Chapter 1423 Mountainous Area Development
Walking on the way back to China, the weather is cold every day, and it is basically early winter.
Welcoming the changes of the seasons, Zhou Xu was not in a hurry at this moment. Just like when he came, with the mentality of not wasting opportunities, he began to find a place to absorb natural energy.
The land close to Smith Republic was absorbed by him almost a week ago, and it has not yet been restored.
However, the area close to the border of the female warriors has recovered for more than half a month.
With a mentality that no matter how small the legs of a mosquito is, he is still fleshy, Zhou Xu absorbed it for another round, and then he returned home with satisfaction.
At the Northeast Fortress, I took the steam train and returned to Heiyue City for only three days.
On the day when I returned to Heiyue City, it was snowing in the sky. Zhou Xu returned to the palace with a low profile. The first thing he did was to go to Qinzheng Hall first.
This time he only left for more than a month. With Huo Qubing and Li Bowen there, there was not much work piled up on the table, and it was quickly dealt with by Zhou Xu.
The main reason is that nothing major happened during this period. The only major project is the laying project of the second railway in the southern region, which officially started a week ago.
As for this project, he had already arranged it before he left for the United Nations for a meeting, and there was basically nothing to worry about.
After waiting for Peter's latest batch of immigrants to arrive, it was almost a month later.
As before, there are still 20,000 immigrants. Considering the possible losses on the road in winter, the actual immigrants to Dazhou are just over 20,000.
Under this premise, due to the fact that he was ordered by Zhou Xu before, the number of minors in this group of immigrants has decreased significantly.
A preliminary counting was less than 3,000, and more than 2,900, which was considered convergent compared to before.
After all, these children are just a burden in Peter's hands at this stage. Now that Peter has the opportunity to be justified, you really can't expect him to be frustrated.
But as mentioned earlier, children also have their own benefits.
For a country, too many foreign adult populations will inevitably have an impact on the internal indigenous people, and there is even a certain probability that it will cause social unrest.
There is basically no effect of this in children.
Some younger people will not remember that they were former immigrants when they grow up.
Of course, the population immigrated at this stage is still under the control of Zhou Xu.
After all, under the internal stability of their internal population in recent years, the population within the Great Zhou Dynasty is also gradually growing, and the growth figure is still higher than one year.
When every batch of immigrants has a transition of half a year, as long as they are completely disbanded, the 40,000 to 50,000 migrants can still be easily digested.
At the same time, don’t forget that in addition to the area on the mainland, their Great Zhou also has a volcanic island overseas.
Compared with the mainland, the volcanic island has always been in a state of Buddhist development.
Of course, this has something to do with it being an island far away from the mainland, with inconvenient transportation and it is difficult to develop in development work.
However, although the development efficiency is low, the population growth rate is quite fast.
According to the demographic report sent this spring, the number of residents on the volcanic island has officially exceeded 30,000.
Of course, this also includes staff and garrisons who will be transferred to the volcanic island for work. According to the current scale of the volcanic island, it would be easy to digest three to four thousand immigrants.
In addition, Zhou Xu has also recently considered the development of their Great Zhou Qunshan area.
There is also a large area there. In terms of land area, it is not small at all, but this mountainous area is full of mountains and inconvenient transportation. It is difficult to develop it.
If it is necessary to invest ten thousand labor in developing an ordinary area, then if it wants to develop a mountainous area, the manpower and material resources invested will probably be ten times more!
This is also the main reason why the development of the Qunshan area has been lagging behind over the years.
At present, there is really no cost-effective development in that area.
However, this does not mean that he wants to completely stock the mountainous areas and ignore them at all.
You should know that there are several mineral veins that have been discovered here.
But due to the transportation costs, the cost-effectiveness of entering the mountain and then transporting it with manpower is too low, the center of mining in the Great Zhou Dynasty has always been placed on the ore veins in other areas.
As for these in the mountains, it is basically for several mountain villages to be used for basic development.
Anyway, blacksmith shops have been arranged in the mountain village. If copper or iron ore is needed, some will be mined, and then processed internally for use, focusing on self-sufficiency.
Now, with the influx of large numbers of immigrants, Zhou Xu undoubtedly intends to add some labor to the mountainous areas of Great Zhou.
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After all, this development is too far behind, which is obviously not good. Even if the progress is slow, some things have to be done slowly.
For example, the paving of mountain roads.
Send the labor force to do something today and do something tomorrow, and there is no limit to you. If you do it slowly for a few years, you can always pave a few mountain roads, right?
At that time, as long as the paved mountain road can allow carriages to enter the mountain, even if it is just paved to the barren mountain new village, the overall development efficiency will increase rapidly!
In response to this matter, Zhou Xu immediately called all the relevant departments over to discuss it.
This time, Song Jinyu, as the Minister of Finance, was relatively calm.
After all, His Majesty’s intention is already very obvious. He has no intention of vigorously developing it. It is just like developing firearms in the early years. A few people in a project team, no matter what they can study, they will study it slowly first.
They had the least shortage of cheap labor in the past two years of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
With food and accommodation, the cost of using these cheap labor is not high. Even if His Majesty wants to send thousands of labor to the mountains and pave the way this time, he doesn't care.
In fact, Zhou Xu really had this plan this time.
To carry out construction, the support of building materials is indispensable.
But as mentioned earlier, whether it is transporting resources out of the mountainous areas or sending resources into the mountainous areas, the transportation cost is too high.
So the best way is to make them self-sufficient.
Around the supply of a development project, wood is needed, so the logging team must keep up, right? If you need ore, the mining team must keep up, right? At the same time, some people are also required to be responsible for processing.
This wave surrounded the mountainous areas. Even if he mainly focused on Buddhist development, he had to send at least one or two thousand laborers, otherwise he would not be able to move.
Zhou Xu was also very straightforward in this regard. He planned to send two thousand laborers into the mountains one after another to make the internal circulation of the mountainous areas change!
(This chapter ends)