Reliability, barrel life, accuracy and other performance that can reflect the industrial level are already at the international first-class level, even if the Kruer people are asked to produce the Fuyuan 5 rifle, it is impossible to say how much more the performance will be improved.

And this is the effect of the industrial upgrading and construction of the Daheng Empire that has lasted for many years.

This is actually more obvious in the field of artillery.

In the early days, the empire had the design of a field gun of 75 mm and 30 times caliber, but at that time it could not be mass-produced and put into service, because the production process was too scummy, resulting in a high price of the finished product, and at the same time, the quality of the barrel was not good, so it could not be mass-produced at all

But now, with the improvement of technology, the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau of the empire produces 75 mm and 30 times the caliber of the barrel, which is no longer any technical difficulty, the production cost is greatly reduced, and the performance is more excellent.

The Empire's artillery research and development department is already preparing to use this specification of cannon barrel to develop rapid-fire tubes to return guns, and equip them with smokeless powder propellants.

Whether it is an army rapid-fire gun or a naval rapid-fire gun, it is based on the upgrading of the entire industrial system of the empire.

And from the rapid development of the empire's defense industry, it can be inferred how rapid the empire's industrial system has developed, and all of this is actually thanks to the merchants of the three industrial powers, the Krull Kingdom, the Walia Empire, and the Kekel Empire.

Without them selling a large number of advanced equipment to Daheng people, and without them transferring technology authorization to Daheng people, it would be impossible for Daheng Empire to complete the industrial technology upgrade in just a few years.

Of course, the empire has also paid a huge price for this, and more than hundreds of millions of various equipment purchases every year are the price!

In order to purchase these advanced equipment, the Daheng Empire had to continue to export large quantities of agricultural products, minerals, basic semi-processed products, and petroleum products every year.

You must know that a large amount of grain exported is, to a certain extent, pulled out of the mouths of Daheng people.

Don't think that the food output of Daheng people is high, and Daheng people themselves can't eat it all, if it is open to eat, the grain output will double and more than 200 million Daheng people can digest it themselves.

After all, although there are a large number of middle-income groups in the Daheng Empire, there are still more than 40% of the low-income population.

The empire imports hundreds of millions of equipment every year, and produces so much food every year, but more than 40% of the population is still in a state of inability to eat and wear, which is the price paid by the empire for industrial upgrading in recent years!

And this cost will not last forever, but will gradually decrease.

In the seventh year of the reign of Qiansheng, the export volume of industrial products of the empire had already begun to surpass the export value of agricultural and livestock products, and by the eighth year of the reign of Qiansheng, the export volume of industrial products had already accounted for more than 60 percent of the total export value.

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce predicts that the export value of industrial products will account for more than 70 percent of the total export value this year.

This also meant that the empire gradually changed from an exporter of agricultural and livestock products to an exporter of industrial products, even if the industrial products exported were still not very high-tech or special weapons.

But it's still significant!

The Great Heng Empire did not need to continue to take out grain from the people's rations to export in exchange for foreign exchange to buy equipment, but could use a large number of industrial products, even low-end products, to earn foreign exchange to purchase high-end equipment.

This can be seen from the changes in the export tariffs of the empire in the ninth year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, the empire basically adopted an export tax exemption policy for the export of textiles and other export commodities, and there were also some export tariffs that were ostensibly collected but refunded to the manufacturers when they returned.

However, the export tariffs on grain and mineral products were gradually rising, and in March of the ninth year of the reign of the Emperor of the Empire, the empire once again raised the export tariffs on wheat and other staple grains and their products by 50 percent on the existing basis.

From this measure, it can be seen that the top level of the empire no longer encourages the export of large quantities of grain, but is more inclined to put domestically produced grain into the domestic market to solve the problem of many low-income people in the country having difficulty in eating.

In the spring of the ninth year of Qiansheng, the economic development of the Daheng Empire was as rapid as ever, and the economic growth rate even exceeded that of the early years of unification.

You must know that in the first two years of reunification, the Daheng Empire, because of the subsidence of the war, the empire put most of its energy on the restoration of people's livelihood, so the economic growth rate in those two years was very rapid, agriculture began to fully recover, and industry and commerce also developed rapidly.

However, after the first two years of retaliatory economic growth, the economic growth rate of the empire returned to a relatively stable level, and in the three years of the fourth year of the Qiansheng, the fifth year of the Qiansheng, and the sixth year of the Qiansheng, the economic growth rate of the empire was still very high.

But this situation began to be broken in the seventh year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, when the various industries and commerce of the empire began to grow explosively after several years of accumulation.

