After this blind date activity ended, the Dongjiang Army was successfully dismantled by Zhu Youxiao, and most of the ordinary soldiers were discharged.

Officers and soldiers who had been promoted to higher posts were sent to the Royal Military Academy.

Mao Wenlong obviously wanted to continue to fight on the battlefield, so before being transferred to the advanced training class, Sun Chuanting reported the situation, and Zhu Youxiao directly appointed Mao Wenlong to the post of commander of the Northwest Military Region.

In the future, the northwest will be the core area of operations, or the front station. The expansion of the Ming Dynasty on land will continue to spread to the west and north.

The nomadic regimes of Central Asia, as well as the Russian Maozi, would become the main opponents of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

After the successful dismantling of the Dongjiang Army, Zhu Youxiao finally completed the military centralization, and although the southern guard posts and some garrison units were not dismantled, these troops obviously did not pose any threat. After all, the development of the commodity economy in the southern region was relatively early, and the health centers had long been decayed, and their combat effectiveness was very low.

In the northern region, the military is now fully grasped by Colonel Zhu You, and there is not a single uncontrollable army. At the same time, it also completely solved the bad habit of military attachés in the northern region to keep their families in captivity.

Today's new army does not allow officers to have family members, not even domestic slaves. If such conduct is discovered, it is a felony under military law.

Without the family system, coupled with the system of compulsory military service that has been adopted today, the new army has become an iron-clad battalion.

In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty was relatively 'smooth and rainy', although there were still many small-scale disasters in various places, but there were no major disasters this year. Earthquake! There were no large-scale droughts or anything, and there were some small-scale droughts and floods. However, the scope of influence is not very large. Under the relief of the imperial court. They all survived unscathed.

The summer harvest in various regions has also been relatively smooth, and there are not too many areas in the northern provinces that have failed in harvests, and with the construction of water conservancy facilities in recent years, agriculture is much better than a few years ago.

In particular, in the surrounding areas of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, Zhu Youxiao has continued to invest funds in harnessing the Yellow River over the past few years, and although it has not been able to fundamentally solve the problem of the Yellow River, it has at least curbed the continuous deterioration of the situation and has made some improvements. The impact on agriculture around the Yellow River is also enormous.

A bumper harvest was achieved in the Tohoku region, where a large amount of commercial grain was harvested in the summer. However, in the northerly region, winter wheat cannot be planted because of the cold temperatures, so the harvest has to wait until the autumn harvest. Only in Liaoning is the winter wheat harvest, because the temperature continues to drop, and the sown area of winter wheat in Liaoning is much smaller than a few decades ago.

The summer grain harvest in the north is obviously not enough to support the grain consumption in the northern region.

After the continuous enclosure movement, the summer grain output in Beizhili was greatly reduced, and the summer grain output in Shandong also decreased. On the one hand, there are personnel changes. On the one hand, the land is used for the development of aquaculture, because the industry in Beizhili and Shandong continues to develop. With the increase of urbanization, a large number of people are concentrated in cities and towns, and a larger-scale aquaculture industry is also needed.

In addition, the northern provinces are now full of construction sites, and a large number of agricultural laborers have left the land, which has also caused a certain degree of agricultural production to be reduced.

However, the scale of fish caught from the fishing grounds and coastal fisheries in Zhendong Province, as well as the amount of rice and sugar brought back from Taiwan and the South Seas, has increased, and the large-scale construction in the northern region has been maintained.

With the expansion of the scope of reform and the increase of jobs, the wage level in the reform area has risen sharply in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and the wages of young and strong male workers who have paid more physical effort have risen to 80 yuan a day, and the income has reached 4.8 yuan a month.

Such a wage level is actually very low, and the space for demographic dividend is still relatively large.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao was obviously a little afraid of a large population, but worried that the population was not enough. The idea of family planning has completely faded from my mind.

Originally, Zhu Youxiao's idea was to adopt a milder family plan, that is, to allow two children. But now it suddenly feels like there is no need for this.

