Mythical Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, Sui and Tang Dynasties, establishment of empire

Chapter 416 Navigation Industry

For Liu Hua, if he wants Zhuojun to become the northern core of attacking the Huns in the future, navigation is a technology that must be developed.

The main purpose of developing the navigation industry was not for trade, but for food, or fishing.

Again, at least Liu Hua thinks that he has solved the logistical problem, and it is not difficult to defeat the Huns now!

At this time, the Xiongnu had just become the overlord of the grasslands. Even though they had more than 500,000 men to control the strings, they basically adopted a compulsory military system of one out of five. The population of the Xiongnu definitely did not exceed three million. This is what the Xiongnu is now. Biggest weakness.

If the Xiongnu were really allowed to learn Chinese civilization, and shout out the influential slogan "Fei Han Ji Hu" to unify the power of the entire grassland tribe, the Xiongnu at that time would be the real Xiongnu Empire.

Now that I want to deal with the Huns, the real problem lies in logistics, as the distance between the two sides is really ridiculous.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a large amount of supplies saved by his father and grandfather. In the end, he had to use white deer coins to deceive people. It can be said that he even lost his face for money, and Liu Hua did not have such a strong family background, even more so. You have to accumulate it little by little.

Therefore, it is almost inevitable to use the navigation industry to develop food and use this food to support the development of Guangyang County.

Now that I want to deal with the Huns, the real problem lies in logistics, as the distance between the two sides is really ridiculous.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had a large amount of supplies saved by his father and grandfather. In the end, he had to use white deer coins to deceive people. It can be said that he even lost his face for money, and Liu Hua did not have such a strong family background, even more so. You have to accumulate it little by little.

Therefore, it is almost inevitable to use the navigation industry to develop food and use this food to support the development of Guangyang County.

Because of the geographical location of Guangyang County, it can become the core of the northern region and the most convenient offensive base during the Northern Expedition. To a certain extent, its role in this era is similar to that of the Hetao Plain.

However, compared with the Hetao Plain, Guangyang County lacks arable land, making it difficult for Guangyang County to become a big city. Even if Xun Yu and Shen Pei were to develop the Liaodong Plain, it would not take five or six years. Impossible to form.

Why did Beijing or Peiping suddenly become prominent after the Tang Dynasty, making its geographical location particularly important? One of the important reasons was the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which allowed food from the Jiangnan region to be transported to Beijing.

Now even if Liu Hua knows that Guangyang County is very important, Yanjing itself is already the center of the Northland.

But it is difficult to support a city of more than 500,000 people here in a short period of time. A very important reason is that there is not enough food.

Even if the Yongji Canal from Yanjing to Luoyang is successfully opened, if it cannot achieve self-sufficiency and must have Luoyang transport food there, it will definitely be a considerable drag on Liu Hua, so he must find a way to let Guangyang County Self-sufficiency is definitely the first priority for the development of Guangyang County.

As for wanting to connect a canal from Kuaiji to Luoyang after completing the Yongtong Canal road, so that this large section of road can truly become the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Liu Hua can only say that even if this is an unreasonable idea, The Qi Era may take at least ten or even twenty years.

It’s okay to think about it now. It’s better to be realistic and build the Yongji Canal first.

Back to the starting point, food is not like money. Printing money can forcefully delay the problem.

In the northern land, food can only be grown once a year, and for the local land where there is not much food, if you want to accumulate enough to conquer the Xiongnu, you should save it. If you expect this, it is not as good as I hope the Yongji Canal will be opened soon.

But Liu Hua's problem is that if there is insufficient food, the development speed of the north will slow down. If the development speed is slow, it will become unrealistic for him to directly transport food after the Yongji Canal is opened, and then launch a war against the Huns. .

Therefore, the way to quickly solve the food problem in Guangyang County and allow Guangyang County to develop rapidly and even become a city of 500,000 people is to develop the navigation and fishing industries.

For ancient China, the biggest mistake in developing the navigation industry was to link the navigation industry with commerce. Because for China, which had a vast land, rich resources, and exquisite craftsmanship in the feudal era, the wealth brought by such ocean trade was not rare, but excessive trade would shake their foundation and rule.

Therefore, for China, the right choice should be to link the navigation industry with the fishing industry!

Because China has disdained the benefits of maritime trade brought by navigation for a long time, but if the Chinese emperor is told that the navigation industry can solve the food problem of coastal cities, let's see if they will suppress the development of the navigation industry.

But if you want to develop the offshore fishing industry, it is impossible for ordinary private organizations to develop it.

The only one who can forcefully promote this development is the government, but the government currently has almost no technology.

Liu Hua doesn't expect to invent any keel boats now. His goal is just to fish in the Bohai Sea.

The fish caught from the Bohai Sea fisheries can at least solve the food problem of Guangyang County without any problem.

Even if there are many, the official will purchase them at a guaranteed price. After the purchase, they will be salted with salt produced in the salt farm, and then dried into dried salted fish for storage. Generally speaking, it can be stored for about half a year, and even for a long time. Two years.

And such dried fish can at least be used as winter food in ordinary people's homes, and not just fish, but even corals, pearls, and even things like ambergris from other oceans. If you are lucky in the Bohai Sea fishing grounds, you might actually encounter them. arrive.

All in all, it should not be difficult to support a city with a population of 500,000 by relying on the Bohai fisheries to support only Guangyang County.

Even with the completion of the Yongji Canal, the waterway from Luoyang to Jixian can communicate. Then Peiping has food support from other regions, and maybe it can really have a chance to conquer the big cities with a population of one million.

Of course, this presupposes that the entire population of China reaches 50 million.

But no matter what, if there is a big city with a population of one million in the north, it will definitely play a vital role in the stability of the situation in the north.

Qi State definitely has enough resources for the maritime industry. After all, Qi State's maritime industry foundation is really not weak.

The naval battle between Wu and Qi more than two hundred years ago can be said to be the first large-scale naval battle in Chinese history, and it was Qi that finally won the victory, directly shattering Fu Chai's dream of dominating the Central Plains.

Even if Qi's technology has not developed in the past two hundred years, if the technology at that time was put into the world, it would still be the top marine ship technology.

Coupled with the development of Tianjin Navy and the acquisition of Ming warship technology, it was enough for the Han Navy to digest for a long time.

Liu Huadao: "These plans mainly involve agriculture, and we also need to make adjustments. We need to make adjustments based on the situation. When this wave of agricultural operations is planned, there should be no need for such large-scale adjustments in the future.

Grain production should be enough to support a population of 60 million under normal circumstances, and may reach 80 million at its peak. But if we want to further increase the output in the future, it depends on whether the farmers and the Mohists can find any way to increase the output! "

To be honest, with the evolution from war years to peace times, especially with the gradual evolution from the inability to produce in troubled times to vigorous production in peaceful times, Liu Hua feels that the population issue will become the biggest problem plaguing his own power.

(End of this chapter)