Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1084 One Year Development Plan
Chapter 1094 100-Year Development Plan
Ran Ming even made it a plan for Wei Guo to use a hundred years to complete the Wei Guo County Railway Project. The overall investment of this huge project has not been calculated in fact.Ran Ming estimated that Wei Guo would need to spend tens of billions of gold to complete this strategic goal without price inflation.

When the railway artery of Wei State was launched, the construction of Wei State's water transport, highways and original official roads was also carried out at the same time.However, the State of Wei just used limited material, manpower and financial resources to the railway.

With the successful invention of the steam engine in Wei State, Wei State officially entered the steam age and started the world's first industrial revolution.Of course, Ran Ming was not responsible for promoting this industrial revolution, but was promoted by the market economy in the context of the market economy.

Due to the overhaul of the railway and the large-scale internal infrastructure construction, the domestic demand capacity of Wei's economy has increased in a blowout manner.No matter how much steel is produced, there is no need to worry about selling it.Wei State's mineral resources are divided into three levels. Most of the original Wei State's 21 prefectures are not open to private individuals.Belonging to the state, private individuals want to mine, and the input cost is very high.The resources in remote states and counties are opened to a limited extent. Although the investment cost is relatively low, the transportation cost is very high.However, for the mineral resources in Wei's newly established three central and southern states and Anxi two states, Wei's policy is to fully open them up to private individuals.

It is a different purpose for Ran Ming to actively promote the resource development of the newly established prefectures and counties by means of macro-control of the national economy.In Chinese history, there is a vicious circle. There is no unified dynasty forever. If the officials of Wei State gradually become corrupt and lose popular support, it is inevitable that the Ran Dynasty will also be overthrown.At that point, it is definitely hard to say whether the newly occupied territory can be kept.In particular, the territory lost by the Manchu Qing, according to preliminary estimates, has a resource value of more than 300 trillion U.S. dollars, but all of this has nothing to do with China.Therefore, taking advantage of the current strength of the Wei State, Ran Ming wanted to use the resources of Anxi and other prefectures belonging to some territories in Central Asia and the resources located in the southern states and counties of the Indochina Peninsula. A huge fortune.

In this context, the development speed of the two Anxi states and the three central and southern states of the Wei State has gradually accelerated. The newly established five states have huge reserves of wood and various non-ferrous metals. Although the technological level is too low in this era, Applications such as oil and natural gas cannot be exploited on a large scale, but those that can be exploited should be exploited as much as possible, especially non-renewable resources such as gems, gold, and copper. Do everything possible, get them back first.

The gold rush that started in Wei State did make a lot of people rich.Don’t worry about scarcity but inequality. When the Wei state was generally poor, everyone was miserable and no one laughed at anyone. However, after some people took advantage of the Wei state’s policy and became rich first, there was an unexpected effect that made people Ran Ming was caught off guard.

"In the 650th year of the emperor's era, the country's cultivated land was 580 million and 540 mu. Last year ([-]) it was [-] million. This year it has dropped to [-] million. I secretly think , Wei's agricultural decline has become a fact, and in another ten years, my ministers thought that the great Wei would lose all the fields. If things go on like this, the country will not be a country!" When the prime minister Wang Jian saw this memorial, His hands were shaking with fear.Wang Jian didn't dare to be careless, and handed the fire beam to Ran Ming again.

After Ran Ming saw it, he didn't panic as Wang Jian imagined, but was very calm.If Ran Ming didn't understand the reason for the decline in the number of land reclamation, Wang Jian would not believe it even if he killed Wang Jian.If Ran Ming couldn't see the crux of the problem, Wang Jian didn't believe it either.Just very surprised by Ran Ming's attitude.

"On the Contradictions of the Origin of the Great Wei Dynasty", although the language of this article is simple and unpretentious, it is clear and meaningful, and it is written by a great talent!" Ran Ming took a closer look at the signature below, and it turned out to be Fang Kuang.Then he asked, "Who is this Fang Kuang?"

Wang Jiandao: "Fang Kuang, Fang Kuang Du, is from Qinghe County and a famous scholar in the Kanto region. Six years ago, he was recommended by Wang Duhu as the prefect of Beihai."