After all, Zhu Youxiao is now following the new socialist line of later generations, which guarantees the basic right of survival of citizens, and does not set welfare benefits too high, but provides a platform for competition, so that those who are willing to do things can get rich, and those who are unwilling to do things only guarantee their basic right to survival. Under such a system, the overpopulation would not lead to excessive spending on state welfare.

As long as you can afford it, it is not a big problem to have a larger population. Moreover, when the economy develops to a certain extent, people are not so leisurely and comfortable, there are more things, and the increase in the cost of raising children will naturally lead to fewer children and fewer children.

The rise in wages in the newly levied areas is also mainly related to inflation, and with the use of paper money, the mint is working overtime to print paper money. Although the amount of banknotes put into the market is controlled, a relatively large amount of additional currency is put into the market every month.

The most obvious inflation is the price of food, which will inevitably rise, because food is a consumable, which needs to be continuously produced, and the price will inevitably rise as labor costs rise.

However, in the price of commodities such as steel, there has not been a rapid increase in prices, only a slow increase. This is a normal market phenomenon, although the labor cost has risen, but the technical level of the metallurgical industry is constantly developing, the steelmaking furnace of the state-owned iron and steel enterprises is now building bigger and bigger, plus the development and utilization of some by-products, the profit margin is still very large.

Just like in later generations, the price of food is always rising, but the price of electronics is constantly decreasing.

The slow rise in steel prices is mainly due to the increase in steel demand for a large number of engineering construction, and the hot market has made the price rise slowly, so this is a very normal market phenomenon.

The rise in food prices has made the state-owned capital consortium very profitable, because much of the food is shipped back from overseas. The cost of overseas food production is low!

Not to mention overseas, even in the Northeast and Taiwan, although the rise in wages has increased labor costs, these regions are commercial grain production bases. Large-scale production of commercial grain. Individual labor is highly efficient. The impact of labor costs on commodity grain prices is not very large.

The labor cost of the plantations in the Nanyang region is even lower, and the basic right to subsistence can be guaranteed under the Ming Dynasty's three-product and nine-class system, but the wages are relatively low, and the agricultural output in Nanyang and other places is relatively high.

The division of labor in the industry is becoming more and more obvious, and the efficiency is getting higher and higher.

The additional currency issued by the state is used for various infrastructure construction, and the benefit is that the money is distributed to the people who are willing to do things, as well as to the private businessmen who are complementary to the national economy.

But this money. If the state-owned capital consortium cannot be recovered, it will not be able to carry out circulation, and it will also cause private businessmen to get rich and cause extremely bad social problems. Therefore, the place where the state-owned capital consortium should monopolize must be monopolized, so that the money can be recovered through the consumption of the people and then released. In this way, wealth can flow, and only when wealth flows can society be vibrant.

If the state-owned capital consortium does not monopolize some industries, once the private capital gets hold of this wealth, it will not be willing to flow the money to the people at the bottom. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, those merchants were very wealthy, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, a rich household in the Jiangnan area was randomly confiscated for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were not only large-scale natural disasters. There is also serious deflation, which is because the wealth is excessively concentrated in the hands of those private businessmen, who are unwilling to put their money out to invest, so there is less money flowing in the market, there are fewer jobs, and the people cannot even find work.

In such a country where there is no external oppression, the people will still live so poorly. Moreover, it is also a very abnormal phenomenon in a country like China, where the people are more industrious. The main problem, which is the rise of capitalism, is that these capitalist businessmen have monopolized wealth.

The rise of state-owned capital consortia can avoid this problem.

A large amount of social resources are controlled by state-owned capital consortia, and the golden power has been restrained by the state power, and the interests have reached an agreement with the stability and development of the country, and the money earned must be invested in construction. When the economy is bad, state-owned capital consortia will also stand up and invest everywhere to stimulate the economy.

Therefore, under this new socialist system, no matter how difficult the economy is, it is impossible to have widespread unemployment as it was during the Great Depression in the United States.

When the social productive forces develop to a certain extent, commodity production capacity is something that is placed there, which is equivalent to this time, as long as the people have something to do, no matter how difficult the economy is, the society is relatively stable, but there is not so much partial wealth, no matter how tight the money is, it can also live.

