Yu Dayou wants to lead the army to evacuate Quanzhou, which is naturally not something that Wang Chaohong can resist, after all, the troops led by Wang Chaohong are still some distance away from Quanzhou, so they can only watch Yu Dayou leave.

At this time, in fact, Wang Chaohong himself didn't know what was going on, limited by the level of communication, the troops led by Wang Chaohong and the troops led by Cai Erhu were actually fighting separately, but they agreed to finally meet in Fuzhou.

However, although Wang Chaohong didn't know what was going on, he saw that Yu Dayou left in such a hurry, and even Quanzhou didn't have time to destroy it, and he could vaguely guess that something major had happened to the Ming army, otherwise, it would be impossible for Yu Dayou to directly abandon Quanzhou and evacuate, let alone leave in such a hurry.

It's just that although Wang Chaohong guessed what might have happened to the Ming army, he didn't expect that this change was because Shao Wufu was defeated by the Sixth Infantry Division.

Although Wang Chaohong has never been to Shaowu, judging from the intelligence, he has also come to the judgment that Shaowu Mansion is a hard one, and the Sixth Infantry Division can conquer Shaowu Mansion, which he believes, and he also believes so firmly.

But he never thought that the Sixth Infantry Division would be able to capture Shaowu Mansion so easily and quickly!

Wars are always so full of surprises.

At least for now, the development of the situation has actually departed from the plan formulated in advance by Wang Chaohong, Cai Erhu and others, and departing from the plan represents uncertainty and risk.

And all this is because the Ming army was defeated too quickly!

After taking the second city in the north without bloodshed, Wang Chaohong still led the troops to continue to chase behind, and this time, he was going directly to Fuzhou.

When the generals of Tang and Ming such as Wang Chaohong, Cai Erhu and Yu Dayou on the Fuzhou side were fighting-for-tat, Zhaoqing did not see any breath of war.

At this time, Zhaoqing can no longer see the traces caused by the war in the past few years, and it is not even possible to see the original appearance of Zhaoqing City.

In the past two years, Zhaoqing City can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes, although the city wall is still the same city wall, the city is still the previous urban area, but in the suburbs of the city is rising from the ground and many buildings have appeared.

On the bank of the Xijiang River, there are a large number of buildings, almost all of which are factory buildings of various factories, including Zhaoqing Arsenal, Zhaoqing Machinery Factory, which has just become independent from Zhaoqing Arsenal, as well as the first textile factory under the Ministry of Industry to adopt mechanical water power, and the first large-scale shipyard of the Ministry of Industry, Zhaoqing Shipyard, and so on.

At this time, Zhaoqing was the real core of the Tang Dynasty, which was not only the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the political center, but also the industrial center.

Here, almost a quarter of the output of the Tang Dynasty was produced of various ordnance products, of which the output of large-caliber artillery of more than nine catties accounted for as much as half of the total output.

However, although it was the most important industrial center of the Tang Dynasty, it would not be long before this status was replaced by the Guangzhou Prefecture.

After all, the current Guangzhou Mansion is the real commercial and economic center of the Tang Dynasty, and the transportation is far more convenient than Zhaoqing, whether it is sea or river transportation, it is quite developed.

This is also the reason why the Ministry of Industry of Datang, or Li Xuan, decided to suspend large-scale industrial construction in Zhaoqing and shift his energy to Guangzhou.

In Guangzhou, there is Foshan Iron and Steel Plant, which is under construction, and is expected to be able to officially put into production in winter, as well as Guangzhou Shipyard, which is currently the largest and most powerful shipyard in the Tang Dynasty, and the scale of Foshan Arsenal is also continuing to expand, and the output of muskets and iron artillery is about to catch up with Zhaoqing Arsenal.

At the same time, Foshan Arsenal also has the entire Tang Dynasty range, the largest scale and output of ammunition factory, relying on the convenience of the port city, Foshan Arsenal can easily obtain a large number of saltpeter, sulfur and other raw materials, the production of gunpowder is very convenient, its gunpowder output, has accounted for half of the total output of the Tang Dynasty.

However, in fact, there are many factories in Guangzhou, and interestingly, a considerable number of them are private factories or workshops.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, in addition to the factories directly under the Ministry of Industry, there are many other private factories in Guangzhou, including the royal industry, because the royal industry is also a private industry strictly speaking.

Among them, there are three factories employing more than 1,000 workers, two of which are textile factories, and the remaining one is Shamian Shipyard, and there are more than a dozen factories employing less than 1,000 workers and more than 500 people.

