After the eight years of economic development in the Apocalypse made the national strength of the Tang Empire go to a great step, after Vladivostok Province entered mechanized farming, one million hectares of land was opened up for cultivation a year, according to the conversion ratio of about 50 acres of land, one million hectares of land is basically 50 million acres of land, although only one season a year can be cultivated, but 50 million acres of land still produce 45 million stone wheat, 50 million stone soybeans, and some other ancillary grains. While enriching the granary of the empire, a large amount of grain also gave the cabinet greater confidence to comprehensively promote the agricultural tax reform in the Central Plains, erasing all the agricultural taxes that had been reduced to about 10%, so that all the agricultural problems that had plagued the empire for thousands of years were solved. When the empire's industry developed to a certain size, the agricultural tax was abolished, and the problem of the people, especially the rural peasants, was put on the imperial agenda. And this move also made the vast number of imperial peasants begin to support the Tang Dynasty even more. You must know that the agricultural tax was gradually eliminated several decades after the establishment of the republic, but in this era, Li Xuanqing used mechanized farming to include the huge land in the northeast into the scope of the empire, and then completely eliminated the agricultural tax in one fell swoop. In addition, mechanized farming in Vladivostok was immediately launched in Songjiang Province and other places, and the vast northeastern region began to enter the era of agricultural modernization in an all-round way. After the arrival of the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the BMW factory started to work in full force after the emergency expansion of three branches, and the mass production of agricultural machines was sent to the northeast region.

"Qiaoxi, the technical drawings of the farming machine can be released to the outside world in a timely manner, so as to facilitate the private machinery and vehicles to enter the period of rapid development." Li Xuanqing's proposal made Qiaoxi shake his head and said: "Once the farming machine is released, it will not be able to bring more benefits to the people at the bottom, but it will give those industrial and commercial tycoons a chance to make money." So I plan to subcontract the various parts of the farming machine, so that those big families will lose interest because the profits are too small, and only those small machinery factories will undertake it, so that the big brother can really realize the plan of 100,000 small factories. ”

"That's right, Zhang Qiang is back, right? Let him inform the BMW factory to separate the farming machine project and set up an independent company to operate. Li Xuanqing nodded, agreeing with Qiaoxi's opinion. In fact, once large-scale mechanized farming in the Northeast and Vladivostok develops, then after the abolition of the agricultural tax, the Central Plains land farming machines and these machines and vehicles will gradually become popular, so that the industry that can be driven will be more extensive, to put it bluntly, this is a huge industrial chain, and most of the connections are agricultural departments and rural farmers, so the clever way is really able to benefit the farmers, help the peasants who occupy the majority of the population of the empire to get rich quickly, In this way, the purchasing power of social workers within the empire can rise.

"This year, the land reclaimed in Vladivostok and the northeast will probably increase by more than 1 million hectares, right?" Qiaoxi's side because most of the new machinery was instructed by him to the BMW factory, so he has a more intuitive understanding of the reclamation activities in the Northeast and Vladivostok, in addition to farming machines, there are also steam engines to drive the pumping machine and irrigation facilities are basically produced by the factories under the royal family and then promoted to the outside world. This also makes the vehicle manufacturing sector led by BMW vehicle manufacturing under the Royal Assets rise rapidly and become a real giant-level existence. According to Qiaoxi's estimates, the size and income of the machinery manufacturing and vehicle manufacturing sectors alone are already larger than the total wealth of any of the six major families. It can be said that if it weren't for Qiaoxi's instructions to the royal assets to keep a low profile, the six major families together may not be able to compare with the royal assets controlled by Qiaoxi. In this era, no one can compare with the vision of the two, let alone the kind of knowledge brought from later generations to guide the rapid development of the industry.

The royal assets are the epitome of the industrialization of the Tang Empire at this time, after basically completing the beginning of all types of industries, today's Datang industry has begun to develop independently without the support of Li Xuanqing and his wife. A large number of finished products of light industry are exported overseas in exchange for a large amount of wealth at the same time, the development of heavy industry in China has also begun to spread all over the country, every step of the development of basic industries based on the Central Plains and the North Industrial Belt will bring about the replacement and development of countless industries, and countless industrial chains have also begun to change, and countless new businesses have begun to gather on each chain, extending vertically and horizontally, and laying out the entire industrial development network in the Central Plains.

