Zhao Xin got the news of the Northwest War situation and started his journey, but he didn't know that things had changed dramatically, at that time, there was no top-level silk, and the exchange with the Liao State, thousands of horses of silk, actually exchanged for a large number of livestock, so that the number of transactions in the Lingzhou contract from the original 13 million head of livestock, became two or three times, and the number of horses also increased greatly.

But even if he didn't know about these increases, there were almost 2 million horses in the Lingzhou Agreement before, and his purpose was for those millions of horses.

The use of horses in the military, or in the long-distance trafficking of chambers of commerce, is the least desirable, and not only does not promote the development of commerce, but rather delays it.

Some people say that the Chamber of Commerce will buy a large number of horses because of the lack of horses, and it can be seen from this Weizhou transaction.

However, this profit is only for the profit of the Chamber of Commerce, and the businessman is in pursuit of profits, will he take the initiative to lower the price? The Chamber of Commerce has invested a huge amount of money, and it is bound to recover the cost immediately, so the freight still remains at a relatively high level.

If the reform of the Daimyo's blacksmith workshop appeared in the hands of ordinary merchants, what would be the final result, it can be said unceremoniously, it would never be like Zhao Xin, who took the initiative to reduce the price to about 30 Wen, and even after successive technological improvements, the price was greatly reduced.

Businessmen are always in pursuit of profits, when 70 Wen can be sold, who would have thought that 60 Wen can be sold more, or even 50 Wen?

This has something to do with the weak innovation ability of ancient businessmen, many times, ancient businessmen, will take a thing, and then sell it for a lifetime, this is a common problem, in a lifetime of career, how many people, will take the initiative to reduce the price, that is not to send the money in hand to the outside?

Zhao Xin has enough products to make money, and at the same time, he also hopes that the products of the Navy are the most extensive and for the entire public.

Sustainable development, with high wages and treatment, to cultivate a broader market, this is what should be done, which is also the fundamental reason why Zhao Xin spent a lot of effort to build the railway.

According to the 2,000-mile railway, the total investment is 700-8 million yuan, 200,000 kilometers, which is almost 7 to 800 million, which is a huge and terrifying astronomical amount in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it is not an unacceptable number.

Shipping costs are one of the biggest problems restricting commercialization, and sometimes, it's more terrible than the gold and the gates.

The gold will increase the cost, but the overall is not much, after all, there are a few people who dry up and fish, but the freight is a massive increase, or even an unlimited amount.

Taking Bianliang to the northwest, the freight of 2,000 miles, the terrible cost of 5 guan per stone, makes any product with a sales price of 20 guan per stone have no value in long-distance trafficking.

Commercialization is not about manufacturing high-value products, although Dingjun also occupies some high-value products, but these are not the mainstream, look at these fields in which Zhao Xin intervened, steamed buns, steel, soap, these are all things that the people come into contact with and will use every day.

The efficiency and cost control brought by Zhao Xinxin's industrialization successfully made his products begin to be sold in the five major water systems, but once it exceeds 200 miles, all the advantages will be gone.

The low cost of water transportation allowed the goods of the Dinghai Navy to quickly occupy the market, and the vicinity of the five major water systems can be said to be the richest place in the Northern Song Dynasty, and two-thirds of the population is concentrated.

But the market, who would think that it is not big enough, the mature market that has been developed, they can earn a lot of money, but where it is not developed, it is really not good.

To some extent, these places are more suitable for an industrialized environment.

Transportation, pay attention to the coming and going, some of the big trucks in later generations, unless they are really in a hurry, otherwise, who will come back empty.

A freight is tens of thousands, if you really empty back, fuel and tolls to bear their own responsibility, compared with this, wait a few days, in the freight department distribution, this is nothing, sometimes, unlucky, will be in a different place to board more than ten or twenty days.

The situation in the Northern Song Dynasty is relatively obvious, those markets that have been developed, those that are developed, and those that are close to the water system, are more of a buyer's market, they may have a certain amount of resources, but they have been almost developed, and they are more likely to buy the products of the Dinghai Navy.

Because of shipping, there are strict requirements, and a certain efficiency must be achieved in order to produce the effect of clusters.

This is acceptable in the short term, in the case of a high profit margin of the Navy's products, which increases efficiency, but once the profit margin is reduced to a reasonable level, it will not work, which represents a huge waste.

Those undeveloped places are basically areas with rich resources and slow development, and they have no way to apply them because of transportation or other reasons.

