Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 665 Guangxi Development Plan (Part 4) [-] more than ten thousand

Zhu Yuanzhang's broken system, Gao Yushi has no way to change it yet, but since the problem is mainly about money, Gao Yushi thinks this is a professional counterpart - the characteristic of this press is that it is good at solving money problems!

In fact, Guangxi has always been known for its thin land and poor people, making it difficult to support a large number of troops.Very early on, some officials said: "Those who say that barren soil is troublesome in China today are more troublesome than western Guangdong." There are three main reasons for this:
First, the thalassemia is sparsely populated and does not have the basic conditions for developing an agricultural economy.The so-called "severe ravines intertwine, no water veins grow, and no land to cultivate; valleys are lonely and dangerous, dogs are not heard, and there are no people to cultivate. There are nine counties in the county, not one or two counties in the southeast; There are seven out of seventy, and it is not enough to be one or two large cities in the southeast."

Second, traffic congestion is not conducive to economic development. "Thousands of mountains are twisted, the roads are lonely and far away, and the three rivers are sandwiched, and the boats are difficult. If you report robbery today, the road will be blocked; if you report robbery tomorrow, it will be difficult for boats."

Third, frequent wars have further deteriorated local finances. "A certain place discusses encroachment, and another place discusses encroachment. There are so many people who need military pay every day... What the deacon said is that those who use it must not be short of it. Not enough but not enough, it has been difficult for those who raise money for western Guangdong since ancient times.”

In comparison, the economic strength of Guangdong and Huguang is significantly stronger than that of Guangxi. Taking the number of arable land in the three lands and the summer tax and autumn grain paid in Hongzhi 15 years as an example, Guangxi has about 9 hectares of land, 3380 shi of summer wheat, and 436987 shi of autumn grain. ; about 21 hectares of land in Huguang, 130910 shi of summer wheat, 2036995 shi of autumn grain; about 26 hectares of land in Guangdong, 6007 shi of summer wheat, and 1018337 shi of autumn grain.

And this is the 15-year data of Hongzhi. After Gao Gong Qingzhang Tianmu, the gap is even bigger.

For example, after Huguang Qingzhang, the number of acres increased by a full 55 hectares, which more than doubled!
Although Guangdong is not so exaggerated, it has also increased by more than 9 hectares, which is equivalent to an increase of Guangxi!
But how much did Guangxi increase after Qingzhang? 769 hectares...

You read that right, Guangxi Qingzheng has only increased by less than 800 hectares, which is almost negligible.

This is the hardware gap, and it is a huge gap! [Wufeng Note: The above data comes from "Ming Shilu". ]
Huguang has nearly 80 hectares of land, which is 9 times that of Guangxi. How to make up for the gap in grain production capacity?
Although the land in Guangdong is only more than 35 hectares, it is four times that of Guangxi, and Guangdong's commerce and handicraft industries are far more developed than Guangxi, especially after the opening of the sea, the "import and export tax" of Guangzhou port alone costs More than 4 taels, how can Guangxi compare?

The reason why Liu Yaohui was willing to use Guangdong money to subsidize Guangxi is precisely because Guangdong's fiscal revenue has increased year by year, and now it is not short of that money. Take a look at his generosity.

But as the old saying goes, if you take advantage of your short hands and eat your soft mouth, Guangxi took Guangdong's money, and the governor of Guangxi became less confident in speaking on his own territory.Whether to set up exile officials or local officials in the Bazhai area was obviously an administrative matter of Guangxi Province, but now Liu Yaohui can intervene. Isn't this one of the manifestations?

Therefore, if Guangxi wants to speak hard, it must first take off its poor hat.Don't say anything to compare with Huguang and Guangdong, but at least you have to be self-sufficient!
Only when the symptoms are right can we prescribe the right medicine. Now that the symptoms have been found, Gao Yushi, as the inspector in Guangxi, has to consider how to prescribe the medicine when the governor is seriously ill and can hardly be a director.

After sending Jiang Xin and Ni Zhonghua away, Gao Yushi began to enter into "industrial thinking".

