Daqin Engineering Corps

"General, the textile workshop can earn more than [-] yuan a day!"

"In this way, the monthly profit of the textile workshop exceeds the annual tax revenue of Yanmen County."

"And the textile workshop is still expanding..."

Hearing Fatty Tun's briefing, Fusu on the side was a little stunned.

However, this does not seem to be surprising. There are not many sources of tax revenue these years, mainly from farmers, that is, tax and grain collected from the land.

Therefore, places like Yanmen County in the north that can only grow grain once a year are at a disadvantage, and tax and grain are collected once a year.

If the tax and food were converted into money, it would be worth almost 200 million yuan, but this was only the profit of the textile workshop in Yunzhong County for one month.

And this is pure profit based on feeding more than [-] people... More than [-] people in Yunzhong County have already received daily wages in food or money.

This is the charm of industry, especially in the semi-slave and semi-feudal society around it, and Yunzhong County's strong technological advantages will make it rich quickly.

It took a long while for Fusu to calm down and asked:

"What does the General intend to do with the money?"

Shen Bing replied without thinking:

"Building roads and bridges, water conservancy facilities, education, public security, and strengthening the army..."

There is a saying, "If you want to get rich, build roads first."

The industrial development map is commerce, and the presence or absence of commercial interoperability requires good transportation.

At this time, the roads in Yunzhong County are narrow and difficult to travel, and it takes about three days to drive a horse-drawn carriage for a road of more than 160 kilometers... This is almost the marching speed of infantry.

Usually, although the horse-drawn cart transportation is not as fast as the cavalry's marching speed, it is not much different. It is not a big problem to travel [-] miles a day, especially the light-weight cloth is transported.

Not to mention the increase in transportation costs, the more important thing is that it limits the development speed of Yunzhong County... Compared with transportation costs, Shen Bing actually values ​​time costs more, and time is everything.

Needless to say, water conservancy facilities are beneficial to both industry and agriculture in Yunzhong County.

As for education... now is just the beginning of the industrial revolution, and Yunzhong County will need a large number of qualified labor in the future, which cannot be achieved without education.

Shen Bing has a deep understanding of this.

To be precise, Cang, who has the deepest experience...is responsible for the training of workers.

As the saying goes, "When the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds", and when there are too many people, there are all kinds of people.

Although there is not much difficulty in a series of tasks such as the operation of the loom and the maintenance of the waterwheel, the common people at this time are generally in an uncivilized state... Most of them have never read a book, and they have been exposed to Farming and digging, so all I know is farming and digging.

The female workers are fine with the looms, which is what they are good at.

If male workers want to transform them into workers, even if they teach them by hand, they often forget when they get up, or don't know what to do when they turn around.

This is actually due to the lack of education, thinking, intelligence and coordination of hands and feet can't keep up, so that quite a few people can only go to farm in the end.

At this time, it is only the hydraulic spinning machine. What will happen if it develops into large-scale machine production one day?

So the issue of education is urgent.

The security problem is because the people from all walks of life are concentrated in Yunzhong County and it is still relatively chaotic. There are still many crimes such as theft, occupation, and robbery.

If management and rectification are not strengthened, a series of chain reactions will soon be produced.

A strong army is the ultimate goal... Shen Bing did all this not for money, but to build an army, an army strong enough to defend Yunzhong County and even expand the territory.

Judging from the current situation in Yunzhong County, it is time to expand the army and prepare to take more land from the Huns.

Otherwise, after Daiguo is destroyed and tens of thousands of people come, Yunzhong County may be overwhelmed.

Chapter 325 Subsidy

Construction of roads and bridges and water conservancy facilities were usually done by hard labor in Qin Dynasty, including the construction of the Great Wall.

That is to say, those who violated the Qin law and were punished for a long time with hard labor. If these people are not exhausted and can go back alive, they will be considered lucky, so they don't even think about getting any wages.

This is also one of the reasons why the taxes in the counties in the Qin Dynasty were not high, but various activities continued as usual.

They don't need to pay for building roads and bridges, just pull up the hard labor.

If there is any cost, it is to provide some food to keep these slaves alive.

Of course, Shen Bing couldn't do that. Craftsmen and ordinary people were sent to build roads and bridges, and they paid back their wages.

Even the wages are higher than other workers, 23 yuan a day.Manual work is more tiring than textile workshops, so it is right to pay more.

The workers who came to build roads and bridges were immediately divided into another batch.

This part and the water conservancy facilities were handed over to Xi by Shen Bing. Before he entered the army, he was more experienced in drying field ditches and diverting water for irrigation.

Educate Shen Bing and put Fusu in charge.

It is of course no problem for the common people to learn Confucianism. It is best for everyone to learn to be a modest gentleman, but of course it is necessary for Fatty Tun to play some magic numbers and Cang to teach some carpentry.

Among them, arithmetic is the main thing...After industrialization, science talents are more needed. At the same time, learning arithmetic will also improve the IQ of ordinary people and make them more flexible.

Shen Bing himself is in charge of strengthening the army.

If the Qin army wants to organize an army, it doesn't really cost much... The source of troops comes directly from the people and doesn't need to pay money.

Even the clothes that the people wear are their own.

A considerable part of the equipment also comes from the common people... If the common people commit some crimes and are often punished with a shield or a armor, some of the shields and armor used in the military are part of it.

Most of the standard mass production equipment is hard labor.

This is all about cheap calculations... This is how a country's war machine operates, so there are princes and nobles who are extremely extravagant when productivity is extremely low.

Shen Bing took another route to build the army:

From iron smelting, equipment manufacturing to conscription, they spend money generously but sparingly.

Why not spend a small amount of money to improve the combat effectiveness and morale of the troops in series?

