The domestic guard is a little sweet

The cultivation of sugar cane was very successful, and Zhao Jin successfully opened a sugar factory in Donglin to produce brown sugar and white sugar.

Moreover, in order to ensure the uniform price of sugar, Zhao Jin built his own caravan in the early stage, went to various places to carry out business, and connected with local merchants who sold related products for unified sales.

Although Zhao Jin wants to use sucrose to make more profits, he also wants more people to be able to eat high-quality sucrose, so the price is not very high, and the price of sugar sold by downstream merchants is strictly limited.

Salt plays a pivotal role in people's lives. Once this batch of sucrose was released to the public, it caused great repercussions. Its high quality and taste have convinced all the big businessmen. More and more people in the south of the Yangtze River A big businessman, waving banknotes, came to Donglin to sell sugar.

Zhao Jin opened a sugar factory in a frank manner. He not only paid a lot of pre-tax to the court, but also used part of the profits of the sugar factory to set up a nursery and an old-age department, so that some lonely old people in the local area could rely on them.

Compared with the booming sugar industry, Zhao Jin made a new type of loom, which was about [-]% more efficient than the current looms. The two capable people under him came forward as the shopkeeper, and they themselves were the boss behind the scenes.

Compared with the sugar factories, both men and women workers are acceptable, but most of the weaving factories are women.

From the early recruitment training to the later SIPG, Zhao Jin was also very tempting in terms of welfare. All female workers who work in the weaving factory, in addition to the basic salary, have a corresponding monthly salary for the cloth she produces. Performance rewards, and a lot of room and board are provided.

Girls who have no relatives and no one to rely on want to squeeze into the weaving factory and have someone to rely on, and those girls with heavy families enter the sugar factory to earn no less money than an adult man. Subsidizing the family can also reduce the burden on the family. Therefore, among the several towns and farms near the weaving factory, as long as a girl is selected to work by the pillar factory, it will be like a rising tide, and matchmakers from all over the world will come to the girl's door and tell the girl that the door is about to break through.

And the local common people have men and women of the right age in their families, and it is also a collective matter for them to work in the weaving factory.

From spring to winter, Zhao Jin planted new rice, wheat, and corn and other crops in the area he was in charge of in Donglin.

At the end of the new year, Zhao Jin nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the ledger presented below.

"Everyone has worked very hard this year. At the end of the year, I plan to give them an extra month's money as a reward."

An Twelve held it with a smile.The thick outer shirt was on Zhao Jin's body, and he said with a smile: "The master will give everyone rewards for each solar term in the past two years. Look at the servants in the yard, which one is not fat twice, and their faces are full of vigor and vitality. , in my mouth and in my heart, I am very grateful to the master."

Zhao Jin casually dropped the account book, leaned on An Shier, and said with a smile: "Since they are all working under the hands of the master, naturally they have to take care of them."

Although Zhao Jin fused the memory of the original owner, he still basically thinks that everyone is equal in modern times. This kind of thinking is deeply rooted. He is just an ordinary prince who has no real power and cannot control the fundamentals of this era, but he can do his best. Do your best to help those around you.

Can put his arms around Zhao Jin's shoulders, took the booklet from the warehouse from the table, and asked in a low voice.

"Master is approaching the end of the year, and it's time to give a New Year's gift to Centralize. This is the list of New Year's gifts sent by the housekeeper. Please check if there is anything inappropriate and needs to be added or deleted."

Zhao Jin and I took the etiquette in Dark Twelve's arms, and looked through it.

"It often snows a few times in winter over there, and it gets colder and colder in the autumn. The wolf fur we hunted has been kneaded by a craftsman until two pairs of knee pads are added to the mother's gift list. At the beginning of the year, the eldest prince got it this year. Son-in-law, I remember we got a lot of interesting gadgets from overseas, pack some for him, the kids will like it."

"Yes." An Twelve recalled the big black wooden box that was not sent back yesterday, so he said: "Master, a large box of things was sent from the west, all sealed, and no one under my command opened it. , Master, can you go and have a look at it in the afternoon?"

Zhao Jin sat up straight, his eyes widened in an instant. The west side was the place where he ordered people to secretly study muskets.

In the past two years, a lot of silver was sent there, and he didn't even hear a sound. He was not in a hurry, but now that he got the news, Zhao Jin was overjoyed and couldn't restrain his heart beating wildly.

He quickly sat up, grabbed An Shier's wrist and ran out.

"Then what are you waiting for in the afternoon, let's go and have a look now!"

Before leaving, Zhao Jin deliberately asked the emperor to secretly bring back the firecrackers brought back from overseas, and the emperor also attached great importance to this. Some craftsmen who ordered the announcement secretly developed firecrackers.

After so many years, it can be regarded as effective, imitating guns that are similar to those brought back overseas at that time.

The reason why Zhao Jin spent so much money for so many years is like developing a musket that can fire continuously.

The thing was filed as a secret, and it is now in the darkroom of the study.

Zhao Jin and An Shier pushed open the secret room and went down to the basement. Only then did they see a huge wooden box about 1 meters long and one meter wide. The top was sealed with dense rivets, and there was a palm-sized copper lock.

Zhao Jin clenched his fists, restrained his wild jumping mood, took out the key from his waist, opened the copper lock, and directed An Shier to open the rivets on the box one by one, and opened the heavy wooden box.

What he saw was a black wooden barn body with short arms. Zhao Jin picked up one, which was quite heavy and heavy.

And a row of metal bullets was placed under the box, glowing with an icy cold light.

Over the years, An Twelve and Zhao Jin have seen each other, used a lot of firecrackers, and know how powerful this thing is.

He picked up one and put it in his hand, his eyes couldn't restrain his liking as much as possible.

"Master, let me try it for you."

The recoil of the firecracker was quite strong, and An Twelve was worried that Zhao Jin would hurt himself.

Zhao Jin nodded, picked up the bullets and filled them one by one, and solemnly handed them over to An Shier.

"Go to the basement level 2, where the shooting range is just right and the sound is not too loud."

There are too many secrets in hand, and the underground opened under the other courtyard where Zhao Jin is located is divided into two floors with different uses.

Normally, only Zhao Jin and An Shier could enter this secret room, and no one else knew where it was.

An Twelve nodded. The two of them went to the second floor because of the power of the musket. After this musket was modified, it could fire up to five bullets at a time, and its accuracy and safety were greatly improved compared to the western guns.