Pursued by the Heavenly Dao, first level up in the courtyard.

Seeing that many items in the mall came from overseas, Qi Bing decided to venture into the footwear, apparel, and leather goods industry.

With his extensive experience, he knew very well that many well-known overseas brands were produced in Daxia.

The brand premium is very high, and a large amount of money is earned by overseas luxury goods companies.

"Many of Da Xia's brands have been sold to foreign investors one after another. The Yucheng Brewery hasn't been sold yet, but it's been fully acquired. The Yucheng Cola Factory has been sold, and a new Xuanhuang Cola Factory is being built..."

They went shopping, spending money like water, and then had dinner at the cafeteria.

Back at the villa, Qi Bing soaked in the hot spring and enjoyed a massage from Shen Tian.

He didn't need to do everything himself to acquire and establish companies and factories.

The city-level system did not offer any investment returns, but he allowed Heilong to speculate in stocks and futures, and Xuanhuang Group's deposits increased instead of decreasing.

"Our hometown development system is ready to be upgraded to the state level. Shall we upgrade it first?"

With this thought in mind, Qi Bing chose to upgrade, and after looking at the system's jurisdiction, he added Chuanzhou, Yunzhou, Qianzhou, and Guizhou.

"The total permanent population is over 250 million. The state-level hometown development system provides each person with one yuan per day and two technology points per day. The system subsidizes over 250 million yuan and over 500 million technology points every day."

For the next two weeks, accompanied by Shen Tian, ​​Qi Bing traveled to Sichuan, Guizhou, Guizhou, and Yunzhou, signing numerous contracts.

Xuanhuang Group's investment will not only help it upgrade itself, but also make the lives of the people in the area happier.

With ample funds, Xuanhuang Construction Company acquired a construction company outright while simultaneously recruiting a large number of workers.

The fully acquired construction company was merged into Xuanhuang Construction Company, and the newly recruited employees were put into various projects after training.

Consuming over 500 million technology points daily to support scientific research, the research efficiency of the Xuanhuang Industrial Research Center and the Xuanhuang Agricultural Research Center has increased several times over compared to their original levels.

In order to eliminate the corrupt elements within the Xuanhuang Group, Qi Bing established an internal affairs department.

By mid-September, the total number of employees at Xuanhuang Group had risen to over 35 million.

For rural planting and breeding, Xuanhuang Agricultural Research Center provides technical support, and Xuanhuang Group provides agricultural machinery assistance.

A large number of talented and virtuous bachelors, masters, and doctoral graduates from all over the Great Xia Dynasty have joined the Xuanhuang Group.

Xuanhuang Group offers high salaries and excellent benefits, attracting countless people who want to join the company.

Old neighborhoods with narrow streets and dilapidated houses were relocated to newly built old neighborhoods and subsequently demolished.

The streets in the new urban area are wide and flat, the buildings are stronger, the indoor areas are larger, and water, electricity, gas and network services are readily available.

Even the houses in Changqing Town can withstand an earthquake of magnitude nine. Houses built later used even better building materials and were stronger.

To solve the materials problem, Qi Bing established 360 materials research groups at the Xuanhuang Industrial Research Center.

Materials research and development mainly relies on experiments and also depends on luck; it doesn't require much personal talent or ability.

No matter how gifted or talented you are, if you're unlucky, you might not be able to develop the necessary materials even after countless experiments and more than a decade of hard work.

With experiments conducted regardless of cost and technological support for research and development, Xuanhuang Group has rapidly increased its technological capabilities.

Qi Bing didn't have the technology points to directly purchase the technology; he wanted to train the employees of Xuanhuang Group.

For ordinary people, the hometown development system is amazing and powerful, but for Qi Bing, the hometown development system is insignificant.

Many of the technologies he has mastered exceed the limits of the development system in his hometown.

He used the hometown development system because he wanted to have some fun while the world was upgrading.

One's human level increases by one level per day, and in this middle-thousand world, one can probably increase by one hundred levels.

Each upgrade is just a fleeting moment; outside of upgrades, I always need to find something to do.

With cultivation stuck at a bottleneck and unable to improve even slightly, indulging in reckless actions can be considered a win-win situation.

