Yang Peng was introduced to Matsuura Jinshin and bought a business store in Hirado. He unloaded all the goods on the ship and stored them in the store's warehouse to sell them slowly. If you rush to sell goods on the dock, you won't be able to sell them at a good price.
, only by selling slowly in the store can you get better profits. Yang Peng left Zheng Kaida and thirty sailors in Hirado to take care of the store, while he led the Tianjing back to Tianjing New City.
Before returning to the voyage, Yang Peng bought some Japanese products. He bought some of each kind and returned to Tianjing New City to try the water and see how the sales went. The product Yang Peng was more optimistic about was copper. The price of copper in the Japanese country was cheap. If he sold it back to the Song Dynasty, he would probably make money.
A lot of profit.
On July 22, Yang Peng led the Tianjing back to China. The boatmen of the Tianjing paddled to drive the ship and slowly left the port on the channel in the port. When they reached the deep water area, the boatmen started the steam engine, and the Tianjing
It made a loud whining sound and drove northwest.
There were no problems along the way. The Tianjing cruise lasted for six days and returned to Tianjing New City Pier. After returning to Tianjing New City, the first thing Yang Peng had to do was to expand the soap workshop and textile factory. After this trial
With water navigation, Yang Peng knew that the most profitable maritime trade products were his soap and fine cloth. If the scale of these two factories were expanded, he could earn a lot of money from the Japanese country.
Yang Peng first went to visit Mr. Xue, who sold alkaline noodles, and wanted to buy more alkaline noodles with him. But the reply he got made Yang Peng stunned. "City Lord, almost all the surplus output of Xiangyang's alkaline noodles mine has been consumed.
I bought them and sold them all to you. If there are more, I can only raise the price to steal the supply from other users of alkaline noodles, but then the price of alkaline noodles will go up, and it will cost more than a penny.
It’s very uneconomical.”
"And even if we raise the price to buy it, we can't get much. After all, the total output is only so much." Yang Peng was very disappointed. It seems that before the invention of the industrial alkali production method, it was impossible to use soda ash in large quantities, and the supply of raw materials could not keep up.
.However, with Yang Peng’s current industrial base, large-scale industrial alkali production is still impossible. Yang Peng’s soap workshop cannot be expanded.
Yang Peng thought for a while and decided that he could only make money from the textile factory. Now the textile factory has 1,770 workers, buying cotton to produce fine cloth, and producing 31,000 pieces of cotton cloth every month. See
The scale is quite large. But in the face of huge ocean trade, this kind of output is very insufficient. Yang Peng's Tianjing can carry 100,000 pieces of cloth per ship, and the cotton cloth produced by the textile factory in one month is half the amount of Tianjing.
There is no capacity. However, the Tianjing can make a round trip from Japan once in twenty days.
Not to mention that Yang Peng also has a ship under construction. Yang Peng decided to significantly expand the textile factory. This is a huge project that cannot be completed overnight. First of all, Tianjing New City has been filled with various buildings, and no more factories and dormitories can be built.
To employ more people, a new city must be built outside the city.
Yang Peng decided to expand the new city in the south of Tianjing New City. The north of the new city and the south of the old city are connected together. The scale is as big as the old city of Tianjing New City. Yang Peng sent people to make a measurement plan for the new city wall, preparing to use it when the farmers are busy.
They were hired to build the new city wall. At the planned new city address, roads, factories and dormitories were built first. Although there was no city wall protection for the time being, Yang Peng's Huben divisions were enough to deter Chu Xiao and protect these new construction facilities.
Yang Peng hired more than 3,000 masons near Cangzhou, expanded the cement workshop, and began to build new factories and dormitories on a large scale. The factory was the first to be built. At the same time, Yang Peng hired more than 500 carpenters and blacksmiths to start producing Jenny spinning yarn.
looms and shuttle loom parts, and strive to form a batch of production capacity as quickly as possible.
On August 20, a new factory building that could accommodate a thousand people had been built. The first batch of looms, spinning machines and cotton gins were in place. Yang Peng began to recruit people. The first batch of people recruited by Yang Peng
, first of all, when it comes to the families of workers in various workshops, many family members of old workers have not been looking for work outside, but are spinning and weaving at home. As a result, the income of these workers’ families is limited, not even as good as that of Yang Peng’s newly raised workers.
sharecropper families. Yang Peng wanted to liberate these idle worker families from old-fashioned looms and spinning machines and join the ranks of industrialized production.
