At this time, the East China Aircraft Factory has received a total of 12 million US dollars, and the orders of those big countries are mainly contributed by Britain, France and Germany, of which Germany has the largest order, and the Heavy Hammer I has ordered 300 aircraft, the Heavy Hammer 2 has ordered 50 aircraft, and the Eagle 1 has also ordered 200 aircraft.

These big countries do not have as many orders as those small countries, which have little aircraft manufacturing capacity and want to build their own air forces, and the East China Air Force, known as the strongest air force, has become an example for them to learn.

The East China Aircraft Factory basically monopolized the export of international military aircraft, and the good reconnaissance capability of the Eagle I reconnaissance plane, as well as the two machine guns in the cabin, also gave the Eagle I reconnaissance plane the ability to fight in the air, and the East China Air Force was the first in the world to load machine guns on the aircraft.

Now the Heavy Hammer I has been unveiled in public, which has become the world's first truly practical bomber, and the Heavy Hammer I bomber equipped with a bomb sight is quite accurate when dropping bombs, which makes this bomber have a strong military value.

Those small countries that are very rich sometimes have more money to buy planes than those big countries, and most of those big countries can build planes themselves, and most of them have the idea of buying them back for study, except for Britain, France, and Germany, which are three countries that are preparing for war, other big countries will not buy too much.

The export of the heavy hammer I bomber also led to the export of aerial bombs, although not very many, but when you buy an airplane, you naturally have to buy aerial bombs.

In addition to achieving excellent results in military aircraft, the East China Aircraft Factory has also achieved considerable results in civil aircraft.

The Heavy Hammer 2 has been transformed into an agricultural machine and a short-range passenger aircraft, and the Kunpeng 2 bomber has also been transformed into a passenger aircraft, but this type of passenger aircraft is not exported, and the Kunpeng I bomber is converted into a passenger aircraft that is also only used as a passenger aircraft in China.

For export, the Hammer 1 bomber was converted into an agricultural machine and a short-range passenger aircraft. Basically, it also monopolized the market share in civil aircraft, which made the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Company quite profitable.

…… The tank factory was also relatively successful in the development of tanks, and successively developed three export versions.

These three export versions of the tank have a bad surname, but they are no worse than the tanks put into service by the British in World War I, and one is better than the other.

'Smasher Type 1' to 'Smasher Type 3' all use the first generation of tank chassis, which is extremely easy to break down, and the tank design is also the style of the British World War I, but it is different when it comes to Type 3, Type 3 has an added turret, there is a significant difference in appearance, and the combat surname can also be significantly improved.

The 'Smasher' is an export tank, and the East China Army will not be equipped with such a tank.

The tank factory is using the second-generation tank chassis to design the tank, which also absorbs the various designs of the T34 medium tank, using the latest diesel engine, and has developed a new tank with a speed of 40 km/h, 13mm hardened steel plate, and basically no anchorage.

The tank was named the Type 13 Dreadnought.

The East China Army calls this weapon a tank, not a tank, and later Taiwan called it a tank, and calling a tank is indeed more in line with the Chinese name, and the tank is a translated name.

This weapon is one of the top secrets of the East China Army, and basically everyone who knows the existence of this weapon has been shut up.

…… The navy has received 100 million yuan this year and has once again determined the manufacturing plan for two heavy cruisers, and it is expected to spend 30 million yuan to build two heavy cruisers with a displacement of 14,000 tons, and at the same time spend 20 million yuan to build 20 'Zhendong 2 destroyers'.

In terms of submarine manufacturing, the East China Navy currently has the ability to manufacture VIIB submarines, no matter what kind of technology it is.

In addition to exchanging techniques with the Germans, Xia Jun also exchanged some techniques.

This year, the Navy decided to build 20 Type VIIB submarines, and the cost of submarines is very low, taking a Type VIIB submarine as an example, the cost of a submarine is only 1.2 million yuan.

The cost of these 20 Type VIIB submarines is only 24 million yuan. Others will invest another 10 million yuan to develop more advanced submarines, and the remaining military spending will be used for the maintenance of warships.

