Chapter 581 Contradictions caused by unbalanced development
But Zhang Baiqi immediately said: "Now the big men have become frightened birds. If we don't attack them, they should feel lucky. Liu Bei dares to attack us! It's impossible!"
Others nodded in agreement when they heard this. They had won many battles over the years, and the Han Dynasty had been driven to the south by them. Even though they had a small defeat last year, they also annexed Cao Cao's territory in Xuzhou and Qingzhou, and directly took Cao Cao away. He and his men rushed overseas. Overall, it was a big victory, so everyone didn't care about the small defeat in the end.
At this time, Zhang Baiqi and the others no longer regarded Liu Bei as their opponent. They believed that as long as they waited for Daqian to build ships to go south, the Han Kingdom in the south would disappear. Therefore, they were now more concerned about the internal development of Daqian.
"But local development cannot be stopped, because we are stagnant, but others are making progress, and the gap between the two sides has widened. If you are in power, you don't know which place is rich now, and the people will run to that place. We don't want to If the method is changed, all the local people will go to the rich states and counties!"
In Xu Wei's opinion, the changes in Daqian are very slow and the industrialization process is very difficult. He has been in this world for more than 10 years and has been working hard for more than 10 years. But even so, the world is still in the handicraft stage and has not entered the industrialization era at all. .
The emergence of steam engines is still far away. He has built a few small steam engines in the laboratory, but these steam engines can only be used as toys at best and have no practical value at all. He is hypocritical and continues to think of ways to research practical steam engines.
Xu Wei came to this world and made many inventions and creations, and changed the world extremely greatly, but only in the steam engine did he completely stumble.
This is also something that makes Xu Wei very helpless, because with him, it is not technically difficult to install a steam engine at all. Craftsmen can quickly make a steam engine according to Xu Wei's instructions, but the difficulty lies in the materials.
The piston inside the steam engine must not only be smooth but also strong. Now Xu Wei can only make a smooth piston in the hands of Daqian master craftsmen, but the hardness cannot be guaranteed. Basically, after using it a few times, gaps will appear in the piston and then leak. The steam engine cannot reach practical standards. Xu Wei still needs to continue to work hard to make a practical steam engine appear.
This is just the simplest steam age, and there will be the electrical age, the atomic age, and the information age later. Xu Wei found that even if he played cheats in this world, even if he wanted to play the simplest Tetris, it would take him until his lifetime. series.
But for people in this world, the changes in Daqian are so astonishing that they can be said to be changing with each passing day. Mayi is obviously a poor frontier town. It has been like this for thousands of years, and this is how everyone has lived. The original history of Mayi will not change even if thousands of years pass. This is what everyone is used to.
But after Xu Wei came to this world, Mayi became the place of Longxing in Daqian, and its history completely changed.
At this time, Mayi became the textile center of the entire Daqian, and countless cattle, sheep and wool entered the city every day.
With the hard work of hundreds of thousands of female textile workers, these wools were woven into pieces of thick and warm woolen cloth. Hundreds of millions of pieces of cloth were transported by caravans and horses to all parts of the world.
And these are woolen cloths, which have also brought countless wealth and population to Mayi. The small frontier town has turned into a pearl on the fortress with a population of millions in more than ten years, and has even become the belief in the hearts of desert herdsmen. Every year Millions of herdsmen come here for pilgrimage.
The emergence of Mayi is simply an incredible miracle in the eyes of people of this era.
The towering chimneys in Taiyuan stand like giants between heaven and earth, and there are more than a dozen such towering chimneys in Taiyuan County. Countless carriages pull iron ore and coal into Taiyuan every day, and these iron ore and coal With the efforts of hundreds of thousands of workers, coal mines have turned into swords, pairs of armor, and countless steel farm tools, helping the people of Daqian to open up the wilderness in all directions.
Taiyuan now produces more steel in a day than Han Dynasty did in a year. There is a saying in Taiyuan that Taiyuan ranks first in the world in steel production. Under Taiyuan, Jinyang has the second largest steel production in the world. Under Jinyang , Yangqu County is the third steel center in the world, and Yangyi is the fourth steel center in the world.
This sentence is said to have been passed down from the reign of Daqian, and has always been the pride of Taiyuan County people. From this, we can know the large steel output of Taiyuan County.
