The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, besides the school store, there is also the school cafeteria that makes a lot of money. However, when Marin ran the school before, in order to let the children have no worries, the cafeteria did not charge money. In addition, the food production in Beihai is extremely rich, and Marin has too much food in his hands, so it doesn't matter to make money in the cafeteria. Therefore, Marin can only give up the very profitable project of the school cafeteria.

As for the competition from outside stores in the school store, Marin was never worried. why? Because those snacks, most of which are not currently available, are still in Marin's mind. Even if there are, many of them are produced by workshops under the name of Marin.

At that time, when the store opens, even if there is a store outside the school, it will have to purchase from the snack workshop under the name of Marin, and profits will be indispensable. Moreover, Marin can also use administrative power to close the school during the day and prevent children from leaving the school gate during recess. As for sooner or later, there is no way. But anyway, no matter who's shop has to buy from the workshop under his name.

However, Marin recently inspected some rural artisan schools and found that it seems that the children's lunch food is too single. Mainly, the vegetable variety is very lacking.

Right now, in Beihai country schools, apart from the canteens in regular schools attended by noble children who have richer dishes, the school canteens in rural artisan schools generally only provide black bread and hot water. Only in spring and summer, a small amount of vegetables are provided. Because vegetables were the cheapest at that time, and at the same time, the quantity was sufficient. Only during festivals, some salted fish will be served. Therefore, the children of the rural artisan school usually have black bread and hot water for lunch.

Although it is said that pure black bread without soil, wood chips and stones is considered high-end in this era, Marin knows that children in the growing period have a great need for nutrition. In addition, all kinds of vegetables are indispensable. Otherwise, unbalanced nutrition will affect development.

For meat, Marin can't provide too much, at most some salted fish. After all, the school cafeteria provides large quantities of meat for free, and the cost is too high. The cost of salted fish is relatively low because there are more fishing boats under Marin. Especially in the Newfoundland fishing grounds near Newfoundland Island, there is no competition and you can fish as much as you want. The only problem is probably the transportation problem. After all, the cost of transporting the salted fish produced in the Newfoundland fishing grounds back to the mainland and then to various places by land is high.

The cost of sea transportation is okay, but the cost of land transportation is quite high. The draft horses that pull the carts have to eat a lot of food every time they get out of the carts, which is expensive. Therefore, the price of salted fish, which is obviously very low, cannot be lowered when it arrives in the inland areas, including the cost of land transportation. Unless, traffic can be improved, and cement roads will be leveled everywhere. In this way, the carriage is also easy to run and faster.

According to statistics, ordinary horse-drawn carts can only run forty or fifty kilometers a day on dirt roads. This is because European horses are more powerful and pull carts more powerfully. Switching to a dwarf oriental horse breed, according to the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Empty vehicles can travel 70 miles a day, and heavy vehicles can travel 50 miles a day", that is, 35 kilometers and 25 kilometers. Of course, we are talking about single-horse carts here. If it is a multi-horse cart, the speed is different. But the cost of feeding multiple horses is also very high.

According to records, in the 17th century, it took three days for a horse-drawn carriage to travel from Paris, France to Rouen, a total of more than 100 kilometers, with an average of only more than 30 kilometers per day. This is a situation where the road surface is relatively bad. If the road surface is better, like the current situation in Beihai, on ordinary flat roads other than cement roads, one-horse carriages transporting goods can also run forty to fifty kilometers a day.

But if it is replaced by a cement road, it will be very different...

According to the test, if it is a very smooth concrete road, the carriage can run very easily, and can run about 200 kilometers a day. Even if it's not a cement road, it's just a flat stone road like the Roman Avenue. According to records, in 1786, the carriage of the Duke of Croy in France traveled from Calais to Paris from 5:30 in the morning to 8:00 in the evening. At a speed of kilometers per hour, I ran a full 280 kilometers...

Of course, the Duke's carriage is not a single horse, at least three or four horses. Ordinary one-horse carriages, one-horse carriages, need a lot more rest time. Therefore, only on extremely smooth concrete roads can one run at a speed of 200 kilometers per day. It would be scary to run 150 kilometers a day if you switch to Roman avenues or stone roads. However, this is much better than running forty or fifty kilometers a day at present. You know, in later generations, forty or fifty kilometers is just less than an hour's drive by car.

