Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 208 The Rapidly Developing Anton
Because of the surprise attack on the Khitan King City, Li Fei and the three thousand Anton cavalry missed Tianbao's 13th Spring Festival together.However, compared with the huge results achieved, no one cares whether they can spend this Spring Festival at home.

With the gains from the first battle of the Khitan King City, plus the 2 war horses sent by the Wuluo tribe after the surrender, and some war horses that Anton Shaojiu exchanged one after another, Anton has now been able to form an iron cavalry of [-] people .

With the remaining 500 people, Li Fei is going to form a Modao Formation.

In the future, the Anton Legion will consist of a cavalry force of 2 men and a Modao formation of 500 men.

Because there were only ten thousand and a few hundred people in the Anton Army at the beginning, and they had not received supplies from the court for many years, and many soldiers were not fully equipped.Later, [-] new recruits were recruited. It is impossible to obtain so much equipment from the imperial court, and it is more likely to report it. On the contrary, the imperial court believes that Anton does not need to have so many soldiers, and let the cuts go down , That would be like lifting a rock to shoot yourself in the foot, so whether it is a weapon or an armor, Anton needs to equip it himself.

In order to equip the full set of equipment for [-] soldiers, the Anton Armor Workshop rushed to work day and night, making every effort to build horse spears, horizontal knives, mo knives, fish scale armor, and god arm crossbows and other equipment.

According to normal calculations, the cost of these equipment is very expensive, probably because the steel materials required for forging need to be tempered hundreds of times.

However, due to the modern theory brought by Li Fei, steel can be obtained without a lot of refining, the cost of steelmaking has been greatly reduced, and the cost of weapon forging has also been greatly reduced.

At the same time, because the production lines are all assembly-line operations, the production efficiency is very fast.Of course, the number of people involved in production is also extremely large.There are two shifts, and there are thousands of workers rushing to work together, producing a full set of equipment for one hundred soldiers a day. If this continues, at most until June, the weapon workshop will be able to supply the full set of equipment that all soldiers lack. After the equipment has been forged, the entire 500-member Anton Legion will also have full combat effectiveness.

The enthusiasm of the weapon workshop also drives the enthusiasm of the iron workshop, steel workshop, and mining.Nearly 2 people are working in the entire production chain.

These jobs are different from the usual jobs that are recruited by the imperial court and look like voluntary labor.Every worker has a contract that stipulates wages, working hours, etc., as well as many other benefits.

Although the miners are in the mountains, they still have to face the possible attacks of some wild beasts in the mountains, but the remuneration is also generous, a full three pennies a month, and they work four and a half hours a day, including three meals a day. One day off, this way of working has created a precedent in all dynasties.

And such benefits, not to mention the Han people, even the ethnic minorities who mainly hunt and herd are happy and willing to participate.

There are also other industries, mostly concentrated in an area from the Liaodong Peninsula to the coast, such as glassware, glass mirrors, telescopes, porcelain, pianos, wine and so on.As long as Li Fei can think of an industry and has the ability to create an industry, Li Fei will build it up and produce it on a large scale.

Anyway, there are Datang, Silla, and Wa countries as dumping, and they are not afraid that they will not be sold at a low cost.

In February, after more than half a year of development and continuous transformation, the first foot-operated sewing machine was finally made.

Now, the largest clothing industry can finally start.

If there is no tailoring machine, a person can only sew one piece of clothing a day, but with a tailoring machine, dozens of pieces can be sewed in a day, and the output efficiency is dozens or even hundreds of times stronger.

Without hesitation, Li Fei ordered Shi Dajian to build a clothing workshop, not only to make clothes and pants, but also shoes.

This is undoubtedly a very large industrial line, and the amount of labor required must be extremely large.And Anton's population potential has basically been used up, so it is not easy to recruit thousands of garment workers at once.

But it doesn't matter, it just so happens that Li Fei has more than 5000 Khitan captives composed of Khitan women and children who can use them.

Of the more than 5000 Khitan prisoners, more than 1 of them were women.There is not much difference between the Khitan women and the Han women in the Central Plains. Similarly, everyone can sew clothes and has a good foundation.

There is no problem in pulling thousands of people out of them to make clothes and shoes.

In late March, the first batch of clothes and shoes were mass-produced, and there were various materials.

And the thousands of Khitan women who participated in the production also suddenly transitioned from captives to workers in clothing workshops, and lived a life of wages to support their children. Of course, their wages were not too much at the beginning, only a few hundred coins each moon.

