The canal trade led by Xuan Yingwei was hugely profitable from the beginning, not only did the previously best-selling products become popular again after breaking through the blockade of the Xuanwu Army, but also those new industrial products received great praise. Textiles and garments, the representative products of industrialization, broke through the previous restrictions in one fell swoop and occupied the entire Central Plains market. So much so that after receiving the notice, the Xu family and the Yelu family began to divide labor and cooperate to transport all the woolen textiles and silk fabrics in Fengzhou to Tianjin and ship them south.

This strange large-scale transportation of textiles and garments from the north to the south also really made the industrial and commercial department headed by Murong Hanhai feel the seriousness of the war damage in the Central Plains, the social foundation of the small peasant economy in the past, the male farmers and women weaving in the past, and the rich groups that had made war money could only buy foreign goods to make up for the lack of consumption means.

Zhao Si and Zhang Jianzhong, who were at the headquarters in Tianjin, also began to distinguish the types of goods unloaded along the canal, and the major cities in the territory of the Xuanwu Army were mainly textiles, supplemented by food and other items. The products shipped to various parts of the south of the Yangtze River are concentrated in the emerging industrial products in the north, such as the machinery and equipment of the industrial group, the medicinal materials and medicinal products of the He family, the special products of various places and all kinds of daily necessities, etc.

With the departure of the second fleet, a large amount of money began to travel north with the ship. In addition to gold and silver, all the copper coins were purchased locally for grain and other materials, and the remaining part followed the stewards sent to Bianliang by various wealthy merchants to go to Jiangnan, and began to purchase materials from Jiangnan or simply exchange for gold and silver to be transported north with the ship.

In addition to the return money on the fleet's side, the Treasure Pavilion side has also opened the market in the short term, and the price of luxury goods is also rising, finally getting rid of the situation that the value of treasures in troubled times has been declining. Moreover, the big killer prepared by Qiaoxi - glass products that transcend the times began to appear on the market. The last scene of the auction is still vivid in everyone's mind, under the operation of Biaozi, a fish tank built of glass was lifted to the auction site that night, when the fish in the water appeared in front of everyone's eyes under the illumination of the light, it shocked everyone, and this transparent object appeared in front of the eyes of the Chinese people for the first time. Fifteen pieces of five-foot square glass and more than 20 round glass lenses that were urgently transported from Chang'an were sold at an astonishing price. This kind of rare value that was touted as a tribute from the Western Regions really surpassed the gold, fifteen pieces of glass bought five thousand taels of gold, and the more than twenty mirrors actually offered a sky-high price of 10,000 taels of silver. And at that time, Duobaoge received dozens of anonymous deposits, all of which were for glass and mirrors without exception.

And Biaozi, who was bent on getting into the eyes of money, began to kindly release instructions for the use of glass products for free, reminding everyone of the taboos when using this strange transparent item, and generously said that the wealth of the Central Plains will inevitably attract more merchants from the Western Regions to come to the Central Plains to sell goods, please wait patiently.

After the news reached Chang'an, he almost fell into Li Xuanqing's arms with a smile. Finally waited until Qiaoxi stopped, Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "We estimate that Murong and they will follow suit, you take the time to give them a report on the development of the glass industry, I have already written it, let them develop downstream products." Some don't need much technology, so they can start building factories and then sell them. ”

"Big brother, you want to quickly help them transition to the status of capitalists." Qiaoxi smiled, picked up the Jiangnan area commercial market inspection report sent by Xuan Yingwei, looked at it and said with a smile: "Brother Hu's Xuan Yingwei is doing everything, and this business development report is really good." Big brother, do you guess if there will be any gains after the fleet docks in Gangneung? ”

Li Xuanqing said thoughtfully: "I heard that during the early economic war, some of the secret trading houses arranged by Xuan Yingwei in the Bianliang area went to the Jiangling area, so it should have opened up the situation. After a pause, he suddenly said: "Qiaoxi, come and help me analyze, is the condition ripe for economic war with Zhu Quanzhong at this time?" ”

Qiao Xi was stunned when he heard this, and then shook his head and said, "Qiao Xi doesn't think it's realistic. Because on the whole, the economic foundation within Zhu Quanzhong's territory has not been shaken, and the wealth of attacking Xuzhou will not be greatly consumed in the short term. It is a bit difficult for the big brother to manipulate the economic contradictions within it. And there are not too many means we can use, unlike the many economic means that can be used in later generations. ”

"Big brother, don't worry, although the other side has relied on the war to plunder a lot of wealth, but our economic foundation is much better than the other side, and the proportion of industry and commerce is gradually increasing, in fact, as long as we get through this year, the situation of deflation will gradually change." The clever and light voice talked eloquently, comforting Li Xuanqing and said: "And according to the transportation volume of the canal trade, as long as it continues until the end of the year, the return of funds will almost make up for this year's investment." ”

"Enough is enough, mainly because the capital consumed by the construction of the railway is too large, and at present, in addition to merchants and cargo transportation, ordinary people are still skeptical about railway transportation, and when the freshness passes, it will inevitably lead to a decline in railway revenue." Li Xuanqing couldn't help but have a headache when he thought of the income of railway transportation, even in later generations, the railway was a big money-thrower.

