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Chapter 437 Spring Discussion Summary
In late March, the spring plowing was over, and the Hengshan Spring Conference, which had been interrupted by the war last year, finally began.At this meeting, everyone comprehensively summarized the development of Hengshan in the past two years.Speaking of which, the development of Hengshan has been somewhat affected by the natural and man-made disasters that have occurred in the past two years, as well as the war last year.But overall, it is still developing upwards towards a good situation.

Because of those wars, Hengshan not only obtained the land of Shazhou for nothing, but also expanded thousands of miles westward, established Xinzhou, expanded the Central Plains westward, and more than doubled Hengshan's territory westward.

After winning Shazhou, the population of Hengshan jumped from the previous 400 million to nearly 600 million.At the same time, in the past two years, the total number of people who migrated from the Central Plains was close to 200 million, especially the 100 million refugees who were handed over last year, making Hengshan's population soar to more than 770 million.The population of Xiazhou, which was originally sparsely populated, has risen from more than 100 million before to nearly 200 million today.In order to revitalize Shazhou and stabilize Xizhou, millions of people have been relocated there.It can be said that the population of Hengshan has nearly doubled in the past two years.

However, because of these wars, the price Hengshan paid was extremely heavy.In order to cope with the attacks of the three major powers in the world, after the war that lasted more than half a year, Hengshan paid a total of nearly 2000 million taels, which almost wiped out the savings of the past few years.The consumption of food and grass is countless. If it is not for the vigorous cultivation of sweet potatoes and the development of animal husbandry in these years, I am afraid that it will not be able to sustain it long ago.At the same time, because of the Shazhou Rebellion, the trade on the Long Corridor and Ancient Road, Hengshan’s largest source of income, was interrupted, and a large amount of business income was lost, and even the production of the workshop was affected, resulting in a sharp drop in industrial and commercial taxes in the past two years.In the past two years, only less than 1000 million taels of industrial and commercial taxes have been collected.Coupled with the drought locust disaster that occurred the year before, agricultural production was also affected, making the overall tax revenue in the past two years less than 2000 million taels.After deducting various expenses, many necessary engineering facilities had to be slowed down or even stopped.For the first time, fiscal expenditure exceeded income. If it hadn't been for the establishment of a new bank the year before last, coupled with the trust of Hengshan people in the government, they have deposited money in the bank one after another, which would have made the finances a little more comfortable.

Fortunately, the war lasted only half a year. With successive victories, the Hengshan army harvested a large amount of money, food and supplies, which was able to reduce the consumption during the war and allow Hengshan to breathe.And with the threat of defeating a powerful enemy, he coerced several major powers in the south to pay protection fees, and collected tens of millions of taels, which gave Hengshan some extra money today.

Although affected by natural disasters and military disasters, Hengshan continued to grow stronger overall.With the influx of a large number of immigrants, the reclamation of Hengshan land has been greatly accelerated.Overall agricultural output has doubled from two years ago, and output has reached a staggering sixfold.And this, first of all, is due to the comprehensive promotion of sweet potatoes, making sweet potatoes gradually account for about [-]% of the grain output.

At the same time, because of the 500-mile buffer zone ceded from the Golden Werewolf, and Xiazhou, a land with rich water and grass, Hengshan's animal husbandry is very prosperous.Not only is the scale of government-run pastures constantly expanding, private pastures are also blooming everywhere.Many former Jinlang herdsmen who integrated into Hengshan chose to develop animal husbandry after obtaining the status of Hengshan civilians.With the help of the government, they gave up the previous nomadic way of grazing by water and grass, but adopted sedentary animal husbandry, used the cultivation of pasture, and built green storage kilns, eliminating the hard work of living without a fixed place.Today, there are more than [-] million registered cattle and sheep in Hengshan, and the fur, meat and milk provided a year have become a major pillar industry in Hengshan.There is also the breeding of horses. With these years of careful cultivation, the number of horses has exceeded one million. At the same time, many high-quality horse breeds have been selected from them, which has greatly improved the quality of war horses cultivated by Hengshan.The plateau horses and Western Region horses captured from Eternity and the Western Gold Werewolf the year before last were selected from among high-quality horses and crossed with prairie horses in the hope of cultivating better horse breeds.

