I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 180, Great Development of the Textile Industry

In March of the fifth year of Zhongping (AD 188), Youzhou.

After the rebellion of Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju was put down, Liu Yu immediately began to perform his duties as governor of Youzhou.

Start to pacify the place, wipe out the bandits, appease the refugees, and garrison the border.

But he soon encountered troublesome things, each of which required a lot of money.

However, the current Luoyang court can't afford the money. The only thing the court can do is to promote the governor of Youzhou in the river basin to the governor of Youzhou. The money and food can only be raised locally by Liu Yu.

But now all the best places in Youzhou have been smashed, and no money can be found anywhere. Moreover, Youzhou is a poor place, and the year when the tax was the highest was only 3 million yuan.

This little money is not enough to do so many things, let alone not being able to spend so much money now.

According to Liu Yu's calculations, there is no one billion yuan to restore Youzhou's vitality.

At this time, Liu Bei was unable to march because of winter, and 10 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 Lei Gong in Mayi.

It's just that Liu Bei was disappointed. The court had been arguing for more than two months, but still hadn't made up their minds about whether to deal with Mayi's Lei Gong.

When he knew Liu Yu's plight, he immediately asked Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to mobilize 2 cavalry and raid the Qiuqiu Liju tribe in Liaoxi County, capturing more than 10 Karasuma people, and captured horses, cattle and sheep. Hundreds of thousands.

After Liu Yu heard the news, he was not happy at first, but worried that the Karasuma people who had finally been calmed down by him would rebel again.

He found Liu Bei and blamed him: "Xuande, you have always been benevolent, why did you do such a cruel thing, the people of Karasuma in Youzhou have already settled down, and your actions will definitely make them panic."

Liu Bei looked at Liu Yu and sighed. As a superior, he was good at everything, but he was too benevolent.

In the past, the great Han ruled the world, and the officials of the imperial court treated the Hu people like ants and killed them at every turn. Liu Yu treated the Hu people with benevolence, and the Hu people would naturally return to their hearts.But in recent years, the power of the big Han has been declining day by day, and even the weak Karasuma people dare to rebel and attack the Han people.At this time, when Rende treats them, the Hu people will only feel that they have no strength.

Liu Bei said: "No one has power or morality. Duke Ming has shown great benevolence to them. Now they need someone to scare them. Knowing that the big man is capable of suppressing them, Bei is willing to be this person.

Moreover, the rebellion in Youzhou was put down this time, and the Karasuma people of Shanggu County Daijun contributed a lot. We need rewards for this kind of Karasuma people who are loyal to the big man, but now how can the court get money and food to reward them? Rewarding Qiu Liju's tribe to them will definitely make them happy and more loyal to the court, and Minggong will have enough money and food to restore the vitality of Youzhou 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 established in the second community of Mayi.The boss, Zhen An, has great powers, and even invited the Rattan Armored Army Qu Shuai Lei Gong to celebrate, which made most of the residents of Mayi exclaim!
Only the veterans knew that Qu Shuai and Zhen An were old friends, and that when they robbed Wei County's nobles, they relied on Zhen An to sell the stolen goods!When I came to Mayi, I also relied on Zhen An to buy food.

Xu Wei said with a smile to Zhen An: "Boss Zhen, the business is going well, I hope you will make a lot of money and make money every day!"

Zhen An excitedly said: "Thank you Shuai Qu, if my workshop didn't have Shuai Qu, I'm afraid it wouldn't be completed so quickly!"

Zhen An is really not saying this politely. After defeating the allied forces of the Huns and Xianbei, Xu Wei stayed in Meiji for more than a month. Meiji dilutes the population of the Huns in Xihe County.Wait until after doing all this before returning to Mayi!Then of course it's about meritorious deeds and rewards!

The officers, soldiers, and even civilian husbands of Mayi were arranged by Zhang Baiqi and the others.

