Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 495 495 Roads, Railroads and Dams

Compared with the chaotic eastern continent, the territory of the Tang Kingdom can indeed be described as calm and peaceful, or even a paradise.

After countries sold surplus or even not-so-surplus grain to Tang Mo, the Tang Kingdom passed through the most difficult period.People here live and work in peace and contentment with the support of food and resume production.

With the bumper harvest of grain this year, the rewards brought by the new type of seeds have plunged the entire Datang Kingdom into joy.

Farmers who tilled the land realized that their hard days were finally over.The state has reduced the corvee tax for farmers and even provided some subsidies, which has improved their quality of life unprecedentedly.

With surplus grain in their hands and surplus money in their pockets, these farmers now have the most basic spending power.The consumption capacity, in Datang Group's economic understanding, represents the formation of an entire consumption chain.

With the promotion of tractors and other agricultural machinery, and the construction of roads has greatly reduced the cost of grain transshipment, farmers have begun to be interested in vehicles and other production equipment.

Immediately afterwards, the Datang Group, which knew this well, immediately launched the concept of a production cooperation group, and directly popularized a large number of agricultural machinery to the whole country in the form of lease.

On the one hand, this solves the shortage of professional drivers, and on the other hand, it also increases the employment of students in the school's crash course.

No matter how powerful the education department of Datang is, it is impossible to guarantee that the common people all over the country will become college students, learn advanced knowledge, and become pillars.

In fact, some people do not like to study by nature, and some people would rather move bricks than write a test paper honestly.

Therefore, in order to solve the employment of these people, Datang Group launched a crash course to provide technical training for these people.This set of things is similar to a technical school, only one skill is taught, and you can work after you learn it.

With this training system, Datang Kingdom is continuously sending a large group of skilled workers to places that need labor.

For example, excavator drivers, such as tractor drivers, such as cement workers, bricklayers, carpenters...

It only takes seven or eight days, and these people can follow their masters to work on the construction site.

After another two months of on-the-job study, they can become qualified personnel, start their own work directly, and train their own apprentices in the future.

The whole system is free, and all those who come to participate in the training only need to help Datang Group train 20 qualified workers of the same skill in the future.

Tang Mo took out a small sum of money, and directly filled Datang Group's technical training work.In just half a year, Datang Kingdom had a large group of "migrant workers".

Compared with those countries that send their labor force to the front line, the civilians living in the Tang Kingdom are obviously much happier.

They have never felt such a fulfilling life: sunrise and daily rest, every day has a new harvest, and every moment is bathed in peace.

Everyone can deeply feel that the Tang Kingdom is changing silently, and everyone can see that everything around is developing.

The dirt road at the head of the village has been paved with stones unknowingly, and hard-working road builders have tamped every inch of the road with heavy wooden piles.

This road has nothing to do with the original road that accumulates water when it rains, is often muddy, and most of the time is no different from the mountain road.

It is now raised as a whole, drainage ditches have been dug on both sides of the road, the roadbed has also been leveled, and the road surface is slightly inclined to the sides for smooth drainage.

It wasn't until the appearance of this road that the people in this village understood what a road was - the thing they used to use was basically a wasteland without grass that was trampled out by people.

Both sides of the river have been rested and planted with trees.It is said that this can prevent soil erosion, but no one knows what soil erosion is.

It was the first time that the old man, who had lived here all his life, saw someone come to repair the embankment. In the past, floods would break out every few years, but he had never seen the officials and officials caring about the embankment.

What is even more shocking is that a dam is already being built far upstream of the river, which will hold back most of the river's water and interfere with the downstream water flow during floods or droughts.

No one knows how much power is needed to stop the river. Everyone only knows that the last flood destroyed the unattainable and thick city walls of Fucheng...

Someone with good deeds went to see it, and came back and said that the embankment had already taken shape, so big that he couldn't find an adjective after thinking about it for a long time.Finally, he pointed to the mountain peak in the distance and said that it was bigger than that mountain.

Everyone thought he was bragging, but no one cared about the huge dam that seemed to be still under construction.

People only care about whether there is water in the canals in their fields, and only care about the crops in the fields in front of them...

In a small town farther away, a high platform has been repaired, and there is a rain deck on it, all of which are made of scary thick steel, which looks expensive.

People in the town say that thing is called a platform, and there is a special road with no end in front of it.

The road was paved with cross-bars, like ladders.The I-shaped rails are fixed vertically on the crossbar, extending to the distance, seemingly endless.

Every day, a steel monster that smoked and made loud noises docked on this platform, and then countless goods were unloaded from the carriages pulled behind this monster.

Either it is live cattle and sheep, or it is a large number of ironware, or it is white and smooth porcelain, or it is grain...

The Tang Kingdom seems to have inexhaustible resources. This steel monster called a train continuously transports oil, refined flour, and spices that used to be outrageously expensive from afar, and then transports these things that only nobles could use in the past. The price has been suppressed to an unbelievable level.

Nowadays, as long as there is a man who drives an excavator in the family, eating vegetable oil or even secretly hiding two ham sausages in the cabinet is no longer something to show off.

Whoever has a postman who can ride a motorcycle or a tall horse in his family may still be envied by others for more than two months. Now whoever can drive a truck is called arrogance.

Yes, those who can drive trucks are still valuable "master drivers", and drivers are still a profession rather than a skill in the Tang Dynasty.

A continuous stream of people walked on the flat road, and the woman was holding a basket and leading the child, with unprecedented peace and satisfaction in her eyes.