At this time, the strength of the East China Navy was rapidly increasing, and the surface ships already had 25 Zhendong 1 destroyers and one Haidun 1 cruiser.

Fifty Type VIIB submarines underwater, plus one more formidable Death.

After the approval of this year's construction plan, there will be seventy submarines of the VIIB type, three cruisers, forty-five destroyers, and another one hundred and thirty torpedo boats.

Plus two 30,000-ton aircraft carriers!

Possessing such maritime power is enough to protect the safety of merchant ships.

In contrast, it was already much more crazy, and the 88th Fleet passed directly, and the Fuso-class battleships and Kongo-class cruisers were all built.

At the same time, the Navy is also vigorously researching antisubmarine technology and submarine technology. It is said that the military expenditure of this navy is twice that of the East China Navy!

However, in terms of technology, the East China Navy is stronger than the other in terms of the power of warships, and the cruiser can reach a speed of more than 31 knots after using advanced power technology. In terms of armor and artillery fire, the East China Navy is similar to the Yueben Navy, and the East China Navy is not inferior to the Yueben in these aspects because it has changed technology from Germany.

…… 1913 came to an end, and 1914 came.

The 26th is the Spring Festival, and preparations are being made everywhere for the Spring Festival.

Different from previous years, this year's Spring Festival wants to be more lively. Especially those big merchants, as well as the big local clans.

Over the years, the provinces became richer.

Among them, the northwest Fujian region was the first to develop, because agriculture and industry developed in the northwest of Fujian, so the people there were the most affluent.

However, due to geographical constraints in northwest Fujian, other regions are rapidly catching up.

In particular, Zhejiang Province has the fastest economic development rate among the previous three provinces, first of all, the administrative center has been relocated to Zhejiang, and another reason is that Zhejiang and the coastal provinces are also better developed than Fujian in terms of topography. After the railway was built, the number of factories in Zhejiang skyrocketed.

Fujian, on the other hand, is a coastal city and a rapidly developing coastal plain in the southeast, which has become an important industrial area because the railways here were the first to be built.

Jiangxi's industry has also grown greatly, but Jiangxi has the highest agricultural output value.

Jiangxi has much more arable land than Fujian and Zhejiang, so it quickly surpassed Fujian and Zhejiang in agriculture, but the agriculture of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces is developing in the direction of cash crops, and Fujian is dominated by forestry and fruit planting.

With the merger of Jiangsu and Anhui, two major agricultural provinces, into the scope of autonomy, Jiangxi's first position in agriculture will not be long before it will be ceded.

Guangdong's agriculture also has great potential, and Shanxi has the least potential.

But Shanxi has a lot of coal, and energy can also create a lot of wealth for Jiangxi, the problem is only whether the political axe is willing to dig it, and it is useless if it doesn't dig much.

Regardless of agriculture or industry, the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Region are developing, and this year's Chinese New Year is naturally much better.

Most of those autonomous councils, facing this year's Spring Festival, have formulated some celebrations.

Those dragon dances, lion dances, singing troupes have been lined up, watching the Spring Festival Gala is also a practice for the formation of the land, every year after the Spring Festival, there are videotapes sent to various places to be screened for free, has become a necessary program in people's New Year's entertainment.

This year's Spring Festival Gala is planned to be recorded in advance, and on January 15th, the Spring Festival Gala will begin to be recorded.

Xia Jun's Spring Festival Gala is very different from the Spring Festival Gala in later generations. The Spring Festival Gala of later generations was organized by the TV station, and Xia Jun's Spring Festival Gala was organized by the political axe.

The Spring Festival Gala of the East China Autonomous Political Axe pursued more festivity and entertainment than the Spring Hope of later generations, and also pursued more political and policy propaganda.

If you compare them together, you will find that Xia Jun's Spring Festival Gala in this time and space is more casual and not so serious, so it looks more cordial. Plus it's more pursuit of entertainment, so the quality is much better. But the policy and political propaganda have not been pulled down.

