Light industries such as daily necessities in the Chinese Empire were also widely developed.

Since the founding of the empire more than 11 years ago, the imperial court has taken the initiative to launch two five-year plans, and the core of these is the establishment of civilian industry and other industries, in addition to the new construction of military industry, mining and metallurgy, and railways.

The imperial court and local governments in various localities have introduced measures to set up industries and encourage financing and investment, to reward and protect industry and commerce, to encourage private capital to set up industries and make investments, and to continuously reduce all kinds of taxes.

Moreover, because of the land system of the imperial court, coupled with the use of holy fertilizer and the increase of territory, the growth of grain production was greatly promoted, and with surplus grain, the imperial court set the minimum and maximum grain prices, and purchased a large amount of grain every year in rotation reserves, and the price was there, so that the gentry of the local government in various places increasingly found that hoarding land was far from being cost-effective for investment.

After several years of tax cuts, a small number of people began to have surplus money in their hands. Although the proportion of these people with surplus money is very low, a village, only a few dozen families or a few families, but it cannot stand the huge area and population base of the Chinese Empire, and the absolute number of people with some money in hand is quite a lot. In addition, with the circulation of paper money that could replace silver coins, more and more people built railways and worked in factories and mines, and more and more private money slowly accumulated.

With spare money, and most of them are not silver coins and copper coins that can be stored for a long time, it is natural that internal consumption and investment have also begun to increase. Both of these contributed to the development of industry and commerce in the Empire. What's more, as the empire's overseas territories and colonies increased, export sales were always ongoing.

The troika that promoted the economic development of later generations began to gallop in this ancient land hundreds of years in advance.

Not long after, some folk textile kings, flour kings, match kings, soap kings, brewing kings, briquette kings, papermaking kings, clocks and watches, leather kings, sugar kings, ceramics kings, glass kings, medicine kings and so on have appeared.

A Wuxi businessman named Hu Xiyuan built nearly ten flour mills in Wuxi, Suzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shengjing, Tianjin, Dengzhou and other places, with an annual output value of more than 5 million Shengyuan, becoming a veritable flour king. The flour supplied by his flour mill was sufficient to supply all the grain of the holy capital city, which had a population of more than two million people.

A businessman named Liu Hongsheng, after seeing the convenience of Western matches, took out a loan from a bank to open a red match factory in Shanghai, where the factory is developed and the population is large. He invested in the acquisition of a large Swedish match factory in Northern Europe, introduced Swedish match manufacturing technology and workers, raw materials and complete sets of equipment, and also developed and innovated on his own, manufacturing high-quality matches, which are more convenient to use and safer than Sweden's own matches. The common people of the empire, who had a little spare money, rushed to buy matches.

The supply of matches exceeded demand, so Liu Hongsheng quickly made a fortune. Not only was he not in a hurry to repay the bank loans, but he also continued to borrow money to invest in various places, setting up branch factories of red match factories in various places.

In addition, he took the lead in establishing a cost accounting system in the match factory, analyzing and comparing the production, consumption, wages and expenses of each branch factory one by one, accounting for costs, finding out problems, and improving work. After several years of development, the red match factory even defeated the match factories opened by the government in various parts of the Chinese Empire, and became the largest match group in the empire, with more than 50 large and small branch factories, covering more than 50 provinces in nearly 20 provinces. The annual production of matches reaches nearly 10 million boxes. If it was according to the standard of 50 matches per box, the matches produced by their family would have allowed each person in the entire Chinese Empire to receive one.

If it is said that Liu Hongsheng, the match king, is still a small fight, and he only earns hundreds of thousands of Shengyuan yuan every year, the soap king of Nanhai County, Guangzhou Prefecture, and the Quanzhou businessman Jia Huang Yizhu, who is known as the imperial sugar king, these two business tycoons are far from the case.

Xiang Songmao was originally a large landowner in the South China Sea, and long before the establishment of the empire, he responded to the call of the imperial court to sell all his land and property, and joined the trading business in Guangzhou, becoming a private comprador of the Nanyang Company. After a few years, he accumulated a lot of wealth, and met the imperial court to encourage the establishment of industry, so he founded a Songmao Pharmaceutical Company, not to think, the drug did not produce much, but found that the soap business was amazing, he changed the Songmao Pharmaceutical Company to Songmao Soap Company, the business became prosperous, almost monopolized most of the soap business in Guangzhou.

In addition, because the Nanyang Company, which itself produced caustic soda in Guangzhou City, and had an important raw material for the manufacture of soap, the Songmao Soap Company had enough cost advantages, and the price of this soap, which was originally only suitable for the wealthy, was not high, and the habit of using soap was popularized at once, and through Guangzhou, it spread to other important port cities of the empire, the interior, and Europe.

In particular, this pine soap was sold to European royalty and nobles, and was enthusiastically sought after by them, even if a small piece of soap was sold for the same volume of pure copper.

According to last year's statistics, Songmao Soap Company, headquartered in Guangzhou and with three major soap factories in various places, has an annual output value of 7 million syrup, and a net profit estimated to exceed 5 million syrup. At this time, the British Lever Brothers Soap Company, which thought it was the world's No. 1, was just starting out, with an annual output value of less than 50,000 pounds.

Huang Yizhu, a businessman in Quanzhou Prefecture, is even more terrifying, but there are various indications that the Rixing Sugar Industry he opened is not his alone, but a huge sugar empire, which is jointly funded by many Nanyang and Fujian businessmen.

Quanzhou, Nanning, Qiongzhou, Zhangzhou and other places of sugarcane planting area is getting larger and larger, especially after Luzon and Java were occupied by the Chinese Empire, because of the immigration policy and the gradual transformation of the Nanyang Company, the output of sugarcane is increasing, but the demand for raw materials used by the Nanyang Company to extract sugar is getting less and less, Huang Yizhu seized this opportunity, first in his hometown of Quanzhou to raise funds to set up a Nikko Sugar Company, just because of the successful construction of the railway, Quanzhou to the inland Jiangxi, Zhejiang, in the north, even through these two directions, became convenient and quick to travel to the entire empire, and because of the ease of transportation, cane sugar went deep into the interior of the empire and began to be sold.

Then, the Chinese Empire defeated the British Expeditionary Force, the major wars in Europe and the Americas were all subsided, and the world entered a quiet stage of development. It was this surge that made Huang Yizhu's Rixing Sugar Industry rise all at once.

Merchants from all over the country have invested, Huang Yizhu also has a good way of governance, the rapid expansion of Rixing Sugar, successively built several sugar factories in the major sugarcane producing areas, and continued to promote the people to plant sugarcane, so that within a few years, Rixing Sugar has become a sugar overlord, even the earliest development of sugar Nanyang Company in this area can not compete with Nikko Sugar, the annual output value of sugar, will reach tens of millions of dollars.

The development of these light industries, which are closely related to the people's livelihood, has effectively promoted the consumption of the people, and while improving the lives of the people, the empire's already small number of urban displaced people have entered the factories, and even these industries related to light industry have also flourished, and the empire has entered an economic boom.

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