I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 578, Hilltop Protectionism.

Although Yanzhou has been in the hands of Dagan for several years, it has always been at the forefront of the war, and military operations are Yanzhou's main business.

And Huanglong has always regarded himself as a general, so in the past few years, in addition to the relatively thorough recovery of agriculture in Yanzhou, there is also road construction related to the war, and the establishment of rail carriages extending in all directions to facilitate the transportation of troops. much development.

It’s not that there is no such thing at all, Yanzhou’s silkworm breeding industry is still in full swing, and the output has increased year after year in recent years, but no matter in terms of output or quality, Yanzhou’s silk industry is inferior to Jingzhou’s silk industry and Yizhou’s In the silk industry, the silk quality of the two is better than that of Yanzhou, and the quantity is even farther apart.

The silk industry in Yanzhou was run by the people's own power, and had nothing to do with Huanglong. Of course, Huanglong didn't care about it at that time. After all, he still had to find a way to deal with Cao Cao in Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

But after Qingzhou and Xuzhou were captured last year, Yanzhou became the hinterland of Dagan. The entire Yanzhou 5 standing army was reduced to only 5000 people. Huanglong, the governor of Yanzhou, has also changed from a general to a civil servant. The files on the table are all about the development of various places.

He no longer needs to worry about military affairs, but how to develop Yanzhou is the primary issue before him.

At this time, Yanzhou's position is extremely embarrassing. It is in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and it has been occupied by Dagan for four or five years. The construction of this kind of infrastructure is also among the best in the states.

If the original Dahan continued to recuperate, it would take a few years to restore the prosperity of the past, but Daqian is not a Dahan, and the restoration of agriculture alone is not enough to restore Yanzhou to its former prosperity.

The bad thing about Yanzhou is that he is on the front line, and there are basically no industrial constructions. After all, the construction of a factory requires at least a few million yuan, and many tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of investment. No one can afford such a large investment. Possibly placed on the fringes of the battlefield.

If only agriculture is developed but industry is not developed, the wealth of Yanzhou will be sucked by the surrounding industrial counties.

This year Huanglong worked hard, and Yanzhou's grain production had a bumper harvest again, but Yanzhou's population and financial revenue were in a slight decline. It can be said that Huanglong and his men worked hard for a year, but they worked hard.

So when Huanglong wanted to develop industry, he found that Yanzhou hadn't found a very suitable industrial project yet.

He could only watch helplessly as Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou either dug struvite to make money, or vigorously developed the fishing industry to make money, the navigation industry to make money, and even Yuzhou on the front line was also vigorously developing the shipbuilding industry.

The industrial development in other places is in full swing. As the center of the world, Yanzhou's industrial development has stagnated. On the contrary, because of the development of other places, Yanzhou's manpower and financial resources have been siphoned. He has tried his best to build industrialization this year. Yanzhou's The fiscal revenue has risen, and he is in the process of regressing. Everyone else is making progress, and he is the only one who is regressing. This is something Huanglong finds it difficult to accept.

However, the industries that can make money now are basically monopolized by coastal states and counties such as Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou. In the inland states and counties, apart from the first-mover advantage, population advantage, resource advantage and financial advantage, other inland states and counties All states and counties are under the suppression of coastal states and counties, which can't be changed even by Sili who owns Chang'an Luoyang.

It's just that the current Sili is still at the forefront of the war, with a large amount of state funds invested, Jiashou Sili is at the source of the Silk Road, and the Hedong Industrial Zone, which has not yet shown signs of decline.

But at this time Yanzhou was in an extremely embarrassing position. It had no financial support from the state, and its resources were not comparable to that of the far-sea states and counties. Its development was sucked by the surrounding counties.

Huanglong really couldn't think of a way to solve this problem in Yanzhou, so he could only turn to Xu Wei for help, because in the eyes of their old subordinates, Xu Wei was omnipotent.

After listening to Huang Long's words, Xu Wei could only smile wryly. Yanzhou's territory is located in the Henan area, and it is completely transparent among the dozens of provinces in the Celestial Dynasty. What are the special products of Henan in later generations? I found that the only ones I can think of are the peony flowers in Luoyang City, and the granary belonging to the Celestial Dynasty. In the news, you can always take aerial photos of the boundless rice fields from the plane.