Gu Laoer paced back and forth in the living room of the villa he shared with the He family, anxiously waiting for news from his wife. The daughter-in-law went to the expanded textile factory for an interview, but there was no news yet. Gu Laoer is a worker at Yangpeng Textile Factory.
He has been working in Yang Peng's factory since the Zhidao period. Before entering Yang Peng's factory, his family was very poor and could not open the pot. Two days before Gu Laoer applied for a job in the textile factory, the three members of the Gu family were hungry.
Later, Gu Laoer pawned his winter clothes at a pawn shop, then bought rice and came back to eat.
But since Gu Laoer entered the textile factory, the situation of the Gu family has changed drastically. Not only did they have enough to eat, but they also rented a villa with others in Tianjing New City and lived a life of "upstairs and downstairs".
Gu Lao Er had eaten meat for three meals in the factory cafeteria when he was young, and he was no longer the skinny monkey he was before. Now he is slightly fatter and has a very strong body. At the age of twenty-six, he is well-organized no matter what he says or does, and he looks very confident.
The backbone of the family.
Gu Laoer was waiting there, and his eldest son Daxi ran out of the room upstairs with a piece of cow gold candy in his mouth. He lay next to the cradle and looked at his sister for a while, and Daxi decided to go play with his father. He looked upstairs for a while
, seeing his father downstairs, he climbed down the stairs. Daxi is now three years old and is Gu Lao Er’s first child. In the past, Gu Lao Er’s family was poor and he did not dare to share a room with his wife to have children. But
Ever since Gu Laoer worked in a textile factory, Gu Laoer and his daughter-in-law shared a house. Not long after they shared the house, the Gu family's daughter-in-law became pregnant and gave birth to a fat boy. Not only that, last year, the Gu family's daughter-in-law gave birth to another daughter.
Now Gu Laoer has a son and a daughter.
Gu Lao Er has a monthly income of twenty taels from the factory, plus the money earned by the Gu family's wife weaving at home, the Gu family has an income of more than thirty taels a month. This money is enough to support three adults and two children, not to mention Gu Lao Er is not here yet
When eating at home, the family of five lives a life of food and clothing. The Gu family's daughter-in-law is naturally frugal. She takes charge of the household and not only keeps the family of four fed, clothed and decent, but also saves more than half a tael of silver every month. These four
Over the years, the Gu family has saved more than 30 taels of silver. More than 30 taels is a lot of money. Gu Laoer is very proud when he thinks of this savings.
The only thing that worries Gu Lao Er is that his wife is unwilling to rent a villa by herself and insists on renting a house with another family. The son is three years old and lives in a room with his grandmother. The one-year-old daughter sleeps in a cradle with Gu Lao Er.
In the room, the family and the He family share the living room, kitchen and latrine, which is a bit crowded.
However, it does make sense for a daughter-in-law to be frugal. When Gu Lao Er saw his son climbing up the stairs, he quickly went up and hugged his son, patted his son on the head and said, "Daxi, don't crawl around, you will fall!" Daxi looked at it.
He looked at his father and said with candy in his mouth: "Where did mother go?"
Gu Laoer said with a smile: "Your mother is going to interview for a job in the factory. If she gets the job, we will rent a whole villa!" After thinking about it, Gu Laoer said: "That would be great for you, you will have your own room.
Yes!" Daxi clapped his hands and said, "Daxi wants his own room. Grandma snores so loudly at night!"
Gu Laoer took his son down and gave him a paper pinwheel he made to play with. He let him run around in circles around the table while he drank tea and waited for his wife. After waiting for an hour, the Gu family's wife came back. She left
In the alley, her face was full of joy and she was in high spirits. But she also had the joy of being the master of the house, as if she had become the master. She deliberately wanted to make Gu Laoer, the head of the family, anxious for a while. She deliberately pretended to be relaxed when she came in.
, walked into the living room calmly.
Gu Laoer asked anxiously: "How is it?" The Gu family's wife did not answer him, and walked to the table and wiped the table with a rag. Gu Laoer turned around and asked, "Have you raised money yet?" However, the Gu family's daughter-in-law was nothing.
A scheming person can't hide something. After being asked a few questions, he couldn't help it any longer and burst into laughter. Putting his hands on his hips, the Gu family's wife said: "We're recruiting! The city lord is specifically recruiting family members of old workers this time. I
Recruiting weavers! Two or three meals per month will include meat!"
Gu Laoer jumped up happily, hugged his wife and said loudly: "Okay, now it's good! We can rent the whole villa! No! Let's borrow money from the city lord to buy a villa, and then we will have our own
House!" The Gu family's daughter-in-law glared at Gu Lao Er and said with a smile: "Looking at you, don't you just want to live in a big house? You want it during the day and night, and you want me to go out and work."
