August autumnal equinox.

The weather is getting cooler.

It is the autumn harvest season, and it is necessary to harvest and put it in storage in time.

After the spread of the Mao Institute in the past few months, it has thoroughly digested the third Yanding village, Yancang Village, and enlightened the Yanding people in Yancang Village.

Wang Youzhen also completed the teaching of his second disciple Bo Jue, and taught him the textbooks of mathematics, physics and chemistry junior high school, and the rest was to watch him learn by himself.

After inspecting the studies of the eldest disciple Jiao Miao and the second disciple Bo Jue during this time, Wang Youzhen left the thatched house school and went to the warehouse near the water-powered spinning factory and the water-powered weaving factory.

The storehouse was recently built, made of all blue bricks and gray tiles, and looked much richer than the dirt and thatched huts of the surrounding villages.

It's just that this warehouse is not used for living people, but for better storage of yarn ingots and cotton cloth, and it cost nearly three or four hundred taels of silver to build a large warehouse of blue bricks and green tiles.

Wang Youzhen walked across the rope bridge, crossed the turbulent Weishui, and came to the warehouse on the bank of Weishui, which was also made of blue bricks and green tiles.

The gatekeeper was a lonely old man in three villages, who was relatively old and had no sons and half daughters.

Mr. Wang found him a janitor's job and gave him a way to live.

When the lonely old man saw the eldest son and grandson of the Wang family coming, he quickly opened the side door and let Wang Youzhen walk into the warehouse with blue bricks and green tiles.

Come to the yard of the warehouse.

There is no inner courtyard wall, no hammer arch, and no rockery pool.

Just a large and spacious yard with a well in the yard.

This well is used to prevent water from running away, and secondly, it is used to provide water for the gatehouse and the young and strong salt in the yard.

The spacious courtyard is lined with a storehouse for spindles and a storeroom for cotton cloth.

Wang Yanren is storing cotton cloth in the armor storehouse, surveying the cotton cloth inside.

Wang Yanren saw his nephew Wang Youzhen coming, handed over the accounts in his hand to the lady, and took his nephew to the hall due north.

In the hall due north, some official hats and chairs are placed, Wang Yanren sits on the main seat, and Wang Youzhen sits in the lower position.

Both of them had some coarse porcelain tea sets at hand, and each poured a cup of tea leaves.

Wang Yanren put down the teacup in his hand and spoke first: "The cotton cloth trade of the two water conservancy factories is getting bigger and bigger. ”

"We need more and more cotton, and now we need about two or three hundred quintals of cotton every month."

"Two or three hundred cotton is not a small amount, one load is equal to one hundred catties, that is to say, twenty or thirty thousand catties of cotton are needed every month."

Wang Yanren saw his nephew Wang Youzhen's thoughtful expression, and continued: "The cotton we bought before is basically used up, and if the two water conservancy factories want to continue production, they can only continue to buy bulk cotton. ”

"But our spindles and cotton cloth are so cheap, and it is claimed that it is because the Francois merchants brought cheap cotton from the Japanese Korko."

"If we really keep buying large quantities of cotton in Yu'er Town, it will definitely arouse the suspicion of Fuyan Mountain Xiangma after a long time."

Wang Youzhen is more at ease that his second uncle is in charge of the two water conservancy factories than he is in charge of himself.

The second uncle personally said this matter, presumably there must have been a solution to it.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have called myself over today, it's the autumn equinox in August.

It's autumn, and it's still early spring when the first water-powered spinning mill was opened, and it's been more than half a year since then.

Wang Youzhen took the initiative to ask: "Is there any way for the second uncle?" ”

Wang Yanren smiled generously: "There is a way, and there is only such a way." ”

"In the past, the strength of our family was not enough, but there were more than a dozen young and strong men's ancestral halls."

"So the second uncle has never said this way, but now it is different from the past, your grandfather is not only the chief of grain."

"What's more, they have become a family with the three Yanding villages."

When the second uncle Wang Yanren said this, Wang Youzhen roughly had some guesses.

There are no more than two ways, one is to buy a small fortune boat by yourself and go to other state capitals to buy large quantities of cotton.

The other is more difficult, that is, to take down the small pier where the glue goes to the sea.

When the uncle and nephew said this, they were just about to continue.

Two people came to the warehouse with blue bricks and green tiles again: one was Wang Youzhen's father Wang Changmu, and the other was Wang Youzhen's third uncle, Wang Lai.

Wang Laipin obviously heard the conversation between the two, and said with a hearty smile: "It's not just cotton. ”

"There are other things that have to find a way out."

"According to the drill method in the "Infantry Drill Code" given by the eldest child, a lot of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal are consumed every day, and these prohibited goods cannot be bought in the market."

"The saltpeter charcoal and sulfur we have seized these three times have been almost consumed, and the next step is to find a way to find a stable gunpowder trading route."

Wang Youzhen was not surprised by the arrival of his father and third uncle, because he came over after receiving a notice from his father.

Today, their family of four, the four people in charge of everything in the house, are going to finalize the next direction.

Wang Changmu, the son of the royal family, came, and Wang Yanren also took the initiative to stand up and give up the throne to his brother Wang Changmu.

He and his third brother Wang Laiping sat down, and personally poured a cup of tea for his brother Wang Changmu.

Wang Changmu took a sip of tea, put down the teacup and said, "The bulk trade of cotton, as well as the stable trade of gunpowder. ”

"These two things are the most important thing for us at the moment."

"The sale of cotton is related to the production of two water conservancy factories, and the sale of gunpowder is related to the most important safety issue of the three villages."

Wang Changmu mentioned these two things, Wang Yan and Wang Laiping had a deep understanding, and couldn't help but nodded solemnly.

Wang Youzhen also knows these things, but a person's energy is limited, and his main energy is on the process of the industrial revolution.

Since he made a hands-off shopkeeper, he handed over these things to the three elders.

And these three elders are much better than him in their respective aspects.

Like his role in the process of the Industrial Revolution, there is no substitute.

Father Wang Changmu in the spread of Taizu's thoughts, the second uncle Wang Yan is in business, and the third uncle Wang is hired in the training of soldiers and horses.

Also for Wang Youzhen, it is irreplaceable.

Through the previous incident, Wang Youzhen learned that his father was deep in people's calculations, and he knew that his father was not simple.

didn't say what he thought first, after all, his father's countermeasures were more in line with the thoughts of the Ming people, and it was easier to succeed, so he took the initiative to ask: "I don't know what my father thinks?" ”