Chapter 880： Ma Geng is also very important

() The salt and iron monopoly system, in the hands of Marin, became the salt coal monopoly system. For iron, Marin does not pay much attention to it. Why? Because the Chinese feudal dynasty monopolized iron, it was largely due to fears that the people would rebel with iron swords.

However, Marin ’s army has now entered the age of firearms, and cold weapons are no longer important. Therefore, the iron franchise monopoly does not matter. Just like the present Ming Dynasty, the iron part was also released (for the grassland people, the iron trade is prohibited, because the cavalry who use cold weapons are also fierce). Because the Ming dynasty is also a dynasty that attaches importance to firearms. It has stricter control over firearms, and pays less attention to civilian cold weapons, only restricting the smuggling of iron weapons outside the customs. Only the Manchu dynasty, because of fear of artificial rebellion by the Han Dynasty, did not allow civilians to carry swords, and issued many prohibition orders.

Therefore, Marin intends to learn the Ming Dynasty and ban firearms and powerful crossbows only in the private sector. Regardless of the fact (the Ming Dynasty actually banned armor, the ancient Chinese dynasty seems to prohibit civilians from possessing armor. He was convicted and died. However, it is not realistic in Europe. Milan City has even made Milan plate armor into an industry, which is a lot of private trading, it is not easy to prohibit). As for the American colonies, because of the threat of wild bears, Marin can partially release the control of firearms, but only firearms with more restrictive firearms are allowed, and they must be smooth-bore guns, and it is absolutely forbidden to fire muskets and flint guns. A rifled matchlock gun is also prohibited, otherwise it will kill if caught. In this way, even if the American militia rebelled a hundred years later, they used smooth-bore firearms, but they could not beat the regular army using advanced weapons.

Marin, who knows the future well, knows that in order to develop industry and economy, coal is more important than iron ore. Iron ore can be imported, but coal ... Most coal in coal-producing areas is mostly for its own use, and few are exported. Only a resource-rich country like Australia is willing to export coal on a large scale.

Moreover, steel products can be used repeatedly, and coal is a disposable consumable, which is consumed every day. After smelting imported iron ore into steel, it can be used repeatedly. The imported coal is gone as soon as it is burned, and then it has to continue to import in large quantities ...

Therefore, the steel industry centers of later generations are often close to coal mines, not iron mines. Because, importing coal is too cost-effective.

Speaking of which, the later generations of China can show up thanks to the coal resources in Shanxi and West. If there is no coal resources, Huaxia Industry is difficult to get up. The rise of China's economy has been accompanied by the black smoke of coal-burning chimneys. Without coal as an energy source, the so-called Huaxia manufacturing is simply a mirror in the mirror.

Do you think Brazil and Argentina are quite big in later generations? The land is fertile and the population is large. But why can't you become a manufacturing powerhouse? Because these two countries lack coal resources. Brazil is the worst, with so many iron ores, but it lacks coal. Therefore, I had to sell iron ore to others to make steel. Argentina is even more frustrated, because there is a shortage of coal and iron ore. It has to focus on the beef of the Pampas grassland and football. If you want to do industry, you have no resources ...

South America is a very strange area. Although the Andes contain a large amount of precious metals, but the meteor, most areas are seriously lack of energy. Only Venezuela in the north has oil, and Colombia has coal. Other countries seem to lack energy. Therefore, it is difficult for South America to be born as a world-class power. The three big and powerful countries in the world all have rich coal resources. Even the third brother has coal and iron. If it were n’t for Sange ’s bad mind, he believed that the Asanism, which divided people into three, six, and nine, might have no worse development potential than Huaxia.

It is strange to say that Western Europe is so big, but there are not many places with rich coal resources. Needless to say, France is full of tears. Isn't it possible to play nuclear power without seeing future generations? Italy and Spain, looking at the scenery early, left behind as soon as the Industrial Revolution. There is no way, there is no coal ... Only the United Kingdom and Germany are rich in coal and have a strong industrial system ...

German coal is mostly concentrated in the Ruhr area. In addition to the Ruhr area, it seems that there is also Saarland, which is also an important coal producing area. In fact, the geographical location of Saarland is stronger than the Ruhr area. Why? Because Saarland not only has coal of its own, it is also very close to Luxembourg with iron ore, but also relies on Lorraine, which is rich in iron ore resources ... Therefore, when it comes to the potential of the iron and steel industry, the Ruhr area must Gambe downwind. Because of the abundance of coal, the French tried to annex the Saarland twice after World War I and World War II. After all, France is too short of coal ... Luxembourg can become a rich country dominated by the steel industry, and it is also inseparable from the coal-producing region next to Saarland ...

