Tao Chenxi, Qian Hao and others stood on the pine-paved workbench with the Prime Minister Ma Jia, who had come to inspect the government, and watched intently as a worker next to him operated a large water-powered spinning machine. Under the feet is the roaring Ping'an River, the rushing water hits the huge impeller installed underwater, making a huge sound, and the driving force generated is driven by the connecting rod to the upper equipment, and the machine is driven to start spinning. The large number of spindles ensures that each spinning machine can spin dozens of threads at the same time, and the spinning rate is also geared to maintain a relatively suitable speed.

Xu Wenxuan cautiously accompanied such a group of "high-ranking officials of the ministry, state and county" to visit and inspect, it was not the first time he had come to the weaving factory, but this magical and efficient machine in front of him still fascinated him. As an "old immigrant" who has been living in Ping'an Fort for a year, Xu Wenxuan has seen many strange things about the country, such as the effortless pulley set boom on the dock.

The large machine with 30 spindles in front of me can spin 30 cotton threads at a time, which is dozens of times the efficiency of human manual work, and the quality is very stable. As long as the equipment does not break down and the water in the river does not stop, then the spinning machine can continue to work. This kind of efficiency, not only the Taixi countries, but also the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can't catch up. Xu Wenxuan still remembers the sluggish expressions on the faces of the craftsmen when he took the craftsmen from the new immigrants to visit the weaving factory workshop a few days ago.

Well, that's what it is...... Yes, the strength of the machine industry, Xu Wenxuan sighed secretly.

"How many workers is expected to be employed in the entire weaving mill? Understaffed? Ma Jia looked at the 40 machines that had been officially put into production, felt a little satisfied, and said: "This is the hen we expect to use to lay golden eggs next year, and it is also the first battle of our industrialization, and we can't tolerate any failure." ”

"At present, the factory has recruited about 150 employees, all of whom have been trained and have certain practical production experience." Tao Chenxi said, "It is expected that when it is finally put into production, the entire Ping An Machine Weaving Factory will have a total of about 400 employees, including production workers, maintenance workers, quality inspection workers, and managers." Most of the workers are recruited locally, and a small number need to be hired externally. In addition, there are about 100 weavers in the Ming Dynasty during this immigration, and these are excellent employee reserves, and personnel are not a big problem in my opinion. ”

"The factory with 400 people is currently the fourth largest factory on hand after the Navy Shipyard, the Dayuhe Arsenal and the Building Materials Factory. Not to mention that we will expand the scale of production in the future, and when the time comes, it will be just around the corner to catch up with the naval shipyard and become the largest factory in our East Coast Republic. Ma Jia said with a smile.

"The designed production scale of Ping An Machine Weaving Factory is an annual output of 90,000 pieces of cotton cloth." Tao Chenxi said eloquently, "Looking at the current trend, I am confident that in 1635, the first year of production, it will reach a scale of more than 70,000 horses, and the production capacity will be released to 90,000 horses in the second year, and even begin to hit the production capacity of 100,000 horses." Please rest assured that as long as the sales channel is opened, our Ping An Machine Weaving Factory will produce the products as soon as possible even if they work overtime. ”

"Okay! I like to hear things like that. Ma Jia Ha smiled and said, "The Executive Committee and the Government Council are all looking at you right now." Just waiting for your cotton cloth to be sold out and then make some money back to subsidize the family, today's treasury can really run horses, and it is so empty that it makes people panic. ”

"Don't, I can't afford to be overwhelmed by such a heavy burden." Tao Chenxi also smiled, "Even if you sell 100,000 pieces of cotton cloth to the French a year, the profit is less than 100,000 yuan, which is completely unable to fill the hole in the current national finances." Who wants you to spend money lavishly, you look outside Ping'an Fort, in Daming, a skinny and precarious homeless person was turned upside down by the Portuguese, and sold to us for almost 400 yuan. According to Lao Qian's words, 'enough for all 66 guns of the battleship to fire a dozen salvos', I will also say, enough for us to sell hundreds of cotton cloth, grandma's, it is really expensive. We worked hard all year to toss some money and smashed it all in. ”

"Hey, hey." Qian Hao smiled awkwardly, "I'm just saying." ”

"There are a lot of people who think about you." Ma Jia sighed, "Yes, more than half of the annual financial income is used for immigration, and no one can figure this out." But you are thinking from an economic point of view, while the Executive Committee and the Government Council are thinking from a political point of view. Today, we have a population of more than 10,000 people, and the proportion of indigenous people in Charlua and Guarani has reached 22.5%. Including these immigrants, the population of the Ming people only accounts for 14%, and even if we are included, it is only 19.3%, which is barely the second largest ethnic group. In addition, 10.6% are North Germans, 7% are Bohemians, 5.2% are Finns, and Tatars of Central Asian origin are 5.1%. The others are small and scattered immigrants from various countries. The population ratio is already somewhat uneven, so in addition to continuing to implement compulsory cultural education and inter-ethnic marriage, it is necessary to control the number and proportion of immigrants from each country. This is what the Executive Committee is most concerned about, and economic interests do not come first. ”

