Chapter 288 Economy and Party Struggle (34) Five Major Industrial Zones
Of course Zhu Yijun didn't know what a railway was, which was natural. Let alone him, even though he was highly pragmatic, he had hardly considered building a railway for a long time, because the inherent concept in his mind was: to build a railway,
You have to have steam power first.
Therefore, since steam engines can only be used to boil water in the laboratory of the craftsman school, and it is estimated that it will take some time to even be used for textiles, then naturally there will be no use for railways, trains, etc.
However, a few days ago, while he was chatting with a missionary from the Silesia region of the Holy Roman Empire, he suddenly had an idea when the other person mentioned the stone tracks used in local coal mines, and he suddenly remembered the origin of the railway - this
This thing did not appear without warning. Its predecessor was actually a "rail carriage".
As mentioned above, as early as the 16th century, the mining industry in Europe gradually emerged. With the increase in transportation volume, the earth pavement could no longer bear the load. So the Germans learned from the experience of ancient Rome and took the lead in laying stone pavements in the Harz coal mine.
This allowed the horse-drawn minecarts to get rid of the muddy dirt roads and transport large amounts of coal from the mines to the docks. However, the amount of construction required was too much, so later it was changed to only laying two rows of stone slabs where the wheels ran over, which became stone slabs.
rail.
As for the tramcar, the history can be traced back to 1660, when a horse-drawn minecart with a wooden track appeared in a coal mine near Newcastle, England, making construction more convenient. However, until this time, the track was only a wooden track, unlike "
"Iron" has nothing to do with it.
After a hundred years of silence, in 1763, the Seven Years' War between Britain and France ended. Due to the sharp drop in military demand, the price of iron in the UK plummeted. In order to solve the problem of wear and tear of wooden rails over time, the mine owners took advantage of the low price of iron and put a layer of iron sheets on it.
Nailed under the Su Song, the world's earliest "rail" appeared. However, as the transportation volume increased, the iron-covered Su Song was still burdened.
Another seven years passed, and in 1768, the owner of the Coal Creek Valley Iron Works in Shropshire, England, saw the piles of pig iron outside the factory. It could be sold to make money but also took up very little space, so he ordered someone to
Cast the pig iron into iron plates and lay them under the road of the factory, preparing to sell them when the price of iron drops.
The boss also thought that that kind of plank railway had been promoted and used in mining areas, so he took a step back and modified it into two L-shaped angle iron rails to jam the wheels for the horse-drawn mine cars to travel.
However, the problem of angle iron rails being filled with coal dust and garbage for a long time. So in 1789, British civil engineer William Jessop designed a convex rail and a cast iron wheel with a protruding inner rim.
It was used on the Fort-Leicester horse-drawn railway, which was the prototype of modern railways.
Jessop also invented the cast iron wheel and the railway switch with a protruding inner rim (because the protruding inner rim needs to be locked with fasteners, and when the inner rim protrudes, the rail itself can constrain the position of the wheel.
), which became the standard form of modern railway wheels and rails.
Guangzhou is relatively boring. Foshan has been able to produce bad iron and bad steel since ancient times, but Gao Pragmatic, a person who hates steel-related industries, has never invested in the steel industry in Guangzhou. That's because Gao Pragmatic knows that compared with several northern provinces, Guangdong
And even if it has the resource competitiveness of the steel industry, instead of developing the steel industry in Guangdong, it would be better to destroy the northern regions.
Kaiping Industrial Zone is a complex industrial zone with dual military and civilian uses. It focuses on steel production and processing. It only produces various weapons and equipment, but also produces agricultural tools and vehicle parts. It also supplies rails for the "railway" in the low-pragmatic plan. The main producing area in the north.
Gyeonggi Province currently mainly relies on the Kaiping Industrial Zone. Because the Kaiping Industrial Zone is built directly beneath the raw material production base, it has to worry about the transportation of raw materials. Its main function is to transport products to other regions by sea. There are discussions Domestic or at sea.
Of course, the turnout system was invented after 120 years of arduous exploration, and in Su Song's era, vehicles had to rely on turntables if they wanted to switch routes.
That question is relatively simple, after all, you can't copy homework. The plan behind the low pragmatic goal is seven industrial zones: Jingshi, Shenyang, Houyun, Guangzhou, and Wuchang. The outer rails are two prefectures, and the others are one prefecture or Let’s talk about the small and large size of prefecture-level administrative districts (mainly because Jiangnan is rich and the land is divided into fine pieces).
It cannot be said that China's prosperity and prosperity in ancient times was partly due to China's unique national water system.
Of course, considering the bad location of Wuchang, it is enough to only have steel plants and arsenals, and we cannot continue to expand the inland shipyards. You are wrong, Jinghua has no inland shipyards outside of that place. In addition, there are cement plants. , car manufacturing plants (carriages), etc., also have no certain foundation and cannot continue to expand.
Taking into account the technological level and social productivity of Xiao Ming's time, it is of course possible for low pragmatism to start a "100,000-distance railway" as soon as it opens its mouth. This is pure bullshit. My current plan is to try to spend ten or seventy years on it. , connecting several important mining areas and industrial areas with their adjacent navigable water systems using "trackless carriages".
