Becoming an Immortal from the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 88 Industrial Layout
The applause was thunderous and endless!
Everyone feels that an unprecedented change in the textile industry is taking place.

If they fail to catch up with this machine revolution, they will regret it for the rest of their lives!
All of a sudden, this company wanted to order five sets, and that one wanted to buy ten sets. You fought over each other, as if it was not two thousand coins but a mere two cents.

The envoys from all over the world also ignored the etiquette and face, and asked the acquainted Taoists whether they could give them some shares for the sake of friendly countries. The people of their Liao Kingdom (Xixia, Dali) also needed these fairy artifacts. !

Zhang Yuqing nodded with a smile, and left Lu Liang to deal with merchants, dignitaries, envoys and others in the venue, discussing trivial things such as each company's share and priority supply level.

He turned around and returned to the apse with the rest of the people, and took a seat in the recently completed meeting hall.

Congratulations, the General Forum of the Temple of Longevity finally has a conference room, and there is no need to find a random empty hall to get together to discuss things.

"How is the progress of the textile factory I taught Zhongxin Construction?"

Zhang Yuqing glanced at the recent report. This is the policy he has been implementing. Each director and subordinate managers must quantify their work progress, content, and scope every month, and summarize them in the form of documents to Yuan Ai Daoren, the second disciple of Lvliang. At the office, he made a graphic report and presented it to Zhang Yuqing for review.

Lin Yuanai was in his early years, thin and handsome, with piercing eyes when he was not speaking.

Zhang Yuqing saw that he was a man who could be made, so he asked him to work as a secretary by his side.

Zixuan was too busy with the affairs at hand, although this girl was smart and intelligent, but Zhang Yuqing didn't want to keep burdening her too much.

Now she has to deal with donations from the congregation, the distribution of materials in the church, the distribution of salaries, the expenses for the establishment of temples, and the daily operation and management of the academy.

For this reason, almost all of the eighteen Taoists in the financial management office under her had sunken eyes, running errands around.

Zhang Yuqing allocated another 300 disciples from the [-] reserve disciples to her, so that she could barely support the huge stall.

As for Luliang, he has recently been entrusted with the liaison with bureaucrats, dignitaries, and wealthy businessmen of all ranks. He also has to manage the registration of congregations, the printing of Daoist scriptures, and all the trivial matters of daily management.

Solanum nigrum...has recently been thrown to the academy by Zhang Yuqing to study. Her ability is too weak to be reused. Her deacon named Zhiyun is temporarily responsible for her responsibilities.

Lin Yuanai spread out the books and said one by one: "The factory has reached the completion stage. It currently has 120 fire-power spinning machines, and it is estimated that it can produce about [-] pieces of cotton cloth per day."

"but……"

His tone froze for a moment, and he continued: "The output of the coal mine is extremely insufficient. The 120 nine fire-power spinning machines cannot be turned on at full power. Only about [-]% of the machines are running, so the output is seriously insufficient."

Lin Yuanai had been with Zhang Yuqing for a while, and learned some new words from him, such as 'power', 'machine', 'yield', and understood their respective meanings.

The same is true for many people in the Longevity Sect, who learned a lot of new words through Zhang Yuqing's occasional few words.

Zhang Yuqing frowned: "In terms of coal mines, have the people sent out to explore the mines come back, and have they found the mine storage place?"

"Returning to Zhangjiao, we have dispatched a prospecting team of more than 130 people to the territory of Song Dynasty and Liao Kingdom, and 18 of them have reported back one after another. They have discovered shallow coal mines in nearby prefectures and counties, and asked if we need to send people to mine there. .”

"Where is the largest coal reserve?"

"In Xiangzhou, about 150 miles away from here, there is a coal mine with extremely rich reserves. It is said that it was mined by local residents in the Tang Dynasty, and some open-pit coal was abandoned after being mined by local people.

However, according to the reports of the prospectors, there are still a large amount of unexploited coal mines stored underground, all of which are estimated to be able to run textile factories for more than 30 years! "

Lin Yuanai's tone was a little excited.

During the period of being deputy to Zhang Yuqing, he gradually straightened out that this so-called "fire machine" is extremely dependent on coal resources.

Because they must rely on the process of combustion to heat the water stored in it, prompting the water vapor to rise to turn the gears, and then link the levers to reciprocate endlessly, so that cotton and hemp can be continuously processed into cloth.

Those people outside didn't know it, and thought that with the help of machines, production could be expanded.

It was only after they had exhausted their efforts to buy the machines that they were begging for that they took them home to find out how much firewood these machines would consume in a day just to burn firewood!
I am afraid that cutting down all the trees near Bianliang is far from enough for their needs.

Only fire-resistant coal can satisfy these huge hard lumps, otherwise, just burning firewood can burn them alive and bankrupt!

In the current period of the Northern Song Dynasty, firewood was much more expensive than coal and gold.

Because all the firewood comes from the forests, and almost every forest has its own owner.