When he was in the Siming Mansion before, Gao Wushi only considered how to control the chieftains in western and southern Guangxi through economic means, and he hadn’t considered the issue from the perspective of the economic development of Guangxi as a whole. Now, he must make a comprehensive plan for Guangxi. Considered.

In terms of agriculture, especially food, there seems to be no good solution for the time being. There are no three high-yielding crops, potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes. "These methods require a lot of manpower to teach them, and they also require the vigorous publicity and cooperation of local officials, including chieftains. It is estimated that even if Gao Yushi is determined to implement them, it will take three years to see serious results. up.

So there is no rush for this matter. After all, agricultural development is like practicing internal skills in martial arts novels. The effect cannot be seen overnight. It can only be done slowly, and the time traveler can't pull the seedlings to encourage them.

So, what about industry?Or handicrafts?
With the current conditions in Guangxi, is it possible to develop any large-scale industry or large-scale handicraft industry?It seems to be quite difficult, mainly because Guangxi has no big iron mines worth mentioning in the highly pragmatic impression.

Well, there are a few coal mines, but the distribution is amazing: in addition to Nanning and the northwest of Liuzhou, which are in the hands of the imperial court, there are three major coal mine distribution areas in Guangxi, one near the Mingjiang River, which is the territory of the Huang family; Near Tianzhou is the territory of the Cen family; there is another even better place, the Bazhai area...

In the northwest part of Liuzhou, the current traffic is very inconvenient, so don’t consider it directly; don’t consider it for the time being if the Cen and Huang families take the Bazhai area, otherwise it will be difficult to control; so the only coal mine that can be considered is Nanning in later generations. coal field.

The question is, if there is no iron ore, what can I do mining coal in this day and age?Even if the north does not make iron, it can still be used for heating anyway, but Guangxi is a province with an average annual temperature of 20 degrees, and most areas can hardly feel winter. Even Guilin, the coldest place, is not that cold. I have no choice but to sell heating coal Lost?

But from the perspective of the direction of world economic development, in the next 300 years, in terms of industry, we will look at textiles for light industry, and coal and iron for heavy industry. Without coal and iron... this is lame.

Can we do textiles first?It’s not impossible, Guangxi is still suitable for growing mulberry, that is, it has the conditions to raise silkworms, but the silk industry is an intensive industry, and it also requires technology (weaving, embroidery, etc.), and it takes a lot to train skilled workers in this field year?Moreover, Guangxi is currently sparsely populated, and it is too late to grow food, so let's wait until we play sericulture.

Sericulture is not good, what about cotton weaving?Oh, no, the cotton production in later generations of China is characterized by the fact that Xinjiang beats the whole country. As for Guangxi, I don’t know whether to grow cotton or not...

No, there is a problem with my way of thinking. I can't think about what can make money first, and then think about it on Guangxi. I have to think in reverse: what advantages does Guangxi have that I can use now.

Well, Guangxi's mineral resources should be mainly non-ferrous metals, it's too complicated to remember, it seems that aluminum and tin are more famous.

There is no need to consider aluminum. As a liberal arts student with a high level of pragmatism, he can know a little about iron and steel making because of the blessing of the "big steel making" in those years. How could he know how to make aluminum?He doesn't know what aluminum ore looks like.What's more, he vaguely remembered that electrolytic aluminum seemed to consume a lot of power... Goodbye.

The mining and use of tin ore has been mastered since ancient times, and it has a key role in the manufacture of bronze.

Even in the current eighth year of Wanli, bronze is still a valuable strategic material because it is the material for casting cannons.Even the Jinghua Artillery Factory now uses bronze for casting cannons, because although Gao Yushi knows the magic skill of "casting cannons with iron molds", it is only a cannon model technology after all, not a real material technology. There is still no steel cast cannon.

Besides, in the future, there will be a great use of high-level cast guns in the sea, and the requirements for steel guns used at sea will be even higher, especially in terms of corrosion resistance, and the advantages of bronze guns in this respect are Most of the time, how many years have the British bronze naval guns been used?
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