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Chapter 1499 Brilliant Achievements

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    Ma Yilong was awarded the highest honor posthumously. In addition to his breakthrough in double-cropping rice cultivation in Jiangnan, doubling the yield per mu in a single season, and establishing an agricultural college to continuously cultivate agricultural technical talents, there is another thing that people don't know much about at this time.  Reasons to care¡ª¡ª

    That is, he successfully realized the local cultivation of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, and has planted thousands of acres of experimental fields in the northern provinces When he went to Shandong to check the planting situation of sweet potatoes there, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell.  The fields he loved never rose again.

    People lament that this contemporary Shennong lost his precious life in vain for an insignificant novel crop.  Only Zhao Hao knew the significance of these humble exotic crops.

    That will save tens of millions of people from natural disasters in a few decades!

    The deceased is gone, and the living can only wipe away their tears, inherit the old man¡¯s legacy, and strive to make these three magic weapons a qualified substitute for staple food as soon as possible

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    Then there is the commercial aspect. During the First Five-Year Plan period, Jiangnan Group promoted the realization of grain and sea transportation and obtained the monopoly of Ming Dynasty maritime trade.  Today, from the northernmost Sakhalin Island to the southernmost Hainan Island, the entire Ming Dynasty coastal area is completely under the control of the Jiangnan Group.

    Of course, in order to be less conspicuous, Jiangnan Group did not directly intervene in the sea.  Instead, they joined forces with the Xishan Group to form the Royal Shipping Company, which was responsible for maritime trade in the north.  They also joined forces with Fujian and Guangdong maritime merchants to form the Nanhai Group, which was responsible for maritime trade in the South China Sea during the Ming Dynasty.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????Today, the Jiangnan Group camp has 3,000 sand ships with one thousand materials and 2,000 sea ships with 2,000 materials, half of which were built during the First Five-Year Plan.

    In addition to Longjiang Bao Shipyard and Suzhou Shipyard working overtime day and night.  The group's newly built Jiangnan Shipyard in Chongming Island has also rapidly improved its level by absorbing Chinese and foreign talents and receiving huge financial support.  Now, both the annual shipbuilding tonnage and quality have surpassed Longjiang Factory, becoming the best shipyard in Ming Dynasty.

    Jiangnan Shipyard also digested and absorbed the technology of Western Galen ships, and based on this, combined with the shipbuilding technology of Ming Dynasty, produced new warships with superior performance and reaching the world's advanced level!

    Today, Jiangnan Shipyard can build four three-quarter-size ¡®cruisers¡¯ every year and two full-size ¡®battleships¡¯ every two years.

    As for the half-size Galen ship, it is defined as a "destroyer" and will not be able to continue production until the second shipyard in Hong Kong is put into production.

    In addition, the group has set up more than 30 business offices overseas, basically establishing a trade network throughout East Asia and Southeast Asia

    In short, thanks to the group's two-pronged efforts in both civil and military training, Ming's overseas trade volume has been more than ten times that of the low period in the early years of Longqing, and 1.6 times that of the peak period of the Wang Zhi era.

    In the past year, the first year of Wanli, the group's total import volume exceeded 100 million taels of silver, export volume reached 20 million taels, and the trade surplus was as high as 80 million taels of silver!

    Among them, trade with Japan accounts for one-third of the total trade; Western tradethat is, trade with countries on the west coast of the South China Sea, including Portugal, Annam, Champa, Siam, Fojo and other countries accounts for one-half; the remaining part is  It is the so-called Oriental trade. After excluding Japan, the remaining trade with Ryukyu, Luzon and other countries originally accounted for a very low proportion.  But because of the opening of the Spanish galleons trade, this part grew very rapidly.

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    In the construction industry, in addition to the five cement plants in Xishan Island, Jiangnan Building Materials has also established eight new cement plants in Beijing, Chaozhou, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, increasing cement production to 15 times what it was before the 15th Five-Year Plan.

    In fact, at the beginning, Zhao Hao only gave a five-fold production increase plan, but Hua Boxhen took the initiative to increase it to ten times.  Not only did he live up to his promise, he also exceeded his expectations.  Fortunately, Hua Bozhen took the initiative to increase production, otherwise the originally planned cement output would not be able to satisfy the group's ever-increasing construction frenzy.

    As for finance, the original plan was to attract 50 million taels in savings, but the plan was completed in the first year. The current total savings account of Jiangnan Bank is as high as 220 million taels.  This was the result of depositors actively purchasing group bonds issued by Jiangnan Bank, which absorbed 100 million taels of deposits.

    It can be seen that the wealthy people have become more and more accustomed to depositing the money in the cellar in the bank to earn interest.

    In addition, the total denomination of silver notes issued has reached 200 million taels.  And with the establishment of Jiangnan Bank's absolute dominant position, silver notes have become more and more popular.  Especially in June of the sixth year of Longqing, even the Ministry of Accounts accepted the payment of taxes in silver bills, and savers became more and more accustomed to equating silver bills with silver money.  The proportion of required redemptions is getting lower and lower. Basically, only 30% of the reserves are needed to ensure the safety of redemptions.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡ªNow, most of the Ming Dynasty¡¯s silver is in the treasury of Jiangnan Bank.

    To put it bluntly, what is circulating in the market;~~

    ? Next, there is another part that the participants do not understand.

    For example, in the chemical industry, the first sulfuric acid production workshop was built and put into operation during the First Five-Year Plan period, using sulfur as raw material to produce sulfuric acid on a large scale.  Later, sulfuric acid can be used as raw material to produce nitric acid and hydrochloric acid.  Therefore, the production of tri-acid was solved at once.

    In addition, Institute 04 has also mastered the method of industrially producing soda ash using salt and sulfuric acid as raw materials.  Moreover, the hydrogen chloride generated during production can also be used to make hydrochloric acid, chlorine, bleaching powder and other industrial products that Zhao Hao urgently needs.

    And soda ash can also be causticized with slaked lime into caustic soda. In this way, the industrial development of three acids and two alkali was completed during the 1st Five-Year Plan period. After Taiwan's Budai Salt Farm is put into operation, we can try to build a soda ash production line.

    Although there are certainly many difficulties to be overcome, the industrial production of the two alkali is only a matter of time.

    Well, it¡¯s actually still a small-scale production, but it¡¯s more than enough to match the current industrial level.

    Mr. Zhao could not be more satisfied with the fact that the production of three acids and two alkali could be fully understood in five years and a functional sulfuric acid production line could be built.

    Mr. Zhao couldn¡¯t help but grinned when he thought that he would be able to provide countless soaps for men in the future.

    ps. If we expand the content of this chapter, we could write dozens of chapters, but firstly, the space is limited, and secondly, I think everyone is impatient to read this, so I condensed it in this way, and then hurry up and get excited.  Keep writing(remember this website address: www.hlnovel.com
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