At night, private time, under the candlelight, Wu Ming looked at the telegram. The telegram came from Xiyang, Huangzhou. It was sent by the shopkeeper of his knitting farm. The shopkeeper briefly told the owner three things in the telegram, all of which were related to the supply of raw materials.

Since the Nanyang Trading Company signed a trade agreement with the Persian and Roman countries in the west, it has placed orders in various parts of the country, including Huangzhou and Huangzhou major workshops, it has begun to work overtime to produce various products to ensure delivery on time.

Among these orders, they include textiles and knitted fabrics, relatively inconspicuous knitted socks, knitted hats, and knitted gloves. They need as much as possible.

Knitted goods such as knitted socks have always followed the route of small profits but fast sales. As long as the sales volume is sufficient, the profits are also considerable. This time, the orders brought back by Nanyang Trading Company to domestic factories are a huge number even in terms of the orders received by Chengtianfu Factory.

Wu Ming, who has always been in charge of industrial affairs, was shocked when he learned the approximate number. At present, seeing his shopkeeper complaining that the factory was almost busy, he was a little confused and asked Sima Lingji who was sitting aside:

"Are Persia and Roman countries not great countries? Why are they crazily placing orders to the Nansi like a starving ghost reincarnated?"

Sima Lingji put down the account book and smiled and said, "Scarcity is precious. For example, there is no knitting machine there, knitted socks and other knitted goods, which will naturally be easy to sell. The Roman country was cut off from the Persian country for several years. Now the sea trade is reopened, so you can't buy it?"

"As for the Persian country, it is said that underground oil and water are generally more abundant. Now that people are not short of money, of course, the more they have, the better."

"Petroleum can extract wax, tiny oil, and various lubricating oils, which are valuable."

Wu Ming asked again: "This is thousands of miles away, Nansi has been transporting candles back and selling them? Are you not afraid of losing money?"

Sima Lingji replied: "Who said he wanted to ship it back and sell it? They went directly to various countries in India, and then exchanged cotton and spices from the other party, and then transported it back."

Wu Ming asked again: "The Persian state has oil, what about the Roman state? It seems that I haven't heard of them having oil that doesn't have money, right?"

"I have gold coins. Long ago, the gold coins of Fu (the former name of Rome) were very famous in Guanzhong."

"Does there be many gold coins in the Roman Kingdom?"

"I heard that, Rome has negotiated with Persia many times before, and one of the conditions is that Rome will buy peace to Persia millions of gold coins every year."

While listening, Wu Ming murmured "crazy, crazy", and was a little unbelievable about the rapid development of sea trade.

This is a business with countries thousands of miles away. It takes a year for the fleet to go back and forth. No one had ever thought that the maritime trade could be so far away. Now, when it comes to Persia and Roman countries, they have to give a thumbs up and praise them for being "popular".

Both countries are vast countries with vast territory and hundreds of thousands of victories. Now they shake hands and make peace, and sign trade agreements separately. When the envoys brought the good news back to the Central Plains in Xiachu, many real owners and merchants were smiling.

The two great powers in the west are generous and want almost everything they need for the products in the Central Plains. Needless to say, silk, porcelain, tea, textiles, paper products, handicrafts and industrial products are also crazy to buy.

It can be said that the trade orders brought to China by the imperial envoys and Nanyang Trading Company were enough to allow many large-scale workshops, workshops and plantations in the Central Plains to eat for several years.

Two huge markets opened the door to dynasty commodities. At this time, the greater the output of domestic workshops, workshops and plantations, the more they earned, so many real estate owners began to expand their production capacity and recruit workers.

Recruiting people with generous treatment everywhere has gradually become more and more obvious.

Both men and women can find work in workshops, workshops, and plantations in various places. Because they have more wages and good treatment (relatively speaking), and the price of grain and low cloth prices, they can support the whole family by working alone.

Many people who work as tenant farmers for landlords, saw that working is much more cost-effective than farming, flock to nearby commercial ports to "work".

At the same time, because the factory and plantation are increasing production, they need to borrow money to turn over, so the lending business of each counter shop is also in full swing. The good news brought back by the returning envoy blew across the Central Plains like a spring breeze, blew up a vibrant life.

The vast market has given the motivation for real owners to increase production and expand their business scale. The continuous improvement of steamships has allowed real owners in inland areas such as the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to participate in the maritime trade.

With the power on the telegram line, the proprietors in Chang'an can "command in the middle" and contact the harbor and their own industries at any time.

The future and "money prospects" are bright, and everyone is working towards a bright future.

However, all this was difficult to happen.

Taking Chengtian Prefecture (Huangzhou and Ezhou) as an example, the number of registered households in Chengtian Prefecture has exceeded 500,000. In terms of one household and five, there are 2.5 million people who live in Chengtian Prefecture.

In addition to the "temporary population" working in Chengtian Mansion, the number of people passing by business travelers in Chengtian Mansion exceeds four million. Most of them are full-time (without agricultural production) populations and do not produce food themselves, but also consume a lot of food.

The land of Chengtian Prefecture alone cannot support so many people. If there is no sufficient population support, how can industry, business and mining industries prosper?

Thanks to the imperial court's great development of Han Mian, which lasted for nearly twenty years, a situation of "Jinghu is enough and the world is mature". Exported grain from the Han Mian area was conveniently transported to Chengtian Prefecture by water, feeding the residents of Chengtian Prefecture.

With sufficient food supply, the extremely developed industry, business, and mining industry in Chengtian Prefecture was supported without the premise of the development of the Han Dynasty. Others were delusions.

The great development of Han Mian has lasted for nearly twenty years. If it were not for the strong support of the emperor and the continuous investment in manpower and material resources for so many years, how could the current situation be?

Not only Chengtian Prefecture benefited from increasing grain production and income, but also from the two Huaihe River, two lakes, Henan, Jiangnan and even Hebei, the court has ushered in a good situation of bumper grain harvest year by year because of the unremitting development of water conservancy, promoting iron tools, and promoting new farming technologies.

Only by sufficient food supply can more full-scale populations be fed, industrial, commercial and mining industries flourish, and workshops, plantations, ports, and commercial ports in various places become busy.

This is the vitality that Wu Ming felt. Since he finished his mourning, he has ushered in another important task: as the surveyor of the "Hehuai Line", he went to Huaibei to preside over the survey of the Hehuai Railway.

It is estimated that it will take more than half a year to come back. When Wu Ming thought that Sima Lingji wanted to stay in Chang'an to take charge of housework and could not be with him, he felt a little guilty. Seeing that it was not too early, he went to pull the account book in Sima Lingji's hands:

"Don't look, hurry up and go to bed."

"Oh, don't make a fuss, I also need to prepare information and wait for the queen to inquire tomorrow."

"Inquiry? Is it a meeting?"

"Yes, it's not OK to have a meeting. So many things need to be coordinated."
Chapter completed!