The situation in Occupy Prussia is actually not better there. Although Occupy Pomeranian has expanded the land of two countries, their agricultural production has suffered great losses. Moreover, they owe more debts to South Korea. At this point, they need to spend more money to solve such problems.

During the war, most of their population was expropriated for use in the war, agricultural production fell into a deadlock, and their food production was not very high. Plus after the war. They need to pay a lot of debt and interest, taxes on trade, and domestic pressure. What they can do is to maintain their own situation. Moreover, most of their food is imported from the people of Chu, but as the people of Chu are unwilling to export a large amount of food, this will aggravate their internal economic situation. Turbulence.

War is such a situation. When it is advantageous, they will become extremely advantageous to them, but when it is disadvantageous, they can do very limited things.

The Occupy Prussia is facing a great food crisis. In the Chu colony, more colonists and plantation owners were unwilling to grow food. Because there is enough food. And it's cheap. This is the reason why low grains hurt farmers.

"This grain can't be planted this year. We just grow cotton, and we can't grow this grain if we grow mulberry saplings." An old man said at a family meeting.

"Yes. We can't finish eating such a lot of food in a few lifetimes." Many middle-aged men who attended the meeting said one after another. They all migrated here as a clan. They reclaimed wasteland and planted grain in it. The climate here is suitable, and the rice can reach three crops a year. It is said that in some places it can reach four crops a year. If you use some domestic fertilizers, the situation will get better. But there is so much food that they cannot consume.

"Our grain can only be sold to the country, or to Bangladesh in the distance, but the demand there is not very large, and the cost of transporting ships is relatively high. The price of grain here is very low, so we might as well change the crops. Some other cash crops, I think, we can grow some cotton, or sugarcane is also possible, don’t you see? We have a few stones of grain, but only one or two catties of white sugar. And those tea, we should do the same Do. I heard that in Yuezhou, some people who changed to grow tea have already made a fortune. We should do it early, or we will post it too.” Some people said.

"I just said yes." Some middle-aged people commented. The situation in Chu State is different from that in Qin State. People in Qin State can provide a series of support when food prices are low, such as interest-free loans and various government subsidies. However, for Chu’s agriculture, they have to pay. A certain low tax, although the impact is not great, is a cost to them after all. In addition, many grain seeds and fertilizers are things they need to consider. In this way, it has caused such a result, that is, when they grow food, they did not make some money back, but lost some money. As a result, they had to change some other strategies, and they were unwilling. Planting food, because the food loss is too great. In order to reverse this situation, their only way is to change to cash crops, such as cotton, sugar cane and other cash crops to recover some of the losses. After all, these can bring great economic benefits.

"These years. The more food we grow, the more we lose. There is no way. Our only way is to grow cash crops." The old man said afterwards.

"If there is no opinion, we will do this. We can't lose money like this. You can use the food you hoard. It seems that we can still make a lot of money when the food rises." The old man said. In the face of low food prices, they are also helpless. They came here to colonize in the first place in order to have a full stomach. What happened? They came here to eat. But when they want to live better, they can't do such a thing. Because they lack too much money. They also need to live. They also need to change some of their own circumstances.

They also need to build some rural roads. Connect the telegram. Knowing the outside world, while starting some trade, on the one hand, they need to buy some daily necessities. Or other supplies. But the low prices of food made them unbearable, and they finally had to do so.

Qi State, the coastal area of ​​Laizhou.

"Zhao people come here to invest more and more. They have recently visited five boiler plants, and some welding plants. They heard that they can directly weld iron armor, and there are also some factories for gears, bearings, and machinery. These factories are all factories that we have never encountered before. In terms of technology, our lack of strength is very large. Many workers complain that they can't do a lot of work." A local official explained to Lou Jing. To.

"Oh. There is such a thing. Tell me about the specific situation." Lou Jing is very interested in such a thing, because the changes here have become very big.

During this period of time, a large number of factories in Zhao Guo moved quite a lot of equipment here. They have invested, merged or built some factories in joint ventures, and these factories are joint venture factories. Such factories have great benefits to Qiguo. They have brought a lot of technology. Although it seems that some technical equipment is older, but for Qiguo. It was a huge technological shock. In order to allow these technical equipment to enter Qi State, Qi State also specially repaired some roads. Although these roads are still dirt roads, the situation is much better after all. Horse-drawn carriages can pass, some machine tools still need to be further disassembled before they can be transported here.

The arrival of these joint venture factories has changed the kind of things Qi Guo had done by relying on hand-crafted workshops. This is for them. It is a huge technological shock.

"They need a variety of workers. They said that a series of trainings are needed. Without such training, our people would not be able to get jobs. However, many of our people don’t know the characters, how could they understand some? Theory. And they have a lot of strange units. Our people have encountered such a thing and become extremely difficult." The local official said.

Lou Jing listened patiently. He finally understood what the other party was saying. Workers in the Zhao country have a certain theoretical basis, no matter how these foundations come from, for example. They rely on learning, or training. Or it may be from experience, but they all have this knowledge. They know how many air pressures, how many temperatures, and how many pressure values ​​they know. They know how to work through some simple calculations. There is no way. If they don’t know these, they will They will lose their jobs, but if they know this, they can get more salaries and be promoted to senior technicians. This has greatly changed their destiny. Regardless of the great intensity of the daily work of Zhao Guo workers, their competition is also great. If they don't study, they can't do such a thing at all.

Zhao State and Qi State are different. Zhao State has a certain educational foundation, the literacy rate and the degree of popularization of education are much higher than Qi State, and Qi State simply does not have such a large amount of funds to popularize their education, and they have no ability to send further overseas students to study, so For them, the situation is still relatively backward.

The Qi people lack basic education, and suddenly let them accept such advanced technology, they feel at a loss, or at a loss, after all, they don’t know what happened to explain their current situation. .

"This, we don’t know what we should do. Zhao Guo told us that our workers lack a certain basic education and they don’t even have some basic knowledge. Such workers cannot be promoted further. They can only do some hard work." The local officials reported what they had learned to Lou Jing.

"Yeah. I know what's going on." Lou Jing nodded. This is the country's basic education, and what Qi lacks is this kind of education. Zhao Guo almost universalized compulsory education, and Qin Guo has long since reached the level of high school. Zhao Guo at least reached junior high school. After the junior high school, they will be separated and many people will enter the factory as apprentices. Although their salary is not high, but They can rely on their talents to enter the academy given by the factory for further study, and then become senior technicians, and then they can study abroad, then work, or engage in research. It can be said that Zhao Guo's learning model is very practical. This is the method that the factory owners have come up with.

However, Qi State did not have such a thing. Because they lack sufficient funds, their investment in education costs is very small. Less pitiful, so that they can't further expand the scale of their own enterprises, this is the case with the country. Is unfavorable.

After Lou Jing took office, he wanted to solve this problem very much. However, it is difficult to solve this problem because most of the financial funds are used for the expansion of the navy and trade support, and the investment in education costs is long-term. of. This makes Lou Jing feel very embarrassed. The current investment will only be effective in the future. But now, how can this problem be solved?

"Is there any good way for Zhao Guoren to solve such a problem?" Lou Jing asked local officials at this time.

"They said. We can only rely on our own training. Or their talent. However, this possibility is relatively low." Local officials said helplessly. Encountered such a situation, they can only rely on the workers' own thinking to proceed. After all, they themselves can't help.

"Okay. I'll go back and think of a solution for this matter. But we still have to set aside some funds to solve this problem." Lou Jing said. How to allocate such a large amount of funds to the education department, and the education issue has reached the point where it has to be resolved. This makes Lou Jing feel very embarrassed. After all, it takes a lot of time to solve such a problem.

Qin State, Xianyang.

"There was a military coup in Goguryeo. They succeeded in overthrowing the previous government, but they sent a telegram. I hope to get our support. If we don’t support them, the situation may turn into a battle between the two governments. Now." Meng Yi said.

Many contradictions in Goguryeo have not been resolved. With the development of mineral resources, this problem has developed further and has become an extremely serious domestic problem.

