Chapter Eighty-Five: The Road of Copper and Iron
"Judging from the map provided by the government, the advantages of the Golden State lie in copper mines, gold mines, spices, and timber, while the advantages of Australia lie in iron mines, gold mines, and pastures. Our shortcoming is that we are underpopulated and all infrastructure is zero. Our Jinzhou and Aozhou are only the copper and iron mines of the Great Song Dynasty, and the demand of the imperial court is copper and iron, but the demand of our Jinzhou is grain. There are only 100,000 people in the Golden State, and there are no families, which is not at all like a state, but just a mine. My plan is to build large and small ports all over the Golden State, and control the Golden State in the fastest time. Zhang Qi analyzed.
Bai Bolang didn't understand the meaning of Zhang Qi's words, and said with a smile: "You are Zhizhou, how to fiddle with Jinzhou is not a matter of your words." ”
"It's not that easy, and you still need the help of the general. If Jinzhou and Australia are well managed, this copper and iron road will become the lifeline of the Great Song Dynasty. The general's merits will definitely be seen by the officials, but the feudal marquis will no longer talk about it. Zhang Qi seduced.
"How does Zhang Zhizhou need Ben to cooperate?" Bai Bolang saw that Zhang Qi did not have the contempt of other literati for martial artists, and he was afraid that the big stone of censorship would fall, he couldn't help but feel a little grateful to Zhang Qi.
"How about General Bai commanding an army of 100,000?" Zhang Qi asked with a smile.
"100,000 troops, what Zhang Zhizhou means is to reorganize the 100,000 people of Jinzhou according to the military system?" Bai Wave said in surprise.
"Yes, that's exactly what it means. Jinzhou has just been established, which is completely different from other states in the Great Song Dynasty, and the people are all Ding Zhuang, and they are reorganized into an army, which is more conducive to command. Zhang Qi nodded in response.
After Zhang Kai completely dealt with Bai Bolang, Jinzhou's command system finally worked together, at least it would not fight each other. Zhang Qi, the governor of Jinzhou, Gou Hongshe, the inspector, Zhou Shilong, the judge, and Bai Bolang, the general, sat together to discuss the development of Jinzhou.
Because Anshak knew more about the Golden State, he was also appointed by Zhang Ji as the governor of the Golden State and reported to the official official of the Political Affairs Hall. Anshak couldn't help but be overjoyed to learn that he didn't even need to participate in the official examination of the Song Dynasty, and he was appointed as a great official from the seventh rank. This means that he now has a higher status in the Great Song Dynasty than his boss Ansari and can stand on his own.
You must know that in the Song Dynasty, even before Zhao Ji did not implement the abolition order, even the champion of Jinke was only the magistrate of Jiupin. After the abolition of redundancy was implemented, it was even more difficult to become an official.
Speaking of which, although it was easy to include such a large state as Jinzhou into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, economic development and population are big problems, although the Huguang area has been immigrating, and the immigration speed is also very fast, the imperial court even migrated six million people to Huguang at one time, but within a year or two, the population of Huguang may not reach saturation, and the population of Huguang area is not saturated, no one will be willing to go to Jinzhou. The population of the Golden State cannot be improved, not only is it not conducive to the actual effect of occupation, but there is no way to develop the economy, after all, population is the basis of everything.
However, Zhao Ji only gave Zhang Ji 100,000 yuan to Nanxiyi, who didn't understand anything and could only work as a coolie, and technology was needed to open a mine, and technology was also needed to build a city. Although some talents have been deployed in the government hall, the number is too small. And the ordinary people with skills have caught up with Wang Anshi's plan to rule the world, and they will not immigrate to Jinzhou. It's one thing for the Golden State to be unadaptable to the climate, but more importantly, it's too wild. After all, for the people of Middle-earth, if there is no will of the imperial court, the people who are difficult to move will not think of going overseas.
In ancient times, there were generally two factors that led to the difficulty of moving heavy land, one was that the government prohibited migration, and the other was the concept that long-term holding of land could generate wealth. In particular, under intensive cultivation and under the government system of agriculture and the tax system, population means that the land will produce more, which means that taxes and labor are levied.
