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Chapter 224 In Full swing (2)

The winemaking is not that fast, and it will take more than a month to ferment.

Li Fei took Cao Xiaozhong and his son, as well as Xiao Ruoshui first visited the porcelain industry under Zhao Ye's jurisdiction.

After a period of training, the newly recruited workers have become proficient in operation, and the ten porcelain kilns have really started mass production. Because it is a flow operation, each worker only does one process, which is very fast.

Although the quality of the first batch of porcelains that came out was not very good, the more the second batch and the third batch, the more skilled the workers were, the quality of the porcelain continued to rise.

Originally, what Li Fei pursued was not the best quality, but the output. Although top porcelain was extremely profitable, it could only be sold to high-ranking officials or wealthy businessmen. The scope of ordinary porcelain was wider and ordinary people could afford it.

Isn’t production just output? Quality control, cost control, and large-scale output achieve the purpose of dumping. The flow operation almost triples the speed of making porcelain.

"These ten porcelain kilns can produce more than 5,000 pieces of porcelain every day. I don't want any profit. As long as I can afford the workers' wages, keeping the porcelain kiln running, it's a profit." Li Fei said with a smile. Workers get their wages every month, and over time, they will reach their surplus. When the people have money and their demands increase, Anton's economy will enter a virtuous cycle and get better and better.

"When you go back to Jiangnan, you will bring back the tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain that have been produced. In addition to selling it to Guanzhong, Central Plains, Jiangnan and other places, the Qiqing Chamber of Commerce can also send people to Silla, Japan to establish strongholds, and dump them in the future between the two countries." Li Fei smiled and made his own suggestions.

"It's just porcelain now, and there will be ready-made garments, finished shoes, even sauce, vinegar, wine, even salt, iron, etc., and even higher-end glass mirrors, telescopes, pianos and other things that can be produced, I, Anton, want to produce them." Li Fei wanted to completely let go of manufacturing and business. Later generations knew very well that business is the foundation of social prosperity, and all development is inseparable from business. In his eyes, suppression of business is a manifestation of stupidity. Anyway, the Khitans are still rebelling now, and An Lushan deliberately blocked the mountain and sea corridors, no one will notice Anton's development.

Didn’t An Lushan seize the money, food, personnel, and weapons and armor supplies of Andong’s money, food, personnel, and weapons and armor under the pretext of conquering the Xi tribe and conquering the Xi tribe. When Lu Xin was there, An Lushan didn’t take Lu Xin seriously at all, but now the governor of Andong is Li Fei. He was afraid that Li Fei would send someone back to Chang'an City to ask for it. At that time, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang asked him to send the detained things to Li Fei for the sake of Yang Guifei. Isn’t that going to lose his strength in vain, but instead increase Li Fei’s strength? So An Lushan deliberately gave up several passes and hundreds of miles of territory some time ago, allowing the Khitan cavalry to gallop across the mountains and sea corridors, completely blocking the connection between Andong and the court.

Of course, Li Fei knew An Lushan’s purpose, but what An Lushan did was exactly what he wanted, so he pretended not to know.

"Li Fei, your ambition is so great." Xiao Ruoshui's eyes were radiant. As a strange woman in the business world, she naturally knew the degree of suppression of merchants by the court. In fact, she never thought that businessmen would harm the people. People were good or bad, and merchants also had profiteers and good merchants. I dare not say anything else, just her Qiqing Chamber of Commerce has led many people to have food and clothing.

"You are really courageous in doing this. The little girl admires you. I believe that Anton's business will flourish and making people rich is not difficult." Because Li Fei and Cao Xiaozhong are brothers, Cao Xiaozhong is still a 'brother'. As Cao Xiaozhong's wife, Xiao Ruoshui always calls "adult" and other things, which makes Li Fei uncomfortable. So he simply let Xiao Ruoshui call him his name directly. Xiao Ruoshui is not a pretentious woman. She has her own eyes and can call Li Fei directly by calling him by her name. In fact, it is very beneficial to her. She also attaches great importance to Li Fei's future. Without Cao Xiaozhong's persuasion, she is willing to spare no effort to help Li Fei.

"You are not a little girl, you are much older than me." Li Fei said viciously.

"You are really saying this---" Xiao Ruoshui gritted her teeth, but she had long been used to the poisonous tongue of Li Fei. In fact, Li Feiyue joked with her and Cao Xiaozhong like this, which shows that he was really close to the couple.

"When the fleet comes to Anton next time, I hope that the ship will not only contain food, but also talent. As long as there is any technology, men and women can be sent, and even their families can be sent together." Li Fei smiled and changed the topic.

