Under Xiao Heng's powerful discount, Huang Xiangye was obviously a little moved. Xiao Heng struck while the iron was hot and came to Huang Xiangye and said softly:

"As soon as the textile machine is opened, it will start the treasure pot. The fabric will be used to make money... A large-scale workshop can earn hundreds of taels every day! In the past year, it will be more than 100,000 taels of silver!"

In fact, anyone can calculate this account.

In ancient times, cloth was the same as grain, and it was itself a hard currency, and in some cases it could even replace the function of some currency.

Huang Xiangye was also very clear that what Xiao Heng said was the truth. After all, the machine was placed in front of him. If you calculate it a little bit, you will know the total output... These are obvious!

As long as you start the machine, you really have to start the money printing machine. Moreover, due to the developed maritime trade in this era, as long as you can produce cloth, you will not have to worry about not being able to sell it!

And at that time... silver will pour into Huang Xiangye's pocket like flowing water!

Who would think that there is too much money? Even the emperor cannot avoid the vulgarity! What's more, the Huang Xiangye, who is already a little greedy for wealth?

But even so, Huang Xiangye was not without concerns. The biggest concern was why Xiao Heng only sold this machine to him?

You must know that this is a huge wealth! Why does this huge wealth fall on him?

In this world, getting anything is not without a price, and the question now is... whether he can afford Xiao Heng's asking price!

Master Huang reluctantly calmed down, looked around, and leaned into Xiao Heng's ear and whispered: "Young Master Xiao, let me talk?"

"It's easy to say." Xiao Heng nodded, turned around and told them to dismantle the textile machine and then reconnect the water-lifting equipment. When he turned around, he took Master Huang back to the Qin Mansion and found a secluded wing room.

Seeing that Xiao Heng was silent, Huang Xiangye had to speak on his own initiative: "This loom is indeed a good thing..."

"The Prime Minister seems to be a little worried?" Xiao Heng asked with a smile, not idle either. He put a few pieces of rock candy in his teacup for Master Huang, and then poured him a bowl of iced black tea. "Please... this is the most famous drink in the Qin Mansion."

The weather was hot at this time, and a cup of cold and sour black tea quenched its thirst and refreshed. Master Huang drank it and applauded repeatedly. After putting down the tea cup, he looked at Xiao Heng and said softly: "I'm just a little curious about such a profitable business... Why did Mr. Xiao put it on the shelf?"

"First of all, I don't have land. Secondly... the transaction of this cloth will offend many people, and the grass-roots people can't bear the anger of Xiangye Shen." Xiao Heng said modestly.

"What's the matter?" Huang Xiangye said disapprovingly.

Although he clearly realized the advantages of spinning machines and weaving machines, for him, it was nothing more than using less manual labor and faster weaving... At this time, due to the limitations of the times, he could not imagine the huge changes brought about by the industrial revolution.

This does not mean that as a prime minister, he does not have a good overall view. It only means that he does not understand the wealth that these new things can bring and the price that must be paid when chasing this wealth.

In fact, when the Industrial Revolution started, those people could not imagine what kind of monster they released... When greedy capital smells the taste of profit, everything in the world will undergo earth-shaking changes.

At that time, a large-scale workshop owner like the Li family who still relies on handicrafts will definitely be crushed by the torrent of the times...

...To bear Xiao Heng's anger comes at a heavy price!

"Of course there is nothing to do for Mr. Huang, but for Cao Min, this wealth may become a catastrophe..." Xiao Heng suddenly changed the topic halfway through his speech, "I heard that the purchase of iron ore and wine chorus is about to begin, but Cao Min is somewhat interested in this iron ore and wine chorus."

"That's it?" Huang Xiangye was happy as soon as he heard this.

Indeed, the Song Dynasty implemented a strict monopoly system. For example, traditional salt and iron were basically monopolized by large merchants with backgrounds, and the same is true for wine koji.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the so-called "Seventy-Two Main Stores" mean restaurants that are qualified to make their own chorus, while the "foot shops" only have the qualifications to sell wine, but this wine must be bought from major main stores.

Of course, the main store does not only sell wine, but also wine chorus. It is legal to buy wine chorus from the main store and then make wine, otherwise it would be illegal private brewing... This is a serious crime!

