It is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the third year of the New Year of the Han Dynasty, the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Seven days ago, the Navy's latest warship was launched. This warship is the first warship equipped with artillery in the Han Dynasty. Compared with the Qinglong Ship and Clipper Clippers, which have been regarded as secret weapons by the Navy, this warship
The launch of the warship was extremely high-profile, with thousands of people watching. Not only did the emperor Li Xinchen descend from the throne, civil and military officials from all over the dynasty came to watch the ceremony, and Li Xinchen even cut the ribbon for the warship himself.
After being launched, the warship fired forty blasts on the river and went out to sea for three days of drills. Along the way, tens of thousands of people in the state capital gathered to watch this symbol of the Han Dynasty's industry.
The reason why the Navy is so high-profile this time is that, firstly, Li Xingchen made it clear that something was needed to cheer up the people before the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty. Such a large warship is obviously a good choice. Secondly, there is no need for the Navy to act in a low-key manner anymore. This ship
The birth of the new warship symbolizes that the navy has reached a peak that enemies in the north and even the world cannot reach. It will no longer be unbeatable on the sea and in the inland rivers.
The new battleship was named "Kunpeng" by Li Xinchen.
The water hits for three thousand miles and soars upward for ninety thousand miles.
Just by hearing the name, you can tell how much expectation Li Xingchen placed on this kind of battleship.
Of course, with the current financial and material resources of the Han Dynasty, it should not be possible to build a warship larger than this in the short term or even within a few years to more than ten years. With such a warship, it is enough for the Han navy to span the entire sea, so Li Xinchen
He also did not hesitate to give him the name "Kunpeng".
In the future, the Kunpeng ship will serve as the main force of the navy to conquer islands in the ocean and the long coastline in the north.
With the beginning of the autumn harvest in the new year, the Han Dynasty has also recovered from the previous financial constraints. Of course, part of the reason is because as Annan is completely included in the rule of the Han Dynasty, the pearls, crystals, tortoiseshell and vermilion in the south are in great demand.
Ya's specialty cloth and other products gradually entered the mainland of the Han Dynasty with the Han's business network, and these products were generally produced or developed jointly by the imperial court and southern merchants. Therefore, the imperial court benefited a lot from them, and finally made up for the previous losses.
Made up for it.
Among them, Zhuya's specialty cloth was produced by the Li people who were born and raised in Zhuya. The Li people seemed to have a lot of experience in weaving, and their weaving technology was even better than that of Jiangnan. Therefore, the imperial court was actively developing cooperation with the Li people.
At the same time as the cooperation, we also began to introduce the weaving technology of the Li people, and even directly introduced the weaving technology of the Li people.
Many workshops in the south of the Yangtze River have now begun to employ Li people as skilled workers, and the quality and color of the cloth they produce are better than those of other workshops. For a while, "Luoyang paper is more expensive".
Of course, Li Xingchen acquiesced to this phenomenon. Through exchanges in weaving technology, people from the Han Dynasty quickly poured into Zhuya, turning this former safe haven into an important town for the Han Dynasty in Nanyang. At the same time, it could speed up the development of the Han Dynasty.
Integration among Li ethnic groups.
Although Zhu Ya has always maintained an aloof relationship with China in history, and during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Zhu Ya was even included in the territory and Danzhou and other places were established. In fact, it has always been used as a place for exiled officials, such as the poor Su Shi.
, and did not pay much attention to the local indigenous people. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Huang Daopo brought the weaving technology of the Li people to the south of the Yangtze River, and it was the first time that China realized that there was such an island on an island far away in the South China Sea.
A nation with first-class weaving technology.
Nowadays, Dahan is short of talents. If we can actively absorb Li people's talents in weaving, we can naturally fill Dahan's shortcomings in textiles, improve Dahan's textile machinery as soon as possible, and free up more young and middle-aged labor force.
Even as the social trend of women entering workshops became popular, men could establish a mechanized textile production process controlled by women, so that at least there would be almost no need for men in textile workshops.
Clothing, food, housing and transportation are the foundation of the people, and clothing is the most important. There are thousands of male laborers in textile workshops across the Han Dynasty alone. If these laborers can be liberated, the problem of shortage of manpower in some places can naturally be solved.
Li Xingchen never dared to imagine that these current problems could be solved at once, and everything had to be done step by step in a down-to-earth manner. Now that Dahan has entered the process of primary industrialization, as long as he finds a way to maximize the role of the equipment, he will always
It can save labor force bit by bit.
Gathering sand into a tower, accumulating a little becomes a lot.
With the further development of commerce and the plundering of Linyi nobles, the imperial court is now rich again, and naturally infrastructure construction in various places is also in full swing. Just last month, the imperial court built a connection from Jiankang Prefecture to Wu County and then to Wu County.
The specifications of Kuaiji Avenue are higher than the ordinary official roads in the Southern Dynasties. Although it is not straight, its construction standards have been as close as possible to the straight roads of the Qin Dynasty, and all the roads have been rutted in advance, so that they can
Let the carriage move faster along the rut.
Through this highway, the time from Jiankang Prefecture to Kuaiji County has been shortened by at least one-third, and it has greatly strengthened the connection between the central court of Jiankang Prefecture and several major grain-producing areas and business centers in the south of the Yangtze River. Of course, it is also for
Strengthen the connection between the imperial court and the areas traditionally controlled by the southeastern gentry.
Although the Southeast gentry has fallen apart now, Li Xingchen does not dare to take it lightly at all.
Parallel to this avenue is the task of digging a canal. The canal starts from Kuaiji County, passes through Wu County to the north, enters Taihu Lake along Xuxi (today's Xujiang River Road in Suzhou), and finally reaches Jingkou, while the other
The canal is planned to go north from Guangling to Zhongli in Huainan along the Hangou dug during the ancient Wu and Yue periods.
This canal connects Kuaiji, the most commercially developed city in the south, and Zhongli, a military town in Huainan. Wujun, Jiankangfu, Shouchun, Liangjun, etc. that pass through on the road are also the political, economic and cultural centers on both sides of the river.
Speaking of which, the prosperity of Kuaiji County is also due to the development of maritime transport in recent years. Due to the unsatisfactory land journey, goods from the south are usually unloaded and loaded onto small ships in Panyu or Jin'an (today's Fuzhou), or shipped from
Panyu goes north to the hinterland of Jingxiang via Lingqu, or goes north to Kuaiji or even Jiangyin via sea route.
Over time, Kuaiji, which was reborn after the war, became another prosperous town in the south of the Yangtze River. This is somewhat similar to the rise of Ningbo in later generations due to shipping. After all, the coastline of this era was around Kuaiji (today's Shaoxing), and most of Ningbo was still at sea level.
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Therefore, it is difficult to transport goods from the southern sea to the north through just one road, and the need for a canal is very urgent.
Compared with the Southern Canal, which was built for economic needs, the canal built from Jingkou to the north has more military significance.