The sun never sets in America

Chapter 297: The Ten Cities of Han Kingdom

Hongshan City is a typical industrial city. The city mainly relies on the mechanical processing industry and even precision equipment.

Among them, the most famous Hongshan Machinery is the leader.

The company has the largest machinery manufacturing capacity in the entire Han Dynasty, providing almost everything from ordinary steam engines to military power, and even machine tools needed for production, as well as industrial equipment such as chambering machines and cutting machine tools.

It is an out-and-out "leading" enterprise! !

The company's revenue last year was as high as 45 million yuan, which was half of Hongshan City's entire industrial output value.

It has a huge impetus for local development.

As for the rest, they are either factories that support Hongshan Machinery, or are engaged in related parts and product maintenance, which is about 40 million yuan.

If other trade data are included, the industrial and commercial output value of the entire Hongshan City should be around 130 million yuan, making it a pillar city in Xihai Province.

Hongshan City is also known as the "Machine City" in Han Dynasty, which means the birthplace of machinery.

As for Hongshan City, Shouchun City is the latest development.

The city was originally going to be ranked behind Yunzhong City, but due to the excellent local natural conditions and the deliberate favoritism of the cabinet, the local development has been rapid, surpassing the "old player" Yunzhong City.

Shouchun is mainly based on agriculture, or rather the food industry.

Because of the Colorado River within the territory and the pleasant climate conditions, the food industry in this place is developing rapidly.

Even in the current Han Dynasty, about one-fifth of the food is provided by Monan, which shows! !

The local grain processing industry is mainly based on flour. The local wheat surpassed the Yunzhong flour that was famous throughout China a few years ago.

In addition, the local coal and oil are second only to Youzhou and Hanzhou in the entire Han Dynasty.

So many resources, coupled with the geographical conditions that resemble a crossroads, have given Shouchun the reputation of "Little Xijing".

[Many railways in Han Dynasty have to transfer trains from Shouchun]

Also because of the local special geographical location and the importance of the Hanguo Railway line, in recent years, the Hanguo Railway has brought complete vehicle manufacturing and even some spare parts companies to Monan, with its headquarters located in Shouchun.

This is no less than a shot in the arm for the development of the entire Shouchun. You must know that the total revenue of the entire Hantie last year, the 17th year of Longwu, was 140 million yuan, even if there were a lot of taxes The profits have to be distributed to various places along the way, but there are still 60 million yuan returned to the headquarters, which directly allows Shouchun, who originally made hard money in the food processing industry, to work at the level of 120 million yuan.

With a slight gap, it ranked behind Hongshan City.

It can even be said that as the mileage of Han Railway continues to grow, the income of the entire Han Railway will continue to grow. This is good news for Shouchun and even Monan in the future.

[Most cities in Han are mainly central cities, with supporting facilities in other cities]

Behind Shouchun is Yunzhong, which also develops the textile industry. This city is the capital of Jiuyuan Province, and its real status is actually higher than Tongshan City, which ranks fourth.

But because the natural conditions are not as good as Tongshan City, they can only be kept under pressure.

The local development is basically similar to that of Beimen, except that because of the large number of grape plantations, a large number of wine and beverage industries have developed.

The local beverage industry could even exceed 50 million Chinese dollars in the highest years. Later, as the market sentiment declined, the output value also gradually declined, basically around 35 million Chinese dollars per year.

The local textile industry is about 60 million Chinese yuan, plus bits and pieces of supporting industries. According to last year's rough estimate, it should also be 110 million yuan in size.

If we look at it from an overall perspective, the Jiuyuan area is one of the few areas in the Han Dynasty where several cities are relatively wealthy.

The last one was Hanzhou.

This is also closely related to Jiuyuan’s geographical environment and even historical opportunities.

When the Han Dynasty took over the territories of several northern states from the Mexicans, Mobei was simply used for sheep herding. The most valuable area besides Hanzhou was actually Jiuyuan.

There are mines, and although the geographical environment is considered arid, it is not that arid because of the existence of the Colorado River. The sunshine in Yunzhong City is better than that in Hanzhou.

It has created the reputation of "Little Egypt" in the clouds.

If you include Youzhou and Monan, which developed later, the real essence of the entire Han Dynasty is actually located near Hanzhou and even several provinces near the Atlantic Ocean.

It is basically at the core of the trade circle, with smooth transportation and convenient import and export. Except for the two inland areas of Monan and Jiuyuan, such as Hanzhou and Youzhou, it is the most typical economic development pattern of coastal areas in this era.

They all developed little by little through import and export.

The entire Han Kingdom is basically like this. Some areas are very backward. Places like Oregon, and now only Liangzhou, where cities with seaports have developed, other places are basically "empty land."

As for the situation of this thing, the Han Dynasty court is naturally aware of it, so when a certain area reaches the "upper limit", the flow of people will decrease. Even like Hanzhou, people will not be separated, even if they are separated, Also very few.

It is to solve this "embarrassment" situation where this place is really Jiangnan and other places are really barbarians.

