In the north wind call, a team of horseback riders walk on the repaired road, which is the road leading from Changyi to Qingzhou Mansion, and there are many tunbao on both sides of the Changyi road, so these sections are repaired.

In ancient times, the road was actually pressed roadbed, the rammed earth was compacted, and a good point was padded with a layer of fine stones below, and the road in Dengzhou was also this road, and drainage ditches were built on both sides of the road, in fact, there was less rain in recent years, and it may rarely be used. Road construction can invigorate business, can also improve the army's mobility, and those wages can also stimulate consumption, so Chen Xin still insists on doing this.

The internal roads of Denglai are much better than those of Qingzhou, Jinan and other places, and from the perspective of defense, Dengzhou Town can obtain an excellent advantage of internal line mobility.

Chen Xin and Liu Minyou walked in front, they came out of Pingdu Prefecture, and they walked here in only one day, twenty miles away from the factory. It was from here that Kong Youde escaped back then, and Chen Xin was deeply impressed by this place.

Liu Minyou also came to Changyi, and the tunpu in Changyi was doing very well, except for a small number of yeoman farmers, it was already difficult to find tenants in the land of the gentry, and now the tun affairs department was negotiating with them, ready to buy their fields with a rent of one bucket per mu. Liu Minyou approved this practice, for Dengzhou Town, the field is enough, and this method can also reduce the sharp contradictions between Dengzhou Town and the gentry.

After walking more than ten miles, there is a large area of factory buildings by the river, here is between Weishui and glue, the waterway traffic is very developed, there are many fishing villages along the river, there are many wharves in the past, and sand boats can also be docked, and many smuggling boats are starting from here.

This area has always been poor, but because of its proximity to the river, food is more abundant than that of the interior, and the inhabitants are generally larger. After being operated by Dengzhou Town, Tunpu was also built in this area, and no one took care of the sideline business of fishing, so they could take care of as much as they could, and the low-priced salt sold in the Tunpu store allowed them to make fish into pickled fish, which they could only eat by themselves before, and now they can exchange it for silver.

After a large factory was suddenly built here this year, many fishermen and their families have found a place to go, that is, to be textile workers, these local laborers can not meet the requirements, and more than 2,000 women from Pingdu Prefecture and other places have come here, making it look like a daughter country.

Later, there were also displaced people who were resettled, and these displaced people had exceeded the absorption capacity of Dengzhou Tunpu, so they were placed here, and the men undertook the work of carrying and unloading, and the women entered the textile factory.

Although the factory has only just been established, business opportunities have already arisen here, because there are so many people here, in addition to the workers inside, there are also road builders, dock workers, sailors, and dyeing workers. In addition, those in the service industry themselves also need to consume. The total number of local residents in the factory area has exceeded 20,000, and the comprehensive stores in Dengzhou have been distributed here again and again, and merchants from Pingdu, Qingzhou, Dengzhou and other places have also come to see the shops, and the local homesteaders have bought land to repair the stores, which is more prosperous than the county seat of Changyi.

There were so many people suddenly pouring into this place, even firewood was a problem, and Chen Xin and the two saw two fights between locals and outsiders on the road, and they were actually in the forest to collect firewood. In this era, only the wealthier can afford to use charcoal, ordinary people cook rice and burn kang mostly rely on firewood, and the children in the family have to assume this function, with the increase of displaced people day by day, all kinds of resources in Denglai are in tension, including firewood, there are not a few children who walk more than ten miles to collect firewood every day. After the arrival of outsiders, the workers can eat in the canteen, the children and the elderly at home are cooking by themselves, and the firewood is getting farther and farther away, and the locals later demarcate their own sphere of influence, and those people are not allowed to collect firewood from outsiders, and the outsiders have nowhere to collect firewood, so the firewood has become a matter of fighting.

The 3rd Battalion stationed in Changyi was transferred to Lushun, so that the maintenance of law and order here could only rely on a temporarily mobilized division, and the manpower was far from sufficient.

Xiao Heling, who was in charge of building the factory, picked up the two of them, took them into the wide factory area, and introduced the factory to the two of them all the way.

Liu Minyou asked Xiao Heling: "Have all those new textile machines arrived?" ”

Xiao Heling pointed to the wharf by the river, "There is still a difference of fifty percent, the textile machinery and loom are new, the output can not keep up for a while, the textile machinery of Wendeng and Weihai are transported by sea, because of the Lushun extraction, the capacity is somewhat insufficient, the subordinate changed to use the textile machine of the Pingdu Prefecture Workshop to transport here, and after a month after the glue is frozen, there will only be land transportation, and the Department of Industry and Commerce has prepared a batch of silver taels, ready to be used for winter land transportation. Wendeng's textile machine was transported to Lingshanwei, where the harbor would not freeze to death in winter. ”

Xiao Heling pointed to the warehouse on the other side, "The cotton purchased from Qingzhou and Tianjin has been transported here, and it can be used for a period of time in winter production." ”

A few people walked to a factory while talking, the span can not be compared with the factory of later generations, but it is an all-brick house, this kind of brick house has a better ability to keep warm than a wooden house, and it will not be too cold after there are many people inside, so that the fingers of those workers can remain flexible.

