Chapter 826: Building a One-day Economic Circle

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"Everyone knows that it is very difficult for us ordinary people to travel. Their main way to travel is to walk. The distance for normal people to walk is about fifty miles a day. If it exceeds fifty miles, they will feel very tired. At this speed, it will take two or three days to go from this to that county."

"Every year, students who go to Beijing to participate in the imperial examinations in Yunnan must start from their hometown half a year in advance, otherwise they may miss the exam time. What kind of concept is this? In an era when people simply rely on walking, will people be willing to travel? Will they be willing to travel? Their farthest travel activity is to go shopping in the town!"

"Look at the marriage situation in various places, basically people from the same town are married to each other, because this is convenient and you don't have to go too far. If you marry from the nearby town, the number of times you go back to your parents will be greatly reduced, because too much time is spent on the road, the danger will be greatly increased."

"I believe that most people will not be willing to spend the night halfway when traveling. If you spend the night halfway, you need to spend money, and your safety is not guaranteed. Nowadays, when you are away, who can definitely guarantee your safety? Don't close your door at night and don't pick up your leave. It will only appear when the most clear and clear-cut."

"The emergence of highways will greatly improve the above situations. The emergence of highways can greatly help people reduce the time and expenses of travel, increase the number of travel times, strengthen exchanges between people in different regions, thereby changing the lifestyles of many people and changing the ideas of many people."

"I'd better take the expressway between Linqing and Jinan as an example. If you take a carriage, you have to walk from Linqing to Jinan for at least three days, and you have to eat and board in the middle. If you walk, you may have to walk for five days, or even six days."

"At night, you have to pay a certain fee to find a place to stay overnight. If you want to save money, you have to sleep in the open air, and there is no guarantee of safety. Maybe you will be assassinated by someone if you are not careful. I believe everyone has seen such examples."

"Because the transportation from Linqing to Jinan is inconvenient, there are naturally not many exchanges between the people of the two places. Those who usually travel between Linqing and Jinan City are probably the merchants of Linqing and ordinary people in Jinan City. I believe there is no chance to meet at all. I believe that if nothing happens, the people of the two places will not easily interact."

"Since there is no chance to meet, I believe that the people of the two places will not easily intermarry. Well, except for the wealthy families. For ordinary people, it is indeed too difficult for their daughter to marry so far away. If you want to go back to your parents' home, you have to walk at least for many days on the road. The road is not safe and you consume a lot of money."

"If you can reach Jinan in one day, or if you can reach Linqing in one day, you can reach Linqing in one day. Then all this will change, and the people in the two places will inevitably get frequent exchanges."

"As long as the expressway is built, the wife of Jinan can marry the man from Linqing. The wife of Linqing can also marry the man from Jinan. The problem of returning to her parents' home will no longer be a problem. The time for returning to her parents' home is shortened, the cost is reduced, and safety is guaranteed. The flow of people in the two places will inevitably accelerate, and it will inevitably promote more people's marriage between the two cities."

"Look at it, are I right? If Linqing and Jinan are really only one day away, can the people in the two places really come and go at any time? It only takes two days to come and go. Compared with the previous ten days of back and forth, I believe anyone can accept this speed."

"Why are they so fast? It's up to you to your carriage! The carriage can not only transport goods, but also carry people. As long as the expressway is repaired, everyone can arrange a fixed carriage every day, run back and forth between Linqing and Jinan, transport guests back and forth, and then charge a reasonable fee."

"For example, you will leave from Linqing in the morning and go to Jinan in the evening. Or you will leave from Jinan in the morning and go to Linqing in the evening. I believe that most people will be very satisfied with this arrangement. As long as you come, you can take a bus, sleep halfway, and you will arrive at the destination. If the carriage is not full, you can still passengers halfway. If the carriage is overloaded, you can add more carriages. These are technical issues, and everyone will study and solve them themselves in the future."

"With your carriages going back and forth, the people of Linqing and Jinan can travel back and forth between the two places with great success. There is no need to rent a car by themselves or bring dry food by themselves. Everything is provided by you. The only thing they need is to take out some money as a fee."

"As for this fee, it depends on what you mean! The higher your carriage is, the more expensive it will be. The most economical carriage, I think that if each person charges three cents of silver, as long as there are ten people, it will be three taels of silver. I believe many people can afford these three cents of silver."

"When you set transportation costs, don't just see the money, but also see the flow of people. If your carriage is low and there are many passengers on board, your profit will naturally be high. If you set the price high and there are not many people coming to sit, you will lose the money."

Zhang Zhun held the teacup and told the story.