Industrial development: The finished products of light industry can be unscrupulously exported to foreign markets for dumping, but heavy industry is not so easy to dump abroad, and Li Xuanqing will not allow this wave of industrialization to spread outside the Tang Empire in a short period of time. Therefore, all the finished products of heavy industry need to be digested internally, which is also the Tang Empire led by Li Xuanqing to increase the financial expenditure of the empire, and promote the development of heavy industry with large-scale infrastructure-based construction activities, so that the countless large-scale machinery and equipment produced by it and countless finished products of heavy industry can be digested in China, and even the precision manufacturing and large-scale manufacturing led by shipbuilding and railway construction can have enough market digestion.

"Big brother, is this too much financial pressure on us?" Qiaoxi knew Li Xuanqing's thoughts, but the gold standard in this era had just been established by Li Xuanqing, and the Tang Dynasty money village dominated by Yin Honglin was now doing its best to collect enough gold to support the system, and even included silver in the reserves for this purpose, but the empire's territory was too large, and the incremental Tang coins invested every year could not keep up with the speed of the empire's economic development. For this reason, Li Xuanqing had to deliberately transfer some personnel from the Dragon Group and the Flying Eagle Brigade to form a secret gold armed force, which not only specialized in mining the major gold and silver mines in China, but also extensively sent people to Southeast Asia and South Asia to collect, plunder, and even rob local gold to make up for domestic needs.

"I have informed Qi Hong and Yin Honglin that every year, according to a certain proportion, special bonds of no less than 500 million to 100 million Tang Yuan will be issued in China to make up for the financial gap, and there are also various special bonds, so that the Ministry of Finance can operate smoothly." Li Xuanqing nodded, "Plus the gold and silver that are shipped back from Japan and Dashi every year are barely enough." If we calculate it, we are now surpassing our foreign trade, and there should be no major problem. ”

"According to Big Brother's estimates, how long will we be able to stop the spread of industrialization in the country?" After thinking about it, Qiaoxi asked, "This method is equivalent to shearing the world's wool to feed the country, but we must enter the second industrial revolution before large-scale sheep shearing loses its effect, so that there can be a generation gap between Datang and other regions, so there are some things we have to prepare in advance." ”

"This matter is to be carried out secretly by the headquarters of the industrial group under the royal assets, and if necessary, the equipment department can also be involved, but it will not be announced to the public for the time being." Li Xuanqing nodded, knowing what Qiaoxi was thinking. In fact, what the two of them were most worried about at this time was where the way out of heavy industry was. Li Xuanqing's method was to rely on the power of the imperial government to develop large-scale construction at home, so as to drive heavy industry forward, to be precise, investment in the troika of later generations. However, the good thing at present is that the industrialization of the Tang Empire has just begun, relying on the speed of transferring industries to other regions in the northern industry and gradually popularizing industrialization, I am afraid that Li Xuanqing will not have the phenomenon of saturation of heavy industry in his lifetime. However, the large-scale mechanized production and farming in the same Northeast and Vladivostok also allowed Li Xuanqing to see another way out, that is, after the modernization of agriculture and the improvement of the living standards of the internal people, the demand for industrial products, especially the finished products of heavy industry, is also increasing, which can be regarded as opening the domestic market in advance, and the development of light and heavy industries separately from the foreign trade industry.

