I am Da Song

Chapter 589 Urbanization Process

When Zhao Huan said that there were 10 households, he was obviously talking about the number of people, not the household registration.

But Wei Sheng didn't react for a while, and said meticulously: "We have a total of sixteen streets from the west to the east of the city. Based on the current population density of this street, the number of households in Hejian Mansion should be less than [-]. households, about [-] to [-] households."

He Qinhu exclaimed: "Do you even remember how many streets you walked? Is it accurate?"

Wei Sheng nodded and said, "I'm used to it. When I go to a place, I first observe the terrain. I counted the sixteen streets twice, and it's not bad."

He Qinhu exclaimed, "10 to [-] households? Isn't this going to be comparable to Hangzhou soon? There are cities in the Three Wus, and the most famous one is the [-] households."

Zhao Huan was also amazed. Based on the calculation of a family of six in the Song Dynasty, these 40 to [-] households are more than [-] people.

Regardless of whether there are large cities with a population of millions in both the East and the West, it is normal for a small city to have only a few thousand households.

According to Du Fu's poem: "Recalling the heyday of Kaiyuan in the past, there are still tens of thousands of houses in Xiaoyi. The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are full of fruit.

There are no jackals and tigers on the roads of Kyushu, and the sunrise will not be auspicious when traveling far.Qiwan, Luxuan, and the trains are in frequent shifts, and men and women who farm and mulberry do not lose each other. "

This is Du Fu's recollection, and it is inevitable to beautify the prosperous Kaiyuan era.

But even by this standard, a small town with ten thousand households is considered prosperous.

However, the population of Hejian Mansion has increased seven times compared to the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Huan had no choice but to say, "It's really weird that there are so many people in Hejian Mansion."

He Qinhu didn't understand, and asked: "What's so weird? There are cities with a population of 40 everywhere in my dynasty. Hejian Mansion was once a big city under the administration of Bao Longtu. It is not impossible to have [-] people, right?"

Zhao Huan waved his hand and said, "No, it's not normal. Big cities like Suzhou and Qiantang can have a population of more than 50 because they are located in the Suhu Plain, a land of abundance, and a land of fish and rice. They can provide sufficient food, so they In order to develop a large-scale city, develop industry and commerce in it. So that Suzhou's current population has exceeded one million."

It is inevitable that the population of Suzhou will exceed one million.

Because the most powerful industrial capacity has been developed in this city.

People gathered in the city, apparently for industrial production.It was the workshops that attracted these people from the farmland to the city.

In terms of per capita industrial output value, Suzhou may even surpass Tokyo.

Tokyo is really too big, it has all aspects of culture, politics, business, economy and so on.

So the population has increased all the way to more than 300 million.

But Suzhou is different from Tokyo. It is purely industrially developed and may be the most powerful industrial city in the world today.

Therefore, Zhao Huan said: "Tokyo's special situation is not a reference, but based on Suzhou's experience, without a strong industry and a large number of workshops, urbanization cannot be formed at all. Local people will be scattered in the countryside to carry out agricultural production."

The current situation in the Song Dynasty is that the agricultural society is mixed with the industrial society.

It is not that the Song Dynasty does not have an industrial center of gravity, but it is all made by the country by spending a lot of money and relying on the country's strong wealth capabilities.

For example, Tokyo, this city is only for the development of industrial infrastructure, which is beyond the imagination of other cities.

The state sold land in person, rebuilt roads, and vigorously developed water transportation.Therefore, on the Central Plains, a well-developed water network was abruptly opened up, and a large number of gravel roads were paved.Countless roads were built, and later, precious cement was used to build roads in Tokyo.

Even the palaces of the royal family and princes and nobles did not use cement, and the cement was first used to repair roads in Tokyo.

It can be said that just to provide Tokyo with the necessary infrastructure for industrialization, the national budget has invested at least 40 billion yuan in infrastructure.

Later generations have always said that the Song Dynasty used one country to support Tokyo and one city. During the Jianye period, this kind of thing not only did not ease, but went further.

The taxes paid by the 4000 million people in the Song Dynasty have been spent on the infrastructure of Tokyo City for decades.

This kind of energy and wealth is unprecedented in the feudal dynasty.

Daming is powerless, his central government has no money at all, and he can't even maintain the frontier garrisons.Not to mention spending so much money on infrastructure construction.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, it was impossible to imagine such a huge human and material resources.

For example, Cao Cao was ecstatic when he captured Jizhou. He felt that Jizhou has 30 people, which can be called a big state.

If these 30 people refer to the population, it is not as large as a small town in the Song Dynasty in Hejian Prefecture.

If it refers to 30 households, it is too much.A full 150 million people!You must know that before the Battle of Chibi, Cao Wei's total population in the north was only more than 200 million.Jizhou alone occupies three quarters, which is a bit too much.

But whether it is 30 people or 30 households, they are all equally insignificant in the face of billions of dollars in finance, insignificant, and simply unaffordable.

At that time, if any of the princes could obtain a city like Hejian Mansion, their strength would increase dramatically.If the Shu Han had such a city, the population would increase by half directly, and the finances would double suddenly.

But the strange thing is that Hejian Prefecture has neither the incomparable infrastructure facilities like Tokyo, nor the unique land of abundance like Suzhou. How did he develop into such a large scale alone?

He Qinhu rubbed his chin and asked, "Could it be that Hejian Prefecture also has a good location? As far as I know, Hebei is also a vast plain with developed agriculture. If Hejian Prefecture wants to develop industries, there is no shortage of food here." .”

"It makes sense." Zhao Huan nodded.The reason why industry is called the second industry is to rely on the primary industry of agriculture.

Without highly developed agriculture, a large amount of food output cannot support an industrial empire at all.

Like the western industrial powers Germany and France, there are very vast plains in the territory, and the agricultural advantages are unique.

But Zhao Huan still shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be that simple."

If industry can be developed with agricultural advantages, Eastern Europe should be the most industrially developed place.But obviously in Zhu Xia's impression, they had already been expelled from European citizenship.When it comes to Europe, Zhu Xia's impression is of Germany, France and those few wealthy and small countries in Western Europe.

There must be something unique about Hejian Mansion.Only then did the urbanization process of Hejian Prefecture far exceed that of other places.

But before Zhao Huan could figure it out, Wei Sheng suddenly pointed to the booth under the red lantern in front and asked, "Is that Xiaoyi in front?"

Zhao Huan looked forward and saw that somewhat familiar figure. It was the girl who was playing the piano on the field today. He smiled and said, "It's really her. You can meet them all, so go and have a look."

(End of this chapter)