It can be said.

It is precisely Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangnan that have not yet emerged from the shadow of the war, local commerce has not yet begun to recover, and the people have just been lucky to have escaped the war, so they are not interested in the cloth and iron from Huaidong.

There was not much vigilance against the rapid invasion and expansion of materials and other products.

Iron is second, cloth is the bulk material that coexists with food and is indispensable for survival.

Chongzhou had no coal and iron resources, so the development of iron smelting always had natural flaws. In the later period, Lin Fu also intended to disperse the iron smelting and other industries to Yijiang, Shanyang and Yizhou, while focusing on the cotton textile industry in Chongzhou.

In the early years, the textile machinery produced by craftsmen and used in handicraft workshops in Jianghuai and other places was several times more efficient than household manual work. The animal-powered spinning machine recently built in Huaidong can even drive fifty or sixty spindles at the same time.

It is equivalent to fifty or sixty household spinning machines; and Huaidong weavers can even weave one piece of cloth in four days. The efficiency is so high that it is far beyond the comparison of traditional manual work.

And Lin Fu repaired and defended the sea wall, changed the salt sea boiling method to the drying method, reclaimed wasteland, newly cultivated and saved millions of large tracts of land, in addition to growing rice, they also planted cotton on a large scale.

Provide sufficient raw materials for the cotton textile industry in Chongzhou and Hecheng.

As early as the Yongxing Year, Huaidong's new cloth had become as important as raw silk and ironware. It was a large-scale trade material transported to the Haidong and Nanyang regions. Every year, Huaidong received millions of silver from the Haidong region alone.

The profit of Huaidong new cloth is not much lower than that of raw silk trade. In recent years, there is even a trend of surpassing raw silk trade.

After all, raw silk is a luxury product. The production in Haidong and other places is very small, and a large amount needs to be imported from Jianghuai. Cotton and linen and other cloth are already produced in Haidong. Even if the new cloth from Huaidong is of high quality and low price, if you want to invade its market, you must

It requires a long-term process - the real trade potential is much higher than raw silk and silk fabrics.

In the Central Plains region, Huzhou cloth and Pingjiang silk were equally famous in the early years.

The war extended to Hangzhou and Huzhou, and Huzhou's cloth industry suffered a heavy blow. After Zhejiang and Zhejiang were freed from the war, the local government first tried its best to resume agricultural production.

Not only did the traditional Huzhou cloth industry workshops fail to recover, but the production of homespun cloth produced by men farming and women weaving in various places failed to recover, so the cheap new cloth produced in Huaidong quickly made up for the post-war people's needs.

After the Mindong War to regain Jin'an, Huaidong fought three major battles. The Battle of Jiangning enabled Huaidong to control the seven prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River. The battles of Shangrao and Yuanzhou enabled Huaidong to control Jiangxi and direct trade routes to Guangnan.

The battles of Xiangtan and Jingxiang will reverse the confrontation between the north and the south and give the people in the counties south of the Huai River a chance to completely recuperate.

After the glorious military victory, Huaidong's trade quickly expanded out of Huaidong, to the Qifu in the south of the Yangtze River, to Weiyang, Dongyang, Luzhou, Zhejiang and Fujian, to Jiangxi, to Guangnan and Xiangtan, which made Huaidong's influence on

The total trade volume within the country has rapidly increased to a level comparable to that of the Haidong and Nanyang regions.

Originally, no matter how strong Huaidong's control and influence were, the expansion of business roads in various counties should have taken place after the war. However, Lin Mengde and Lin Xuwen came up with a crooked idea, which was to use the products produced by Huaidong.

The new cloth is used to calculate the salaries of central and local officials.

In today's world, there is a difference between the original salary and the discounted salary for officials. It has been a practice since ancient times to use silk cloth instead of rice grains and silver coins to calculate the salary and pay it to the officials. For a period of time, officials in the six central ministries and the seventeenth government in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huaihe received their salary only.

