Moon Yanbo has always been a man of action, and after weighing it, he immediately mobilized the large cotton growers in Jiangnan to plant cotton in Jeju and Shanju, and instructed them to raise a sum of money to buy textile machinery and set up a cotton spinning factory to operate as soon as possible.

After more than half a year of improvement, the stability of the steam engine has improved a lot, and the woolen factory in Youzhou has used the steam engine on a large scale, and the effect is amazing.

The efficiency of weaving has increased by 200 times, but the number of workers used has been reduced by 20%.

Of course, the reduced workers did not lose their jobs, but moved to other industries, such as logistics and sales. There were also more merchants who traveled to the steppes to buy wool.

Yelu Hongji was a promoter of Huhua, hoping to resist the cultural erosion of the Great Song Dynasty.

But many things are difficult to return, and with the war between the Japanese and Goryeo, the Khitan also had to buy materials from the Great Song Dynasty to support Goryeo, so it was necessary to sell goods to the Great Song Dynasty in exchange for arms and weapons.

What else is there to sell in the Khitan, the most valuable thing is wool.

Therefore, outside the entire Great Wall, including Yunzhou, the process of raising sheep has once again begun, which is countless times faster than the original Youzhou.

It's not hard to see why.

Because of the use of machines, labor costs go down and profits go up, so that factories can purchase raw materials at higher prices, sell goods at lower prices, and even have money to increase workers' salaries...... With the lure of interests, the Khitan tribes were powerless to resist.

They had enough of suffering with Yelu Hongji, and they urgently needed to sell all the products in exchange for the luxury goods of the Great Song Dynasty to meet the needs of life.

The steam engine drove the prosperity of the entire Youzhou, and in the first half of the year alone, 700 steam engines were added, and the order was scheduled for a year later.

In order to meet the needs, Youzhou also built two machinery factories, responsible for the manufacture of steam engines and textile machines.

Wen Yanbo saw the effect, the old drooling was long, and the cotton spinning factory he controlled was the first batch of customers.

They have ordered a total of 3,000 spindles, and expect to produce 500,000 pieces of cotton cloth by the end of the year, and together with the output of the southeast, they will be able to complete the goal of selling 1 million pieces of cotton cloth overseas.

A piece of cotton cloth is sold overseas, and the price is 8 to 10 guan, and the cotton spinning factory in Jeju has an annual output of 400 to 5 million guan, and the tax is paid at 25 percent, which is more than 1 million guan!

If you add other projects driven, the contribution tax can reach more than 2 million.

A cotton spinning factory has such a big tax revenue, who would dare to say that it is not good to run a factory!

Wen Yanbo is more calculating, the happier he is, he estimates that Yanzhou, no matter what, he can't compare to him, and when the time comes, he will slap Wang Ningan and Wang Anshi in the face, let the two kings know how powerful he is, and let the court see who is really capable!

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"I don't agree, according to your method, you will definitely lose!"

Wang Fang shook his head again and again, "This is not our method, it is the prince, and the prince and the prince are all in this view, and they agree with the division of land." ”

"I'm not against dividing the land, but I can't divide it according to your way!" Lu Yan resolutely opposed.

Su Zhe frowned deeply, "Brother Lu, tell me the reason." ”

"What's so complicated about this, the prince has set two standards, one is to divide the field, and the other is to develop cotton spinning...... But at present, these two criteria are contradictory. ”

"How is it contradictory?" Wang was puzzled: "Wouldn't it be more conducive to the development of the industry to let the people live a little better?" ”

"No, at least not for the time being!"

Lu Yan said: "I have thought about it carefully, the strategy of dividing the fields between the prince and the prince is actually to give the people a reassurance, so that they will not be unable to live...... But what the prince really wants to do is to promote industrial development through the division of fields, in the final analysis, it is still necessary to develop industry! Do you agree with me when I say that? ”

Su Zhe said: "That's right, the prince does have this view, he thinks that only by dividing the field can a stable foundation be built, and with a foundation, it is good to move forward quickly." ”

"Of course I agree with the prince." Lu Yan said: "But have you considered it, if you want to develop industry, you must have money, raw materials, and labor...... If we hastily divide the fields now, and the common people go home to farm and grow and eat for themselves, where can we get the money to set up cotton spinning factories? If there is no factory, there is no way to compete with Wen Yanbo, and when they make money and form a scale, they can completely defeat us and give us no time to develop at all! ”

Wang Jian was dumbfounded when he heard this, but it was Zhang Dan, he showed a surprised expression, and said in his heart that this person surnamed Lu is not a good stubble, there are two hits!

"Brother Lu, you go on, what are we going to do?"

"I mean that the fields must be divided, but there is no hurry to give them to every people."

"And what are you going to do?"

