Chapter 69                                                             �

Zunhua is the largest steel industry base since the Ming Dynasty. Even Foshan, Guangdong cannot compare.

It can never be compared.

First of all, above the mines, Zunhua has coal and iron. All the resources required by the steel industry can be obtained nearby. It is also this area, which has brewed Tangshan’s steel industry in later generations, so it can be seen how this area of ​​steel is unique in its development. Foshan is far from enough in natural resources.

The development of Foshan iron industry is certainly due to the efforts of the Xian family, but it is also due to the local transportation location and close to the consumption area in Guangzhou. However, this advantage will only get worse and worse in the future.

However, the development of the steel industry has brought about damage to the natural environment.

Before he arrived in Zunhua City, Zhu Qizhen found some dust floating in the air. After falling down, he would find that it was black.

It should be coal ash burned from the iron furnace.

The rivers are all black.

Because coal cannot be used, it must be burned into coke to have better calorific value. Only when the steel refined can it have more quality, but before burning the charcoal, there is a step, that is, washing coal. In fact, this procedure also exists in later generations, and many rivers near steel mills are extremely dark.

Zhu Qizhen has already learned about these things from many channels.

But now I see it, it's still a bit shocking.

This is also because the Zunhua water system enters the sea directly through the Chaohe River, which does not affect the water system of Beijing and even the canal. Zhu Qizhen would not know what the situation here is like if he didn't know here.

Decades of development have certainly made the world's number one iron city, even in other places such as Foshan, there are still large and small iron industries emerging. After all, steel is a heavy goods, and if the distance is too far, the freight will cover the cost. In the northwest, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and other places, such small cities have appeared.

It is also the first city to be polluted by industrial heavy industry.

Overall, the pollution is not serious yet.

After all, although Zunhua has been vigorously making cast iron for decades, compared with the steel production afterwards, it is not even a fraction of it. The total amount is not high and the pollution level is not too high.

But Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but think about what to do after that?

Zhu Qizhen looked at the ministers around him and didn't think there was anything wrong. He sighed slightly in his heart. He also knew that when talking about this, no matter whether it was the ministers in the court or the local people in Zunhua, they would not agree to any matter of governing the environment.

After all, Zunhua Iron Industry has brought great benefits to the local people.

Zunhua was originally just a garrison city.

Zunhua Iron Factory itself is a different city. However, the two cities have developed together, and there is another passage north of Zunhua. The war here is the way for the Tatars to go south, but now it is the way for trade.

The tribes in the northwest of the grassland fell into Beijing, and all entered Beijing from Xuanda, while the tribes in the northeastern fell into Beijing, and some took the Shanhaiguan route, but the other part liked to take the Zunhua route at Xifengkou.

This brings business opportunities to Zunhua.

Over the years, Zunhua has been established from the establishment of counties to the establishment of prefectures. Now the Ministry of Revenue has been discussing, analyzing Zunhua Prefecture from Shuntian Prefecture, setting up prefectures, and subsiding some areas south of Yanshan into the jurisdiction of Zunhua Prefecture, which will also make Zunhua Prefecture a major prefecture that runs across the north and south of Yanshan Mountain.

Of course, this is also to give Hebei Province full control and Yanshan natural danger.

The same thing happened elsewhere.

For example, the imperial court wanted to include the Liaoxi Corridor into Hebei Province.

This is actually an extension of the fundamental theory of Hebei that Zhu Qizhen had as soon as he ascended the throne.

Under Zhu Qizhen's policy inclination, although Hebei people could not challenge the status of Jiangxi people in the Ming Dynasty, they were already the second largest force. In addition, the capital and Hebei were almost one. Therefore, they had a common language in expanding Hebei's influence.

These actions are to incorporate all the dangers of the surrounding mountains and rivers into Hebei Province. Once the world changes, it will be beneficial to start from Beijing to redefine the four directions.

It's just that time has changed.

What Zhu Qizhen now pays more attention to is not the economic balance between the north and the south, but no longer only pays attention to Hebei itself. As for Hebei itself, it is already a well-known and prosperous place in the world, chasing Jiangnan. Water conservancy, transportation, industry, and policy preferences. For decades, when other provinces were affected year by year, Hebei had been in 50 years and had not experienced too much drought, flood, or flood.

Zhu Qizhen no longer has to worry too much.

It is enough to support a city in Beijing.

It’s just that many policies are inertia.

Zhu Qizhen proposed this strategy in order to balance the north and south and the strategic security of Beijing itself, and implemented it for so many years to create a huge group of Hebei people, which plays a politically important role. In addition, Hebei itself is rich, and it affects officials and the army.

This will make Hebei people more influential.

Zhu Qizhen cannot ignore the influence of these people.

