On February 7, 1688, the heavy rain stopped.

He Yuan left his entourage and took his secretary and a guard to the Beining Region Archives to inquire about some hydrological and meteorological information about the Gui River Basin. Although this river flows through two major regions, it is worthwhile. Most of the inspection and expedition work is still done in the Beining region. Therefore, it is absolutely wrong to check the information here, as long as you have to apply for a license first.

The information about Gui River in the archives is detailed. The Beining Regional Administration has done a lot of work to tame this wild river. The vast amount of information reveals where the water conservancy project should be launched and where the irrigated farmland should be opened. He Yuan spent money to ask the archives staff to help copy a copy and send it to the Hue Regional Administration for research and use by officials from relevant local departments.

Of course, he also asked through the staff of the archives where the people who compiled and even obtained the data in the data on the spot, and said that they would pay a lot of money to hire them to work in Hue. It has to be said that He Yuan's idea is a good idea, because most of the expedition teams organized in the Beining region have been disbanded and the personnel are scattered. Some go home to cultivate land, some go further north to explore gold mines, and some even become sailors. If the Hue region pays a high salary to hire government public officials and is willing to give them the identity of government public officials after the contract is over, then it is conceivable that many people will agree happily, which will have a great effect on developing inland areas.

After finishing work in the archives, He Yuan and his group took the track carriage of Beining Street Car Company to the hotel. While the carriage was passing through the newly completed Beining branch of Sun Chunyang South Carolina, a typical store opening celebration was underway: a troupe that looked like it was invited from the south was setting up the stage, and some idle people (mostly the elderly and children) were attracted by it. They surrounded the stage, chatting and laughing while waiting patiently.

He Yuan also got off the carriage, got into the crowd, and watched all this with interest. Across the street was a workshop that processed various wood products. Seeing that there was a show today, the boss also suspended his work and brought a few apprentices to him. He Yuan talked with them and learned that the boss originally worked in Hue area and was a worker in a wood processing factory at that time. Due to the hard work day and night, his arms were almost exhausted by the big saw. He often had to rest for a whole day or even longer to do a job. This was almost impossible to continue working, so he was quickly fired by his boss and came to Beining County with money. With the help of his relatives, he bought a batch of machines, all of which were wood processing machinery that could be connected to the central power system shaft system, and opened a wood product processing factory.

The boss's business was undoubtedly successful. The help of steam power greatly reduced his workload, and he had more energy to process and manufacture some less labor-intensive wood products. In addition, the policy guidance of Beining region was added, and the products of her workshop were soon sold throughout the region and made great profits. Soon, he not only paid off the loan from the Brazilian rural financial cooperative that had not been reorganized at the time, but also expanded the production scale and recruited several cheap apprentices of sixteen or seventeen years old, and his career became more and more powerful.

He is getting hot. It is said that he is now planning to buy the land of a poorly managed grain and oil workshop next to him, and then buy a 20-horsepower small steam engine (of course, this requires a series of complicated procedures, but it is worth it), and he is self-sufficient, and he no longer has to spend rent to the government central power workshop to rent power. This can save a lot of rent and also save a lot of time (the rental power sometimes requires queuing), which often means that more goods can be produced.

He Yuan admired his boss's courage very much. He had just paid off his loan for less than two years, but he actually wanted to borrow money from Volkswagen Savings Bank to buy land, steam engines, and expand the factory. This entrepreneurial spirit is indeed worth encouraging. Considering that he originally worked in Hue, this makes people feel a little regretful. Is the development environment of Hue's manufacturing industry so bad? Is it the reason for the policy or the market factor?

However, in recent years, a wave of purchasing steam engines has emerged across the East Coast, promoting production mechanization. Especially in the East Coast of the traditional industrial zone, the Prairie and Yazi Lake Basin, it is conservatively estimated that more than 1,000 steam engines of various types have been purchased privately and invested in industrial production, creating extremely huge economic benefits.

He Yuan has also read some materials and learned that the total horsepower of these more than 10,000 steam engines has exceeded 60,000, which has relieved the workers' countless daily labor. Taking some small textile workshops as an example, in addition to the improvement of production efficiency, the workers bent over and bowed their backs, and the endless unhygienic monotonous movements have been greatly reduced, and the health of the body has naturally improved greatly.

Although the development of Beining is not as good as that of the south, the industrial area seems to be self-contained, with a fixed market, raw materials and funds, and technicians can also be hired outside. Therefore, the economy is developing relatively rapidly, at least the development of the capital Beining County is good. Although many people accused that this was at the expense of industries in other places, the steam engine began to gradually become popular and gradually entered into various small private enterprises.