"I plan to add another railway on the basis of the two new railways in the Central Plains, which will start from Luoyang and extend south to Ezhou, and include Jingnan, the thoroughfare of nine provinces, into the economic circle of the Central Plains." After Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi discussed, they immediately notified the cabinet and the Ministry of Communications to start planning. However, there is not much opinion on this plan, although the mountainous area of northern Hubei is rugged and difficult to walk, but when attacking Shannan Road, a straight road has been dug out of this mountainous area to Jinzhou and other places, and it is much less difficult to add a railway line next to the straight road at this time. Moreover, in the past two years, Jingnan Province, which has been presided over by Cheng Wei, has developed Ezhou Iron and Steel City, and if there is a railway connection with the Central Plains, its development speed will inevitably be even faster. Therefore, in the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the three railways in the Central Plains set off a hot development scene, the major iron and steel plants continue to expand the scale of production because of the continuous demand, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Equipment Department not only promote the new steelmaking technology, on the one hand, to guide the technical level of the domestic steelmaking industry continues to rise, on the other hand, it is also to guide the standardized production and operation of the steel industry. So in just one year, the empire's steel production directly doubled, reaching an unprecedented scale of one million tons. Although this may be much more than this in the later generations, the output of a steel mill is much more than this, but this has extraordinary significance in this era, and with the increasing demand for steel within the empire, the steel mills under the equipment department, the Yuwen family and the royal family have now begun to move towards the road of large-scale and multi-variety steel production, and the special steel base is also jointly established by the equipment department and the royal family in Fengzhou to produce more suitable special steel for the precision manufacturing industry and special manufacturing industry.

"This should be the Jinghan Line in the future, right?" Qiaoxi is a little funny for Li Xuanqing to prank the railway intersection from Ezhou to the Central Plains in Luoyang, but in this way, Luoyang has been more developed, so that the shadow over Luoyang in later generations has been diluted, at least in the case of the independence of the Central Plains Province, Luoyang obviously has a greater opportunity, not only the railway is connected, but also the canal for bulk material transportation. In the past two years, although the role of the Grand Canal has gradually weakened in the gradual rise of railways, the navigable capacity and freight volume have been rising, and the canals and rivers in many places have been repeatedly widened and deepened to further increase the transportation capacity of large materials.

"In fact, I wanted to open up the Yangtze River route from Sichuan to Fengjie, but the cost was too great after thinking about it, so in the end, I decided to build a railway on land to connect Sichuan and Ezhou together, just like later generations." Li Xuanqing pulled Qiaoxi and said with a smile: "Starting from Sichuan, follow the road to Chongqing in the later generations, go east, cross Wushan, and then enter Jingnan and connect with Ezhou, so that the entire north bank of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River can be connected, and the road out of Sichuan will also be added to ensure that the development speed of the country of abundance will be higher." ”

"In this way, our heavy industry will not have any problems for at least ten years after the apocalypse, and it will promote economic development even more this year." Qiaoxi clapped his hands and smiled: "In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, should we do something else?" Isn't there already an army stationed in Hokkaido? Shall we build a palace over there? As a resort for the royal family overseas. ”

"Again, the scenery over there can't be wasted." Li Xuanqing also remembered the old things of later generations and couldn't help but nod and said: "It's not bad over there, it's indeed suitable for building a palace, and many experiments that are inconvenient to carry out in China can also be placed there." I will inform Hokkaido to temporarily implement military control, not to carry out development, and to leave the Imperial Family and the Equipment Division of the Logistics Department in charge of the actual management. ”

"In this case, I will design the style of the palace myself, and let Brother Zhang arrange for people to build it when the time comes, and it will basically be completed in the summer, and we can also go on vacation." Qiaoxi smiled slightly and walked out, but Li Xuanqing knew that he was afraid that Qiaoxi would not be able to help but move all the secret parts of the industrial group's laboratory over there and secretly carry out the technical reserves of the second industrial revolution. However, Li Xuanqing didn't care about this matter, in fact, after the development of the steam engine to the extreme, this transformation will naturally change, and someone will do it in the future after Qiaoxi does it at this time, and it is just a little earlier to prepare.

"The Central Plains side has been arranged, and the rest should be arranged in the northwest. I don't know how much success the Northwest Economic Development Plan has been going on for more than a year. Li Xuanqing looked at the vast territory in the northwest, which was almost one-fifth of the current land of the Tang Dynasty, and nodded, if large-scale construction was carried out at the same time, the heavy industry in the Central Plains might not be enough to double again. So Li Xuanqing had to pay more attention to the movements over there.

However, while Li Xuanqing muttered to himself, the Northwest Military and Political Camp in Shule was also brewing a new plan at this time, and Shule, the northwest transportation hub, officially entered a period of rapid development at this time, and the railway construction was planned again after a lapse of two years, ready to start construction.