The earliest tea factory can be traced back to the Thirteen Lines. At that time, Wu Bingjian and Pan Chengxun established a large number of workshops around the Thirteen Lines to sort and package tea, which should be qualified for foreigners, but most of them were produced by hand, mainly by sorting and processing.
It is still in recent years that truly modern tea factories make machines produce tea.
Zhu Jinglun buried a seed four years ago, but now it has grown into a towering tree, but Zhu Jinglun didn’t expect this tree to grow.
American Robert in the pit area? Gray Thomas Gray Tea Garden has successfully cultivated 100 thousand mu of tea garden. In fact, he completed the cultivation in the first year, that is, in 161, when he spent 32 thousand silver.
Robert Gray was going to spend 12 thousand silver to cultivate it if it wasn’t for Dutch Jews who helped Irish farmers to come from.
Shi Wen helped him to build a tea factory in Xinhui instead of waiting for the tea trees in the tea garden to grow.
The Xinhui was chosen because Robert entered the hometown of Luojia in Xinhui, and he was a foster child in Luo Tianchi. Soon Zhu Jinglun’s coup killed Nie Erkang in Xinhui County and directly ordered Luo Tianchi to make a county magistrate. This unique condition allowed Robert Tea Factory to take root in Xinhui.
Therefore, his tea garden sold Thomas brand tea not this year, but as early as four years ago. Sven introduced a British tea factory from India through Jardine Matheson.
Tea production from tea picking to withering, rolling, fermentation, primary baking, stacking, picking impurities and re-baking is finally completed. The British do not have enough skilled tea workers, but they choose industrial production.
Among them, except for picking, others can rely on machines to wither and dry in the sun, but the weather is not controlled by people, and the withering result depends on God and the proficiency of workers. The mining industry is not, otherwise, the direct heating method can keep the temperature constant at the required level, so the result of this process can be guaranteed.
Next, kneading used to be done by hand. Many tea workers in the tea area took the trouble to simply step on it, which not only caused a lot of waves, but also caused a lot of waves. If the machine crushed it, all the processes could be mechanized to ensure the quality and quantity.
British people have been groping in Indian tea factories for twenty or thirty years. There are complete sets of machinery, equipment and management systems. The main reason why Indian tea industry can’t develop is the production of tea. However, it is not a problem for China to finish this link. After Shiwen copied Indian tea factories to Xinhui, it ushered in great success.
In the first year, it made a profit of 50 thousand taels of silver, and in the second year, it expanded the factory’s profit to 20 thousand taels. These funds solved the shortage of tea garden funds, but they can also set up a tea factory in Xinhui, which is protected by Luo Tianchi. In other places, their tea factory will be directly smashed by local tea workers
However, tea is a very delicate product. They often need tea workers to pick it with dew before dawn and send it to the tea factory. Once it is late, it is difficult to guarantee the quality of tea, so they can reach the place to collect tea in one day, which greatly limits their tea sources.
But for many businessmen in China, this is not a problem. When Xinhui tea merchants find that foreigners run tea factories with rich profits and produce the best quality prices and sell them directly to foreign merchants, the price is twice as high as that they sell as loose tea on the exchange, and no one can stop their enthusiasm for running tea factories.
Ke Shiwen tried his best to keep the technical secret of the tea factory, but he couldn’t help Luo Tianchi’s pressure. Luo Tianchi found him and said that it was a good thing to run a tea factory, so that Robert didn’t dare to offend him. After michel platini was able to show local tea merchants several times, someone copied their tea factory.
Shi Wen was very angry when he saw that he couldn’t control it, but the Jewish people were alive. He chose to take the initiative to find a partner. He gave the technology and the other party paid for the contacts. The two sides set up tea factories in other places, so tea factories mushroomed and generally spread in Xinhui, Heshan and Gaoyou counties.
In the past few years, the tea factory has become the most modern factory, making the steam engine far superior to other industries. Although the names are different, Thomas Tea Garden shares in the tea factory. All the tea produced by the tea factory is sent to Xinhui General Factory for packaging, and then the high-end tea is directly sold to giants such as Yihe Foreign Firm and Qichang Foreign Firm.
Thomas tea has become the largest tea brand in the United States and has entered the British market. At this time, the British market base can replace the world market and become the largest tea market in the world.
Their presence in England proved their quality.
Due to the excellent quality of tea factories and the rich profits of tea, they compete with a large number of tea shops, but the high purchase price of tea has caused many tea shops to lose money and seriously damaged tea factories. It has happened more than once. Fortunately, the scholars and writers are all local strongmen, and foreigners have not been involved in the scene.
So he continued to enjoy the profits, and this year’s profits were as high as 10 thousand, and the profits and taxes paid exceeded 30 thousand, and in the end they were all returned through tax rebates, because their tea was exported and rarely sold locally
The only thing that upset Zhu Jinglun about the tea factory was that all the money was earned by the elite Jews. When he heard about this, he immediately discussed with Pan Shicheng and suggested that Pan Shicheng should also go to the tea factory, and suggested that the Wu family should also go to the tea factory to get back the benefits taken away by foreigners.
