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"In the past few months, our various dyeing workshops here in Jiangnan have finally been able to resume production again. Dadu you don't know, this printing and dyeing line is inseparable from indigo material, this dye is used for printing and dyeing color for a long time, and the color is bright and bright, there is a 'golden beam cylinder' said, a white grey cloth after dyeing, its price can be doubled;

However, because the Qing court and the Dadu Governor were at war before, and the Taiwanese Zheng family on the Zhejiang side attacked and occupied Zhejiang, there were wars everywhere. The land route to Jiaxing was blocked, and it took time and effort to take Anhui to transfer to Jiangxi and then enter Fujian, and the Qing army in Anhui was very strict about the past merchants, so the two roads can be said to be completely impassable. In terms of sea routes, the Jiangning Naval Division blocked the Yangtze River, and even the docks in Songjiang Prefecture were controlled, so many businesses could not be carried out at all. In the past year, indigo materials have been extremely scarce and expensive, which has had a great impact on the printing and dyeing industry in Jiangnan. Now that the Metropolitan Governor has cleared this obstacle, the trade routes are unimpeded, which will greatly promote the development of commerce and trade between Jiangnan and Fujian. ”

After a piece of white grey cloth is printed and dyed with indigo material, the price can be doubled or even several times, which makes Geng Jingzhong very surprised, it seems that the profit of the textile industry is really big. Printing and dyeing and embroidery are unique skills, but ordinary people can't do it.

"The textile industry in Jiangnan is indeed famous all over the world, and Suzhou embroidery is one of the leaders. Unparalleled. But if there is no dyeing factory of yours. It doesn't count as beautiful silk threads and cloth. Then there is no Suzhou embroidery, therefore, this dyeing factory is also an indispensable part. Again, Ponturak has always advocated innovation and development, and now it is not enough to know that this indigo material is very helpful for printing and dyeing, you must also continue to invest in the development of new dyes and improve the dyeing technology, which is the foundation of development. What are you going to do when this single dye resource runs out? Is it too late to figure out how to solve a lot of problems at that time? So. Let's start investing and developing now! After Geng Jingzhong listened, he continued to look at the dyeing process in the dyeing factory and said casually.

"Yes, that's what the Metropolitan said." Zhao Liancheng hurriedly replied.

"Hehe, don't take it seriously." Geng Jingzhong knew that he didn't listen much when he spoke, so he continued: "Think about it, if your dyeing factory develops a new process, and the new process can be used to dye higher-quality cloth, will the competitiveness of your dyeing factory be enhanced a lot?" Even if you can't greatly improve the quality of the dyed cloth, it is beneficial to reduce the cost of dyeing the cloth, after all, you are a long-term business, isn't it? You can do it yourself! ”

"The Metropolitan Governor Jin Yu has good words. The villain will definitely gather people for research and development when he turns around! Zhao Liancheng just thought that Geng Jingzhong was so easy to improve the process or something. That's a lot of investment. But seeing that Geng Jingzhong was so serious, his attitude was immediately corrected.

In the afternoon, Geng Jingzhong visited the entire newly built industrial zone, and everyone went in. Fortunately, this is only a newly built industrial zone and is not too big, but that's all, the accompanying officials and the head of the family are tired enough. They are pampered all day long, and when they go out, they ride in a sedan chair, and the worst is to ride a horse. Where would it be like today to walk on two legs for an afternoon, but Geng Jingzhong took the lead in front of him, and no matter how tired the others were, it could be regarded as gritting their teeth and persevering, and no one dared to fall behind!

After coming out of the factory, Gao Junjie set up a banquet to entertain Geng Jingzhong. At noon, Geng Jingzhong had already eaten by himself in Huangqiao Town, ten miles north of the city, before entering the city, and then saw Gao Junjie at the north gate. As a parent official, Gao Junjie is of course responsible for cleaning up the dust for Geng Jingzhong. After walking all afternoon, I must be tired, and I still have to eat a meal.

Gao Junjie just finished toasting a glass of wine, and then said: "Governor, Suzhou Industrial Zone has built textile factories and other factories, which is naturally good, but this will also cause a lot of impact on the local people. Although there is no contradiction for the time being, Xia Guan estimates that in another half a year, I am afraid that ordinary people will have a hard time! ”

Geng Jingzhong picked up a chopsticks in the Huaiyang cuisine, the famous dish Yangzhou lion head, and slowly tasted the product, the taste is excellent, it is definitely made by the master, very authentic. After eating, he asked, "Tell me more, I just arrived, and I still don't understand!" ”

"Qi played the metropolitan governor, the land in the south of the Yangtze River is few and dense, so the family weaves, when the farm is slack, even the men will weave together to subsidize the family, almost every household in the south of the Yangtze River has a loom, spinning and weaving is one of the main livelihoods of ordinary people in a year. Now, after the large-scale textile factory, it will inevitably have a big impact on the homes of ordinary people, and the government must have a corresponding measure in advance. ”

Gao Junjie can think of this, which shows that he is not bad, at least not the kind of dull and dull official, intensive enterprise production, can reduce costs, improve efficiency, and promote technological innovation. It's sure to be a big shock to those family-run workshops. Jiangnan is narrow and densely populated, and if the people's textile income is impacted, life will become very difficult.

