After laying a solid foundation for heavy industry in the south, Luo Chong still had to plan the industrial development zones around the capital.
According to Luo Chong's vision, the capital would certainly be dominated by an industrial population in the future. These people would live in the city, yet they could not take trains to the countryside every day to farm, so the city had to provide them with jobs. This meant that the city would need a large number of factories.
Thus, industrial districts came into being in the city.
According to Luo Chong's layout, Chengkang Commandery and Qian Commandery would be the heavy industrial bases of the south. However, heavy industry mainly produced materials, and those primary materials still had to be processed into usable goods. Therefore, another industrial base was needed. Luo Chong called it the manufacturing base.
Luo Chong planned to place this manufacturing base north of Tohai Commandery, along the railway from Tohai Commandery to the capital. This would make it convenient to transport materials and goods, while the entire Tohai Commandery could also protect the industrial district.
Even if enemies from overseas landed in the future, they would first have to defeat Tohai Commandery and the Tang City Eight Commanderies before they could plunder the industrial base north of Tohai Commandery. By the time they actually finished fighting their way through Tohai Commandery, however, Luo Chong would have already moved the industrial base behind it away along the railway. This decision was made for strategic defense.
In addition, this manufacturing base would primarily focus on heavy industrial manufacturing, such as rubber processing plants, shipyards, tractor factories, bicycle factories, Machining Plants, hardware processing plants, and so on.
The Han Tribe currently only had shipyards that built wooden sailing ships; it did not yet have