It took only half a month for Su Ri'an to return to Beijing, but the problem is that when he left Dongjiang Province, he had already handed over his work. However, after he arrived in the capital, he had not received a new appointment. He is now in a state of having a title but not a position, and he had no way to start. However, his return to Beijing this time was not due to his term of office.

Generally speaking, the local chiefs entered Beijing after their term of office, but Su Ri'an still had one and a half years before his term of office. However, the emperor made complete plans to transfer Su Ri'an to Beijing. Not only did he inform him in advance, but he also arranged for his successor to go.

But if Su Ri'an insisted on taking care of him, there was no way. After all, he had seen him once after returning to Beijing. He could propose to the emperor or the cabinet. However, Su Ri'an had no personal relationships with the officials of Shen Jing, and in order to avoid embarrassment, he did not say anything.

Therefore, the problem has not been solved now, which is considered to be a personal reason for him to protect himself. In the past, Su Ri'an was selfless and would never have been like this. However, after taking office in the local area, Su Ri'an has changed. It is not for himself, but also for the Dongjiang Province. With his state of affairs, the relationship between the Cabinet and the General Administration Department of the General Administration is rashly accused of the matter, it will only make a mistake.

In front of Li Zhaoyu and Pei Yuanqi, Su Ri'an explained the concerns in his heart clearly. When Li Zhaoyu heard this, he nodded slightly, indicating that he understood Su Ri'an's difficulties and said, "Mr. Su is both a famous minister in the world and an lonely minister. With his current identity, it is indeed difficult to deal with."

Pei Yuanqi said, "If you don't go to find others, why don't you enter my door? Is Pei Yuanqi a person who ignores the overall situation for personal grudges?"

Su Ri'an could only avenge his crime and did not give any relevant explanation. Instead, Li Zhaoyu said: "Uncle Pei is just unreasonable. He has helped you deal with the matter between Dongjiang. In a few days, the news will be no problem."

Su Ri'an never expected this to be the case. He thought Pei Yuanqi was here to provoke a military force, so he asked: "How did Lord Pei solve it?"

"I transferred 200,000 dan of cotton from the war warehouse to Seoul." Pei Yuanqi said, beating the larger cauliflower and mushrooms with his hands, and said: "The futures markets in the local guilds and Shenjing are too unreasonable. This year, the main cotton production areas have no natural disasters. The Central Plains have grown in both sowing area and output. In any case, cotton cannot be raised at this price. To put it bluntly, a group of monsters deliberately speculate on the price of Khmer.

If you don’t deal with them for a moment, you will think the court has no choice but to do anything to them."

Su Ri'an also knew the truth, but only those who take the overall situation can do this kind of thing. Although Pei Yuanqi is only the deputy prime minister and Zhao Mingde, he actually holds the real power of the imperial administrative system, and is decisive in his work and is not influenced by ordinary forces. Therefore, he can be considered to be easy to do.

Su Ri'an was about to thank him, but Pei Yuanqi raised his hand and said, "Mr. Su, I'm not for you, but for the empire."

"Well, it's all Lord Pei who saved the textile industry in Dongjiang Province." Su Ri'an said.

Li Zhaoyu stirred the dipping sauce and said to the two: "Cotton is now a shortage of goods, and the supply and demand are not balanced. We should try our best to increase the cotton production."

"As far as I know, cotton production in Central Plains, Huguang and Lianghuai is still insufficient, and there is still great growth potential," said Su Ri'an.

"Mr. Su, we all understand what you said. But cotton is a strategic commodity, and its origin and output are directly related to national strategies. Don't be trapped in the conspiracy of certain interest groups." Pei Yuanqi reminded.

"Me? How is that possible?" Su Ri'an said, and Pei Yuanqi's next sentence made him feel a little unstoppable: "Especially when you want to take over the State-owned Assets Group."

Su Ri'an looked at Pei Yuanqi in surprise. Although he was just the deputy minister of the empire, he was the emperor's most trusted minister in the cabinet. What he said from him must be the emperor's determination that his position had been decided, that was, he would enter the center of the General Administration and become a minister-level senior official. Not only that, he also had two departments, and his status was quite high.

