Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2219, The Industrialization Road of the Ottoman Empire
In the fertile watershed of the Danube, Ibrahim traveled through many places in detail, and almost every place was the same as here in Constance. The fertile fields turned into grasslands, and people no longer grew food, but raised sheep and cattle.

The wool and beef produced here were continuously sold to the Ming Empire, which brought considerable income to the nobles and lords here, and also brought considerable tax revenue to the Ottoman Empire treasury.

It seems that all this seems to be very good, but Ibrahim always feels that something is wrong, it seems that there is a huge hidden danger in it.

It's just that he still can't find out what's wrong, what kind of hidden dangers are in it.

With such doubts, Ibrahim returned to Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

He really wanted to go to Suleiman to report what he had seen in the Danube area, but he was ruled by Suleiman to inspect the newly completed Ottoman textile factory.

So Ibrahim hurried to the Ottoman textile factory in the suburbs.

At this moment, here in the Ottoman Textile Factory, there are workshops in the huge factory. There are a large number of machines in the factory that are making bursts of roars. A large number of female workers are very busy beside the machines, operating the machines in a slightly unfamiliar way The cotton is spun into thread, which is then spun into cloth.

Sultan Suleiman of the Ottoman Empire looked at the huge factory in front of him, watched the propaganda of the machine, the rotation of a large number of shuttles, and the rotation of cotton threads one by one. In a blink of an eye, cloth came down from the production line like running water.

There was a smile on his face, and he was very satisfied with it.

The Ottoman Empire finally built its own first modern textile production line, officially opening the road to industrialization of the Ottoman Empire.

"Your Majesty, our textile factory uses the first-generation steam-powered textile machine. Although this machine is not the most advanced, its structure is relatively simple, and our people can maintain it after studying in Daming."

"However, the efficiency of this machine is quite good, and its production speed will not be inferior to the most advanced electric textile machine of Daming people."

"If it starts production at full capacity, it can produce more than 5000 cotton cloths a day!"

Beside Suleiman, the manager of the factory, Daniel, smiled and introduced the factory to Suleiman in detail.

The young sultan in front of him, he is talented and determined to revitalize the Ottoman Empire, and has carried out various reforms in all aspects of the Ottoman Empire.

One of the most important points is to emulate the industrialization of the empire.

He saw that the Ming Empire became stronger due to industrialization, so he followed the example of the Ming Empire and spent a lot of money to build a number of factories, including the textile factory in front of him, the cement factory and the steel factory under construction, and It is said that electricity will be developed in the future, threatening to make Istanbul as bright as day even at night, just like the capital of the Ming Empire.

It's just that such a road is obviously not so easy to walk.

Not to mention, just the textile factory in front of me, almost all the technology, equipment, etc. in this textile were imported from the Ming Empire at a high price.

This kind of textile production line driven by steam power has already been eliminated and replaced in the Ming Empire, and now people in Daming have gradually begun to use the third generation of electric textile machines.

This steam spinning machine is no longer needed.

But even for the outdated steam textile machines, the Ottoman Empire still paid a high price to buy them back. The large and small machines in the entire factory cost the Ottoman Empire more than 300 million taels of silver.

Moreover, the construction, installation, transportation, etc. of this factory all depend on the Ming people, and even a piece of iron on the machine has to be transported from the Ming Empire.

Because in the words of the Ming people, there are differences in the iron sheets. The ductility, toughness, etc. of the iron sheets of different materials will have huge differences, and these will affect the use of the machine.

The unscrupulous Daming people dared to charge him a tael of silver for a piece of iron, which was simply a money grab.

And these people, just like their ancestors, invited Daming engineers to come here to install and debug these machines. These Daming people are quite arrogant.

The salary is high. A Ming engineer actually needs more than 100 taels of silver a month, and he also needs to pay extra for accommodation, food, entertainment, business trip subsidies, transportation subsidies, and so on.

Adding up all these miscellaneous things, it would cost more than 200 taels of silver a month to invite an engineer from the Ming Empire.

People in Daming are very affectionate, they always say they want to eat their own food, they are not used to all kinds of pancakes from the Ottoman Empire, nor the mutton here.

Anyway, it is necessary to provide a chef for the Ming people, and the ingredients must be imported from the Ming Dynasty, otherwise these Ming people will give you a pick and quit.

