nownovels Chapter 668: Improve Transportation And Promote The Rapid Circulation Of Excess Materials, [Please S
Chapter 668: Improve Transportation And Promote The Rapid Circulation Of Excess Materials, [Please S
Zhu Yuanzhang below, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, all fell into deep thought when they heard this.
Because what Yan Changqing just said not only involves the so-called establishment of an economic industrial chain from state-owned supply to state-owned sales, but also involves the retirement or transfer of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!
If the retirement time of the Ming Dynasty soldiers is advanced from the age of fifty to the age of forty-five, this will bring about a lot of things.
For example, the reduction and replenishment of Ming Dynasty’s active soldiers!!!
Nowadays, the total number of soldiers and officers in the Ming Dynasty's army and navy is about 1.2 million to 1.3 million.
If all Ming soldiers over forty-five years old were transferred to the large logistics and transportation teams affiliated to the national court, then the number of Ming soldiers today would be reduced by at least 200,000 to 30 million.
In other words, the overall number of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty will be reduced by about one-sixth.
And where will the reduced one-sixth of the number of soldiers be replenished?!!
And after replenishing it, how long will it take to form real combat effectiveness?!!
In addition, during this period, how should we deal with and solve the problems caused by unstable border defense, unstable coastal defense, and local instability?!!
And how should the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers be arranged after their transfer to the army? How should their status, treatment, etc. be arranged?!!
Should we continue to give them the original status and treatment of Ming Dynasty soldiers?!!
Or should we reset the identity and treatment of large logistics and transportation personnel?!!
There are other issues like this.
It can be said that although Yan Changqing said it lightly, if the matter of transferring all Ming soldiers over forty-five years old to the large logistics and transportation team affiliated to the national court is really implemented.
Then there will inevitably be a big turmoil in the borders and localities of the Ming Dynasty, and even among the soldiers in the capital.
However, although the turmoil is not small, for Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, it is actually the same thing.
If they really want to implement it, they can implement it, but it will only be more troublesome at best.
Therefore, they did not object to Yan Changqing's proposal, but thought about the troubles that would arise if they adopted Yan Changqing's proposal, and how to solve these troubles.
Yan Changqing on the podium glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang who was thinking, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Fang, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, and continued:
"Although as I just said, 'if the long-distance transportation costs are ignored, it is theoretically possible to sell for how much a pound of sea salt and salted fish in Haizhou City.
"But for the sake of maintaining the normal operations of the supply and marketing cooperatives just mentioned, amortizing long-distance transportation costs, and the fiscal revenue needed by the court, etc.
"It is not recommended to sell it directly to the people at the price of local sea salt and salted fish in Haizhou City."
“Because although this will greatly benefit the people, it will require the imperial court to continuously subsidize the operating expenses of supply and marketing cooperatives in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, as well as logistics and transportation expenses.
"For a long time, the imperial court will not be able to continue like the Huimin Pharmacy that provides free diagnosis, treatment and medicine to poor military and civilian people."
"So I suggest taking the path of small profits but quick turnover."
"For example, if the local salted fish sales price in Haizhou City is three cents or five cents per catty, then the final price of salted fish sold to people all over the Ming Dynasty can be considered to be six cents or eight cents per catty. !!!"
"Of the excess profit of three cents, one cent was used to maintain the daily operations of the supply and marketing cooperatives in various places in the Ming Dynasty, one cent was used to equally subsidize long-distance logistics and transportation costs, and one cent was used as the income and profit of state-owned enterprises and turned over to the state treasury."
"Although the final price of salted fish is six cents or eight cents per catty, it is still more than half or twice as expensive as the local selling price in Haizhou City."
"But compared with the current price of salted fish that costs more than ten or twenty cents per catty, the price of salted fish that costs six cents or eight cents per catty is already a big discount."
"The money that used to buy salted fish meat once can now buy two or even three times of salted fish meat. This is enough to allow more people to afford salted fish meat."
“And this process, from the production of sea salt and salted fish, to the transportation in between, and finally to the final sales, is all handled and executed by state-owned enterprises. It can be said to be an economic industry chain from state-owned supply to state-owned sales. "
I heard Yan Changqing say that salted fish meat was sold in Haizhou City for three or five cents per catty, and in various places in the Ming Dynasty it was sold for six or eight cents per catty.
No matter whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang, who had suffered a lot of hardships, or Prince Zhu Biao, the most kind-hearted among the princes, they had no objections.
They don't necessarily want to sell salted fish for how much per catty in Haizhou City, but how much they can sell for per catty in various places in Ming Dynasty.
For them, they can ensure the normal operation of related affairs without losing money, and then make a profit.