As a World of Warcraft player in his life, Marin would like to name the glass slag, Thrall, Alsace ... are n’t they all German names ... can you imagine a Chinese game company that puts the names of important people Is it named Funan and Hu Jian? Does n’t sound weird?

For Saarland, Marin is not without ideas. However, the Saar region is too far away from Marin's site to reach it! Moreover, the situation there is complicated, there are many princes, and it is very difficult to win there ...

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Shortly after Marin ordered the formation of Beihai Salt Company and Beihai Coal Company, the former Danish counterpart Mikel, who was originally based in Schleswig, also came to report from the eastern region.

For this former Danish counterpart, Marin has always attached great importance to it. Even, at one point, it was right to replace Jeffrey's idea. However, since the Principality of Schleswig was captured from Denmark, Marin worried that the people there would not obey his rule and had to leave Mickel in Schleswig. And after snatching the Jutland Peninsula from Denmark, it is even more inseparable for Mikel's sitting. After all, Mikel is a Danish, once a Danish counterpart, and has a high prestige among Danes. Sitting in the Jutland Peninsula by him, he can definitely maintain local stability and appease the Danes.

In fact, the results of the autumn harvest in Schleswig and Jutland have already been reported to Marin by the messenger. However, Mikel's coming this time was not about the autumn harvest, but it was also related to agriculture ...

"What? You mean you support Ma Geng?" Marin was a little surprised.

Mikel nodded solemnly ...

"Don't you know that the cost of raising a horse is four or five times that of raising a cow? That's the owner of regular oatmeal. Don't tell me you don't know the price of oatmeal ..." Marin said in surprise.

Mikel nodded, but shook his head again:

"Dagong, you only calculated the cost of raising horses. Have you ever calculated the efficiency of horse farming?"

Marin nodded and said:

"I know that the cost of raising a horse is four to five times that of a cow. And the efficiency of plowing a horse is two or three times that of a cow. So, it is still cost-effective to use cow farming!"

Mikel nodded and said:

"That's right, but Dagong, have you ever thought about labor costs?"

"Labor cost?" Marin suddenly froze.

"Yes, the cost of manpower! Now there are so many land in the Beihai country, but our population is only a few hundred thousand people, and there is simply a serious shortage of labor. Therefore, in the absence of labor, horse farming is the best choice."

"But, the cost of breeding ..."

"Dagong, you are a monarch, not a businessman. You have to consider not only the cost, but also the total amount!"

"Yes, from the perspective of feeding costs, raising horses is indeed costly. However, you must also see. If you use horse farming, the fields you can cultivate can be more than doubled. As for breeding costs, Do you really think that raising horses is four or five times higher than raising cattle? "

"What do you mean?" Marin was confused.

"Dagong, you have the most advanced agricultural technology in Europe. So, is the output of planting oats twice that of other countries?"

Marin nodded. Indeed, the yield of oats in Beihai is as high as 3oo pounds, while the oats in other countries are as high as 15o pounds. This is the difference after using new agricultural technology.

"Yeah, since that's the case, is the cost of oatmeal in the North Sea country half lower than in other countries?" Mikel was excited.

Marin thought about it, and it really was so, so he nodded again ...

"In this way, we cannot use the market price to calculate the cost of raising horses. We should use the cost of the North Sea country to calculate the cost of raising horses. In this way, it seems that the cost of raising horses is two or three times the cost of raising cattle!" Dancing hand to hand.

Marin was taken aback, as if it were really ...

"Under the condition that the cost of raising horses is only two or three times that of cattle, is it possible to cultivate more than twice the land of cattle, is the ratio of cost and benefit very close?"

Marin nodded again ...

"When the cost-benefit ratio is close, double the cultivated land, Dagong, you count, which is cost-effective?"

"Ma Geng!" Marin said without hesitation.

"That's right! So, we should keep horse farming and focus on cultivation. Especially in places like Jutland where there are a lot of people and sparse colonies, and the kind of colonies that are more sparsely populated in America ..."

After Marin was silent for a while, he said:

"Okay ~ www.novelhall.com ~ You convinced me! But Mikel, have you thought about it? We can buy a lot of cattle from the Crimean Khanate. But where can we buy a lot of suitable cows? What about a strong horse? "

Mikelton was speechless ...

As Marin said, buying a cow is easy, but buying a suitable horse ...

The Crimean Khanate is able to supply a large number of horses, but this Mongolian descendant country provides horses that are also medium-sized riding breeds. After all, the Crimeans do not grow land, nor do they breed horse breeds.

Therefore, even if Marin is rich, he cannot buy horses suitable for arable land in large quantities. Therefore, Mikel is right when he is right ...

"Well, we can only coexist with horse farming and cow farming ..."

"I think so ..." Marin nodded.

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