However, in the Song Dynasty, the migration of landless customers had become a phenomenon, and through migration, they were able to have a share of their own land. Especially with the arrival of Zhao Ji, after the implementation of the law reform measures, the migration and land reclamation have been led by the government, which is more humane and institutionalized, and the people can get better arrangements.
The reason why it is still difficult to move from the land is that there is only one factor, that is, the solidification and reproduction of local clans, after a strong clan is formed in a region, for China's patriarchal society, most people are unwilling to leave the protection of the clan and run to a place where they are not familiar with their lives.
Local clan forces have always been the target of Zhao Ji's serious blows, especially the big clans in the north. Under Zhao's migration system, many huge clans collapsed and scattered to various regions of Huguang. Especially those local wealthy families who have held local power for a long time, Zhao Ji moved them all to Shangjing and Jiangning to set up workshops.
The deaths of Han Qi and Fu Bi also made the local clan forces see the determination of the imperial court. Even the elders of the Three Dynasties were no exception, and they were naturally unable to resist the pressure of the imperial court.
In the half year when Zhao Ji regained the throne and implemented a military dictatorship, I don't know how many landlords and wealthy families and bureaucratic families were purged. Although their property was not confiscated, but all the children of their clan were transferred by Zhao Jizheng and all were scattered, and if they did not compromise, then their large estates would be deprived of the right to sell their land under the protection of the two major forces of the government and the clan.
Moreover, Zhao Ji invented the criminal law of copying the house, which had never been done in the Song Dynasty. The so-called raiding of the house means that all the family property is confiscated, but it does not kill people. Because in the Song Dynasty, personal property was protected by the government, and there was never such a thing as raiding the house.
However, Zhao Ji actually used the criminal law of copying the house that only existed in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties to a famous minister like Ouyang Xiu, which really frightened many people. Although it was not done under the confrontation of Zeng Gongliang, the first prime minister of Zhao Ji, it also became a source of opposition from most scholars and doctors.
After Zhao Ji implemented the military dictatorship, most of the officials from the army to the officials of the government were replaced by Zhao Ji, and then drove the northern wealthy families to move south, and even cruelly moved the clan and royal family to Shangjing. The move of the royal family to the south is an example, and it is also to show that Zhao Ji will not even let go of his own family, let alone you local wealthy families.
Under Wang Anshi's ten-year plan to rule the world with the center of Jiangning, such a migration system was determined. It's just that after Wang Anshi compromised with the northern scholars of Sima Guang's faction, he was not as cruel as Zhao Ji. Zhao used coercion to buy the land of the wealthy family, then sell it to the tenants at a low price, and finally ordered the wealthy family to open workshops in Jiangning and Shangjing. Anyone who doesn't obey will wait for the thorn to match!
Wang Anshi's migration system is more humane, from the sale of the landlord's wealthy family's land to the wealthy family's opening of workshops, they are no longer compulsory, but let them solve their own problems, and even provide various conveniences for opening workshops.
In any case, the clan power was dispersed, and the Fangtian Order of the new law was implemented, because no one had the ability to oppose the re-measurement of the land, adding to the chaos of the land measurement.
To solve the problem of insufficient population in Jinzhou, Zhang Kai came up with such a solution, that is, to use Jinzhou's mineral deposits as bait, first discover the minerals by himself, and then bid at a low price to sell at least eighty percent of the equity of the mineral deposits, so as to attract businessmen to recruit ordinary people to come to open mines, instead of using 100,000 yuan to open mines himself.
Considering that the terrain of Jinzhou is not suitable for road construction, because road construction is a time-consuming and laborious thing, Jinzhou is humid and sultry, in rainy weather, the general road is easy to be washed out, if it is to build a solid road, the initial investment is too large. To this end, Zhang Kai took advantage of the topography of Jinzhou to build more small ports and more ships, and under the broken terrain of Jinzhou, the sea route became the main transportation. It is even necessary to repair this mode of transportation all the way to Australia.
Repair their own wharves so that merchant ships can dock, and if the Golden State wants to attract more businessmen to come independently, it must build up the infrastructure!
Golden State to Australia, the archipelago is dense, this plan opened up a sea copper and iron road for the Great Song Dynasty. In the next ten years, it became an increasingly powerful source of power for the Great Song Dynasty.
