Chapter 137: Two years

[Depressed, Kavin, got up at five o'clock in the morning to write this chapter, and my head was dizzy after writing]

Time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and the time has come to eight or eight years. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Two years have passed, and the Han Kingdom has undergone earth-shaking changes.

This year is the last year of the five-year development plan, there is no war interference, the implementation of the plan is smooth, it is expected that by the middle of the year, the five-year development plan can be declared fully completed, and half of the projects have been overcompleted, as of March, more than half of the projects have reached the target target.

In the past four years, the Kingdom of Dahan has seen tremendous development of various industries, the most important of which is the development of agriculture.

If the people are hungry, how can the Han Kingdom develop? Not to mention that the peasant population of the Han Kingdom accounted for about 90% of the total population.

In four years, the cultivated land area of the Han Kingdom increased rapidly from 45 million mu to 55 million mu, with an average of 2.5 million mu of new cultivated land every year, and most of the cultivated land was planted with high-yield crops, so that the annual grain output increased steadily, the problem of feeding more than 40 million people in the Han Kingdom was completely solved, and there were basically no incidents of starvation to death in the territory.

The ultimate effect of the increase in arable land and the cultivation of high-yielding crops is an increase in the income of ordinary people who depend on the land for a living.

Under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the per capita income of the poor peasants (tenants), who accounted for the majority of the bottom of society, was less than one tael of silver per year, and the poor peasants could only barely eat, and from time to time they had to go hungry.

After Yan Xueyi became the ruler of Siqi, the common people who made a living from farming had their own land, and the tax revenue was greatly reduced, coupled with various high-yield crops, the per capita income of the common people rose year after year, and by 87 years, the per capita annual income of farmers reached 2 taels of silver, and the annual income of a family of four was about 10 taels of silver.

Moreover, when the peasants' incomes have increased and the problem of food has been completely solved, the peasants who have money in their hands will look elsewhere, such as buying new clothes for themselves and their families, buying matches and soap, and other simple and practical daily necessities.

With the huge population base of the peasants, the income of the peasants increased, and the consumption increased, which led to the development of other industries throughout the Han Kingdom, especially commerce and industry.

In the past, commercial agglomerations were mainly in the cities, but now a certain scale of commerce has developed in various towns, and the main force of commodities is the peasants, whose incomes are rapidly increasing.

In the first two years of the five-year development plan, the light industry of the Han Kingdom was initially developed, and the wealthy people from all over the country established various factories through cooperation with the Gan firm, and the rich people gained a lot of benefits.

After farmers' incomes have been rising, the income of factory owners has also gradually increased.

Stimulated by huge profits, the factory owners took out the wealth they had accumulated and continued to set up factories, so in the third and fourth years of the five-year development plan, the development of light industry in the Han Kingdom accelerated.

At the same time, because of the emergence of a large number of factories, a large number of agricultural population has been transformed into an industrial population, and the income of this part of the common people has increased even faster.

As long as someone in a family is employed by a factory, even if the family does not farm, life is better than that of farmers who make a living from farming, so often a new factory recruits workers, it will attract a large number of people to apply, and those who succeed in applying may cry with joy, and those who fail to apply may also be depressed, and everyone can see that being a worker is better than farming.

In addition, some well-informed factory owners knew that war was about to break out, and with the strength of the Han Kingdom, the Manchu Qing would definitely fail, and the territory of the Han Kingdom would expand dramatically, and more people would be brought under its rule, and all kinds of goods would be in short supply, and far-sighted factory owners would expand their factories, buy more machines, or build new factories.

However, there is still some time before the outbreak of war, so let's not mention it for the time being.

What factory has the most in the Han Kingdom?

Some people may say that it is a silk reeling factory and a textile factory, after all, everyone has to wear clothes.

In fact, there are the most masonry yards and cement factories in the Han Kingdom, and brick and stone yards and cement factories can be seen in various counties and cities.

Needless to say, a large amount of masonry and cement are needed to build factories, and masonry is not convenient for transportation, so there are masonry yards established everywhere, but the income of masonry yards is the lowest among all kinds of factories.

Compared with masonry yards, cement plants have much higher revenues, after all, cement technology is more complex than masonry.

Thanks to the construction of masonry yards and cement factories in various places, the road construction project in the five-year development plan is progressing rapidly, the construction of 22,000 kilometers of roads was completed two years ago, and the construction of 4,500 kilometers of railways is close to making a living.

Coupled with the fact that wealthy people from all over the country competed to build the latter fourth-class highways, the transportation of the entire Han Kingdom was extremely developed, and Western countries could not compare.

The developed transportation means that the people can travel conveniently, and at the same time, they can also quickly transport all kinds of goods and promote the development of industry and commerce.

The development of the transportation industry has also led to the development of another industry, and that is the short-distance passenger transport industry, after all, there are trains for long distances.

Thanks to the highways of all grades extending in all directions, a small number of merchants have prepared a large number of new carriages, and the carriages carrying people and goods have been lengthened and enlarged, which can carry more people and transport more goods at one time, and the price has dropped slightly compared with before, which is welcomed by tourists and small businessmen, and the money is overflowing.

For a time, the rapid development of the short-distance passenger transport industry in the Han Kingdom led to a rapid rise in the price of horses......

Four years have passed, and the lives of the people of the Han Kingdom have undergone earth-shaking changes, not to mention that they have been fed and clothed, that is, those who have learned to read and understand simple mathematical calculations, which was unimaginable before, how can it be impossible to know words and have anything to do with the people at the bottom of society?

Every evening, one of the things that people like to do the most is to listen to the children who come back from school tell them what they have learned today: today I learned to write X characters, and today I know what truth.

And what is the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual", in the past, ordinary people would not go to the doctor to see a doctor when they were sick, they could only endure it themselves, how many people watched their relatives die little by little, but they could not be treated?

The emergence of the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual" has solved the problem of people's difficulty in seeing a doctor, and ordinary minor diseases can be cured by looking at the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual", and the slowly changing hygiene habits have also reduced the probability of the people getting sick.

The lives of the common people have become better, and they know that all this was given by the Han King, and the Han King has become a belief in their hearts.