Chapter 181, Great Development of Textile Industry
In March of the fifth year of Zhongping (AD 188), Youzhou.
After putting down the rebellion of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, Liu Yu immediately began to perform his duties as the governor of Youzhou.
He began to pacify the local area, eliminate bandits, pacify the refugees, and garrison the borders.
But he soon ran into trouble. To do the above-mentioned things, each of them required a lot of money.
Unfortunately, the current Luoyang court could not afford this money. The only thing the court could do was to promote the governor of Youzhou in the basin to the position of shepherd of Youzhou. Liu Yu could only raise money and food locally.
But now the best places in Youzhou have been destroyed, and money can't be found anywhere. Moreover, Youzhou is a poor place, and the highest tax in the year was only 300 million.
This little money is not enough to do so many things, let alone that I can't even get so much money now.
According to Liu Yu's calculations, it would be impossible to restore Youzhou's vitality without one billion.
At this time, Liu Bei was unable to march due to the winter, and 100,000 troops were still hoarding in Youzhou. At the same time, he also wanted to wait for news from the court to see if the court really intended to deal with the Thunder Lord in Mayi.
It's just that Liu Bei was disappointed. After more than two months of quarreling, the court still couldn't make up its mind whether to deal with Thunder Duke of Mayi.
When he learned about Liu Yu's predicament, he immediately asked Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to mobilize 20,000 cavalry and raid the Qiuqiu Liju tribe in Liaoxi County, capturing more than 100,000 Karasuma people and seizing war horses, cattle and sheep.
Hundreds of thousands.
After Liu Yu learned the news, he was not happy at first, but worried that the Wuwan people who had finally been calmed by him would rebel again.
He went to Liu Bei and blamed him: "Xuande, you have always been benevolent, why did you do such a cruel thing? The Wuwan people in Youzhou have already settled down, so your actions will definitely make them panic."
Liu Bei looked at Liu Yu and sighed, "His superior is good at everything, but he is too benevolent."
In the past, the Han Dynasty had great power over the world, and the officials of the imperial court treated the Hu people like ants, killing them at every turn. Liu Yu treated the Hu people with kindness, and the Hu people would naturally come back. But in recent years, the Han Dynasty has been declining day by day, and even the weak Wuwan people dared to rebel.
Attack the Han people. At this time, the Hu people in Rende will feel that they have no strength.
Liu Bei said: "No one is arrogant and unethical. Ming Gong has been extremely benevolent to them. Now they need someone to fear. He knows that the Han has the ability to suppress them. Bei is willing to be this person."
Moreover, this time the rebellion in Youzhou was put down, the Wuwan people of Shanggu County Daijun contributed a lot. We only need to reward the Wuwan people who are loyal to the Han Dynasty, but now where can the court find money and food to reward them? And now
Reward Qiu Liju's tribe to them, they will definitely be happy and become more loyal to the court, and Ming Gong will have enough money and food to restore Youzhou's vitality after selling these cattle and sheep!"
Liu Yu was speechless!
In March of the fifth year of Zhongping (AD 188), Mayi.
A private textile factory called Tiangongfang was opened in the second community of Mayi. The boss Zhen An was so powerful that he even invited Tengjia Junqu Commander Lei Gong to celebrate, which made most of the residents of Mayi exclaim!
Only the old tribe members know that Qu Shuai and Zhen An are old friends. When they robbed the noble families in Wei County, they relied on Zhen An to sell their stolen goods! When they came to Mayi, they also relied on Zhen An to buy grain.
Xu Wei smiled at Zhen An and said: "Boss Zhen, your business is going well. I hope you will make a lot of money and make money every day!"
Zhen An said excitedly: "Thank you very much, Qu Shuai. If it weren't for Qu Shuai, my workshop would not have been built so quickly!"
Zhen An was really not saying this politely. After defeating the Xiongnu and Xianbei coalition forces, Xu Wei stayed in Meiji for more than a month, mobilizing the Huns from Meiji to the Heshuo area, and at the same time taking the refugees of the Han Dynasty with him.
Meiji, diluting the population of the Huns in Xihe County. After doing all this, he returned to Mayi! Then naturally, he will be rewarded based on his merits!
The officers, soldiers, and even civilian husbands of Mayi were arranged by Zhang Baiqi and others.
Only Zhang Baiqi, a businessman like Zhen An who donated a large amount of goods, didn't know what to do?
So he went to Xu Wei and asked him what he meant?
Xu Weidao: "Zhen An and the others want to open a textile factory in Mayi. You just need to arrange enough land for them according to the amount of money they donate so that they can open a textile factory in Mayi!"
