The things discussed and agreed upon need to be put into practice to be meaningful, so early the next morning, Gao Pragmatic went to Shu to ask for the construction of the second city of Fuxin and Dandong. The reasons given were basically consistent with the discussions between him, Wu Dui and Liang Menglong, and he also added a
The "big principle": Comprehensively consolidate the border, build Liaodong, and lay a solid foundation.
This time, Gao Jingshi's dredging was extremely smooth. The emperor was very interested in building two new cities without spending money. Especially when Gao Jingshi mentioned that Fuxin is suitable for growing corn and raising horses, he was very interested in Zhu Yijun, and Zhu Yijun quickly approved it.
, let the Ministry of Works calculate labor costs and other matters.
What is even more interesting is that the Xinxue School did not raise any doubts about Gao Pragmatic’s memorial, and probably they could not find any suitable reason.
In the final analysis, Gao Pragmatic's plan this time is more thorough and does not cost "people's effort." According to Gao Pragmatic, the victims of Baoding and Hejian Prefectures in Beizhili, which were damaged by severe snowstorms and ice disasters last winter, can go to the imperial court.
Under the arrangement, the victims were relocated to Dandong; the victims of the 21 disaster-stricken counties in Shaanxi and Shanxi were relocated to Fuxin.
There are many people affected by the disaster in these two places. Baoding and Hejian Prefectures are densely populated. The damage caused by the snowstorm caused the collapse of houses. The number of homeless people with no fixed homes is as high as 167,000. Gao Pragmatic suggested that all people under the age of 50 should move to Dandong.
Those who are over ten years old are allowed to apply by themselves (because although some people are older, their family members and relatives may have moved away, and they have someone to rely on when they move there).
The disaster situation in central Shanxi and northern Shaanxi is more complicated. In addition to the ice and snow disasters in winter, they were first hit by a wave of locust plagues in the autumn. Therefore, the situation is now even worse. It is expected that at least six people will be affected in the 21 counties affected by the disaster.
Seven hundred thousand people affected by the disaster are living in difficulty.
However, not all of these 600,000 to 700,000 people have reached the point of complete desperation. The Ministry of Household Affairs has not been able to grasp the actual number of which people have completely lost their livelihood. It can only rely on the inscriptions of local officials in various places to judge. It is expected that
There are nearly 200,000 victims who have nothing.
However, unlike the two prefectures in North Zhili, which can be concentrated in Cangzhou and shipped directly to Dandong and Shanxi, it is much more troublesome for the victims in Shaanxi to take the sea route. They must first gather on the edge of the Yellow River, and then go straight down the Yellow River to near the estuary.
Then transfer to a sea ship to land at Yingkou, Liaodong, then take a waterway to the north, and finally transfer to Fuxin by land.
Such a long distance and so many changes of travel mode are also a big test for the imperial court. The imperial court itself certainly does not have such a strong and comprehensive transportation force, so it will inevitably need the help of Jinghua in this matter.
Supply points during transportation need to reserve a large amount of grain, medicinal materials and even cloth, oil, salt and other materials in advance. These need to be requested by the Ministry of Revenue in advance for local officials to prepare. If there is insufficient local reserve, the Ministry of Revenue will also
Need to prepare in advance.
It has never been easy to immigrate in ancient society. It is common for 30% of people to die on the road. What's more, it is not that unusual for half of them to die. But Gao Pragmatic deeply hates this phenomenon. What he hates most is the meaningless sacrifice of life.
, so when the emperor's approval came, he immediately organized manpower to start preparations, and also issued a gathering order to Jinghua to mobilize all the resources and forces that could be mobilized to avoid death or even illness of immigrants as much as possible.
Since this matter was Gao Jingjing's idea, and Jinghua was his own property, in order to prevent him from being impeached later, Gao Jingshi also proposed a "budget" early on, including the expenses Jinghua would need during the relocation and transportation.
The responsibilities assumed are clearly written.
At the same time, the “land enclosure bidding” for the whole society has also begun.
Jinghua first announced the "Enclosure Bidding" planning map of Fuxin New Town. This map mainly divides the agate distribution mountainous area in Fuxin area (Liaohe Hetao area) into several plots for auction-style bidding. Jinghua bought two plots in advance.
Zuoshan is also among them - Gao Pragmatic has made it clear that he will not interfere in the agate industry.
Because agate is different from other minerals, it is generally difficult to form a so-called mineral deposit. Therefore, auctions are equivalent to "selling mountains" operations. The specific operations such as digging of rough stones are organized by the buyers themselves, whether they mine it themselves or outsource it, the Ministry of Household Affairs
Don't care about it.
However, precisely because mineral deposits cannot be formed, buying mountains also involves a certain risk of gambling. At this time, Jinghua’s status in the eyes of the world is reflected. The two mountains held by Jinghua sold for the highest price, and the mountains around them also
Obviously more expensive.
