I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Engaging in education is a money-burning business. Just relying on a little tax to support the army is not enough. Wu Changqing has to rely on himself to make money.

The next day, Wu Changqing got a report that one hundred multi-wheel textile machines had been manufactured.

Wu Changqing tried it out himself, and found that the imitation textile machine was also very easy to use, and it was not much different from the original Jenny textile machine.

"Have the raw materials been hoarded?" Wu Changqing asked.

"Have hoarded 500,000 catties of cotton, which can at least weave 100,000 pieces of cloth. The entire Wusong area can't produce so much cloth in half a year."

Wu Zhiyue said excitedly.

The current cotton is about 30 cents a pound, and the price of cloth is about 450 cents a piece. The raw materials cost 15,000 taels, and the workers’ wages and other expenses are about 5,000 taels, which means that the cost of the 100,000 pieces of cloth is about 20,000 taels.

The sales volume can reach 45,000 taels, and the profit is as high as 125%, which is very scary.

For other cloth merchants, the cost of a piece of cloth is probably as high as 400 wen, twice that of a textile machine, and the profit is only about 12%.

As long as Wu Changqing and the others lowered the price of cloth by fifty cents, other cloth merchants would have to wait for the factory to break down. If you follow the price reduction, you will lose money. If you don’t follow the price reduction, no one will buy it.

And after cutting the price by fifty cents, their profit can still be as high as 100%, an absolute profiteering business.

Although it can't compare to soap, soap is a luxury, while cloth is a necessity.

Calculated on the basis that an average person consumes 0.1 piece of cloth per year, the annual gross profit of Huaxia alone is 2 million taels of silver.

"Then let's get to work."

Wu Changqing gave the order to start work, and the more than 200 workers started all kinds of work in an orderly manner.

Looking at the more than 200 workers, Wu Changqing couldn't help but sigh that this is probably the first factory in the world.

Even in Europe, there is no such factory.

Although the scale of some workshops may be larger than this, in the strict sense, those are not factories, they are simply large in scale, and there is no production process similar to an assembly line.

More than 200 workers took action at the same time, and the scene was quite spectacular.

However, Wu Changqing just took a few glances and left. He had seen the scene a hundred times more shocking than this, and the scene in front of him shocked people of this era.

"The imitation of the machine cannot stop, and it has to continue to accelerate."

Wu Changqing said.

"I'm afraid it would be a waste to make so many. It's easy to have a backlog of woven fabrics that can't be sold."

Wu Zhiyue reminded.

However, Wu Changqing has his own plans for this issue. He has already sent people to the coastal areas, even Ningbo, Taizhou and other places to find foreign businessmen.

He wants to sell the cloth abroad, and buy cotton and other raw materials from abroad, turning China into a world factory. Take the road of the British Empire, and let the British Empire have nowhere to go.

Only by developing industry can we rise, and only by relying on industry can we accumulate wealth.

After inspecting the textile factory, Wu Changqing came to Chen's workshop again, which is now larger than the textile factory and employs hundreds of people to work at the same time.

Now, in addition to soap and soap, Wu Changqing also handed over the manufacturing technology of perfume and glass to Chen Daolin.

Perfume is temporarily unable to be mass-produced due to the lack of petal raw materials due to seasonal reasons.

Glass has no effect, and is currently being manufactured on a large scale.

In fact, things like glass appeared very early, and even the so-called colored glaze appeared by accident in the Western Han Dynasty. It's just that there has never been a good manufacturing process, so practical glass has never been made.

In western Italy, the manufacturing process of glass was very mature in 1300, while China's side was relatively backward, mainly because no one did research and did not know the specific composition of glass.

As long as the composition of glass is known, its manufacture is still very easy. However, ordinary refining methods can only produce some relatively small pieces of glass, and some relatively complicated processes are required to produce large pieces of glass.

This kind of craft is not very expensive. It is only 5000 technology points. Wu Changqing has already lit up this technology and handed over the manufacturing process to Chen Daolin. He is still arranging people to try it.

Large pieces of glass have not yet been made, but many small pieces for dressing and dressing have been made.

The advantages of these glasses over the bronze mirror are too great. The bronze mirror can only see a vague shadow, while the glass can see clearly.

"As long as this treasure is sold, I'm afraid it will be looted like soap."

Chen Daolin said happily, although all the money earned now has to be handed over to Wu Changqing to support the army, it cannot enter his pocket. But he is not in a hurry, as long as the world settles down, he can lie down and count the money.

"This is just the beginning. When the war is settled and there is time, I still have a lot of good things to take out."

Wu Changqing's words made Chen Daolin even more excited, and there were better things, how much money would he make.

Before leaving, Wu Changqing also picked out a very beautiful mirror, ready to take it back for Chen Yuyan to use. Chen Daolin's heart was elated by this small move, which meant that Chen Yuyan had a heavy weight in Wu Changqing's heart and was very favored.

Otherwise, a governor who is full of military affairs, how can he think of giving something to his wife.

Cloth, soap glass, these businesses are currently expected to bring Wu Changqing about 100,000 taels of income every month. Moreover, the scale of these businesses is still expanding.

Income will increase in the future.

With these stable financial resources, plus taxes, he no longer has to worry about military expenses.

Compared with King Lu in the south, he is much richer now.

King Lu in the south is the emperor in name, and everyone must kneel when they see it. However, in fact, most of the power of this regime is in the hands of Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren.

Even the tax is like this. The two of them privately controlled the 600,000 taels of tax silver they collected and distributed it privately.

Except for a part of the administrative expenses for the court, most of the rest were divided up by the two of them to support the army.

And those rebels didn't have a penny, not to mention salaries, even the rations were about to run out.

Originally, the rebels in eastern Zhejiang were quite able to fight, and they faced Li Chengdong in Hangzhou for more than a month without losing. However, the leaders of the rebel army can only play war, but they can't play politics.

As a result, Fang Guoan, who held power in the DPRK, took the money, and the other rebels could only stare blankly.

No matter how hard the soldiers can fight, they won't be able to eat without food.

It is for this reason in history that the rebels were forced to disband. And after those rebels were disbanded, they could no longer hold the Qing army.

By the spring of next year, Li Chengdong will use the autumn wind to sweep away the leaves and capture Shaoxing, Hangzhou and other places.