In the Jianji Hall of the Daming Palace, Li Mingyuan was sitting in front of the palace, with several personal guards standing beside him, and nearly a hundred officials and generals sitting below.
"After the establishment of the empire, the old rules from the past need to be changed. Officials will be directly addressed by their positions, and titles such as "sir" will no longer be mentioned."
Li Mingyuan stared at the officials below and continued, "Reform and reform are related to the country's development plan. All the bad habits and bad laws of the backward era must be eradicated. At the same time, the land immigration policy is the foundation of national stability and cannot be shaken. The central government and
Local officials at all levels must strictly deal with those involved in illegal land occupation. Those new landowners who are stubborn in their thinking, collude with government and businessmen to embezzle national land, or whose land area exceeds the prescribed upper limit and fail to pay land value-added taxes on time should be investigated and dealt with.
Exile should be exiled. The country has been established for more than ten years, and although the number of citizens is slightly insufficient, there is no need for some moths to destroy the development of the country."
Clan and old-style large landowners were the biggest obstacles to the development of industrialization. During the late Qing Dynasty, the Westernization Movement in the mainland had been ineffective, which had a lot to do with the conservative landowners who occupied the main local resources.
The old-style landlords only know how to replace money and family property with land, and are bent on expanding the land area and using the land to exploit farmers and laborers. They have no thoughts and ideas about developing an industrial economy. A large amount of social idle funds are confined to the land. Even if the government wants to develop the national economy,
There was also a lack of necessary start-up funds, and the late Qing government strictly prevented the people from civilizing and rebelling. Therefore, from the beginning, the Westernization Movement was reduced to a tool of corruption by the Eight Banners aristocrats, officials and gentry, and it was impossible to achieve the desired results.
The Han Dynasty was newly established on foreign territory. New immigrants from the same area were usually dispersed and arranged in different settlements, which blocked the development of clan power to a certain extent. However, the old-fashioned Chinese habit of relying on land gradually improved in a short period of time.
Ten years later, it still has not been fundamentally corrected.
Almost all the Chinese families who immigrated earlier and made a fortune purchased five to six hundred acres of good arable land. The total of arable land, forest land, pasture and other land exceeds the national land ownership limit. There are also many families. However, they are limited by the influence of old habits.
, the emerging landowners who own five to six hundred acres or two to three thousand acres of land also want to obtain more land, and many people try their best to evade taxes on the land area that exceeds the upper limit stipulated by the state. The local government handles this every year.
There are no less than 700 to 800 land-related tax evasion cases.
It is impossible to expect emerging landowners to abide by national regulations, voluntarily return over-occupied land or pay taxes normally according to the land area. Therefore, from the national government level, we must strengthen the intensity and intensity of enforcement, continue to strengthen the handling and supervision of similar cases, and then initially
In the first stage, the government takes the lead and establishes a mixed industrial system with state-owned heavy industrial enterprises as the mainstay and private light industrial enterprises as the supplement. It gradually reverses the incorrect concept of land among the people and allows each farmer to own a piece of land of moderate area.
The energy is attracted to the direction of industrial and commercial development and promotes the national economy to maintain a healthy and stable state.
"Your Majesty, the Inspectorate and the Ministry of Security officials stationed in various prefectures and counties are preparing to carry out the second phase of the purge operation in accordance with your Majesty's instructions. I believe that after a one-year comprehensive purge operation, the local officialdom and the economy will be better.
Great improvement.”
"The campaign to purge officialdom cannot be relaxed at all."
Li Mingyuan nodded and said, "After the second phase of the purge operation begins, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Household Affairs and other departments will also send some officials to various local prefectures and counties to assist the Supervisory Office and the Ministry of Security in the investigation work."
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will definitely cooperate with the investigation and evidence collection work of the Inspectorate and the Ministry of Security."
The ministers of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Household Affairs jointly expressed their stance.
"The officialdom purge, investigation and punishment of illegal land occupation, and tax evasion must be continued, and other development issues cannot be relaxed."
