Chapter 788: First Industrial Nation
There are many factors for the increase in agricultural output value, and the greatest willingness to promote it is twofold, one is large-scale transportation construction, and the second is the promotion of industrial mechanization.
There is a lot of arable land in the Daheng Empire, not only in the areas along the Jinghe Luo River, but also in a large number of inland areas.
These inland and inaccessible lands have not been developed on a large scale because they are far from navigable rivers and there were no railways in the early days, so it was difficult to transport grain.
However, with the construction of the imperial railway, after the development of the inland and western regions, after the convenient transportation, the export of crops was more convenient and cheaper, which attracted a large number of people to the inland areas for agricultural development.
In this way, the Great Heng Empire more than tripled its land area in more than ten years.
At the same time, the Daheng Empire has vigorously promoted agricultural machinery very early, and most of the arable land in the Daheng Empire is a plain type of cultivated land, with flat terrain, which is very suitable for the use of the large farm model, otherwise, the Daheng Empire will not gradually transform from cattle farming to horse farming.
Such a special advantage is also a great advantage in promoting agricultural mechanization, and agricultural mechanization has also enabled the Daheng Empire to maintain efficient cultivation while the cultivated land area has risen rapidly.
Medium and large farms are the mainstay, and the Daheng agricultural model of mechanized farming is different from other countries.
Agricultural cultivation in other countries is basically limited to small or even micro farms, and although there are mechanized applications, there are very few applications.
Unlike the Daheng Empire, which is dominated by medium and large farms, these large farms have widely adopted mechanized farming, and no matter how bad they are, they are also cultivated with large horses.
This is also the reason why the Great Heng Empire was able to maintain a large crop yield with a small proportion of the agricultural population.
This enabled the empire to export large quantities of agricultural products despite rapid population growth.
After the end of the Unification War, the country was peaceful and stable, and the population grew rapidly to a certain extent, and the high-speed growth of the population naturally consumed more food, but this did not affect the food supply of the Daheng Empire, and even the food became richer and richer.
There is no way, Daheng has too much arable land, and mechanized farming is adopted, and there is so much food!
And this agricultural structure of the Great Heng Empire is also something that other countries can't learn if they want to, and if they want to learn, they must first own millions of square kilometers of arable land!
The empire's agriculture has developed so rapidly, and the development of industry, which the empire has vigorously supported, has become even more rapid.
In the thirteenth year of the reign of Qiansheng, according to a comprehensive number of data, the industrial output value of the Daheng Empire reached an astonishing 18 billion Heng Yuan, accounting for about 30 percent of the world's industrial output value.
This figure is even slightly more than that of the Krull Kingdom, of course, the number exceeded is not large.
Of course, there is still a huge difference in the industrial structure of the two countries, the industry of the Daheng Empire is still mainly in the middle and low-end, while the Krull Kingdom is mainly in the middle and high-end.
However, in terms of total industrial output, the two are already at the same level.
Such a huge economic aggregate is the confidence that supports the Daheng Empire to engage in domestic demand, electrification, naval expansion, and even overseas expansion.
It's just that the manufacturing industry of Daheng people is too low-end, so on the blue star, people don't have a too intuitive concept of Daheng people's industrial strength, and many people still regard the Daheng Empire as the Daheng Empire at the beginning of unification.
The people of Daheng are a group of barbaric landlords who farm the land, make a living by exporting grain, and want to plunder the lands of other countries and nationalities all day long.
As for industry, they naturally know that Daheng people must also have industry, after all, they are also one of the eight major industrial powers, but they look down on these industries.
However, the money earned from the production of low-end products can also make the life of Daheng people better, and arm the army and expand the navy!
In the summer and July of the 14th year of Qiansheng, Quping Naval Base.
Liao Weifang, commander of the First Fleet of the Imperial Navy, presided over the commissioning ceremony of the Baiquan battleship, looked at the huge Baiquan battleship, and then looked at the other three Luohe-class battleships moored not far away.
Liao Weifang couldn't help but sigh, after more than three years of struggle, he finally let the four Luohe-class battleships enter service one after another.
The Luohe battleship, the first ship of this class, officially started construction in December of the 10th year of Qiansheng, and after about two years of hull construction and nearly a year of outfitting time, it was finally officially commissioned in January this year.
The No. 2 ship Qinghe, the No. 3 ship Ninghe, and the No. 4 ship Baiquan were also commissioned in the first half of the year.
The above-mentioned four ships are the focus of Qiansheng's 10 and 11 years of shipbuilding plan, and their unique six-gun layout is very special.
This six-gun layout was a compromise made at the beginning of the project with limited technology and taking into account the multi-faceted factors of long-distance engagement.
After its completion, the ships of this class did not actually let foreign navies follow up, because they believed that this kind of six-gun battleship seemed to have many main guns, but without a two-stage rapid-fire main gun, the combat effectiveness was not high.
In fact, it is true that at the beginning of this year, the Luohai was still undergoing sea trials, and when it conducted live-fire tests, the navy itself knew the embarrassment of this kind of warship.
The main guns seem to have powerful firepower, but in the absence of unified fire control, it is difficult for each artillery group to observe long-distance targets in their own operations, which does not meet the long-distance combat needs pursued by the navy at all.
In the case of medium-range engagements, the amount of ammunition projected is relatively small, and the secondary gun can only rely on 150 mm rapid-fire guns.
This type of ship would be at a disadvantage if it were to play against ships with a large number of second-class rapid-fire guns.
However, this did not affect the Imperial Navy's attention to this class of ships, the outside world is not clear, but the top brass of the Navy knows that this thing is only used for transition, and when the Navy Fire Control Office really takes out the unified fire control, then the ship will be able to install a unified fire control system.
When the time comes, the six main guns will be able to play a role.
According to the research and development schedule of the Navy's Fire Control Office, after years of research and development, the unified fire control system officially carried out a live-fire test in September this year, and the battleship that conducted the test was the battleship Jinghe.
Although this class of ships has been criticized as being high or low, the main guns on it are only 250 mm and 35 times the caliber naval guns, and the rapid fire is not very good, and the power is also poor, and it seems to be a little backward compared with some new naval guns.
But don't look at the poor main guns of this thing, but they have six twin guns for a total of twelve main guns, and the front and rear firepower can reach six, and the side firepower can reach eight.
And the main guns can reflect the power of unified fire control!