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

Chapter 461 Silk Road

Liu Hua did not rush to summon Zhang Han, but continued to deal with government affairs steadily. After all, the time was too short, and Liu Hua didn't think Zhang Han could come up with anything.

Moreover, the main task this year is to truly and thoroughly spread agriculture throughout the Central Plains. Compared with this, other things are trivial.

Liu Hua believes that when the entire agricultural system is fully rolled out, continuous food production will be able to support large-scale construction.

Otherwise, we can only rely on fishing in Guangyang and farming in Hanzhong for emergencies, but it is unrealistic to fully support such a big plan.

Du Ruhui, who was responsible for building the road, walked the entire Henan Road over several months and surveyed all the terrain clearly.

Then he returned to Luoyang and handed the fully surveyed road plan to Liu Hua, so that the road plan for Henan Road could be fully rolled out.

The location chosen this time was based on mountains, rivers, water flows, human settlements, and even multiple considerations of space. This made Du Ruhui's decision to choose a location somewhat deviated from the originally selected location.

This shift does not have much significance for village-level units, but for states and counties, the impact is very large.

It is probably as if the distance between Bianzhou City in Bianzhou now and Kaifeng City in the future is about the same.

After all, human society must have been free and undisciplined when it first developed, and developed naturally according to needs.

Therefore, after a settlement is formed, the development direction of the settlement must be spontaneous outward expansion without any planning at all.

Du Ruhui directly asked the Feng Shui master to find the location he was looking for, and chose the optimal solution based on the terrain of the mountains and rivers.

It is a pity that the best solutions are often found in the current barren mountains and wilderness. If you want to put them into development, not to mention the massive resources, just to catch up with the development speed of the surrounding cities, it will take at least twenty years to start. Then the distance will gradually increase.

Therefore, after this optimal solution was handed over to Liu Hua, it was impossible for Liu Hua to build road facilities according to this optimal solution.

We must give priority to human factors, but we should leave some space to prepare for the future development of satellite cities.

This time the plan mainly focuses on two main roads.

One is from Luoyang, Zhengzhou, and Kaifeng, and goes directly to Dengzhou. It is connected to the Tianjin seaport, where the Dahan Navy is currently stationed, and will provide an additional option for transporting grain and grass to Goguryeo in the future.

The other one is from Luoyang, Liangxian, and Xuchang, all the way to Donghai County. It even needs to build a bridge to Yuzhou to connect to the East China Sea. It is also called the proud country of the East China Sea, Lianyungang.

To be honest, there was originally a longitudinal road on the land that connected this road.

Liu Hua said that the two horizontal roads should be built first, and as for the vertical roads, they can be put away first and there is no rush.

Because Liu Hua deliberately suppressed this longitudinal road, a maritime commercial channel could flourish in the south of Henan Road, and goods from Dengzhou and even Youzhou could be transported directly to the East China Sea by sea.

The most important thing in this process is to determine unified standards, unified scales, and unified containers.

Because through unified containers, shipping taxes can be unified. A container is loaded from overseas, shipped to the port, and taxed uniformly. The goods with different weights are forced to be transported to unified specifications through horse-drawn carriages, etc., and finally transported through the canal to the Various places in Guandong, especially Luoyang, where goods must be collected.

Therefore, roads must be built. Once the roads are built, the Silk Road will be connected with maritime transport in the future. No matter how low the cost of shipping is, if you want to open a shipping channel from Youzhou to the Red Sea, it is not only a matter of shipping cost, but also the sea lanes on the road. These all need to be overcome one by one. If you want to complete it in this era Not easy.

Both the Maritime Silk Road and the Silk Road on the road must be built, and Liu Hua also plans to personally build an economic cycle across the Eurasian continent.

For example, the entire Kanto region will become an important production area. These produced products will be transported to the West through the Silk Road, constantly grabbing the wealth of the West, and even turning the West into a resource country through sea transportation.

After all, it is really not easy to bring about revolutionary changes in the entire society from zero to one.

The Ming Dynasty absorbed the wealth of the entire world for nearly a hundred years but still failed to complete the leap from feudal society to capitalism.

At most, it was just a sprout. This sprout was killed by the Manqing before it sprouted much, and the roots were pulled out.

But it was successful in the UK. A very important reason is that the UK is relatively small, so it can succeed.

In fact, if you look at China now, you will know how difficult it is for Ming Dynasty to become a capitalist country.

A country that ranks first in the world in its entire industrial chain and second in total GDP output value of a unified market must be a developed country!

But the reality is that such a country is just a developing country.

After all, a country that ranks 71st in per capita national income is embarrassed to call itself a developed country.

This is the helpless reality. It is not difficult to make China prosperous and strong, but it is really not easy to make everyone in China rich.

But there is no way. Even if Liu Hua is not a fan of Confucianism, Confucianism has proposed the goal of a unified society for all Chinese rulers since ancient China. In modern times, at most, it has just changed its name.

Therefore, if given the opportunity, Liu Hua would definitely hope to complete the reform of the entire society's economic system before his death.

Of course, if his lifespan does not allow it, then Liu Hua has nothing to do, but he must keep his own layout first.

"In the future, roads throughout Guandong will need to be slowly built. Even if the roads in Guandong are completed, the construction of Chidao from Luoyang to Chang'an will probably be indispensable!

After this road is completed, it will be the construction of the road from Chang'an to Yumenguan...

As for Shu, which I have never been to, it would be best to build an overpass. If an overpass cannot be built, then at least a winding mountain road must be built! "

Liu Hua carefully counted the projects on his hands, and suddenly felt so tired!

But Liu Hua knew very well that the entire transportation system was poorly constructed and could only barely unify the entire Chinese market. If his own market was not unified, then it would be wrong to compete with others.

I also need to clean up all the development guys on the Silk Road who will threaten the Silk Road.

In order for them to revive, it is best to let the Chinese occupy the local area through enfeoffment, and then eat the dividends of this Silk Road together.

As long as this entire layout is successful, let alone the next two to three hundred years, this entire Silk Road will become a blood vessel for China to absorb nutrients from other civilizations, and absorb other countries in Eurasia for two to three hundred years. time.

(End of this chapter)