The governors of the six northwestern states stayed in Qiyun County for three days and then went back!
During these three days, the governors of the six states in the northwest and Yan Liqiang not only discussed the major issues of the integration of the northwest, but also, under the leadership of Yan Liqiang, visited the Huanglong County Manufacturing Bureau, the world's number one factory and archery, and the training of the Longya Army's archery cavalry. Finally, the group took a water-fire wheel to cruise on the Xijiang River and returned to Pingxi City...
Among these governors, except Lei Sitong, the others were visiting Qiyun County for the first time. No matter how many legends about Qiyun County they had heard before, the first time they saw the things and changes in Qiyun County with their own eyes still gave them a huge shock.
The current Manufacturing Bureau and Huanglong County are changing with each passing day, and are very different even compared to last year.
In the manufacturing bureau, the provincial governors saw the standardized assembly line production workshop that had gradually taken shape, and saw how the four-wheeled carriage assembly line and the water-fire machine assembly line in the manufacturing bureau could complete the assembly and production of a four-wheeled carriage and a water-fire machine in a few minutes. They saw the latest steam stamping machine samples displayed by the master craftsmen in the manufacturing bureau, and saw that under the driving force of the manufacturing bureau and the efficient division of labor, the entire Huanglong County, with craftsmen from all walks of life, had completely turned into a super factory. There were workshops everywhere in Huanglong County, from the county town to the villages. Almost every household had tools and participated in it, becoming a link in a huge industrial chain. The families and workshops in Huanglong County could simply produce things like arrow shafts, arrow feathers, arrow clusters, as well as belts, copper buckles, soles, etc. used in the army. The intermediate ones could already produce some accessories such as water-fire machines, four-wheeled carriages, and crossbows...
Everyone was busy making money and producing things. All kinds of steam-powered machines had become very popular in Huanglong County. Merchants and materials were flowing in an endless stream on the official roads of Huanglong County. The bustling and vigorous scene shocked all the governors. Before coming to Qiyun County, they could hardly imagine that in the midst of the turbulent Han Empire, there was a place that could prosper to such an extent.
What shocked them even more was the steel plant that was being built in Huanglong County.
After nearly a year of intense construction, the "No. 1 Project" of Qiyun County, which was designed and technically planned by Yan Liqiang and personally managed by Yan Liqiang's father Yan Dechang, and even the "No. 1 Project" of the entire metallurgical industry of the Han Empire, has completed nearly 70% of the work. The huge blast furnace and smelting tower have been erected. When they learned about the amount of steel that could be produced in one day after the completion of this factory, all the governors, including Lei Sitong, opened their mouths wide. On the construction site of this steel plant, these governors saw cement for the first time, something they had never heard of before, and saw how concrete made from cement could be turned into a building material comparable to stone in the shortest time...
It can be said that the Huanglong County delegation completely overturned many of the governors' impressions of Qiyun County. Only at this time did they realize that Yan Liqiang was able to wipe out the seven Shatu tribes and the Heijie tribe not because of luck, but because of strength. Apart from anything else, the production efficiency of Huanglong County has already surpassed the production efficiency of the six northwestern states' craftsmen camp. Not only has the efficiency been improved, but the products produced are of better and more stable quality. For example, powerful weapons such as metal crossbows and pulley bows cannot be produced anywhere else in the world except Huanglong County.
If Huanglong County made all the governors feel the shock brought by industrial and technological innovation, then in Yan'an Fort, the governors saw another scene. The whole Yan'an Fort was crowded with cloth merchants from all sides, and the smell of wool and gold was everywhere. The woolen cloth produced by the No. 1 Factory in the World in Yan'an Fort became a source of wealth here. Because of the supply and demand in the market, the woolen cloth produced by the No. 1 Factory in the World had been reserved while it was still on the production line. Due to the chaotic situation in the Han Empire now, the silver bills of many money houses had difficulties in circulation and withdrawal. Many cloth merchants who came from far away to buy woolen cloth came with large groups of guards and carts and boxes of gold and silver. For this reason, there was also an underground warehouse in the No. 1 Factory in the World for storing these gold and silver.