The so-called State-owned Assets Group is a working group under the General Administration, which combines two departments, namely the Ministry of State-owned Resources and the Ministry of State-owned Assets. In the imperial administrative structure, if the Imperial Deputy Prime Minister is in charge of such affairs, although the two departments will not be combined into one, they will form a common working group, with the Deputy Prime Minister as the leader of the group.

Su Ri'an obviously does not have this qualification. He just became a ministerial chief, not even a cabinet member. He served as deputy to this working group and also served as deputy ministers in both departments.

Two years later, the imperial cabinet will have an adjustment, and Su Ri'an can enter the cabinet directly. Obviously, the emperor not only arranged his position, but also his promotion route was arranged properly. Before this cabinet change, the leader of the State-owned Assets Group was Pei Yuanqi, the deputy minister in front of Su Ri'an.

If Pei Yuanqi did not explain the matter clearly, perhaps Su Ri'an would not continue the topic. Since Pei Yuanqi had even expressed his personal arrangements, Su Ri'an could only continue. He no longer insisted that he would not fall into the trap, but asked: "Mr. Pei, can you explain the words clearly?"

"To put it bluntly, that is, the cotton planting area in traditional Han land cannot be expanded in disorder. Only by ensuring that the arable land area in each province remains generally unchanged can the planting area be adjusted." Pei Yuanqi said calmly while eating the cooked mutton.

Su Ri'an nodded because the empire has adhered to such a policy in the past few decades. In other words, if provinces in China want to increase cotton yields, there are only two ways. One is to improve varieties and increase planting technology to increase cotton yield per unit area. The other is to reduce the planting area of ​​other crops and free up enough land to grow cotton.

The reason for this is to ensure the tightness of land in various provinces. You should know that the population of various provinces in China is growing, but the imperial central government has always restricted the reclaiming of wasteland in order to force farmers to enter cities, urbanize, or force poor farmers to immigrate to other areas.

The fact is that this policy has been persisted for decades and has achieved very good results. Although the people migrated from overseas territories such as Xijin and America are not greatly affected by this policy, the population of provinces around the densely populated provinces in the country has been distributed relatively well.

For example, during the Ming and Qing War, the population was only a few hundred thousand, and tigers appeared in Chengdu. Because of this policy, a large number of immigrants from Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi were obtained. The people of Henan moved to Shaanxi and the Western Xinjiang region. Many people in Hebei and Shandong moved to Liaoning Province, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other appeasement areas.

These provinces, which were once sparsely populated due to war and historical factors, have been supplemented.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the population of Sichuan Province was only one million, and in just 45 years, it had exceeded six million. When the Liaoning Province was first established, it had a population of only 800,000, and now it has exceeded four million. They are already a medium-sized province of the empire.

The densely populated provinces in the south were also forced by such policies, and a large number of people went to Southeast Asia, even as far as Australia.

The problem is that the provinces in the empire were not without land. During the Ming and Qing Wars, a large amount of land was abandoned. Since then, due to the strict land control of the empire, many lands were not reclaimed. Especially in Shaanxi Province, 90% of the population is now concentrated in the Guanzhong Plain, and the vast land in northern Shaanxi has almost become an unmanned area. In the Ming Dynasty, prefectures were now reduced to counties and counties were reduced to towns or towns, because droughts often occurred in northern Shaanxi. Therefore, in the early days of the empire, all irrigated land that could not guarantee drought and flood were banned. A large number of immigrants to the Guanzhong area, which was sparsely populated due to wars.

Promoting the migration of the empire's people overseas has always been the empire's national policy, and this has never changed.

After all, the empire had a large amount of land overseas, both in the river and in the Americas, which were suitable for growing cotton, and what was missing was people.

The state-owned assets group that Su Ri'an wants to control, the Ministry of Resources of China controlled the nationalized land of the empire, which is actually the vast majority of the land of the empire. Because in the early days of the empire's establishment, except for the land that was clearly private, the rest were all state-owned. Even if it was private land, after the empire was established, the landlords and literati were strictly liquidated, and the land they owned was also state-owned.

