Regardless of whether it is the alliance of six countries in the north, or the Kasi Kingdom in the south, the Kingdom of Tannar, or even the Olisa Empire in the southern continent, although they are extremely afraid of the unified Daheng Empire, they do not have the courage to say that one strikes first.

It can only be a passive reinforcement of armaments, trying to dispel the idea of invasion of the Great Heng people.

As for the Daheng Empire itself, although the people and even many military generals are clamoring for unification to expand, in fact, the upper echelons of the empire have no plans for the time being.

After all, the empire has been in civil strife in recent decades, and now that it is finally reunified, it is naturally necessary to restore the people's livelihood, and it is impossible to say that it is in a hurry to launch a foreign war.

Moreover, in fact, there is no very good direction for expansion, and the good places in the central continent are basically occupied by the Daheng people.

The alliance of the six northern countries, that broken place is hard and difficult to fight.

The two southern countries are also high mountains and tropical rainforests, in addition to controlling the endless strait, in fact, it is not much point to occupy this place, the people of Daheng themselves don't look down on this place, as for the direct invasion of the Orissa Empire, the Orissa Empire is also one of the powerful countries, but it is not easy to fight.

And the key point is!

In the early years, the main driving force for the empire's external expansion was the seizure of land, and the core driving force was the large number of peasant classes in the empire!

The small and medium-sized farmers of the empire have a very strong demand for land, which is the core driving force for the empire to continue to expand and plunder land.

However, since the Industrial Revolution, the interests of industry and commerce have gradually exceeded the benefits of agriculture, and the expansion of many large countries in the last one or two decades has been dominated by commercial expansion rather than direct land expansion.

To put it simply, it is no longer to continue to plunder land, but to use strong force to pry open the doors of other countries, so that other countries can become their own suppliers of industrial raw materials and dumping places of industrial products.

One of the typical is the Krull Kingdom in recent decades, their expansion model is not about how much land they directly occupy, in fact, they are expanding the model, more to capture and support puppet states, obtain colonies, open the markets of other countries, and then plunder a lot of economic benefits.

That is, along with the changes in the productive forces, the situation in the world is also changing.

This can be seen from the adoption of the trade protection system within the Daheng Empire, after the unification of the Daheng Empire still adopted a strict trade protection system, and adopted ultra-high tariffs on industrial products exported to the Daheng Empire, especially civilian consumer goods, to prevent civilian consumer goods from other countries from entering the Daheng market.

Let the civil industry within Daheng have a space for development.

Therefore, even if the civil industrial technology within the Daheng Empire is very backward, it can still survive, and the scale is not small.

Daheng's internal market, other countries don't count on it, it is estimated that they don't dare to pry open the door of the Daheng Empire, even the Krull Kingdom, the number one power in the world today, doesn't have the courage!

In terms of exports, the industrial products of the Daheng Empire have no market, the technical content is too low, and the price is not cheap, even if it opens the door of other countries, it is unlikely to compete with the products of other countries.

As for agricultural and livestock products, this thing doesn't need competition, other countries are begging the Daheng Empire to sell them grain, but Daheng himself is not happy to sell grain cheaply......

Therefore, for a long time to come, the international trade of the Great Heng Empire is estimated to be very small.

As a result, the empire lacked the impetus to expand externally at the industrial and commercial level.

The combination of many factors has led to the fact that although it is called Huan in words, in fact, the upper echelons of the empire have no plans to expand externally in a short period of time.

When industry and commerce develop and can compete for exports, then use the army to support industrial and commercial products to go abroad!

As for now, let's talk about honest farming and development first.

In June of the second year of Qiansheng, after about half a year of foreshadowing, the empire officially announced the 'comprehensive economic development plan'!

This comprehensive exhibition plan covers a wide range of aspects.

Including the development plan of large agriculture, various types of construction including transportation, the development of heavy industries such as iron and steel, machinery and chemicals, the development of light industries such as textiles, and the development of financial and securities industries.

Covers everything.

This is a master plan!

And there are three major items at the core!

The first major project is transportation construction, which aims to establish a national railway trunk network, dredge some inland river sections, and develop and build some ports.

The second major item is to promote the development of agriculture and animal husbandry and related processing industries, including the promotion of large-scale agriculture using steam engines and tractors, and the development of various food processing industries such as winemaking and canning.