Finally, it will be enough to lower the current price of salted fish meat so that more people can afford to eat salted fish meat.
Princes such as King Zhu Feng of Qin, King Zhu Fan of Jin, and King Zhu Di of Yan felt that the profit of three cents was still a little less, and the profit should be increased to four cents.
One penny was used to maintain the operation of supply and marketing cooperatives across the Ming Dynasty, one penny was used to share the cost of long-distance transportation, and the remaining two penny was turned over to the state treasury.
After all, the national court's financial revenue has increased, and the national court can mobilize more human and material resources to do more things.
For example, using employment instead of service, hiring more people to build concrete roads, or building more water conservancy facilities to benefit the people, or mobilizing the army to continue the Northern Expedition, etc.
These are things that only the country's court can do if it is rich, and it must be very rich.
"In addition, the road conditions in Daming today are still too bad."
"If the roads in various provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties under the Ming Dynasty and Tongtian are still the same dirt roads full of potholes."
"Then [Daming Haizhou Sea Salt Enterprise] and [Daming Haizhou Sea Fish Enterprise] cannot transport the sea salt and salted fish produced in Haizhou City to the provincial level Daming in just twelve days. Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative.”
"Similarly, supply and marketing cooperatives at the prefecture level and state level cannot distribute and transport sea salt and salted fish from the ten levels above to the next level within just seven or five days."
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"Of course, sea salt and salted fish are both shelf-stable foods."
"Whether it takes five days, seven days, 12 days, or a month to deliver to the local township supply and marketing cooperatives actually has little impact.
“However, as the ‘economic industrial chain from state-owned supply to state-owned sales’ that occupies a dominant position in the industry of ‘food, clothing, housing, transportation, and people’s basic needs’, it is impossible for it to only supply and sell sea salt and salted fish. "
“In the future, inelastic commodities in industries related to ‘food, clothing, housing, transportation, and people’s basic needs’ need to be integrated into this economic industry chain from state-owned supply to state-owned sales. "
"In other words, in the future, in addition to [Daming Haizhou Sea Salt Enterprise] and [Daming Haizhou Sea Fish Enterprise], in the future, there will be other companies related to 'clothing, food, housing and transportation [Kang Sheng Gang Needs].
State-owned enterprises in the line of inelastic goods. "
"For example, [Daming Coal Enterprise] specializes in purchasing briquettes, [Daming Grain Storage Enterprise] specializes in purchasing grain, [Daming Textile Enterprise] specializes in purchasing cloth, and [Daming Logistics Transportation Enterprise] specializes in logistics and transportation of state-owned materials. 】
"One after another, these state-owned enterprises involved in inelastic commodities in the industry of 'food, clothing, housing, transportation, and people's livelihood' will all pass through the roads of various provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties under the Ming Dynasty and Tongtian. "
"Transport and distribute state-owned materials from various state-owned enterprises to supply and marketing cooperatives throughout the Ming Dynasty."
"At that time, in one day, there may be tens of thousands, 100,000, or even hundreds of thousands of vehicles equipped with various state-owned materials, running on the roads of Ming Dynasty's provinces, prefectures, states, and counties."
"There are so many, so frequent distribution and transportation of state-owned materials.
"If the road environment is too poor, it will inevitably restrict the transportation speed of these state-owned materials."
"If the transportation speed is slow, more transportation manpower will be needed to transport these state-owned materials."
"For example, if a concrete highway is built, it will only take about twelve days to transport sea salt and salted fish from Haizhou City. The soldiers responsible for transporting sea salt and salted fish can transport it twice in a month. Supplies.”
"But if the concrete highway is not repaired, the soldiers responsible for transporting sea salt and salted fish will only be able to transport supplies once a month."
"If you want to transport sea salt and salted fish twice in a month, you will need to pay twice as much manpower, material resources and other transportation costs."
"The same principle applies to transporting other state-owned materials."
"By then, the number of soldiers responsible for transporting these state-owned materials alone will be at least hundreds of thousands."
"However, the imperial court may be able to transfer 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers over the age of 45 to be transferred to the army to be responsible for large-scale logistics and transportation, but it is impossible to transfer 300,000 to 400,000 soldiers to be transferred to the army to be responsible for large-scale logistics and transportation."
“On the one hand, the cost of human resources involved is too high, and on the other hand, if too many manpower is invested in the large logistics and transportation industry, it will affect the manpower resources required by other industries.
"To put it bluntly, it means that it costs too much money and requires a large number of manpower in other places, so we cannot invest so much human, material and financial resources in the large logistics and transportation industry.
