Chapter 54: A Year of Peaceful Rise
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In the blink of an eye, another half a year has passed. The peace between Cheng Pan and the Yuan Dynasty continued. In the summer of 1345, the Yellow River continued to riot once, the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty got rid of the annoyed anxiety, watching the finances shrink day by day, the head of the Yuan Dynasty was very depressed, the general solution to this dilemma is to open source and throttle, open source is impossible, the Han people have been opened to the extreme, and then open the source, you have to pay to suppress this law. It is impossible for the interest groups at the top of the Yuan Dynasty to have good intentions towards the leaders who reduce welfare, and employee benefits can only rise and not fall. It can also be practical to put it here. Of course, there is also a way to grab the fat sheep. This fat sheep is Cheng Pan. Cheng Pan now gathers 1.2 million people around the small territory of Huangzhou, and the two pillar industries of industry and agriculture complement each other, accommodating a large number of people who are all working, and as long as they work, they will create zĂ o value. Due to the industrial exhibition, there were many people who came here to trade, and the prosperity of the territory had long since been due to the prosperity of light industrial products such as high-quality steel utensils, cloth, and light industrial products such as mirrors and soap matches. Although these products are much higher than their production costs, they are always higher than the prices of products produced in agricultural societies, such as steel appliances, because of the commissioning of converters, the production cost of steel is only one-tenth of that of blacksmiths, but Cheng Pan did not sell one-tenth of the price. There is only one product, and the black-hearted price of the territory is already the cheapest in this era, which is the monopoly. As a monopoly income group, Cheng Pan feels that there is nothing bad, this price is set by Cheng Pan himself, and the industrial exhibition wants the first pot of gold, and it will not be earned in vain. As for such a high price to affect competition, the technology can not progress, this situation will not appear in ten years, industrial production is the output first, and after the output is raised, the use of technology to improve quality and reduce costs in the market competition. Cheng Pan has just gotten rid of the dilemma of workshop production, and Cheng Pan's industrial system is still in the stage of eating meat and growing his body, and it is not yet the stage of participating in the market to fight for the survival of the fittest. At a price lower than the market price of this era, Cheng Pan's steel tools are not worried about sales. Steel is a controlled item in this era, this is a commodity that is more dead than salt and grain, generally as long as the larger forces need to purchase salt and grain in large quantities, there is still a way, as long as the money is sprinkled, it is easy to say, but steel is not grown in the field, or boiled by seawater, in this era, only the official is qualified to make large-scale iron, and the emergence of large ironmaking workshops among the people is definitely to rebel. Moreover, the movement of striking iron is very large, and if you want to make steel in private, you can only knock it secretly. I want to make a yield. The soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty came to the door.
In this era, various forces will only worry that there is no way to engage in iron, and iron tools have always been out of stock in the market. But after the rise of Cheng Pan's power, this situation was broken, and a row of all kinds of farm tools were lined up in Cheng Pan's market, all of which were made of steel, and most of the farm tools in this era were cast in pig iron, and they were afraid of knocking stones when they were used. This shocked the iron-deficient forces and began to purchase large quantities. But it seems that the steel farm tools on the market will never decrease, and they are purchased and put away one batch after another. The foreign trade group also showed this problem, and began to sell only 9.5% off metal farm tools, and the wooden pole of those shovels and shovels was left. These steel farming tools make a good weapon with a little processing.
So the surrounding small to the local big clan to purchase some farm tools to facilitate the fight with other villages to grab water and grab land in the future, as big as the military procurement officer of the Yuan Dynasty in order to be greedy for money directly from Cheng Pan to buy, at first just buy farm tools, go back to change, and then now Cheng Pan's territory in the gun head to buy cheaper, directly from the Huangzhou territory this custom. As for the official ironworks of the Yuan Dynasty in the vicinity, with the efforts of this gang of moths, the craftsmen were dismissed, and the blast furnaces were extinguished. The military industry of the Yuan Dynasty in Jiangnan was completely controlled by Cheng Pan's uncontrolled force.
Iron and steel and the military industry are industries that must not be marketized, but the Yuan Dynasty's ability to control its own administrative personnel is too low, and it is defenseless. Under the greed of officials, they passively participated in market competition, and they did not get the support of the state in the competition, but were dismantled by the officials in charge, and a large number of steel technicians were sold to Cheng Pan.
Naturally, he didn't know about it, he was attracted by the richness of Cheng Pan's territory, and he really considered whether to rob or not to make up for his financial loopholes. But he was afraid that Cheng Pan's violence would bring great damage to Jiangnan. Thinking about the achievements of the Compreans over the years, they finally gave up. Moreover, after getting the news that the Communists had built castles in Rugao County on both sides of Ma'anshan, he knew that Cheng Pan's problem would still be solved when the year was good, and that the current situation would only make the current situation worse if he could not quickly eradicate the forces of the Communists in this eventful autumn. And now Cheng Pan's fortress has risen. It's not a matter of a few thousand households that can be wiped out.
Cheng Pan, the tiger, is far more powerful than Totoku imagined. Not to mention that the steel production in the territory has reached 50,000 tons per year. The construction of the reserve force alone is enough for the Yuan army to eat a pot, and Cheng Pan is now carrying out extreme mobilization in the Huangzhou territory, and he can pull out a pure firearms corps of 150,000 people. Every month, more than a dozen ships full of nitrate ore gave Cheng Pan the confidence of the rioters. The militiamen's 100 annual live-fire training and rigorous platoon training allowed them to go to battle in a month. The firearms army of the Yuan Dynasty was very bad, because the saltpeter storage of the Yuan Dynasty was very insufficient, and the loss was too strict. The person who managed the warehouse did not know what to do, so he had to report a reason why the saltpeter was evapotranspirated because of the hot weather. And this reason was also accepted by the officials of the Yuan Dynasty, because they were not born together. As a large consumer of saltpeter, the firearms army naturally could not be formed, and the long-range strike force of the Yuan army was still dominated by bows and arrows. The high-ranking officials in Henan who originally wanted to form a firearms army also dispelled this thought, and even stopped buying firearms from Cheng Pan.
