This point was already taken into account by the ruling class during the Western Han Dynasty, but the industrial structure at that time was relatively simple and easy to control.

After all, there are only a few counties suitable for raising silkworms and weaving cloth, and the area for creating handicrafts is mainly Jingshi.

Therefore, as long as the silk production land is not allowed to use a large number of fertile land for planting mulberry trees, the rest of the manual aspects need to take into account the grain planting, and the waste should not be delayed.

However, there are too many products available for export trade at present, and if they are not guided, it is likely to lead to disorderly development and unhealthy competition.

In addition to the danger of the collapse of the market economy, the influx of large amounts of labor into the handicraft industry will also deal a fatal blow to the newly revitalized agriculture.

As long as it is not an official who is motivated by profit, after calming down a little, I am afraid that he can think of this, and after Liu Zhi proposed it at this time, everyone also fell into contemplation.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that between agriculture and business, agriculture should still be based on agriculture and supplemented by business.

Only when the world's grains are abundant can all industries prosper, so I implore Your Majesty to strictly limit the scale of commerce and trade, and not to let it go freely. ”

The person who spoke was Yin Song, a secretary of the provincial university, and his words were deaf and sonorous, like thunder striking on everyone's heart.

Many of those present were ashamed and hung their heads in shame.

Many of them participated in this business competition, trying to do everything possible to increase their share and expand their scale, causing a miasma in the court.

"The minister seconded the proposal, commerce and trade should not be ascended to the sky in one step and dominate, otherwise even if they can accumulate huge wealth in a short time.

But it is still a quicksand tower, and once it encounters a famine year, the foundation will collapse. ”

Zhang Ling also stood up in the imperial history, although his face was cold, his tone was passionate and generous, which showed that he had already held his stomach for a long time, and he was not vomiting or unhappy.

Immediately afterwards, Yuan Xu, a scholar from Zhongshu Province, also expressed his resolute support, and the three giants of the imperial court expressed their stance together, which basically set the tone for this matter.

The rest of the people, whether they wanted it or not, rushed to take a stand.

The next question is what is really crucial to them, and it is directly related to the vital interests of each family.

The liquor and sugar were all controlled by Liu Zhi, and no one could fight for them, and the matches and paper were also under the control of the Ministry of Industry and belonged to the imperial court revenue.

The main content of their fight is silk, which is the most traditional goods of the ancient trade route, with a huge trading volume, and it is also the largest proportion of all commodities.

The thirteen states in the world, plus six capitals, are famous for the textile industry, and only eight states such as Yi, Henan, Yang, Jing, Xu, Qing, Yanjia and Sili are famous.

These states have their own characteristics, Si Li Yanshi is the hometown of the snail ancestor, the birthplace of silk, and the production of Bai Lian has always been exclusively supplied by the palace.

Yuzhou Chenliu Xiangyi, is the most famous brocade hometown in the Han Dynasty, as early as the Han Ming Emperor era has had a loom, its brocade is brilliant like clouds, beautiful.

Qingzhou Penglai is also the hometown of traditional silk, and the color silk produced is bright, soft and smooth.

The silk silk in the Yangzhou area of Jingzhou is light and transparent, soft as nothing, and is a unique in the world.

Compared with Xiangyi, the Shu brocade in Chengdu, Yizhou, is more embroidery and color, and the two have their own merits......

As for Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou, the textile industry is dominated by felt, and its technology is still transmitted from the Western Regions.

The felt textile industry in Western countries is relatively developed, so these three states naturally do not have any competitiveness in foreign trade.

The southernmost Jiaozhou is dominated by kudzu cloth and linen cloth, the silk weaving industry is not developed, and the remaining Liaodong and Liaoxi are the fur centers of the country, and all kinds of animal furs are in short supply.

Therefore, for the competition in the market, it mainly lies in the Central Plains and the eight states in the south, and the countries of the Western Regions prefer cloth with bright colors and brilliant literature and science.

In this regard, Yanshi is the least competitive, but the Han Dynasty scholar class prefers plain colors, and he has the palace and the big domestic market, so he doesn't have to worry about sales.

The most competitive are actually Xiangyi and Chengdu, both of which are famous for their brightly colored brocades, but they are also slightly on the heavy side.

The brocade of Xiangyi is known for its various textures, low-key and luxurious, and can enter the eyes of the Roman aristocracy, while the brocade of Shu is mainly bright and unrestrained, and is quite popular among people in Central Asia and West Asia.