Gu Laoer rolled his eyes and said, "What's the point of going out to work? The wife of the He family is also helping people look after the shop! The 'female factory' in the textile factory is full of women, and you still have someone to talk to, which is better than weaving at home!"
"The Gu family's wife smiled. She suddenly remembered the days when Gu Lao Er went to the main factory in the city, the days when her family had no food for two days, and tears suddenly flowed down her face. She wiped her tears and said, "Okay, everything is fine!
"
Gu Laoer took a breath, wiped away his wife's tears, and said, "This is a happy event, why are you crying? It's true!"
In early August, Yang Peng's second large pointed ship was built. Yang Peng named the second ship Dagou, had people install a crossbow and a steam engine on the ship, and let the newly trained boatmen come on board.
, and also mobilized more than a hundred selected soldiers from the Front Regiment to serve as sailors on the ship.
It was impossible for Yang Peng to personally lead the team for a long time. He went to sea once to set up the organizational structure, and then handed over the work to his subordinates. He asked Yin Mingde, the deputy leader of the vanguard selection team, to be the captain of the two ships, specifically to lead the ships.
Running the Japanese route. Yin Mingde was a crossbowman, and as the captain of two gunboats, he could use the firepower of the ships. Zheng Kaida was stationed in Japan and was responsible for selling goods. The two worked together to complete various tasks on the trade route.
However, the expansion of the textile factory had not been completed at this time. Yang Peng did not have a large amount of fine cloth to sell to Japan, so he could only buy raw silk and other goods for sale in the market. The Tianjing and Dagou ships could go back and forth in twenty days.
Once in the Japanese Kingdom, two ships were large, each of which could carry more than 400 tons of cargo. Over the past few months, the large-scale purchases of the two ships raised the price of raw silk in Cangzhou to 190 taels per load.
Turn Cangzhou's raw silk trade into a low-profit business.
However, Yang Peng's two large ships quickly traveled between Japan and Tianjing New City, and the shipping volume was really amazing. Although the price of raw silk increased, Yang Peng's two ships still made fifteen thousand taels of raw silk monthly income. Plus the return trip.
From Japanese copper, Yang Peng could earn more than 20,000 taels a month, and he quickly earned back the shipping money.
Yang Peng asked Boss Wang to continue building new ships and continue to expand his maritime armament. Yang Peng made money, but the maritime merchants near Cangzhou suffered. The purchase price of raw silk has increased so high that the profit from running once a year is too thin to make it.
Fortunately, several maritime merchants near Cangzhou were poorly armed and could not defeat Li Zhi's powerful crossbow ship. Otherwise, these merchants would have robbed Yang Peng's ship.
On August 27, Zha Yunke went to Yang Peng and complained about the soaring price of raw silk near Cangzhou. "City Lord, if your two big ships continue like this, our other Cangzhou maritime merchant ships will all lose money!" Yang Peng
He smiled and said: "When my fine cloth factory is built, I will no longer do the business of raw silk!"
Zha Yunke spat: "But City Lord, you are still building new ships. No matter how fast your fine cloth factory expands, can it be built as fast as your ships?" Yang Peng relied entirely on Zha Yunke's introduction and help to go to sea. At this time, he
Hearing Cha Yunke's complaint, he really couldn't put a bad face on Cha Yunke, so he could only smile and said: "Next month I will buy some ordinary cotton cloth and sell ironware to the Japanese country. I will buy less raw silk. The price of raw silk in Cangzhou can be reduced."
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Zha Yunke regretted introducing Yang Peng to the sea. He did not expect that Yang Peng's steam engine ship was so powerful that it could travel back and forth to the Japanese country in twenty days. This machine was so amazing that it completely rewritten the pattern of maritime trade. Originally Yang Peng said
He tried not to engage in raw silk trading, but now he did it driven by profits. Yang Peng also wanted to build new ships, so to what extent would the profits from the Japanese business near Cangzhou be diluted in the future?
Zha Yunke sighed and secretly thought that Yang Peng couldn't help. The gang would kill everyone and take away all other people's jobs. Zha Yunke thought about how to do this business in the future and whether he would still have his own job.
His face was ashen and speechless. Yang Peng thought for a while and secretly said that Zha Yunke had helped him start a business. He couldn't cut off people's wealth like this. He smiled and said: "Mr. Cha, one of my ships plus one cargo of goods costs RMB 100,000."