It is no exaggeration to say that Taiyuan has become the steel center of the world. Today, Taiyuan alone's annual fiscal revenue is greater than that of the whole country.
At the time of Bingzhou, the poorest state and county in the Han Dynasty had a population of less than one million.
But now there are two cities with a population of one million. At the same time, Bingzhou is also the richest state and county in the world. And all these changes have not gone through hundreds or thousands of years of history. In just a dozen years, it can be said that Bingzhou has hundreds of thousands of people. Thousands of people have all experienced this history of Bingzhou's transformation from poverty to wealth.
There is also the whaling industry in Liaodong, the salt fields in Youzhou, and the glass manufacturing factories in Jizhou. All these new things have brought about earth-shaking changes to the entire northern Han Dynasty.
Many people feel that the current changes in Daqian are a bit dreamy. They are changing too fast and find it difficult to keep up with the current development speed of Daqian.
Therefore, for the people and officials throughout Daqian, the world is changing so fast that it is difficult for them to adapt.
But Zhang Baiqi and the others are obviously the ones who are the fastest to adapt to this changing world, so they have such a strong sense of urgency and are deeply afraid that they will not be able to keep up with Xu Wei. In such a world of great competition, they will not be able to keep up with Xu Wei. Being abandoned due to their great steps will probably be their lifelong regret.
At the same time, Zhang Baiqi and others are the ones who understand the speed of development of Daqian best, so they are fully aware of their current predicament. Their states and counties are being sucked by the wealthy states and counties of Daqian. If they don't find a way to catch up , poverty and backwardness will always be what the inland states, counties and provinces are like.
For the wealthy prefectures and counties near the coast where Daqian is located, the industrial development of Daqian is naturally good and can improve everyone’s living standards.
But for the people in the mountainous areas of Yanzhou, Sili, Liangzhou, and even Bingzhou, although they can now have enough to eat, their poor lives have not changed much because the small-scale peasant economy in Daqian is disintegrating at an unprecedented rate. In the past, men farmed and women weaved. The men farmed provided food for life, and the women weaved provided the money needed for life. However, with the development of the textile industry, women's weaving has completely collapsed, which is equivalent to each household losing half of its financial resources. If it hadn't been for Xu Wei's equalization of land, the situation in the late Ming Dynasty where the south of the Yangtze River was rich and the northwest was poor would have already appeared in the Daqian court.
But even with Xu Wei's slowdown, as long as Xu Wei continues to promote the industrialization of Daqian, this trend is inevitable.
And Zhang Baiqi and the others discovered the states and counties with industrial areas. They took advantage of the industrial advantages and used various light industrial products to suck blood from their territories and absorb the money and young labor force from their territories to those with industrial areas. County.
So much so that they want to develop their own territory, but they lack both funds and labor. This is the most difficult thing for Zhang Baiqi and them to endure.
After hearing Zhang Baiqi's complaint, Xu Wei immediately paid attention to it. He naturally knew that industrialization was a huge progress for the entire world. He believed that as long as industrialization continues to be promoted, the world will become better and better.
But what Zhang Baiqi and the others said made Xu Wei realize that not all industrialization brings benefits. Sure enough, everything has its pros and cons. At least for the inland and northwest regions, they are in a state of exploitation. Among them, uneven regional development has begun to show up from now on.
What Zhang Baiji and the others just said reminded Xu Wei of the late Ming Dynasty. The handicraft industry in the Jiangnan region was obviously extremely developed at the end of the Ming Dynasty. If he wanted to kick it off, the industrial revolution would come to this world.
But Ming Dynasty failed! Why?
It was because of the extremely developed handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty that it completely destroyed the economy of the north and northwest.
Anyone who has read the history of the Ming Dynasty or something about the Ming Dynasty will find that although the productivity has been extremely developed, the Ming Dynasty was extremely poor from top to bottom.
Because the really wealthy people are the bureaucratic handicrafts owners and big landowners in Jiangnan. The reason why other places are poor is because they were sucked dry by Jiangnan. The capital of the Ming Dynasty is in the north, and Zhu Yuanzhang's extremely unreasonable tax policy. As a result, the Ming Dynasty we saw became extremely poor, and this poverty was not resolved from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the fall of the country.
The current Dagan has smashed the corrupt system of the Han Dynasty. Even if the coast is sucking blood, they can still withstand it.