The third major item is the industrial plan, which selects and supports or builds the first batch of 300 key enterprises to promote technological innovation, expand the scale, and enhance their competitiveness.

The goal of the whole plan is to develop the grain processing industry in response to the large number of grains in Daheng.

At the same time, it is not a good idea to gradually change the structure of crop planting and appropriately expand the planting area of cash crops, such as expanding cotton planting and processing it into cloth for export.

And more important is industrial development, the whole plan proposes to concentrate on the important basic industrial products, such as steel, coal to expand production capacity, the empire is rich in mineral resources such as coal and iron ore, including a lot of high-quality mines, there is a complete basis for the development of large-scale heavy industry, besides, if the production capacity of coal and steel products can not grow explosively, it is impossible to meet the railway construction plan that has kicked off the prelude to the great expansion.

There is also the oil industry, and then carefully survey the whole country to see if you can find a few more large oil fields out, although the current production capacity of the Qingshan Oilfield has gradually increased, but now the output is still low, and the supply is not enough for the country, let alone export to earn foreign exchange.

At the same time, the large-scale agricultural plan and the large-scale industrial plan are centered on transportation construction, after all, with a mature railway network and river transportation network, it is possible to maintain and develop large-scale agriculture and industry.

Under Lin Ziran's personal guidance, the empire formally formulated a comprehensive economic development plan, which was quickly launched.

The implementation of this comprehensive economic plan actually means that Daheng will not expand externally for a period of time.

However, when the comprehensive economic plan of the Daheng Empire was successfully implemented and industry and commerce developed, the domestic market was already unsatisfied, in order to compete for foreign markets, then it was inevitable that there would be competition with other countries, and once there was a conflict of interest, there was competition, then the war was not far away.

In August, Lin Ziran led his ministers to inspect the resumption of production and construction of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau on the outskirts of Jingshi Dongcheng.

The Gyeongju Machinery Bureau, which has been rebuilding and resuming production since last year, has come under the jurisdiction of the newly established Gyeongju Arms Company.

In fact, not only the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, but also the Zishengzhou No. 1 Machinery Bureau, which has been rebuilt and resumed production, has also been spun off from Daheng Weapons Company.

In order to avoid belonging to the same company and lack of internal competition, which leads to a lack of progress, Lin Ziran officially divided Daheng Weapons Company into three at the beginning of the year.

Nanzhou Arms Company with Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, and Luohai Shipyard as the core was set up respectively.

The Jingzhou Arms Company with the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau and the Jingzhou Shipyard as the core.

The Central Weapons Company with the First Machinery Bureau of Zishengzhou and the Qingde Arsenal as the core,

These three weapons companies are all independent of each other in the comprehensive large-scale weapons research and development and production enterprises, each of which has shipyards, artillery factories, rifle factories, ammunition factories and other specialized factories.

At the same time, it is clear that the military weapons and equipment will adopt the bidding mode, and at the same time, the three major weapons companies will be tendered, with the aim of allowing the three major weapons companies to compete with each other so as to develop and produce better weapons.

Not only in the weapons industry, Lin Ziran also split the steel, chemical, machinery and other industries under the unified management before.

But it soon became clear that this model was not very reliable, especially after the end of the Unification War, with the abolition of the National Defense Production Commission, the efficiency of the head offices of various industries was instantly low, and there was a phenomenon of not wanting to make progress, so Lin Ziran reformed them as soon as possible.

The weapons companies are all good, but they have been split into three, while the other industries have been broken up more seriously, the steel industry has been broken up on a large scale, and 26 steel companies have been set up with a large steel plant as the core.

The same is true for the mining industry.

At the same time, the above-mentioned enterprises are managed commercially, de-administrative, and officials are no longer appointed as the managers of the above-mentioned enterprises, and the state-owned assets management committee only controls the shares to ensure that assets are not lost, and as for how to operate, let them show their powers.

In fact, this series of reforms is also part of the comprehensive economic development plan, but it has been implemented one step ahead of schedule.

This inspection of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau is also to see the achievements of the reformed Jingzhou Machinery Bureau in the resumption of production.

It has to be said that the reason why the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau was able to rebuild so quickly was also because of the reform factor, and the above-mentioned Jingzhou Arms Company quickly rebuilt and resumed production in order to compete for a large number of new orders for military reorganization, especially orders for rifles and artillery.