It was full of four-turn spinning machines, Xiao Heling pointed to a female worker made by cāo and said: "Two adults, please see, this kind of single-person loom uses a shuttle, the speed of the shuttle is twice that of the original manual shuttle machine, and the weaving manpower is half less than that of Jiangnan." The rotor of the textile machine is four, one more than the three shuttles commonly used in Jiangnan, cotton procurement because of the large amount, compared to the price of Dongchang to Jiangnan is less than one percent, the freight from Tianjin out of the canal, pay less two banknotes of the tax, Jiangnan one money six cents and one boil, we only need one money and three points, the cotton of Pingdu Prefecture and Qingzhou is cheaper, the purchase price is lower than the local Jiangnan area, the cost of spinning out is only one and two cents, plus the degree of transportation, it can be used wholesale with two dollars and three cents along the canal. ”

Chen Xin nodded and said: "Songjiang cloth is sold for three yuan in the canal, that is, it is less than two percent." ”

Liu Minyou added on the side: "And our cloth is more dense, which is also the advantage of the shuttle, better quality cloth, lower price, our competitiveness will of course be stronger than Jiangnan, and the cotton planting area of Dongchang Mansion and Gunzhou Mansion is very large, not inferior to the raw materials of Jiangnan." ”

Xiao Heling also said: "When the chūn season freezes, and all the hydrospinning wheels on both sides of the glue are ready, the manpower will be saved, and the price next year will be lower than that in winter." ”

After listening to this, Chen Xin praised Liu Minyou: "Minyou has chosen this industry very well, and it will be able to defeat the local small households in Shandong in the first half of next year." ”

Liu Minyou turned his head to Xiao Heling and said: "We have this plan, but Xiao Heling, you have to remember that bulk cloth must be a practical thing for the people, and the cloth that comes out must be thick and durable. However, the monthly production plan and sales volume must be reported to the Department of Industry and Commerce, and the sales of cotton cloth are all used by the trading company, and the Department of Industry and Commerce is not allowed to call the share, you remember. ”

Xiao Heling didn't know about Chen Yijing, which involved the matter of the Industrial and Commercial Division's arbitrary use of cigarette shares, as well as Xu Yuanhua and others, so Liu Minyou decided to cancel the Industrial and Commercial Division's intervention in sales.

"Subordinates remember."

"Cotton spinning is a major event in my Dengzhou, you have to work hard to do a good job, the factory is now in a mess, you also have to take care of it, you need to transfer people from the workshop and the tobacco factory, report it directly to me." ……

After inspecting the factory, the two went to the empty office to rest, Chen Xin said to Liu Minyou: "I won't go to Lingshanwei, Changyi is doing a good job here, this Xiao Heling has some ability." ”

"It's just a bit chaotic, the technology of spinning machines and looms may only take a year to spread to Jiangnan, and it will take some effort to defeat the homespun cloth in Jiangnan."

Chen Xin cocked his feet and smiled: "It is not so easy to defeat Jiangnan Tubu in a year or two, but Jiangnan Bu will definitely lose the market in the north, and I am ready to open another large textile factory in Dongchang Mansion next year......"

"In that place in Linqing, there are many dragons and snakes, and the officials of the DPRK and the Central Committee have interests, you want to open a factory there, and everyone looks at the benefits."

"So the Qingzhou general army is very important, I will deploy men and horses on the border of Qingzhou, and keep a team of men and horses there in Linxian County to see who dares to compete with me for benefits."

Liu Minyou turned his head, "Now is not the time to tear your face with the imperial court, do you really dare to use troops to blackmail them?" ”

Chen Xin sat up straight, "According to the report you gave me last time, the annual cotton cloth output of Daming is about 200 million, even if we only occupy half of the market, each horse earns five cents of silver, that is, five million taels, and the imperial court gives me five or six hundred thousand every year, why don't I dare to turn my face with them, Shandong has the key of the canal, not to mention that there is Wen Tiren Liang Tingdong in the court, who dares to come to me to grab this benefit." ”

"There are five cents of silver, but it won't account for half of it in the first year, and it's about the same if there are 30 million cents, and I plan to price it at two cents and seven cents, and the profit will be seven or eight cents of silver, and there will be millions of taels."

"It's right to reduce prices step by step, there is no difference between one or two percent, and of course one percent is better. So what's next? ”

Liu Minyou took out a booklet and handed it to Chen Xin, "It is all written on it, in the northern market is always lower than Jiangnan, after the first year, open a factory in Shandong, and drive Jiangnan cloth out of the northern market within two years, and then use the funds of Qianzhuang as a backing, dumping at low prices in Jiangnan, completely defeating the local cloth, so that they can only use it for their own use, our cloth occupies the market along the Yangtze River, and wait until the industrial chain in Jiangnan is broken, and then raise the price." ”

Chen Xin blinked and looked at it hastily, "It's really a big plan, how to deal with the local gentry in Jiangnan?" My soldiers will not be able to reach Jiangnan for the time being. ”

"For the time being, the trading company will only go to the provincial level along the Jiangnan Canal, and then solicit agents among the Jiangnan gentry, give them profits, and include the powerful among the gentry into our business interests, and divide those commercial gentry into the local clan and land-type gentry."

Chen Xin clapped his hands and smiled: "Where my army can reach, we will open trading companies to the state and county level, and the commercial network is the big killer." ”

"Shandong, Liaoxi, Mongolia, Beizhili, and Henan are all considered to be within the influence of your military power, and the two lakes with large populations are still far apart, and the funds absorbed by Qianzhuang are not enough."

Chen Xin smiled: "The two lakes are my battleground, and these non-business matters will be handled by me." (To be continued.) )