687 Country Establishment Meeting (1/2)
Chapter 687-Country Establishment Meeting
Translator: ryangohsf
Editor: Nora
Liu Mo's popular science lecture lasted a full hour.
Ouyang Shuo sat on his seat, quietly paying attention to the reactions of the ministers standing below him. Some were interested, some listened with focus on his words, and some acted like they were listening but were not actually.
The road to industrialization for the territory would not be a smooth sailing path.
During this round of promotions for the industrialization, Ouyang Shuo did not add new organizations as usual; instead, he allowed the Industry and Development Planning Department to take charge of it.
The only change would be that he moved one of the old professionals from the No.7 Research Institute to the position of deputy director of the department to be in charge of coordinating work between the Nanjiang Governor-General House and the No.7 Research Institute.
Ouyang Shuo did not choose Liu Mo as his god brother was basically a technological nerd; he was not cut out for this kind of thing.
Liu Mo took his leave and the court assembly continued.
The popular science lecture was just a start, used to show the will and ideals of the Monarch. The people within the hall were all sharp and intelligent; naturally, they understood the deep meaning within.
”Following this, the No.7 Research Institute will introduce this to the entire territory. Only when everyone has a clear understanding can the territory undergo industrialization.”
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”Shanhai City has just upgraded to Grade 3 Prefecture. We have a population shortfall of one million. I want to fill this gap in half a year, do any of you have any suggestions?” Ouyang Shuo tossed out a difficult question.
The moment they heard his words, the officials all exchanged glances with one another.
”If I may ask, Monarch, what's the rush?” Xiao He stepped out and asked.
Shanhai City took a year to upgrade from Grade 2 Prefecture to Grade 3 Prefecture. From their perspective, they could proceed slowly and there was no need to rush the process.
”The time that Shanhai City upgrades to capital city is also the time for us to establish our country.” Ouyang Shuo did not hide his ambitions and revealed it to them for the first time.
The ministers were excited, and some of the old ones even had signs of shedding tears.
Establishing a country had great meaning in Ancient China; it was one of the signs of unifying the country. If a country was not established, the ministers would always feel that something was lacking, that they could form a country ideal.
To the territory, establishing a country was an enormous matter.
Ouyang Shuo announcing this matter to them caused a huge tremor. To these ministers, this was the best description of this court assembly and the best reward anyone could receive.
Any doubts from before had been swept aside.
The ministers were now even more passionate than Ouyang Shuo, coming together to solve this population shortfall problem.
”Monarch, I think we could move some people from the other prefectures over to Shanhai City,” suggested Household Registration Secretary Du Quan.
The Household Registration Division controlled the population; naturally, they had the most right to speak. At such an important court assembly, as a young official, Du Quan wanted to impress.
”Definitely not!” Xiao He immediately spoke against it, ”Such an act is like drying the lake to fish. The population of the various prefectures have all along been slow, and it was not easy for them to settle down, how can we causally move them?”
In the wilderness, apart from people spawning, the naturally population increase was 0. In the 10 years of the game, even if the natives naturally grew, it was at most enough time for a child to grow into an adult.
Xiao He's words made sense.
In the territory, only Shanhai City, Yashan City, and Zhenhai City used the village creation token and could have new people.
The only special case was Beihai City, this subsidiary city.
Other than that, it was the territories that used the merger token, including Tianfeng City, Yishui City, Broken Blade City, and the overseas cities of Lion City, Friendship City, and Jidian City.
Compared to the hundreds of cities in the seven prefectures, this was just too little.
Du Quan's suggestion was truly not feasible.
”This....”
Du Quan's face flushed red, and he did not know how to react.
When Wei Yang saw this, he could not help but frown. Du Quan's performance had totally lost the face of this Internal Affairs Director.
Even so, Wei Yang still needed to get Du Quan out of the situation, ”Director Xiao He's suggestion makes sense but it's not absolute. I suggest we move a batch of suitable people from Beihai City, Tianfeng City, Yishun City, and Broken Blade City. Apart from that, we can also move some over from Zhenhai City.”
As the Internal Affairs Director, Wei Yang had a good grasp of the population layout of the territory. He did not mention Yashan City as its population would need to radiate to the entire Qiongzhou Prefecture; it was not easily moved.
”That could work.” Ouyang Shuo nodded; he did not put the silent competition between Wei Yang and Xiao He to heart, ”This matter, I'll let the Internal Affairs Bureau lead; the Lianzhou Prefecture and Zhenhai City will work with them.”
”Yes, Monarch!”
Lianzhou Prefecture Governor Wei Ran and Zhenhai City City Magistrate Song Wen both stepped out to accept the orders.
Compared to the calm Song Wen, Wei Ran's face was a little tensed up. Taking out a large amount of population would cause Lianzhou Prefecture to be much worse than Shanhai City in terms of stature.
To be an official under the feet of the son of god, this was why it was a bad thing.
”Moving population is like destroying the east wall to fix the west wall; it cannot solve the root of the problem. Do any of you have other suggestions?” The one million population shortfall was not something that just moving the population could solve.
To move 200 thousand people from the five cities was already the maximum.
”I suggest we recruit population from the imperial city.” Wei Yang took over from Du Quan and answered.