It is probably a long time since Brand wants to marry a wife. This is because Milanheim's current population ratio is seriously unbalanced.

Among the two people in Milanheim, 70% are adult men, only 30% are women, and there are almost no elderly and children.

This is also impossible. There are basically no elderly people among the poor, and not many of them are even over 35 years old. The children are in poor health and are not suitable for long distances. Moreover, they were not recruited when recruiting poor people.

As for the few women, this is because most women among the poor will act as wanderings in the city or become servants at rich people's homes, and there are very few left. It is not easy to adjust the proportion of the population in the town and increase the number of women.

Su Ming has no good idea for the time being. Could it be that he asked him to spend money to buy women with slave merchants and then allocate them to bachelors in the territory? He would do this unless he was crazy. Not to mention anything else, buying tens of thousands of women would cost hundreds of thousands of gold coins just for the price. So Su Ming could only do this for the time being.

However, he also gave orders to those businessmen that half of the refugees must be female in the future, and not more than half of the number of women can be calculated based on two people when calculating the population.

If all women are women, the population can be calculated according to twice. The number of people specified by Su Ming for these merchants is closely related to the number of snow salt and glass products they buy. If it is calculated according to twice, the materials they can purchase will be doubled directly.

Su Ming believes that those profit-oriented businessmen will make the right choice. As for where they get the female population, it is not about Su Ming's business.

These merchants are all local tyrants in the cities or regions where they belong. Some are simply business businesses formed by local aristocrats. It is always easier for them to find women than Su Ming, and the effect is also good.

The only problem is that Su Ming has to pay twice the amount of goods.

The long-term imbalance in the ratio of men and women will affect the public security of the territory. Although the problem is not big now, this situation cannot be exacerbated. At the same time, maintaining a population balance is conducive to the natural population growth. Milanheim cannot rely on immigration forever to achieve population growth. It must have its own ability to make a fortune, which requires a population balance in the territory.

Su Ming asked those merchants to send women, and in addition to maintaining the population ratio, he also planned to establish textile factories. Four pastures have been established outside the city of Milanheim, where more than 20,000 yellow sheep were raised. So many yellow sheep produced wool and had not been processed. These yellow sheep have been breeding for a winter, and in the estrus period in spring, it can be foreseen that the number of yellow sheep will grow rapidly.

Milanheim needs to build a wool textile factory as soon as possible.

Su Ming has already begun to arrange for workers to make the wool textile machine. In order to keep it a secret, he split the parts of the wool textile machine into hundreds and then handed them over to dozens of craftsmen to make it. As long as these craftsmen make it according to Su Ming's requirements, they can finally combine it into a textile machine.

The textile machine drawings taken out by Su Ming are not the kind of textile machine in this era that only has one spindle, but a textile machine with dozens of spindles installed. The efficiency of a textile machine is dozens of times that of textile machines in this world.

And even so, this kind of textile machine is not the best textile machine in his hands. Because of the power problem, this kind of textile machine uses hydraulic drive. There are great restrictions on hydraulic drive, and the number of spindles is the most suitable now.

Because there is a river next to Milanheim, this river has abundant water volume, with a width of more than 100 meters, and the narrowest place is 60 meters, with a water depth generally three meters, and a deepest place is ten meters. In addition to bringing abundant water sources to the territory, Su Ming also plans to develop water transportation.

Compared with land transportation, water transportation is too convenient. Land transportation roads are difficult to travel. In this era, the roads are basically gone for thirty miles away from the city, and even if there are, they are still broken. The transportation is very inconvenient, which seriously affects commercial activities.

Just like food transportation, it only takes two days to transport from Kana City, so it is not consumed high, but from other cities, it takes one week and half a month, and people eat horses and chew, so they consume more food, and the most will even consume half of it.

However, if it is changed to water transportation, the food consumption will be much lower. The most obvious thing is that there are no horses and livestock, and the food consumption is more than half the food consumption. Moreover, the water transportation capacity is far more than land transportation. The carrying capacity of a ship can easily exceed the capacity of more than a dozen carriages. At the same time, the speed is also far beyond that.

Carriages can travel at most fifty or sixty kilometers a day, but boats can sail hundreds of kilometers a day. The only problem is that water transportation is limited by rivers, but this is not a big problem. The southern region was originally a water network, and most areas had rivers, and water transportation could connect to most cities.

Even if these water networks are not connected, canals can be manually dug to connect. If the entire south can be connected by water network, then the commerce in the entire continent will be very prosperous and developed. Even after convenient transportation, the southern countries may be unified into one country.

Su Ming collected a group of shipbuilding craftsmen and asked these craftsmen to establish shipyards in the rivers outside the city. The river outside the city of Milanheim flowed from the northwest. When he arrived in Milanheim, an S-shaped curve appeared on the river channel and then flowed to the southeast.

The upper reaches of the river should flow from the mountains in the northwest direction. Su Ming speculated that the upper reaches of the river should have crossed the mountains and flowed out of the canyon. The river should be very complicated. The river in the downstream direction flows to the southeast, and I don’t know where it leads. Su Ming is preparing to form a fleet and then send people to survey the downstream.

Although I don’t know the specific area of ​​this river flowing through, Su Ming speculated that it should be connected to some rivers in the south, or flow directly from some southern cities.

If this river is really connected to the southern river channel, then you can use water transportation by trading with southern cities in the future. After all, horse-drawn carriages are transported slowly and there are many losses.

After deciding to develop water transport, Su Ming began to build a port terminal and at the same time, the shipyard started to build ships. There were many large woods in the forest near Milanheim, which was very suitable for building ships. While building ships, Su Ming also began to draw staff.
Chapter completed!