Ma Yilong was posthumously awarded the highest honor. In addition to his breakthrough in planting double-season rice in Jiangnan, doubling the yield per season, and establishing an agricultural college to continuously cultivate agricultural technical talents, there is another reason why people don’t care much at this time.

That is, he successfully achieved localized planting of corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes, and had planted a total of thousands of acres of experimental fields in northern provinces... He suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage when he went to Shandong to check the planting of sweet potatoes there, and fell on the ridges of the fields he loved and never got up again.

People sigh that this contemporary Shennong lost his precious life for an insignificant novel crop. Only Zhao Hao knew the significance of these inconspicuous foreign crops.

That will save tens of millions of people in the natural disaster decades later!

The dead are gone, and the living can only wipe away the tears, inherit the old man's will, and strive to make these three magic weapons become qualified substitutes for staple food as soon as possible...

Next is the business side. During the 15th Five-Year Plan, the Jiangnan Group promoted the realization of sea transport of grain and obtained the monopoly of maritime trade in the Ming Dynasty. Now, from the northernmost Sakhalin Island to the southernmost Hainan Island, the entire Ming coast is completely under the control of the Jiangnan Group.

Of course, in order not to be so eye-catching, Jiangnan Group did not directly intervene in the sea. Instead, they joined forces with Xishan Group to form Royal Maritime Transportation to be responsible for the maritime trade in the north. They also joined forces with Fujian and Guangdong Maritime Merchants to form the Nanhai Group to be responsible for the maritime trade in the South China Sea of ​​Ming Dynasty.

Today, the Jiangnan Group camp has 3,000-feet sand ships and 2,000 sea ships with 2,000 materials, half of which were built in the 15th Plan.

In addition to the Longjiang Bao Shipyard and Suzhou Shipyard working overtime day and night, the group's newly built Jiangnan Shipyard on Chongming Island has also rapidly improved its level by absorbing Chinese and foreign talents and huge amounts of financial support. Now, both the annual shipbuilding tonnage and quality exceed the Longjiang Factory, making it the best shipbuilding yard in the Ming Dynasty.

The Jiangnan Shipyard also digested and absorbed the technology of Western Galen ships, and on this basis, combined with the Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding technology, it produced a new warship with superior performance and reached the world's advanced level!

Today, Jiangnan Shipyard can build four three-quarter-size "cruisers" every year, and two full-size "battleships" every two years.

As for the half-sized Garen ship, it is defined as a "destroyer". It must wait until the second shipyard located in Hong Kong is put into production before it can continue to produce.

In addition, the group has set up more than 30 shopping malls overseas and has basically established a trade network covering East Asia and Southeast Asia...

In short, with the efforts of both civil and military cultivation and two-pronged approach, the Ming Dynasty's overseas trade volume was more than ten times that of the trough period in the early years of Longqing, and 1.6 times that of the peak period of the Wangzhi era.

In the past year of Wanli, the group's total import volume exceeded 100 million taels of silver, the export volume reached 20 million taels, and the trade surplus reached 80 million taels of silver!

Among them, trade with Japan accounts for one-third of the total trade; Western trade... that is, trade with countries on the western coast of the South China Sea, including Portugal, Annan, Chameng, Siam, Forou and other countries account for one-half of the trade; the rest is the so-called East-Western trade. After deducting Japan, the remaining trade with Ryukyu, Luzon and other countries originally accounted for a very low proportion. However, due to the start of the Spanish sailing trade, this part grew very rapidly.

In terms of the construction industry, in addition to the five cement plants on Xishan Island, Jiangnan Building Materials has also established eight new cement plants in Beijing, Chaozhou, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the cement production has increased to fifteen times that of the 15th century.

In fact, Zhao Hao only gave a five-fold increase plan, which was Hua Bozhen's initiative to increase to ten times. Not only did he achieve his own brag, he also exceeded the task. Fortunately, Hua Bozhen took the initiative to increase the investment, otherwise the original cement output would not be able to meet the group's construction frenzy that was thousands of miles a day.

As for finance, the original plan was to absorb 50 million taels of savings, but the plan was completed in the first year. Currently, the total amount of Jiangnan Bank's savings account is as high as 220 million taels. This is the result of depositors actively purchasing group bonds issued by Jiangnan Bank and sucking away 100 million taels of deposits.

It can be seen that the big dogs are becoming more and more accustomed to depositing the silver in the cellar to the bank for interest.

In addition, the total denomination of silver notes has reached 200 million taels. Moreover, with the establishment of Jiangnan Bank's absolute dominance, silver notes have become more and more popular. Especially in June of the sixth year of Longqing, even after the Ministry of Revenue accepted the tax on silver notes, depositors have become more and more accustomed to equating silver notes with silver money. The proportion of redemption is getting lower and lower, and basically only 30% of the reserve fund is needed to ensure the safety of redemption.

To put it inappropriately, most of the silver in the Ming Dynasty is in the Curry of Jiangnan Bank.

To put it bluntly, most of the papers circulating on the market are printed by Mr. Zhao...

In terms of loans, Jiangnan Bank has accumulated more than 100 million taels of silver. One is to provide large loans to the group companies, and the other is to provide small merchants and small handicraftsmen. Moreover, the non-performing loan rate is less than 1%, which is lower than Zhao Hao's expectations.

