Coming out of Xijing, going east along the Yellow River, the entire Central Plains slowly opened its arms, looking around, open-minded, and the weather was thousands.

In recent years, the climate has become worse and more volatile, and disasters have increased...... But fortunately, this year is a peaceful harvest year. The farmers were busy, rushing to take back all the crops and grains to their homes.

The family's food, clothing, and flowers pointed to the harvest in the field.

Although the industrialization process of the Great Song Dynasty has begun, most of the areas are still dominated by traditional agriculture, and the lives of the common people have not changed.

Many people are only willing to steam steamed buns in the autumn harvest for a few days, eat dry, and have the strength to work.

It is only when the harvest is time that the children are the happiest, running around the fields and venting their exuberant energy...... All this is very interesting in Zhao Shu's eyes.

As an emperor, let alone leaving Beijing, there are not many opportunities to get out of the palace.

This time Wang Ning'an went to Jeju and Yanzhou to investigate, the little emperor couldn't hold it back, he disguised himself and followed Wang Ning'an's team, and also went out of Beijing to take a look.

As the emperor's sworn friend, Gouya'er also followed along.

He was now dressed in armor, and he had a somewhat majestic appearance, but when it was time to eat, he was immediately revealed. He gave Zhao Shu and himself a bowl of loach soup, soaked in cakes, sucked and sucked, not to mention how beautiful it was.

Seeing his son squatting next to the carriage, without any image of virtue, Wang Ningan was worried, this son was ruined by Su Shi, can't you be more elegant?

But when he saw that Zhao Shu was also like this, Wang Ningan sighed gloomily, he was really a failure as an emperor!

Too lazy to talk nonsense, let's hurry up!

Less than a month after leaving Beijing, they finally arrived in Jeju.

Fortunately, it is the vigorous renovation of roads and the construction of bridges over the years, which has made it much more convenient on the road, and there is no delay to come so quickly.

Some people want to ask, it's been many years since the law was changed, where has the money been spent?

Why are you still short of money?

In fact, the annual income of the national treasury is quite a lot, but there are still too many places to spend money.

Roads and bridges should be built in various localities, as well as wells, ditches and wells should be dug and drilled...... These projects cost a lot of money and take a long time to pay for themselves.

There are also some projects, such as military camps, city walls, warehouses, etc., which can never be recovered. Of course, these constructions will enhance the national strength, but when counted in the accounts of the household department, it is an annual deficit, the financial pressure is huge, and the household department is constantly complaining, which makes Wang Ningan a little out of breath.

In fact, when it was proposed to develop cotton spinning, Wang Ningan wanted to pay money from the imperial court to subsidize cotton farmers, but the problem was that there were too many people asking for money, there were herdsmen in Youzhou and the northwest, and there were mulberry farmers in the southeast...... Simply, I can only leave it to the people below to break in.

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, only when you sit in this position do you know how heavy the burden is.

Because of this, the Jeju and Yanju experiments are so important.

Da Song Tai needs a way to broaden his financial route.

Their first stop was Jeju.

Two months ago, Wen Yanbo personally rushed over to supervise the collection of cotton, resell it to factories, coordinate all parties, especially the adjustment of textile machinery, and train workers...... About 20 days ago, a total of three cotton spinning factories in Jeju were operational.

The steam engine is driven, the machine is running, the spindle is spinning rapidly, and the cotton thread is spun, and then from the cotton thread to cotton yarn, the cloth is like flowing water, and the cloth is flowing like flowing water......

Wen Yanbo was dumbfounded, and his eyes were round in shock!

Lao Wen has seen everything, but he has never seen the power of factory machines.

He roughly estimated that the three factories could weave 180,000 horses every month, and by the end of the year, it would be 540,000 horses, 40,000 more than estimated!

The order from Tianzhu is enough...... Wen Yanbo grabbed his beard and thought slightly, he had woven so much cotton yarn, and the next step was to expand the scale, and in addition, to increase the dyeing workshop...... By the way, the pass is still cotton to be sufficient...... Next year, we will comprehensively change cotton planting, and we must push it down, and cotton will be planted on the entire Jingdong Road.

Also, you should borrow money from Xijing Bank, so that the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, and everyone who has money will earn it together...... I have to say that Wen Yanbo has observed Wang Ningan for so long, and he has learned all his skills, and he can even play with financial support for the industry.

My son is right, I should let the people of the world see it, especially the emperor, my Wen Yanbo's ability!

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Lao Wen was full of confidence and took Wang Ningan and Zhao Shu to Jeju, because they came from Weifu, there were not so many courtesies, Zhao Shu rested for a long time, and couldn't wait to get to the cotton spinning factory.

Far away from the factory, I saw thick smoke billowing out, choking people and coughing.

No way, this is the case in the steam era, if you want to use a steam engine, you can't do it without burning coal.

Wen Yanbo was also intrigued, telling Zhao Shu that their factory was running and consumed 500,000 quintals of coal a month, all of which were transported from the Yanzhou coal mine.

Coal alone can increase the tax revenue of the imperial court by 150,000 guan within a year, and the local government can also share 30,000 guan of tolls, and add another 2,000 coal miners.

