At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 689, Industry 2.0
September 55, 9th year of the Han calendar, Chang'an City, the Imperial Guards camp.

Han Anguo was warmly welcomed by his comrades when he returned to the army.

Zhang Yu, the captain of the Yueqi Cavalry, asked with a smile, "Aren't you going to Chenjun to be an important official? How do you have time to come to me?"

Han Anguo smiled and said, "This year, Chen County sent me here. Now that I'm in Chang'an City, I came to visit you!"

After saying that, he ordered his men to move the watermelons from the cars. He did not come here empty-handed. Ten cars were filled with watermelons when he came to visit his comrades.

Zhang Yu smiled and ordered, "Go, find a group of soldiers to carry these watermelons, and give each group of soldiers one watermelon."

"promise!"

Looking at Zhang Yu's school lieutenant uniform, Han Anguo said with envy: "The military uniforms of our Han Dynasty are still gorgeous, unlike the Taizu uniforms we wear, which have not changed for more than ten years."

Zhang Yu laughed loudly and said, "Who told you to leave the army? Otherwise, with your merits, you would be a lieutenant and you would naturally be able to wear this military uniform."

The clothing of the Han army has always been at the forefront of the Han Dynasty, highlighting the combination of gorgeousness and practicality. This is a tradition brought by Xu Fan, and the Han army has also inherited this tradition. Every five years, the best fashion designers of the Han Dynasty are invited to design clothing for the Han soldiers. Therefore, a large number of Han people like to wear military uniforms. This is the same as in later generations. Some bright military uniforms will become the object of envy of everyone.

Han Anguo suppressed his envious gaze and pointed at the ten cars he brought with him, saying, "These ten BMWs are also gifts from me. Don't be fooled by their small size. They have four-cylinder gas engines with 500 horsepower and a load capacity of over five tons. They can travel over miles with a full tank of gasoline."

Zhang Yu was surprised and said, "This little car has more horsepower than my big man's tractor?"

Han Anguo smiled and said, "A tractor only has one cylinder, but we have four cylinders here. This car can pull the largest cannon in the army. With a carriage, it can pull a dozen soldiers on a long-distance raid, or carry 5 tons of cargo and march behind the army. It is much better than mules, cattle and horses. A mule-and-horse battalion needs tens of thousands of mules and horses, but if we use this car, only a thousand are enough. One car can support 10 horses."

Zhang Yu asked, "This car is not cheap, right?"

The Han Dynasty occupied the desert, and because there was too much land and the vassal states had opened up too many fields, the Han Dynasty had to import 3000 million shi of grain from the vassal states every year. Therefore, in the north of the Han Dynasty, there were many agricultural communities that were half-pastoral and half-agricultural, planting forage and raising cattle, sheep, mules and horses for half a year. The Han Dynasty promoted milk and milk powder on a large scale, which greatly improved the benefits of farmers and brought fertilizer to the land, and then planted grain again in half a year. Under this model, the economic benefits of the land are higher and less fertilizer is needed. It has begun to become popular in major agricultural communities in Hebei.

Therefore, the price of Han mules and horses has never been very high, only around 4000 to 5000. Of course, this is only the price of an ordinary war horse. The top-quality war horses are also worth a fortune. This is the same as the automobile industry in later generations. Ordinary vans cost around tens of thousands, while rich people's sports cars cost thousands or even hundreds of millions.

"The market price of this BMW is 8 coins, but if it is supplied to your military, the price can be reduced by about 1. If the order exceeds 10, it can be reduced further." Then he patted the car and said, "The key is that this thing only consumes gasoline. It costs only 50 coins to fill a tank. It is more cost-effective than raising ten horses. You don't have to worry about the car getting sick. Even if it breaks down, you can find a car mechanic to do a simple maintenance."

Gasoline was very cheap in this era. It was a byproduct of kerosene production and was not very useful.

Han Anguo opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat and said, "I'll take you to verify it."

Zhang Yu also got into the car like Han Anguo did, and then Han Anguo started the car, leaving only a trail of smoke.

The Imperial Guards camp, the office of the general of the garrison.

Military officer Cheng Buzhi held up some documents and said, "General, these are the soldiers that the four generals' offices, the three governors' offices, and the four fleets of the navy want us to place."