In general, the difference is that the special surname of the East China Autonomous Political Axe is different from a certain crotch in later generations, so it will not be so rigid and more flexible.

The program of this year's Spring Festival Gala is partly organized by the East China Autonomous Political Axe, and partly by those businesses, and also invites Nanyang, Australia, and North America and South American Chinese to participate.

The fundraising for the Spring Festival Gala is still maintained, and this year East China Group took out 200 million yuan and donated it to the Ministry of Construction.

The Ministry of Construction wants a lot of money, and it is a department whose capital needs are no less than those of the Ministry of Education, and this year the Ministry of Construction has an additional construction project.

That is the construction of agricultural reform.

Not all areas of farmland are suitable for mechanized farming, but there are many mountainous areas where farmland can be mechanized after agricultural reform.

After all, the farmland in many areas is uneven, and the ridges are separated by one another, and the machinery cannot carry out the operation at all, so agricultural reform is needed.

The agricultural reform was carried out by the Ministry of Construction in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture.

Zhongsheng Group and Huasheng Group also made a lot of profits this year, so they each took out 30 million yuan, in contrast, although other companies can't take out so much money from these two groups, but they are a lot of winners.

This year, the number of companies that will donate to the Spring Festival Gala has tripled!

In just one Spring Festival Gala, the donations raised reached 200 million yuan, plus 200 million yuan from the East China Group, reaching a terrifying level of 400 million yuan.

However, compared with this year's GDP of nearly 20 billion yuan, this is only 2 percent. Of course, this is not the total amount of donations raised this year, and a lot of money will be raised after the video is shown in various places.

Sure enough, after the video of the Spring Festival Gala was screened on the first day of the new year, there was a wave of fundraising in various places. By 15 o'clock, the results of the fundraising had reached 300 million yuan.

In the 14 years of finance, 700 million yuan has been spent.

The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Construction have received the most money, and in addition to developing education, this money is used to carry out rural infrastructure construction.

This year's Chinese New Year is very lively, and fireworks are also set off on East China Square.

People gathered in the square on Chinese New Year's Eve for a grand rally in the square.

Consumption in the early part of the Spring Festival has also increased nearly five times compared to usual, and after a year of struggle, many people have money in their pockets, and livelihood is no longer a concern for people, but about how to live better.

Basically, during the festival this year, there is meat on the table of the people, and there is a lot of meat on the table of the people of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Shanxi provinces.

The price of meat has dropped considerably compared to before, and the supply is very abundant.

The aquaculture industry in the three provinces of East China has developed very professionally and intensively, while fewer and fewer people in the rural areas have developed scattered aquaculture.

The advantage of intensification is that it is efficient and low-cost, so even if the price of meat is reduced a lot, the farm is still profitable.

In Jiangsu and Anhui, the people's livelihood is much better than last year, and as for Guangdong and Shanxi, they have just been merged into the East China Autonomous Government, so they have only received relief goods.

But next year everything will be better!

…… After the New Year, various departments have received very abundant funds, and a new round of intense construction has also begun.

The Ministry of Agriculture is busy counting and forecasting the internal demand for agricultural products next year, as well as estimating the international market situation, to determine this year's agricultural plan.

Yang Mingliu submitted to Xia Jun an agricultural plan for the new year, in the new year, the planting area of winter wheat will be 100 million mu, and this 100 million mu will be planted, in the five provinces of Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Shandong, that is, there are their own land, and there are also land leased by agricultural reclamation companies in other provinces.

This 100 million mu of land, using machine farming, can produce 70 million tons of wheat, and now the population of the seven provinces is 160 million, and these 70 million tons of wheat are enough to feed 80 million people, or even 90 million people, because now there is more meat, not all eat rice and noodles.

In terms of rice planting, Guangdong can plant three crops of rice, which was naturally not possible before, but due to the distribution of tractors, it has become possible to grow three crops of rice.

The rice planting area will be increased to 80 million mu this year, and it is expected to produce 64 million tons of rice.