Qiaoxi is also very speechless, now all the construction is at a critical moment, so there is no good way to hold on, just wait until the economic development passes this stage. And the most important thing is that Li Xuanqing has not yet learned from the future generations to abolish the agricultural tax, so at least after the agricultural foundation is stabilized, this part of the income is relatively fixed.

When Li Xuanqing and his wife were worried about deflation, the five wealthy merchants, who had prospered because of the canal trade, began to set up a special trading company according to the plan of the Department of Industry and Commerce in order not to delay their production plans after a series of large orders, responsible for purchasing all kinds of commodities in the whole region, and then packaging and trading in the name of the trading company. In Bianliang and other places, Biaozi monitored the preference of regional consumers for the manufactured products of northern industries.

The results of Biaozi's monitoring and the reports of the big tycoon's own trading houses in Bianliang and other places were also quickly transmitted to the headquarters in Tianjin. Based on this report, Zhao Si and Zhang Jianzhong drew up a new list of commodities and distributed them to major trading companies to guide them in stocking.

First of all, in the area of woolen textiles and ready-to-wear, because of Zhu Youshu's relationship, now all the military uniforms of the Xuanwu Army have been delivered to the garment factories in the north. However, after Xu Xingxia pondered about this matter, he changed the previous method of using raw materials for military uniforms, and still in accordance with the standard requirements of Zhu Quanzhong's side, he began to use the cotton promoted by Li Xuanqing as the filler, and the outside was made of woolen textile fabrics, and the cotton clothes made in this way began to be continuously shipped onto the ship to Bianliang and other places.

After Li Xuanqing learned about this phenomenon, he quickly introduced the method of cotton planting and use, and passed this method to Xu Xingxia. In fact, the era of cotton use began. In his previous life, he didn't remember when cotton entered the ranks of textiles, but it did not prevent Li Xuanqing from knowing that Xu Xingxia had put this emerging raw material on the stage of history.

Moreover, according to Xu Xingxia's method, the production speed of cotton clothes has been greatly improved, and Zhu Youshu's first order of 100,000 sets of military uniforms was simply won by the Xu family and the Yelu family in just over two months, and the profits of this large-scale production of ready-to-wear can be increased a lot, and Zhu Youshu, who controls the industrial and commercial taxation of the entire Xuanwu Military District, has already been stimulated by the early stage of trade at this time, and his pockets have been greatly expanded, and he has paid directly with a stroke of the pen. For him at this time, it is more important than anything else to be a diligent son in front of Zhu Quanzhong according to Biaozi's plan. The completion of the military uniform so quickly also made Zhu Quanzhong praise him. And Zhu Youshu's wife Meng Shi relied on Biaozi's rosemary to gain a firm foothold in Zhu Quanzhong's harem, this kind of thing was originally despised, but Zhu Quanzhong himself was born a scoundrel, and after the death of his wife Zhang, no one could suppress the viciousness in Zhu Quanzhong's heart. And coincidentally, Zhu Quanzhong's three sons not only had no opinion on their father's behavior, but encouraged their wives to compete for favor in front of their father-in-law.

With Xu Xingxia taking the lead, cotton, a new textile raw material, quickly replaced expensive silk fabrics such as silk in Guanzhong and the north. The new cotton yarn was quickly spun and began to be spun into cotton cloth following the clever weaving machine. This new high-quality cotton cloth is even known as a textile comparable to silk, and the most important thing is that compared to the expensive price of silk, the cost of cotton cloth is even less than one-fifth of that of silk, which also made Xu Xingxia and Yelu Yaqi begin to promote this emerging textile with all their might.

Although the price growth is very slow under the background of deflation, it still makes the market feel abnormal, and finally drives the price of all cotton in the entire Tiance Province region to rise.

Li Xuanqing saw this change in his eyes, and smiled at Qiaoxi. Cotton and steel in later generations and even called the cotton and iron revolution, naturally led to the development of almost all related industries from planting to manufacturing to finally industrial and commercial sales.

The rapid success of cotton also made Li Xuanqing deeply feel that the industry had really taken root in the land of China, and the seeds planted by himself and Qiaoxi could finally grow on their own.