It doesn't matter if they each attack the directional market, but unfortunately the people's hearts are not enough to swallow the elephant, and everyone wants to wipe out the market.

This has led to blind expansion and competition between the two sides.

Liu Zhi decided to follow the example of later generations and open a separate Ministry of Commerce in addition to the Six Ministries to be in charge of internal and external trade coordination.

Bai Zhen, who was born in a poor family, was a wealthy businessman, and Liang Ji was in power and coveted his family's property.

So he forcibly asked the Bai family to donate officials and exchange Wanguan's family wealth for an idle position, the Bai family dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, in order to save their lives, they could only swallow their anger and hand over their property.

But after Bai Zhen joined the office, he has been very low-key and wisely protected himself, until Liang Ji was eradicated, he began to emerge step by step.

Although this person was born in a businessman, he is rare and has no slippery and treacherous atmosphere, and is proficient in the world, but he is not fake, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

In short, he is a person with excellent ability to deal with interpersonal relationships, plus he is familiar with business operations, and he is not involved in major families.

That's why he stood out and was promoted by Liu Zhi to the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, responsible for commercial affairs across the country.

Bai Zhen also has some ability, and after taking office, he immediately convened a meeting of businessmen from all over the country.

Since the imperial court had already formulated an order not to expand excessively, the general policy was decided, and the key was how to grasp the degree of it.

As soon as he made a move, he first solved the biggest problem, the dispute between Chengdu and Xiangyi.

According to the characteristics and geographical location of the two places, he did a lot of work for both sides, and finally decided that Chengdu would monopolize the southern line and Xiangyi monopolize the middle line in the future, and they would have nothing to do with each other.

The quality of business depends on each person's ability.

On the southern route, there are countries such as Ailao, Shenfu, Tianzhu, and Tianshuang, and the end point is the country of rest, while on the central line there are countries such as Kangju, Tianshuang, Persia, Rinan, and Rome.

The two routes are not only in line with their business demands, but also more convenient in terms of geographical location, so both sides are more convinced.

He then set strict foreign trade standards, which required strict quality control for the sake of long-term business, and imposed severe penalties for this.

This makes all businesses have to keep improving, and the demand for technical personnel is greater than that of new people who don't know anything.

It also had to tighten the scale and focus on manufacturing high-quality products, which virtually stifled the pace of blind expansion by following the trend.

Subsequently, under the instruction of Liu Zhi, the Ministry of Commerce promulgated quality standards for various industries and issued new regulations to strictly prohibit unfair competition.

At the beginning, many businessmen with backstage tried to get away with it, but after Bai Zhen found out the evidence, he directly played the emperor and dismissed several merchants who jumped the most fiercely from exporting.

This trick is very effective, just kidding, this is tantamount to cutting off their financial routes, and for a while, businessmen from all over the world were in a hurry, and everyone became much more well-behaved.

However, Bai Zhen is sleek, he used to be a businessman, so he naturally understands that doing so will form a life-and-death hatred with the other party.

Therefore, after some time, their punishment was changed to one year on the grounds of first offense.

Those few families were already conclusive, but now they have suddenly changed from despair to small punishments and big commandments, and in turn, they are grateful for a thousand things, as if they were the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.

They are all children of a big family, and if they don't have the ability to follow a career path, they can only create wealth by doing business for the family.

If it affects the family business, I am afraid that it is very likely to be kicked out.

Since then, these people have become much more honest, and all walks of life in Dahan have begun to develop in an orderly manner.

Seeing that everything was on the right track, Liu Zhi was also very pleased, as the court system was becoming more and more perfect, his trivial matters were not as many as before.

Now, the whole court is performing its own duties, and there is no longer the chaotic phenomenon that used to be, and generally non-major events will no longer be sent to his desk.

As for the small things, he only occasionally checked them, so that he knew them by heart.

As for those routine and non-nutritious performances, now Liu Zhitong has been exempted, and it is purely a use of public resources, and it has no practical effect at all.

Liu Zhi, who has become relaxed, has put more energy into scientific and technological reform, and based on this time, he also saw the shortcomings of Dahan in agricultural production.

For the systematic scientific farming method, he has been exploring, in addition to the major imperial villages, many official fields have also been used by him as experimental fields.

After several years of exploration, we have gradually found a set of effective methods to increase yield, and trained a group of more professional agricultural production personnel.

The release of that year once brought a lot of hope to Dahan's agricultural technology innovation, but now it seems that there are still many omissions.

