And because it is being built simultaneously in the north and south, the progress is very fast, with an average of more than 20 kilometers per month, totaling about 50 kilometers. Therefore, it is expected that by the beginning of next year, the first railway, the Beijing-Xiangyang Railway, will be officially opened to traffic.
Or there is a lack of easily liquid funds.
I believe that once these technologies are solved, it will be time to build thermal power and hydropower plants.
External raw materials continued to flow in, and wealth continued to flow into the people under the impetus of the new policies. The people's consumption capacity and purchasing power increased day by day, and food, clothing, housing and transportation became affordable for the vast majority of people.
Although the target of recruitment is still outstanding high school graduates from all walks of life, they must also take exams and pass the assessment before they can be admitted.
Workers must be paid for building dams, constructing roads, reclaiming fertile land, and developing water conservancy projects.
As long as this railway is completed, the connection between Sichuan and Bianliang will be further strengthened, and it will also greatly improve the canal trade, which is currently overwhelmed.
But compared with the past, it is already a huge improvement.
It can be said that the current repair work is in preparation for the future construction of a national highway.
By last year, after more than four years of development, the total mileage of the original basic rural roads, county roads, and state roads that had been repaired had reached more than 13,000 kilometers.
Lack of money.
Even under such circumstances, the new political system changes only caused a slight stir among the people. The people just treated it as something new, and after listening to it, they no longer paid attention to it.
Even if all the mints in the Song Dynasty worked at full capacity, it would still be difficult to meet the growing domestic demand.
Therefore, the circulation of paper money is urgent. While stimulating consumption, it can also ensure the court's fiscal revenue - as long as paper money can be recycled, exchanged for gold, silver and copper, and used for taxation, it can fully serve as credit currency.
Therefore, to a certain extent, every step Zhao Jun took was far-sighted. Whenever the Song Dynasty lacked something, he would immediately make up for it, thus avoiding stagnation in development.
Just when the development of the Song Dynasty was on the right track and its GDP was growing at a double-digit rate every year, the situation in Japan was very bad.
The Song Dynasty was thriving, while Japan's domestic economy was on the verge of collapse.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, Japan gradually recovered from its closed-door policy and began to have official exchanges with the Central Plains dynasty, vigorously promoting the development of private trade.
As a result, due to the large influx of Song Dynasty handicrafts, the domestic handicraft industry was almost destroyed, Japan's native currency "Qianyuan Dabao" was also replaced by Song Dynasty currency, and the entire country's economy was controlled by the Southern Song Dynasty.
In later generations, more than 3.5 million Southern Song Dynasty copper coins were unearthed in Japan. There are also many currencies that have not been unearthed or have disappeared in the long river of history. This shows the economic situation of Japan at that time.
The ruling Taira clan was very troubled by this and almost thought of closing the country to the outside world again, but eventually gave up the idea.
Japan's economy today is even more exaggerated than during the Southern Song Dynasty.
The domestic handicraft manufacturing industry completely lost its competitiveness and was completely monopolized by the Song Dynasty's products.
Japanese people now have only a few options for employment. One is to cultivate the land as farmers, the second is to engage in business and buy goods from the Song Dynasty from the ports in the Iwami area and transport them to other places for sale, and the third is to work as manual laborers.
For example, they did jobs such as mining, transporting, and escorting. A large number of women worked as prostitutes, maids, and hostesses at the Iwami Port terminal, and a large number of people from all over the country also moved to the Iwami area.
You should know that the total population of Japan in 1047 was only about five or six million, but now there are hundreds of thousands of people in the Iwami area alone, more than in the capital.
The economic environment in other places was very bad. Gold, silver and copper from all over the country were transported to Iwami, then loaded onto Song Dynasty ships and transported back to the country in exchange for food, tea, silk, ink, books, brushes, etc.
This situation caused great concern to the current ruling regent Fujiwara family and the current emperor, Emperor Go Reizei.
However, due to the complicated relationships within the Fujiwara family and the fact that Emperor Go-Reizei currently has no real power, they have been unable to unite and discuss countermeasures. As a result, the country is now completely left to its own devices.
It was not until recent years that many local powerful families gradually stopped paying tribute to the imperial court, recruited soldiers and tended to be independent, which attracted the attention of the Fujiwara family and the emperor.
In September of the seventh year of the Qingli reign of the Song Dynasty and the second year of the Eishō reign in Japan, in Heian-kyō, the imperial palace in the current capital of Japan.
Emperor Go-Reizei, Regent and Left Minister Fujiwara no Yorimichi, Right Minister Fujiwara no Kyomitachi, Interior Minister Fujiwara no Yorimune, Grand Councilor Fujiwara no Nobunobu, Middle Councilor Fujiwara no Nagaie and others sat cross-legged.
In the ancient Japanese political system, the main positions were such as the Left Minister, Right Minister, Home Minister, Dainagon, Chunagon, and Councillor.
The Tenghara family held almost all high-ranking official positions in Japan, which shows how powerful they were.
However, due to the considerable conflicts between the brothers, Left Minister and Regent Fujiwara no Yorimichi and Right Minister Fujiwara no Yorimichi, the Fujiwara family has been engaged in internal strife in recent years and has been unable to focus on politics, allowing local warlords to gradually become stronger and the prestige of the Japanese court to plummet.
The conflict originated from the fact that Fujiwara no Yorimichi's eldest son, Fujiwara no Tsufusa, died of illness three years ago.
Since Fujiwara no Yorimichi's biological second son Fujiwara no Michiaki was only five years old, Fujiwara no Yorimichi wanted his eldest son Fujiwara no Nobuie to inherit the power of the Fujiwara family.
To put it simply, the eldest brother's heir was too young, so the second brother wanted his eldest son to inherit the family. The eldest brother naturally disagreed, which led to a rift between the brothers. They have been fighting openly and secretly in recent years, allowing the local family to gradually grow.
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