2 costs, plus the technical investment price of 300,000 taels. You might as well come to me and buy a 30% stake in a ship. For example, if you invest 90,000 taels in the new ship I am building, then 30% of the profit every month will be returned to you.
you."
Yang Peng paused and said: "My boats run very fast. One boat makes a profit of 10,000 taels a month. In one year, 30% of the profit is more than 30,000 taels, which is about the same as your four small sailboats traveling to Japan."
!" Zha Yunke was stunned. He didn't expect Yang Peng to have such an idea. He said excitedly: "Is what the city lord said true?"
"How could I deceive you?" Zha Yunke thought for a moment, his eyebrows lit up with joy, and he said with a smile: "I will send money to buy shares tomorrow, and I will not go to sea in the future. I will live solely on the city lord's dividends!" Yang Peng smiled.
He smiled and said nothing. "The city lord is indeed a loyal person!"
"Yang Peng" was stunned and asked: "Can he make it?" By the beginning of September, more than 500 new villas had been built in Tianjing New City. With houses now available, Yang Peng began to recruit new textile workers from surrounding counties and counties.
Workers. This time, in order to increase the income level of the workers, Yang Peng tried his best to recruit the couple together. In this way, the couple would receive double wages, and their living standards would be much higher.
However, Yang Peng did not recruit people randomly. In order to prevent Khitan spies from being mixed among the new workers, Yang Peng required that the applicants must have residents of Tianjing New City as guarantors. Of course, soldiers from the Huben Division can also be guarantors. Positions in Yang Peng's factory
It is something that everyone wants and is in short supply. As soon as the nearby residents heard that Tianjing New City was recruiting new people, they all wanted to come. Therefore, the guarantees of the residents in the city became very precious.
If someone is guaranteed a job and enters Tianjing New City, a good life for a lifetime will be guaranteed! Relatives and friends of the residents of Tianjing New City have come to beg, hoping that they can be guaranteed, selected to work in a textile factory, and become a member of Fanjiazhuang. Yang
Peng's workers and soldiers were all busy at once, and each one was busy dealing with relatives and friends who came to ask for guarantees.
However, Yang Peng stipulated that one soldier and one citizen could only be a guarantor for one household, and the competition among the guarantors was very fierce. On this day, Lei San, the squad leader of the Polu Regiment, was a little absent-minded when he was getting food in the canteen. His seven
Bing prepared the rice and waited for him to sit down together to start. However, Lei San walked to another big table, picked up the white rice and swallowed it.
Lei San's seven soldiers were stunned, and they sent a soldier nicknamed "Skinny Monkey" to call Lei San. "Squad leader, won't you eat with us?" Lei San was stunned, and then he realized that he had sent seven soldiers
He threw it aside. He was a little embarrassed, so he quickly picked up the lunch box and walked to the table occupied by his subordinates, and sat down with the seven soldiers.
The seven soldiers happily started to eat. While eating, the seven soldiers chatted. "This time the city lord's new factory is recruiting people, who are you to be the guarantee?" "I guarantee my brother! My family."
We are poor, but our family will be better off when my brother comes!"
"I will protect my eldest sister's family. She has begged me several times. My brother-in-law is very honest and can't grow a bowl of rice in the fields all year round. If I don't protect her family, they will eat the chaff." "I will protect my eldest brother. I will protect my eldest sister and her family."
My eldest brother has been the best to me since I was a child. If I have the opportunity this time, I will let him live a good life." Lei San heard what his subordinates said and saw that they all vouched for their brothers and sisters in the family. The expression on his face became more solemn, and he just lowered his head.
Eat without saying a word.
"Skinny Monkey" took a bite of meat, looked at the squad leader, and said: "Squad leader, you are an officer, the people you sponsor will get extra points, and they are more likely to be recruited during the interview! Who are you sponsoring this time?" Lei San used his hand
Wiping the corners of his mouth, he said, "I haven't decided yet!" Shouhou said, "You haven't decided yet! The list will be handed in the day after tomorrow!"
Lei San said coldly: "I know!" Shouhou looked at the monitor's face, grinned, and did not dare to ask any more questions.
After dinner, Lei San did not go back to the barracks. Instead, he walked alone to the villa he bought with a loan. The furniture in the villa was all well-equipped. Lei San used fire sticks to light up the oil lamps in the four rooms. He watched.
In that bright house, Lei San forgot about the struggles of the past few days, and felt a sense of happiness in his heart.
If he marries another wife, he will not need anything, right? This is a good life given to him by the city lord. Lei San was rejoicing there, but he heard someone downstairs banging on the door loudly, as if to tear the door panel away.
