Chapter 65: Summer Harvest!
Since the subsidy policy came out, there have been too many students pouring into the three provinces of East China. In just over a month, nearly 50,000 middle school students have poured into the three provinces of East China.
However, this is almost close to the limit, and the Ministry of Education does not spend too much money on subsidies, and the Ministry of Education's funds are more than those of the Ministry of Military Affairs, which is really nothing to the Ministry of Education.
In contrast, the Ministry of Education has invested the most in the hardware construction of schools, as well as the expenditure on teachers and students' meals, which are the largest.
Now the Ministry of Education is issuing 'education lottery' every day,The sales of educational lottery tickets are very good,There can be about 200,000 yuan of sales per day,2 cents each,90% of the lottery,There is 10% of the income.
The lottery of the education lottery is absolutely transparent,The system is also different from those sports lotteries in China, welfare lottery,80% of the daily sales of the education lottery must be divided as a bonus,There is a special prize and a prize from one to five,Each level of the reward differs by a certain rate,So the amount of these prizes is not fixed.
For example, if there is no race grand prize on the day, 80% of the grand prize will be divided into the lower prize, for example, the fifth prize will only win two cents, then there may be a prize of four cents. The other 20% is carried over to the next period.
Or if the sales volume is high on the day, but the overall weight number is not high, then the bonus may also increase.
The gap between the grand prize, the first prize and the fifth prize is not too large, and the highest grand prize is only 10,000 yuan most of the time.
In such a model, people often win the lottery when they buy lottery tickets, which can be described as small prizes, but they will not get rich to a certain extent if they win the jackpot.
People buy educational lottery tickets, there are three kinds of psychology.
One is to participate in this chance to win the jackpot, and the second is to win small and medium-sized prizes, and you can't lose much money. The third is not to win the lottery, and it only costs 2 cents to buy one a day, which is regarded as supporting education.
The lottery has brought good profits to the Ministry of Education, and according to this momentum, it is not a problem to earn 10 million yuan a year. In addition, the Ministry of Education will continue to issue auxiliary currency this year, but the exact amount of issuance is not yet known, and it will have to wait for the notice of the central bank.
In addition, in the process of building the school, the Ministry of Education and local political axes launched a fundraiser, and most of the local squires were able to donate a little, and those big businessmen sometimes gave a lot of money.
In particular, those big businessmen who have made a fortune support the educational development policy of East China's political axe, and many businessmen are worth hundreds of thousands of yuan as soon as they make a move.
This has saved the Ministry of Education a lot of money in the areas where it spends the most, and basically 90% of the funds for the construction of primary school buildings have been raised through donations.
With a large number of students and teachers from other provinces being poached, Tao Chengzhang has become much more relieved about the development of education.
β¦β¦ By June, Xia Jun's points had risen to 700 million, and for the development of the industry, Xia Jun had to spend 100 million points to invest in tungsten carbide technology.
The tungsten carbide technology of this era was monopolized by Germany, but unfortunately, the Germans were obviously unwilling to exchange such a highly classified technology with the East China Autonomous Political Axe.
Previously, Xia Jun had asked the East China Commercial Hall to negotiate with Germany three times, but he was rejected. Tungsten carbide is a very important technology in machining, and the United States can only use a lower level of molybdenum metal.
With tungsten carbide technology, Xia Jun can manufacture his own machining equipment, and the scale of the machining plant can be expanded independently.
Feng Ru has already told Xia Jun three times that the equipment in the machinery factory can no longer receive any orders, and the orders are scheduled for next year.
The manufacturing capacity of the machine-building plant has seriously dragged down the industry.
"The machine builder will have to at least double in size to cope with current demand." Feng Ru said to Xia Jun that Xia Jun had no choice but to exchange tungsten carbide technology.
Moreover, Xia Jun exchanged for a relatively mature tungsten carbide technology, which includes the technology of adding titanium carbide and tantalum carbide to improve the anti-explosion ability.
In addition to exchanging tungsten carbide technology, Xia Jun also exchanged for primary machine tool manufacturing technology.
Machine tool manufacturing technology is divided into 1~10 levels, and the first level of machine tool manufacturing technology is in the twenties, which requires 500 million points.
Level 2: Technology in the thirties, which requires 1 billion points.
Level 3: Fortys technology, which requires 2 billion points.
Level 4: Fifties technology, which requires 4 billion points.
Level 5: Sixties technology, which requires 8 billion points.
A machine tool is a machine that processes metal blanks into machine parts, and it is a machine that manufactures machines, so it is also called a "machine tool" or "machine tool", and it is customary to refer to it as a machine tool.
