Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 102 Mission completed, a large number of contribution points credited
Ning Chun brought the two of them outside. At this time, he was still thinking about what to do. At this time, Yu Minghe suddenly came over and pulled Ning Chun aside.

"The king said that both of them had no experience, especially not knowing hardship. The king said that they should start with the most basic things, do everything once, and after they have experienced how difficult it is, he would take them with him and teach them.

The king also said, just do it, as long as you are not dead, then do it to the death, don’t care about their identities, when you arrive in Lingnan, these identities are useless.

Governor Ning, I have delivered your message. I will take my leave now."

Ning Chun listened to these words and immediately had an idea in his mind. Since Li Yuanji said so, he simply let it go. What young master? When you come to Lingnan, you have to work! In Lingnan, Li Yuanji is the king.

Ning Chun came to the two of them again and was about to speak when Yang Cheng spoke first.

"Governor Ning, what do you need us to do? Just arrange it. Just like my sister, the king, said, don't worry about us. We are here to work!"

Yang Cheng and Wei Ye were both a little excited. They had never done anything in Chang'an. At their age, they had been spending money and enjoying life in Chang'an. Now they also wanted to enrich themselves.

Ning Chun looked at the two people who were excited and smiled immediately. Work? Being aware is a good thing.

Ning Chun couldn't stop smiling. Young people are good and energetic. He likes them.

"Okay, since you all said so, I will start making arrangements right away. Follow me first."

Ning Chun walked forward with the two men and the people they brought with them, with a smile on his face, until they came to a team that was reclaiming wasteland.

“Let’s not talk about more now. Right now, a large amount of wasteland is being reclaimed here, which is also the most urgent thing right now. You should start from here first, work on it for ten days, and then arrange other things later.

The king said that the two princes did not have any basic understanding of these things before, and only after experiencing them personally would they be able to consider them thoroughly when making decisions later.

Young Master Yang, Young Master Wei, please come in. I will come to pick you up in ten days."

The two listened to Ning Chun's words without any fear and looked very motivated.

"Governor Ning, call me Yuanlin, and you can call him Sizhe. Reclaim wasteland, right?
The king has told us to experience it first, we will definitely have no problems, Governor Ning, don't worry!"

Ning Chun's eyes were complicated. He now truly realized that these two young masters knew nothing. It was not so easy to reclaim wasteland. He knew that these two would have a hard time in the next ten days.

After Ning Chun and others went down, Li Yuanji also started to do his own things, mainly patrolling. When he saw that the construction in the city was almost completed, Li Yuanji hurriedly looked at the system panel, only to see that it had already shown that the task had been completed.

Li Yuanji was immediately delighted and did not bother to continue his inspection. He went straight back to the palace to watch the mission.

The task of building Haikang City has been completed, and 1,000 contribution points have been obtained. A new task is to increase the population of Haikang City to 50,000, and 500 contribution points will be obtained after completion.

Li Yuanji was very excited when he saw that his contribution points had reached 1,020. This was a huge sum of money that he had never had before.

As for this new task, Li Yuanji also thought it was a contribution point. There were already nearly 40,000 people in Haikang City, that is, without counting the army, otherwise it would far exceed this standard. Even if it was 50,000 people, as long as they continued to register the people and move them to Haikang, it would not take much time.

Li Yuanji was immediately happy. This was a good task. The difficulty was reduced a lot. No wonder it was only 500 contribution points. But Li Yuanji was also very satisfied.

After being excited for a while, he began to think about how to use the 1,020 contribution points. Although this amount seemed a lot, Li Yuanji knew very well that if he really used them, they would not last long, so he had to be frugal.

After thinking for a while, Li Yuanji immediately found the production drawings and processes of the sewing machine. Looking at what was displayed in the system, in addition to the production drawings and processes, there were also ready-made ones that could be exchanged, including the oldest ones, as well as manual, semi-automatic, and automatic ones.

Li Yuanji first removed the semi-automatic and automatic ones. Since there was no electricity, these two types could only be exchanged for physical objects, and they could not be used after being exchanged. They were completely useless.

Then we turned our attention to manual sewing, which requires complete manpower to do, and the sewing machine is just an auxiliary tool.

However, when he saw the exchange price, Li Yuanji hesitated. The blueprint and production process required 500 contribution points, and exchanging for a ready-made one would directly require 800 contribution points.

Li Yuanji suddenly felt a headache, he suddenly felt that this was really expensive. Although he also felt it was expensive when he didn't have contribution points, he didn't have contribution points and didn't have too many ideas. But now he can really take out 500 contribution points, it seems even more expensive.

However, this sewing machine is still necessary, and the textile industry must be developed now. He has asked Ning Chun to start planting mulberry trees, all in preparation for strengthening the textile industry. Besides, nowadays, there is no problem in selling clothes.

Not only overseas, even in the Tang Dynasty, clothes were made by buying a piece of cloth and having it tailored to one's measurements or taking it home to have it trimmed. If one wanted to make it look good, time was a big problem and it could not be made in a day or two.

With sewing machines, clothes can be mass-produced and made in other styles, which can then be sold together. Just make more sizes. Fat, thin, tall, and short people can all buy ready-made ones, directly leading the current market.

As long as this production line is completed, there will be no worries about sales in the Tang Dynasty or overseas in the future. Moreover, the price can be high, for example, if it is sold to rich people or exported overseas, the cost of one string of coins can be sold directly for dozens of strings of coins, as long as the clothes are well designed.

Li Yuanji was really envious of this huge profit. Just think about the future generations, when a piece of clothing could cost hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars. How much did it cost?

Everyone would be jealous of the profits involved, and Li Yuanji was no exception. Once he succeeded, he would be the only one in the market. Others who wanted to imitate him would not have the productivity, and their costs would definitely be higher than his, both in terms of labor costs and time costs.

Li Yuanji then turned his attention to another item, which was a manual cotton spinning machine. Although cotton was available nowadays, it was very scarce in the Tang Dynasty. The only places where it was grown were the Western Regions and Gaochang, but not many were planted there.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Lingnan also began to grow cotton, but the planting was small and the yield was even less.

Cotton textiles have always been a high-end luxury item until the early Ming Dynasty, when an outlier like Zhu Yuanzhang appeared and vigorously promoted cotton planting in the north, making cotton textiles available to the common people and bringing the unattainable cotton down to earth.

Before Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously promoted it, not to mention the common people, even the average wealthy families could not afford high-end luxury goods.

During this period, people mainly relied on charcoal fires to survive the winter. People would prepare firewood before winter and burn fires to keep warm. As for cotton-padded clothes and quilts?
Sorry, don't think about it. There weren't many in the palace, and most importantly, there were no cotton-fluffing machines during this period. Not to mention automatic ones, there were no manual ones either. So the cotton at that time was not only scarce, but also had low utilization rate.

(End of this chapter)