Because from the perspective of a soldier, serving the country as a soldier is going through life and death, and even the clothes need to be paid for by the family... If the family is poor, they have to endure hunger and cold, of course I feel unbalanced.

But if after joining the army, no matter whether he has a noble or not, he has all food and clothing and some subsidies for his family, then the soldiers will have no worries and can devote themselves to the battle wholeheartedly.

There is a saying that "a man is more angry than a man". In this era, other armies, including the Qin army, did not have such conditions. A comparison of which is better will soon give you the answer.

As a result, morale, loyalty and combat effectiveness will be further improved.

Shen Bing's only worry was whether he would be too conspicuous and provoke Zhao Gao and Li Si to make sarcastic remarks in Ying Zheng's place.

The result really made Shen Bing guess right.

This matter was proposed by Li Si, and Ying Zheng had already returned to Xianyang at this time...

Whenever the harvest season is the busiest time in Xianyang, which places have good harvests and which places need disaster relief due to lack of harvest, Xianyang needs to coordinate, so Ying Zheng must return to Beijing to sit in charge.

Li Si played to Ying Zheng in the court hall:

"Your Majesty, it is said that Yunzhong County uses the cloth industry as its military force, and even those who have no titles will distribute food according to the person."

"If this is the first of its kind, I'm afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among soldiers from all over the country."

What Li Si said was level.

Because Shen Bing's move can be said to be not against the rules, but Yunzhong County paid the full tax according to the Qin law, and then used the money he could spend to pay the soldiers extra, which has nothing to do with others.

The problem is that Shen Bing's actions will make other Qin troops jealous:

"It's the same as serving as a soldier to fight a war. Why are the soldiers in Yunzhong County treated better?"

"It's the same life and death, how can the soldiers of Yunzhong County have food and clothing?"

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If other Qin armies follow the same standard as Yunzhong County, how much money will it cost the whole country?

But Ying Zheng replied without thinking:

"Yunzhong County is a place of bitter cold beyond the Great Wall."

"Back when Li Mu stationed troops in the North, he also killed three cattle every day to reward the army."

"Shen Bing managed well, but within a few months, he managed the barbaric land in Yunzhong County to the wealthy side."

"Why not use the cloth industry to resist the Xiongnu?"

After saying this, Li Si was speechless.

Ying Zheng was indeed unwilling to spend the money, but what he said was fine.

Where is Yunzhong County?

It is a wild land far away from the Central Plains and far away from home, and it will be harassed and attacked by the Huns at any time.

What happened to a little subsidy?

What's the matter with more food?

If the soldiers of other armies are jealous...then go and garrison in Yunzhong County!

What's more, people use their own money to subsidize, and they don't ask for a penny from the central government.

In fact, there is another reason for Yingzheng to say this. Fusu had reported the textile workshop to Yingzheng from the beginning to the end.

There is no need for Shen Bing to hide this matter from Yingzheng, and there is no way to hide it... There are tens of thousands of hydraulic looms in Yunzhong County that can produce thousands of pieces of cloth every day, and thousands of workers work in the production process every day , Want to hide from Yingzheng?

It is precisely because Ying Zheng knows Yunzhong County clearly that he has more trust and peace of mind in Yunzhong County.

Otherwise, with Ying Zheng's character, Li Si said that again... It's hard to think of it.

At this time, Ying Zheng can only lament the ingenuity of the hydraulic loom:

"It can actually weave cloth with water power."

"How much labor can be saved in this way and how much wealth will be brought to Daqin?"

"It can be said that Shen Bing made this thing is another great achievement!"

Zhao Gao said beside him:

"My lord, isn't it like Xianyang and Yunzhong County... make this loom in large quantities?"

Ying Zheng thought for a while and said:

"Not urgent."

"If it is produced in Xianyang in large quantities and then promoted nationwide, won't it cut off Yunzhong County's source of income?"

"In today's situation, Yunzhong County's defense against the Xiongnu is the most important and most difficult, and let Yunzhong County stabilize before talking about other things."

From this we can also see Ying Zheng's vision and mind.

If it was someone else, it would seem that the Central Plains would be unified. Even if the remaining Yan, Dai, and Qi were not worth mentioning, this was his ambition for many years.

In this final closing stage, according to common sense, one should be impatient and resentful that they can't be won right away.

But Ying Zheng looked further, knowing that the only opponent at this time was the Huns.

Of course, the Xiongnu is not the "only" opponent. At this time, Yingzheng doesn't know that "beyond the mountains there are mountain people and there are people", and there are Western Regions outside the Huns, and Europe outside the Western Regions...

The earth is big, not just the land of the Central Plains in front of you is the "world".

Chapter 326 Cavalry Army

However, this development process has not been smooth sailing.

At this time, Shen Bing is training soldiers... The main direction of Shen Bing's training is still to expand the Shenwu Army, which is the cavalry.

This is the advantage of the Hetao area. The fertile grass and water in this area are excellent horse farms, and the quality of the horses raised is no worse than that of the Xiongnu.

In addition, Shen Bing knew that cavalry would be king in the future, so of course he would not give up this opportunity.

Moreover, the people of the original Hetao had some experience in this aspect... Many of the people who returned from Dai Kingdom were horse merchants and herdsmen, and Li Mu's Northern Essence Cavalry was formed by the war horses raised by them.

Shen Bing immediately organized them to raise horses for the Shenwu Army. In addition, Shen Bing also took some of the herdsmen who could ride horses to join the Shenwu Army and expanded it to 6000 people.

However, Shen Bing believes that the number of Shenwu troops is not a big problem, and the bigger problem is riding and shooting.

Shen Bing also discussed this issue with Wang Ben several times: