Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 190 In full swing ([-])

Winemaking is not so fast, and fermentation takes more than a month.

Li Fei took Cao Xiaozhong and his son, as well as Xiao Ruoshui, to visit the porcelain industry in charge of Zhao Ye.

After a period of training, the newly recruited workers have also been proficient in operation, and the ten porcelain kilns have really started mass production.Because it is an assembly line operation, each worker only does one process, and the speed is very fast.

Although the quality of the first batch of porcelain that came out was not very good, the second and third batches, the more skilled the workers were, the higher the quality of the porcelain was.

Originally, what Li Fei pursued was not the top quality, but the output.Although top-notch porcelain is extremely profitable, it can only be sold to dignitaries or wealthy businessmen.The scope of ordinary porcelain is wide, and ordinary people can afford it.

Isn't production just output?Quality control, cost control, large-scale output to achieve the purpose of dumping.The assembly line has almost tripled the speed of making porcelain.

"These ten porcelain kilns can produce more than [-] pieces of porcelain every day. I don't want any profit. As long as I can pay the workers' wages and keep the kilns running, I will make money." Li Fei said with a smile.Workers get wages every month, and they accumulate over time. One day they will reach the point of surplus. When the people have money and demand will increase, Anton's economy will enter a virtuous circle and get better and better.

"When you go back to Jiangnan, take back the tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain that have already been produced. In addition to selling them to Guanzhong, Central Plains, Jiangnan and other places. Qiqing Chamber of Commerce can also send people to Silla and Wa to establish strongholds for future exchanges. The two countries are dumping." Li Fei smiled and offered his own suggestion.

"Now it's just porcelain, but in the future there will be ready-made clothes, finished shoes, even sauce, vinegar, and wine. Even salt, ironware, etc. Even higher-end glass mirrors, telescopes, pianos, and everything that can be produced, I Anton They must all be produced." Li Fei wanted to completely let go of manufacturing and commerce.In later generations, he knew very well that commerce is the foundation of social prosperity, and all development is inseparable from commerce. In his eyes, suppressing commerce is stupid. Anyway, the Khitan people are still rebelling now, and An Lushan deliberately acted recklessly. With the mountain-sea corridor blocked, no one would notice Anton's development.

Didn't An Lushan withhold Anton's money, food, personnel, and supplies of weapons and armor under the pretext of conquering the Xi and Khitan tribes?When Lu Xin was there, An Lushan didn't take Lu Xin seriously at all, but now Anton Jiedu is Li Fei, he is afraid that Li Fei will send someone back to Chang'an City to ask for it, and Tang Xuanzong will look at Yang Guifei In terms of face, asking him to send the seized items to Li Fei, wouldn't that mean losing his own strength in vain, instead increasing Li Fei's strength? That's why An Lushan deliberately gave up several passes and hundreds of Let the Khitan cavalry ride the mountain and sea corridors, completely blocking Anton's connection with the imperial court.

Of course Li Fei knew An Lushan's purpose, but what An Lushan did was also in line with his wishes, so he pretended not to know.

"Li Fei, your ambition is really great." Xiao Ruoshui's eyes sparkled brightly. As a strange woman in the business world, she naturally knew how much the imperial court suppressed businessmen.In fact, she never thought that their merchants would harm the common people. There are good people and bad merchants, and there are also good merchants and profiteers.I dare not say anything else, but her Qiqing Chamber of Commerce has brought many people to live comfortably.

"You are really courageous in doing this, and I admire you, I believe that Anton's business will flourish, and it will not be difficult to make the people rich." Because Li Fei and Cao Xiaozhong are brothers, Cao Xiaozhong is still "brother", Xiao Ruoshui does As Cao Xiaozhong's wife, Li Fei would feel awkward if she always called 'Master', so he simply asked Xiao Ruoshui to call him by his name. Xiao Ruoshui is not a hypocritical woman, she has her own vision of people, Being able to call Li Fei by his name is actually very beneficial to her, and she also values ​​Li Fei's future very much. She is willing to spare no effort to help Li Fei without Cao Xiaozhong's persuasion.

"You are not a little girl, you are much 'older' than me." Li Fei said venomously.

"What you said is really—" Xiao Ruoshui gritted her teeth, but she had long been used to Li Fei's poisonous tongue. In fact, Li Feiyue joked with her and Cao Xiaozhong in such a poisonous tongue, which showed that he was really with Cao Xiaozhong. They are close as husband and wife.

"When the fleet comes to Anton next time, I hope that not only food will be loaded on board, but also talents will be on board. From all walks of life, as long as there is any skill, men and women can send it, and even their families can be sent together. Come." Li Fei changed the subject with a smile.

