Tu Hu stood in front of the huge factory with a smile, and welcomed two delegations from Hunan and E Yue.

The factory under construction behind him was the first weapon equipment factory built after Li Ze took over Chang'an. In addition to making armor, he also assumed another important function, which is to make artillery. After half a year of construction, he mobilized tens of thousands of civilians, and now it is only a beginning of scale. It will take a long time to officially start production. The factory stretched for several miles. Looking at the blue brick factory that extended out of the water, not only Qian Biao was stunned, but Ding Jian was also a little dazed.

Dezhou is the industrial city of Datang now, but there is no such huge factory building.

"Brother Ding, Brother Qian!" Tu Hu smiled and clasped his fists to the two of them.

The two of them did not dare to neglect, and they also dared to return the tribute: "Brother Tu, why are you here in person? You are very busy!" Ding Jian was more familiar with Tu Hu, "How dare we behave this?"

"The two governors came to inspect the work in person, how could Tu not come to receive it in person?" Tu Hu smiled. "The two are both people with a gaze of torches. I hope they will speak out in a blunt way if they see something wrong later."

Ding Jian laughed, "Brother Tu, you are an expert in this field. Brother Qian and I can only watch the fun. Today, I only brought my eyes to you. Not only did I open my eyes, but I also had to learn some experience! Now, Hubei is not a small gap compared to the northern regions."

"The fertile land of the two lakes and the land of fish and rice is a good place!" Tu Hu turned around with a smile, looking at the factory behind him, and the smug look in his eyes was about to emerge.

"Why do you need to build such a huge factory? How many people do you need to do?" Qian Biao asked.

"Now, the Jiangshi Supervisor has launched a new production method, which greatly improves work efficiency. After Li Xiang personally inspected it, he was also very happy and vividly called it a flowing operation!" Tu Hu smiled and said, "So this factory is so large, two governors, let's put it this way, the row of factories behind me produces armor. The ones entering from this end are fine iron, and when they come out from there, they are finished armor."

Ding Jian and Qian Biao both opened their eyes wide.

"It sounds very high-end, but if you look at it carefully, there is actually nothing clever." Tu Hu said: "It is to improve the production method. In the past, when making a pair of helmets, almost one or two workers were responsible for a pair of armor from beginning to end. Such craftsmen need to be familiar with all kinds of skills. It would be difficult to cultivate such a craftsman. Now we divide it into many processes. A worker only needs to be familiar with the part they are responsible for. And in this way, once product quality problems arise, we can easily find out which part is wrong."

Both of them are so smart, and they can understand it as soon as they hear it.

"It's indeed a good idea!" Both of them praised.

Ding Jian looked at the majestic factory and asked: "The factory building is built by the river, so it must be made of hydraulic power. I remember that on this river, there were various mills that used to use hydraulic power all over the river..."

"This was the case before. Those powerful people used their rights to build dams on the river, build mills one by one to make money for themselves, and make the river abound, and the river channel was not smooth. How could they still allow them to be so arrogant now?" Tu Hu sneered: "Now all these small mills have been demolished long ago. First, they can return the river channel to its original role, and second, they must ensure that all kinds of large hydraulic workshops in the court have enough water."

"Forced demolition?" Ding Jian said with a smile.

"Those who know the truth will naturally give some compensation, but not much. Over the years, they have occupied this river. I wonder how much bad money they have earned? Those who don't know the truth will, hehe..." Tu Hu didn't continue, but both of them understood.

"The Ministry of Works and General Managers formed a joint working group and have surveyed all rivers around Chang'an. There are plans for how to use each river, and there are certain amounts of factories and factories that can be built. Li Xiang also said that these are all state assets and must not be allowed to occupy them at will!" Tu Hu said.

"All the hydraulic workshops are run by the court themselves?" Ding Jian was stunned.

"Of course not!" Tu Hu said: "The court has not intervened in some industries, such as hydraulic textile workshops. In addition to ensuring that the industries under the control of the court fully utilize the hydraulic power, the extra locations will be granted to the public for use."

"That's another battle!" Ding Jian smiled and said, "I think the court can make a lot of money again."

"That's true. Not to mention other places, the locations of the other three approved large hydraulic workshops on the river in front of us. The cost of each year is 10,000 silver dollars, and it will rise at a price of 10% every year." Tu Hu said.

Qian Biao said astonished: "In this case, will only those big businesses with strong strength afford such a fee? Small businesses will be eliminated."

