Chapter 454 Immigration and the future
"So, are the required fields on the map real?"
After the New Year's Eve dinner, Jiang Fangzhen and Cai Jimin were both taken to the study by Yang Qiu. Fang Rui immediately explained the map in detail../Since Yue Peng went to the Western Front, Cai Jimin, the highest executive of the nine northeastern provinces, has been under great pressure. The reform and development of the northeast and the North Korean issue have not been resolved. Now he has begun to march north again, which is undoubtedly a big challenge for him. Especially now that he heard that Yang Qiu took the initiative to provide resources to Japan, he almost jumped up directly.
Fang Rui replied expressionlessly: "There are a large number of Siberian resources survey documents in Yekaterinburg and Irkutsk. This map was drawn by us after we combined these documents. Except for the Amur River Basin, everything else exists in reality!"
Jiang Fangzhen was also slightly shocked. He lit a cigarette and looked at Yang Qiu with both admiration and worry. 100 million tons of coke, 200 million tons of iron demand and Sakhalin Island oil were given to Japan for free. Although the environment in these areas is difficult and knowing that location and mining are different, with Japan's current desire for resources, it is certain that they will mobilize a large number of Korean workers to go to the above-mentioned areas to drive demand. With these things, Japan will be able to emerge from the recovery period of the Sino-Japanese War within two or three years, and may even further strengthen the navy, which has obvious advantages. So ordinary people must think that Yang Qiu is crazy, but he is very clear that these demands are poisonous fruits!
Japan originally wanted to advance north, but now I send this picture to them. As long as I send someone to investigate whether there is really something to hide, if it is true, it will definitely take full advantage. In that case, it will inevitably conflict with the United States in the region. The Japanese army suffered heavy losses in the Sino-Japanese War, but the strength of the navy was not damaged. As long as the British-Japanese alliance exists, the Japanese navy will always be a mountain in Northeast Asia and even the southwest Pacific, and even the United States will not be able to break it in the short term. As long as the Republic of China always maintains a weak position in the fight for maritime power.
In a state of turmoil, the United States, which wants to gain Pacific maritime power, must first deal with Japan. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be fascinated and spit out white smoke and said, "If the poor party can compete to control the Russian regime, Britain and France will inevitably be held back by them in the next few years. The United States and Japan confront each other in the Pacific... Haha, we finally have a long period of interference-free period, that is..." He glanced at Cai Jimin, who was full of worry, and smiled: "Xiangpu probably won't even have time to be intimate with his wife."
"You Jiang Baili, it's a disaster." Cai Jimin was amused by him and laughed. In fact, he also faintly touched Yang Qiu's thoughts, but he was not as thorough as Jiang Fangzhen. Now he explained it completely clearly, but he was worried about one thing: "Japan's northward advance will definitely have conflicts with the United States. Strengthening the navy is imperative, and the threat to our coastal areas will also increase a lot! And... the poor party needs to break through our blockade and find an ally. Will these two companies come together in the future?"
The Soviet Union and Japan formed an alliance? This reverie made Yang Qiu shudder. Is there any possibility? He shook his head and temporarily left this idea behind, because there are too many things to do in the next five years.
After Japan advanced northward, the conflict between the maritime power struggle in the northeast of the United States and Japan will inevitably be reopened. At present, neither national strength nor manufacturing capabilities can participate in this game. There is no big problem in the north anymore. Both factions in Russia are accumulating strength. As long as the Brest contract is signed, it will definitely be a big fight. After the Ural Mountain is cut off, Britain and France also need to rely on themselves. As long as Kolchak comes back, the mission will be completed. As for Mongolia's rebellion,
The problems of the military and the poor party in the Siberian region are not very big, and the Urals cannot be opened in one day. The poor party forces in the entire Siberian will not be able to become a climate. After they open the Urals, their three major fortresses and railways in the northwest can be completed without fear. So Jiang Fangzhen said that at least the next five years will be the time when the pressure on the outside of the Republic of China is the least, so these five years are extremely critical, and we must use these five years to lay the foundation for social reform.
How many things can I do in five years? The idea that I had decided on the outside first and then started to work on the internal ones was finally realized. If I had a good operation, there would be no external pressure in the Republic of China before 1925. So his thoughts gradually turned to the construction of the Northeast. He asked: "Xiangpu, how is the situation in the Northeast?"
Immigration, pioneering and industrial development in the Northeast are the three most important events after military control. The closed policy of the Qing Dynasty led to the sparse population of nine northeastern provinces, and even if the implementation of the migration policy for the benefit of the people in recent years, it would not improve much. Cai Jimin scooped out the prepared documents and said: "This is the Northeast Census Report at the end of last year. As of the end of last year, the population of nine northeastern provinces increased from 18 million in 1911 to 22 million, including 2.5 million Manchus, North Korea, Mongolians and Russians, and the rest were Han people. They mainly lived in the Liaodong Peninsula, Fengtian, Changchun, Jilin, Harbin, Mudanjiang, Jiamusi and other places. The vast majority of the population are ordinary farmers. There are 350,000 registered workers, of which 300,000 are low-end and handicraft workers. Although heavy industrial workers have Feng
Tianhe Changchun trained and a group of trained through Hanyang, but even Harbin was only more than 50,000. Fengtian and Changchun are two heavy industrial zones selected by the Development and Reform Commission. The two steel plants alone require at least 30,000 workers, and Dalian's shipbuilding is also developing. Half of the machinery and equipment transported from Russia this time will be left in the Northeast to form two industrial groups. According to estimates, in three years, the two industrial groups in the Northeast will have a total of 110 factories such as ordnance, shipbuilding, trucks, aircraft, trains, chemicals, oil refining, etc., which will require about 500,000 workers to support it! Currently, there are 6 universities in the 9 provinces of Northeast China and 37 other technical schools of various types. With the training of the factories themselves, there will be more than 200,000 in three years! This is not the demand of private factories."
