Because the Ming Dynasty was undergoing industrialization, cities, especially large cities in wealthy areas, were the locomotives of the industrialization process.
So the content of the second issue of "World Monthly" is also available, that is, the top 20 cities in Ming Dynasty!
The first issue caused a huge sensation and repercussions due to the creation of a national and regional TOP20 ranking list.
The direct evidence is that at a retail price of two silver coins, more than half a million copies were sold.
After excluding the cost and 20% of taxes, the media group can directly receive more than 500,000 silver coins.
Emperor Haojing's aunt and uncle are the major shareholders of the media group, and their grandchildren are getting married.
As an elder, he had nothing to give, so he just gave out red envelopes. Zhu Cixiang directly came up with this idea.
Just the TOP20 ranking list can be done for ten issues at least.
The first phase is for countries and regions, the second phase is for cities, the third phase is for governments, the fourth phase is for companies, and the fifth phase is for rich people.
The sixth issue arranges for heads of state to go into battle, and the seventh issue includes a bunch of powerful empires in history.
The eighth issue uses treasures from all over the world to support the scene, the ninth issue is about miracles from all over the world, and the tenth issue introduces the history of the earth.
After ten rounds, the aunt and his wife will be able to share a total profit of nearly one million, which is a huge red envelope.
Thanks to the good reputation created by the first issue, the second issue sold more than 700,000 copies.
Especially for the cities selected into the top 20 rankings, newspapers have been dedicated to vigorously selling them under the guidance of experts.
This is equivalent to the performance of local officials, and it also serves as an advertisement for the city and can be used as a business card.
Naturally, the one that tops the list is Beidu, which has been painstakingly managed by Zhu Cixiang for more than 40 years. It is unreasonable that it cannot be ranked first.
The second is Nandu, which was once under the rule of the father who dumped the pot. Thanks to the status of companion capital and backup, and the father who deliberately copied homework back then, Nandu is equivalent to a miniature version of the northern capital in many aspects.
The city in third place is not Jiangdu (Yangzhou) or Qiantang (Hangzhou), but Changzhou (Suzhou), located near Taihu Lake.
Thanks to the highly developed textile industry, Changzhou, which controls the production of high-end fabrics, has overtaken Jiangdu.
Qiantang was the largest tea trading center in the entire Ming Dynasty, and its industry status was comparable to that of Changzhou, which was particularly good at silk.
To this day, silk and tea are still one of the main export commodities of the Ming Empire.
Ranked fifth is the once-famous Jiangdu, which has two major specialties - salt merchants and thin horses!
With the rise of Haiyan, the Lianghuai salt merchants lost their glory.
Some of them have switched to other businesses, and some have already started operating sea salt.
The salt workers and their families were moved to Shandong by Shi Kefa, who was based in Huai'an, and continued to work in their old profession with higher incomes.
As a result, the income of salt merchants cannot be compared with the past, and the market for thin horses has taken a turn for the worse.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty's customs did not go astray, even though the emperor's preferences were exactly the opposite.
There are some factors of personal preference, and some people deliberately go against a certain emperor.
The emperor liked fat horses, but they also liked thin horses, and they kept telling themselves that they must continue to like them...
In the sixth place, a northern city finally appeared - Tianjin!
Nandu, Changzhou, Qiantang and Jiangdu, these four cities in the Yangtze River Delta, are called the Four Hegemons of Jiangnan by some people in the northern region.
People are born in a good location, there is nothing they can do about it.
Relying on its import and export industry and shipbuilding industry, Tianjin finally managed to reach sixth place.
Ranking second in the northern city, second only to Beidu, this is already extremely difficult.
This is basically taking advantage of Beidu. If Tianjin hadn't blocked Beidu's good location at the sea entrance, it probably wouldn't even be in the top ten of this list.
The third place in the north is Penglai, a winter-free port, ranked seventh on the list. The characteristics of the city are similar to Tianjin.
Tianjin is considered a port in spring, summer and autumn, while Penglai focuses on import and export business in winter.
The eighth one is still Huating in Songjiang Prefecture, South Zhili, which shows that the development of Jiangnan is obvious.
At the end of the top ten are two cities in South China - Guangzhou and Xiamen, the latter thanks to Zheng Zhilong's many years of business there.
The 11th to 20th rankings are Jinjiang (Quanzhou), Datong, Shanyang (Huai'an), Chang'an, Wuhan (Wuchang Prefecture and Hanyang Prefecture have merged), Chengdu, Qingdao, Wujin (Changzhou), Baoding, and Shenyang.
Among the top twenty, Southern Zhili accounts for five cities (Nan, Su, Yang, Huai, and Chang), accounting for a quarter of the total. Its economic development is evident.