There are also many construction projects, such as infrastructure construction, military construction, scientific and technological research and development, and so on. If the basic production capacity is driven up and the wealth is redistributed, everyone can live a good life.

The biggest benefit of the state-owned capital consortium is, first of all, the construction of commodity production capacity, and the state-owned capital consortium can obtain a large number of low-interest loans to quickly build commodity production capacity. A large enough capacity of goods means that there is a sufficient supply of goods to society. Wealth is actually a commodity, and money is simply something that represents the value of a commodity. Having enough production capacity means that the wealth is distributed, and the people can be rich.

An important means of distributing wealth is a large number of construction and R&D activities, and if there is nothing to do, find something for the people to do, infrastructure construction can be done at any time, and infrastructure will also age, and it must be upgraded. Military construction can also be done at any time. Even if there aren't too many construction projects, there's always a lot of work to be done in environmental protection construction, right?

Therefore, under the macroeconomic regulation and control of the state-owned capital consortium, it is impossible for the people to lose a large number of jobs. In fact, there is no need for construction activities to lend a large amount of money to private capital for investment, as was the case with the American international consortium in later generations, and then play a complete harvest.

In other words, when the economy is booming, it cannot be incredibly prosperous like the American economy, and the economic bubble will not blow too big. But in times of depression, it is unlikely to be as difficult as the Great Depression in the United States. On the whole, it is relatively stable, but in terms of construction speed, the efficiency is the highest.

Today, state-owned capital consortia monopolize projects, namely transportation, commodities, and some profiteering industries. In agriculture, a monopoly policy is not adopted, and it is impossible for agriculture to monopolize, but the state-owned capital consortium has also intervened in agricultural production on a large scale and invested in the construction of a large amount of agricultural production capacity.

In terms of total investment, the Northeast region still occupies half of the country. Since the beginning of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the main force of the construction of the state-owned capital consortium has shifted to the northeast.

The scale of infrastructure construction activities in roads, towns, and water conservancy areas is increasing year by year.

After three years of continuous investment in construction, the population of Northeast China has exceeded 10 million, and resources are being continuously developed.

The output of minerals, commercial grains, and timber is constantly increasing.

Metallurgy, wood processing, papermaking, grain and oil processing and other industries in the Tohoku region are booming, and now it is possible to import grain, oil, steel, timber products, medicinal materials, and other commodities to the Kannai.

Tohoku, which has only 10 million people, has now become a very prosperous region.

There are a lot of local per capita resources, and the resources that the people can obtain are also very large. The town is also newly built, because there are more resources, the streets of the town are designed to be wider, and the underground drainage system has also invested more manpower and material resources for construction.

There is a reason for the economic prosperity, and after a large number of immigrants come to the Northeast, they need to settle down and start a business.

A lot of money was invested in the development of the Northeast, and these funds were distributed to these immigrants through labor, and the establishment of a business was solved. Now that there is no problem with work, it is natural to buy real estate, furniture and daily necessities, etc., which has created a huge market demand.

The core driving force of economic development is market demand, and construction can only stabilize the economy, but if most of the people's needs are satisfied, then it can only serve the purpose of stabilizing the situation, and cannot make the economy prosperous.

With strong market demand, it is the vane of economic prosperity.

After the Northeast was ravaged by Jiannu, many things were destroyed, and now the demand for rebuilding is very strong, and rapid economic growth is a very normal phenomenon.

And the result of the reform is to let the economy run wild. Therefore, the economic growth rate of the Northeast region has surpassed that of Beizhili and has become the region with the fastest economic growth rate in the Ming Dynasty.

As Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan provinces have entered the reform stage, Guannai has also become a key area for state-owned capital consortium investment.

Shandong's economy in the seven years of the Apocalypse is extremely strong, Shandong because it is located in the Guannei, the population size is superior to the Northeast at this time, and it is located in the coastal area of East China, this era is the marine economy is dominant, and it is suitable for the development of heavy industry, under the total advantage, Shandong's economy began to go all the way up, and the growth rate can exceed the Northeast region in a few years. (To be continued.) )