2ooo164o1 Chapter 429 To get rich, build a road first

When DiSe heard something was wrong, Zhang Yunfei asked him to come and asked about his intrigue this year. Depending on the situation, it seemed that he would grant funds to Zhan Tianjue's new plan.

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Liao said hurriedly: "Weichen has already seen the plan of the Ministry of Engineering. In principle, we are supportive. However, it is not feasible to build a transportation network across the country."

Then he said: "The United States has used billions of dollars to build a national transportation network, which took tens of thousands of dollars to be completed in the past few years. The achievements made by the United States today are worthy of our deep consideration and reference.

However, the situation in China and the United States is different. Although the 6 billion dragon coins are huge, they are distributed to 600 million citizens. The pressure is not great every year. The problem is that we have built such a huge transportation network. Who are the consumers? The United States is an industrial power, and naturally it is distributed to enterprises and it is profitable. But what about the national dynasty? The local industry is concentrated in the Northeast, and the rest is in Luzon and Hawaii. Looking at the entire national dynasty, even if the railway is built, it will be idle and loss.

Zhang Han is right. China's national conditions are different from those of the United States. The United States is an industrial country. Railways can play their due role.

But China is different. The traditional agricultural countries that have been in the past two thousand years have poor industries and are concentrated in rivers and coastal areas. Transportation by sea is obviously more cost-effective than railways.

At the same time, once a huge railway network is built, let alone whether the cost can be recovered, the annual maintenance costs will be very large.

Finance is not used for casual use. It is taken from the people and used for the people to form a virtuous economic cycle and become stronger. Once funds are consumed on the things that are losing money, the country's economy will regress and even be dragged down.

This principle is very common today, but at that time, Zhang Liao's words made Zhang Yunfei feel the power of ancient people, and they were not a fuel-efficient lamp.

If you underestimate their power, you are very wrong.

"If you want to get rich, build roads first."

Zhang Han:

Zhan Tianyou:

Zhang Yunfei said casually, but he forgot the difference of the times, so he smiled and said, "I mean that building railways is beneficial to the country and the people! Only when the railways are open can commerce be smooth? If the commerce is open, it will be smooth, along with other industries such as industry!"

Zhan Tianzuo hurriedly said, "Your Majesty's words are incisive, that's how my American teacher told me!"

Zhang Liao said: "But building such a huge transportation network will put the national economy into a state of stagnation."

Then he said: "In order to delay the pace of Qin's Eastern Expedition, South Korea sent people to lobby the Qin King to build the Dazheng Canal. As a result, Qin's construction of the Dazheng Canal did not have the power to fight the East within ten years. Although the Dazheng Canal caused the Qin State's national strength to rise ten years later, in the eyes of the time, it seemed that the seven countries were unified ten years ago. The results were much more than the Dazheng Canal got!"

Finally, Zhang Liao sighed: "I know the benefits of building a railway network, but now the empire is in trouble, and everything should serve the final victory of the war. If all the funds are invested on this, how can the empire still have the ability to pay for the war? Will it increase taxes to the people when they have no money to fight?"

Zhang Yunfei nodded and said, "Zhang Liao is right. It is a good idea to build a national transportation network, but it is not the time at the moment. But can we take it slowly? Without affecting the overall situation, we will make appropriate plans for the transportation network.

Then Zhang Yunfei said, "Or it's better! China's landlords have so much wealth, so we have to redeem land. Instead of letting them continue to feudalism, it's better to let them invest money in the Ministry of Industry and invest in the railway. The empire gave them enough benefits to change their business management.

Zhang Liao's eyes lit up and he said in amazement: "Your Majesty is wise. In this way, it not only solves the problem of building a national railway network. It also prepares the Program to transform the feudal economy of the people into a capitalist economy. It all solves it together."

Zhang Yunfei smiled, feeling a little embarrassed. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration reminded me of the usual tricks that countries in later generations were short of money. As expected, they were very successful.

Zhan Tianyou was flexible, but he couldn't get into the conversation between Zhang Yunfei and Zhang Liao at all. At this moment, he heard that there was a way to solve the problem and was immediately very happy.

Zhan Tianyou's national railway network plan is very large. I feel the layout of the US railway network. Zhan Tianyou's plan 1 is to first build a railway that connects China's local east-west and north-south.

On the East-West Railway, Zhan Tianjie plans to build a major railway trunk line from Tibet, Xinjiang to Central China and East China, and connects the railway network with Ganzhou, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Shanxi.

The North-South Railway is the most important. The North-East Railway has built a railway network. Just build a railway trunk line from the Gyeonggi area that runs through China and directly to Guangdong and Guangxi's estuary.

However, the most important thing in building a north-south railway is how to cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, as well as the huge network of rivers and lakes in the south. To this end, Zhang Yunfei’s suggestion is to build the Yellow River Bridge and the Yangtze River Bridge to completely solve the myth that the Yangtze River and the Yellow River cannot be surpassed by ships since ancient times.

