After understanding and deciding on the next direction of improvement of heavy industry, Lu Yuan began to convene a meeting of people from the Ministry of Light Industry.

Now the agriculture of the mighty army has not yet developed.

After all, it has only been more than a year since the power of the mighty army was established, and most of the farmland has not yet begun to be harvested.

As a result, agricultural revenues are not enough to support the mighty army's huge military expenditures, as well as military-related heavy industry expenditures, as well as civilian expenditures such as education, health care, insurance, etc.

And now what can really maintain the economic foundation of the entire mighty army is the current light industry of the mighty army.

The so-called Weiwu Army light industry is the current cotton yarn mill and weaving mill of the Weiwu Army.

Jenny spinning machine and flying shuttle loom provided a very strong technical advantage for the light industry of the Weiwu Army, so that the textiles of the Weiwu Army have been able to obtain huge profits with the advantage of high quality and low price in this era.

However, the obvious situation is that because of the development of the textile industry of the mighty army, it has begun to lead to the phenomenon that other textile industries at home and abroad in the Ming Dynasty have gone bankrupt one after another.

This is especially true in overseas markets.

Because Lu Yuan was worried that the advanced textile technology of his mighty army would have an impact on the domestic economy of the Ming Dynasty, he first sold his mighty army's textiles overseas through the Zheng Group.

According to his own intelligence system, Lu Yuan learned that it was precisely because of the emergence of the advanced textile technology of his mighty army that the spring breeze textiles of his mighty army quickly occupied the overseas textile market, which made many textile handicraftsmen in many overseas countries bankrupt, and the regimes of some countries had to ban the sale of textiles from Daming.

As a result, the frequency of naval battles between the Zheng group and the Netherlands, Spain and other countries is also increasing.

The Chinese maritime merchants, represented by the Zheng group, also had increased conflicts with the Western colonizers.

Although because of the strong force of the Zheng Group, and the fact that some overseas local businessmen are really unable to refuse the high-quality and inexpensive spring breeze cloth of the mighty army, the overseas textile market is still rapidly expanding by the spring breeze cloth, but the Zheng Group also began to sell in China because of the greed for the domestic textile market and the domestic textile market is better to sell.

However, at present, the Zheng Group still mainly sells spring breeze cloth in some parts of the south.

The spring breeze cloth of the mighty army is still mainly sold in the northern region.

But in any case, the Zheng Group's actions have further exacerbated the bankruptcy of the domestic home textile industry, resulting in a large number of unemployed people in Jiangnan and other places.

As a result, class contradictions have become more acute.

However, the control of the local gentry groups by the Ming court is not as good as before, so the degree of chaos in these areas has also begun to increase, and some local gentry groups have gradually become armed separatist forces in the suppression of local people's riots.

Of course, because the epoch-making "monster" of the mighty army has only appeared for more than a year, these phenomena are not very obvious.

On the one hand, he continued to expand the production scale of cotton yarn and textiles, but did not carry out new technological innovations, so that a large number of textile workers could be under the control of his mighty army, and more cotton textiles could be controlled by his mighty army.

Although this will lead to overcapacity in the textile industry, it is better than letting the people go bankrupt because of unemployment, so as to maintain the stability of the Ming Dynasty and control more people in the country.

On the other hand, Lu Yuan intends to develop a new light industry.

However, this time, Lu Yuan did not intend to develop the light industry that existed in this era, and although technological innovation could increase the productivity of many products in this era, it would also destroy the stability of production relations in this era.

"In the next step, the light industry we want to develop will mainly focus on two aspects, one is the latest glass developed by the Academy of Sciences, and the other is the latest soap developed by the Academy of Sciences!"

Lu Yuan asked Chang Liangyu as he spoke: "Chang Yuanzheng, is the glass process and soap process mature now and can be built and put into production?" ”

"Back to the official, the factory can already be built and put into production, and the small one has already written a report to the young grandmother to build a glass kiln near the brick kiln in Shuiyang Village, and as for soap, quicklime, nitric acid and grease and other materials are also being purchased."

Chang Liangyu replied.

After hearing this, Lu Yuan looked at Tang Ying: "Let them build the factory immediately, the factory director, you will appoint it." ”

Tang Ying nodded.

A month later, two new factories were built in Shuiyangzhai, one was the Chunfeng Glass Factory, which was dedicated to the production of glassware.

One is Chunfeng Alkali Company, which specializes in the production of soap.

Because the Spring Breeze Academy of Sciences has built a glass kiln in its own experimental base before this, and has fired and blown some glass molds for experiments.

Therefore, after the completion of the Chunfeng Glass Factory, there was not much difficulty in production, and it began to be put into production.

And Chunfeng Alkali Company does not have much technical difficulty.

Because Lu Yuan had established Chunfeng Chemical Company in Qingquanzhai to be responsible for the production of gunpowder, all kinds of raw materials were also available, and there were mature technicians who had a certain understanding of chemical industry, so soon Chunfeng Chemical Company produced the first batch of Chunfeng brand soap, and after adding spices, it directly became soap.

For glass, this product is indeed important to the mighty army.

First of all, the emergence of the glass factory allowed the Weiwu Army to have a large number of glass instruments for scientific experimental research and military, especially thermometers, so that the technicians and mechanics within the Weiwu Army could accurately control the temperature, and many physical and chemical reactions needed to be controlled to the temperature, and even the fermentation of the biological industry.

The use of glass to make convex mirrors and concave mirrors can at least make magnifying glasses appear and facilitate geographical mapping and military use.

At the same time, it also laid the foundation for the manufacture of telescopes.

After coating the back of the glass with silver nitrate, it was directly made into a mirror, which could be sold as a luxury item of this era.

Of course, glassware could be sold as an expensive luxury item in its own right in this era.

Therefore, after the appearance of the Chunfeng Glass Factory, the mighty army had another channel to make money, and because the glass products were sold as luxury goods, there was no need to worry about destroying the cottage industry like cotton textiles, and making only the money of the gentry.

The same goes for soap.

The emollient and cleansing power of soap is naturally comparable to that of non-honey locusts, and it is a product suitable for both the gentry and the common people to consume, and because there are no home soap workshops except for the mighty army, there is no need to worry about causing the bankruptcy of cottage craftsmen.

"Xiao Chunlai's intelligence department has to distinguish it from the liaison station under his command, his intelligence department is specifically responsible for intelligence, but the distribution of goods in the liaison station must be managed by your civil specialists, who are responsible for the distribution of textiles, soap, glass, mirrors, etc., that is to say, in the future, the liaison station will not only have the role of intelligence collection, but also its role in making profits for the mighty army is more important! You take the opportunity to discuss with Xiao Chunlai's brother and sister and determine someone! At that time, the entire liaison station will be managed by the integrated store department! ”

Lu Yuan said to Tang Ying.