Not bad for money!

The reason for this is that there are of course the direct benefits of decades of war and massacres, and the high degree of commercial prosperity has also made the urban citizen class quickly recover, or in Jiangnan and other places similar to the luxury of the late Ming Dynasty, it has not yet appeared, but at least in life, it has restored the old prosperity.

For the ministers of the Xingqian Dynasty, this is what they are most pleased with, even they never thought that the world would recover so quickly, in fact, this recovery is not overnight, although from the Zheng Northern Expedition, and then to the Qing Dynasty fled westward, during which there were several years of war, but in the case of the world's clear minds, but all those who cut down the Qing Dynasty swept away the leaves with the autumn wind, swept away the land of the Qing and stole the strongholds, so that the people were also saved from the suffering of war to the greatest extent.

It is precisely because of this that after the social stability, especially without the arbitrary expropriation and expropriation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the life of the common people naturally underwent fundamental changes, from the previous eating bran and drinking scarce all year round and not knowing the taste of meat, to the present worry-free food and clothing, and even the people's life tends to be luxurious.

Who would have believed that change would be so fast without seeing it with their own eyes?

"Your Majesty, when the ministers traveled the world, not only Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, but also the people were famine, and the water and drought were still in the same situation, so that they peeled the bark, dug up grass roots, and dustpanned weeds for food, even in Jiangnan, which had not heard of hunger and cold for decades, it was probably just like that. The old and the young wandered, bumped the roads, and sold their wives and children in order to survive. The people are poor and the wealth is so scarce, the officials have no relief, not to mention, and the conscription is endless, and the collection is endless. Now, the minister from the north to the south all the way, along the way, although not as good as the south of the Yangtze River, but the people are also worry-free......"

After saying this, Fang Yizhi said to His Majesty again.

"The people of the world can live and work in peace and contentment today, without worrying about food and clothing, it is all the work of Your Majesty, if it is not for Your Majesty who raised troops in the recklessness and built slaves in the Western Regions, how can there be a good life for the people in the world today."

This sycophant is very comfortable, and Zhu Mingzhong is also very useful, but in addition to using it, he still said with a serious expression.

"Meat shortage...... This is really unexpected, this matter must be solved as soon as possible, I think we can communicate with the Mongolian side, we can trade cattle and sheep from Mongolia to the mainland, not just focus on horses......"

Thinking of another time and space, because every winter the Manchu Qing Dynasty had to reward tens of millions of catties of mutton in the Beijing Banner, those Jin merchants drove the sheep from Mongolia along the Zhangku Avenue all the way into Beijing, and they had to traffic hundreds of thousands of live sheep every year, but even so, they still could not meet the "consumption" of the people of the Beijing Division, and later developed the frozen mutton transportation that only transported mutton.

Compared with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia is mainly concentrated on horses, at least 20,000 horses are trafficked every year, and the maximum has reached 50,000, and half of them are mares, these mares are mainly used to improve military horses, in order to improve military horses, as early as the beginning of Jiangbei, Zhu Mingzhong instructed merchants to introduce more than 50 Andalusian horses from Manila, and later successively through merchants from various countries from the Middle East more than 600 Arab horse stallions, these stallions in various horse farms and from Mongolia to buy female horses or southwest horses crossbreedingAccording to the plan, after crossing to the fifth generation, the offspring will be crossbred and fixed, and a new type of light riding horse similar to the Arabian species can be produced. In the military horse farms in Northeast China, Jiangbei and Sichuan, this kind of cross-breeding has been carried out for the third generation, and the military horses bred are far taller and more than Mongolian horses. However, it now seems that trade with Mongolia is too much of a "military" importance.

"I heard that millions of cattle and sheep freeze to death in Mongolia every year, because there are too many of them, so the herdsmen can only cut off the fur of the dead livestock, and then discard the meat on the grassland at will, in my opinion, we can trade with them, well, we can ...... now."

Winters in Mongolia are very cold, with temperatures as low as minus 30 to 40 degrees. So in the winter, their lives become very difficult, because their cattle and sheep are often frozen to death. In Zhu Mingzhong's view, this is a business opportunity.

"Their cattle and sheep will freeze to death, rather than freezing to death in vain, it is better to let us use tea bricks and cloth to exchange it back, although there is little grass along the road in Zhangku Avenue in winter, and there is ice and snow, it is more difficult to transport live sheep to the mainland, but we can directly traffic frozen beef and mutton to Beijing, or we can load it on a ship from there, all the way south, and sell it to Jiangnan, after all, it is winter, and the meat in winter will not spoil."

Recalling the method of Jin merchants trafficking frozen mutton in another time and space, Zhu Mingzhong pondered for a moment, and then said.

"This frozen mutton is actually very simple, that is, after the sheep is slaughtered first, the skin is peeled, the head and hooves are removed, only two meat plates are left, the bones are removed, rolled into meat rolls, the meat is put on the mat at night, and after the night is frozen, the meat is placed in the "ice room". The so-called "ice house" is to build the surrounding area and the roof with wooden boards, pour cold water on the floor of the room, and put ice cubes. When transporting, the meat is taken out of the "ice house" and wrapped to prevent ventilation to maintain the freshness of the meat. It is then transported to the mainland by vehicle. Yes, that's ......."