Let fate take its course in the final competition.
The technology has been greatly upgraded, and the iron workshop is profitable. The tea factory can’t bear the responsibility of the industrial revolution, because even the tea factory has installed more than two steam engines in total, which really makes Zhu Jinglun feel that the industrial revolution is coming or the silk reeling industry is developing.
Section three hundred and fourteen Industrial Revolution 2
The continuous outbreak of microparticle disease in sericulture in Europe has dealt a great blow to the sericulture industry in France and Italy, and has to import a large number of raw silk from Asia for silk production
History Day is to use this limelight to complete the industrialization accumulation of China’s raw silk industry by industrialized reeling.
At present, silk reeling is an industry with natural advantages in China, and it is also an industry with the most ability to take the lead in the industrial revolution.
Not only can this industry bring a lot of profits and income, but more importantly, it will drive the development of other industries, such as machinery processing industry.
Chen Qiyuan is a reader. Although he visited the French silk reeling factory and made hundreds of pages of notes, it was too difficult for him to make a silk reeling machine by himself.
Chen Qiyuan’s method is to find a skilled craftsman to help him build it. He found out that Chen Danpu, the workshop of Guangzhou Liantai, knew how to repair western equipment and steam engines, so he went to the door himself. After talking with the two people or fellow villagers, he was very interested in western machines. Chen Danpu promised to help.
It is obviously not an easy task for a hammer to knock out a set of modern machines. Even though Chen Qiyuan secretly drew an atlas from France, the two of them worked hard for a whole year before finally making a set of steam-driven silk reeling equipment. They named it Silo.
Chen Qiyuan built a factory in Jiancun to make this equipment named after Changlong Silk Reeling Factory. At the beginning, the money was borrowed from the government. He was not short of money, at least not the money. He chose to set up a factory in Jiancun Township mainly because he was worried about the entanglement of the government and the countryside was their squire territory. His Chen family was a local clan, and several villages near it were controlled by landlords named Chen. Therefore, the land was the local people’s feelings of the county, and he was familiar with the friendship with the elders of the far and near townships, and it was easy to resolve the resistance.
Borrowing government money is to gain government support.
The government didn’t give them any trouble, but the people were quite frightened by the steam factory building with thick smoke. Some people said that the reflection of the chimney pressed against their room would bring them bad luck. Some people said that the roar of the steam engine made his family lose their cows and chickens.
These Chen Qiyuan explained the family relationship one by one, and finally let the factory continue to run
The result is very good. With the help of the better and better international market, the price of raw silk per ton is as high as 400 silver dollars. In the first year, he earned 32 thousand silver dollars. In the second year, he directly quadrupled the size of silk, built four new cars and hired as many as 400 women workers.
However, he is still in trouble. Although he recruits local women in the surrounding villages, some people still say that it is immoral for men and women to work together, which needs Chen Qiyuan to solve.
Three years later, the profit of Chen Qiyuan Silk Reeling Factory exceeded 200,000 taels of silver in total. The profitability of this modern factory is amazing and enviable. Chen Qiyuan doesn’t keep a secret. Chen Zhiju and Chen Zhishu, brothers from Xuetang Village, a neighboring village, intend to handle the silk reeling factory. Chen Qiyuan gave their mastery of the technical department to the neighboring village, and soon set up a Yuhouchang machine silk reeling factory.
The expansion of silk reeling factory in Jiancun is slow, but it has taken root in other places.
Wen Shao, a wealthy Wen family from Daliang, Shunde, introduced this equipment in the second year when he set up a silk reeling factory in Chen Qiyuan. He did not learn the technology from Chen Qiyuan, but learned from Chen Danpu, who made the machine.
Wen Shao is a typical aristocratic educated figure. His family is a local noble family in Shunde, and another Liang family, Long Yuanxi and Luo Jiyan, are both local noble families and are called four big families.
To what extent is Wen Jiahao’s grandfather Wen Shao’s right assistant minister in Wen Shi’s officers and men’s department and his father Wen Cheng’s official in charge of punishments? Two generations of Beijing officials have made his family the largest family in the local area. Wen Shao’s wives are all married to the daughter of Governor Hu Guang’s family.
The most fortunate thing is that his family is charitable and has a good reputation in the local area.
In addition, Wen Shao’s father is quite not exclusive of western technology. Wen Shao didn’t like reading sages since he was a child, and his father didn’t force Wen Shao to like western technology. His father directly invited John, a senior consultant from a Hong Kong factory, to be his teacher.
It can be said that when he was 20 years old, he felt that he had nothing to learn from John. He went directly to Italy and Britain to study machine building and the principle of steam ships, and studied the core technology. After returning to China for more than a year, Wu Rongguang, the governor of Huguang, married Wu Dailian, and soon went to Britain again to consult professionals with the previous excerpts, and went to various military factories and libraries in Britain to study hungrily.
