Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Although the "Xine Bilateral Friendship and Trade Treaty" appears to be a trade treaty, its actual content is more like a military treaty.

The treaty stipulated that, first, the Bactria Empire guaranteed the sovereignty and integrity of the Kingdom of Najd and respected the Kingdom of Najd’s claim to sovereignty over the Arabian Peninsula.

Second, the Bactria Empire will assist the Kingdom of Nejd in establishing a modern army with no less than 200,000 people, and the army will be trained by the Bactria Empire.

Third, the Najd Kingdom will hand over all mining resources within its territory to the Bactria Empire for mining, transportation, and sales. The profits from mineral sales will be equally divided between the Bactria Empire and the Najd Kingdom.

Fourth, the Kingdom of Najd and the Empire of Bactria are exempt from customs duties and commercial taxes.

Fifth, the Bactria Empire formed a defensive alliance with the Kingdom of Nejd, and the Empire of Bactria had the right to establish military bases within the territory of the Kingdom of Najd. The cost of establishing the base shall be borne jointly by both parties.

The general content of the treaty was only five articles, so later historians preferred to call this first treaty between Bactria and the Kingdom of Najd the "Five Treaties of Xia Nej".

The signing of this bilateral friendship and trade treaty between Xia and Xia officially represented the expansion of the Xia Empire's sphere of influence to the Middle East.

Moreover, the influence of the Daxia Empire in the Middle East also started from this treaty. It can be said that this treaty officially represents Daxia's change from its original strategic defense attitude to a strategic expansion attitude.

This change is because the Daxia Empire has improved its national power and wants to further increase its voice in the world, so this change is inevitable.

At that time, all countries in the world were busy with post-war reconstruction, and no one noticed this at all.

By the time the John Empire reacted and learned that the Daxia Empire had extended its hand into the Kingdom of Nejd, it was already too late. At that time, the Daxia Empire had more than 30,000 imperial soldiers stationed in the Najd Kingdom.

After learning about this situation, John Empire could only hold his nose and admit it.

Although there are only five main treaties in the Xia-Nei Bilateral Friendship and Trade Treaty, there are many detailed treaties. But Lin Yi didn't have time to talk in detail with Aziz here.

So he asked Gu Xianzhi to stay in Mina Port to continue finalizing the remaining details with Aziz, while he himself returned to Daxia with his wife and children.

Lin Yi, who returned to Daxia, was once again busy.

It's not that Lin Yi doesn't want to rest, but he knows that the period of post-war reconstruction is the best time for Daxia to continue to catch up with European countries.

Therefore, Lin Yi did not dare to stop at all. However, Lin Yi felt that he still owed his wife and children.

However, his three princesses supported and understood Lin Yi very much, saying that Lin Yi should be busy and that they would take good care of everything in the palace.

Lin Yi returned to the empire and began to discuss the subsequent empire development plan with everyone in the cabinet.

Lin Yi had organized the formulation of a development plan before. Through that planned development, Daxia completed the transformation from a semi-agricultural and semi-industrial empire into an industrial empire.

The empire's industrial development has achieved long-term development. Whether it is steel, minerals or industrial manufacturing, it far exceeds that of Asian countries and has caught up with the pace of European industrial powers.

Although it is not the world's number one industrial power, it can still be ranked high.

However, due to the large population of the empire, when calculating per capita, the empire ranks very low.

As for the railways, after more than ten years of continuous construction in the Daxia Empire, the total length has exceeded 1 kilometers. Among them, the two main arterial railways running north-south and east-west are more than kilometers long.

Coupled with the branch railways extending from the main railway, Daxia's railway lines are relatively complete.

But in Lin Yi's opinion, all this is not enough.

As the industrialization of the empire deepened, more and more commodities needed to be circulated, and in addition to railways, the only way to circulate commodities was by roads.

Therefore, in this development plan, Lin Yi asked the Ministry of Industry to continue building railways, and also asked them to focus on short-distance highways.

It is necessary to realize the requirements of rural and rural access roads within ten years.

Within ten years, Lin Yi requires that the total mileage of railways should reach 10 kilometers and that roads should connect rural areas.

Imperial steel production will reach 1016 million tons in , and production will increase by % every year.

In addition to having requirements for the empire's industry, Lin Yi also had requirements for the development of the empire's military industry.

Regarding the military industry, Lin Yi asked the Ministry of Industry to increase support for the military industry. After all, the empire could successfully win the Far East and Southeast Asia in this war.

In addition to the heroic and fearless battles of the soldiers, there are also big reasons for the advanced weapons produced by the empire.

In order to continue to keep the empire ahead of other countries in the world in weapons research, Lin Yi decided to ask for increased investment.

At the same time, Lin Yi feels that private capital can be given some opportunities in the research and manufacturing of some light weapons.

For example, Lin Yi plans to give some orders for rifles, machine guns and artillery to private factories to promote the competitiveness and vitality of private factories.

Some heavy weapons, such as tanks, train guns, battleships, etc., are developed and produced by factories jointly run by the government and the private sector.

This approach can, to a certain extent, reduce the empire’s official investment in research and development.

However, weapons produced by civilians need to undergo strict process inspection before they are equipped into the army.

Moreover, each weapon only corresponds to one factory, and the batch is recorded to prevent the relevant responsible person from being found if there is a problem.

In addition to the research and manufacturing of light weapons, Lin Yi actually also plans to experiment with the empire transferring some civilian orders to reduce the empire's official expenses.

Here we need to explain the current imperial industrial system.

Since the Daxia Empire was now, strictly speaking, a centralized state, power was in the hands of the emperor. This resulted in that most of the empire's heavy industries were actually in official hands.

It is also known as the Royal Factory.

The directors of such factories all hold official positions and belong to the Imperial Ministry of Industry. The advantage of this is that the empire can control the quality of products at any time, but the disadvantage is that the empire's bureaucracy becomes very large and complex.

And because these factories are owned by the empire, there is little competitive pressure and weak innovation capabilities. Except for Lin Yi forcing these factories to develop, they rarely take the initiative to research.

At this time, apart from a few research institutes established by Lin Yi, there was no department that could really serve as the empire's scientific and technological research and development department.

Therefore, Lin Yi plans to reduce these departments and convert unimportant factories directly into private factories, while some more important factories will be jointly run by the government and the private sector.

Only those involving the core factories of the empire can continue to have imperial official offices.

For example, the orders for guns and cannons mentioned earlier are handed over to private factories, while captains are produced by factories jointly run by the government and the private sector.

The aircraft carrier and supporting monoplane fighters, which have never been exposed, are produced by the imperial official factory.

Such a strict classification of factory levels can avoid leaks of secrets to the greatest extent and increase the R&D and production efficiency of the factory.