After returning to Pontianak, Hu Zhen was so busy that his heels did not touch the ground.

Pontianak at the moment is already a bustling and lively city.

After the negotiation and signing of the contract with the Dutch colonists, the Chinese Guild obtained a large piece of land, and the local Chinese people finally let go, and the Chinese people from other places continued to come, especially after the Sumatra and Java native riots, in just one month, 1.2 million Chinese entered Borneo, and Pontianak's population skyrocketed.

With the sudden increase in population, the market immediately flourished, and the business of rice, flour, oil, tea, sauce, vinegar and vegetables alone made the hawkers earn a lot of money, and the Chinese people with capital strength saw the opportunity and immediately started the business of burning bricks and tiles to build houses, cutting down trees to make furniture, and also making money and making money.

Pontianak was originally an important source of furniture in China, for hundreds of years, every day there are Chinese ships to transport pear, sour branches and other wooden furniture to the ports of Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Dalian, Hong Kong and other places in China, and then sold to the mainland in these port cities, which is the famous "Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture" at home and abroad. But now, these furniture are in short supply to Pontianak, so they had to suspend export sales, and the price of Pontianak furniture in China immediately skyrocketed several times.

After Hu Zhen came back, he was so busy that his buttocks were smoking, and he first went to the industrial zone of Pontianak to inspect, only to see that a large number of factories had been established in the industrial zone, but the advanced industries such as machinery manufacturing and electrical appliances that he planned were still under construction, and those simple factories built with wooden planks and straw sheds had begun to be mass-produced, and countless figures were tinkling in it to produce simple furniture such as planks and rattan branches, and some rice mills, flour mills, preserved fruit processing factories, cured meat processing factories, tobacco factories, herbal medicine factories, The paper mill building is starting production while the rudimentary building is being built rapidly.

These are not the factories planned by Hu Zhen, which made Liu Dingzhuang, who took Hu Zhen to inspect a little uneasy: "We didn't expect everyone to be so enthusiastic about these projects that can make quick money, we all give tax exemption for three years according to the industrial projects planned by Mr. Three, and after three years, we will also implement the policy of light taxation, and now we are discussing whether to restrict it and make it embark on the development path of heavy chemical industry planned by Mr. ”

Hu Zhen scratched his head. In his industrial planning, most of them are heavy chemical industries, and he really ignores some light industries for people's livelihood, so he said: "This is indeed not the industrial project in my planning." But this is a light industry for people's livelihood, and you are doing a good job. In the future, not only should it not be restricted, but it should also be encouraged, and it would be better to simply exempt it from taxes for five years. For some projects, such as rice mills, flour mills, and herbal medicine factories that are related to people's livelihood, you can discuss whether you can simply get tax exemption for ten years! ”

"Tax exemption for five years? Decade? That, that ......" Liu Dingzhuang was so shocked that he opened his mouth wide and could stuff it into his fist, he has lived in Europe for many years, and he is a person who is more familiar with the tax management of other countries among the Chinese, he understands that this tax exemption for three years is already a great discount, but Hu Zhen has to be tax-free for five years or even ten years, and there is no tax income, not to mention the tens of millions of pounds that he has to borrow from major banks in England to repay the principal and interest for the purchase of tens of thousands of island territories in the South Seas. Is this how to survive the huge Chinese army on Borneo? Where do the salaries of these civil servants of the Huaxia Guild come from?

In fact, with the wealth resources that Hu Zhen now controls, even if he does not collect a penny of taxes on the existing territory, it is enough to maintain the high-intensity combat of the 270,000 Huaxia Army for three or five years, and there is no need for any tax income at all, but of course Hu Zhen can't tell Liu Dingzhuang that he has amazing wealth in his hands, so he just patted him on the shoulder and comforted:

"It's all right, we've captured a huge amount of wealth from the war with the Dutch, enough to cover our expenses for the next few years, besides, you know. As long as we invigorate the economy of our Nanyang territory, are we afraid that there will be no tax revenue? If you are short of money, you Liu Dingzhuang will tell me as soon as possible, and I dare to pat my chest to ensure that there is no shortage of your expenses. How. Don't you believe me? ”

"That's good, that's good! How dare you not believe the words of the gentleman? Since Hu Zhen said so, Liu Dingzhuang has nothing to say, he can only follow it.

