However, after sending people to select a site, they found that the terrain in Hanyang on the north bank was relatively low-lying, and Wuchang was not suitable either.
If an arsenal and a series of supporting iron factories, machinery factories and other factories are built here, then flood prevention measures will have to be taken, such as raising the area and building flood control walls.
At the same time, someone else suggested that the Great Smelting Iron Plant had already been built, and that most of the iron, copper and other raw materials of the Da Chu Empire were directly supplied from Daye.
If the iron materials were transported to Hanyang for production, it would be better to choose a coastal location near the Yangtze River in Daye County and build a series of supporting factories such as an arsenal directly.
In this way, even the transportation of iron materials is eliminated!
As for the coal used in iron-making, I'm sorry, the Chu Empire now does not use coal for iron-making, but charcoal.
The backward technology is so awesome!
As for charcoal, it needs to be purchased from the private sector on a large scale and then transported to iron smelting plants, so as long as the transportation is convenient, it will not greatly affect the cost of charcoal...
After all, they are all equally expensive!
This is why the Ministry of Industry directly set up an iron smelting plant in Daye before, instead of choosing to set up an iron plant elsewhere.
The current arsenal and machinery factory can be built around the large iron smelting plant that has been established to reduce transportation costs.
After receiving the report, Luo Zhixue was a little surprised. After all, he remembered that Hanyang in the original time and space had a bunch of factories built by Zhang Zhidong, including the famous Hanyang Arsenal.
However, after careful comparison, Luo Zhixue still agreed to the Ministry of Industry's plan to set up a series of supporting factories such as an arsenal and a machinery factory in Daye.
The reason is very simple. There are no railways passing through Hanyang now, and at the same time, there are not a lot of supporting factories in Hanyang first. Putting the arsenal in Hanyang now is totally not worth the gain.
Anyway, current bulk transportation still relies on water transportation for the time being. As long as the arsenal is built along the Yangtze River, the problem will not be too big.
After approving the construction plan of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Industry quickly came up with detailed construction plans for many supporting factories such as arsenals and machinery factories.
The arsenal established in Daye was named Hantian Arsenal, just like the Xiangyang Arsenal, it was named directly after the name of the prefecture.
The supporting machinery factory is also called Hantian Machinery Factory.
Therefore, there will be many supporting factories surrounding the arsenal.
Including independently operated factories such as Hantian Machinery Factory, Daye Iron Works, Daye Metallurgical Factory, Daye Mining, Hantian Precision Machinery, and Hantian Carriage Factory.
At the same time, Hantian Arsenal will also have more than ten branch factories including artillery branch, musket branch, forging branch, lumber branch, armor branch, sword branch, gunpowder branch, artillery shell branch, and bullet branch.
Planning to build an arsenal in Daye is not a separate workshop for casting guns, but an entire industrial system.
However, this kind of thing seems very high-end. When you hear the names of these factories, you seem to think that these are high-tech factories, but in fact, they are just like that...
Although the scale is large and there are many workers, the technical level is just that.
In essence, the industrial technology of the Great Chu Empire had no advantages over the Ming Dynasty, the Eastern Banquets, or Westerners.
From the most basic materials to processing, the technical level is actually still at the relatively primitive stage of manual work.
But, the Da Chu Empire is willing to spend money!
Therefore, the factory is large in scale and has many workers, so the output is large.
Coupled with a relatively strict management system and preliminary assembly line production, quality can be better controlled.
In addition, another very important point is that the factories of the Dachu Empire began to widely use various types of machinery and equipment.
They range from various types of manual grinders and drilling machines, to various types of power-accumulating machines, and finally to large-scale hydraulic machines, and there are many of them.
The use of these primitive machines greatly improved the production efficiency of the factories in the Dachu Empire.
Whether it reduces costs or not is secondary. The key thing is to significantly increase production.
The above-mentioned measures are all to ensure the supply of weapons and ammunition needed by the Baoxiang Army to expand its army and fight.
He approved a series of construction plans from the Ministry of Industry and instructed the Finance Department to allocate money and grain in a timely manner for factory construction and worker training.
Luo Zhixue temporarily put down the defense industry affairs. Anyway, it is impossible for the Daye Industrial Base to produce weapons and equipment in a short period of time.
Even at the current wartime construction and production speed, it is conservatively estimated that it will take three months to enter a relatively large-scale production stage, and that will be next year.
Naturally, Luo Zhixue couldn't keep an eye on these things every day.
He has a lot to do.
On November 16, Luo Zhixue summoned Cheng Wende, the governor of Han Tianfu, to discuss the establishment of a textile factory in Hanyang.
Cheng Wende said: "Your Majesty, we, the Han Tianfu, requested to set up a textile factory. The main purpose is to provide work-for-relief and to resettle the refugees affected by wars and natural disasters."
"At the same time, we also provide clothing, quilts, tents and other materials to soldiers, patrol police, tax police, and factory workers."
"If it goes well, then we can also consider introducing the produced cloth and other materials to the private market."
