Dong Shuheng's words seemed to open a window for Zhao Si.
He now only hoped that Dong Shuheng had not made the same suggestion in other cities in the north.
Nowadays, many commodities from the Far East, especially daily necessities such as matches and clothes, are shipped from the south.
Since it is transportation, freight is required, which will increase.
So why can't Sakhalin produce these things? The places near Sakhalin Port alone are quite big markets.
Zhao Si, who was born as a businessman, understands that in doing business, the first to win is the one who is closest to the water.
The geographical location of Sakhalin Port is very good and can be said to be the center of Northeast Asia.
From here you can go to the Far East to the north, to the Heilongjiang River Basin to the west, to the Northeast region, to Japan and the Korean Peninsula to the south, and to the west coast of North America to the east.
This is a huge and vast market.
Moreover, Sakhalin Port is also a shipping hub in Northeast Asia, with convenient transportation. It can even enter the hinterland of Northeast Asia through several rivers.
Now there are millions of immigrants from Shandong gathered in the Northeast, and they need huge amounts of daily necessities.
Zhao Si believes that if we really do what Dong Shuheng said, Kuhay Port may be able to develop into a commercial center in the future.
"Well, President, thank you, I understand what to do." Zhao Si said gratefully.
Although Dong Shuheng reminded him of this, if things are done well, all the credit will be his.
Zhao Si is now in charge of a government, and may not be able to be in charge of a province in the future.
Dong Shuheng hopes that his subordinates can be a little ambitious.
If everyone is Buddhist and lies flat, then where will the entire Renaissance Army get the motivation to continue to develop?
He could tell that Zhao Si had political ambitions.
The Fuxing Army does not care about their origins. There are no longer a few businessmen like Zhao Si who came from officials. These people are sometimes more professional in economic matters.
The main task of the Renaissance Army now is to develop economic production.
When economic production improves and people's lives improve, they will let their descendants go to school, people's quality will improve, and many goals can be achieved naturally.
The prerequisite for being together is that everyone has enough to eat. In the final analysis, eating is the first priority.
After all, survival is man's first need.
After leaving Sakhalin, the next stop is Vladivostok.
This is a beautiful coastal city that serves as the home port of the North Sea Navy.
There is a military port and a civilian port here.
You can see a tall white-painted lighthouse standing there in the distance.
The lighthouse is the symbol of this city. It is one of the few ice-free harbors in the north.
There are still several months of freezing period in Sakhalin Port every year.
So every winter, Vladivostok becomes very lively.
Because at this time, goods from the north can only go out to sea from here.
So whenever winter comes, the streets of Vladivostok become more popular.
Dong Shuheng stayed in Vladivostok for one night.
In the evening, I took the two ladies to enjoy the Vladivostok Lighthouse at night.
The couple had a rare moment of romance. This was also a rare moment of relaxation during this trip.
Dong Shuheng has plans to build Vladivostok into a municipality directly under the jurisdiction of the city. The location here is very good and can serve as the outlet for the entire Northeast region in the future.
Its development potential is no weaker than that of the Shanghai area.
If you want to build this place into a bridgehead, of course traffic on the road is indispensable.
Two national highways extend from Vladivostok, one goes north along the Ussuri River and connects to Burleigh, and will go directly to Temple Street in the future. The other goes west connecting Changchun, Fengtian and Xinjing.
In the future, railways running in the same direction may be built on these two lines.
Of course, this is a matter for the future.
Now the railway must first focus on the densely populated areas in the interior and strategically needed places like the Western Regions.
This area has just been developed, and building a railway at this time will definitely be a loss-making endeavor.
Moreover, there are no security threats here, and there is no such sense of urgency from a strategic perspective.
The construction speed of the FNA railway depends on the production of steel, although the steel output of the FNA is currently growing at a high rate of 50% every year.
But it still cannot meet domestic demand.
So Dong Shuheng asked West Coast Company to also build some steel plants in North America.
It would be better for this money to fall into one's own belt than to be earned by foreigners.
The reason why West Coast companies have risen so quickly is also related to the huge domestic demand in China.
In this era, the international market is not perfect enough. The foreign colonial activities of several European countries are nothing more than looking for raw materials and markets.
Raw materials are not bad, they can be purchased even if they do not occupy the raw material market.
But the market is just that. At this time, the global market is still in the early stages of growth.
To put it simply, there are only so many people on the earth. What’s more, people are not yet highly civilized, and many places are still barbaric.
Naturally, these people have little spending power.
The Age of Discovery promoted international trade activities.
