Chapter 288: The Twelfth Year of Hongwu
"It's really a great river!"
At the Mengjin Ferry, a young man of twenty-three or four stood on the bow of the boat and looked at the dense boats on both sides of the river, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"Hehe, this brother is right! Since the current Holy Ascended the throne, I have become richer and stronger! Now it is a guest service from all over the world, and all countries are coming to the court, which is an unprecedented event! A young man next to him, who was about the same grade as the previous scholar, echoed.
"In Xia Wenqiao, a native of Taiyuan, I don't know the name of my brother Taigao?" Wen Qiao heard someone talking, turned around and saw that it was a scholar with the same intention as him, and couldn't help but ask.
"In Xia Lu Chen, a native of Fanyang in Youzhou!" The man who had just accosted him replied with a slight smile.
"It turned out to be a disciple of the Fan Yang Lu family." Wen Qiao's heart moved slightly, and he was a little clear. It turned out that since the Northern War, some families who had been hostile to or assisted the vassal king saw that Sima Shu's ruling foundation was becoming more and more solid, so that the other party had to give up some unrealistic ideas and start to be active again.
This Fan Yang Lu family is one of the representatives, when Lu Zhi followed the vassal king to make a rebellion, implicating the entire Lu family. The Lu Zhi family, except for the eldest son Lu Chen, was all pushed out by the Lu family as scapegoats, for which the Lu family hibernated for nearly ten years, and it was not until the end of the Northern War that the Lu family became active again.
"Brother Wen, this is going to Bingzhou?" Both of them were children of a family, so they quickly became acquainted, and they became especially intimate among the guests in a cabin.
"Well, at the behest of my father. is going to Taiyuan hometown to do some private business, why did Brother Lu go north? Wen Qiao moved his ass to make room for Lu Chen, so that the two of them could sit together and chat.
"Hehe, this time I went north to investigate the grassland economic problems on the order of Mr. Wang, and I think Brother Tai also knew that in order to turn Hu into China, His Majesty vigorously implemented the grassland equalization system and fixed-point animal husbandry in the north. Now more than five years have passed, and time has proved that His Majesty's method is correct, but with the passage of time. There are also a lot of problems in this. We at Chang'an University are conducting research on this issue. ”
Don't look at Lu Chen's age than Wen Qiao, but in fact, he is still the other party's junior brother, and Wen Qiao graduated from Chang'an University Hall a few years earlier than him. Wen Qiao has long been in the officialdom, and Lu Chen is still working hard for his studies. But this is not to say that Lu Chen's knowledge and ability are lower than Wen Qiao. In fact, the children of these families have their own family origins.
It's just that in recent years, the officials recruited by the imperial court have been recruited from various universities. So that the children of the family had to accept the family education, and then enter the universities to study again, this Lu Chen is the way to go.
"It would be nice when the imperial court also built a bridge over the Yellow River. In this way, we don't have to do boats to ferry back and forth across the river, and there is a great guarantee in terms of time and safety! We don't have to take a long boat ride and the journey won't be so boring. Wen Qiao moistened his throat after taking a few sips of water, leaned back on the comfortable chair and looked at the people around him chatting hotly, and sighed.
The journey was very beautiful, the passenger ship docked smoothly on the north bank, and after walking out of the cabin, Lu Chen and Wen Qiao stopped a long-distance carriage and prepared to continue to go north along the Luo-Jin highway.
It wasn't the first time that either had ridden such a long-range four-wheeled carriage, but each time they were thrilled. While chatting, the two of them admired the new look of Dajin today, especially the various places in Sizhou before entering the state, which was even more prosperous.
Soon, Wen Qiao and the two entered the territory of Bingzhou, and now the merger is not as good as five years ago, with the development of the second five-year plan of the Great Jin, and the state has become the largest coal industry base under the rule of the Great Jin.
More than eighty percent of the annual coal consumption of the Great Jin Dynasty comes from the state, and after the large coal group under the control of the royal family rose from the state, the economy of the state took advantage of the situation, and it was out of control, and its development speed exceeded that of Youping and Pingzhou.
Especially with the completion of the highways from Jinyang to Chang'an in Guanzhong, Luoyang in the Central Plains and Vladivostok in Liaodong, the coal industry in Bingzhou has developed rapidly. With the steady development of the economy of the prefecture, the living standards of the people in the counties under its jurisdiction have also improved day by day.
"Brother Wen, this carriage is running so smoothly! I didn't feel much bump in the bottom......"
"Yes, since cement has been widely used in large quantities, the quality of bridges, road sections and other projects in my Dajin has been greatly improved compared with before. Especially the highway construction, it is definitely comparable to the straight road in Qinshi! Coupled with the application of various shock absorption technologies, it is not as sinful to ride a carriage as before. Wen Qiao said with a smile.
Although the passenger transport industry of the Great Jin Dynasty started not long ago, it quickly entered a period of vigorous development, which was naturally inseparable from the promotion of the imperial court. After the end of the Northern War, the economy of the Great Jin Dynasty developed greatly in the following five years, and the economic development in turn promoted the infrastructure construction of the Great Jin Dynasty.