"Next to control immigration?" Qian Hao looked at the horse armor with some incredulity and said, "We only have a total population of more than 10,000 now, and the shortage of manpower can be seen everywhere. This...... Who came up with this idea on the head? Qian Hao stared at the vest, as if to say that this idea was come up with by your vest patting his head.

"Of course you have to control!" Ma Jia glared at Qian Hao and said: "After all, our new immigrant training institutions, schools, etc. have capacity limitations, and the number of new immigrants of more than 3,000 people a year is already very busy. If we vigorously open up immigrants, these new immigrants may not even be able to arrange Chinese language classes once every two days, let alone other ideological and cultural education courses. Moreover, our current population of more than 10,000 has not yet been completely digested, and many people still pop up a lot of their own languages in their daily exchanges, and their living habits have not been completely reversed for a while. Although our assimilation education has been promoted well over the years, and the new immigrants are willing to imitate our way of life and gradually accept our values subtly, in the end, the time is still too short, their changes are not thorough enough, and many things are not even thought of as they have changed in this life, and they can only find ways from their next generation. ”

"Those Baltics are difficult to assimilate, but what about these natives? I think we have done a good job of assimilating the Charuas and Guarani, who are more receptive to our stuff than the Europeans, so why limit their population? Qian Hao was a little puzzled.

"To be honest, the problem of the natives is tricky." "They may be able to accept our culture, values and way of life and try to imitate it, but at the end of the day they are the indigenous people of the land." In the future, after universal education and people's wisdom are opened, it is difficult to say whether these natives will have some dangerous thoughts. For example, we and the white people are outsiders, plundering their land and resources, and killing a lot of them, and it's really hard to say what they will think of us in the future. The only thing we can do now is to prevent it first, and then vigorously promote interracial marriage, and try to eliminate racial differences, so that the surest way to continue our kingdom is to do so. If we don't take measures as soon as possible at this time, we will do what we can steadily; But regardless of the actual situation, greedy for the population, open to immigration, this is to eat raw rice, in the future, will others assimilate or will we assimilate others? If you can't chew too much, you will have to pay a price in the future. ”

A passage made everyone a little speechless. Xu Wenxuan was also a little embarrassed to hear it, he heard such a confidential strategic decision, and he was a little frightened to be honest.

"Assistant Xu, what I said just now only meant restricting the Turen and Taixi people, not restricting the people of my Heavenly Empire." Ma Jia turned his head and smiled at Xu Wenxuan, and said, "I heard Xiao Qian talk about you, saying that you are a smart person, and you are a rare talent in the world. I think you can understand the true meaning of what I said. We are the remnants of the former Song Dynasty, and you are the same descendants of Yan and Huang, with the same writing and similar habits, and assimilating my Ming immigrants is twice the result with half the effort. If it weren't for the fact that we couldn't catch it, for the Ming immigrants, we would naturally think that the more the merrier. ”

"The lower officials are terrified." A layer of fine sweat appeared on Xu Wenxuan's forehead, "The lower officials thought it was ...... Thought...... The remnants of the former Song Dynasty are also my Chinese Zhengshuo, and they have entered the ...... Yi is Yi, summer is summer, and those who admire my Chinese Taoist are my Chinese people. Xiaguan ...... In the heart of the lower officials, in fact, it is ...... In fact, there are not so many Huayi defenses. ”

A passage of words was slurred, and the vest people laughed. Ma Jia patted Xu Wenxuan's shoulder and said with a smile: "Assistant Xu, I don't dare to say it if someone else, but I believe it when you say it." I heard that you married a French woman a while ago, which is very good, and now we are strongly promoting interracial marriage. The Ministry of Civil Affairs is also preparing to introduce incentive measures, and those who marry between Tu and Tai Xi people, between Tu and Ming people, and between Ming and Taixi people will be rewarded with 10 yuan at a time. Of course, there is no such reward for self-marriage between the Turen, the Ming people, or the Taisi people. ”

"The local people and the barbarian people are all greedy for small profits, and as soon as this government comes out, decades later, the people are all the same. This is good governance! Xu Wenxuan patted his ass.

After visiting for a while, the Ma Jia people left the Ping An Machine Weaving Factory. Now that everything is on track, the next step is to follow the rules.

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