Chapter 63： Fortune Road

Education is a matter of burning money, and a little tax alone is not enough to raise the army. Wu Changqing has to make money on his own.

The next day, Wu Changqing received a report saying that a hundred of multi-round textile machines had been manufactured.

Wu Changqing personally tried it, and found that the imitation textile machine was also very useful, almost not much different from the original Jenny textile machine.

"Is all the raw materials hoarded?" Wu Changqing asked.

"Has already hoarded half a million catties of cotton, which can weave at least 100,000 pieces of cloth, and the entire Wusong area cannot produce so much cloth in half a year."

Wu Zhiyue said very excitedly.

The current cotton is about 30 wen a catty, and the price of cloth is about 450 wen a horse. The raw materials cost 15,000 taels, and the workers' wages and other expenditures are about 5,000 taels. That is to say, the cost of these 100,000 pieces of cloth is about 20,000 taels.

And the sales can reach 45,000 taels, and the profit is as high as 125%, which is very scary.

For other cloth merchants, the cost of a cloth may be as high as 400 wen, which is twice that of a textile machine, and the profit is only about 12%.

As long as Wu Changqing and the others reduce the price of the cloth by 50 cents, other cloth merchants can only wait to break the factory. Following the price reduction, you will lose money, and no one will buy it if you don't follow the price reduction.

After the price was reduced by 50 cents, their profits could still be as high as 100%, an absolute profiteering business.

Although it is no better than soap, soap is a luxury item, and cloth is a necessity. The sales volume of the two is above and below.

Based on the average consumption of 0.1 cloth per person per year, the annual gross profit of China alone is 2 million taels of silver.

"Then start work."

Wu Changqing gave the order to start the work, and the more than two hundred workers started all kinds of work in an orderly manner.

Looking at the two hundred workers, Wu Changqing couldn't help feeling that this is probably the first factory in the world.

Even in Europe, there is no such factory yet.

Although the scale of some workshops may be larger than this, they are not considered factories in the strict sense, they are simply large in scale, and there is no production process similar to an assembly line.

More than two hundred workers took action at the same time, and the scene was quite spectacular.

However, Wu Changqing only took a few glances and left. He had seen a scene a hundred times more shocking than this, and the scene before him shocked people of this era.

"The imitation of the machine cannot be stopped, and the speed must continue to increase."

Wu Changqing said.

"I'm afraid it will be wasted to make so many pieces. Too many fabrics are woven and it is easy to be overstocked and not sold."

Wu Zhiyue reminded.

However, Wu Changqing has his own plan on this issue. He has sent people to coastal areas, even Ningbo, Taizhou and other places to find foreign businessmen.

He wants to sell cloth abroad and purchase cotton and other raw materials from abroad, turning China into a world factory. Take the road of the British Empire, leaving the British Empire nowhere to go.

Only by developing industry can we rise, and relying on industry can we accumulate wealth.

After inspecting the textile factory, Wu Changqing came to the Chenjia Workshop, which is now larger than the textile factory and employs hundreds of people to work at the same time.

Nowadays, in addition to soap and soap, Wu Changqing has also handed over the manufacturing technology of perfume and glass to Chen Daolin.

Because of the season, the perfume lacks petal raw materials and cannot be mass-produced temporarily.

Glass has no effect, and it is currently being manufactured on a large scale.

Things like glass actually appeared very early, and even so-called colored glaze appeared by chance in the Western Han Dynasty. It's just that there has never been a good manufacturing process, so practical glass has never been made.

In Western Italy, the glass manufacturing process was very mature in 1300, but China is relatively backward, mainly because no one has studied it and does not know the specific composition of the glass.

As long as the composition of the glass is known, its manufacture is still very easy. However, ordinary refining methods can only produce relatively small pieces of glass, and manufacturing large pieces of glass requires some more complicated processes.

This kind of craft is not very expensive, only 5000 technological points, Wu Changqing has already lighted up this technological, and handed over the manufacturing craft to Chen Daolin, he is still arranging people to try.

Large pieces of glass cannot be made for the time being, but a lot of small pieces for dressing and dressing have been made.

The advantages of these glasses over bronze mirrors are too great. The bronze mirrors can only see a vague shadow, while the glass can be seen clearly.

"As long as this kind of treasure is sold, I'm afraid it will be robbed like soap."

Chen Daolin said happily, although the money earned now has to be handed over to Wu Changqing to raise the army, he can't get into his pocket. But he didn't worry, as long as the world settled down, he could lie down and count the money.

"This is just the beginning. After the war is settled and there is time, I still have a lot of good things to come out."

Wu Changqing's words made Chen Daolin even more excited. There are better things, how much money do you have to make.

When Wu Changqing was leaving, he also picked a very beautiful mirror, which he planned to bring back to Chen Yuyan. Chen Daolin's heart is in full bloom with this little action, which means that Chen Yuyan has a lot of weight in Wu Changqing's heart and is very spoiled.

Otherwise, a governor who is entangled in military affairs, can't think of sending things to his wife.

Cloth, soap and glass, these businesses are currently expected to bring about 100,000 taels of income to Wu Changqing every month. Moreover, the scale of these businesses is still expanding, and the income will increase in the future.

With these stable financial resources, plus taxes, he no longer has to worry about military expenses.

Compared with King Lu in the south, he is much richer now.

King Lu in the south was the emperor in name, and everyone would kneel down when they saw him. However, in fact, most of the power of this regime is in the hands of two generals Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren.

Even taxation is the case. The two of them privately controlled the 600,000 taels of tax bank they collected and distributed them privately.

Except for part of the administrative expenses to the court, most of the other was divided between the two of them to raise the army.

And those rebels didn't have any money, not to mention the payment, even the rations were about to be cut off.

The rebels in eastern Zhejiang were quite capable of fighting, but they faced off with Li Chengdong in Hangzhou for more than a month without losing. However, the few leaders of the rebel army can only fight, but they can't play politics.

As a result, Fang Guoan, who had held great power in the DPRK, got the money in his hands, and the other rebels could only stare.

No matter how soldiers can fight, they can't eat without food.

In history, it was precisely for this reason that the rebels were forced to disband. After the rebels were disbanded, they could no longer hold the Qing army.

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