When Tadito Fujiwara led the Japanese delegation to return to Jiangnan again, it was already the bright March.

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, in Guazhou Dune, a group of short Japanese Japanese looked at the two sides of the Yangtze River that had changed a lot when they came with him, and they were all shocked.

Although they had long heard that the Song people were good at using water power, and had no divisions between public and private counties, and water trucks were all raised. But it was winter before, and the water trucks by the river had already stopped. There was no way, the small ice age was cold, and even the wide and rapid Yangtze River could not avoid the end of freezing, let alone other things.

The water trucks all stood on the shore, with the thickest ice layer there and the earliest frozen one. Not to mention that the Japanese came too late, even if they were two months earlier, they would not be able to see the water trucks rotating. The waterfront on the riverside was full of lively workshops and workshops.

But now, these people are following the southeast official road down Huainan. At that time, the ice and snow melt and the water wheels are moving again. The once deserted workshops are now lively again. The vigorous power of a completely different city and city makes the Japanese missions shake.

This is a power that Japanese people have not seen.

There are also various workshops there, which belong to different sizes and sizes. But they have never seen so many such dense workshops.

Hiding workshops in the manor, the most powerful force is invisibly divided into pieces. It was impossible for Japan in the feudal agricultural era to have "industry".

Even if this "industry" is primary, it cannot be primary.

In the Song Dynasty, although the workshop cannot be seen by the eyes, the equipment driven by water, wind and animal power is already blooming everywhere.

When the Japanese mission passed by Xuzhou, it was the Liguojian. What they saw was a picture that was completely beyond the sky of their brains - thick smoke rushed straight into the sky, looking at it from afar, the Japanese thought that a demon came to the world.

Li Guojian, one of Zhao Song's major iron smelting bases. Now there are more than fifty pits here.

Even if the technology is still very backward, but the quality is not enough to make up for quantity, this is definitely one of the most top iron smelting forging centers in the world today.

There are more than fifty pits, each pit is upwards with a hundred people, and more than half are controlled by the large households. One of the three iron materials produced is handed over.

This tax rate has increased a lot compared to before, because the transportation and sales of iron materials produced in smelting pits were arranged uniformly by the government. But now the remaining iron materials are sold by the mine owners themselves, and the profits have increased significantly. Therefore, the tax rate has risen, so they have nothing to say.

But setting tax rates at the limit is itself a Zhao Song old tradition?

The annual iron feed of Liguojian can exceed 5 million kilograms, far exceeding the previous period of the most prosperous Shenzong Dynasty.

This is because Li Guojian is now strictly supervised, and the unspoken rules in the past - concealing and evading taxes - have disappeared. The government's relaxation of the remaining iron materials has greatly increased the production momentum of the owners of the smelting households.

The number of employees in all smelting pits in Liguojian has generally increased. The number of people working in some smelting pits directly controlled by the government in the country can exceed 500 people in mining and charcoal cutting.

This is one of Zhao Song's four major iron smelting bases. Now its actual status is somewhat declining, but its scale is getting bigger and bigger.

It was because of Zhao Gou's promotion. Although he was unable to develop minerals in a leapfrog manner, it was easy to promote the iron smelting industry of the Song Dynasty.

After all, this thing is profitable. The court only needs to let go. Some people are willing to spend huge amounts of money to operate the iron ore.

Xuzhou has been directly exposed to the booming development of its forging industry due to the rise of the iron material market.

I don’t say anything else. After having iron materials, I just want to make iron pots, kitchen knives, and iron scissors. They can sell as much as they have.

The ironware that was built into a ship was sent to the north and south of the Yangtze River along the canal, either sold in the Central Plains, or exported to Japan, Southeast Asia, and even the distant Indian, Tianfang, iron pot and other utensils are definitely popular goods for current trade.

This has led to the gathering of forging workshops in Xuzhou, and the limited river section (Si Shui) gathered workshops on both sides, with water trucks standing tall. Cooperating with the craftsmen of these workshops, merchants who traveled from land to land, and the cargo of those ships, there was a silent power that made the Japanese ban it.

If these workshops are from Japan…?

On the way from Xuzhou to Guazhoudu, Tadao Fujiwara thought this more than once, and more than one person in the entire Japanese mission had imagined it.

If these workshops were from Japan, how beautiful would it be.

The Song people were just a mere Nationale Iron Production, which was far behind Japan's ten streets.

This shows how different the national strengths of the two countries are.

"The prosperity of the Song Dynasty's industry and commerce surpassed our country, and the wealth was even greater than that of our country. I was worried about national affairs and pondered for many days, and gained something." Fujiwara Tadahiro wrote like a god, and wrote repeatedly in a booklet with him: "The Song Dynasty newspaper said: Business travel cannot be done, goods cannot be connected to the north and south, things cannot be used for their full use, and people cannot obtain their profits. If the people have no profit, they will not be rich, if the people are not rich, the country has no taxes, the army will not be strong, and if the soldiers are not strong, the world will be in danger...

The foundation of the country was to tax money and grain. However, in today's Japan, half of the land was transformed into manors, and although the rest belonged to the Zhixing Kingdom, most of them were obtained by the royal family and court officials."

Tadashi Fujiwara, as the Taishuo government, knew it very well.

Now that half of the land in the country has been manorized, the manor lord system in Japan has been completely established.

A large number of farmers became exclusive farmers of the manor. The manors produced grain, agricultural and sideline products, forest products and household handicraft products. Except for a small part of these products to meet the needs of the manors themselves, the rest was the wealth of the manor owners. They were either used to enjoy luxury or maintain the manor's force.

As officials of the court or monks of the temple, the lords of the manor usually have the power to save the manor from external interference and harassment. This is like the local tyrants in the late Han and Three Kingdoms period in China. I want to know how much money they could pay for taxes and how much wealth they could hide in the manor.

Moreover, each manor is a layer of barriers. As a self-sufficiency economy that is closely integrated with agriculture and family handicrafts, the entire manor is an economic whole that is rarely connected to the outside world.

Even the Japanese folk business is still quite primitive, which is where nobles such as Heian Kyo and Nara gather. Fixed markets and convenience stores are rarely found outside regular markets. To a certain extent, Hirado Port, which has frequent contacts with China, is the most prosperous place for Japanese business.

The trade between Japan and China seems to have flowed into Japan, but it is directly into the hands of the nobles and into the manor.

The business of the people is really limited.

Tadaoto Fujiwara was arrogant and didn't dare to move the manor, that was too hot. Although he was one of the leading figures of the Fujiwara clan, Tooyu's confidant, and Taizheng of the current dynasty, if he really couldn't think about it and took the world's treason, he would have to die and die.

But what if you do it in business?

If you don’t touch the old interests, you will open up new interests, that is, you will take a bite, which is probably the right thing to do!

Thinking of this, a hint of joy flashed across Tadito Fujiwara's face. The thoughts in his mind were completely penetrated.

"After all, I didn't leave like this!"
Chapter completed!