As the saying goes, it's not that a family doesn't enter a family, and for Zhu Youxiao's thoughts, the harem can still guess some of them, and compete to emulate his frugal style. For example, this southern tour, all the cost was funded by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the emperor did not talk about pomp, and the harem was taboo and extravagant, which made the officials and people along the way admire, and it became a beautiful talk on the streets and alleys for a while.

In fact, since the elimination of the influence of the Japanese and Hongmaoyi, the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty began to develop rapidly, and the annual profits could even exceed the taxes. The reason why Zhu Youxiao is still rich and poor is because he wants to use the money to the best of his ability, complete the internal steam revolution as soon as possible, and then complete the plan to compete for hegemony in the ocean.

Huang Mengxuan was very puzzled when she first entered the palace, because she found that instead of the splendid buildings and gluttonous feasts in the palace, the standard of living was not as high as her mother's family. For this reason, she once suspected that the Ming Dynasty could not make ends meet and was in danger, but every time she saw Zhu Youxiao's pen, it was millions of taels of silver, which was really incomprehensible. Later, she was pregnant, somewhat pampered and arrogant, so she asked Zhu Youxiao in person, Zhu Youxiao gently snapped his fingers on her forehead, and left without saying a word.

Zhu Youxiao knew that everyone, like Huang Mengxuan, didn't understand his frugality. In order not to let others gossip, he decided to use the mouth of outsiders to express his thoughts. Once when he summoned Huang Kezhang alone, he deliberately let Huang Mengxuan wait by his side, and left for a while under the pretext of leaving halfway. Huang Kezhang is a pillar of the old Cheng Mouguo, with the talent of absolute saint and wisdom, so he naturally knows the emperor's intentions, so he uses this time to clear the clouds for his granddaughter.

In the eyes of these top elites like Huang Kezhang, although the little emperor is young but a promising king, he will never enjoy the peace and wealth in front of him, on the surface, many of his policies are losing money and making money, but people with a discerning eye know that this is practicing the basic skills hard, and is ready to put a long line to catch big fish. For example, in the early days of the implementation of cash-for-work, due to the emptiness of the state treasury, most of the funds were allocated from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but it only took five years to stabilize the country's grain output, so that the people in Jiangnan were willing to change rice to mulberry. After the Weaving Bureau had an abundance of raw silk, more and more orders were signed with overseas, and the amount of silver that eventually flowed into the Ministry of Internal Affairs far exceeded the initial expenditure, and even doubled every three years.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Youxiao got up early in the morning as usual, ran around the imperial city, and saw Wei Chaozheng kneeling outside the Qianqing Gate. Zhu Youxiao was secretly annoyed that he had forgotten such an important thing just by thinking about playing yesterday, so he ordered Wei Chao to enter the palace to dine with him with guilt.

Although Wei Chao knew that he could not transgress the identity of master and servant, he was still very happy in his heart, which showed that he was already indispensable in the eyes of the emperor, and he couldn't help but say excitedly

"Long live Master Qi, the slave has sorted out the account books of the Weaving Bureau last night, so you might as well let the slave report the specific situation while serving you for dinner."

You must know that those who can serve the emperor are confidants, and the entire Forbidden City is only Wang An's honor, and the "nine thousand years old" of Dongchang is so high-flying and domineering. Now that the Wei Dynasty wants to regain the emperor's trust with the credit of the Weaving Bureau, Zhu Youxiao will naturally not agree to him so happily.

"The Weaving Bureau is the money bag of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, how can it be used for two purposes when reporting accounts? You'd better concentrate on the accounts carefully, and let your companion take care of breakfast! ”

Wei Chao didn't expect the little emperor to reject him quietly, and looked up at Wang An, who was standing behind the emperor, knowing that he might have caused a big disaster, and hurriedly said

"Shengming has no master, and the orders signed by the Weaving Bureau this year have been scheduled for the year after next, and the average amount of a year is more than one million horses. These silks are traded at the official price of five taels of silver in the territory, and they can be sold to Tianzhu, Persia, and the West can reach twelve or three taels, and the gross profit of this alone is more than 7 million taels of silver per year, and there are also porcelain, tea, medicinal materials, paper, furniture, etc., which are all hard currency from abroad, and have been in short supply. ”

These general ledgers Zhu Youxiao was clearer than anyone else, but after Wei Chao said this, he nodded happily and continued to ask

"After the Yangtze River channel was dredged, I heard that many people along the coast began to plant mulberry trees, and it seems that the supply of raw silk is not a problem. The only thing I'm worried about is sales, Europe has been in a civil war, what about their orders? ”

Zhu Youxiao's words hit the nail on the head, and the Wei Dynasty didn't dare to be a little sloppy, so he replied cautiously

"Master Shengming, at present, the orders of European merchants have dropped to forty percent of last year's, and they have discussed with their minions several times to purchase firearms and warships from the Celestial Empire, but the minions have refused. However, long live the rest assured, these reduced orders were taken by Tianzhu and Persian and Arab merchants, and they sat on the ground and made a lot of money after getting Europe. ”

When Zhu Youxiao heard the request of the European arms dealers of the Wei Dynasty, he was so angry that he slapped the table with his palm, and everyone was furious when they saw Long Yan, and they knelt on the ground and did not dare to squeak. Zhu Youxiao thought to himself that he was a confused minion, is there a more lucrative business in the world than selling arms? However, this matter does not depend on the Wei Dynasty, and the business of the Weaving Bureau, which is in charge of others, really dares to secretly smuggle arms, it is to destroy the three clans.

