The birthplace of Beizheng?

Ye Kai looked at Ruan's Yuwan deeply, and after thinking about it, he still asked, "What you say, I always think that there is something in the words?" ”

Ruan's Yuwan also looked at Ye Kai deeply, she stood up and gently stroked her belly, her face showing a motherly glow.

"I just have something to say, Hou Ye now has five Taixi giant ships, and he has thousands of elite soldiers, does he just want to be a soil king in this plague land?"

Yo he! Do you want me to take your brother's country? Not only are you a black-bellied woman, but you also eat inside and out!

However, Ye Kai was a little relieved in his heart, he thought at first that Ruan's Yuwan had been in contact with him for a long time and found that he had bad intentions!

Ruan's Yuwan didn't look at Ye Kai's expression, but said to himself: "The land of Beiqi, fertile for thousands of miles, rich in products, millions of household registrations, smooth and accessible to the Quartet, with the benefits of water transportation, enough food to be self-sufficient, and countless coal and iron, should be the foundation of the king!" ”

Ye Kai's eyes became sharp, and he looked at Ruan Shi Yuwan, who was talking eloquently.

"Who told you that coal and iron are the foundation of the king?"

According to Ye Kai's understanding of Ruan's Yuwan in the past, this woman is a typical daughter of a feudal royal family who has been educated by a systematic emperor.

Although their Ruan family has always regarded themselves as loyal ministers of the Li Dynasty and known as the lord of the country, they have long been like princes.

It's just that this kind of oriental-style princely family will definitely not pay too much attention to coal and iron, the two pillars of the industrial age.

The oriental-style feudal imperial education will only pay more attention to the emperor's mental tricks such as ethics and morality and dissenting opinions.

Only those who have read through Western books and other modern knowledge and open their eyes to the world will realize that whoever has enough coal and iron will have the capital to claim hegemony.

In Ye Kai's view, the entire East Asia and Southeast Asia are qualified to be called the foundation of the king's hegemony, and there are only two places that can be used as the beginning of modern industrialization.

One of the most ideal places is in the western Liaoning region, which is where the Benxi Iron and Steel Group is located in the future.

Because there are huge reserves in Nanfen in Benxi, there are large iron ore deposits with high iron content, low sulfur and low phosphorus, and low smelting cost.

One hundred and seventy and eighty kilometers from the Nanfen Iron Mine, there is a huge open-pit high-quality coal mine in Fushun.

In the meantime, there are Liaohe River and Taizi River water transport can be used, and in the future, a railway can be built directly to Liaonanhai Port and Guannei.

The Northeast region has been closed by Manchurian people for hundreds of years, and the land is fertile, and the grain is enough to feed tens of millions of people.

This is the foundation of the first-class hegemony, the Japanese in history relied on plundering the iron of Nanfen and the coal of Fushun to run a broken island country into a great power, otherwise they would use their poor island country with scarce resources to take the lead in development?

It seems that industrialization can be done by building a few steel mills, a few arsenals, and a few universities, but in fact this is not the case at all!

Ladies and gentlemen, industrialization is a matter of throwing money, and it is likely that it will lose money, a lot of money!

In this era, transportation is not as convenient as in later generations, and if in this era, a steel company like Baosteel, which is relatively far away from the origin of raw materials, will definitely be able to lose its pants.

Therefore, the origin of industrialization must have four advantages, low mining costs, low transportation costs, low labor costs, and high ore quality, so as to ensure profitability.

A business that is unprofitable and keeps losing money is not dynamic and cannot be sustained!

Looking at the whole of China, there is only Nanfen Fushun here, and the four points of time and place are all occupied, which is enough to support the birth of a first-class power country!

And the second foundation of the whole East Asia and Southeast Asia that can make the industrialization of the hegemony is in the land of the Red River in North Vietnam, that is, the Hanoi in later generations.

Because in North Vietnam, there are high-quality coal mines in the Cao Bang area, which are also the top deposits in China.

In Gaoping, Taiyuan, Xuanguang and other places, especially Taiyuan, later generations proved that there are reserves of 250 million tons, and the grade is extremely high, and the iron content is as high as more than 60 large iron ore.

At the same time, the hometown of Jiaozhi in North Vietnam has been developed for thousands of years, the land is fertile, the rice is three crops, and it can feed at least more than 10 million people by squeezing it, and there is enough labor!