Zhang Baiqi said in surprise: "Shuai Qu, do you want Zhen An and the others to open a textile factory in Mayi?"
Xu Wei nodded and said: "Although we are vigorously developing the textile industry, the time is too short. Mayi does not have enough talents to build enough textile factories. So now most of the women in Mayi weave at home.
The efficiency of this kind of family workshop is too low.
It is better to let Zhen An and others join in. Not only do they have enough management talents, but they will also recruit a large number of subordinates into their factories to increase the employment rate of their subordinates!"
Zhang Baiqi refused and said: "I don't agree to let Zhen An and others open a textile factory in Mayi. Even if they pay back double their money, they can't be allowed to open a textile factory!
The textile factory is our stronghold in Mayi, helping us earn 4 billion yuan last year. Why should we leave such a gold mine to Zhen An and others to dig? Is it just like this little material!"
At this time, the largest output value in Mayi was of course the steel plant, but most of the output of the steel plant was used in the infrastructure construction of the Tengjia Army.
After all, as long as Xu Wei occupies the land, there will be large-scale development. Yunzhong County is building canals, reclaiming the land for steel for agricultural tools, building tracks, and steel for making various weapons and armors.
It can be said that the production capacity of the steel factory is barely enough for the internal use of the Tengjia Army, and sales rarely occur. Naturally, the internal cycle does not make much profit. Even if the Tengjia Army pays the steel factory to purchase supplies, but such an internal cycle does not allow everyone to
Nor do they think steel plants are profitable.
The textile factory is different. Mayi has a population of less than 2 million. Most of the cloth woven by the textile factory is sold to other places. Last year, the textile factory spun tens of millions of woolen cloths, and its output value exceeded
Tens of billions of dollars, and the profit among them is more than 4 billion. It can be said to be the number one money-attracting weapon in Mayi!
And now someone wants to use such a weapon to attract money, that is to say, the person is Xu Wei, the others have long been beaten to death by Zhang Baiqi!
But Xu Wei smiled and said: "But this has reached our limit. You would never think that wool cloth is so profitable that people from other places will not join in!"
Zhang Baiqi said confidently: "As long as we don't let them in, it's impossible for them to enter!"
But Xu Qiang said: "You can compete with the merchants in Mayi to open textile factories, but can you prohibit the merchants in Youzhou from opening textile factories?"
Zhang Baiqi frowned, this was really a difficult problem.
"Otherwise Commander Qu occupies the entire Youzhou. As long as Youzhou is the territory of our Tengjia Army, who dares to open a textile factory?"
Xu Wei was convinced. In order to maintain the monopoly, Zhang Baiqi actually thought of launching a war. It really looked like a country of hope. You weren't a businessman of the country of hope in your previous life, were you?
No, there is no shadow of the Hope Country now. It should be said that Zhang Baiqi was reincarnated and became a member of the Hope Country, and actually used the army to do business!
Xu Wei said angrily: "What about Liangzhou? What do you plan to do in the Western Regions? There is also wool in those places. Spinning machines and textile machines are not advanced things. I just saw someone looking at our new textile machine in Mayi.
, merchants outside quickly imitated it. How much do you think the spinning machine can be concealed? How many businessmen in Mayi are now here for our spinning machine in Mayi. How long do you think this secret can be kept!
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Zhang Baiqi said: "Even if it takes one more year, we can earn billions more!"
Xu Wei said angrily: "Short-sighted! Since everyone knows that this secret cannot be kept, why not use this secret to attract people to invest in our Mayi? As long as businessmen can open textile factories in our Mayi, they will naturally not find ways to open textile factories in Youzhou and Xi'an."
Liangkai Textile Factory! These businessmen invested in our Mayi, which not only prospered our Mayi market, allowing their people in Mayi to have high-paying jobs, but more importantly, our Mayi textile industry market became more and more popular.
The more weaving machines there are, the more female workers there are, the lower the cost will be. And because the market in Mayi is so big, the first thing that Hu merchants on the grassland think of when they want to sell wool is Mayi!"
"As long as we in Mayi absorb businessmen who want to open textile factories and collect all the wool on the grasslands, it will be impossible for textile factories in other places to develop. In this way, although we cannot monopolize the profits of woolen cloth, we in Mayi will
You can monopolize the profits of the entire wool textile industry!”
"If you suppress them like this, they will definitely go to Youzhou or Liangzhou to open a textile factory, and then try to steal our spinning machines, go to the grasslands to snatch our wool raw materials, and even start a business war with us. We will give you 1,000 yuan a day."