Therefore, to reduce transportation costs, we still have to build roads!

There is no need for a top-grade concrete road, even a cement slab road of the same level as the stone road and Roman Avenue is enough. The current horse-drawn carriage can travel less than 50 kilometers a day on a dirt road with a full load. If it is replaced by a cement slab road, it is no problem to walk 120 kilometers a day, which is more than double. If the cage ball bearing technology is used on the carriage, the resistance is smaller, and it is no problem to run 150 kilometers a day.

Moreover, the current carriage has a low weight, and generally only pulls more than one ton of goods. Although the cement board is relatively thin, it cannot withstand the rolling of later trucks. However, a carriage with a load of only more than one ton will definitely not be able to damage the cement slab road. Besides, even if some cement boards are crushed, they can be easily replaced, which is more convenient.

Before, Marin only made a plan to build cement slab roads among dozens of cities in Beihai to facilitate transportation, and only planned to enlist farmers to build roads during the slack season. However, farmers only have time during the slack season, and when the busy season comes, road construction will be suspended.

Therefore, Marin never thought about building township-level roads. Because, he doesn't have enough manpower.

But it’s better now, because of the plan to introduce Italian migrant workers on a large scale, Beihai can build roads all year round. Not to mention the roads between cities, the construction of roads in villages and towns also has conditions.

Of course, the concrete slab roads between the cities should be repaired first. Cities in various regions are the core of each region. Connecting each city with roads is equivalent to building the aorta. Then, it is considered to build roads leading to the townships under the cities in various places.

In fact, repairing the main roads between dozens of cities in the country can greatly reduce transportation costs. Why is this? Because these dozens of cities can be used as "wholesale centers" in their regions. As for the roads leading to various villages and towns, there are still solid roads and gravel roads. Moreover, generally the distance between the following townships and major cities in the area will not exceed 50 kilometers. Even if the horse-drawn carriage cannot travel on the smooth concrete road, it can only run 50 kilometers a day, which is enough to transport goods to various towns under the city.

For example, the transportation cost of salted fish will be greatly reduced immediately, making it affordable for ordinary people. However, the transportation of vegetables is a bit more troublesome.

Because it is different from salted fish. Salted fish are shipped from overseas, first stop in various cities, and then scattered to the surrounding towns. Salted fish are resistant to storage, and they are not afraid of a long time, nor do they care about the long time of transporting to the villages and towns. In the same way, those snacks packed in oiled paper bags are also very durable, and they also spread from cities to towns.

With vegetables, it's the other way around. Vegetables are mainly produced in the countryside and then scattered to the cities. The more convenient the roads, the more and fresher vegetables can be transported to the city. Moreover, the price will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, in order to allow the people of Beihai and the children in the school to eat sufficient and cheap vegetables, Marin not only needs to encourage manors around the world to open up vegetable planting areas. Moreover, township-level concrete roads need to be built to facilitate farmers to transport vegetables to cities.

As for the policy of connecting roads to every village in China in later generations, Marin dared not play. why? This is too costly in materials and manpower. Later generations of Huaxia dared to do this based on the fact that China had a lot of construction machinery in the 21st century. For example, when digging a river, a large number of excavators are directly used, and manpower is no longer needed. The same is true for road construction, mainly machinery, and the efficiency is also very high.

But now that Marin doesn't have those construction machinery, repairing a township-level cement slab road is already very costly. It means that Marin has a lot of money and food, and he has the capital to play like this. A contemporary European monarch would not even be able to afford to build roads in towns and villages.

As for the difficulty of transporting the vegetables in the village to the roads in the town, Marin also has a solution - directly build the vegetable base on the side of the town or on the side of the road. In this way, it will not hinder the fast transportation of fresh vegetables to the city through the township road.

In order to make it easier for his subordinates to advocate a name for himself, Marin thought about it and decided to name the plan to promote vegetable planting around towns and township roads as "Vegetable Basket Project"...

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