Han Gang's cruel words made Feng Congyi very comfortable to listen to, and he should deal with those guys whose hearts, livers and lungs are blackened like this.

Don't look at him when he went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he called him a brother and sister, but after turning his face, Feng Congyi couldn't wait for them all to go bankrupt.

"It's not enough to just be a newspaper," Feng Congyi said, "to write in the novel, let those storytellers help with the publicity, and there are also miscellaneous scripts, so that people can bring the faces of those black-hearted businessmen to broad daylight." ”

Han Gang smiled: "In that case, they will become rats crossing the street." ”

"It's the rats that cross the street. If those who go off the rails can make a fortune, then who will honestly do the right thing? Ah......" Feng Congyi looked at Han Gang and hurriedly added, "Of course, we can't delay the major event of promoting industrial development. ”

Han Gang nodded, his intention to promote industrial development would not waver, "Personal martial arts are useless in front of the military array, and self-sufficient small-scale peasant production is also unable to gain a foothold in front of machine production." This is the general trend of the world, the flood is coming, who can go against the current? ”

"Don't say that small farmers are the machinery of the past, and they can't stand in front of newer machines." Feng Congyi lowered his eyes and said to Han Gang: "The house in the east of the city, the younger brother, opened a mill last year, and he quarreled from morning to night. The younger brother's outer room made trouble a few times, and the younger brother couldn't grind, so he wanted to pay for the owner of the mill to move, but he just refused to move, and he didn't do anything to buy his house for twice the money. Bullying others is to smear your brother's face. Another mill was opened nearby, and he was squeezed away at a low price, and I felt that it was too much of a loss, and I couldn't do anything about him. ”

"Now there's a way?"

"Of course, I got the steam engine first and opened a steam mill to crush him!"

In the past, when there was a hydraulic mill on the Bianhe River, the use of the water power of the Bianhe River from time to time could earn 100,000 yuan a year. The entire restaurant in Tokyo is used by Bianshui mills to mill rice and noodles, rather than grinding it itself.

Since the iron manufacturing of the Ordnance Supervisor replaced the water-powered mill, neither the wind-powered mill nor the animal-powered mill was as convenient as the water-powered mill.

But now that there is a steam engine—powerful, inexpensive, and available everywhere, according to Han Gang—all it takes is a steam engine, plus the milling of rice and flour, and the rice milling alone can shut down all the mills in Jingshi.

The water-powered mill seemed to save firewood money than the steam engine, but it had to be paid to buy the expensive land on both sides of the Bianhe River, and the imperial court had to agree to lend the Bianhe water--the cost was far more than the price of coal.

As long as the steam engine can be put into practical use, the rice mill and flour grinder can be easily designed. There are huge profits ahead, and you can learn from the water and wind power, of course, it will not be slow.

If Feng Congyi really opened the steam mill first, not only the mill next to his outer room, but also the other mills in Jingshi will be closed.

"Actually," Han Gang said, after hearing this, "if you let a few shops use his mill to do business for a year, and then invite him to come to the door as a guest, so that they can make a good business, and then provide him with a good shop twice the size, and partner with him to do mill business, how can he not move?" ”

"That's a really good idea." Feng Congyi applauded and admired, but judging from his expression, he was not too surprised, he should have thought of it a long time ago, "If those black-hearted guys in Jiangnan are as benevolent and righteous as your brother and like a win-win situation, there will be no such thing this time." ”

Han Gang shook his head, "It's difficult." ”

It is the characteristic of capitalists to reduce costs and expand the scope of profits as much as possible. For the sake of 300 percent profit, the capitalist can sell the rope he can hang himself to the enemy.

If you really want to talk about it, everything that the owner of the Liangzhejiang Silk Factory did was the world that Han Gang had appeared in his previous life. If they don't do it, naturally someone will do it.

Sooner or later, there will be people in the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce who feel that while developing new technologies, they can get greater profits by taking a little advantage from the workers. As long as Han Gang doesn't find out, it's nothing to do it secretly.

