Eight Hundred and Seventy Sixth Country Name Daqin

875 The foundation of scientific development

Don't blame the chapter name for a typo!

The land outside Chang'an City can indeed be called fertile and wild, but Xiao Feng does not intend to allow people to over-develop it.

Throughout the history of Hua, after the establishment of dynasties, there will be a period of time when the country is prosperous and the people are strong. During this time, the kings of the country are working hard to develop and restore the country.

Therefore, the early stages of the dynasties of all dynasties developed well, but in the middle and late stages, due to the long period of peace, the kings lost their desire to go in and began to only care about pleasure.

In order to cater to the king's preferences, a group of treacherous ministers appeared on stage at this time, forming cliques for personal gain, taking money and perverting the law. Later, the dynasty would often have civil strife due to power struggles.

At the end of the period, there will be natural disasters or hidden dangers on the frontier, and finally the dynasty will fall into a stage of collapse.

Throughout the ancient history of China, except for the last Qing Dynasty, almost all of them perished in this way.

In fact, there is an important reason for such a thing, that is, the level of productivity is not enough. To put it bluntly, the things produced cannot keep up with the speed of population growth, which will cause a shortage of resources.

The feudal dynasties in the West and the East have both faced such difficulties, and the ways the two sides dealt with them are also very different.

The Western method is to launch foreign wars, invade and plunder other countries, and later developed into colonizing the world.

In Huaguo, however, peasant uprisings, civil strife, and a sudden drop in population followed by the collapse of the old dynasty and the establishment of a new dynasty, followed by a cycle of events.

Two completely different modes, which one is superior, can be seen at a glance.

The reason why the Qing Dynasty did not fall into this vicious circle later was entirely because of the new foreign species, corn and sweet potatoes, two high-yield crops, which solved the food crisis and allowed the dynasty to avoid falling into the vicious circle of reincarnation of previous dynasties.

From Xiao Feng's point of view, the Pennyville Peninsula he owns now basically doesn't need to consider this issue at all for decades, or even hundreds of years.

First of all, the area of ​​this peninsula is too large, and the geographical environment is too superior.

On the left is the mainland of Mesodis, on the right is the mainland of San Sotis, and the Pennivela Peninsula is just under the land bridge linking the two continents, facing the two continents across the sea.

The Pennilla peninsula is inserted into the sea in an inverted triangle shape, and along the coastlines on both sides, there are exactly two mountains stretching from the land bridge, separating the land from the sea.

And these mountains also happen to form a natural barrier to the surrounding continent.

The effect is the same as that of the Rocky Mountains on the east coast of the United States and the Alabache Mountains on the west coast of the United States, which surround the entire Great Plains of the United States.

So this time, Xiao Feng also planned to name one of the mountains surrounding the Pennilla Peninsula the Qinling Mountains and the other Taihang Mountains.

In the middle of these two mountains, there are about two to three million square kilometers in the north, which are slightly undulating hilly terraces, while the south is more than six million square kilometers, a flat plain.

Moreover, the land in this plain is fertile and there are many rivers and lakes. According to Xiao Feng's thinking, it is no problem for these lands to support more than one billion people.

Therefore, within a few hundred years in this land, there will be no problem of not having enough to eat or starving.

But even so, industry still has to be done.

Because there are half-orcs waiting for them outside, if they don't develop, they will be dumbfounded when the half-orcs come over.

Between them and the orcs, there must be a desperate battle.

And the area around the Great Rift Valley to the south of Chang'an City, in his opinion, is perfect for industrial development.

Once the country is stabilized in the future, if we want to develop people's livelihood, the land is always limited, and it is impossible for everyone in the city to farm the land, so we have to do something.

The factory is the most suitable place to accommodate the population. What is more suitable for this generation to engage in industry than the Great Rift Valley?

Pearl Lake stretches for more than ten miles, which is where the Great Falls is located.

The rushing river overflowing from Pearl Lake continues all the way to the rift valley break at a height of more than 100 meters.

A large waterfall hundreds of meters wide is formed.

The magnificence of this waterfall, in Xiao Feng's opinion, is not inferior to the Niagara Falls, which is known as the largest on earth, and even much more magnificent than that waterfall.

A huge amount of river water rushes down from the cliff, forming countless lakes on the southern great plain, and these lakes flow along the terrain and flow into several large rivers to irrigate the southern great plain.

This is just a geographical gesture, but for Xiao Feng, this is a wonderful place to engage in industry.

Because the river flow brought by this huge terrain drop, if it is well utilized, it can evolve into endless power.

