The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 446 New Changes in the Industrial Age
The system upgrade is finally complete.

After receiving the reminder message from the system, Jiang Chuan blocked the left and right sides and asked Bai Mu to guard the door.

No one is allowed in without his permission.

One of Jiang Chuan's biggest concerns now is whether the musket after the system upgrade can match the breech-loading rifle of the Japanese pirates in his hand?

As a result, after listening to Jiang Chuan's question, the system gave him a disapproving answer:

"Your Excellency, don't you have confidence in this system for more than a year? The products produced by the system must be high-quality goods. This musket may be considered sharp in the eyes of ordinary people, but it is nothing more than that in the eyes of this system. There is no need to worry about it. ".

Jiang Chuan didn't expect that after the system upgrade was completed, he would despise him.

He believed that if the system had expressions, it would definitely give him a big blank stare at this time.

But Jiang Chuan has no time to worry about these now.It was the system's words that made him have a strong expectation for the musket that was about to be upgraded.

With a thought, Jiang Chuan had already appeared in the system base.

The chief steward of the lord's mansion is already waiting by the side.

Jiang Chuan couldn't wait to tell him to find a suitable open space and build an arsenal himself.

According to the system, only after the arsenal is built can a comprehensive upgrade of technology be carried out in the arsenal.

The butler quickly led Jiang Chuan to find an open space near the barracks outside the city, which was very suitable.

Jiang Chun immediately ordered the construction of an arsenal.

Soon a virtual light and shadow appeared out of thin air above the selected open space, and as time passed, it slowly became solidified, and finally turned into a majestic three-story building.

After the building was completely solidified, Jiang Chuan found the name of the arsenal on his management menu.

After he clicked in, he found a total of more than a dozen technical upgrades to choose from.

Jiang Chuan took a rough look. These technical upgrades include not only the range of muskets, ammunition, bayonets, accuracy, etc., but also technical upgrades in all aspects of artillery, and even the development of weapons for a new cavalry unit, the Dragoons.

The so-called dragoons, Jiang Chuan, also knew that they were nothing more than mounted infantry equipped with muskets.The muskets they generally use are shorter than those of ordinary musketeers, and are more suitable for fighting on horseback.

Jiang Chuan roughly calculated that the upgrade of these dozens of technologies requires a total of about 5 taels of phone bill gold, and about [-] units of wood and asphalt.

And Jiang Chuan calculated the existing resources at hand, which can basically meet these upgrades.

So he chose to upgrade comprehensively without hesitation, and upgraded these dozens of technologies at once.

It will take about two days in total for these technologies to be upgraded.

After the upgrade is complete, new guns and cannons will be manufactured in the gun foundry.

In the process of technological upgrading in the arsenal, Jiang Chuan also took the opportunity to check the changes in other fields.

After the upgrade, he was surprised to find that this upgrade was really a revolutionary upgrade.

For the entire base, productivity and technological level will be doubled.

For example, in terms of economics, all the income of Jiangchuan Base in the past basically came from the trade of raw materials and the sale of these agricultural products.

And after this upgrade, a new economic unit plantation appeared.

The main crops grown in this economic plantation include natural rubber, coffee, cocoa, sugar and tea.

The value of these economic crops has increased several times compared to primary agricultural products and raw material trade, so it can provide a steady stream of income for the base, and the income rate of the base has doubled several times.

After Jiang Chuan asked the housekeeper, he learned that a plantation would generate an income of about 10 taels of silver per month. This made Jiang Chuan very excited, so he ordered ten economic plantations to be reclaimed on the wasteland outside the city.

Among them, there is one natural rubber plantation, one coffee plantation, one cocoa plantation, one sugar plantation and three tea plantations.

The reason for this arrangement is that natural rubber has a high value and is widely used.And tea is a must for drinking in Daming, so naturally there should be more.

The crops produced by these plantations, Jiangchuan, don't have to worry about being unmarketable, because some of them will be used in industrial production and weapon making.

Even with the continuous upgrading of the system, these crops will be more and more widely used.

Among these economic plantations, except for natural rubber, which is widely used in various aspects such as industrial and civil use, the others are basically beverage crops used for recreation.

Except for tea, which can find a market in Daming, others, including cocoa and coffee, basically have no market in Daming.

After all, no one in Daming today would know these things.

Maybe the taste will slowly change in the future, but there is definitely no market for it at the moment.

Of course, the most direct way is for Jiang Chuan to directly choose to sell these crops in the market.

In simple terms, it is possible to do business with the system.

Of course, he can also choose to exchange these items through the two-way exchange channels of the system and sell them in the real world, provided that he finds a buyer.

Such ten plantations, for Jiang Chuan, based on the monthly income of one plantation of 10 taels, then he would have a monthly income of 100 million taels of silver.

Although this income cannot be said to be very generous, it is also a very important income for Jiang Chuan.

In addition, there are several new units in the economy, such as mints and banks.

Jiang Chuan learned after asking the big housekeeper that this mint can not only cast silver coins, gold coins, and copper coins that are currently used in the world, but even gold ingots, silver ingots, and copper coins that are popular in Ming Dynasty now, and can even manufacture coins with preliminary anti-counterfeiting functions. banknotes.

This made Jiang Chuan more overjoyed than surprised.

If there are banknotes, it will have a huge effect on the circulation and development of the economy.

And gold and silver will be used as financial reserves in the future, as a basis for issuing banknotes, and will gradually withdraw from the circulation market.

Of course, if you want to issue paper money, you must have a bank, and it is impossible to do this without a bank.

Therefore, the emerging banks not only have all the functions of traditional banks, but also include new business functions, such as check exchange and banknote issuance.

Of course, this is talking about central banks.For the private sector, of course the most contacted are commercial banks.Commercial banks earn profits mainly by accepting deposits, granting loans, and using the basic means of interest difference between deposits and loans.

Of course, as for the profit model of issuing credit cards, it is only available to modern banks, and the functions of early commercial banks are as mentioned above.

The bank that appears in the current system is a bank that integrates the functions of the central bank and commercial banks.

Although Jiang Chuan knew the importance of banks, he also thought about re-minting a unified currency, and even discovered banknotes to implement the banking system.However, the current situation does not seem to be able to take care of these things.

So after thinking about it, I plan to think about it later.

This is a new change in the economic field.As for the industrial field, there are more than a dozen types of factories such as textile factories, clothing factories, and steel factories.

(End of this chapter)