The development of the steam engine is not comparable to those machining equipment in the machinery factory, not only its own parts, technical requirements and standards are many and high, but also may be easy to cause safety accidents because of the problem of boiler pressure, and at the same time, because some key parts of the steam engine work in a harsh environment, easy to wear and difficult to replace, so there are high requirements for materials and processing, which can be said to be a major challenge to challenge the overall industrial technical level of the mountain village.

However, compared with last year, the technical strength that the mountain village can have at this time has been much higher than last year, not only has a group of specialized students been trained in the school, but even the factory has also cultivated a group of technical talents who have been trained part-time, it can be said that compared with last year, Deng Shifeng has to participate in everything and lead the team and take students to explain the theory while researching, compared with this year, Deng Shifeng can put forward several design theories of steam engines, so that students and technicians like Sun Tiegang can participate in the research. As a result, it greatly reduces their work pressure, and gradually improves the number of grassroots technicians and the level of research......

Of course, Deng Shifeng didn't expect to make a breakthrough in one or two months, but if he didn't study it there, he wouldn't make a breakthrough for a lifetime; Starting from the study of qualified pressure gauges, high-quality valves, pressure-resistant boilers and piston rings, wear-resistant wall cylinders, etc., a series of key parts, any part of the problem will cause the work efficiency and even safety of the entire steam engine, one by one to overcome, and when all these problems are solved, not only the qualified steam engine appears, but the industrial production capacity of the entire mountain village and more valuable research strength will get a qualitative leap in the process of exploration and research.

In addition to the impact of military development on the needs of industrial and technological development, there is also an impact on the development of agriculture. Pumping labor from the industrial port to the military port that only consumes but does not produce, and the remaining manpower gap will naturally have to be drawn from the agricultural population, which will inevitably reduce agricultural development and food security in the crisis mountain villages. In this regard, Qin Er, who is in charge of administrative development, is no longer as worried as he was last year and the year before last, not that he has lowered the importance of grain, but that the actual predicament and actual conditions of the mountain villages are there.

The population of mountain villages has exceeded 500, as mentioned earlier, for the large geographical characteristics of Guangxi, which is dominated by mountainous areas, the arable land of mountain villages has tended to be saturated, and ninety percent of the reserved fields and dry land on the hillsides have been basically reclaimed and planted with crops, if you want to expand grain production, you can only make a fuss about the average yield of cultivated land, but there is a lack of sufficient fertilizer and the lack of labor, and the fertilization of the land takes time to accumulate changes. The dilemma of the food crisis caused by the lack of arable land has gradually appeared in front of all the villagers in the mountain villages.

It is not difficult to expand arable land, and the problem can be solved by dividing the population to reclaim new land nearby, but what about the safety problems that come with it? The territory has expanded, but the population has not increased. In this regard, it is difficult for armed personnel to ensure the safety of the villagers living outside! Besides, Deng Shifeng doesn't want these people to eat from the ground forever, the industry needs a large number of people!

Fortunately, over the past year or so, the mountain villages have purchased a lot of grain from the outside world to meet their food needs through the means of production-trade-purchase. The import of these grains not only fed many soldiers and students who were out of production, but more importantly, in the process of becoming the villagers to supplement the food gap, the villagers gradually became accustomed to the process of commodity exchange and the establishment of consciousness, and even a small number of villagers have completely detached themselves from the typical model of agricultural production and relying on industrial production to live and get rich.

Of course, the food shortage can be solved through industrial production and trade, but one of the biggest drawbacks of this is that it is more dependent on the external environment and food imports, and if there is a turbulence in the external market or the transportation channel is attacked by others, it will affect the industrial products and raw materials at the same time, and also endanger the lifeline of food. However, the construction of the army is to solve this trouble, and whoever dares to pinch our economy and food lifeline, we will bombard his mother with guns.

