I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 580, the contradictions caused by unbalanced development

But Zhang Baiqi immediately said: "Now the big man has become a frightened bird. If we don't beat them, they should feel lucky. Liu Bei dared to beat us! It's impossible!"

The others nodded in agreement when they heard this. Over the years they have won many battles, and they have driven all the big men to the south, even if they lost a small defeat last year.But they also annexed Cao Cao's territory in Xuzhou and Qingzhou, and directly drove Cao Cao and his subordinates overseas.Generally speaking, this is a big victory, so everyone didn't care about the small defeat in the end.

At this time, Zhang Baiqi and the others no longer regarded Liu Bei as their opponent, and believed that as long as they worked hard to build the ships going south, the Great Han Kingdom in the south would disappear in smoke.So they are more concerned about the internal development of Daqian now.

"However, local development cannot be stopped, because we are stagnant, but others are making progress, and the gap between the two sides has widened. If you are in power, don't you know that the place is rich now, and the people will run to that place. We don't want to If the method is changed, all local people will go to rich states and counties!"

In Xu Wei’s view, the changes in Dagan are very slow, and the industrialization process is very difficult. He has been in this world for more than 10 years and has worked hard for more than 10 years. However, even so, the world is still in the stage of handicraft industry and has not entered the era of industrialization at all. .

The appearance of the steam engine is still far away. He has produced a few small steam engines in the laboratory, but these steam engines can only be used as toys at best, and have no practical value at all. Hypocrisy will continue to find ways to research practical steam engines.

When Xu Wei came to this world, he also made a lot of inventions and creations, and the changes to this world were extremely huge, but he was completely stumped only on the steam engine.

This is also something that makes Xu Wei very helpless, because it is not difficult technically for him to open and hang the steam engine. The craftsman can quickly make the steam engine according to Xu Wei's instructions, but the difficulty lies in the materials.

The piston inside the steam engine must not only be smooth but also strong, and now Xu Wei can only make a smooth piston in the hands of a master craftsman, but the hardness cannot be guaranteed. Basically, the piston will have gaps and leak after a few times of use. Gas, not up to practical standards.To make a practical steam engine appear, Xu Wei needs to continue to work hard.

This is just the simplest age of steam, followed by the age of electrical appliances, the age of atoms, and the age of information. Xu Wei found that even if he opened a cheat in this world, even if he wanted to play the simplest Tetris, he would have to live in his lifetime series.

But for people in this world, the changes in Dagan are astonishing, it can be said that they are changing with each passing day.Mayi is obviously a poor frontier town. It has been like this for thousands of years, and everyone has always come here. According to the original history, even after thousands of years, Mayi will not change. This is what everyone is used to. look.

But after Xu Wei came to this world, Mayi became the land of dragon prosperity in Dagan, and its history has undergone a complete and earth-shaking change.

At this time, Mayi became the textile center of the entire Dagan, and countless wools of cattle and sheep entered the city every day.

With the hard work of hundreds of thousands of female textile workers, these wools are spun into thick and warm woolen cloth.Hundreds of millions of cloths are transported by caravans and horses to all directions in the world.

And these are wool cloth, which also brought countless wealth and population to Mayi. The small frontier town has become a pearl with a population of millions in more than ten years, and it has even become the belief in the hearts of herdsmen in the desert. Millions of herdsmen come here for pilgrimage.

The appearance of Mayi is simply an incredible miracle in the eyes of people of this era.

The towering chimneys in Taiyuan stand like giants between the sky and the earth, and there are more than a dozen such towering chimneys in Taiyuan County. Every day, countless carriages pull iron ore and coal into Taiyuan, and these iron ores and Thanks to the efforts of more than [-] workers, the coal mine has been transformed into a pair of swords, a pair of armor, and countless iron and steel agricultural tools, helping the common people to open up the wilderness in all directions.

Taiyuan now produces more steel in a day than in a year in the past. There is a saying in Taiyuan that Taiyuan is the world's largest steel producer. Below Taiyuan, Jinyang is the second largest place in the world. Below Jinyang , Yangqu County is the third steel center in the world, and Yangyi is the fourth steel center in the world.

