Trains are the most powerful means of transportation in the Song Dynasty. There is nothing faster than trains in this world. Although the canal transportation is developed and transported large quantities, it is still not as fast as the speed of the train driving on land. Even compared with the carriages on the road, it is far from the carriages on the road.

The speed of railway construction is actually not as fast as that of highways. Railways consume too much steel. Although it does not require too refined steel, after all, steel of average quality is also very expensive. The railway is too long and requires too much steel.

Fortunately, due to the demand for steel in the Song Dynasty and the gradual transition of commodity society and the increase and leap in smelting technology, the annual steel output of the Song Dynasty was astonishing, almost ten times that of the Tang Dynasty.

The annual output can reach millions of kilograms every year, because of the huge market needs. The secret of the market economy lies in the fact that the relationship between prices and supply and demand is under the control of the market.

As a strategic resource, iron was originally a monopoly sold by the court in the Han civilization. The Han Dynasty is a good example. Iron was a strategic material in the Han Dynasty. It implemented a strict monopoly system. There is no private statement. There is no exception. The number of iron ore 68 places was operated by the court without exception.

This has been inherited in the long history of China. After all, whoever mastered iron tools in the era of cold weapons was to master war resources.

But in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the Tang people discovered the rules and secrets of market operation, and began to gradually open up and allow private private enterprises. Private iron ore taxes were collected based on iron tax of two out of ten, and the number of iron ore increased from the early stage to 104 in the medium stage.

This "secret" was also discovered after the founding of the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty did not have the "simple and crude" as it was in the Tang Dynasty, but instead innovated the Tang people's system.

While inheriting the Tang Dynasty system, the Song Dynasty developed iron resources by coexisting the three parties, including official-public-business, private-business, and private-business. Private-business iron ore classes still used two-ten iron taxes. Here we have to mention the famous "reform master" and "stubborn husband" Wang Anshi.

Zhao Zhen also established the Municipal Affairs Bureau in the three departments, which gave Wang Anshi room to play. In fact, the content was very simple. It was to set up yamen in various parts of the Song Dynasty, which were responsible for the sale of the imperial court. These yamen paid for the purchase and sale of unsold goods and then sold them when the market was short.

This is the simplest means for the court to intervene and regulate the market, especially restricting the control of large merchants over the market, which is conducive to stabilizing prices and commodity exchanges and also increases the government's fiscal revenue.

We can’t make money by monopoly, we can only make profits by expanding scale and production efficiency, and earn more money from the market with quantity and quality.

Therefore, this method greatly increased the number of private iron ores, and the number of Dasong iron ores jumped to more than 200. There were as many as 47 smelting sites in Tokyo and Shendu City alone!

The most important thing is that no matter how steel is produced in the Song Dynasty, there will be no overcapacity. The machines of various factories in the Song Dynasty have already been officially operated and the Road Institution, which is responsible for railway construction, need more than ten thousand steel every year?!

Although the steel production in the Song Dynasty was increasing and decreasing year by year, it was not overcapacity, but too low capacity. Although it had surpassed the previous dynasty, this is an indisputable fact.

During the comprehensive construction, the Song Dynasty consumed millions of kilograms of steel every year, and all the mined iron ore was smelted into steel by simple blast furnaces and sold to all parts of the Song Dynasty.

Whether it is a private or an official iron ore or a smelting farm, they all make a fortune. Under such circumstances, the tax revenue of the court also increased sharply, and the happiest person was the old man Baozhan.

After the salt tax in the Song Dynasty was abolished, the remaining iron tax alone could support the original salt and iron tax, and no one would ever make any remarks about exempting the salt tax.

With the development of studying things, with the increase of scholars, with the continuous development of people's wisdom and the rapid spread of information, the cancellation of salt tax is imperative.

Zhao Zhen took the initiative to abolish the salt tax to avoid embarrassment in the future. Under the guidance of a little knowledgeable teacher, the children in the school can also make edible coarse salt in places with conditions. If this continues, they will only lose face to the court.

The cancellation of the salt tax surprised the people of the Song Dynasty and was even more grateful to the king Zhao Zhen. The salt tax was a tax that concerns the people, and just like the agricultural tax, the lives of the people of the Song Dynasty.

With the abolition of the salt tax and the agricultural tax, the people have more money in their hands. Coupled with the increasing income and a prosperous market, the people's lives are getting better and better.

In this case, the goods bought and sold by the people will enter the treasury of the imperial court in various tax situations. The Song Dynasty's heavy taxes were less, but the commodity tax did not decrease.

These taxes were all added to the goods. The court collected taxes directly from factories and stores, rather than from the people, which greatly reduced the people's disgust and resistance.

It also made the market in the Song Dynasty more prosperous. This was an accelerated period. Judging from the documents sent to Zhao Zhen, the market in the Song Dynasty is still increasing this year and business will still flourish.

The continuous advancement and reform of industry have made the Song Dynasty develop extremely fast. If it continues to develop at this speed, it will even surpass the first industrial revolution in the West.

The reason is very simple, because the population base of the Song Dynasty was too large, with a large population base, a vast territory, and a prosperous market. Under this circumstance, the economic growth of the Song Dynasty seemed like a train that would never stop.

The domestic demand market is enough to catch up with the sum of Western countries' needs. This is an unprecedented situation, and even Zhao Zhen doesn't know what this situation means.

The continuous growth of the population base and the continuous expansion of the domestic demand market have led to the continuous increase in economic growth in the Song Dynasty. All eras are like trains with fuel added to the sky.

Even if the report was reported on the train, it was still being delivered continuously. Since we were ready to hand over the imperial power in our hands after returning to Beijing, we must have a more systematic and intuitive understanding of the Song Dynasty in advance.

说实话不是赵祯不称职,而是他需要了解的东西实在太多,而大宋的发展也太快,在这个时代车轮下的大宋仿佛每天都在变化.

Every once in a while, Zhao Zhen would find that some memorials were full of radical or conservative content, and some memorials would be "stunning" and some were "unattainable".

While the times change, people are also changing. Memorials are the main way for court officials to communicate with emperors. Officials of the six ministries and fourth ranks and above have the right to submit memorials to the emperor directly, while local officials of the prefectures also have such rights.
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