However, on the issue of food security, Deng Shifeng and Qin Er are making some preparations to alleviate the crisis. The first was to build a granary made of bricks and iron plates in the common area of the village; In addition to storing the public grain in the village, this granary also has a role to provide the villagers with a safe place to store grain, you must know that the villagers' current storage capacity is limited, a lot of grain at home is not only easy to deteriorate but also more likely to be polluted and damaged by rats and various animals, placed in a special granary can not only reduce the loss but also save the space occupied at home. Of course, this granary also has a very important role, that is, through the grain reserves to gradually promote the concept of the bank, and gradually establish the mountain village's own commercial system, in Deng Shifeng's long-term plan, the mountain village, will gradually let the labor and grain gradually form a complete linkage, that is, the most basic monetary system, the labor is the future of the currency embodiment, it is not only the basic life of industrial workers, but also a symbol of wealth.

In order to establish such a business system, in addition to its own product circulation and trading, there are two very important needs; One of them is credibility, without credibility banks and political axes no one will store their property in it, but this is not a concern for the people of the mountain village, which is their unified and dependent pillar, and the concept of both loss and prosperity has been established in the hearts of the villagers bit by bit through students and propaganda. Another requirement is to have a large amount of hard currency as collateral for reserves!

The hard currency in the mountain village is grain, and the gold and silver currency is of little significance in the mountain village at present, so when the mountain village and Huang Zhangshi trade, in addition to leaving a small amount of yellow and white things as reserves, most of them are mainly various materials and grains; At present, the consumption and import of grain are in a relatively good cycle, but with the development of mountain villages and the increase in the savings of industrial workers and military workers...... Deng Shifeng didn't want to see something that would damage the credibility of the currency without having food and materials in hand.

In order to avoid such a thing, in addition to purchasing more grain, there is another way, that is, to use the army to grab food and materials from the outside world and expand their own hard currency reserves; At this point, Deng Shifeng's plan to plunder the outside world was unanimously agreed, not only Luo Dan and his soldiers said that there was no problem, but they also agreed with the second old grandson of Qin. In addition to defending themselves, the establishment of the army also has a role of revenge, and the officers and soldiers of these officers and soldiers naturally want to have a war, and they can train and harvest; And Qin Er, they ...... Don't forget, the ancestors of these people were born in chaos, not to mention the needs of fighting big households to obtain their own development, that is, the blood feud accumulated with the big government for decades to seize land and kill people is enough for them to support the dispatch of troops to fight!! Of course, in addition to revenge and the plundering of food and supplies, there is one of the most important purposes of military operations, which is the plundering of the population!!

In the process of slowly accumulating industrial strength and training one's own military strength, and gradually establishing one's own economic system, another important link is the issue of population expansion. Population is the basis for all the above development, without enough population, any development will be restricted, this problem is not the accumulation and breakthrough of technology, nor can we wait for the future generations of mountain villages to grow and grow slowly, only through the absorption and annexation of the external population, can quickly solve this biggest shortcoming.

At present, the population expansion of mountain villages is nothing more than two means, one is to buy people from the outside world, and the other is to annex the mountain people who are also fleeing their homes. But now the nearby runaway villagers have basically been absorbed, and although the way to buy the population is a good supplement, but Guangxi is not as small as the north, its population base is too small so that the number of people available for purchase will not be too much, coupled with the mountain village's requirements for age, technology and surname, but also make this threshold virtually increase a lot, it can be said that the purchased population is more inclined to the absorption of high-quality population and technical population.

To this end, military expansion into the bottom population is also an important means to solve the current population shortage in mountain villages. Although they lack the technical production capacity to work in the fields, as long as they can work in the fields, these people can help the villagers of the old village to liberate more industrial population, and after several years of assimilation, conscious guidance and training, when these people have formal villager status, they can also be transformed into industrial and military population...... Even women can solve the embarrassing situation of more men and fewer women in mountain villages.

Although this new class difference and sense of excellence seem to be somewhat detrimental to future development, human beings even have primitive societies that have such a class difference, and the natural law of survival of the fittest must eliminate the individuals who are willing to work hard. And if you are good at using and guiding this class mood, then you will be like Hou Si and them, for the sake of changing their own identity, while working hard to change their identity, they will unswervingly stand on the same front with themselves to defend their class rights!!

However, what surprised Qin Er and Deng Shifeng on the population issue was that not long after the Chinese New Year, a group of people found themselves......

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