Several people returned to Liu Jin's house, and in the study, everyone pondered while drinking tea.

"Whether it's cotton or wool, it seems that they can't get around Warat."

After a long time, Zhang Mao thought about it and said.

"It can't get around Warat, after we wiped out the army of the little Tatar prince last year, Tatar is no longer a concern, and now the vitality of the Tatar tribes is greatly damaged, and it can't pose the slightest threat to our Ming at all."

"But it also gave the Varat an opportunity, which is now annexing the tribes that formerly belonged to the Tatars, and has been expanding its power eastward."

Liu Jin nodded and said, and then took out a map and began to introduce the situation of the Warat tribes.

"The relationship between the Warat tribes is generally equal in structure, and it can be divided into four main tribes: the Heshute tribe, the Dzungar tribe, the Dulbert tribe and the Turghut tribe."

"Among them, the Heshute tribe is the descendant of the golden family, and it is nominally the leader of the alliance of the Warat tribes, and the other tribes are the generalized Mongols who are dependent on the Mongols in a broad sense, and the leader of the alliance is not the king of the Khan, only the right to convene, not centralized."

"Warat was the strongest in the Yingzong period, but after the death of Yexian, the Warat were scattered, and their power was weakening day by day, and now, the contradictions between them are actually quite serious, nominally they are still Warat, but they have long been separated."

"Originally, after we wiped out the army of the little Tatar prince last year, the vitality of the Tatar tribes was greatly damaged, and it was a good time for them to annex the Tatars and unify the northern steppe."

"But because they are internally dispersed and their forces are also dispersed, now they are really moving eastward, intending to unify the northern steppes, that is, the Heshute and Dzungar tribes of the four Warat tribes, and the Heshute tribe gradually conquering the Tatar tribes from north to south, and the Dzungar tribe conquering the Tatar tribes from west to east."

For the northern grasslands, Liu Jin has been preparing.

Whether it is the Golden Continent or Australia, it is a little far away from Daming, and this northern grassland is different.

Beyond the Great Wall, there is a very vast land, the steppe in the north, and the more vast Siberia in the north, although this area is cold, but it contains extremely rich mineral resources.

Later generations of polar bears have survived because of the abundant resources of Siberia.

With such a huge area and so close to the Ming Dynasty, how can there be any reason not to eat?

What's more, only when the northern grassland is truly pacified, Daming can be regarded as truly without edge, otherwise the capital is so close to the grassland, and the other party can kill the capital at any time, which is extremely dangerous for Daming.

Therefore, Liu Jin paid close attention to the news of the Tatar and Warat tribes very early, and paid close attention to every move on the grassland.

"We're going to do it now, that's the best time~"

"If we wait for Warat to unify the Tatar tribes, we will face a powerful enemy at that time, maybe it will be another Yexian or the Mongol Empire."

Liu Jin bluntly proposed to take action against Warat and seize the opportunity to solve the problems on the northern grasslands.

After listening to Liu Jin's analysis, Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo couldn't help but nodded.

Now is indeed a good time to use force against Warat, the Warat is scattered, and the vitality of the Tatars is greatly damaged, but now the Ming Dynasty is in full swing, the national strength is at its peak, and if you don't take the opportunity to eliminate the threat of the northern steppes now, it will be difficult in the future.

"Your Majesty is also worried about the northern grasslands, and intends to take advantage of the current situation to solve the problems of the northern grasslands."

Zhang Mao thought about it and revealed.

He is a celebrity around Emperor Hongzhi, and he is the first to know about any major events, and he is also clear about what Emperor Hongzhi is worried about.

"It's just that if we use force against Warat, there will definitely be many ministers in the DPRK and China who will oppose it, especially those civil ministers, who will definitely strongly oppose the use of force against Warat."

Zhu Fu thought for a while and said.

The civilian clique and the military generals and nobles clique are naturally opposed, and the most opposed thing for the civilian clique is the use of force.

Even not long ago, Zhang Mao and Liu Jin defeated the Wa State, there are still people who impeach Zhang Mao and Liu Jin and them, impeach them for killing in the Wa State, wantonly killing and plundering the vassal ministers, and so on.

Thinking of this, Zhu Fu felt that it was unrealistic.

"Yes, not long ago, we just went on an expedition to the Wa Kingdom, and now we are going to use force against Wara, I'm afraid the opposition from the court will be very strong."

"And Your Majesty may not agree."

Zhang Mao also nodded and said.

"Zhang Gong, Zhu Gong, you just wait to see the show, in a few days, even if we don't need to bring it up, these civil officials in the court will also propose to use force against Wara."

After listening to this, Liu Jin smiled and said very confidently.

"Why is that?"

When Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo heard this, they immediately asked suspiciously.

