Although Yanzhou was in the hands of Daqian for several years, it was always at the forefront of the war, and military operations were Yanzhou's main business.
And Huanglong has always regarded himself as a general. Therefore, in addition to the relatively complete recovery of agriculture in Yanzhou in recent years, there are also road construction related to the war. The rail carriages have been built in all directions to facilitate the transportation of troops. Other industries have not been much Much development.
That’s not to say there is none at all. Yanzhou’s silkworm breeding industry is still in full swing. In recent years, the output has increased year by year. However, in terms of output and quality, Yanzhou’s silk industry cannot compare with Jingzhou’s silk industry and Yizhou’s. In the silk industry, the quality of silk in both countries is better than that in Yanzhou, and the quantity is even worse.
The silk industry in Yanzhou was run by the private sector and had nothing to do with Huanglong. Of course, Huanglong didn't care at that time. After all, he still had to find a way to deal with Cao Cao in Qingzhou and Xuzhou.
But after Qingzhou and Xuzhou were captured last year, Yanzhou became the hinterland of Daqian. The entire Yanzhou standing army of 50,000 was reduced to only 5,000. Huang Long, the governor of Yanzhou, also changed from a general to a civilian official. He came to him every day What is listed above are documents developed in various places.
He no longer needs to worry about military matters, but how to develop Yanzhou is the primary issue before him.
At this time, Yanzhou's position was extremely embarrassing. It was located in the hinterland of the Central Plains and had been occupied by Daqian for four or five years. All infrastructure construction was relatively good. It even received strong support for farmland and water conservancy on the front line. It can be said that all areas This kind of infrastructure construction is also among the best among the states.
If the original Han Dynasty continued to recuperate, it would take less than a few years for Yanzhou to regain its former prosperity. But Daqian is not a Han Dynasty, and the restoration of agriculture alone is not enough to restore Yanzhou to its former prosperity.
The bad thing about Yanzhou is that he is on the front line, and there is basically no industrial construction. After all, the construction of a factory requires at least several million, and more requires tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of investment. With such a large investment, no one can Probably placed on the edge of the battlefield.
If we only develop agriculture without developing industry, Yanzhou's wealth will be sucked by the surrounding industrial counties.
This year, despite Huang Long's hard work, Yanzhou's grain production has once again had a bumper harvest. However, both Yanzhou's population and fiscal revenue are in a slight decline. It can be said that Huang Long and his men's hard work has been lonely.
So when Huanglong wanted to develop industry, he found that Yanzhou had not yet found a very suitable industrial project.
He could only watch helplessly as places like Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou either dug struvite to make money, or vigorously developed fishing and navigation industries to make money. Even Yuzhou on the front line was vigorously developing shipbuilding industry.
Industrial development in other places is in full swing. As the center of the world, Yanzhou's industrial development has stagnated. On the contrary, because of the development in other places, Yanzhou's human and financial resources have been absorbed. This year, he has tried his best to build industrialization. Yanzhou's The fiscal revenue has increased and is in the process of going backwards. While others are making progress, he is the only one who is going backwards. This is something Huang Long cannot accept.
However, the industries that can make money now are basically monopolized by coastal states and counties such as Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou. In addition to Bingzhou, which has first-mover advantages, population advantages, resource advantages, and financial advantages, other inland counties have
All the prefectures and counties were suppressed by the coastal prefectures and counties. Even the Sili who owned Chang'an and Luoyang could not change this.
It's just that Sili is still at the forefront of the war, with a large amount of national capital investment. In addition, Shou Sili is at the source of the Silk Road, and there is also the Hedong Industrial Zone, which has not yet shown signs of decline.
But at this time, Yanzhou was in an extremely embarrassing position. It had no financial support from the state, and could not compete with the states and counties far away in terms of resources. Its development was sucked by the surrounding counties.
Huang Long really couldn't think of a way to solve this problem in Yanzhou, so he had no choice but to turn to Xu Wei for help, because in the eyes of his old subordinates, Xu Wei was omnipotent.
After listening to Huang Long's words, Xu Wei could only smile bitterly. Yanzhou's territory was located in the Henan region. It was completely transparent among the dozens of provinces in the Celestial Dynasty. It was caught in the middle position, neither above nor below. Now he thought about it.