Only Zhen An, a businessman who donated a lot of goods, Zhang Baiqi, he didn't know what to do?
So he approached Xu Wei and asked what he meant?
Xu Wei said: "Zhen An and the others want to open a textile factory in Mayi, you can arrange for them a large enough land 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 family workshop is too low.

It's better to let Zhen An and the others join in. Not only do they have enough management talents, but they will also recruit a large number of people into their factories to increase the employment rate of the people! "

Zhang Baiqi refused: "I don't agree to allow Zhen An and the others to open a textile factory in Mayi, even if they return double their money, they won't be allowed to open a textile factory!
The textile factory is our strong bag in Mayi, and it helped us earn 40 billion yuan last year. Why should we hand over such a gold mine to Zhen An and the others to dig it? Is it like relying on this little material! "

At this time, the largest output value in Mayi is of course the steel factory, but most of the output of the steel factory is used for the infrastructure construction of the Tengjia Army.

After all, as long as Xu Wei occupies the site, it will undergo large-scale development. Yunzhong County is building water canals, and wants to reclaim the land for the steel used for farm tools, the steel consumed for building tracks, and the steel used to manufacture various weapons and armor Xiaohei.

It can be said that the production capacity of the steel factory is barely enough for the internal use of the Fujia Army, and there are few sales. Naturally, the internal cycle does not see much profit. Even if the Fujia Army pays the steel factory to purchase materials, such an internal cycle everyone Nor do they think that steel mills make money.

The textile factory is different. There are only less than 200 million people in Mayi, and 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 cloth, and the output value exceeded There are tens of billions of money, and the profit is more than 40 billion, which can be described as Mayi's number one gold-absorbing weapon!
But now someone wants to use such a gold-absorbing weapon, which means that the person is Xu Wei, and the others have long been beaten to death by Zhang Baiqi!
But Xu Wei said with a smile: "But this has reached our limit. You don't think that people from other places won't join in because woolen cloth is so profitable!"

Zhang Baiqi said to himself: "As long as we don't let them in, they won't be able to enter!"

But Xu Qiang said: "You can compete for merchants in Mayi to open textile factories, but can you prohibit merchants in Youzhou from opening textile factories?"

Zhang Baiqi frowned, this is really a problem.

"How about Qu Shuai occupying 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 looks like the country of hope. You were not a businessman in the country of hope in your previous life, right?
No, there is no shadow of the country of hope now. It should be said that Zhang Baiqi was reincarnated and became a member of the country of hope, and he actually used the army to do business!

Xu Wei said unhappily: "What about Liangzhou? What are you going to do about the Western Regions? There is also wool in those places. Spinning machines and weaving machines are not sophisticated things. It just depends on someone looking at our new weaving machine in Mayi. , the merchants outside imitated it very quickly. How much do you think the spinning machine can hide? How many merchants in Mayi are now targeting our spinning machine in Mayi? How long do you think this secret can be kept! "

Zhang Baiqi said: "Even if it takes one more year, we can earn billions more!"

Xu Wei said angrily: "Short-sighted! Since we all know that this secret can't 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 a way to invest in Youzhou, West Liangkai Textile Factory! These businessmen invested in our Mayi, which not only prospered our Mayi market, but also made their Mayi tribesmen able to work with high salaries. More importantly, our Mayi textile industry market became more and more Bigger, the more looms and women workers, the lower the cost will be, and because the Mayi market is huge, the Hu merchants on the prairie who want to sell wool will first think of our Mayi!"

"As long as our Mayi absorbs businessmen who want to open textile factories and collects all the wool on the grassland, it will be impossible for textile factories in other places to develop. In this way, although we cannot monopolize the profits of woolen cloth, our Mayi You can monopolize the profits of the entire wool textile industry!"

"And if you suppress them like you do, they will definitely go to Youzhou or Liangzhou to open textile factories, and then try to steal our spinning machines, go to the grasslands to grab our wool raw materials, and even start a business war with us. For a piece of woolen cloth, they cut the price to 1000 yuan, or even 900 yuan to 800 yuan. We all know how profitable woolen cloth is. Even if the price is reduced by half, the merchants still make money. Look at this, we and Zhen An and the others are not both losers. .”

