In fact, the modern industrial revolution has completely cut off the food access of many small handicraftsmen, forcing them to become workers, and then entering the factory to work, promoting the process and development of the times, this process is a cruel and bloody process, but it is also a painful stage that human beings must go through.

Historically, it was through the industrial revolution that Western countries produced a large number of commodities, and after they had a surplus of commodities and could not consume them themselves, they had to look to the wider outside, and then through various means, whether by force or commercial means, they would sell their goods to more countries and regions, so as to earn them greater and more profits, this led to the reshuffling of the whole world.

In history, China was too slow to go, so it eventually became the fat of the great powers, and the wealth accumulated by several dynasties flowed back into the hands of those powers in a very short period of time.

Now Yu Xiaotian has long made up his mind to change this history and take this step forward, only in this way can the Chinese become the real leaders of this world in the next few hundred years or even thousands of years, and completely stand on the top of this world.

Now he can be said to have taken this step, but at present, this step has consumed a lot of his capital, manpower and material resources, and the production capacity is not yet satisfactory to him, but in time, he believes that if he is given another ten years, at least the industry on the island of Taiwan will enter a new stage, and at that time, under his promotion, even the steam engine may be manufactured.

As long as the steam engine is built, then it completely means that the Chinese will be the first to step into the era of industrialization, and who can compete with it in this world?

Think about the Chinese driving steam engine-powered warships, as well as various steamships, coming and going in the seas around the world, those people in European countries, estimated that they can scare their pants, when the time comes, he wants something, just grab it, and now those Western Galen ships that still look bullish and coaxing, when the time comes, in front of the Chinese's steam-powered warships, will completely become slag.

Yu Xiaotian felt like snickering when he thought about it, so over the years, he spared no effort to expand various factories everywhere and build various reservoirs to store water to provide power for these factories.

Although his industry is not satisfactory today, the efficiency of the output has already made him look at Asia, and there is no rival to speak of.

The original artillery has now expanded into a huge arsenal, which used to be cast into a cannon in a few days, and now it can cast many cannons in one day, if he doesn't need so many cannons for the time being, this giant arsenal alone can provide him with more than a thousand cannons a year, which is much more than the Ming Dynasty's concentration of the whole country's strength and the cannons cast in a year.

Therefore, at present, the main product of this artillery casting yard is not cannons, but usually mainly manufactures some blanks of heavy machinery parts, or some iron water turbines and other products, and also takes over the business of some large castings on land, but the production of artillery, which has now become a sideline, and only produces one or two more artillery pieces every day to equip the navy and army.

In addition, since the development of the hydraulic rolling mill, Seawolf can now roll steel or iron plates of various thicknesses.

In the past, when the musket barrel was produced, it was necessary to rely on the craftsman to manually beat the iron billet into iron sheets, and then wrap it to form the barrel, but now this labor-intensive and laborious process has been eliminated, and the finished steel plate can now be directly used on the gun side, and the simple tube coiling machinery is used to heat it up and roll it into a barrel, and then the craftsman only needs to forge and weld the butt seam, and then it can be sent to the boring chamber until it is sent to the last process of drawing rifling.

Over the years, the whole gun has been developed from a fully manual barrel to a semi-mechanized production level, and the output and quality of the musket have been greatly improved, which also provides a solid foundation for the next step in Xiaotian to dominate the world.

This time to the north to quell the rebellion, has thoroughly tested the combat ability of the Yu family army, but also thoroughly verified the practicability and power of the firearms in their hands, Yu Xiaotian has a bottom in his heart, this time back, he has made a plan, continue to expand the production capacity of guns, produce more muskets, and equip them with the Yu family army.

At that time, once he leads his troops to the Northern Expedition, then the Yu family army will have to do it, and he must do it without making a sound, and completely sweep any army that dares to stop him into the garbage heap.

When he arrived in Tamsui a few days ago, he had already instructed his subordinates over there to expand the production capacity of guns, invest in a batch of gun-making machinery, change a water-powered factory under construction into new guns, and double the production capacity of muskets so that it could produce 15,000 muskets of various types a year, so that in three years, he could equip a new army with a strength of 40,000 to 50,000.

