President Meng did not order the pursuit of the British army and Ruilin's green battalion soldiers at the first time, for President Meng, he is more concerned about the lives of the people, defeat these British and Qing coalition forces, there will still be troops in the future.It's just that Luo Guozhong led the cavalry to chase Ruilin, for the sake of the overall situation, President Meng still hopes that Ruilin can surrender, if there is no big man like Ruilin in charge, it is not good for public opinion, President Meng has always attached great importance to public opinion.President Meng entered Guangzhou at noon the next day, he had been to Guangdong in modern times, a worker, listening to the familiar vernacular, feeling that this moment is a rotation of history, and the scenes of modern life are still clearly recognizable, as if they are in front of you.In this era, there are almost no Cantonese people, or people in the whole of Jiangnan, who can speak the official dialect of the north, unless it is a wealthy family.President Meng has no intention of living in Guangzhou, he already has the Hong Kong Governor's Office, so he asks not to set up a bank in Guangzhou, which will cost the people and money, and these public facilities will be used as government offices, and he will live temporarily for a while.On February 15, 1873, Luo Guozhong's cavalry caught up with the fleeing troops of Lord Ruilin, although they did not persuade Ruilin to return, but gathered many scattered green battalion soldiers along the way, and brought back tens of thousands of surrender troops.Coupled with the captured green battalion soldiers, the total number of green battalions incorporated into the construction corps this time is more than 20,000 people, and many garrison divisions have been defeated.On February 28, 1873, the half-month-long Guangdong War ended, and the entire territory of Guangdong was owned by President Meng, and all the troops of the Qing court fled from Guangdong, and even the British were no opponents, let alone them.The yamen, large and small, are covered with red and black five-pointed star flags.The commander of the British army, Vice Admiral Ewan MacGregor, led the remnants of more than 2,000 men to Zhanjiang and joined up with the British fleet, and the remnants of more than 4,000 men led by the Governor of Liangguang, Ruilin, fled to Guangxi.President Meng held a high-level meeting at the Yamen of the Governor of Liangguang."
A mountain cannon shell is equal to the total income of a strong labor force in three years of farming, which also requires good land, good land, and good weather in the past three years."
President Moe sits in the middle.Below is a cadre of more than 400 people, most of whom are military officials, as well as worker cadres urgently sent from Danzhou, and the backbone of the Huacui Party, Xuan Dali and Lu Kangtian are among the representatives.A group of former Qing court members who defected to President Meng were all put into the construction corps, and President Meng's attitude towards the landlord class has not changed, but those who are willing to hand over the land and accept the transformation are all welcome and will not turn over the old accounts."
Not counting the cost of the war, just a soldier, a soldier who is out of production, must have a thousand catties of grain a year, so we have been advocating the modernization of the army, what is called modernization is to use the latest things, with the latest tactics, with the latest ideas, to arm our soldiers" President Meng's voice was not high, but the venue was silent, and only the voice of President Meng was heard.Jiegege learned the appearance of Qiu Yun and took notes seriously, Princess Katrina Kafu was next to President Moe, and everyone in this venue was taking notes.President Moe's officials have achieved a literacy rate of 100 percent, and if the officials are illiterate, there is no way to manage them.Therefore, in this era, as long as you are literate, you can be an official when you go to President Meng, and you can basically be an official, because the speed of Huaguo's development is too fast, and the fast President Meng is a little afraid."
We have purchased five million stone grain from Nanyang this time, but this is far from enough, don't think about the military pressure that Guangdong will face in the future, I will tell you one, industry, must have perfect agriculture to rely on, the Ministry of Agriculture has developed to the level of food wealth, and can never get the industry up" President Meng finished speaking, and there were many discussions below."
