Jiangning City in the second half of the tenth year of Wu'an, it can be said that the people are safe, the people are rich in food and clothing, under the governance of the emperor, there is hardly a beggar to be seen on the bustling and crowded streets, hawkers are selling along the streets, the people are rubbing shoulders, and everyone does not have to worry about eating, drinking, living and traveling.

Not only Jiangning, but also the people of all parts of the country have settled down in stability, although the imperial court has been fighting against Mobei for many years, but because the people who were conscripted to Mobei to work are laborers bought from North Korea, the Han people rarely need to leave their hometowns and move to the places where the living environment is bad, so over the years, the people's support for the imperial court has become more enthusiastic, and their living conditions and economic conditions have gradually improved.

The implementation of the policy of apportioning the land to the mu reduced the burden on the shoulders of the people of the whole country, and the factories built by the imperial court in the provinces also provided jobs for those people who did not want to be tied to the land for the rest of their lives, becoming the first batch of workers in the Xia Dynasty.

The expansion of factories was a plan proposed by the emperor in the eighth year of Wu'an, which aimed to expand factories in all provinces of the country, limit the construction of factories in each province, gradually increase the number of workers in the country, and lay a good foundation for future industrialization.

This plan, also known as the "Edict of the Eight Years of Wu'an Factory", allocated more than 5 million silver from the Ministry of Household to the local government as funds for the construction of factories and subsidies for factories.

There are not many types of factories built throughout the country, mainly textile factories, forging factories and canning factories equipped with spindle spinning machines, because steam engine technology has not yet been lit up at this time, so the location of these factories is generally chosen to be riverside, and water power is used as power to drive the machines.

The number of construction projects started by the imperial court in various places was not only the amount of construction recognized by the system, but also the factories that were built slowly one after another based on the system buildings, and Su Yan also knew that it was impossible to carry out the industrial revolution in the Xia Dynasty only by relying on the promotion of the government, so he allowed private people to build factories and recruit workers.

However, private factories require prior government approval, and the machinery in the factories must be purchased from government-run factories, and in order to encourage the enthusiasm of private factories, the cost of purchasing machinery is discounted, and the government also provides a variable amount of subsidies.

The canning factory began to open before Su Yan became emperor, and now ten years later, the skills of the canning factory have become more sophisticated than before, and it has been able to produce metal cans, which contributed greatly to the Xia army's war against Tsarist Russia.

However, although canning factories have been able to manufacture metal cans, because the cost of metal cans is higher than that of glass cans, metal cans are basically products exclusively for the military, and glass cans are commodities for the people.

The large-scale promotion of glass cans has also made glass factories take advantage of the trend, and the production technology of glass is not a secret, so in the wave of domestic factory expansion, there are also many glass factories have been completed, and the various glass products produced by them are not only supplied to canning factories, but also sought after by many large households.

In addition to these civilian factories, the imperial court also built a number of additional arsenals on the basis of the limited one light weapons arsenal in each province, which were divided into small arms arsenals and artillery foundries.

The former was responsible for the production of Type II rifles and small arms such as carbines and grenades for cavalry, while the latter was naturally responsible for casting artillery of various pounds.

In addition to production, the arsenal also has an additional task, which is to research and improve new weapons, such as improving the performance of the Type II rifle, or how to reduce the size and weight of the grenade without reducing its explosive power, etc.

These were not mandatory, but the craftsmen were promised that they would be rewarded handsomely if they succeeded in making improvements, and that promotion and wealth were not a dream, so the craftsmen were highly motivated and often met to discuss how to improve their existing weapons.

The Xia Dynasty fixed Jiangning as its capital, which naturally meant that it was necessary to pay attention to coastal defense, and the coastal provinces did not forget to build shipyards, and the provinces built many docks, civilian shipyards and military shipyards in the coastal areas, but in addition to the shipyards recognized by the system, those shipyards could only build Chinese-style offshore ships, or take the system shipyards to provide

Drawings for the construction of rudimentary brig cruisers and brigs.

The edict of factories issued in the eighth year of Wu'an led to the construction of a large number of factories throughout the country, and the number of workers in the country also increased every year, although the industrialization process was still slow at this time, but with a strong central government control, it did not take long to catch up with the Western countries.

In addition to developing industry, Su Yan did not forget to continue to march towards the South Seas.

Seven years have passed since the establishment of the government in Wu'an for three years, and the situation in Luzon has long been stabilized, and many people have been relocated to settle under the semi-coercive means of the imperial court.

Although Zhu Chenggong had commanded the army to suppress and slaughter a large number of local natives seven years ago, after seven years of development, the number of natives has recovered a lot, although they did not take the initiative to attack the Han people, but once the Han people entered their territory, they would attack the Han people.

