In his early years, Lin Fu organized warships to go to the islands to mine guano. Later, he became a maritime merchant specializing in this industry. It seems that manure is not valuable, but the ships are huge and can carry a very high load at one time, which can reduce transportation costs.

To extremely low, the profit is quite considerable.

Of course, with the increasing maturity of shipbuilding technology, the high-quality sea-going ships built by Huaidong are even much cheaper than the sea-going ships built by Longjiang Shipyard in Jiangning in the early years. The reduction of maritime accidents and the decline in the cost of sea-going ships are all factors

The main reason for the decrease in transportation costs.

Over the years, in addition to implementing the new policy of suppressing gentry and land annexation in Huaidong, Lin Fu's most important political method was to form the prototype of a system integrating workshops, industry, mining, and commerce in Chongzhou.

It is precisely this prototype of the system that is the core pillar of Huaidong's financial strength.

Song Fu only passed through Chongzhou and did not stay for a few days. Even though he had complete information for reference, he still felt that what he read on paper was shallow and he still lacked a deep enough understanding of Lin Fu's political philosophy.

Lin Fu has enough patience. He knows that some of his ideas are too far out of the world. Even a person with outstanding intelligence cannot accept them all at once. In short, he needs more patience to communicate. Sometimes he has to bite the bullet and force himself.

As long as the effect of implementation becomes apparent over time, people who could not understand it before will be able to accept it easily.

Lin Fu spent the night at the Putang iron yard and returned eastward on horseback early the next morning.

Farming in Jiangning counties will almost resume in late September. Looking around, you can see the rice fields that gradually become golden after autumn.

Although when the Zhejiang and Fujian troops invaded, the people around Jiangning were in uproar and suffered a lot of casualties, but the war in Jiangning was over in a short time.

There was no large-scale famine, and the government organized the restoration of production after the refugees returned home, so the actual impact was limited.

Lin Fu did not expect taxes to be paid in Jiangning, Yijiang, Huizhou, Chizhou, Luzhou and other places for two or three years, but as long as production could be resumed, the situation would be stable and his original intention would be achieved.

There is no direct tax revenue, but materials such as salt, iron, tea and horse are sold in these areas, which is actually a disguised form of taxation.

Riding on horseback, looking at the golden rice fields on both sides of the post road, Lin Fu and Gao Zongting, Song Fu said: "In more than half a month, when this season's rice is harvested in the fields, the food shortage in Jiangnan will be barely over.

Got it!"

"Except for Luzhou, there are no major disasters in other areas this year. It can be regarded as God's help." Gao Zongting said with a smile.

However, Quzhou suffered from a severe drought. It was a newly acquired land and was exempted from taxes as a rule. However, after the Zhejiang and Fujian troops completely withdrew from central Zhejiang after the fall of Dongyang County, they no longer had the ability to plunder the countryside on a large scale. Quzhou was exempting and exempting taxes.

After the tax was imposed, a large area was affected this year, but compared to the previous extortionate taxes imposed on the She family, the people still breathed a sigh of relief.

In the middle of the year, the work camp began to recruit reserve soldiers from Quzhou, and there were a large number of applicants; in the end, four thousand people were even transferred to the supply team on the Yijiang side.

After passing Jilong Mountain, the head of Jiangning City was looming in sight. Lin Xuwen, Huang Jinnian, Lin Mengde, Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang, Lin Mengde, Sun Jingxuan and others had already received the news and came out of the city to greet them. The carriages and horses almost crowded the official road outside the West City.

Full.

"They all said not to go to such trouble..." Lin Fu scolded Lin Xuwen and the others with a smile on his face for coming out of the city to meet him.

"Old Seventeen went to inspect the defense, and he was gone for more than four months. Then he had to rush to Wuyuan to supervise the war. He couldn't stay in Jiangning for a few days," Lin Xuwen said with a smile, "Jianning is also in a mess, so we have to hurry up.

Report to you?"

Lin Fu dismounted and greeted everyone one by one. After a short delay at the pavilion, he prepared to ride into the city by carriage and horse.

After riding a horse from Putang for a day, he felt a little tired. Lin Fu rode in a carriage and called Lin Xuwen. Lin Meng got to talk to him in the carriage. After walking for a while, he felt something was wrong and asked the coachman to stop.

"What's going on?" Lin Mengde asked.

Lin Fu suddenly got out of the car, and Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang and others also felt strange.

Lin Fu walked around to the side of the car and bent down to look at the axle. Seeing that everyone on the left and right had doubts on their faces, he asked Sun Jingxuan who was standing behind him, "Has this roller been built after all?"

