After spring sowing, a small-scale afforestation campaign began in various parts of Fujian, and fast-growing fir trees and improved nanmu bamboo were first planted on a small scale.

The forest land is still some time before planning, and there are already trees on the mountain, so it will not be replanted after being cut down.

At the same time, Xia Jun increased his efforts to fight against the local tyrants. Not all the landlords in the local area should be eliminated, but those who are misconduct must be eliminated. At the same time, relief stations are set up in various places. People can find relief stations when they have difficulties, and landlords are prohibited from lending usury to seize self-cultivated farmland.

Since Xia Jun distinguished the landlords, the landlord class generally supported Xia Jun. After all, Xia Jun increased their income and had no taxes.

It is impossible without taxes, but at this time, people's hearts were focused on Xia Jun, so let these landlords not have to pay taxes for the time being. Once the Qing court was destroyed, they could be collected immediately.

Education has developed slowly, but it has also developed rapidly.

In the early months of the year, the number of members of the Restoration Association from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Jian'an reached more than 2,000, and nearly 3,000 teachers and students who did not belong to the Restoration Association also absorbed nearly 3,000.

Most of these people are middle school students and college students. The arrival of these people naturally makes Xia Jun not short of people.

Because of the arrival of these people, Xia Jun needs a lot of teachers. The current development of popular education is very slow, mainly because there is not enough teachers.

Xia Jun has high requirements for teachers, so this cannot be taught randomly. At least there must be a unified standard. Xia Jun has established a standardized teaching process by redeeming textbooks from later generations. Those teachers must first go to the normal college to study before taking the post, and then be released to teach after passing the exam.

It is not yet clear that popularization of education is popular yet, so Xia Jun just established a teaching staff to literate the army.

At present, the number of staff in the Normal College has increased to more than 3,000, and nine years of free education will be available starting next year, which makes Xia Jun feel a hint of financial pressure.

The biggest expense now is engineering construction. Xia Jun has successively invited 16 civil engineers from abroad, most of which are the United States and Germany.

Xu Wenbo was appointed as the Minister of Construction by Xia Jun, specializing in the construction of highways, railways, bridges, hydropower and other projects. He has 18 engineering teams under his jurisdiction. These engineering teams are overhauling the main transportation lines in Fujian. The monthly expenses reach 5 million to 6 million US dollars, and Xia Jun also has to subsidize nearly 500,000 points.

The second is the expenditures in four aspects: education, military, administration and medical care. At this time, Xia Jun had a Jianzhou University in his hand, and the number of teachers and students in it had increased to more than 4,000. At the same time, three middle schools were built one after another, with more than 7,000 middle school students. Monthly subsidies, teachers' salaries, and other teaching needs combined, totaling 1.5 million US dollars.

Needless to say, military administration is more than $2 million in total, with less medical care, only $600,000. However, Xia Jun spends the most points in medical care, and nearly 2 million points are required to redeem various drugs every month.

In addition to other miscellaneous expenses, by April, Xia Jun's monthly fiscal expenditure had reached US$13 million. Li Shijing was frightened, afraid that one of the problems would lead to less funds, so she asked her younger brother Li Shengguo to borrow less when he borrowed a loan, and she kept the money in her hand to support her at any time.

Li Shengguo admired Xia Jun very much. He originally thought that if Xia Jun continued to do this, he would have to borrow from the bank in a few months, but he could still support it in the past few months.

In the past few months, Xia Jun's patents have entered a profitable state, and the partners have performed well, and they can generate some dividends every month.

Xia Jun's main export products at this time became filter cigarettes, lighters, sanitary napkins, medicines and steel products. Among them, filter cigarettes performed strongly in various countries, and light-flavored tobacco sold very well.

It is not only because Xia Jun used a filter, but also related to the taste of the cigarette. After all, the equipment he used is very advanced, and the tobacco tastes naturally very good. In addition, the lighter taste is more palatable, so the sales are naturally larger. However, those who smoke dry tobacco like to smoke heavy flavors, but the sales are not as large as those with light flavors.

