In the forty-one years of Xuanping, the Tang Empire basically revolved around the economic development plan.
Within the framework of the economic development plan, the development of agriculture and resources in overseas provinces such as the Americas was started, the development of Nanyang was started, and the development of agriculture, animal husbandry and other areas in Northeast China, Central Asia and other regions was also started.
And further increase investment in the construction of various infrastructures in vast rural areas, mainly focusing on water conservancy and transportation.
At the same time, it also encourages the transfer of industry and commerce from developed coastal cities to inland cities, and encourages small and medium-sized cities to develop characteristic industrial and commercial economies.
In the autumn of the 41st year, Emperor Sheng put forward important instructions for local economic development in a new round of Yushufang Economic Conference, requiring all localities to develop industry and commerce based on local conditions and combine their own advantages to provide more jobs for local people and increase
people’s income.
This directive is not only for the sake of pure industrial and commercial development, but more importantly, to provide income for the people, especially in inland areas.
Today's empire is different from that of later generations. Transportation is far less cheap than that of later generations. It is not that easy for many people in rural areas to go out to work and make money.
Even big cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou have a limited population capacity. The total number of permanent residents in Shanghai's special county, which is also an urban area of Songjiang Prefecture, has exceeded three million.
Coupled with the population of several surrounding counties, the population of the entire Songjiang Prefecture will soon reach five million.
This population figure has reached the limit for contemporary technological levels, and can even be said to have exceeded the ultimate capabilities of contemporary transportation and logistics.
The population capacity of big cities has a limit and cannot be increased forever. Therefore, capital should be guided to a certain extent, allowing capital to invest and build factories in other places, directly provide jobs in other places, and increase income for local people.
This is the best solution.
Li Xuan's instruction to "adapt measures to local conditions" was issued in this environment.
Li Xuan asked all localities to develop industry and commerce based on their own advantages. For example, Fujian has a lot of tea, rich forestry resources, and is close to the sea. Then it can develop tea planting and processing, wood processing, papermaking and other related industries, etc.
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The Northeast region is rich in various mineral resources. At the same time, after the economic and agricultural development, the output of rice and soybeans is also huge. Therefore, we can continue to increase investment in the development of heavy industries such as coal, steel, and mechanical processing. At the same time, we can also develop
Grain processing industry.
For example, the soybean processing industry is very promising, because soybeans, soybean cakes, and soybean oil are all commodities with huge market demand.
Among them, soybean oil is an important industrial raw material in contemporary times, and soybean cake can be used as fertilizer, and the fertilization effect is excellent.
Another example is the Luzon Province in the Nanyang region. This place was the earliest overseas territory controlled by the Tang Empire, and it was also one of the first places to adopt overseas localization. Among them, Luzon Island had been fully localized for a long time.
Luzon is rich in various cash crop resources, especially the production of various tropical fruits, so it can develop tropical fruit trade, fruit processing industry, etc.
In Guangxi Province and Annan Province, sugarcane planting has been vigorously developed in recent years, which can directly develop the sugar industry, and sugar is also something with very good market prospects.
As for rubber, there is no need to mention it, because the current rubber shortage is basically Guangdong and Guangxi, Annan, Siam, Myanmar, Luzon, Banten and many other places suitable for planting rubber, large or small, have been gradually
Plant rubber on a large scale.
Another example is Beihai Province. In the past, this place seemed to the Tang Dynasty people to have nothing but gold and silver mines. However, later Beihai Provincial officials took the lead and introduced the planting of mulberry trees. It is estimated that local farmers immigrated to the area to raise silkworms and gradually developed it.
It is second only to the Jiangnan region as a raw silk producing area.
At present, a large part of Beihai Province's industrial and commercial economy is supported by the raw silk industry.
At the same time, Beihai Province is surrounded by the sea and is rich in fishery resources. At the same time, there is a relatively large demand for ships.
Therefore, according to the instructions, Beihai Province will further expand the raw silk industry and encourage the development of shipbuilding, fishery and other industries.
There are also areas such as the grasslands in the north, which naturally encourage the development of animal husbandry. Especially at present, the textile industry in the empire has an increasing demand for wool every year. Therefore, basically several northern provinces strongly encourage people to raise sheep.
At the same time, people are also encouraged to raise horses and cattle, etc.
To this end, relevant wool processing plants have been set up nearby.
Even the northwest region, which seems relatively desolate to ordinary people, is now encouraging the development of cotton planting, animal husbandry and other industries, and relying on the northwest railway to develop the local economy.
The entire Tang Empire, whether it was in developed coastal areas, or in places with ordinary economies, or in remote and backward areas, all started their own industrial and commercial economic development plans in the forty-one year.
Strive to develop local industry and commerce, provide more local jobs, and increase the income of ordinary people.
It can be seen from this that the various plans in the economic development plan of the Tang Empire this time, especially the industrial and commercial development plan, have a simple and pure purpose, that is, to increase the income level of the people at the bottom.
Completely solve the food and clothing problem nationwide in the Tang Empire!
Under this great tide, the forty-one years of Xuanping passed quickly.
In the 42nd year of Xuanping, the Tang Empire kicked off with the opening of Shanghai Huangpu River Bridge!
Datang wanted to build the Huangpu River Bridge not in a day or two, but for many years, and it was not difficult to simply build a bridge with a length of several hundred meters, but it wanted to build a bridge with a span of several hundred meters that could satisfy tens of thousands of people at the same time.
It would be difficult even for a bridge with tens of thousands of tons of ships to navigate.
The Huangpu River Bridge completed today is a super steel suspension bridge with a length of only more than 1,600 meters. The height of its main piers reaches more than 90 meters, and tens of thousands of steel cables are used to suspend the bridge body, making it
The bridge body is tens of meters high from the water surface, so that it does not affect the navigation of the Huangpu River.
Whether it is the construction of the bridge piers, the construction of the bridge body, or even other aspects, they almost represent the peak level of industrial technology of the contemporary Datang Empire!
On the day it opened to traffic, the Datang Chao Bao reported it in the form of a second-page headline, calling it the 'Miracle of the Tang Dynasty' and highly affirming the significance of the bridge politically, saying that the successful completion of the bridge represented the great success of the Tang Dynasty.
The empire's industry and commerce had achieved great success over the decades.
This super bridge is not only difficult to build, but also expensive. Only Songjiang Prefecture can afford to build such a super bridge.
The construction of this super steel suspension bridge took more than ten years, but it was just opened to traffic this year and cost millions.
The purpose of building this super bridge in Songjiang Prefecture is very simple, that is to develop the area on the east bank of the Huangpu River.
The current urban area of Songjiang Prefecture is already very large, so large that it has even found a second area that can be developed on a large scale. However, there is a large area on the east bank of the Huangpu River that cannot be developed due to traffic problems.
Although there was some development in the past, the east coast has never been developed because there is no direct bridge connecting the two sides and can only rely on ferries.
Songjiang Prefecture has always wanted to change this situation. At the same time, Songjiang Prefecture is also rich, very rich, very rich. This is a super important point and must be said three times.
Songjiang Prefecture also had the need to develop the east bank of the Huangpu River and had the money. At the same time, the rapid development of industrial technology in the Tang Empire also met the need to build such a super bridge.
The combination of these three resulted in the emergence of the super bridge Huangpu River Bridge!