The Han Chinese were highly wary of the Luzon natives, especially those who came later, who learned from the immigrants that the natives had committed numerous crimes and the ferocity of the natives, and in order to prevent the attacks of the natives, those Han people living outside the city followed the example of the Hakka people and built tulou to serve as fortresses.

As a result, there were many tulou on Luzon Island, and the Han people lived in the tulou in a concentrated manner, and only when they were cultivating and hunting would they leave the protection of the tulou, and later, the Han people found that those natives did not dare to take the initiative to attack themselves, so they had the courage to move away from the safe tulou, build houses around the tulou, and settle down.

Of course, the main thing to say here is the Han people who settled in the northern part of Luzon, and the natives in northern Luzon were all killed by the Xia army, and as the schools set up by the Han people accepted varying degrees of sinicization, most of the tribes were able to live in harmony with the Han people.

Only the natives living in remote places in the south will continue to maintain their murderous nature, and the Hakka tulou built by the Han people living in the south has indeed played a good role in protecting them.

In the tenth year of Wu'an, as the number of Han people on Luzon Island was about to exceed the 100,000 mark, the imperial court finally decided to officially set up a province in Luzon - there are also factors of inconvenient transportation in it, Luzon is directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and Luzon officials want to report to the imperial court what to do, and wait for the reply from the imperial court to arrive, and the daylily is grateful.

Therefore, the imperial court officially set up a Luzon political envoy on Luzon Island, with Dongning Mansion as the residence of the three divisions, and Chen Yonghua, the governor of Dongning, was changed to the governor of Luzon, and new officials were sent from China to Dongning.

In addition to setting up the Luzon Political Envoy Division, the imperial court recruited Shi Lang, a general under Zhu Chenggong, to reorganize the Zheng Navy Division into the Nanyang Naval Division of the imperial court, and ordered Shi Lang to be the Admiral of the Nanyang Navy Division and Huang An to be the deputy general.

Before the pedestrians left, Su Yan personally took the pen and depicted a map south of Luzon to Australia according to the map in his memory, and asked the pedestrians to take it with him, and handed it to Shi Lang with his own hands, so that Shi Lang could follow the map to Australia.

After the pedestrians left by boat, Su Yan also began to prepare for future immigrants after discovering Australia, and he ordered the construction of large ships capable of ocean voyages in Fujian and Guangdong provinces to prepare in advance.

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The reorganization of the Zheng Navy's naval division was only the first step for Su Yan to begin to attach importance to the naval army.

In addition to reorganizing the Zheng Shui Clan into the Nanyang Naval Division, which was directly ordered by the imperial court, the First and Second Fleets that rushed to Korea at this time were also merged into the same Beiyang Naval Division, with Chen Zhaojun, Marquis of Zhenhai, as the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division.

Beiyang Naval Division, this name does sound a little unlucky at first glance, and what they have to face next happens to be the Japanese Naval Army, but Su Yan deliberately chose such a name, which to a certain extent, can be regarded as revenge for the officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the Beiyang Naval Division in the late Qing Dynasty.

The Beiyang Naval Division, which integrates the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, is also considered to be powerful, and its naval division is all system warships, with one third-class flagship, one fifth-class flagship, five fourth-class battleships, ten fifth-class ships, three mortar gunboats, and four sixth-class ships

With five frigates with short and heavy guns, a total of twenty-nine warships of all classes.

These 29 warships of all classes are not very numerous, but their firepower can run rampant in the seas of East Asia, and even the naval power of Western countries in East Asia cannot compete with them, you know, the most advanced third-class flagship alone has 74 guns on board, including 32-pounder, 18-pounder and 9-pounder guns.

If all the ship-borne artillery of the Beiyang Naval Division is added, there are 1,124 guns, and if such powerful firepower is used to shell coastal cities, it will only take less than half a day, and the urban areas within the firing range will be reduced to ruins.

This shows how terrifying the firepower of the Beiyang Naval Division was, even the sturdy city buildings could not stop it, not to mention the ships that were also made of wood during this period.

The current scale of the Beiyang Naval Division is still a bit small, and in the face of the pressure of the imminent war with Japan, Su Yan decided to expand the Beiyang Naval Division, and he asked the Naval Governor's Office to provide a list of the expansion of the Beiyang Naval Division in the short term to enhance the scale and strength of the Beiyang Naval Division.

The Governor's Mansion of the Navy has been idle for a long time because it has been useless, and now that he finally got Su Yan's order, Huang Enben naturally attached great importance to it, and spent several nights personally compiling a plan for the construction of the Navy Army.