"Shixin doesn't have to worry. The Ministry of Government Affairs has already taken measures to deal with this matter, and has formed a document ready to be issued. One of them, the Governor of Pontus, remembers very well that a large factory had been set up here, and that it was also possible to open small factories in the towns below. Those factories do not have to have close production technology cooperation and technological ties between factories as in industrial zones, but to put it simply, they can set up spinning factories or weaving factories in towns and villages, and of course they can do both. Townships and towns need to be able to make overall arrangements and organize villagers to spin and weave cloth collectively. And if the loom is not enough, the factory will increase production. ”

Buy not enough Songjiang cloth, can not harvest Weitang yarn, this proverb is good, the textile industry in the Jiangnan region can be said to be completely in the forefront of the world, to be precise, ahead of the world, there is no region in the world cloth production can be compared with the Jiangnan region. Even the Fujian side has integrated the textile industry. The standard has been developed for several years, which is far less than Suzhou, Songjiang and other regions. The accumulation of hundreds of years is full of heritage. Ninety percent of the women here will spin and weave, and the embroiderers with excellent skills are all over the south of the Yangtze River, and how many embroiderers are invited to Fujian at high prices and high salaries? It's just that compared with Suzhou, the embroidery girl who was invited to Fujian is not even a fraction of that in Suzhou.

"Also, you should have heard about the matter on the Luzon Island, there is quite a shortage of people there, and after a while, the Pontus Governor is preparing to emigrate to Luzon in a big way. The population in Jiangnan is too dense, but the land is too small. Even if it's an average score, that's far from enough to cultivate. Luzon is very different, as long as they are willing to go to Luzon, they will immediately be allocated 15 acres of land, and all other cattle seeds will be provided by the government, and no taxes will be paid for three years. You have to cooperate with the publicity of this matter when the time comes. ”

"How many people is the Governor going to immigrate?" Gao Junjie put down his chopsticks and asked, and the other officials didn't interject, but they were all listening attentively at this time.

"Five hundred thousand!" Geng Jingzhong looked around the wine table and said casually: "This is just the first batch. ”

"Five hundred thousand!"

This number shook everyone. 500,000 is an easy way to say, it's a huge number, and it would be a death to move so many people to the distant island of Luzon. The cost of this period alone will be unbearable! Gao Junjie and several other officials who were proficient in arithmetic made a rough calculation, and felt that this big action would cost at least five million silver dollars to complete. A big question suddenly came to them. Is there so much land on that side of Luzon?

But as soon as this question came to mind, they were relieved. Recently, these officials have been reading the policy essentials and local maps issued by the Fujian Ministry of Political Affairs, especially in Luzon. As a province developed by new immigrants, Luzon's various governance plans are new, and after a few years of trial implementation, a complete system has been formed after continuous improvement, and some basic information about Luzon Island has quickly surfaced in their minds. In recent years, the large-scale development of Luzon Island is still in full swing, but there are still large tracts of land that are free, and the total number of residents on the entire Luzon Island can reach one million. This number is too small, and it is obviously inappropriate for a place with an area comparable to Zhejiang and Fujian to have such a small population.

"Dare to ask the metropolitan governor, my subordinates have heard that Luzon Island has been in good weather in the past two years, and has provided a large amount of rice to the mainland, but I don't know if the situation in Luzon Island is really as stated in the information." Liu Jiansheng, the governor of Suzhou Prefecture, asked.

"You are right to have this doubt, and your subordinates must have the courage to question the superiors. All the information sent by the Ministry of Government Affairs is true, and none of them is false. Each document is carefully organized before it is delivered for printing. Some time ago, the Governor of Pontus convened a meeting of the major families and proposed that they form an ocean company to prepare for overseas development in the future. This Luzon Island is just the first pilot of our Mawei Army in the South Seas, and there will be more places waiting for us to develop in the future. The reward has also been told to the lords of all families, Australia, that area is half the size of China, but there are only millions of aborigines on it, think about how many immigrants need to go over to it?! ”

When Geng Jingzhong was talking at the wine table with Suzhou officials and the head of the Suzhou family, there was a complete mess outside Tianjin. Tianjin City is still firmly controlled in the hands of the Mawei Army, and the entire Bohai Bay is full of Mawei Army and Navy. From Dagukou to Tianjin City, there is not a single Qing army within a radius of 120 miles. Min Ba Sik and U Nei and Korea, totaling 60,000 men, attacked the city twice in two consecutive days, all of which suffered heavy losses, and a third of the troops were removed in the two sieges, so that the morale of the whole army was completely lost.

