Chapter 695: Shameless Daheng Man
In the industrial zone of the Kingdom of Krull, the annual income of a worker must reach about 300 Heng Yuan to support a somewhat decent life for his family and provide education for his children, and if it is in a big city, this income standard must reach more than 500 Heng Yuan.
But in the case of the Daheng Empire, even in a big city like Luohai, the annual income of more than three hundred Hengyuan is enough for him to live a slightly decent life and let his children receive an education, if it is in a slightly cheaper place, the cost of living will be lower, even if it is only more than one hundred and two hundred Heng Yuan, it is enough to maintain expenses.
Of course, the premise is that there are not too many family members, or if there are more than one person in the family working.
This is the reason why in the official statistics of the Great Heng Empire, middle-income families exceed low-income families, because the annual household income of middle-income families defined in the Great Heng Empire is lower than that of the Krull Kingdom, and it is much lower.
I have to say that Daheng's vast territory and huge arable land area, as long as it is not too war-torn or exploitative, then the problem of eating Daheng people has become much simpler than that of other countries!
Food expenditure is the most important expenditure of the people of the contemporary Blue Star countries, and when the cost of food is reduced, other aspects will be easier.
After all, for Bluestar Contemporary, the so-called middle-income group basically refers to the group that can make additional consumption in addition to a full meal.
Because only after solving the problem of basic food, people will pursue other things, such as a better house, let their children receive basic education, they can occasionally have a drink, have a meal with friends, occasionally travel and be willing to spend a few constant points to take a public carriage, and on holidays, they can take their families out of the city to show that they are also decent people.
Such a family can basically be called a 'middle-income family'.
According to this standard, about 60% of the families in the Great Heng Empire can reach this level, although the vast majority of them only stay at the level of adequate food and basic education for their children, and it is difficult to enjoy a higher level of life
But that's just it, it's the only one on the all-blue star, and there is no semicolon!
And when the huge middle-income group uses the remaining funds for other consumption after eating enough, it also creates a huge domestic demand market!
A domestic demand market that is enough to make the industrial and commercial economy of the Great Heng Empire take off in an all-round way!
The Ma Textile Company, co-founded by the Ma Chunlin brothers, is in this vast market with economic take-off!
After opening up the market with high-quality cloth and lower prices, the number of employees in the Ma brothers' textile factory soon expanded from dozens to more than 300.
When Ma Chunlin received the dividends and used the dividends to pay off the debts of his eldest brother, he returned home and hugged his wife and cried!
However, although Ma Chunlin has made money and made a lot of money, his eldest brother Ma Chunkai has earned more!
After all, Ma Chunkai is actually the actual controller of this textile factory, and he is also the one who started it, and he himself occupies 80% of the shares.
After only half a year of the factory's operation, he found that the factory's income had exceeded the annual profit of thousands of acres of land at home.
And now the outside world has a huge demand for cloth, especially for high-quality cloth, and those cooperative cloth traders are looking for high-quality cloth all day long.
When the time entered the ninth year of Qiansheng, Ma Chunkai threw down the textile factory in Luohaicheng and went straight back to Qingyuan County, what were you doing back? Visit and contact many farmers in Cheongwon-gun.
In the past, Ma Chunkai only used cotton produced on his own land and cotton produced by familiar farmers nearby, but now with the further increase in production capacity, the supply of this cotton is no longer enough.
And with the heating up of the textile industry market, this cotton is not easy to buy, so this time he is ready to go back to his hometown in person, visit and contact the farmers, in addition to wanting to establish direct cooperative relations with these farmers, but also to persuade them to expand the cotton planting area.
After all, the textile industry needs cotton as a raw material, and now the Daheng Empire is not only needed by domestic factories, but also exported in large quantities, and this cotton has begun to be in short supply.
He naturally needs to lay out one step ahead and stabilize the supply of raw materials.
The Ma family is in their hometown, which has also lived for hundreds of years, and the development in the last ten years is also good, so the relationship with the surrounding farmers is also good, of course, the most important thing is that Ma Chunkai gave a good purchase price.
Therefore, Ma Chunkai successfully signed supply agreements with dozens of farmers near his hometown, and in addition, he found many cotton suppliers in nearby towns to meet the source of cotton supply.
After initially solving the supply of raw materials, Ma Chunkai returned to Luohaicheng and discussed with his younger brother Ma Chunlin, feeling that in addition to expanding the scale, it is still necessary to improve technology, although the current textile market is booming, even low-end fabrics of average quality can be sold, but the money earned is never as much as high-priced fabrics.
In addition, he has indeed made a lot of money in the past six months, and even Ma Chunlin, a small shareholder who hitchhikes, has changed his residence from a multi-storey small apartment to a single-family building on the outskirts of the city, and has changed from occasionally renting a public carriage to taking a private carriage, and there are still coachmen.
