When steam engines become popular in large quantities and thermal power generation, the demand for coal will increase significantly, and the coal mining industry will also enter corresponding development.

Coal mining in Shanxi will inevitably damage the environment, but pollution first and then treatment is a necessary process. Of course, it is still necessary to minimize the damage to the environment. After all, Shanxi's ecological environment is really fragile.

Zhao Yan remembers that the largest coking coal production area in the country seems to be located 15 kilometers west of Taiyuan City, with reserves of over 10 billion tons and nearly 200 tons of coking coal.

In fact, Shanxi's coal is everywhere.

Shanxi in later generations was simply a barren agricultural province. The province had a cultivated land area of ​​only more than 800,000 mu, and most of the mountains were bare.

This is a province with energy and minerals as its main economy.

It doesn’t matter where you mine. Anyway, there are coal mines everywhere, and most of the arable land on Zhao Yan’s hands are definitely mined.

The agriculture in Shanxi is not very important. In the future, Shanxi's grain will be supplemented by commercial grain from Liaodong and the south.

At present, Shanxi has been controlled by Zhao Yan, but it is only officials, and the armed police force is in Shanxi. There are still some imperial soldiers in Shanxi.

However, Chongzhen has now begun to lay off major layoffs of official troops from all over the country, and Shanxi soldiers were almost gone this month.

Shanxi is basically what Zhao Yan said. Governor Ruan Jingyuan is just an undercover existence and is also very cooperative with Zhao Yan. Basically, he can't get involved in Shanxi.

However, the officials in Shanxi were not sent out in full, so Shanxi is still in a situation where Zhao Yan controls and incomplete control.

The main problem is that Shandong's system has not been transplanted yet. Although the bandits and thieves in Shanxi have been eliminated and the famine is not very affected by relief, the management is not as exquisite as Shandong.

"Immediately send officials to Shanxi to take over Shanxi's administration and form local police in various counties to prevent and prevent the epidemic, roads, water conservancy repair and other work." Zhao Yan said to Zhang Buyun.

"Will our agricultural tax collection law be transplanted?" Zhang Buyun asked for instructions.

"The cabinet has already made Shanxi exempt all taxes, and we won't charge them." Zhao Yan thought for a while and said that in Shanxi, the mining industry should be mainly developed. Agriculture has basically no future, and many of the essences of Shanxi are already in hand. It is boring to collect the agricultural tax. At the same time, land mergers in Shanxi are higher, which is also beneficial to the development of the mining industry. After all, mining requires miners.

"I understand," said Zhang Buyun.

Soon, Shandong began to recruit officials again. This time, he went to various prefectures and counties in Shanxi to serve, but many officials were required to recruit officials, and grassroots officials also began to expand recruitment.

Although Zhao Yan's series of actions disgusted many scholars, there are still many literati who come to Shandong to find jobs, and more and more.

Not everyone can get into fame and fortune. If they can't get into fame and fortune, they cannot be exempted from taxes. No matter how Zhao Yanai does it, it has nothing to do with them. Most of the scholars and literati below are not doing well, and coming to Shandong is their best choice.

In Shandong, as long as you are educated and willing to study hard during training, it is possible to become a high-ranking official. Now many officials in Shandong have not had high fame and many people can even pass scholars.

Zhao Yan also gave these literati high treatment. If you go to school to be a teacher, your life will soon become a well-off level. Being an official is harder, but it has great development potential and is also very good. However, the official is much stricter than the teacher in the selection. He is not capable of being educated, and he has to do things seriously.

Most of these literati were included in teachers and grassroots officials, while those who were supportive and even fanatical to Zhao Yan, many of whom were sent to Denglai University, were dispatched to Denglai University, and some chose their careers. The abilities of these scholars were generally higher. In addition, they had fame and fortune, and the promoted surnames might be greater. Although Zhao Yan's system does not value fame, fame and fortune still had some influence, but they only valued much more in terms of ability.

Now as Zhao Yan becomes more and more famous, many of the literati and scholars come to Shandong to surrender to him. After all, many people can see that Zhao Yan's power is now like the middle of the sky.

Even though some scholars opposed Zhao Yan's methods when dealing with the tax-free class, they still came to Shandong to take office, hoping to get a share of the pie when Zhao Yan seized the world in the future.

There are really many such people, but Zhao Yan is willing to accept everyone. As long as he comes, he welcomes them all. After all, Zhao Yan has formed his own system and has such a great anti-corruption effort. No matter what his character and starting point are, he is easily assimilated into a gear in this system under various constraints.

Since the beginning of the year, Shandong has recruited more than 5,000 scholars in just four months, all of whom were transferred to the training class.

This is a primary learning and investigation process. Every month, I have a salary of one tael of silver and one stone of rice and wheat, which is enough for these literati to study with peace of mind.

Learn Arabic numerals, and then learn some Shandong systems, and then you can transfer them to a new training class, and the second training class will be even more advanced.

Some people are responsible for administrative training and teach them what they need to do, how to do it, what attitude they should be, and the indoctrination of some development theories after they go to the grassroots level.

There are also those responsible for commercial training. The trained personnel will be dispatched to the Commercial Department. The ten departments under the Commercial Department include: textile factories, banks, grain banks, stations, steel plants, salt yards, glass factories, cement factories, procurement bureaus, and statistics bureaus, all of which require many people.