Regarding these people who want to expand the jurisdiction of Hebei, or even want to include some areas north of Yanshan and into Hebei, Zhu Qizhen will not comment on whether they can do it.

Faced with the problem of pollution, Zhu Qizhen didn't have many places to do even the emperor. He thought for a while and said to Qiu Jun: "I know that Emperor Taizong once banned the cutting of big trees on the border mountains, but how is it now?"

Qiu Jun was slightly stunned and said, "Your Majesty, I am ashamed. There have been no police on the border for decades. The Ministry of War has rarely checked these matters."

Zhu Qizhen knew that this was inevitable.

Emperor Taizong issued such orders because of the war situation at that time. The northern enemy was in the north. Although the situation was beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, they had to be guarded. These orders were well implemented for a long time and were under border defense. However, in the Zhengtong Dynasty, the territory of the court was all outside and inside.

This kind of command is unnecessary.

If the court has no supervision, such orders will naturally not be abolished.

However, there are still some benefits to using coal.

In the Zunhua area, a large amount of coal is produced, not to mention that in order to smelter steel, countless coals are transported to Zunhua, and some leaks out from the fingers of Zunhua Iron Factory. It is enough for the people nearby to use it. Moreover, many people near Zunhua work in iron plants. This kind of atmosphere of relying on factories to earn money can not be eliminated even in future generations, let alone this era.

Therefore, Zunhua people use a lot of coal and do not use much wood.

However, the people cut down the wood for building houses by themselves. Over time, they will also cut off some of the mountains near Zunhua.

In fact, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the natural environment in North China continued to be harsh, and most of the hills in the north were bare.

Zhu Qizhen said: "From today on, we will reiterate the ban and ask local governments to supervise that the people must cut a 2-bit wood. If anyone cuts down a large amount of wood, the department will punish you."

Qiu Jun said: "Yes."

He had no objection.

This is a trivial matter. Most ministers will not confront Zhu Qizhen in trivial matters. Moreover, this decree also implies Mencius's principle of entering the mountains and forests at the same time. There is no way to cut it at all.

After Zhu Qizhen explained this matter clearly, Zunhua Iron Factory was already in sight.

Zunhua Iron Factory is not a factory, but a city. The just-in-the-fire city of Jiao Iron Factory was later called Iron City.

This name is just right.

Nothing else, this city is almost the most iron-used city within China. Even Beijing cannot compare with it.

At the city gate, several rails are arranged side by side.

Although the local officials have cleared it clearly, Zhu Qizhen can still see the traces left on the bluestone bricks on the ground.

"Long live my emperor." Officials from all over the Shaofu, headed by the Shaofu Order Wang Yue, were waiting for him at the gate of Zunhua Iron Factory.

Although the profits of Zunhua Iron Factory are now directly transferred to the Ministry of Revenue, Zunhua Iron Factory is still under the name of Shaofu and is managed by Shaofu.

The Shaofu Order Wang Yue was not directly responsible for Zunhua Iron Factory. He managed the Shaofu in Beijing all year round. However, Zhu Qizhen wanted to come and see Zunhua Iron Factory, how could he not be there?

Zhu Qizhen said, "Wang Qing is calm. Needless to say, I just look at it and enter the city."

"Yes." Everyone stood up, and Zhu Qizhen sat directly in a small car running on the railway tracks, with several horses pulling them and walking lightly in the Zunhua Iron Factory.

Today's Zunhua Iron Factory is long, from the first step, entering coal and mines to finally coming out of the finished iron material, forming a workshop and factory that stretches for several miles. Among them, there are light rails connected. These light rails are all rails, but the trains above are not all trains.

In fact, this kind of carriage running on the road is rarely used in factories.

It is more of a vehicle that can be propelled by manpower and runs in the factory because it can stop at any time.

There are many high temperature environments in the factory that horses cannot withstand, and only people can endure this high temperature.

"Cough cough cough." Zhu Qizhen coughed a few times.

In fact, when Zhu Qizhen was about to inspect Zunhua Iron Factory, the iron plant had been cleaned up. However, there were still several iron furnaces here that did not stop. After all, the loss was too great when the iron plant stopped. Even if these places were not in Zhu Qizhen's visiting area, these smoke and dust that almost never landed stimulated Zhu Qizhen's respiratory tract.

"Your Majesty, should you go back?" said Wyen.

Qiu Jun also said, "Your Majesty, this is not the place where the lord should come."

Zhu Qizhen took a deep breath and looked at the familiar and unfamiliar scenes around him.

Although there are many differences in details, the atmosphere of heavy industry is exactly the same in the bones. This crude air and pungent smell are familiar and unfamiliar in Zhuqizhen. It is the atmosphere of industry and the atmosphere of hometown.

The breath of hometown that you will never go back to.

Yes, a future that cannot be returned to.
Chapter completed!