Walking in Penghu, Xu Zixian's demeanor became more and more confident and calm.

"The prince is at ease." Liu Yidao: "Leaving Fuzhou, it seems that there is a loss and a gain. ”

"Admittedly." Xu Zixian said: "There are fewer and fewer fetters, my mind is more flexible, and there are more and more available methods, of course, I want to be more comfortable." ”

Liu Yi smiled and didn't say anything more, but the hope in the depths of his eyes also increased a little more.

If Xu Zixian can really do what he promised one day, then what?

The two went out of the city in front of the semi-closed city gate, Xu Zixian hung a barrier knife from his waist, tall and calm. Liu Yi had two barrier knives hanging from his waist, and he followed Xu Zixian's steps and walked forward unhurriedly.

Such a combination is very eye-catching, fortunately, the Penghu garrison has increased recently, and such a combination of officers is also very common, and many villagers who went out of the city just looked at it a little, afraid of angering these two masters, and quickly looked away.

The county seat of Penghu is only a few miles away from the port, and there are many trading houses and warehouses hanging lanterns on the way, which illuminate the road and add a lot of convenience to Xu Zixian.

"It's not a matter of time for the sea ship to arrive...... Xu Zixian said to Liu Yi, who was looking around: "These trading houses have people on duty, and the coolies on the wharf are also waiting near the port with their bunks. ”

"Are they all ships to Luzon, or to the Japanese kingdom?"

"That's right."

There are many sea ships from the north or Jiangnan, Mingzhou, Zhejiang, there will always be some space to buy some Fujian Road specialties along the coast of Fujian.

For example, tea, tea handles, porcelain, ironware, the largest amount is raw silk.

Fujian's raw silk is quite famous and has a huge output.

Dawei Shengsi is also sold by the load, one hundred and twenty catties, the price is about six hundred and fifty yuan, the interest is very high, how many are out.

Many merchants or pirate forces want to monopolize the raw silk trade, at present, Kang Tianqi in the Wa Kingdom has obtained more than 50% of the quota of raw silk, many Fujian raw silk merchants have a tacit understanding, are trying to sell their silk to Kang Tianqi's agents in Fujian, in order to ensure stable trade, not to be harassed by pirates.

The remaining share is divided by merchants in southern Fujian and Zhejiang, and Wang Zhi, who is far away in Pingdao, also has an agent in the Wa Kingdom, with a share of about 20%, and the benefits obtained are not small.

In addition to the coastal areas of Fujian, many merchant ships also passed through Penghu to replenish fresh water and shelter from the wind, and at the same time took away the smuggled goods hoarded on Penghu Island.

That's right, most of the goods on Penghu Island were smuggled over, avoiding the customs duties of the Great Wei, which was not legal, and the merchants paid the taxes with a part, mixed with a large number of unpaid taxes, so that it was not easy to be detected, and a large number of smuggling could be continued.

Of course, there is an inspection department under the transfer department in Penghu County, but Penghu County will not seriously investigate, and the strength of the inspection department is limited, so it cannot be eliminated at all.

Xu Zixian's goal was not to move the current Penghu trade to the Eastern Domain, which was based on its own production capacity, even if it had ports and a large number of trading houses.

Raw silk is related to the whole of Fujian, and there are a large number of pirate forces, the power of the government and the aristocracy are mixed in, including the Changwen Marquis Mansion, and it is a quite mature industry, Xu Zixian is not concerned about raw silk, nor does he intend to snatch away the commercial transshipment of Penghu, Penghu's population will be absorbed, will promote the expansion of Penghu's bean production, and will also make Penghu's market prosperous...... This territory is the Nan'an Hou Mansion, Xu Zixian will not give up, and it is not beneficial for Xu Zixian to cross Penghu.

Xu Zixian was interested in the cotton industry, as he remembered before, in the late Ming Dynasty, there were many foreign trade commodities exported, including Chinese cosmetics such as rouge, but also cultural products such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and even books, but these small-scale production categories are cumbersome, divided into categories, and may be produced by hundreds or even thousands of workshops, and it is quite difficult to integrate.

Only the cotton industry is not only relatively simple, but also sells very well.

As long as the cotton fields of the Eastern Domain were successfully developed, a large amount of cloth would be produced from the Eastern Domain, which was the first-hand commodity that Xu Zixian could master and sell in large quantities.

According to the records of the Ming Dynasty, Manila and other places and Japan, including Indonesia, are full of Songjiang cotton cloth, and now Xu Zixian estimates that in the early colonial period, the Spaniards have appeared in Luzon, but their return route to Europe was affected by the Tianfang people, and the benefits of trade and colonization were not large enough.

The wars of the European nations against the Celestials were not so much religious in nature as they were an inevitable conflict between trade and the colonial system and the old feudal empires.

Which side Xu Zixian will stand on, of course, I don't know.

In Xu Zixian's view, and has always been under the view and opinion, the production of raw silk and porcelain, these items are not conducive to the germination of capitalism, and have nothing to do with the industrial revolution.

Only the textile industry, that is, the production of cotton cloth, including weaving, the evolution of the textile machine, and the progress of spindles, the increase in quantity, the production of this commodity of the most basic needs of mankind, the expansion of output, and the change of the mode of production, can we fully talk about capitalism and industrialization.

