Chapter 160 Earthshaking Changes
"That's good." Ying Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.
It would be a pity if this majestic one of China's four great inventions was not handed down because a foolish emperor didn't pay attention to it.
Qin An smiled and said: "Not only that, technology is constantly developing, and clay movable type, wooden movable type, copper movable type, etc. have appeared.
Unfortunately, it was people from abroad who finally developed it. They made printing a very easy task, and it was no problem to print 100,000 copies a day. "
"One hundred thousand copies?" Ying Zheng and others were shocked.
"Sir," Meng Yi said, "the numbers you mentioned are really scary."
"This is nothing." Qin An said, "I tell you, newspapers in the capital have to print at least seven million copies a day."
"Seven million copies?" Everyone was surprised again.
Qin An looked at everyone's surprised expressions and felt indescribably comfortable in his heart. He said again: "But that's outside. After the future is opened, the village can spend money to buy a large printing factory and print whatever it wants."
Ying Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "Sir, even if I really have something to print, there are only so many people in the village, and I don't have that many books to print.
Therefore, there should be no need to buy a printing factory. "
In fact, Ying Zheng wanted it very much, but he couldn't do it. This is Da Qin now, not the future.
If Qin An can really send a printing factory to Daqin, Ying Zheng is willing to pay for everything.
Fortunately, movable type printing technology is sufficient. Although it cannot print seven million a day, it should be possible to print thousands or even tens of thousands, as long as there are enough people.
Two days passed in a flash. During these two days, Qin An took Ying Zheng to observe the breeding farm.
Ying Zheng found that the piglet already weighed forty or fifty pounds, and the chicken's feathers had completely changed color, and he had grown up a lot.
Although the smell of the farm is not good, it is quite clean.
In particular, the pig manure and chicken manure from the farms are used by Qin An to make fertilizer for irrigation.
There are also four paper mills with pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and a blacksmith house. Now the blacksmith house has been moved to the waterwheel house. The reason is very simple. The power of the waterwheel can be used to beat iron around the clock to remove impurities from the iron. less.
Although Qin An's pouring method is very fast, the quality is not good. Only steel that has been tempered can be used for a long time.
For example, gliding kites are made of countless iron pipes. After they are built, no one knows what they are used for.
Therefore, Zhang Han and the others did not know that the gliding kite was built.
Then came the salt-making workshops. Now there are more than 100,000 refined salts in the village, and every household has been eating them for several years.
There is also a flour workshop. This workshop is not currently for profit. It is purely to help villagers grind wheat into flour.
There is also a tofu workshop next to the flour workshop, which specializes in making tofu. Qin An saw that the villagers had a lot of soybeans, and everyone lived on soybean rice, which was really unpalatable.
So a tofu workshop was built, specializing in making tofu and soy milk.
These things are from the village, so they are distributed to the villagers for free.
After Ying Zheng tasted the tofu, he was instantly attracted by the cool and refreshing taste. The common people could add another delicacy.
These two workshops are new and were built after Ying Zheng left.
Not only that, Qin An also built a glass workshop, specializing in making glass. Although there is no production material, he believes that Ying Zheng will find a way to help him get the materials. Sand is everywhere.
There is also a jerky workshop next to the glass. This jerky workshop makes all meat into jerky.
The main reason was that he killed a tiger last time. It would be too wasteful to just ignore it, so Qin An had people build this dried meat workshop after Ying Zheng left.
At present, the jerky in the workshop is mainly mutton jerky.
After the jerky was made, it was instantly loved by the villagers. They could chew on one stick of jerky and eat it all day long.
There was no way, there were no snacks in the village, but finally we got them, and of course everyone couldn't put them down.
Qin Anrang was afraid that the villagers would get angry after eating too much, so he used selling money as an excuse to give one piece of dried mutton every seven days.
Mutton turned into jerky lasts much longer.
After Ying Zheng tasted it, he was also conquered by the delicious taste, and then took several sticks at the scene. Li Si and others who followed Ying Zheng also took a few sticks each.
They chatted while eating and walked around the village.
After seeing the changes in the village, Ying Zheng was shocked by the colorful workshops in the village.
In just one month, the village has been turned upside down.
If there were so many workshops in any village outside Da Qin, why would the people worry about not being rich?
Finally everyone returned to the yard.
Ying Zheng: "If we were in ancient times, such as Great Qin, would it be possible to build so many workshops?"
"It's okay," Qin An said, "but it can't be built in a village."
"Why?" Ying Zheng asked, "Our village can build it, why can't other villages?"
"This is different." Qin An said, "The current scale of the village is due to several reasons.
One of them is the labor force. In ancient times, a village with a hundred people was considered a big village.
Secondly, once a workshop is built in the village, who will manage it? Will the things produced in this workshop be sold for money in the future?
If you sell it for money, who will you give it to? If you don’t sell money, the people in the village will only pay but get nothing. Who is willing to do it? "
"However, it seems that the villagers in Zhaojiacun are just putting in the effort without getting anything in return." Li Si said.
"No, we give them money or items. Dried meat, salt and other items are considered as wages for the villagers.
If the villagers run out, they have to buy and exchange them with money or other items we need.
I didn't give it to them for free. Even if I did, it would be for the benefit of the villagers. I made it clear in advance.
I will give them benefits every three months, and the benefits are distributed based on the profits in the village.
Of course, there was no profit in the first quarter, so salt, the four treasures of the study, and iron were used instead.
In the second quarter, it depends on how much Boss Meng can sell the things in the village? Then they are distributed to the villagers according to the proportion. If the villagers want the products of the village workshop, they need to use money to buy them.
When the workshop makes money, after deducting the principal, wages and dividends, the village will collect taxes from the workshop.
The last money is the village chief's or the village's money, because I don't know whether these workshops belong to the village chief or the village. "
"It's up to the village." Ying Zheng said.
"If it belongs to the village, then the tax and the profit of the workshop must be clearly distinguished. The tax is the village's unconditional help to the villagers and the construction of the village.
The profits of the workshop continue to be based on construction profits, and the final goal is to make the village rich. "
