After spring sowing, a small-scale afforestation campaign began in various parts of Fujian, with fast-growing fir trees and improved bamboos planted on a small scale.

The woodland was still some time away from being planned, and there were already trees on the hill that had to be cut down before they could be replanted.

At the same time, Xia Jun intensified his efforts to crack down on local tyrants, not all of the local landlords must be eliminated, but those with bad conduct must be eliminated, and at the same time set up relief stations in various places, so that the people can find relief stations if they have difficulties, and prohibit landlords from lending usury to seize self-cultivated farmland.

Because Xia Jun treated the landlords differently, the landlord class generally supported Xia Jun, after all, Xia Jun increased their income and there was no tax.

It is impossible to have no taxes, but at this time, the hearts of the people are what Xia Jun is focusing on, so for the time being, let these landlords not have to pay taxes, and when the Qing court is destroyed, they can collect it immediately.

Education is developing slowly, but it is also growing rapidly.

In the first few months of the year, more than 2,000 members of the Restoration Society came to Jian'an from Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and nearly 3,000 teachers and students who did not belong to the Restoration Society were also absorbed.

Most of these people are middle school students and college students, and the arrival of these people naturally makes Xia Jun have no shortage of people.

Because of the arrival of these people, Xia Jun needs a lot of teachers, and the current development of universal education is very slow, mainly because there are not enough teachers.

Xia Jun has higher requirements for teachers, this can not be taught randomly, at least there must be a unified standard, Xia Jun has established a standardized teaching process by exchanging the textbooks of later generations, those teachers have to study in advanced normal colleges before taking up their posts, and then let them out to teach after passing the examination.

For the time being, there is no score in terms of universal education, and Xia Jun has only established a team of teachers who can eradicate illiteracy for the army.

At present, the staff of the Normal College has increased to more than 3,000 people, and it will be able to provide free education for nine years starting next year, which makes Xia Jun feel a trace of financial pressure.

Nowadays, the biggest expense is in engineering construction, Xia Jun has successively invited 16 civil engineers from abroad, most of these engineers are the United States and Germany.

Xu Wenbo was appointed by Xia Jun as the minister of construction, specializing in the construction of roads, railways, bridges, hydropower and other projects, and has 18 engineering teams under his jurisdiction, which are overhauling Fujian's main transportation lines. The monthly expenditure reaches 500~6 million US dollars, and Xia Jun has to subsidize nearly 500,000 points.

At this time, Xia Jun had a Jianzhou University in his hands, which had increased to more than 4,000 teachers and students, and at the same time, three middle schools were built one after another, with more than 7,000 middle school students, and the monthly subsidy plus teachers' salaries, and other teaching needs added up to a total of 1.5 million US dollars.

Needless to say, the military administration adds up to nearly 2 million US dollars, and the medical side is less, only 600,000 US dollars, but Xia Jun spends the most points on medical treatment, and it costs nearly 2 million points to exchange various medicines every month.

Coupled with other miscellaneous expenditures, by April, Xia Jun's monthly financial expenditure had reached 13 million US dollars, Li Shijing was shocked, for fear that a bad one would cause the funds to be even worse, so she asked her younger brother Li Shengguo to borrow less when he took out a loan, and kept money in his hand to support him at any time.

Li Shengguo admired Xia Jun very much, he originally thought that Xia Jun would have to take a loan from the bank in a few months if he continued like this, but he could still support it in the past few months.

In the past few months, Xia Jun's patents have entered a profitable state, and at the same time, the performance of each partner is also good, and some dividends can be generated every month.

Xia Jun's main export products have become filter cigarettes, lighters, sanitary napkins, medicines and steel products at this time, among which filter cigarettes are performing strongly in various countries, among which light flue-cured tobacco is selling very well.

Not only because Xia Jun used a filter, but also related to the taste of cigarettes, after all, the equipment he used was very advanced, and the taste of the cigarettes he baked was naturally very good, plus the lighter flavors were more palatable, and the sales were naturally greater, but those who smoked dry tobacco liked to smoke heavy flavors, but the sales volume was not as large as the light flavors.