Cao Xiaozhong and Xiao Ruoshui's Qiqing Chamber of Commerce are already the largest chamber of commerce in the world. It is not difficult to sell goods, purchase grain, gather talents, etc., and leave it to them to do. Zheng Hai is mainly responsible for the round-trip shipping from Jiangnan to Andong.

In fact, there is no difference between Zheng Hai's fleet belonging to Li Fei or Qiqing Chamber of Commerce.

Of course, the number of thirty sea ships is still a little short of Li Fei. After all, now is just the beginning. In the future, he is still preparing to dump products into Japan and Silla. Each route should have a fleet. But there is no rush. Anton is not short of wood. If he finds talents in the future, he can even build his own ship.

After staying in Liaoyang for four days, Cao Xiaozhong, Xiao Ruoshui and Zheng Hai's fleet returned to Jiangnan with tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain, but Cao Chong stayed.

Cao Chong is still stubborn in his mind. He really doesn't want to do business with his son Cao Xiaozhong and his daughter-in-law Xiao Ruoshui. He has been helping Li Fei for many years, which is quite hard work. Li Fei also values ​​him very much.

Jiangnan basically had nothing to deal with. This time he came to Andong, so he planned to stay under Li Fei's command for a long time. Li Fei was still vacant. Cao Chong also served as a county magistrate in Shangxian, and his ability to guard and rectify public order is not bad.

Anton's development continues, and Li Fei continues to build new industries.

Considering the possible future wars, all the industries Li Fei will build in the future, as close as possible to the Liaodong Peninsula south of Liaoyang City.

The Liaodong Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and Liaoyang City is guarded on the north. Even if a war breaks out in the future, as long as Liaoyang City is still there, Andong's industry will not be affected and will still develop sustainably. In the future, it will develop to a certain extent and will become the strong confidence of Andong.

In the Tang Dynasty, as long as it was a woman, nine out of ten could make clothes and shoes. However, it was impossible to form a competitive industry in this way.

The efficiency of clothing products is mainly in tailoring machines, and the sewing speed is increased by dozens or hundreds of times at once. Only with tailoring machines can there be a real clothing industry. The principle of tailoring machines has long been ruined in later generations, and there are even handheld mini-home tailoring machines on Taobao that cost a few dollars.

Of course, the principle is very simple. Li Fei has played with his children himself and can easily be made in later generations. However, in this Tang Dynasty, it is just a "precision" thing. At least the parts needed by the tailor machine are almost impossible to find in the Tang Dynasty. He needs to make a whole set by himself. When will he really make the tailor machine? Li Fei has no idea at all.

The industry of clothes and shoes is not in a hurry, so I will talk about it when the tailoring function is made.

In the following industry, Li Fei mainly focused on salt making. The Liaodong Peninsula of Andong Protectorate is surrounded by the sea on three sides. The salt needed for the entire Liaodong and the salt needed for the grassland are almost all "cooked" along the coast of Andong.

When he sent Cao Xiaozhong and Xiao Ruoshui to leave Anton, Li Fei specially inspected the salt-boiling industry along the coast of Anton. Because of the official business of salt and iron, all the people who cook salt along the coast reported to the Protectorate, which was considered the establishment of the court.

Cooking salt is the most primitive and least efficient method of salt production. In fact, salt drying is an easy method to come up with. As Emperor Wu of Han, the court monopolized salt and iron. Due to the restrictions of the court, the involvement of interests, etc., the Chinese salt production industry has not made any progress for thousands of years.

Perhaps it is not that no one has come up with a way to dry salt, but the thoughts of those in power sometimes cannot be turned around. For example, on the coast of Anton, there are thousands of people participating in salt cooking. In the eyes of the court, this is the opportunity for "employment" for thousands of people. Thousands of people rely on salt cooking to survive. If it is replaced by salt burning, a salt farm of about a hundred people will be enough to provide the entire Anton. Then, will the thousands of people who cook salt not survive? Will they rebel?

Because of this idea, even if someone really reports the theory of salt drying to the court, what they get will probably not be allowed. They will never think of the efficiency brought by the upgrading of the industry. They will not know what liberated production is, allowing less manpower to produce more things, so as to liberate more manpower to participate in other industries and develop in a circular manner.

Li Fei didn't know when the salt was sun, but he planned to let the salt appeared in the Tang Dynasty now. It was just to use the tides to continuously circle the sea water, evaporate the water through the sun, and finally leave crystallized salt.

No matter what he is messy, he is Anton's "local emperor". What he wants is production and efficient output. He is confident that thousands of salt-boiled "army" who are "unemployed" can have a better chance of survival in Anton.

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