November is the coldest season of the year, and after a few cold spells, the temperature plummets overnight, with the lowest temperature reaching minus seven or eight degrees.

The entire northern continent and islands were frozen overnight, a rare time of the year for peace.

Because the snow in the north is very heavy, the deepest can reach four feet, that is, more than one meter, everyone thinks, what else can you do in this extreme weather? You can't do anything outdoors, which is why northerners love pickles in winter, and they prepare food for the winter.

This winter has been particularly warm in the Far Eastern Kingdom, because during the year, Fukuyama Castle, Yongfu Plain, and Tokachi Plains have all been built and renovated, and every household has moved into new houses, installed running water, electric lights, and floor lights, as well as indoor kitchens and bathrooms, so that people can spend the whole winter without leaving their homes.

Last year, because of the unification of Ezo Island and the northern coastal islands, there is no longer a danger to life, this year Ezo Island has opened up a large amount of cultivated land, although it is the first time to open up wasteland, but because of the perfect water conservancy facilities, and a large amount of organic fertilizer, this year is a bumper harvest of grain, the farmers' homes are full of grain, non-agricultural urban hukou, and because the government has a large number of fields, there is a sufficient grain supply market, the money to buy grain accounts for a very low proportion of their annual income, only one-thirtieth, and their life is also very relaxed. It can be said that every family lives a happy life.

Nowadays, the people are not worried about not having enough to eat, but they are trying to live a good life, eat something good, wear well, and use it well.

In fact, a country's economy is not so complicated, and Yang Wenli does not understand it too complicated, he only grasps one key point, that is, to strive to improve the income level of ordinary people.

On this, he gave a death order, he stipulated that the income of a lowest-level staff member should be able to easily support three people, such as middle-aged and elderly people who sweep the streets, middle-aged and elderly people who guard the door, and he stipulated that an ordinary small businessman should be able to easily support a family of five, such as just a small trader.

So how do you do it? It is very simple, try to reduce the manpower scale of the employing unit, not to mention that the work of two people is done by one person, and the work of three people is done by two people, so as not to cause waste of manpower, and to create as much output value as possible with as few people as possible.

In this process, the government departments are the whole process of assistance, especially the staff of the statistical bureau, who are the main formulators of the design of this reasonable employment system.

This refers to the ordinary working class, then those small businessmen at the bottom, the government tries to ensure the scale of their business, to put it bluntly, the limited market only allows so many people to do business, then they will naturally have a good income.

This is good, but there is a fatal drawback, that is, there are certainly still a large number of urban people who cannot find jobs and ways to make money, and this burden falls on the heads of government departments.

There is no other way to do it, but to try to open up new areas and create new jobs. For example, opening up a new industry, inventing a new necessity.

This purpose is not to reform and open up and attract foreign investment, but to improve the quality of life of the people.

Why did the Far Eastern Kingdom not allow the Japanese to do business in their own country? This is because Yang Wenli saw through the essence of the economy, not how much gold and silver precious metals were added, nor the coins of other countries, but to improve the quality of life of the people.

Therefore, it is useless to say how many fur products are exported and how much gold and silver are earned, and those things are actually mixed with water for the quality of life of the people, and they are all false.

But Ezo Island is full of wild beasts, full of fish and shrimp, what should I do if I can't consume so much in my own country? Quite simply, change this approach and reduce the number of people employed in related industries.

Of course, it's not a complete ban on exports, but if I go from relying on exports to exporting or not exporting, then I get the pricing power of the goods, you have to listen to me, otherwise I won't sell.

As a result, in the year and a half between last year and this year, there were no more merchants from the Far Eastern Kingdom who went to Japan to sell local products, but those Japanese partners automatically came to the Far Eastern Kingdom to buy goods.

Exports still have to be done, after all, the country should also properly reserve some gold, silver and precious metals, but there must also be a degree, and its reserve level should be compatible with the overall economic scale of the country, too much.

For a country that is mainly based on the domestic consumer market and does not rely on imports and exports, its gold and silver reserves are only for the purpose of regulating the domestic currency issuance and ensuring the stability of the currency value.

When it comes to improving people's quality of life, there's no better way to improve infrastructure than to improve it. The large investment in infrastructure has not only stimulated the development of the related building materials industry, but also provided a large number of jobs.

Yang Wenli plans to build a round-the-island highway next year, as well as a shortcut to Sapporo to Tokachi. Of course, it is not to be completed in one year, this project is very large, and it can be planned to be completed in a few years.

To put it bluntly, the proportion of the non-agricultural population that the agricultural population can support in addition to their own consumption cannot be too much, otherwise it will be an unhealthy industry.

At present, the Far Eastern Kingdom has a population of about 200,000, because agricultural technology is not yet developed, and agricultural workers account for about 60,000 people, including a large number of slaves.

The army numbered about 25,000 men, accounting for more than one-two-tenth.

The number of people in the infrastructure industry can only account for half of the population at most, only about 10,000 more.

Among them, there are very few people in government departments, only about 500, accounting for only 2.5 per 1,000. These are not all officials, but also ordinary staff, and the total number of official histories in other countries is not high, but it is not low, just right.

The government of the Far Eastern Kingdom is a service-oriented government, and there must be so many government workers that the work cannot be carried out at all.

The rest is the commercial, service, handicraft and industrial population, and the pitiful few hundred scientific researchers, because they are not large-scale, are also classified in the big item of industry.

Among them, there are still very few industrial employees, including the military industry, less than 10,000 people, this proportion is very low, proving that there is still a lot of potential to be tapped, but there are only so many scientific researchers, and even fewer scientific researchers who invent the necessities of people's livelihood, all of which take time.

It is the result of these hundreds of scientific researchers, but also the result of a large number of people who have read books, their quality is not high, after all, they have not participated in the establishment of the entire industrial system, at this stage when scientific research assistants are a little unqualified, not so much assistants, but apprentices.

This is the current situation of the Far Eastern Kingdom, which is generally relatively healthy, but not yet a rich country, the quality of life of the people is still at the middle and lower level, the food is quite abundant, but the industrial necessities are still very few, and it is a little better than the people of other countries.

Yang Wenli still has a long way to go.

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