In the spring of Imperial Calendar Year 223.
As usual, Mel spent the weekend with his two daughters.
The country's industrial output was growing rapidly. With the swift advance of industrialization, severe social divisions had emerged. This was a normal phenomenon on the road to progress.
Diesel engines had already seen widespread use. Although automobiles had yet to appear, tracked farming machinery could indeed be manufactured.
Geniuses had their merits. Mel only needed to point them in the right direction based on impressions from his previous life; the geniuses would handle the remaining details themselves.
He could not possibly drive the entire country's development alone.
Compared with steam engines and hydropower, internal combustion engines were the direction of the future.
Yet precisely because all resources had been poured into development, Exar was unable to expand outward in the short term.
"All right, let's head back." Mel did not intend to keep wandering around.
Although there was nothing major requiring his decision at the moment, he still needed to review the weekly summary reports.
Development was progressing quickly, so there were many drawbacks as well. The population was insufficient, and Exar was not a vast plain. Large farming machinery could not be widely adopted, while the few plains could not provide most of the food supply.
The seed breeding program had only just begun. Biotechnology in this era was far too backward.
The growing demand for industrial workers and the sharp population decline after the war had become the primary contradiction hindering the country's development.
Although Mel had continually been drawing in population from other countries, few people were truly willing to leave their homeland.
Even if the northern Gardians knew life in the south was better, it was still difficult for them to summon the courage to go south.
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