Take the inconvenient mountains as an example, whether it is the precious number of mountains and forests, mountain delicacies, all kinds of fruits and animals, these are very popular in Bianliang or some large cities, but the high freight and complicated labor make them unable to send them out.

At the extent that the freight is reduced to a low enough degree, according to the current utilization rate of horses, at least 500 times the freight of the carriage can be reduced, and as for the reduction of manpower transportation, it will be more, may exceed 1000 times, that is to say, the original freight cost of killing five birds with one stone may be reduced to more than a dozen yuan, or even less, in this case, the transportation of bulk commodities and even raw materials has become possible.

In some remote areas, untapped resources are transported to the Dinghai Navy, and then through manufacturing, they are turned into products, which will form a terrible virtuous circle.

Even to a certain extent, it is possible to develop passenger transport, tourism, and even a series of methods, and this comprehensive utilization is huge.

Now Zhao Xin doesn't know that the number of horses has skyrocketed from 2 million to 5 million, and he is still thinking about how to convince the center to take out most of the 2 million.

It seems that there are a total of 2 million, and 1.6 million should be taken out, which should be a large proportion, but Zhao Xin feels that there is no big problem.

The reason is very simple, it is not easy to process and sell 2 million horses, and the railway, even if it is invested by the Dinghai Navy, cannot all be in the hands of the Dinghai Navy, and if the central government does not come up with a certain share, it will not work.

In the past, at most, Zhao Xin suffered a little loss and gave up a certain share, but with a large number of horses, this is not a problem, the center itself has a huge amount of resources, and investing 20,000 horses, that is, 2 million, naturally occupies the sovereignty of a part of a railway.

However, relying on railways to breed horses is not a problem, and how profitable the railroads are, even in the 21st century, are very profitable.

Even a railway like the Qing Dynasty, an experimental railway that did not consider cost and flow, was able to recover its cost in a few years, not to mention the wealthy Northern Song Dynasty, and the simple connection of things to all directions was enough to solve most of the problems.

Perhaps for the army and the Northern Song Dynasty court, the amount needed to feed 200,000 or even more horses may be an astronomical amount.

But for business, it is not a problem at all, even the carriage of the Chamber of Commerce, can quickly recover the cost, at most three to five years, for the efficiency of transportation, increase the efficiency of the railway, 500 times, it is not a problem, even if it is a large-scale reduction of freight, it is also possible, relative to the profitability of the railway, the cost of horses, is only a very inconspicuous part of it.

Zhao Xin didn't know that now there was a new problem that was going to fall on him.

The total number of horses is not 2 million, but 5 million, don't look at it, it is only 2.5 times, but the overall difficulty will rise by a few grades.

This is also the fundamental reason why Han Qi has to open the Weizhou trading market at this moment, and even lower his profile to discuss with these chambers of commerce.

These, for Zhao Xin, is also not a problem, 5 million horses, just the railway of the navy, it consumes 4 percent, and the others can also be widely used in various fields.

At the same time, the emergence of trains, for horse-drawn carriages, is not a question of substitution or blowing, but a question of mutual cooperation.

The replacement of horse-drawn carriages by trains only deprives horse-drawn carriages of the benefits of long-distance trafficking, but in the short distance, in the last step from the station to the warehouse, it is always impossible to rely on manpower to solve the problem.

Perhaps horse-drawn carriages are not as good as trains in long-distance traffic, but the last step of flexibility, including every household, in the city, if conditions permit, the road environment is much better than in the countryside, so the efficiency is better.

In some large cities, under the premise of prosperous business and rising per capita income, the use of horse-drawn carriages should not be low.

When the per capita annual income is 20 yuan, a carriage of 150 yuan is a difficult wish to achieve, but when a person's income is 100 yuan, or even 200 yuan, is it still the case?

Dingjun has ensured that the per capita income is more than 250 guan, and in the future, when Dingjun becomes more and more important in the population of the Northern Song Dynasty, this proportion will increase.

This is a matter of the future, even after economic development and the popularization of railways, it will take time, and in the future, there will be more channels for the Northern Song Dynasty to obtain horses, and perhaps, there will be a lot of horses circulating in, and even when the base of itself is obtained to a certain extent, the growth rate will not be less.

But in the same way, in other aspects, the consumption will not be less, before steam power has not become the mainstream, any large-scale industry, need power, then the horse has become an inevitable choice.

Since horsepower is used as a unit, it is natural that they will become the driving force, contributing to the Dinghai Navy and even many places in the Northern Song Dynasty.