The reason why it is not there now is simply because there are enough profits now. And the owners of the cotton spinning factory still feel that it is not worth it to risk losing Han Gang's trust for a little money.

But Han Gang didn't dare to take the risk of testing human nature, so he could only think about killing chickens for monkeys in the future.

"The silk factories in Jiangnan depend on what they do, whether they live or die, it depends on themselves." Han Gang said.

"A qiē is all because of greed, that is, they are on a dead end, and they are also asking for themselves. Hebei Silk Factory is not so greedy, although the workers are hard, but they have not made trouble to that step...... There is really a difference between these northerners and southerners. ”

Such a speech full of regional discrimination made Han Gang laugh out loud, "That's because Hebei is not suitable for raising multi-season silkworms, only one season of work, and there is not much to exploit if you want to, and the people are not seriously damaged." If the climate is the same as Jiangnan, see what they do? Fool the outside world, you don't want to be fooled yourself. ”

Feng Congyi laughed embarrassedly twice, and said a little unconvinced, "Actually, there are still some differences. ”

Han Gang said: "If a cotton spinning factory is set up in the Western Regions, you see what Wang Jingsheng will do." ”

Wang Sunchen was stationed in the western region of Tunxi and began to plant cotton fields long ago. Over the years, he occupied several large oases at the foot of the Tien Shan Mountains, leading the snow from the Tien Shan Mountains through guò culverts. Not to mention the grain fields, the cotton fields that have been reclaimed alone have exceeded 700 hectares. This is already equivalent to one-tenth of the total number of cotton fields in Kansai and Longxi.

"It's a good thing he didn't think about it." Feng Congyi rejoiced, "This is going to happen, the Western Regions will give him a scourge." ”

Wang Sunchen had an industry in Longxi, and he also had a cotton spinning factory, so he didn't think about using these cotton fields, which belonged to the government and immigrants, to spin and weave cloth. There are also officials in the two major capitals of the Northern Court and the Western Regions who have mentioned that the imperial court will set up a cotton spinning factory to provide military supplies and earn military expenses. But Han Gang was in the middle book, and he easily vetoed it in the name of competing with the people.

"It's also a pity that the cotton from the Western Regions can't be transported, otherwise the output of cotton cloth can be increased."

"How did it spread over there in Kansai? The Black Wind Station only blows once a year, from the first day of the first month to the thirtieth day of the lunar month, the wind is together, the stones of the grinding plate are rolling all over the ground, and the carriages made of iron can be blown over, and it is useless to repair the railway. ”

The Western Regions and Longxi are separated by four thousand miles, and there are several deserts with strong winds all day in between. Therefore, the production of 700 hectares of cotton fields is basically made into winter clothes and winter quilts. First, it is not easy to transport cotton from the Western Regions to Kansai, and the freight is much higher than the cost. Second, the Western Regions does need these fillers, compared to wool, compared to silk cotton, the price of pure cotton is really not high.

"When Wang Jingsheng settled the Black Khanate, the factories needed coal and iron, and there was no shortage of water, and the Ili River Valley was the most suitable place to set up factories. None of them are going to make money from it, but "

"It's too far away to manage."

"You don't have to manage it, there will be a way in the future." Han Gang said.

"Even the immigrants are too far away, and there are a little more people willing to go to Liangguang and Yunnan than the Western Regions. The imperial court has publicized too much of Liangguang and Yunnan,"

The imperial court has been encouraging immigrants, especially in the newspapers, which have been praising immigrants for many years, and Hangang has reformed the imperial examination, and the new Xiucai and Juren have all issued barantia certificates issued by the imperial court. As long as you emigrate, hundreds of acres of land are easy to get.

What was Gangnam like a thousand years ago? What was it like 2,000 years ago? If it weren't for the hard work of countless ancestors for thousands of years, how could there be today's land of fish and rice?

From the land of 'the only down to the bottom, and the land of the grass to weave shells', to the Tang Dynasty's '100,000 yuan around the waist and riding the crane down to Yangzhou', the changes in Yangzhou are obvious.