Due to the increasing sales of cigarettes, Xia Jun also dispelled the idea of adding drugs to cigarettes, and he still had to do word-of-mouth, once these low-level methods were discovered, basically the brand would be abolished.

Last month, cigarette exports have reached 6 million US dollars, lighter sales are even better, 8 million can be exported per month, the number is still increasing, the plastic of lighters is made by coal chemical plants, and the oil is imported from Mobil, with a profit of more than 150%.

The development of the steel industry is also very rapid, at this time Fujian's steel production capacity is an annual output of 500,000 tons of iron, 300,000 tons of steel, of which only an annual output of 100,000 tons of steel Jian'an Iron and Steel Plant is in operation, raw materials mainly rely on imports, and Zhangping's steel plant has just been put into operation, because the mining industry has not yet fully entered the right track, the output is not large.

After a few months, the steel mill has met the requirements of its own construction, and steel has begun to enter the ranks of exports, some of which are processed into commodities by themselves, and some of which are exported directly.

In terms of medicines, in addition to sulfonamides, the pharmaceutical factory has been able to manufacture most of the Western medicines, and Xia Jun is still transfusing blood to the pharmaceutical factory every month, and it is expected that most of the current Western drugs will be produced in three months.

For the export of goods to Western countries, Xia Jun can earn nearly 10 million US dollars a month, and with the domestic market, Xia Jun earns nearly 15 million US dollars a month.

The dividends of those partnership companies are not too much, only more than two million US dollars per month, and the profits of these companies are not something that Xia Jun can extract.

A company needs to develop, and the profitable funds must be kept to continue to develop, and the dividend money is always only a small part, but if Xia Jun needs money, he can sell the shares.

Due to the increase in income, Xia Jun basically broke away from the ranks of the Moonlight Clan, and he could save one or two million US dollars every month, Li Shijing had an account book in his hand, recording Xia Jun's various income and expenses.

Xia Jun did not distinguish between public and private at this time, and took his own money to build everywhere, but there was very little taxation, at present, this group is Xia Jun's, and Xia Jun's is this group's.

However, Li Shijing has a long-term plan, once the public and private are separated in the future, there will be an account that will not be separated, and the account will still be cleared at that time.

Li Shijing's account is quite shrewd, and Xia Jun doesn't ask about it. For Xia Jun, there must be a bright boil, and there must be a reading talent.

At present, only township autonomy can be carried out, and Xia Jun is very serious about it, let the township council solve the construction of the township by itself, there are more local squires in these years, these squires may be more feudal in their thinking, but most of them care about their own reputation, most of the squires are willing to do practical things for the township, and the principle surname is stronger.

This is the rural heritage formed over thousands of years, and later generations of China, whether it is the countryside or the merchants, have lost this ancient spirit.

It is inevitable that there will be corruption in individual township autonomous councils, but this is not a common phenomenon, Xia Jun does not have the energy to take care of them for a while, and he will rectify it when he has his hands freed.

The townships and towns are under his tutelage, and the townships and towns have greater freedom and at the same time must obey the decrees, and part of the power is exercised by the Ministry of Administration.

For real open-boiling, now is not the time.

Xu Wenbo submitted a plan to Xia Jun on this day to build a railway, in which Xu Wenbo planned to build the Zhangping-Jian'an-Ningde line first, and the construction of this railway would require 6 million silver dollars, or 12 million US dollars.

Xia Jun looked at this project plan and couldn't help muttering: "It seems that the railway is going to be repaired." ”

At this time, Fujian has been able to produce its own steel rails and other equipment, and at the same time, the operation of the Zhangping Iron and Steel Plant is also in urgent need of the railway to transport steel, and there are more than a dozen civil engineers in hand, and it is no longer a problem to repair the railway.

But this project is ...... Xia Jun couldn't take it out for a while, Xia Jun thought about it for a long time, and made a phone call to his brother-in-law Li Shengguo.

"Brother-in-law, what's the matter?" Li Shengguo asked after receiving the call.

"Prepare 6 million silver dollars, and build a railway in the near future." Xia Jun said to Li Shengguo, and Li Shengguo asked, "Is it an investment or a loan?" ”

"Let's invest in the bank!" Xia Jun replied, "After the railway is opened, you will be responsible for collecting the money." ”

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