Wen Yanbo is eyebrows fluttered, boastful, and smiled at Wang Ning'an from time to time, that means clearly, boy, be convinced, you know how powerful the old man is!

Not to mention, Wen Yanbo was able to make the cotton spinning factory to this extent, which was really an eye-opener for Wang Ningan, he did admire Lao Wen a little, and he was really capable.

Zhao Shu was pleased and visited the workshop of textile cotton yarn.

When he saw the cotton yarn flowing out, Zhao Shu was also pleasantly surprised.

"Master, I'm afraid this factory is even more powerful than thousands of weavers!"

"Hmm!" Wang Ningan nodded, "As far as the minister knows, a workshop with thousands of people, relying on the harvest of weaving, can weave at most 8,000 horses in a year!" ”

Zhao Shu was shocked, "So calculated, an average weaver can only weave 8 pieces of cloth a year?" That's hard enough. ”

"Not really!"

Wen Yanbo took over the words, "Your Majesty, a skilled weaver weaves for six hours a day, and it is only three feet of cloth, and after a year, he is tired and tired, and he can't weave 10 pieces of cloth...... We sell overseas, a piece of cloth between 15 and 18 guan, because it is gold and silver settlement, can also take a little cheap, but it is less than 20 guan, of which the weaver's salary alone has 4 guan, raw materials at least 2 guan, printing and dyeing 1, pay taxes to the imperial court 4 guan, deduct freight, looms, miscellaneous...... The traditional harvest workshop, the profit of a piece of cloth is only 3 times, if it is sold to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that it will not even be consistent. ”

After listening to this, Zhao Shu nodded again and again, the scale of thousands of weavers, calculated by a workshop, is only one or two thousand yuan of profit, of course, this is not a small amount, but it is completely different from imagining, making money every day...... In fact, most workshops have only a few dozen people, and even if their own family members work with them, the net income will not exceed 200 yuan in a year.

"Sure enough, people's livelihood is difficult, and businessmen are not easy." Zhao Shu said curiously: "Xianggong Wen, what about switching to a steam loom, how much can it be improved?" ”

Speaking of this, just poking at Chinese Yanbo's mind, the old guy could not hide his joy.

"Your Majesty, the minister just said that such a factory can produce 60,000 pieces of cotton cloth a month, but there are only 600 workers!"

Zhao Shu was shocked, in other words, a worker can produce 100 horses a month, which is worth the output of ten workers in a hand-held workshop in a year!

That's scary, isn't it?

Zhao Shu also learned a lot of common sense of economics from his master, and roughly calculated, the production efficiency of workers alone has increased by 1,000 times, of course, considering the price of steam engines, as well as the consumption of factories and coal, it is far from such a disparity, but it is also considerable.

The improvement of efficiency has brought about a crazy decline in labor costs, and in the past, it was a labor cost of 4 pieces per piece of cloth, but now, it may only be a few dozen dollars.

Moreover, large-scale shipments, freight can be saved a lot, and the cost of raw material procurement can also be reduced, in other words, even if it is 10 pieces of cloth per piece, it is still more profitable than traditional handicraft workshops!

Dogtooth was very curious, so he found a piece of cotton yarn and compared it with what he was wearing.

There are still problems with the machine's weaving, such as uneven thickness and not dense enough, and if you tear it hard, it will crack...... It's not surprising that it's nowhere near as delicate as handmade, after all, the original machine is not as good as handmade!

However, because of the cost, it can already crush the handicraft workshop.

After all, a horse from the cotton spinning factory can be pressed up to 8 times, and this price has broken through the cost of the traditional workshop, which is equivalent to directly declaring the bankruptcy of the traditional workshop.

It's as powerful as a nuclear weapon!

Coming out of the factory, Zhao Shu's ears still echoed with the roar of the machine.

He secretly glanced at Wang Ning'an, his eyes full of awe.

At the beginning, the master said that the steam engine could bring 500 years of national fortune to the Great Song Dynasty, and now Zhao Shu admits that this thing is indeed powerful!

"Wen Xianggong, have you calculated, how much tax can this factory bring to the Great Song Dynasty?"

"Your Majesty, the old minister has calculated, 500,000 horses of cotton cloth, goods and Tianzhu and big food, according to 12 horses of a horse, that is, 6 million guan, the imperial court takes 25 percent of the tax, which is 1.5 million guan, in addition to coal, steam engines, cotton, various industries, the total tax that can be increased is exactly 2.7 million guan...... Same as last year's Guangnan West Road, the tax all the way! ”

Wen Yanbo deliberately didn't make a loud voice, but in everyone's ears, it seemed to be a thunderbolt, earth-shattering!

I have to say that industry is indeed a great thing, rich country and rich people, in the final analysis, it is still necessary to develop production!

At this moment, Lao Wen is quite proud, he has worked hard and been busy for more than half a year, for this day! Don't think that only Wang Ningan and the Xiangxiang Guild manage money, and he is not bad!

If dozens of textile factories are built, the tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty can be directly doubled, Wang Ningan, what is so great about you, see how powerful the old man is!

"Lord Wang, I don't know how Yanzhou is doing? From the old man's point of view, it should be much better than me, right? ”