Ji Tang

Chapter 226: Prediction will lead to success, failure to predict will lead to failure!Second update

"Were those threads dyed from silk just now?"

After coming here for a while, they calmed down and asked Liu Gu.

"Yes, this is the last batch of this year. The previous ones have been shipped to the south by Uncle Ming for sale."

"Uncle Ming?"

"This is the steward who led the team to the south this time!" Ji Song explained.

"Oh, it turned out to be him!"

Afterwards, he didn't say much more about this matter. After all, the honorable nobles joined the royal family to go to the south to make a fortune. It was not a good thing to talk about it, and the censors would be nagging after hearing it.

"Huh!" Wei Zheng snorted coldly when he heard this.

A few people took a look and realized that there was someone specializing in criticizing the emperor. They almost forgot about him.

"Then how much profit can you make this year?" Li Shimin asked.

Liu Gu glanced at Ji Song, and then said with some uncertainty: "Probably Qian Guan!"

"How much?" Li Shimin thought he heard wrongly.

"Should, maybe, yes!" Liu Gu said anxiously.

The three of them were speechless for a while. A widowed lady who was driven back by her husband's family raised her children alone and built such a big business. I have to admire her!
Next, they looked at other rooms, including textiles and warehouses with finished products. They didn't miss them.

By the end of the thorough tour, they still had a lot to learn!

As the emperor, Li Shimin couldn't get enough of this scene. These are the fundamentals that make the entire country rich!
Nowadays, due to the shortage of copper coins, the value of items is often measured by cloth, and this woman brought a group of women who could only stay at home to support their husbands and raise children.

Such a large industry has been created, weaving cloth here and there, and basically printing money. These cloths will always be hard currency.

They had just seen that the cloth weaved was of the highest quality, and there was no need to worry about not being able to sell it.

Coupled with the current crazy overseas pursuit of these specialties of the Tang Dynasty, it can be predicted that these cloths will be the main commodities of sea trade for a long time, creating more tax revenue for the Tang Dynasty.

The food in the farmland is to ensure the basic needs of the people. If you want to be rich, Li Shimin can see that you have to find a way outside the land.

Look at Mingzhou. It was originally an ordinary lower-class state and county by the sea.But just because of the dividends from sea trade, it has become the place with the most taxes besides Chang'an so far.

It is foreseeable that in the near future, it is only a matter of time before Mingzhou's tax revenue exceeds that of Chang'an.

Some time ago, Gu Yanshang, the governor of Mingzhou, asked the court to vigorously support the production of tea and silk. Now those foreign businessmen have become obsessed with these unique fabrics of the Tang Dynasty.

Now, no matter how many there are, they are all pulled by those people on sea ships and transported thousands of miles away.

He also said that as long as Datang's goods reached the open sea, the profit would be at least five times greater. This made Li Shimin jealous!

But looking back at the situation in Datang, it was as if a basin of cold water had been poured on my head.

Looking back and looking around, the great Tang Dynasty did not even have a fleet capable of sailing in the deep sea.When I thought of letting the Five-Tooth Warship go to sea to explore the way, it unexpectedly capsized on the sea instead of being pushed back by the waves.

This made him feel distressed and helpless at the same time. What hurt was the warships and soldiers. What was helpless was that he had to admit that Datang was weak at sea.Therefore, there was a move to unite many nobles to go to the south to build ships. Ji Song even sent some of his most proud students there.

However, when he received the report from the royal steward about the description of the sea by the merchants, he was still shocked!

It turns out that there are so many difficulties in sailing at sea. Horrible shipwrecks, rocks covering the sea, strandings, diseases, etc. all show that survival at sea is not easy!
It would be fine if no one else came to Datang. Everyone would be the same. Wouldn't it be better to live a good life on land?

Do you have to go to the sea, a strange area that humans have never really known, to take risks?But the reality is that other countries or businessmen are already coming to Datang.

What does this mean?It shows that the navigation technology of the Tang Dynasty has lagged behind other countries. How can this make the Tang Dynasty, which regards itself as the supreme kingdom of heaven, embarrassed?

Especially after learning that navigation at sea requires nautical charts, Datang actually had nothing but maps near its own coast.

The most detailed one is the chart from Qingzhou to Liaodong, but this is useless!

He didn't think about forcefully buying those maritime charts, or he just went on and on and snatched them away.

But the reality is cruel. When someone tells him that these charts are written by those families with their own unique symbols and code words, others cannot understand them at all.

This made him stop taking shortcuts. The chart matter could not be completed overnight. Wasn't the chart of those people a masterpiece after decades or hundreds of years of continuous improvement?It's something you can do all at once.

He put down the chart thing first, but other things must be prepared immediately.

That's why the nobles collectively went south to search for shipbuilding talents and craftsmen. They have already started preparations in Mingzhou, but it will take at least a few years before they can get results.

Then I went to several other workshops to look around. Most of them I had seen before. The largest papermaking workshop in the Tang Dynasty was the imperial one, which was much larger than this one.

Coupled with the 'assembly line' work model introduced by Ji Song last year, the efficiency of workers has improved a lot now.

Whether it is weapons workshops or the creation of armor and other war items, it has reached a new level.

Today's events had a great impact on the three of them. It turns out that as long as the people are given an environment where no one can disturb them, the government does not bully them at will, and a way for them to sell their items is provided, they can explode into a shocking situation. of vitality.

They looked at Liu Niang's workshop, but there was nothing unique about it.

If I have to say it, the scale is very large. As I said just now, this will not only benefit the people and enable them to earn extra income.

It can also greatly reduce the cost of items and make items more affordable, which is great.

Nowadays, many people cannot afford a piece of cloth. If the price can be lowered, it will benefit all people.

Liu Gu originally wanted to let Ji Song and the others finish their meal before leaving, but at this time none of them had any intention of eating, so they politely refused. Ji Song even promised to go there often in the future.

Only then did Liu Gu let them go. Ji Song knew that this was Liu Gu's way of repaying his gratitude to him, but he felt uneasy if he didn't do something for his nephew.

Therefore, no matter what she sent, Ji Song would happily accept it and never refuse.

Because if you refuse, firstly, you will appear to be a stranger, and secondly, it will make Liu Gu feel even more guilty.Maybe they will gradually become distant from each other.

Ji Song has always been cautious about these things. It is not easy for the Ji family to be in the current situation. He does not want the people to be separated again, so sometimes Ji Song is very concerned about details.

He also repeatedly told the housekeepers at home not to neglect them, otherwise they would be severely punished!
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