As for factories with more than 100 employees, there are dozens of factories with less than 500 employees, hundreds of small factories with less than 100 employees, and those family workshops with only a few or a dozen people are even more numerous, and there is not even an accurate statistics.

These private factories alone pay more than one million taels of taxes every year!

Although these factories and workshops exist in all walks of life, many of them are still concentrated in light industries such as textiles, wood furniture, and papermaking, among which the textile industry is the largest.

Here, I have to talk about the situation of the mechanism cloth under the rule of the Tang Dynasty!

In terms of technology and quality, these machine-made fabrics are not much different from homespun fabrics, but their output and cost are incomparable to traditional hand-woven fabrics!

These textile mills that make extensive use of water power can use water power and mechanical equipment to spin and weave a large number of fabrics, with large output and low cost, and even if the quality does not exceed the traditional hand-woven fabrics, the quality is very uniform.

After these cheap machine-made fabrics flowed into the market, they instantly aroused the welcome of the majority of citizens, and interestingly, in addition to being more popular in the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty, these machine-made fabrics were also transported by those maritime merchants to Jiangnan and even Shandong, and other places to sell, because the quality is good and the price is low, and the sales are very good.

However, it is worth noting that even if the price of these machine-made fabrics is cheap, they still cannot open the rural market!

Because even if it is cheap, it still costs money, and in rural areas, people do not have much money left to buy cloth, and they wear cloth woven by rural women themselves.

Because the output is getting bigger and bigger, and the sales are always limited to the cities, so those textile factories are also sparing no effort to promote to those maritime merchants in order to open up sales.

These cheap fabrics also attracted the attention of maritime merchants, and then they were purchased and shipped to various places, especially in Korea, Japan, and other indigenous countries in Southeast Asia, and even shipped to India to sell.

This is also the cloth of the Tang Dynasty, which quickly became the fourth largest export commodity after porcelain, silk, and tea!

At the same time, the export weapons of the Tang Dynasty also included daily necessities represented by soap, toothbrushes, and toothpaste.

However, the current export of tea and daily necessities is limited to East Asia and Southeast Asia, and the market has not yet been opened in Europe.

Although tea was also tried by European merchants to bring back and sell, but there was no response for a while, and as for daily necessities such as soap, except for the first time it attracted the attention of these maritime merchants, it was gone.

At the beginning, the officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce didn't know why, soap is such a good thing, and now it has become a necessity for the Tang magnates, even the magnates of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the magnates of North Korea and Japan, more or less all of them have come into contact with and used such a great product as soap, why don't you Europeans.

As a result, when asked, people said that because of the prevalence of diseases such as the Black Death and syphilis, European doctors said that if you take a bath, you will be washed off by the protective film (that is, that layer of dirt), and then you will be invaded by diseases, so most Europeans in these years do not love, or dare not take a bath.

However, it is very interesting that there are a few European maritime merchants who buy a small amount of it for their own use, and at the same time bring back a small amount to Europe to friends and the like, why? Because they are all running in Southeast Asia and other places all the year round, they have a wide range of knowledge, after coming to these places, they find that everyone else is bathing, and some people will also try to take a bath.

At the same time, not everyone in Europe did not take a bath, some aristocrats still used the private bathroom of the family to bathe, but the large public bath has completely declined.

But even if there are such a small number of people, it is basically not expected that soap will become a bulk export to Europe.

In this regard, the manufacturer of soap, and the royal industry with the exclusive patent of soap: Zhaoqing Soap Company is a little disappointed, but it is only a small disappointment, after all, the only people in this world who do not take a bath are those strange in Europe, and most of the people in other places still take a bath, so this soap is still not worried about sales.

After all, there are so many people in the world, there must be no Europeans who don't like to take a bath, and their Zhaoqing soap company will not do business.

This money, or continue to make a lot of money!

However, this money, naturally, no matter how much you earn, it is not too much, so the Tang Dynasty has been working hard to create more export products, but the traditional products are those, and the competitive ones are nothing more than porcelain, silk, tea, etc., if you want to expand exports, attract more maritime merchants to trade in the Tang Dynasty, and contribute to the industrial revolution of the Tang Dynasty, you have to need more products with unique competitiveness.

And this task, ordinary private businessmen can not do, can only always walk in the forefront of the world, do not set foot in traditional industries, only enter the royal industry of various new industries to do.