Ran Ming said again: "How about the evaluation?"

When Wang Jian heard what Ran Ming said, he murmured in his heart. It seemed that Fang Kuang had already entered Ran Ming's field of vision just because of this article.Wei Guo now has 270 six counties, and the number of prefects with official positions is as many as several hundred.If it is said that when Qin Shihuang established 36 counties in the world, the prefects of the counties were still senior officials of the court, but now Wei Guo has only entered the middle level.In fact, the evaluation of Fang Kuang was not very good, otherwise he would have been promoted to a higher level in six years, but unfortunately, he is still standing still.But Wang Jian obviously wouldn't answer like this: "It's okay!"

"Shang Ke!" After hearing these words, Ran Ming had some understanding of Fang Kuang's nature.Wang Jian said it was okay, probably because he felt that Ran Ming valued Fang Kuang, and he was in the officialdom, but he could speak tightly, let alone Wang Jian, the prime minister?Ran Ming also guessed that Fang Kuang probably offended many people.

"Your Majesty, you must be cautious about farming, it is the foundation of the community!" Wang Jian couldn't help reminding.

Ran Ming said: "The problem of the decrease in farming is all due to the population. The population of Wei State is small, so naturally there are not so many people to cultivate the land. The population of Wei State has been increasing, and the reason for the decrease of cultivated land is that people are unwilling to farm and prefer to work. This It’s actually a good thing, doesn’t Wang Jian know who owns the reduced barren land?”

In the past dynasties, farmers were tied to the land. If they lost their land, they would become tenants of the gentry. In this way, there will be fewer and fewer self-cultivated farmers who can collect taxes from the court, and the tax revenue will be lower and lower.In the end, the imperial court's financial income was insufficient, and it gradually went bankrupt.But now because of the prosperous business in Wei State, farmers who lost their land can have a way out of work.In ancient times, commerce was in the style of family workshops, so there was no need to employ too many workers, and farmers who lost their land had no source of income. If they wanted to survive, they could only take risks.

"That's the reason, but once the grain output is too low and everyone goes to work, who will farm the fields, and how can the subjects of the whole country feed?" Wang Jian said: "The old things in Luliang will repeat themselves, and the consequences will be disastrous!"

"It's not so exaggerated, I can solve the disease with one move!" Ran Ming said: "I couldn't bear the hardship of the people, so I decreed to set the price of grain at [-] yuan per shi. Farmers' output income is limited, so their enthusiasm for farming is not strong. Gao, as long as this ban is lifted and the price of grain is regulated by the market economy, this problem will be greatly alleviated. Besides, the situation of no food in Wei State will never happen.”

Ran Ming is very confident. In the Central Plains, grain is the most valuable strategic material, but in Southeast Asia and Indochina Peninsula, grain is the least valuable thing. Therefore, when Wei Guo’s overseas trade transport ships return, they must carry a certain proportion of grain, otherwise will be heavily taxed.Therefore, grains from Nanyang will continue to flow into Wei State. Although these Nanyang grains will impact Wei State's grain market, the interests of farmers will be protected by protecting the price.

"But!" Wang Jian suddenly couldn't find the reason.

In fact, Ran Ming knew, and so did Wang Jian, that Fang Kuang's memorial was actually a matter of throwing stones. On the surface, it pointed out the phenomenon of the decrease of cultivated land in Wei State, and stated the fact that Tian Shao was in danger.Force Ran Ming to change the national policy of emphasizing commerce and promoting industry.

Naturally, Ran Ming would not change it. Taking agriculture as the foundation was a good national policy in the feudal era, but in the industrial era, this policy became outdated.

The state of Wei, which has entered the steam age, has already entered the industrial age. Large-scale integrated industrial production will increase the production efficiency by tens or even hundreds of times. While the business is booming, it has also brought great benefits to the society. shock.It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The output of farming is small, and the income is out of proportion to the expenditure. But once the grain is scarce and the price rises, the number of people who grow grain will definitely increase greatly.

Planting in spring, harvesting in autumn and storing in winter is the law of development in nature, and in the law of development of human society, there will only be more and more progress, not retrogression.Unless it is man-made, this is going against the sky.Ran Ming adhered to the planned strategy and let nature take its course.However, in order to encourage all officials to put forward comprehensive opinions to the center, Ran Ming still promoted Fang Kuang to Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, allowing Cheng to directly enter the center and become one of the senior officials.

The progress of science and technology will definitely not be the progress of one field, usually it is the engineering of the system.For example, Menghuo oil, because there is very little crude oil that is easy to extract in China, the price of Menghuo oil is very high, but its military application and civilian use have greatly increased its demand.With the increase of crude oil extraction and refining, and the residual asphalt after oil refining, people finally discovered its unique physical properties.At the beginning, a small amount of asphalt was randomly piled up near the oil refinery. Due to the rainy weather and muddy roads, a driver couldn't find anything to pad the road, so he put the asphalt on the potholed road. The pavement surface is smooth, solid, seamless, comfortable to drive, wear-resistant, low noise and other advantages, and soon entered the sight of road repair craftsmen.As a result, this asphalt paving method, which did not even apply for a patent, quickly spread around the refinery.

Now the Wei State Ministry of Industry purchases a large amount of asphalt every year to pave roads. As a result, because its waste residue has become a treasure, the price of light oil has also dropped, and it has quickly replaced the original vegetable oil for lighting.

Because there are many such things in the Western Regions, and the price is much lower than cement, asphalt has replaced cement, and has gradually become the darling in the eyes of road builders.

In addition to the use of asphalt, Wei Guo has also gone further and further in hot air balloons. Because of the continuous improvement of oil refining technology, craftsmen in Wei State can refine light oil, which has high heat and high combustion efficiency, making it an ideal raw material for hot air balloons. Let Wei's oil exploration further accelerate.

The railway has not only become the lifeblood of Wei State's national strategy, but also the locomotive that leads Wei State's economy.Because the construction of railways requires the consumption of a large amount of railways and logs, and the increase of steelmaking plants and steelmaking capacity requires the expansion of coal consumption.More importantly, a large number of farmers in the Wei State made a lot of money in the factory during the busy farming hours. With surplus money in their hands, the demand for daily necessities of these Wei State people also increased significantly.

It seems to be caught in a vicious circle. The huge increase in demand requires more labor positions, and Wei's population is available. No matter how high the wages are, in the eyes of farmers, agriculture is their foundation.The result was good. With the development of the economy, the wages of Wei's workers also rose rapidly driven by the market.When Ran Ming opened various workshops in Yongxing for three years, he didn't even need to pay wages, as long as he had enough food, someone was willing to do it.But now, if you hire a worker for [-] yuan a day like before, the worker will treat you as an idiot.In order to make money, and to recruit enough workers, the workshop owner had to grit his teeth and increase wages.

With the increase in wages, workers in Wei State now demand other benefits, such as monthly vacations, food standards, and life safety guarantees. Like coal mining or other occupations with high risk factors, the owner of the Wei State Workshop does not Dare to use the people of Wei State, no matter how much money they pay, they will not be able to hire enough people.

In the case of manpower shortage, under the adjustment of the market economy, the idea of ​​replacing workers with machinery has been accelerated. For example, the original intensive textile and steam engines have replaced the original wind, water or human machinery.Even steam rollers for paving roads were invented to replace manual compaction of roadbeds.

Wei's railway construction and its economic development ultimately benefited the common people collectively.In the past, the family had surplus food, which was a gift and gift from God.In this day and age, if the family runs out of rice, it is a lazy bastard.The life of the common people is better, especially the improvement of living standards, and the intake of a large amount of meat or milk and milk products, which has greatly improved the physical fitness of the citizens of Wei State.

"Strengthen the national body and civilize the mind. Let China rise to the top of the world." This is Ran Ming's goal.Seeing the gratifying changes in Wei State, Ran Ming became more and more excited, because he knew that Wei State had really risen.

It has been almost a year since Yueai came to Wei State as a prisoner, and the Gupta Empire seems to have forgotten his existence.However, the Emperor Wei did not restrict his freedom. He could watch, turn and play at will.With the in-depth understanding of Wei State, Yue Ai has fallen in love with this country deeply.Here, there will never be sewage flowing like in Fahrenheit City, where people defecate at will.

