Become a feudal king from today

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After the order was issued for the people to move to war, Zhao Xu personally watched the matter.

On the one hand, it is to urge, on the other hand, I want to see with my own eyes how much war potential Yanzhou's workshops can unleash when the common people move to fight.

"Your Highness, I selected the more capable female workers in the spinning mill to go to the War Division to learn how to polish lathes and parts. After the lathe workshop delivered the lathe, I renovated the workshop and officially manufactured musket spare parts. "The head of the spinning mill said, pointing to the steam engine of the spinning mill.

Some craftsmen are disassembling the connection between the steam engine and the spinning machine.

At present, these steam engines are used to drive spinning machines, but with slight modifications they can be used to drive lathes.

In this way, the spinning mill can be transformed into a military workshop.

Zhao Xu nodded.

After the people moved to war, the designated workshops sent their craftsmen to the War Division.

He ordered Wang Ying to dispatch craftsmen who had mastered the Qin-style rifle manufacturing technology to teach them.

Let different workshops manufacture different parts, produce them on the assembly line, and finally assemble them.

This spinning workshop was one of the workshops that was requisitioned.

However, this time the civil war was just a small test.

The workshops recruited are only a small part of each industry.

Take this spinning shop for example. After private workshops were allowed in Jiangbei, large and small spinning shops sprung up like mushrooms after a rain in Yanzhou.

In addition to government-run spinning mills, Yanzhou alone has registered fifty-six spinning mills with the Department of Commerce in a short period of time.

In addition to the spinning mill, there are also weaving mills, soap mills, glass mills, cement mills, etc.

Of course, key workshops such as steel mills, wine shops, and salt shops are still only allowed to be run by the government.

Because the technology of converter steelmaking is not yet mastered even in Western countries, it naturally needs to be kept secret.

Wine and salt are the most profitable and have been controlled by the government since ancient times as important sources of income.

All in all, his principle is that ordinary civilian technology can be open.

The imperial court profited by collecting royalties and taxes from these workshops and no longer had a monopoly on these industries.

The core technology must be in the hands of official workshops.

In the future, with the improvement of industrial level, it will be opened to the private sector step by step.

To this end, he also specially ordered Yang He to compile a list to include some technologies in the restricted list and cannot provide them to the Patent Department.

However, even if open civilian technology is allowed, it can only be circulated within Jiangbei. Businessmen who have obtained the technology are not allowed to pass it on privately for profit, and they are not allowed to smuggle patented technology to countries outside the region without the consent of the Patent Department.

He also set up an inspection bureau in the Patent Department, which was responsible for inspecting businessmen who secretly passed on technology.

Once discovered, depending on the seriousness of the case, he will be punished with huge amounts of money, bankrupting his family and going to jail, or even the death penalty.

In addition to the inspection team, he also asked the Wuhousi in various states and counties to cooperate with the inspection team and supervise the lawbreakers.

Since ancient times, as long as there is a profit of 300%, businessmen dare to do business with their heads.

He needs to rely on business to make Dasong rich, but he never wants to be counterattacked by business.

Therefore, businesses must be shackles from the beginning to prevent them from completely letting themselves go.

At the same time, Dasong's attitude towards private business will always be limited and open in the future, insisting on focusing on government-run workshops, supplemented by private workshops.

Firstly, this is to increase competition and prevent government-run workshops from being unprogressive and wasting resources.

Secondly, the imperial court needs to have official capital that is stronger than private capital.

Otherwise, once private capital has a wrong idea, Dasong's industry and commerce will be paralyzed.

As for the official capital that controls the lifeline of Dasong, he is equivalent to the Tathagata Buddha. No matter how much he jumps, Sun Wukong can't jump out of his five-finger mountain.

With one slap, he could suppress it at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain.

With this in mind, he left this government-run spinning mill.

After that, he went to the weaving workshop, agricultural machinery workshop and other workshops.

Like the spinning mills, these workshops are being renovated and are preparing to join the people's transition to war.

After patrolling for five or six days, Zhao Xu was very satisfied with the results of the people's war.

There is a high probability that there will be no problem in delivering 120,000 Qin-style rifles within this month.

Perhaps, they need half a month to learn and transform.

But with so many workshops, as long as they are officially put into production, 120,000 Qin-style rifles will flow out of the production lines like water.

During the contemporary World War I, it was not uncommon for European countries to produce a million rifles within a month for war needs.

During his inspection, the Fourth Hospital kept reporting to him the situation in Jiangnan.

After learning that Liang Kai had arrived in Bazhou, a large number of Wu troops marched towards the coast of Jiujiang.

He could only order Chang Wei to dispatch 30,000 troops and horses to be stationed along Jiangbei to deal with it.

Although he knew that this might just be Wu Guo's move to stretch the defense, he had to guard against it.

Otherwise, if the other party seizes the loophole to cross the river, it will cause huge damage to the countryside in Jiangbei, and production and construction will be affected.

However, as a result, there were only 70,000 royal troops left to deal with Zhongling Pass.

In addition to mobilizing the royal troops, in order to ensure the safety of Jiangbei, he also gave an order to Zhou Yi, asking him to ensure that twelve steamships and sail warships patrolled Jiujiang.

Originally, after the Battle of Jinling, Zhou Yi transferred eight of the twelve steamships and stationed them in Yizhou to guard against accidents.

Now I have to switch it back.

"The battleship must continue to drop dumplings, otherwise there will not be enough." Zhao Xu sighed while looking at the map on the wall in the palace study.

He decided to inspect the newly built shipyard.

Although this civilian war only designed the manufacture of Qin-style rifles.

But for Da Song at the moment, the matter of dumplings under the battleship is equally urgent.

In the Battle of Japan, the Yanzhou fleet annihilated the British fleet, and the British would definitely not give up.

The Sam Kingdom, which has brought Japan into its sphere of influence, will not just admit defeat.

In the foreseeable future, there will definitely be a large number of Western and Turkish warships gathering in the Eastern Territory with the intention of regaining the maritime hegemony of the Eastern Territory.

This battle for maritime hegemony will be continuous and brutal.

One or even several naval battles are inevitable.

And this requires the Yanzhou Fleet to enlist more warships.

At present, just guarding Japan and controlling Jiujiang makes the warships seem to be stretched thin.

If the opponent's fleet arrives in large numbers, he will be passive at sea.

Fortunately, at the end of last year, he ordered Chen Shou to send people to expand the number of shipbuilding yards.

The dumplings can be placed in several shipyards together.

He was thinking about it when Feng'er notified Zou Rong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, asking for an audience.

Zhao Xu vaguely guessed something, showed an expectant expression, and asked him to come in.

Not long after, Zou Rong appeared in the study, his face full of joy, "Your Highness, I am here to express my congratulations to Your Highness today."

"So, a certain section of the railway under construction will be opened to traffic soon?" Zhao Xu said with a smile.

Apart from this, he couldn't think of anything else that would make Zou Rong so happy.