The Three Kingdoms
三国
Trade and Transport in Three Kingdoms Period
三国时期的商业与运输
In economic terms the division of the Three Kingdoms reflected a reality that long endured.
就经济来说，三足鼎立显示了一个长期存在的现实状况。
Even in the Northern Song, seven hundred years after the Three Kingdoms, it was possible to think of China as being composed of three great regional markets. (The status of the northwest was slightly ambivalent, as it had links with the northern region and Sichuan).
即使是在距离三国时期700年后的北宋，将中国看成是由三个地区性市场构成的也是有可能的（西北部作为连接北方与四川的区域，它的地位有一些矛盾）。
These geographical divisions are underscored by the fact that the main communication routes between the three main regions were all man-made： the Grand Canal linking north and south, the hauling-way through the Three Gorges of the Yangtse River linking southern China with Sichuan and the gallery roads joining Sichuan with the northwest.
这种地区划分得以被强调是因为这三块区域间的主要通讯路径，即连接南北方的大运河、穿过扬子江的三峡将中国南部和四川连接起来的运输线路还有把四川与西北部连起来的廊道，它们都是人造的。
The break into three separate entities was quite natural and even anticipated by such political foresight as Zhuge Liang.
天下三分其实是非常正常的，有一些具有政治远见的人比如诸葛亮甚至早就预料到了。
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