The Ma brothers, who have made money, are very energetic, and the big market environment is indeed good, so they are ready to use the existing assets of the factory as collateral and borrow a sum of money from the Royal Bank to order the most advanced textile equipment.
This time, the Ma brothers are ready to directly upgrade the technical level of the factory to the first-class level.
Not only the first-class level in Daheng, but also the first-class level on the Blue Star, this machinery and equipment are directly imported from the Krull Kingdom.
In order to improve technology, the Ma brothers imported advanced equipment from the Krull Kingdom, which is actually a common behavior of many enterprises in Daheng today, and even the main trade behavior between the Daheng Empire and several powerful countries.
Over the years, the Daheng Empire has imported a large number of advanced machinery and equipment from powerful countries such as the Krull Kingdom and the Walya Empire to achieve its own industrial upgrading and technological upgrading.
Of course, it is necessary to spend countless funds every year to purchase these advanced machinery and equipment, but the effect is also very obvious.
With access to these state-of-the-art textile equipment, the Ma Brothers' textile industry was able to produce high-grade fabrics at a lower cost, and then compete in the mid-to-high-end cloth market, which was originally the market of several powerful textile industries.
In the textile industry, it may not be too obvious to see the effect, but in the heavy industry, especially in the machinery industry, the effect is extremely obvious.
The largest machinery company in the empire, Jingzhou Machinery Co., Ltd., produces many mechanical products, especially some of their main large-scale equipment, has occupied a large number of domestic markets, filled the domestic gap, and then drove the products out of the Daheng market.
When Daheng was just unified, even a 100-ton free forging hydraulic press needed to be imported, but now, Daheng is already able to produce its own 1,000-ton hydraulic press, and at the same time, the empire has begun to develop a larger tonnage hydraulic press, and even started the research and development of the 5,000-ton hydropress this is the top contemporary hydraulic press.
In the field of steel, the level of steelmaking before the unification of the empire was still at the level of crucible steelmaking, so the steel production capacity was not high and the price was expensive.
After the unification of the empire, it spent a lot of money to introduce a number of open-hearth steel-making equipment, and began open-hearth steelmaking, which has only become popular in the last ten years, and can flexibly use pig iron steelmaking and scrap steel as raw materials, and the smelting process is also easier to control, not only the production capacity has been greatly improved, but also the steel production capacity of the empire has been greatly improved after the introduction of a large number of equipment for this steelmaking method, and the steel production capacity of the empire has been greatly improved, and it can also refine steel with better performance.
At the same time, the Empire's machinery research enterprises carried out imitation production based on these imported open-hearth steel-making equipment, and finally successfully developed and produced their own open-hearth steel-making equipment.
Now some ordinary open-hearth steelmaking equipment is no longer imported, because several machinery companies in the empire have been able to produce it.
Not only machine tools, steelmaking equipment, etc., in fact, the equipment needed by many industries can almost only be imported at the beginning, but now, the low-end equipment used by many industries has basically been able to produce itself, and once it can be self-produced, the empire will often implement high tariffs on similar foreign products......
Shameless!
Therefore, in addition to some high-end products and top-level equipment that still need to be imported by the empire, many low-end equipment is rarely imported, not because of the good quality of domestic production, but because the tariff on all kinds of low-end equipment that can be imported by the empire is too high and the price is more expensive.
Of course, to a certain extent, before the unification of the Daheng Empire, there was actually a complete set of industrial systems, but the technology was too backward.
What the Great Heng Empire has done over the years is not to start from scratch to build an industrial system, but to upgrade the existing industrial system technologically.
The cost of this method is huge, but the effect is also very obvious, and the gradual improvement of the level of national defense construction and the increase in the amount of arms exports of the Daheng Empire in recent years are the most obvious examples.
In the past, although the Daheng Empire was the first country to apply rear-loading artillery on a large scale, the quality was honestly not good, which is why countries such as the Krull Kingdom also began to produce rear-loading guns, and the rear-loading guns of the Daheng Empire could only rely on the low-price strategy to export, because the quality could not be compared at all, and many countries did not want even if the price of Daheng's guns and weapons was lower, because the quality was too poor......
Although the Daheng Empire's Luoan IV rifle is the world's first 11mm rifle and the first repeating rifle with a barrel magazine, it can be said that it has opened a new era, but it has to be said that compared with similar rifles in countries such as the Krull Kingdom, the Luoan IV rifle has poor accuracy, lower barrel life, and poor reliability.
Basically, there is no benefit except for the cheap price, if there is any, then it is easy to imitate, many second-rate countries buy a batch back, and then from the Daheng Empire here to a set of production equipment, they can imitate the production themselves.
Even the Orr Kingdom, a country that has nothing but gold, was able to establish an arsenal to imitate and produce the Roan IV rifle, which shows that the gun has low technical requirements.
But now it is different, the eight-millimeter rifle Fuyuan 5 rifle, which has begun to be put into mass service rifles, has reached the international first-class level in its processing technology.