Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 236
In Quanzhou, Bai Mingxiu received the news of Fuzhou’s surrender and Li Suitai’s suicide. This made the entire Fujian campaign, except for the Zhangjinxia campaign, which was slightly more intense at the beginning, and the rest of the important towns of Quanzhou and Fuzhou basically did not give up. The Great Ming Restoration Army spent too much energy.As for the state capitals in the inland mountains of Fujian, basically the Ming army has not yet arrived, and the Ming flag has already been hung.

The Southern Campaign is almost over by this time, except that the East China Army led by Su Shuhuan has entered the Central Plains to annihilate the last troops of Murima, all the provinces south of the Yangtze River, and even some areas north of the Yangtze River, All have been occupied by Nanming.

It is very important to eliminate the last living force in Manchuria to which Murima belongs, but the more core and critical thing is that Bai Mingxiu has completely taken over the entire southern region.For him, from now on, he must put the construction of a new Ming Dynasty, the promotion of industrial revolution and social change in a higher priority.

Not to mention the entire south, in fact, Guangdong Province has only started some changes in a rough way during this year.Bai Mingxiu opened many factories and set up many schools, but these actions were not enough to cover the entire Guangdong Province.Now Bai Mingxiu wants to promote these affairs in the whole south, the difficulty can be imagined.

Bai Mingxiu has not yet returned to Shanghai, but the Political Council has started a series of new arrangements in accordance with the original plan.The first is to establish the organizational system of the southern provinces. Traditionally, the Ming Dynasty did not call it a province, but a Chengxuan Zhengshisi. When it came to Bai Mingxiu, the province was simply used as the organizational system.

The southern region is basically set according to the Chongzhen period, but some fine-tuning has also been carried out.There are thirteen provinces in the southern region, including Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiaozhi and Shanghai.Some of the changes included the official division of Huguang Chengxuan into Hunan and Hubei, the official transfer of Taiwan Prefecture to Fujian Province, and the transfer of Lianzhou Prefecture from Guangdong to Guangxi.Bai Mingxiu did not consider dividing Jiangnan into Jiangsu and Anhui like the Qing Dynasty. This move was mainly carried out to check and balance Jiangnan, and this division actually weakened Jiangnan's economic strength. This trend even continued until Bai Mingxiu crossed previous era.As the capital of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing feels like the capital of Anhui Province.This is actually a result of administrative divisions.

On the basis of each province, the provincial office is established, each prefecture establishes the government office, and the county area establishes the county office, and all the offices are collectively referred to as the government.In the early days, the Lizheng Yuan was focusing on a few things. One was to implement the institutional structure of governments at all levels, and to put all functional departments in place, forming a system that was completely different from that of the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty; the second was to focus on violence. Machines to build the new justice of Ming Dynasty.Basically, after the establishment of each public office, the first few institutions to be established must be the Public Security Bureau, the Procuratorate, and the courts, and then the Taxation Bureau and the Finance Bureau.

In addition to the grassroots organizations that Bai Mingxiu attaches great importance to, the judiciary, finance and taxation, and grassroots are the most important things for governments at all levels.

After Bai Mingxiu completed the series of tasks, he chatted with the system immediately.

"Master of the system, the task is completed, and the rewards should be distributed quickly." He was full of expectations for this.

"Host, you are such a noisy person. Why are you so anxious? After your mission is completed, I have completed the transformation work. Now there are 10 young intellectual cadres. I will pass the list to you. Go and have fun yourself."

Bai Mingxiu was ecstatic. Cadres are his biggest shortcoming at this stage. Although there are literate scholars everywhere, their old-fashioned ideology is even more of a hindrance to Bai Mingxiu.A systematic transformation of 10 young cadres who understand "new learning" for him at one time means that he can invest in more fields, fill a lot of positions in various provinces, and accomplish a lot of things.

In addition to the 20 ready-made cadres, the system also added a buff of [-]% of the cadre training speed to him, valid for five years.After getting the list, Bai Mingxiu immediately wanted to hand over the list to the Council of Liberal Affairs, and let the Council of Liberal Affairs recruit all these people to fill the posts in the provinces. With this group of people, Bai Mingxiu believed that his overall administrative efficiency would be even better. Enough to improve a lot.

"Now it's time to get down to business construction. In the past, industries were basically concentrated on the military industry, and now we should pay attention to some livelihood industries." Bai Mingxiu thought about it. His so-called livelihood industries are actually relatively very important. broad concept.As long as it is conducive to improving people's lives, it is in this category.

The agricultural product processing industry that transforms agricultural products into higher-level products, such as flour mills, oil mills, and some non-staple food factories.

Textile mills, garment factories, and the entire textile industry are a core industry of the Industrial Revolution.

Chemical plants to promote agricultural production, steel plants to provide better tools, and steel plants and machinery plants to indirectly support these are all things that Bai Mingxiu needs to build.

Within a year, 2000 large and small factories have been opened in Guangdong Province, and the early upsurge of the industrial revolution has slowly unfolded.Now the Cantonese are quite familiar with such terms and terms as factory building and large-scale machine production. Some factories that have been put into production quickly have made rapid profits, which has caused many private individuals to be extremely jealous. After buying technology from the state, they immediately went to various rural areas to recruit workers. , and started to set up their own factories.

While Shanghai has only existed for a few months, Bai Mingxiu has set up more than 500 factories, and many factories have even been put into operation to make a profit.

"At the beginning of our industrial development, we still need to meet domestic demand. After all, our current economic theory is not the backward mercantilism of Europeans. Our first step is to increase farmers' income through agricultural cooperation and intensive production. , farmers and citizens who have income will consume new industrial products. The richer our people are, the more effective demand will be created for industrial factories, which will further stimulate their production. Oh, and at the same time, Our government departments must also do a good job on the strong demand side. We purchase steel, chemicals, cement, and various minerals. We need to carry out infrastructure construction. This economic plan must be done well, relying on stimulating demand To stimulate production and help a large number of public and private enterprises complete the accumulation of their original capital."

After all, Bai Mingxiu is from later generations, and economics is a diversified game of supply and demand.It's not that he doesn't want to sell more things outside, but think about it, how can we say that there are nearly [-] million people in China at this time, and it is better to promote new consumption by boosting their income than to let merchant ships travel across the ocean and sell products to only a few hundred people? Tens of thousands or tens of millions of European countries that are equally poor are reliable.

(End of this chapter)