Skilled workers are the most important part of industrial construction. If it weren’t for the serious shortage of workers, the steel mills built in Changchun and Anshan would not have been difficult, and the steel production in the Republic of China would not have progressed so slowly. So when Yang Qiu heard this, he had the urge to recall hundreds of thousands of workers who went to France immediately.
Cai Jimin continued: "The main reason for slow cultivation is education. The Northeast is not as good as the rich areas in Jiangnan. In the early years, the bandits suffered severely, and the literacy rate is far worse than that in the wealthy areas in the pass. The largest number of educated people is Russia, North Korea and Manchus! Although life is peaceful in recent years, free education has been implemented, most of them are primary and secondary school children, and there are very few who have completed their studies and entered technical schools and universities. Last time, Minister Zhang Taiyan came to check the education situation and said that if the education level and workers in Northeast China want to break through, they must at least wait for these primary and secondary school students to grow up. It will take about ten years. Although the educational foundation is
Almost, but the trend of social reform is improving. In the three years since we left the country, we have destroyed a total of 237 large Hu bandits, and more than 2,000 small bandits and horse gangs have been arrested or disbanded. Some of them have been sent to labor camps to reclaim fields and open up land. A total of 350,000 guns of various types were confiscated and 120 million ammunition was collected. After the Russian forces were removed this time, the North Koreans were probably the most uneasy, but they now have a request, and they are mainly distributed in Changbai Mountain and Tonghua. The National Guard and the garrison have opened up special residential areas for them. Starting this year, the entry and exit registration system will be adopted, and they will be sent back when North Korea stabilizes in the future.
We are also strengthening the urban construction you have promoted. As of the end of last year, 172 new market towns appeared in nine provinces, mainly new ones after immigration and military farming. Farmland water conservancy construction is relatively fast, because our Northeast is the first place in the country to adopt mechanized farming. At present, there are 870 tractors of various types, thousands of pumpers and small generators in the Northeast region, most of which are concentrated in 80 state-owned farms. With tractors, the grain output of state-owned farms accounted for 20% of the total output last year. The National Development and Reform Commission and our goal is to increase the number of tractors to more than 10,000 through import and self-built within five years. The number of farms will increase to 350, and the output proportion will be more than 60%.
Electricity and roads are the other two largest projects. Changchun, Fengtian and Harbin coal power plants have been built. We have selected six hydropower plants on the Songhua River, Nenjiang, Liaohe and Heilongjiang, and two sites in the Tumen River and Yali River. However, whether these two sites will be built will be decided until the situation in North Korea is peaceful. The funds for hydropower plants are not a problem. The problem is that water conservancy construction talents, as well as cement and steel materials cannot keep up. Changda Railway (South Man Line, Changchun to Dalian), Fengxin Railway (Fengtian to Xinyiju, North Korea) rail system renovation is all completed, and the Middle East Railway renovation will start next month. The roadbed of the Changchun to North Korea Maoshan Railway has been built to Yanji. However, the railway tracks of the steel mill support the Baoku Railway. When I sent a telegram to Mr. Cai, he said that at least the US rails arrived in June before they could be given to me."
After the military control, the Northeast finally showed a new atmosphere. Cai Jimin did work hard, but the weakness of poor human resources and the overall strength of the country was also exposed in this construction. There was a lack of design talents, the education level was worse than that of the inner city, and the output of steel and cement was insufficient due to various reasons, and the struggle was fierce at the forefront of geopolitics, so it was already very good to do this. Yang Qiu was not very worried about industry. Hanyang, Chongqing, Zhengzhou, Jiangnan and Mawei were trained twice as much as the actual needs.
Those who raise workers and reserve talents can immediately support Baotou, Northeast China, and even Yunnan to build the Southwest Shuicheng Steel Plant that they have always wanted to build. The education level in the mainland is much better. More than 10,000 English and French teachers stipulated in the Plum Blossom Agreement have also been in place, and technical schools are emerging one after another. What is needed is time. Moreover, I still hold hundreds of thousands of workers who can return to China in two years. Many of them have become the backbone of British and French factories.
On the contrary, immigration made him very depressed. 18 million to 22 million, an increase of 4 million in three years. Many of them were immigrants brought by workers from the mainland, and the military family members were hundreds of thousands. In other words, the government actually immigrated only 1 million a year, which is too small! According to his original idea, before 1925, nine northeastern provinces had to immigrate at least 30 million, and three northwest provinces had to immigrate at least 20 million. Only in this way can the population pressure within the pass be reduced, but the actual operation has not met the requirements. Is it really difficult for Chinese people to break the love for the country?
Chapter completed!