Author: Mu Jili

The applause is thundering and lasting!

Everyone feels that a major change unprecedented in the textile industry is taking place.

If they fail to catch up with this machine revolution, they will regret it for the rest of their lives!

For a time, this company wanted to order five units, and that company asked for ten units. You were fighting for it, as if it was not two thousand guan but a mere two cents.

The envoys from various countries did not care about etiquette and dignity, and went to Taoists they knew well to ask if they could allocate some shares to them for the sake of friendly countries. The people of Liao Kingdom (Xixia, Dali) also needed these immortal artifacts.

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Zhang Yuqing nodded with a smile, leaving Lu Liang to deal with merchants, dignitaries, envoys and others, and discuss trivial matters such as each company's share and priority supply level.

He led the rest of the group back to the back hall and took a seat in the recently completed meeting hall.

Congratulations, the Changshengguan General Forum finally has a conference room, so we no longer have to find an empty hall to gather together to discuss things.

"What's the progress of the textile factory I'm teaching Zhongxin to build?"

Zhang Yuqing took a look at the latest report. This is a policy he has implemented. Each director and subordinate manager must quantify the progress, content, and scope of their work every month, and summarize it in the form of a document to Taoist Yuan Ai, the second disciple of Luliang.

Department, and then he made a graphic report and presented it to Zhang Yuqing for review.

Lin Yuanai is in his early eighteen years, thin and handsome, with piercing eyes when he is not speaking.

Zhang Yuqing saw that he was a talented person, so he asked him to work as a secretary or something like that.

Zixuan is already overwhelmed with the affairs at hand. Although this woman is smart and intelligent, Zhang Yuqing cannot always put more burdens on her.

Now she is too busy every day just to deal with donations from the congregation, distribution of teaching materials, salary distribution, expenses for building temples, and daily operation and management of the academy.

For this reason, almost all of the eighteen Taoists in the Financial Management Department under her had sunken eyes and were running around running errands.

Zhang Yuqing allocated another 300 people from the 3,000 reserve disciples to her, so that she could barely support this huge stall.

As for Lu Liang, he has recently been entrusted with the liaison with various levels of bureaucrats, dignitaries, and wealthy businessmen. He is also responsible for managing the registration of congregations, the printing of Taoist texts, and all the trivial matters of the daily operations of the temple.

Nightshade... was recently sent to the academy to study by Zhang Yuqing. Her abilities were too poor and she could not be reused. Her deacon named Zhiyun was temporarily responsible for shouldering her responsibilities.

Lin Yuanai opened the book and read one by one: "The factory has reached the completion stage. It currently has 129 fire-powered spinning machines and is expected to produce about 15,000 pieces of various cotton cloths per day."

"but……"

His tone paused for a moment, then continued: "The output of the coal mine is extremely insufficient. One hundred and twenty-nine fire-powered spinning machines cannot be kept on at full power. Only about 50% of the machines are running, so the output is seriously insufficient."

Lin Yuanai has been with Zhang Yuqing for a while, and learned some new words from him such as "power", "machine" and "output", and understood their respective meanings.

The same is true for many people in the Immortality Cult. They learned a lot of new words through Zhang Yuqing's occasional words.

Zhang Yuqing frowned: "In terms of coal mines, have the personnel currently sent out to prospecting come back, and have they found the mineral storage area?"

"Back to the headmaster, we have dispatched a prospecting team of more than 130 people to the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom. Eighteen of them have reported back one after another. They have discovered shallow coal mines in nearby counties and asked if they are needed.

Send people to mine locally.”

“Where is the largest coal reserve among them?”

"In Xiangzhou, about one hundred and fifty miles away from here, there is a coal mine with extremely rich reserves. It is said that it was mined by local residents during the Tang Dynasty. Some of the open-pit coal was mined by the locals and then abandoned.

However, according to reports from prospectors, there are still a large number of unexploited coal deposits underground, which together are expected to be able to operate textile mills for more than thirty years!"

Lin Yuanai's tone was slightly excited.

While working as Zhang Yuqing's deputy, he gradually came to understand that this kind of thing called a 'firepower machine' was extremely dependent on coal resources.

Because they must rely on the combustion process to heat the water stored in them, causing the water vapor to rise to turn the gears, and then link the lifting rods to reciprocate endlessly, so that cotton and burlap can be continuously processed into cloth.

Those people outside didn't know that, and thought they could expand production with machines.

Only when they brought home the machines they had worked so hard to buy did they realize how much firewood these machines consume in a day just to burn firewood!

I'm afraid even if all the trees near Bianliang are cut down, it won't be enough for what they need.

Only burning-resistant coal can satisfy these huge lumps, otherwise just burning firewood can burn them alive and go bankrupt!

At this time in the Northern Song Dynasty, firewood was much more expensive than coal.

Because all firewood comes from mountains and forests, and almost every mountain forest has its own owner.

