Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 806

[Chapter 806 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Business]

Yancheng.

When the order was issued from the people to fight, Zhao Xu personally watched the matter.

On the one hand, it is to urge, and on the other hand, I want to see with my own eyes how great the potential for war can be unleashed by Yanzhou’s workshops when the people turn to war.

“Your Highness, I have selected the more capable female workers in the spinning mill to go to the Military Division to learn how to polish lathes and parts. After the lathe workshop delivered the lathes, I will renovate the workshop and formally manufacture the spare parts of the musket. “The master of the spinning mill said, pointing to the steam engine of the spinning mill.

Some craftsmen are dismantling the connection between the steam engine and the spinning machine.

These steam engines are currently used to drive spinning machines, but with a little modification they can be used to drive lathes.

In this way, the spinning workshop can be transformed into a military workshop.

Zhao Xu nodded.

After the civil war, the designated workshops sent their craftsmen to the Bingzhang Division one after another.

He ordered Wang Ying to assign craftsmen who had mastered the Qin-style rifle manufacturing technology to teach them.

Let different workshops manufacture different parts, assembly line production, and final assembly.

This spinning workshop is one of the workshops that have been conscripted.

However, since this civil war is just a small test.

The workshops recruited are only a small part of the industries.

For example, this spinning mill, after Jiangbei allowed private workshops, spinning mills of all sizes have sprung up in Yanzhou like bamboo shoots after rain.

In addition to the government-run spinning mills, Yanzhou alone has registered fifty-six spinning mills with the Department of Commerce within a short period of time.

In addition to spinning workshops, there are also weaving workshops, soap workshops, glass workshops, cement workshops, etc.

Of course, key workshops such as steel workshops, wine workshops, and salt workshops are still only allowed to run by the government.

Because the converter steelmaking technology is not yet mastered even in the current Xitu, so naturally it must be kept secret.

Wine and salt are the most profitable, and have been controlled by the government since ancient times as an important source of income.

All in all, his principle is that ordinary civilian technology can be opened.

The imperial court made profits by collecting patent fees and taxes from these workshops, and no longer monopolized these industries.

The core technology must be in the hands of the official workshop.

In the future, with the improvement of the industrial level, it will be opened to the private sector step by step.

For this reason, he also specifically asked Yang He to compile a list, including some technologies on the restricted list, which cannot be provided to the Patent Department.

However, even if open civilian technology is allowed, it can only be circulated within Jiangbei, and merchants who have obtained the technology are not allowed to pass on privately for profit, let alone smuggling patented technology to countries outside the region without the consent of the Patent Department.

He also set up an audit office in the patent department, responsible for auditing merchants who privately passed on technology.

Once found out, depending on the seriousness of the situation, they will be punished with huge sums of money, and at the same time they will be imprisoned, and the maximum sentence will be death.

In addition to the inspection team, he also asked the Wuhou Division of each state and county to cooperate with the inspection team to supervise the lawbreakers.

Since ancient times, as long as there is a 300% profit, businessmen dare to kill their heads.

He needs to rely on business to make Da Song rich, but he never wants to be backlashed by business.

Therefore, it is necessary to put shackles on the business from the very beginning, lest they completely let themselves go.

At the same time, Dasong’s attitude towards private commerce in the future will always be limited and open, insisting on government-run workshops as the mainstay, supplemented by private workshops.

Firstly, this is to increase competition so that government-run workshops do not think about making progress and waste resources in vain.

Second, the imperial court needs to have official capital that is stronger than private capital.

Otherwise, once private capital has a crooked mind, Dasong’s industry and commerce will be paralyzed.

And mastering the official capital related to the lifeline of the Great Praise, he is equivalent to the Tathagata Buddha, no matter how he jumps, Monkey King, he will not be able to jump out of his Five Fingers Mountain.

With one slap, he can suppress him under Wuzhi Mountain.

With this in mind, he left the government-run spinning mill.

After that, he went to the weaving workshop, agricultural machinery workshop and other workshops.

Like the spinning mills, these workshops are being remodeled and are ready to join the mission of Minzhuan.

After patrolling for five or six days in a row, Zhao Xu was very satisfied with the results of the civil war.

There is a high probability that it will be no problem to deliver 120,000 Qin-style rifles within a month.

Perhaps, they need half a month to learn and transform.

But with so many workshops, as long as they are officially put into production, 120,000 Qin-style rifles will flow out of the production line like water.

During the contemporary World War I, it was not uncommon for European countries to produce millions of rifles within a month for the needs of the war.

During his inspection period, the Fourth Court kept reporting the situation in Jiangnan to him.

Knowing that Liang Kai arrived in Bazhou, a large number of Wu troops marched to the coast of Jiujiang.

He could only order Chang Wei to deploy 30,000 soldiers and horses to station along the Jiangbei line to deal with it.

Although he knew that this might just be Wu Guo’s move to pull the line of defense, but he had to guard against it.

Otherwise, if the other party seizes the loophole to cross the river, it will cause huge damage to the countryside in Jiangbei, and production and construction will be affected.

However, in this way, there are only 70,000 troops left to deal with Zhongling Pass.

In addition to dispatching the royal army, in order to ensure the safety of Jiangbei, he gave Zhou Yi an order to ensure that twelve steamships and sailing warships patrol Jiujiang.

Originally, after the Battle of Jinling, Zhou Yi transferred eight of the twelve steamships away and stationed them in Yizhou to prevent accidents.

Now I have to call back again.

“The battleship has to keep making dumplings, otherwise there won’t be enough.” Zhao Xu sighed as he looked at the map on the wall in the Wangfu study.

He decided to inspect the new shipyard.

Although this civil war only designed the manufacture of Qin-style rifles.

But for Da Song at the moment, the matter of the battleship serving dumplings is equally urgent.

In the Battle of Japan, the Yanzhou Fleet wiped out the British fleet, and the British will certainly not let it go.

The country of Sam, which has included Japan in its sphere of influence, will not admit it.

In the foreseeable future, there will definitely be a large number of warships from the West to the East, with the intention of regaining the maritime hegemony of the East.

This competition for ocean supremacy will be continuous and brutal.

One or even several naval battles cannot be avoided.

And this requires the Yanzhou Fleet to list more warships.

At present, just guarding Dongpu and controlling Jiujiang makes the battleship seem stretched.

If the opponent’s large fleet arrives, he will be passive at sea.

Fortunately, at the end of last year, he ordered Chen Shou to send people to expand the number of shipbuilding workshops.

How many more shipyards can make dumplings together.

He was thinking about it when Feng’er notified Zou Rong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, to see him.

Zhao Xu vaguely guessed something, showed an expectant expression, and asked him to come in.

Not long after, Zou Rong appeared in the study with a happy face, “Your Highness, I have come to congratulate His Highness today.”

“So, a certain section of the railway under construction will be open to traffic soon?” Zhao Xu laughed.

Apart from this incident, he couldn’t think of anything else that would make Zou Rong so happy.

(end of this chapter)