Photos of the Hebei farm piled up on Liu Xian's desk. There is also the financial statement of Hebei Farm this year, which is obtained directly from the local tax department.

Liu Xian focused on the comparison of the tax report with the previous year's report and was very satisfied. Yang Wantong is very good. Then there is the unified house built by Hebei Farm, as well as the warehouse, oil mill, flour mill, and breeding farm built by Hebei Farm itself, which really satisfies him.

"This article was sent to Huaxia. Let the officials and landlords of the whole country take a look. ”

Liu Xian finally looked at the next year's plan for the farm in Hebei, and Yang Wantong was already planning to start a literacy class. "This Yang Wantong will be elected to the Congress next term."

Officials from Chenzhou Mansion and Zhoukou County kept an eye on it. Officials who have good talents and have not taken bribes or bent the law for personal gain must be emphasized. This Xu Shichang, let him be corrected next! "The magistrate of Zhoukou County still has one year to complete his term.

But Liu Xian's attention to Zhoukou is only so much. It's the end of the year, and too much time is pouring in. There is no need for him to make a decision, but Liu Xian must go through the annual reports of various departments with his own eyes.

This year, China's annual fiscal revenue increased by nearly 13 percent, reaching 34 billion yuan, and the fiscal deficit was reduced again, falling back to 5.5 billion yuan. The fiscal deficit for the whole year is only 1 billion.

Sure enough, when the annual income is 35 billion yuan, the national fiscal revenue and expenditure will be balanced. When the country's large-scale construction comes to an end, and when the domestic machine production gradually meets the domestic market demand, the repayment can be put on the agenda.

At the same time, the negotiations between Germany and the Netherlands have all achieved relatively satisfactory results. The eastern part of the island of New Guinea belongs to China. With Timor-Leste, China has a solid foundation there. Even to clear the indigenous people of the island of New Guinea. For those headhunters and food and human races that are not a taste to hear, the Qin army also specially recruited 5,000 new teams from Japan. Together with the 3,000 men drawn from the original marching team, a brigade was formed to be responsible for exterminating the aborigines there.

Of course, before this team goes into the dense forest, it is good to familiarize themselves with the rainforest climate and combat methods. Three thousand Japanese veterans are veterans in this area.

The port of Machen belonged to China, and the Dutch signed a foreign trade agreement with China at the cost of giving up East Borneo, which was actually a peace treaty. The Chinese in the East Indies fully enjoy all the privileges of Westerners!

The Germans raised the loan to 30 million pounds, or 150 million silver dollars. Liu Xian knew that the price of silver would fall sharply in the future. Therefore, in the loan agreement, it is stipulated that when the money is repaid, it will be repaid in silver, or gold of the same value as silver.

The Germans were not so prophetic as to know that the price of silver would continue to decline for more than a decade at the end of the 19th century. I am very happy that China will repay it with real money.

As for the mortgage taken by China, of course, it is the oil fields in Nigeria.

The Germans saw that the oil they expected fell into their mouths, and they were happy to increase the cooperation between China and Krupp. China's artillery research has now reached a bottleneck. The cannon steel was not qualified, the casting of the 300mm heavy gun was difficult, and the research on the tube withdrawal gun was also stagnant for half a year. If you can get some technical support from Krupp. Then there is a huge impetus to the development of artillery fire in China. This is a technology that money could not buy in the past!

In return, Liu Xian donated the mature smokeless gunpowder manufacturing process to Germany free of charge. Although this set of technology can be completed in half a year at most with the scientific research strength of the Germans, it is definitely an advanced technology. What's more, Liu Xian also showed Germany that China's new rifle with very mature performance. Not a semi-automatic rifle. It's not a machine gun, it's just a new small-caliber rifle with similar performance to Hanyang.

In the era when 1885 had not yet arrived, such a rifle was definitely advanced.

There is no residue after the combustion of smokeless gunpowder. No smoke occurs or only a small amount of smoke occurs. The use of smokeless, gunpowder can increase the range of the projectile, improve the velocity of the bullet out of the chamber, the straightness of the trajectory, and the accuracy of the shot. The birth of smokeless gunpowder can be said to have paved the way for the development of ammunition.

In the original space-time. In the last decade of the 19th century, military rifles and ammunition in European countries basically evolved from large-caliber black powder, guns, and ammunition to smaller-caliber smokeless gunpowder, guns, and ammunition.

Among them the German Type 1888 commission rifle. It was a countervailing rifle that was stimulated by the French Model 1886 Lebel rifle. But there is no doubt that this rifle was a comparative failure. There were problems such as reloading and rejection, difficulty in shelling, poor reliability of shelling, and easy to blow up the chamber, but that's it, and the German military used it for ten years, until the classic Mauser 98 replaced it!

The 'Hanyang-made' that China has come up with now is based on the 1888 Committee rifle in the original time and space. However, there was no sleeve for the barrel, and the upper handguard was replaced, the bayonet court was changed to be under the front guard, and the shutter was improved, and the pass was placed in the handguard.

