I am Da Song

Chapter 598
With the huge volume of Song Dynasty, after realizing large-scale industrialization, it must be the largest industrial volume in the world.

Just like the population, the world is only divided into Great Song and Outer Territories.The same is true on an industrial scale.

Such a huge volume will greatly reduce the prices of all industrial products.

For example, the most common mirror is composed of several simple links such as glass, wooden frame, carving, and polishing.

However, under the large-scale production of Song Dynasty, it is possible to lower the price and achieve more exquisite items at a lower price.

This advantage of high quality and low price will make the mirrors of other countries unable to compete with it.

A ship of hundreds of thousands of mirrors, transported from the Central Plains to Dashi, will not be much more expensive than mirrors from a remote workshop in Dashi to other places, and the transportation unit price will be much more expensive.

Unless the output of Dashi's workshop is only for local business, as long as it has to be transported over long distances, it will not be able to compete with Dasong's products in trade.

Zhao Huan carefully analyzed and understood the model of Hejian Mansion for a while, and then asked: "I heard that Qing plans to build a new machine tool in Hejian Mansion. What do you do?"

Lin Shunhua immediately said: "It's a project of the Taiyuan Academy, called rails. It needs millions of steel columns of the same specification. I plan to win this project to Hejian Mansion."

"If it succeeds, Hejian Mansion will produce tens of millions of catties of steel every year, and thousands of workshops will be erected, providing hundreds of thousands of industrial jobs."

Zhao Huan couldn't help laughing, is this fate?

The center of the world's steel production is in the Central Plains, the center of the Central Plains' steel production is in Hebei, and the center of Hebei's steel production is in Hejian.

Zhao Huan was still thinking about what kind of project would use tens of millions of catties of steel. It turned out to be rails.

It seems that the Tai Academy has already planned to test run the locomotive.

After all, the core of the success of this steam locomotive is whether it can run on the rails.

If it runs smoothly for hundreds or even tens of kilometers, the Taiyuan Academy can ask Zhao Huan for credit.

Zero and one are qualitative changes, but one and nine are just quantitative differences.

Even the Ming Dynasty could slowly solve the problem of muskets and cannon explosions. The Tai Academy in the Song Dynasty, as long as the locomotive is running, can quickly increase its journey, from hundreds of miles to thousands of miles, and finally even across the country. The domain is thousands of miles.

Zhao Huan asked curiously: "But if so much steel is in Hejian Mansion, how will the imperial court transport it?"

After all, tens of millions of catties of steel, in this era, the transportation pressure is still quite high.

Back then, the five-way expedition to Xiaxia transported millions of stones of grain and grass, but tens of thousands of people were used.

Although the million-stone steel is easy to carry, the number of people who use it will not be small.

Da Song is not a civilian husband who cannot mobilize tens of thousands of people, but obviously if he had to, he would not mobilize so many people.

It was rare for Lin Shunhua to have this opportunity to lobby the emperor face to face, and immediately put forward his reasons, saying: "Officials, I think the first railway track should be located in Hebei."

"Lay a track from Hejianfu to the north and south, and then run through the capital and outside the Great Wall."

"Since ancient times, the troubles of the Central Plains have been in Beihu. As long as the railway tracks can communicate with northern Xinjiang, the right road in Mobei Mongolia can be completely locked."

"The right path?" Zhao Huan asked strangely, "Could it be that there is a left path?"

Lin Shunhua nodded immediately and said, "Of course there are, otherwise how would Mongolia have declined?"

Zhao Huan asked: "Aren't you a merchant from Hebei, engaged in human trade?"

Before that, Zhao Huan clearly remembered the impeachment that caused a sensation in the government and the public, and Han Shizhong, the commander of the Jingsai Army, was doing this kind of thing.

As early as the early years of Jianye, he called for the Northern Expedition every day, intending to wipe out Mongolia in one fell swoop.

But shouting and shouting, he disappeared.

It seems that the Jingsai army suddenly stopped their flags and drums, and they stopped going north to the desert, and they were doing plowing and sweeping holes every day.

They go north every year and return with captives.

A large number of Mongolian men and women were sold to the workshops, especially the young and strong laborers, who became the main force of those who filled the ditch for the flesh and blood of the Song Empire in Su Chi's mouth.

Zhao Huan still remembered his famous words.If someone must bear a heavy price for the empire's extinction, why can't it be borne by foreigners?
In the end, Lin Shunhua told him again, right?
Lin Shunhua took it for granted, "Of course it's not that simple. Officials, what do you think, since ancient times, if the Central Plains were strong and the barbarians were in a decisive battle, what would happen when the barbarians were defeated?"

Zhao Huan didn't even think about it, and said, "Of course it's moving westward, away from the front of the Central Plains."

This is obvious, Zhao Huan does not believe that Lin Shunhua can have other answers.

If he still dared to deny it, Zhao Huan had to seriously think about whether he was fooling himself.

Fortunately, Lin Shunhua did not raise any objection this time. He nodded and said, "That's true."

But then he asked seriously: "The Jingsai cavalry hit the Mongols again and again, why don't the Mongols run away?"

Zhao Huan suddenly took a deep breath, this question looks so reasonable!

Yes, why don't the Mongols run away?

Let the merchants in Hebei sell them to factories again and again for slave trade.

Enduring the constant blows and weakening of the static cavalry.

It doesn't make sense that Jin Guo's strategy of reducing the population failed, but the merchants of Song Dynasty succeeded in this matter.

No matter how weak the Kingdom of Jin is, it is still a centralized country with a population of 5000 million, and the power it can use is definitely stronger than a group of businessmen in Hebei.

And there are so many elites in the Mongols, they are not stupid, especially when faced with such a life-and-death choice, their survival instinct will make them make the most rational judgment.

No ethnic group is so stupid as to wait to die in place.

But in the end, they didn't run away and stayed in Mobei.

According to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the nomads in the north had already traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, all the way to Dashi, and then to Egypt.

The Turks are still active in the local area, and even replaced the nobles before Dashi, succeeded in taking control of Baghdad, and became the ruling class of the entire empire.

They don't know how nourishing their life is, isn't it more relaxed and comfortable than fighting a decisive battle with Zhu Xia in this hell room in East Asia?

Zhao Huan didn't believe that the Mongols were much more stupid than the Turks.

No matter how stupid you are, you can't just copy the homework of the past generations?

Right in front of you, the Khitan people fled all the way from the northern border of the empire to the west without a trace.

The Jurchens were so stupid that they didn't have time to run, so they were pressed to death on the spot.

Thinking of this, Zhao Huan's face instantly became serious.

If no nation is beyond stupid, why did the Jurchen perish so stupidly?
Zhao Huan immediately looked up at Lin Shunhua, and asked, "What do you mean, the Mongols can't escape?"

The Jurchens perished in the first place because they were locked up in the Beihai area.

The Song army mobilized more than 50 people for the Northern Expedition, and the left and middle roads took the lead in winning, cutting off the Jurchens' westward road.More importantly, the Mongols had risen at that time and monopolized Mobei.The Jurchens could only flee east and north, and could not go west at all.

(End of this chapter)