At this time, the prosperity of the canal route actually led to the economic development of Zhu Quanzhong's jurisdiction, although a large amount of wealth was brought to the north with the fleet, but a large number of copper coins and other materials were also transformed into social production and living materials through the jokes of this time, so in the short term, the materials consumed are actually the resources in the hands of some people who have made war money, so in the process of converting to social resources, industrial and commercial taxes have also risen with the conversion, and on the basis of the heavy taxes formulated by Zhu Youshu, they have climbed a lot.

However, this system of heavy taxation soon seriously hindered the development of the economy, and the heavy taxation on the basis of an active market became the reins of its development. Biaozi had no way to deal with this matter while thinking about it, because there was no way to guarantee the status of Zhu Youshu without taxation. After thinking about it again and again, Biaozi began to contact the various wealthy business managers in Bianliang to hold a meeting, integrating the large and small Tiance Fu merchant firms into five large and professional commercial houses, and unifying these five brands to the outside world, no longer using the previous sub-sale model, but transferring the downstream to local merchants, and all the staff specializing in wholesale business. In this way, Biaozi asked Zhu Youshu for five tax-exempt documents and gave them to the five large commercial houses that had been re-established.

This backdoor approach has earned Tiance its goods tax-free and low-tax treatment, but its local businesses have gradually declined due to heavy taxes, and the bustling economy of the Central Plains has begun to decline after nearly three months of activity. However, in the past three months, the economy of the north has developed rapidly, large and small manufacturers have sprung up everywhere, under the leadership of the five wealthy merchants, the business will completely cover the entire Central Plains and the Shandong Peninsula region, and with the southward movement of the canal trade, the trade in the Jinling area has gradually become popular, replacing Luoyang and Bianzhou as a new station.

When the economy of the Central Plains entered the stage of decline, the Sichuan trade route prepared by Hu Xiaosi also began to enter the stage of implementation and operation, but on the question of whether the army should take precedence or commerce first, the Department of Industry and Commerce and the General Staff Department had different opinions. The General Staff meant to let the Department of Industry and Commerce explore the way for the army in front, but Murong Hanhai was unwilling to discourage the enthusiasm of these businessmen. In the end, this matter was even troubled by Li Xuanqing.

However, these disputes did not delay Hu Xiaosi's Xuanyingwei activities, and after opening up the route from Hanzhong to Chengdu, Sichuan, Hu Xiaosi took He Wenjin and Murong Hanhai to secretly prepare a team to enter Sichuan. This kind of bias in favor of the Department of Industry and Commerce also made the General Staff secretly scold and shameless, and at the same time accelerate the implementation of the Sichuan strategy.

However, at this time, Biaozi of Bianliang sent an economic information to the base camp, Xie Tong's canal dredging project came to an end, and Zheng Fan and others, who were responsible for the dredging of the canal with Xie Tong, will return to Bianzhou today to report on their work.

Hu Xiaosi, who received the news, groaned alone for a long time, and quietly walked into the General Staff Building with information, and after secretly discussing with Xu Tianxiang for most of the day, the two went to find Li Xuanqing. With the appearance of the person in charge of the military and politics, Li Xuanqing also quietly realized that it was time to withdraw the attention that had been on civil affairs some time ago. However, just as a few people were about to study the contingency measures, Qiaoxi also walked in, and a veritable sea ship had been built in the shipyard.

The general staff here, who was about to take measures because of the return of Xie Tong and his party, suddenly realized something after hearing Qiaoxi's words, and several people hurriedly turned out the charts made before and compared them carefully, Xu Tianxiang said a little uncertainly: "Lord, do you want to wait and see?" ”

"There is no need, the navy does not know when it will be able to form combat effectiveness, but the General Staff can transfer a part of the army into a naval force on the spot in due time to participate in daily training. The Navy Department will let Guo Chongtao be in charge. Li Xuanqing shook his head and said.

"The General Staff and Xuan Yingwei are in charge of executing the plan. It seems that Xie Tong's mind is the same as ours, and after sorting out the interior, he began to make friends and attack from afar. Li Xuanqing took a deep breath and said, "This time we have to face the top wise man in the world, this is a special war." ”

This sentence is not only for Xu Tianxiang and Hu Xiaosi, but also for himself. This is the first time that a group that does not exist in history has faced the top group of people in this era, and it is also a war whether it can bend history.

"Please rest assured, my lord." Hu Xiaosi and Xu Tianxiang bowed down to receive the order, and the latter continued: "We will not be worse than them. ”

"yes, we're not going to be worse than them." Li Xuanqing smiled slightly.