In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.

In the past three years, Zhang Lingyang seems to have ignored what is going on outside the window, and only knows how to bury his head in farming.

Through Zhang Lingyang's efforts, the development of Da Zhou in the past three years can be said to be changing with each passing day.

By the thirteenth year of Tai'an, the annual financial income of Da Zhou had exceeded 250 million taels of silver, which could be said to have doubled compared with three years ago.

The treasury is sufficient, and Zhang Lingyang is naturally more careless in doing things, and factories and schools are built.

In terms of industry, in the past three years, 50,000 new industrial and mining enterprises were established in the Great Zhou, and in addition to more than 5,000 heavy industry enterprises controlled by the royal family, the remaining more than 40,000 plus light industry enterprises were founded by gentry and merchants from all over the country.

Compared with heavy industry, which has a large investment and slow returns, light industry has the distinctive characteristics of low investment and fast returns.

In particular, textile, porcelain, tea, shipping and other industries are popular industries for business investment in recent years.

And the returns of these industries are extremely lucrative, as long as there are no accidents, there is almost no such thing as losing money.

Especially in the colony of Tianzhu, the goods of the Great Zhou Dynasty were very popular there.

Of course, if you want to talk about profits, it is more profitable to sell them to Europe.

In the twelfth year of Tai'an alone, the value of commodity transactions between the Great Zhou and Europe was no less than 70 million taels of silver.

As for Tianzhu, the merchants of the Great Zhou Dynasty had to bring back at least five million taels of silver from Tianzhu every year.

Some people may say that five million taels of silver is not a bit less.

In fact, it is quite a lot to get five million taels of silver a year, after all, Tianzhu itself is not an industrialized country.

Don't talk about Tianzhu, let's talk about the Great Zhou, before the implementation of industrialization, how much fiscal revenue is there in a year?

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang is still very satisfied with the five million taels of silver obtained from Tianzhu every year.

Maybe in terms of money, Da Zhou didn't get too much from Tianzhu, but the benefits of resources Da Zhou obtained were immeasurable.

Almost every day, several wharves along the southeast coast are constantly plying Luzon, Java, Borneo and Tianzhu. Sell the commodities produced in the Great Zhou, and then bring back a shipload of gold, silver, copper, iron, and other rare ores from there.

Da Zhou's industrial development achievements are impressive, and the development of education is not slow.

In the past three years, primary and secondary schools and university halls have been established in various places. According to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Rites, in the past three years, Dazhou has built tens of thousands of primary and secondary schools, and almost every county has a primary and secondary school hall.

Correspondingly, with the establishment of a large number of schools, the teaching staff is somewhat insufficient.

In the past three years, the Great Zhou Royal Academy has cultivated a total of more than 100,000 scientific and technological talents.

But for the huge country of Dazhou, 100,000 scientific and technological talents are scattered to various schools, and each school can only be divided into more than a dozen.

What's more, Zhang Lingyang will not let all the graduates of the Royal Academy become teachers in primary and secondary schools around the country.

From this point of view, the teaching staff has seriously affected the development of Dazhou education.

Politically, in recent years, Zhang Lingyang's main efforts have focused on the establishment of the inspection department and the reformulation of the official evaluation system.

Before the reform, the new branch scholars and local officials either trusted their relationship or gave money every year, so that they could become officials in prosperous places.

As for the poor areas, few officials were willing to go there.

But now it's different, since the reform of the official assessment system, who doesn't know in the entire Great Zhou officialdom? The poorer the area, the better the development, and the more it can highlight its political achievements?

On the other hand, those rich areas are already very rich, and no matter how hard the local officials try, it is difficult to highlight their political achievements.

Because the rich areas, whether in terms of people's livelihood or other aspects, are already very sound compared to the poor areas.

Therefore, it is very difficult to give people a new feeling.

Therefore, since the reform of the official evaluation system, many officials have relied on their connections and gone through the doorway, and want to be transferred to poor areas as officials.

Because as long as you have the ability to work hard in the local area for three or five years, your political achievements will suddenly be highlighted.

When officials have hope, there will naturally be fewer cases of corruption and bribery.

After all, as long as there are many politically motivated officials, they know in their hearts that if they embezzle once, it will be a stain on their lives.

At least in the past three years, the number of cases of corruption and bribery has been declining year by year.

Politically, the results are gratifying, and the military is not bad.

In the past three years, the Great Zhou army has completed the modernization reform, and cold weapons such as knives, guns, clubs and sticks have completely become history. Dozens of newly established arsenals continued to produce a variety of thermal weapons and deliver them to the army.

In the past three years, the Great Zhou region was officially divided into seven military regions, with a total of more than 2 million conventional troops.

In overseas colonies and vassal states, the Great Zhou also had no less than 300,000 troops stationed.

In terms of the navy, a total of 10 fleets were built, with a total of 150,000 men. In addition to the four fleets stationed in the Bohai, Yellow Sea, East China Sea and Boys, the remaining six fleets were stationed in Fuso, Luzon, Borneo, Java and Tianzhu.

Among them, two fleets were stationed in Tianzhu, and one was stationed in the rest of the region.

The above achievements are the achievements of Da Zhou in the past three years, but they are not what Zhang Lingyang is most proud of.

What Zhang Lingyang is most proud of is that after several years of development, the national food problem has been completely solved.

In Liaodong, millions of people migrate here every year, and patches of uninhabited land are developed into fertile fields.

In the north, with the large-scale promotion of winter wheat, the fields of the north have finally achieved double cropping in one year.

In Burma, Siam, Annam, Borneo, Luzon, Java...... The mountains of grain and grass were continuously transported back to Dazhou, which completely solved the problem of hunger of the people.

In the northwest, at the foot of the Qilian Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains, soldiers from the local guard posts dug ditches and repaired canals to divert water from the mountains and irrigate patches of farmland.

In recent years, at the foot of the world and at the foot of Qilian Mountain, villages have sprung up one after another, and people in Shaanxi and Gansu have continuously migrated over to farm.

In faraway Siberia, the soldiers stationed there also developed some farmland and built some villages to house their families.

In the vast prairie, students majoring in animal husbandry at the Great Zhou Royal Academy taught local herdsmen how to grow pasture, how to graze scientifically, and how to prevent livestock diseases.

The whole Great Zhou is a thriving scene.

Even in northern Shaanxi, which has been hit by desertification, drought-tolerant trees and weeds have begun to be planted on barren mountains at the behest of Zhang Lingyang......