Although the workshops were affected by commerce and trade, because of the war period, when the government-run workshops were too late to produce, the government issued many military orders to private workshops for production.As a result, many workshops have been transformed into military workshops to serve the army, so that the workshops still have work to do and will not go bankrupt.At the same time, under Lin Yifan's conscious plan, the military industry orders adopt the bidding method, allowing many workshops to compete, thus greatly improving the quality of military supplies and at the same time improving the production level of the workshops.

After cutting off the western commercial road, Hengshan can only vigorously develop southward commercial trade, focus on developing the commercial potential of the Central Plains, and open up a new road for Hengshan Workshop.While stabilizing the commerce and trade in the three prefectures of Yanminghua, Hengshan vigorously expanded its commerce and trade in Zhongzhou, hoping to radiate the entire hinterland of the Central Plains by setting up a transfer station in Zhongzhou.However, due to the bad relationship with Cao Ji, the malicious attack by the Cao family made the expansion not ideal.The only way to infiltrate other places is through smuggling and using the three states of Yanminghua.However, after some negotiations last year, Hengshan has now reached a business agreement with Eternity and Tianyun to start business exchanges with each other.As long as the Western Regions are conquered this year, Shazhou will be able to restore its former prosperity.

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After fully understanding the general situation of Hengshan, Lin Yifan listened to reports from various departments on the affairs of the headquarters. Generally speaking, he was very satisfied.

Under the management of Ye Hongyu, the Ministry of Civil Affairs re-established a whole system of officials' selection and promotion.In the selection of officials, an examination system different from the imperial examination system was adopted. Simply put, if you want to be an official, you need to have all kinds of professional knowledge required for being an official. .For this reason, Ye Hongyu designated the laws, official models, calculations, and Lin Yifan's "Official Minutes" as the necessary books for the examination. Those who want to be an official must be proficient in these books in order to pass the examination.As for the promotion mechanism, an assessment system is adopted, considering the person's political performance, public evaluation and professional testing.

In the past two years, Wang Fugui from the Ministry of Civil Affairs has been running around for the resettlement of immigrants, timely and quickly allocating food and materials to distribute, so as to prevent the new immigrants from suffering from cold and hunger.Especially in Shazhou's reconstruction and refugee resettlement, the strong cooperation with Chen Dengke has made Shazhou gradually stabilized and began to recover its vitality.In this battle, Wang Fugui dispatched materials to the battlefield in an orderly manner, so that the logistics supplies of the soldiers of the Hengshan Army were fully guaranteed, and they persisted until victory.

In the past two years, the Ministry of Public Works has enabled Hengshan to develop many pillar industries, such as fur products, meat and dairy products, ironware, refined salt, crystal products, etc., bringing a lot of wealth to Hengshan.With the progress of research and development, many technologies are becoming more and more mature, bringing huge benefits to Hengshan's military and people's livelihood.

While continuously expanding the cultivated area and increasing production, the Ministry of Agriculture is also constantly optimizing the varieties of crops and farming methods under the careful cultivation of the Agricultural Research Institute, so that the yield per mu has continued to rise.All kinds of reprocessed agricultural products are full of variety, which greatly enriches the food style of Hengshan.

Under the auspices of Guo Huaili from the Ministry of Education, Mengtong School has covered all parts of Hengshan, and all school-age children basically enter it to study.At the same time, various colleges were set up to recruit students everywhere to teach more advanced knowledge.Under his guidance, the thinking of Hengshan people has gradually been different from that of other places, and they have gradually accepted the idea of ​​Chinese unity led by Lin Yifan. . . . .

After the meeting, Lin Yifan also received news from Xizhou that the Western Expeditionary Army had entered the Western Regions.His eyes could not help turning to the west, and he wondered whether the Western Expedition could successfully win the Western Regions?

PS: This chapter is simple, everyone just read it, I have no inspiration for the past two days, and I don’t know how to write it.

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