He didn't intend to engage in hydroelectric power generation, but he could make huge waterwheels, and use the huge impact of water to drive the waterwheels, which could bring endless power to the industry.

When it gets bigger, it can bring earth-shaking changes to the metallurgical industry, such as smelting steel, stamping and forging, and even drilling iron pipes and polishing the inner wall.

With steel pipes, endless weapons and engineering equipment can be evolved.

On a smaller scale, it can grind rice and flour, make agricultural machinery, and vehicle appliances.

Moreover, there is a huge swamp on the southeast side of the cliff, which is also the main reason why Xiao Feng values ​​this industrial base.

Because the waste water produced by industry can be directly discharged into this algae swamp.

In the modern world, algae marshes are nature's best place to treat waste water and discharge waste. The microbial microenvironment here will decompose these wastes naturally and harmlessly.

Once a series of industrial cities are built under this waterfall, then his dynasty will be completely stable, and Chang'an City will be completely stable.

With the population and industry, there are guns, and the safety of the royal city is naturally no problem.

The most important thing is that with this industrial zone, Wangcheng can continuously provide power for the development of all parts of the country, and other parts of the country will become dependent on the Wangcheng Industrial Zone, thus forming another economic security model.

All regions rely on this industrial area for blood transfusion, which also strengthens Wangcheng's rule over Pennyville Continent.

After Xiao Feng told Charlizeman about his idea of ​​building an industrial zone, the old man was even more excited and burst into tears.

This idea is really great. These industrial cities are simply specially set up for people like them who are engaged in scientific research.

He is also considered to be familiar with the history of the mainland. There have been so many dynasties in history, and no dynasty has ever paid so much attention to these weirdos like them.

The dwarf Groin and Dean were also very excited about the idea of ​​this industrial zone.

It stands to reason that because we really want to talk about industry, these dwarves can definitely be regarded as the earliest batch of handicraftsmen on this planet.

And now the king wants to vigorously develop industry, this is definitely an affirmation of their dwarves!

Both of them had a sense of honor, Xiao Feng, the great king, was really worth following.

In Xiao Feng's view, with this industrial zone, he has laid the foundation for the country's scientific development.

This will also allow this country, in the future development, to avoid as much as possible the big pit that Huaguo has never gotten out of in the history.

Why did China have a feudal history of two thousand years, but it has not been able to evolve to the stage of capitalism?

Why did the Chinese nation once lead other opponents by one position in the age of great voyages, but in the end they didn't get any bonus from the age of great voyages?

It is because we limit ourselves that we go wrong on the road of ideological evolution.

Because I believe too much in Confucianism, and Confucianism has always underestimated the development of industry and technology, and believes that those who engage in industry are all superstitious skills, which greatly hinders the development of technology.

How can you increase productivity without the development of technology?

If you can't increase productivity, how can you transform the germs of capitalism? How to enter the era of great industry?

The reason why the first industrial revolution happened in Britain is because they did not believe in Confucianism.

They don't believe in the hypocrisy of ruling the country by virtue, and their managers only see real interests in their eyes.

Seeing that spinning cloth and wool to make money, farmers drove a large number of tenants into the factory, and then in order to improve productivity, they continued to develop and innovate production machinery and technology.

Uninterrupted attempts again and again, all kinds of bold innovations, and finally the industrial revolution was triggered by accumulation.

Many people say that at the end of the Ming Dynasty in Huaguo, if it was not interrupted by the Qing Dynasty, it is very likely that capitalism would sprout in the south of the Yangtze River and enter the industrial age.

So it was the Qing Dynasty that delayed the development of China, but is it really like that? That's right!

In Xiao Feng's view, even without the invasion of the Qing Dynasty, those people would never have thought of sprouting the seeds of capitalism and entering the industrial age. ,

why?

Did you see what the first batch of capitalists in Britain did? Most of them were originally landlords, but they heard that weaving made money.

They drove all the tenant farmers on the territory into factories, spun wool, weaved cloth, and after earning money, they continued to invest in purchasing machinery, increasing labor, and then improving the machinery in order to increase productivity.

And what about the rich man in Jiangnan, Huaguo?

I made money by raising silkworms and spinning cloth, and then went to the countryside to buy more land, and cast all the gold and silver I earned into silver winter melons, and buried gold cakes in the cellar.

As for the factory? Hehe, that's impossible. The cloth is all spun by peasant women at home, and then they buy it and sell it?

In this way, even if he is no longer in this country in the future, this country will not grow crooked, and will continue to develop along the correct path according to his ideas.