Munitions Empire

There was no helping it; for a soul from the 21st century, Tang Mo felt that a population of two to three hundred million for a country really wasn't a lot.

Moreover, in actuality, the population of the Great Tang Kingdom hadn't reached that level yet. Currently, a census was underway, and Roger's team estimated a total population of around 40 million.

This was already a very frightening number, because since the Great Tang Kingdom had conquered Zheng Country, it had been crazily absorbing foreign populations, even spending money to buy population.

According to Tang Mo's vision, within the next twenty years, not counting new populations acquired through expansion, the population of the Great Tang Kingdom must at least break through two hundred million! This was an ambitious goal, or rather, an almost impossible target.

To support this goal, the Great Tang Group brought out many advanced technologies. Many chicken farms were established within the Great Tang Kingdom, using modern, large-scale integrated methods to rear poultry, providing abundant supplies of meat and eggs.

This technology improved poultry production efficiency, although it reduced meat quality and taste, but it indeed secured the most basic supply of meat.

For the commoners of the Great Tang Kingdom, these were hardly problems: they previously had no means to afford meat. Now with the provision of meat and eggs, they were too delighted to be concerned about issues like taste.

Livestock farming was also highly integrated, adopting large-scale farm production methods—this maximized yield, ensuring basic supply quantities.

Of course, the biggest problem with high-density breeding is infectious diseases, but this challenge was trivial in front of the Great Tang Group's medical research institution.

With Tang Mo's direction and the continuous research of the world's most sophisticated talent, the vaccine and medication technology of the Great Tang Group had rolled over the viruses and bacteria of this era.

Diseases like fowl plague or avian influenza could almost all be treated, so the flaws of large-scale breeding simply didn't exist for the Great Tang Group.

Civilians, who had their needs for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation met, gradually began pursuing a higher quality of life, and lighting equipment like gas lamps started to sell out.
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Villages close to the cities began to have electricity and install electric lights, and even some wealthy families started using radios. Remote areas also gradually began to have some nightlife, at least with a bit of light.

If there were a satellite in this era capable of overseeing the earth from above, it would see a piece of land on this world start to shine bright and dazzling.

Just this alone seemed insufficient to reflect the changes in the Great Tang Kingdom over the past year or so, because in the past year, the entire Great Tang Kingdom produced 300 locomotives!

Yes, it was nothing short of a miracle! On top of Zheng Country's incomplete railway network, the Great Tang Kingdom at all costs built over 3,700 more kilometers!

What did this amount to? This data suggested that in the past year, the Great Tang Kingdom had built half of the world's total railway length!

Following the current trend, in the new year, the Great Tang Kingdom's railway construction quantity would still account for more than half of the world's total!

What's more exaggerated is that the locomotive technology of the Great Tang Kingdom was the most advanced, with performance much better than locomotives from other countries.

The industrial zone in Tongcheng had expanded, countless factories billowing thick smoke day and night. These industrial zones were ablaze with lights, producing and manufacturing ceaselessly at all times.

Many people brought over from Brunas were familiar with this scene; it was just like what Brunas looked like during construction. Back then, everyone in Brunas also had smiles of happiness on their faces, and they were all filled with hope for the future.

But the construction in Brunas back then was nowhere near as fast or as good! Even craftsmen and officials from Brunas had to admit, the hardworking Dahua people were truly natural laborers, possibly the best producers in the world!

Every day, newspapers reported advanced production feats, and countless labor models were selected then widely publicized.

For the sake of a better life, for the sake of a brighter tomorrow, all Tang People burst out with an unprecedented enthusiasm, building up their locales recklessly.

It's well known that comparison breeds discontent, especially when one sees the people separated only by a wall living increasingly better; that feeling truly is painfully unbearable.

When the commoners of Chu Country, Qi Country, and even the Dahua Empire saw the example set by Tang Country, they became restless. Countless people crossed the border, hoping to pursue a better life in Tang Country.

And all this, naturally, caused enormous discontent among several neighboring countries.

From the day it was born, Tang Country never stopped buying population from Chu Country and Qi Country, and this matter has pretty much become a semi-open secret until now.

The border guards abused their power for personal gain, considering the trafficking of people as a means to fortune. They swept up refugees and bandits en masse, selling all these people to Tang Country.

Over time, there weren't so many starving refugees in need of relief available to be trafficked at will, which was an inevitable outcome.

As the population was sold off in large numbers to Tang Country, Chu Country and Qi Country actually had enough land to settle the remaining civilians. Even if productivity was not as high as Tang Country's, as long as the population fell to a certain level, the land could sustain everyone.