Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Section 6 The Great Leap Forward

The next three months can be called the harvest season of Qingyang. This does not refer to the harvest of Qingyang's crops, but refers to the three months when the revival plan formulated by Xiao Tang and the others has achieved full effect. In just over ninety days, there was a large influx of immigrants from various places outside Qingyang, including the distant Indian Kingdom, the countries of the Western Continent, the countries in the central and southern parts of the Central Continent, and all parts of the Tanghe Empire. The Yanyun County, Beiyuan County and the Indian Kingdom have even influx of a large number of people.

The two counties of Yanyun and Beiyuan are due to the suppression of the peasant slave uprising two years ago. Unable to pay the rent, they were forced to borrow money from the landlord, and finally became slaves. After receiving the news that Qingyang accepted the immigrants, many farmers moved their families to Qingyang. There was even a case where farmers in one village disappeared collectively overnight and moved westward in groups. Of course, this also caused panic among the local landlords. On the one hand, they wrote to the local government, and on the other hand, they also took some measures such as reducing land rent and debt interest, but it was too late. These measures were passed on to ten and ten to a hundred. These measures could not stop the footsteps of farmers who yearned for a piece of land as their lifelong dream. It was not until the local government felt that this might affect the local agriculture that it would be reported to the Imperial Department of the Interior for approval. , took some mandatory restrictive measures, and the immigration wave in these two counties slowed down, but there are still many farmers who simply take the method of walking away, running to Qingyang alone, and only after gaining a firm foothold, they quietly Dive back to his hometown to pick up his family.

Indian Kingdom has a lot of people and little land. After learning that Qingyang accepts immigrants regardless of nationality, nationality and race, a small number of people first came to Qingyang to find out the truth. After getting the exact news, they went back to contact themselves. The relatives and friends of the family came here, and the local government also adopted a laissez-faire and even encouraged attitude, because the local population was indeed too rich and the land was insufficient, which even affected the local economic development and social security.

During these more than 90 days, a total of more than 85,000 immigrants were accepted, making the total population of the entire Qingyang Prefecture break through the 200,000 mark in one fell swoop. On average, more than 900 people moved in every day, and the number of people who moved in on the most day reached more than 2,000. Most of them are farmers who make a living from farming, and there are also some urban poor. Xiaotang's administrative department and financial department have tripled their manpower, but they are still unable to cope with such a large-scale immigrant wave. They have to temporarily borrow some manpower from other departments and the military logistics department to deal with it. Even so, all personnel still work overtime every day Only with a little more work can I barely push the work forward.

The progress of municipal construction has also accelerated. Due to the influx of immigrants, the problem of lack of labor force has been greatly alleviated. Although the needs are not fully met, Su Minshun is already quite satisfied. The construction of the city wall is progressing the fastest, almost one third of it is complete, and the re-excavation of the moat is nearing completion. The re-planning and design of the streets, the design of the urban sewage system, and the detailed planning of various parts of the city have also been completed, and initial preparations have begun.

On the basis of the original road and bridge facilities, some simple maintenance has also been carried out. Due to the lack of labor force, it will take time for large-scale construction and renewal. The agricultural irrigation system in the countryside is also organized and repaired by the farmers who will benefit from the leadership of the officials from the grass-roots market towns in various places. Since these irrigation systems have been in disrepair for many years and the amount of work is huge, fortunately, the beneficiary farmers are quite enthusiastic and have made some progress.

Due to the rapid increase in population, the labor force has also increased greatly, and the popularity of the city has also greatly increased. In addition, the government has vigorously promoted municipal construction, and the social demand for various production and living materials has also increased significantly. Many workshop owners and businessmen have also flocked here. Greatly promoted economic development. In the past month of May, 39 shops of various kinds opened in the city, 2 large factories, 3 large workshops, and 11 medium-sized workshops opened.

