The applause is thunderous and enduring!

Everyone sensed that a great change in the textile industry was taking place.

If they don't catch up with this machine revolution, they will regret it for the rest of their lives!

For a while, this one wanted to order five units, and the other one asked to buy ten, and you fought for me, as if it was not two thousand yuan but two pennies.

The envoys of various countries also didn't care about the etiquette and face, and they found familiar Taoists to ask if they could give them some shares for the sake of their friends, and the people of their Liao Kingdom (Western Xia, Dali) also needed these immortal artifacts!

Zhang Yuqing nodded with a smile, leaving Lu Liang to deal with the merchants, magnates, envoys and others in the field, and discuss some trivial matters such as the share of each family and the priority supply level.

He turned around and returned to the apse with the rest of the group, and took a seat in the recently completed council hall.

Congratulations, the Immortal Temple finally has a conference room, and there is no need to find a hall with no one to discuss things in a bunch at random.

"How is the progress of the newly built textile mill in my school?"

Zhang Yuqing glanced at the recent report, This is the policy he has implemented, each director and subordinate steward must quantify the progress, content, and scope of their work every month, and summarize it in the form of documents to Yuan Ai Daoren, the second disciple of Lu Liang, and then he will make a graphic report and present it to Zhang Yuqing for review.

Lin Yuanai is in his early eighteen, thin and handsome, and his eyes are bright when he doesn't speak.

Zhang Yuqing saw that he was a manufacturable material, so he called him to work as a secretary or something.

Zixuan's affairs are no longer busy, although this woman is smart and intelligent, but Zhang Yuqing is not good at putting a burden on her.

Now she is very busy every day just to deal with the donations of the congregation, the distribution of materials in the church, the distribution of money, the expenses for the establishment of the palace, and the daily operation and management of the academy.

For this reason, almost everyone in the eighteen financial management offices under her command had deep eyes and kept running errands.

Zhang Yuqing allocated another 300 people from the 3,000 reserve disciples for her to deploy, so that she could barely support this huge stall.

As for Lu Liang, he has recently been entrusted with liaison with bureaucrats, magnates, and wealthy businessmen at all levels, and is also responsible for managing the registration of the congregation, the printing of Taoist books, and all the trivial matters of daily business in the Guanzhong.

Nightshade ...... Recently, she was thrown into the academy by Zhang Yuqing to study, her ability is too poor, and she is really overwhelmed, and the Zhike deacon named Zhiyun under her is temporarily responsible for taking on her responsibilities.

Lin Yuanai spread out the books and came one by one: "The factory has reached the completion stage, and currently has 129 thermal spinning machines, which is expected to produce about 15,000 pieces of cotton cloth per day. ”

"But ......"

His tone paused for a moment, and then he continued: "The output of the coal mine is extremely insufficient, and the 129 thermal spinning machines cannot be kept on at full power, and only about half of the machines are running, so the output is seriously insufficient. ”

Lin Yuanai has been with Zhang Yuqing for a while, and has learned some new words such as 'power', 'machine' and 'output' from him, and has understood their respective meanings.

The same is true for many people in the Immortal Sect, who have learned a lot of new words through Zhang Yuqing's occasional few words.

Zhang Yuqing frowned: "In terms of coal mines, have the people sent to prospect come back, have they found a storage place for mineral deposits?" ”

"Back to Zhangjiao, we have sent a prospecting team of more than 130 people to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State, of which 18 have reported one after another, and have discovered shallow coal mines in nearby prefectures and counties, and asked if they need to send people to mine there."

"Where is the largest coal mine reserve?"

"Xiangzhou, about 150 miles away, has a coal mine with abundant reserves, which is said to have been mined by local residents during the Tang Dynasty, and some open-pit coal was abandoned after being harvested by the locals.

However, according to the prospectors, there is still a large amount of untapped coal underground, all of which are expected to run textile mills for more than 30 years! ”

Lin Yuanai's tone was slightly excited.

During the period when he was by Zhang Yuqing's side, he gradually straightened out this kind of utensils, which were called 'fire machines', and relied heavily on coal resources.

Because they must rely on the combustion process to heat the water stored in it, cause the water vapor to rise to turn the gears, and then link the lifting rod to reciprocate, so that the cotton and coarse linen can be continuously processed into cloth.

Those people outside didn't know it, and they thought that with the machine, they could expand production.

It wasn't until they had worked so hard to squeeze out the machines they were looking for to pull them home that they didn't know how much firewood these machines would consume in a day just to burn firewood!

I'm afraid that cutting down all the trees near Bianliang will not be enough for them.

Only burn-resistant coal can satisfy these huge hard bumps, otherwise just burning wood can burn them alive!

In the Northern Song Dynasty, firewood was much more expensive than coal.

Because all firewood comes from the mountains and forests, and almost every mountain forest has an owner.

With the exception of some trees that have been ordered to be cut down by the government, it is not allowed to go into the mountains to cut firewood at will.