Goguryeo originally had the original aristocracy, as well as the new aristocracy promoted after joining the army. In addition, the defeat in the southern battle triggered a serious domestic financial crisis. In order to reduce fiscal expenditures and expand economic benefits, the predecessor was forced to The government adopted a cabinet system and then implemented military reforms. They downsized the size of the military. This meant that some new military aristocrats withdrew from the political arena, and some old aristocrats, not only did they not participate in the national war, but made a series of actions. Military contributions, on the contrary, they also control most of the minerals, they continue to oppress some retired soldiers to become miners, and such miners are not very paid. This intensified domestic conflicts. Goguryeo is splitting into two factions. One group is the new civil servants who have the power to govern the country. They think they can solve economic problems. They rely on a large number of mineral exports to obtain sufficient foreign exchange reserves, but the price is that the interests of the soldiers have suffered a great loss, the treatment of the soldiers has been reduced, and the soldiers have been forced to withdraw from the political situation. More veterans have become slave-like miners, and the internal contradictions within Goguryeo have not been completely resolved. For example, the life of the people is still very difficult, but the civil servants who control the power of the country are extremely luxurious. They become members of the parliament and control the country's minerals, and their treatment is different. They enjoy high-level villas, rich in fine clothes and jade food, and they are very different, but the treatment of the army, some army food cannot be guaranteed, and the food they eat cannot meet the soldiers' calorie consumption for a day. The officers and soldiers of Goguryeo were extremely dissatisfied with this. Under such circumstances, they launched a coup and quickly controlled the Goguryeo government, but perhaps they also knew very well that they must be supported by the people of Qin, if not. Their coup will fail. And it's hard to end up in the end.

"The situation is such a situation, do you think we should support them?" Meng Yi asked. Meng Yi was also a little surprised by what happened in Goguryeo, but, after all, Goguryeo is a marginal area, and its impact on Qin is not great.

"If they can guarantee their industrial and mining production, and can provide it to us steadily, and can guarantee the construction of the railway, we can support them. This is our condition." Shang Wen thought for a while and said.

Most of the mineral resources of Qin and most of the countries, such as copper mines, and some other mineral resources are imported from Goguryeo. Goguryeo meets the mineral needs of Yan and Qin. In addition, there is also the state of Qi and Chu. As long as the coup d'état can continue to be guaranteed and can continue, the State of Qin can support it, after all, for civilian officials. Qin Guo didn't have any good feelings either.

"Perhaps it would be more reasonable for Goguryeo to leave it to the military to manage. Those civilian officials will carry out economic reforms. In this way, our interests will suffer a great loss." Meng Yi was also very dissatisfied with this. The civil servants of Goguryeo tried to adopt an economically independent approach. They have plans to develop their own economic and trade methods. This is detrimental to all countries in Qin and Yan.

After all, an economically independent Goguryeo is not good for all countries, thinking that they can control the price of raw materials to fight against the economic development of each country.

"Let's put Goguryeo's affairs aside and let the soldiers clean up the mess themselves. They should be able to handle such things well, and we should consider Dawan's affairs." Shang Wen said.

"Dawan." Meng Yi asked Shangwen.

"Yes, Dawan, we must let them know that the next military operation, and their expansion of Dawan's interests, guarantee the ownership of the railway, which is also very beneficial to our next military operation." Shangwen said.

"However, Dawan seems to have no intention of further expanding the results." Meng Yi said worriedly.

"This, we can contact the Tocharians, maybe the Tocharians can do this. Under the stimulation of the Tocharians, the Dawan people should probably consider their affairs." Shang Wen said.

"Yeah." Meng Yi nodded. But he felt that it was impossible for Dawan people.

"The political situation of the Dawan people is not very good. The parliament is extremely dissatisfied with the government. They believe that expansion will further aggravate the financial liabilities of the Dawan people. If such things happen further, Dawan’s finances will fall into an unprecedented level. In the desperate situation." The other party said so.

"Yeah. I know." Shang Wen said.

"Let's try it. The next expansion will leave the railway. We can't expand at all." Shangwen said. Shang Wen was very clear that Qin State had cleared half of the barrier of rest. This is because once such obstacles are removed, rapid expansion will be necessary, but the expansion is inseparable from logistics supplies. Without the railway, the Qin State would not be able to expand further, so the pressure would become very great.

Shangwen needs to solve such a problem. If it is not solved, it will be difficult for them to carry out military operations. Therefore, Shang Wencai asked the Dawan government to build the railway. But the people in Dawan do not want to continue to increase financial pressure, because building the railway requires a lot of money, where does the money come from, and borrowing money. This is the only way, they are not willing to borrow money. They think they can develop on their own. Besides, the rest person no longer exists. They have no threat.

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