There are three cities in Beizhili (Beijing, Tianjin, and Baoding), which look like a lot. In fact, it is Beidou that is trying its best to pull Tianjin and Baoding to prevent these two little brothers from falling behind.
Among the cities in the west, only Chang'an was selected, even though Shaanxi has completely said goodbye to the imperial relief through the help of oil extraction, mining and railways.
Its economic strength still lags far behind the Jifu region, let alone the Jiangnan area where the group is almost about to take off.
In fact, there are only four places in Shaanxi Hanningxia that are relatively wealthy.
The first is Yanchang Oilfield, the second is Yulin and Shenfu Coal Mines, and the third is Chang'an.
After the oil transporters and miners got rich, those who were unwilling to leave their hometowns and settle in the northern capital would choose to settle in Chang'an.
Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, Chang'an has a particularly large number of wealthy people, even as much as Tianjin.
According to Emperor Haojing, it is also possible for large cities to appear in Shaanxi in the future.
As long as transportation and water resources are solved and we rely on abundant natural resources, there will be no big problem.
Chang'an and Beidu can be regarded as the tail and head of the development of the north.
The economic strength of the Dragon's Tail may not be as good as that of the Four Jiangnan Hegemons, but the Dragon's Head must be able to compete with them and get rid of them.
The total population of the five cities in southern Zhili is comparable to that in northern Zhili, and their economic aggregate is also almost the same.
Although the Jiangnan area has paddy fields with high yields per mu, due to the dense population, the per capita cultivated land area is very limited.
Those farmers who do not plan to move to the south or north can only choose to work in the cities.
This has led to the rapid urbanization of many large cities in southern Zhili.
It's just that in urban architecture, the Ming style remained in the Ming style for a short period of time, and it did not change as quickly as in Beidu New Town.
Except for Nandu, the other four cities are almost all focused on light industry.
The industrial structure of Beidu is similar to that of Southern Capital, with both light and heavy industries taking the route.
Tianjin, Penglai, Qingdao, Xiamen, and Lushun are routes that combine heavy industry and trade.
Different regions have different specialties, so the industrial structure cannot be generalized.
A typical example of the combination of light industry and trade is Qiantang, where silk, porcelain, and tea can all be exported directly.
There are many coastal cities similar to Qiantang, such as Guangzhou, Shuijia (Wenzhou), Jinjiang and other places.
Inland Chengdu, Chongqing, and Wuhan all follow this path, and currently this is the only path suitable for them.
To develop heavy industry, Emperor Haojing would of course prefer the northern region which is rich in resources and can transport raw materials by railway.
The dense water network in the south is naturally more suitable for the development of light industry, and it is also convenient for the rapid shipment of light industry products for export.
The introduction and reviews of each city occupy twenty pages, and the reviews of the twenty cities total four hundred pages.
A magazine with two hundred sheets of paper is as thick as a book, and the content inside is relatively rich, so it is not expensive to buy two silver coins.
Parents and officials from all over the country who were selected on the list also sent people to rush to buy the second issue of the magazine, because this was a rare achievement recognized by the emperor.
Shenyang can be selected into the top 20, even surpassing Luoyang, Kaifeng, Nanchang, Dehua (Jiujiang) and other places, which surprises many people and is even incredible.
Only viewers who have read the magazine's introduction will understand that Shenyang's economy has reached such a stage, all thanks to the vigorous development of a certain industry.
This industry is the paper industry!
Emperor Haojing would definitely be worried about the development of heavy industry here!
The development of light industry here will definitely not be as good as the Jiangnan region.
so what should I do now?
Start the great business of skewers and live broadcast?
Of course not!
There are a lot of trees in the Northeast, so that’s it!
The leading industry of Shenyang's economy is the paper industry, and the body and tail of the dragon are furniture and wood processing.
Trees cut down from all over the Northeast are transported to Shenyang for processing. Semi-finished products are boards, finished products are furniture, and deep processing is paper.
Especially after Ming Dynasty entered the era of newspapers and periodicals, the demand for paper was huge.
The total number of newspapers printed every day exceeds tens of millions, and tens of millions of magazines are sold every month.
Faced with a market of this size, Shenyang, a major northeastern town, has a place to play.
Papermaking only needs to be close to the source of raw materials and does not require high technology.
Just use the technological process passed down from our ancestors. The most important thing is just one thing - make sure you have enough!
To this day, it can be said that the paper produced in Shenyang accounts for more than 30% of the market share in the Ming Dynasty.
If Qiantang, which exports a large amount of tea, is regarded as a tea city, Shenyang is a well-deserved paper city.