Even if you secretly cut down enough firewood in someone else's house, you will be sentenced to death.

Therefore, the people of Bianliang City mostly rely on the affordable firewood sold by the state and some coal for heating, which is a two-pronged way.

At this time, the means of coal mining were limited, and this high-quality combustible material was not only sold to the people for heating, but also used in the porcelain industry, iron smelting industry, and coinage industry.

There is simply no shortage of supply.

The amount of coal that can be purchased on the market is extremely limited.

Therefore, if you want to keep the thermal machine at full power for a long time, you must have enough coal in reserve.

Zhang Yuqing also knew this, and let people start to study steam mining equipment early.

He knows that the main reason for the current restrictions on the exploitation of all kinds of minerals is the abundance of water systems underground, and if the depth exceeds a certain limit, the endless supply of groundwater can quickly drown the miners.

For this reason, in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, the development of steam drainers greatly alleviated this situation.

Now that the initial drainage machine built by his craftsmen has taken shape, it's time to put it to the test.

You must know that since the filming of the movie to the release of the movie, Zhang Yuqing has not been idle.

By constantly investigating the differences in the concentration of willpower among the huge group of believers in Bianliang City, he carefully selected a group of craftsmen and scholars with ingenious ideas.

Then he worked tirelessly to teach these people the relevant principles, and finally secretly came up with a steam prototype.

Then there was a series of plans in coal mines and factories, intensively collecting intelligence and deferring the follow-up situation.

Only after all aspects are ready at the moment that it is decided to officially launch the epoch-making artifact of firepower machines to all walks of life.

"How are the candidates for the followers of the Lord's level in various places ready?"

Zhang Yuqing did not continue to give instructions on the coal mine, but asked Zixuan, who was sitting on the right side and bowed down.

"Now there are thirty-two 'Dao' level members in the sect, all of whom have been admitted to the academy for a month-long study under the command of your Dao Zi, and the results are all excellent."

For a few months, the people of the entire Bianliang City were fanatically preaching to the people around them.

Zhang Yuqing naturally wouldn't let their efforts go in vain, otherwise the promotion system he planned for sentient beings would undoubtedly become a joke.

He visited the people by hiding his body and investigating the concentration of each person's willpower, and selected more than 300 lucky people, and used magic to let them see the immortal venerable in their dreams and send blessings.

Then the most pious thirty-two people were selected among them, and the immortal repersies were given in the name of the Immortal Venerable Decree, and these people were promoted to Dao reins.

All the believers bowed down with tears streaming down their faces, and their level of faith was raised to a higher level, even surpassing Lu Liang.

After that, there was a period of ideological transformation, to ensure that these thousands of selected 'Guan Zhu Reserves' could accept the ideas of the Immortal Sect and gradually infiltrate the people.

"All the prefectures and counties where coal mines were discovered sent a temple master to build temples and open up local branches."

Zhang Yuqing nodded and ordered.

"Yes!"

Lin Yuanai agreed, and then said: "Sect master, there is another matter to report about the establishment of coal farms in various places. ”

"Speak."

"There are not enough miners!"

Lin Yuanai said with a bitter face: "A mine needs at least more than 3,000 miners to operate normally, and most of the coal miners in the past let sinners who committed crimes act as miners. Some private mines are used to capture fugitives, or buy slaves and good people to mine secretly. ”

"If I want to open coal mines in various places at the same time, there will be at least 50,000 miners to fill the gap."

Zhang Yuqing thought for a moment and nodded: "Fifty thousand people, it's not difficult." ”

Lin Yuanai looked at Zhang Yuqing with wide eyes, and stammered inarticulately: "Mo, could it be that the master of the sect has already become a master?" ”

"I have my own plans for this matter, so you don't need to worry, just follow the plan step by step. It is important to lay out the structure of the coal mine in a short period of time, and occupy all the coal mines that can be found before everyone else. ”

"Whether it's grabbing, buying a title deed or building a temple nearby, in short, I want you to do whatever you can find to belong to my sect, even if you occupy a name first."

"If you can mine and excavate, send people to start digging, and leave what you can't mine, but make sure that the territory is nominally an asset in my sect."

Zixuan answered: "Yes, Daozi." ”

"The 18 coal mines that have been identified have been strictly guarded by special personnel, and are in contact with the local government and large households. Nowadays, the influence of our religion in the Great Song Dynasty is quite deep, and many people are willing to form a good relationship with the Immortal Sect, and ten large coal mines have been transferred to us. ”、

She reported them all truthfully.

Zhang Yuqing nodded: "That's fine, Yuan Ai, tomorrow you will go to Xiangzhou and preside over the construction of the local coal mine." ”

"Yes, Mentor."

This is the end of the affairs of the church, Zhang Yuqing summoned the main Taoist of Guanzhong one by one, commented and made relevant teaching instructions, and everyone felt that they benefited a lot.

(End of chapter)