According to Gao Jingshi's previous regulations, 10% of the revenue from all the "Agate Mountains" sold will be directly allocated to Fuxin City, which is under construction, for the construction of city walls and other purposes. The remaining funds will be used for the construction of lanes or border areas after consultation between the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry.
For the purpose of wall construction, it may even be used as the Hetao border wall, Fuxin Bingbing Preparation Yamen (estimated), Fuxin Guerrilla General Yamen (estimated) and other construction and expense expenses.
The bidding situation of this auction was not much different from Gao Pragmatic's expectation. Not only nobles from various families participated, but also many civil servants and military generals were very interested and participated in it one after another.
To be honest, Gao Pragmatic is not optimistic about this kind of influx. He predicts that many people will definitely quit this industry in the next ten years at most, and most of the "Agate Mountain" they bought now will be bought by others.
Eventually Fuxin will also form several giants in the agate industry.
However, this is more pragmatic and does not matter. He actually gave Liang Menglong some advice: Don’t be anxious about buying a mountain. What is anxious is to try your best to find those ancestral jade craftsmen as soon as possible. After his advice, Liang Menglong really arranged his family.
People went to organize things.
This is all that can be done in Fuxin for the time being, and there is not much that can be prepared in advance for the subsequent specific construction. Anyway, there is a cement factory in Jinghua in Kaiping, and the food needed after the first batch of immigrants arrives. The Ministry of Household Affairs will mobilize corn from Liaodong nearby.
to support.
Gao Pragmatic started the bidding work for Dandong City non-stop. Dandong is characterized by border trade and ports. The bidding for border trade is a bit more complicated. This matter must be coordinated with the Ministry of Industry, because the bidding is mainly for the Lifang land in Dandong City.
, obviously it needs to be planned in advance. However, the Ministry of Industry has no plan before, so it will obviously have to wait for some time.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The port issue is not very easy either. The reason is that there is no place suitable as a seaport near Dandong City. It can only be used as a river mouth port. The location of the seaport needs to be further to the southwest.
Go a little further, which is the location of Donggang District in Dandong in later generations.
However, the Donggang Seaport in later generations is essentially an artificial port, which was created by reclamation. In terms of the current natural conditions in Dandong, this port is obviously inferior to other high-quality natural ports owned by Jinghua, especially since the size of the port is limited by
Under natural conditions, it is basically impossible to grow big.
The only thing that can make Gao Pragmatic feel relieved is that this "big" standard is based on the situation of later generations. At present, after the construction of Dandong Seaport is completed, it will still be usable.
Originally, based on Jinghua's strength and habits, Dandong River Port and the seaport could be eaten together. However, considering other factors, Gao Pragmatic opened both Dandong ports to outside shooting this time. In the end, Jinghua won the seaport.
70% of the equity, while Hegang only took 40% of the equity, becoming the only river port in Liaodong where Jinghua did not have more than 50% of the equity.
Perhaps because the location of Dandong was too remote, even if it was a concept proposed by Gao Pragmatic, people were not very keen to buy it. In the end, only 34,000 taels of silver were sold at the two ports.
This situation was somewhat beyond Gao's expectations. After reflection, he found that in addition to the remote location, there were other factors that affected the port's valuation.
The most important point is that Dandong and the large area of southeastern Liaodong that it backs are not rich places, nor do they have any decent industries, especially no leading industries.
At the same time, coupled with the fact that it is close to the Jurchens, North Korea is considered unsafe by some people. There is also the issue of the number of immigrants. Now only the disaster victims from Baoding and Hejian have been arranged to immigrate. Although the nominal number is over 100,000,
But it’s not certain how far it will reach in the end.
Population represents consumption power and trade volume. Although everyone may not have summarized this, they still have this kind of thinking in their hearts. Therefore, compared to Fuxin, there are many fewer people who are optimistic about Dandong. Even following Jinghua to buy Dandong Lianggang District
Most of the landowners just followed the investment because they believed in Jinghua's vision, not necessarily because they themselves thought Dandong's future was promising.
So Gao Pragmatic had no choice but to go back and think about other ways to develop Dandong's economy.
There are many hot springs in Dandong, but they are meaningless at the moment. No matter how boring the rich people in the capital are, they will not travel so far to soak in hot springs. Dandong has huge boron reserves, accounting for nearly 60% of the country in the later Red Dynasty, but it is meaningless now because
Even Jinghua cannot make use of it; kaolin, marble, and andalusite reserves are large, but building materials are not competitive due to the location being too far away. When it comes to burning porcelain, Gao Pragmatic has no such plan. After all, there is no shortage of good places to burn porcelain in the Ming Dynasty.
Think about it again? Well, Dandong is rich in water resources. Whether it is freshwater fish farming or ocean fishing, it is good. Unfortunately, Gao is pragmatic and does not know how to can. Making salted fish consumes a lot of salt, so there is no profit.
What about agriculture? It seems that this is not Dandong's strong point, and in later generations Dandong's agriculture mainly relied on the Kuandian area, but the current Kuandian Liubao is obviously not under the control of Dandong.