Smashed to pieces. Lei San was stunned, then quickly went down and opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, Lei San saw his father, eldest brother and sister-in-law standing outside the door. As soon as Lei San's father saw Lei San, he snorted coldly. "I knew you must be here!"
Lei San's father walked into Lei San's villa carelessly, pulled up a chair and sat in the living room. He looked around Lei San's villa, and said to his eldest son: "Boss, Liu Zi, don't be stunned.
, come sit down, why are you and Lei San so polite?"
Lei San's eldest brother smiled and pulled out a chair and sat in the living room. Lei San stood there alone, like an unwelcome guest. Lei San's sister-in-law looked at Lei San's face and said,
Smiling, he pulled out a chair and said, "Lei San, you sit down too, this is your villa! What does it mean if you stand? Everyone sits down and talks!"
Lei San frowned and turned to look at the bluestone pavement outside the door without moving. Lei San's father didn't care when he saw Lei San not sitting down. Instead, he patted the table and said, "Lei San, you
When you were a child, you were in poor health and fell ill every now and then. Your mother and I worked hard to raise you up, and now you are making a difference! You are now the monitor!"
"This time your city lord recruits new workers and asks for guarantees. This is your chance to repay your family." "Your eldest brother and sister-in-law farm twenty acres of the Liu family's thin farmland, and they don't even dare to have children. You can protect your eldest brother and his family this time."
If you work in a textile factory, even if I didn't raise your son in vain."
Lei San glanced at his own father and said nothing. After Lei San's father said this, the three of them waited for Lei San to answer. But Lei San didn't speak for a long time, which made the scene a little awkward. Lei San, he
Dad looked at Lei San's face, was stunned, and became a little worried. He stood up, dragged the chair that Lei San's sister had pulled out to Lei San, and said: "Lei San, sit down, sit down and talk.
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Lei San looked at the chair but did not sit down. Lei San's father became a little angry. He looked at Lei San coldly and said, "Leisan, what do you mean? I let you speak!" Lei San took a breath.
Said: "I want to protect Brother Yang this time!" Lei San's father was stunned, as if he heard a bolt from the blue, and looked at his eldest son with his mouth wide open. Lei San's brother and sister-in-law were even more nervous.
Hearing Lei San's words, they were so anxious that they stood up. They looked at Lei San anxiously, as if they had heard bad news.
"Lei San, you can't protect Yang Ming! I'm your eldest brother! You won't help me?" Lei San's father shouted loudly: "Yang Ming and you are not related! Do you protect him?" Lei San looked at his own coldly.
My biological father said: "I was often sick when I was young, and it was all caused by hunger. Every time I went to serve rice, you said there was not enough food, and I never had enough food at home."
"But Brother Yang took pity on me and often gave me rice balls to eat. If Brother Yang had broth at home, he would definitely bring a bowl for me to eat." "When I was seven years old, I had a high fever. Both you and my mother said that I was going to die.
He just left me alone. It was Brother Yang who dragged his father to buy me medicine, boiled it for me to drink, and saved me." "If it weren't for Brother Yang, I would have died of illness long ago!"
After hearing what Lei San said, brother Lei San felt like a basin of water poured down from his head and sat down heavily on the chair. Lei San's sister-in-law looked at her husband, then at Lei San, and walked out in anger as she waved her hands.
Lei San's villa. Lei San and his eldest brother were so anxious when they saw this that they chased him to the door and shouted: "Liu Zi! Liu Zi! Don't be angry!" But he was unwilling to give up Lei San and stood at the door unable to move forward or retreat, anxiously
Look at Lei San.
Lei San said: "When Brother Yang's father was around, his family's livelihood was pretty good, but his father died a few years ago. As a result, those bad guys bullied Brother Yang, a good man, and added layers of land to his family's fields.
Land tax, the grain harvested from his family’s more than 20 acres of land throughout the year is not even enough to pay the land tax. He is twenty-four and has not yet gotten married.”
"Brother Yang is in such a miserable state now, I have to help him!" "Brother, I paid for the second brother's marriage. I also give my parents one tael of silver every month. I have done enough for the family. This is
I want to help Brother Yang this time!" Lei San's father looked at Lei San in despair. After being silent for a long time, he suddenly became furious and rushed forward to hit Lei San.
"I'll beat you to death, you treacherous son!" Lei San didn't react for a moment, so he slapped his father on the face, and his body was crooked. Lei San's father slapped him, but he still didn't understand his hatred, and waved his fist to fight back.
He wanted to hit Lei San. Lei San frowned, grabbed his father's fist, and threw his father to the ground.
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.