“And if there are not enough manpower responsible for transporting state-owned materials, the road environment is not good, the transportation speed cannot be increased, and there are many state-owned materials that need to be transported and distributed.
"Then there will be a large amount of state-owned supplies that cannot be quickly transported and distributed to where they are needed in a short period of time."
"In other words, it is difficult for the national court to quickly transfer excess supplies from other places to areas lacking supplies in a short period of time.'
"And if that's not possible."
"Then what was said before, that the national court occupies a dominant position in the industry of 'food, clothing, housing and transportation, people's basic needs', and is responsible for the long-term and stable supply of inelastic commodities needed by the people of the Ming Dynasty and the stabilization of the prices of inelastic commodities, will be greatly compromised.
Speaking of this, Yan Changqing couldn't help but sigh.
Normally, the total amount of materials produced by society as a whole is actually far greater than the amount of materials that humans can consume in the current society.
For example, in Yan Changqing's previous life, the total amount of food in the world was enough to feed 10 billion people.
Even if we only consider solving the most basic problem of food and clothing, then this number can be increased to more than 15 billion people.
But among the world's population of 8 billion in his previous life, one-tenth, or about 800 million people, were still facing the problem of hunger.
On the one hand, it is because of capital control and manipulation.
For example, the four major grain merchants control 5% of the world's
Ten, or even 60% of the total grain output.
They can rely on the food rights they hold to hoard and sell at will to disrupt the trend of international tax prices. They can buy low and sell high, monopolize international olive oil futures at will, and artificially manufacture food.
A little less, to seek greater illegal benefits for themselves.
This has led to food shortages in some areas and people are facing hunger.
On the other hand, it is the difference in environmental factors of grain production areas and scientific and technological means of rational land utilization, which leads to unbalanced grain production.
For example, there are three major black soils in the world. The soil of black soil is the most fertile, so the food yield is almost the highest.
As for other wastelands and saline-alkali lands, let alone food production, they may not even be able to grow food.
In addition, the scientific and technological means of rational land utilization in Asia, Europe, North America and other regions are relatively advanced, while the scientific and technological means of rational land utilization in Africa and other regions are relatively backward. Naturally,
The grain output in Asia, Europe, North America and other regions is much higher than that in non-Africa regions.
On the other hand, there is the difficulty of resource scheduling, transportation and distribution.
If grains from Asia, Europe, North America and other regions are dispatched, transported and distributed within the country, the speed of dispatched transportation and distribution is basically calculated on a daily basis.
However, if you want to dispatch and distribute grain from Asia, Europe, North America and other regions to non-regions, then the speed of dispatch and transportation is basically calculated on a monthly basis.
In other words, even if there is excess grain in Asia, Europe, North America and other regions that can be dispatched, transported and distributed to non-regions, it will not solve the problem of non-use in those areas.
Hunger during food transportation.
In the same way, the current total output of social materials in Ming Dynasty is actually enough to feed the current 60 million people of Ming Dynasty and solve the food and clothing problem of the current 60 million people of Ming Dynasty.
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However, it is also limited by the three reasons similar to the above, which makes it impossible to solve the food and clothing problem of the current 60 million people in the Ming Dynasty (the better Zhao is).
Now, the first issue is the control and manipulation of capital or merchants.
As Zhu Yuanzhang decided that the national court should occupy the dominant position in the industry of "food, clothing, housing, transportation, and people's livelihood", it will naturally be solved.
Second, the environmental factors of grain production areas are different from the scientific and technological means of rational land utilization, which raises the issue of the required product push.
This can solve the second half, which is the problem of different scientific and technological methods for rational land utilization.
This can be done through the imperial court to promote new and advanced planting technologies, thereby ensuring that all regions can master the most advanced planting methods.
As for the environmental factors of grain production areas, this cannot be solved with the current productivity level of Ming Dynasty.
As for the third one, the difficulty of resource scheduling, transportation and distribution.
This can be solved by building roads.
By building roads and speeding up the flow of excess materials from all over the world, areas that lack certain materials will naturally be able to quickly get corresponding supplies.
This will curb the rise in prices caused by the lack of supplies and ensure the supply of supplies for people's daily lives.
In this way, ordinary people will not have to spend a lot of money to buy off-price materials.
With the cost of living reduced, people will naturally be able to live better.
After listening to Yan Changqing's story about Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, the same thought flashed through their minds:
【Build the road! Build the road!! Build the road!!!】
[The first big thing in Ming Dynasty this year is to build roads!!!]
[Even with all the efforts of the whole country, we must repair the cement concrete highways connecting all provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties as soon as possible!!!]
【If this road is not repaired, you are not a human being!!!】
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