Walking in Penghu, Xu Zixian's expression became more confident and calm.

"The king and the prince are calm and composed." Liu Yi said: "It seems that there are mistakes and gains when leaving Fuzhou."

"Authentic." Xu Zixian said: "There are fewer bonds, more agile thoughts, and more techniques are available. Of course, you must be more comfortable."

Liu Yi smiled and didn't say anything again, but the hope in the depths of his eyes also increased a little more.

If Xu Zixian can really do what he promised one day, so what?

The two left the city in front of the half-closed gate. Xu Zixian hung a barrier knife around his waist. He was tall and had a calm gait. Liu Yi had two barrier knife around his waist. He followed Xu Zixian's steps and walked forward slowly.

Such a combination is very eye-catching. Fortunately, the number of troops garrisons in Penghu has increased recently, and such a combination of officers is also very common. Many villagers who left the city just looked at it for a few seconds, afraid of angering the two old men, so they quickly looked away.

Penghu County is only a few miles away from the port, and there are many business shops and warehouses hanging lanterns on the way. These lanterns illuminate the road, which adds a lot of convenience to Xu Zixian.

"It's not a matter of whether the sea boat arrives..." Xu Zixian said to Liu Yi, who was looking around, "These businesses have people taking turns, and the coolies on the dock are also rolled up and waiting near the port. If a boat comes, load the goods, which is unavailable."

"All ships to Luzon, or Japan?"

"That's right."

There are many sea boats from the north or Jiangnan, and Mingzhou, Zhejiang, that always leave some space to buy some specialties from Fujian Road along the coast of Fujian.

For example, tea leaves, tea handles, porcelain, and ironware, the largest amount is raw silk.

The raw silk in Fujian is quite famous and has a huge yield.

The Dawei Shengshi is also sold as a leash. One leash is 120 kilograms, and the price is around 650 jin. The profit is very high, and it costs as much as you can.

Many merchants or pirate forces want to monopolize the raw silk trade. At present, Kang Tianqi in Japan has obtained more than 50% of the raw silk quota. Many raw silk merchants in Fujian have a tacit understanding and try their best to sell their silk to Kang Tianqi's agent in Fujian to ensure stable trade and not be robbed and harassed by pirates.

The remaining share is the division between merchants in southern Fujian and Zhejiang. Wang Zhi, who is far away on Pingdao, also has an agent in Japan, with about 20% of the share, and the benefits he has obtained are also quite good.

In addition to passing through the coast of Fujian, many merchant ships also passed by Penghu, replenishing water and sheltering the wind, and taking away smuggled goods hoarded on Penghu Island.

That's right, most of the goods on Penghu Island were smuggled, avoiding the tariffs from the Wei Dynasty. This is not legal. Merchants paid taxes in part, mixed with a large amount of unpaid taxes. This is not easy to be found and can be smuggled in a large number of cases.

Of course, there is a inspection department under the Transport Department in Penghu County, but Penghu County will not conduct serious investigations. The inspection department has limited power and cannot be eliminated at all.

Xu Zixian's goal was not to move the current Penghu trade to the Dongfan. Even if the Dongfan has ports and a large number of commercial banks, it is based on its own production capacity.

Raw silk is related to the entire Fujian, and there are also a large number of pirate forces, with government and noble forces mixed in, including Changwen Hou Mansion, and it is a very mature industry. Xu Zixian is not concerned about raw silk, nor is he planning to take away all the commercial transportation of Penghu. He will absorb the population of Penghu, which will promote the expansion of bean production in Penghu, and will also make the market in Penghu prosperous... This territory is from Nan'an Hou Mansion, and Xu Zixian will not give up. It will not be beneficial to Xu Zixian when crossing Penghu.

Xu Zixian was interested in the cotton cloth industry. As he had remembered before, there were a lot of foreign trade goods exported in the late Ming Dynasty, including Chinese local cosmetics such as rouge, as well as cultural products such as pens, inks, papers, and inkstones and even books. However, these small-scale production categories were complicated and classified, and they may be produced by hundreds or even thousands of workshops, so it was quite difficult to integrate them.

Only the cotton cloth industry is not only relatively simple, but also has a huge sales volume.

As long as the cotton fields in the Dongfan are developed successfully, a large amount of cloth will be produced from the Dongfan. This is the first-hand product that Xu Zixian can master and can be sold in large quantities.

According to the records of Ming Dynasty, Manila and other places, Japan, including Indonesia, are filled with Songjiang cotton cloth. Now Xu Zixian probably saw Spaniards appearing in Luzon in the early days of colonization, but their route back to Europe was influenced by the people of Tianfang, and the interests of trade and colonization were not great enough.

The war between European countries and the people of Tianfang was not so religious as a necessary conflict between the trade and colonial system and the old feudal empire.

Which side Xu Zixian will stand on? Of course, we can tell if we don’t ask.

In Xu Zixian's view, and his long-standing view and insight, the production of raw silk, porcelain, and these items is not beneficial to the germination of capitalism and has nothing to do with the industrial revolution.

Only when the textile industry, that is, cotton fabric production, including the evolution of weaving, spindles, and the increase in the quantity, can the production, production, production, production, production, production, production, production, and changes in production modes of production, can it be completely discussed in capitalism and industrialization.