In this way, coupled with the nearly 30,000 army he already has, the strength can reach 70,000 or 80,000, and when the time comes, these 70,000 or 80,000 people are enough to sweep the entire Ming Dynasty, as long as the logistics can keep up, then it won't take long for him to unify China, and then he only needs to send a small number of elite troops to Liaodong to the north, and he can easily solve the problem of Jiannu, in that case, he can build a large number of ships and join the carnival of the world's colonies.

As for agriculture, it is also a large part of the Seawolf's current capital, and with the increasing number of immigrants, the Seawolf Group must continue to expand and reclaim land and expand new migrant collective farms.

First of all, it is necessary to feed these migrants, at least to give them a place to live, and then to allow the migrants to reclaim the wasteland.

With the current level of productivity and technology, to do these things, it is necessary to invest a lot of manpower and material resources, and use crowd tactics to achieve results, and this efficiency is quite low, and the consumption is also very large, but at present, he has no better way, can only use this primitive means, to complete these projects, so the investment in agriculture, the overall expenditure in the sea wolf is also quite small.

Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to the local environment and road problems, so over the years, he has to invest a huge amount of money and a lot of manpower and material resources every year to build roads, build docks and build other public facilities.

In addition, there are many administrative personnel, and there are many people who spend a lot of money every year to develop their salaries, if it weren't for Yu Xiaotian's support from so many industries, these ways to spend money alone would be enough to make him bankrupt.

However, now the sea wolf's earning ability is also very strong, and many people now know that it is impossible to bypass the sea wolf and go to sea to do business.

So what kind of products does he want, if you can't get it, then I'm sorry, don't think about going to sea with your goods, others get the goods, and they can't sell them, and in the end they can only be cheaper in the end in the hands of Yu Xiaotian, so now in addition to the Liangguang side, some workshops that specialize in making seafood trade products, Yu Xiaotian can't control it for the time being, like Fujian, Zhejiang, Nanzhili and Jiangxi and other places that make seafood trade products, basically no Yu Xiaotian nodded, and their goods are generally not dared to be taken.

This also provided great help for Yu Xiaotian to monopolize the sea trade and earn huge profits, so that Yu Xiaotian basically controlled more than half of the goods going to sea in the Ming Dynasty.

A few years ago, the best grade of one stone was only sold for 70 taels of silver, and the second-best raw silk in Fujian could only be sold for 50 taels of silver.

But Yu Xiaotian integrated the market price, strictly forbidding anyone to sell at a low price, and finally controlled the source of life and death in his hands, and now the Spaniards and Dutch want to get raw silk, even if it is the lowest grade, they have to pay one hundred and ten taels of silver to get it.

Like high-grade raw silk, the price of one stone has now been sold by Yu Xiaotian for one hundred and seventy taels of silver, and it is still love or not, as long as you say no word, don't want to get the goods.

Even the raw silk produced in Japan and the export route have been controlled by him, and on the Ryukyu side, Japanese merchants must sell raw silk to Yu Xiaotian for sixty taels of silver per stone, and because Xiaotian re-exported, and then sold to the Dutch, once they can basically make double the profit.

The Japanese merchants did not do it, but there was no way, Yu Xiaotian now sent more than 30 smuggling ships, specifically around the Japanese side, found that the Japanese merchant ships were going to the Ryukyus, so they immediately attacked, the ships were not rare, all the goods on the ship were snatched, all the people were killed, and the ship was scuttled on the spot.

Nowadays, Japanese businessmen go to the Ryukyus to do business, basically working with their heads, and after going to sea, there is a high chance that they will no longer find anyone, and even the ships and goods will be missing.

However, after these sea wolf smuggling ships robbed Japanese merchant ships, they never shipped in the Ryukyus, and all of them were pulled back to Taiwan Island, where the goods were sorted, or repackaged and processed, before they were sold again, so that the Japanese people could not catch their handles, and there was no way to take them, even if they were suspicious, there was no evidence, and they could only consider themselves unlucky.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian also issued an order to the smuggling fleet, that is, they should continue to operate along the coast of Japan, go ashore if they are cold, rob if they can, and military discipline can be unconstrained there, the focus is on robbing women, and they must be young women, no more than thirty years old, beautiful and better, as many as you want.

(See you after 8pm!) Brethren, step up your firepower! ）