There are many ways to process mechanical parts in later generations of machinery manufacturing: in addition to cutting, there are casting, forging, welding, stamping, extrusion, etc., but all parts with higher precision requirements and finer surface roughness requirements generally need to be finally processed by cutting methods on machine tools. In general machine manufacturing, the processing workload of machine tools accounts for 40%-60% of the total manufacturing workload of the machine.
Machine tools in this era are not so complicated.
Xia Jun purchased the most cutting-edge machine tool technology in the 20s, plus the tungsten carbide technology purchased, and spent a total of 600 million points.
These 600 million points are almost enough to buy an aircraft carrier.
The price of an aircraft carrier after World War II on the exchange platform is only 1 billion points.
However, only the technology of machine tools is the most important thing in a country, and Xia Jun has accumulated a few months of points, and it has almost cost a fine time.
Xia Jun's machine tool manufacturing plant was also built.
In order to speed up industrial construction, Xia Jun exchanged the last 100 million points in his hand for machine tools, and the 100 million points were smashed down, and the machinery manufacturing plant presided over by Feng Ru doubled.
The future war is a war of large corps, large factories, and large laboratories, and it will break out in two years after World War I, Xia Jun has to expand his industrial capacity as soon as possible in order to seek the greatest benefits in World War I.
If you miss an opportunity like the First World War, you won't have it.
And Xia Jun's previous investment has also received a huge return, and there is no doubt that this investment will also get a very huge return.
At this time, whether it is the United States or Europe, there is a popular fast food restaurant called KFC, this fast food restaurant has delicious fried chicken, and there are burgers and many snacks for sale.
Xia Jun's KFC is a combination of McDonald's, and the later McDonald's in the United States and other countries have exploded KFC, mainly McDonald's food is faster, McDonald's is equal to an American restaurant, and KFC's main product is fried chicken, although it is delicious, but it is not as good as McDonald's business.
After combining KFC and McDonald's, there is the current KCF that Xia Jun shamelessly plagiarized.
The Ministry of Trade has opened nearly 500 KFC stores in the United States with loans, and has also joined more than 1,000 stores in those small towns and more remote places.
KFC has been rapidly rolled out in a short period of time, and nearly 300 KFC have been opened in various European countries.
The bank is also more willing to accept the loan of KFC, after all, this is a loan with no loss, because KFC's business is booming, so the loan does not have any risk, not at all.
Some banks even expect KFC to go bankrupt and sell due to poor cash flow, so that the bank can make more money.
The opening of a large number of KFCs has also led to Tana's Abrot Company, which is the producer of Coca-Cola in China.
Coke is obviously not suitable for transportation and export, and is generally produced in-house, so Xia Jun handed over the production of Coke to Abrot.
Of course, the recipe is still in his hands.
The Coke in KFC uses this Chinese version of Coca-Cola, and Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the United States are turned away.
Because KFC quickly seized the market, and also put some advertising, coupled with a very professional business model, there are no competitors in the market for the time being.
There will never even be any competitors who can really threaten the KFC, because once the supremacy is established, it will be very difficult to shake it.
Abrot has recently begun to enter the film industry and the record market because of the film technology provided by Xia Jun, as well as the tape recorder technology.
Movies, Xia Jun has no shortage of movies, especially American movies.
Abrot is currently engaged in the manufacture of bras, sanitary napkins, lighters, filter cigarettes, beverages and sulfonamides, while Abrot has begun to enter the field of stainless steel.
Facts have proved that this is a very good woman who manages the company, the company's profit has reached nearly 23 million US dollars, and Xia Jun has received 10 million US dollars in dividends. As for other profit funds, she invested in expanding the scale of production, Xia Jun invested in technology, and under a large number of patents, the trend of Abrot Company was very strong.
"Natsu, I'm pregnant." On this day, Tana suddenly called Xia Jun and said.
"Poof......" Xia Jun listened to the cigarette in his mouth and spewed out a long distance, reacted half-loudly, and shouted: "Sell Ga, are you pregnant?" β
"The doctor told me it was four months old." Tana said.
"Well, are you sure it's my child?" Xia Jun's eyes widened, recalling that night, the two sides did not take any contraceptive measures, and the calculation time was almost the same.
Sky!
Xiaojing just got pregnant, and Tana, the chick, also said she was pregnant?
Lao Tzu is only twenty-two years old, and he is going to be the father of two children?
Thinking about it makes Xia Jun feel a little scared, and what scares him even more is, how will this matter end?