"This is the effect we want to achieve." Tu Hu said: "Only large-scale workshops can carry out large-scale production, and large-scale production can reduce production costs, so that higher profits can be obtained. On large-scale production, he needs to recruit more workers and solve the employment problems of more people. The two governors, the land in Guanzhong is far from enough."

"But I have seen a lot of wasteland along the way!" Qian Biao retorted.

Tu Hu smiled slightly: "It was not the past. Because of the war, the people were fluent and lost, and there were many young and strong people killed or injured, so the labor force was scarce, or they were forced to flee because of the war. Now it is different. The war is over for the people of Guanzhong. Now a large number of people who are hiding from the war are returning home one after another. In Mount Li alone, according to the report of the Inner Guard, more than 100,000 people are hiding from the war. Now they are trying to find ways to return to their hometowns. More importantly, once the world is stable, the population will increase sharply. This has been verified in the north. The population in the north is increasing at a rate of 10% every year. Li Xiang is a little afraid of such a growth rate."

Ding Jian laughed: "In the past, I couldn't raise it and couldn't afford it. Who made the people of Beidi so rich after giving birth to Li Xiang? The Tang people believed in having more children and more blessings. Now that they have money, they can give birth to Luo! But it doesn't matter, isn't our Tang army expanding territory? If there is not enough family, we will go outside to find it!"

"Governor Ding, you have changed so much!" Tu Hu smiled and said, "I still remember when you first arrived in Wuyi, that's not what you said."

"I have to keep up with Li Xiang's pace." Ding Jian knocked on his head: "Otherwise I will be eliminated by the times. I have carefully studied the articles, books and speeches written by Li Xiang, and the Tang Dynasty's weekly newspapers. Now I feel that I should be able to keep up with Li Xiang's thinking."

Qian Biao said: "Take the south as soon as possible, and there is still enough land there."

Ding Jian smiled and said, "Brother Qian, you have to study Li Xiang's theory of state and ethnicity carefully. I have to look outside, but it doesn't mean the south."

Qian Biao was slightly stunned: "Didn't you refer to the south?"

"This world is very big." Tu Hu said: "Although the south is our enemy at the moment, Li Xiang said that everyone is a Tang Dynasty man, and this is a brotherly dispute. So Li Xiang is not in a hurry to launch a large-scale attack, because Li Xiang didn't want to die too many people, making the place messy."

Qian Biao was slightly shocked. It seemed that he had to put in more effort next. Even a person like Ding Jian was afraid that he would not be able to keep up with Li Xiang's pace, so he would be even further apart.

"Let's go, I'll take two and members of the delegation from both places to visit this factory. Now we are starting construction and building. The factory is very messy, so don't laugh at me." Tu Hu said while leading everyone inward.

As soon as he entered, Qian Biao was shocked.

Huge hammers were suspended in the air, and the square pieces of burnt red iron billets were hung up. As the shirtless man on the side pulled the thin chains, the heavy iron bill was raised into the air, and then moved onto the iron felt. With the sound of a loud noise, the hammer in the air suddenly fell down and hit the red iron billets heavily.

Not long after, the square iron blank was turned into a thin iron plate, moved from the iron felt, and then transported to the next process.

The next process is still to use hydraulic power to drive the hammer to hit, but unlike before, the hammer is much smaller and the hammer is many times faster. Two workers keep moving the thinner iron plates, making them beat thinner and flatter.

Next, it is cutting and shaping. On each process, dozens of workers are working sweating profusely.

When we reached the last process, there were already produced armor, which was the plate armor equipped by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Qian Biao roughly counted as he walked, and there were about twenty processes from beginning to end. And the last process was all female workers. They were responsible for sewing the linings for these armors, putting on leather tapes, etc. After they finished, a pair of intact armor could be shipped out of the factory.

"This factory can produce hundreds of pairs of armor every day!" Tu Hu said.

Qian Biao said: "Brother Tu, with such a production speed, we can't use up all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Fight loss and elimination all require a lot of supplements. Of course, we are still preparing takeaways now!" Tu Hu smiled and said, "Making money in these things can be faster than anything else. Now the cost of making a pair of armor is no more than ten silver dollars, but if you sell it, you can sell dozens of silver dollars."

"takeout?"

"Yes, there are many people in Tubo and overseas. There are many people who need it! As long as we can produce it, we can sell it."
Chapter completed!