Except for some trees that can be cut down by the government, it is not allowed to go into the mountains to cut firewood at will.

Even if you secretly felled enough firewood in other people's homes, you would be sentenced to death.

Therefore, most of the people in Bianliang City rely on the two-pronged approach of relying on cheap firewood sold by the state and some coal for heating.

At this time, coal mining methods were limited, and this high-quality burning material was not only sold to the people for heating, but also used in the porcelain industry, iron smelting industry, and coinage industry.

There is simply no supply.

The amount of coal that can be purchased in the market is extremely limited.

Therefore, if you want to make the firepower machine produce at full power for a long time, you must reserve enough coal.

Zhang Yuqing also knew this, and had people start researching the steam mining device early on.

He knew that the main reason for restricting the mining of various types of minerals was the abundant underground water system resources. Once the depth exceeded a certain limit, the endless stream of groundwater would quickly drown the miners.

For this reason, in the early days of the industrial revolution, the steam drainage machine developed for the purpose greatly alleviated this situation.

Now that the drainage machine initially built by his group of craftsmen has taken shape, it's time to verify it.

One must know that Zhang Yuqing has not been idle since the film was shot to its release.

He carefully selected a group of craftsmen and scholars with ingenious ideas by continuously investigating the differences in the concentration of vows among the huge group of believers in Bianliang City.

Then he worked tirelessly to teach this group of people the relevant principles, and finally worked out the prototype steam machine secretly.

Then it continued to deploy in coal mines and factories, intensively collected information, and deduced the follow-up situation.

After all aspects are ready now, it is decided to officially launch the firepower machine, an epoch-making artifact, to all walks of life.

"How are the preparations for the believers at the master level in various places?"

Zhang Yuqing did not continue to give instructions on the coal mine, but instead asked Zixuan who was sitting on the lower right side.

"Now there are 32 congregants of the 'Taoist' level in the church, all of whom have been enrolled in the academy for a month-long study under your instruction, Master Daozi, and their grades are all excellent."

For a few months, the people in the entire Bianliang City were fanatically preaching to those around them.

Naturally, Zhang Yuqing would not let them waste their efforts, otherwise the promotion system he planned for all sentient beings would undoubtedly become a joke.

He visited the folks in hiding and checked the concentration of everyone's wishes, and selected more than 300 lucky ones, and used the enchantment technique to make them see the immortals in their dreams and give them blessings.

Then 32 most pious people were selected among them, and they were given immortal talismans in the name of the decree of the immortal, and these people were promoted to Taoist talismans.

All the believers knelt down devoutly with tears streaming down their faces, and their level of faith went up to one level, even surpassing Lu Liang's.

Afterwards, there was a period of ideological reform to ensure that these thousands of selected "reservists" could accept the ideology of Longevity Teaching and gradually infiltrate it among the people.

"All the prefectures and counties where coal mines have been discovered will each send a temple master to build temples and open up local branches."

Zhang Yuqing nodded and ordered to go on.

"Yes!"

Lin Yuanai agreed, and then said: "Teacher, there is another matter to report about the establishment of various coal fields."

"speak."

"Not enough miners!"

With a bitter face, Lin Yuanai said, "A mine requires at least [-] miners to operate normally. In the past, most of the coal miners used sinners who committed crimes as miners. Some private mines arrest fugitives. , or buy slaves, and the beloved secretly mines."

"If my teaching wants to open coal mines in various places at the same time, there will be at least a gap of more than [-] miners to make up for."

Zhang Yuqing nodded thoughtfully, "5 people is not difficult."

Lin Yuanai stared at Zhang Yuqing with wide-eyed eyes, and stammered inarticulately: "Mo, could it be that the headmaster has already made up his mind?"

"I have my own concerns about this matter. You don't need to worry about it. Just progress gradually according to the plan. It is necessary to lay out the structure of the coal mine in a short time, and occupy all the coal mines that can be found before everyone else. "

"Whether it's to seize, buy a land deed, or build a temple nearby, in short, I want you to wait for all the coal mines you can find to belong to my religion, even if you want to occupy it first."

"If you can mine and dig, you can dispatch people to start digging, and if you can't mine, just leave it alone, but make sure that the land belongs to the assets of my teaching in name."

Zixuan answered, "Yes, Daozi."

"The [-] coal mines that have been discovered have been strictly guarded by special personnel, and they are in contact with the local government and big households. Now my religion has a deep influence in the Song Dynasty, and many people are willing to form a good relationship with the Longevity Sect. At present, the property rights of ten large coal mines have been transferred to us.”,

She reported everything truthfully.

Zhang Yuqing nodded: "That's good, Yuan Ai, tomorrow you will go to Xiangzhou to take charge of the construction of the local coal mine."

"Yes, Headmaster."

This is the end of the handling of affairs in the church. Zhang Yuqing summoned the priests in charge of the temple one by one to comment and give relevant teaching instructions. Everyone felt that they benefited a lot.

(End of this chapter)