"Of course it's your child, I haven't done anything like this with another man, do you need any questions?" Tana was a little angry, and when she saw that there was no sound on the other end of the phone, she asked weakly, "Aren't you happy?" β
"Yes, I'm happy." Xia Jun took a few deep breaths and asked Tana seriously, "What are you going to do?" β
"This question should be answered by you, not what I plan to do, but what you plan to do?" Tana kicked the ball back.
"Me? It's up to you to decide what to do, if you want to give birth to the baby, I have no opinion, and if you want to get rid of the child, I have no opinion. "What else can Xia Jun do to let Tana beat the child? It's too ruthless, and it's a bit troublesome for her to give birth to the child.
"Li's side......" Tana hesitated, Xia Jun was speechless, and said, "I will do a good job on her side." β
"Then I'll give birth to the baby, but I think I have to go to China to give birth to the baby." Tana hesitated for a while and said, in this era, it is obviously risky to have children before marriage, so it is not okay to stay in the United States.
ββ¦β¦ All right! β
β¦β¦ The affair could not be hidden, Xia Jun hugged Li Shijing in the quilt that night, Li Shijing was very happy in Xia Jun's arms, as if she was about to fall asleep.
"Xiaojing."
"Huh?" Li Shijing opened her eyes and looked up at Xia Jun in confusion, seeing his hesitant appearance, she asked strangely, "Husband, what's wrong with you today?" Sick? β
"That, there's something I want to tell you, it's like this, that ......" Xia Jun hesitated for a long time, and then said: "Tana, she's pregnant." β
When Li Shijing heard this, she asked strangely, "Tana is pregnant?" How did I not know ......"
Meaning, how did Xia Jun know in advance!
This made Li Shijing very strange, but when Li Shijing saw Xia Jun's distracted appearance, she immediately had a premonition in her heart.
Li Shijing's gaze suddenly became sharp, and she asked coldly, "What did you do?" β
How clever!
How did you guess that?
"How do you know?" Xia Junleng said, Li Shijing snorted coldly, "Do you still need to ask?" Look at your appearance, you have made people's stomachs bigger now, be happy! β
"No, no, Xiaojing, listen to my explanation, she was going to drink that day, and she got drunk...... " Xia Jun tried to shirk responsibility, Li Shijing, who was in his arms, stretched out her slender hand and pinched his chest muscles, and turned around fiercely.
"Whew......"
A scream alarmed the SS troops around the villa, and Zhou Shunze rushed outside the house in a panic and shouted in a low voice: "Chairman, what happened?" β
"It's okay, it's okay."
Xia Jun hurriedly shouted outside, Zhou Shunze retreated, but he was full of confusion, what's the matter?
Li Shijing was not polite, and continued to inflict domestic violence on Xia Jun, but Xia Jun's chest muscles were too hard to turn at all, so Li Shijing shifted her target to the soft flesh on Xia Jun's waist.
"Xiaojing, I really drank high that day, I was careless for a while, and then I ......"
Li Shijing stared at him, and when Xia Jun was still arguing, Li Shijing covered Xia Jun's mouth with her hand and said solemnly: "Okay, don't say it." β
"Xiaojing, aren't you angry?" Xia Jun asked tentatively, Li Shijing pouted, and said helplessly: "What's the use of me being angry, who made you look so handsome, otherwise how could you hook up with Tana." β
What kind of character Tana is Li Shijing naturally knows that she likes this kind of handsome man.
"It's really annoying to be handsome!" Xia Jun sighed.
"Stinky beauty." Li Shijing hugged Xia Jun tightly with both hands, changed a comfortable position in Xia Jun's arms, and then asked, "You made people's stomachs bigger, what are you going to do now?" β
I hate answering this question!
Xia Jun said helplessly: "I don't know, so I have to ask Mrs. for advice, everything is up to Mrs. β
"It's all like this, what else can I do, it's okay to marry the sedan chair and go home, hum!" Li Shijing got angry as she spoke, twisted Xia Jun's soft flesh twice, and blamed: "I have another one at home!" You're good. β
Li Shijing obviously meant Xiao Mei'er, Xia Jun smiled awkwardly: "Mei'er is not too small!" Li Shijing stared at him, Xia Jun didn't know what to say, and the scene was a little cold. After a long while, Li Shijing suddenly said seriously: "I will forgive you this time!" Next time, don't mess around, especially a woman who doesn't mess around, you are now the supreme head of the three provinces, and you must pay attention to your behavior. β
"Xiaojing, you're so nice." Xia Jun said that he was about to kiss Li Shijing's cherry lips, Li Shijing stretched out her hand to block the front, and said, "The matter has not been solved yet!" β
"What's the solution, ma'am?" Xia Jun asked.