This sentence is said to have been handed down from Dagan's administration, and it has always been the pride of Taiyuan County people. From here, we can know that Taiyuan County produces a lot of steel.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Taiyuan has become the steel center of the world. Now the annual fiscal revenue of Taiyuan alone is more than that of the whole country of Dahan.

In Bingzhou, the poorest state and county in the Han Dynasty, the population did not even exceed one million.

But now there are two cities with a population of one million. At the same time, Bingzhou is also the richest state and county in the world. All these changes have not experienced hundreds of thousands of years of history. Tens of thousands of people have all experienced this history of Bingzhou from poverty to prosperity.

There is also the whaling industry in Liaodong, the salt fields in Youzhou, and the glass factory in Jizhou. All the new things have brought about earth-shaking changes in the entire northern part of the Han Dynasty.

Many people feel that the current changes in Daqian are a bit dreamy, the changes are too fast, and they feel that it is difficult to catch up with the current development speed of Daqian.

Therefore, for the common people and officials in Daqian now, the changes in the world are too fast, and it is difficult for them to adapt to it.

But Zhang Baiqi and the others are obviously the fastest to adapt to this changing world, so they have such a strong sense of urgency, fearing that they will not be able to keep up with Xu Wei. Abandoned because of their lack of footsteps, this is afraid that it will become their lifelong regret.

At the same time, Zhang Baiqi and the others also know the speed of Daqian's development best, so they are very clear about their own current predicament. Their states and counties are being sucked blood by those wealthy states and counties in Dagan. If they don't want to find a way to catch up , Poverty and backwardness will always be what inland states, counties and provinces look like.

For Dagan, which is close to the coastal and wealthy states and counties, the development of Dagan's industrialization is naturally good, and it can improve everyone's living standards.

But for the people in Yanzhou, Sili, Liangzhou, and even the mountainous areas of Bingzhou, although they can eat enough now, their poor lives have not changed much, because the small-scale peasant economy in Dagan is disintegrating at an unprecedented rate In the past, men plowed and women weaved, men plowed to provide food for life, and women weaved to provide money for life.However, with the rapid development of the textile industry, women's weaving has completely disintegrated, which is equivalent to losing half of the financial resources of each household. If it weren't for Xu Wei's equalization of land, the situation of rich Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty and poverty in the Northwest had already appeared in the Daqian court. up.

But even with Xu Wei's slowdown, as long as Xu Wei continues to promote the industrialization of Dagan, such a trend is inevitable.

And Zhang Baiqi and the others just discovered the states and counties with industrial areas, took advantage of the industry, and through various light industrial products, desperately sucked blood from their sites, and absorbed the money and young and strong labor from their sites to those with industrial areas. counties.

So much so that they want to develop their own territory, lacking both funds and labor, this is the most unbearable thing for Zhang Baiqi and the others.

After hearing Zhang Baiqi's complaint, Xu Wei immediately paid attention to it. He naturally knew that industrialization was a huge improvement for the whole world. He thought that as long as industrialization continued, the world would become better and better.

But what Zhang Baiqi and the others said made Xu Wei realize that not all benefits brought about by industrialization, as expected, everything has good and bad, at least for the inland and northwest regions, they are in a state of exploitation Among them, the unbalanced regional development has begun to appear from now on.

What Zhang Baiji and the others just said made Xu Wei think of the late Ming Dynasty. The handicraft industry in the Jiangnan area was obviously extremely developed at the end of the Ming Dynasty. If you want to make a difference, the industrial revolution will come to this world.

But Daming failed!Why?
It is because of the extremely developed handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty that it completely destroyed the economy of the North and Northwest.

As long as you have read the history of Ming Dynasty or novels about Ming Dynasty, you will find that the productivity of Ming Dynasty has been extremely developed, but the Ming Dynasty was extremely poor from top to bottom.

Because the real rich are the bureaucratic handicraft owners and big landlords in Jiangnan. The reason why other places are poor is that they were sucked dry by Jiangnan, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty was in the north. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang’s extremely unreasonable tax policy, As a result, the Ming Dynasty we saw became extremely poor, and this poverty was not resolved from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the country.

The current Dagan shattered the decadent system of the big man. Even if they are now sucked by the coast, they can still bear it.