At this stage, your task is to warm people's hearts, Guangdong, is a part of China, this is the top priority, to let the people feel the strength of the country, the existence of the country, and actively develop the Huacui Party team, actively popularize the education system, accelerate the enlightenment, accelerate the literacy rate of the people, accelerate the popularization of medical care, let our people, everyone eat well, dress well, do not get sick, sick and have money for treatment, anything happens, there are social concerns, there are national concerns, we are relatives" Meng President of we are relatives conceptOn the second day, the whole of Guangzhou was compiled and distributed into a pamphlet, which was much more powerful than the attack power of the Huacui Party Manifesto, and the common people who read it were teary-eyed.President Meng was also moved by himself, his ideal society is like this, everyone has love, medical care, education, everyone has a job, every family is well-off, President Meng believes that this is in the late Qing Dynasty, it is not a fantasy, with China's national conditions, after civilization, any miracle can occur if the route is wrong, that is, from the modern direct transport of a province, can not help the late Qing Dynasty China's civilization, the key is to rely on their own strength."
The last one, focus on the construction of Guangzhou Port, Hong Kong will be completely turned into a commercial center and a military fortress, Hong Kong's industry, all moved to Guangzhou Port, the formation of Guangzhou fortress, how much can we do in the future, look at Danzhou in the north, look at Guangzhou in the south" President Meng spoke a little more today, President Meng has been more than two hours, before the meaning is roughly clear, the development is too fast, the pace has to be accelerated.At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, because Zheng Chenggong was stationed in Taiwan to resist the Qing Dynasty, a maritime ban was once imposed.After the pacification of Taiwan in 1684, it was in Guangzhou, Zhangzhou, Dinghai, Yuntaishan four foreign trade ports, to 1757 and closed Zhangzhou, Dinghai, Yuntaishan three ports, Guangzhou is the only foreign trade port, Guangzhou's foreign trade is more prosperous, become China's foreign trade center.At that time, the government also designated some trading houses to conduct trade with foreign countries, called public banks, also known as "thirteen lines", and set up "Yiguan".Entertaining foreign businessmen, the center of the Department of Foreign Trade and Commerce was transferred to the Xiguan area.At that time, the foreign trade volume was quite huge, and all of them were exceeded, and the export goods were mainly tea and silk.According to the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom", according to the statistics of 1837, the trade volume of export goods was 350.95 million yuan, the import trade volume was 201.49 million yuan, and the excess was 149.45 million yuan.After 1924, exports gradually decreased, and after 1930 it became a super-city.The history of Guangzhou's foreign trade, although it has maintained its status as a foreign trade city for more than 2,000 years, has risen and fallen with the social and economic development and foreign trade policy changes of various dynasties.During the Han, Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, Guangzhou's foreign trade development was relatively prosperous, until the Opium War, after the trade between the five ports, the imperialist invasion, China was reduced to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country, and Guangzhou became a typical semi-colonial, semi-feudal foreign trade city.Guangzhou Port is located at the mouth of the Pearl River and the center of the Pearl River Delta, the most active export-oriented economy in China, bordering the South China Sea, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, where the Dongjiang, Xijiang and Beijiang rivers flow into the sea.Through the water network of the Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou Port is connected with major cities in the Pearl River Delta, as well as with Hong Kong and Macao, and is connected to China's coastal areas and the world's ports through the Lingding Ocean waterway.Guangzhou Port is located at the northern edge of the Pearl River Delta, with a dense river network and little water and sand; The four seasons are evergreen, and the climate is pleasant; The coastline is rich in resources and the conditions for port construction are good.Guangzhou Port is the largest foreign trade port in South China, and the coastal and Yangtze River ports are connected by shipping, and the international shipping reaches more than 300 ports in more than 80 countries and regions in the world, and it is the nearest large-scale port between China and Southeast Asia, the Central Indian Peninsula, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and European countries.The construction of Danzhou Port and Guangzhou Port is the focus of President Meng for the development of Guangdong and the development of the whole country, no matter how big the territory is, President Meng is very clear that he currently does not have the ability to make the whole country rich and strong, and can only concentrate on the development of two ports, with the window of Hong Kong, and the economic conditions of the south as a basis, the development of Guangdong is more beneficial, but all the situations faced are more severe.In the northeast, the port of Danzhou had to face challenges from the Qing Dynasty, Japan, and Tsarist Russia.But in Guangdong, President Meng himself doesn't know how many challenges he has to face, and the eight parties are in difficulty t1706231537: