Chapter 45 Manpower Gap
The railway transportation that just passed was busy again, especially the regional trains were crowded, because many gold mines were discovered in the Far East and the North Sea, which caused the gold rush, which was almost very similar to the gold rush in the United States. "Head of State, this regulation may cause us to suffer heavy losses! Only medium-sized large gold mines have ownership, and small gold mines and scattered gold mines are only charged 10% taxes. Those are the country's wealth!" China's Minister of Finance Kong Xingfan discussed the matter of the northern gold mine with Dengson in his office.
From ancient times to the present, minerals have been owned by the state. Therefore, after the scientific expedition team discovered the gold mine, he asked the government to nationalize the gold mine.
However, it was directly rejected by Dunson, who wanted to rely on this method to drive the economy and population of the northern region.
"Xiao Zhun, I know your ideas, but doing this for the future of the country is wrong. It is true that mineral deposits are extremely important. But we should also look at other situations. This time, gold mines in the northern region attracted millions of gold diggers. They went to the northern region to mine gold mines. Think about how many people eat and live, they can drive the local economy. The mineral veins belong to the country, but they also belong to all the people. They have the right to mine, and they have paid taxes. These taxes may be much worse than the income of gold mines, but where will these people spend money?
After they come back, they will spend money on food and accommodation, they will buy goods, they will buy houses, cars, electric fans, etc., and when they make money, they will come back, and more people will go there. In this way, towns and even factories, farms and ranches will form, so that the population in the northern region will also increase, and the population density in the Central Plains will also decrease to a certain extent. How are you preparing for this immigration? Especially the population of Anhui and Zhejiang provinces must be reduced! Too many!" Deng Sen focused on
The immigrant population has now 16 million immigrated in the three provinces of Nanyang, 67 million people in the northern three provinces, 18 million people in the Mongolian region, 5 million people in Xinjiang, 5 million people in Siberia, 3 million people in Xilai Province, 5 million people in Lingxi Province, and 3 million people in Weihai. In a rough calculation, the immigrant population alone has reached 122 million people. If the immigration is over, the population in the Central Plains will decrease to about 280 million, which is the best population. In this way, the development potential of the Central Plains will be improved again.
In order to arouse citizens' enthusiasm for immigration, the government stipulates that any immigrant citizens will be exempted from agricultural tax in the next ten years, and the mineral tax in the new province will be reduced from 18% of the inherent provinces in the Central Plains to 10%.
At the same time, some states went to various provinces to establish government functional departments, such as the current Xueji Province, which was uninhabited, but Dengsen knew where there were a lot of minerals, so he took the lead in sending engineering teams to build cities.
"Try harder!" In the southern part of China, the power line is being laid. Due to the immigration policy, the first consideration is the ethnic minorities and Han population in the Dashan area of these border provinces. Life here is too difficult. In Dengsen's view, the people here have seriously wasted their abilities and moved them out. At the same time, urbanization and construction are also steadily progressing. As the country received huge orders for civilian military from the Soviet Union and Eastern Russia, Dengsen directly ordered the inspiration of industry in the form of a state bid.
Since the state has decided to directly purchase their goods, many young people and capitalists have invested in building factories. In order to ensure the supply of materials from the people, they have also provided industrial loans in various provinces. Even in remote Yunnan, a primary industrial belt has been formed in Kunming, where industrial products here are responsible for ensuring the cost of the whole province.
Although China's transportation has improved a lot, the provinces have not yet achieved the state of complementary materials. For example, in Sichuan, the railway has just been opened, but the roads are still under construction. What makes Deng Sen and the government the most embarrassing is that a large number of indigenous people are now used in the construction of railway and roads that occupy the newly occupied territory in the north and the west, and domestic construction can only be handed over to people in the country.
If you want the domestic population to participate in the construction of the country, there are only two ways. One is the government instigation, and with the enthusiasm of the people, they will definitely join. However, various construction projects in China are underway. If a large number of people participate in the construction of roads, it may delay other construction.
For example, new rural transformation is being carried out in various places. Due to the immigration movement, the number of idle land in various places has increased again. In addition, the number of factories and farmers has decreased significantly in recent years. The research on people's livelihood research in the Chinese Empire was completely eliminated. When it was just unified, China had about 330 million farmers.
However, with the outbreak of World War I, a large number of workers have been released, and the number of farmers has dropped to 210 million now. China has more than 40 provinces. In this way, the number of farmers in each province is less than 5 million. Even if the current interest-free loan machinery in the country makes farming much easier and liberates a large amount of labor, with the advent of the immigration era, there has been a shortage of idle farmers in the land.
Therefore, under such circumstances, Dengson cannot allow the recruitment of migrant workers. Besides, urban residents will also participate, but they will lose a lot of wages. If the state compensates, the funds cannot be borne by the state based on the national engineering volume. Therefore, the Congress and the Cabinet government are conducting research.
