Time passed slowly in the rapid development of the Xia Kingdom, and two years passed in a blink of an eye.

On the day of the winter solstice two years ago, Wang Lang officially established the era name of the Xia Kingdom, and from this year, the Xia Kingdom entered the Taichu period.

At the end of the first year of Taichu, the total population of the Xia Kingdom had reached 48,000 people, and the size of the army had also expanded to 4,000 people.

Although the races are different, Wang Lang did not implement any discriminatory policies against these white people for the sake of the long-term, and if there were only humans in this world, he might still treat these people differently.

However, the reality is that there are not only human beings in this world, and under this pressure, the contradictions between human races can almost be diluted, and the conflict between species is the main contradiction.

In terms of agriculture, with the excavation of more canals, the vicinity of the river has become the granary of the Xia country, and the grain output of three crops a year has made there almost no Chinese people who cannot eat in the Xia country.

Moreover, with the development of trade, as long as people are not too lazy, every household can save a lot of copper coins, and the grain grown by the peasants will be purchased by the household department, and a family of more than ten acres of land, excluding the part of paying taxes, can earn at least four or five hundred copper coins in a quarter.

Under the policy of nationalization of land, no matter how much power you have, you cannot reclaim or acquire land privately, which effectively prevents the occurrence of land annexation.

In order to be more secure, Wang Lang also added a clause to this land policy: if an individual who owns land does not personally cultivate it for three consecutive quarters within three years, then the land that has been allocated will be taken back by the state.

The effect of this policy was that the officials of Bactria suddenly became landless, and the merchants who opened shops in the towns were also landless.

Under this policy, the land in the Xia Kingdom could only belong to the peasants, and Wang Lang believed that it was useless for the land to fall into the hands of the princes and nobles, and took advantage of the fact that everything had just begun to cut off this bad wind from the source.

Although the civilization level of Xia is still very low, the people live and work in peace and contentment, there is not much difference between the rich and the poor, and there is no class contradiction, it can be said that today's Xia country is a country with a high happiness index.

Time entered June of the second year of Taichu, and the first real large-scale ship in the Xia Kingdom was finally built, and this ship was built with fine wood, which was not at all comparable to the previous experiment.

On the day the ship was launched, Wang Lang and civil and military officials personally came to the harbor to watch this historic launching ceremony.

If you want to get this big guy moving, you can't rely on oars, this kind of warship is very similar to the kind of ship in the movie Wang Lang once watched, Pirates of the Caribbean.

There are no oarsmen on a sail battleship, and the main sources of power are wind and currents.

Wang Lang has some understanding of this, in the era of sail warships, captains must be very familiar with the wind and hydrological conditions of the route, and many times if the monsoon is missed on the ocean, it will no longer be able to sail to the destination. In addition, currents are generated in the ocean depending on factors such as the monsoon, and just like inland rivers, ships can go down the river to reach the relevant places downstream of the currents.

Having practiced with experimental boats before, the sailors, composed of craftsmen, skillfully raised the sails, adjusted the angle, and relied on the force of the mad wind, and the huge ships began to slowly drift into the distance.

This day is destined to go down in history, after the first warship made its maiden voyage, Wang Lang immediately drew 500 soldiers from the army to form the first naval force in Great Xia, and used this ship to draw the shape of the coastline along the coastline while familiarizing themselves with the skills of navigation.

It wasn't until September of the second year of Taichu that Wang Lang received a coastline topographic map that the navy had spent more than two months drawing, but Wang Lang had never seen this terrain at all, and this time he was completely sure that the continent he was on did not exist in the former world.

For this strange continent, Wang Lang named it Shenzhou to commemorate the world that he could not go back to.

The navy went to the northernmost and southernmost points of the continent and found that the climate in the north and south was very similar, and only in the central region was the perennially warm region.

By the end of the second year of Taichu, the population of Xia had exceeded the 60,000 mark.

Faced with such a large population and a vast border, Wang Lang decided to build a new city in a suitable location to consolidate his territory.

In half a year, nearly 100,000 trees were cut down, and the forest line in the west of Yancheng retreated nearly three or four kilometers.

The powerful destructive power of human beings has wiped out the animals living in this jungle, the living environment has been destroyed, and all those who have not had time to move away have become human food, and even the titan python, which once made people fearful, was bombarded by a bunch of grenades, and was instantly blown up into a blur of flesh and blood, and was completely in a state of being slaughtered.

At this point, on the land of this continent, humans can be said to have no natural predators, and all beasts can become a delicacy in human recipes.

In addition to national events, in the past two years in the people's livelihood, the changes in the Xia country are also very huge, with the slow understanding of the world, new ingredients are constantly discovered, the emergence of iron pots, but also prompted the birth of stir-fried vegetables, peppers and beans have also become a delicacy in people's mouths.

In particular, the tofu made from beans is deeply loved by the people of Xia Kingdom.

This can be said to be single-handedly promoted by Wang Lang, as a member of the once big foodie empire, he naturally doesn't want his country to become like Western countries, where all he eats is some garbage.

The new ingredients not only enriched the table of Xia Guoguo, but also gave birth to a new profession, that is, chefs.

Some people who are particularly spiritual in cooking, in addition to some of them being recruited by Shiweitian, the remaining part of them have become the royal chefs of the Xia Kingdom, in addition to being responsible for Wang Lang's diet on weekdays, the most they do is to study the practices of various ingredients, with the backing of the trading post as their own, the cooking skills of these chefs can be said to be progressing rapidly.

There are some dishes that Wang Lang can even eat with the familiar taste that he once had, such as the plate of spicy tofu he is eating now.

Although Wang Lang is the emperor, he is not like those dignitaries and nobles in ancient times, and he has to be served by a group of people to eat.

Wang Lang's two concubines, at the beginning of the first year of Taichu, gave birth to a son and a daughter for Wang Lang, the male is called Wang Ying, and the female is called Wang Ying.