4067 Shocking news
Hiss... Xiao Letian took a breath of air conditioning. The news was too sudden and it was beyond his imagination!
"Kill people? Kill people in the suburbs of Beijing? Why?"
"Hey... don't you know why? Isn't that iron factory yet? Isn't it for land acquisition? It's all messed up!"
In the words of Master Qing San, the whole thing was restored!
It turned out that after the Airship Incident, the conservative forces represented by Prince Gong stopped in the court and were beaten by Zai Chun so hard that they could not raise their heads. The Japanese devils all resigned because they said they were sick. Who would dare to stab the nobles of other palaces and civil and military officials?
Zai Chun, who tasted the sweet taste of dictatorship, finally knew what real rule was. The huge state machine of the six ministries and nine ministers finally began to listen to his orders!
People, money and property will begin to be mobilized with their own imperial edicts, and there will be no more annoying Qingliu or loyal ministers who will jump out and say that they are contrary to the ancestral system!
Even the number of times the two empress dowagers ruled behind the curtain was reduced. In many cases, Emperor Tongzhi was allowed to meet the ministers himself. Cixi and Ci'an seemed to have reached an agreement. At this moment, as long as Zaichun did not declare war and did not disrupt the military system, he would let everything go!
Zaichun can finally show his strength. He knew that if he wanted to start industrialization from scratch, the first thing to do was to start from the foundation of the two major industries of coal and iron!
The coal mine industry is not complicated. After all, China's history of collecting coal has been around for thousands of years. Those scholars have long been used to not being able to stumbling around this matter!
Not only is there coal around the capital in Shanxi, but there are actually coal mines excavated since the Ming Dynasty in the depths of the West Mountain, and there are also coal storage in the deeper Yanshan Mountains!
As long as you are willing to invest in money and manpower, it is not difficult for coal mines to increase production capacity. The most difficult thing now is the modern iron plant!
At present, except for the Chinese-style Northern Special Zone, there are real steel plants in the entire Asia, and the so-called iron plants are actually a cover!
The Qing Dynasty also set up the so-called special zone in Shanghai and Guangzhou. In the end, the special zone was completely enclosed. The Manchus used the will of the imperial court to occupy the land of civilians, and there was no modern industry on the land that was enclosed!
It is still the old silk reeling factory, tea shop, man-made weaving, porcelain... and of course there are also large iron shops that are concentrated!
The remaining land is either deserted or rented out to grow crops!
It was completely changed the soup and not the medicine. It was a sign of an industrial area. In fact, there was no new technology in it. Two old steam pumps were imported from the UK. These local officials could write a great contribution and report it to the court in a memorial!
Zaichun saw it and was anxious in his heart. He had to change all this. He had to build his own steel factory as fast as possible, a big iron factory that could truly cast molten steel!
Now everything is ready, the funds are in place, and the European technicians need as much as possible. Even Xiao Letian, the mentor, nodded and lent a group of mature technicians to the court to help Zaichun train his skilled workers!
With all the people, money and property in mind, the land is missing! It’s funny to say that just this land, Zai Chun actually hit the south wall!
He was clearly the largest landlord in the entire Qing Dynasty, and he was clearly the emperor who was the king's minister and the king's emperor who was in the world. As a result, he wanted to conquer 500 hectares of land in the northern suburbs of the capital, but he actually encountered a tough problem!
On the land of the capital, Shunyi is to the east of the north of Sijiu City, and there is a river called Qinghe between the capital and Shunyi. According to Zaichun's plan, 500 hectares of land were allocated from both sides of the Qinghe River, which was the construction land for the first phase of his steel mill!
The ready-made Qinghe River is a very good canal as long as it is dredged and widened. You can lead to Tongzhou by going south along this river, and you can connect with the Grand Canal here!
Zaichun’s plan was to turn the Qinghe River into a northern extension of the Grand Canal. Now people say that the northern end of the Grand Canal is Tongzhou. Once the Beijing Iron Factory is completed, this will be the northern end of the Grand Canal!
With a canal, the goods can be easily transported in, including coal, sand, gravel, wood, iron ore, and future steel products!
This is very important because the Qing Dynasty currently has no railways, so the initial construction had to rely on river transportation. It was really too expensive to rely on land transportation!
Use the canal to carry out early overuses, and then slowly build the railway network bit by bit. As long as the steel mill is connected with the outside world, the game of chess will be alive!
The railway plus the canal, and the Beijing Iron Factory will be fully operational!
Zaichun had a very good plan. He thought in his mind that the groundbreaking ceremony could be held in Qinghe the next day after his wedding. As long as the money was in place, the iron plant would be able to produce molten steel in two or three years!
Before, they were afraid that Prince Gong and others would inspire the people to cause trouble, but now the Japanese Liu fled to Xiangshan Temple to recuperate, and the command of Xishan Camp was handed over to Yi Qiong and Gordon. Without the constraints, the people at the bottom of the class could not cause trouble!
But Zaichun thought it very well, but underestimated the resistance of the people. There were about 30,000 people distributed on the 500 hectares of land, and more than 9,000 households!
More than a dozen villages of all sizes!
So many people are Han people, with a large number of down-and-out bannermen, including slaves from the royal palace and noble family!
Zai Chun was really impatient. He actually issued an order directly to ask the Ministry of Works to measure the land and verify the property rights!
All the industries of the king's lords will be confiscated. Zaichun said it really beautifully. "This Qing Dynasty belongs to all the Eight Banners. I also run this large iron factory for the Qing Dynasty's country!"
"All the Eight Banners nobles have the obligation to be loyal, and you will voluntarily donate all the land of the king!"
"I will give you certain compensation based on your title as appropriate. This depends on your hardships in life. Pay compensation for one acre of land according to the standards of thirty taels, fifty taels, and seventy taels!"
"If you have a high title, you will be compensated thirty taels, and if you have a low title, you will be compensated 70 taels!"
"If you think it's too small, you can also use the land replacement method to allocate the same area of land from the imperial village to pay one-to-one compensation!"
"The Manchu and Han people who do not have titles will be compensated 1 to 1.5 yuan in land compensation, and will not pay the money, but each household will give a moving fee of 200 taels!"
Zai Chun’s design is actually very reasonable and fair to think about, and it’s a bit of a thought of taking care of the weak!
The noble family was originally not short of land, especially the princes. The greedy princes like Yi Li, who had tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land at home, from outside the white-body and black water pass to Chengde Summer Resort, to the surroundings of the capital and even the Jiangnan water town!
Such people don’t have to pay a penny to lose money, and they have to make a lot of money every year!
Such people should contribute more to the empire and want money? Dream on, if you don’t ask you to raise funds, it’s a good person!
As for the other nobles, they are divided into three or six grades. Those dukes and marquis are also monuments. Just pay thirty taels per acre of land!
The most pitiful are those viscounts and barons... These are all small families. They just have to worry about food and drink in the capital. They don’t have much money. If they pay more, they will be pitiful to them.
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