However, their children can receive free education organized by the Anton Protectorate, including Chinese characters, Chinese language, and Han etiquette. These children are surrounded by Han culture.

In addition, after three full months of brainwashing, a large number of Khitan children have subconsciously recognized that they may have been Han Chinese, but they were brought up by the Khitan tribe when they were still infancy.

All in all, Li Fei did it with the aim of completely Sinicizing them.

In terms of the clothing industry, only a few thousand Khitan women and thousands of children were resettled, a total of more than 1 people. The other 2 Khitan women and children were allocated to other industries in batches, or Du Fu presided over them and assigned them to the newly opened land. Field planting, basically everyone has resettlement.

A large number of fields newly reclaimed due to the use of cement to dam the river to build water conservancy projects, no matter whether they are distributed to the Han people or the Khitan captives for cultivation, will not be taxed within five years.

There is nothing wrong with Khitan women who directly participate in work and get paid in various industries.However, those Khitan women who were allocated to planting had never planted land before, but Li Fei also had a strategy. He would arrange for Han people who could plant, concentrate on imparting their experience, and give them a buffer of two years, and within two years they would protect the land. The government has a certain amount of food subsidies every month to ensure that they will not starve to death.

Whether it is those Khitan women or their children, their lives are stable, regular, and almost carefree. No one will miss the bitter cold life in the grasslands before.

"I'll go, brother, tell me how you made so many clothes and shoes." After a few months, Cao Xiaozhong followed the sea boat to Andong again. Clothes, shoes and more.

"These clothes and shoes are not counted by the piece, but by the different fabrics used to make them. We will sell them to your Qiqing Chamber of Commerce by the catty. You can sell them." Li Fei immediately reported the prices of the clothes made of various fabrics.

"Impossible, this price is almost the same as the price of unmade clothes, won't you lose money?" Cao Xiaozhong couldn't believe that Li Fei could still make money at such a price.

"You don't have to worry about that. The things produced by Anton will not lose much if they are sold according to the cost of raw materials." Li Fei said with a smile.

Cao Xiaozhong looked suspicious. After all, he had limited knowledge and had no idea how powerful mass production with dozens or hundreds of times the efficiency was.

Now, under the name of Li Fei, the fleet led by Zheng Hai has the size of forty large ships.The Qiqing Chamber of Commerce of Cao Xiaozhong and Xiao Ruoshui also established a fleet of as many as [-] sea-going ships, not only transporting a large number of products produced by Anton to Jiangnan, but also to Silla and Wa.

Not to mention glassware, glass mirrors, binoculars, shochu and other high-margin monopoly products.

Even clothes, shoes, etc., are good enough and cheap enough to sell without any worries.

In fact, there is no need for the Qiqing Chamber of Commerce to sell one by one by itself. There are a large number of other merchants waiting for Anton's fleet to directly resell the things produced by Anton, because the things produced by Anton are often more expensive than their own production. Even lower, and not bad quality.

And those products monopolized by Anton can only be ordered from the Anton fleet.

With the entire Jiangnan, Silla, and Wa countries as dumping grounds, and Anton has gradually formed a market, the demand is huge, as long as the production is not enough, there is no possibility of slow sales at all. All industries in Anton are trying their best to production was released.

Since Li Fei collects taxes from every commodity produced, Anton's tax revenue is also skyrocketing. In the past, Anton's annual income was worth less than 70 guan, but now it is 30 million guan a month.

This is just taxation, not counting the profits Li Fei earned himself.

You must know that many other products may not be unusual. They are different from mass production and cheap dumping only by improving production efficiency and controlling labor costs. Those are basically just to feed thousands of workers.

What really make a lot of profits are ultra-high-margin monopoly products such as glassware, glass mirrors, binoculars, shochu, etc., and everything is in high demand.There are even agricultural killers such as pig iron plows. Although the relationship between salt and iron control in the Tang Dynasty is not easy to sell on a large scale, Li Fei can transport them to overseas countries such as Silla and Japan by sea, and also earn money. Make huge profits.

Li Fei's own profit is definitely several times higher than Anton's normal tax, and it is normal to exceed one million yuan a month.Of course, Li Fei's own profits are also used for Anton's development.

If Anton's population potential hadn't been basically exhausted, many fields that had been reclaimed could not be planted. Li Fei even had many modern gadgets that could be produced, and those were things that could be monopolized. Will be a big profit.

The meal can be eaten bite by bite. In short, Anton's foundation has been laid. If the Anshi Rebellion inevitably breaks out in the future, he can turn Anton into a paradise, and he is not afraid that he will not be able to attract more people.
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