As for crystal, high-purity crystal without any impurities is very rare in nature and cannot meet the demand.
So this is the case for now, and it will only become popular after synthetic alkali becomes available.
However, the appearance of a small amount of glass was naturally enough for Zhao Jun to show his skills. Using the physics knowledge of junior high school, he could easily invent these things.
Instead, old men with poor eyesight such as Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, Li Di and Zhang Shixun benefited from it.
At this point, Lü Yijian continued his report, "If we calculate this way, plus the summer taxes collected in the first half of the year, this year's agricultural tax will have already reached nearly 40 million guan. Commercial taxes, levies, and foreign trade taxes haven't been tallied yet, but based on estimates from previous years, this year's tax revenue should exceed 100 million guan."
"Grandson, this isn't considered exploiting the people."
Zhao Zhen looked at Zhao Jun.
Zhao Jun smiled and said, "As productivity improves, it's normal for tax revenue to gradually increase. This shows that we've made the pie bigger. We're no longer like before, squeezing the people out of their own pockets, resulting in only good fiscal revenue but a mess for the people."
"That's good, that's good."
Zhao Zhen felt relieved and said to everyone with a smile: "I have always been worried that the new policy would harm the interests of the people. Now I feel relieved."
"Now everyone understands the benefits of making the cake bigger."
Zhao Jun looked around at everyone.
“But I still feel it’s too slow.”
Zhao Zhen sighed and said, "I really hope that soon we will have trains, planes, ships, and even high-speed trains, mobile phones, and computers."
"Take your time."
Zhao Jun said soothingly.
From the third year of Jingyou to the sixth year of Qingli, it has been exactly ten years.
There is no doubt that ten years is a long time for a country to undergo reform and the changes are enormous.
In the three decades from the 1990s to 2020, my country has undergone tremendous changes.
But Zhao Jun is still not very satisfied with the current situation, because apart from the improvement in productivity, industrial transformation is just the beginning.
If we want to achieve the same great achievements as in later generations, it will probably take at least ten decades, or even twenty decades.
But no matter what, from an agricultural society with nothing to an industrial society with everything, the most important thing is to lay a solid foundation.
The fact that we have achieved such success in later generations is actually inseparable from the fact that the world has already experienced several rounds of industrial revolutions, which allowed us to learn from the experience of our predecessors and grow rapidly.
But it is not possible in the Song Dynasty. He must complete the process from nothing to something step by step, which is obviously an extremely difficult road.
"In addition to this year's tax revenue, starting from June, the newly counted population of the levy has also been reported by most regions, with the exception of remote areas such as Guangxi, Guangzhou, and Fujian."
Lu Yijian continued, "Before the land tax was implemented, the population census in the second year of the Qingli reign showed that the population of the Song Dynasty was 12.19 million households and 9.35 million people. After the new policy, excluding the three regions, the population increased by 1.73 million households and 9.35 million people. Now the total population of the Song Dynasty has exceeded 80 million."
"That's great news."
Zhao Jun said, "Looking at the current situation this year, when the total population is counted next year, 80 million will be more than enough. After the land tax is equalized, people will feel free to have children. It should be no problem for the population to exceed 100 million within the next ten years. And the next ten years, starting from the sixth year of the Qingli period, will mark the beginning of a period of rapid development for the Song Dynasty, which will require a large population."
"Um."
Zhao Zhen nodded slightly, then asked, "Grandson, I read an article a while ago that said that after industrialization, it is often necessary to dump the products in the place of production. Daiying means developing colonies everywhere and dumping them in the colonies for huge profits. Even if we enter the industrial age, do we have colonies?"
Zhao Jun smiled and said, "A small country with few people can easily become saturated, so it can only expand outward. The Song Dynasty has a large population and a large territory, and annexing neighboring countries such as Xixia, Liao, Dali, and Annan will be on the agenda in the future. It is entirely possible to focus on internal circulation first to make life better for the people of the Song Dynasty."
"What about the raw materials?"
"Don't neighboring countries have it? And we can buy it from the Maritime Silk Road. What's there to worry about when we have ships?"
"That's true."
"It's still a long way off until our country's market is saturated. That's too far off. What we need to do now is to import large quantities of raw materials from abroad. Anyway, countries these days probably don't understand trade barriers and tariffs. They'll sell to us with a little bit of incentive."
"Then let's take a look at the group data report."
Zhao Zhen said.
Lu Yijian continued to report.
Now that the Song Dynasty is thriving and the cake has grown bigger, it cannot guarantee that every citizen will have enough food and clothing, but at least most people are living a better life.
Data shows that although most of the data from January to October have been collected this year, the GDP has already exceeded that of last year, reaching 3.3 billion guan, a growth of 9%. There should be no problem in exceeding 12% for the whole year.
certainly.
The current annual surge in GDP is due to the large-scale promotion of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn a few years ago, coupled with a significant reduction in agricultural taxes and the reclamation of a large amount of new land, which has greatly increased people's enthusiasm for production.
This growth rate is expected to continue for several years, but this is ultimately due to an explosion in agricultural productivity. If industry is not boosted, the dependence of agriculture on the weather will remain.
So Zhao Jun’s current meaning is very simple. While agriculture is still strong, use agriculture to subsidize industry and then increase industrial productivity.
Apart from gross domestic product, other data also vary greatly.
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