Behind the wooden rails is a silk and cotton textile industry base, and it also underwrites downstream low value-added products such as porcelain and paper. It basically follows the "heavy industry" route. Of course, that and low pragmatic business power have always been Zeng Xiaoju's retreat. It doesn't matter which area. But for the time being, I don't have a very weak will to change that.
Are you surprised? Don’t be surprised, because that is not the reason why China cannot be called the chosen country under water transportation as mentioned later. The reason why a few people have almost no feeling about water transportation is because water transportation is compared with modern transportation such as railways. , there are many cars that are faster. But the cost of transporting them is high, and the transportation volume is really super small!
There is no other premise that must be said: Guangdong at this time is the same as Guangdong in the 20th and 21st centuries. The current Guangdong economy is not outstanding, let alone compared with the Jiangnan area. Compared with neighboring Jiangxi, Huguang is better than Guangdong. The economic strength of Guangdong is weak (the rise of Guangdong's economy is directly linked to the arrival of the maritime age).
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Because of this, Low Pragmatism has temporarily arranged too few industrial development plans for Guangdong. After all, its era has just arrived. When the wave of the era arrives, who will it need? If we make arrangements, Guangdong will naturally move onto the slow lane of development.
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Yes, it is just to make up for it, just to connect those areas with convenient water transportation.
This brings things back to low pragmatism, why do you suddenly want to build a "railway"? In fact, the reasons are not simple, there are only two reasons: one is to improve transportation capacity for Xiao Ming; the other is to slowly improve production capacity and quality.
Jinghua Steel finds a new market.
As for now, has the emperor not spoken just yet? Let’s build an arsenal first—or, in other words, build a royal arsenal in conjunction with the steel plant in Qizhou.
The increase in rice production has prevented the population in Liaodong from steadily increasing, while the explosive increase in corn production has made it the main source of concentrated feed for horses. It only supplies Liaodong, and also supplies a small half of the "four sides". Its importance is beyond doubt.
After all, it is only around 1600 AD, so the whole country must be engaged in small and heavy industries. Since Chang Bajiao is suitable for the development of heavy industry, let's develop it like that. Anyway, they are low value-added industries, so it is okay to continue to be small and weak.
Suffer.
Wuchang was the first to go. The ones in Wuchang that were most pragmatic and impressive were undoubtedly the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works and the Hanyang Arsenal in the original history. The latter was more tragic, but the former played a minor role in the Anti-Japanese War.
Being pragmatic, Guangdong and Guangxi do not have certain industrial plans. According to my subsequent arrangements, Guangxi will focus on the sugar industry, while Guangdong will focus on the shipbuilding industry, Cantonese embroidery, and cotton spinning.
Let’s talk about a problem that a very small number of people may not have noticed: Even in China in the 21st century, the freight volume of just one Yangtze River trunk and tributary even exceeds the national railway freight volume (the Yangtze River trunk alone exceeds 3.5 billion tons, plus
Lower tributaries such as the Han River and Jialing River will definitely exceed 4 billion tons).
There is no doubt that, except for Wuchang, the other seven do not directly correspond to the "seven small industrial bases" of China in the previous life. The reason why Wuchang is not drawn is because in terms of transportation, resources or location, Wuchang
Neither of them can be built as an important industrial base at all.
Of course, it requires planning. First of all, it is not necessary to plan several "national-level" industrial zones and areas that provide them with main raw materials nearby.
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The issue of transport capacity has not been discussed in detail in the following article. In short: in terms of water transport foundation, China can be said to be the chosen country even if we look at the world. But even so, there is still no place that is difficult to connect, so land transportation is needed.
to make up for it.
The development of railways has nothing to do with steam engines. I am too lazy to think about it for the time being. After all, steam engines have also matured step by step over one or two hundred years, and they were first used in locomotives to provide power for vehicles. Now... it's still too early.
It's too early. According to my estimation, I should be able to see it before I'm alive at most, so I have to put in the effort now.
Yes, although Zhang Zhidong didn't have any brains in setting up the Hanyang Steel Plant, it was actually too much. At most, the convenient transportation in the place was a small advantage. Of course, low pragmatism meant that he planned to build a steel plant in Hanyang, even if it was necessary
It had to be built in nearby Qizhou, because there were no mines - no coal or iron - near Qizhou, and Qizhou was also located along the Yangtze River.
At the same time, considering that there is no steel industry base in the south, the Qizhou Steel Plant cannot be built smaller at all. In the future, the steel demand of the inland provinces in the south will be met by it - including the demand for rail tracks.
Steel is a must-have, as it is produced for both military and civilian uses like Kaiping; the tussah silk industry has been mentioned several times since, and it is the most concentrated tussah silk one-stop industrial zone in Xiaoming; grain and feed processing is mainly due to the original planning of Gao Pragmatic , the introduction and promotion of corn and cold-tolerant rice caused a surge in grain output in Liaodong.
Shenyang is an industrial base built just before Gao Jingjing took office as governor of Liaodong. Shenyang currently has eight small industries: steel products industry, tussah silk industry, and grain and feed processing industry.
