Chapter 580 Industrialization
If you simply want to increase the urban population, there are many ways, such as reducing housing prices, raising average wages, and even reducing commercial taxes, etc., which can attract a large number of talents to join in a short period of time, which can naturally promote urbanization development.
However, Rope Tree was not prepared to do this, because these methods required a lot of benefits, and the purpose of his industrialization was to obtain more tax revenues, which had been the limit of the previous policy of exempting farmers from agricultural taxes for ten years.
In fact, with the superior environment of Xichuan, when the development and construction of agriculture is perfected and the common people become rich, they will gradually develop in the direction of industrialization and urbanization, and as long as the education work keeps up, a large number of talented people will naturally emerge after one or two generations. This is how most of the world has developed slowly.
This process will take at least twenty or thirty years, but Rope Tree can't wait that long, because he knows that it will be more than ten years at most, and the Third Ninja World War will break out!
Don't look at Konoha won a big victory in the second ninja world war, and became the first power in the ninja world in one fell swoop, although the other four countries suffered heavy losses, but they did not hurt the fundamentals, after ten years of recuperation, the four ninja villages will inevitably recover, and then become the world's first fire country will definitely be besieged by the four powers.
Although it was Konoha who won the battle in the original book, in the eyes of Rope Tree, the luck component was too great, and even if Konoha was far beyond the strength of the original book after being inserted by him, there was no certainty of victory in the face of the joint siege of the four major ninja villages.
The western border is not only adjacent to the country of wind but also close to the country of earth and water, once the war starts, then the territory of the rope tree will bear the brunt, so in the next ten years he must train a large number of ninjas to ensure the safety of the territory, and he also needs to increase the number of ninjas to realize his plan to establish a ninjutsu civilization.
It takes a lot of money to train ninjas, so Rope Tree must complete the industrialization of Nishikawa as soon as possible so that the shogunate can get enough tax revenue to expand the size of the ninja school.
The quickest way to achieve this is to simply move a complete industrial system to Xichuan.
Although ordinary people have completely blocked all kinds of science and industrial technology from ninjas, after years of economic (skillful) camp (take) development (Hao) exhibition (capture), Rope Tree has three important industrial bases in his hands, namely Vortex Island, Air Force Base, and Rain Country.
Among the three industrial bases, the island of vortex is the earliest to be built, so the industrial system is the most perfect, the number of personnel and factories is the largest, and the control is also the largest, and most of the industrial system of the air base is the legacy of the country of the air, but their technology is relatively special, so they are biased towards heavy industry and weapons production, and they are very insufficient in light industry and civilian, and most of the industrial system of the country of rain is not very complete from the inheritance of the whirlpool, and in order to conceal Hanzo, most of them are operated by businessmen supported by the dark department, So control is the weakest.
Since the island of vortex is the only trading port in the land of fire, after years of operation, it is almost the most developed area in the entire ninja world, and the entire island has been fully urbanized, not only are factories everywhere, overcrowded, dozens of towns have been established on just one island, and the total population has reached tens of millions! Due to the common problems in developed areas, the pressure on employment and housing is very high, and the competition for survival is fierce, and even so, a large number of people are pouring in every year to find opportunities to make a fortune here.
Talents from all walks of life are everywhere here, a large number of young technical talents and intellectuals can only be in the middle and lower classes due to the scarcity of jobs and competitive pressure, and they cannot find a way to rise, or even simply cannot find a job, and the vast majority of young people do not have their own real estate, and even marriage is a social problem.
On top of that, the vast majority of the industries in the entire Vortex Island are either in the name of the Konoha Foundation or have shares invested by them.
Therefore, the Konoha Foundation has tens of millions of employees on Vortex Island!
Although these employees are only in an employment relationship with the foundation, it is impossible to move their families to the west at the behest of orders, but if the Konoha Foundation asks some people to be transferred for a period of time in the name of opening up new industries in other places, the vast majority of people will agree in order to keep their jobs, especially young people who are not qualified enough and lack a way to rise, and they will even take the initiative to participate.
After the Konoha Foundation successfully replicated the industrial system in various towns in Xichuan, these people naturally would not give up their positions, and they would be reluctant to go back even if the business trip time expired.
The biggest investment in starting a company is land and real estate construction, and the Konoha Foundation happens to have a huge area of free land in various towns in Xichuan, as for the construction with the help of local civilians and ninjas, the cost of living has been greatly reduced, so for the Konoha Foundation to develop industrial expansion in Xichuan is a very cost-effective deal, the biggest payment is a variety of industrial machine tools and the transportation of people.
The mountains of Nishikawa contain a variety of rich resources that have never been explored, including the two major lifelines of industrial development - iron ore and coal mines, and even oil, and in addition, it is only a rain country separated from the land rich in minerals, so it is very convenient and cheap to buy minerals, so the Xichuan area has a good industrial base.
With the first batch of personnel and machine tools in place, the first heavy industry production area was quickly built in the western capital, and a large number of mineral resources hoarded by the Konoha Foundation during last year's war were continuously sent to the factory, and under the continuous production day and night, various industrial production equipment was copied in large quantities. Soon after, a second heavy industrial production zone sprang up in another city......
With the continuous addition of a large number of talents on Vortex Island, the above process continues to repeat, and the industry in the entire Xichuan area is developing at a crazy speed, and factories are rising from the ground like sticky copying!
At the same time, various mines were established on the mines, and various local resources began to be developed and utilized.
During this time, the whole Xichuan was full of the pleasant roar of steel, and the pre-planned towns in Xichuan were in the midst of hot production and construction.
However, a few months later, the production of steel in the Nishikawa region exceeded the total production of Uzumaki Island, which shows how rapid industrialization has been.
While Nishikawa is advancing industrialization at a frantic pace, the assets under the name of the Konoha Foundation are also increasing like crazy, and they have gained a solid industrial base by paying the wages of their employees and the cheap minerals they have purchased from the land country.
Of course, heavy industry is only the foundation, and if you want to make a profit, you must rely on light industry and commercial trade.