Su Shi alertly discovered a problem, but this problem was a sign that had never appeared in this era, with overcapacity.

The most direct impact of overcapacity is that too many things are produced cannot be sold. Li Guojian produces time-consuming and labor-intensive things such as steel, lime, etc., and there are very few handicrafts that can be exported.

The most direct impact of overcapacity is that the prices of these things begin to drop. He is worried that the goods from Li Guojian will affect the prices of goods in the entire country.

He quickly sent Zhao Zhen the memorial to him with a memorial. Zhao Zhen was very surprised that overcapacity did occur, but in the feudal era when materials were poor, this situation was almost prone to occur and was consumed by powerful internal and external demands.

Because the overcapacity that occurred before was almost all the products of agricultural products or handicrafts, the consumption capacity was amazing, and the main reason was that it was low prices and easy to store, so time could slowly consume the dividends of this bumper harvest. After all, the base of the population is huge.

So it was called a bumper harvest at that time, not overcapacity. What is the real overcapacity?

Overcapacity means that the production capacity is extremely strong and has exceeded the needs of society. Production capacity refers to the ability to produce products. In fact, overcapacity is not overcapacity. Even if the product is not surplus, the production capacity may be overcapacity.

Seeing this requires a long-term vision and solid economic basic knowledge. Su Shi already has both of these things, so he saw all of this in Liguojian and submitted a memorial to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen had some of his own views on the issue of overcapacity. After all, this world was still in the middle of the Middle Ages, and there was no Renaissance or Industrial Revolution in the Western world. However, the Eastern Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty, was already beginning to make secret changes, a change that concealed the world.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen was not worried about overcapacity, especially the emergence of hundreds of thousands of refugees in Tianzhu. The things they produced in Liguojian were all needed for the development of the Song Dynasty. There was nothing wrong with it. Even the huge market of the Song Dynasty could be completely consumed.

Zhao Zhen had no intention of family planning. In this era, as long as there is enough food to feed the family, the population will grow explosively. Of course, there was no spontaneous drowning of newborns in ancient times, but it was all caused by insufficient food.

The Song Dynasty has now separated from the demand for food and clothing, so cases of drowning newborns are almost invisible. Moreover, the Song Dynasty has vast land, and the countries in the South China Sea still have huge land waiting to be developed and still have huge domestic demand.

If the Song Dynasty cannot consume it in China, it can be solved through exports. Don’t forget that the Song Dynasty is already the largest exporter of products in the world, and the factory of Li Guojian is not a single manufacturing.

Therefore, after being submitted by Su Shi, Zhao Zhen used it as a warning and stored it in the secret pavilion. At the same time, he issued an imperial edict to Su Shi, and only four words were "worrying about the world".

At present, the Song Dynasty is not only not facing the problem of overcapacity, but the production capacity is insufficient. The Song Dynasty, with such a large territory, needs to build too many places, and even prepare for the Tubo that has not yet been captured.

The expenses of the court have also increased day by day. In addition, the continuous development of the countries in the South China Sea, the materials consumed in hundreds of thousands or millions each year. Zhao Zhen still feels that the production capacity is insufficient and cannot support the faster and faster development pace of the Song Dynasty.

Su Shi only saw the overcapacity of production capacity in a corner of Yunnan, but did not see the needs of the entire country and the world. You should know that only one country in the world can produce goods on a large scale and have factories with steam engines.

Moreover, the prototype of the industrial revolution that emerged in the Song Dynasty and imperial capitalism were completely driven by a force that was not in line with history. Zhao Zhen was selfish and did not make all this public.

Until now, the factory in Dasong is still a place with high security, and the craftsmen and core in the factory are strictly kept secret, especially steam engine technology and some monopoly technologies.

The steam engine led to the industrial revolution, and Zhao Zhen did not expect the steam engine technology mastered by the Song Dynasty to flow abroad without preparation or the emergence of substitutes. He wanted to keep the Song Dynasty in a monopoly position.

In fact, this is true. The Song Dynasty began to "suck blood" on the entire world through its monopoly on various commodities. It was because of the huge profits made the lives of the people of the Song Dynasty better and better, and became the basis for the stability of the Song Dynasty.

What is the result of the people having enough food and clothing? Of course, it is social stability, imperial power and the stability of the rule of the Zhao family.

The population growth of the Song Dynasty was already quite objective, but it was not enough to support a huge territory. Zhao Zhen knew that if the territory was to stabilize, a huge population would inevitably be needed as the base.

From Lake Baikal to Lake Baikal in the north, to Sanfoqi and even the Abbot of the Abbot, to the east, to the Kingdom of Wa, Ryukyu, and to the City of Hengluos in the west, the territory of the Song Dynasty was far beyond the 9.6 million square kilometers that Zhao Zhen had originally envisioned.

The image of the Song Dynasty on the map was not the rooster he thought of at first, but a huge dragon head, with the mouth of the dragon head being Tubo. The Tubo Plateau has not yet been included in the territory of the Song Dynasty on the map.

Once included, the Song Dynasty was a vast and boundless behemoth, and the production capacity required by this behemoth was even more amazing.

Every day, Zhao Zhen would take a look at the map. This was his achievement and his masterpiece. The other half of later generations, Mongolia was also in the hands of the Song Dynasty. All the peninsulas were surrendered. Japan, an ambitious small land, became the territory of the Song Dynasty. Even their emperor had become the woman in the harem of the Song Dynasty, and it would always be like this.

Hengluo, to the west, was once the farthest place for the prosperous Tang army to reach, but now it has become the key to the border defense of the Song Dynasty, with tens of thousands of troops stationed all year round.

Whenever he saw this, Zhao Zhen would smile happily. After being emperor for a long time, his mentality changed. He did not think that this was such a rare "profession", but the achievements he had achieved were quite amazing.

All have achieved the achievements of "the emperor of the ages", so what else can you not be satisfied with?

After looking at the large area of ​​land missing in the southwest direction, Zhao Zhen always felt a flaw. The Tubo Plateau has always been his concern. Now A San has no ability to compete with the Song Dynasty. Should he send troops to cripples him?

But all this has to be waited for the Song Dynasty to take over Tubo before talking about it. Zhao Zhen suddenly felt a strange idea.
Chapter completed!