Chapter 136: The End of '85
[When I wrote this chapter, the author's head was a little confused, don't spray if you don't like it......]
The actual combat military training of the Han army scared the Manchu miscellaneous army in the city enough, and when the Han army retreated, the miscellaneous army reported to the above to "boast" about the combat power of the Han army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's not that we're incompetent, it's that the 'short-haired thief' is too strong."
When the Qing court heard this exaggerated report from the front, it was frightened.
"The 'short-haired thief' is so powerful, can the Beiyang Army fight it?"
Originally, the Qing court did not plan to attack the "short-haired thieves" immediately, and now they dare not do it, such a powerful "short-haired thief" can only be encircled and suppressed after the Beiyang Army is completed.
After that, Li Hongzhang stood up and said: "The 'short-haired thief' is strong, but our Beiyang Army is not weak, and we don't need to be afraid of the 'short-haired thief'." ”
Li Hongzhang's words calmed the flustered heart of the Qing court a little, yes, the 'short-haired thief' is strong, but our Beiyang Army is also very strong, didn't the British say that the Beiyang Army is the strongest army in Asia?
The Qing court, which had finally calmed down, patiently waited for the remaining Beiyang Army to complete its training, and the three towns of the Beiyang Army on the march also arrived at the predetermined location: three had been vacated in the city, and the miscellaneous army originally stationed in the city had been transferred to other places.
By this time, eighty-five years had passed.
Eighty-five years was another bumper harvest year for the largest number of ordinary people in the Han Kingdom who made a living from farming.
The harvest of 84 years allows the people to eat enough and no longer starve, and the harvest year of 85 years finally allows the people to have some extra money in their hands, which is unimaginable before, and it is already a great joy for the people not to be hungry, not to mention that there is still money in their hands.
The people take food as the sky, and the problem of eating has been solved, the people looked at the clothes that they and their families had been wearing for several years that had been tattered, and then looked at the money in their hands, and decided to take advantage of the upcoming New Year to buy a new set of clothes for each of their families.
In two years, dozens of silk reeling factories and textile factories in the Han Kingdom have been opened, producing a large number of high-quality and inexpensive cloth, otherwise they would not have been able to supply the cloth buying storm before the year.
In the past, the cloth produced by textile factories was mainly supplied to garment factories and tailor shops, which were used to make large quantities of clothes of the same specification, such as factory workers' uniforms, while tailor shops mainly made all kinds of hanfu, although the production quantity was small, but it was more popular with families with higher incomes.
However, ordinary people will not buy finished clothes directly, but buy cloth to make themselves, after all, it is a little more expensive to buy finished clothes directly, and ordinary people who just have a little money can save a little is a little.
The money left over from buying cloth and buying some New Year's goods will be much more abundant than in previous years, and the lives of ordinary people are destined to get better and better.
In two years, a large number of factories of various kinds were opened in the territory of the Han Kingdom, and the factories produced various commodities, and the buyers of these commodities were mainly families with stable incomes, and ordinary people who made a living from farming were not included.
The Han Kingdom has the most people, of course, ordinary people who make a living from farming, and even now, they account for more than 90% of the total population of the Han Kingdom.
If their income increases and their purchasing power increases, it will be the time when the industry of the Han Kingdom will really explode, but this scene will not occur in a short time.
How can a family with only a few acres of land earn a lot of money from farming? Obviously it couldn't happen.
In the future, there will be no farmer profession, but a farmer, a farmer with thousands of acres of land.
Farmers hire others to mechanize the land, so that they can make more money with a small number of people.
So where did the original peasants go? At least one person in the original peasant family will accept employment from others and have a job that pays much more than farming, so that the family will have a better life than farming.
This is a country built in Yan Xueyi's mind, but it can't be realized in the same short time, such a country must be a country that has completed industrialization, and it should even be somewhat similar to a modern country.
Put aside this idea and continue to look at the changes in the Han Kingdom.
The most surprising thing in the Han Kingdom in 85 years is naturally that the rich people are vying to donate money to build roads, and the rich people from all over the country are vying to donate money to repair roads, which makes the business of cement factories around the country become hot, cement is in short supply, and the roads built up at the same time also make it more convenient for the people to travel.
By the way, the rich donate money to build roads, but they can't use free coolies to repair roads, so they can only hire ordinary people to build roads, so that many people can earn a sum of money and improve their lives.
The original 22,000 kilometers of highways planned and built by the Han Kingdom have officially ended at the end of November, and the coolies involved in the construction of the roads have not eased down, don't forget that there is a five-year railway construction plan, and the construction of railways is much more troublesome than roads, and these free coolies will be involved in the construction of the railway in the future, and the railway plan will be completed faster.
In addition to the road construction, there is another thing that has attracted people's attention, and that is the establishment of a new industrial city, Yongyi City.
In two years, from scratch, a Yongyi City has appeared on the land, and the population of Yongyi City has exceeded 250,000, and it continues to grow rapidly.
In the future, the population of Yongyi City will exceed that of Yuanhe City, after all, for an industrial city, the Yuanhe Iron and Steel Plant has reached the limit of production capacity and can not continue to increase, and the population of Yuanhe City will still grow in the future, but for Yongyi City, which has unlimited potential, the population growth rate of Yuanhe City will be much slower than that of Yongyi City, and eventually the population of Yongyi City will exceed the population of Yuanhe City by a large margin, at that time, Yuanhe City was just an ordinary industrial city, not the capital of the country, and its importance was naturally not as important as Yongyi City.
Yongyi City, which has great potential, is obviously a treasure land, ordinary people can make the whole family live well as long as they enter Yongyi City as a worker, and Yongyi City's huge population also needs various service industries, such as shops, clothing stores, restaurants, and so on.
The development of Yongyi City fell deeply in the eyes of the first residents of Yongyi City, they saw the growth of Yongyi City with their own eyes, almost one day at a time, if someone suddenly wants to leave Yongyi City for a period of time, and then come back and don't even know the way.
The residents of Yongyi are proud to live in such a city, and it can be said that this rising city was built by their own hands, and of course, behind it is the support of the Han Kingdom, which mobilized the whole country to build this new industrial city.
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One by one, information passed in front of his eyes, and the outline of a Han Kingdom gradually emerged in his mind, the Han Kingdom was born in his hands, and slowly grew up in his hands, he was the master of the Han Kingdom - Yan Xueyi.