In the underground warehouse of the No. 1 Factory in the World, looking at the dazzling gold and silver piled up like mountains, looking at the No. 1 Factory in the World moving cartloads of woolen cloth out of the factory, and then the merchants pushing boxes and cartloads of gold and silver into the warehouse on carts, all the governors' eyes became red, really red. The cloth flowing from those looms was not white woolen cloth, but white silver. Those spinning machines and looms were not used for spinning and weaving at all, but for digging gold and silver mines.
These governors were not people who had never seen the world, nor had they never seen money, but to be honest, they had never seen anyone make money as hard and easily as the No. 1 Factory in the World. Moreover, they had never seen millions of taels of gold and silver stacked up in piles. They saw all these scenes in the No. 1 Factory in the World.
After visiting the No. 1 Factory in the World and learning from Yan Liqiang that the woolen cloth produced by the No. 1 Factory now brought in a net profit of more than ten thousand taels every day, these provincial governors finally understood what the most profitable business in the world was.
Yan Liqiang did not keep anything to himself and directly shared his experience of making money with several provincial governors. The most important reason why the No. 1 Factory in the World could make a lot of money was that the No. 1 Factory in the World had a stable wool supply base. The entire wool cloth production industry chain had been opened up and was not controlled by others. The profit of each link could be maximized. On this basis, strict quality control and the huge reputation of the No. 1 Factory in the World turned the No. 1 Factory in the World into a continuous gold mine.
Several governors now own a lot of grassland and farmland in the Gulang grassland. The successful model and experience of the world's number one factory are right before their eyes. The manufacturing bureau has already started selling looms and textile machines. If they still don't know what to do, the IQ of those governors is worrying. But in fact, no one who can be a governor is stupid.
After seeing all this, while visiting the training of the Longya Army's archers, seeing the swift and fiery attack display of tens of thousands of archers, seeing that more than ten thousand archers shot down most of the scarecrows all over the mountains and fields with a volley of arrows from hundreds of meters away, and after three volleys, there were only a few targets left standing on the hillsides and fields with tens of thousands of scarecrows, the last bit of strange thoughts in the hearts of several governors were completely extinguished, and they dared not have any other ideas anymore.
They had heard some rumors about the archers on the battlefield before, and they always thought that someone was exaggerating. But when they actually saw it, they finally understood why the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Seven Shatu Tribes and the Black Jie people threw down their armor and weapons when they encountered this army on the Gulang grassland, and had no power to resist. The rumors were not exaggerated. The terrifying archers of the Longya Army could crush any army before they even made contact on the battlefield. All armies were just targets in front of such an army - infantry were immovable targets, and cavalry were moving targets. The only ones in the world who could deal with archers were archers, and in the world, only the King of Pingxi had the ability to equip an archer unit of this scale at one time...
In addition to obtaining profitable wool, the most crucial point for the King of Pingxi who conquered the Gulang Grassland was something that he did not mention before, but all the provincial governors understood after watching the training of the Longya Army's archers. After conquering the Gulang Grassland, the King of Pingxi possessed the best rhinoceros horses in the Han Empire. With these best military horses, the King of Pingxi could equip the archers continuously.
More than 10,000 cavalry archers can almost sweep across the Gulang grassland. If the King of Pingxi is equipped with 100,000 cavalry archers, wouldn't he be able to sweep across the world and be invincible
Is it difficult for King Pingxi to equip more than 100,000 archers
After visiting Huanglong County and the No. 1 Factory in the World, and after visiting the Kyudo Club, this question was a complete free point question for several governors, but several governors also understood that the same question could be a fatal question for others. They began to feel lucky, while some began to feel scared, fortunately they knew it not too late...
(End of this chapter)