And Cheng Pan, who has such power, is not without shortcomings. The total wealth production of the main base of Huangzhou No. 1, which is now beginning to expand into the industrial zone, has begun to reach the top of the three territories. A large number of people and real industries are gathered here, and there is no strategic depth at all. In particular, the heavy industry zone on both sides of Huangzhou was the essence of Cheng Pan's rule, where 30% of the heavy industry capacity in the territory was concentrated at this time. However, this place is too close to Nanjing, only a few dozen miles away from a river. If it weren't for the fact that the Yangtze River was a natural hazard and had been controlled by Cheng Pan's water power, Cheng Pan wouldn't even be able to sleep. The Jiangbei Territory is blocked by the Yangtze River, but the Ma'anshan mining area is in the south of the Yangtze River, so there is no protection, Cheng Pan's army is still a village protection team, Cheng Pan's firearms corps and militia team and the landlord crusade army in Dangtu County have fought a battle to determine the foothold of Ma'anshan cottage in the local area. For the landlords, these thieves do not go out of the mountains to rob the road, but only open the mountains to extract minerals, and the livestock are harmless. At this time, Cheng Pan had no other enemies here. However, as Cheng Pan's power grew, the Yuan Dynasty began to guard against Cheng Pan, and Ma'anshan, a lonely place isolated by the Yangtze River, became Cheng Pan's Achilles heel. In order to ensure that this large iron mine in the territory must not be lost. Cheng Pan decided to build fortifications.
Of course, to create the best famous fortress to become Cheng Pan's choice. The walls that are constantly folding have no dead ends, and the thickness of the walls is greatly increased in the protruding and concave edges, while in other places the force is unloaded due to the slopes of boulders and cannonballs.
In fact, Cheng Pan spent a lot of money to build a fortress is a waste, in this era the Yuan Dynasty even cannons are smoothbore cannons, not to mention through the fortress, it is difficult to blast through the outer bricks and inner soil walls of Hezhou. When the Yuan army attacked the city, it used trebuchets more, that is, return artillery, and as for the artillery siege, it killed and injured the people on the city wall, not with the turtle shell city wall. In later battles, the range of the artillery in the territory has always suppressed the opponent, and there are very few long-range heavy weapons that can hit the fortress. After Cheng Pan unified the whole country, the forts built at this time only have historical commemorative significance.
Now, under Cheng Pan's order, a large number of red bricks and cement have been transported to several construction sites, and several forts in the east of the Huangzhou territory have blocked Nanjing's Pingchuan to the territory, and two forts in the Rugao County base have also begun to guard the coastal base. In the second half of 1345, the defensive pressure on the territory was greatly reduced, and in this year the Compals did not have any fighting. After Cheng Pan passed the difficult period at the beginning, he began to move towards the road of Taoguang's peaceful rise.
At this time, a strong production momentum began to emerge in Taiwan's territory, and a large amount of coal began to supply the Huangzhou territory and the local No. 3 steel plant after the Keelung coal mine was put into operation, and at the same time, the primitive chemical industry began to rise in Taiwan. The production of three acids and two alkalis is increasing. By October 1345, 600,000 people had emigrated from Taiwan. The vast majority of them are farmers. In this open land, with the help of high-quality iron farming tools and animal power and steam power, Taiwan's grain production has become self-sufficient. In Cheng Pan's plan, before the emergence of the synthetic ammonia industry, Taiwan needed to accommodate 3oo people of land, as for the agricultural resources that are far from fully opening up Taiwan's territory, of course, Cheng Pan does not mean that Taiwan can only support 3oo people, but only 3 million people will not let Taiwan's fertile land be barren. As for when Taiwan's population exceeds 3oo,000,000, it will be time to start grabbing the fields of the islands in the South Seas, and the population is far from enough to enclose land in this hundred years. It is a waste of human resources that there is too much population in a certain place, whether there is an industrial zone or not, and relying on the tertiary industry to feed the surplus population. This is the case in China's feudal society, the agricultural population at the bottom feeds this huge civil and administrative class, as well as the people of the tertiary industry who dress them, in ancient China, a high-ranking official and noble man was surrounded by a large group of people to advance in front of and back, these servants around the dignitaries are the people of the tertiary industry, and the relatively modern tertiary industry serves the public, and these people only serve the aristocratic class. Therefore, Cheng Pan held a contrary view to the statement of some people in the original time and space that every time the dynasty changed, the Chinese would be killed and the land would be left to solve the contradictions; instead of killing the peasants every time the dynasty changed, Cheng Pan would clean up the aristocratic rentier class entrenched in the top level and loosen the shackles of the vast number of peasants. The people who caused disaster to the peasants were the wordplay masters who did not produce dance and ink. They are the ones who control public opinion, and they are the ones who exploit the masses. China's land can accommodate 200 million people. But often reaching 100 million people reaches the limit. It is the fault of those literati managers who are detached from reality.
Cheng Pan would not establish a dynasty, and then Bu Chong left a royal line, and then it was overthrown hundreds of years later. Cheng Pan decided to implement a system of the times, although it was too advanced for this era, Cheng Pan still decided to overcome a difficult situation.