There is a rough floor plan in the newspaper, and next to the newspaper, there is another enlarged and more detailed picture.
Li Xingchen glanced at it and knew that Yang Jian copied it from the newspaper, and filled in the empty spaces according to the description in the newspaper. Otherwise, there would not be many differences from reality.
When Li Xingchen said this, Yang Jian's mind suddenly became a little erratic. He seemed to have floated to the sky above Chang'an City, which was witnessing his success or failure. He thought of all the things that happened back then and the country that was once in his hands.
Homeland and old friends, the past is like smoke.
Nowadays, the old Chang'an City is being demolished and rebuilt, and the new Chang'an City is rising in the other direction.
Nothing can better indicate the complete passing of an old era and the advent of a new era than this.
He smiled to himself, what happened in the ancient city of Chang'an now seems a bit like playing house.
"Today is not what it used to be. All people in the world should be grateful to Your Majesty." Yang Jian said lightly.
Li Xingchen smiled, knowing that Yang Jian was not deliberately flattering him, but just saying what he had to say, and this was the truth.
In fact, current heroes like Yang Jian and Xiao Kui who once held high positions must be unwilling to accept their failures. However, it is easy for people to die once. If they want to seek death again after failing to die once, they can
It's not that easy anymore.
Regardless of Yang Jian or Xiao Kui, they did not commit suicide when they were captured, so naturally they have no intention of seeking death now. Watching the wind and clouds surging in the world, and the clouds rolling and relaxing, does not seem to be a heart-stopping thing.
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After all, they were all figures who once had the world in mind. The times are moving forward, and of course they don't want to fall behind. They subscribe to newspapers and the like every day, and there are many newly published books on Yang Jian's bookshelf.
Either about the laws of the Han Dynasty, or about the interpretation of the new policies of the Han Dynasty. Obviously, although they are in the mountains and the transmission of information is not fast, they are still trying to understand the changes outside in this way.
"But today's Guanzhong is ultimately not as good as today's Jiangnan." Yang Jian added, "Jiangnan merchants started in the early days, taking advantage of the east wind from the South China Sea, and now it has become a phenomenon. When the canal was opened, Jiangnan merchants sailed northward to seize the opportunity.
Without the northern market, the wealth from the north and the south is gathered in Heluo and even south of the Yangtze River. With a northwest trade route, Guanzhong may be able to regain its strength, but it can no longer keep pace with the south of the Yangtze River."
Having said this, Yang Jian couldn't help but sigh: "Your Majesty should be careful that Jiangnan has too much wealth and is top-heavy."
Hearing words such as "market" that should have only appeared in the mouths of businessmen at this time, and being spoken skillfully by Yang Jian, Li Xingchen felt a little weird. But what Yang Jian said next naturally attracted Li Xingchen's attention.
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Relying on maritime trade, Jiangnan has become increasingly prosperous. Now southern merchants are expanding northward and seizing a large number of northern markets, squeezing the development of local commerce in the north in disguise.
From the perspective of a later generation, Li Xingchen saw that it was the economy of the south that was driving the development of the north. This pattern was not uncommon, and was actually the same in the Ming and Qing dynasties in history.
But Yang Jian is obviously looking at it from the perspective of a person who has just experienced three hundred years of troubled times. The south is richer and developing faster than the north. Will this directly lead to the gap between the rich and the poor between the north and the south? This gap between the rich and the poor is obviously very large.
It will soon turn into a social conflict.
Moreover, it is a social conflict with obvious geographical divisions between the north and the south.
This kind of social contradiction is likely to be an opportunity for another division between the North and the South.
Li Xingchen was silent for a moment.
This hidden danger naturally exists.
Li Xingchen's vigorous development of commerce was originally a dangerous move.
If business develops well and everyone has the essentials, then a trade network and a resource network will naturally envelope the entire Han Dynasty, and no place can exist without another place.
However, if it does not develop well, it is possible that the South will be better off without the burden of the North. The North does not want the South to always lie on its body and suck blood. In this way, if trade continues, it will only make the relationship between the North and the South worse.
The conflicts between them became increasingly intensified, and even led to another split.
Rich regions do not want to bring poor regions with them. This is not a rare thing in history between Eastern and Western countries.
Li Xingchen could not apply his knowledge and understanding of China in later generations to China in this era.
After all, three hundred years of troubled times are indeed scars that are difficult to erase for this nation. We have only just emerged from the long-term division and hatred.
"Besides that, I leave it to your Majesty to make your own judgment." Yang Jian said slowly, "Many people from the north have come south along the canal to settle down in Jiangnan. Can Jiangnan now accommodate so many people?
Is the arrival of so many people a good thing for the north? I only heard about this through newspapers, so I asked this question."
The siphon effect in Jiangnan is already very obvious.
Li Xingchen sighed in his heart. Of course he knew about this hidden danger, but he didn't expect that Yang Jian would feel it through a few words in the newspaper.
The prosperity of Jiangnan attracts visitors from all directions.
Most of these visitors chose to stay in the south of the Yangtze River in search of opportunities to settle down, which naturally resulted in fewer and fewer laborers in the north, Bashu and other places that were not already wealthy.
Jiangnan is like a bottomless pit, constantly absorbing human and material resources from all directions.
But Li Xingchen himself knew that Jiangnan was not actually a bottomless pit.
After all, the land in Jiangnan is limited, and it is impossible for Jiangnan’s workshops to spread all over the mountains and plains.
When people gather here, various social hidden dangers will occur, which will also put great pressure on the court to maintain order. At least the current Han Dynasty should not be ready to welcome the emergence of a huge urban agglomeration.
Managing a big city is not a difficult task.
There has never been a huge city in Chinese history, such as Chang'an in the Western Han Dynasty and Luoyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty. As long as the planning is good and strict regulations are in place, the city can operate stably.
But urban agglomerations are different.
A large number of roads are needed to connect cities one after another, and a large number of workshops and residential areas are needed to fill the gaps between the roads, so that the connections between these cities will become closer and closer.
The current financial and material resources of the Han Dynasty are enough to support the construction of such a city group in Jiangnan, but this also means that in the future the wealth of the world will gather here, and the imperial court's taxation will also completely rely on it.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty could do this, and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty could do the same.