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"For our many transactions," Jose suddenly said in a half-baked official voice, "This time we also gave you some small machines, which can be regarded as our New Year's gifts." ”

Sun Jingting had a smile on his face: "Indeed, our New Year is coming. ”

Jose said: "In Xia, I was actually born in Macau, but I have always spoken Cantonese dialect, and the official dialect was learned later, so it's really hard to say, Lord Sun forgive me." ”

His sentence, divided into several parts, is indeed not very good.

"By the way, we also sent a sample of our current textile machine that you wanted."

"Good." Sun Jingting smiled, showing a very happy look.

Only the highest level of the military department knows how much financial pressure He Yusheng will have next year!

To put it simply, the current financial plan given by the Finance Bureau is to use the method of overdrawing the bureau's bank to borrow and spend the bank to tide over the financial crisis, which is the initial plan at present, and it may not be able to pass the customs safely.

Next year, due to the loss of the easy to mine shallow ore layer, the output of copper coins will be greatly reduced, although some copper prices can be appropriately raised, but at most they can get less than 100,000 profits a year, and they can not plug the mouth at all.

Previously, the copper mine could provide 300,000 taels of copper money a month, how much of this hard currency was out, and the money merchants around the country were rushing to buy, and the branches of Yusheng everywhere lined up every day to buy copper money, after the copper ore that was easy to mine was mined, the output fell by about sixty percent, and now the copper mine can only sell about 100,000 copper coins per month, and suddenly two-thirds of the income is missing.

Russia's trade routes have been opened, Zhang Han and the high-level military department are very optimistic, this time even Ma Chaoren, Li Dayong, Jiang Dalin and others have followed, and everyone is very confident.

But this route, from the construction of supply points along the way to the defensive forts, is as fast as a year and a half, and as slow as two years.

Mobei is too big, too far away.

The military department has to mobilize about 30,000 people to repair, the tools are excellent, the salary is sufficient, and the logistics are also very secure due to the existence of the convoy of soldiers and horses, so it is very likely that the trade route will be completely completed after two years.

Even if you can barely start trading after half a year, the amount at the beginning will not be very large, compared to the current smuggling routes to Liaodong in Xinpingbao and Zhangjiakou, etc., the route to Mobei Trading City is too far, from the beginning of stocking to the frequency of both sides to find suitable shipments and intakes, it is estimated that a year is about the same.

Thank goodness that the trade volume can reach a scale of about 500,000 in a year.

It took four months to walk from Tomsk to Beijing, and the time to return to Moscow was not much, and when the Tsar knew the good news, and a large number of merchants heard about it, and finally formed a trade boom, pushing the trade volume to more than one million, or even higher, it was likely that three or five years would have passed.

Before that, it was good to know that it would take three years to recoup the cost and earn back the daily maintenance expenses!

With an income of about 5.2 million yuan, almost all military expenditures have been removed, and with the funds for the opening of new trade routes in the north, the deficit is close to 3 million...... Sun Jingting felt a pain in his brain when he thought about it.

This time, it is not only Tian Jitang who blackens his face when he hears that it costs money, but Sun Jingting is the same.

I am afraid that this huge deficit will be very dangerous if it is covered by the account bureau alone.

This year's statistics are based on Gansu, Ningxia, Yansui, Guyuan, Shanxi, Datong, Xuanfu, plus Jizhen, Jingshi and Beizhili, plus Shanxi Linqing and other places, with a large-scale logistics level of more than 1,000 carts, the scale of the deposit and exchange of accounts in various places is more than 5 million taels of silver.

In the entire northern part of the Ming Dynasty, there is a slight scale, and it is estimated that at least more than seventy percent of the commercial banks that need to use the account bureau to turn around and redeem the account bureau are used.

This has to be said to be a miracle in the commercial scale of the north, which is far less developed than in the south, and the small-scale peasant economy and even the business system of goods for goods.

Last year, more than 1 million silver was borrowed, but under the scale of several million deposits, the scale of borrowing and spending of more than 1 million is not a big deal, but if it reaches the scale of borrowing and disbursement, it is 2 or 3 million...... If something goes wrong, the consequences are too hard to imagine.

Fortunately, He Yusheng took advantage of the Thirteen Mountains to further make a name for himself, and the imperial court had some small moves, but it had little impact on He Yusheng.

Now the overall image of Yusheng is the largest commercial bank in the north, and its reputation is still very secure, and now the military department is looking forward to a significant increase in the amount of accounts next year...... Although the odds are not very high.

Most of the real cash and silver are strong and have strong backgrounds, such as the money houses of eunuchs and nobles, the gentry who lend usury, tea merchants, salt merchants, these are the top layers of the huge imperial pyramid of the Ming Dynasty, where do they need to go to Heyusheng to use the account bureau? The official stores of the princes and vassals are eager to eat He Yusheng in one bite, even if they come, they will not dare to accept the business.

In addition to the expectation of an increase in the acceptance of the account office, more hope is the large amount of cotton hidden in the treasury.

In the first year of trial planting, the average cotton harvested was about 30 catties per mu, which was still quite far from the yield of 70 or 80 catties or even 100 catties that Kong Minxing hoped for.

