Wu Ding was in chaos and civilized people were in peace. It is not easy to conquer the world, but it is even harder to govern the world. The great cause of founding the country requires many plans and cannot be achieved overnight. Therefore, although the "Outline of the Founding of the Country" stipulates it, it will take time to truly establish the country. Wan Lei's plan The country will be established early next year and the year will be changed.
The name of the new country was Hua. Since it was a democratic country, it was also called the Republic of China, which was opposite to the Ming Empire. After the founding of the country, a new calendar was adopted. The first year of the founding of the country was the first year of AD, and the previous year was BC. One year, the first two years, and so on. Except for these small changes, the laws were mostly along the lines of Xibei Province and became law, with only slight changes in the names.
Although Wan Lei is excited that the country is about to be established, most of the areas in Jiangbei have just been pacified and are waiting to be revitalized. The Peking Army has taken over the vast territory of Jiangbei and more than 20 million people. Behind the glory is still a heavy responsibility, and it is far from the time of singing and dancing for peace. hour.
The most troublesome thing for Wan Lei is the management of the Yellow River. Due to the high sand content and large amounts of silt deposits, the riverbed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River is higher than the cities and farmland on both sides of the river. It is a suspended river and is restricted by levees. In recent years, There are continuous wars in the north, and the river embankments are in disrepair for a long time. During the autumn rain season, it may cause a disaster.
The middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River are better. Although soil erosion is serious on the Loess Plateau, there is no danger of river outbursts. The Hetao area can still benefit from its irrigation. The most dangerous section of the Yellow River is in the Henan section, especially in the Kaifeng Prefecture area. Once the river reaches the south, it will seize the Huaihe River to the south, endangering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in the Huaihe River Basin and the lives and property safety of millions of people.
Precisely because the management of the Yellow River is a top priority, Wan Lei sent a commissioner to Henan to inspect water conservancy in early May, and allocated 20 million shi from the millions of shi Ming's army grain reserves collected during the war, plus Beiping Provincial Financial Subsidy All the 400,000 silver dollars issued were used to repair the river embankment.
In addition to supplies, Wan Lei also pulled more than 100,000 Ming Army prisoners of war captured during the war to the river embankment construction site and put these people into "re-education through labor". At the same time, he implemented the "work-for-relief" initiative and recruited refugees from both sides of the Yellow River to go Hundreds of thousands of people rushed to strengthen the river embankment and try their best to repair the river embankment before the summer and autumn rainy seasons to prevent flooding.
While Wan Lei was busy planning the Yellow River management project, on the fifth day of May, all the officials who had been demoted in the Ming Dynasty came to Beiping City. The reason why Wan Lei called these people here was to let them experience the prosperity of Beiping Province in person, so as to strengthen the They have a sense of belonging; the second is to provide them with short-term training to let them understand the laws and regulations of the province, so that they can be enacted in accordance with the laws and regulations of the province.
In fact, the Peiping Army now occupies nine provinces and one district. The nine provinces are Beiping, Liaodong, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan. Together with the newly established Anhui, Hubei and Northern Sichuan, there are nine provinces in total. The first district refers to the Korean subdivision. , it was a newly merged area, so it was set up as a special control area to strengthen management and development.
Among the nine provinces, the North Parallel Province is naturally the big brother. It dominates all provinces in terms of economic strength and political influence. At this time, it is natural to help each province. After all, serious regional differences are not conducive to the unification of the country, and serious The polarization between rich and poor will even lead to the division of the country, which Wan Lei will not allow.
Therefore, Wan Lei gave a speech at a dinner reception for officials from various places who came to Peiping for further study, promising to increase financial support to provinces other than Peiping and Liaodong after the founding of the Republic of China to assist the provinces in accelerating their development.
The most important of them are two types of projects: one is the railway project, the central government will build two main railway lines from Peking to Yangzhou and Beiping to Xi'an within five years; the second type is the farmland water conservancy project, focusing on regulating the Yellow River and Huaihe River. The construction of additional reservoirs and water diversion irrigation projects have turned hundreds of millions of acres of cultivated land in the Yellow River and Huaihe River basins into fertile soil.
"Everyone, the world that is about to be conquered must be ruled immediately. One man has a few people but a united will. We sincerely welcome all people of insight to join us and work together to benefit all people and create peace for all generations." Wan Lei said this. As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of people below stood up and applauded.
"As the honorary dean of the School of Administration, I would like to remind everyone that officials of seventh grade and above must graduate from the School of Administration before they can serve. Every time they are promoted, they must come to the School of Administration for further study. Anyone who is greedy for pleasure rather than making progress will definitely be punished. There is no future.”
"In addition, I would like to remind everyone that graduating from the Administrative College does not mean that you will have a golden job. However, if anyone is found to have violated laws and disciplines, he will not only be expelled from the official position, but will also be severely punished and disciplined in accordance with the law. "Wan Lei glanced at the reserve officials below with a serious look on his face, and all the officials felt awe in their hearts.
The atmosphere of the banquet became a little serious. Wan Lei paused and said: "Now I lack a few assistants who are good at water conservancy. If you are interested in working in this field, you can come and sign up within five days, and attach the For a river control plan, I will select five to ten water control specialists to help me plan for the management of the Yellow and Huai rivers."
Hearing that Wan Lei wanted to recruit an assistant, all the demoted officials present were overjoyed. They surrendered to the Peking Army in order to find a better way out, and also to achieve something. Now Wan Lei has built a bigger platform for them. , and let them use their expertise. This is what they dream of, so they responded in groups.
The reason why Wan Lei wanted to call in the assistants for river control was not only to bring the surrendered troops back home, but also because there was a lack of officials with experience in water control among the team in Beipingxing Province. Among this batch of demoted officials, many of them were in Huang I work in the Huaihe area and understand the water conditions along both sides of the river. With their help, I will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
The reason why the selection period is set at five days is because Wan Lei will soon leave Peiping to inspect the military and political affairs of Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi and other provinces in the west. While inspecting the management of the Yellow River, he is also trying to appease the people in each province and make the people truly aware of the situation as soon as possible. The earth returns to the heart.
Wan Lei will be away for at least two months during this western inspection. Naturally, he must arrange important military and government affairs before leaving. On this inspection, he will be accompanied by business representatives from the Yan Chamber of Commerce. These people are patrolling everywhere, naturally looking for business opportunities. Yes, Wan Lei also encouraged them to invest and set up industries in the newly established provinces to promote balanced economic development in various places.
Fu Wei was very dissatisfied with Wan Lei's travels, because Wan Lei had just come back and was about to leave, but she couldn't say anything. Who asked her to marry the busiest man in the world. But Zhao Xueer was extremely happy. Because every time Wan Lei went out, he would take her with him to tour the mountains and rivers and point out the mountains and rivers. Naturally, she was very happy.
In fact, Wan Lei had no choice. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in addition to establishing the outline and establishing discipline, there were many affairs. He took advantage of his son's young age, so he walked around as much as possible to get everything done. When his son reached the age of three or four, he should feel at ease. He stayed at home with his son. Fu Wei also knew about her husband's good intentions, so he rarely complained.