"Haha, can you tell the difference just by listening to the sound?" Sun Jingxuan asked with a smile.

"What a big difference. There is no squeaking sound. I still thought of this when I was staying in Putang yesterday. How could I not hear it?" Lin Fu said with a smile, "Can the supervisor below make batches?"

"We have made a batch on a trial basis. Each one costs twelve thousand yuan," Sun Jingxuan said. "At the moment, we can only say that it is barely usable."

Listening to Lin Fu and Sun Jingxuan's exchange, others noticed the subtle differences in the axles of Lin Fu's car.

The existing bearing structure in the world is just a sliding bearing with a large ring and a small ring. Even if it is coated with grease, the friction force is still extremely large, which needs to be compared with the rolling bearings common in later generations.

The most common rolling bearing can significantly reduce friction by simply adding balls in the middle of the sliding bearing. However, even small steel balls are difficult for all craftsmen in the world. With Chongzhou's manufacturing level, it is still far from mass production.

Conditions for steel balls with uniform specifications.

Before Lin Fu left Jiangning, a craftsman from the Ordnance Supervision, based on the ball structure proposed by Lin Fu, suggested changing the ball to a small roller design that is easy to prepare in batches - but whether it can be done, Lin Fu still had to decide before leaving Jiangning.

I wasn't sure, I didn't expect that when I came back this time, Sun Jingxuan had already used the roller on the four-wheeled carriage.

The cost of one piece is twelve thousand yuan, which is still too expensive, but as long as it can be mass-produced, it is a good start. As the technology matures, the cost can be significantly reduced.

Lin Fu had previously hand-made several rollers for trial use on the newly built four-wheeled carriages in Huaidong. Because the rollers greatly reduced friction and increased the life of the components, the load capacity of the same mule carriage could be increased by at least one

times.

Although the structure of the small roller is much rougher, it can be used on baggage carts and war machines such as bed crossbows and scorpion crossbows. As long as the performance is improved by one to two percent, it will be a gap that is difficult for the enemy to overcome.

In addition, when Lin Fu was passing through quarrying, he visited the Mushan Mine.

When miners dig into a cave, they have to carry baskets of excavated ore out; because the mine itself is low, miners have to use their hands and feet to climb out.

Lin Fu is not a pessimist, but his approach is extremely inefficient and cannot significantly reduce the cost of ore mining. It also severely limits the output of the mine.

Narrow-gauge mine cars that can be mass-produced with rollers and pulled by human or animal power can be easily manufactured.

There are currently eight mines in the Suishan Mine. To ensure the ore needed for the production of the Putang Iron Works, two to three thousand miners must be invested in mining. If there is a landslide, the losses will be as heavy as a rout. If we really can

Using narrow-gauge mine cars can reduce the number of miners by more than half and increase production a lot.

Lin Fu proposed the concept of a mine cart very early, but the friction of the old sliding bearings at that time was too high, and the mine cart itself was required to be low, so the bearings could almost only be used as wheels. Without rollers, it could not be built to meet the requirements.

The minecart is coming.

Lin Fu stared at the axle for a while. After all, it was set in the wheel, so it couldn't be seen clearly. He said to Sun Jingxuan: "There are prototype axles that have been trial-produced. Send two of them over and let me take a closer look..."

Sun Jingxuan responded, and Lin Xuwen and others laughed and asked Lin Fu not to focus on these details. Lin Fu laughed and said: "This is not a detail. The roller can be made, but it will not be used in the war after the autumn."

If someone is sent to tell Mr. Fu that the supplies transported from Huizhou to the south can be increased by 20%, do you think he will be very happy?"

Now Fu Qinghe has personally rushed to Wuyuan to prepare for the war. The materials needed for the war are mainly transported from two routes, one is from eastern Zhejiang to the west along the Qianjiang River, and the other is from Huizhou to the south via Yuling Pass.

The supplies going south from Huizhou mainly went south from the procurement of prefectures and counties around Jiangning to the territory of Ningguo, and then took the overland road over Yuling Pass and entered western Zhejiang. There were about three hundred miles of land route before and after, and they relied heavily on carriages and horses.

, the transportation capacity is limited.

The reason why there is a route of supplies that does not go around the sea outside Chongzhou and Mingzhou, but goes south from Yuling Pass, is to consider Yijiang as the main transfer station on this route.

A large amount of materials and troops were stationed in Yijiang, which meant that the Zhejiang and Fujian troops were always on guard against the possibility of the Huaidong soldiers and horses joining the Chizhou army from Yijiang to march westward to directly attack Jiangzhou, in order to achieve the purpose of dispersing and containing the Zhejiang and Fujian troops.
Chapter completed!