He is actually not very eloquent. He is good at yelling at the soldiers below, but is not good at theoretical discussions. Fortunately, these theories from later generations, as long as they are normal people, they are basically aware of them, and he just copied them.

People in this era can only understand the most basic meaning, that is, the road is easier to walk, the transportation of goods is accelerated, and profits are increased. They did not understand that if the road is smooth, the exchanges between the two places will be more frequent. These frequent exchanges will bring more business opportunities.

It seems that a large number of people who arrive in Jinan in Linqing will inevitably bring a large amount of income to the inns and restaurants in Jinan. Similarly, a large number of people who arrive in Linqing in Jinan will also bring a large amount of income to the inns and restaurants in Linqing.

Why were later generations keen on building an hourly economic circle? It is because in an hourly business circle, the flow of people and goods are very frequent, and these are all business opportunities. Only a large number of people can bring a large number of business opportunities.

The movement of people is one of the important signs of the society's development. With the development of society, more and more people will be liberated from the fields. Each person's five acres of land cannot actually tie people to the fields. During the slack season, a strong laborer can completely manage ten or even twenty acres of land.

The surplus labor force that does not require farming, you can naturally enter the city to work. Their arrival will definitely cause changes in the urban structure. The factory opened in cities can hire more workers. Other industries can also hire more people. All of this will gradually promote changes in social relations.

In the past, the movement of a large number of people was often fleeing, migration, etc., which caused great panic in the court. They took various measures to strictly control the travel of the people and strictly control the movement of people. They even did not hesitate to violate the natural laws of social development, which resulted in serious negative impacts on social development.

When the Ming Dynasty was founding, a strict road induced system was implemented. Without road induced by the government, it was impossible to travel. The purpose of this system was to confine the people in their own homes and prohibit the flow of people in the entire society. When the founding of the country, the situation was a little better. By the late Ming Dynasty, this road induced system had a negative effect.

The most obvious example is that a famine occurred in Shaanxi. A large number of people tried to enter Shanxi, Henan and other places nearby, but were severely attacked by the government and eventually turned into a peasant uprising. In fact, when the famine just happened, if the government took effective measures to divert some refugees to the Jiangnan area and let them enter the workshop, it might not be impossible to save the crisis. As long as the people have food to eat, who is willing to rebel?

Unfortunately, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty did not realize this method. They just inertially believed that the movement of people was terrible and must be prohibited. The victims of Shaanxi would never leave Shaanxi, otherwise they would harm the whole country. They wanted to confine these victims to the ground without harvest. This was a way to kill people, and it would be strange if the victims did not take up weapons and resisted.

Under the control of the Hu Ben Army, the flow of personnel is controllable and can be actively used by Zuo Zong. With the movement of personnel and the mutual contact between personnel in different regions, various sparks of thought will continue to bloom. More advanced technologies will also be exchanged.

As goods are accelerated and people are flowing faster, people in larger areas gather in a certain place will inevitably give birth to more workshops and more industries. More workshops and more industries will give birth to more bourgeoisie.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were already many factory owners, who were the original bourgeoisie. Originally, they had the potential to change the appearance of this country. Unfortunately, the arrival of the Tartars caused the Central Plains to fall into a decline of three hundred years. After being suppressed by the Tartars for three hundred years, the Chinese bourgeoisie was already dying and surviving.

Of course, this is the future. At present, the role of the road is mainly to accelerate the flow of goods and the flow of people, closely linking more places and more people, and promoting the overall progress of society.

Later generations were keen on building an hour-long economic circle, and Zhang Zhunse was preparing to build a one-day economic circle. In the middle of the 17th century, it was also a great achievement to be able to truly build a one-day economic circle and promote the overall development of society.

For example, Shandong, with Jinan as the center, can create a one-day economic circle. In this one-day economic circle, it must include Dezhou, Linqing, Liaocheng, Jining, Yanzhou, Qingzhou and other places. On the east side of Shandong, it can also be centered on Laizhou Prefecture, and Fushancheng, Dengzhou, Laiyang and other places can be included in the one-day economic circle.

After the highway is established, in Shandong, only two day economic circles can basically cover all areas. Compared with the previous roads, this is definitely a new leap, which is something that predecessors dare not imagine. It is conceivable how convenient it will be for the exchange of personnel and materials in a day economic circle.

"The Governor's thoughts are amazing."

Qin Liangde couldn't help but say.