Before Zhu Jinglun came to this era, Wen Shao was already a famous figure in Guangdong who was familiar with Western learning.
When Chen Danpu helped Chen Qiyuan copy the silk reeling machine and encountered technical problems, he went to clean up Wen Shao. The next year after Chen Danpu successfully copied the silk reeling machine, Wen Shao ordered a set of machines from him and took them back to Daliang, Shunde to set up a silk reeling factory.
Due to the good reputation of the Wen family, Wen Shao encountered too little resistance in Shunde Silk Reeling Factory, and later imitated more people than Chen Qiyuan. As a result, in 164, more than 40 silk reeling factories were born in Shunde, which was more than ten times more than Nanhai Silk Reeling Factory.
It is in this period that the historical Shunde quickly surpassed the core area of South China Sea as a machine reeling.
After ten years of operation in Chen Qiyuan, the machinery factory was destroyed and had to be moved to Macau. That is another story. It is obviously impossible for this kind of thing to happen again in this era. It is different from Zhu Jinglun’s enemy that someone really did this.
Zhu Jinglun was delighted by the situation in Shunde. Although he didn’t know it, he always noted the development of modern factories through the official registration information. From here, he also found talents like Wen Shao. Unfortunately, Wen Shao’s former officials refused to integrate history with the official. Later, Wen Shao helped the Qing government to run the Guangdong Machinery Bureau in the foreign countries, and went to the North to deputy the Tianjin Machinery Bureau. However, in this era, due to the recognition of Zhu Jinglun’s trip by the Wen family, it was forbidden for Wen Jiadi to become an official. Wen Shao could not be an official.
Otherwise, Zhu Jinglun would like to ask him to go to the arsenal as a consultant.
Section three hundred and fifteen Into the capital
Zhu Jinglun promised Xu Rongcun that he would come back early when he came back from Alaska to attend the enthronement ceremony, but Zhu Jinglun didn’t delay it for an excuse, but the ministers thought it might as well wait.
They are waiting for an army of news to conquer the north, and they think that such news can greatly enhance the legitimacy and make the enthronement ceremony more glorious.
The first army of Xin ‘an has been holed up in Tianjing for a winter. Before they explored the road to Beixun, they prepared a step plan. When reinforcements arrive in the spring, they will attack Beixun.
In fact, if the first army chooses for itself, they prefer to do it themselves. Wen Yuan has repeatedly attacked Beiqi City and was strictly stationed in Tianjin.
Similarly, in winter, Black Dog was not idle in Fujian. The Five Pits Army marched northward into Zhejiang and defeated Zuo Zongtang’s main battle in one fell swoop. Zuo Zongtang’s Chu army seized a large number of legal rifled guns, but their performance was not as good as that of British Armstrong’s afterloading artillery. After the test, it was found that the reliability was too poor, and the comprehensive level was not as good as that of the military equipped with muskets.
Zuo Zongtang’s painstaking efforts to form an artillery unit were annihilated, which led him to retreat to Hangzhou. At this time, the Taiping Army had captured many places in Zhejiang while Zuo Zongtang’s troops were shrinking.
Yanzhou Prefecture and Quzhou Prefecture can be said to be that Zuo Zongtang surrendered to Taiping rebels. He shrank his troops and retreated to Hangzhou Prefecture with little resistance here. After surrendering here, Taiping rebels will follow the north to the border between Wenzhou Prefecture and Wenzhou Prefecture. Zuo Zongtang hoped to see two robbers break up because of the turf struggle. Unfortunately, he was disappointed. When Taiping rebels arrived, they voluntarily handed over the five pits in the occupied area and directly went north.
By this time, it was winter. Of course, the North did not go to Tianjin, but captured Ningbo with the navy from Tianjin South. When it occupied Ningbo Port, it was strongly protested by Britain and France, especially the French sent warships to confront the army for a long time.
It’s a pity that the army bought warships from the United States at this time, and their fighting capacity was much higher. On the surface, they were bluffing, but the technical ability of the soldiers was not comparable to that of France at this time, let alone that of Britain. However, the French failed to stop the army from landing after a strong protest, and they did not dare to shoot directly.
After the occupation of Ningbo port, the big government sent officials to manage the port. At one time, the port management mode changed, but it promoted trade. Britain and France gradually lost their excuses to enjoy the expansion of trade, but at the political level, they still refused to accept the military occupation here.
Zuo Zongtang saw that the army was so tough and foreigners could bear this tone, which made him sigh and miscalculate. The situation behind it directly made him vomit blood. The Huai army had not yet formed in the violent offensive of the Taiping rebels in northern Jiangsu. Li Hongzhang ordered the retreat and withdrew from the Jiangnan area of Jiangsu Province, which made Zuo Zongtang immediately fall into a situation of being attacked by the Taiping rebels.