Chapter One Thousand and Eleven If His Majesty Says Yes, He Will Do It!
On the third day of the first lunar month, the land of Liaodong was still covered with snow, and while the soldiers and civilians in Shenyang were still immersed in the New Year atmosphere, Jia Liu had secretly left Shenyang and set off to enter the customs.
On the first day of the first lunar month, after giving out New Year's money to Wen and Wu who attended the imperial meeting, Jia Liu held a meeting to decide the fate of the outside world and the fate of China in the future.
According to the spirit of the meeting, Liaodong Province will be established outside the customs, and the provincial capital will be located in Shenyang. The jurisdiction will be the former Shengjing General's jurisdiction, mainly including three major areas: western Liaoning, southern Liaoning, and eastern Liaoning.
The current population is 750,000, of which 700,000 are the Eight Banners who originally stayed outside the pass, and the remaining 50,000 are Han people inside the pass who have been "smuggled" from Shanhaiguan to Liaodong in recent years to seek life, and some Mongolians.
It is planned that in the second year of the Reform, that is, this year, at least 500,000 to 800,000 people will move out of the pass to enrich the western Liaoning corridor and the states in southern Liaoning.
In the future, we will also adopt a plan of construction and immigration at the same time to ensure that the total population outside the customs can exceed 10 million in the ten years of reform.
The main sources of immigrants are: first, refugees and beggars within the customs; second, prisoners from various places; third, experts and technical personnel sent by the imperial court and their family records and garrison family records; fourth, personnel recruited from within the customs through recruitment.
The imperial court will provide no less than ten million taels of funds for this purpose to ensure that immigrants can have houses, land, seeds, production tools, and corresponding living facilities after they arrive outside the customs.
The largest funder of this funding is currently the Burial Love Family.
Since the overall population outside the customs is too sparse at present, after listening to the opinions of all parties, the jurisdiction will not be subdivided for the time being. That is, except for Liaodong Province, the rest of the provinces will not be governed by provinces for the time being. The original Heilongjiang General Defense Area, Jilin General Defense Area, and Ningguta Defense Area
It was changed into three provincial-level military regions, each with troops stationed in one town, with Tongzhi as the highest military and political officer.
In addition, military divisions were set up in Temple Street, Morgan, Horqin, Boli and other places, and each division was stationed in an association.
Zu Yingyuan, the former admiral of the Second Army, was appointed as the Economic and Strategic Envoy to the Kwantung region and was fully responsible for military and political affairs in all areas outside the Kwantung region, including Liaodong, Liaonan, Liaoxi, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Ningguta, and Monan Mongolia.
In addition to the Second Army being changed to the Kwantung Frontier Defense Force, Xinyi Town, commanded by Anmu, surrendered with the Manchu-Mongolian Allied Forces, and the remaining troops of the Eight Banners outside the Kwantung Pass were merged to form the Mongolian Garrison.
The Kwantung Border Defense Force and the Mongolian Garrison Force are directly under the Kwantung Economic Strategy Command. In addition to dealing with the Russians, they are also responsible for the security of Mobei Mongolia.
The Baonyeong Department of the First Army, which was originally under the Dongjin Corps, was secretly transferred from Jinzhou to the pass. Later, the two Huncheng towns under the command of the Dongjin Corps will also enter the pass one after another to enrich the capital and prepare for the Western Expedition.
Before leaving, Jia Liu met Zu Yingyuan alone and left him a cross-signal - "First lay the foundation, and then prepare for war."
After leaving Shenyang, the Emperor's Special Train changed horses and passengers along the way without making any stops.
On the way, in addition to reviewing official documents sent from various places, Jia Liu was still accustomed to reading newspapers.
In addition to the "Qing Daily" under the supervision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there is also the "Weixin Daily" sponsored by the cabinet.
Compared with the Qing Dynasty, the Restoration cannot be said to be plagiarism, it can only be said that it is exactly the same.
"Qing Daily" talks about ideology, while "Reform Daily" talks about consciousness.
The Qing Dynasty emphasized common progress, while the Reform emphasized common development.
The Qing Dynasty was about developing science and technology, while the Reform was about improving productivity.
