Chapter 2755

Chapter 2755

Chapter 2755

The various industrial projects settled in Yanzhou are still in the initial construction stage, and they have already brought considerable economic benefits to the local area, making everyone in Yanzhou full of expectations for the prospect of the new dynasty's ruling.

However, limited by their vision and knowledge, Yanzhou officials' understanding of these projects is only at the level of boosting the local economy, and they are far from realizing that Yanzhou's industrial structure and even social form will be affected by them in the future. The traditional farming society is rapidly evolving towards industrial civilization.

Hearing is believing, seeing is believing, Beks will not blindly listen to the verbal reports of Zhang He and others.Since he came to Jiande County after traveling through mountains and rivers, he must go to see the local situation in person.

However, he still gave encouragement to Zhang He and other local officials who were half-reporting and half-showing their merits.After all, although the industrial technology mastered by Haihan is advanced, it also needs the full cooperation of these officials, so that the industrial projects moved can be implemented in Jiande as soon as possible.

The residence that Zhang He arranged for Bai Kesi and his party was a house offered by a local wealthy gentry. The three yards were fully equipped with all the facilities.However, everything inside and outside has been taken over by Haihan in advance, and all the security has been replaced by Beks' staff.

According to the usual practice, before taking a break, Bai Kesi called Bai Letong into the room and asked him about his feelings today.

Bai Letong said: "The attitude of the local officials is more positive, which is a good thing. However, my child feels that they know too little about industrial projects, and all related affairs have to be completely dependent on our command. Is this possible? result in reduced efficiency?"

Beks 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, so we cannot arrange him here as a magistrate. Moreover, judging from the actual local situation, it will take a lot of time to fully take over. It is the safest way for Donghai Region to keep these officials in office after weighing the pros and cons.”

Bai Kesi paused, and continued: "To change this situation, one is to train more technical bureaucrats so that we have enough manpower to deploy and arrange; the other is to train the incumbent officials so that they can gradually understand the industry. Relevant knowledge. You can also think carefully about how to carry out refresher training for remaining officials.”

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

The next day, Bai Kesi and his party started their investigation trip in Jiande County.

Although Jiande County is the seat of Yanzhou Prefecture, but limited by objective conditions, the city here is actually about the same size as an ordinary county.

Accompanied by Zhang He and other local officials, Beks first visited the government-run schools in the city.According to Zhang He, every county in Yanzhou Prefecture has a school like this. Although the number of teachers and teaching level are limited, it has basically gathered a group of students with the best local learning, and they have also passed the imperial examinations over the years. Many people.

However, the achievements of the local cultural and educational system are so far. Whether it is the literacy rate or the results of the imperial examination, the training effect is indeed far inferior to those of the wealthy states near the sea.If local students want to further improve their knowledge, they may not be able to achieve their goals locally, so they can only choose to go to Hangzhou, Nanjing and other places for further study.

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

Bai Letong's answer is quite satisfactory, without showing off: "I think that the biggest problem in the local area is actually the low literacy rate, which may not be solved by relying on the existing government-run schools. In the future, we still need to increase the scale of schools and help the private sector to open schools. More private schools, promote literacy and literacy, and improve the culture of the people. As for higher-level education, we probably have to wait until the local economic conditions get better before we can try to solve it.”

Beks nodded slightly and said: "In the future, there will be many industrial projects settling in the local area, which will inevitably require a large number of industrial workers with a foundation in education. Therefore, cultural and educational affairs must be taken as the top priority and must not be underestimated."

These words were not entirely intended for Bai Letong. Zhang He understood, and hurriedly responded: "Master Bai has taught you the right thing, and I will keep it in mind. I will personally take care of this matter of culture and education, and I will do it as soon as possible." Put Lord Xiaobai's suggestion into practice."

Thanks to the improvement of the local economic situation, a large number of migrant workers have concentrated near the county seat, and newly opened shops can be seen everywhere in the city, especially various low-end restaurants and grocery stores selling daily necessities.Of course, what followed was a wave of rising local prices.It is said that the current price of rented and sold houses in Jiande County has increased by about [-]% 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 living materials and various aspects of security, and we must avoid hoarding goods, speculating on food, medicinal materials, land, houses, etc., to avoid causing dissatisfaction among the people. .”

Zhang Hedao: "The government has stepped up its efforts to purchase various living materials from other places, trying to maintain price stability, but the stock of land and housing is limited, and price increases are inevitable. I can only do my best."

Bai Kesi knew what Zhang He said was true, so he didn't get too entangled in this issue.As we have seen along the way, the Yanzhou prefecture has many mountains and little land, and the area of ​​fertile land is even more limited. Now that the population is soaring due to the development of industry, the increase in real estate prices is indeed an inevitable collateral effect.

Of course, what he said was not to make Yanzhou government completely ban price fluctuations in this field, but to remind Zhang He that this trend is not in the right direction, and people in the government should not contribute to it.A smart person like Zhang He should not fail to understand. If he still makes this kind of mistake later, there is no room for shirking responsibility.

However, the rise in local real estate prices will not affect the various projects that have already started construction, as well as the living conditions of Haihan's personnel stationed in the local area.As early as last year, the relevant real estate has been secretly acquired through private channels and will not be affected by changes in land prices.

The Haihan personnel 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 [-] mu of land here, and since it was not arable land, the transaction price at that time was also very cheap.

(End of this chapter)