The Industrial Revolution was not something that could be accomplished by one or two people, but by a class struggle.

Zhu Shun persuaded the West French to buy the worthless bituminous coal mines, with the simple aim of fostering a new class against the bureaucratic gentry that had been entrenched for thousands of years.

The greatest poison of the bureaucratic gentry is not to loot the people's fat and ointment, not to oppress the people, but to bury the silver.

Through land annexation, the bureaucratic gentry squeezed a large amount of land, grain, and silver in their hands, and were unwilling to circulate it.

When there is no silver in the market, prices will skyrocket, and more and more ordinary people will join the peasant uprising.

A large number of ordinary people participated in the uprising, the imperial court could not collect taxes, and the Ming Dynasty's finances would plummet.

The silver that was originally collected became less and less, and the silver had to be taken out to suppress the uprising, and it would be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to maintain its finances.

In order to have money to suppress the uprising, the bureaucratic gentry who owned a lot of land paid very little tax, and had to constantly increase the tax.

If the taxes are too heavy, more ordinary people will join the uprising, creating a vicious circle, and when the Ming finances collapse, the country will also perish.

While Zhu Shun set off the first industrial revolution, he also firmly grasped the dividends of industrialization and supported a group of industrialists.

Industrialists can not only make more people live, but also continue to develop new industrial machinery to promote the Ming Dynasty to move forward.

The most important energy source in the steam age was coal, and as long as the West Falcans seized the coal, they would become the richest industrialists in the Ming Dynasty, building a large number of laboratories and incubating one new machine after another.

It's just that the West French don't see that long-term at all, and now that there is a lot of cheap Zhuangzi land as a temptation, it is difficult for a few people to spend money on bituminous coal mines that are 'certainly' not profitable.

Just as Zhu Shun was about to take back the map, Ambassador Zhang took out one: "Although I don't know what the money printing machine in your kid's mouth and the big industrialist mean." ”

"But with your kid being able to peel back the layers of fog and analyze the calculations of the Donglin Party and the Jin Merchants so thoroughly, my Lao Zhang will believe you once."

There were not many members of the West French Party, only about a dozen people, Ambassador Zhang took one, Sun Yuanhua took two, and the others gritted their teeth, thinking that they would fight, and each took one.

This result was something Zhu Shun did not expect, after all, the ancients had a special obsession with land and land, and they didn't want to pick up Zhuangzi land for nothing, but went to buy bituminous coal mines that lost money.

This trust is really heavy.

It was not a few miles away from Wang Gong's factory, and Zhu Shun asked, "Everyone, do you want to see the rifling machine?" ”

Zhu Shun dared to invite them openly, he was not afraid that they would leak out, the gambling game had been finalized, and it was useless to leak out.

Besides, Dongchang and Jinyiwei are not vegetarians, according to Hu Blind's calculations, there are as many as sixty or seventy secret agents around Wang Gongchang.

The most elusive thief of the Ming Dynasty is here, and there is only one dead word.

Sun Yuanhua and Ambassador Zhang are dividing up the coal mines on the map, and the two of them were able to quarrel because of the power of a bird's gun, but now they are even more spittle.

Ambassador Zhang waved his hand and said, "No need, Wang Chengen mortgaged the Huangzhuang just to buy you to win, and this matter is still fake." ”

"I'm going to drink with your father another day, I have to settle a win with this Sun Langzhong today."

Sun Yuanhua showed a disdainful expression and sneered: "There is also a winner and a loser, which time do you say you quarreled with me?" ”

Ambassador Zhang was immediately angry when he heard the other party reveal his old background, after all, his subordinate Zhu Shun was still here: "Let's go, don't have a quarrel on the street, let's go to Xu Shilang's mansion." ”

When Sun Yuanhua heard him say that he was going to Mr.'s mansion, he couldn't hold it anymore, but he couldn't lose his position in front of so many colleagues, so he flicked his sleeves and snorted coldly: "Go and go, who is afraid of whom." ”

The pair of living treasures were gone, and the other West French had to go to carefully study the map of the coal mine, so they said their goodbyes and left here.

Zhu Shun smiled helplessly, and walked to Wang Gongchang alone.

The two middle-aged sergeants guarding the door, all wearing brand-new mandarin duck jackets and brand-new Yanling knives pinned to their waists, it seems that Chongzhen really attaches great importance to Wang Gongchang.

But just as Zhu Shun walked to the gate, two middle-aged sergeants with physical disabilities suddenly wanted to kneel down for Zhu Shun.

With the age of these two, it was enough to be Zhu Shun's father, so he quickly supported the two middle-aged sergeants.

Zhu Zhongyi, the general banner, happened to come over at this time, and Zhu Shun hurriedly asked, "Second uncle, what are they doing?" ”

The taciturn man only said two sentences.

"Shun'er, their wives work in Zhu's spinning factory."

"They don't have to starve to death this year."

There is no need to starve to death this year, which means that the children in the family often starved to death in the past, and besides, there is still a long way to go without starving to death and having enough to eat.

Zhu Shun looked at the two middle-aged sergeants, the two brave border soldiers who had been fearless in the face of the Jurchen Tartars, his eyes were red, and he almost burst into tears.

Zhu Shun understood in his heart that the two middle-aged sergeants were guilty, guilty of their incompetence, and they couldn't even support their own children.

If they are incompetent, there will be no one in the world who is incompetent.

Zhu Shun didn't know what to say to comfort them, so he could only say something irrelevant seriously: "Don't worry, Zhu's spinning factory will continue to expand." ”

Whether the Zhu spinning mill will expand or not is a matter for the Zhu Shun family, and they have nothing to do with each other as unrelated outsiders.

It was such an irrelevant sentence, but it made the two middle-aged sergeants kneel down again.

This time, it's for the robe.