The Central Plains and the Yangtze River Basin are all key areas for liquidation that year. The area of ​​private arable land generally does not exceed 20%, and the area of ​​private land accounts for no more than 5%. Maintaining the proportion of state-owned resources is also a national policy of the empire.

When Su Ri'an knew about this appointment, he understood his responsibilities. Although he was now completely an administrative official, the attributes of Bao Gong in the current era cannot be removed. In recent years, cases of embezzlement of state-owned resources and corruption of state-owned assets have been common. Su Ri'an understood that letting him control the state-owned assets group was to clean up the two major systems of state-owned resources and state-owned assets.

Thinking of this, Su Ri'an even more remembered the emperor's abdication plan that he heard from Gong Zheng earlier, and the successor's successor used his sharp knife to earn prestige by fighting corruption. Su Ri'an felt that now he took over the state-owned assets group was also preparing for that long-term plan.

To put it bluntly, blacksmiths also require one's own strength. Whether it is state-owned assets or state-owned resources, they are within the interests of the imperial nobles. If Su Ri'an wants to scrape the entire imperial system to cure the poison in the future, then clean up the nobles first, and there will be less trouble at that time.

"Mr. Su, the cotton needed by the Dongjiang Province is not necessarily provided by all provinces in China. The Eurasian Continental Bridge is connected, and cotton from Western Xinjiang can be used in the same way." Li Zhaoyu said to Su Ri'an with a smile.

Su Ri'an was not stupid either. He said: "The eldest son means to encourage the people of Dongjiang to immigrate to the Western Xinjiang region."

There is some land suitable for growing cotton in Western Xinjiang, and the same is true for the rivers in the far-reaching areas, but there are only people. In the early years, immigrating to these areas, in addition to the empire using administrative power to cooperate with the army to immigrate to the local area on a large scale, mainly through the Suez Canal by sea.

Departing from the port of the empire and taking a cruise, even if it is just to the port of Xijin, it will take three months to arrive at the resettlement site. It may be gone in half a year, but if you take the train, you may be able to reach your destination in one month.

After hearing Li Zhaoyu's words, Su Ri'an instantly understood the logical chain, and he also remembered the efforts of the eldest son Li Zhaoyu in the river a few years ago.

At that time, the land of Hezhong was also expanding the cotton planting area, which was very short of people. However, Li Zhaoyu believed that the so-called lack of people was essentially lacking money. Therefore, he advocated the introduction of European capital, allowing merchants from Europe to invest in and build farms in the land of Hezhong, hired imperial people to grow cotton, and lifted the ban on the ban on Zasak, which belonged to the appeasement zone, allowing these semi-nova and semi-agricultural peoples to participate in cotton production.

At that time, Su Ri'an had just arrived in Dongjiang Province and was interested in all the news about cotton, so he was very familiar with this matter.

According to newspaper reports, this policy of introducing foreign investment has been a great success in the local area, which has indeed accelerated the migration of population to the local area and improved the local mechanization level. Of course, Su Ri'an also knew that the facts may not be as beautiful as mentioned, but at least they are useful.

Su Ri'an thought of Li Zhaoyu's incident and felt that this eldest son was a practical man, so he was willing to discuss this matter with him.

"The Korean Peninsula is indeed facing the dilemma of large populations and small land. In recent years, the population has been gathering in cities and has begun to immigrate outside the customs." Su Ri'an said.

Li Zhaoyu asked: "So, is there any problem in immigration to the peninsula?"

Su Ri'an nodded: "Is the eldest son interested in this?"

Li Zhaoyu smiled and said nothing. This time, because of the death of the Supreme Emperor, both young men urgently ended their overseas missions and returned to China. Although Li Zhaoyu was facing a big marriage and Li Zhaocheng had just had a child, private matters were always easy to resolve. There were rumors that the emperor had been preparing to formally arrange the two adult royal children to work in the administrative system and conduct training.

Pei Yuanqi said: "Master Su may not know yet, and the eldest son will also join the State-owned Assets Group. As for immigration, it should belong to the Immigration Bureau. As far as I know, the second son may have to manage the errands of the Immigration Bureau."
Chapter completed!