After much thought, Gao Pragmatic finally thought of one: forestry resources. Since Dandong is close to the Yalu River, and the upper reaches of the Yalu River is the Changbai Mountain area, forestry resources are still very rich. There is no need to talk about the Jurchen side, just Kuandian Liubao
There are a lot of trees over there.
According to the reply he received from Liu Xin, the forests in the Kuandian area are in the transition zone between the two major plant communities of Changbai Mountain and North China. The woody plants of the two major plant communities grow alternately. The representative species of woody plants of the Changbai plant community are red.
Pine, sand pine, yew, oak, Mongolian oak, representative species of woody plants in the North China plant community include Scots pine, Pinus tabulaeformis, Quercus japonica, Quercus liaotungensis, chestnut, Ailanthus altissima, etc.
Under the influence of natural and artificial factors, these forest woody plant communities gradually evolved from red pine and oak forests to oak mixed wood forests, forming natural secondary forests. The forest types are mostly pure oak forests or mixed with birch, aspen, and color trees.
It is a mixed broad-leaved forest type with elm, ash willow and other mixed broad-leaved trees.
There are some woods here that are easier to use. For example, Quercus liaotungensis is used for shipbuilding. It is also suitable for making axles, building materials, etc., and has good prospects. Most oak trees can also be used, and can even be cultivated to produce tussah silk. In addition, there are also birch trees such as birch trees.
Although the wood is soft, it is a good material for making paper.
As for the current problem, what Gao Pragmatic is a little confused about is that he has no plans to build a new shipyard in Liaodong - Jinghua already has two shipyards in the north and south, and Huang Zhiting recently suggested opening one in Dingnan, where there are three major shipyards.
It is completely enough. Building another shipyard in Dandong at this time will most likely lead to overcapacity.
Then the role of Dandong can only be to undertake the transfer of timber from the Changbai Mountain area to Shandong. In other words, the economic value is still not high enough.
From this point of view, only building a paper mill is appropriate. After thinking about it pragmatically, Gao realized that after building a paper mill in Dandong, it would not only eliminate the need for local paper in Liaodong to rely on other provinces, but also allow it to be exported to North Korea and Japan nearby. This would kill two birds with one stone.
As mentioned before, Japan robbed many paper-making and printing craftsmen from Korea after the Imjin War and greatly improved the level of its own paper-making and printing industries. But to put it bluntly, it is obvious that North Korea’s paper-making level cannot surpass the Ming Dynasty, let alone the Ming Dynasty.
Jinghua has high pragmatic guidance.
As long as Jinghua starts producing paper, it will be at the top level in East Asia, and it will also be classified. One type is traditional paper, such as rice paper, which is suitable for calligraphy writing; the other type is relatively "European-style" thick paper that can be written with a hard pen.
That kind of thing.
Of course hard pen writing was not the mainstream in the Ming Dynasty, but this kind of paper was more suitable for printing. In other words, it was suitable for making books and improving the storage time of books.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Papermaking is still quite popular in Ming Dynasty, especially the technology to improve the performance of paper, which is generally praised by Shihlin. Of course, high pragmatism does not exclude it, and
Happy to do it.
Talents in this field had ideas before because they were highly pragmatic, so they also recruited some of them. Now that Dandong has to find a leading industry, it can only rush the ducks to put them on the shelves and pull them out first.
When Gao Pragmatic announced that Jinghua would invest in building "the largest papermaking factory in the Ming Dynasty" in Dandong, the word "Dandong" immediately became valuable. When Jinghua said it would build "the largest papermaking factory in the Ming Dynasty", basically no one would doubt it.
However, the port land has been sold out, and now the Ministry of Industry has inexplicably received great attention: Since Dandong is going to build such a large papermaking factory, the land in Dandong City will obviously appreciate in value immediately, and those who intend to invest are waiting for the Ministry of Industry.
Planning map released.
Planning drawings are a change brought about by high pragmatism. In the past, when Ming Dynasty was engaged in construction, no planning drawings were announced in advance. Now the Ministry of Industry has been fooled by high pragmatism.
Shi Xing, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, originally thought that Gao Jingshi would also come to discuss with him, because he thought that Gao Jingshi would build the paper mill in the city. Who knew that Gao Jingshi talked to himself, in the name of the Ministry of Revenue, between the river port and the seaport outside the city?
A piece of land was designated for the location and it was directly proposed to be sold to Jinghua.
Of course, going out with the left hand and entering with the right hand would definitely lead to impeachment, so he sent a letter to the emperor for this purpose, stating the significance of the paper mill and asking for the emperor's approval.
The city of Dandong was still on the drawing board. The emperor looked at the "circle map" presented by Gao Jingshi and was not touched at all. He agreed with a stroke of his pen.
Just when Gao Pangshi was busy building the second city, a piece of news came: Li Rusong had arrived in Beijing from the Xuanfu Mansion and was waiting to see his Majesty.
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