The Qiqing Chamber of Commerce of Cao Xiaozhong and Xiao Ruoshui is already the largest chamber of commerce in the world. It is not difficult for them to do things like sell goods, purchase food, recruit talents, etc.And Zheng Hai is mainly responsible for the round-trip shipping from Jiangnan to Andong.

In fact, it doesn't make any difference whether Zheng Hai's fleet belongs to Li Fei or the Qiqing Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, [-] sea-going ships are still a little small for Li Fei. After all, this is just the beginning. In the future, he plans to dump products to Wa and Silla. Every route should have a fleet.But don't worry, Anton has no shortage of wood, and if he finds talents in the future, he can even build his own ship.

After staying in Liaoyang for four days, Cao Xiaozhong, Xiao Ruoshui and Zheng Hai's fleet returned to Jiangnan with tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain, but Cao Chong stayed behind.

Cao Chong's thinking is still relatively stubborn, and he really doesn't want to follow his son Cao Xiaozhong and daughter-in-law Xiao Ruoshui to do business. He has been helping Li Fei all these years, which is considered hard work, and Li Fei also thinks highly of him.

Basically, Jiang Nan had nothing to deal with. When he came to Anton this time, he planned to stay under Li Fei's command for a long time, and it happened that Li Fei still had a vacancy.Cao Chong also served as a county captain, and his ability to defend and rectify law and order is not bad.

Anton's development continues, and Li Fei continues to build new industries.

Considering possible wars in the future, all the industries that Li Fei will build in the future will be as close as possible to the Liaodong Peninsula south of Liaoyang City.

Liaodong Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and Liaoyang City guards the north. Even if there is a war in the future, as long as Liaoyang City is still there, Andong’s industry will not be affected and can still develop sustainably. Dongqiang's confidence lies.

In Datang, as long as they are women, nine out of ten can make clothes and shoes.However, it is impossible to form a competitive industry in this way.

The efficiency of clothing products is mainly on the tailoring machine, and the sewing speed is increased by tens or hundreds of times at once.Only with tailoring machines can there be a real clothing industry.The principle of the tailoring machine has long been rotten on the street in later generations, and there are even hand-held mini household tailoring machines for a few dollars on Taobao.

Of course, the principle is very simple. Li Fei himself has played with children, and he can make it easily in later generations, but in this Tang Dynasty, it is a 'precision' thing. If I can't find it, I need to make a whole set by myself. Li Fei has no idea when he will be able to actually make the tailoring machine.

There is no rush in the clothing and shoes industry, wait until the tailoring function is ready.

In the next industry, Li Fei mainly concentrated on salt production.The Liaodong Peninsula of Andong Protectorate is surrounded by the sea on three sides, the salt needed for the entire Liaodong, and the salt needed for the grasslands are almost all "cooked" on the coast of Andong.

When sending Cao Xiaozhong and Xiao Ruoshui away from Andong, Li Fei made a special inspection of the salt cooking industry along the coast of Andong.Because of the official operation of Yantie, all the people who cook salt along the coast have reported to the Duhufu, which is regarded as the establishment of the imperial court.

Boiling salt is the most primitive and least efficient method of producing salt. Sun-drying salt is actually an easy method to come up with. Starting with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court monopolized salt and iron. Because of the restrictions of the imperial court and the involvement of interests, etc., it led to China's salt industry has not made any progress for thousands of years.

Maybe it's not that no one has thought of a way to dry salt, but sometimes the minds of those in power can't turn around. For example, thousands of people participated in cooking salt along the coast of Andong. In the eyes of the court, this provided thousands of people with Thousands of people rely on cooking salt to survive, and if it is replaced by sun-dried salt, the salt farms of hundreds of people are enough to supply the entire Anton, so wouldn't it be impossible for thousands of people to cook salt? survived?Will they rebel?

Because of this kind of thinking, even if someone really reported the theory of drying salt to the imperial court, I am afraid that they will only get no permission.They would never have imagined the efficiency brought about by industrial upgrading.They also don’t know what it means to liberate production, allowing less manpower to produce more things, thus liberating more manpower to participate in other industries and circular development.

Li Fei didn't know when Sunyan appeared, but he was going to let Sunyan appear in Datang right now.But it is to use the tide to continuously surround the sea water, evaporate the water through the sun, and finally leave crystallized salt.

He doesn't care about the mess, he is the "Emperor of Earth" in Anton, what he wants is production, and what he wants is high-efficiency output. He is confident that the thousands of "unemployed" boiled salt "armies" can have better chance of survival.
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