Chapter 349: Rapid Development
While Matthew was busy with his experiments and "observations".
The Bay Territory quietly passed the 129th year.
At the short yet impressive New Year commendation ceremony.
Everyone in the Bay Territory excitedly received their year-end bonus from the territory.
According to the number of months worked, each person received a bonus equivalent to half their total salary!
Everyone was overjoyed.
Then, Chief Steward Ralph recounted everyone's labor achievements over the year.
Bay Territory:
Reclaimed land: 500,000 mu.
Number of people involved in reclamation: 40,000 → 120,000.
Reclamation speed: 2 mu per day per 10 people.
Target for next year: 30 million mu!
Food Production:
Last year:
Wheat fields: 75,000 mu; average yield per mu: 400 jin.
Rice paddies: 75,000 mu; average yield per mu: 500 jin.
Total planting area: 150,000 mu.
Total grain production: 33,750 tons, just enough for 300,000 people's rations, achieving a 50% self-sufficiency rate.
This year:
Wheat fields: 4 million mu; expected average yield per mu: 500 jin.
Rice paddies: 4 million mu; expected average yield per mu: 600 jin.
Expected total planting area: 8 million mu.
Expected total grain production: 2.2 million tons, enough for 2 million people, with an estimated food self-sufficiency rate of 70%!
Livestock Farms:
Currently raising: 250,000 chickens, 100,000 ducks, 30,000 geese, 30,000 pigs, 15,000 cattle, and 10,000 horses.
Projected numbers for next year:
Raising 2 million chickens, 1 million ducks, 200,000 geese, 200,000 pigs, 100,000 cattle, and 50,000 horses!
Production Factories:
60 factories in total, including munitions factories, steelworks, textile factories, lumberyards, timber mills, slaughterhouses, food processing plants, and herb factories.
Capable of accommodating 50,000 jobs.
Plan for next year:
Add 40 more factories, creating an additional 150,000 jobs.
After hearing each item of detailed data, everyone's reactions varied.
But they were all quite excited; behind each of these figures lay the collective efforts of everyone.
Just as Steward Ralph said:
"The living conditions provided by the Bay Territory will continue to improve."
At the same time, everyone saw their own rewards.
Regarding land:
The first batch of pioneering farmers received permanent farming rights to at least 30 mu of land each.
The territory helps with cultivation, and the harvest is purchased at a standard price.
This right lasts for 200 years!
Two hundred years of land cultivation rights?
And they don't even need to do the work themselves?
Most of the newcomers, who were once farmers on the Karl Plain, were deeply moved, unable to resist.
They all became extremely excited, eager to start work the next day.
If it had always just been empty promises, no matter how loud the slogans, there would have been no response from them.
After all, hadn't they all been farmers for hundreds of years?
However, when tangible benefits could truly land in their pockets.
And they witnessed it with their own eyes.
Every single one of them would silently put in the effort.
It wasn't just the pioneers; workers in other positions also had equally tempting extra rewards.
Workers who exceeded their quotas would receive all the extra profits.
That was more than ten times their usual pay!
Everyone longed to work overtime!
If they suggested technical improvements and implemented them.
All staff would share 10% of the cost savings.
Everyone was eager to enhance their skills!
Even the livestock keepers received extra benefits; those who hatched and bred more poultry and livestock.
All additional gains would be theirs.
Every job had similar extra rewards.
Under the joyful gaze of everyone, Steward Ralph smiled and spoke Matthew's motto:
"Not only must we strive for quantity, but also for quality and technique!"
"The more you put in, the more you get back."
"The progress belongs to everyone who has worked hard."
It was precisely under the appeal of this motto that everyone was full of enthusiasm; as soon as the holiday ended, they rolled up their sleeves and got to work.
The Bay Territory also entered a period of rapid development.
The 600,000 people greatly made up for the shortage of manpower.
The ever-expanding factories and various jobs in the Bay Territory were always short of workers.
Everyone could find a job that "suited" them.
Everyone could find work they "liked."
Especially when the latter batches of people who joined the Bay Territory gradually obtained their own houses.
The indescribable motivation drove everyone to work even harder.
A large amount of land was reclaimed.
Brand new factories were established.
Roads were being built one after another.
The warehouses were filled with all kinds of supplies.
Hundreds of thousands of people worked together, continuously utilizing the Bay Territory's accumulated resources.
Seventy percent of the production output would be stored to meet the needs of the growing population.
The remaining 30% of production materials were transformed into continuously improving living standards.
Everyone could see that with their efforts, life was gradually getting better.
The Bay Territory did not raise the prices of living necessities because of people's increased income, maintaining them at a relatively low level.
In fact, to satisfy the growing number of food lovers, many different types of delicacies were also developed.
Even these new, delicious foods maintained the consistent style of being affordable and of good quality, so everyone could enjoy them.
Food, clothing, shelter, and transportation were the most carefree aspects of life for the people of the Bay Territory, and they took great joy in it.
This had always been Matthew's vision.
To ensure that every hardworking person need not worry about their livelihood.
Because the productivity brought by magical technology should have long made this possible.
After ensuring everyone's food, clothing, and shelter.
To better improve everyone's profession.
Various types of technical training courses emerged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.
The ever-expanding and upgrading factories and job positions.
All needed people to join, participate, and improve.
Under the slogan of "High skill, high return."
Everyone was driven to keep learning better techniques and skills, thus promoting faster progress.
Every person in the Bay Territory could feel that their efforts would make both the Bay Territory and their own lives better.
It was precisely this sense of unity that motivated everyone to strive and move forward.
Apart from the adults who had found a "second spring" in their lives.
The children learning in the Bay Territory also had more knowledge and skills to learn.
In the Bay Territory, every child was trained to become a professional.
To ensure they all had the opportunity to become professionals.
No expense was spared in supplying magical resources to the academy.
In the future, Matthew hoped that every person in the territory could become a professional!
To have the "cheat" of becoming stronger through hard work!
The thriving Bay Territory quietly nestled in a corner of the east coast.
They silently accumulated strength, enjoying the fruits of effort and development.
In the underground world.
It was not entirely dark here.
The luminescent moss tenaciously growing on the rock walls shimmered faintly.
The dwarf kingdom deep underground had recently encountered trouble! Big trouble!