The Song Dynasty made a lot of money by collecting this wine tax every year, so it was extremely powerful to crack down on private brewing.

If you want to make music or start a mine, you must purchase qualifications at an auction organized by the government in advance... that is, the buying system.

In fact, it is said to be a pony purchase, but there are also many undercurrents in it. You can’t make this money just by having money!

The qualifications for mining are good, but this kind of chorus and wine-making are very popular! Because the Southern Song Dynasty court did not prohibit court officials from doing business, many ministers and even the army were opening restaurants to make wine and make profits... The water here is much deeper than the chorus industry! If there is no strong enough backer, it will cause a lot of trouble.

"In this way, it's easy to talk about the music production. You can go and buy the music by yourself when the market is opened. As for the restaurant, you don't have to worry about seeing the building so hot. But this mining... It's okay if you buy a mine, but you can't buy a mine at this time." Huang Xiangye thought for a while and made half of Xiao Heng's promise.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, wine merchants had to buy wine chorus from the official factory floor. By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song government had focused mainly on cracking down on private brewing, and the qualifications for making chorus and making wine were also opened to buy.

However, the benefits involved are too great, so the government is also competing hard within the government... But now Xiao Heng has received the promise of Huang Xiangye, and it seems that there is no suspense in the factory that makes music.

As for iron ore... I won't build iron boats for the time being, so it's nothing to drag them out for the time being.

Not to mention the profits of this winemaking, but what Xiao Heng wants most is alcohol.

There are many reactions in the laboratory that require heating to proceed, and alcohol lamps are definitely one of the best heat sources.

When war occurs, alcohol can also be used to disinfect. When there is no war, alcohol will be an important element in the production of plastic.

Plastics have become very common in later generations. Because they have very excellent physical properties in some cases, many technological routes cannot avoid this material.

Plastic products of modern technology are basically extracted from petroleum, but unfortunately, oil cracking requires extremely high technical conditions - such as negative pressure and low temperature, large reactors, etc., which are not something Xiao Heng can achieve now.

However, using alcohol, that is, ethanol, to make plastic in a small amount... This is also a solution. However, such expensive plastics, Xiao Heng will never squander like modern times, and must be used on the blade.

But no matter what, if you want to legally produce alcohol in the Southern Song Dynasty, you must first be qualified to make music.

"That's the case, I'm thankful for the Prime Minister!" Xiao Heng was very happy to get the benefits, and Huang Xiangye was very excited to think that the workshop under his name would be continuously producing cloth. For a moment, the host and the guest were all happy...

...

Just when Xiao Heng was chatting and laughing with Huang Xiangye, the father and son of Li were a little depressed.

As Chen Jun and Chen Xiangye’s brother-in-law, Li Yan has no official status, but even the prefect of Lin'an County is polite when he sees him!

As the saying goes, relocate and move the body.

Chen Jun has been the prime minister for many years, and Li Yan has gained many years of dividends. Over time, he has become a little bit of official power, which has crushed the Li family to death.

Unfortunately, during a family dinner just now, the third and fourth rooms had complaints about the marriage of his son Li Yu... Although no one said anything on the surface, the general meaning was that Li Yan, as the head of the family, even a small third-rank official, was weakening the reputation of the Li family.

Li Yan's expression was as iron as he heard this. The Sanfang's private visits were no longer mentioned because of his power, but their eyes looked at him from time to time but kept reminding him of his mistakes.

However, Li Yan is also cunning and will not break out on the spot...but then he suddenly started smashing after returning to his home.

"The child is unfilial, so he will let his father be bullied like this." Li Yu, the noble son who seemed to be a second-generation ancestor, acted extremely well-behaved at this time, and quietly knelt on the side waiting for his father's hair to fall.

"It's not your business." Li Yan finally suppressed the anger in his heart, "It's not been a day or two for the third and fourth rooms to say slightest words to me, but now it's just more obvious."

"..." Li Yu knelt quietly and didn't talk to him.

"Get up, why are you still kneeling?" Li Yan frowned, "Remember today's humiliation, and just double the amount of money you will get back in the future."

"Yes." Li Yu stood up gently, walked behind Li Yan and gently pinched his temple for him.

"Oh... if I hadn't supported this huge family, how could it have today's glory?" Li Yan closed his eyes and let his son pinch his head for him.