"I'm glad that you're willing to work hard, but you're still missing a little bit of fire, and you don't look at things at a high enough level. You contact the European merchants who inquire about arms as soon as possible, and I will arrange for someone to negotiate with them, and if the business is done, your weaving bureau can take 10% of the profits. In addition, I saw a large and small workshop in various places on this trip, and on the surface, it seems that the silk market is booming, I'm afraid the problem is not so simple, right? ”

This phenomenon of following the trend has been around for several years, after all, the profits of the silk trade are very large, and workshops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have sprung up. Some merchants held thousands of looms in their hands and employed more than 10,000 craftsmen, becoming typical bourgeois. Seeing that there were huge profits to be made, they united to deliberately raise the price of raw silk and desperately lower the export price of silk, seriously damaging the interests of the country.

As a weaving eunuch of the Wei Dynasty, of course he knew the stakes, but he had long been dragged into the water by those profiteers, and he could only turn a blind eye without affecting the interests of the Weaving Bureau. Now it will be hard for those family workshops and mulberry farmers, the fruits of their hard work are all sheared by black-hearted capitalists, and some even borrow usury to maintain their business, and bankruptcy is a matter of time.

Marx said in "Capital" that "capital comes to the world, from head to toe, every pore is dripping with blood and filth", Zhu Youxiao knew the situation of the weaving industry in Jiangnan without leaving home, and this field trip confirmed his judgment even more, and he also heard about the affairs of the Wei Dynasty. At the beginning, the Donglin Party was in collusion with the capital in Jiangnan, which led to the emptiness of the treasury in the last years of Chongzhen, and the people were struggling to make a living. Although the Wei Dynasty was not yet defective, in order to prevent trouble, Zhu Youxiao decided to beat him.

After he had eaten and drunk enough, he rinsed his mouth and cleaned his face under Wang An's service, and then sat on the dragon couch and lit a cigarette leisurely, and only spoke for a long time

"Fu Yuan of the Jin Dynasty wrote in "Fu Zi Jian Shangjia" that 'the husband and the businessman, so the profit and the power of the world and the interests of the world, through the nothing, and the wealth of the four seas'. He believes that the essence of business is to reconcile supply and demand, and communicate with each other, which is the same as Lao Tzu said, "The way of heaven is more than what is lost and what is not enough".

However, individual businessmen in Jiangnan constantly squeezed their competitors in the market with the intention of forming a monopoly by colluding with the government and forming alliances, which responded to Lao Tzu's sentence that 'the way of man is not enough and there is more than enough'. I encourage the development of commerce in order to make the country strong and the people rich, which is the way of heaven, but some profiteers and corrupt officials fill their own pockets, which is to call out to me. ”

Wei Chao knelt on the ground and didn't dare to breathe, he understood that the little emperor was knocking on the side, it seemed that he had mastered the truth about Jiangnan, and he had to quickly dissociate himself from the group of businessmen below. Zhu Youxiao saw that he was remorseful, and he didn't want to force people too hard, so he ordered Wei Chao to accompany him to visit several of the largest textile factories in Nanjing, which opened his eyes all the way.

These early forms of capitalism, which were family-run, ranging from a single family to thousands of hired workers, were paid by the day or paid by the piece, and although the loom was still a bulky and inefficient wooden structure, it was the most advanced textile equipment in the world at the time. The key problem is that at that time, the West had not yet implemented fucked intellectual property protection and set up trade barriers, let alone dumping, so Zhu Youxiao could have made the first move.

First of all, the Royal Academy of Social Sciences has begun to develop steam power, the main use of which is steamships, trains, and textile machines. Secondly, Zhu Youxiao is the most famous carpenter emperor in history, using his talent to develop the shuttle can be said to be a piece of cake, the shuttle can increase the width of the weaving, improve the efficiency of the weaving.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao abolished the post of Admiral Weaving, and established the Royal Weaving Company in Tianjin, Yangzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Wuhan. In addition, in order to protect the interests of Sannong, in the future, raw silk will be priced by the government, and Sannong can be sold directly to the Royal Weaving Company, or he can go to the local official warehouse to exchange rations, which fundamentally solves their worries.