Also, the people of Daming are very picky about where they live. They said that it should be similar to that of the Ming Empire. Not only should there be toilets, but also electric lights and so on. Anyway, there are a lot of requirements, which are more than serving noble lords. trouble.

The key is that apart from these, people in Daming also have a strict working system. They only work eight hours a day, and they will never work overtime with you. Even if you pay more, they will not work overtime for you.

At the same time, people in Daming have to rest for two days a week. If there are any holidays in Daming, these people also have a holiday. Anyway, they just don’t do things for you. Even if you give them money, they are still uncles. .

In order for these people to do things well for themselves, Daniel has spent a lot of thought, built a special canteen, and even built a football field for the Ming people. Well, this is what they strongly requested, and it is said that it is for For relaxation and entertainment outside of work.

In order for these Daming people to speed up their work, Daniel even bought two beautiful female slaves for each of them, which made these Ming people look better.

But even so, the construction cycle of the entire factory took almost three years, which can be said to have taken a long time and a lot of money, manpower and material resources.

"Can you produce 5000 bolts of cloth a day?"

"Not bad!"

When Suleiman heard this, he immediately nodded in satisfaction.

"It's no wonder that the price of Ming people's cloth is so cheap. This kind of production speed is really amazing."

Then Suleiman also sighed.

For a long time, the cloth of the Ming people has been filled in every corner of the Ottoman Empire. The cloth of the Ming people is not only of good quality, but also very cheap.

Even when it was transported to the Ottoman Empire and sold to consumers, the price of cloth from Daming people was still much cheaper than the cloth hand-spun locally in the Ottoman Empire.

This greatly impacted the handicraftsmen of the Ottoman Empire, causing a large number of handicraftsmen to lose their important source of income, and their lives became even worse.

It’s just this situation. During this period, everyone didn’t really realize it. They just thought that the cloth of Daming people was very cheap and of good quality, which was a little incredible. They didn’t know how Daming people did it.

Looking at the machine in front of him now, seeing the cloth produced like flowing water, Suleiman really felt the power and efficiency of the machine, and the speed was too fast.

The factory in front of me can produce 5000 pieces a day, 10 pieces in 150 days, and [-] million pieces of cloth in a year. Such a huge output is really amazing.

The point is that this is not yet the most advanced textile factory of the Ming people.

"Great Sultan!"

At this time, Ibrahim came to the factory, found Suleiman, and saluted Suleiman respectfully.

"Ok!"

"You came at a good time, come and see our textile factory in the Ottoman Empire."

"The textile factory in front of me can produce 5000 pieces of cloth a day!"

Seeing Ibrahim, Suleiman smiled and pointed to the factory in front of him.

"It's really amazing!"

Ibrahim looked at the rapidly rotating machine in front of him, and nodded with a smile.

When a large number of machines rotate in an orderly and fast manner, it gives people a mechanical aesthetic feeling, which makes people dazzled.

"You have been to Daming, and you have also visited the factories of Daming people. Tell me, how far is the factory in front of us compared with the factories of Daming people?"

Suleiman asked Ibrahim with a smile.

"Great Sultan!"

"Objectively speaking, there is still a big gap between the factory in front of you and the factory of Daming people."

"When the Son of Heaven came to the throne, I went to the Ming Empire to attend the grand ceremony and visited the factories of the Ming people."

"The textile factory in front of me is nothing. What really shocked me was the car factory. The car factory of the Ming people. The feeling that a car is produced from parts to parts to become a car is the real shock."

"On their assembly line, cars are produced continuously like flowing water. The production lines are basically gold mines, producing gold continuously."

Ibrahim thought about it and said very seriously.

"Ok!"

"There is still a big gap between us and the Ming Empire."

"However, as long as we can speed up our pace and keep moving forward, I believe we will catch up with the Daming people one day."

Suleiman was not angry after hearing this.

The strength of the Ming Empire is something that is obvious to all the world, and now I am quickly catching up with the Ming Empire, starting with simple textile factories, cement factories, and steel factories.

Next, Suleiman will develop electricity, shipbuilding, chemical industry, oil refining, etc. He believes that with his own efforts, the Ottoman Empire will become as powerful as the Ming Empire.

It is not terrible to have a gap, but the terrible thing is that you are unwilling to learn from others' strengths and stay in the same place.

(End of this chapter)