Min Baxi had to go back and rest again, thinking of fighting again, Kangxi gave him a death order, and if he couldn't take Tianjin, he didn't have to go back. But things continued to go beyond his expectations, and on the evening of the third day, the Mawei army went out of the city to attack the Qing army camp under the arrangement of Zeng Yang. It was not that the Qing army did not send people to patrol the night side of the enemy to attack, and this was arranged by the commander of every army in every war. But why do there always happen to successful stolen camps? There are many comprehensive factors in this, one of which is that the Mawei Army chose to sneak attack in the second half of the night, which is the most sleepy time of the day. Second, the Qing army failed to attack the city for two consecutive days, morale was low, and the patrol was also listless. Third, the Mawei Army scout unit is not only only able to scout, but as the king of the army, they can also be caught when they go to secretly attack and pull out the nails of the guards.

The Mawei army quietly arrived in front of the Qing military camp, followed by artillery and spears in turn, and the Qing army in its sleep was suddenly in chaos and was quickly completely defeated. Next, it is an extremely simple matter to chase and kill the rout, and the Mawei army does not need to arrange troops anymore, it is directly the whole army to cover and kill, and follow behind to harvest their lives. In this battle, the Mawei army completely crushed the Qing court reinforcements, and the remaining 40,000 troops were beheaded more than 12,000, 20,000 captured, and the remaining eight or nine thousand wolves fled back to Beijing.

After the Mawei Army cleaned up the battlefield, Zeng Yangxing continued to order, let Jin Yinghu, the commander of the Fourth Division, take the whole army of the Fourth Division to the outside of Beijing, not asking for an attack on the city, but to scare the royal relatives and nobles in Beijing and the Qing court ministers in the palace.

More than 200 miles from Tianjin to Beijing, Jin Yinghu led the 10,000 troops of the Fourth Division to leave a day late, but in a day and a half he followed behind the rout of the Qing army, which seemed to be chasing, but in fact he did not catch up at all. The Mawei army marched at a high speed, much faster than the Qing army. At the beginning, these routs of the Qing army fled for most of the day, and when they saw that the Mawei army did not catch up, they were slow to go, and they were tired and hungry, and they grabbed some things in the nearby villages, which delayed time. The Mawei army rarely stopped from the beginning, and caught up in a day and a half.

As soon as the Qing army saw the Mawei army, it was like seeing a ghost, and once again ran towards the capital without their lives, and it took only one day for these routs to flee back to Beijing. When Kangxi heard that the 60,000 army was almost wiped out, he suddenly fell angrily on his hand, and then fell down on the wall. This blow is really not small, the rebels in his eyes have already hit the city of Beijing, and the Qing Kingdom is really in danger.

"Ponytail!"

"Ponytail!"

"It's the Ponytail!"

There was a scream on the head of the city of Beijing, and it was a mess, and finally, the Mawei Army still came, looking at it from afar, the flags were waving, the queue was neat, and it was as dignified as a mountain, and the invisible pressure almost made people breathless. From the first time the Qing army on the Jiangxi side encountered this rebel army, first the four prefectures and one state in Jiangxi fell, then the Pingnan general Hilgen was defeated and the wolf bèi fled back to Nanchang, and then the entire Jiangxi was gone. This year, Tula was killed in battle, Rabu was captured, and the sailors were defeated and Jiangnan was lost. Later, the armies of Leerjin and Zhou Peigong were all completed, and now Tianjin has also been lost, and they have also fought under the capital. The Qing Dynasty was defeated again and again in front of the Mawei Army, and each time it became worse and worse.

Now, this terrifying and powerful rebel army has finally rolled out of Beijing, like a dark cloud crushing the city to destroy. The sound of iron hooves like muffled thunder and the sound of neat steps like drums make the Yongding Gate, which is nearly ten zhang high and towering like a mountain, tremble, let the city wall tremble with a circumference of dozens of miles, let the heart of every Qing army on the head of the city tremble, let the whole capital tremble, trembling After 30 years, Beijing City was besieged by a large army again, which is no wonder to the old Beijingers, but the young people in the city, especially those descendants of the Eight Banners, are terrified.

The Mawei army came to an abrupt end when it approached outside the Yongding Gate, but the murderous aura like a mountain seemed to have a huge inertia, destroying the city. The rumbling war drums immediately sounded, as if to announce the arrival of the Mawei Army, and the sound shook the heavens and the earth. (To be continued......)