According to the agreement, the Miao family, one of the five largest families in the empire, also invested in Qingyang and opened a large-scale factory, which mainly produces various ironware for production, and of course also produces weapons. The raw materials are imported from the northern neighbor Yinchuan Prefecture . Wan Renming's Wanfeng Bank Qingyang branch also opened for business. The first business was the second special fund allocated by the Imperial Finance Department, which was short of 1,000,000 imperial gold coins. The first 1,500,000 imperial gold coins were already in Wufeng When I returned to Qingyang, I brought back the bank notes and cashed them in Datong Bank. Immediately afterwards, Wufeng negotiated with Wanfeng Bank about micro-loans for immigrants.

At the same time, according to the good geographical location of Qingyang Fucheng and the fact that it was originally a traditional material distribution center, a large commodity wholesale market and a market trade market designed and planned by Su Minshun were also completed and opened. The commodity wholesale market is divided into two parts, one is the trading area, where almost all commodities such as grain, oil, cloth, silk, tea, wood, medicinal materials, tools, weapons, salt, wine, livestock, horses, spices, daily necessities, etc. are sold. It can be found here, rows of storefronts and stalls are arranged in an orderly manner, where merchants negotiate transactions; part of it is a storage area, located at the back of the market adjacent to the main street, where all large quantities of goods are kept, bought and sold After the deal is negotiated, the goods will be picked up here in the end.

With the large increase in population, the service industry and entertainment in Qingyang City are also on the rise. Large and small hotels, restaurants, restaurants, tea houses, pawnshops and other service places are also booming, and there are new shops in the city. Keep opening. In order to encourage the development of the entertainment industry, Wufeng even personally attended the opening ceremony of a large-scale romantic venue - Manyuanchun, and delivered a passionate speech, which greatly encouraged the enthusiasm of investment in the entertainment industry.

Xiao Tang once privately persuaded Wufeng not to participate in the opening ceremony of this kind of glamorous place, after all Wufeng is the lord of the family, and attending such an event would really damage the image. Wufeng made an appearance of being willing to endure humiliation and explained that in order to promote Qingyang's economic take-off, he was willing to make some sacrifices. When necessary, he could even make even greater sacrifices, that is, he personally went to various entertainment venues to inspect a comprehensive Fan. What he said made Xiao Tang dumbfounded, he didn't know whether his boss really endured the humiliation, or took the opportunity to show off at public expense.

The increase in population has also brought great pressure to cultural education and health services. Many immigrants came to Qingyang with their children and their children. The population suddenly increased and they came from different regions. The school education and medical and health facilities were seriously insufficient. In view of this situation, Wufeng In order to ensure that the future immigration policy will not be affected, he had to reluctantly agree with Su Minshun's opinion, and spent huge sums of money from the already very tight finances to build two schools and a hospital, and recruit teachers and medical staff.

It is the army that has benefited the most from the influx of population and the rapid economic development. When immigrants enter Qingyang, the first thing they encounter is overwhelming advertisements for joining the army. This is also one of Luman's plans to better absorb talents from immigrants to join the army. The advertisement is full of temptation: "Do you want to eat for free? Do you want to wear new clothes for free? Do you want to take transportation for free? Do you want paid vacation? This is not a dream, as long as you join the army, Everything will become a reality." When Liang Chongxin asked Lu Man when he was a soldier and did not pay for transportation, Lu Man asked solemnly: "When have you ever seen a cavalry pay for riding his own horse?"

A large number of immigrants joined the army, and the two garrison divisions each quickly replenished to about 15,000 people, and each formed two cavalry regiments, including one light cavalry regiment and one heavy cavalry regiment. The beginning of the formation of the cavalry on a large scale. Of course, an increase in numbers does not mean an increase in strength, and Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu know this better than anyone else. It turns out that the training of the army has not yet met the requirements, and a large number of defectors from the gang have been added, followed by a large number of recruits. What lies ahead is a heavy training task. However, Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu are still very satisfied. After all, they have increased so much vitality. As for the lack of training, they can make up for it through high-intensity training in the next time. Much better.

