Feng Xiang smiled slightly, then turned around, leaning against the side of the ship, as if he had a lot to say.

"Keep talking~"

I hope you will become interested immediately.

"During this period we were in Tianjin and Beijing, did you find anything special?"

Feng Xiang looked at Zhu Benduan and asked.

"Something special?"

"Are you talking about the high-rise buildings here in Tianjin? Or the cement roads?"

Zhu Benduan thought for a while and said.

The prosperity of Tianjin New Town is indeed dazzling to see. Surrounding the Tianjin Port, Tianjin has also formed a commercial district of almost several miles, which is very prosperous and lively.

"No, these are all superficial things. The really special things are the factories and workshops in the Beijing-Tianjin area."

Feng Xiang shook his head and said.

"Factory, workshop?"

I wish I was slightly surprised.

"Yes, according to my statistics, there are tens of thousands of factories and workshops, large and small, in Tianjin alone. Among them, there are hundreds of cement plants alone. Various workshops, cement plants,

It’s very dense and the number of people employed is also very large.”

"These are not seen at all in our Jiangnan area. It is difficult for us to see dense factories and workshops. Even if there are, there are only a few hundred people, and there are not too many workshops with thousands of people.

"

"But in the Beijing-Tianjin area, factories and workshops with hundreds or thousands of people are nothing at all. Factories and workshops with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people are all."

"How to manage such huge factories and workshops?"

"And the things they produce, haven't you taken a closer look?"

"It's very standardized. If you look at the ships on the sea, as long as they come from the Tianjin Shipyard, they are almost the same without any difference. This is very scary."

"There are also ironware produced by the Miyun Iron Factory in the capital, glass products produced by the glass factory, cloth produced by the textile factory, etc. The things produced by these factories are not only large in output, but also of good quality. More importantly, almost all

The products are all very similar, it’s hard to find the differences, they all seem to be made from the same mold.”

"That's what's special."

Feng Xiang stated his findings in one breath.

"Is this what's special?"

Zhu Benduan is still a little unclear.

"Technology~"

"When I chat with factory owners and workshop owners in the Beijing-Tianjin area, I often hear them mention this word."

"At first I didn't quite understand what this technology was. I only learned about it once after chatting with a factory owner who also ran an iron factory."

"Ironmaking at the Miyun Iron Factory is completely different from our traditional ironmaking. They use blast furnaces to make iron. One furnace of molten iron can weigh more than 100,000 kilograms, and it only takes one day to make it.

, the iron you get from training is still the best quality.”

"Maybe you still don't understand this, so I'll just say salt."

"We are all in the salt business, and we all know that salt is boiled, but the salt from Changlu Saltworks is not boiled at all, it is sun-dried."

"A Changlu salt field employs tens of thousands of people, but the salt produced is enough to supply the entire Ming Dynasty, and there is still excess that can be used to pickle salted fish and sell it to Korea and Japan."

"We have all been to the salt field. The kitchen owners in the salt field cook salt all day long. They can cook ten kilograms of salt every day."

"This is technology. This is why we have never been able to defeat Liu Jin. Because mastering these technologies, Liu Jin is in an invincible position. In addition, he also dragged the emperor and the prince onto his ship. We cannot defeat him."

his."

"Similarly, these large merchant families who are engaged in maritime trade cannot defeat him, and they will eventually be defeated by him. I heard that the cannons produced by Miyun Iron Factory are very powerful. They suffered a setback last year.

Planted on it."

Feng Xiang finished speaking with a smile. When he said this, he admired from the bottom of his heart: "This Liu Jin is indeed a disciple of a master. He is far beyond what we ordinary people can compare with. There is nothing wrong with fighting him."

The advantage is, it is better to learn from the northerners and follow their footsteps, and there will naturally be endless benefits."

Hearing this, Zhu Benduan finally understood, and immediately became thoughtful. After thinking carefully, he nodded and said: "I see, the recent slow sales of cloth in our Jiangnan area is also related to this technology, right? The cloth in the north

Not only is the quality good, but the price is also very cheap, so cheap that it’s unbelievable.”

"Yes, as far as I know, the textile factories and weaving factories here in Beijing all use the new textile machines and looms manufactured by the Jingcheng Machinery Factory. One person can spin several pieces of cloth in a day.

, how can our Jiangnan cloth compete with us?"

"This is technology~"

Feng Xiang nodded and sighed.

"But what's really admirable is that this Liu Jin is actually willing to share all these profitable businesses so that everyone can make money together. This is the son of a master, and his mind is admirable."

"Now there are just some pirates and Japanese pirates. Just wait and see. Forget it if those pirates and Japanese pirates don't come. If they really dare to come and plunder our fleet, they will most likely be beaten to pieces.
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