As for the specialties of Henan in later generations, I found that the only ones I can think of are the peonies in Luoyang City and the granaries belonging to the Celestial Dynasty. In the news, you can always take aerial photos of the boundless rice fields from airplanes.
Other than that, I have no impression, and I can’t tell you what special products there are. After all, in later generations, the maritime economy was the mainstream. The most developed provinces in the Celestial Dynasty were all coastal areas without coastlines, making them small and transparent.
These are all lucky things, because if you don't become transparent, you will only appear in the news about poverty alleviation.
So now Huanglong asked Xu Wei to point out a way for Yanzhou. For a while, Xu Wei didn't know what industry to point out.
If we don't develop the maritime economy these days, we can only rely on industry if we want to be rich. However, Yanzhou has no industrial base. The most critical first industrial revolution requires not much coal and iron ore. With such conditions, it's no wonder that later generations
This is positioned as a large granary.
Xu Wei thought for a long time and said: "If Yanzhou wants to develop greatly, it can only find a way in agriculture!"
Huang Long immediately said anxiously: "Now Yanzhou's agriculture has developed very well. This year's grain harvest is enough to feed the people of Yanzhou for two years, but we haven't made much money at all. All the money has been made by Wang Lei from Xuzhou and Zhao Rong from Qingzhou."
After leaving, they doubled the price of struvite, and the grain we worked so hard to grow was exchanged for the struvite they dug out. Wang Lei did the same, and he didn't talk about the friendship between old brothers at all.
, I asked him to lower the price, but he actually said that struvite is very difficult to dig now, and crews have to go far away to dig. There is nothing we can do about the price increase, otherwise we will lose money."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "How is this possible? They dig money from the ground and they have the nerve to say that they are losing money. At most, they just make more and less. Isn't this just bullying us and not being able to reach the coast? I
If there was a fleet that could dig out struvite, I wouldn't come here to give Wang Lei such a bad attitude."
Huang Long also looked angry when he said this. Yanzhou is a large agricultural province, and now if you want a good agricultural harvest, spreading struvite is indispensable. It can even be said that the more you spread struvite, the more food production will increase. In the end, At least this is the case until the limit of wheat production increase is reached.
However, the price of struvite has been getting higher and higher in recent years, with only an increase and no decrease. This is very disadvantageous for inland states and counties like Yanzhou. They can only accept the price of coastal states and counties, and there is no price at all. Room for bargaining.
Xu Wei didn't expect that Huang Long and Wang Lei, who had been friends for more than ten years, would actually fall out because of the development of their respective states and counties.
It even developed to the point of beggar-thy-neighbor. If Huanglong refused to return the people of Xuzhou to Wang Lei, Wang Lei would increase the price of struvite.
Xu Wei had just dismantled Daqian, just to establish a unified market to develop industrialization, but he did not expect that for the same purpose of developing industrialization, Daqian's internal officials began to divide the mountains, and local protectionism emerged again. However, this cannot be considered selfish on their part. They also want to develop their respective states and counties, so they can only use this method to snatch resources.
This is the same as the contradiction between resource countries and industrial countries in later generations. Resource countries can get stuck and sell their resources at higher prices. Industrial countries that need raw materials have to use the scissor gap between industry and agriculture to exploit resource countries, accumulate funds, and sell themselves. The industrial level has been cultivated to a higher advantage. At the same time, the industrial countries themselves cannot digest so many products. They have to find sales markets for industrial products, which directly defeats the fragile industries of the resource countries, which makes the resource countries extremely angry.
In such a conflict of contradictions, the industrial countries should have the upper hand, but the resource countries are connected together and occupy most of the world's resources. As a result, the scissors of industry and agriculture have turned against the industrial countries.
In order to protect its industrial achievements, the Chinese dynasty could only continue to invest resources in military power to break this blockade.
Fortunately, Daqian is a unified country now. No matter how fierce the conflict between Shantouism is, it is impossible to fight a trade war like the countries of later generations. At most, everyone slaps the table, but in the end we still have to sit together and find a solution.
Because today you may be the governor of an industrial state, but tomorrow, you may become the governor of an agricultural state. We are all one family, so there is no need to kill others, and we cannot launch wars to destroy the industries of other states.