China's idle funds were very large. Because the feudal landlord class broke three-quarters of the wealth of the entire China, these feudal forces controlled the wealth, but did not take it out for circulation, which led to the weakening of the country in the late Qing Dynasty.

Nowadays, all the general orders of the Emperor and Qin government are centered on the strategy of building a capitalist industrial power, first of all, to liberate survival and means of production.

This will inevitably lead to conflicts with feudal and conservative forces. Fortunately, the Emperor and Qin government is not short of money for the time being and no longer uses force to resolve them. However, if they continue to control their wealth and do not release them, it will have a great impact on the country's economy.

Therefore, the Emperor and Qin government bought out the ten places of the feudal class in a peaceful manner and distributed them equally to Laobaiba. The people had land and had enough food and clothing, so they naturally supported the Beiqin government and solved the problem of social stability.

The original motion submitted by the cabinet was to imitate the British enclosure movement and implement a tough capitalist economic model in China. However, because it was too bloody and cruel, Zhang Yunfei did not think that he agreed with China's economic model, so he rejected it.

Judging from Zhang Yunfei's later generations, it doesn't matter what economic model it implements. The key is to make the people rich and the country prosperous.

Undoubtedly, moderate guidance of the people is to agree with the core interests of the current Emperor and Qin government.

You should know that China has developed a capitalist economy since the end of the Ming Dynasty. By the thirty years of the Qing Dynasty, the people had begun to turn to a capitalist economy.

The reason why it did not become bigger and stronger was because of the feudal control of the Qing government. Now the Emperor and Qin government is unprecedentedly open in terms of economic policies and national legal policies, and has great freedom to the policy of decentralization among the people.

Therefore, the feudal system that hinders economic development has been broken. The only thing to do now is how to guide the people and how to transform the feudal landlord class into capitalists.

The construction plan of the national transportation network submitted by Zhan Tianyou undoubtedly gave the Emperor Qin government a new initiative, and using high returns on interests to attract feudal landlords has become a feasible policy.

How can local owners not be moved when they see that running a business is much more important than farming and collecting rent?

Originally, business stagnated in the late Qing Dynasty. The main reason was that the monetary system of the Qing Dynasty was severely unstable, which made commercial transactions extremely risky. Maybe they would lose money due to currency shaking.

Therefore, the thirty years of Westernization Movement were only open to the people in terms of thought, and the economic and final failure proved that the instability of the financial system was the culprit.

However, the situation is different now. The reform of the gold exchange standard system of the Emperor and Qin government has been completed, with the dragon coins bound to the British drinks and the US dollar, and the currency value is unprecedentedly stable.

With the economic prosperity of Northeast China over the past few years, people across the country have recognized the purchasing power of dragon coins, which are the strongest guarantees for the rise of business from a new rise.

Emperor Qin Zhengjian took advantage of the opportunity to build a national transportation network to attract the feudal landlord class across the country, which not only solved the huge financial pressure, but also attracted idle funds from the country and the people.

For the Emperor Qin government and the Central Bank of Emperor Qin, even the threat from the Rothschild family from the Sixth Empire of Europe was not as powerful as the Chinese landlord class.

Because they hold three-quarters of the wealth that accounts for China's total, once all of them are released, it will cause a financial storm like a bomb thrown into the water and explode.

However, Zhang Yunfei is still preparing to release them. Isn’t Zhang Yunfei afraid of causing inflation?

Of course, inflation is afraid. But don’t forget that in the fixed gold standard era before World War I, hard inflation was not borne by one country, but by all currencies linked to it.

Obviously, the dragon currency is pegged to the US dollar and the pound. In the international gold balance between the three countries, China's inflation will be evenly distributed to the UK and the United States.

In this way, China's local risks are less than half, because for economic powers like the United Kingdom and the United States, it is a concern.

China's remaining expansion coefficient was consumed by building railway infrastructure, so Zhang Yunfei dared to attract idle domestic funds in this way.

Before the war, the gold standard world dominated by Britain was to curb inflation and deflation. Just like timely treatment of minor illnesses, you will not get serious illnesses.

This economic system had more benefits than disadvantages before World War I, and it also created a world without devastating economic crisis before World War I. Zhang Yunfei took advantage of the loopholes in this system and passed on the risks to the United Kingdom and the United States for common responsibility.

Of course, Zhang Yunfei knew that this binding was beneficial at present, but when the economy was developing rapidly and the international circulating funds increased, this system would in turn restrict the economy.

Of course, the collapse of this system was caused by the fact that during World War I, countries stopped exchange of gold and printed large quantities of paper money.

At present, what the Qin government needs to do is to take advantage of the rare free insurance opportunity and adjust China's economic model as soon as possible.

