Chapter 295 The Dilemma of Wanderers

Author: Orthodox Khan Ali Buge

Chapter 295 The Dilemma of Wanderers

Seeing this, Guo Kang continued to talk about his thoughts.

He laid so much groundwork and talked about all the strange stories that were related, which made Zhu Wenkui, Xiao Jeona and others very interested. So, we can talk about the main topic.

"England is a good place," he said. "There are cheap coal and cheap manpower there. I hope to build a number of workshops there to make up for our iron deficiencies."

"Why go there to find iron tools?" Zhu Wenkui was indeed very concerned about topics related to his interests. When he mentioned iron, he became serious: "Is the iron in the Black Sea not enough now? If you are a little further away, you should go to Almani.

There are only a lot of people on the British Islands, what is enough to do?"

"The larger the scale of the workshop, the higher the efficiency; the more convenient the transportation, the lower the cost, so it is very important to choose a location. Now these are good by the Black Sea."

"Of course not enough." Guo Kang told him: "In agriculture alone, the annual consumption is very large. Other places have no end. I feel that iron is never enough."

"At the time of the Yuan Dynasty, we introduced blast furnaces, but it is still not enough now. I feel that I can only pile up the amount first."

"This is also..." Zhu Wenkui hesitated.

If I hadn't lived here for many years, Guo Kang might have never thought that iron could still be lacking. Moreover, iron might have a bigger gap as the more I use it. Because with the increase in iron equipment, production efficiency will be

The amount of iron used is getting bigger and bigger. We can only continue to find ways to expand production to fill the gap.

Moreover, many newly developed areas of the Purple Horde are also large iron-consuming households.

Take the Ross region as an example. Until the statistics in 1911, Tsarist Russian farm tools were still mainly made of wood, with almost no agricultural machinery, and even iron tools were not popular: there are 4.2 million iron plows nationwide, and 1,000 wooden plows.

Ten thousand; there are less than 500,000 iron rakes, and 25 million wooden rakes. It can be seen how backward the countryside is in this place.

Guo Kang remembered that there was a saying before that Zhongyuan first used iron tools as agricultural tools and then used them as weapons. Looking back now, even if the iron in the early days was inferior, this was an overly luxurious behavior.

Similarly, popularizing iron farm tools early on is also an inconspicuous thing at first, but I realized how difficult it is to imitate it myself. Now the use of iron for farm tools and daily necessities in the Ming Dynasty is supported by its annual iron output of about 100,000 tons.

——Don’t think that this number is not high. The Jiang family, a “modern country” in the Republic of China, only 50,000 tons a year.

There may be quite a lot of such misunderstandings. For example, Guo Kang also saw a statement that the Seris only used gunpowder as fireworks, not weapons. But in fact, gunpowder has long been a very scarce material, and the whole world may also have it.

Just over there, I can make fireworks even if I am rich.

Thinking about it now, I guess I have become accustomed to the abundance of material things and even my way of thinking is different.

Therefore, as far as the current situation is concerned, of course, we still need to continue to increase iron production. Zhu Wenkui obviously also knows it.

"The countries around us can't help," Guo Kang continued: "Not to mention that many people have bad relationships with us, even if they are willing, the yield is useless. For more gaps, we can only get from the bottom of the gap.

The East has come to make up for it.”

"But, on the one hand, we can't always ask for rewards for free. On the other hand, the ownership of our Dharma here is actually very embarrassing."

"Is that?" Zhu Wenkui didn't seem to think about this problem.

Monk Daoyan sighed and looked at Xiao Jeanna who was still thinking.

Guo Kang was a little hesitant, not knowing whether he should explain directly or guide Xiao Ryanna to speak out. So he looked at Theodora habitually and looked at her opinions.

Theodora nodded slightly and said, "In fact, as long as you understand the biggest differences between other civilizations and Central Plains civilizations, you can understand them easily."

"In the organization..." Xiao Jeona muttered: "Are you all the same?"

"Of course the same when the organization is small, but what about when the organization is large?" Diodora asked back: "What would it take to build a larger and efficient organization?"

Xiao Rangna suddenly showed an expression of enlightenment: "I understand. You mean that the organization of the Central Plains people needs a strong center. But the two centers are incompatible."

"Why can't the two leaders be compatible?" Zhu Wenkui asked curiously: "There are not two emperors."

"That's when the organization is relatively small. What if it grows bigger and bigger in the future?" Xiao Jeona pointed out: "In the Central Plains system, the most efficient and most combat-oriented organization is the government's organization. Or, if an organizational method is

, more efficient than the government, then it will replace the government and become a new government."

"So, as long as the scale and strength of any group grows, it will definitely develop naturally in the direction of the government. If this continues, sooner or later, it will become a competition between the two governments, and of course it will not be compatible."

"That's how..."

"Look, for the past two thousand years, everyone has only recognized one emperor and one imperial court. Once the situation of "there are two days in the sky", they will be instinctively uneasy, and only one of them must be beaten." Xiao Renna thought

After thinking about it, he said, "I think this habit may have become a part of the thinking of the Central Plains. They actually only agree with this single-center structure."

"In this case, people in the Central Plains outside the imperial control area will definitely be in a dilemma - if people want to live, they need an order. Since they are already outside the scope of the court order, there are only two options.

Now.”

"Or, it is to join the order of the locals. But in this way, after a while, you will lose your own characteristics, integrate into the natives, and be assimilated by them. Otherwise, you must establish a Central Plains order by yourself, but this

Order will definitely conflict with the existing order in the local area, and sooner or later will fight."

"In order to deal with this conflict, immigrants in the Central Plains who are unwilling to be assimilated must have a strong organization, otherwise even the natives will not be able to defeat them."

"But if such an organization is established, it will return to the previous problem - it means that there is another government or even another imperial court overseas. This will be even more troublesome."

"The existing courts in the Central Plains will be very alert to it, and may even be more hostile to it than the natives. Because the natives can't defeat it, they can still make peace and coexist with it; but as long as the two Central Plains courts are close enough, they will never be able to get close enough.

It may coexist stably. Therefore, the existing Central Plains courts will not only not support and help them, but may also be hostile from the beginning."

She spread her hands: "This is the dilemma I'm talking about."
Chapter completed!