"Take Tana! You know the consequences of keeping her in the United States are severe. Li Shijing said, "Forget it, I'll deal with it tomorrow!" β
"Hmm!"
Li Shijing is a little helpless, her husband, as the head of the three provinces in East China, is in power, there will definitely be some ** beyond ordinary people, he has done a good job.
Besides, as a Chinese female surname in this era, she can't really restrict his behavior, after all, it is normal to have three wives and four concubines in this era.
Now all she can do is be considerate and get things done.
In addition, Li Shijing still has some happiness in her heart, she is most afraid that Xia Jun will have a relationship with those indiscriminate women, if it is Tana, then she can still accept it. But tantrums are needed, at least to warn this stinky and beautiful guy, she doesn't want to see too many women in the house.
With Mei'er, there will be three women in the family in the future, but fortunately, Tana is her good classmate, and the situation at home will not get out of control.
β¦β¦ The next day, Li Shijing called Tana, and Li Shijing was not angry on the phone, but comforted Tana not to worry, which made Tana very moved.
After learning that she was pregnant, Tana had completely lost her position. She even wondered if she should find a man to marry quickly.
In this era, the United States is far from being so open, and people will have very strange eyes on women who have children before marriage, and Tana doesn't even dare to tell her parents the news.
With Li Shijing's support, Tana's hesitant heart calmed down, because she had a safe haven in China.
On the same day, Tana packed up her courtesy, bought a ticket to Shanghai, and then went to China under the protection of several bodyguards arranged for her by Xia Jun.
Several soldiers who cooperated with the Ministry of Trade were protecting Tana, and it was obvious that the relationship between this woman and the FΓΌhrer was not ordinary, and they were extremely careful along the way.
However, the road was calm, and Tana came to Shanghai very smoothly.
Tana, who had just arrived in Shanghai, quickly found Xia Jun and Li Shijing who came to greet her, and soon Tana and Li Shijing hugged warmly.
Tana and Li Shijing were very affectionate, and Xia Jun seemed a little embarrassed along the way.
From this day on, Tana stayed at Xia Jun's house until she gave birth to the child, Li Shijing and Tana got along very well.
However, Tana still decided to wait for the birth of the child and return to the United States to take care of the industry, as for the name or something, Tana is not so concerned.
The next life made Xia Jun feel that the world was so beautiful, and he could hug two of them every night when he went to bed.
Zhou Shunze, the commander of the SS guard company who served as Xia Jun, later said in his memoirs: "When Madame Tana first arrived, we were all surprised. Later we learned her identity, but she did not mess up the FΓΌhrer's life, on the contrary, the relationship between the three people was harmonious. β
β¦β¦ The eight compulsory divisions recruited by Xia Jun had completed their recruitment in July, and these eight divisions were quickly converted into production divisions by Xia Jun.
Because Xia Jun found that he didn't have much money to raise too large an army for the time being.
The purpose of the recruitment of these eight compulsory divisions is only to reserve troops, and it is not bad for them to be converted into production corps, and the result is the same.
As for dealing with Xiao Yueben, that's a matter for the navy.
The Navy's 50 submarines are enough to block Xiao Yueben, who does not have sufficient anti-submarine means, and even if Xiao Yueben lands, three divisions will be enough to drive Xiao Yueben into the sea.
Moreover, Xia Jun's coastal fortifications have already begun to be repaired, and there is no need for war, and it is purely a waste of money to recruit so many soldiers.
What Xia Jun wants to do is to speed up the training of officers. The more officers, the better, and the higher the quality, the better.
At the same time, the matter of the source of soldiers, continue to recruit the production corps!
At present, Xia Jun's funds are mainly used for education, infrastructure and industrial investment, and he wants to form the largest industry before the First World War, and now the more factories are built, the more he will earn during the First World War.
What the eight production corps produce, Xia Jun already has a plan.
These eight production corps will be transferred to Jiangsu, which will require the agricultural reclamation company to come forward and rent the land first.
The production corps usually cooperates with the agricultural reclamation company in production, but it is mainly training, and production is only an auxiliary, so it is enough to fill in the military expenses.
In addition, the two major agricultural reclamation companies of Zhongsheng and Huasheng, as well as other agricultural reclamation companies, will develop in the four provinces of Anhui, Henan, Shandong, and Guangdong next year.
The company will grow wheat and cotton in Anhui, Henan and Shandong, all of which have relatively flat terrain and are suitable for large-scale mechanical farming, among which Anhui has many natural disasters.
The area of Luxi and eastern Henan is the traditional cotton growing area in China, Henan is a large wheat growing province, and Shandong in later generations is more planted with peanuts and vegetables. Anhui has wheat, cotton, and rice.