To a certain extent, Xu Wei should be gratified that such a thing happened, because such a contradiction is impossible in an agricultural society. Most of the chiefs of various states, counties and counties are indifferent to each other and do not know each other until they die. In the past, such contradictions only occurred in industrialized countries.
Of course, now Xu Wei wants to find a way to help Huanglong solve the development problem of Yanzhou. He thought for a while and said: "It will definitely be difficult to develop Yanzhou just by farming, but it is not that Yanzhou does not have its own advantages. Zhen An and the others have established a large number of As a silk textile factory, you need to find ways to integrate the silk industry, establish more mulberry gardens, help the silk factory provide enough mulberry trees and silkworm cocoons, and at the same time resolve their internal conflicts and disputes, improve silk production and quality, and even build a The Silkworm Academy studies how to improve the quality of silk.
Nowadays, even a decent piece of silk in our Dagan area costs more than 3,000 yuan, not to mention the top-quality silk, which is worth as much as gold.
If Yanzhou can produce 1 million pieces of silk a year, this will be an industry of nearly 3 billion. If it can produce 10 million pieces of silk, this will be an output value of 30 billion. If it is doubled several times more, the output value of silk will exceed 100 billion. Well, if you compare it with the wool textile industry that I work in, you can see the prospects of the silk textile industry. This is an output value worth hundreds of billions. And with an output value of hundreds of millions, you are still afraid that Yanzhou will not be able to develop!"
Although Xu Wei's picture cake was big, Huang Long quickly came to his senses after a brief temptation.
Huang Long said helplessly: "Even if the silk industry has a prospect of hundreds of billions, it is impossible for only my Yanzhou family to swallow it up.
Luoyang City was originally the center of the development of the silk industry, with the largest number of silk craftsmen there. Yuzhou is also closer to the south than our Yanzhou. Their mulberry trees grow better than ours, and their silk is better than ours. Yanzhou has the largest number of silk craftsmen. With a first-mover advantage, if these two places really develop, it would be good if they can only occupy one-third of the silk industry. Maybe they won’t be able to compete with Sili and Yuzhou.
After all, Yuzhou is close to the south of the Yangtze River, and the silk there is better. Sili not only has the advantage of craftsmen, but they are also the source of the Silk Road. They can make a lot of money by selling the silk they make to the Western Regions, and think The most we can do is sell it to the people I work for.
However, the quantity of silk in the Western Regions is extremely small, and even if the quality is poor, it can still be sold at a very high price. However, the people in my country have seen a lot of silk, and the silk of even poor quality cannot be sold at a high price.
As far as the prospects of this silk are concerned, our Yanzhou has been suppressed. The quality cannot compare with Yuzhou, and the output and market cannot compare with Sili. It is easy to be defeated by these two states.
Xu Wei said calmly: "Now that we are developing rapidly, the income of the tribe is increasing very fast. The market for these people alone is enough for you to feed Yanzhou, not to mention that the two places you mentioned are still on the front line of the war. With this A few years of development are enough for you to establish industry standards and monopolize the silk industry."
And if you are asked to develop large-scale agriculture, you are not necessarily allowed to develop the silk industry. Although food is not profitable now, various cash crops are very profitable. For example, the income from planting soybeans is 5 times that of farming, and the silk industry should be 10 times. The development of the maritime industry in recent years requires a large amount of hemp rope canvas. If you establish a sisal production base in Yanzhou and then mass-produce hemp rope canvas, the output value will be tens of billions.
It can be said that you don’t need to look at the industry to make money now, but as long as you plan well, agriculture can also make a lot of money. As long as Yanzhou has primitive accumulation and relies on these industries to accumulate a lot of money, Yanzhou’s industrial development will also enter a fast track.”
It’s not that agriculture in the industrial era is unprofitable. As long as reasonable production relationships are established, these sectors will be more profitable. Several countries that developed after the first industrial revolution made big money from agriculture.
Some rely on growing cotton to accumulate funds and develop industries; some rely on grazing and selling large amounts of beef to accumulate funds and establish their own industrial systems. There are also economies that only build rubber plantations, sugar cane gardens, grape plantations, etc. Crops can accumulate a lot of wealth and be used for industrial development. As long as local industrialization develops stably, it will enter a healthy development channel and even become a local specialty industry.