But if this process continues, I am afraid that what happened to the Ming Dynasty will still happen here in Daqian.If the development of the region is not well balanced, countless bankrupt refugees will overthrow the Dagan court just like the refugees of the Ming Dynasty. The transformation of industry to replace agricultural society is extremely drastic. From the history of hundreds of years of turmoil in Western civilization, every turmoil It was all the process of industry smashing the agricultural society, as well as the century-old humiliation of the Chinese Empire. It was this humiliation that pushed the Chinese Empire into an industrialized society step by step.

Thinking of this, Xu Wei and his attention became more important. Now the whole world may only have a population of 1 million to 2 million, and there are nearly 4 million people in Guangdahan and Dagan here.

Great Britain is a small country, and it can support the industrialization of millions of people with a population of hundreds of millions, but obviously Xu Wei's hard work cannot achieve this.

Therefore, the physique of Daqian is determined. Its industrialization is different from that of Great Britain, because it has sucked up the blood of the whole world, and it cannot complete the industrialization transformation of Dagan's physique.

Xu Wei must find a way to balance the internal development of Daqian, otherwise, the prosperity of Daqian will soon dissipate, and he himself will become a pioneer for the king like Qin Shihuang, laying a good country for others to enjoy.

Thinking of this, Xu Wei simply gathered all the governors and prefects of the Dagan to discuss how to balance the internal development of the Dagan.

When these dozens of senior officials gathered together, the scene was extremely lively.

Han Sui from Xiliang was the first to shout: "We can't continue to let Bingzhou suck the blood of our Xiliang! Now more than half of the goods on the Silk Road trade route are produced in Bingzhou. This is not giving us Xiliang a way of life." It’s fine if we can’t produce it in Xiliang, but we can also produce woolen cloth in Xiliang, but the officials of Bingzhou are using their own money to hurt people, so we can’t sell our woolen cloth in Xiliang. "

Liu Shi, governor of Bingzhou, immediately retorted, "Selling things is always cheap and popular, and you Xiliang can still control the buyers, let alone the textile factory you built in Xiliang, which was built by our Bingzhou resources, manpower and material resources. Seeing us sucking blood in Bingzhou, I said you Xiliang people are immoral, did you treat your benefactor like this?"

Zhang Bai rode home into the battlefield and said: "That's not the way to say it. The textile factory in Bingzhou was built by everyone's hard work. How could it be the credit of your Bingzhou family."

"You only take advantage of this kind of advantage, so I won't say anything, but our territory has a small population, and you still absorb our already small population. This is no brotherhood at all. Now that we are on your territory, how can we develop?"

Wang Lei said: "The common people want to live a good life. You can't give it, and you still want to stop them from leaving. Back then, the big man didn't do so much. And according to what you said, I, Xuzhou, suffered the most. When did Huanglong put me away?" Hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou have returned, and now Xuzhou is full of wasteland, waiting for these people to come back and reclaim it.”

Huang Long said calmly: "This is because the people have already settled down in Yanzhou. From now on, they will be the people of Yanzhou. It has nothing to do with Xuzhou at all."

We are all people from the battlefield, and death can't scare them, so no one is afraid of anyone in a quarrel.The dispute became more and more intense, and it soon became a mess. Even Xu Juan, the only woman present, also quarreled, and two or three big men couldn't quarrel with her.

These people are all heroes who fought on the battlefield. When they got angry, they even tried to use their hands and feet. Everyone decided the outcome with their fists and kicks. Soon the meeting venue turned into a martial arts parade.

Seeing all the senior officials attending the meeting, they were dumbfounded.

Jia Xu exclaimed: "I'm afraid that when Emperor Gaozu came to court, it was like this scene!"

Xiang Kai said helplessly: "Reckless people are just like this without brains, and they don't know how to manage them when they are in power."

In the end, Niu Gui had no choice but to suppress everyone and let them end this chaotic personal attack.

These high-ranking officials don't need to listen to other people's words, but Niu Gui has to listen to them. The financial power of the Dagan court is in his hands, and any projects to be approved must go through his hands.

Niu Gui was really offended. If they want to develop their place, they can only rely on their own small coffers.

So even for the sake of their local development projects in the future, they had to give Niu Gui some face.

(End of this chapter)