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Yang Chao came this time with a large group of officials from the Ministry of Industry, and even Bai Lei, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry, brought him over.

Bai Jiangtou was originally a candidate for the Ministry of Industry that Yang Chao valued, but there was a talent with a stronger level and practical experience than him in the imperial examination, because the scrolls were all vague, and the words were all copied, Yang Chao thought that the scroll was Bai Lei's, but after finally opening the package, he found that the scroll was answered by Zhang Guowei.

Zhang Guowei is a water conservancy expert, although he was also a civil official in the past, but this person pays attention to the practice of learning and application, and those civil officials who are not diligent can be different, he was the governor of the ten prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River for seven or eight years, especially in Suzhou, so far have benefited from his political achievements, he also compiled the "Wuzhong Water Conservancy Encyclopedia" will be the water system and hydraulic analysis of the Suzhou area clearly, and he also personally built a large number of water conservancy projects in that year, do not pay attention to the score, when the water is controlled, it is not a person and a horse, or a person and a boat, inspect everywhere, Get involved.

Zhang Guowei has rich theoretical knowledge and rich practical experience, so he is naturally much more open-minded than a guy like Bai Lei, and he can analyze the layout of the water system with a macro vision, which is stronger than Bai Lei.

But Yang Chao didn't expect that this guy who had been a secretary of the military department and entered the cabinet was willing to take Yang Chao's imperial examination, and he thought that this kind of person couldn't pull his face, and later learned that it was under the persuasion of many people that he came out of the mountain, as a representative of the gentry class, and did not let the craftsmen hold the power.

Yang Chao didn't care about the power struggle of the gentry class, as long as they obtained power reasonably and legally. That's allowed.

Zhang Guowei advocated the Ministry of Industry. In fact, it also lives up to its name. The renovation of Wusongjiang was completed by him.

With Zhang Guowei on his head, Bai Lei was completely reduced to a subordinate, and was assigned by Zhang Guowei to carry out construction in various places, and he did not have any resistance, as a craftsman, he really had no political means to fight against this kind of bureaucratic figure.

This time, Yang Chao brought Bai Lei over in order to cultivate his governance ability.

Standing on the hillside, there is a small river below the hillside. You can go directly to the canal network of Suzhou by boat, and it is only five miles away from Suzhou City.

"Bai Jiangtou, build a small wharf here, and then the raw silk and silk from our silk field can directly enter Suzhou, and then be transported to Wusong."

Yang Chao pointed to the small river at the bottom of the mountain and said, and Bai Shilang hurriedly wrote it down with a small book.

Yang Chao said to him again: "There is also a row of big houses along the river." It doesn't need to be tall, but it must be spacious. The most riverside row only opens the skylight for lighting, and tries to seal it as much as possible. But there must be a secret passage to the surface of the river. In this way, the room must be very humid and the temperature will not be high, and it will be used to store mulberry leaves and branches in the future. Second row room. In the same way, you can't have a large window, which is mainly closed and used to raise silkworms. In the third row of houses, the large windows are ventilated, and the skylight should also be opened, which should be ventilated and transmitted, which is to raise silkworms. ”

Such three rows of large houses have a capacity larger than the silkworm chambers of 100 small silkworm households combined, but Yang Chao demanded that the output must reach the output of 1,000 peasant households, and without ten times the output, it would not attract investment from the landlord class.

To do this, in addition to the large enough space of these houses, it is also necessary to make full use of each silkworm house, which is basically open, and there is no extra wall in the middle. And the height should also be fully utilized, using tall shelves, layer by layer to the roof, each layer is used for silkworm raising, and the area of silkworm farming alone is estimated to be no smaller than that of a thousand farmers.

The most important thing is that these professional buildings can ensure the temperature more than the farmers' houses, and the farmers are raising silkworms in their own bedrooms, and the environment needs different sizes of silkworms, not only the silkworms are not good, but their lives are also affected.

Specialized sericulture.

But it's not just silkworm farming, if Yang Chao just wants to develop professional silkworm farming, it won't be so troublesome.

He has had silkworm seeds shipped from all over the world, silkworm seeds from Guangdong, silkworm seeds from Shandong, plus excellent silkworm seeds from the south of the Yangtze River, after these silkworm species are differentiated, the genes must be different, through hybridization, Yang Chao hopes to breed new varieties.

Even Yang Chao has commissioned the Zheng family and the Dutch to import a batch of silkworm seeds from India and Japan, and vigorously breed and cultivate them here, so that the silkworm seeds of the Ming Dynasty will always be ahead of the world.

Silkworm seed base, this is the ultimate goal of Yang Chao.

"Ministry of Industry, your Ministry of Industry is not just about repairing canals and engaging in irrigation. Also responsible for the promotion of industry! ”

Yang Chao said to Bai Lei.

In the past, the Ministry of Industry basically served agriculture, so its main role was to build roads, palaces, and canals, and to engage in water conservancy projects, but if Yang Chao wanted to reorganize society and transform the agricultural society into an industrial society, it was necessary to reorganize the functions of the Ministry of Industry into industrial services, or at least to strengthen industry.

