I am Da Song

The stark contrast that Zhang Jun deliberately used instantly shocked all the ministers in court with an extremely strong sense of shock.

It is a very remarkable achievement to pile up warehouses and hang food in courtyards in private households. This is the prosperous scenery that many dynasties have imagined.It is the life that many poor people yearn for.

In the feudal small-scale peasant economy, most of the small people could not even eat enough to eat. When they wanted to sell their sons and daughters, the people of the Song Dynasty could have such an abundance of grains, which already shows the effectiveness of the governance of the Song Dynasty.

But when most of the officials were happy that the people had stored enough food for several years, Zhang Jun said that the food was just rough food for livestock!
The effect is immediate.

Su Chi said in shock: "So much food is given to livestock? Doesn't that mean that the local food is so much that the common people can't use it up?"

Zhang Jun nodded, and said, "As far as I know, that's true. The grain production on North Liaodong Road is no less than that in the Suhu area."

"The local area is rich in corn, soybeans, rice, and sweet potatoes. These are crops with huge yields. People can't eat them all, and a large amount of crops are piled up in the local area."

"So the people started processing one after another, using corn as fodder, soybeans for oil extraction, and food for winemaking."

"Only in terms of agricultural production, the local area is very developed. But it is also limited to agricultural production. The local wealth stays at the agricultural level. There is no need to worry about food and drink, but it is not materially rich."

Prime Minister Li Gang nodded in agreement, and said, "That's true. Judging from the taxes paid, Liaobei Road is less than one-tenth or even one percent of Zhedong Road."

Zhao Huan seriously pondered that in such a large agricultural province, the food they produce is enough to support half of the country in the north, and the people do not have to worry about hunger, but it is not a reality of being rich.

This reminded Zhao Huan of the 996 society of later generations.

Is 996 popular?
Certainly not popular.

But if you give up 996, you can lie flat when you return to the countryside, and you will never starve to death, but you have no mobile phone, no computer, and no fashionable clothes, and your life expectancy has dropped from 80 to 60 years.Just over fifty, I have to count on my fingers how many years I can live.I am afraid that not many people can accept it.

Liaobei Road is probably in such a situation at present.

They can't starve to death, but they can't get rich either.Most of the common people stay in a small village, but there is no love, no luxurious clothes, and no achievements of various developed civilizations in the Song Dynasty.

They are at the pinnacle of the agricultural society, but they are thousands of years away from cities that never sleep like Tokyo and Suzhou.

Zhang Jun said: "Northeast Liao Road produces hundreds of millions of shi of grain every year. Locally, it's worthless."

"The common people are poor because they guard the mountains of gold and silver. The imperial court owns granaries but worries about the famine in the world."

"That's why I suggest that the second railroad track be dedicated to Liaobei Road."

Hundreds of millions of stones of grain, about tens of billions of catties, this scale is already considerable.

There is a very exact figure for the annual grain production of the Chinese dynasty in later generations, which is 3000 trillion catties.

Although it is said that North Liaodong Road is not as good as the fraction of later generations, after all, it is only the grain produced in one area of ​​North Liaodong Road. …

Moreover, there are only 4000 million people in the Song Dynasty, which is an order of magnitude behind the later generations.

It can be said that there is absolutely no shortage of grain in the Northeast. How to turn this piled up grain into wealth is indeed the most important consideration for Song Dynasty right now.

After Zhang Jun finished speaking, Su Chi immediately opened his mouth and said, "This is the second meaning of the road that I want to talk about besides the military meaning. It connects the important economic towns."

"With the capacity of railway transportation, each train can transport [-] shi, so if Liaodong has [-] million shi of grain that can be sold, it only takes more than [-] trains to transport all the grain every day."

This number is really not huge compared to [-] locomotives.

There are ten trains per hour, and the stops in different cities are not too intensive.

Of course, this is calculated on the basis of the most primitive train.

Su Dai explained to everyone: "In fact, the train can be changed into a special freight train, and the cargo capacity can be increased."

Zhao Huan said: "The railway is mainly based on freight, and passenger carrying is just a matter of consideration. So there is no need to consider comfort, as long as safety and stability can be maintained, the carrying capacity can be increased as much as possible."

Su Dai replied immediately: "The Tai Academy will try its best to research this aspect and try to increase the load capacity."

If there is technology, funds, and demand, the construction of a railway in Northeast China will be quickly passed.

Regarding the road construction route, Su Chi pointed to the map and said, "I suggest that the railway should run inland. In fact, the imperial court did not have a strategy to deal with the connection with Liaodong Road before."

"There are two main types of grain transportation. One is by sea. It is shipped from the Liaodong Peninsula, and then enters the canal through Shandong."

"The second is water transportation."

Su Chi pointed at the map with a stick in his hand, and said: "When the imperial court rebuilt the Yellow River in Hebei, they built a series of north-south canals. Among them, the canal connecting Yanjing is the main one. It passes through Hejian Mansion and Daming Mansion and then enters the Yellow River. It was transported to Tokyo through the old way of water transport."

"Other canals also communicate with important economic centers in Hebei."

"But generally speaking, the river network on Hebei East Road is denser and the water transport is more developed."

"That's why I suggest that the railway be placed on Hebei West Road."

Zhao Huan nodded and said, "Yes. At that time, Taiyuan College will inspect Hebei West Road and determine the route of this road."

Zhang Jun immediately suggested: "I think that since the function of this east road is the same as the water transport canal, and the direction is roughly the same, it can be connected to Xijing together."

"The layout of my canal towards the north is basically excavated around the three capitals of Tokyo, Xijing and Beijing."

One country with multiple capitals is a characteristic of the current era.

It might seem wasteful to have a rail network encircling these three cities, but it really isn't.

These three capitals have very obvious differences in their respective positioning. Apart from the fact that they are all responsible for collecting statistical patents, the three cities have very different city styles.

Xijing Chang'an is on the Silk Road. Its main function is foreign trade, communication with the countries in the Western Regions, and military logistics to the Western administrative regions.

Tokyo is mainly a political center, as well as an industrial center and a commercial center in the north. It is responsible for exporting a large number of industrial products, such as providing a large number of commodities sold on the Silk Road to Chang'an, Xijing.

Beijing, on the other hand, mainly gathers industrial materials from the north, and collects leather, minerals, timber, gold and silver, cattle and horses, and slaves from the north.He is more like a material supply center.