Only then did Shen Bing realize the difficulty of managing a city:
Household registration issues, housing issues, job issues, etc., all individually seem to be small problems, but when the number reaches hundreds of thousands, they become big problems.
Fortunately, Shen Bing had been prepared beforehand...
The grain stored in the warehouse is enough to meet the needs of the people for more than a month. In addition, the grain in Yanmen, Taiyuan, Handan and other places is mature. Shen Bing can continuously exchange cloth for grain from other places to feed the people.
Of course, these grains are not "distributed" to the people.
There is a saying that "It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish."
If you just distribute food to the people, on the one hand, you will be sitting on nothing, and on the other hand, it will cultivate the lazy mentality of the people.
Therefore, these grains are actually paid as wages, and even if there is no food, they must be accounted for.
The industrial zone has been well planned, and many factories have even been built by newly arrived craftsmen, including double-story factories... This is due to the lack of land in Yunzhong County.
The cultivated land and industrial land outside Yunzhong County were planned within the scope of "enclosed land". The land was limited but the population was growing rapidly, and it took time to enclose new land, so double-story factory buildings were built to use one piece of land as two pieces of land.
However, a double-story factory building was not a difficult task for workers of this era. They only needed to use stronger and taller timber to erect the second floor.
What's more important is that this is a hydraulic weaving fabric, so there are basically no safety risks.
Factory buildings were built one after another, and teams of trained and qualified workers took up their posts. Within a month, the production speed of cloth increased rapidly from one hundred pieces per day to more than two thousand pieces per day, and it is still growing.
So much so that the ramie that Shen Bing thought was enough for use was all consumed in a short period of time... This forced Shen Bing to urgently purchase ramie from Yanmen, Taiyuan and other counties to ensure production.
Of course, during this process, a large amount of wealth continued to be concentrated in Yunzhong County.
You must know that this is a production of more than two thousand pieces of fine cloth every day.
Fatty Tun once calculated that if the total cost of raw materials, labor, transportation, sales, etc. were added up, it would only cost eighteen yuan... This even included the manufacturing costs of factories, waterwheels, and looms.
These expenses should actually be calculated as "depreciation", because things like factories can be used for several years, and their costs should be amortized over several years.
But people in ancient times did not understand modern accounting knowledge and directly included it in the cost. Shen Bing did not bother with it. Anyway, what he wanted in the end was not wealth but people...thousands of people who could gather in Yunzhong County and live and work in peace and contentment. , someone who can provide Yunzhong County with soldiers, development and power.
Therefore, we turned a blind eye to these accounting methods that were not scientific enough and had many loopholes.
Fatty Tun reported while holding the account book:
"Forty-five cents minus eighteen cents is twenty-seven cents."
"The daily production of 2,356 pieces of cloth is 63,612 yuan!"
"General, the textile workshop can earn more than 60,000 yuan a day!"
"Based on this calculation, the textile workshop's profit in one month exceeds Yanmen County's annual tax revenue."
"And the textile workshop is still expanding..."
Fusu was stunned when he heard Fatzitun's briefing.
But this seems not surprising. There are not many sources of tax revenue these days, mainly from farmers, that is, taxes collected from the land.
Therefore, places like Yanmen County, which is located in the north and can only grow grain once a year, are at a disadvantage because they only collect taxes on grain once a year.
If this tax grain were converted into money, it would be worth almost two million yuan. However, this is only the profit of the textile workshop in Yunzhong County for one month.
And this is net profit after supporting more than 100,000 people... More than 100,000 people in Yunzhong County have received daily wages in food or money.
This is the charm of industry, especially in a semi-slave and semi-feudal society. Yunzhong County's strong technological advantages will make it rich quickly.
It took a long time for Fusu to regain his composure and asked:
"What does the general plan to do with the money?"
Shen Bing answered without thinking:
"Building roads and bridges, water conservancy facilities, education, public security, and strengthening the army..."
There is a saying that “if you want to get rich, build the road first”.
Industrial development is all about commerce, and good transportation is needed for commercial interoperability.
At this time, the roads in Yunzhong County were narrow and difficult to navigate, and it would take about three days to drive a carriage over a road of more than 160 kilometers... This was almost the marching speed of infantry.
Usually, carriage transport is not as fast as the cavalry, but the difference is not much different. Traveling eighty miles a day is not a big problem, especially when transporting lighter weight cloth.
Not only does this increase transportation costs, but more importantly, it limits the development speed of Yunzhong County... Compared with transportation costs, what Shen Bing values more is actually the cost of time, and time is everything.
Needless to say, water conservancy facilities are beneficial to both industry and agriculture in Yunzhong County.
As for education... now is just the beginning of the industrial revolution. From now on, Yunzhong County will need a large number of qualified labor forces, which cannot be achieved without education.
Shen Bing understands this very well.
To be precise, Cang has the deepest experience... He is responsible for the training of workers.
As the saying goes, “The bigger the forest is, the more birds there are.” The more people there are, the more people there are.
Although the operation of looms, the maintenance of waterwheels and other tasks are not very difficult, the people at this time were generally in an uncivilized state... most of them had never read a book, and had been exposed to it since they were born. Farming and digging, so the only thing I know how to do is farming and digging.
It's okay for female workers to operate looms, that's what they're good at.
If male workers want to transform them into workers, even if they teach them step by step, they often forget about it as soon as they get up, or they don't know what to do as soon as they turn around.
This is actually due to the lack of education. Their thinking, intelligence, and coordination of hands and feet cannot keep up, so that a considerable number of people can only go to farming in the end.
At this time, it is just water-powered spinning machines. What will happen if one day it develops into large-scale machine production?
Therefore, the issue of education is urgent.
The problem of public security is because people from all walks of life are concentrated in Yunzhong County, which is not yet stable and relatively chaotic. There are still many crimes such as theft, occupation, robbery and so on.
If management and rectification are not strengthened, a series of chain reactions will soon occur.
A strong army is the ultimate goal... Shen Bing did all this not for money, but to build an army, an army strong enough to defend Yunzhong County and even expand territory.
Judging from the current situation in Yunzhong County, it is time to expand the army and prepare to encircle more lands from the Xiongnu.
Otherwise, when the Dai Kingdom is destroyed and hundreds of thousands more people come in, Yunzhong County will probably be overrun.