"Your Majesty, this is the plan compiled by Xia Guansi. Please review it."
In the towering palace, Loran Hill was sitting in the main hall discussing matters with his ministers. Yu Caifeng, the chief official of Xia, presented the completed plan and project book.
According to Loran Hill's guidance, there are many things in the dynasty that need to be rebuilt. The first thing is to restore the people's livelihood and agriculture that have been stagnant due to the war. Then, during the slack season, people from all over the country will be organized to open up and level roads. The local major factions also have the responsibility to assist. It is imperative that within three years, all 134 continents in the world are connected unimpeded.
Transportation is the most important guarantee of a country's ruling power. If it takes several months to reach certain provinces and counties from the central government, it is difficult to say how much ruling and governance capabilities the central government still has over the local area. In addition, the allocation and transportation of various resources are also very dependent on good transportation.
Loran Hill's idea was to connect all the eastern states to railroads and begin to provide electricity within ten years. This task was not difficult, but it was not impossible.
The Western Continent now has mature technology accumulation, and a group of technicians will be dispatched here to teach immediately after a while, but what is more important behind the rails and trains is the support of the steelmaking industry.
Mining, explosives, steelmaking, fertilizers, agriculture, electricity, trains, this series of engineering projects must be accelerated. Loran Hill estimated that it would take at least fifteen years for the East to barely catch up with the current progress of the Western Continent.
Recently, she heard that Solander, the capital of Clansia, had been fully electrified, and her statue was illuminated by colorful lights all night long. Although she wanted to complain about the latter part, she was now a mature figure, so she endured it.
Thanks to the coordination of the dragon vein system, the East has far more years of good harvests than the West, and there is even a record of eighty consecutive years of good harvests. In this way, the Eastern land has nurtured a larger population, which is something that the Western Continent lacks. If we can now make good use of these population advantages, it will be of great benefit in the future.
After thinking for a long time, Loran Hill finished reading the plan in his hand and handed it to the clerk beside him to make a note.
"Let's settle it. The country will do its best to meet the needs for personnel and materials."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Hundreds of officials from Xiaguansi were excited when they saw that their department's achievements over a month were recognized.
Looking at them like this, Loran Hill felt a little relieved and happy. He nodded slightly and stood up.
"The task of Xia Guansi has been completed. How is the progress of Chun Guansi?" She walked down from the throne and looked to the other side of the hall, where more than 300 people from Chun Guansi were standing.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I'm afraid it will take us several days to finish sorting it out." The current Chief Spring Official came from the Nandou Academy. After the abolition of the Jixia Academy, the Nandou Academy is now the highest institution of learning in the country.
"There's no need to be too anxious. After all, education does require caution." Loran Hill shook her head slightly. She didn't mean to blame him, she just wanted to know the current progress and situation.
Although the new chief spring official was capable, he was sometimes too cautious and seemed to be afraid of being blamed by her. Now thinking about it, maybe he was scared. After all, many masters and scholars of the Jixia Academy were imprisoned by him.
For this reason, Loran Hill had to soften his voice again and comfort the people in the Spring Lawsuit, asking them to hand over the unfinished plan to him for a look first, and to raise any questions in advance to avoid them getting entangled in unnecessary details.
Compared with the Western Continent, the Eastern Continent has a much richer history. This does not mean that the history of the East is longer than that of the Western Continent, but that the East has accumulated a heavy burden of tradition. The Five Phoenixes brought about rise and prosperity, but also formed a strong historical inertia and tradition. It will be quite troublesome to break free from this shackle.
Although the Angel Church in the Western Continent also had its heyday, due to the struggle for royal power, the church did not completely occupy the secular spiritual world. The Angel Church in the Green Empire was even scattered across different places and was not directly controlled by the leadership of the Holy Land.
Compared with the West, the clan power in the East is very strong, and even very closed. The powerful clans have the money to sponsor more students from their own clan to study in academies, and then become officials in the court. They have more resources to train the younger generation, so that they can be selected by factions and sects and enter the major sects for further study.
If such a clan is strong enough, it will form a so-called aristocratic family. For example, the Dongshan Wang family, which once supported King Huainan, had ancestors who followed the saint to study under the purple banyan tree. Later, the family produced many great scholars and many of them served as officials in the court.
About three hundred years ago, the aristocratic families of the time were even so rampant as to interfere in the struggle for succession within the royal family. Later, after the new emperor ascended the throne, he suppressed the major aristocratic families in the dynasty with the support of Chi Feng. Several major sects disappeared in that turmoil.
The reason why the southwestern continents have not formed large aristocratic families like the eastern ones is because the Zhang family, which was once the most powerful family in the southwestern continents, was liquidated by the new emperor at that time and the entire family was exterminated. The "Jiyue Taiyin Palace" which had a close relationship with the Zhang family was also destroyed by the "Jianyan Huoyamen".
Later, even if some clans rose in the southwestern continents, they became more restrained after learning from previous experiences. For example, the Haibi family, which ruled the "Bi Bo Tian Hai Pavilion", although powerful, always kept its influence in Xihai Prefecture and the sea, and never got involved in any inland industries to avoid arousing the emperor's suspicion.
The power of the clan needs to be weakened, but Loran Hill will not solve the problem directly by killing like the previous emperors. She is not the kind of leader who relies on bloodline or the support of ministers to ascend the throne. Her current status can be compared to the founding monarchs in history. She has extremely high prestige and ruling power within the country. She can easily promote policies and ideas that were difficult for some emperors to implement in the past, and the world has responded.
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