Chapter 451: Capital Conference

"The Chinese Empire is an imperial country transformed from the Republic of China, with a land area of ​​11.3 million square kilometers, making it the third country in the world..."

This sentence was written into textbooks on this day. At this time, China's land area was recapturing the Mongolian Tangu Ulianghai, Sakhalin, Ryukyu Islands, and occupied the three Pacific islands, and its territory soared to 11.3 million.

This is not the land of Indonesia of more than 2 million square kilometers. If Indonesia is included, it will grow to more than 13 million square kilometers.

The United States occupies the second largest land area in the world. If the United States includes colonies such as the Philippines, it is indeed larger than China. However, China is not included in the Indonesian colony, while Canada has a land area of ​​9.97 million square kilometers, which has been squeezed down by China.

However, compared with Tsarist Russia, which had 25 million square kilometers at its heyday, China was less than half of the territory of Tsarist Russia.

A big country often means having a lot of resources, and China does have a lot of resources at this time.

Mongolia is a region with very rich mineral resources, and its mineral reserves rank among the top 20 in the world. More than 80 minerals have been discovered and identified. The main ones are coal, oil, copper, manganese, tungsten, molybdenum, aluminum, lead, zinc, mercury, tin, gold, fluorite, rock turquoise, phosphorus, asbestos, graphite, mica and other mineral resources. Copper: Mongolia's copper reserves rank first in Asia, with reserves of more than 750 million tons, and gold: Mongolia's total gold reserves are 3,100 tons. It is divided into vein gold mines, scattered gold mines and sand gold mines. Coal; it is estimated that Mongolia's coal reserves are 50 billion tons, fluorite: Mongolia's fluorite reserves in Mexico, and there are 42 fluorite deposits. Oil: Mongolia's oil resources are also very rich, with a total reserve of unknown, but at least 2.5 billion tons.

The northern region of the Asian continent is an area with extremely rich mineral resources. At this time, China recovered Outer Mongolia, so naturally it obtained a large amount of resources.

At the same time, the southern part of Sakhalin Island was also recovered by China. Sakhalin Island has oil, coal, natural gas resources, forest resources, water resources, etc.

However, the northern Sakhalin Island is still under the control of Tsarist Russia. Before, Japan and Tsarist Russia divided Sakhalin Island, and China only recovered South Sakhalin Island.

At this time, China's mineral resources were already very rich, and basically all the minerals needed could be found.

However, in terms of energy, China's oil reserves are still not much. Even with the recovered Outer Mongolia, the southern Sakhalin Island, and Indonesia controlled by the Chinese, the oil reserves are still very small.

In terms of mining these resources, except for those minerals that cannot be mined, the others are rarely mined on a large scale.

The founding of the Chinese Empire brought the East China government to the forefront and officially became the central government.

The founding ceremony will be held on November 1st, and there will be nearly ten days of preparation time during this period.

The founding ceremony does not need to be too grand, so it does not give too long preparation time.

Administratively, the newly established Chinese government re-divided administrative provinces, and generally divided them according to the provinces of later generations.

Provinces like Kangxi and Rehe have been abolished. There is no such statement as those ethnic autonomous regions. Inner Mongolia has been replaced with "Monan Province" and Outer Mongolia has been replaced with "Mobei Province".

The meeting discussed the name of Sakhalin Island.

You Zhengbin's opinion was: "In the Tang Dynasty, Sakhalin Island was called Kushuo, so it would be called Kushuo Province."

"It's not nice, it's not nice, the name is too lustful, it's better to be called Polo Province. In the Ming Dynasty, the Polo River Guard was established on the island."

"That's the name of the river, and three guards were established on Sakhalin Island in the Ming Dynasty, and the Boluo guards are not representative."

"It's better to call Yongning Province. You built the Yongning Tower on Sakhalin Island in the Ming Dynasty."

"This name is good, firmly agree..."

In your discussion of every word, Sakhalin Island's administrative scope is named "Yongning Province", which will include the entire Sakhalin Island in the future.

In order to more effectively manage the lower reaches of Heilongjiang and Sakhalin Island, the Ming Dynasty government sent eunuch Yi Shiha to inspect Nuerkan 10 times, and established Yongning Temple, erecting two stone tablets, "The Inscription on the Imperial Repair of Yongning Temple" and "The Inscription on the Reconstruction of Yongning Temple" to record and manage local affairs.

Kangxi Province was merged into Sichuan Province and its province was disqualified from its province.

It is such a small place in Kangxi, and it is still a mountainous area. It is indeed a bit too exaggerated to set up a province specifically.

In the three northeastern provinces, Liaoning was renamed Liaodong Province and Liaoxi Province. Most of Liaodong Province was Liaoning Province. However, part of it was divided into Liaoning Province and combined with the Rehe area (eastern Inner Mongolia), Liaoxi Province was established, which was called in the Ming Dynasty.

The names of Jilin and Heilongjiang remain unchanged.

The name of Tibet remains unchanged, and the name of Xinjiang has long become the "Western Regions Province".

Hainan Province was also separated from Guangdong Province and a separate province was established.

In this way, the entire administrative provinces of China were determined and divided into Yongning Province, Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaodong Province, Liaoxi Province, South Demon Province, Western Regions Province, Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, Tibet Province, Shaanxi Province, Shanxi Province, Shandong Province, Hebei Province, Henan Province, Jiangsu Province, Anhui Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, Guizhou Province, Guangxi Province, Guangdong Province, Fujian Province, Jiangxi Province, Zhejiang Province, Taiwan Province, Hainan Province, and Ryukyu Province.

There are thirty-one provinces in total, and there is no special zone, autonomous region, and Ningxia region belongs to Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, and Ryukyu Province governs the three Pacific islands.

The land area has also reached 1,130 square kilometers, but it is not included in the actual controlled area in northern Myanmar. The controlled area belongs to the British territory internationally, but is actually controlled by China.

If the administrative regions are clearly divided, there will be no confusion in administration.

However, there were differences within the East China government on the issue of capital establishment, and there were relatively large differences.

Hangzhou is no longer suitable to be an administrative center because it is an economic center, and it seems very crowded if it is mixed together. Moreover, Hangzhou is a coastal city, which is not conducive to war.

Although there is a tight defense along the coast and the East China Navy serves as a barrier, you have to consider if you don’t worry about ten thousand, just be afraid of something.

Moreover, at this time, Xia Jun was developing the inland economy and setting the capital in the central region can promote the development of the inland economy.

At the same time, it changed the atmosphere of discrimination against the inland coastal areas. This kind of economic discrimination is common in later generations, but it is better than Hong Kong's discrimination against the entire mainland of China.

At this time, the whole of China was left with Hong Kong and Macau and did not return, and there was also the territory occupied by Tsarist Russia. However, Tsarist Russia was annexing, not a concession. The concession was China, but it still did not lose its sovereignty in this territory, but was just temporarily loaned it out.

Later Hong Kong people had a very self-righteous superiority, and did not even regard themselves as Chinese. Kong Qingdong was not wrong in scolding him. The mistake was that later Chinese thoughts were not unified, and national thoughts were suppressed, otherwise there would be a market. From a national perspective, Hong Kong no longer regarded Hong Kong and China as a whole.

At this time, the establishment of the Chinese Empire naturally requires choosing a capital.

When choosing an inland city, Nanjing was first excluded. Nanjing was also relatively close to the sea. Moreover, the Feng Shui of this place of gold and powder in the Six Dynasties does not seem to be very good. Every time the dynasty that set its capital in Nanjing is short-lived.

Apart from Nanjing, other capital choices have become Xi'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng and Wuhan.

Xi'an was first ruled out. Although it was the center of the first few dynasties, its ecological environment was no longer as good as ancient times. Moreover, the group of Feng Shui consultants originally invited by the East China government, the dragon vein has come out of the pass and is no longer within the pass (Tongguan).

There are many officials who support the migration to these two cities in Luoyang, Xijing and Kaifeng, but there are more people who support the migration to Hankou.

Xijing Luoyang and Tokyo Kaifeng are old capitals, but from the perspective of historical evolution, the capital is constantly moving westward.

First there was Xi'an, then Xijing Luoyang, then Tokyo Kaifeng, and finally Nanjing, and Beijing.

The loudest thing is to choose Hankou to establish its capital. First of all, because Hankou has a good ecological environment. Because it is located in the Yangtze River Basin, the activity center of Han people has been transferred from the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin.

The ecological environment in the Yellow River Basin is getting worse and worse.

Some people also proposed to support the capital in Xiangyang City, which was in the Han River Basin, and also received support from some people. They believed that Wuhan would be the economic center in the central region in the future, and it would be better not to be intertwined with the administrative center. Moreover, Xiangyang is in the northwest of Wuhan, and goes deeper into the inland and north, and the terrain is relatively flat, the economy has not developed, so the cost of planning is small.

These proposals have their own opinions, but Xiangyang has become even louder when it is established as the capital of Hankou, and Luoyang and Kaifeng have lost their competitive advantages in terms of ecological environment and the instability of the Yellow River. Moreover, the two places have experienced historical changes in culture and have largely lost their original appearance.

Xia Jun also looked at the map all day long, thinking about where to move the capital.

In terms of strategic depth, Henan is closer to the coast than Hubei, so Hubei Province has a larger strategic depth and is also good in terms of environment.

In terms of economic development, Henan is relatively weak, so moving the capital in Henan can better drive the inland economy. Hubei Province itself was a strong inland province in later generations, and it seems that it does not need to rely on moving the capital to help economic development.

In general, if the difference between the capital is divided from the river, it is the difference between the three parts of the Yellow River Basin, the upper reaches of the Huaihe River Basin, and the Yangtze River Basin.

The capital of Luoyang or Kaifeng is adjacent to the Yellow River.

The capital of Xiangyang is the Linhan River, but it is on the same level as the Huai River.

The capital of Hankou is located on the Yangtze River.

Henan has an advantage in history and culture, and is in line with the starting point for promoting the inland economy, which is the lack of water resources, which is the biggest weakness.

Xia Jun looked at it for a long time and remembered the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.

It seems that if the capital is established in Luoyang or Kaifeng, it is extremely convenient to divert water from the Han River Basin. After all, it is not far away. Just build a water diversion project that is several times smaller than the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in later generations.

"Make a capital in Henan" Xia Jun expressed his will at the meeting. Tao Chengzhang immediately shouted: "No, there is not enough water resources there, and it is better for Hankou to lack water."

As a southerner, Tao Chengzhang naturally hoped that the capital would be set in the south, and he was very reluctant to move the capital. However, as a port city, it was too congested to put the administrative center here, and it was no longer possible to move it. With military strategic considerations and various considerations of economic development, he would definitely have to move inland.

Therefore, Tao Chengzhang retired and hoped that the capital would be set in the Yangtze River Basin.

Xia Jun had his own idea. He mainly felt that the Henan people in later generations were discriminated against because of their poor economic development. If the capital was set in Henan, at least the economy would not have developed so badly.

"Water is not a problem, it can be transferred from Han water." Xia Jun said to Tao Chengzhang: "We can build a large reservoir at the mouth of Mudanjiang. With the flow of Han water, it is basically extremely sufficient to supply it to Henan."

"How much does it cost to do that?" Tao Chengzhang muttered.

"At the same time, the capital of Henan is also to strengthen the efforts to govern the Yellow River." Xia Jun continued: "In addition, Henan's economic development has no advantages, while Hubei's economic development has many advantages. Basically, the inland economic development center is the Wuchang and Hankou area in Hubei. It doesn't make any sense to set the capital there."

"Okay" Tao Chengzhang did not insist. Xia Jun's will represents absolute authority within it. Whenever Xia Jun speaks in such a positive tone, it is difficult to change his ideas. However, Xia Jun is usually a leader who can listen to suggestions humbly, but he himself is also very independent.

Facts have proved that most of Xia Jun's opinions are correct, and it is precisely the existence of his strong leader that created such a foundation today.

Since the tone has been determined, the next step is to choose whether to set the capital of Luoyang or Kaifeng.

Some people even proposed that a new city, a brand new city, can be built between Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, without any restrictions, and can be used to carry out urban planning, and the cost is also lower.

Although there are not many people who advocate this proposal, Xia Jun has paid full attention to it. Kaifeng and Luoyang are both ancient capitals of many dynasties. The ancient buildings left over from the city are difficult to move, so it is inevitable to be troublesome to plan. It is better to draw a piece of land out of the countryside outside the city. However, at the same time, Kaifeng or Luoyang is included. In name, it is also a capital of Luoyang or Kaifeng, but it is much more convenient to plan.

After the capital was established, Hangzhou still existed as a supporting capital. Hangzhou's administrative significance was not temporarily replaced by other cities. In the future, China also needs a key administrative center to exist along the coast.

"Luoyang's terrain is not flat enough, with mountains on all sides, so there is not enough room for future development."

"It's better to Kaifeng, and not only did the prosperity of the civil and political affairs of the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei also achieved the great victory in Zhuxian Town during the Northern Expedition, and all the civil and military achievements were available."

Zhuxian Town is one of the four famous towns in China. It is of the same level as Jingdezhen. It is located in the southern part of Kaifeng and is under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng.

Kaifeng in the Republic of China was located in a transportation hub and its economic development was faster than other cities, so it was the current provincial capital, not Zhengzhou.

During the discussion on whether to establish the capital of Luoyang or Kaifeng, most of the opinions were still to establish the capital of Kaifeng.

"Then let's set the capital of Kaifeng. We will build a new capital outside Kaifeng City." Xia Jun nodded and said.

The discussion meeting for establishing the capital ended like this, but whether the capital is decided outside Kaifeng depends on the detailed investigation in the following areas. If it is really not suitable to be a capital city, then you can only change the place.

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