With the new cloth produced in Huaidong, officials and officials went to the market to sell cloth for Huaidong in exchange for rice and silver. This caused a great backlash, and it was recently changed to a combination of cloth and silver to reduce the salary.

For areas newly returned to central control such as Jiangxi, Guangnan, and Xiangtan, Lin Xuwen and Lin Mengde mercilessly shipped hundreds of thousands of new Huaidong cloths there in exchange for silver stipends, and spent the originally planned stipends.

Silver, rice and grain were collected to make up for the shortfall in the central finance.

Fortunately, there is also a shortage of cloth in Jiangxi, Guangnan, Xiangtan and other places. The price of new cloth does not drop much when it is shipped in. The officials do not have much opinion. After all, the new cloth produced in Huaidong has a finer texture and is softer and closer to the body than homespun cloth.

You can also get high prices by selling them in the market.

For this alone, Lin Mengde and Lin Xuwen used Huaidong new cloth to collect three million taels of silver. This considerable amount of new cloth was only the annual output of 20,000 weavers in Chongzhou, which was almost twenty times.

huge profits.

In comparison, the iron trade's plundering of various places seemed very mild.

Zuo Chengmu and Hu Wenmu guessed that the financial resources of Chongguo's private estate might be equivalent to the annual income of the central government, but they couldn't figure out why there was such a huge profit. Lin Fu's private estate income could indeed exceed 10 million taels of silver this year.

Before the Battle of Jiangning, the total income of Huaidong was less than four million taels of silver; but in just two years after the Battle of Jiangning, this number doubled and a half. In the final analysis, the Battle of Jiangning

Afterwards, the markets in Qifu, Jiangnan and other places were completely opened to Huaidong, which had previously been closed to Huaidong.

The Battle of Jingxiang is coming to an end, Hu Wenmu is willing to return to the Central Committee, and Jinghu will also be completely under the jurisdiction of the Central Committee.

At this time, Lin Fu not only refused to collect half a tael of silver from Jinghu, but also subsidized 400,000 taels of silver to Jinghu every year to restore people's livelihood. He even further ordered Jinghu and other places to reduce the rent of poor farmers with little or no food.

In the end, Lin Fu wanted to restore Jingxiang's production and people's livelihood first, so that Jinghu's market of four million people could be completely opened to Huaidong, and the benefits would far exceed the four to five million taels of silver per year.

The same is true for Xiangtan and Guangnan. Lin Fu has no intention of immediately collecting taxes from these two counties. He will first significantly reduce taxes to reduce the financial potential of the two places to support the army, and then transport primary industrial products to these two places in exchange for other supplies.

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After the relationship between Jiangxi, Jinghu, Xiangtan, and Guangnan is straightened out, and production in Jianghuai, Zhejiang, and Fujian is further restored, in addition to the continued increase in the annual revenue of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Privy Council will have additional financial resources of 10 million this year.

On the basis of taels of silver, it can be doubled to more than 20 million taels.

As for the pattern, this is the new pattern.

After the Shangrao War, Lin Fu became more confident in expelling the Huru and regaining the Central Plains.

After the Shangrao War recaptured Jiangxi, Xiangtan and Guangnan returned to the center, the population controlled by Jiangning reached nearly 30 million. Adding Huaixi and Jinghu, it will reach more than 35 million. And the experience of the two Sichuan

In these years of war, the population has dropped to between 3 million and 5 million. The Cao family has only controlled the two rivers for a few years. It has many conflicts with the local government and does not have an absolutely strong fighting force. It is far from enough to make progress based on the two rivers;

Yanhu covers Yanji, Jinzhong, Guanzhong, Shandong and Yanbei, and its population size should be between 10 million and 12 million.

At this time, Lin Fu was more concerned about whether the new pattern he had worked hard to create could continue and be deeply rooted in the foundation of the entire society. It would never be shaken again. Only by reaching that point could the entire country and nation be able to overcome the difficulties of thousands of years.
Chapter completed!