Other than that, I have no impression, and I can't tell what special products are there.After all, the marine economy is the mainstream in later generations. The most developed provinces in the Chinese Dynasty are all coastal areas without coastlines. It is a lucky thing to be a little transparent, because if you don’t become transparent, you can only do it in the news of poverty alleviation. Appeared in it.

So now Huanglong wants Xu Wei to show Yanzhou a way.For a while, Xu Wei didn't know what industry to point out.

If you don’t develop the marine economy these days, if you want to be rich, you can only rely on industry, but Yanzhou has no industrial foundation, and the most critical first industrial revolution does not need much coal or iron ore. With such conditions, it is no wonder that later generations Position this as a big granary.

Xu Wei thought for a long time and said: "If Yanzhou wants to develop greatly, it can only find a way in agriculture!"

Huang Long immediately said anxiously: "Now Yanzhou's agriculture has developed very well. This year's grain harvest is enough for the people of Yanzhou to eat for two years, but we didn't make much money at all. All the money was earned by Wang Lei from Xuzhou and Zhao Rong from Qingzhou. After leaving, they doubled the price of struvite. The food we planted so hard was exchanged for the struvite they dug up. Wang Lei is the same, and I don’t talk about the friendship of old brothers at all. , I asked him to lower the price, but he actually said that struvite is difficult to dig now, and the crew have to go to far away places to dig, so there is no way for the price to rise, otherwise it will lose money.”

"How is this possible? They are ashamed to say that they are losing money by digging money from the ground. At most, they are just a matter of earning more and earning less. This is not bullying us because we can't reach the coast. If I have a fleet that can dig guano stones, I won't come. He is giving Wang Lei such a bird here."

Speaking of this, Huanglong is also angry. Yanzhou is a large agricultural province, and now if you want to have a good agricultural harvest, spreading struvite is an indispensable thing. It can even be said that the more you sprinkle, the more grain production will increase. At least until the limit of wheat growth is reached.

However, the price of struvite has been getting higher and higher in recent years, and it only sees an increase but not a decrease. This is very unfavorable for inland states and counties like Yanzhou.They can only accept the price of the coastal states and counties, and there is no room for bargaining at all.

Xu Wei never expected that Huanglong and Wang Lei, who had been friends for more than ten years, would fall out because of the development of their respective states and counties.

It even developed to the point of beggar-thy-neighbor. If Huanglong did not return the people of Xuzhou to Wang Lei, Wang Lei raised the price of struvite.

Xu Wei had just dismantled the big man, and wanted to establish a unified market to develop industrialization, but he didn't expect that, for the same purpose of developing industrialization, the internal officials of Dagan began to divide the mountains, and local protectionism emerged again. However, this cannot be regarded as their selfishness. They are also for the development of their respective states and counties, so they can only use this method to rob resources.

This is the same as the contradiction between resource countries and industrial countries in later generations.The resource country can get stuck and sell its own resources at a higher price. The industrial country that needs raw materials must use the industrial and agricultural scissors to exploit the resource country, accumulate funds, and cultivate its own industrial level to a higher advantage.At the same time, industrial countries cannot absorb so many products by themselves. They want to find sales markets for industrial products, directly destroying the fragile industries of resource countries, which makes resource countries extremely hateful.

In such a conflict of contradictions, the industrial countries should have had the upper hand, but their resource countries have joined together and occupied most of the world's resources, so there has been a strange thing that the industrial and agricultural scissors have cut the industrial countries.

In order to protect its industrial achievements, the Celestial Dynasty can only continue to invest resources in military power to break this blockade.

Fortunately, Dagan is now a unified country. No matter how fierce the contradictions of mountainism are, it is impossible to fight a trade war like the countries of later generations. At most, everyone slams the table, but in the end they still have to sit together and find a solution.

Because today you may be the governor of an industrial state, but tomorrow, you may become the governor of an agricultural state. Everyone is a family, so there is no need to kill them, let alone start a war to destroy the industries of other states and counties.

