Liaodong.

The railways built by countless eunuchs have made the proportion of railway mileage in eastern Liaoning the highest in the Ming Dynasty, and even in the sparsely populated Nuer Gandusi area, there is also a way to open the plains and go deep into the simple rails in Siping Huaide and other areas.

Large quantities of timber are transported by rail to the Golden State, to factories and docks, and even to the coastal areas through the docks of the Golden State.

After the beginning of spring.

Fishing boats outside the pier are heading out to sea.

Imitate the principle of large fishing boats in the Song Dynasty, the six-masted boat manufactured is currently the main ship type of Jinzhou fishery, this six-masted fishing boat of the Song Dynasty, not only has a high-efficiency belly for storing fish, even if it is a six-level wind and wave, it can also maintain a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and the two sides of the fishing boat have two pieces of water rakers, even if it is headwind, it can also "zigzag" forward.

When the Golden State Shipyard copied it, it became the most popular ship type.

However, not many people use steam engines.

Because comparatively speaking, this type of ship is enough for the needs of fishermen today, and investing more money in the use of steam engines cannot bring them additional income.

Thousands of sails have passed, leaving countless ripples behind.

A scholar took three of his disciples out to sea on a large fishing boat, and the disciples excitedly taught the fishermen, and their husband recited the fishing songs of the ancestors.

There is nothing to do on the sea.

The most experienced boat boss searched for the source of fish, the scholars followed the boat boss, and the disciples began to talk to the crew about the mountains.

"There were two periods in ancient times when fishing was high."

"One is the Wu land of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the other is the Song Dynasty period."

"Fan Li knows." The student asked with a smile, and a crew member replied that he knew, the famous Xi Shi story, who could not know Fan Li.

The student smiled again: "He is not only a good friend of Xi Shi, but also the originator of fish farming, known as the "fisherman". ”

The crew prefers to hear good stories.

Students don't matter.

Lace news, the school also likes to pass it on the most, as for whether there is empirical evidence, it doesn't matter, Kan Dashan still has to talk about evidence, where is there such a rule.

So the topic began to go down three ways.

Prow.

The scholar couldn't help but smile at the corners of his mouth when he heard the laughter coming from behind.

The boat boss couldn't laugh.

"Sir, will the rise of the fishing industry in Jianghuai affect us?" The boat boss asked with concern, hearing what Mr. said, he didn't even care about the fishing situation, and the income of one or two times would not shake him.

The scholar nodded, then shook his head.

"It depends on the volume of the total plate of society."

Then he explained: "If the volume of the plate remains the same, the prosperity of fish farming in the Jianghuai region will inevitably affect your market here, and if the volume of the plate becomes larger, it will not affect your side." ”

Although the disciples said jokes, the record of artificial fish farming in the mainland was indeed Fan Li at first.

With the development of artificial fish farming in the interior, it was already very prosperous in the Tang Dynasty, and the development of fishery production in the south basically formed a trend of "three parts of the world" with farming and sericulture.

For example, in the third year of the holy calendar, Cui Rong said: "The states in the south of the Yangtze River are based on fish. ”

In the first year of Jinglong, Li Yi Shangshu also talked about "Jiangnan Water Town, fishing as a business, the benefits of turtles and turtles, and Li Yuan's capital." ”

At that time, many people left the peasant class and became professional fishermen.

The development and progress of fishery production in the Tang Dynasty was recorded truthfully and enthusiastically praised by poets at that time.

Bai Juyi walked on the Songjiang River by boat and saw the magnificence of "the water surface is lined with nets, and the bow is clustered"; Tortoise Meng's pen has the presentation of "leaning on silkworms everywhere, fishing at home"; Zhang Ji also has a description of "half a fish in the water, big fish such as willow leaves, small fish such as" and so on.

In the fifth generation, the Qian family also specially set up official positions such as "fishermen" and "crab households" to support fish and crab affairs.

However, at that time, the owners of fish farming should mainly raise carp, and carp has been domesticated from wild fish to domestic fish, but because the royal surname of the Tang Dynasty was Li, because "Li" and "carp" have the same sound, it was believed that "carp" symbolized the royal family and could not be raised, and the development of fish farming was stifled.

It's just that the wisdom of the people is great, and it is natural for fishermen to find other breeding objects on a large scale, and grass carp, herring, bighead carp, and silver carp began to be tried at this time.

As a result, there was the peak moment of artificial fish farming in the interior of the Song Dynasty, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty.

This process decayed in the previous dynasty.

Mr. explained carefully, and the boat boss also listened very carefully, although Mr. was very verbose, but the reader is like this, because he cares about his own interests, so the boat boss is very patient.

Mr. said calmly: "Politically, the national oppression policy of the previous dynasty was particularly serious and thorough in the Jiangnan region. ”

"However, this is only a temporary solution."

The ship's boss was getting impatient.