Cheng Wende, the governor of Han Tianfu, continued: "Our Han Tianfu is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. To the east, we can go to the middle and lower reaches of South Zhili, and to the west, we can reach Jingzhou Prefecture and other places, and we can also enter Sichuan.
There is also the Han River that can go northward, pass through the Yangtze River, and then enter the Dongting Lake-Xiangjiang River water system. It can even go eastward and enter the Poyang Lake-Ganjiang River water system in the future. "
"This place is well-connected and is most suitable for setting up factories and businesses."
Luo Zhixue looked at the plan in his hand while listening. After reading it, he said: "It is feasible to build a textile factory in Hanyang!"
"The textile industry is a big industry. We have tried it in Nanyang and Xiangyang before, and the results are good. It can provide a large number of employed workers for work-for-relief, solve the problem of bedding and uniforms for our army, and can also supply cheaper clothing to the people. Cloth is used to benefit the people.”
"If you want to start it, then make it bigger. The yarn mill, cloth factory, dyeing factory, and sewing factory in this textile factory are all promising businesses!"
"You can discuss it later with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Finance and come up with a detailed plan."
"Besides, Han Tianfu cannot directly run this factory, let the Ministry of Industry handle it."
“Professional things should be done by professionals!”
"Your local government can support and encourage industry and commerce, but you must not directly participate!"
Luo Zhixue does not want local government agencies to directly build factories. This has nothing to do with monopoly and official intervention. If the Ministry of Industry invests in building factories, it will also be a monopoly and official intervention.
It is purely because local government offices are not professional enough in running factories.
Professional matters should be handled by professional people. If you want to set up government-run factories, you can just let the Ministry of Industry do it.
Except for officials from the Ministry of Industry, most other officials, especially local officials, know nothing about running factories and other industrial and commercial affairs. If local governments are allowed to run factories on a large scale, they will suffer losses.
As he spoke, he also said to an attendant from the Hanlin Academy next to him: "Take a note and ask the Legal Affairs Council, the Ministry of Industry and other departments to come up with detailed regulations for the establishment of government-run factories."
"In principle, professional things should be done by professionals."
"Except for the Ministry of Industry, other government agencies, including the military, are strictly prohibited from investing in, operating, and managing enterprises that operate externally!"
"Let the Ministry of Industry set up directly-controlled industrial bureaus in each government to coordinate and manage government-run industrial and commercial affairs in each government."
Therefore, regarding the Hanyang Textile Factory, Luo Zhixue also planned to take this opportunity to finalize the affairs of the government-run enterprise and formulate various rules.
After all, the Dachu Empire did not have corresponding laws and regulations in this area before, but now they have been finalized directly to avoid problems that will become bigger and more difficult to deal with in the future.
Therefore, we might as well temporarily impose strict restrictions and implement a one-size-fits-all policy, with the Ministry of Industry directly responsible for the affairs of all government-run enterprises.
When Han Tianfu Yin heard this, he was a little disappointed. He originally expected that Han Tianfu would directly fund the factory and then make some money to subsidize the finance...
You must know that Han Tianfu is financially poor now!
Although the Da Chu Empire seized a large amount of gold and silver during a series of conquests, this money basically had nothing to do with local finance. They were all confiscated and sent directly to the national treasury, that is, the Ministry of Finance.
Today, the source of local fiscal revenue for prefectures and counties mainly relies on tax and fee sharing.
Needless to say, taxes, after the tax department collects taxes, will leave a part of the tax revenue to the local government according to a certain proportion to serve as local administrative funds.
In terms of fees, they are some administrative fees, such as various fines and administrative income. These places also have a share.
Local finance has a fixed proportion of taxes and fees, but it also bears the burden of various administrative expenses such as salaries of local officials and infrastructure.
At the same time, in order to maintain the war and better coordinate the use of funds, in the current tax and fee sharing system of the Da Chu Empire, the taxes and fees that the local finance can get are still relatively small, and most of them are turned over to the national treasury.
This has led to the fact that under the rule of the Great Chu Empire, local government offices at all levels are very poor... Some counties with poor economies often cannot even pay their officials' salaries and need subsidies from higher-level finances. .
Of course, the Finance Department of the Dachu Empire will not disregard the life and death of local government offices, and some poor counties will not lack financial subsidies for them.
Local governance cannot be paralyzed just because officials cannot pay their salaries, right?
As the capital of Han Dynasty, Han Tianfu was a large government that merged two prefectures and two counties. It was not actually poor, but their expenses were also high.
After all, we are a capital city and we have a lot of expenses.
The salary of this official is a lot of money.
At the same time, we need to heal the damage caused by the war, carry out various infrastructure construction, and provide relief to a large number of disaster victims, etc.
Each item costs money.
Han Tianfu Yin Cheng Wende has been very worried about money in the past few months.
I was planning to set up a factory to make some money to subsidize the finances, but His Majesty asked me to run the factory, but only allowed the Ministry of Industry to run it.
In this way, the profits of this factory will not go into the pockets of Han Tianfu's finances!
