Chapter 1240 The goal is still far away
In life, one cannot escape birth, old age, sickness and death. Some elderly and weak people die, and countless new lives are born.
With the vigorous development of the Qin Dynasty economy, Qinghe Town, as the place where Chen Xu made his fortune, is the leader in the development of towns across the country. Now it has the reputation of a town in the Qin Dynasty, and everyone in the world knows it well.
Qinghe Town’s reputation is not only because of Chen Xu, but also because of its booming industry and commerce.
In addition to grain, the annual output value of porcelain, tea, papermaking, winemaking, wood processing, candy and other workshops in Qinghe Town reaches more than 6 million yuan, which is more than the annual tax revenue of the entire Chi County.
At present, the entire town has gathered more than 2,000 households, which is comparable to the county town of Chixian. A large number of poor people who originally lived in the mountains have responded to the call of the townsmen in Lizhen to move out of the mountains to Qinghe Town. Many babies born after the Qin and Chu battles have gradually reached the age of marriage in the past two years. In addition, Qinghe Town almost does not collect grain taxes, and most families still have people working in several factories or making other profitable livelihoods. With a rich life, the couples are also very interested in creating people. Therefore, in the past two or three years, the number of newborns in Qinghe Town is seven or eight times more than those who die.
When Chen Xu came back this time, he saw young women holding and pushing babies all over the streets, and some 3,4,5 and six-year-old Nibawas running all over the streets.
Faced with so many newlywed couples and newborn babies in Qinghe Town, Chen Xu arranged to spend some of the money from the town's fiscal revenue to expand the scale of the health center. In addition to opening two kindergartens, it also opened to alleviate the pressure of families to raise children and allow young couples to have enough energy to farm and work. The cost of admission to the child is three stones of food per year for each child. This fee is completely worth mentioning to the people of Qinghe Town. Therefore, Chen Xu's arrangement has won the warm support of the people of Qinghe Town.
Economic development has always been the main goal of Qinghe Town, but to support the continued development of the economy, in addition to requiring more labor, a large number of intellectuals who are proficient in writing and computing are also needed. Therefore, Chen Xu ordered Qinghe Town to continue to increase financial investment and expand the primary school again, and also opened a middle school and a girls' school.
The girls' school was Xing'er's request. She returned to Qinghe Town to live and wanted to teach more people to the singing, dance and art she learned at Xianyang Women's College. Xing'er's idea was not only supported by Niu Dashi, but also by Chen Xu.
Several pillar industries in Qinghe Town, such as ceramics, winemaking, tea, papermaking, etc., have developed to the bottleneck stage. Ceramics and winemaking are mainly provided to Qinghe shops. Papermaking is currently mainly used to make white paper and new special papers. The supply targets are not ordinary people. With the increasing number of ceramic winemaking and papermaking industries in various countries, the consumption demand for high-end luxury goods in the market is far less than that of the civilian level. In order to ensure the beautiful environment of Qinghe Town, Chen Xu did not develop enterprises with high energy consumption and high pollution, without the support of heavy industries, so the future development of Qinghe Town will inevitably develop towards light industry and service industries. Therefore, it is necessary to cultivate more talents with knowledge, culture and skills.
The preparation and establishment of the girls' school can be seen as a precursor to the transformation of Qinghe Town.
In the future, the demand for clothing will increase and increase. The spread of techniques such as cutting and embroidery will have a very large market demand in the future. Let's take the lead, and Qinghe Town will go earlier and further in the future.
Therefore, while opening a girls' school, Chen Xu also asked Niu Dashi to prepare for the opening of a garment factory and an embroidery factory as soon as possible, and to invest in and build a weaving factory in nearby urban and rural areas, and start developing into the high-end garment industry.
As for the lack of teaching, Chen Xu doesn't have to worry about it, because Xing'er has written to some female classmates in Xianyang, and has had several replies to come and help. With these like-minded students, Qinghe Town Women's Middle School will soon get on track. Cutting, sewing, knitting, embroidery and other skills will soon be applied to practice. In a few years, Qinghe Town's garment manufacturing will soon be greatly developed, becoming a huge driving force for the continuous rapid development of Qinghe Town's economy.
In the lively and bustling, Xing'er and Niu Dashi's wedding was soon held. Their new home was in Qinghe Town, a luxurious mansion covering more than 30 acres.
In order to get married, Chen Xu spared no money and transferred craftsmen from the Academy of Sciences. With the strong support of Liu Tong, the magistrate of Chi County, the house took half a year to complete. Not only was the house, stables, swimming pools and other designs, but also built water towers and tap water, so that even if the sister lives in a town, she could still live comfortably and comfortably.