Due to the influx of immigrant population, the social security situation is inevitably complicated. Not only is there a large increase in ordinary criminal security cases, but what is even more worrying is that there are many spies from other forces among the immigrants. The workload of various departments under the Department has increased sharply. Mo Lun was very anxious about this, and at the same time sent a report to Xiao Tang to ask the various departments of the Internal Affairs Department to increase the number of staff, and at the same time began to find reliable personnel among the new immigrants to act as eyes and ears to deal with the increasingly complicated situation. Xiao Tang also felt the urgency of the situation, and immediately reported to Wufeng. Wufeng was unambiguous in this regard, and immediately agreed to double the staffing. The specific personnel would be recruited by Mo Lun himself and reported to the Administrative Office for approval.

Wufeng was too busy to see the ground during this issue. He was not attending the opening ceremonies of various workshops, inspecting the construction sites of city defense, municipal administration, and farmland water conservancy, or checking the military training situation, and attending various events from time to time. Businessmen's banquets and receptions, and listening to reports from various departments or reading materials at night, can really be called a waste of sleep and food. Even Di Lena, who served him, would often wake up after falling asleep and see Wufeng reading or thinking about problems under the oil lamp.

During this period, Guan Yingying, Hua Yumei and An Qier exchanged letters and expressed their heartfelt feelings. Guan Yingying's father, Guan Yiming, accepted Wufeng's proposal almost immediately, and even thanked Wufeng for providing Liuhemen with this opportunity. It is also immeasurable, which is the dream of all martial arts practitioners.

Twenty Liuhemen disciples who passed a rigorous test and came out as masters came to Qingyang Mansion with Guan Yiming's handwritten letter. The disciple in charge of reception, Wu Feng was quite impressed by his keen observation and adaptability. Together with several chief officers of the army, Wufeng personally inspected these twenty disciples, and found that these twenty disciples are not only excellent in martial arts, but also have good organization and adaptability, and two of them are even more outstanding. Wu Feng was very satisfied with the characters, and asked Liang and Cui to arrange the twenty disciples in suitable positions for training, so as to observe their performance.

Hua Yumei also introduced her family's business to Wufeng~IndoMTL.com~Huajia originally had its own branch in Northwest China. The number was withdrawn, taking this opportunity to re-expand the business scope of the Hua family to the northwest region, and at the same time, it also led other merchants in the Jiangnan region to enter Qingyang for development. These people were warmly welcomed by Wufeng and other government officials in Qingyang Prefecture .

As for how to deal with Pamela, Wufeng considered the need for a typical example to deter those individuals and organizations serving foreign enemy forces, plus Pamela's identity has been completely exposed and has no practical value, so Pamela was sentenced publicly and sentenced to death. The two leaders captured in the two bandit suppression campaigns were Mao Jin, a spotted-faced man from the "Purple Turban Bandit" organization, and He Lianbo, the leader of the "Black Tiger" organization. , Wufeng went out to persuade them in person, and finally both of them were persuaded, and joined Wufeng's army sincerely, and according to the situation, they served as mid-level officers.

At the same time, forty admission notices from the Imperial Military Academy were also sent to Qingyang. These forty notices also caused a huge response within the army, most of the officers believed that drawing forty people to study in the imperial capital at this critical time would seriously affect the ongoing training of the army, thus affecting the training to improve combat effectiveness Fulfillment of intent. Both Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu have this view, and both suggest that the study time should be postponed. But both Wufeng and Ling Tianfang believe that this learning opportunity is rare, no matter how difficult it is, they must spare manpower to participate in the learning, which will make a qualitative leap in the quality of military officers, and they must not give up. In the end, Wufeng tried his best to overcome all opinions, and worked alone to convince Liang and Cui. Twenty outstanding officers were selected from each of the two divisions, including Mao Jin and He Lianbo, and went to the imperial capital for a one-year military campaign. Half of the advanced study.