"Sir, we have enough financial resources, but we don't need to rush to recruit 100,000 teachers at once, right?" The one who asked was Wen Kuiyuan, who was following Hu Zhen. He listened to the conversation between Hu Zhen and Liu Dingzhuang, and couldn't help but speak.

Wen Kuiyuan is also a Chinese who returned from studying in Europe arranged by Hu Zhen, and now he is arranged by Hu Zhen to take the lead in the work of education, and he does not understand very well in his heart that the Huaxia Army controls only 5 million Chinese people, but Hu Zhen has to recruit and train a team of 100,000 teachers at a high cost.

Hu Zhen turned his head to look at Wen Kuiyuan, who had not spoken just now, and said: "You don't understand, you can't blame all this, during this time, I have been busy with military affairs, and it is difficult to find a little time to discuss it with my colleagues in the education field." ”

"Sir......" Wen Kuiyuan was full of bookish anger, and when he heard Hu Zhen's words, he was embarrassed, his face turned red slightly, and his hands were slightly raised, and he didn't know whether to salute Hu Zhen or not, looking a little overwhelmed.

"There are five million Chinese people in our territory, and in the short term, the population will exceed six million at most, and 100,000 teachers will be recruited, from the perspective of the ratio of six million people, the ratio of sixty to one does seem a little higher, but if you count the population of the primitive tribes in our territory, the population is close to 10 million, however, the ratio of 100 to 1 population to teachers may still be relatively high, but in the future our population will definitely be more than these!"

"Our population isn't going to grow that fast, is it?" According to the common sense of historical development, the population growth is only a few percent per year, and in this plague-ridden Nanyang, Wen Kuiyuan does not think that this population may increase exponentially every year.

"It's my fault that I didn't tell you about the population growth plan, I tell you, in the next three to five years, our population will more than triple as much!"

"Where did you go to get such a large population?" Wen Kuiyuan's mouth was open enough to stuff a fist, he really didn't understand, since he followed Hu Zhen, how could Hu Zhen always do something that was not at all reasonable but could be done.

"The population of 20 or 30 million is already considered to be small, if you count the 40,000 compatriots in Greater China, is your 100,000 teachers enough?"

Wen Kuiyuan suddenly realized, but he stuttered a little when he spoke: "40,000 compatriots in Great China are not enough, and a team of 100,000 teachers is indeed not enough......"

Hu Zhen ignored Wen Kuiyuan's thoughts, and suddenly changed the topic and asked: "The illiteracy rate of Nanyang Chinese must be very high, what is this data?" Have you done any research? ”

"Mr. Report, over the past few years, our team in charge of education has conducted a sample survey, and the illiteracy rate of the Chinese people in Nanyang is 94.7 percent!"

Listening to the data Wen Kuiyuan said, Hu Zhen gasped: Nima's! The illiteracy rate is 94.7 percent! What is the difference between this and national illiteracy?

There are only more than 200,000 literate people out of 5 million people, and excluding the elderly and those small-footed women with three-inch golden lotus, I am afraid that there are less than 100,000 people who can recruit and train as skilled workers in large industries! If you have your own nuclear submarines and the most advanced industrial technology, if you don't greatly reduce the illiteracy rate, how can you have enough high-quality workers and how can you achieve industrialization? How to compete with the European and American powers?

After being stunned for a full minute, Hu Zhen's brain turned to other directions, thinking that when the war was raging and he paid little attention, this Wen Kuiyuan's preliminary work was quite good, at least to find out the illiteracy situation of the Nanyang Chinese people, so he nodded and said:

"Okay, we didn't make specific arrangements for your affairs, but your preliminary work is quite solid, and you have figured out the knowledge structure of the Nanyang Chinese people, and the later work will be based on the target!"

Wen Kuiyuan hurriedly bowed to Hu Zhen: "This is the duty that you have arranged for us, sir, we will definitely go all out!" ”

Hu Zhen waved his hand and said:

"Okay, the illiteracy rate of the Chinese people in Nanyang is as high as 94.7 percent, if the illiteracy rate is reduced by 10 points, you will have to be busy, not to mention those indigenous tribes in the deep mountains and old forests, and they have to be transformed into a part of our Chinese people, which has to be busy. Also, with the success of our negotiations with the Dutch, life here will be stable and prosperous, and a large number of Chinese people will come here to make a living, and they and their children will need education. At this point, you might want to suggest that we need to expand the teaching force to a million people! (To be continued.) )