The huge market of millions of guns will have to work for a long time even for the military-industrial complex of the empire.

According to the Cabinet's statistical report, the Ministry of Industry's military industry rules show that the current daily production capacity of the Empire's state-owned and semi-private arsenals is 90,000 guns per month, and it will take about two years to fully fill the munitions market.

However, it is impossible for factories to maintain such high-speed production, because once the gap is filled, the subsequent arms market will quickly withhold, and it is feared that it will cause a wave of unemployment in the arsenals.

This is something Xu Shiyang does not want to see, so he intends to let the arsenal produce at a low speed, while improving while producing, and eventually fill the gap in the militia weapons market within five years.

Fortunately, only the arms industry is worried about market saturation at present, and other industries: salt, textiles, sugar, steel, soap, matches, enamel, perfumes, glass, dyes, papermaking, and so on, are all being produced at the maximum speed - because many of these things, like military products, are commodities that can only be manufactured by empires in the world, but these civilian goods can be marketed all over the world, unlike military products, which can only be sold to the domestic and subject countries and the Tibetan countries.

On land, even if the empire cleared all the Pars people south of the Yangtze River, and the subject state of Qin was fighting with Pars, at sea, the empire's merchant fleet could still freely enter and leave the ports of Tianzhu and Pars, unloading a large number of silk, cotton cloth, spices, glass, porcelain, sugar and other goods, in exchange for a large number of gold and silver coins and a ship full of copper bars.

In addition to keeping some of it for themselves, the Pars could also make huge profits by transporting these goods from the East to the more west to sell—who would have to live with money?

What's more, now that the Pars have lost a series of battles, if they don't have enough money to stabilize the country, I'm afraid their life will be even more difficult.

Lured by huge profits, the nascent capitalists and factory owners will pay for all the new technologies associated with it that can increase production.

For example, in the salt industry, the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are rapidly promoting the salt drying industry, and the climatic advantages and relatively more abundant labor force in the south of the Yangtze River have made the salt production here grow much faster than in the north.

At present, the salt production of the empire is already more than three times that before unification!

In addition to the high profits, the increase in production has brought some unintended benefits – the smuggling salt syndicates, which used to be rampant in Jiangnan and could even compete with the government, are rapidly disappearing.

The reason is that the supply and quality of official salt now exceed that of private salt, but on the contrary, the price has been reduced a lot, and there is no profit for private salt at all.

As the saying goes, "someone does the business of killing heads, but no one does the business that loses money." ”

In the case of unprofitable conditions, no matter how murderous the salt dealer is, he will not take such a big risk to get any illicit salt.

Without private salt, official salt further unified the market, which in turn brought greater profits to official salt.

For the Empire, this was a good positive cycle, not only to obtain huge financial funds through the salt industry, but also to solve the social ailments, which was a double win.

The salt industry was just a representation, and the empire made far more breakthroughs in industry than that.

For example, in the textile industry, the newly established Imperial Patent Administration currently holds dozens of patent applications for various textile machines from all over the country - silk looms, wool spinning machines, hemp spinning machines, and cotton spinning machines, and the prevention and control efficiency is generally more than half to three times higher than that of the old machines in the past.

In this era, textiles are not sold, and someone must buy them when they are knitted, and there will be profits when they are bought.

Therefore, the source of raw materials has become one of the most concerned issues for emerging textile capital.

The new textile capitalists sent representatives to the Western Regions, Mengwu and Liaodong, and they spent large sums of money on the Waibo tribes, backed by the imperial army, mainly for the traditional animal husbandry, in order to blackmail them into grazing sheep breeds with longer hairs and better textures according to their needs, while also providing technical support for breeding.

According to the statistics of the Cabinet, the number of sheep in various foreign regions is increasing year by year.

In the past 1796, the output of all wool textile factories in the empire was as high as 120 million meters (equivalent to 8.58 million horses, including woolen wool)!

Faster than wool textile development is cotton weaving, after all, cotton planting can be much higher than sheep farming, and with the rapid growth of the empire's demand for cotton, Tianzhu and Pars have many local feudal lords to promote the planting of cotton on their own land to obtain higher profits.

The land of the Western Regions, Waifan and Qin are also good places to grow cotton, and in 1796, the output of cotton cloth in the empire was as high as 630 million meters (equivalent to 45 million horses)!

For the first time, clothing has become a reality that can be seen and touched, rather than a simple exaggeration and wish.

Even the production of raw silk, which has been developed in China for thousands of years, has recently made corresponding breakthroughs.

Some people use soybean meal to cultivate mulberry trees, which can double the effective yield of mulberry leaves, which will of course correspondingly increase the yield of mulberry silkworms, and then increase the yield of raw silk.

The demand for soybean meal in the silk weaving industry further increased the demand for soybeans in the empire, thus affecting the industrial structure of the Great Wilderness in Northeast Liao, where rice was previously the main crop, but now it is a mixed crop of rice and beans.

The increase in soybean production has further stimulated the development of the oil extraction industry.

Soybeans are full of treasures, and an oil mill can get both soybean oil and soybean meal at the same time, and both are not marketable - soybean meal is not only supplied to the silk weaving industry, but also to the livestock industry.

As a by-product of the oil extraction industry, soybean cake, soybean meal and other materials are top-quality feed, balanced nutrition, easy to digest and absorb, and all livestock are particularly fond of eating.

Some specialized feed mills use sorghum leaves and wheat straw to mix one to two soybean cakes to make finished feed, which is supplied to pigs, cattle and horses on state farms on a large scale, coupled with the large-scale use of veterinary antibiotics (also sulfonamides), so that the livestock slaughter rate has increased rapidly.

According to the data provided in the work report of the Cabinet, at the end of 1796, the number of various livestock in the empire was: 40.4 million pigs, 29.6 million sheep (not counting the number of foreign animals, the same below), and 42 million large livestock (including horses, cattle, mules, donkeys, and camels).

Animal husbandry and distant-water fisheries, including whaling, provided the people of the empire with an unprecedented amount of animal protein.

According to the livestock slaughter rate, fishery fishing statistics and registered population statistics in 1796, the per capita meat consumption of the common people and above in the empire was 35 catties, 8 catties for the common people, and 2 catties for the slave class.

Correspondingly, with the simultaneous growth of the land area and cultivated land, the per capita food possession of the common people has also increased substantially.

In the past year, the per capita food possession above the common class was 600 catties, the common people were 400 catties, and the slaves were only 300 catties.