"We can nominally own the land to the people, but we can cultivate it together according to the purpose." Lu Yan said loudly: "We can set aside half of the field to grow grain, and the other half of the field to grow cotton." Grain is used as a ration for the people, and cotton is used as a ransom for the people...... For a period of three years, the people contributed their labor, and the cotton produced was supplied to the cotton spinning factory for free, and after three years, the income from the cotton spinning factory was used to help the people pay the land ransom, and at that time, the land was completely handed over to the people. ”

What Lu Yan said was a bit twisted, but everyone understood it, to put it bluntly, it was to let the people work for nothing for three years, and use the output of these three years as the primitive accumulation of cotton spinning factories.

"And what about three years from now? When the time comes, the common people are unwilling to grow cotton, won't our factories be wasted? The king said worriedly.

"Hahaha, Wang Gongzi, you change your thinking, if we do a good job, the cotton spinning factory is booming, we can buy cotton at a high price, and the people will earn more, maybe the rest of the land will be replanted with cotton!"

Zhang Dian thought for a while, "I support Brother Lu's opinion, it's just that Wen Yanbo has a group of big cotton growers, they have abundant capital in their hands, and they have begun to buy machines, and we don't have much money in our hands, so what should we do?" ”

"Sell shares!"

Lu Yan immediately said: "Master Zhang, you go and talk to the machinery factory in Youzhou, we will give away 30% of the shares of the textile factory, or they will use the machine to buy shares, we will join hands to set up the factory, and after making a profit, dividends will be distributed according to the shares." In addition, we have more than one million acres of land and hundreds of thousands of people, can't we borrow money? ”

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After a few of them discussed, Su Zhe made a decision, completely followed Lu Yan's method, and wrote a detailed plan and sent someone to Wang Ning'an.

Coming out of the yamen, Zhang Dian took a few steps and stopped Lu Yan.

"Dude, would you like to have a drink with me?"

"It's as good as it gets."

The two of them hooked up shoulder to shoulder, and went directly to a quiet tavern to talk while drinking.

When it was time for the wine to be hot, Lu Yan took the initiative to speak.

In order to introduce a cement workshop, he ended up with a case, which alarmed the emperor and almost lost his head, but fortunately, thanks to the new monarch's accession to the throne, he saved his life.

In prison, Lu Yan pondered repeatedly, what was wrong with him?

Later, Lu Yan figured out a little way.

In the end, he just lacks the first gold.

It's obviously a business that is very likely to make money, but because of the lack of start-up capital, it has to be done hard, and it goes wrong. So, if you want to be a good official, you must be good at management and good at finding money!

"When it comes to finding money, the easiest way is to get a rich man, just like Wen Yanbo, and directly introduce large investors in Jiangnan to invest."

"Well, Brother Lu is high-minded, but the prince and the prince don't like to do this very much, Brother Lu may see the reason?"

"It's not simple, if you use a big family, you have to give them dividends, and it is likely to take away the big heads...... If you think about it, if the big merchant family takes the big man, the court will also take it, and the local officials will have to take it, and in the end, there will be nothing left for the common people, and it is even better than farming...... The prince is worried about provoking a civil uprising, so he hopes to divide the land and calm the people's hearts. ”

Lu Yan sighed: "It's just that if the land is divided, it will not be easy to raise funds and develop industry, this is the dilemma!" ”

"So Brother Lu wants to postpone the time for three years, so that the people can exchange their labor for land!" Zhang Dian rarely admires a person, but Lu Yan's performance impresses him.

"Brother Lu, who do you think will win?"

"Of course we are!" Lu Yan poured a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Those big families want to make money...... What will they do when they take the money? Go to buy an opera troupe, raise a little wife, and go to the temple to burn incense and make a vow? Or get yourself a garden with a big roof? ”

Lu Yan knocked on the table and said, "In my opinion, this money is not used for development, it is all waste!" They waste, we don't waste, we all use it for development, Master Zhang, you say, who can win? ”

Zhang Duan pondered for a long time, and suddenly burst out laughing.

"Brother Lu, listen to your words and see the sun! The reluctant minister said that his knowledge came out...... Brother Lu's knowledge came out of the prison in the prison, which made me want to go to the prison to squat! ”

Lu Yan raised his eyebrows, with a smug look on his face.

Indeed, during his time in prison, he was able to calm down and understand well. When I was a teenager, I read the way of Confucius and Mencius, read the hundred schools of thought, and later read the books of the Six Arts and One Series, observed so many things, and did a hundred miles of marquis, put aside all kinds of myths, the things in the world are nothing more than input and output, a point of hard work, a point of harvest, nothing complicated!

Zhang Dian and Lu Yan drank together until midnight, and the two of them felt that they hated to see each other!

These two people are indeed very similar, although their positions and experiences are different, but for the sake of the end, they can do whatever it takes, and they both have a ruthlessness, not only to others, but also to themselves!

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Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it's autumn.

This year is the second year of Zhao Shu's ascension to the throne, and it is also the first year of the Yuan reform, God still gives the little emperor face, from south to north, there is not like last year, there is a large-scale drought, on the contrary, there is a bumper harvest scene in various places, and the people are busy in the fields.

As for Wang Ning'an, he was not idle, he wanted to see with his own eyes whether Wen Yanbo was better here, or Su Zhe and Zhang Dian were stronger...... It's bound to be an unusual contrast, so let's wait and see!