In Zhan Tianyou's report, there is also the construction of China's water conservancy and hydropower projects. In China, due to the Qing government's negligence in rivers, rivers across the country have frequently experienced floods and droughts.

Therefore, in its work report, Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi mentioned many times that it is necessary to speed up the rectification of floods and floods in major rivers across the country.

It was precisely based on this question that Zhan Tianyou asked Zhang Yunfei to build a hydropower station instead of building water.

Dams are a feasible solution to river problems, because dams can irrigate farmland during severe dry seasons, and when floods are full, they play a role in draining and diversion.

Prime Minister Tang Shaoyi of the Cabinet has approved the proposal to build water conservancy projects, and the Ministry of Finance directly allocated special funds.

Zhan Tianzuo's plan is small and believes that instead of building only dams to prevent floods and droughts, the practicality is too low, it is recommended to convert the dam to a hydropower station.

As we all know, small hydropower stations can not only play the role of dams, but also can also be electricity. This clean energy can directly provide energy to areas with insufficient coal craftsmen, solving the problem of uneven distribution of media carbon in China and not conducive to industrial development.

Zhang Yunfei naturally agreed to this.

Tesla once built hydropower stations for the United States and was very successful. The State Administration of Engineering can provide hydropower stations with orange equipment, while the combat laboratory can provide reasonable construction motivation.

At present, there are many types of hydropower stations in the world.

The water traces in China are complex. There are roughly mainly dam-type hydropower, which is to use medium or large dams on a river to store water. The water can be released to meet changing power needs or to maintain a constant water level.

It is also runoff type hydropower, which takes advantage of the natural drop of the river, and it requires a little or no water storage at all.

Then there is the diversion power station, which can be designed to use a high flow low head or a low flow high head.

There are also micro hydropower. The installed capacity is 100% or less. Micro hydropower stations can use low water heads or high water heads.

Finally, there is diversion hydropower, which introduces part of the river into a ditch or water canal.

Zhang Yunfei really wanted to do the Three Gorges Project, but he just wanted to fantasize about it in his heart.

At present, China does not have the technology to build a huge project. Even if it can be built, Zhang Yunfei will not approve it. Because once the Three Gorges Project is completed, the benefits it brings are considerable. However, the threat it brings is equally fearful, even more dangerous than the atomic bomb.

There are no air defense missiles in this era. Once attacked, the consequences will be dozens of times more serious than the Yellow River dam breaking, and the entire south will be submerged.

Therefore, for military considerations, Zhang Yunfei asked not to build hydropower stations on the main roads of the Yangtze River for the time being.

The Diqin government is the largest hydropower producer. Hydropower projects of the extraordinary Qin government must comply with the laws of the Diqin government and the relevant regulations of the provincial governments, and can only be operated after obtaining a license issued by the Diqin government's Energy Supervision Committee.

Although hydropower projects are profitable, since China currently does not have many terminal equipment that uses electricity, the Diqin government will relax its hydropower station investment policy.

Nothing is driven by enough profit. Where are there any businessmen willing to invest and invest?

Of course, according to the hydropower station construction plan in the Northeast Industrial Base, foreign merchants are also allowed to participate in the bidding, but hydropower station projects directly opened by foreign funds must have a license for local garrisons. All designs must be filed with the military and local governments, and more than half of the Chinese must be employees within the hydropower station.

The reason for this requirement is mainly due to national security considerations, after all, this kind of energy data is related to the core interests of the country.

As for building a bridge on the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, Zhang Yunfei once again talked about it and gave Zhan Tianjue a few tips, mainly because Zhang Yunfei knew that later China had built the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing and Wuhan, which at least proved the feasibility of the plan.

Zhan Tianzuo instinctively believed that Zhang Yunfei's personal will hope to build a bridge in these two places. Therefore, since the emperor said that, he naturally had to do so.

"Crossed!" Zhang Yunfei looked at Zhan Tianyou who was a little bald and said earnestly: "Although I started out as a soldier, it is a bit like a martial artist. However, I know that the strength of a country is not only based on strong military power, but more importantly, the economic construction of the country is the country.

Then Zhang Yunfei looked out the window and continued, "The top priority of economic construction is industrial construction. We have been standing there for two hundred years, but Western countries have vigorously developed industry through these two hundred years. Only then can they have today's strong strength. You are the Minister of Industry of the Empire. Whether the Empire can catch up with the great powers in the future depends on your Ministry of Industry."

Turning around and continuing, "I can tell you that in ten years, the existing industrial model will be eliminated, and as you predict, a second industrial revolution will soon emerge, and it is dominated by electricity."

"Your Majesty!" Zhan Tianyou was a little confused and asked, "How did you know?"

Zhang Yunfei glanced at the Finance Minister Zhang Sai next to him, and smiled at Zhan Tianjie and said, "Everyone says that the emperor is long live, the spokesperson of God. These words are just flattery and exaggeration. But, in fact, what is my image among the people now?"
To be continued...