Now all factories inside and outside Shenyang are equipped with steam machinery for papermaking. This not only enables large-scale production, but also greatly reduces production costs.
Ordinary people can engage in tree-related businesses in Shenyang, which can ensure that their families have enough food and clothing.
In addition to the relatively long sales cycle of furniture and panels, all paper products are produced on the same day and can be loaded and shipped the next day.
Go south via the railway from Shenyang to Beidu, print publications in Beidu, and then deliver the publications to the mainland and even overseas via railways, highways, water transportation, and sea transportation.
In sharp contrast to Shenyang is Datong, which has no industry that it can excel in.
If I have to say one thing, it is that the inn industry is very developed...
Datong is the confluence of the Northern Railway and the Western Railway, and is the largest city along the two railways.
Going south from Datong is naturally the northern capital, which is definitely incomparable to Datong.
But looking back from Datong, apart from Ning Xia Wei, there is really nothing to see.
Datong is the first choice settlement within the customs for the nearby grassland chiefs, because they can leave the customs and go home at any time.
The supervisors and free miners who begged for food in Monan Jinshan also regarded Datong as the best place for entertainment.
The total number of shopping malls, teahouses, restaurants, inns, casinos, and pawn shops in the city reaches thousands. The development of the service industry ranks first in the Ming Dynasty, even surpassing Jiangdu.
Girls who have made their first pot of gold in Beidu or Tianjin, if they can't find a backer there, will probably go back to Datong to start their own business, because the entry threshold here is not high.
Following the example of Beidu, many new-style buildings were built in Datong City, which were particularly popular among guests after installing flush toilets, telephones, sofas, and running water.
Only Emperor Haojing knew that Datong was taking the route of Las Vegas.
Thanks to the large number of passengers provided by the railway, this method cannot be learned in ordinary places...
After entering the customs, many officials, supervisors, and miners working in the mining areas will choose to spend time in Datong.
Some can go directly to their hometowns, while others have to go to Beidu to report on their work. In Datong, they can first enjoy themselves physically and mentally.
The biggest local industry is coal mining and carbon production, and the rest is metal smelting, and then it's gone.
A place with a coal boss must be a place that young ladies like.
Therefore, the imperial court's garrison in Datong has always only had one brigade. If anything happens, the young ladies can be dispatched.
If something happens that even the ladies can't handle, it means the problem is serious.
Emperor Haojing can justifiably send out planes and tanks to push the local area...
After years of hard work, the situation of many important towns along the Great Wall is almost the same as that of Datong.
The garrison is just for show, and there is no need to be wary of enemies outside the customs.
In fact, the "enemy leader" has already settled in the city. The weather is bad and people are not willing to leave the city!
Those who still graze outside the pass are almost all serious poor people. In bad weather, they will take their herds into the pass to take shelter from the wind.
With Emperor Haojing trying to lure them to their advantage, the grassland chiefs have completely become involved, and they have no intention of changing to another position.
For the lay-win chiefs, driving their own cars for a spin on the grasslands outside the customs is considered a form of relaxation.
The rest of the time, I hug my beautiful concubine in my mansion, watch movies, eat, drink and have fun, how comfortable it is!
A minister once reported that the atmosphere in Datong was bad and needed to be improved urgently.
Both the first assistant Fang Yizhi and the second assistant Xia Wanchun felt that what they said made sense, but they still didn't know what the emperor's attitude was.
Emperor Haojing settled the matter in Datong with only one reason.
The reason is simple. The more Datong is like this, the more assured I will be outside the customs!
Have you ever heard of the allusion of "You are too happy to miss Shu"?
If those chiefs don't eat, drink, have fun, and live in intoxication with their young ladies, how can I feel at ease? ? ?
Using a city to relax the chiefs is good for them and better for Ming Dynasty!
Fang Yizhi and Xia Wanchun were speechless after hearing this...
It’s OK to store swords and guns in the warehouse, and it’s OK to put horses in Nanshan.
But the premise is that you must know what your former enemies are doing every day, so that you can know yourself and the enemy!
There are many factory guards in Datong, and there are also many factory guards' spies, including some young ladies.
Emperor Haojing allocates a sum of money every year to arrange for these people to train in Datong openly or lurk secretly. This is the purpose.
Subtly, loosen the outside and tighten the inside, this is the kingly way!
The era of threatening the chiefs with force has passed. Now the method used is to use young ladies to deal with them!
If one is not enough, just two, or if not, three. In short, you can play the chiefs until their kidneys are weak.
How could a rebellion be possible if one had to hold on to the wall even when walking? ? ?