To a certain extent, Xu Wei should feel relieved that such a thing happened, because such a contradiction cannot happen in an agricultural society. Only in industrial countries can such contradictions occur.

Of course, now Xu Wei has to find a way to help Huanglong solve the problem of Yanzhou's development. He thought for a while and said: "It must be difficult to develop Yanzhou by just farming, but Yanzhou does not have its own advantages. Didn't Zhen An and the others build a large number of people in Yanzhou? If you have a silk textile factory, you must find a way to integrate the silk industry, build more silkworm gardens, help silk factories provide enough mulberry trees and silkworm cocoons, and at the same time solve their internal conflicts and disputes, improve the output and quality of silk, and even establish a silk factory. Sericulture Academy, researching how to improve the quality of silk.

Now even a passable piece of silk in our Dagan is priced at more than 3000 yuan, let alone the top silk, which is more expensive than gold.

If Yanzhou can produce 100 million pieces of silk a year, it will be an industry of nearly 30 billion yuan. If it can produce 1 million pieces of silk, it will be an output value of 000 billion yuan. If it is doubled, the output value of silk will exceed It’s worth hundreds of billions. If you compare it with the wool textile industry I’ve been working on, you can see the prospect of the silk textile industry. This is an output value worth hundreds of billions. With this output value of hundreds of millions, you’re afraid that Yanzhou will not be able to develop! "

Although Xu Wei's painting cake was big, Huang Long was tempted for a short time, but soon sobered up.

Huang Long said helplessly: "Even if the prospect of the silk industry is hundreds of billions, it is impossible for my Yanzhou family to swallow it.

Luoyang City was originally the center of the development of the silk industry, and there are the most silk craftsmen there, and Yuzhou is also closer to the south than our Yanzhou. Their mulberry trees grow better than ours, and their silk is better than ours, and Yanzhou has the most silk. It has gained a first-mover advantage. When these two places develop, it will be good to only occupy one-third of the silk industry.Maybe he can't compete with Sili and Yuzhou.

After all, Yuzhou is close to the south of the Yangtze River, and the silk there is even better. Sili not only has the advantage of craftsmen, but they are also the source of the Silk Road. As long as the silk they make is sold to the Western Regions, they can make a fortune. At most, we can only sell to the people who I work hard for.

But in the Western Regions, the amount of silk is extremely small, and even if the quality is a little low, it can be sold at a very high price. However, the common people in my work have seen a lot of silk, and the quality of silk is even slightly lower than the price.

As far as the prospect of this silk is concerned, our Yanzhou is suppressed as much as it is. The quality is not as good as Yuzhou, and the output and market are not as good as Sili. It is easy to be defeated by their two states.

Xu Wei said indifferently: "Now we are developing vigorously, and the income of the people is increasing extremely fast. The market for these people alone is enough for you in Yanzhou, not to mention that the two places you said are still on the front line of the war. With this A few years of development is enough for you to establish industry standards and monopolize the silk industry."

Moreover, it is not enough to let you develop large-scale agriculture, but it does not necessarily allow you to develop the silk industry. Although food is not profitable now, various economic crops are very profitable. For example, the income from planting soybeans is 5 times that of farming, and the silk industry should be 10 times. The development of the navigation industry in recent years requires a large amount of hemp rope canvas. If you build a sisal production base in Yanzhou and then mass-produce hemp rope canvas, the output value will be tens of billions.

It can be said not to look at the current industry to make money, but as long as you plan well, agriculture can also make a lot of money. As long as you have primitive accumulation in Yanzhou, relying on these industries to accumulate a large amount of money, Yanzhou's industrial development will also enter the fast track. "

It’s not that agriculture in the industrial age will not make money. As long as reasonable production relations are established, these sectors will be more profitable. The countries that developed after the first industrial revolution all made a lot of money from that agriculture.

Some rely on growing cotton to accumulate funds to develop industries, while others rely on grazing and selling large amounts of beef to accumulate funds and establish their own industrial systems.There are also economic crops such as rubber plantations, sugar cane plantations, grape plantations, etc., which can accumulate a lot of wealth.It is used for the development of industrialization, and as long as the local industrialization develops steadily, it will enter a benign development channel, and even become a local characteristic industry.

(End of this chapter)