I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

As soon as the personal tax came out, the court suddenly had money. This extra income that was not included in the original plan naturally made various departments greedy.

This is 100 million. No matter which department it hits, it can double the status of that department and create a lot of political achievements. It can also be used to improve officials’ welfare and salary.

Various industries are also waiting eagerly, counting on this money to support their industries.

If it hits a certain industry, it can make that industry take off directly.

What talent is not enough?

As long as you have money and high wages along with training, are you afraid that no one will rush to study?

As long as there are enough subsidies, there will be no bottlenecks in development.

However, most people in the department soon became depressed.

Wu Changqing stipulated that this 100 million should be used as special funds to invest in various large-scale key projects and be used for development.

Improving welfare can only be postponed.

As soon as these words came out, those departments close to development and construction could be happy.

After all, the fruits of development and construction are their merits.

Immediately afterwards, various large-scale engineering projects were proposed one after another.

These include the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, Gezhouba Hydropower Station, South-to-North Water Diversion Project, Chengdu-Deli Highway (Chengdu to Delhi), New Era Civil Aviation...

Fortunately, no one proposed to blow up the Himalayas and let the warm currents of the Indian Ocean blow into the deserts of the northwest.

However, most of these plans were killed by Wu Changqing.

With Dahua's current capabilities, if it wants to build passenger aircraft, the technology for establishing civil aviation routes is not yet mature enough. If we want to build the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, our construction capacity cannot keep up.

The Chengde Highway is not cost-effective, with high costs and small returns, far inferior to sea transportation.

Most of the other projects that were killed were like this.

Either the time has not come, or it is not cost-effective, or the scale is too big.

Taking steps that are too big can cause problems.

Compared with those big projects that sound domineering at first glance, Wu Changqing pays more attention to projects that sound ordinary but are very practical.

For example, power grid laying projects in major cities.

This kind of project is much less shocking to the senses.

Unlike the Three Gorges Dam, I think it’s awesome when I hear it.

However, the laying of urban power grids is very important, allowing those places to skip the steam power stage and directly enter the electric age, achieving leapfrog development.

Dahua's most advanced electric machines can only be used where there is a power supply.

Electric machines can surpass steam engines by several miles in terms of stability and efficiency.

At present, Dahua, that is, first-tier cities such as Guangnan, Shangwu and other first-tier cities have popularized electricity. Places such as Chuzhou and Jurong around Nanjing have not yet had electricity.

When the power grid is laid in cities, the development of these places will surely take off.

In addition to the laying of power grids, the construction of large thermal power stations and hydropower stations is also in progress.

In the past, the technology of long-distance power transmission was not solved, so every city that wanted to use electricity needed to build a power station.

When building thermal power stations in areas with underdeveloped transportation, transportation of coal alone is a huge cost.

Furthermore, the pollution problem from thermal power stations is also quite serious, and the cost of centralized treatment is lower than that of decentralized treatment.

Another example is the large-scale fertilizer project.

Wu Changqing plans to establish fertilizer synthesis factories in major grain-producing areas to reduce transportation costs.

Nowadays, large fertilizer factories are mainly concentrated in Jiangnan. It requires a lot of transportation costs to produce fertilizers and transport them to planting areas.

Moreover, the quantity is still not enough to meet demand, chemical fertilizers are not available in many places, and grain production is far from reaching its limit.

In Wu Changqing's view, Wuhan needs a fertilizer factory to supply the Han River Plain and Dongting Lake Plain. Chengdu needs a fertilizer factory to supply Chengdu Plain.

Northeast China also needs one or two, as well as North China, Guanzhong, the Pearl River Basin and other places.

Overseas, Hanoi, Bangkok, Edo, Jakarta, India...

Fertilizer plants need to be built in these places. Otherwise, the cost of transporting fertilizers alone will be astronomical.

The same is true for the production of agricultural machinery. Several more tractor factories and harvester factories need to be built in India.

On the one hand, it is to reduce transportation costs, and on the other hand, it is to support local development.

The imperial court cannot only develop the Jiangnan region or the Central Plains region, otherwise intellectuals in other places will be dissatisfied.

Moreover, more development centers will also be of great benefit to economic development.

Just like Nanjing drives Jiangnan and Guangzhou drives the Pearl River Delta.

When one Edo develops, it can lead to the development of surrounding areas. The development of one Delhi will also benefit the entire northern India.

This is true in Hanoi, Bangkok, Jakarta and other places.

Delhi No. 3 Machinery Plant, Delhi Power Plant, Fushun Nonferrous Metals Plant, Fushun Open-pit Coal Mine, Bahrain Refinery...

From all walks of life, Zhongyuan Overseas has invested in more than 500 projects in this batch.

Any one of these factories, as long as it develops, can become a pillar industry in the local area, create a large number of jobs, and drive local economic development.

In addition to these factory constructions, a small number of engineering projects have also been approved, such as the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.

However, this South-to-North Water Diversion Project is not the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in the original time and space, and the scale is not that big.

, only this section of the Eastern Front in later generations.

That is, from Yangzhou to Tianjin, the water from the Yangtze River is introduced to the north.

The technical difficulty of this section is relatively low, and the scale of the project is not particularly large, but the results it can bring are extremely high.

After all, the places this section of the waterway passes through are densely populated and agriculturally developed areas in the Central Plains.

After this project is completed, it will benefit 30 to 40 million northerners, solve their domestic water and irrigation problems, and increase food production.

The scale of the central line project is too large, so we cannot rush it and must do it step by step.

At the same time, small hydropower projects were also approved.

The technical difficulties of small hydropower stations are relatively low. By building a batch first, you can accumulate experience, so that you will have more confidence and confidence in building the Three Gorges Hydropower Station in the future.

Without this process, if we go directly to the Three Gorges Hydropower Station, if it fails, no one will be able to take responsibility.

In the 13th year of Yongxing, the new five-year development plan began to be implemented.

This development plan covers the entire industry, has a very wide scope, and has many various goals.

Wu Changqing's goal is that after five years, Dahua's first-tier areas will reach the development level of the 1950s.

For example, around Nanjing, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Pearl River Delta.

Second-tier areas must reach the level of the early twentieth century, such as Wuhan, Tianjin, Nanchang, Shengjing, Edo, Delhi...

The third-tier areas need to reach the level of the 19th century, such as the vast number of small counties and rural areas.

As for other remote mountainous areas, food and clothing must also be provided.