Although the Ming Dynasty began to enter the economic model of the commodity economy very early, the textile industry still developed in the form of that kind of family workshop.

In a farmer's field, in addition to planting grain, cotton is also the goal of their planting, and after the cotton is produced, it is then spun into yarn and cotton cloth, accounting for the proportion of the farmer's income cannot be ignored.

With the exception of the big cities, almost all rural areas rely on household manual labor for the textile industry, which is an inefficient textile industry.

However, this kind of textile industry is better than the low cost of production, and the price of cotton in the economically underdeveloped areas is low, and the cotton in some areas is even less than one or two silver and a load.

As long as Shandong's textile mills make every effort to impact the rural textile economy of Daming, it can cause a large number of farmers to go bankrupt, and with the development of industrialization, such an impact is inevitable.

However, Zhao Yan still has to try to minimize the negative impact, as far as the north and the south are concerned, the north is in turmoil at the moment, and the south is stable.

Many areas in the north are barren for thousands of miles, while the south has greater population pressure and strong economic resilience.

Therefore, it is ideal to choose to hit the southern economy, while the northern economy is sluggish at the moment, and it is obvious that excessive shocks will only make the situation worse.

After the impact on the south, it will only usher in a new adjustment, and will not let production collapse, so the impact on the southern market has become Zhao Yan's first choice.

Zhao Yan immediately set a sales plan for the textile factory for next year, selling as much as he could overseas, deducting a part of his own supply, selling another part of the northern commercialization market, and selling most of the remaining cotton to the south, so as to completely occupy the southern market.

As long as the commoditized market in the south is completely occupied, a large number of people will be unemployed, and Zhao Yan will have the opportunity to recruit ordinary people.

Historically, when the Mongols and the Manchus invaded in a full-scale manner, there was little resistance in the north, but the resistance in the south was the most powerful, and these nomads killed the most people in the south.

This is a phenomenon created by various historical and geographical reasons, the people of the north are shouldering the task of resisting the nomads for a long time, and the people of the south are shouldering the task of exporting financial revenues to the political axe. Once the alien race invades in a full-scale way, the people in the north have been weakened to the extreme, and those who dare to resist have almost died before, and they also do not have the economic strength to resist.

After the south lost the protection of the north, even resistance could not last long, because the south did not have that military background, and the most successful was the Southern Song Dynasty, which did not last long.

At this moment, the end of the Ming Dynasty has reached this critical moment, and the national strength in the north is already relatively weak, and it is urgent to replenish the strength from the south.

It's not that the northerners are not good at writing, but the environmental factors are not so stable, and the people are not as rich as the south, so the phenomenon of poor culture has resulted.

Southerners, on the other hand, are not unskilled in martial arts, and can become good fighters as long as they are trained, but they usually do not have to face that kind of turbulent environment.

As long as the people are allowed to be stable and prosperous, this gap between the civil and military forces between the north and the south can be reconciled.

At present, Zhao Yan is carrying out ideological education for the people, and most of the people in the north under his rule know the national righteousness, and if he trains the people who have immigrated from the south, he can also get many good soldiers, which can be regarded as a kind of transformation of shortcomings.

Then mix the population of the south with the population of the north, and slowly reconcile yourself, and gradually reach a balance point in culture, quality, customs, and so on.

Most of the population of the Ming Dynasty is concentrated in the south, and if Zhao Yan wants to get more population, he has to work hard in the south, as long as the economic impact on the south has an effect, even if Hong Chengchou and Chongzhen do not let him immigrate from Shaanxi, he can get a large number of people from the south.

…… As soon as Zhao Yan gave the order, the textile mill immediately worked overtime to produce cotton cloth, and made every effort to build looms, increase the output of cotton cloth, and no longer export cotton yarn to the south. At the same time, a large amount of cotton was purchased in the south, and everything that was available was purchased, provided that the price of cotton did not exceed four taels.

The economic shock to the South has officially begun.

As soon as Zhao Yan returned to Zhaojiabao on his front foot, Yuan'er immediately ran to him and said, "Childe, the Science and Technology Institute has built a steam engine over there." ”

"Really?" Zhao Yan was a little stunned by the news.

"It's really made, and it's smoking!" Yuan'er patted her chest, as if she was frightened.

"Haha! Steam engine! Zhao Yan laughed, kissed Yuan'er on the face excitedly, teased Yuan'er so much that a red glow appeared on her face, and then said, "Let's go and see." ”

"Hmm!" Yuan'er nodded obediently.

Zhao Yan and Yuan'er quickly rushed to the Institute of Science and Technology, only to see a steam engine roaring, Richardson was so excited that he jumped up and down, Zhao Yan saw this posture, he knew that it was made by Richardson's team, and couldn't help but be disappointed.