Zhou Yafu took out a document, on which were the names of Han soldiers who had served two years of military service. According to the tradition of the Han Dynasty, the compulsory military service system lasts for three years. The first year is training in the county, the second year is serving in the four generals' offices, the three governors' offices and the four naval fleets, and the last year is to take turns in Chang'an. It is called rotation, but they have already entered the retirement process. This year, the Han Dynasty will learn skills for these soldiers who are about to retire to facilitate their life after retirement.

Of course, these systems have undergone many changes after the development of the Han Dynasty over the years. For example, in the first year, the county soldiers had much less marching time because of the completion of the railway. In addition, all primary and secondary schools in the Han Dynasty now have certain military training. The training time for new recruits in the county was shortened to three months, and the time they served in the generals' offices was extended to more than two years. The rotation time in Chang'an became a time for skill learning.

Zhou Yafu frowned and said, "With so many soldiers coming here, the Zhenjun General's Mansion has become a technical school. You should know that our Zhenjun General's Mansion is guarding Chang'an City, the last line of defense of the Han Dynasty. The combat effectiveness of the soldiers should be the strongest, not a technical school."

After Zhou Yafu became the General of Zhenjun Army, he wanted to use his experience in the Seleucid War in the Han Army and build a new army adapted to this era. However, he did not expect that the General of Zhenjun Army's Mansion was almost becoming a nursing home.

Cheng Buzhi said: "General, most of the soldiers in the Zhenjun General's Mansion are veterans with two years of military service. The Zhenjun General's Mansion also has the largest group of officers. There is no need to worry about the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. Moreover, with the current national strength of our Han Dynasty, who can attack Chang'an City?"

Cheng Buzhi felt that Zhou Yafu was worrying too much. The border of the Han Dynasty was tens of thousands of miles away from Chang'an City in the east, west, south and north. In addition, there were four general mansions, three governors' mansions, and four fleets to guard it. Chang'an City could be said to be as stable as Mount Tai.

Zhou Yafu said, "If you don't think about the future, you will have immediate worries. These soldiers have been transferred too frequently, which has led to the situation that the soldiers don't know their generals and the generals don't know their soldiers. Moreover, these veterans are thinking about retirement, so how can they have the energy to train? Moreover, Chang'an, a prosperous place, is not suitable for training. The Zhenjun General's Mansion should be kept a certain distance away from Chang'an City."

After a year of adaptation, Zhou Yafu has decided to reform the Zhenjun General's Mansion and separate the skill training for retired veterans. Chang'an City has many technical schools, and allowing retired veterans to enter these technical schools is a good way to have the best of both worlds.

Cheng Buzhi was shocked and said, "This has been the tradition of our Han Dynasty for decades. It is not easy for the general to reform it, right?"

Zhou Yafu said calmly: "The Emperor said that our Han Dynasty does not have a system that will last for thousands of years, but only a system that adapts to the times. Since we know that there are problems with the system, we will naturally change it."

His father Zhou Bo had changed so many systems of the Han Dynasty that he had no idea how many times he had changed them. For Zhou Yafu, reforming the military system was nothing.

At this time, Zhang Yu came to report that Han Anguo had donated ten new cars, and explained the various performance of the cars to Zhou Yafu in detail.

Zhou Yafu was greatly surprised, and immediately found Han Anguo and asked him to take him around the camp.

After getting off the car, Zhou Yafu walked around the car and asked, "What's the accident rate? It won't break down all the time, right?"

Han Anguo patted his chest and assured, "It is better than the current tractors. As long as it is not overloaded, it can run safely for thousands of kilometers. The general can also use these ten vehicles to verify it."

Zhou Yafu nodded and said, "If the performance of this car really meets the standards you mentioned, I will support your Chen County in establishing an automobile industry."

After two years of war between the Seleucids and the Huns, Zhou Yafu had always been grateful that the Huns had always been the attacking party. If they had also dug trenches to block the allied forces, the war would not have been so easy to end. He was also thinking about how the Han Dynasty would defeat the enemy if it faced the trenches?

He thought about it for more than a year and came to the conclusion that the best tactic was to use speed to break through the enemy's defenses before the enemy dug trenches. The cars that appeared now could obviously meet his tactical needs.

Han Anguo said happily: "I promise that I will not let the general down."