It has allowed us to while away the time, enjoy life, strengthen the Great Xia, and bring happiness to the people. Isn't that a win-win situation?

With fewer migrant workers from Yunzhou, Chuanzhou, Yucheng, Qianzhou, and Guizhou, the development speed in many coastal areas of Daxia has slowed down sharply, and many places have become somewhat desolate and empty.

Xuanhuang Group has an enormous infrastructure scale, attracting people from Xiangzhou, Ezhou, Yuzhou and other places to join the group.

In times of chaos, people go out to fight enemies; in times of prosperity, they go out to work. A few states choose to work for the Xuanhuang Group. People from the other states of the Great Xia rarely go out to work. Without outsiders supporting them, it would be difficult to achieve prosperity.

People who own multiple properties used to be able to earn several thousand or even tens of thousands of yuan per month just by renting them out.

Nowadays, there are very few people from other places, and no matter how many houses they own, they can't rent them out.

With fewer out-of-towners, restaurants and eateries are seeing fewer customers...

Industry and agriculture are the pillars that support the economy, while the financial industry is like a castle in the air.

Foreign trade companies that make a fortune every day mainly deal in the import and export of certain products.

Without industrial and agricultural products, foreign trade companies have no export business; without overseas products, the goods imported by foreign trade companies have no market.

There are many foreign trade companies in Haicheng. Due to Xuanhuang Group's self-developed, self-produced and self-sold products, the income of many foreign trade companies in Haicheng has plummeted.

With money to spare, Qi Bing commissioned Xuanhuang Group to build a super port and a super shipyard on the coast of Guizhou.

The coverage of the prefecture-level hometown development system includes Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guizhou.

Once the Guizhou Super Port is completed, Xuanhuang Group's export business will no longer need to pass through Haicheng.

If he's in a bad mood one day and uses his supernatural powers, there'll be no need to do business overseas.

Schools rushed to sign contracts with Xuanhuang Group, promising not to recruit students from outside the group in return, and subsequently received the Xuanhuang Teaching Fund.

The Xuanhuang Education Fund provides subsidies to teachers, scholarships to outstanding students, and covers the tuition fees for impoverished students.

Xuanhuang Bank rapidly eroded the business of major banks within its system coverage area.

Qingzhuang works at Xuanhuang Group, and his salary is paid through Xuanhuang Bank.

The children's education, the whole family's medical care, water, electricity, gas and internet are all closely related to Xuanhuang Group.

On November 3rd, Qi Bing's human race level increased by one level.

On December 5th, the reactor project team at the Xuanhuang Industrial Research Center successfully developed a controllable reactor.

The reactor project research group has 18 academicians, 76 professors, and 567 PhDs...

With the support of advanced technology, research efficiency has skyrocketed, and the development of a controllable reactor has been as if divinely aided.

Qi Bing was invited to Beicheng and attended several meetings. Xuanhuang Group obtained a license for a controlled reactor power plant.

Even though it was late 2003 on this blue planet, many places in Great Xia either had no electricity or experienced frequent power outages.

The Dajiang Hydropower Station is still under discussion and has not been built. Daxia's electricity mainly comes from thermal power generation.

Xuanhuang Group has developed a controllable reactor. Once it is put into use, Daxia will never have to worry about electricity again.

Fighter jets, bombers... the air-to-ground tank project is also progressing rapidly, and it is expected that prototypes will be produced in a few more months.

Xuanhuang Group's R&D team comprises over one million people, including more than one hundred academicians and several thousand professors...

The number of people in the R&D team of any company on Blue Star is far less than that of Xuanhuang Group.

With over 500 million science and technology points generated daily, research efficiency has been greatly improved, avoiding many detours.

The New Year arrived as scheduled, and Qi Bing continued his ordinary, relaxed, and comfortable life.

"Boss, our Xuanhuang computers have started mass production."

"How's the quality?"

"Both the software and hardware are entirely self-developed and self-produced, and their performance surpasses that of the best consumer computers overseas."

"How's the production?"

"With our production line, we can produce 200,000 computers per day."

"A daily output of 200,000 sets and a monthly output of 6 million sets is about enough. The computers produced will first meet internal needs, and then be distributed to Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou."

After hanging up the phone with the computer factory manager, Qi Bing called the mobile phone factory manager.