After the discovery of coal mines in Luzhou (Lushan), the copper and iron ore transported from Jinzhou and Australia were transported to Jiangning, and Jiangning also discovered a large copper mine, Jiangning quickly became the copper and iron city of the Great Song Dynasty, and became the largest, most populous and most economically prosperous city in the Great Song Dynasty.
The rapid development of Jiangning has stimulated the development of the entire southern region such as Huguang and Juzhou, and the economic scale of the southern region has surpassed that of the north and has become the economic center of gravity of the Great Song Dynasty. In particular, from Australia to Jinzhou, from Jinzhou to Guangzhou, from Guangzhou to Quanzhou and Shangjing, the first shipping line has also grown rapidly with cities along the southeast coast.
After the plan was decided, 100,000 people in Southwest Yi were reorganized into 10 infrastructure construction corps by Bai Bolang. Six of them, led by Bai Bo, cut down trees on a large scale, built green brick kilns, and created a huge water transportation network. Take a step-by-step approach to Australia.
There were three corps, under the leadership of Anshak, scattered in the Golden State, panning for gold, fishing for fishing, hunting for hunting, cutting down precious timber, searching for pearl shells, gathering all kinds of spices, etc., to provide financial resources for large-scale construction of infrastructure. These things were very valuable in the Great Song Dynasty, and after they were shipped to the Great Song Dynasty and sold, they could be used to buy sea boats, grain, farm tools, tents, etc., to provide 100,000 people with the necessary material reserves for development.
Zhang Kai led a corps, like the small merchants who came to Jinzhou to open up wasteland, to build farms in places with better geographical locations, planting ramie, Champa rice, carrots, sweet potatoes, sugarcane and other crops. Together with other farms, the Golden State's food self-sufficiency problem will be resolved as soon as possible. Due to the low agricultural capacity of the Southwest Yi, almost all the officials in Jinzhou have become agricultural experts, and they have been ordered to go deep into the fields to guide agricultural planting.
At present, what the Great Song Dynasty lacks most is copper, iron and grain, and although the price of grain in the interior of the Great Song Dynasty has not risen sharply, there are still small and continuous increases. Because the granaries of the southern states are almost empty, all the states and counties are constantly buying grain in small quantities to replenish the warehouses in order to prepare for disasters and famines.
It is foreseeable that a small increase in the price of grain will boost the enthusiasm of peasants in the southern region for agricultural planting, and even the development of agriculture in the Great Song Dynasty as a whole. Only after the development of agriculture in the Great Song Dynasty can it provide a post-impetus for the development of industry and commerce.
Gou Hongshe was originally the governor of Taizhou, and now he has come forward to establish a grain route between Jinzhou and Taizhou to maximize the grain supply of the state. Because food for 100,000 people alone is not enough, the population of Golden State is rising. And such a rise was not determined by large-scale development supported by the financial resources of the imperial court, but by the instinct of private businessmen to seek profit.
Although Judge Zhou Shilong was a judge, he was not idle, and he drew a specific distribution map according to the distribution of gold and copper mines surveyed in Jinzhou, and then went to the interior of the Great Song Dynasty to attract investment. Many big businessmen, seeing the benefits of the low bidding price in Golden State, have recruited people at high prices, formed mining teams, and registered to open mines in Golden State. When the miners came, the maritime merchants followed, and the mined ore was sold to the maritime merchants, or the ships of the maritime merchants were leased, and all of them were transported to the smelting workshop in Shangjing of the Great Song Dynasty.
A prosperous road of copper and iron on the sea is developing rapidly! The South China Sea and the Jinzhou Islands and Straits have almost become the inner lakes of the Great Song Dynasty, and merchant ships are constantly coming and going!
At the same time as the road of copper and iron started and developed, after watching the entire Keju League in Quanzhou, Zhao Ji returned to the barracks and conducted intensive training for the 30,000 mountain troops in preparation for the defeat of the Chola Kingdom and the capture of Katoha (Kuala Lumpur).
Zhao Ji's intention was to seize Jiatuohe, let Xiao Yiyuan and Li Chang bring 100,000 people to deploy a military camp there, and build it into a logistics base for the conquest of India.
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