In the following time, Han Anguo became a socialite, sending BMW cars everywhere in the government offices of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers of the Han Dynasty. He sent 20 BMW cars to the Inspection Office, saying that they were used to catch thieves, and sent them to the Imperial Censor's Office as public cars. The wise men of Chen County also sent cars to their close friends. It can be said that in the month before the plan was submitted, Chen County was extremely active. Everyone was willing to give face to Chen County, especially those backward counties. They already knew that Chen County wanted to become the automobile center of the Han Dynasty, and they did not intend to hinder it. After all, they did not have the strength to do so.

Of course, the sage of Chen County also assured these sages that Chen County would relocate some factories to their hometowns and help you train craftsmen.

But for Kuaiji County, Linzi County and Sanchuan County, Han Anguo had gone too far. He wanted to have the most out of it, but they had no way to keep up because their automobile industry was not as developed as Chen County's. They could not afford to send 500 cars at once. Only Chang'an City was dismissive of Chen County's tricks. They were still confident that their electric car was a truly epoch-making invention, and sooner or later all horse-drawn carriages, tractors, steam cars, cars, and even trains would be electric.

As long as they find suitable battery materials, Changan's master craftsmen have begun to use the exhaustive method to find raw materials suitable for making batteries. In the eyes of these master craftsmen, they will find such materials one day.

On October 55, the 10th year of the Han calendar, in Chang'an City, at the office of the Shaofuling.

As the time of the Sages' Conference drew closer, Liu Heng, the Shaofu Ling, became increasingly busy, often staying out all night. This was also the norm in the other three dukes and nine ministers' offices of the Han Dynasty. Although more and more forms and more and more data allowed the Han Dynasty to monitor the economy more meticulously, the amount of government affairs inevitably became more and more.

Especially during this period of time when the Sage Han was in power, all the data for the year had to be summarized and then reported to the Sage.

Liu Heng took the statistics of the turnover and income of the major factories of Shaofu and said happily: "The profit of Shaofu has increased by 20% this year. We can have a good year."

The total scale of the factories under Shaofu exceeds one trillion, and the annual profit is also hundreds of billions. With such huge mathematics, an increase of 20% is an extremely large number.

Deng Tong, the Minister of the Imperial Household, said with a smile, "This is due to your good leadership. In the five years since you became the Minister of the Imperial Household, the total income of the Imperial Household has increased by 5%."

Liu Heng smiled and shook his head, saying, "This is just a coincidence. In the words of the Supreme Emperor, it is standing at the forefront of the trend. The increase in the profits of the Shaofu is due to the dividends brought by industrial upgrading and the efforts of millions of craftsmen in the Shaofu. The continued development of the Han Dynasty can only depend on industrial upgrading."

Deng Tong agreed, "All economic problems can be solved by development. The emperor is indeed far-sighted. Although our Han Dynasty has eliminated a large number of obsolete production capacity in recent years, new industries are also growing rapidly, absorbing a large number of unemployed craftsmen. The scale of the industry is also expanding rapidly. Problems that seemed difficult to solve in the past are no longer a problem under the dividends of new industries."

The Han Dynasty was originally most worried about industrial upgrading, as eliminating too much obsolete production capacity would increase social conflicts. However, the reality was that the economic dividends smoothed out these conflicts.

He held up a document and said, "Master, this is the latest version of the Industry 2.0 plan, which includes plans for the chemical industry and the petroleum products industry."

This was a new requirement that Xu Aimin put forward to the Shaofu, asking the Shaofu to designate a plan for the development of the Han industry and to guide the development of all industries.

Liu Heng opened the plan and saw the long-term plan for the petroleum products industry, which said that the Han Dynasty's oil consumption would reach tens of millions barrels per year in five years and would exceed 50 million barrels in ten years.

He was surprised and asked, "Will the use of oil increase by dozens of times?"

There are thousands or tens of thousands of kerosene street lamps in every county of the Han Dynasty, not to mention the market for ordinary people in the Han Dynasty. However, the emergence of electric lights has dealt a huge blow to the oil industry. The price of oil has dropped by half in the past two years, and the stock prices of various oil-related listed companies have plummeted. Everyone believes that with the popularization of electric lights, the most profitable kerosene market will disappear. By then, oil will only have a few uses such as mechanical lubrication, paving, and military, and the value of oil will be reduced by more than half.