There is no other possibility other than that.

The development of the textile industry has led to the land enclosure movement, which has led to the emergence of large farms and liberated the labor force.

A large number of farmers have become workers, and more factories have emerged, which requires a larger market, an increase in manpower demand, and more mechanical power.

Then there was the emergence of hydroloons and spinning machines, but people were not satisfied until the emergence of steam engines.

This is the route and blueprint of the industrial revolution under capitalism, and there is no other way to speak of.

Large-scale textile factories have also appeared in the most prosperous and developed Jiangnan, Suzhou and other places in China, but most of these factories produce silk fabrics, and cotton cloth is meaninglessly divided into dozens of levels, and countless small workshops have appeared.

There is no possibility of promoting capitalism, no possibility of completing industrialization.

China's small peasant economy is too tenacious and the feudal power is too strong. There is no possibility of large-scale commercial businesses, factories, and handicraft guilds. It is easy for small European countries. There is God above the king and other kingdoms. The control of various countries cannot be too strict. Transnational commercial businesses and guilds all appeared in the Yuan and Ming dynasties in China and flourished quickly.

In the early industrial production, there were no high-end products and technological content in later generations. Whoever mastered the ocean would monopolize the market, and sooner or later it would be able to grab it and take it alone.

As long as there are enough spindles, enough machines, and good workers, and producing large amounts of cotton textiles with good quality and low price, it is enough to grab a large enough market share and obtain a large enough profit.

Scale, industrialization, monopoly.

Of course, it is impossible to have steam engines now, but a large number of hydraulic textile machines can also play a role dozens of times faster than manpower.

Before the Jenny machine, hydraulic machine and steam machine appeared in the UK, there was also a long time to use hydraulic machine and loom. The effect was as amazing. At least before it monopolized the cotton industry, the British wool industry swept the world.

Once a large-scale textile industry is realized, more cotton fields will be promoted. Now 70% of the cloth produced in Dawei is Songjiang cloth, and 90% of the cotton cloth exported is Songjiang cloth. Songjiang's cotton fields are not large in scale, and there are only 2 million mu of the periphery.

In addition to the cotton field production areas in Shandong, the huge Dawei only has two large-scale cotton production areas.

The rest of the places are loose, unsized small peasant economy, from small cotton fields to hand-made textiles, this kind of industry will inevitably be swept away when it encounters large-scale industrialization. Early industrialized cotton cloth will inevitably be swept away and there is no power to fight back.

The cotton fields in Dongfan will grow larger and larger, possibly reaching a scale of more than one million mu, and the cotton cloth produced in a year will reach more than tens of millions of horses.

It can not only trade with foreign countries, but also sweep the domestic market.

A piece of cloth, starting from cotton fields, profits are the most conservative estimates. If it can really reach this scale, Xu Zi first could obtain one-fifth or even more financial income from the Great Wei Dynasty based on a place in the Dongfan and an industry.

If the Wei Dynasty wants to get so much money, it has to pay undue taxes on countless people, mobilize many tax collectors, yamen runners, officials, and even the army, until officials, forced the people, and rebel, causing thieves to spread all over the world.

This is the advantage of capitalism over the centralized empire, and this is the reason why countless huge empires fell in the small island country of Britain.

Later generations always talked about the total economic output of the Qing Empire and thought that China's backwardness began in the late Qing Dynasty. Many people did not know that the British's fiscal revenue exceeded China during the Ming Dynasty.

If Xu Zixian's Dongfan cotton production is formed, it will receive one-quarter of the Wei Dynasty or even higher returns, which is no longer a fool.

Dongfan can also form other large-scale industries, such as salt, tea, and sugar, which are all under Xu Zixian's consideration, but it will take longer and planning.

"June," Liu Yi followed Xu Zixian silently. Seeing him constantly looking at the shops along the way, he said unconsciously: "In a few years, Dongfan will do this?"

"Several years?" Xu Zixian laughed and said, "At the latest to next year, this will be the case in Nan'anxi Port. A few years later, the Dongfan's shops will be ten times that of Penghu!"

Liu Yi did not think that Xu Zixian was bragging, but Xu Zixian's words really had a great impact. For a moment, Liu Yi could not accept it and could only roll his eyes silently.

Xu Zixian didn't think it was difficult. Penghu was just a re-export place after all, and the number of merchant ships coming and going was not large.

Compared with Quanzhou, Mingzhou, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, and Zhangzhou, and compared with the port trade in these major states, Penghu is only a small station on the sea.

If the cotton cloth industry in the Dongfan begins next year, the deer skin and salt industries will rise, and the original beans, silk and hemp, sand gold, and the Dongfan will be very easy to suppress Penghu as long as there is a slight improvement.

Liu Yi felt a sense of confidence in Xu Zixian. He could not say he liked it or dislike it. He just felt that what he did with Xu Zixian every day was very interesting and had a magnificent feeling.

Liu Yi likes this change and feeling very much.

More than a year ago, Liu Yi was still a walking corpse, but now he feels fresh when he opens his eyes every day.

That's it, enough.
Chapter completed!