiliang would have declined and become what it was during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
When Wang Guojun heard these pitiful words, he said calmly: "The imperial court also has the greatest support for you in Xiliang. The money spent on desert control alone exceeds 1 billion every year. If it is divided equally among the people of Xiliang, it is enough for each person."
After getting 2,000 yuan, you must know that farmers in the Central Plains only get this little income from farming every year!"
Xu Wei, a later generation, certainly understood the damage caused by desertification to the Western Regions. At this time, desertification in Xiliang and other northern states was not as serious as in later generations. Most of the territory was still beautiful with clear mountains and clear waters. Only Xiliang had a little more desert.
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Xu Wei learned the methods of later generations and used straw to make square grids to control the expansion of the desert. At the same time, he also had this money to allow the Qiang people and other ethnic minorities in Xiliang to have a job that can provide them with food and clothing, so that the Xiliang area will not be destroyed.
When turmoil occurs, this is more cost-effective than spending tens of billions to quell the rebellion.
Xiliang now employs more than 100,000 people all year round to manage the desert in Xiliang. At the same time, Daqian also invests in financial subsidies for Xiliang's infrastructure. The total amount of money is 2 billion. It can be said that it is the investment of this money that slows down the development of Xiliang.
The decline of!
But Lu Yao smiled bitterly and said: "We don't want to rely on the support of the court all the time. The government has always taught us to make enough food and clothing by ourselves. If you don't invest in a steel plant in our Xiliang and build an industrial zone, if there is enough steel, our Xiliang will also
Then we can build railways! By then we can also use railways to connect the Western Regions, so that the Silk Road can be revived!"