Expedition to Europe

The Military Service Club is one of the benefits Qin Zhiyuan launched in Lan Fang that is only for soldiers.

In fact, the military profession has a bad reputation among Chinese people. "Good men don't serve in the military, and good iron doesn't make nails" is a true portrayal of this situation.

When facing a soldier, many people respectfully call him "Military Master, Boss" in person, but many people turn around and curse him as "Soldier Bastard".

As a soldier, Qin Zhiyuan naturally cannot allow this situation to spread.

Therefore, in the newly launched "Military Service Law", Lan Fang clearly stipulates that all men of military age must serve in the army for two years when they become adults, and any form of evasion of military service will be severely punished.

At the same time, the "Military Service Law" also stipulates that soldiers should enjoy a certain social status in society, and should have priority from dining to entertainment. No one shall make groundless accusations or set obstacles for this. If there are any violations, they will also be severely punished.

Improving the social status of soldiers by legal means is only one aspect. To truly make it deeply rooted in people's hearts, more welfare benefits are needed to make soldiers a respected and envied profession, so that the social status of soldiers can be truly improved.

So the military service club came into being.

The military service club is a special department under the logistics department, which only provides services for soldiers and their families. The service items range from daily shopping to buying houses and land and even social coordination.

In the military service club, soldiers or their families can buy daily necessities at a price close to the factory price, ranging from matches and soaps to watches and washing machines.

These products are purchased by Qin Zhiyuan from Europe and the United States. Now, of course, a certain amount of financial subsidies must be given to ensure the operation. When Lan Fang has its own factory in the future, the financial subsidies will be reduced year by year, and even reach a balance between income and expenditure.

For the Chinese, or for any nation in the world, real money is the visible benefit, and other things are a bit pale.

Sure enough, when the military service center opened, the social status of the military immediately rose to a higher level. Many soldiers or their families dragged out large and small bags of things from the military service center every day. Some of them were for their own use, and more were for their neighbors.

If you can buy cheap things, of course there will be a situation of taking things with you. Qin Zhiyuan knew this very well, but he was not prepared to interfere.

Being able to make neighbors beg for help in buying things is itself a sign of improved social status.

The exchanges between Chinese people emphasize "reciprocity". If you owe a favor, you must always pay it back. When soldiers or their families help their neighbors buy things, their neighbors will definitely return the favor. This can be regarded as indirectly promoting harmonious neighborhood relations, which is a good thing for building a more harmonious social order.

At present, in Lan Fang, whether it is Kalimantan, Suweilasi, or Papua Island, the original villages and tribes have all been razed, large communities are breaking ground, and new cities are rising from the ground. There are new changes almost every day, and the city landmarks are updated almost every month.

The wooden houses that once shone brightly in Corsica are popular again. Timber companies have launched more solid and more convenient wooden houses. Four workers only need one day to build a house for a family of six.

Almost within ten days, a village with more than 100 households will be completed.

Of course, only the exterior structure of the house has been completed, and the household facilities inside still need to be built by the residents themselves.

But this is enough to surprise people.

Many immigrants from the Republic of China will be led to such a house as soon as they get off the ship, and then someone will announce that this is their future home.

Blue roof, white exterior wall, transparent glass windows, clean corridor in front of the door.

This is simply a dream home.

Many Chinese people were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night. Thinking of the precarious life in the Republic of China, looking at the 100 acres of land that had been allocated to them outside the window, and then looking at the children who were rolling on the floor in the room, a sense of belonging came naturally.

Home, this is our home!

A home worth everything we have to protect!

Then there is large-scale infrastructure construction, which includes roads, railways, docks, airports, breakwaters, etc.

These projects are all long-term projects, and the results will not be seen in a short time, but they must be done in a planned way, so as to truly improve the level of social development.

Fortunately, there are many volcanoes in Lan Fang. Volcanic rocks are better building materials than cement, and they are almost inexhaustible, which is the most suitable for infrastructure construction.

Infrastructure construction requires a lot of manpower. Although Lan Fang has a lot of engineering machinery, on more islands, infrastructure still depends on manpower, so the aborigines of Lan Fang come in handy.

In fact, before the foreign legion arrived in Lan Fang, the local aborigines of Lan Fang were in an extremely casual self-sufficient lifestyle.

Lan Fang is located in the subtropics, with no distinct seasons throughout the year, and almost no winter. The local plants are lush, and various special fruit trees such as coconuts and bananas are everywhere. If you don’t have high requirements for life, it’s really easy to satisfy.

Many locals live in this state.

Because the weather is not cold, many locals do not need too many clothes. Many people even expose their breasts all day long to get close to nature.

