"As representatives of the people, I think you all know that we have to eat, drink, and live every day. What is the work of the government? It is in charge of these things. In the past, Manchu Qing did not care about these things, let alone our lives. But the new government wants to manage these things. As representatives of the people, you must understand what the government wants to do, and when you encounter problems, you must also speak to the government. Times have changed, comrades, times have changed. In this new era that has already begun, please note, in this new era that has already begun, only when the government and the working people stand together, can the government do what the people can do, and the government and the people want to do what the people want to do. Only when both sides speak clearly, can we overcome one difficulty after another and live a better life! "
As soon as Vézé finished speaking, someone immediately shouted, "Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! "
Vézé waved his hand forcefully, and the shouts quickly subsided. The representatives' faces were all glowing. Even though they were forcefully "suppressed" by Vézé, no one felt that it was embarrassing. To be able to listen to Emperor Vézé talk about the biggest political direction was already very exciting for ordinary people, not to mention that Vézé's words were very practical. The representatives were all beneficiaries of the new government, and the reason for this was undoubtedly because they followed the Restoration Party led by Vézé. If they could clearly understand what the Restoration Party was going to do, even if they did not understand it, they would feel confident. At least the government did not forget them.
In addition to the national representatives' meeting, Vézé also began to participate in the provincial representatives' meetings. Each province was liberated at different times, and the level of industrial exhibition was also different. For example, the Sichuan representative, who had just been liberated, did not know anything and did not understand anything. He was just extremely excited. The Guangdong representatives raised many questions, one of which was quite sharp. The Guangdong representative was very concerned about the establishment of Jingzhou as a province.
Jingzhou was Hainan Island. Apart from tropical crops, Hainan Island was most famous for its iron and steel. The high-quality ore from the Shilu Iron Mine supplied a large amount of Guangdong steel plants. Once Jingzhou became an independent province, the iron supply would probably be a problem. After all, from a cost perspective, it was cheaper to transport Hongji Coal Mine's coal to Qiongzhou than to transport coal and iron ore to Guangdong. Now that the whole country was building railways on a large scale, the demand for railway tracks was huge. Foshan's Iron and Steel Group was now the most important industrial enterprise in Guangdong. Not only did they own railway tracks, but they also owned shipyards. If Jingzhou gets all these industrial enterprises, Guangdong's economy will immediately encounter a big problem. That was not just a simple problem of tens of thousands of steel workers. Zhuhai involved the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of workers from upstream and downstream enterprises.
On the other hand, Hunan and Hubei had a different problem. They had a demand for the supply of palm oil. Palm oil is a mixture of fatty acids. Palm oil with a melting point of 40 degrees can only be used to make soap and cosmetics. Palm oil with a melting point of 24 degrees can be used to fry instant noodles and make pastries. Palm oil with a melting point of 12 degrees can be used as edible vegetable oil. These complicated chemistry problems were simplified into two points in Hunan and Hubei. Could they provide more cooking oil? Could they build more soap factories in Hunan and Hubei?
Vegetable oil and animal oil could both be used to make soap. In terms of decontamination, there was not a huge difference. The problem was that soap made from vegetable oil had a plant fragrance, while soap made from animal oil had a unique animal odor. For example, soap factories used to make sheep oil soap in small quantities. As a result, the soap had a mutton odor that could not be removed after washing clothes.
Currently, Hunan had not found a suitable industrial project. The ones that could make money were light industries such as soap factories. At the current stage, soap factory projects were basically monopolized by Guangdong, Zhejiang, and other coastal provinces. The national finance could pay the salaries of government departments and enterprises, but the local people had to pay for industrial products. Hunan and Hubei fell into the predicament of coastal cities using large amounts of light industrial products to suck the blood of the coastal cities.
As a young man of the 21st century, Vézé hated local protectionism. He used to think that it was extremely backward. But now, Vézé never thought that local protectionism itself was not simply because the local government was extremely selfish and adopted a beggar-thy-neighbor attitude. Most of the time, there were quite reasonable reasons.
The Zhejiang representatives were even more straightforward. They directly quarreled with the Jiangsu representatives because of the ore supply problem of Maanshan Iron Mine. In the past four to five years, Shanghai had developed greatly. A series of heavy industrial enterprises such as Jiangnan Heavy Industries were built in Shanghai to produce new types of ships. The steel needed to be poured. There was no iron mine in Shanghai, so the iron mine from Maanshan Iron Mine was smelted in Shanghai. The new government abolished the originally small concession, but Shanghai, after all, had been open for more than twenty years and had a bit of a trading base. The Shanghai local government fully exerted the power of Zhejiang craftsmen and organized them to set up a lot of small hardware enterprises. Jiangsu also did not lack craftsmen. With the experience of Foshan blacksmiths in Guangdong, Jiangsu also set up small hardware enterprises. The two sides immediately fell out over this matter. Zhejiang accused Jiangsu of not giving them iron mine, and Jiangsu accused Zhejiang of asking too much. Zhejiang simply could not mine that much iron.
When raw materials were choked, any industrial enterprise had to kneel. This lawsuit actually did not start with the National People's Congress, but it seemed that the two provincial governments were very careful. They also wanted to fully use the National People's Congress as a platform to exert their influence. And the one who could make the final decision was undoubtedly Vézé.
The market was so realistic. The raw materials could be choked, but the industrial provinces that needed raw materials had to resist. The industrial provinces could not digest so many products themselves. They had to find a market for the industrial products. After buying the industrial products, the provinces that suffered from the economic blood-sucking began to resist.
Fortunately, China was a unified country. Many of the conflicts between the European countries were actually the same as Vézé's China. However, Europe did not have anyone who could mediate between the European countries through the administration. The European countries had fierce conflicts, and it was not uncommon for them to eventually fight.
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