"Su Xiu's current output can reach more than 10,000 horses a year, which is three times that before the expansion."

In the huge and wide Su embroidery workshop, Wang Yusen followed Zhu Yunwen's side step by step, and the two of them walked and watched in the workshop with hundreds of followers.

This time, Wang Yusen didn't empty the entire Su embroidery workshop, it was all emptied, who did the emperor see?

I came to see the production, and I drove the embroidery girl away, and then I produced a fart.

"This Suzhou embroidery is not easy to do."

After taking a finished horse, Zhu Yunwen felt the comfort of the touch, and sincerely admired: "Suzhou embroidered armor in the world, can be called the best of my Ming Dynasty textile, the crown clothes of the emperors of the Song and Yuan dynasties are from the hands of Suzhou embroidery women, it is not unreasonable." ”

"Yes, nearly a thousand experienced embroidery girls can only make these few thousand horses in a year's effort."

Wang Yusen introduced: "Although Suzhou families raise silkworms and embroidery, and textile has almost become a common sideline of the masses in Suzhou at present, the Suzhou embroidery woven by the people is only crowned with the name of Suzhou embroidery.

The textiles woven in Suzhou are collectively referred to as Suzhou embroidery, and only the Suzhou Textile Division of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau is the real top Suzhou embroidery. ”

There are many advantages and characteristics of Su embroidery, and Zhu Yunwen didn't bother to listen to Wang Yusen's popular science endorsement, so he interrupted without waiting for the latter to finish: "Tell me about sales." ”

Let Wang Yusen introduce it like this, I am afraid that I can't finish the introduction in thousands of words, Zhu Yunwen really can't listen to it.

"At present, the main sales of Suzhou embroidery are purchased from the Suzhou Branch of the Imperial Merchants, the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce and the Imperial Division."

Wang Yusen said: "The Suzhou government itself does not undertake the responsibility of finding sales outlets, and most of the orders are placed directly by these three major buyers.

Among them, the orders placed by the Imperial Merchants Branch are the largest, with nearly 5,000 horses a year, and the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce and the Imperial Front Division are slightly less, the former can have about 2,000 horses, and the latter is even less, only a few hundred horses. ”

The main reason why the Imperial Front Division bought Su embroidery was, of course, not to sell it, but to weave official robes for officials in the capital.

In the past few years, the court has been rich, and Zhu Yunwen is not the kind of stingy master, it is impossible to let the Beijing officials be like Hongwu Dynasty, the official uniform is damaged, and he will find the land to repair it for another three years.

Suzhou embroidery expanded production, a piece of cloth is only a few dozen taels of silver, and hundreds of horses are only more than 10,000 taels.

Zhu Yunwen didn't bother to go to the treasury for this money, and reached out to Xia Yuanji to ask for money, he really didn't bother to look at the latter's picky demeanor.

This money has always been paid out of his own pockets, which can be regarded as an extra favor for the Beijing officials.

A year, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers.

"It's not bad."

Listening to Wang Yusen say that the annual production and marketing are extremely balanced, Zhu Yunwen was in a good mood.

"Expand production three times, and still be able to achieve less supply than demand, doesn't this show how rich my Ming people are now? It's a good thing, it's a good thing. ”

The emperor was happy, and Wang Yusen laughed: "A few years ago, the output of Suzhou embroidery was not high, and the price remained high.

Although after the expansion of the textile division, the price of Suzhou embroidery has rebounded slightly, but I never thought that the price of Suzhou embroidery jumped again last year, and the price of general coarse cloth and general embroidery has dropped a lot.

Now it seems that it is the cascading effect brought about by His Majesty's opening of the bank last year. ”

"What is the deepest connection with the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce right now?"

Although he didn't quite understand why the emperor suddenly turned his attention to this matter, Wang Yusen hurriedly replied.

"It is a cloth market all over the country, and the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce will sell the goods to all provinces across the country.

The main sales of the Imperial Merchants Branch are still to overseas, and the ties with Quanzhou are deeper, and there are many maritime merchants in Quanzhou, and most of these maritime merchants take goods to the Imperial Merchants Branch. ”

Overseas dumping is a huge profit, and it is precisely because of this huge profit that the Huangshang branch is not willing to share profits with the local government at all.

The Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, as the tiger of Suzhou, is not the opponent of the Suzhou branch of the imperial merchant in the competition for the market, and can only earn some hard-earned money in China.

Zhu Yunwen's brows furrowed.

"Quanzhou's maritime merchants resell sales, why only receive goods from the imperial merchants, not from the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce? Is the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce's pricing too high or the supply volume not meeting the needs of Quanzhou maritime merchants? ”

Even if there is a dispute over agency fees, Zhu Yunwen does not believe that the financial resources of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce cannot even grab a piece of the market, and allows the imperial merchants to form a monopoly.

Wang Yusen smiled bitterly.

At this time, I really don't know how to explain to Zhu Yunwen, do you still need him to report the twists and turns?

The big guys are all clear at a glance.

What is Royal Merchants?

Isn't it you, the emperor, who is the major shareholder behind the people?

Even if the businessmen of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce want to make money, they don't dare to wrestle with the imperial merchants.

Seeing Wang Yusen's hesitant strength, Zhu Yunwen realized in his heart and knew that his question was raised in vain.

He asked what was the difference between saying this and saying, 'Why don't you eat minced meat?'"

Stupid.

Monopoly is not a good phenomenon.

The Imperial Merchants Association belonged to the entire Zhu Ming royal family, and this group of idle princes from the initial departure of the fiefdom and independent kingdom to the present became the largest capitalists in the Ming Dynasty, and they also enjoyed the glory and wealth one by one.

When the imperial merchant was first established, the family's profit was only more than 100,000 taels, but now it is good, and they are about to make 1 million a year even for food and drink!

Although the biggest winner here is him Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Yunwen was not complacent, but frowned on it.

Let the imperial businessmen continue to monopolize it like this, and in the future, these relatives of him will all become capital giants.

When they take advantage of the privileges and dignity brought by their natural status, and add a large amount of gold and silver to pave the way, they will have a huge impact or even damage to the private self-operated economy.

And what is really terrible is that when a monopoly situation is formed, then the holder of the monopoly commodity, the ruling party of the source of production, can set the price of the commodity at will and seize the wealth of the people.

"The three inevitable things in life, death, taxes, and imperial merchants?"

As soon as this thought arose, Zhu Yunwen felt a little cold sweat on his back.

We have to find a way to improve the balance of Daming's business form, and we can't let the monopoly situation continue to be maintained.

"Quanzhou Maritime or Quanzhou Shipping Division, has it reached an exclusive transaction agreement with the Imperial Merchants?"

Zhu Yunwen's question hit the nail on the head and went straight to Wang Yusen's heart.

The latter nodded again and again and complained: "This problem is not only our Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, including Zhejiang businessmen are also facing this situation, except for the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce, our Jiangnan provinces have been handled by the local Huangshang branch in the operation of commerce. ”

Zhu Yunwen didn't speak with a cold face, and he would only go to the government after taking a turn in this textile department.

"I'm going to Hangzhou next, and I'll let the president of the Suzhou Imperial Merchants Branch go to Hangzhou to wait for me."

Since Wang Yusen said that Zhejiang businessmen are also facing this situation, then this Hangzhou Zhu Yunwen has to take a good look.

Once that's true, it's time to think about how to deal with it.