Because of the dense fruit trees, the locals hardly need to work. When they are hungry, they climb up the trees to pick a few fruits to satisfy their hunger. When they are thirsty, they also pick a few fruits from the trees to quench their thirst. They can live comfortably without any work.

But in the eyes of the hardworking Chinese, this kind of life is unimaginable. It is simply a waste of natural resources to guard the fertile land without making progress.

So the lives of the Chinese are getting better and better, while the lives of the aborigines are still the same as they were thousands of years ago.

The key is that these lazy aborigines are extremely jealous. The key is that these jealous aborigines yearn for a better life but are unwilling to create it with their own hands.

So various contradictions came into being.

After the foreign legion arrived in Lan Fang, a large-scale land nationalization policy was implemented.

Each new immigrant household was given 100 acres of land. The new immigrants only had the right to cultivate it, but not the right to transfer it. They could cultivate it at will, but they were not allowed to sell it at will or abandon it at will.

Abandon it?

The original text is in Liu # 9 @Shu/Bar!

How is this possible!

The Chinese people's desire for land is endless. They would rather die of exhaustion than let the land go to waste.

So all kinds of livestock entered ordinary farmers, and even large machinery began to enter state-owned farms.

Yes, it was a state-owned farm.

Long before the founding of Lan Fang, Huang Bohan, the first prime minister of Lan Fang, was a large plantation owner in Lan Fang. Huang Bohan had hundreds of thousands of acres of land and more than 100,000 workers working for Huang Bohan.

It was Huang Bohan who proposed the nationalization of land in Lan Fang. In order to show his support, Huang Bohan donated all the hundreds of thousands of acres of land in his hands to establish a state-owned farm to set an example for the large plantation owners in Lan Fang.

Now Huang Bohan no longer needs to rely on farming to accumulate wealth. On Muna Island, a private shipyard owned by Huang Bohan is also under construction. It will become Huang Bohan's new industry, providing a new profit growth point for Huang Bohan and Lan Fang.

At the same time when Huang Bohan began to transform, Huang Jinsheng, Guo Shenglong and **** Mao were also transforming. Huang Jinsheng was originally a mining tycoon. Now the mines were naturally nationalized. Huang Jinsheng immediately opened several daily necessities factories, including the simplest soap factory and the washing machine factory with higher technology content.

The patent of the washing machine nominally belongs to Longchengyuan, but in fact it should belong to Qin Zhiyuan. Huang Jinsheng's cooperation with Longchengyuan is naturally Qin Zhiyuan's reward to Huang Jinsheng.

It is of course good to be devoted to the country, but patriots should get greater rewards, otherwise these patriotic actions will become rootless duckweed, and will deteriorate when the enthusiasm is completely dissipated.

Qin Zhiyuan wants to use these cooperation projects to let the local plantation owners in Lanfang shift their business focus from agriculture to industry. Agriculture is dominated by state-owned farms, supplemented by farmers' household contract responsibility system.

In this way, the heavy industry led by the state plus the light industry jointly operated by the state and private, plus the agriculture led by the state and supplemented by the private, can basically ensure the steady development of Lanfang's social economy.

Regarding the state-led heavy industry, in addition to the shipyard, Lan Fang is currently building around the oil fields in Daqing City. The oil economy alone can greatly promote the economic development of the surrounding areas of Daqing.

The oil industry alone is not enough. In Lan Fang, airports, car factories, motorcycle factories, and tractor factories are also under intensive construction. These factories are guided by engineers recruited from France and Germany. They have signed a work contract with Lan Fang for at least ten years, so there is no need to worry about them quitting halfway.

These airports and car factories are all large-scale heavy industries led by the state, including supporting engine factories.

These are mixed military and civilian enterprises, and the products produced can be used for both military and civilian purposes.

In order to promote the development of the aviation industry, Qin Zhiyuan plans to vigorously promote aviation clubs in Lan Fang and hide pilots among the people, so that it will be more convenient to recruit soldiers and avoid the disadvantages of cramming at the last minute.

Tractor factories are even more necessary. There are many state-owned farms in Lan Fang, and these farms need large machinery. Tractors can alleviate the problem of insufficient labor.

If war comes, the tractor factory can be easily converted into a tank factory, which is more conducive to the rapid expansion of troops.

While the airport and car factory were being built, a large steel plant was being built in Kalimantan. Although it is far from Australia, considering that the ore raw materials are all transported by sea, it does not increase the transportation cost much, which is barely acceptable.

It seems that the construction of Lan Fang is only missing the mine puzzle.

It is also the most important piece of the puzzle.