Chapter 18 Five Years
If you miss the farming season, at least for one season, don’t think about the harvest. But what are the laws of industrial production? That is, never let the machine stop. Because once the machine stops, the cost of maintaining the entire system remains.
This huge cost will crush a company.
Therefore, the company has no orders. It means closure and layoffs.
Once there is insufficient demand in the market, it means the arrival of an economic crisis.
The same goes for He Xi. If he doesn't do these things, he seems to be able to stop. Wait until you have accumulated capital before starting. But the problem is that his design for Shenyang Iron Works was a little too big. The Shenyang Iron Works previously built a large number of weapons supply front lines, but now the confrontation on the Goryeo front line will continue for some time. Demand for weapons fell.
Shenyang Iron Works already has a lot of iron in stock.
The Shenyang Iron Works was the first to do a good job and support downstream industries. That is to build machines for the following. These machines are the kind of iron guys that use human power or animal power, and they look very backward. For example, He Xi was inspired by the large-scale planting of soybeans. That kind of oil press changed the situation of oil pressing in the Ming Dynasty, after all, using a sledgehammer to hammer.
These machines can be made by Shenyang Iron Works.
The Taiping Iron Works also maintained production due to overseas weapons orders from the Nanyang vassals. Even today the production of Taiping Iron Works has shrunk a lot. That is, there is insufficient demand.
Shenyang Iron Works, which is larger than Taiping Iron Works, has no orders. It's not just a matter of closing down the business for a year and suspending all employees without pay. Shenyang's coal and iron industry has at least 50,000 people. Without profits, it would be really difficult to feed these 50,000 mouths.
These are all strong men, many of whom are even former guardsmen.
In short, turn it over and think about it. It must stop. In fact, He Xi gritted his teeth and suffered huge losses and was able to stop, but it would be difficult to start again next time.
However, he also understood a little bit about the principles of industrial management. Got it too. Why does imperialism do all kinds of evil for the sake of the market? Because once there is no market, there are no orders. They would immediately face a situation in which the country would be shattered.
There is no benefit in doing it now.
The good thing is that manpower actually has a cost. Nowadays, the cost of immigrants from Korea and Shandong disaster victims is extremely low, and they almost only need to take care of the food. But this situation cannot last long.
Ye Wang said: "Then please rest assured, the earliest is three months, or about a hundred days, the first batch of beans will be produced."
There were also varieties of soybeans in ancient times. There are various varieties such as three-month ripe, hundred-day yellow and so on. In order to have an early harvest. Ye Wang mostly chooses early-maturing varieties. Although these early-maturing varieties may have some flaws in other aspects.
But I can't care about that much at the moment.
He Xi said: "How about those new crops?"
Ye Wang said: "I heard from the people below that they planted all the crops last year and the harvest was quite good. From now on, I will give them 20,000 acres, including mature fields, raw fields, mountain fields, and paddy fields. I will send some veteran farmers. It will definitely be possible. These crops were cultivated.”
Ye Wang's expression was not very excited.
This is also because the performance of these native American crops in Liaodong is not that good. I don’t know if it’s a water and soil problem or something else. In short, high yield is certainly a bit high yield. But it's not so high that it's shocking.
Not even as good as their original counterparts in the Americas.
However, where is the potential?
There will be a day that will surprise everyone.
He Xi took a deep look at the land being plowed in the spring, and finally left in a hurry.
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He Xi went all the way south to inspect the spring plowing conditions on both sides of the Liaohe River, and finally arrived at Niuzhuang. It's in a large factory building near the textile factory. He Xi saw what he had been looking forward to. That's the printing house. The first priority now is to print tickets.
Although the food stamp system is under construction. But food stamp printing is also a big problem.
It needs to be confidential, strong, and easy to produce.
Ge Tiangong has been waiting here for a long time. See He Xi is coming. Said: "Teacher, look."
He Xi held the paper in his hand. The paper is thick, soft, and strong, giving it a special feel. He Xi couldn't tell clearly. It seemed to be kraft paper like a kraft bag, but it was different.
Ge Tiangong said: "This is made of wooden paddles, linen, and more than a dozen materials. It is unique on the market. Because this ticket is very unfriendly to ink. You can only use ink to write on it." Then. , Ge Tiangong took a writing brush and asked He Xi to put pen to paper.
He Xi simply drew a vertical line on it and immediately discovered that after a moment, the ink stains spread out on it and became a large area. Ge Tiangong immediately sent ink. He Xi wrote again, and the notes were clear and clean.
He Xi said: "Not bad."
Although there was no ink in the Ming Dynasty. But very few. It’s not that the ancients were too clever to make ink. But there is no need. What to do? However, it’s just the ink alone. It’s enough to give anyone who wants to imitate a headache.
Ge Tiangong has already developed a set of inks.
This set of inks of various colors was actually not deliberately done by He Xi, but was inserted unintentionally.
What He Xi wants is kerosene.
Yes, and nothing else. Just to light the lamp. Unless you light dozens or hundreds of candles. Otherwise, there will be no bright feeling in the room at night. Extremely sleepy. And candles are very expensive. He Xi can afford it herself.
But everyone in the world cannot afford it.
Now that there is so much coal in the Fushun coal mine, He Xi doesn't want to think of other sales. After much deliberation, kerosene lamps are a good market. There were many people in Ming Dynasty and more scholars. And quite a few readers cannot afford candles. The kerosene lamp was the substitute.
As for the poorer people, they do not light lamps at night.
Because of the emergence of large amounts of kerosene, some people suddenly had the idea to smelt some materials to create this ink system. Of course, it was not complete. Very different colors. But it is enough for printing food stamps.
As for the dozens of printing presses that were ready to go, He Xi wouldn't pay much attention to them.
After all, this is not a new thing, and it is not much different from the printing press of the official newspaper. Just some minor improvements. This thing was created by He Xi. He just glanced at it and looked at the final product.
A one-stone food stamp.
It is written on the front, matched with one stone, with the seal of the governor of Liaodong, and on the back it is written "Tong Su Wu De". There are also some decorative patterns, but in fact this pattern is a kind of riddle. Every health center is different. You can tell where the pattern is coming from.
Of course, this also brings a lot of difficulties to printing technology. Fortunately, there are only seventeen health centers in Liaodong.
All it takes is a dozen templates.
In addition, there are also samples such as salt stamps and coal stamps. These things also delay exit.
He Xi said: "Send a thousand households to guard this place, and there must be no problems here. No piece of waste paper can go out without my permission. These craftsmen, please live here for a while, and other treatment will be as usual. "
He Xi didn't want to give up fake bills. That's terrible.
Although, many technologies here are confidential. But He Xi doesn't really believe in the secrecy measures of this era. For example, He Xi estimates that most of the details and intentions on this banknote can be explained by any craftsman here.
Not that they need to be proficient in all crafts. It’s just that many people don’t keep that string secret. There is no such concept. Feel free to talk about confidential things.
He's that kind of fool who doesn't understand anything, and he only understands things that are fatal to him when it kills him.
This is the norm in ancient times. Although there are many elites, they are also top figures in modern times. But there is more, unexplained. I can't figure anything out at all. Messed up. You think he is an enemy agent wreaking havoc, no, that is not the case, he is alone and does not care, or is curious.
Therefore, He Xi must use the most severe defense to trap this place.
"Teacher, how long will they stay here?" Ge Tiangong said.
He Xi pondered for a moment and said: "Family members are allowed to visit, but they are not allowed to take away a piece of paper from here. Time? Five years. Just five years."