Other than that, there is no other possibility.

The development of the textile industry led to the enclosure movement, which led to the emergence of large farms and the liberation of labor.

A large number of peasants became workers, more workshops appeared, a larger market was needed, and the demand for manpower increased, and more mechanical power was needed.

Then came the advent of water-powered looms and spinning machines, but people were not satisfied, until the advent of the steam engine.

This is the line and blueprint of the industrial revolution under capitalism, and there is no other way.

Large-scale textile factories also appeared in the most prosperous and developed part of the Yangtze River in China, Suzhou and other places, but most of these factories produced silk fabrics, and the cotton cloth was meaninglessly divided into dozens of grades, and countless small workshops appeared.

It is simply impossible to promote capitalism, it is impossible to complete industrialization.

China's small peasant economy is too tenacious, the feudal power is too strong, there is no possibility of large-scale trading houses, factories, handicraft guilds, these are easy for the small countries of Europe, there is God above the king, there are other kingdoms, the control of various countries can not be too strict, transnational trading houses, guilds, all appeared in the Yuan and Ming dynasties in China, and soon flourished.

In the early industrial production, there were no high-end products and scientific and technological content of later generations, and whoever mastered the sea would monopolize the market, and sooner or later he would be able to grab it and monopolize it.

As long as there are enough spindles, enough machines, and enough good workers, it is enough to produce a large number of high-quality and inexpensive cotton textiles, which is enough to grab a large enough market share and obtain enough profits.

Scale, industrialization, monopoly.

Now, of course, it is impossible to have a steam engine, but a large number of hydraulic looms can also play a role dozens of times faster than manpower.

There was also a long time before the advent of the Jenny machine to the hydraulic machine and then to the steam engine in England, and the effect was just as amazing, at least before its monopoly on the cotton industry, the British wool industry swept the world.

Once the large-scale textile industry is realized, it will promote the emergence of more cotton fields, and now seventy percent of the cloth produced by the Great Wei Dynasty is Songjiang cloth, and ninety percent of the cotton cloth exported is Songjiang cloth, and the scale of Songjiang's cotton fields is not large, and there are only two million acres of cotton in the periphery.

Together with the cotton fields in Shandong, there are only two large-scale cotton-producing areas in Dawei.

The rest of the place is a loose, small-scale peasant economy, from small cotton fields to hand-woven textiles, which encounters large-scale industrialized, early-industrialized cotton cloth, which is bound to be swept away, and there is no power to fight back.

The cotton fields of the Eastern Domain will grow larger and larger, and may reach a scale of more than one million acres, and the annual output of cotton cloth will reach more than 10 million horses.

It can not only trade with foreign countries, but also sweep the domestic market.

A piece of cloth, starting from the cotton field, is the most conservative estimate, if it can really reach such a scale, Xu Zi may get one-fifth or even more of the financial income of the Great Wei Dynasty with one place and one industry in the Eastern Domain.

And if the Great Wei wanted to get so much money, it had to spread an unknown number of exorbitant taxes on the heads of hundreds of people, and mobilize how many tax collectors, officials, officials, and even the army, until the officials, forced the people, and rebelled, so that the world was full of thieves.

This is the advantage of capitalism over centralized empires, and this is why countless huge empires have collapsed in the small island nation of Britain.

Later generations always talk about the economic aggregate of the Qing Empire, thinking that China's backwardness began at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and many people do not know that the financial income of the British surpassed that of China during the Ming Dynasty.

If Xu Zixian's cotton cloth production in the Eastern Domain is formed, it will obtain a quarter of the income of the Great Wei, or even higher, which is not a fool's dream at all.

The Eastern Domain could also form other large-scale industries, such as salt, tea, and sugar, all of which were under Xu Zixian's consideration, but that would take longer and plan.

"Junhou," Liu Yimo followed behind Xu Zixian silently, seeing him constantly looking at the shops along the way, he said unconsciously: "In a few years, the Eastern Domain will be like this?" ”

"How many years?" Xu Zixian laughed and said: "By next year at the latest, this will be the case in Nan'anxi Port, and in a few years, the commercial houses and shops in the Eastern Domain will be ten times that of Penghu!" ”

Liu Yi didn't think that Xu Zixian was bragging, but Xu Zixian's words really gave him a lot of impact, and Liu Yi couldn't accept it for a while, so he could only roll his eyes silently.

Xu Zixian didn't think it was difficult, after all, Penghu was just a re-export place, and the number of merchant ships coming and going was not much.

Compared with Quanzhou, Mingzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, and Zhangzhou, compared to the port trade of these large states, Penghu is only a small post on the sea.

If the cotton cloth industry of the Eastern Domain starts next year, the deerskin and salt industries rise, plus the original beans, silk and linen, and sand gold, as long as the Eastern Domain improves slightly, it will be very easy to suppress Penghu.

Liu Yi felt a sense of complacency in Xu Zixian, he didn't like it, he didn't like it, he just felt that what he did with Xu Zixian every day was very interesting, and there was a sense of grandeur.

Liu Yi likes this change and feeling very much.

More than a year ago, Liu Yi was still a walking corpse, but now he feels fresh when he opens his eyes every day.

That's all, that's enough.