"Business issues are the same as war. We want to make our friends more and our enemies less, and then use the many enemies to defeat the few!"

After Xu Wei's persuasion and education, Zhang Baiqi finally agreed with Xu Wei's words that he wanted to build Mayi into the largest textile center in the entire Dahan!

After that, they never objected to Xu Wei, Zhen An and the others to develop the textile industry!

Zhen An and the others were naturally overjoyed. Knowing that they could open a textile factory in Mayi, they immediately hired Mayi's engineering team at a high price to build a huge factory building, and then went to the wood factory in Mayi to buy thousands of them. We then hired 1500 women from Mayi to become female textile workers with a high salary of 1000 yuan a month, and recruited more than 200 handyman workers. This is how a textile machine was built.

And 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!

Just like this made Xu Juan very unhappy, Xu Wei had to comfort her loudly, and said to her again what she had said to Zhang Baiqi, Xu Juan agreed to give some yarn to Zhen An!

Zhen An produced 3 pieces of woolen cloth that month, but the workers are not familiar with the process, and even Zhen An himself has no experience in managing such a large workshop, so the full production capacity has not been fully utilized, but in just one month Zhen An earned 300 million yuan. According to Zhen An's calculations, the textile factory can pay back its capital in half a year at most, and it will be pure profit in the future.

Seeing Zhen An making a fortune, other members of the chamber of commerce also started to set up their own textile factories. It is planned that each of the 20 communities in Guangmai will have a textile factory, and other counties in Mayi have also started to set up textile factories. If it is not a state-owned textile factory, or a private textile factory, some female workers even joined forces to build a small textile factory with only about 10 textile machines. In short, after Xu Wei released the restrictions, the entire Mayi textile factory can be said to be blooming everywhere. , private, state-run, collective, large-scale textile factories, small textile factories, and even micro-textile factories have emerged. Everyone knows that textile factories can make a lot of money, and it is inevitable to follow suit. Over time, hundreds of large and small textile factories opened in Mayi.

For Xu Wei, the more textile factories he opens, the more beneficial it is for the Tengjia Army. The local tax of the Tengjia Army is [-]%, even the commercial tax is the same. Compared with the [-]% tax of the big man, it can be said to be extremely Taller.

But because of the huge profits of the textile factories, even after paying such a high tax, the merchants can still make a lot of money, and Xu Qiang now collects more than 40 billion yuan in taxes from these textile factories alone!
While Xu Wei was busy making money in Mayi, a huge natural disaster occurred again in Dahan.

Due to the constant wars and the emptiness of the imperial treasury, even if Emperor Ling bought and sold officials, he exempted the military pay for the hundreds of thousands of troops who maintained the Dahan.

But this year, the torrential rain in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River caused the Yellow River to skyrocket. The embankment of the Yellow River was in disrepair for a long time and could not withstand such a heavy rain. In the seven counties of Qingzhou, millions of people were affected by the disaster.

The whole world was shaken, and everyone really felt that the man's life was exhausted, and such a natural disaster would be difficult to heal even in a prosperous age, let alone the state of the man's treasury being empty now.

Zhang Yan of Jizhou was overjoyed immediately, and led the Yellow Turban Army to rush out from the Taihang Mountains, recruited refugees to expand the army, and at the same time continued to attack various counties in Jizhou!

Fortunately, the Emperor Ling was shrewd this time, knowing that this natural disaster may really kill the big man, and he may also become the king of subjugation. Immediately order Liu Bei's 30 troops in Youzhou to go south, ready to suppress the rebellion of the victims at any time!
And the turmoil in the Han Dynasty since the beginning of this year also made Emperor Ling finally feel the fear of subjugation.

At this time, Lingdi wanted to form a confidant army under his absolute control, so he once again took out 10 billion from his small treasury to form the famous Xiyuan Army in history.

(End of this chapter)