But at the beginning, the types of goods in international trade were very simple.
Perhaps the most mature one is the trade between the West and China.
In the beginning, the Spanish used the gold and silver obtained from various American countries to exchange silk, tea, porcelain and other luxury goods from China, and then plundered spices from Southeast Asia.
These items were then brought back to Europe in exchange for high profits.
This trade route drove exchanges between the East and the West. It even promoted the continuous development of navigation technology.
Since modern times, the global market has been in a process of continuous growth and maturity.
Currently, East Asia and Europe, where China is located, are the two most mature markets.
The economies of the two places are relatively developed.
Next are some feudal dynasties in West and Central Asia.
The spending power of the aristocratic class in these places is still very strong.
Thirdly, there are those colonies in the Americas that have moved toward independence. They have also entered modernization and are healthy economies, but their populations are too small and their size is insufficient.
The rest of Africa has been reduced to human trafficking by those Western powers.
In other words, there is no better economic value to be discovered there, and the only ones with the greatest value are the people there themselves.
Dong Shuheng did not adopt the Western method of developing markets through colonies.
That approach is actually very fragile and cannot develop healthily.
Unequal trading activities will only shrink the market, and there will be no way to grow bigger.
For example, if the British colonized India, they would only exploit and oppress the colonies.
Then the Indian people in the colony will become poorer and poorer, and the nobles will also become poorer. When people are poor, they will naturally not be able to consume.
The colonial market would shrink to the point where it could only serve as a supplier of raw materials.
In addition, the act of opening up markets through colonization is also relatively fragile.
Colonies are colonies after all, not their own land.
The British were already pretty good at controlling the colonies.
The old colonial empires, Portugal, Spain, etc. have lost control of their colonies due to their decline.
Correspondingly, they also lost these markets.
Dong Shuheng took a completely different path from them.
Dong Shuheng is taking a path of making himself bigger.
The entire Greater China Circle is a huge market. This market is developing healthily and will become bigger and bigger in the future.
He believes that as long as the cake can be made bigger and bigger, China can get more and more cakes.
And those who participate in creating the cake will also benefit from it. Only after benefiting can the cake be bigger.
For thousands of years in China's history, it has been the world's largest economy. And its size accounts for a high proportion of the global economic aggregate.
However, in fact, we spend most of our time in a relatively closed state.
At that time, China's economy mainly relied on the domestic market.
Because we spend most of our time in a unified state.
We have a complete economic system in our country.
The huge land area and different geographical environments of Southern Tea and Northern Horses allow each place to use its own specialties.
This gave rise to the exchange.
As long as a dynasty is politically stable and the people are prosperous, then the economy of this dynasty will prosper rapidly.
Just like now, the Renaissance Army controls large areas of the country with powerful force.
It stretches more than 10,000 miles from east to west, north to south. Nearly one-third of the world's population lives on this land.
The Renaissance Army abolished all internal customs clearance, allowing goods in this huge country to realize free circulation in the true sense for the first time.
Food was cheaper in the south, so merchants sold food from the south to the north.
Livestock and fur from the north were cheaper, so merchants trafficked livestock and fur from the north to the south.
Chinese products can freely enter the Korean Peninsula and Japan to meet the needs of the nobles and daimyo.
People who cannot survive in those places can also look for opportunities to survive in other places under the control of the Renaissance Army.
Migrant workers from the Korean Peninsula and Japan can be seen in many big cities of the Renaissance Army.
This is the benefit of joining the Greater China Circle. Population can move within the Greater China Circle to a limited extent.
There is zero tariff between countries in the Greater China Circle.
Goods from the mainland can freely enter these vassal states in the Greater China Circle.
Commodities from vassal countries can also freely enter the mainland and other vassal countries.
This ties everyone together economically.
This kind of transaction is completely free.
The west coast controlled by Dong Shuheng has now joined this trading system.
Therefore, the West Coast easily surpasses the eastern region of the United States in trade competition.
Nowadays, various industrial states in the eastern United States are living a very difficult life.
The market that originally went to East Asia via the Pacific has basically shrunk.
Our own southern states also don’t buy their own industrial products.
West Asia, Africa, and South America are all monopolized by European countries such as Britain and France.
A large number of their products are unsaleable.
So they have been supporting the Kansas Civil War to continue.
On the one hand, civil war requires a large amount of weapons and ammunition, which can stimulate the economy to a certain extent.
Just producing guns and ammunition can support many factories.
On the other hand, the northerners hope that through victory in this war, the southerners will compromise and open up their own markets.