The Department of Commerce focuses on absorbing experienced shopkeepers. This time, the Shanxi merchants were searched and many shopkeepers were captured. Their bosses collapsed. In addition, Zhao Yan used forced methods and gave generous treatment. They were all willing to serve Zhao Yan. After all, serving a businessman is not as promising as serving a giant like Zhao Yan, and this is beneficial to his descendants!

More of them were asked to leave by the Ministry of Education and were transferred to normal colleges to study. The people who the Ministry of Education wanted were all highly educated, and those who did not pass the culture were thrown to the Ministry of Administration and Commerce.

Other departments will also select personnel and then send them to their respective training classes.

In Zhao Yan's opinion, officials also need professional surnames.

Each type of official is responsible for different things and what he needs to learn before taking office is also different. As long as the official is professional, the management will become more and more sophisticated.

This year, the number of literati who came to Shandong to join has increased and continued to decrease, which made Zhao Yan very proud, and it was also considered to have seen clearly the literati group of this era.

This is also an era of material desires and a period of integrity, which is very contradictory.

If you have money and can give people a future, those literati will serve them.

Those who will stick to the bottom line will only be a small part. Those who have no bottom line will also force them to create a bottom line in Zhao Yan's melting pot.

...At the same time, Zhao Yan was also paying attention to Chongzhen's actions.

While Chongzhen was disarmament, Chongzhen was determined to concentrate all his troops in the capital area. The elite officers and soldiers of the entire Ming Dynasty were transferred into the capital area, and many of them were already on the way.

For example, Sun Chuanting had already dismissed most of the Shaanxi border troops and took a small centuries to the capital for reorganization.

Zhao Yan was the one who withdrew from Chongzhen, so he sent armed police from another province. The situation in Shaanxi was special, so Zhao Yan quickly transferred the 01 and 02nd Infantry Brigades of the Second Division to Shaanxi.

After all, the frontier still needs to be guarded, and the bandits still need to be suppressed. It is almost enough to have a 5,000 troops in other provinces, and two infantry brigades are needed.

But Shandong is empty.

Although Shandong can recruit hundreds of thousands of people at any time, it is not very formal after all.

At present, Chongzhen's troops were not worth worrying, and the Qing Dynasty was over, and Japan even surrendered, so there was no threatening force around Shandong.

There will basically be no problems within Zhao Yan because the soldiers support him, who dares to rebel? Moreover, none of his subordinates have concentrated power.

There was no problem inside, but there was still a need for precautions. The proposal to expand the army again was put on the desk again.

The armed police force will be expanded to four provinces in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan, with a total of 22,000 people. Fujian is Zheng Zhilong's territory, and Zheng Zhilong has all controlled the troops in Fujian.

Chongzhen provinces sanctioned the sanctions, but Fujian did not. According to the General Staff estimates, Chongzhen and Zheng Zhilong had sex. Under Zhao Yan's oppression, these two brothers began to unite.

The government troops in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan have all been removed. If there are no troops there, it is indeed easy to have problems.

After all, there are many ethnic minorities in the southwest.

Each province only sent 5,000 armed police forces, which was still a little thin. For this reason, Zhao Yan immediately dispatched all three mountain regiments trained in North Korea and sent them all to the southwest region.

Before departure, the Mountain Regiment and the Southwest Armed Police Force all received new regulations. This is the regulations to deal with ethnic minorities and some emergencies.

After all, the southwest region is too far away and it is easy to reach. Information transmission is not so fast, so when an incident occurs, these troops must have their own reactions as soon as possible.

The regulations are not very complicated. All bandits and bandits will be wiped out. All chieftains will be suppressed by force. All rebellions of the rebellious ethnic minorities will be moved inwards for 500 miles.

Regarding the way ethnic minorities are dealt with, Zhao Yan still follows the rules of the Ming Dynasty - migration, and the matter of changing land and returning to the flow can be put aside first and then slowly.

Like the farming ethnic minorities within China, Zhao Yan still planned to adopt the policy of politeness. After all, these ethnic groups and Han people have lived together on this land for thousands of years, and have more or less been in different degrees of sinicization. Moreover, their ancestors are the same as those of the Han people, but they were marginalized in the process of cultural formation.

Zhao Yan, who was nomadic and hunting ethnic minorities, used the iron-blooded policy. These ethnic minorities did not have similar surnames to the Han people. In this era, there was only naked hostility, a barbaric and civilized hostility.

At the same time, the troops in the southwest should cooperate with the local government to keep the administration in the southwest from collapsing. Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan each province has a mountain regiment.

Guangdong has no mountain regiments. After all, Guangdong is a place with a high degree of control. Although rebellion is common, its intensity is not high, and 5,000 armed police forces are enough to deal with it.

Shandong will expand three infantry brigades again, the Second Division will have 7 infantry brigades, two infantry brigades responsible for Shandong's defense, and one infantry brigade is used as an emergency force.

This expansion will re-enlist 72,040 people, and the total strength will be increased to 510,860.

What Zhao Yan had to admit was that Chongzhen's disarmament and the expansion of the Shandong army's original surname made Zhao Yan's military force extremely dispersed... However, after fighting against Mongolia, Zhao Yan's military force could shrink a part of it.

At this time, the battle against Mongolia has begun
Chapter completed!