In later generations, one mu of high-yield cotton can reach 600 catties, and the general yield is between 200 catties and 300 catties.

But that is a high-yield cotton seed, base fertilizer, top dressing supplemented, plus hormones, pesticides and other factors combined, this is two or three hundred catties per mu, with the current cotton planting technology and fertilizer level, can reach 100 catties of an acre is completely desired. There may be such production in some places south of the Yangtze River, but the Yellow River basin and further north have never been as productive as in the south.

The planting area and output are added together, and the cotton in stock is nearly 9 million catties, but this is seed cotton, and after removing the cotton seeds, the lint obtained is one-third, that is, more than 3 million catties of lint.

According to the current market price, a pound of cotton can be worth six cents, and all these cotton are sold for more than 18 million gold back money, worth less than 30,000 silver.

If all of them are spun into high-quality cotton cloth and spun into cloth from the existing lint, the minimum is about 220,000 horses.

If the quality is high, the price of a piece of cloth in the early years of Wanli is only two coins and three coins of silver, and in the year of the Apocalypse, the price of goods has swelled sharply, and the lowest price of a piece of Songjiang white cloth from the south to the north is also one or two or five to two taels of silver.

He Yusheng's cloth may not be able to sell at such a high price, but considering that cloth is also in short supply, and it is a hard currency like iron salt, even if the average price is one or two or five, the final income is much stronger than simply selling cotton.

Although the income this year is not much, the income of lint in a few years may be tens of millions of catties, enough to spin into millions of pieces of cloth to meet the cloth needs of the entire north, and this profit will be too great.

Now it's important to control costs and expand revenues.

He Yusheng has a north-south canal, which was originally prepared to change the loom into a hydraulic loom, but now I have to admit that Zhang Han made a preconceived mistake in this matter.

Zhang Han remembers that around the 17th century, the last water-powered spinning machine appeared, then the water-powered loom, then the Jenny machine, and finally the steam engine was used in the loom machine, and the British cotton cloth began to be oversupplied, and the cloth woven by the machine was fine and dense, the quality was much better than that of the homespun cloth, thick and strong, and the output was not at all the same order of magnitude as the homespun cloth.

Zhang Han made a mistake in this matter, in fact, the first mule machine appeared in the eighteenth century, more than a hundred years ago.

Sun Jingting could only look at the loom in front of him in a daze, his face was unusually ugly.

Of course, this textile machine was brought from Europe by the merchant ships of the Jesu Society, and the style is indeed a little different from the Chinese homespun looms, but the principle is similar, and it is also hand-shaken, in terms of structure, it is more backward than the current Chinese textile machine.

"It's really the best textile machine in Europe." Jose saw that Sun Jingting's face was ugly, and said cautiously.

"That's it." Sun Jingting said: "Hard work, Mr. Jose, we will pay for this machine according to the price." ”

"Thank you, Lord Sun." José hurriedly bowed.

Sun Jingting's disappointment with this textile machine is very obvious, and Jose himself knows that the textile machines in Europe are not much more advanced than those here in China.

It can even be said that in this era, only boring machine lathes and some metal appliances Europe is leading the Ming Dynasty, in addition to scientific writings and theories, the most famous is "geometry" This kind of discipline is booming, in addition to the navigation industry and related disciplines have surpassed the Ming Dynasty, the casting of guns, in the design of guns, the Ming Dynasty is far behind, but the level of casting has caught up.

After all, Europe at this time was from the Renaissance to the Age of Discovery, the accumulation of wealth was enough, and science was also developing in a blowout manner, and soon a large number of great scientists, including Newton, would soon appear, but now it was only the accumulation of their first industrialization, and it was not until the steam engine was put into practice that it was the first outbreak of industrialization.

If the real gap is the core of civilization that the Ming people are proud of, this piece has fallen far behind, and the related military doctrines, science, humanities and other related doctrines are backward in all aspects.

More relevant to this is the enterprising spirit and the organizational structure of the imperial court, and it is clear that Europe of this era has emerged from the barbarian age and the theocratic Middle Ages, and their government structure is more efficient and reasonable, and after constant conflict, the most solid and advanced form of government has been obtained.

It is an irrefutable fact that Britain became the first maritime power in the recent Victorian era, and then the empire on which the sun never sets, and its government remained stable for hundreds of years, without revolution or dynastic change.

It's funny to say that for hundreds of years, China's high-level leaders have always thought that they are only backward in terms of "technology", in fact, at least in the late Ming Dynasty, Chinese craftsmen can also master the technology of Europeans, and even exceed many places, and the backwardness of the Ming Dynasty is precisely the backwardness of the core of civilization, not the backwardness of technology.

These things, Zhang Han mentioned when chatting with Sun Jingting and Li Shenming, but also to explain to them why a large number of European books were introduced, since they are backward, they have to make up for the lessons, the core of civilization of the Ming Dynasty must not be moved, but the stone of his mountain can attack jade, even if it is the core of civilization, there is nothing that cannot be changed, the key is that at this time Chinese civilization is still quite vigorous, and it is not xenophobic and blindly arrogant.