There is nothing more satisfying than eating a full meal. If there is one, it is a full meal every day.

On the plain, some strange towers began to appear, and thick cables connected these towers stretching to the top of the mountain, and then the villages and towns near the towers used electric lights.

No one can tell what kind of feeling this is. The grandparents who have been used to sleeping in the dark seem to be no longer so reasonable at this moment.

Higher-efficiency transformers made power transmission possible, and those thermal power plants built on the edge of the mine kept emitting black smoke day and night, declaring the prosperity of the Datang Kingdom to the world.

At that time, there was no little girl who cared about the environment, and it was everyone's simple dream to have a smoking factory in front of her home.

Because anyone who has hidden their sweetness already knows that as long as there is a smoking chimney, the surrounding will soon become rich.

Even if you just push a cart to sell some wild fruits or eat at the gates of these factories, you can earn a lot of gold coins that you never thought of before.

Of course, if you have enough brains, you can find a master in the factory to study for a while, and then you can work in the factory immediately, that will be more secure.

Due to the shortage of labor, the salaries for qualified workers in the factory are very high. If two of the family members work in the factory, the family can even have the luxury of eating a meat dish for three days!
No kidding at all, this may be the happy life that the local people have longed for for generations.

In the eyes of these simple people who have been poor for half their lives, everything in front of them is almost the paradise of their dreams.

According to the policy of Datang Kingdom, the state will provide subsidies for newborns, and will provide free education and the most basic medical insurance in the future.

This was completely unimaginable in the past. Zheng Guo...or almost all countries levy poll tax. It is good to have a child without concealing the household registration. How can it be expected that the common people will actively report it?
But the Tang Kingdom banned the poll tax and even gave farmers subsidies, which made almost everyone have no worries.

Soon, everyone's enthusiasm for having children began to increase: Since there is enough food, the country pays for raising children, and even children's education is free, so playing poker with your wife in the evening is not worthy of the audience?

In just one and a half years, the population of Datang Kingdom increased by five times!In addition to the "childbirth" efficiency boosted by the affluence of one's own life, immigrants also accounted for a large part of it.

The Tang Kingdom is still on three frontiers, accepting refugees from the Qi State in the north, the Chu State in the south, and the Dahua Empire in the west.

This kind of business is almost open now, as long as you are willing to come, Datang Group will accept it!It's just that the price has been reduced from 2-3 gold coins to 1 gold coin.

The market determines the price, and now the Datang Kingdom has no population pressure, so there is no urgent need for population to fill its territory.

But the generals and compradors on the border who have made a fortune by relying on human trafficking are not willing to end such a business that is beneficial to them.Recently, they have made a lot of money because of this business, and they feel like they have directly reached the pinnacle of life.

In order to make these people decay faster, Tang Mo was also willing to spend a small amount of money to satisfy these people's greed.

No matter whether they are from Chu State, Qi State, or the more powerful Great Hua Empire, in the territory of the Tang Kingdom, immigrants prefer to call themselves Tang people.It's a status symbol and a sign of their identity.

If you ask someone on the street if you are from Chu or Qi because of a little accent, it is very impolite nowadays.

If the other party is a little more irritable, they may fight in the street because of this kind of thing.Even the big Chinese who were faintly superior to others in the past are now well-behaved and honest in the boundaries of the Tang Kingdom.

Everyone recognized their identity as a Tang people, and even many foreign businessmen were willing to join the Tang country and become a member of the Tang people.

Because they soon discovered that the Tang State gave great preferential treatment to the merchants of its own country, providing assistance with tax reduction and exemption, and helping to protect the interests and safety of merchants outside the country.

To give the simplest example, in the past Qi people or Zheng people basically couldn't do business in Mirage.But now, the human beings in the mirage country are very safe, and the goblins in the mirage country dare not provoke them at all.

Like Bunas in the past, Tang Country is simply a new, bigger golden mountain!People who come here to do business find that no matter what they do, they can get a good profit here.

As long as they transport all kinds of products of Datang Kingdom back to their home countries and sell them casually, they can make much more money than before.

Everything here seems to be very cheap, so cheap that it is unbelievable: the ceramic products that only the nobles could afford in the past are as cheap as no money here.

An ordinary commoner only needs to spend a few copper coins to buy a beautiful rice bowl. The flowers on the rice bowl are so lifelike that it is simply a work of art.

In the past, such a porcelain bowl would cost at least 30 silver coins to be placed on the dining table of nobles.But now they are just piled up in the warehouse, and you can even see the "transportation loss" that is broken all over the floor.

A large number of industrial products have replaced many original things, and the clumsy wooden boxes have gradually begun to be eliminated, replaced by more convenient cardboard boxes.

The more convenient writing paper replaced the original variety of paper, and with the promotion of Datang Group, it was gradually accepted by everyone.

In more and more big cities, everyone has begun to accept the luxury of using paper to wipe their buttocks, and flushing the toilet has also made everyone gradually accustomed to the clean and hygienic process of going to the toilet.

With the rise of factories, more convenient clothing styles replaced the old clothes, and more and more affluent people began their simple pursuit of beauty.

Last year, you could only see men and women wearing identical work clothes in the streets and alleys, but now many people spend money in clothing stores to buy better everyday clothes for themselves.

The styles from Burnas are smart and convenient, and are very popular and loved by women.These gorgeous costumes dotted the gray streets, and then, like one morning after a spring rain, suddenly bloomed all over the world.

A world that is getting better, happier, richer, and...advanced!

(End of this chapter)