Chapter 111 Industrial Base
Liu Qing's doppelganger stayed in Gumu County for more than a month, dealt with some things, and then left Gumu County and went to Liuzhen for more than ten days, which promoted their industrial upgrading.
Liu Qing has become a god for more than two years, and in the past two years, the Liu family has taken out more than 100,000 taels of silver for charity.
However, the wealth of their family did not decrease, but rather increased.
With the core technologies of printing, brewing, glass-burning and textile machines, the Liu family became the world's first family-owned industrial group.
All of these have a lot of profits in them, which is much better than simply farming and becoming a big landlord to exploit tenants.
Now their business has radiated to several surrounding provinces, and their wealth has increased several times compared to two years ago.
It's not that the income in one year has increased several times compared to before, but the wealth accumulated in more than two years has increased several times compared to the wealth accumulated by the Liu family in hundreds of years in the past.
That's a scary number.
When he came back this time, Liu Qing found that Liu Zhen had become different.
Several core industries of the Liu family have opened more than 100 workshops in various places, employing more than 20,000 workers.
Liuzhen is their base, and there are five or six thousand workers recruited here.
Basically, there are people in every household who go to work in the Liu family's workshop, and there are both male and female workers.
Textile factories, for example, recruit mostly female workers.
Some families also have a few who go to work.
Being a worker in drought and flood to ensure income is a little tired, but it is not necessarily more tiring than farming, and the income is several times that of their farming, and it is more than ten times that of farming for others.
What Liu Qing needs is faith, and he wants the people to believe in him from the bottom of their hearts, thinking of his goodness, naturally they will not let the Liu family exploit those ordinary people, and the conditions offered are relatively rich, at least much more generous than those offered by other workshop workers.
What they earn is not the hard-earned money of the workers, but the technical money, and give the workers a more relaxed environment and more generous treatment, which does not affect their earnings, at most they only earn a little less.
Like that kind of family of five, one person in the family goes to the Liu family's workshop to work as a worker, and he can support a family.
There is still some land at home, and the family can grow some vegetables and food, and the life will be more fulfilling.
Don't worry about droughts and floods.
If two people in the family go to work in the Liu family's workshop, they can save a little money that year, and by the end of the year, they can make two sets of new clothes for the whole family, and they can buy some fish and meat for a fat year.
There are more than 10,000 people in Liuzhen, and there are five or six thousand people working in the Liu family's workshop, which basically solves the work of those poor people.
The reason why it is said to be basically solved, rather than completely solved, is because some poor people are poor because they are lazy, and it is unlikely that such people will let them work.
Some people would rather starve to death than work.
Even if the Liu family intends to alleviate poverty, they can't help such people.
There are also some people who have not seen the Liu family's workshop work, which has nothing to do with laziness, because those people have enough land in their own homes, and they are either big landlords or small landlords, and they don't need to work for others.
It's just that the Liu family recruited so many workers in Liuzhen, which caused a little trouble for those local owners - they had no way to recruit tenants in Liuzhen to farm for them.
Farming for them, a year of hard work to the end, but only barely mixed a mouthful of food, when the harvest is not good, they can't eat.
If you go to Liu's house to work, you can easily feed a family and ensure food and clothing for the family.
As long as you are not a fool, you can count that account.
With that spare labor, he naturally chose to work for the Liu family instead of farming for the landlord.
Those landlords in Liuzhen couldn't recruit tenants, and it was impossible for them to plant so much land by themselves, which did bring them a certain amount of trouble, and they also had a little complaint about the Liu family.
However, the trouble is not particularly big, and Liuzhen can't recruit tenants, so he can go elsewhere to recruit them.
There are so many landless peasants that they can recruit enough without going out of the natural county.
It's just that if you go elsewhere to recruit people, the conditions should be more lenient, and others may come over.
Their land rents are lower than those in other places.
This will naturally harm their interests.
But the benefits of the damage are not very large, just to say that they make a little less, not to the point of losing money, and they can still afford it.
has a little opinion on the Liu family, and that opinion is not big enough to hold a grudge.
- There is such a powerful land god in people's homes, and they don't dare to hold grudges.
In addition, the Liu family has more advanced farming technology, and they did not hide it from them, but shared it.
They suffered some losses in terms of land rent, but they gained more advanced farming techniques and increased their grain production.
Industrial technology should be kept secret, and it is necessary to ensure that the Liu family earns enough money, so that Liu Qing can come up with more money to do what he wants.
However, there is no need to keep agricultural technology secret.
If we can spread better agricultural technology and increase the production and income of this land, we will be able to feed more people and expand the base of his incense.
It's good for himself, and at the same time it's for the benefit of mankind, of course he has to do such things.
Now Liuzhen has been moving towards industrialization, the people have lived a much more prosperous life, and the town has become much more prosperous than before.
In the past, there were only about 10,000 people, but now the population has reached more than 20,000.
Many of them were caravans from all over the world, coming to the Liu family's workshop to get their goods.
The caravans coming and going, in an endless stream, they not only bring goods away, but also bring goods over, and in this back and forth, Liuzhen has become more prosperous.
Daqian's textile workshop with the highest production capacity is now in Liuzhen, and the locally produced cotton in Gyeongju is no longer enough for them, and they will buy cotton from further afield.
There were caravans that brought cotton from afar, and then took the woven cloth from them, so that the price of the goods would be discounted to a certain extent.
Such a policy also encouraged more caravans to transport cotton from afar, solving the problem of their lack of raw materials.
Now Yoojin has become the largest commodity distribution center in Gyeongju.
If it weren't for the fact that the Liu family had Liu Qing, a new god, protecting them and frequently displaying miracles, their family's level of wealth would have been enough to attract death.
It is said that after the current prefect took office, he learned about the wealth of the Liu family, so he asked his subordinates to investigate whether the Liu family had committed adultery, and as long as they found it, they would not be spared.
Later, I heard about the various miracles of the land god in Liuzhen, so I dispelled that idea, and I personally came to the land temple in Liuzhen a few months ago to burn incense and kowtow to the land god.
This incident made the Liu family nervous for a while, and the two brothers who accumulated virtue and did good deeds warned the children of the Liu family many times that they should not rely on their own family power to do evil when they go out, and once they found out, they would never be spared.
Now the atmosphere of the children of the Liu family has become healthier, which is also what Liu Qing is happy to see.
After staying for more than ten days, Liu Qing left Liuzhen again.
This time he walked a long way, traveled the entire Daqian, and finally walked out of the Daqian and went to a farther place.
He wants to have a deeper understanding of the world, and he also hopes that through the creation of Godhead, he can scan more utensils and master more manufacturing techniques, so that the people of this world can live a better life.
Those ordinary people are his greatest source of strength.