It is very profitable to set up a farming company, and sugar and cotton are the two most profitable, so the farming reclamation company will also develop in Guangdong.
Guangdong and Guangxi are very suitable for growing sugarcane.
The development of the agricultural reclamation company is also what Xia Jun is willing to see, and the development of the agricultural reclamation company to a certain extent can cover a large amount of land, and they have enough capital investment, and it will not be a problem technically, so that the personal output value of agriculture will also increase.
As for the peasants losing their land or something, this is inevitable in the course of development. Farmers who have lost their land can move to the cities to work as workers, and their quality of life will be better.
β¦β¦ The summer harvest came in July, and the rice and corn in the fields were growing very strongly, and there was basically no shortage of fertilizer in the first half of the year.
The fertilizer from the fertilizer factory can be used with a loan first, which makes the yield of rice and corn in the field frighteningly high.
The people of Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces have never seen crops that can grow so well, and they can't help but be happy when they see the crops growing well day by day.
There are no taxes to pay this year, and there is no loan sharking.
As soon as the summer harvest arrives, the fields begin to harvest the crops, and people rush to harvest the crops so that they can plant the second crop.
In the plains, large combine harvesters, which are paid by the hour and are generally employed by landlords, are busy.
Most of the yeoman farmers and tenant farmers on the plains were too willing to hire these big guys, because they didn't pay very much.
However, some people think that they have the strength to spend money to hire a harvester.
Of course, this kind of thinking will slowly change over time, after all, when you get rich, not everyone is willing to work so hard for this money, and it is indeed more cost-effective to hire a harvester, and you can get more money by working on the construction site with the same effort.
In the hilly and mountainous areas where large combine harvesters cannot be used, farmers use Zanxin's agricultural machinery, which is bought with loans, which greatly reduces people's labor intensity.
The main crops for this autumn harvest are rice and corn.
Among them, the planting area of rice has been reduced to 22 million mu due to Xia Jun's intervention, while the planting area of corn has been reduced to 10 million mu.
According to the way the seeds are sold, one acre of land is 100 kilograms of rice, and 150 kilograms of corn kernels, in this summer harvest, Xia Jun can collect 2.2 million tons of rice, and at the same time can collect 1.5 million tons of corn.
Of course, these grains will be stored, and Xia Jun will have to use them to relieve the people in other provinces.
β¦β¦ Xia Jun took Li Shijing and Tana, accompanied by Yang Mingliu, Minister of Agriculture, to inspect the summer harvest in northern Hangzhou.
Yang Mingliu reported to Xia Jun: "Judging from the data reported by various provinces, the average yield per mu of rice this year should be about 760 kilograms earlier, while the yield of corn should be 1,000 kilograms per mu, and the average yield of the whole plant is about 8,500 kilograms." β
"What about the total production?" Xia Jun asked.
"The total output of rice is 16.5 million tons, the total output of corn should be 7 million tons, and the other 3 million mu is used for silage, and the total output value should be about 550 million yuan." Yang Mingliu said, "The export volume should be 150 million yuan." β
"Looks like it's going to be printed." Xia Jun nodded, but this time the printing of banknotes is not a political axe, because the export is exchanged for foreign exchange or gold, these things are political axes, because it is impossible for political axes to let other countries' money circulate in their own countries, so they need to print money, these banknotes are for the people, and those foreign exchange cannot be moved, because this is what ensures the value of the revival currency.
Of course, if you don't fully store these foreign currencies, you don't need to print them, for example, private individuals can keep them, but they can't use them in their home countries.
At the same time, China's current trade balance is too large, and these foreign currencies can be spent, so there is no need to print so many tickets.
The significance of this summer harvest lies in the fact that the grain problem has been basically solved and can be exported.
At the same time, the aquaculture industry also gets enough feed, you have 7 million tons of corn, enough to raise 3.5 million tons of chickens, at one kilogram per chicken, that's 3.5 billion chickens.
Now there are four breeding bases, which can breed 4 billion chickens every year, while there are nearly 3 million pigs in the farm, 2 million lean pigs in the countryside, and nearly 4 million native pigs.
In terms of cattle, the number of dairy cows has grown to 300,000 and the number of beef cattle has grown to 500,000.
In the second half of the year, the area of corn planting must reach at least 30 million mu, because by next year, the number of livestock will be even larger.
In addition to the solution of grain, the expansion of the breeding industry means that the problem of eggs and meat has been initially solved.
Xia Jun has always been very entangled in the breeding speed of cattle, at the current rate of breeding, the number of cows will increase by one-third a year, and the number of cows will only grow to one million in four years.
(To be continued)