Overall, the performance is still very good. Just like the Hanyang-made in 1904 after the second improvement.

Therefore, this gift is valued by Germany to a certain extent more than the industrial production process of smokeless gunpowder. The Germans were very satisfied.

In this case, Liu Xian is not too comfortable this New Year!

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Huguo Temple Fair Market, Xicheng District, Beijing. It's the New Year, and it's the happiest time of the year for the merchants here.

There are many yamen in Beijing, many officials, many big officials, and more small officials and civil servants. Not to mention the former, the latter have some money in their hands. Taking advantage of the New Year's goods and holidays, it is also an opportunity to go out easily, and Huguo Temple is a good place to go.

These salaried people are the real main consumers of the temple fair. Therefore, during the period of the New Year and the New Year, the passenger flow of Huguo Temple is completely different from that of weekdays.

The merchants of the Huguo Temple Fair get up at four or five o'clock in the morning every day to clean the inside and outside of the store, prepare enough tea at the counter, and then wait for the dawn to shout desperately. If you earn more at the end of the day, the guys can also get an extra reward of a few dollars. And those small street vendors who don't have shops come here before dawn to grab a seat, hoping to make a profit today and make more money to go back to feed their families.

And because of the prosperity and fame here, after the recovery of Beijing's wells, groups of traders continued to gather here and took root, and soon filled the vacancy. Those who made money from these vendors were based here, buying, expanding, and repairing their stores, and the variety of goods increased with the increase of merchants.

Today's Huguo temple will be full of people like a school of fish in the river, the old with the small, the small to help the old, most people do not come to buy things, just kick a little money in their trouser pockets, come to take the children to relax, by the way to buy some food to make the children happy. I also casually asked the price to lead the market, and estimated what appliances I could add to my home after the New Year's goods were completed.

Nowadays, with the increase of exchanges between the East and the West, Western-style furniture has gradually gained a market in China. One of the best bought is the sofa. And then there's the wide variety of chandeliers! Although this thing is also available in China, to be honest, the style and type have absorbed too many advantages of Western chandeliers, and it is not bad at all to say that it is a Western-style utensil.

Now China's rich people, who are really rich and have a way to ask for crystal chandeliers, are generally glass chandeliers. The output of the latter is to complete the former. At the same time, the crystal chandelier has become the representative of 'tall' in the minds of Chinese!

And the furniture company under the Qin consortium also invented Simmons, which quickly opened up sales as soon as this spring mattress came out, and was directly exported to Europe and the United States. Although Simmons has long existed in the United States, even the Simmons mentioned by Liu Xian is literally translated according to the name of the inventor in the United States.

However, in 1876, Simmons decided to change the factory business to mass-produce steel wire mattresses, and since then the entire mattress production industry has been reformed. But Simmons has not applied for a patent in China, especially China's Simmons is directly a wire spring mattress with a helical spring, which is more suitable and comfortable than the United States!

This thing is also the only high-quality product that can be compared with the crystal chandelier among the furniture products exported by China recently.

Early in the morning, the largest cloth village in Huguo Temple, Fujin Cloth Store opened early. This is a new signboard that has only appeared in Beijing for only three years, and now it has become the largest cloth village around Huguo Temple.

Because this cloth village is one of the outlets of Tianjin Fujin Textile Factory.

The enthusiasm of the shop guys is much higher than that of the former Qing Dynasty, because Fujin Textile Factory has the background of Li Hongzhang, and its business philosophy is very Westernized, and the commission is clearly displayed. Every month, the counter won the first place, and there was also a bonus for the price of the quota, and if it was its own, it would not be able to run no matter how much it was. The shopkeeper is also a part-time worker, but he is not qualified to deduct the wages of employees, because Fujin Cloth is a chain store, and their heads are on the sales department of Fujin Group!

The boss can't hold back, how can this not make the guys motivated. This bonus is much more generous than the previous boss shopkeeper's tip. And the work is stable, no matter how bad the guy is, he will get out of the way without a word from the boss, and he must wait for the people from the group to verify before he can be fired. At that time, I did a good job, and there was no bonus, at most, I would give a red envelope during the New Year's Festival, and a little more money in it.

Liu Sanshun is an old household in Beijing, and he was quite a bit of a family at the beginning. But it's a pity that when the Manchu Qing Dynasty left, the family suffered from the scourge of the rebels, and even the daughter-in-law was gone. Now he has his father and mother above his head, although he has brothers to help him, and he has three children underneath. At the same time, he himself was stabbed in the leg, and the man was lame.

Liu Sanshun's legs and feet are not good, and it is not his turn to work, but fortunately, he has a craft, and there is no problem in making clothes and being a tailor. Last year, I also bought a foot-operated sewing machine, and my family is back up.

Fujin Cloth Shop is one of his three fixed cloth houses, and he will come to see it eight days out of ten days. To see if there are any new materials, the second is to buy some fabrics by yourself and go back. (To be continued......)