But if this process continues, I am afraid that what happened to the Ming Dynasty will also happen here in Daqian. Without a balanced development of the region, countless bankrupt refugees will overthrow Daqian just like the refugees of the Ming Dynasty. In the imperial court, the transformation of industry replacing agricultural society was extremely drastic. From the hundreds of years of turmoil in Western civilization, every turmoil was the process of industry smashing agricultural society, and so was the century-old humiliation of the Celestial Dynasty. It was this humiliation Step by step, China was forced to move towards an industrialized society.
Thinking of this, Xu Wei paid more attention to it. Now the whole world may only have a population of 100 million to 200 million, but here Guangdahan and Daqian have a population of nearly 40 million.
Great Britain is a small country, and it can support the industrialization of millions of people with a population of hundreds of millions, but obviously Xu Wei's big efforts cannot do this.
Therefore, Daqian’s physique determines that its industrialization is different from that of Great Britain, because even if it sucks the blood of the whole world, it will not be able to complete the industrialization transformation of Daqian’s physique.
Xu Wei must find a way to balance the internal development of Daqian, otherwise the prosperity of Daqian will soon disappear, and he himself will become a pioneer for the king like Qin Shihuang, building a great country for others to enjoy.
Thinking of this, Xu Wei simply gathered all the governors and governors of Daqian together to discuss how to balance the internal development issues of Daqian.
When dozens of senior officials gathered together, the scene was extremely lively.
Han Sui from Xiliang was the first to shout: "We cannot continue to let Bingzhou suck our blood from Xiliang! Now most of the goods on the Silk Road are produced in Bingzhou, which will not give us Xiliang any way to survive." !It would be fine if we in Xiliang couldn't produce it, but we can also produce things like woolen cloth in Xiliang, but the officials in Bingzhou hurt people at their own expense, making it impossible to sell the woolen cloth in Xiliang. "
Liu Shi, the governor of Bingzhou, immediately retorted, "Selling things has always been cheap and popular. You Xiliang can still control the buyers, not to mention the textile factory you built in Xiliang was built by our Bingzhou resources, manpower and material resources. You Seeing that we, Bingzhou, are sucking blood, I also said that you Xiliang people are unjust, how could you treat your benefactors like this?"
Zhang Bai rode up to his home and entered the battlefield and said, "That's not what you said. The textile factory in Bingzhou was built little by little with everyone's hard work. How can it be the credit of your Bingzhou family?"
"You only take advantage of this, so I won't say anything else, but our territory has a small population, and you still absorb our already small population. This is completely disrespectful of brotherhood. Everyone is Now that we are on your territory, how can we develop?"
Wang Lei said: "The people want to live a good life, but you can't give it to them, and you still want to stop them from leaving. Back then, no big man did so much. And according to what you said, I, Xuzhou, was the one who suffered the most. When did Huanglong take me?" More than 100,000 people from Xuzhou have returned, but now there are wastelands everywhere in Xuzhou, and they are still waiting for these people to come back and cultivate them."
Huang Longdan said: "This is because the people have settled down in Yanzhou. From now on they will be the people of Yanzhou and have nothing to do with Xuzhou."
Everyone has been on the battlefield, and you can't scare them even if you fight. Who is afraid of who? The argument became more and more fierce, and soon it became a quarrel. Even Xu Juan, the only woman present, started to argue, and Even two or three big men can't quarrel with her.
These people were all heroes who had fought hard on the battlefield. When they got angry, they even used their hands and feet. Everyone decided the outcome with their fists and kicks. Soon the meeting place turned into a martial arts show.
Seeing all the senior officials attending the meeting, they were stunned.
Jia Xu exclaimed: "I'm afraid this was the scene when Emperor Gaozu came to court!"
Xiangkai said helplessly: "The reckless people are so clueless, and the government doesn't know how to take care of them."
In the end, Niu Gui had to step in to suppress everyone and let them end this chaotic personal attack.
These senior officials may not listen to what others say, but they have to listen to what Niu Gui says. The financial power of the Daqian court is in his hands, and any projects that need to be approved must go through his hands.
I really offended Niu Gui. If they want to develop the place, they can only rely on the small treasury in their own hands.
Therefore, even if it is for their local development projects in the future, they have to give Niu Gui some face.