I am Da Song

Chapter 597 Infrastructure Advantage
What Lin Shunhua talked about belongs to the basic law.

After England took the lead in completing industrialization, its neighbors France and Germany also followed suit and became prominent European powers for a while.

Zhao Huan also considered the spread of civilization. If the Song Dynasty completes industrialization, other countries will also introduce technology and develop industries.

The ruler of no country is a fool. It is the natural instinct of all people to learn civilization and embrace the thigh of the strong.

After the completion of industrialization in Europe, the Ottoman Empire began to build a new army and carry out reforms.

Similarly, if the Song Dynasty completed industrialization first, today's Dashi will also learn from the East and introduce industrialization to the past.

As far as Zhao Huan knows, Dashi has begun to build a new army based on the Shenwu Youjun, equipped with muskets and artillery.

Of course, their technology is much worse than Da Song's.Moreover, it is impossible for Da Song to be so arrogant and directly use a large amount of cast copper to forge cannons.

But even if their cast iron craftsmanship is not up to standard, and the black powder is not sophisticated enough, the new army formed is still much stronger than the slave archers of the past.

Facing the barbarians, nomadic cavalry and those countries that have not yet surrendered to the Song Dynasty, it still has a devastating effect.

For example, in Africa, the Fatimid dynasty should have entered the end of the dynasty, but now it has completely changed the direction of history and is expanding westward along the Mediterranean Sea.

The Besli Canal brought them a prosperous economy, and the reform of the new army brought them strong combat power.So the Moors became their first target.

The city of Tunisia, the trading pearl of the Mediterranean, has fallen into their hands, and they are still heading west along the Mediterranean.

Under the chain reaction, the Moors could only march towards the Iberian Peninsula again.

History is a circle, and human beings always go round and round in this circle.

Military conquests in the East have always driven one nation after another westward, from the Huns to the Turks, from the Turks to the Mongols, and now the Moors.

The effect of the diffusion of civilization is very obvious, and the consequences are much more serious than domestic ones.

Suzhou snatched Hejian Prefecture's position as a machine tool center, and at most the industrial center of gravity shifted from Hebei to Jiangnan.

But if Germany's industrialization process exceeds that of the Song Dynasty, it will be the beginning of the collapse of the vassal system.

Zhao Huan never underestimated any nation...except Goryeo.

So Zhao Huan seriously asked Lin Shunhua: "How do you think you should maintain your advantage?"

Lin Shunhua said: "I take Hejian as an example. After gaining the advantage of machine tools, what do the officials think I will do?"

"Continue to expand your advantages and study higher-end technologies?"

"No. It's road construction. Most of the roads are built to be comparable to galloping roads. Horse-drawn carriages can gallop on them, and there is no need to be careful at all. In order to maintain the road surface, I paid money from the local finance and hired people to patrol the roads. There are potholes, broken, repaired as soon as possible."

"It's not enough for Hejian Prefecture to build roads. We, Hejian Prefecture, donate money to build roads in other areas, but the right to operate and toll the roads is owned by our Hejian Prefecture."

"After the road was built, the industry in our Hejian Prefecture has been further facilitated, and a large number of workshops and various industries have flourished."

"And Hejian Mansion has completed the integration. Almost all categories can be found here, and almost all needs can be met here."

"If you want to develop and produce a new device, it must be the most convenient place in Hejian Prefecture."

This really surprised Zhao Huan. He had seen the roads in Hebei, which were very smooth.

He thought it was repaired by the Ministry of Industry for them during the post-disaster reconstruction.

Unexpectedly, it was funded by local finance.

And this must be thanks to the reform of the transshipment envoy.

In the past, local finances and taxes had to be handed over to the central government, and a lot of wealth was wasted on transshipment materials every year.

Therefore, Zhao Huan reformed the transshipment envoy and allowed half of the local finance and taxes to be kept.

But the ratio is the same, but the numbers can be different.

Under the small-scale peasant economic system, why is the road traffic in various places inconvenient?
Even some county main roads are just winding paths, and some mountainous and hilly areas are simply small mountain roads.

How does this kind of road environment allow businessmen to do business?Do you rely on merchants to carry the goods on their backs?

Thank goodness for a salesman carrying a shoulder pole.

Therefore, the materials in the countryside are always very scarce, not even a piece of furniture.If you want to buy a pot or a pair of shoes, you have to do the math.

The reason for this is that the small-scale peasant economy can provide taxes to the county, and the local county government has no money even if it wants to do infrastructure construction.

Therefore, some dynasties simply imposed corvee and worked for one month every year.This kind of corvee is to build roads and bridges in the county town of my hometown.

But as long as corvee is collected, it will add an extra burden to ordinary peasant families.

A farmer was conscripted away for a month. Not only did the family have no income and lost their mainstay, but they also had to provide him with money, dry food, and clothes.

If unfortunately, a construction accident occurs, leading to the death of the pillar of the family, or the root cause of the disease, it will directly destroy a family.

The situation in Hejian County is exactly the opposite of this tragic situation. Their industry has already reached a certain scale, and their finances have a lot of surplus.The same is to leave half, and the infrastructure they can carry out far exceeds that of other agricultural states and counties.

So they were able to create unparalleled transportation facilities.

One thing to understand, in the era of small-scale peasant economy, the biggest factor affecting an item is transportation!
Even this is still valid in the industrial age.

The price of a ton of coal in Shanxi is 300 yuan, which seems cheap.

Everyone was very excited. If it was shipped back to the local area and sold, wouldn't the profit be three times, four times or five times per ton?
What ammunition, poison, and prostitution can compare to this profit?
However, the cost of transporting the three hundred coal in Shanxi to Shandong by high speed is thousands of per ton.

In an instant, most people lost interest.Want to transport coal and sell it without train skins?
With such convenient transportation and a huge industrial scale, Hejian has far more economic costs than other regions in terms of most industrial production.

The more high-end, the greater the advantages of high-end industries that require the integration of a large number of components and the participation of multiple industries.

Produced in Hejian, you can find all kinds of materials nearby, reduce transportation costs, and have convenient transportation facilities.

In other areas, it may be necessary to go over mountains and mountains to find a qualified workshop, and the transportation cost is enough to overwhelm many workshop owners.

It's not that they don't want to upgrade, but they simply don't have the strength to upgrade.Forced to produce some very basic handicraft products, such as clay pots, blankets, cabinets, and combs.

Or rely on the unique source of resources to produce some special products.

But that's ideal, because it's limited to a small area.

If the entire Song Dynasty was involved, all this would be completely different.

(End of this chapter)