Kong Kaikang was resentful about his tenure in Liaodong.

He was just like a big boy who was born in the land of plenty in the south of the Yangtze River, but he never thought that one day he would come to the bitter cold land of Liaodong... and if nothing unexpected happened, he would stay there for several years.

He hated the coldness in Liaodong, and even more hated the greed of the military in Liaodong. He also complained that the yamen personnel in Liaodong were focused on grain production. He only said that they would cooperate with the factory to recruit and resettle workers in the customs, but he wanted to

Let them directly transfer thousands of labor forces from the local people, and everyone will shake their heads.

Although intellectually he can understand the thinking of local officials. There is a huge amount of food in the world, and the first thing they need to solve is the food problem, not economic development.

However, Ji Dehua, the governor of Liaodong, is concerned about industrial development and believes that if Liaodong wants to get rid of the current embarrassing situation of being a crying place, it must open up a new situation. Liaodong's rich natural mineral resources are the best stepping stone.

But even Ji Dehua never expected that the upper echelons of the empire would move so quickly. Just a few months after retaking Liaodong, a delegation from the Ministry of Industry came over, followed by more than two dozen medium and large factories/mines.

The construction plan has been finalized.

This left Liaodong seriously underprepared.

Originally, according to Ji Dehua's estimation, Liaodong still had to rely on agriculture to restore people's livelihood in the first year. At least it had to be self-sufficient in food, and then use some extra food to supply military supplies and industrial needs.

In this way, industry can be developed naturally.

At the same time, the two years during the early development of agriculture can be used to survey various mineral resources in Liaodong, and at the same time, make various reports to the upper levels of the empire to convince the upper levels of the empire to prepare for the establishment of a national-level industrial zone.

This is just the right way to connect...

But he didn't expect that the empire's top brass would be so impatient...

When Liaodong was still poor and could not even be self-sufficient in food, it had already finalized a huge industrial development plan, and even started construction without even mentioning the plan...

Damn it, there is a shortage of labor in Liaodong right now. The only labor force has to be invested in restoring people's livelihood and agricultural production. That woolen industrial zone... Now we can't even find workers to build factories in the industrial zone...

Therefore, Ji Dehua is now both happy and helpless, but helpless, things still need to be done.

The top officials of the empire have finalized the plan, so they will definitely not give up easily. If Ji Dehua does not do a good job, cannot effectively coordinate and balance the development of agriculture and industry, and cannot bring Liaodong to a new height, then the top officials of the empire will not give up at all.

Don’t hesitate to change someone to be the governor of Liaodong.

Therefore, Ji Dehua took the initiative to find a large government-run enterprise that was newly established and did not even have a signboard, and invited their supervisor for a discussion.

The main content of the discussion is how to solve the labor problem urgently needed for industrial development.

Ji Dehua first stated at the meeting that the existing population in Liaodong, especially young people, healthy women and even half-grown men, is the basis of people's livelihood in Liaodong and should be used to vigorously develop agriculture.

The governor's office in Liaodong has allocated land in different ways according to population, such as returning it, selling it in installments, opening up wasteland, etc., and has allowed nearly one million local people in Liaodong to have land per capita. Starting from last year and even next year, these people will be on the land.

We work hard to completely solve the grain shortage in Liaodong this year, and to produce abundant grain next year to supply the industrial population and military supplies.

The great development of Liaodong is based on sufficient food.

Considering that the freight for grain is extremely high, Liaodong cannot always rely on grain imports from the customs, because Liaodong must be self-sufficient in grain.

Under such circumstances, the existing nearly one million people must be devoted to food production.

Ji Dehua's first statement made a group of corporate officials from the Ministry of Industry look unhappy... Damn it, if you don't want to spare a single labor force, then why don't you ask us to hold a ridiculous meeting? I'm not your subordinate...

For government-run enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry, the organizational relationship of their corporate officials is with the Ministry of Industry and has nothing to do with the local area.

For example, Kong Kaikang, although he was transferred to Liaoyang Prefecture, Liaodong Province to serve as the co-organizer of Benxi Coal Mining Company, his files were not directly transferred to Liaodong Province, let alone Liaoyang Prefecture, but belonged to the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry.

Not only him, but all other officials of the mining companies directly under the Ministry of Industry are directly under the jurisdiction of the Department of Mines, because the Department of Mines is responsible for the management of all mining companies directly under the Ministry of Industry.

Therefore, Kong Kaikang and the others actually have no direct relationship with the Liaodong Governor's Yamen. Although Ji Dehua is a second-rank official, he has no control over them.

Of course, if Kong Kaikang really wants to manage, he can actually manage it. After all, these companies are in Liaodong and under his rule, Ji Dehua. But that is the relationship between the local government and the company, and it is not the same concept as human relations.

Therefore, the supervisors of these companies gave Ji Dehua face to attend the meeting, but if Ji Dehua continues to talk nonsense, then don't blame them for being too lazy to pay attention to him.

Fortunately, after Ji Dehua stated that he could not use the local labor force in Liaodong, he immediately stated that Liaodong local government would provide strong support for major enterprises to introduce labor from the customs.

I won’t talk about other fictitious things, but I will only talk about one thing, which is to provide cash subsidies. Major enterprises recruit workers from within the customs. The Liaodong local government will provide certain cash subsidies according to the situation to reduce the cost of recruiting workers for enterprises.
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They were also invited to accompany the Liaodong Governor's Yamen to the team that went to the pass to recruit people for reclamation, forming a large agricultural and industrial recruitment group to go to the pass to recruit.

The local government in Liaodong also plans to recruit immigrants from within the customs, but the recruits are all land reclamation personnel.