Deng Tong nodded and said, "With the popularization of gasoline engines, gasoline, which was previously only used as military supplies, will be consumed more and more. Although the Han Dynasty only has more than 1 cars, it is roughly estimated that these cars have consumed 3 barrels of gasoline a year. The number of horse-drawn carriages in the Han Dynasty is roughly over 3000 million. If all of these are replaced by cars, the Han Dynasty conservatively estimates that it will consume more than million barrels of gasoline every year."

Liu Heng asked: "Is this car really so useful?"

Deng Tong nodded and said, "Censor Han sent 30 cars to our Shaofu. We have used them and found them to be good. It is an inevitable trend for cars to replace horse-drawn carriages."

Liu Heng frowned and asked, "Will the crude oil supply of the Han Dynasty be affected?"

Since the widespread popularization of electrical products, the economy of the Han Dynasty has been overheated. Local governments have been building large-scale coal-fired power plants and laying power grids. This has not only led to overheated investment in local areas, but also caused the price of copper mines to soar. The price has increased five times in four years. This is extremely rare for the Han Dynasty, where prices are extremely stable. However, the Han Dynasty court has no choice. To build a power grid, it is necessary to manufacture wires. To manufacture wires, copper is needed. The demand for copper in the Han Dynasty has skyrocketed several times, and naturally there is a situation of supply exceeding demand. Some people even melted down the copper coins of the Han Dynasty and sold them as copper. Liu Heng was worried that what happened in the copper market would happen in the oil market.

Deng Tong comforted him, "Don't worry, my lord. There are many oil producing areas in the world. There is oil in the Western Regions, in our Great Han, in Southeast Asia, in the Xiongnu Kingdom, and even in the Seleucid Empire. It's just that because the market is saturated, the oil of the Seleucid and Xiongnu Kingdoms can't reach our Great Han. Now that the oil market is expanding, these countries will definitely expand their markets, and it's hard for the price of oil to skyrocket."

Liu Heng was relieved, and then said with a smile: "This Han Yushi is quite adventurous."

This was the first time that such a large-scale gift-giving took place in the Han Dynasty. Fortunately, it was a public-to-public exchange, and Han Anguo gave the gift in the name of Chen County, so it was barely acceptable.

Liu Heng said: "Let's make some arrangements. We will also make this BMW car to see if its potential is the same as you estimated."

Deng Tongdao said: "I can drive a car, so I will take you back home."

Cars were not uncommon in Chang'an. Deng Tong, as a Han official in the Shaofu and a disciple of the Mohist school, had driven many cars and had experience in this area.

Soon the two of them left the Shaofu and came to the stables, where the cars sent by Chen Jun were neatly lined up.

Deng Tong opened the car door for Liu Heng, and then he sat in the driving seat and started the car.

"Boom!" The car slowly drove out of the stable.

Soon they arrived at the brightly lit streets of Chang'an. It was already past eight o'clock in the evening, but the streets of Chang'an were still brightly lit and bustling with traffic. Especially after electric lights replaced kerosene lamps on a large scale, Chang'an's night market became more prosperous, and young people in the Han Dynasty were more willing to enjoy their nightlife after get off work.

After all, there is still plenty of time after getting off work at five o'clock. In the past, it was so dark outside that people could only make faces. But after the street lights were installed, Chang'an started their nightlife last year. Now is the busiest time for Chang'an Theater, storytelling halls, hotels, barbecue restaurants and other areas.

When the car reached a small road, Liu Heng looked at the brightly lit night market and the young people chatting and laughing in the night market, and his fatigue was immediately reduced by three points. Isn't the world of great harmony exactly what is before his eyes?

After the car drove into Liu Heng's mansion, Liu Heng found that his eldest daughter and son-in-law were also present.

Liu Piao complained: "Father, you are working overtime again. You should rest more at your age."

Liu Heng was very relieved and said, "It's just these few days. You know that the Sages' Conference is the busiest time for the court. It will be fine after a while."

After the imperial court dealt with a group of princes a few years ago, his daughter became much more restrained. In recent years, she has been quietly helping the Han steel mills transport iron ore and develop shipping companies. Now, she has twelve transport ships with a capacity of more than 10,000 tons.

(End of this chapter)