This is true for both heavy and light industry.

The representative industry of heavy industry, that is, the iron and steel industry, after the accumulation of technology in the previous few years, the introduction of equipment, in the seventh year of Qiansheng began to increase production capacity rapidly.

These huge production capacities have further promoted the development of various industries such as railways and machinery.

In the eight years of the Great Heng Empire, the railway mileage completed and opened to traffic reached more than 7,000 kilometers!

In the eight years of Qiansheng alone, 80 percent of all the railways in the empire before reunification were completed.

At present, the Daheng Empire has completed the reconstruction of the original railway network, and all the rails have been replaced with standard railways.

At the same time, a number of railway trunk lines have been built, including two east-west trunk lines and a number of north-south trunk lines.

So far, each of the thirteen states of Daheng has been connected to the railway, and any of the thirteen states can be reached by train from Jingzhou.

In the terrain conditions, the terrain is relatively good, and every county is connected by train.

And some economically developed states and counties have made it possible for every county to be connected by train.

For example, the four eastern states of Jingzhou, Dongdingzhou, Nanhai Prefecture and Zisheng Prefecture have good economic conditions, good terrain, and huge demand, so the construction of the railway network is very intensive.

Numerous railroad branch lines connect almost every county.

The total mileage of the current railways of the Great Heng Empire,

The rapid development of the Daheng Empire is based on the rapid increase of the empire's steel production capacity, otherwise there would not be so many rails if you want to build a railway.

In turn, the large-scale railway construction has brought huge demand for steel, promoted the development of the steel industry, and promoted local economic development.

In recent years, the central and western regions of the Great Heng Empire have developed rapidly, and a large number of towns have been established along railway lines, and a large amount of land has been reclaimed.

The cultivated land of the Great Heng Empire has increased by at least half in just seven or eight years, and almost all of the new cultivated land is in the central and western regions.

In the past, these places were inaccessible, so no one went there, otherwise the land would not be able to be transported after the land was reclaimed and the grain could be grown, and if the grain could not be transported, it would be a loss.

Compared with other countries, Daheng's agricultural model is a very typical large-scale farm model.

In the Daheng Empire, family farms with hundreds of acres of land are considered small farms, and thousands of acres are not large, and generally only farms with tens of thousands of acres or even tens of thousands of acres are called large farms.

This also means that the farmers of Daheng rely more on horse farming, mechanical farming, fertilizer, etc., so there is a planting cost, and the food they grow is definitely not eaten by themselves, but mainly sold.

Therefore, the cost of grain export is very important.

If the transportation cost is low, the grain will not be transported, and then it will lose money.

The rapid development of the railway has solved the most important problem of agricultural product transportation for many Daheng people.

This has also directly promoted the development of agriculture in the central and western regions and other areas with inconvenient transportation.

The Daheng Empire is very optimistic that in the ninth year of Qiansheng, the agricultural output value of the Daheng Empire may exceed 10 billion Heng Yuan!

Looking at the world, only by farming can grow tens of billions of Hengyuan output value, and only Daheng people export hundreds of millions of Hengyuan output value of agricultural products every year......

Behind the rapid development of agriculture is the construction of railways and the guarantee of steel production!

In the first year of Qiansheng, the pig iron production capacity of the Daheng Empire was only about 800,000 tons, and the steel output was only 20,000 tons.

In the second year of Qiansheng, the pig iron production capacity soared to 1.8 million tons, and the steel output was 50,000 tons.

In the three years of Qiansheng, the pig iron production capacity reached 3 million tons, and the steel production capacity exceeded 100,000 tons.

In the five years of Qiansheng, the pig iron production capacity reached 5 million tons and the steel output reached 500,000 tons.

After the explosive expansion in the previous years, the growth rate of steel in the Daheng Empire tended to be stable in the following years, and the main growth point began to tend to steel.

After several years of development, last year, that is, the first half year of Qiansheng, the pig iron output of the Daheng Empire had reached 7 million tons, and the steel output had reached 2 million tons.

And this data has already surpassed the Krull Kingdom!

When the Krull Kingdom was in the eighth year of Qiansheng, the output of pig iron was only more than 6 million tons, and the output of steel was only more than 1 million tons.

After the ninth year of Qiansheng, the empire's steel, coal production capacity and other basic industrial products will further increase, the railway will still maintain a construction rate of thousands of kilometers per year, and even the ordinary merchant ship construction tonnage is quietly approaching the merchant ship output of the Krull Kingdom.

The empire's huge steel production ensured the construction of railways and the development of industry, and the development of these basic industries directly drove the empire's economy to skyrocket.