The Red River Delta has developed water conservancy and convenient transportation, although coal and iron are not as easy to mine as Nanfen Fushun, but it is still a treasure land with both coal and iron.

In history, the occupation of the French who had their backbones broken by the Franco-Prussian War was really tyrannical, and this place could support at least a medium power!

This is also the reason why Ye Kai has not developed industry in the Malay Peninsula, and he now has millions of taels of silver accumulated by his ancestors and grandchildren for three generations.

Not to mention that the only high-grade coal mine is deep in the mountains of Pahang, it is especially buried one or two hundred meters underground, which is extremely difficult to mine, not to mention that there is no high-grade iron ore around it.

Take the race as an example, do you expect these Malay natives to work hard-working and hard-working?

They probably prefer to lie down under the coconut trees and wake up to pick bunches of bananas and some jackfruit.

Ye Kai felt that in the entire East Asia and Southeast Asia, there were only four or three and a half races of people who could endure hardships and stand hard work and accumulate hard work to industrialize.

China, Japan, North Korea, plus half of the Vietnamese, to be precise, refers to the North Vietnamese, the South Vietnamese are mostly Champa species and do not do much, except for them, other races are not the material of the director at all!

Nanfen Fushun is still in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Ye Kai will definitely not be able to intervene for a while, and now there are too few people in the western Liaoning region, and he can't do it without five or six years of preparation, so he has only the only choice, the Red River Plain in Beiyue!

Ye Kai's thoughts fluttered far away, but Ruan's Yuwan on the opposite side burst out laughing.

"Does Master Hou think that I am an ignorant woman who does not go out of the door and does not step out, and does not know a basket of words? I've got the books you came back from the Tessie Belt! ”

After speaking, Ruan Thi Ngoc Wan took out a thick book of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations from behind him, which was still in French version, and he also recorded a lot of experiences and comments in French!

it! Ye Kai was really shocked, this woman is a talent!

I learned French quietly, and even the Wealth of Nations, which is quite obscure for people in this era, is gnawing on it piece by piece.

This reminds me of a female student at the same table in high school, and it is said that Ye Kai has already obtained four doctorates before he crossed!

Thinking about what he was about to do, Ye Kai was not calm, this... If Luo Fangbai's daughter really came in, she would probably be played to death by Ruan's Yuwan, right?

This woman has scheming, intelligence, and perseverance, which should not be underestimated! Don't capsize in the back house!

So he pondered his tone for a moment and asked, "But I am your brother's courtier after all!" How could I make such a rebellious act of seizing the lord's territory? ”

Ruan's Yuwan smiled proudly again, "Master Hou, do you want to seize the lands of Fuchun, Hue and other southern Qi?" ”

Ye Kai shook his head, although he thought that he would definitely seize it, he still said in a loud voice: "Of course it can't be!" ”

"That's it! If you don't take the territory of Nanqi or even Zhongqi, what kind of rebellion is that?

Because my brother, our Ruan family, how could we ever get the land of Beiqi?

This place first belonged to the Li Dynasty, then to Beizheng, and now it has been seized by the Xishan rebels, what does it have to do with our Ruan family? ”

Oh, yes! Ye Kai's eyes lit up, he felt that North Vietnam definitely belonged to Vietnam from the perspective of later generations.

But now, Nguyen Phuc Anh has not unified Vietnam, and he probably didn't expect that he could unify Vietnam, and he would be satisfied if he could restore Quang Nam, after all, it has been almost 200 years since the north and south of Vietnam were divided!

"But I'm a Tang man, even if I can fight down, can I hold it? Will the people of North Vietnam recognize me? You must know that the Ming Dynasty once ruled North Vietnam, and finally had to give up! ”

"It's definitely not okay to do it like the Ming Dynasty, the hometown of North Vietnam, since the Han and Tang Dynasties, has been separated from the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and the benefits of this place have long been carved up by the local heroes, especially after Chen Guojun, the king of Xingdao, defeated Meng Yuan twice, the North Vietnamese heroes have greatly improved their recognition of each other, forming a closer interest group!

The Ming Dynasty relied on the advantages of the soldiers to break in, ate all the benefits into his stomach, and wanted to send officials to change the land and return to the stream, of course, he couldn't occupy the land of North Vietnam!

If the two Majesties of Chengzu and Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty directly sealed the British Duke Zhang Fu of Dingxing Zhonglie County to Beiyue, such as the story of King Zhaojing of Qianning, Beiyue would have become Jiaozhi long ago! ”