One season of grain alone is almost enough to feed the people of the seven provinces for a year.

This year's grain output regulation and control is relatively simple, because all the 100 million mu of wheat is planted by mechanized farming, and ninety percent of it belongs to agricultural reclamation companies.

At that time, eat less flour internally, eat rice instead, and export most of the flour to the world, so that the market risk will be passed on. And even if the price of flour is very low, the farming company that uses machine farming is still profitable, and this business can't be accompanied anyway.

The planting area of cotton has increased to 60 million mu, the planting area of corn to 30 million mu, and the planting area of soybean to 15 million mu. The mulberry planting area has expanded by another two million acres!

The planting area of various cash crops has increased somewhat, while the planting area of individual cash crops with a low rate of return has not increased.

The sugarcane planting area has soared to 45 million mu due to the merger of Guangdong into the ranks of East China's autonomy, and the rice planting area in Guangdong is not too large, and most of the land is used to grow sugarcane.

Of course, 45 million acres of sugarcane are planted, and 45 million acres of high-yield peanuts are also planted, and these peanuts are mainly used to extract oil, and peanut oil, which is not mixed with other oils, is the most fragrant among vegetable oils.

The agricultural plan quickly passed the review of Xia Jun's side, and Xia Jun still recognized Yang Mingliu's work ability.

This year, those farming companies began to spread to the Huguang area, and they went to Huguang not to grow rice, but to develop aquaculture.

Huguang's cowhide, which is one of the important raw materials in the Yangtze River Basin.

As far as rice is concerned, there is no shortage of grain crops in the seven autonomous provinces of East China, and even if there is a shortage outside the seven autonomous provinces of East China, the seven autonomous provinces of East China can quickly fill the shortfall, and famine is basically impossible.

As a result, Huguang, an important grain-producing area in China, was used by those farming companies to grow forage corn.

There are many advantages to planting corn, first of all, the land does not need to be irrigated in large quantities, which saves water resources and labor, and then corn can be used to plant, harvest, aircraft and other machines from sowing, fertilization to harvesting, and the labor force is greatly reduced.

As for the lack of cattle?

This is not a problem, there are many cattle in the Huguang area, and as soon as these farming companies arrive in Huguang, they buy buffalo, cattle and other cattle breeds on a large scale.

As for the beef cattle and dairy cows in the breeding base, the dairy cows are first raised by the East China Group, and other breeding companies cannot buy them. Beef cattle are evenly distributed to those breeding companies that have developed the breeding industry according to their size.

At present, the agricultural reclamation company is developing the breeding industry by mixing soil seeds and new seeds, and there is a cheap supply of feed, and the profits are very good.

Of course, those peasants who had lost their jobs with the Reclamation Company were placed in the factories.

The factories of the seven provinces of East China Autonomous Province are now also opened in the area of Xiakou and Wuchang, first of all, there is the "East China Provisional Law" escort of the East China Autonomous Political Axe in policy, and then from the transportation, Xiakou and Wuchang are the central hubs of China's railways, and the transportation is also very convenient.

Coupled with the fact that it is a traditional area of Han Chinese activity and the Yangtze River is densely populated, it is suitable to set up factories there, and many factories that need to buy raw materials from the inland are relocating to the Wuhan area.

The coastal area should be developed, and the inland should also be developed, otherwise people will be crowded together, which will cause the deformed situation in later generations, so Xia Jun attaches great importance to the development of inland areas, as far as the factories of the East China Group are concerned, they can be built inland, and many industries in Jiangxi are driven in this way.

Now that the Beiyang political axe and the East China autonomous political axe have joined forces to stabilize the situation in China, there is no problem for the factory to open inland, the only problem is the railway line.

Wherever the railroad goes, so can the factory. Without railways, opening factories inland is just empty talk.

At present, initial results have been achieved in railway construction, with the opening of the railway from Jiangxi to Wuchang, the construction of the railway from Fujian to Guangdong, and from Shanxi to Guangdong.