In less than a year, the initial reconstruction was completed and small-scale trial production began.

Lin Ziran is not the first time to come to the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, when he first came to the Beijing Division, he had already seen the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, but at that time, the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau was still under reconstruction, and many factories even retained traces of being blown up.

But now it's different, and the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau you see is already a complete factory.

Entering one of the huge branch factories, the person in charge introduced Lin Ziran to the Luo'an IV rifle they had trial-produced.

This rifle has been determined to be a new generation of standard rifles for the army and navy last year, and there are several sub-models, namely the army standard version, the army cavalry version with a shortened barrel, the navy version with anti-corrosion and other processes, and the sniper version with high-precision scopes.

All three major weapons companies have authorized production patents and can produce them.

Lin Ziran is naturally very familiar with this rifle, 11 mm caliber, firing 11 mm standard black powder rifle cartridges, using a tube magazine, can be loaded with eight bullets at a time, plus one bullet in the chamber, it can actually be loaded with nine bullets at a time, without a bayonet The total length is 1.3 meters, and it weighs 4.6 kilograms.

The effective range of this thing is very long, the range of the ruler is 1,500 meters......

Of course, it is impossible to fight at such a long distance in actual combat, regardless of whether it is a nominal effective range of 1,000 meters or 1,500 meters, but in actual combat, it is generally only an effective range of 3 or 400 meters, and it is impossible to aim at a distance.

Since October last year, the army has been successively reequipped with Luoan IV rifles, but it has only participated in actual combat on a small scale, because it will not be long before the unification war ends.

Before the end of the unification war, a total of more than 10,000 were equipped.

After the end of the unification war, the rifle continued to be produced, but it was no longer working overtime day and night, but adopted a normal production mode, and currently maintains a production capacity of about 10,000 pieces a month, mainly produced by the first machine bureau of Zisheng Prefecture under the Central Weapons Company and the first arsenal of Dongding Prefecture under the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau.

On the side of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, the design capacity after the reconstruction, under normal circumstances, the monthly output of Luo'an Type 4 rifles is about 8,000 without overtime.

Lin Ziran took the Luo'an Type 4 rifle produced by the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau and looked at it, and then tried to shoot a few shots with his own hands, this gun is good, much better than the Luo'an Type 3 rifle.

Compared with the Roan III rifle, the recoil is smaller, the fight is more stable, and the accuracy is higher.

After seeing the Luo'an Type 4 rifle, Lin Ziran continued to look at another flagship product of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, the two-year-old 105 mm 15 times caliber howitzer, which weighs more than one ton and has an effective firing range of 5,500 meters.

When this artillery was first prototyped at the beginning of the year, with its superior performance, it was already identified by the army as a new generation of divisional howitzer firepower, which was used to completely replace the 75-mm divisional howitzer.

The army attaches great importance to this artillery, and with this artillery, the army units of the Daheng Empire will be able to greatly improve the firepower of the division, so it has not yet been officially put into production, and the military has already placed an order for 300 guns in advance.

Now the gun has also passed the initial research and development stage, entered the stage of small-scale trial production, and at the same time carried out large-scale testing, and is not far from large-scale equipment.

Later, Lin Ziran also personally watched the test firing of the gun, but although this gun is very important, it is still a howitzer in the final analysis, and the test firing is often like that.

Far less shocking than the test firing of several other large-caliber guns!

During Lin Ziran's inspection this time, the Jingzhou Arms Company took out all the belongings that could be taken out.

Regardless of whether the guns were practical or impractical, they were all taken out for test firing one by one, and even they even took out a 300 mm and 30 times artillery gun that was still under development for test firing.

It's just that the artillery technology is not yet mature, although there are a few test firings, but they are all test firing of reduced charges, that is, just listening to a sound, really want a standard charge test firing, 100% explosive!

It seems to be advanced, but in terms of overall technology, it is actually not as strong as the 300 mm 25 times caliber naval gun that seems to be a little worse than the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, and the 300 mm 25 times caliber naval gun of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau has been tested with live ammunition and is ready to be installed on the new generation of battleship Yonglin battleship.

However, in such a short period of time, such a model can be tossed, which also proves the strength of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.