Bai Lei continued to record that he was exhausted in the past two years, much more tired than in the past to repair the project, and complained all day long at home, but if he was asked to give up this waiter, he was unwilling to kill him, and when the craftsman became a waiter, such a thing has not been done for thousands of years, he enjoyed it very much, and the family's business has been completely taught to his two sons.

Let the head of the white craftsman leave someone here to be in charge of the construction, and let the old women who raise silkworms give their opinions one by one, and give a reasonable opinion to reward ten taels of silver, these women are very active. Later, they put forward useful suggestions such as adding earthen stoves to the small silkworm farm houses and laying wood residue and gravel on the ground of the large silkworm farm houses.

"In addition, a large textile yard will be built. Brick walls and roof trusses, you don't want anything, you just need a large enough open space. By the way, have you ever measured a textile machine, based on the largest textile machine, there must be at least a thousand looms in the field. The silk reeling farm also needs to be designed in this way, and it must meet the various equipment and tools for silk reeling, which you can be responsible for consulting with those old silkworm households. I need to build three more houses like this. In addition, there is a need for raw materials for storing raw silk and a warehouse for storing silk. ”

"In half a year, I will see the silk produced here in half a year. In a year's time, I'll see that the benefits here are worth 1,000 farming families. There are also workers who do not need much, absolutely not more than two hundred men and women. ”

Without such efficiency, how to convince the vast number of landlords to invest.

From silkworm raising to weaving, a one-stop large workshop was formed.

In such a large factory, if the efficiency of raw materials can be imported and products sold in a unified manner is not as efficient as the efficiency of purchasing raw materials, processing and sales by each household, industrialization is nonsense.

In the case of no breakthrough in technical ability, management can also double efficiency, the industrial revolution is not only technology, but also a revolution in management mode.

To establish this model silk weaving factory in Suzhou, Yang Chao also had to build a similar cotton spinning factory in Songjiang Province, employing no less than 1,000 workers, and it also needed to be outstanding, at least much stronger than those workshops with lax management.

At this time, Daming, even if it was a workshop with thousands of looms, was very amateurish in management. Not to mention individual weavers, they buy silk and yarn in the morning, and sell them in the market after weaving, which is simply too inefficient. It is a large-scale workshop, and it is also the morning when the master greets the workers in the temple market, tells everyone what type of textiles to weave today, and then recruits workers to his home to produce.

Yang Chao recruited long-term workers on a large scale, signed labor contracts, and let them work in the workshop all year round, and at the same time gave them good remuneration, and also carried out specialized production, a loom only produces one kind of fabric, and even a farm produces only one product.

To introduce this kind of management, someone must also supervise and implement it, and Yang Chao used Wang Xiao.

Although Wang Yihe accepted Yang Chao's proposal to divide shares and not divide property, he wrote a contract document when he went home, and asked the county order to supervise and stamp it with a big seal, and Yang Chao also issued a decree to cooperate.

But Wang Xiao was already disheartened, he was unwilling to continue to contribute to the Wang family, refused to be the big shopkeeper of the Wang family, and directly sold his father's 10% shares to a few brothers, and took out 300,000 taels of silver.

When Yang Chao saw this situation, he couldn't waste this talent, so fortunately, he brought in a textile factory.

Among the investments in these textile farms, there are Wang Xiao's 300,000 taels of silver, and Yang Chao invested 200,000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to letting Wang Xiao control it, and of course, letting him manage it fully.

Although it is a model factory, Yang Chao did not want to build a government-run workshop, so the effect of playing is very fast, but the sequelae are too great.

With the cooperation of the best craftsmen in the government, the workshop was built in one month, silkworm raising began in two months, and the first batch of silk was harvested in summer, but the quality was still uneven.

It's not a problem of management, it's that the management is not straightened out.

A large number of old silkworm women are recruited as consultants and managers to raise silkworms, and they are not very experienced, so problems will inevitably arise.

The situation of autumn silkworms is much better, and the yield rate has reached 70%, which is already on par with the efficiency of careful breeding by farmers.

Therefore, in October, there was a profit, and at the same time, the first batch of textiles was produced, and the quality was okay, not as good as the best weavers, but it was also able to reach the level of popularity.

With the improvement of workers' skills and the normal operation of the workshop, it will get better and better, and it is not an illusion that after a year, it will be ten times more efficient than ordinary silkworm farmers and weavers.

Large landowners and big businessmen who operate the silkworm industry in Suzhou and Huzhou were invited to visit, and they were greatly publicized in the newspapers, and standardized management manuals for sericulture farms and textile farms were produced and given to those people, and they were welcome to imitate the operation.

At the same time, Wang Xiao was asked to invest all his profits in expanding his business, and Yang Chao said that he would not need any dividends in ten years.

However, the selection and breeding of silkworm seeds has not yet appeared obvious good breeds, but the best silkworm breeders continue to cross silkworm seeds.

Then select the largest, the best cocoon luster, the largest silk toughness, and then continue to breed, and always cultivate several silkworm species with different characteristics.

It's a long-term job, and it's not in a hurry.

At the same time, Indian silkworms and Persian silkworms were also introduced through the Dutch, and silkworm species from Japanese silkworms, Vietnamese silkworms and even Cambodia and other places were also brought over to raise and be used for hybridization. (To be continued......)