The Qing Dynasty taught the application of Western learning, while the Reform taught the barbarians how to improve their skills in order to control the barbarians.
Anyway, there was no innovation at all during the Reform Movement.
However, Jia Liu was not angry. Instead, he said complacently: "This is a good sign. It shows that the cabinet generally respects me."
"Of course, of course, those who disrespect His Majesty are floating behind His Majesty."
The two cabinet members in the carriage nodded.
In fact, although the Cabinet is responsible for the "Weixin Daily News", the actual person in charge is Chairman Li of the Gongjin Association. Neither Lao Ji nor Queenie has jurisdiction over this newspaper.
Therefore, the two prime ministers and deputy ministers also had no idea what this newspaper reported.
But as long as His Majesty the Emperor is happy.
"Time waits for no one. From now on, not only the cabinet, but also all departments and localities must work hard to be efficient and not procrastinate..."
When Jia Liu was giving instructions, Wang Sixi, the security director, asked for instructions from outside: "Your Majesty, Balipu is ahead. Do you want to stop and rest?"
"No, I'll take a pee when I get to Shanhaiguan."
While he was talking, the special train suddenly made a "plop" sound. When the entire carriage was raised, the emperor and the ministers in the carriage also rose and fell in unison, and their heads were knocked dizzy.
The road conditions are not very good.
There are always potholes in the road.
Although the special train has tried its best to reduce shock, the road conditions still caused the special train to be very bumpy along the way.
Especially since the tires were made of wood instead of rubber, Jia Liu, who was sitting in the special train, almost fell apart.
However, Jia Liu was used to this and did not even ask the driver to slow down. As a result, Lao Ji and Kuini suffered a lot. Both of them were old bones, how could they compare with the young emperor Liu.
Along the way, the two ministers felt like they wanted to die.
Queenie couldn't stand it anymore and said, "This road is too bad. Let's ask the Ministry of Revenue to squeeze in some money and widen and smooth the post road from Shanhaiguan to Shenyang first. How can it be done with this traffic condition?"
Lao Ji Shen agreed: "If you want to be rich, build roads first. If the road conditions are bad, you will miss important events."
"The road must be built, but I want to build a railway besides the post road."
Jia Liu magically pulled out a box from under his buttocks, rummaged through the box for a while and took out a rolled-up drawing and spread it out on the small table in front of him.
With sharp eyes, Lao Ji and Queenie both noticed the words written on the iron box under His Majesty the Emperor's buttocks - "For Doraemon only".
What does Doraemon mean?
The two prime ministers and deputy ministers were confused. They felt more and more that the Six Emperors were different from ordinary people and had many secrets.
"Look here, what are you looking at the box for?"
Jia Liu directed the eyes of the two cabinet ministers to the drawing on the table, which was the railway plan drawn up by Jia Liu himself.
But for now, I have drawn one.
It is the railway from the capital to Shenyang via Shanhaiguan, with a total length of 1,400 miles, stopping at Yongping, Jinzhou, Liaoyang, and Shenyang along the way.
Just when the two cabinet ministers looked confused, Jia Liu was already dancing: "Railway, do you understand? It is the kind that is paved with rails and then takes the train... The train is the kind that everyone risks
It's smoky, do you understand?
don't know?
You know the steam engine, yes, yes, it is the machine that I asked people to buy from the Westerners. With the steam engine, the chemical energy of coal can be converted into thermal energy, and then into mechanical energy, and then it can turn the wagons one by one.
Pull it up, everything is gone..."
The description of the six emperors racking their brains did not resonate with the two prime ministers and deputy ministers, that is, they could not understand it, but it did not affect the two prime ministers and deputy ministers who unanimously said: "Your Majesty said it can be done, then it must be done!"
"As long as your thinking doesn't slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties."
Jia Liu closed the railway planning drawings with satisfaction. He had a steam engine, and he knew a little bit about laying rails. He could definitely solve the technical problem of how to make the steam engine pull the train. Therefore, he was once again ahead of the West by at least twenty years.
Once railway construction reaches a large scale, the value generated will be earth-shattering.