After talking about the production of frozen mutton, Zhu Mingzhong looked at Zhu Daxian and Fang Yizhi, who didn't seem to have come back to their senses, and said to them with a smile.

"Well, you two, would you be interested in partnering with me on this deal? Now is the time to eat mutton, the price of mutton is so high, the profit must be extremely considerable. ”

Pulling the minister to do business, only Zhu Mingzhong will do this, and Zhu Daxian and Fang Yizhi have long been accustomed to His Majesty's style of "not shameful words", and even they themselves are also participants in some businesses, so they naturally will not reject this, and the reason why they are surprised is completely because they did not expect to be able to traffic mutton from Mongolia.

"Your Majesty, can you also sell sheep from Mongolia?"

Zhu Daxian said in surprise.

"Why not, during the Song Dynasty, half of the mutton in Kaifeng was transported from Liao, and live sheep were trafficked in summer and autumn, and frozen mutton was transported in winter, in fact, even in summer, fresh meat could be transported."

Turning to look at Fang Yizhi, Zhu Mingzhong said.

"In winter, you can take ice directly from the lake, river and sea, and then send the ice to the ice cellar for storage, and when the ice arrives in the spring, it can be directly loaded in the cabin, frozen fish, beef and mutton, and then transported to the mainland, so that the mainland can eat fresh whale meat, unlike now, which can only be pickled."

Compared with beef and mutton, maybe whale meat is a cheaper meat, after all, the number of whales in the whale sea is extremely rich, thinking of this, Zhu Mingzhong said to Fang Yizhi,

"Now you can try it in the Northeast, you can consider whale meat, and ship fresh whale meat directly to Jiangnan and Zhongdu to alleviate the plight of the people's lack of meat."

"Obey the Order,"

For His Majesty's will, Fang Yizhi naturally will not refuse, and for the Northeast, this is also a good thing.

"If this law can be achieved, it can not only alleviate the dilemma of lack of meat in the mainland, but also open up new sources of wealth for the Northeast, Mizhi, you fancy this trip, you can be regarded as coming to the right place, it is not important to come to a trip, Your Majesty also pointed out a few financial routes to you, Mongolia can raise cattle and sheep, the same can be done in the Northeast, and there are whales in the Whale Sea, this time the Northeast can be regarded as developed."

After that, Zhu Daxian turned to His Majesty and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty is so hearty for the people, it is really a blessing for the people of the world, I think the people don't need to worry about meat this year, this year is coming, with these meat, the people can also have a good year."

As the emperor, Zhu Mingzhong always needs to face too many compliments and sycophants, and he has long been accustomed to this, so he just smiled.

"In the past, when the slaves were established, the people could not afford to eat meat, but now they can't eat meat because of the lack of meat."

Zhu Daxian then said.

"But rest assured, Your Majesty, this is only a temporary situation. When fresh meat arrives from Mongolia and Northeast China in the future, the problem will be solved. However, the cotton shortage, yarn shortage and cloth shortage on the market can not be solved at the moment, and it may even become more and more intense, after all, the Central Plains is peaceful, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, so the demand for cloth is also increasing day by day. In addition, the people now have enough money at home, and it is really common to buy cloth and clothes, so the minister thought that the imperial court had better find a way to solve this problem. ”

Once upon a time, Zhu Mingzhong also considered the export of cloth, and even needed to open up new markets for his exports, but who would have thought that the current situation is diametrically opposite?

"Now the root cause of the cloth famine is the yarn famine, and the yarn famine is caused by the cotton famine, and the people are unwilling to plant cotton because cotton planting is time-consuming and laborious, but if you want to solve the famine, you must first solve the cotton famine."

"Cotton ......"

Zhu Mingzhong nodded in disbelief, after all, this is really a bit unbelievable, in history there are mulberry rice fields and cotton grain fields, the reason is precisely because the income from planting mulberry cotton exceeds that of growing grain, and now the reason why people are reluctant to plant cotton is because it is troublesome to plant cotton, and the income from cotton planting is far less than the income from breeding.

"Let's import!"

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Mingzhong directly pointed out the solution to the problem.

"Since the shortage of cotton and other raw materials has caused a shortage of yarn and cloth, since the domestic output cannot meet the needs of the people, we will import raw materials from overseas, Indian cotton, and ...... Didn't we bring in new cotton seeds from the Americas? Now the trial domestication is underway, its yield is higher than the yield of native cotton, and so on in the future can also be promoted, the import of cotton from overseas, just like the import of grain, is to solve the urgent needs of the people. ”

With the experience from later generations, Zhu Mingzhong directly made the most suitable choice in his opinion, and just after he made this decision, someone reported it there.

"Your Majesty, Haizhou Emergency Electricity!"