Chapter 994 The tumbling population base
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Xu, as the chosen one by God, had a mysterious color about him from the first day he appeared. Later, as his abilities and methods showed , the people even worshiped it as a god.
This makes the work of the State Education Propaganda Department proceed particularly smoothly. In this process, the 'radio gymnastics' with simple and easy-to-remember movements has also been successfully promoted.
Coupled with Zhou Xu’s appropriate operations, broadcast gymnastics soon became a necessary process for each work unit before starting work.
During this process, Zhou Xu was not sure whether broadcast gymnastics was playing a role. Many people's work efficiency was improving as their physical fitness improved.
Several projects that were scheduled at the beginning of the year are now being completed one after another.
On the southern coast, it has not yet entered autumn, and the construction of ports and docks has been completed. At this time, the engineering team has begun to upgrade the frontline strongholds.
The core stronghold on the southern border is undoubtedly the city that was snatched from the hands of the rat people. There are ready-made walls for them to use.
However, if this city is to be completely repaired, it will be a big project that cannot be completed in a short time, not to mention that they have limited manpower.
Therefore, this wave of engineering teams is mainly responsible for setting up a simple stronghold near the coastal area to guard their ports and docks.
As for the city, we will first fill in the underground lair, and then clean up the ruins in the city. Even if it is done for the time being, further repairs will be done after the coastal stronghold is completed.
Over in the southern border, the engineering team’s report was delivered to Zhou Xu at the end of summer. After reading the report, Zhou Xu was unambiguous.
He directly called the director and deputy director of their Black Moon City Shipyard one by one, had a conversation one by one, understood their thoughts, and then made adjustments.
Assign the director of the Black Moon City Shipyard to lead a team to the Southern Shipyard to take charge of the shipbuilding project.
At this stage, the ships used for daily transportation on Qingshui Lake are basically enough, which has also caused the work pressure of the shipyard to drop significantly since the beginning of this year.
This can be said to be just right for Zhou Xu.
Directly transfer most of the labor force from the shipyard to the southern border to build ships.
As for Black Moon City, the original deputy director was promoted to director, and he continued to be responsible for matters related to the Black Moon City Shipyard.
After all, in addition to building ships, this shipyard is also responsible for the maintenance of existing ships. It still needs a certain amount of manpower to maintain daily operations.
On this side, by the time this group of people officially set off from Black Moon City to the south, the season had officially entered autumn.
This autumn harvest season is a little different for Dazhou than in previous years.
The difference is that starting from this year, they have an additional grain-producing farm in Dazhou.
Yes, it is the farm that Zhou Xu said earlier that he would set up in the south.
This is the first year that Nanjing Farm officially started producing grain.
Due to the current limited labor force within Dazhou, the size and number of fields within the southern farm are still very limited, only one-fifth of those in the plain farms.
However, I believe that when the spring comes next year, when more fields are opened up and more crops are planted on the southern border farm, the entire food production in their territory will be further improved.
At first, Zhou Xu established this southern farm mainly because the New Taipei District did not have the ability to produce grain at this stage, so the southern farm was needed to supply food to the southern region.
As for the food from Pingyuan Farm, it is transported to Xinnan District by waterway to support other areas.
Now, in addition to the reason why New Taipei District still does not have the ability to produce grain, there is another reason, and that is that their population has been growing faster and faster in Dazhou in recent years. The fundamental reason is that their population base has increased.
The early population base was too small, and the natural growth rate of the internal population could not be accelerated even if we wanted to.
But as long as the population base increases together, unless he deliberately controls it, the growth rate of the total population will only become faster and faster, and eventually it will form a snowball-like efficiency.
In this peaceful age, we are internally stable and have no worries about food and clothing. But at night, when there is nothing else to do, what else can we do besides giving birth to children?
Regarding this situation, Zhou Xu is now happy to see the outcome.
After all, Zhou Xu knew in his heart that this new population was definitely needed.
Since you are going to have a baby anyway, let's take advantage of these two years of stability to have a baby as soon as possible.
For this reason, Zhou Xu also promulgated a preferential policy to have more children.
After giving birth to a second child at home, not only can you get a tax deduction to a certain extent, but you can also receive a one-time child care subsidy.
This undoubtedly further stimulated everyone’s enthusiasm for having children.
If we continue at this pace, within a few years, their total population in Dazhou will reach 200,000.
The only pity is that this part of the population will not be able to be used as a normal labor force in the short term.
Based on the special situation formed by the domestic situation and the background of the times, people are considered adults at the age of fourteen and can participate in the labor force.
But even so, a newborn baby has to wait fourteen years to become a labor force.
Zhou Xuguang felt a little melancholy just thinking about this matter.
Nowadays, although the population in their country is growing rapidly, the problem of insufficient labor has not been solved at all, and the development efficiency cannot be improved at all.
The only thing he can do now is probably to be patient and wait quietly.
When we are busy, time always flies very fast. With the change of seasons, it is another new year.
The highlight of this spring is not the southern farm that has further expanded its field size, but the grassland horse farm, where the forty mares are about to give birth!
During this period, the racecourse staff, headed by Ma Guotao, were really busy.
In fact, at this time of year, there are many more mares than this one. However, due to the special situation this year, it is related to the breeding project of exotic war horses, which adds to the whole atmosphere in the racecourse. So a bit nervous.
In comparison, as the father of these children, Lord Ma is currently in a relatively heartless state. In the spring of the new year, he is planting a new round of seeds.
After all, considering the time of pregnancy and child rearing, mares basically have a litter every two years.
Knowing this, Ma Guotao had already prepared other mares for breeding with Ma Wangye this year.
So that with the highest efficiency, Lord Ma can give birth to the most offspring in the shortest time!
These mares do not necessarily give birth on the same day, which makes Ma Guotao and others busy from spring to early summer.
Finally, these forty mares gave birth to foals successfully...
(End of Chapter)