Volume 1 Chapter 376 Opening of Shipping
Looking at the high-yield crops he had produced, which could feed everyone and allow the country to temporarily recuperate, he felt that he had finally fulfilled the mission on his shoulders after traveling through time!
Of course, I also know that the reason why I can use all these skills here is because I know that this is a small world, a small world of my own!
In history, this is an imaginary dynasty, so no matter how you try to change the course of history or how unreasonable the technology you use, it will not be affected here.
It's like a character living in a false picture. Although I can feel that the people around me are all real people, they do not really exist in the long river of history, so there is nothing that will affect future generations.
So there is no need to worry about how outrageous or unreasonable the things you do are. These are completely beyond your imagination.
Su Muyan, at this moment, is like an eagle soaring in the sky, wanton, free, and unrestrained. In life, she truly does whatever she wants without any worries at all.
Days like this are very, very interesting and very, very happy.
After solving their food and clothing problems, the most important thing is to solve the economic problem. Whether a country can become strong in essence depends on the state of its economy.
But it was obvious that the king of the country he was in now was extremely incompetent in the past, and he had severely withheld taxes. Coupled with years of natural disasters, the economy was in a mess.
If he wanted a nine-year-old emperor to sit firmly on the throne, he had to restore the country's economy.
How should the economy recover? First and foremost, we should vigorously develop transportation. Due to the inconvenience of transportation, it will bring about a lot of blockages.
Whether it is information blockade, technological blockade, or material blockage, in short, these are all detrimental to economic development.
Su Muyan stayed in her princess mansion these days, thinking that since she had been promoted to a princess, she had to make some contributions of her own to the country.
So I found various topographic maps of the country, and used them to figure out, bit by bit, how to establish transportation first.
There is no need to think about other routes, but water routes might be worth considering.
If the entire land route is to be built, a huge expenditure will be required, and after it is built, there will still be problems such as bandits and robbers.
These are not things that can be completely accomplished in a short period of time, but water routes are different. As long as the route is planned well, as long as people who are familiar with water are found, and as long as a large ship that is suitable for water travel is found, it will definitely work.
Moreover, it can make people on both sides of the river feel relieved, exchange items, and realize circulation. In this way, both the information on the upper and lower sides can be activated, and the items can be circulated. This is not to be underestimated for the recovery of the economy.
So after a few days of thinking hard with a topographic map, I finally discovered that I could create a completely closed waterway.
Since this is an inland area, it can only form a closed waterway. If you want to reach other countries, it is really impossible unless you blow up the mountains yourself.
Of course, it’s not impossible to blow up the mountain, but I don’t want to be so high-profile at the moment!
So I thought, why not open up domestic shipping first, wait for them to develop, see if they can adapt? Then decide whether to blast the mountain? Let this shipping be opened to other countries.
After studying it countless times with paper and pen, we finally decided on the route. Several routes are designed to be convenient for people from all over the place.
During this period, the Queen Mother had also found suitable ship merchants, suitable sailors and suitable items.
Su Ran naturally knew that this matter was of great importance, so it was impossible to let the common people do it. Such an important place needed to be controlled by the royal family.
Su Muyan did not comment on this point. Shipping is indeed very important. In serious cases, it can be regarded as the economic lifeline of a country. Therefore, it is impossible to hand it over to people with ulterior motives to run it.
We cannot allow such hidden dangers to arise, so it is better to have royal control from the beginning.
The opening of shipping lines will certainly not be smooth sailing, but even after it is promulgated, it is only a matter of time before things go wrong.
In addition, this matter has its own other examples. In Hanzhong, the wind and water were in sync, so within just one month, all the navigation channels had been cleared, including some particularly dangerous places, which were all marked out.
All these marked items were drawn on a water transport map.
Su Muyan, the summer camp required everyone living in Yan'an to have this map, so everyone copied down these maps quickly.
The purpose is to encourage the fishing boat economy and the shipping economy. The royal family can control the bulk of the profits, but these non-governmental organizations still have to take charge of the smaller details.
Otherwise, the economy is likely to recover, but it will not be negative enough, prosperous enough, or active enough.
The exchange of various materials is ultimately an exchange between upstream and downstream parties, but due to his painstaking efforts, he has formed a closed loop.
So throughout the entire journey, the supplies that the merchant ships brought out from the imperial capital were sold out without any hindrance along the way!
When the shipping line was opened, many people were very excited because they were gradually seeing hope from their own country and gradually feeling that their country was becoming prosperous step by step. The sense of pride radiating from the inside out was truly enough to make people feel that the power of faith is so strong that they can't imagine it.
Therefore, the people along the river spontaneously clean the river every day to ensure that nothing will endanger the shipping in the river.
The economies of both sides of the strait were rapidly boosted by the fleets of merchant ships, and the impoverished villages upstream and downstream were gradually transformed into prosperous towns.
Many rich people emerged. They were the first to try new things, so they were naturally treated preferentially.
The merchant ship trip made them a lot of money!
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