"Because of interests, because of the ass determines the head~"

Liu Jin smiled and said pretending to be profound.

"Interests?"

"The ass decides the head?"

Zhang Mao's minds quickly became contemplative.

"You mean the cotton and wool?"

Soon, Zhang Mao thought of something all of a sudden, so he said.

"Zhang Gong is amazing~ how quickly I guessed it."

Liu Jin smiled and nodded.

……

Things were just as Liu Jin expected.

With the price of cotton rising all the way, at the same time cotton is in short supply, the situation of no market is becoming more and more serious, and people who invest in textile factories in Beijing and Tianjin are dying.

In the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, there are thousands of textile factories large and small, which almost involves the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, and even the interests of the entire Ming magnates and upper-class people.

From the top to the bottom of the court, from the princes and nobles, to the ordinary officials, and even the eunuchs in the palace, the small people in the market, etc., there are too many people who invest in textile factories.

Needless to say, the Sangong Textile Factory, Zhang's Textile Factory, etc., the textile factories invested by these generals and Xungui Group are very large-scale, with a lot of workers and a lot of machines.

On the side of the civil official group, the Wang family's Caiyun Textile Factory, the cabinet Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, as well as the six Shangshu, Shilang, etc., almost all of the civil officials, large and small, have invested in some textile factories to some extent.

This is also a phenomenon in the Beijing-Tianjin area now, investing in textile mills, investing in maritime trade firms, investing in cement factories, etc. has become a trend, and it is also a very hot topic.

After all, no one can get along with silver.

Now the price of cotton has soared, and it has reached the point where there is no market for it, and there is no place to buy cotton if you have money, which has caused huge turmoil in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area.

The first problem of capitalist development is in front of everyone, not the problem of market saturation, but the problem of insufficient raw materials.

Because of this incident, people in the Beijing-Tianjin area couldn't eat or sleep.

Although the investment in textile mills is not as large as that of the ocean-going trading houses, the investment of the ocean-going trading houses is often the investment of hundreds of thousands of taels or millions of taels of silver.

However, the investment of textile mills also requires at least thousands of taels or tens of thousands of taels of silver, after all, the price of new spinning machines and looms is very expensive.

Because the investment in the spinning mill does not need to be too large, it also attracts people from the entire Beijing-Tianjin area to invest, and the relationship and implicated interests are too wide.

The whole capital is discussing the matter of cotton, discussing the sharp rise in cotton prices, and at the same time, they are also asking for cotton everywhere.

The textile mills that were originally lively and busy have also stopped working, which makes the owners of the textile factories even more sad and at a loss.

At this time, the Daming Morning Post began to exert its strength under the instruction of Liu Jin.

First of all, the Ming Morning Post is to introduce the world outside the Ming Dynasty to the people of the Ming Dynasty as always, and in recent days, it has devoted a large amount of space to a detailed introduction to the Western Regions.

The historical relationship between the Western Regions and the Han family tells in detail the rule and management of the Central Plains Dynasty in the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

The climate and products of the Western Regions, a detailed collection of the climatic conditions of the Western Regions, and the introduction of the specialties of the Western Regions, the focus is naturally on cotton in the Western Regions.

It is said that the cotton cultivation in the Western Regions has a long history, high yield, slender lint, high quality, and so on.

When I saw this, the people who were worried about cotton in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area suddenly seemed to grasp the life-saving straw, there was no cotton in the Ming Dynasty, and there was cotton in the Western Regions.

And to go to the Golden Continent to take a boat, to go to the South Seas also need a boat, the investment is very large, but to go to the Western Regions do not need, there is a land directly connected to the Western Regions, get a camel team, the horse team can from the Western Regions to sell cotton back.

All of a sudden, a large number of merchants in the capital went to the Western Regions for the huge profits of cotton.

But that's not all.

After the Ming Morning Post gave a detailed introduction to the cotton in the Western Regions, it began to tell the reason for the shortage of raw materials this time, and then proposed a way to replace cotton with wool.

It also introduced in detail how to clean, soak, deodorize and so on the methods and steps of wool, Liu Jin even let people demonstrate in public in the capital, turning the dirty wool into clean, snow-white wool.

This time it is even more ecstatic for the people in the Beijing and Tianjin areas, cotton can only be planted once a year, the cotton used now is planted last year, and this year's cotton will not be available until autumn and winter.

Therefore, in a short period of time, it is difficult to reduce the price of cotton, even if cotton can be purchased from the Western Regions, the price will not be cheap.

But this wool is different, there is more wool on the grassland, and there is no one on the grassland for this kind of dirty wool, and you can exchange some things for the grassland casually, and you can exchange it for a cart or a cart of wool back.

If you use this wool to spin and weave cloth, the cost of this cloth can be reduced and the profit will be higher.