Chapter 994: The Tumbling Population
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Xu, as the chosen one of God, has been shrouded in mystery since the first day he appeared. Later, as his abilities and means were revealed, his people worshipped him as a god.
This has made the work of the National Education Propaganda Department go particularly smoothly. In this process, the "radio gymnastics" with simple and easy-to-remember movements has also been successfully promoted.
Combined with Zhou Xu's appropriate operation, radio gymnastics soon became a necessary procedure before starting work in every workplace.
During this process, Zhou Xu was not sure whether it was the radio gymnastics that was playing a role. As the physical fitness of many people improved, their work efficiency also increased.
Several engineering projects that were scheduled at the beginning of the year have now been completed one after another.
On the southern coast, even though autumn has not yet arrived, the ports and docks have already been built, and the engineering teams have already begun upgrading the frontline outposts.
The core stronghold in the southern border is undoubtedly the city that was snatched from the ratmen, with ready-made city walls for them to use.
However, on the other hand, if the city is to be completely repaired, it would be a huge project and it would not be completed in a short time, not to mention that they have limited manpower.
Therefore, this wave of engineering teams was mainly responsible for setting up a simple stronghold near the coastal areas to guard their ports and docks.
As for the city, we will first fill the underground nest and then clean up the ruins in the city. That will be done temporarily. Further repairs will be done after the coastal stronghold is completed.
In the southern border, the engineering team's report was delivered to Zhou Xu in late summer. After reading the report, Zhou Xu was also unambiguous.
He directly called the director and deputy director of their Black Moon City Shipyard one by one and had a conversation with them, understood their ideas, and then made the transfer.
The director of the Black Moon City Shipyard was transferred to lead a team to the South Territory Shipyard to take charge of the shipbuilding project.
At present, there are basically enough ships for daily transportation on Qingshui Lake, which has also led to a significant decrease in the work pressure of the shipyard since the beginning of this year.
This is just right for Zhou Xu.
Most of the labor force at the shipyard was directly transferred 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, so it still needs a certain number of manpower to maintain daily operations.
On this side, when the group officially set out from Black Moon City and headed for the southern border, the season had officially entered autumn.
This autumn harvest season is somewhat different for Da Zhou than in previous years.
The difference is that starting this year, they have an additional grain-producing farm within their Great Zhou.
That’s right, it was the farm that Zhou Xu had said he would set up in the southern border.
This is the first year that Southland Farm officially began producing grain.
Due to the limited labor force within the Great Zhou, the size and number of fields within the Southern Border Farm are still very limited, only one-fifth of those on the Plains Farm.
However, I believe that by the beginning of next spring, when more fields are reclaimed and more crops are planted on the southern farms, the overall grain output within their Great Zhou will be further increased.
At the beginning, Zhou Xu established this South Border Farm mainly because the New North District did not have the ability to produce grain at this stage, so the South Border Farm was needed to supply grain to the South Border area.
As for the grain from the Plain Farm, it is transported by water to the New South District to support other areas.
Now, in addition to the fact that the New North District still lacks the ability to produce grain, there is another reason, that is, the population growth rate of their Great Zhou has been getting faster and faster in recent years.
The fundamental reason is that the population base of their Great Zhou 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, unless he deliberately controls it, the growth rate of the total population will only get faster and faster, and finally form an efficiency like a snowball.
In this peaceful era, the internal situation is stable, and there is no worry about food or clothing. At night, there is nothing else to do, so what else can you do except give birth to a child? Zhou Xu is now happy to see this situation.
After all, Zhou Xu knew in his heart that this new population was definitely needed.
Since you have to have a baby anyway, why not take advantage of these two years of peace and stability and have it done as soon as possible.
To this end, Zhou Xu also issued a preferential policy to encourage more children.
After giving birth to a second child at home, not only can you get a certain degree of tax reduction, but you can also receive a one-time childcare subsidy.
This undoubtedly further stimulated everyone's enthusiasm for having children.
If they continue at this pace, in a few years the total population of their Great Zhou will reach 200,000.
The only pity is that this part of the population cannot be used as normal labor force in the short term.
Taking into account the special situation formed by domestic conditions and the background of the times, in the Great Zhou Dynasty, children were considered adults at the age of fourteen and could participate in labor.
But even so, a newborn baby has to wait fourteen years before becoming a member of the labor force.
Just thinking about this matter, Zhou Xu felt a little melancholy.
Although the population in their Great Zhou is growing rapidly today, the problem of insufficient labor force 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 remain patient and wait quietly.
In the busyness, time always passes especially quickly. With the rotation of seasons, it is the New Year again.
The highlight of this spring is not the further expansion of the farmland at the South Border Farm, but the forty mares at the Grassland Horse Farm that are about to give birth! During this period, the staff of the horse farm, headed by Ma Guotao, have been very busy.
In fact, at this time of year every year, there are many more mares giving birth than this one, but due to the special circumstances this year and the breeding project related to the exotic war horses, the whole atmosphere in the stable has added a bit of tension.
In comparison, as the father of these children, Lord Ma is now in a rather heartless state. In the spring of the new year, he is carrying out a new round of sowing.
After all, considering the time of pregnancy and raising children, mares generally give birth once every two years.
Ma Guotao, who was aware of this, had already prepared other mares for breeding with Ma Wangye this year.
So as to enable Lord Horse to give birth to the most offspring in the shortest time with the highest efficiency!
These mares did not necessarily give birth on the same day, which kept Ma Guotao and his team busy from spring to early summer.
Finally, these forty mares successfully gave birth to foals...
(End of this chapter)
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