Reliability, barrel life, accuracy and other performance that can reflect industrial standards are already at the world's first-class level. Even if the Krull people are to produce the Fuyuan Type 5 rifle, it is impossible to say how much the performance can be improved.
And this is the effect of the Daheng Empire's continuous industrial upgrading and construction for many years.
This is actually more obvious in the field of artillery.
The empire already had a design for a 75mm 30x caliber field gun a long time ago, but at that time it was impossible to mass-produce and put it into service because the production process was too poor, resulting in a high price for the finished product, and the quality of the barrel was also not very good.
It is impossible to mass produce
But now, with the improvement of technology, the Empire's Nanzhou Machinery Bureau can produce gun barrels with a caliber of 75 mm and 30 times without any technical difficulty, the production cost has been greatly reduced, and the performance has been even better.
The empire's artillery research and development department is already preparing to use barrels of this specification to develop rapid-fire tube retraction guns, and it will be equipped with smokeless powder propellant.
Whether it is an army rapid-fire gun or a naval rapid-fire gun, this is all based on the upgrade of the empire's entire industrial system.
From the rapid development of the empire's defense industry, it can be inferred how rapidly the empire's industrial system has developed, and all of this is actually thanks to the three kingdoms of Krul Kingdom, Valia Empire, and Kokel Empire.
businessmen of an industrial powerhouse.
Without them selling a large amount of advanced equipment to the Daheng people, and without them transferring technology licenses to the Daheng people, the Daheng Empire would not have been able to complete a major upgrade in industrial technology in just a few years.
Of course, the empire has also paid a huge price for this, and the purchase of various types of equipment worth more than hundreds of millions every year is the price!
In order to purchase these advanced equipment, the Daheng Empire has to continue to export large quantities of agricultural products, mineral products, basic semi-processed products and petroleum products every year.
You must know that a large amount of food exported is to some extent plucked from the mouths of Daheng people.
Don’t think that the people of Daheng can’t eat all the food because of their high food output. If they eat it openly, the people of Daheng can digest it if their food output doubles to more than 200 million.
After all, although the Daheng Empire has a large number of middle-income groups, it still has more than 40% of the low-income population. These people are not living a good life!
The empire imports hundreds of millions of equipment every year and produces so much food every year, but more than 40% of the population is still unable to have enough food and clothing. This is the price the empire has paid for its industrial upgrading in recent years!
This cost will not last forever, but will gradually decrease.
In the seventh year of Qian Sheng's reign, the empire's export volume of industrial products had begun to exceed the export volume of agricultural and livestock products. By the eighth year of Qian Sheng's reign, the export volume of industrial products had already accounted for 1% of the total export volume.
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This figure is expected to be higher in the ninth year of Qian Sheng. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce predicts that the export value of industrial products will account for more than 70% of total exports this year.
This also means that the empire has gradually transformed from a country that exports agricultural and livestock products to an exporter of industrial products, even if the industrial products exported are still things with low technical content or special weapons.
But it still means a lot!
The Daheng Empire does not need to continue to take out food from the people's rations and export it in exchange for foreign exchange to purchase equipment. Instead, it can use a large number of industrial products, even low-end products, to earn foreign exchange to purchase high-end equipment.
This can be seen from the changes in the empire's export tariffs in the ninth year of Qian Sheng. The empire basically adopted an export tax-free policy for the export of some export commodities such as textiles. There were also some cases that ostensibly charged export tariffs, but later refunded the taxes to the manufacturers.
However, the export tariffs on grain and mineral products have gradually increased. In March of the ninth year of Qian Sheng, the empire once again raised the export tariffs on wheat and other major grains and their products by 50% on the existing basis.
From this move, it can be seen that the high-level officials of the empire no longer encourage large-scale exports of grain, but prefer to put domestically produced grain into the domestic market to solve the problem of food difficulties for many low-income people in the country.
In the spring of the ninth year of Qian Sheng, the economic development of the Daheng Empire was as rapid as ever, and the economic growth rate even exceeded the years at the beginning of unification.
You must know that in the first two years of the unification of the Daheng Empire, because the war subsided, the empire focused most of its energy on restoring people's livelihood, so the economic growth rate in those two years was very rapid, and agriculture began to fully recover. Industry and commerce are also developing rapidly.
However, after the first two years of retaliatory economic growth, the empire's economic growth returned to a relatively stable level. In the four years of Qian Sheng, the fifth year of Qian Sheng, and the sixth year of Qian Sheng, the empire's economic growth rate It is still very high, but considering that the industrial economies of various countries are generally fast today, the growth rate is actually at the upper level, not top-tier.
But this situation began to break in the seventh year of Qian Sheng. In the seventh year of Qian Sheng, after several years of accumulation, various industries and commerce in the empire began to grow explosively.