The gentleman didn't seem to notice it, and still said: "After the previous dynasty gradually stabilized, after many purges, most of the southern demoted officials were eliminated except for a few influential ones who were still reused. ”

Economically, the former dynasty exempted more than 100 kinds of harsh donations and miscellaneous collections such as the Southern Song Dynasty's holy festival offerings and the general line, and nominally only needed the people to pay positive taxes, so some Ming people commented that "Yuan Ping Jiangnan, the government decree is sparse, the tax is lenient and simple, and the people stop losing the land tax, and he does not levy it."

"But in fact, the burden on the people of the former dynasty was heavier than that of the summer and autumn tax systems of the Southern Song Dynasty."

"The basis of the tax grain is the mu of the field, the main tax is the autumn tax, and the mu tax is also roughly the basis of the Southern Song Dynasty, and on the whole, the former dynasty that replaced the Song dynasty basically ran along the track of the Southern Song Dynasty in the production relations and economic system."

However, the former rulers instinctively neglected production, including the fishing industry, and did not set up a function in the Ministry of Industry to manage the mountains, which caused a great setback to the fishing industry in the Taihu Lake basin. In the last two decades of the previous dynasty, the economy and society of the Taihu Lake basin were accompanied by a huge decline, and the economy and society, including fishery, fell into the trough of the development curve. ”

"Therefore, when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was still in Beiping, because of the factors of geographical environment, with the help of the geographical advantages of Jinzhou, the development of the fishing industry has achieved great success, but with the governance of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the south, the fish farming industry in the south has been revived, and there is a trend of surpassing the fishing industry of Jinzhou."

The boat boss finally heard what he cared about.

However, after Mr. explained in detail, it turns out that there are still so many cause and effect relationships.

According to him, if it were not for the decline of the inland fish farming, it would have been difficult for the fishing industry in their coastal areas to develop, and the inland fishing industry would have been more efficient in harvesting than for the difficulty and efficiency of the fishing industry.

"Then we will not have a livelihood in the future."

The boat boss asked worriedly.

He still has a loan to pay off on his ship, and he still has a dozen crew members to feed.

The gentleman shook his head again.

"In this investigation, I will also return to the imperial court to make a report, I believe that the imperial court will not let such a thing happen, and I also believe that under the governance of His Royal Highness the Prince, the economic system of the Ming Dynasty will become bigger and bigger, and the inevitable rise of fish farming in the Jianghuai region will most likely not have an impact on the fishing industry in your Golden State."

Hearing what Mr. said, the captain of the boat was a little relieved.

JAC.

Pond after pond, especially in the low-lying areas of Taihu Lake, has become a major industry in the area.

In addition to raising fish, the local people also grow lotus roots in the pond.

The high part of Taihu Lake raises mulberry.

Sheds were also built next to the backyard of each family to raise livestock and poultry, chickens, ducks and geese and even one or two pigs per family, which became the standard, so hard-working people, even if they did not enjoy the benefits of the large well system, also solved the problem of food and clothing.

The development of the regional economy has led to the failure of the large well system in the Jianghuai region.

No one gave up their land, even if the family was only seven or eight acres, more than a dozen acres of fields, and the hard-working local people, relying on their own strength and diligence, actually made the court have nothing to do.

Two harvests a year, sideline fish mulberry.

Even the main business is fish mulberry, and the side business is farmland.

The income of the local people is not much lower than that of the military households in the large well system, but it is more flexible and diverse, but the local people are too industrious to have much leisure time to spend.

The increase in the area of areas with stable production in the north and the development of technology have brought about an increase in agricultural production, which has reduced the burden of food supply in the south and allowed them to have more resources for the development of agriculture and fisheries.

on the market.

Salted fish, smoked dried fish, seafood, and local fresh fish are available to the people for consumption.

A merchant that specializes in providing ingredients for surrounding schools separates each large fish, separates the fish from the bones with a knife, crushes it into a mashed fish through a meat grinder, and bakes it into fish cakes and fish balls.

Fish cakes and fish balls have also become one of the favorite foods of the locals.

Shangyuan Middle School.

There are no equestrian lessons, but there are swimming lessons, and a group of teenagers are learning to swim under the guidance of the instructor.

The students were elated with bare arms.

The surrounding people also came to see the excitement, attracting many adults to play in the water.

The instructor will teach several ways to swim and guide the students one by one.

Compared with the of adults, the students swim faster and longer, but there are also old water men who use their own experience to tell the children how to better adapt to the water.

In the middle schools of the capital, there are not only kemari competitions, bamboo ball competitions, swimming competitions, etc., as well as dragon boat races and boat races.

Under the guidance of the school, various large factories have also started similar activities at the request of the Daming Industry Bureau.

Compared with Beiping, the social wind is not weak.

He Hu and several classmates looked at the shore with great interest.

He Hu did not choose Beiping Guozijian, after discussing with his mother, he finally came to the capital, He Hu wanted to get rid of the old environment, after coming to the capital, the new environment and scenery, every day made He Hu feel that his idea was right.