Officials of the Syphilis Patient Statistical Survey Bureau must have a headache about the situation where this steam engine is blooming everywhere, because they do not have so many people to manage it and cannot track the status of each steam engine. You must know that all of the above are basically on the national control list of exported goods, and they have the responsibility to strictly supervise it so as not to cause undue losses to the country.

However, when the social and economic development reaches this point, they are indeed powerless, unless the state approves them to significantly increase their manpower or reduce other work tasks, such as investigating cult elements, spy networks, large-scale organized crime, anti-state elements, etc., but how is this possible?

Of course, some people pointed out that the development of steam engine technology in European countries is not slow, and the degree of practicality is getting higher and higher. Especially those produced in England have begun to be widely used in industrial production. Some early steam engine models on the East Coast have little technical advantages. It is time to lift the ban on export controls. While suppressing the sales of steam engines in England, they can also make some money. Why not do it?

It is said that the Executive Committee’s official consideration has been formally considering this issue and tends to agree to lift the export control of some steam engines. For example, the last time they specially approved the steam engines to France, they received very good feedback from the diplomatic and trade departments. The large increase in goods exported to France has increased the prosperity of domestic industrial production on the east coast, with more jobs and thicker industrial profits, which in turn further promoted the development of domestic industry.

It is believed that the government will completely lift the export restrictions on mid- and low-end steam engines in overseas colonies in the next step, so as to comprehensively improve the production efficiency of the colonies and increase the development of domestic steam engine-related industries. It is expected that the biggest benefit will be the New China and the Far East Denlai and the South's two major development teams, and it will inevitably cause some steam engine technologies to flow into the neighboring Qing, Shunguo and Republic of China regions. However, at the moment when the British had already transported the steam engines produced in Birmingham to the Qing Dynasty, it was meaningless to restrict the low-end models. They could only be cocooned and allowed the market to be occupied by others.

"The popularization of steam engines has really helped. Works such as coal replenishing, iron smelting, water irrigation, and mechanical processing in ports were originally the most devastating to our workers, but now these dumb and inferior jobs have been eliminated. Even non-national labor workers have left these industries and went to the construction site to find jobs." Maybe he felt that He Yuan's dress and manners were different, and the boss spoke a little cautiously, and he continued to say: "In short, our country is different from before. The same is true in Beining. Every day, there are chimneys standing up and there are jingling machining sounds. Look, this afternoon every day is the most active time for industrial production, and the whole city is filled with intoxicating coal smoke, which is so comfortable."

He Yuan was stunned at first and then smiled bitterly. Indeed, in the eyes of many people, the more chimneys, the more they represent civilization, the more they represent progress, and the more they represent high income. Compared with them, the economic structure of Hue area, mainly agriculture (plantations, logging and fishery), is indeed a little behind. Although it will attract some people to come from the south to travel and recuperate in winter and spring, and the state-owned Oriental Hotel Group also invests huge amounts there, it seems that it is not as solid and stable as the foundation of the industrial zone. But this is also impossible.

There are development models in various regions, and blindly copying them is often not desirable. The future of Hue region is actually to stick to the previous path and focus on developing agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery. Now the Dutch West India Company has basically decided to double its investment, and some other businessmen are also ready to move. It is not wise to change the course at this time. To be honest, it is better to spend more money to design some new machines to increase the production efficiency of later-stage deep processing, and at the same time increase the effective use of by-products. This is what He, who should do.

The stage was set up quickly. He Yuan asked someone to find a seat and sat down comfortably to watch it. With the rapid development of the East Coast economy, the progress of the cultural industry in recent years is obvious to all. There are more than 1,000 large and small performance groups registered in China, and there are tens of thousands of practitioners, which shows the strong demand for this area in China.

Moreover, He Yuan even heard that many performing groups have gone abroad and performed in places including New Courland, Portuguese Brazil and other places. Although many scripts have profound Chinese cultural backgrounds and they may not be able to understand them, they are still very popular wherever they go. In addition to reflecting their superb professional qualities, it also indirectly reflects the strength of the East Coast Republic of China. Because of the lack of national strength, this level of cultural output is actually very difficult to achieve. In this regard, the French Kingdom in Europe is an excellent example.

Therefore, whether the national strength is strong or not is indeed the basis of everything!
Chapter completed!