In the past ten years, the north-south canal, the east-west artery, the north-south artery, the north-south artery, and various large-scale and grand infrastructure projects have been successfully completed, which not only provided tens of thousands of jobs for the people of the Great Jin Dynasty, but also greatly strengthened the central government's rule over all parts of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Over the years, due to the continuous decline in foreign trade exports of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the domestic market has not been properly developed, the development of large-scale factories that were prosperous before the Great Jin Dynasty has been partially hindered, and the huge industrial manufacturing capacity has not been properly digested, and the problem of overproduction will bring major obstacles to the future development of the Great Jin.
At this time, Jiangdong, which had not yet been included in the territory of the central government of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the more distant west, its vast market space would inevitably become a piece of fat, and there was no need for anyone to agitate it, and the whole of the Great Jin Dynasty had to consider taking them down one by one.
However, in the past, the Great Jin Dynasty was not able to expand outward, after all, the northwest, Bingzhou and Liaodong and other places have not been fully utilized, and even the counties and counties in the southwest border are not absolutely beautiful.
Affected by the contraction of the foreign trade export industry, the goods produced by many factories in Dajin have been caused by the shrinking of the market space and the sharp contraction of profitability. In the past, the Great Jin Dynasty could still rely on large-scale post-war reconstruction to make up for the losses in this area, but now it has to consider finding new markets.
Take the coal industry in Bingzhou as an example, it has been affected to a certain extent, and since the development of the coal industry in Dajin, there has been a saturation of order delivery capacity for the first time in nearly a decade.
However, this is not entirely a good thing, and the coal industry, which has been working under "high load" for 10 years, has also ushered in a rare opportunity to take a break, so the Cabinet and the Prefecture Assassin Office have taken this opportunity to carry out a comprehensive reorganization of the coal industry.
At the beginning, the prefecture decided to revitalize the economy with the coal industry as the leader, and the coal industry in various parts of the prefecture quickly flourished. During this period, some institutions, personnel scale and production management are very chaotic and complex factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, such a chaotic situation is not conducive to the long-term development of the Dajin coal industry, for the long-term development, the Dajin cabinet together with the Ministry of Industry, and the Prefecture Thorn History Office began to vigorously rectify the coal industry.
In recent years, it is the coal resources of Dajin that have been widely used, so that the forest resources of Dajin distributed in Guanzhong and Northwest China have been preserved. This also protects the geography of the Northwest to the greatest extent, and although coal mining still damages the local environment, the lesser of two evils.
Everyone knows that the area where the Loess Plateau is located has always been the seat of central power in China, for example, Guanzhong Chang'an is an ancient capital of several dynasties, dense population throughout the region, ancient people food, clothing, housing and transportation are largely dependent on nature, especially agriculture with a double-edged effect, "people take food as the sky" Chinese in harmony with nature is lacking, especially for the Loess Plateau, causing such bad results in later generations of nature and man-made destruction are inseparable.
In later generations, the Loess Plateau was full of barren mountains and bald mountains, ravines and ravines, and loess in the sky, but from the historical books, before the Qin and Han dynasties, the Loess Plateau was a place with dense forests, beautiful mountains and beautiful waters, and beautiful environment.
In addition, after the Northern War, it also brought an unprecedented spring to the shipbuilding industry of the Great Jin Dynasty, during which the Great Jin Dynasty established two major shipbuilding bases in Youzhou Tianjin Port and Dalian Port in Liaodong, and now these two bases have become important shipbuilding bases in the north of the Great Jin Dynasty.
But with the passage of time, the spring of the Dajin shipbuilding industry has also ended, especially with the completion of the third fleet of the Dajin Navy, the export volume of foreign trade has gradually declined, and the Dajin shipbuilding industry has entered the cold winter period of the shipbuilding industry.
However, shipbuilding is different from the coal industry, and the imperial court can rectify the coal industry by reducing and merging coal factories of various sizes, but the shipbuilding industry cannot do so.
After all, coal is a non-renewable resource, and the shipbuilding industry has no concerns about this, so in order to maintain the scale of the Great Jin shipbuilding industry, Sima Shu not only did not reduce the orders of the Great Jin Navy on warships, but also issued 20 third-class sail battleships to major shipyards.
In addition, the imperial cabinet has also mobilized local chambers of commerce, requiring them to increase orders for commercial ships, even if there is a big difference between military ships and civilian freighters, but it will definitely win another spring for the shipbuilding industry of the Great Jin. The importance attached to shipbuilding by the imperial court means that all strata of the Great Jin Dynasty attach great importance to the shipbuilding industry, which is undoubtedly an additional sunny encouragement for the shipbuilding industry of the Great Jin Dynasty before the arrival of spring, which is enough to drive away the deadly cold in that winter.
It is true that in order to make the Dajin shipbuilding industry completely out of the predicament, it must also rely on the support from the external market, so after 12 years of Hongwu, the economy of the Dajin Dynasty wants to go to a higher level, and it must open a new market as soon as possible. (To be continued......)