The proceeds of the first batch of soap were quickly escorted back by Gao Dazhuang, nearly 10,000 taels of silver, which is not a small amount, so Xu Wuyang's first army even divided half of it and handed it over to Commander Gao Dazhuang and escorted it back.

The appearance of this silver can be said to have solved Lin Fei's urgent need, and now the soap manufacturing workshop has been expanded, more people have been recruited, and the rest of the craftsmen have good news to report, all of which require a large investment, and the arrival of 10,000 taels of silver is enough for Lin Fei to initially build a model workshop for these industries.

The value of 10,000 taels is equivalent to between six million and 10 million in modern times, and the purchasing power is still quite amazing, the investment of these money, so that the soap workshop under the command of De Lin Fei has expanded to thousands of people, and the addition of these people has greatly expanded the soap industry, and the daily output can grow from hundreds to more than 50,000 yuan, of course, this is the expected output, at the beginning because of the proficiency of the workers, this output is impossible to achieve, and it can reach 10,000 yuan per day, and it still needs to be trained for a period of time.

However, once these people are proficient, the daily output of 50,000 pieces of soap is believed to be enough to support the sales of the whole country!

"My lord, this time to recruit thousands of people to expand the soap workshop, it will cost eight thousand taels of silver, and the rest of the money can only be used to manufacture the textile workshop and weaving workshop you mentioned on a small scale!"

Lin Fei's newly recruited account office, Li Mingyuan, said.

"Oh, let's arrange it as much as possible, but the weaving workshop and the weaving workshop must reserve enough space to prepare for future expansion!"

New looms and looms have been studied, and the loom is the prototype of the most famous Jenny loom, which can be said to be the most important machine that opened the industrial age, and is no less important than Watt's invention of the steam engine!

With this kind of weaving machine, the textile output of one person is equivalent to 30 or even 50 people, the textile efficiency is greatly improved, and the finished product is more excellent.

The same is true for the shuttle loom, the emergence of these two machines represents the beginning of the substantial rise of Lin Feiping Xingdun, the two factories can arrange manpower, but not comparable to the soap workshop, the future potential will undoubtedly be higher!

Of course, the soap workshop, for a long time in the future, will still be the number one gold-absorbing weapon in Lin Fei's hands!

The large-scale expropriation of the displaced people also greatly consumed the money and grain in Lin Fei's hands, and the thousands of stone rice noodles in his hands, that is, hundreds of thousands of catties of grain, were no longer enough to last too long, and they could only supply three months of food at most.

In this way, Lin Fei took precautions and decided to buy food on the one hand, and on the other hand, expand the number of military households by another hundred and expand the army!

Now that the scale of the industry has expanded to such a large size all of a sudden, there is not enough strength to protect his own industry, this is not possible, a hundred military households can provide Lin Fei with ten armor soldiers and horses, so that the soldiers and horses he has at hand have fifteen armor troops, and these soldiers and horses are enough for him to protect his industry.

After all, these soldiers and horses must be trained in accordance with the modern army, trained three times a day, with sufficient nutritional supply, and after a little training, they are the real elite.

Coupled with Lin Fei, the master of the Great Perfection of the Day After Tomorrow, it is enough to turn these soldiers and horses into elite soldiers!

Moreover, now that the number of craftsmen who have defected to Lin Fei is increasing, and the small blacksmith workshop has long been established, Lin Fei can build armor by himself, and use water conservancy machine tools and other facilities to quickly provide these weapons and equipment, and fully arm the fifteen armors.

On the other hand, in the city of Taiyuan, Liu Ju also used the housekeeper offensive again to open the sales channels in Taiyuan, and the world-famous Jin merchants naturally noticed the sales of soap for a long time, and immediately made tentative contacts.

And Liu Ju naturally wanted to contact the Jin merchants, and at the moment tentatively carried out a grain transaction, and after getting the support of the Jin merchants, the two sides tested each other and finally determined the real deal.

Of course, this transaction is very important and related to the layout of the whole country, so only Lin Fei can come forward in person.

"Have you contacted Jin Shang?"

Lin Fei tapped his fingers on the table, he didn't have the slightest impression of these Jin merchants Lin Fei in the late Ming Dynasty, it is not an exaggeration to say that these people are traitors, but now that they need to be used, it is natural to have a good discussion with them.

Moreover, the expansion of the soap workshop, as well as the construction of various workshops, these raw material problems also need to be traded with the Jin merchants, and only one of the largest merchant groups in this era can meet Lin Fei's needs.

The raw materials he needs may not be much now, but they will definitely increase day by day in the future, reaching a rather terrifying level.

"Reply to Liu Ju, let him continue to expand the markets around Shanxi, these markets we need to operate independently, master independently, expand and exercise our business channels, and the rest can talk to Jin merchants!"

After Lin Fei replied to the letter, he also decided to set off, and the transaction here was not only a commodity of soap, but also the trading demands of iron ore, fur, saltpeter, cotton, raw silk and other raw materials.

In addition, Lin Fei's textile products produced in the future also need to be sold by Jin merchants, and he has no own manpower at present, so he can only give up part of the business.

These things are also important bargaining chips in the negotiation between Lin Fei and Jin Shang!

A month later, Taiyuan City.

Taiyuan City Hesheng Restaurant, this is also one of the eight Jin merchants Fan family's industry, Fan family can be the leader of the eight Jin merchants. It's really not a waste of fame, this Fan Yonghe is just one of the people in the Fan family, but behaving in the world and dealing with people and things give people a rare peace of mind, which makes people feel good, even if Lin Fei reminds himself that the Fan family is the largest traitor group, but he still can't help but feel good about this person.

And Jin Shang is also quite clear about doing business, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

"The largest merchant group in the world, it is really not boasting, but their ability to make money is indeed very strong, this is the advantage of the channel, these projects add up, it may be difficult for others to make money, but these Jin merchants can do it all, and earn huge profits!"

After discussing the business matters, the guests and hosts were happy, and they couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

However, this emotion was only a momentary thing, and then Lin Fei's expression regained his calmness, and his heart was thinking about the training signal, this time he planned to go deep into the grassland and continue to look for trouble with the Tartar tribe!

Now the surrounding cottages have long been wiped out by Lin Fei's armor soldiers, and because Lin Fei recruited people, many mountain bandits who have never seen blood have also escaped from the mountains, and then they can't get any benefits from the mountain bandits, and although those Tartars are poor, there are a lot of cattle, sheep and horses, these are what Lin Fei needs!