Except for some trees that the government has notified can be cut down, it is not allowed to go into the mountains to cut firewood at will.

Even if you secretly cut down enough firewood in someone else's house, you will be sentenced to death.

Therefore, the people in Bianliang City mostly rely on the affordable firewood sold by the state and some coal for heating, a two-pronged approach.

At this time, coal mining methods were limited, and this high-quality combustion material was not only sold to private people for heating, but also used in the porcelain industry, iron smelting industry, and coinage industry.

The supply simply exceeds the demand.

The amount of coal available on the market is extremely limited.

Therefore, if you want to keep thermal machines operating at full power for a long time, you must reserve enough coal.

Zhang Yuqing also knew this and had people start researching steam mining devices early on.

He knows that the main reason for the current restrictions on mining of various minerals is the rich underground water resources. Once the depth exceeds a certain limit, the endless underground water will quickly drown the miners.

For this reason, in the early days of the industrial revolution, the steam drainage machine developed for this purpose greatly alleviated this situation.

Now that the drainage machine built by his craftsmen has taken a prototype, it is time to verify it.

You know, Zhang Yuqing has never been idle since the filming of the movie to its release.

He carefully selected a group of craftsmen and scholars with ingenious ideas by constantly checking the differences in concentration of wishes among the huge group of believers in Bianliang City.

Then he worked tirelessly to teach these people the relevant principles step by step, and finally secretly worked on a prototype steam machine.

Then there was the continuous layout of coal mines and factories, and intensive intelligence collection to deduce the follow-up situation.

Only when all aspects are ready will we decide to officially launch this epoch-making weapon, the firepower machine, to all walks of life.

"How are the preparations for selecting believers at the Guanzhu level in various places?"

Zhang Yuqing did not continue to give instructions about the coal mine, but instead asked Zixuan, who was sitting at the lower right corner.

"Now there are thirty-two "Daolu"-level disciples in the sect. They have all been admitted to the academy for a month of further study at the instruction of the headmaster, Daozi, and their results have all been excellent."

For several months, the entire people of Bianliang City were fanatically preaching to those around them.

Naturally, Zhang Yuqing would not let their efforts go in vain, otherwise the promotion system he planned for all sentient beings would undoubtedly become a joke.

He visited the people invisibly and checked the concentration of people's wishes. He selected more than 300 lucky people and used magic to make them see blessings from immortals in their dreams.

Then the thirty-two most pious people were selected among them, and in the name of the Immortal Lord's decree, they were given immortal jars and promoted these people to Dao jars.

All the believers knelt down and worshiped devoutly with tears streaming down their faces, and their level of belief increased even further, even surpassing that of Lu Liang.

After that, there will be a period of ideological transformation to ensure that these carefully selected "Guanzhu reserves" can accept the ideas of the Immortality Sect and gradually penetrate into the people.

"All prefectures and counties where coal mines were discovered sent a temple leader to build temples and open local branches."

Zhang Yuqing nodded and ordered to go on.

"yes!"

Lin Yuanai agreed, and then said: "Master, there is another matter to report regarding the establishment of coal mines in various places."

"speak."

"Not enough miners!"

Lin Yuanai said with a bitter look on his face: "A mine requires at least three thousand miners to operate normally. In the past, coal miners mostly used criminals as miners. Some private mines arrested fugitives.

, or buy slaves and mine them secretly."

"If our school wants to open coal mines in various places at the same time, there will be at least a gap of more than 50,000 miners to fill."

Zhang Yuqing nodded thoughtfully: "Fifty thousand people, it's not difficult at all."

Lin Yuanai stared at Zhang Yuqing with wide eyes, slurring his words and stammering: "Mo, could it be that the headmaster already has a plan in mind?"

"I have my own thoughts on this matter. You don't need to worry. Just progress step by step according to the plan. We must lay out the structure of the coal mine in a short time and occupy all the coal mines we can find before everyone else.

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"Whether it's seizing it, purchasing the land title, or building a temple nearby, in short, I want you to use whatever means you can to make all the coal mines you can find belong to our sect. You can also just occupy them in name first."

"If it can be mined, send manpower to start digging. If it can't be mined, just leave it alone. But we must make sure that the land boundary belongs to our teaching in name."

Zixuan answered: "Yes, Daozi."

"The eighteen coal mines that have been discovered have been carefully monitored by dedicated personnel, and we are in contact with local officials and large households. Nowadays, our religion has a profound influence in the Song Dynasty, and many people are willing to have a good relationship with the longevity religion.

At present, the property rights of ten larger coal mines have been transferred to our hands.",

She reported everything truthfully.

Zhang Yuqing nodded: "That's good, Yuan Ai, you will go to Xiangzhou tomorrow to take charge of the construction of the local coal mine."

"Yes, Headmaster."

The affairs within the church ended here. Zhang Yuqing summoned the Taoist priests in charge of the temple one by one to comment and give relevant teaching instructions. Everyone felt that they benefited a lot.
Chapter completed!