They lowered the price of a piece of woolen cloth to 900 yuan, or even 800 yuan or 700 yuan. We all know how profitable woolen cloth is. Even if the price is reduced by half, the merchant will still make a profit. You see, we and Zhen An will both lose.
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"Problems in business are the same as in war. We need to make more of our friends and less of our enemies, and then use more enemies to defeat fewer enemies and defeat them with more enemies!"
After being persuaded and educated by Xu Wei, Zhang Baiqi finally agreed with what Xu Wei said about building Mayi into the largest textile center in the entire Han Dynasty!
After that, there was no objection to Xu Wei and Zhen An’s development of the textile industry!
Zhen An and the others were naturally overjoyed. After knowing that they could open a textile factory in Mayi, they immediately spent a lot of money to hire Mayi's engineering team to build a huge factory, and then went to Mayi's wood factory to buy thousands of textile machines.
Weaving machine, and then hired 1,000 women from Mayi to become female textile workers with a high monthly salary of 1,500 yuan, and recruited more than 200 handymen workers, so that a textile machine was built.
Xu Wei immediately asked Xu Juan to sell a large amount of yarn to Zhen An and the others to solve the source of raw materials for Zhen An Textile Factory!
Xu Juan was very unhappy just like this, and Xu Wei had to calm her down and tell her what he said to Zhang Baiqi again. Only then did Xu Juan agree to give some yarn to Zhen An!
Zhen An produced 30,000 pieces of woolen cloth that month, but the workers were not familiar with the process. Even Zhen An himself had no experience in managing such a large workshop, so the full production capacity was not fully utilized, but in just this month
Zhen An alone made 3 million yuan. Zhen An calculated that the textile factory would be able to recover its capital in at most half a year, and it would be pure profit from now on.
Seeing Zhen An making a fortune, other people in the chamber of commerce also began to open their own textile factories. It was planned that each of the 20 communities in Guangmayi would have a textile factory, and other counties in Mayi also began to open textile factories. They
Either it was a state-owned textile factory, or it was a private textile factory, and some female workers even joined forces to build a small textile factory with only about 10 textile machines. In short, after Xu Wei relaxed the restrictions, the entire Mayi textile factory blossomed.
, private, state-owned, collective, large-scale textile factories, small textile factories, and even micro-textile factories have popped up. Everyone knows that textile factories can make a lot of money, and it is inevitable to follow the trend. It only takes a month.
Over time, hundreds of textile factories, large and small, were opened in Mayi.
For Xu Wei, the more suitable textile factory he opens, the more beneficial it will be for the Tengjia Army. The local tax of the Tengjia Army is 30%, even the commercial tax is the same. Compared with the 2% tax of the Han Dynasty, it is extremely
Taller.
But because the profits of textile factories are large, businessmen can still make a lot of money even after paying such high taxes. And Xu Qiang’s taxes collected from these textile factories alone are now more than 4 billion!
While Xu Wei was busy making money in Mayi, another huge natural disaster occurred in the Han Dynasty.
Due to the constant wars and the empty treasury of the imperial court, even if Emperor Ling bought and sold officials, he was exempted from maintaining the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Han Dynasty. Even if the infrastructure construction of the Han Dynasty was paralyzed, he could still get by if there were no natural disasters.
But it happened that heavy rains continued in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River this year, causing the water in the Yellow River to surge. The Yellow River embankment was in disrepair for a long time and could not withstand such heavy rains. The Yellow River burst its embankments, and the torrential floods poured down, flooding Jizhou, Yanzhou and
The affected population in the seven counties of Qingzhou reached millions.
The world was shaken, and everyone really felt that the strength of the Han Dynasty was at an end. Such natural disasters would be difficult to cure even in the prosperous times, let alone the fact that the Han Dynasty was now in a state of empty treasury.
Zhang Yan of Jizhou was immediately overjoyed and led the Yellow Turban Army to rush out from the Taihang Mountains, recruit refugees to expand the army, and at the same time continuously attack various counties in Jizhou!
Fortunately, Emperor Ling was shrewd this time. He knew that this natural disaster might really kill the great man, and he might also become the king of subjugation. He was actually generous for a while and took out 3 billion yuan from Wanjin Hall for disaster relief. He
Immediately ordered Liu Bei's 100,000 troops from Youzhou to go south, ready to suppress the rebellion of the victims!
The turmoil in the Han Dynasty this year has also made Emperor Ling feel fear of national subjugation when he finally arrived.
At this time, Emperor Ling wanted to form an army of confidants that he had absolute control over, so he once again took out 1 billion from his small treasury to form the famous Xiyuan Army in history.