How is it a group led by gringos, and it will be more embarrassing in the history books in the future.

"Forget it, I invented this thing anyway, he's just the executor." Thinking of this, a smug smile appeared on Zhao Yan's face, and he walked over.

"Your Excellency is here." People immediately gathered around to greet Zhao Yan.

"General, your wisdom is enough to light up the whole sky." When Richardson saw Zhao Yan, he immediately slapped his ass on the back, "Under your guidance, our group took the lead in creating this big guy." ”

"What's the situation?" Zhao Yan looked at the rudimentary steam engine that roared next to him and asked.

"We made ......" Richardson compared for a long time, and Zhao Yan knew that the steam engine made by Richardson was just a Newcomen steam engine, and it didn't need rubber.

After the other groups got the rubber, they went to build the Watt steam engine.

"General, the bounty question ......," Richardson asked in a whisper.

"There will be no less than one point in the reward." Zhao Yan was very generous, and without blinking his glasses, he asked people to take out tens of thousands of taels of silver, and just sent it down, and the members of Richardson's group got more bounties than Zhao Yan had set before.

"Which group builds the second type of steam engine first is the same reward as this one." Zhao Yan said loudly to the surrounding team members, which immediately attracted an exclamation.

Zhao Yan's generosity is beyond everyone's imagination.

Then Zhao Yan announced that Richardson's group was honorably out, and the personnel of their group would be transferred to other groups to assist in the manufacture of new steam engines, and at the same time, some members of the team began to manufacture this old-fashioned steam engine, first building a dozen or so for Handan.

Handan's steel products, steel is a heavy industry, naturally the top priority, in terms of profitability, compared with the textile industry is not much worse.

Cooking, cooking, and farming all need to use steel tools, and the market in Daming is very huge, and Handan's steel industry has a very obvious cost advantage and higher quality.

At present, an industrial chain of iron and steel products has been formed in Handan, and commodities such as iron pots, iron spoons, scissors, needles, iron wires, hoes, shovels, axes, and saws are produced. These commodities are not only needed for maritime trade, but also in supply and demand in the palace.

Because of the advanced technology, the cost has a very high advantage, even in a small remote place.

In addition to daily necessities, there are also various weapons, armor, shells and other things, and reinforced concrete is also used in the project, and there are many places where steel is used.

Now there is no fear of overproduction of steel, and when there is a steam engine, a large number of railroad tracks will have to be laid, and a lot of steel will be needed to build roads and houses.

Handan's iron production theoretically reaches 10,000 tons per day, but in practice it is not that much, because the blast furnace has high requirements for the supply of raw materials, and the supply of raw materials must be continuous to form the maximum output.

The mining caverns in Handan often decreased due to water ingress, and raw materials were not always available, so the appearance of steam engines could be used to pump water.

Even this old-fashioned steam engine without gear structure can also be competent for pumping water, as long as the steam engine drives the water pump, and the water in the mine can be pumped up by constantly pressuring the water pump up and down.

At the same time, the Ordnance Bureau can also use the steam engine, after having the steam engine, the weapon can be directly forged with the steam engine in the future, which is more stable and powerful than the hydraulic forging machine.

Once the water level is exhausted, the water flow power must be stopped. With the steam engine it is different, as long as there is coal, it can keep running.

The era of Hercules will soon begin!

Zhao Yan's heart was surging, even if he had made a steam engine before the crossing, he would not be as excited as now, in that era of advanced science and technology, it was meaningless to build a steam engine, and it was all eliminated. In this era, the steam engine is a kind of machine that can make the nation rise rapidly, which is the highest scientific and technological achievement.

Zhao Yan then inspected other groups, and there were three groups that were still studying steam engines, one of which was Putragus's group, and most of the members of the group were missionaries from England and were Protestants. Richardson, on the other hand, was a pseudo-Catholic from the Holy Roman Empire.

Putragus's group is working on a new type of steam engine, that is, a mature type of steam engine, and as soon as the new type of steam engine is introduced, it can be regarded as truly entering the era of great change in production.

There were also two groups, one working on the old steam engine, and after learning that Richardson had built the steam engine, he had also withdrawn from the competition.

The remaining research team was led by a Xiucai named Shi Kewei, whose uncle was a mechanical repairman who had studied machinery since he was a child.

Zhao Yan found that they had already made the condenser and gear linkage, and at the moment they were only waiting for the final two-way acting cylinder.

However, due to the lack of advanced processing technology, the cylinder is not too round, and the piston rod is not straight enough.

The group was moving much faster than Putragus's group, and as soon as the barrel boring machine was successful, the Watt steam engine could be built immediately.

A steam engine with a gear linkage is a real all-purpose machine.

(To be continued)