Behind Yunzhong City, the eighth city is Pontianak in Southeast Asia.

Originally, I was very hesitant about whether to include Pontianak in the ranking of local cities.

After all, strictly speaking, this place is still an overseas territory, and it is a place that you can join or not join.

However, after asking the Xijing Daily what "the boss" meant, it finally decided to add it.

After all, Pontianak, and even Lanfang as a whole, is the territory of the Han State from a practical and legal perspective.

Since it is the territory of the Han Empire, it cannot be divided so "preferentially".

Especially for those "naturalized" officials, Lanfang's status in their hearts is actually more important than Penglai, the center of the Pacific Ocean.

After all, Penglai is said to be an overseas province of Han at best, but at worst, it is a large fruit base and even a supplier of rare wood.

But Lanfang is different. This place is "rich" and pays more than 30 million yuan in taxes every year. It is self-sufficient and basically does not need a penny of assistance from the cabinet.

Who doesn't like such a "self-made familiarity"? ?

The entire Lanfang is basically built around Pontianak City. As the economic center, Pontianak has the largest business and rubber trade in Lanfang.

However, all this has a premise, that is, it cannot threaten local interests.

Lanfang as a whole has one-third of the rubber production, producing natural rubber worth 35 million every year.

However, the value of these rubbers will increase by up to 20 million.

Because after the semi-finished products are made, they have to be sent to the mainland.

This is what some Lanfang people call "blood sucking".

After all, the entire rubber industry has an output value of 600 million yuan. Lanfang provided one-third of the rubber raw materials, but they did not even get 100 million yuan. What is the problem?

In the entire Han business community, everyone actually knows it, but knowing it and doing it are two different things.

If we have to trace the source, we have to explain what “territorial law” is.

And if we trace what territorial law is, the problem will be even greater.

Therefore, in Han Dynasty, it was a "topic" that could not even be mentioned.

Especially those Lanfang people who keep saying they want "justice."

Are they themselves righteous? ?

Look at the "plantations" they own, their businesses.

Those "earth workers".

These people are what the Han writer Lu Ming said:

"If a healthy person complains of pain every day, he either takes the wrong medicine, or he plans to sell the medicine!!"

As for the plantation owners in Lanfang area, Lu Ming pointedly pointed out:

"This place is full of blood and greed. They are swimming in the sea of ​​blood, so happy!!"

But no matter how those people "scold" them, Lanfang's group of smelly and tough planters are "uncompromising".

While they were cursing the natives for sucking their blood, they lay on the Lanfang natives and sucked their blood.

About half of the output value of the entire Lanfang is provided by Pontianak, and the actual difference between the entire Pontianak City and Yunzhong is probably around a few million.

According to the latest statistics, there are 110 million in the cloud, which is only 3 million more than Pontianak.

Even the three million people in Pontianak refused to recognize it. When the Xijing Daily report was sent to Lanfang via telegram and fast boat.

There was an immediate uproar, with locals in Pontianak demanding re-election. This is also the biggest controversy in the full text of Xijing Daily’s “Top Ten Cities”.

It's even worse than the people in Xijing clamoring "Jinshan is fake".

It was also because of this that there was even an article later on in which Yunzhong and Pontianak ranked first.

But as soon as this article was published, it was scolded by people on both sides.

The scolding was extremely unpleasant. After all, for them, overpowering the other party was the "essence". The so-called juxtaposition, in their opinion, was an attempt to make peace.

From a development perspective, as the world's demand for rubber continues to increase.

Lanfang's advantages will be further highlighted, and there will be no so-called "parallel" jokes.

If Pontianak is ranked eighth, which has caused huge controversy, then Hawaii, ranked ninth, is well-deserved.

Although the city had too much rainfall, Penglai moved the provincial capital to Tanshan City as a last resort.

But after a hundred years of construction and subsequent expansion of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

as well as the reinforcement of sewers and even inland development.

The local living conditions are actually much higher than before, even after the industry was readjusted and some Japanese immigrants were introduced.

The development of local industry has accelerated.

For example, the canning industry, the mainstay of the local industry, requires a large amount of tropical fruits.

And these are exactly the advantages of the entire Penglai area.

Through the first-mover relationship with Japan and even the Far East.

The local fruits can even compete with those from the closer Lanfang, or even compete with each other.

And all this was due to early local influence.

In the Far East, even in the Han mainland, Penglai cans are a "necessity".

Yes, you read that right, a necessity.

If we talk about Penglai canned food that has just started, it still relies on its low price, exquisite packaging and good taste to dominate the world.

So after more than ten years of brainwashing, Penglai is equal to canned food and equal to fruit, which has become the consensus of the Han Dynasty and even the entire Far East.

In Japan, eating canned Horai is a "dish".

Japan, which is short of supplies, has no resistance to the specialties from the central Pacific.

In addition, in Japan, arable land is scarce, and most of it is used to grow food. Even now, the Lanfang area has begun to supply Japan with cheap and high-quality "Nanyang rice" in recent years.