At the same time, the railway from Hangzhou to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province was also completed.

The construction of these railway lines has provided Shanxi, Guangdong, and Hubei with the conditions to open factories. Factories can also be built along the Yangtze River, because the Yangtze River waterway is also a good transportation option.

Due to the rapid development of industry, these railways were very busy, especially the railway to Shanxi, which was the first large-scale transportation of coal to the south.

The arrival of these coals has completely solved the energy problem.

Coal must be dug up, otherwise the railway will lose money if it has nothing to transport.

This year, Shanxi plans to build a railway to Inner Mongolia and connect it to Zhangjiakou. Zhangjiakou is a very prosperous area of the tanning industry, and the furs on the Mongolian plateau are sold to Zhangjiakou by Jin merchants.

Strengthening the economic capacity of the Hangzhou-Taizhou Railway is an important measure to solve the problem of being able to transport coal, and the Ministry of Agriculture is carrying out orderly planning for Shanxi's agriculture.

In addition to coal, the most important industry in Shanxi is mining, and when mining coal and minerals, as long as you pay attention not to mine in living areas and agricultural areas.

Because the Jin merchants were well guided by Yan Xishan, the squires of Shanxi joined this investment boom, among which the demand for equipment in the tanning industry was the largest.

These Jin merchants are at fault in history.

But it is not easy for Xia Jun to pursue it at present, after all, nearly three hundred years have passed, and it is indeed difficult for Xia Jun to liquidate, which is not conducive to the current unity.

Therefore, it was still treated equally and gave Jinshang tanning equipment.

Of course, Xia Jun also gave tanning equipment to the two major groups of Zhongsheng and Huasheng, as well as the businessmen of Ningbo Merchant Gang and Longyou Merchant Gang.

Huadong Group also opened a velvet factory.

Velvet, also wool, can be woven into sweaters.

This thing is still not available in China today, and it is very rare in the world.

The extremely famous Hengyuanxiang (sheep and sheep) in later generations was also developed in the twenties and thirties, when the velvet had just been introduced to China.

People like this new thing that can be woven and dismantled, so the market is very large.

Although not many people in this era know how to knit sweaters, it is enough to popularize it.

Of course, it is almost the same if it is not popular, and when industrialization develops to a certain extent, who still has time to knit sweaters, and directly buy the finished products woven in the factory and trade them.

As far as wool tops are concerned, Mongolia does have a good production and is a profitable place.

The industry in Guangdong is better developed, because Guangdong is a coastal province, and although the railway network has not yet been repaired, the industry of the coastal port cities is very well developed.

Jiangsu itself is also a large industrial province, and it is also suitable to develop industry in Jiangsu.

In the new year, on the one hand, the factories are expanding their production capacity, and on the other hand, a large amount of capital is pouring into new fields, showing a vigorous vitality.

Some agricultural reclamation companies even went out of China and began to develop in the Nanyang region.

There are many Chinese in Nanyang itself, and the agricultural reclamation company came to Nanyang to cooperate with the Chinese plantation owners in Nanyang and invest in rubber plantations with them.

Jian'an has recently produced high-yielding rubber, which, according to officials, yields more than 1.5 times that of ordinary rubber trees.

Although it has not been verified, the official integrity is very high, and the agricultural reclamation company believes the official statement and does not question it.

Nanyang Chinese also return to China frequently in the new year, they go back to China to investigate, and they also go to their hometowns for a walk.

The Nanyang Chinese basically came from Fujian and Guangdong, and now these two provinces are under the administrative scope of the East China Autonomous Axe.

The Nanyang Chinese who returned to their homeland were very excited, and they saw the great changes in their motherland.

These Chinese who returned to China for investigation, because they have capital and are familiar with the region of Nanyang, many enterprises are willing to set up joint ventures with them to set up factories in Nanyang.

Most of the factories set up in Nanyang are the mining, planting, and collection of raw materials, and those manufacturing industries will basically not be opened abroad, unless there are constraints and have to be opened in Nanyang.

(To be continued)