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Yunzhong County quickly became lively and at the same time busy.

At this time, Shen Bing realized the difficulty of managing a city:

Household registration issues, housing issues, work issues, etc., all seem to be minor issues, but when the number is as large as 100,000, it is a major issue.

Fortunately, Shen Bing had already prepared before this...

The food stored in the warehouse is enough to solve the people's living for more than a month. In addition, the food in Yanmen, Taiyuan, Handan and other places is mature, and Shen Bing can use cloth to continuously exchange food from other places to feed the people.

Of course, these grains are not "distributed" to the people.

There is a saying "Teaching people how to fish is worse than teaching people how to fish".

If you just distribute the food to the people, on the one hand, you will sit and eat in the sky, and on the other hand, it will also cultivate the people's laziness.

So these grains are actually paid as wages, and even if there is no food, they must be accounted for.

The industrial zone has been well planned, and even new craftsmen have built many workshops. Among them are double-storey workshops... This is due to the lack of land in Yunzhong County.

The arable land and industrial land outside Yunzhong County are planned within the scope of "enclosure". The land is limited but the population is growing rapidly. It takes time to reclaim new land, so a double-storey factory was built to use one piece of land as two pieces of land.

However, the double-storey factory building is not a difficult task for the workers of this era. They only need to build the second floor with thicker and taller wood.

More importantly, this is a hydro-woven fabric, which basically has no safety hazards.

Building blocks of factories, teams of trained and qualified workers stepped onto their posts. The production speed of cloth increased rapidly from 100 horses per day to more than 2,000 horses per day within one month, and it was still growing.

So much so that Shen Bing thought that enough ramie was used up in a short time...This forced Shen Bing to urgently purchase ramie from Yanmen, Taiyuan and other counties to ensure production.

Of course, a large amount of wealth has also been concentrated in Yunzhong County in this process.

You know this is producing more than two thousand high-quality fabrics every day.

Fatty Titun once calculated that if the costs of raw materials, labor, transportation, and sales were all added up, it would only cost 18 dollars... which even included the production costs of the workshop, waterwheel, and loom.

These expenses should actually be counted as "depreciation", because the factory buildings can be used for several years, and the cost should be amortized over several years.

However, people in ancient times did not understand modern accounting knowledge and directly included it in the cost, and Shen Bing did not bother with it. Anyway, what he ultimately wants is not wealth but people... Thousands of people who can gather in Yunzhong County to live and work in peace. , Who can provide development and power for Yunzhong County.

Therefore, at this time, these unscientific accounting methods with many loopholes were left open and closed.

Fat Zitun reported while holding the account:

"Forty-five dollars minus 18 dollars is twenty-seven dollars."

"Two thousand three hundred and fifty-six pieces of cloth are produced daily, which is sixty-three thousand six hundred and twelve dollars!"

"General, the textile workshop can make more than 60,000 dollars a day!"

"Calculated in this way, the profit of the textile workshop in one month exceeds the annual tax of Yanmen County."

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

Fusu who listened to Fatty Tun's briefing was a little stunned.

However, this does not seem to be surprising. There are not many sources of tax revenue this year, mainly from farmers, that is, taxes are 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 grains are collected once a year.

If the taxes and grains were converted into money, it would be worth two million dollars. However, this is only the profit of the textile workshop in Yunzhong County for one month.

And this is the net profit based on feeding more than 100,000 people...More than 100,000 people in Yunzhong County have received daily wages with grain or money.

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

It took a long time to help Su to calm down and ask:

"How does the general plan to use the money?"

Shen Bing answered without thinking:

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

There is a saying "build roads if you want to get rich".

Industrial development maps to commerce, and the existence of commercial interoperability requires good transportation.

At this time, the road in Yunzhong County was narrow and difficult to navigate, and it took about three days to drive a horse-drawn carriage on a road of more than 160 kilometers... This was almost the pace of infantry.

Usually, although the carriage is not as fast as the cavalry's marching speed, it is not much different. It is not a big problem to travel 80 miles a day, especially the lighter cloth is transported.

This increased transportation costs, not to mention, more importantly, it restricted the development speed of Yunzhong County... Compared with transportation costs, Shen Bing valued time cost 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 forces in the future, which cannot be done without education.

Shen Bing is fully aware of this.

To be precise, the deepest experience... He is solely responsible for the training of workers.

As the saying goes, "When the forest grows, there will be all kinds of birds." When there are more people, there will be all kinds of people.

Although there is not much difficulty in the operation of the loom, the maintenance of the waterwheel and other tasks, the people at this time are generally in an uncivilized state... Most of them have never read books, and they are in contact at birth. Farming and digging, so only farming and digging.

It's okay for the female workers to operate the loom, they are good at it.

If male workers want to convert them into workers, even if they teach them by hand, they often forget them together, or they don’t know what to do when they turn around.

In fact, this is because of lack of education, thinking, intelligence, and coordination of hands and feet can not keep up, so that quite a few people can only go to farm in the end.

At this time, it is only the hydrodynamic spinning machine. What if one day develops to large-scale machine production?

So the education issue is urgent.

The public security issue is because the concentration of people from all sides in Yunzhong County is not stable yet, and it is relatively chaotic. There are still many crimes such as theft, occupation, and robbery.

If management is not strengthened, a series of chain reactions will soon be produced.

Strengthening the 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 open up territory.

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

Otherwise, after the dynasty is destroyed, there will be hundreds of thousands of people, and Yunzhong County will be overwhelmed.