He had never expected that Zhang Zhun's idea was so absurd and so awesome. Yes, at the beginning, the salt commissar thought that Zhang Zhun's idea was indeed too absurd and too awesome. However, as Zhang Zhun's explanation slowly, the salt commissar began to feel that Zhang Zhun's idea might not be absurd or awesome. Perhaps, there is really a possibility of realization.

In fact, everything lies in the roads. The key to the roads is straight and spacious. In this era, the best roads outside the city were paved with gravel. If they were inside the city, the best ones were paved with bluestone slabs. What restricts people and materials to exchange is obviously the roads outside the city.

Roads paved with gravel will also cause trouble when encountering rain, become muddy and bumpy. It goes without saying that ordinary mud roads will change the fundamental situation of the road, only cement.

Yes, the emergence of cement has greatly changed the architectural structure and building type of Ming Dynasty, and it has also a fundamental qualitative change in the construction of roads. Roads paved with cement concrete are not afraid of rain erosion. Even on rainy days, carriages can still run on it. This is the biggest advantage.

At the same time, the cement pavement is much flatter than the gravel pavement, which is very beneficial to the running speed of the carriage and the loss of the carriage. On the mud road, the carriage may only be able to walk twenty or thirty miles per hour. However, on the cement pavement, it is completely possible to walk forty or fifty miles per hour.

"No! There is nothing special about my thoughts. It's just that everyone hasn't realized before that building roads can make money."

Zhang Zhun said lightly.

Of course, people of this era cannot compare with those of four hundred years later. Especially in terms of transportation, it has to be said that people in the Ming Dynasty did not realize the importance of transportation. Just like the railways and trains in the Qing Dynasty were all chaotic for a long time before they finally began to introduce them. The speed at which the literati and doctors accepted new things was indeed a tangle. Their favorite thing was to sit in was the sedan chair carried by sixteen people!

In fact, the road brings not only economic benefits, but also economic benefits, military, and even technological benefits are obvious. In terms of justice, the jurisdiction and control of the local area can be strengthened more effectively. In terms of military affairs, the army can be mobilized faster. These are all very simple truths.

The technical interests should be a little more obscure. Zhang Zhun is sure that once a large-scale road construction is carried out, all road-related technologies will be developed leapfrog. Especially for the construction of bridges, technology will definitely change with each passing day.

The most important thing in building roads is bridges and culverts. The issues related to culverts will not be involved for the time being, because the areas currently controlled by the Hu Ben Army are basically plains. The first batch of roads built should also be on the plains, and there is no need to dig culverts. However, there must be many bridges that need to be built.

There are too many legends about Zhaozhou Bridge. This bridge in Zhending Prefecture has almost become a model of bridge technology. However, in Zhang Zhun's view, the stone arch bridge is actually outdated. Due to structural reasons, the span of the stone arch bridge cannot be very large. It is absolutely impossible to cross the Grand Canal. Therefore, bridge building technology must be reformed, and you must learn to build bridges with cement reinforced concrete, or even caissons.

There is no doubt that the development of bridge building technology will drive the development of all related industries, such as the cement industry, caisson industry, steel bar industry, etc., and will be improved overall. At the same time, the status of craftsmen will also be greatly improved. Without outstanding craftsmen, there will definitely be no excellent bridges, which is inevitable.

The key to the technological development of a country, especially the technological development of the Ming Dynasty, is to rely on these craftsmen. The Ming Dynasty and the literati and officials in the court before had criticized technology as a strange skill for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years. It was not so easy for Zhang Zhun to change everyone's thoughts at once.

Relying on the capabilities of the Hu Ben Army alone, it is impossible for every craftsman to have the opportunity to play. Only by carrying out a large amount of infrastructure construction can all craftsmen have a place to use. Once a large number of roads begin to be built, a large number of bridges are required, and the status of craftsmen will naturally rise, and other people's views on craftsmen will gradually change.

Only through such subtle actions can all craftsmen finally obtain the status they should have and play a greater role. The higher the status and income of craftsmen, there will naturally be more people participating in this industry. The more craftsmen there are, the greater the possibility of technological reform and the greater the opportunity for technological progress.

"There are not many good routes, I hope everyone will make a decision soon."

Zhang Zhun said calmly.

Those merchants looked at me, and I looked at you, but they didn't say anything. Everything Zhang Zhun said today seemed to have surpassed their respective thinking. They needed a certain amount of time, thought and communicated carefully to accurately understand Zhang Zhun's meaning.

"Come, see off guests!"

Zhang Zhun waved his hand and said indifferently.

His ideas and ideas have been revealed to them. Whether they can seize opportunities depends on their ability. Opportunities will always be reserved for those who are prepared. Without this ability, they will only be eliminated by society.
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