This is true for both heavy industry and light industry.
The representative industry in heavy industry, that is, the steel industry, after years of technology accumulation and the introduction of equipment, production capacity began to increase rapidly in the seventh year of Qian Sheng.
These huge production capacities have further promoted the development of various industries such as railways and machinery.
In the eighth year of Qian Sheng’s reign, the Daheng Empire built more than 7,000 kilometers of railways!
Just the mileage of railways completed and opened to traffic in one year during the eighth year of Qian Sheng accounted for 80% of all the mileage of railways in the empire before unification.
At present, the Daheng Empire has completely renovated its original railway network, and all railway tracks have been replaced by standard railways.
At the same time, a number of railway trunk lines were built, including two east-west trunk lines and multiple north-south trunk lines.
So far, each of the thirteen prefectures of Daheng has railways. You can reach any of the thirteen prefectures by taking a train from Jingzhou.
With relatively good terrain conditions, every county is connected to trains.
And some economically developed states and counties have even managed to connect every county to trains.
The four eastern states, such as Jingzhou, Dongding Prefecture, Nanhai Prefecture, and Zisheng Prefecture, have good economic conditions, good terrain, and huge demand, so the railway network is very densely constructed.
Numerous railway branch lines connect almost every county.
The current total railway mileage of the Daheng Empire,
The rapid development of the Daheng Empire is based on the rapid increase in the empire's steel production capacity. Otherwise, if you want to build railways, you won't have so many rails.
In turn, large-scale railway construction has brought huge demand for steel, promoted the development of the steel industry, and promoted local economic development.
In recent years, the central and western regions of the Daheng Empire have developed rapidly. A large number of towns have been established along the railway lines, and a large amount of land has been reclaimed. This is the most typical evidence.
The Daheng Empire's cultivated land has increased by at least half in just seven or eight years, and almost all of the newly added cultivated land is in the central and western regions.
In the past, transportation was inconvenient in these places, so few people went there. Otherwise, if the land was reclaimed and the food was grown, it would not be transported out, and if the food could not be transported, it would be a waste of money.
Daheng's agricultural model is a very typical large farm model compared to other countries.
In the Daheng Empire, family farms with a few hundred acres of land are considered small farms, and a thousand acres is not that big. Generally, only farms with tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of acres are called large farms.
This also means that farmers in Daheng rely more on horses, mechanical farming, fertilizers, etc. when farming, so there are planting costs, and the food they grow is definitely not eaten by themselves, but mainly sold.
Therefore, the cost of food transportation is very important.
If the transportation cost is low, you will lose money if the food cannot be transported.
The rapid development of railways has solved the most important problem of agricultural product transportation for many Daheng people.
This also directly promotes agricultural development in the central and western regions and other areas with inconvenient transportation.
The Daheng Empire is very optimistic and estimates that in the ninth year of Qian Sheng, the agricultural output value of the Daheng Empire may exceed 10 billion yuan!
Looking around the world, Daheng people are the only ones who can grow agricultural products worth tens of billions of dollars just by farming, and export agricultural products worth hundreds of millions of dollars every year...
Behind the rapid development of agriculture is the construction of railways and the guarantee of steel production!
In the first year of Qian Sheng's reign, the Daheng Empire's pig iron production capacity was only about 800,000 tons, and its steel output was only 20,000 tons.
In the second year of Qian Sheng's reign, pig iron production capacity surged to 1.8 million tons, and steel output reached 50,000 tons.
In the third year of Qian Sheng's reign, the pig iron production capacity reached 3 million tons, and the steel production capacity exceeded 100,000 tons.
In the fifth year of Qian Sheng's reign, the pig iron production capacity reached 5 million tons and the steel output reached 500,000 tons.
After the explosive expansion in the previous few years, the steel growth rate of the Daheng Empire tended to be stable in the following years, and the main growth point began to lean towards steel.
After several years of development, last year, which was the first half of the Qian Sheng period, the Daheng Empire's pig iron production reached seven million tons, and its steel production reached two million tons.
And this data has already surpassed the Kingdom of Krul!
When the Krul Kingdom was in its eighth year, its pig iron production was only more than 6 million tons, and its steel output was only more than one million tons. In order to save costs, the Krul Kingdom has now begun to import pig iron directly from Daheng.
and crude steel.
After entering the ninth year of Qian Sheng, the empire's basic industrial products such as steel and coal production capacity will continue to grow. Railways will still maintain a construction speed of several thousand kilometers per year. Even the construction tonnage of ordinary merchant ships is quietly approaching that of Croton.
Merchant ship production of the Kingdom of Ruhr.
The empire's huge steel production ensured the construction of railways and the development of industry, and the development of these basic industries directly drove the empire's overall economic growth.