This is because various branches of Jiangnan Bank have cooperated with various local guilds to provide precise delivery, scientific guidance and full-process assistance, which greatly reduces the difficulty and interest of small merchants and handicraftsmen to obtain loans, improves production efficiency, and ensures product sales.

Of course, the screening and guarantee of lenders by traditional guilds and the group's strong control in Jiangnan are also the reasons for the low non-performing loan rate.

In fact, when Zhao Hao promoted micro-loans, the senior executives of the group were worried. It was not because they were worried that the people would not pay back the money, but because they were afraid of arousing opposition from the majority of landlords and gentry, because loan sharing is an important financial channel for them.

They knew very well that as long as the landlords opposed it together, they would basically be bad.

However, when it was really implemented, it did not cause much turmoil. The reason was, in addition to the strong deterrence of the Jiangnan Group, more importantly, because the landlords and gentry benefited from it... because the leaders of the guilds are often the most famous gentry in the local area. The profits earned by the landlords in the booming industry and commerce far exceeded the usury income with extremely high bad debt rates before.

In addition, Jiangnan Financial Group is no longer the only one with Jiangnan Bank. During the 1950s, it successively established futures companies and securities trading centers.

Futures can hedge risks, and once launched, it was warmly welcomed by merchants in Jiangnan. Under the guidance of the trading center, they quickly learned to sell the same number of forward contracts on the exchange to avoid risks when purchasing goods, greatly improving the certainty of production, allowing them to arrange production with more confidence and expand production scale.

In the two years since the establishment of the Futures Center, it has already had 30 futures commodities including indica rice, japonica rice, wheat, soybeans, cotton, sugar, vegetable oil, and raw shreds.

As for the stock trading center, it was actually completed two years ago, but before it opened, a "Dashilan stock market crash" occurred. This made them adopt more cautious and conservative listing rules. They are still tutoring pre-listed companies and are not in a hurry to start listing.

In terms of education, at present, there has been at least one primary school in each county in Jiangnan. There are even two or three counties with good conditions and early starts!

During the 15th Five-Year Plan, a total of 200 primary schools were built in the Jiangnan region, far exceeding the planned twenty-four schools.

At present, the number of full-time primary school graduates has reached 300,000! And the number of students is increasing significantly every year!

This is due to the tradition of our Chinese nation to attach importance to education. The gentry in various counties and townsmen are unwilling to fall behind and donate funds to support education. The schools built are larger and larger, and donated every year, which greatly alleviates the financial pressure of Jiangnan Education Group.

If it weren't for the Jiangnan Education regulations, teachers must undergo Jiangnan Normal University training and pass the exam before they can take up their posts, and more primary schools can be built.

In fact, elementary school is not bad. After all, I can pass the exam and go to work after training all over the place for one year.

The more severely restricted teachers are middle schools. Currently, only sixteen middle schools have been built in the entire Jiangnan area, and only one government and one school can be guaranteed. In addition, the situation in Kunshan County is special, with two middle schools.

Moreover, each middle school is very small, with only 5,000 middle school students in the school. There is no way, there are too few middle school teachers, so I can only train them slowly!

Fortunately, both the gentry and the people attached great importance to education, which made Zhao Hao firmly believe that all difficulties could be overcome.

The results of vocational education have been gratifying. During the 1955 period, twenty vocational technical secondary schools and five senior colleges have been built.

These vocational schools are basically funded by various companies in the group and are responsible for imparting professional skills. After graduation, you can go directly to the factory below the company, which is too attractive to the people.

Because your child can work in Jiangnan Group, it is definitely the envy of his neighbors. If the matchmaker follows, he will break the threshold. For ordinary girls, the best destination is to marry a young man from Jiangnan Group.

So after graduating, the primary school students all want to go to technical secondary school. Now it is no longer the era when they can directly enter the group after graduating from elementary school, let alone the crash course of one-year. Lucky people like Cai Yimu will only appear in the early stages of entrepreneurship with shortage of staff.

As for the achievements of higher education such as Yufeng Academy and Xiangshan Academy, it is well known, and Zhao Hao did not mention it in the report.

"I hate it!" Li Zhi was very unhappy and protested with a sharp voice...

Next, there was another part that the participants couldn't understand.

For example, in chemical industry, the first sulfuric acid production workshop was built and put into production during the 1950s, and sulfuric acid was produced on a large scale. After that, sulfuric acid could be used as raw material to produce nitric acid and hydrochloric acid. Therefore, the production of triac acid was solved.

In addition, Institute 04 also mastered the method of industrially producing soda ash using table salt and sulfuric acid as raw materials. In addition, the hydrogen chloride produced in production can also be used to make industrial products urgently needed by Zhao Hao, such as hydrochloric acid, chlorine, and bleaching powder.

In addition, soda ash can be causticized with ripe lime into caustic soda, so that the three acids and two alkalis will be developed during the 1950s. After Taiwan's cloth bag salt farm is put into production, the construction of the soda ash production line can be tried.

Although there are definitely many difficulties to overcome, the industrial production of two alkalis is only a matter of time.

Well, it is actually small-scale production, but it is more than enough to match the current industrial level.

Mr. Zhao is no longer satisfied with the production of three acids and two alkalis in five years.

Thinking that he could provide countless soaps to men in the future, Mr. Zhao couldn't help but grin.
Chapter completed!