Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Lin Yi was surprised to see Zhao Xu. He nodded, and then told Zhao Xu again how he discussed the matter with Luo Chen, and Luo Chen also expressed his willingness to cooperate.

Zhao Xu was silent for a long time after hearing this.

After a long time, he sighed slowly.

"Yier, what do you think?" Zhao Xu finally asked Lin Yi.

"Uncle, Mr. Luo and I have the same opinion on this matter. Wrong is wrong. It cannot be said that Luo Chen has merit in one thing, so that he can be exempted from his sin."

"Otherwise, we would not be able to face those soldiers who died in battle."

"However, I think that in this matter, only the culprit should be asked, and the rest should be given a lighter sentence. This can be regarded as an explanation to Luo Chen." Lin Yi said slowly.

When Zhao Xu heard Lin Yi's suggestion, he also felt that this was the safest way.

"Let's not talk about these troublesome things for now, Yi'er, I have a memorial here, I think you will be very interested." Zhao Xu waved his hand and said to Lin Yi.

"What memorial?" Lin Yi was a little curious and took the memorial from Zhao Xu's hand.

"This is the Ministry of Industry's summary of various industries in the empire."

"Hasn't it been five years since I, Daxia, took back the areas outside the customs? Nearly half of the ten-year plan you made has passed."

"So I asked the Ministry of Industry to make statistics on the empire's development in the past few days a few days ago. I was planning to take the time to send it to you."

"He happens to be here today, so let's take a look first."

After hearing Zhao Xu's words, Lin Yi didn't say anything more and directly started reading the memorial.

This memorial, compiled by the Ministry of Industry, records the development of the empire in detail.

Among them, the biggest growth rate is the growth of steel and coal mines.

In 1901, the national steel output of the Daxia Empire was only a pitiful 370 million tons, and by 1906 it was 3160 million tons. Increased about ten times.

Moreover, there are still seven or eight large-scale steel plants under construction in the empire, which are expected to be put into use early next year.

Once these steel plants are put into use, the empire's annual steel output will increase several times on the current basis.

Especially the three very large steel plants in Hankou, Panzhi and Anshan, as long as they can be built, they are all designed to have an annual output of [-] million tons.

Just one bid is equivalent to the current output of the entire empire.

Next is the mining of coal mines.

Since Lin Yi's later generations knew the location of some high-quality coal mines in Daxia, he asked people to mine them in those places.

Among them, there are several coal mines in Shanxi Province and outside Guanzhou, close to Mongolia. They are all shallow coal mines, or even open-pit coal mines.

These coal mines are now the most important mining areas in the empire. The coal mined from here will be continuously transported to various places by trains every day.

For this reason, the railways in these mining areas were also the first to be built in order to transport the coal mines out as quickly as possible.

The workers inside are divided into six shifts and are mining day and night.

There is no way around this. At present, the empire has not developed a drill bit suitable for mining coal mines, so manual mining can only be used.

This is why Lin Yi chose a place like an open-pit mine that is very easy to mine.

It's not that Lin Yi doesn't want to dig deep mines, it's just that he can't dig them out.

But even so, the empire's annual coal mining volume has reached 5000 million tons.

The result of this annual mining volume of [-] million tons is the rapid development of the empire's industry.

Some industries that require coal mines as energy have also experienced tremendous development.

Especially in terms of power generation, it has reached the scale that Lin Yi recognized in his previous life in the 20s.

Electric lights have become popular in almost all cities.

Of course, some rural and remote areas do not yet have electricity, but according to the current momentum, every household will be able to have electricity within ten years.

As the power restrictions are resolved, the empire's industry develops. After all, if you haven't even solved the power problem, how can you talk about development?

Some cities close to ports have developed into financial cities due to their convenient transportation.

For example, Guangzhou and Shanghai, Jinghai.

Of course, the reason why these three cities have such development trends is also Lin Yi's point.

He wanted to imitate later generations and establish a commercial capital and financial center for the empire, so in terms of positioning these three cities, Lin Yi suggested that they should focus on commerce.

Especially Shanghai, because it was one of the earliest treaty ports, there were factories established by Westerners there.

After Lin Yi's suggestion was made, Zhao Xu also thought it could be tried, so he set up Shanghai as a pilot project.

Preferential policies and taxes have attracted a large number of entrepreneurs to flock to Shanghai. Whether they were Europeans or Imperial people, they all rushed to Shanghai as long as they had the chance.

In terms of the construction of Shanghai City, Lin Yi specially designated some areas and established some areas according to European aesthetics.

Of course, these newly built areas cannot be concessions, their names are new districts.

The current Daxia Empire is not the old empire of a certain time and space, everything is so corrupt.

In the current Daxia Empire, except for two areas, which have not been recovered due to historical reasons, there are no other concessions at all.

Here, Imperials and Westerners enjoy equal treatment.

So this created a particularly strange situation, which was an imperial merchant haggling with a European in English.

On the other hand, perhaps in some places in Daxia today, there are still some people who are afraid of foreigners or reject foreigners, but in Shanghai, this kind of thing is absolutely impossible to happen.

The establishment of the Shanghai pilot program directly resulted in the commercial tax provided by Shanghai alone in that year exceeding the previous total commercial tax in Daxia.

Zhao Xu was also very surprised when he saw this situation, and then he decisively opened two new districts and established new districts according to the model of Shanghai City.

These three cities, in the eyes of Westerners, have become three capitals of gold and yuan.

With the establishment of these three cities, the empire's overall annual tax revenue has reached an astonishing 6.7 million imperial silver dollars.

After seeing this, Lin Yi felt that there were some areas that could be modified, but overall, Lin Yi was very satisfied.

The living standards of the people in the empire are now close to the standards of the 20s, and are no longer inferior to those of major Western countries.

However, you must know that the population of the empire is several times, even dozens of times, theirs.

The total population of the empire, including the two provinces of Korea, has reached 7 million.

Imperial silver coins are also very firm in the international market. They are the most valuable currency in the world and can be directly used to settle goods.

It can be said that Daxia has used this situation and Lin Yi is already content.

At the same time, he is also confident that in five years' time, the empire will achieve various advancements and will never be weaker than any Western country.

As for after the war...that's when they relied on the empire.