Based on the experience of the past few years, Liu Zhi asked the relevant departments to revise the book together with these professionals.

Checking and filling in the gaps is a rigorous scientific attitude, rather than being immutable and resting on our laurels.

In this revised version, the proportion of rice planting techniques has been increased, and for the first time, the method of throwing seedlings, which is more labor-efficient, has been explicitly written.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, rice had become the most important crop in the southern grain-producing areas, but under the trend dominated by the Central Plains culture, rice was not even included in the traditional grains.

Therefore, Liu Zhicai justified the name of rice in China, and together with wheat and soybeans in the north, it was listed as one of the most important basic crops in the Han Dynasty.

Only by paying enough attention to it can it develop better and in the long run.

In addition, the planting technology of cotton has also been formally written, due to various reasons, especially the variety needs to be improved, the importance of cotton and the scale of planting are far from enough.

The last time Deng performed in the Western Regions, Liu Zhi gave him a secret mission, to Tianzhu and Shenzhi and other places, to find the seeds of long-staple cotton, and bring back to Luoyang as much as possible.

Deng Yan also lived up to his mission, and really brought him a lot of local long-staple cottonseeds, which Liu Zhi has planted in his estate.

Prepare to cross-breed with the previous short-staple cotton, and cultivate your own high-quality varieties of the best.

Nowadays, the Han Dynasty is surging everywhere, competing to develop the silk weaving industry, and after the scale of this industry is stabilized, the development of the cotton textile industry just happens to stagger the two perfectly.

Since Liu Zhi reformed the Quyuan plough and invented windmills, plate barrels, water trucks and other later instruments in advance, agricultural equipment has been much more advanced than before, and the production efficiency has been greatly improved.

It is a pity that experiments such as hybrid rice and wheat have not been able to achieve breakthrough development, otherwise they can directly change the extremely backward yield, so as to completely solve the food problem.

After more than two years of development, the huge water conservancy projects in Jingzhou and Yangzhou on flood control on the Yangtze River have gradually begun to take shape.

Judging from the information presented, even if the two states work together, it will take at least five or six years to successfully complete such a huge project.

Moreover, this is still a conservative estimate, and it will take more than ten years to complete it completely.

However, the phased achievements made so far have alleviated the extent of flooding in some parts of the Yangtze River basin.

In fact, Liu Zhi still has an idea, but he has never dared to implement it, that is, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

At that time, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty mobilized the strength of the whole country to dig this genius canal, but it also made the people's resentment boil and accelerated the destruction of his own dynasty.

Because of this, the evaluation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the Tang and Song dynasties has always been not objective and fair, and its huge role in north-south transportation has been seriously ignored.

The opening of the Grand Canal can run through Youzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Yangzhou, connecting the five major water systems of Haihe, Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze River and Qiantang River, directly strengthening the connection between the north and the south.

It will not only become a link between the north and the south politically, economically, and culturally, but also a hub for connecting the "Silk Road" and the maritime "Silk Road" in Asia.

The navigation of the canal also promoted the development of towns and industries in the coastal areas, and the canal was continuously dredged and renovated by successive dynasties, so that it continued to play the role of connecting the north and south arteries.

It was not until the new China of the 21st century that it was given a high historical evaluation, and it was listed as one of the three greatest projects in ancient times, along with the Great Wall and Karez.

It can be said that the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is still playing an important role to this day.

As a modern person, Liu Zhi naturally understands this truth, so this canal has always been entrenched in his mind and lingers.

But unfortunately, due to the weakening of the national strength at this time and the immaturity of the excavation technology, he had to put this plan on hold temporarily.

In the future, after the country is completely rich and strong, we will start to implement this plan, otherwise, it is likely to follow in the footsteps of Emperor Yang of Sui and seriously weaken the country's economic foundation.

Ordinary water conservancy projects in various places have never stopped, firstly, to ensure agricultural production, and secondly, to gather experience in the future excavation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

In view of the grim situation this year, Liu Zhi paid more attention to agricultural production and repeatedly issued edicts urging government officials in various localities.

And sent to inspect the imperial history, specially to inspect the agricultural production situation in various places, and if there are those who do not meet the standards, they will be dealt with immediately and seriously, so as to set an example.

In the autumn of this year, several frequent earthquakes occurred in Yuzhou and Xuzhou.

Fortunately, the earthquake was not very high, and after a quick rescue response, the casualties and losses were controlled within a certain range.

But Liu Zhi had a faint feeling of unease, could such frequent small earthquakes be a harbinger of a catastrophe?

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