However, the terrain of Japan is actually not particularly good for growing fruits. Even if Japan in later generations developed so many "weird" fruit varieties, it was still "a last resort."

Good guy, if you don’t study a little more, the wild fruits native to Japan are so expensive and scarce, you’ll be spoiled for choice! !

So when you go to a Japanese supermarket, you will find that the size and packaging of Japanese fruits are generally more delicate. Some fools even say that Japanese fruits are better.

But in fact, if you think about it carefully, you will know that it is better to sell a watermelon for 200 yuan with beautiful packaging, or to pick and choose from a large cart! !

In essence, exquisiteness can be regarded as a "last resort" due to lack of resources.

In this time and space, the first thing the Japanese came into contact with was canned fruits from Penglai.

Just like the famous Japanese "cursing" writer Shun Takeuchi wrote in his novel:

"When I was fourteen years old, the first time I learned about the country Han was at Master Pingnai's dining table. I remember clearly at that time that an iron box was used as a dish and was cut open with a knife on the spot. Everyone divided up a few pieces.”

"What I ate at that time was mango. I swear, it was the best fruit I had ever eaten in my life. None of the other fruits I ate later could compare to that moment. I often missed myself when I was a student at that time. I missed that time Penglai canned food!!”

Penglai canned food also entered the Japanese market at that time. Until now, Japan is the second largest export market after Han.

Every year, the Japanese market consumes more than 7 million yuan worth of cans, and with the development of Japan's economy, this figure will further increase.

(Japan at this time, strictly speaking, or from a Japanese perspective, was the best time it had experienced in the past thousand years)

The entire fruit production value of Penglai is about 40 million Chinese dollars every year, of which Hawaii alone takes 30 million Chinese dollars.

Moreover, the local area also produces a large amount of high-quality sulfuric acid and gunpowder due to the volcanic resources in the interior.

Even for quality reasons, Han's local military industrial enterprises will purchase gunpowder from the Penglai area as raw materials for ammunition production.

Even local volcanic mud has been developed by a "cosmetics" company and used to make facial masks.

(With the development of economy, Han people, especially women, have an increasing demand for beauty)

If other local fragmented industries are included, the output value of the entire Hawaii city, according to Longwu's 17th year estimate, should be around 70 million yuan.

There is no way this number can be compared with Yunzhong or even Pontianak.

But this is the current situation in the Penglai region. Even Tanshan City, the capital of the Penglai region, which sells sandalwood, had an output value of just over 20 million last year.

In fact, the output value of most cities in Han Dynasty is basically in the tens of millions, and hundreds of millions can be counted on ten hands.

The reason for this is that the Han Dynasty adjusted its development strategy from focusing on major cities in the past to "balanced" development.

The more important reason is the distribution of immigrants.

To look at the development of a region, we must first look at its immigration situation. Hanzhou is a typical example.

As the earliest establishment and the most important region in Han Dynasty, even though immigration has been deliberately reduced in recent years, it still maintains its title as the most populous region due to its huge internal population and a steady stream of newborns.

Even within the next ten years, nothing can change.

The same is true for the Penglai area, which was originally the most important base for immigrants to transit.

Penglai finally figured out the so-called "taking advantage of others" by passing by.

The most important thing for every governor of Penglai is to gain some benefits from passing immigrants. This is also the main reason why the small Penglai can have a population of one million.

You know, Liangzhou, which is currently booming, can only reach this number.

This shows how important a good geography is.

After Penglai, there is Lingnan.

This area was originally considered a semi-arid area, but due to its geographical location and abundant groundwater, it was "urgent" for development in the early days of the Han Dynasty.

By a strange combination of circumstances, it became the largest tea production center in Han Dynasty.

The entire Lingnan, or Luling City, produces more than 40 million yuan worth of tea every year.

If you include packaging and sales, it can even reach the level of 60 million yuan.

It is one of the few cities in Han that has squeezed into the 50 million yuan club.

In the Han Dynasty, Luling even had the nickname "Chaling".

The entire Han Dynasty is basically composed of four major plates.

The first largest section is the central area, headed by Hanzhou and the Xihai area. This area is the essence of the Han State, and its output value accounts for nearly half of the entire Han State.

The second largest plate is the Atlantic economy, which is composed of the eastern region, the so-called northern regions, and is dominated by Youzhou.

It mainly focuses on minerals, animal husbandry, rubber, import and export, and belongs to the second echelon.

As for the third part, it is the other "wild" areas in the mainland.

This part of the country is short of people and funds and is the key development target of Han State in the future. This can be seen from the population distribution in recent years.

The fourth sector is the overseas regions headed by Lanfang, including Penglai and Xianbei.

The best economy in this area is Lanfang, followed by Penglai, and Xianbei last.

But from the perspective of resources, Xianbei has the largest development space, and can even be said to be on par with Lanfang. As for Penglai, no accident, it will rank third.

And this is the current Han Empire, a great empire where prosperity and barbarism coexist! !

　Asking for monthly votes and rewards

　　

　

(End of this chapter)