Chapter 728

At that time, the Western Xia was not only thinking about how to harass and provoke the northwestern frontier of the Great Song Dynasty, but also had to accumulate more heavy troops in its royal capital, Xingqing Mansion, in order to guard against the possible threat of the Great Song Dynasty at any time.

In this way, the initiative between Song and Xia can be said to have completely changed hands, and at that time, the Great Song Dynasty wanted to fight and defend, and the fortification of the city fortress built with Yuanyou cement was so strong that the Western Xia army poured into the nest to attack, and it would only end up with heavy losses.

Even the Great Song Dynasty could use the new Yanzhou City as a lure to induce the Western Xia to come and invade, while the other armies of Zhulu could copy its later routes......

With Zhao Xu's explanation, Rao is Gao is good at politics and weak in military strategy, but from the map and the content of Zhao Xu's words, he realized that the benefits here are absolutely rich and impossible to refuse.

Gao Tao finally had a headache. "Although what that kid said makes sense, but building a city, it's not a trivial matter, just building a new city, I don't know how much silk it will cost......"

"Grandmother Huang don't worry, Wang Wushan has a word first, as long as I allow him, he will raise his own money to build the city." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

"He financed the construction of the city himself?" Gao Tao turned his head in astonishment.

"Imperial grandmother, you may not know that Wang Wushan is expected to sell more than 6 million yuan of wasteland in Yanzhou alone......" With Zhao Xu's words, Gao Tao really surprised these words.

"More than 6 million yuan, it's still a wasteland! Can you be sure? ”

"Grandmother Huang, have you forgotten the Yuanyou ginning machine that Wang Wushan presented a month ago?" Zhao Xule smiled.

"That machine, the mourning family also knows, but with such a machine, those people are willing to spend so much money to buy wasteland......

"Imperial grandmother, in fact, it is mainly the profit-seeking nature of those businessmen, and they are far more sensitive to others in terms of profit gain and loss.

The day after the news of the eleventh brother Yuanyou's ginning machine and the news that the Great Song Dynasty was currently only allowed to grow cotton in Sanzhou was published through the newspaper, many wealthy businessmen and tycoons in Bianliang, Tokyo, went to the supervisor to visit the operation of the Yuanyou ginning machine......"

Those rich businessmen are not fools, so naturally seeing is believing, and Wang Yang, the old driver, in order to seduce these rich businessmen, in addition to transporting two Yuanyou ginning machines, also specially transported thousands of catties of seeded cotton.

In order to allow those people to see the efficiency of this machinery with their own eyes, and when they really observed the production efficiency of this machinery, many merchants who were mainly engaged in silk cloth in Bianliang, Tokyo immediately sent their representatives and hurried to the northwest border.

If nothing else, it is to buy land, plant cotton when the time comes, and then weave cloth and tailor it for sale.

And the wasteland in just one state can be sold for more than six million yuan, which also scared Zhao Xu a lot, he was a little incredulous, for fear that the news was fake, for this reason, he did not tell anyone, but quietly rushed to Yanzhou with his henchmen and guards to check.

After receiving the reply, Zhao Xu was really relieved. At the same time, I admired Wang Yang more and more in my heart, the pillar of the country who could create something out of nothing.

That's right, it is just out of nothing, and those wastelands, in too many, can be regarded as almost useless for the Great Song Dynasty. Even if cotton can be grown, cotton has almost no other function than filling it for heating.

Even if it is made of cotton cloth, it is because its seeding process is extremely time-consuming and laborious, so the cost of cotton cloth is extremely high, and its material is not comparable to silk, so in the past, cotton cloth is at most for some idle eggs, independent and special people to pretend to use.

Therefore, because cotton cloth is time-consuming and expensive, its market is extremely niche, but Wang Yang just made such a Yuanyou ...... Not...... Well, Yuan You's era name, I'm afraid I can't change it even if I want to.

In short, the emergence of Yuanyou ginning machine, instantly made the cumbersome degree of cotton process directly reduced to the hemp picking, you know, to hemp as clothing, need to cut hemp, peel hemp, soak, twist, sizing, reed before it can be woven into linen.

Although the process is also cumbersome, but it is still light, unlike the picking up of cotton seeds, a person may not harvest a pound of lint for a day, and the production of hemp does not need to be so finely operated.

However, the emergence of the Yuanyou ginning machine only needs two people to operate, and it can process nearly 30 catties of seeded cotton in one hour, and it is definitely not a dream to produce 100 catties of lint in one day.

This yield is equivalent to the yield that at least 300 seed-deseeding mothers could obtain in a busy day in the past. After such a calculation, all businessmen are keenly aware that cotton cloth is likely to replace linen cloth in a very short period of time, or in other words, in the future, the Great Song Dynasty, and even the weaving and garment industry in the entire surrounding area, will undergo earth-shaking changes.

Naturally, take the lead, this is something that must be done.

Zhao Xu also greatly appreciated Wang Yang's approach, Wang Yang did not ask for all the money, but directly converted a considerable part of the money into food, daily necessities, and work tools.

In this way, with sufficient supplies, those people who migrated to the land of Sanzhou did not need to suffer from cold and hunger, and when they arrived at the place, they would have enough agricultural production tools and living materials, so that they could settle down as quickly as possible and not be prone to civil unrest. In addition, even if those people miss the busy farming season, they can still work for relief.

"It is worthy of Wang Wushan, he really thinks about everything, since this is the case, the matter is at his disposal, but the official, you also have to remind him, I have a total of 23 roads and 243 state capitals in the Great Song Dynasty, and the tax revenue of last year totaled 132.6 million guan, which was evenly apportioned, and the average state was about 545,700 guan."

"And this amount is also the annual tax income of my Great Song Zhongzhou, and the average annual tax of Shaanxi Road Prefectures in the northwest region of my Great Song Dynasty is about 280,000 guan per state, for example, Huanzhou, last year's income was only more than 248,700 guan, as for the land of Yan, You, and Hong, how will the tax revenue ...... in the future?"

Listening to Gao Tao's gentle tone, Zhao Xu seemed a little confused, and he didn't quite understand what the Empress Dowager was talking about.

You know, the land of the three states is the land newly occupied by my Great Song Dynasty, and it is the time when all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, and the imperial grandmother said this, what is the problem?

"It seems that you really don't understand, but it's okay, you just say, it's the mourning family who specially asked you to ask on behalf of the old man......" Seeing his grandson's ignorant look, Gao Taotao felt that it would be better to continue to maintain a sense of mystery, so as to teach this good grandson who is growing up a lesson.

In fact, what is more important is that Gao Tao wants to see how much potential Wang Yang Wang Wushan still has to be tapped.

Is it really as the people are rumored to be now, the military strategy is like Han Xin, the trickery is like Zhang Liang, and the governance is like Xiao He. There is another item, that is, literary talent is like Dongpo.