Chapter 728

At that time, Xixia thought about not only how to harass and provoke the northwestern border of the Song Dynasty, but also had to accumulate more heavy troops in its capital Xingqing Prefecture to prevent possible threats from the Song Dynasty at any time.

In this way, the initiative between Song and Xia can be said to have completely changed hands. At that time, Song Dynasty would fight as soon as possible and defend as soon as possible. With the solidity of the city blocks built by Yuanyou Cement, even if the Western Xia army attacked in full swing, it would only end up with heavy losses.

Even the Song Dynasty could use the city of New Yanzhou as a temptation to lure the Western Xia to attack, while other large armies could plagiarize their retreat...

With Zhao Xu's explanation, even though Gao Taotao is good at politics and weaker than military strategy, he also realized from the map and what Zhao Xu said that the benefits here are absolutely rich and irresistible.

Gao Taotao finally said with a headache. "Although what the boy said makes sense, building a city is not easy to deal with. Just building a new city, I don't know how much money it will cost..."

"Don't worry, the emperor's grandmother, Wang Wushan has something to say first. As long as I allow him, he will raise the cost of building the city by himself." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

"He raised the cost of building a city by himself?" Gao Taotao turned his head in surprise.

"You may not know that the emperor's grandmother, Wangwushan is expected to sell more than 6 million guan in Yanzhou alone..." With Zhao Xu's words, Gao Taotao really shocked this sentence.

"More than six million guan, or wasteland! Can you be sure?"

"Grandmother, have you forgotten the Yuanyou flower ginning machine presented by Wang Wushan a month ago?" Zhao Xu smiled happily.

"The Ai family also knows the machine, but with such a machine, the people can be willing to spend so much money to invest in the purchase of wasteland..."

"The emperor's grandmother, in fact, is mainly the nature of those merchants who are pursuing profits, and they are far more sensitive to others in terms of gains and losses.

The day after the news that the eleventh brother had adopted the Yuanyou flower ginning machine and the news that the Song Dynasty currently only allowed cotton to be planted in the three states was announced by the newspaper, many wealthy merchants and giants from Tokyo Bianliang passed their connections to visit the Yuanyou flower ginning machine...”

Those wealthy businessmen are not fools, so they naturally have to see it. In order to seduce these wealthy businessmen, Wang Yang, in addition to transporting two Yuanyou flower ginning machines, he also specially transported thousands of kilograms of seed-carrying cotton.

In order to allow those people to see the efficiency of this machinery with their own eyes, and to really observe the production efficiency of this machinery, many merchants who mainly sell silk cloth in Tokyo Bianliang immediately sent their respective representatives to rush towards the northwest border.

For nothing else, I just buy land, plant cotton, and then weave cloth and tailor clothes for sale.

The fact that the wasteland in one state could be sold for more than 6 million yuan was also a shock to Zhao Xu. He was a little unbelievable, afraid that the news would be fake. For this reason, he did not tell anyone, but instead rushed to Yanzhou for inspection with his confidant guard.

After receiving the reply, Zhao Xu was truly relieved. At the same time, he became more and more impressed by Wang Yang, the pillar of the country that could make things happen out of nothing.

That's right, it's just that something is made out of nothing. Those wastelands, too much, can almost be considered useless to the Song Dynasty. Even if cotton can be planted, cotton has almost no other function except filling and heating.

Even the cotton cloth made is because its seed removal process is extremely time-consuming and laborious, so the cost of cotton cloth is extremely high, and its material cannot be compared with silk. So in the past, cotton cloth was at most a pain in the idleness and independent people to use it as a pretentious person.

Therefore, because cotton cloth is time-consuming and labor-intensive, it is of great value, its market is extremely niche. However, Wang Yang made such a Yuanyou... Well... Well, I am afraid that I can't change the Yuanyou year name even if I want to.

In short, the emergence of Yuanyou flower ginning machine instantly reduced the cumbersomeness of the cotton process to the point of picking hemp. You should know that if you use hemp as a garment, you need to cut the hemp, peel the hemp, soak it, twist the thread, sizing it, and finally weave it into linen.

Although the process is cumbersome, it is still light and easy. Unlike picking cotton seeds, one person may not get a pound of lint for a day. The production of hemp does not require such refined operation.

However, the emergence of Yuanyou's flower ginning machine only requires two people to operate, and can handle nearly 30 kilograms of seed cotton in one hour. In one day, it is definitely not a dream to produce 100 kilograms of lint.

This output is equivalent to the output that can only be obtained by at least 300 seed-destroying girls in the past one day. After this calculation, all merchants keenly realized that cotton cloth may replace linen cloth in a very short time, or in other words, in the future, the weaving and garment industries in the Song Dynasty and even the entire surrounding areas will undergo earth-shaking changes.

Of course, to seize the initiative, this is something that must be done.

Zhao Xu also admired Wang Yang's approach very much. Wang Yang did not ask for all the money, but directly discounted a considerable portion of the money into food, daily necessities, and work tools.

In this way, with sufficient supplies, the people who migrated to the three states do not need to be frozen and hungry. When they arrive at the place, they have enough agricultural production tools and daily necessities to settle down as quickly as possible, and it is not easy to cause civil changes. In addition, even if those people miss the busy farming season, they can still use labor for relief.

"It's worthy of being Wang Wushan. He really thought about everything. Since that's the case, he will just let him deal with it. However, you have to remind him that there are 23 roads and 243 prefectures in the Song Dynasty, and the tax revenue last year totaled 132.6 million jin. The average amount of 545,700 jin per state is about 545,700 jin."

"And this amount is also the annual tax income of Zhongzhou, the Shaanxi prefectures in the northwest of the Song Dynasty. The average annual tax of the Shaanxi prefectures in the northwest of the Song Dynasty is about 280,000 guan per state. For example, Huanzhou, the income last year was only 248,700 guan. As for the three prefectures of Yan, You and Hong, how will the tax income in the future..."

Listening to Gao Taotao's tone, Zhao Xu seemed a little confused, and he didn't quite understand what the Empress Dowager said about these things.

You know, the three states are the newly occupied land of my Song Dynasty, and it is a time when everything is in trouble. Is there any problem with the emperor and grandmother saying this?

"It seems you really don't understand, but it's okay. Just say that it was the Ai family who specially asked you to ask Laosen..." Seeing his grandson's ignorant look, Gao Taotao felt that it would be better to continue to maintain the mystery, and it would be better to teach this good grandson who is growing up.

In fact, what is more important is that Gao Taotao wants to see how much potential Wang Yang and Wang Wushan still have to be tapped.
Chapter completed!