Chapter 2755

Various industrial projects settled in Yanzhou are still in the initial construction stage, but they have already brought considerable economic benefits to the local area, making everyone in Yanzhou full of expectations for the future of the new dynasty.

However, limited by their horizons, Yanzhou officialdom's understanding of these projects is only at the level of boosting the local economy. They are far from realizing that Yanzhou's industrial structure and even social form will be affected by them in the future.

Traditional farming society is rapidly evolving towards industrial civilization.

Hearing is false and seeing is belief. Bai Kesi will not blindly listen to the oral reports of Zhang He and others. Since he has traveled across mountains and rivers to Jiande County, he must go and see the local situation for himself.

However, he still gave encouragement to Zhang He and other local officials who half-reported and half-expressed their achievements. After all, although the industrial technology mastered by Haihan is advanced, it still requires the full cooperation of these officials so that the relocated industrial projects can be constructed as soon as possible.

Virtue falls to the ground.

The residence that Zhang He arranged for Bai Kesi and his party was a house provided by a local wealthy gentry. The third courtyard was fully equipped with all the facilities. However, the inside and outside had been taken over by Haihan in advance, and the security had all been replaced.

Bax's manpower.

As usual, before taking a break, Bai Kesi called Bai Letong into the room and asked him about his thoughts today.

Bai Letong said: "The attitude of local officials is relatively positive, which is a good thing. However, I feel that they know too little about industrial projects, and all related matters have to completely rely on our command. Is this going to happen?"

Lead to reduced efficiency?”

Bai Kesi nodded slightly and said: "You have observed very carefully. This problem does exist, but it is also a helpless choice for us. Technocrats like Huang Zhichang are still scarce resources in our country, and we cannot arrange him here as a local official.

And judging from the actual local situation, it will take a lot of time to fully take over. Letting these officials stay in their posts in the Donghai Region is the safest way after weighing the pros and cons."

Baix paused and continued: "To change this situation, one is to train more technocrats so that we have enough manpower to deploy and arrange; the other is to train current officials so that they can gradually understand the industry

Relevant knowledge. You can also think carefully about how to carry out further training for retained officials."

Bai Letong is an official of the Ministry of Culture and Education. All matters related to culture and education can be regarded as his scope of work. The purpose of Bai Kesi's reminder is naturally to let him add this task to the written report submitted to Shi Diwen afterwards.

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The next day, Bai Kesi and his party began their inspection trip in Jiande County.

Although Jiande County is the administrative seat of Yanzhou Prefecture, due to limitations of objective conditions, the city here is actually about the same size as an ordinary county seat.

Accompanied by Zhang He and other local officials, Bai Kesi first visited the government-run schools in the city. According to Zhang He, every county in Yanzhou Prefecture has one such school. Although the teaching staff and teaching level are limited, they are basically

It has gathered a group of students with the best academic skills in the local area, and has produced many candidates in the imperial examinations over the years.

However, the performance of the local cultural and educational system only ends here. Whether it is literacy rate or imperial examination results, the training effect is indeed far inferior to those in the wealthy prefectures near the sea. If local students want to further improve their knowledge, they must study in the local area.

You may not be able to achieve your goal, so you can only choose to go to Hangzhou, Nanjing and other places for further study.

Bai Kesi wanted to give Bai Letong a chance to express himself, so he asked him what he thought of this situation.

Bai Letong's answer was quite satisfactory and not showy: "Haier believes that the biggest local problem is actually the low literacy rate, which may not be solved by existing government schools alone. In the future, it is still necessary to increase the scale of schools and support private schools."

More private schools to promote literacy and improve public culture. As for higher-level education, we probably have to wait until the local economic conditions get better before we can find a solution."

Bai Kesi nodded slightly and said: "In the future, many industrial projects will be settled locally, which will inevitably require a large number of industrial workers with a cultural foundation. Therefore, cultural and educational affairs must be treated as a top priority and must not be taken lightly."

However, these words were not entirely meant for Bai Letong. Zhang He understood the idea and quickly responded: "Master Bai's lesson is correct, I will take it to heart. I will definitely take care of this cultural and educational matter personally, as soon as possible."

Implement Master Xiaobai’s suggestions.”

Thanks to the improvement of the local economic situation, a large number of migrant workers have gathered near the county seat. New shops can be seen everywhere in the city, especially various low-end restaurants and grocery stores selling daily necessities. Of course, what follows is

It is a wave of increase in local prices. It is said that the current price of rental and sale houses in Jiande County has increased by about 30% compared with the previous two years, which shows the degree of influx of foreign population.

Bai Kesi said: "The local population is growing rapidly, which is a good thing, but we also need to pay attention to the supply of daily necessities and all aspects of guarantees, and avoid hoarding goods, speculating on grains, medicinal materials, fields, and houses to avoid causing dissatisfaction among the people.

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Zhang He said: "This government has increased its efforts to purchase various daily necessities from other places and tried to maintain price stability. However, the stock of land and housing is limited, and price increases are unavoidable. I can only do my best."

Bai Kesi knew that what Zhang He said was true, so he didn't dwell too much on this issue. What he saw along the way was that Yanzhou Prefecture was indeed very mountainous and sparse in land, and the area of ​​fertile farmland was even more limited. Now because of the need to develop industry,

As the population skyrockets, rising real estate prices are bound to have a cascading effect.

Of course, he did not say this to ask the Yanzhou government to completely ban price fluctuations in this field, but to remind Zhang He that such a trend is not the right direction, and people in the government should not add fuel to the flames. Smart people like Zhang He

You should not understand. If you make this kind of mistake again in the future, there will be no room for shirk of responsibility.

However, the increase in local real estate prices will not affect various projects that have already begun construction, as well as the living conditions of Haihan personnel stationed in the local area. The relevant properties were acquired secretly through private channels as early as last year, and will not be affected by land prices.

The impact of change.

The Haihan personnel who were stationed here in the early stage, including an army infantry company stationed in Jiande County, basically lived in the newly built garrison at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain outside the city. Haihan purchased about 20 acres of land here, because it is here.

It was not farmland, so the transaction price at that time was also very cheap.
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