As the sales volume of cigarettes became increasingly large, Xia Jun dispelled the idea of ​​adding drugs to cigarettes. He still had to make a reputation for being a human being. Once these low-level methods were discovered, the brand would basically be abandoned.

Last month, cigarette exports reached US$6 million, and lighter sales were even better. 8 million pieces can be exported every month, and the quantity is still increasing. The plastics of the lighter are made by coal chemical factories, and the oil is imported from Mobil, with a profit of more than 150%.

The steel industry is also developing very rapidly. At this time, Fujian's steel production capacity was 500,000 tons of iron and 300,000 tons of steel. Among them, only Jian'an Steel Plant, which produces 100,000 tons of steel, was put into production. The raw materials were mainly imported. The steel plant in Zhangping has just started production because the mining industry has not yet fully entered the right track and the output is not large.

In a few months, steel mills have met their own construction requirements and steel has begun to enter the export ranks. Some of these steels are processed into goods by themselves, while some are directly exported.

In terms of medicines, in addition to sulfonamide drugs, pharmaceutical factories can already manufacture most Western medicines. Xia Jun is also transfusions to pharmaceutical factories every month, and it is expected that most of the current Western medicines can be manufactured in three months.

As for exporting goods from Western countries, you can earn nearly 10 million US dollars a month. In addition to the domestic market, Xia Jun has nearly 15 million US dollars in income every month.

Those partnership companies don’t pay too much dividends, only more than two million US dollars a month, and the profits of these companies are not something Xia Jun can draw.

A company needs to develop, and the profitable funds must be kept and continued to develop. The dividend money will always be a small part. However, if Xia Jun needs money, he can sell the shares.

Due to the increase in income, Xia Jun basically left the ranks of the Moonlight clan and could save one or two million US dollars a month. Li Shijing has an account book, remembering Xia Jun's various incomes and expenses.

At this time, Xia Jun did not distinguish between public and private affairs and used his money to build everywhere, but there were very few taxes. At present, this group belongs to Xia Jun, and Xia Jun’s belongs to this group.

However, Li Shijing has long-term plans. Once the public and private sectors are separated in the future, there will be an account to separate the family. Then the account must be calculated clearly.

Li Shijing's calculations were smart, and Xia Jun didn't ask about this. For Xia Jun, democracy must have bothering to have dictatorship.

At present, we can only engage in township autonomy, and Xia Jun is very serious about it, allowing township councils to solve the construction of townships by themselves. Nowadays, there are many gentry locally. The ideas of these gentry may be more feudal, but most of them care about their reputation. Most gentry are willing to do practical things for the village and are highly principled.

This is the rural heritage formed over thousands of years, and later China, both rural and merchants, lost this spirit of ancient times.

It is inevitable that corruption occurs in some township autonomous councils, but this is not a common phenomenon. Xia Jun did not have the energy to care about them for a while, and he would make some corrections after he was freed up.

The townships are dictatorial, and while the townships have greater freedom, they must obey political orders, and some of their rights are subject to the administrative department.

Now is not the time to truly democracy.

Xu Wenbo submitted a railway construction project to Xia Jun that day. In the plan, Xu Wenbo planned to build the railway from Zhangping-Jian'an-Ningde first, and the construction of this railway requires 6 million silver dollars, which is 12 million US dollars.

Xia Jun looked at the project plan and couldn't help but mutter: "It seems that the railway is going to be built."

At this time, Fujian was able to produce steel rails and other equipment by itself. At the same time, the Zhangping Steel Plant was put into production and urgently needed railways to transport steel. Moreover, there were more than a dozen civil engineers in hand, so it was no longer a problem to build railways.

But Xia Jun couldn't take out the project payment for a while. Xia Jun thought for a long time and called his brother-in-law Li Shengguo.

"Brother-in-law, what's the matter?" Li Shengguo asked after receiving the call.

"Prepare 6 million silver dollars, and you will build a railway soon." Xia Jun said to Li Shengguo, who asked, "Is it an investment or a loan?"

"Bank investment!" Xia Jun replied, "When the railway is opened, you will be responsible for collecting the money."

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Thanks to the seven students who gave the reward yesterday and bowed!
Chapter completed!