Xu Shiyang hopes to increase the cotton planting area to 300,000 mu in the second year of Longdao, and the agricultural company will invest more than 10,000 slave workers and thousands of civilian workers in this regard. If everything goes well, the output of these cotton fields will be enough to supply two factories of today's Qingzhou textile factory scale.

If wool textile and hemp textile are added, Qisheng will have more than 10,000 industrial women this year, which is an excellent mobilization number for Qisheng, which has a sparse population (it is expected that industrial women account for 2 of the total population, which is close to the proportion of industrial women in the World War II devils).

The manager of Qingzhou Textile Factory knew how much Xu Shiyang attached to textiles, but he didn't quite understand why the young commander cared so much about this factory, which seemed to have no effect on war.

Of course, the importance of the commander is a good thing for him. Six ministries in Qi Province are about to be established, and news of clarifying the authority of officials has gradually spread. There are not so many scholars here to form a civil servant group. Therefore, officials like him who actually have the front-line situation may occupy the lead in the newly established Ministry of Works.

In other words, the more important Xu Shiyang attaches importance to it, the more likely the textile factory managers will gain greater authority.

"Please rest assured that the cotton spinning machine will definitely see results this year."

The textile factory manager promised loudly:

"Worker training has also been on track. Leading the old to the new can lead to a group of skilled female workers in three months."

Nowadays, the Qi Province has different names for Xu Shiyang. For example, the military usually calls him the commander, and most officials call him the young governor as the heir of the Grand Commander, while the people like to call him the young general, and some familiar relatives call him Saburo. In short, the name is quite chaotic.

Xu Shiyang himself has no special opinion on this, he can accept any title anyway.

Xu Shiyang encouraged: "It is a good thing that you have this idea. We lack officials with practical skills now, come on."

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Next is the mint. The bank's mint currently only mints gold coins with a face value of ten jin as a face value of silver coins, as well as grain coin with a face value of one jin of five jin of ten jin of three face value.

Qi Province does not issue copper coins. Gold and silver coins are mainly used for cross-provincial or cross-border bulk trade, and food coupons are used as auxiliary coins and are completely circulated internally.

Unlike Jiangnan, Qisheng's so-called calculation is always based on the standard one thousand coins. This number is 250 coins higher than that of the Dazhou. However, Qisheng's gold and silver coins are exquisitely minted, with balanced gold and silver content and high credibility. Therefore, merchants from Jiangnan all like this large amount of coins.

At least the Li family in Shuangyu Port is now willing to accept the gold and silver coins of Qi Province for trade.

The Governor's Office can obtain high seigniorage taxes every year from the issuance of currencies, which is a considerable source of wealth. However, once the six ministries are established, the banks and the issuance of currencies will be completely handed over to the Ministry of Revenue directly under the Governor's jurisdiction, and Xu Shiyang will lose jurisdiction over this.

Of course, he will also reserve the right to suggest.

After all, currency represents the credibility of a regime, and Xu Shiyang does not want to lose the currency he controls to fluctuate too much, which will erode the authority of the Governor's Office.

The first suggestion Xu Shiyang gave to the Ministry of Revenue was to try to issue iron coins - this thing is not circulated in Qi Province, but transported to Jiangnan or Fusang for shopping supplies - both of which are very scarce in currencies.

The reason for this situation in Fuso is that there is no unified regime in the local area, and the major names do not seem to be interested in minting coins. Their statistics income is mainly based on the grain standard of rice, and actual trade is mainly circulated by gold and silver entities and the Great Zhou system of smuggled in Dazhou.

Xu Shiyang believes that he should be able to make a good fortune by dumping iron coins for Fusang.

The situation in the Great Zhou Dynasty was that private money was circulated in parallel. The court seemed to have given up the supervision of coins. If iron coins and money were exchanged for one at the local exchange rate, the profits of Qi Sheng would also be very generous.

Since iron coins are to be cast, the iron supply is very important - because iron and copper are different, this is still the most important raw materials for weapons and tools. If the output is not high, you dare not play like this.

Therefore, the factory Xu Shiyang will focus on inspecting next is the steel factory in Laiwu.

There are iron ore coal mines near this place, and there is no problem with supply of raw materials and fuel. After the new iron-making blast furnace is put into production, the steel output in Qi Province is expected to have a rapid increase in the past two years, and the output of various tools, weapons, machines and other factories downstream of the steel industry will benefit from this.

Laiwu Steel Plant currently has no female workers, or even foreign workers. All the population used are Han workers most trusted by the Governor's government, and can be said to be one of the most core industries.

"This iron plant uses coke to make steel, and it is expected to produce 15,000 stones of iron and 1,000 stones of steel this year!"

The iron plant manager is very proud of this. Although he calculated it carefully, the iron production is only a little over 1,100 tons, and the steel production is less than 100 tons.

It is definitely a joke to put this number on another plane. It is probably the size of a village-run enterprise, but in this era, this number is indeed worthy of pride.

Xu Shiyang didn't know how he compared the Great Zhou Dynasty in Jiangnan, but he definitely surpassed the Jurchens and was probably ranked in the world today.

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The last factory Xu Shiyang inspected was the arsenal.

Currently, there are two arsenals in Qi Province. One is in Qingzhou. It mainly uses cold weapons such as breastplate, knife and spear, and also produces magic cannons.

The second factory moved to Dengzhou and mainly produced various types of field guns and naval guns of flintlock rifles, and also produced large automotive leaf springs for the upcoming vehicle factory.

There is also a separate gunpowder factory, with the site of Fulai Mountain in Juzhou - because in the mountains, even if something happens, it will not cause much damage.

The director of the factory was still the blacksmith Lao Zhang from Shiwutun. The actual person in charge was his eldest son. This boy promised Xu Shiyang that he could provide 1,500 breastplates every month. If more were needed, it would be fine to increase the output to 3,000 pieces.

Xu Shiyang felt that he could sell some armor to non-Tartar neutral places, but there were many taboos in this regard. Whether it could be realized or not has to be considered.

The director of the second factory is Tang Long. This kid is doing well. He married the widow who was the head of Fulaishan family and bought two Tartar women as concubines. He is currently a group of children and has a happy life.

This former bandit was grateful for the Governor's government, so he devoted a lot of effort to Dengzhou's Second Arsenal, making the quantity and quality of the second factory far exceed that of the first factory - this is also the reason why Xu Shiyang puts important firearm production here.

According to Tang Long's report, Dengzhou No. 2 Factory can produce 1,000 guns every month, but the number of craftsmen with sufficient technical level is still small, so it still maintains the level of half of flintlock guns and half of the combs.
Chapter completed!