Moreover, because of Chen Xu's noble status as Grand Tutor and Left Prime Minister, the First Emperor also arranged for officials from the Ministry of Rites to come to Qinghe Town this time, not only won the title of a five-degree doctor in Niu Dashi, but also gave a pair of jade bi and two carts of gifts as gifts.
This action not only moved Chen Xu, but also shocked Qinghe Town and the entire Zhi County and even Nanyang County. Therefore, on the day Xing'er and Niu Dashi got married, the Nanyang County Magistrate and several nearby county magistrates came to visit and congratulate him in person. At the same time, they also gave countless gifts and called brothers to Niu Dashi. They drank with their faces and blushed their chests and said that in the future, the matter in Qinghe Town would be their business, and there was no need to work for all difficulties.
The wedding banquet lasted for three days. Looking at his affectionate sister and Niu Dashi after the wedding, Chen Xu was very moved. He remembered that when he just came here, the poor and malnutritional little girl who could float away with the wind, her life was now changing dramatically.
And this change is ultimately driven by him.
But the revolution has not been successful yet, and comrades still need to work hard.
In Chen Xu's opinion, Daqin is still far from his intended goal.
There is only one Qinghe Town in the entire Daqin, and the development of many other places has just begun.
Even in many remote counties, countless ordinary people still cannot enjoy the dividends of the reform and development of the Qin Dynasty.
The main reasons that hinder economic development are traffic barriers and news blocking.
Therefore, the smooth road plan implemented this time must be successful.
So on the fourth day after Xing'er got married, Chen Xu interrupted Niu Dashi's happy married life and made a detailed and long-term plan for all the follow-up arrangements in Qinghe Town.
In addition, it is the arrangement of Chen Xu's previous letters.
Two hundred members of the Musket Team were selected to follow Han Xin, who had returned from Xianyang, to Langya, and escorted a large number of muskets, gunpowder grenades, and even eight latest styles of Shenwei cannons.
In recent years, Chen Hu and Liu Po have been training the musket teams. Almost every year, they recruit more than 100 teenagers in their teenage years to join the training. The recruitment targets are not only in Chi County and Nanyang, but also through Qinghe Town caravans traveling across the country. The main targets are homeless beggars or buying some slaves to have children.
After the queue, martial arts, off-road, muskets and some special trainings formulated by Chen Xu, these children were trained by the first batch of young musket teams such as Xushan and Chen Xia as military officers, these teenagers were able to strictly abide by orders, possessing some shadows of later generations, and basically meeting Chen Xu's requirements.
In recent years, Qinghe Town has trained about 1,000 musket team members one after another, and the annual training expenses are also very large. Chen Xu has invested tens of millions of yuan in one after another. In addition to basic food, accommodation and clothing, the most consumed muskets and ammunition. Over the past six years, the musket team has used more than 2,000 muskets in training, and the ammunition used is to use tons of ammunition, but all the investment is worth it. Whether it is to send to Donghai to follow Yu Wuya and Cao Shen for more than 200 years, or to arrange to go to Xianyang for more than 200 years, he has now selected 200 team members to Langya again, with the purpose of following Taiwan to train the two thousand soldiers. These musket team members who can comply with strict military orders are the seeds of the new military innovation of the Qin Dynasty in the future. In the future, in the era of great navigation, they will become powerful forces to protect maritime security.
In order to replenish damaged firearms and accumulate enough ammunition, Chen Xu had arranged for Qinghe Town to increase the mining of sulphur and the storage of sulfur several years ago. This time, more than 2,000 kilograms of sulfur brought back from Japan were secretly sent back to Qinghe Town. After the training ground in Taiwan was completed, a large amount of ammunition manufacturing such as saltpeter sulfur will be moved to Taiwan to manufacture and supplement on-site.
Today's Wild Wolf Valley is no longer a training ground, but a secret arsenal.
Several caves were dug and countless factories were built. Not only ammunition processing plants, but also gun manufacturing plants. The craftsmen who made guns and cannons were secretly arranged back from the Nanshan Academy of Sciences in Xianyang and the factories of the Academy of Sciences. Various processing equipment were also secretly transported back through caravans after Ma Gan and Gongshusheng were built.
Therefore, the Wild Wolf Valley can not only manufacture ordinary long and short muskets and bulk ammunition, but also new rifle pistols, fixed-loading bullets and new guns, but also further develop and renewed guns and ammunition.
The so-called "preparation" is not a problem. When Chen Xu still cannot control the Qin Dynasty and his future destiny, all preparations are required to be more thorough and complete, the better.
After everything was arranged, it was already the end of May. When Chen Xu was about to take his family to the south, the First Emperor arranged for officials to send a memorial to Meng Tian from Xianyang to quickly deliver the memorial requested by the military reform.
Chapter completed!