After all, Liaodong has a vast land and rich resources, and there is a lot of black soil along the Liao River. These places can grow food on a large scale, but there are few people in Liaodong now!

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The Western Liaoning Corridor, the areas along the Liao River, and even the Liaodong Peninsula, etc., now have a large amount of wasteland that can be reclaimed and has good facilities waiting to be developed.

To this end, the Liaodong Governor's Office has previously formulated a plan to attract at least three million agricultural immigrants within the customs within five years.

As long as you come to open up wasteland, the land will be allocated for free.

This subdivision is not limited to immigrants, but also locals.

To put it simply, no matter who you are, as long as you are willing to open up wasteland, the government will give you a certain area of ​​land to open up wasteland. The land that is cleared up will be yours and can be passed on to future generations.

At the same time, there will also be a preferential agricultural tax policy of tax exemption for the first three years and half tax for the next two years.

Opening up wasteland must be encouraged, otherwise why would farmers work so hard to open up wasteland?

And this does not conflict with the various policies of returning land and purchasing land in installments that were previously implemented in Liaodong. Although the previous series of land policies were essentially land distribution, they were all mature fields that had been cultivated. At the same time, these

There is no agricultural tax discount for mature fields.

The preferential policy for land reclamation given by the governor of Liaodong is to reclaim more wasteland and attract immigrants to increase the population.

And this does not conflict with the recruitment of workers in major factories.

Not everyone is willing to drag their family and move directly to the bitter cold land of Liaodong. Some people think of going there alone to work and make money, and then send money home to support their families, or save money to live a better life in their hometown.

Life.

And these people can be recruited to work in factories in Liaodong. These people may resign and return to their hometown after working for a few years.

Ji Dehua, the governor of Liaodong, stated that he could provide recruitment subsidies, and at the same time took them to recruit workers in various provinces within the customs, and made official arrangements to provide various conveniences along the way.

This made the supervisors of major enterprises nod slightly.

At this time, the Liaodong Governor's Yamen finally did some personnel matters.

Anyway, they have to go to the customs to recruit workers. It will be better if the Liaodong Governor's Yamen can help with all kinds of trivial matters.

Although these enterprises directly under the Ministry of Industry are not low-level, no matter what they do, they are not as good as the governor of any province.

Ji Dehua personally stood up to help them recruit workers, which is a good thing.

As a result, we quickly reached an agreement and agreed to send multiple recruitment delegations to various provinces within the customs, mainly to places with a large number of people and a small amount of land.

After the delegation to recruit workers in the customs left, Kong Kaikang also started to get busy.

He had to take care of other things before the recruitment delegation came back with a large number of workers. Let alone other things, he had to at least prepare a place for the workers to live.

As for Benxi Coal Mining Company, it is a planned large-scale enterprise. The number of miners hired in the first phase will reach more than 2,000, and the food, drink and diarrhea of ​​so many people will be solved.

For this reason, Kong Kaikang continued to run around. First, he pinched his nose and spent a large amount of food sponsorship. He found the Liaodong Provincial Garrison Headquarters and temporarily invited hundreds of prisoners of war to preliminary organize the terrain of the mine.

and the construction of various types of buildings, especially housing.

Because of this, Kong Kaikang was disgusted!

Those people in the military are so popular that they say that the task of supporting the production of military food is very heavy, and at the same time they say that companies are coming one after another to find people, and the few freed-up manpower cannot be allocated at all.

There is no other way, Kong Kaikang can only increase the price.

Because the price for hiring prisoners of war was too high, Kong Kaikang turned his attention to some local labor forces.

Of course, don't count on the young and strong labor force. These people are carrying out land reclamation in Tunken under the organization of the local government. Kong Kaikang dared to poach people, and others dared to raise the price of food and let the people of Benxi Coal Mining Company eat the northwest.

The wind goes away...

To be precise, it's not the local government that raises the price, they don't have the ability yet, but the people from the Liaodong Branch of the Dachu Empire Grain Corporation raise the price...

They are currently selling grain at a loss, waiting eagerly for Liaodong to become self-sufficient in grain.

If Kong Kaikang and the others dare to poach the farmers into the mines, leaving no one to grow food and unable to be self-sufficient in food, they will immediately dare to raise the price of food for you.

This price increase... is not a price increase of a few percentage points, but a doubling and doubling of the price...

If you talk back, they will cut off the food and ask you to transport it from within the customs. The price will be even higher.

For today's Liaodong, food production is the most important. Whoever dares to hinder food production will have serious consequences.

Kong Kaikang naturally didn't have the guts... However, not everyone among the locals would go to open up wasteland and farm land. There were also some old and weak children. These people could not do heavy physical work, but they could do ordinary physical work and some light logistical matters.

It can still be done.

Recruiting a group of prisoners and letting them do what they can will also allow the prisoners of war hired at high prices to devote themselves to heavy physical work.

In Liaodong these days, the young and strong are used as cattle and horses, and the old and weak are used as young and strong!

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While Liaodong was busy with various affairs, Jinling City was as calm as ever.

Regardless of what will happen to the Great Chu Empire in the eight years since Chengshun, at least the past few months at the beginning of the year have been calm.

There is no large-scale war outside. The Dongri people in the northeastern region have fled into the deep mountains and old forests. Coupled with the long winter and heavy snow blocking the mountains, it is impossible for the Chu army to launch an attack. Therefore, the Chu army in the Liaodong region adopts

In order to maintain a strategic defensive posture, relying on the Liaodong Great Wall and various fortresses to garrison troops, at most they would occasionally send cavalry troops out of the city to carry out attacks.
To be continued...