I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

At the Nanjing Railway Station, a group of farmers with large and small bags got off the train. Their eyes showed excitement, excitement, nervousness, confusion, and everything.

Although Dahua has encouraged people to start businesses, these entrepreneurial opportunities are still pitiful for the huge number of farmers.

On average, it would be considered good if a township could get one.

The more surplus labor force mainly comes to work in cities.

"My dear mother, so many people are like ants."

Yang Hu's scalp felt numb as he looked at the dense crowd of people in the train station.

He has never seen so many people since he was a child.

"Get your luggage, follow me and don't fall behind, especially don't look around like a country bumpkin, look at me, look at me, I don't care if you fall behind..."

The foreman who led the team kept shouting, fearing that someone would get separated.

These low-educated and ignorant people will be in trouble once they get separated. They don't even know how to ask the police for help, or they don't dare to ask the police for help.

After getting on the special car heading to the construction site, foreman Yang Baocai breathed a sigh of relief and started chatting with these fellow villagers.

"Do you know how many people there are in Nanjing? Eight million is equal to 20,000 Yangkeng villages."

Yang Bao showed off his knowledge.

"How much is eight million?"

Many people were shocked and a little confused. The number eight million was too big and they couldn't imagine the picture in their minds.

"There will be more and more in the future. I heard from some bosses that our court is promoting urbanization and continues to encourage immigrants to settle in cities."

Yang Bao continued to show off.

He also has only a partial understanding of what urbanization is.

Dahua's urbanization has been going on for many years, and it has begun to bear fruit.

The current urbanization rate in Dahua is about 8%, which seems very low at first glance. After all, the urbanization rate in later generations will be close to 80%.

But in fact, it is being dragged down by overseas territories.

Eight percent refers to the overall data of Dahua. If we only look at the Central Plains region, then this number can reach 15%, which is already quite high, equivalent to the level of 1955.

If you only look at the Jiangnan region, the number is even larger, reaching 30%, which is the level in 2000.

If compared with the previous dynasty, Dahua's data is even more dazzling.

Based on the sporadic household registration data left by the previous dynasty, people from the Bureau of Statistics calculated that during the Ming Dynasty, the urban population accounted for only 2% of the total population.

After more than ten years of development, Dahua has increased this number by 7.5 times.

In order to accelerate urbanization, Dahua has promulgated many policies.

Such as low-rent housing.

This was first done in Nanjing, and later Shanghai and Guangzhou also followed suit. Now, low-rent housing is available in second-tier and above cities.

As long as people come to live in the city, they don't have to worry about not having a house to live in.

The construction cost of these low-rent houses is actually very low because the land belongs to the state and no money is required.

Of course, this virtually reduced the court's financial revenue, but it was not a big problem.

Concentrating the population into cities is conducive to scale and economic development.

In the end, this missing fiscal revenue will fall into the court's pockets in other ways and in other forms.

As a result, Dahua developers will not be able to make money from these poor people.

Of course, they don't bother to make money from the poor.

Currently, developers in Dahua are targeting reconstruction projects in the city center.

The original city center still had a large number of low-rise houses, which was a huge waste of land.

What developers like most is to buy these places, then transform them into advanced communities like the New Era, and then sell them to wealthy people in the city at high prices.

There are so many rich people in Nanjing. To exaggerate, it’s almost like they have gathered all the rich people in the world.

There are so many special people here.

For example, the former king of North Korea and his family.

Although he is no longer a king, his family wealth is profound. Just relying on stable investment is enough for his family to be among the top 100 richest people in Nanjing.

The King of Siam ranks even higher, at 50th.

After all, he voluntarily submitted to Dahua, received special care from Dahua, and retained most of his family's property.

Now he not only has industries in Nanjing, but also has a large number of industries in Siam.

More importantly, his daughter is still serving the emperor in the palace, and his grandson is already ten years old.

The upper classes of the Annan Li and Mo dynasties, the Mongolian aristocrats, the European aristocrats, the Persian royal family...

These people who once had a lot of wealth now came to Nanjing with their wealth.

To a certain extent, this has driven up the price of luxury goods in Nanjing.

There are many rich people from overseas, but there are even more rich people from home.

Those businessmen who had embraced Wu Changqing early on were now as rich as anyone in the country.

The wealth of a single family can even be worth an entire year's tax in some European countries.

Number one is the Wu family, the royal family.

There is only a ranking, but no one knows the specific wealth. In short, it must be very, very much.

Ranked second is the Chen family, which is also the Chen Yuyan family.

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The Chen family has always been engaged in business, but Wu Changqing's technology will be provided to them for free. There is no need to pay patent fees, giving the Chen family an absolute advantage.

In the industries they want to get involved in, others can only do a little bit of the downstream market.

According to estimates by a private survey agency, the Chen family's wealth is approximately 12 billion yuan, which is approximately one thousandth of Dahua's annual GDP.

The wealth of the richest flower grower in later generations was equivalent to four thousandths of the GDP of that year. In comparison, the concentration of wealth in Dahua was not as exaggerated as that of later generations.

The Tong family, ranked third, has a wealth of approximately 10 billion.

The Tong family's main businesses are cars, motorcycles, televisions, cement, petroleum, steel, etc.

Among them, in the automotive field, it accounts for 30% of Dahua’s market share.

Ranked fourth is Hong Tailin, with 6 billion.

There is only one main business, and that is shipbuilding.

They build everything from warships to river cargo ships, large and small.

Currently, Dahua's cargo ship with the largest displacement, the "Zhengzheng", is built by them. It has a displacement of up to 100,000 tons and is the first ship in the world with a displacement of 100,000 tons.

Ranking fourth is Zhong Xueyan, with 5.5 billion.

The main business is oil, coal, natural gas, electricity, and other high-tech industries are also involved.

Ranking fifth is the Liao family, with 5 billion.

His main business is finance and machinery manufacturing, and his family owns the world's largest private machine tool processing plant.

His family is involved in various other manufacturing industries.

Generally speaking, Dahua's most profitable business is manufacturing, followed by energy and finance.

In fact, energy is very profitable, but most of it is controlled by the court, and there is not much private participation.