"The Qin family's marriage... is there really no room for maneuver?" Li Yu remembered the shocking glance that had been a long time ago, and the fascinating woman now has no chance with him.

"Captain Chen personally asked the official family to be a matchmaker, but unfortunately Qin Jian didn't know how to be polite. He said that he had married the young lady of the Qin family when Yingtian Mansion was broken... Humph, it was just an excuse." Li Yan remembered the previous incident again, and couldn't help but feel angry... If Qin Jian agreed, there wouldn't be so much trouble! This made Qin Jian too polite! He didn't even give the official family face! You know that when the official family was personally polite, both men and women were happy!

"Excuse me...no way? Qin Jian won't use his daughter's reputation as an excuse, right?"

"Who knows... Maybe his daughter had been obtained by that little master, so he had no choice but to give such an excuse now!" Li Yan said angrily.

"What a pity, if Miss Qin had just arrived at Lin'an Mansion and went to propose marriage..." A trace of loss flashed in Li Yu's eyes.

"At that time, Qin Jian himself was almost killed! Who would have gone to this muddy water? Who knew that later...ah." Li Yan sighed and waved his son's hand, "...Who knew that the Qin family could have developed to such a level later?"

As soon as this sentence was spoken, both father and son were silent. After a long time, Li Yu took the lead in breaking the silence: "Now it seems... Xiao Heng really has the ability to gain points."

"Well." Li Yan refused to comment.

"He said that day..." Li Yu suddenly felt a little worried. Xiao Heng was so fucking that day!

"Bah! I want to kill my family!? Just him?" Li Yan slapped the table suddenly, "Dream!!"

“…”

After Li Yan broke out, the father and son fell into silence again.

After a while, Li Yan suddenly looked up and shouted: "Come here!"

Soon, a servant came in and greeted Li Yan and said, "Master...Young Master, you are here too."

"Yes." Li Yu nodded.

"You go and ask me what Xiao Heng has done these days! Go and go back!" Li Yan said.

"yes!"

The servant took the order and left.

Looking at the servant's back as he left, Li Yu suddenly felt a little worried... But when he looked back at the face of his father, he felt relieved for the time being.

Maybe, he was just thinking too much?

...

A few days later.

A series of four-wheeled carriages came to a remote small farm. Several young men with dark faces jumped out of the car first, and then came off a few middle-aged men with darker skin and stronger bodies.

The last one came down was Huang Xiangye’s confidant, the servant he even brought with him when he went to have a secret conversation with Xiao Heng.

"Mr. Wu, is it here?"

The leading young man asked, who had not even had a long beard on his mouth.

"Yes, this is Wujiazhuang... and my hometown." General Manager Wu sighed at the surrounding scenery, "I have been away from home for so many years before I knew it..."

"Congratulations to General Manager Wu." The young man smiled slightly, "Your hometown is about to become a rich place that the entire Jiangnan capital is envied."

"Thank you for your good words." General Manager Wu replied with a smile.

Although General Manager Wu was the chief manager of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he did not take up any airs in front of this young man... because the young man in front of him was the eldest disciple of Mr. Xiao Heng and Xiao, and his surname was Lu and his name was Chun. Although he was young, he had already become the second-person in the Qin Mansion.

Lu Chun and the others have completed military training during this period, and then went to the sea to be sailors... After experiencing these two things, Lu Chun's temperament has also changed! No longer has the feeling of green and tenderness before, replaced by a unique temperament between soldiers, students and sailors, coupled with the practical attitude and extensive knowledge, Manager Wu couldn't help but look at him with admiration along the way.

"It's indeed a good place... the factory can be built there, and the ground is flat and the riverside...what do you think?"

Lu Chun turned around and asked.

Behind him were two Xiao Heng's students. This time they came here to build a textile workshop dominated by hydraulic power.

"The river flows too slowly here, so you still have to intercept the current and build a dam upstream, otherwise the water truck may be insufficient power..."

"The lighting and fire prevention issues must also be considered, after all, there are no electric lights here..."

“…”

The children soon started the discussion, and General Manager Wu was already used to the way of communication between them. He couldn't understand anyway, so he took the lead to prepare for logistics work.

No one expected that a vigorous industrial revolution would kick off in this small village.
Chapter completed!