The Gupta Empire is also a very large empire, and the entire empire also has five or six hundred cities. As the crown prince, Yue Ai also went to dozens of cities, but it never attracted him like Yecheng.This city will always be very clean, no matter how rough the barbarians are, they dare not speak loudly or make any rude moves in Ye City.Because the law enforcement officer of the Wei State patrol team will teach them how to be a civilized person.

Yecheng has almost all the delicacies in the world, and it also has the most prosperous downtown in the world. What makes Yueai feel incredible is that there seems to be no beggars here.

"Are they all nobles? Why are they so comfortable?" What made Yue Ai extremely uncomfortable was a tax official with all his lower limbs amputated, sitting on a wooden chair with four small wheels, followed by two people carrying large A Kunlun slave in a basket.

"They are not nobles, but they are the meritorious service of our Great Wei. Some of them gave their lives for the Great Wei, and some lost their limbs for the Great Wei, so no matter where they go, they will be respected by the subjects of the Great Wei. This is They deserve the honor!"

When a country no longer attaches importance to warriors and no longer guarantees the interests of warriors, it is the beginning of decline.When a country attaches importance to the interests of warriors to protect warriors, it is the time to rise.Qin and the Six Kingdoms, in comparison, did not have an advantage in culture.However, because of the Qin State's adoption of the system of incentivizing military merits, as long as they dare and work hard, warriors can get everything, such as fields.wealth and social status.

When the soldiers of the Great Qin Empire sang "Qin Feng Wuyi", they began to use Qin swords and spears to sweep Liuhe and unify the world.However, after the death of Qin Shihuang, the Second Emperor came to the throne. In order to fight for power and profit, he regarded the Qin people as enemies and did not exchange military merits.The bloody courage of the old Qin people suddenly disappeared, and they sat back and watched the Qin State perish.After the Song Dynasty, the military was controlled by literature, and the literature was superior to that of the martial arts.For example, the Manchu Dynasty defeated the Ming Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Mongols destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty. They are all of the same type, that is, defeating civilization with barbarism.

Regarding the military system of the Wei State, Ran Ming adopted the recruitment system of later generations and built the earliest professional army in Chinese history.In this environment, the interests and status of Wei Guowu people have been fully guaranteed.After the Wei State fought for the country and died in battle, there may be three types of family farming: military shirt field, military job field, and military merit field. These three types of land property are half-taxed.Military shirt fields and military merit fields can be hereditary and passed on to descendants, and military job fields will be taken back by the state after soldiers retire.If it is killed in action, the disabled veterans' meritorious fields will be retained for 20 years.

Among the huge group of retired soldiers in the Wei State, Ran Ming's earliest idea was to divert the society and let the imperial court provide proper placement for the employers in various workshops.But after careful consideration, Ran Ming canceled this decision.It is the essence of any enterprise to pursue profits and endlessly exploit the value of the working class, and it will never be easy for people.So Ran Ming decided that the state is responsible for resettlement of retired soldiers.Now the soldiers of the Wei State who are beyond the age, on the premise of voluntary, are transformed into soldiers, guarding the frontier or returning to their hometown.

As long as they are willing to return to their hometown, such soldiers generally serve as grassroots officials of the Wei State, such as Xiangyong, Jiachang, Baochang, or town mayor.The interests of the world cannot be taken by one person.To know how to share, Zhao Song proposed to rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats. With the help of this group of scholar-officials, Zhao Song was the only dynasty in Chinese history that did not perish due to peasant uprisings.In fact, Ran Ming also understood this political wisdom very well, and in later generations Ran Ming became a gangster.When others are officials who directly send money to beauties, Ran Ming gives shares.Because the results are shared, the risk is much smaller.It's a pity that Ran Ming's career is so big that some people are jealous.On the surface, it seems that Ran Ming was eradicated in later generations because he offended high-ranking officials. In fact, now, Ran Ming realized that it was not because he overdid it, but because he lost weight and needed to kill pigs to eat meat.

(End of this chapter)