Since the land of Jianghuai in Dayu can become today's paradise, since to the Sui and Tang dynasties, there are only a few counties in Fujian, can become a place of humanities, that or abundant rain, or the climate is pleasant Liangguang and Yunnan, of course, can also become the next Jiangnan, the next Fujian.

The imperial court continued to publicize this kind of propaganda and constantly agitated and appealed for it, and the scale of immigration to the frontier became larger and larger, although it cannot be said that there was a lot of traffic, but in terms of the number, the number of families who took the initiative to emigrate exceeded 5,000 every year. Of course, the least number of people who are willing to take the initiative to go to the Western Regions has not exceeded three digits, and they are all the families of prisoners who have been sentenced to exile in the Western Regions and cannot be returned in case of pardon.

"Almost all of Wang Jingsheng's troops have settled in the Western Regions and married local women. A few years later, the imperial court sent troops to the Western Regions. As long as they marry a wife, have children, and divide the land, I believe that the vast majority of people will live in peace of mind. ”

"It would be nice to send more." Feng Congyi has always supported the development of the Western Regions, and he said with a smile, "Last time it was the Western Army, and next time it will be the turn of the Beijing camp." ”

"That depends." Han Gang said, "The matter of the silk factory, you help me pay more attention, in two years, the imperial court will be ready to stop paying silk, but pay money." ”

Feng Congyi's spirits perked up, and he hurriedly asked, "How many silver coins does the imperial court plan to issue?" ”

"This year it's two million."

Feng Congyi calculated in his heart, nodded and said, "That's almost no problem." ”

The reason why silk was important in the Great Song Dynasty was because silk replaced the role of money in a large way. A large part of the imperial court's stake vaults were stocked with silk silks rather than coins.

In the past, because the copper and iron coins were too heavy, it was not convenient for merchants to take them to the north and south, so the silk silk with light quality and high price and easy to carry became the currency when buying and selling, and was called light goods.

Now the imperial court mints large and small silver coins, which are high in value and face value, which is used to compete with silk for the market of high-value currency.

In the past two years, millions of taels of silver flowed into the Great Song Dynasty through various channels. The imperial court can now easily take out more than one million taels to make silver coins, change the silk to money, and seize the monetary value of the silk, which has become possible.

Once the imperial court changed the payment of silk to payment of money when collecting taxes, it would be a heavy blow to the silk factories everywhere. In the past, they could directly take the silk to pay the bills, pay taxes, and buy other goods, and they couldn't spend it for a while, and they didn't have to worry about storing it in the zài warehouse. But once the tax reform and the silk can't be sold, it will be a loss of coffins.

"But there will be dissenting opinions from the government and the opposition,"

"Don't worry, this can reduce the change, it is the government of the good people, and no one can oppose it."

The people pay two taxes, some pay money, some pay grain, and some pay silk, as long as the government needs, the special products of various places can be used as the object of collection.

Local officials took advantage of this chaotic tax model, and when collecting taxes, they arbitrarily exchanged the money, grain, silk and silk they had paid for other taxes of equivalent value.

In the process of exchanging, the price of the exchange is in the hands of the tax collectors, and naturally it becomes a tool for profit. It is generally necessary to change it two or three times, increase the tax amount by more than half, and even five or six times, and turn around and return to the original items to be handed over, becoming two or three times the original.

For this law of cruelty to the people, many people in the court have always proposed to correct it. But their appeal did not serve any purpose at all.

The method of change has been passed down from the five dynasties, and the Great Song Dynasty has been established for a hundred years, and the interests have long been intertwined, and there are not a few local clans that have benefited greatly from the taxation of the imperial court. How can it be abolished when they are all against it?

What's more, the imperial court allocates officials and military officials every year, and a large part of them are in kind. Not to mention grain, silk, and cloth, silk wool for filling winter clothes, and charcoal for heating are all part of the tax revenue.

If the imperial court abolished the levy of taxes in kind, then the problem of this change could be solved lightly. All that remains is how to suppress opposition from lower-level officials.