"The landscape here is so beautiful."

"The schools in the north have a lot of lessons, and the schools in the south have a lot of water classes, which is determined by geography and environment." He Hu laughed with his classmates.

Subsequently.

The people returned to the country.

Guozijian charges.

The annual tuition fee is as high as fifteen yuan, and ordinary people can't even afford it, but Guozijian has grants and various bonuses, as long as students who are able, most of them can get these rewards.

It is more than enough to complete four years of study.

There is also a kind of private donation, and many commercial banks will donate to Guozijian every year.

However, these payments are collected by the school.

The total number of graduates of the four national prisons of the Ming Dynasty last year was less than 10,000, which is very low, and if you work for 40 years, it will only maintain 400,000 people.

It is not enough to maintain the needs of the government, not to mention the needs of various organizations and institutions, the Daming Industrial Bureau and private commercial banks.

Especially the gap in the teachings.

With the improvement of the school system, in addition to the construction funds of the school, the most important thing is that the teaching power cannot keep up, which has become one of the problems of the current Ming Dynasty.

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Mandarin Palace.

Zhu Di sat above, and Zhu Gaochi and the ministers stood below.

Yang Shiqi returned to Beijing.

Yang Shiqi, who had been in Nanyang for several years, had dysentery halfway through, and relied on the medicine of Beiping and Jinzhou to survive by drinking herbal medicines.

Cochin has generally stabilized, and there have been no rebellions for more than a year.

The Champa Capital Division has also stopped in the last six months.

The railway from Jiaozhi to Guangxi has been opened to traffic, Yang Shiqi proposed to build a railway that only leads to Laos in the Ming Dynasty, and raised the hidden dangers of Nanyang, the instability of Burma and Siam.

"As long as this railway is completed, then the entire Nanyang will be completely in the hands of the imperial court."

Yang Shiqi said confidently.

On the other hand, Yang Pu had a bitter look on his face.

Because of the letter of Hu Guang, the governor of the seven provinces, the letter also said that the railway from Yili Province to Samarkand should be built.

Everyone knows the benefits of railways.

Especially a few years ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince proposed to build a railway between Jiaozhi and Guangxi with the spirit of building the Great Wall, and after ten years, it was finally opened to traffic and achieved great success.

Therefore, many people believe that there is no problem in building the Western Railway and the Nanyang Railway, and the key is the manpower and material resources invested, and whether the imperial court can make up its mind.

Xu Ning of the Ministry of Railway Engineering is now more than 40 years old, no longer as young as he used to be.

But unlike other big shopkeepers, Xu Ning has always sat firmly in the first position of the Ministry of Railway Engineering, and he has done one thing in his life, repairing railways, and becoming an important minister of the country by repairing railways.

It can be described as unprecedented.

Xu Ning didn't say a word.

Whether to repair the railway or not, what he said doesn't count, and what others say doesn't count, it depends on the mind of His Royal Highness the Prince.

Zhu Di also looked at his eldest son.

Zhu Gaochi thought silently.

Of course, the railways have to be repaired, but with the current national strength of the Ming Dynasty and the height of productivity, the construction of the Western Railway and the Nanyang Railway is really an act that outweighs the losses.

At least in the second industrial revolution, the machine produces the machine.

Whether it is market demand or technology, Daming lacks accumulation.

Machine production machine, seemingly very simple sentence, represents the qualitative difference of society, is no longer the traditional society can achieve, the need for machines to fully replace manpower, and all aspects of technology follow-up, has been the great development of the economy.

The economy and society of the Jianghuai region have great shortcomings.

The smallholder economy is too developed.

In short, in the Jianghuai region, a large number of workshops that have come out according to local conditions, because of people's diligence, can compete with factories, at least in some industries, indicating that those factories have not been completely released in terms of production efficiency.

Therefore, Zhu Gaochi is thinking about domestic problems, not foreign problems.

In particular, the current prosperity of the Ming market made the first wave of commercial banks that tried external development, after obtaining some funds, turn their heads to compete for the domestic market, which is contrary to Zhu Gaochi's goal.

In a nutshell.

It's too fragrant in China.

In what way, guide the market to generate demand, force the footsteps of capital to go overseas, and explore the unknown sea.

It has to be profitable to be long-term.

For example, the large-scale use of steam engines is the change of the Beiping market, which led to the demand for steam engines, and only then did it have later results.

The means of social resource allocation in previous years, the guidance from the top down, now seem to have failed.

Later Western ways were not able to succeed in the Ming Dynasty.

Just as it needs to be combined with reality.

The national conditions of the Ming Dynasty and the Western Britain in later generations are very different, and they cannot be done step by step, even if the environment of China in later generations is different, so the Ming Dynasty needs to find its own way.

From the first agricultural power, to the first industrial power.

Jump from the first to the first to new heights.

Zhu Gaochi frowned.

There is no road to learn from, because the roads of later countries do not meet the needs of the Ming Dynasty. (End of chapter)