"Building roads is necessary for our country's development, but we should also guarantee the interests of citizens of society!" A member of parliament opposed the cabinet's proposal to build roads in installments, which made the project shelved again.
"Then we can only use war to seize labor! But launching another war is extremely unfavorable for our current development." In Dengson's villa, Chiang Baili, Zhang Xiaozhun, Yujiabiao, Chiang Kai-shek and others are discussing. Zhang Xiaozhun does not think launching war to plunder the population is a good way.
"So Prime Minister, what do you mean?" Dengson also felt that it was not appropriate to launch a new war against the Soviet Union just ended.
Zhang Xiaozhun seemed confident and said, "I think people can call on the people to build roads on their own during the slack season, but our government is responsible for food, accommodation, as well as various materials and machinery. In addition, we can buy it! Just like the Nanyang area in the past, now it is too much friction with the forces in the surrounding areas, so we can completely buy labor."
"Oh? Tell me carefully about how to buy it?" Deng Sen was quite interested.
"We can call on the current mercenaries to enter the too border area to plunder the population of Cambodia and Laos, just like the European slave trade back then, and we can also bribe French colonial officers, who must be tempted by money and are very happy to sell those people they think are lowly to us."
Dengsen nodded. The price paid in this way is much smaller than that, because slaves only need to eat and live, and do not need to pay wages. You must know that according to European and American standards, and the current wage standards in China, a road construction worker will have to pay no less than 200 yuan a year. If Dengsen wants to open up the national highway and railway network within five years, he will need at least three million laborers and workers who are responsible for huge labor. Such workers will never participate. And if you think about how much wages will be per year, plus the annual funds paid by construction machinery and materials will definitely not be less than 5 billion, and it will be tens of billions in five years, which is simply unaffordable.
"We must accelerate the construction of domestic engineering. Roads are the foundation of a country. Only when the roads are improved can people's livelihood be fundamentally transformed. At the same time, the construction of the transportation network can also enable us to control the country and the newly occupied border areas more firmly. We will immediately issue orders to the three southern provinces to encourage mercenaries to enter the too border areas and announce the establishment of the China Alliance to the whole world." Dengson believes that slave work is more in line with the needs of China today, so he agrees with Zhang Xiaozhun's opinion.
Dengson issued political orders to the three southern provinces in the name of the government cabinet. At the same time, China's General Staff Chief Chiang Baili will travel to Thailand to pay a state visit with Thai Prime Minister Sakharasan Kabu.
On February 15, 1920, the Gregorian calendar, Jiang Baili, the Chief of Defense of China, and Zheng Qingshan, the captain of the South China Sea Fleet, paid a friendly visit to Thailand. The King of Thailand and the Prime Minister personally went to the port to greet him.
Thailand is now very popular, and various buildings and even clothing are similar to China. Stores in various places are marked with Chinese characters. Chinese characters have become the second language of Thailand.
In the car, Chiang Baili was accompanied by Thai Prime Minister Sahara Sangkabu: "General General, don't know what's going on in this visit to our country?"
The Chinese Empire has visited Thailand many times, but this time it was visited by the Chief of Staff, which is of great significance.
"This time, His Majesty of the Chinese Empire initiated the China Alliance and invited other countries to participate in win-win and prosperous times. Therefore, as the most important partner of our empire, His Majesty ordered me to come and negotiate with His Highness the King of Thailand." Jiang Baili smiled a little. Although Thailand is not strong now, it also has a population of tens of millions. Such a population is suitable for the cultivation of China's military powers. You must know that China's future enemy is Western powers. Just like the previous world war, the combat troops on both sides reached tens of millions. Therefore, in order to reduce the casualties of the country's troops in the future war,
It is necessary to raise a vassal state, and Thai squids are the best candidate. The skin color of Thais is not much different from that of Chinese people, and they can be controlled at any time when they are by their side.
"China Alliance?" Saharasankab was a little confused. As powerful as the Chinese Empire, who else can challenge the entire Asia? In Siberia, China defeated more than 2 million Soviet troops and forced the Soviet Union to sign a series of unequal treaties. Such strength is already considered a top international power. Why would such a powerful country still unite with them? To form an allies?
"That's right, the comprehensive strategic cooperation is dominated by our Chinese Empire. At this stage, there are only three countries, one is Thailand, and the other is Russia. The three of us will form a solid and unbreakable alliance system, that is, any country is invaded, and allies must send troops to rescue and participate in the war to ensure the interests of our three countries. At the same time, our three countries should also strengthen cooperation in world affairs. If any country infringes on our interests, we must retaliate violently to safeguard the interests of our three countries!" Dear! If you think this site is good, please remember this site to help promote it! This site!
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