Li Mingyuan ordered his attendants to take out a huge map and hang it on the wall on the west side of the palace. He explained, "Before the Argentine War, the government discovered a number of gold, copper, iron ore and other large and medium-sized mines in northern Wuzhou and Congo.
However, the country was weak at the time, so in order to prevent the mineral area from being interfered with and embezzled by powerful countries, it could only be sealed up first.
Now that several years have passed, the situation in the local area has stabilized, and the Corrales Mine in Wuzhou can start mining. And the troops stationed in Patagonia recently received news that they were in Jinzhou
Several gold and silver mines have been discovered in (Santa Cruz Province). I have sent people to investigate and verify. If the discovered gold and silver mines meet the mining standards, I will send some engineers and militia to assist in the mining.
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"Patagonia is vast and sparsely populated. When the government organized immigration, few people were willing to live there. Now, since the Patagonian garrison has discovered several gold and silver mines in Shouzhou,
It is better to spread this news and attract people to move to Shouzhou, Jinzhou, Xizhou and other southern remote areas."
Minister of Household Affairs Zhang Guanghai suggested.
"Gold and silver mines alone are not enough. If we want people to stay in Patagonia for a long time, we must choose suitable areas for immigrants to live."
Li Mingyuan paused for a while, recalling Ye Chenglin's report about the natural environment of various regions in Patagonia, and then pointed to several points on the map with a pointer in his right hand and said, "Central Patagonia south of the Negro River."
In the southern region, rainfall is gradually decreasing, and there are deserts and red cliffs. The areas suitable for immigrants are mainly located in the coastal areas. Under current conditions, the inland areas that are more suitable for immigrants are several settlements established by Argentines in the early years.
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San Carlos, Esquel, Las Plumas, Las Nuez, San Julian and El Calafate near Argentine Lake. These six settlements have a moderate natural environment and a life suitable for immigrants.
The water sources, grasslands and other resources can serve as the first resettlement base for immigrants from the interior of Patagonia."
The pointer moves to the right, pointing toward the Atlantic coast of Patagonia.
"Puerto Blanca, Viedma, Rosen, and Port de Seado extend to the waters surrounding the Malvinas Islands in the north of Tierra del Fuego. They are rich in fishery resources. As early as 1832, Americans in order to poach
There was a conflict between the local fishery resources and the Argentines on the Malvinas Islands. The Americans burned down the immigrant strongholds established by the Argentines on the islands and sent warships to the Argentine coast to provoke escorts, which led to the Argentine occupation of the Malvinas Islands.
The behavior failed.
According to seized information, before 1878, the total amount of fishery and aquatic products caught by Argentines in Patagonia every year was about 17,000 tons. If the amount illegally hunted by Uruguay, the United States, Brazil and other countries is added, Brazil
In the Atlantic coastal area of Tagonia, the annual output of fishery and aquatic products should be more than 20,000 tons.
Fisheries and aquatic products are an important export resource for the country. A few months ago, because the government was busy taking over the legacy of Argentina and had no energy to interfere with fishing activities along the coast of Patagonia, American fishing boats and Brazilian fishing boats entered and exited the offshore areas at will to fish illegally.
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But from now on, we can no longer sit back and watch the illegal fishing activities of other countries. People in the southern part of the mainland who are willing to move and people who move in from the mainland and Southeast Asia must be resettled in Patagonia's coastal and inland settlements as soon as possible.
, giving the Chinese population an absolute advantage in the local area,
At the same time, the Navy dispatches some warships together with offshore escort vessels to regularly patrol the Patagonian waters. If foreign fishing boats are found to be illegally fishing, they will immediately arrest or deport them to protect the interests of fishery resources in the local offshore areas from being damaged by other countries."
"Your Majesty, what should you do if you encounter a British merchant ship?"
"Treat everyone equally. However, if the behavior of British merchant ships is not too excessive, try to expel them as the main force to avoid escalating the situation and triggering British retaliation."