Yun Xi only realized that at this time, many local officials and middle-level officials of the fourth and fifth grades were also from the Guozijian, not all of them were from the imperial examination. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Since he was born in Guozijian, he must have studied in Guozijian, at least three years, and most of them have read books for seven or eight years, and the scholars who teach in Guozijian will have some impressions; It would be useful to call a scholar to come over and ask these officials who were born in the country what they said and did when they were studying.

Yun Xi finished thinking about these things, it was getting late, and he was a little tired, so he asked Huang Ludao, who was serving with him, "Have Yunzhi, Baoqing, and Xianqin all slept?" ”

Huang Lu said: "Your Majesty, Princess Baoqing and Lord Yidu (Xianqin) can't hold on, and they have already fallen asleep; Her Royal Highness Princess Huainan has not slept yet. ”

Yun Xi said: "You go, it's okay, Yun Zhi won't listen to you, send someone to keep an eye on it, don't let her make any moths." Yun Xi is not very comfortable with his sister.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Huang Lu agreed.

Yun Xi was also tired, so he lay down and fell asleep after the order.

The next day, Yun Xi analyzed several of the most important officials in Suzhou City in the morning according to the available information, and then summoned them at noon.

In fact, according to the usual practice, Yun Xi, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, did not come to Suzhou specifically to play, just summon the local prefect, and there is no need to meet other adjutants, as for the county officials, it is even more unnecessary.

But Yunxi wanted to do a big thing in Suzhou, and he had to be assisted by local officials, so he decided to meet with the prefect, the prefect of the prefecture and the two prefects. And they are met one by one.

The first person to meet was of course the prefect Xiang Bao. Xiang Bao is a veteran minister for many years, Yun Xi used to serve in the Ministry of War before he became the emperor's grandson, and Xiang Bao was a member of the Ministry of War at that time, and he had contact with Yun Xi.

So Yun Xi first recounted the old feelings, and then asked about the situation in Suzhou.

Xiang Bao really didn't expect Yun Xi, he was old-fashioned, and he was very wooden about the old feelings, but he said that the recent situation in Suzhou was very fluent.

"Your Majesty, since the first emperor of Hongwu ordered to pacify the people of Suzhou so that they can live and work in peace and contentment, Suzhou has gradually recovered its vitality, and now it is a prosperous place in the world."

"In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, the number of households in the country was the first, the county was seven, the household was forty-ninety-one thousand five hundred and fourteen, and the mouth was two million five hundred and fifty-five thousand, and the number of fields was the first among all the prefectures in the world, although it was not as good as the capital, but there was no other place in the world that was richer than Suzhou." Xiang Bao said.

"What about the local merchants? What kind of business? ”

Xiang Bao discriminates against businessmen very much, never pays attention to what these businessmen usually do, and has a lot of slander for Yunxi's reforms during this time. But he is not an elm head, and he will not work with the emperor, so he also learned about some local merchants in advance, and said: "Your Majesty, most of the local merchants are engaged in raw silk, buy raw silk from the people, and distribute it to other places; There are also people who buy land and hire people to plant mulberry trees to feed silkworms, and choose another person to be responsible for reeling silk, and then sell it to other places. ”

"There are also merchants who don't care about silk reeling, but just buy raw silk and let craftsmen weave it into silk for distribution. There are also people who set up a computer room and hire women to weave silk in the machine room. He couldn't help but say, "It's very unseemly!" ”

And Yun Xi was a little surprised. Now is the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the two beginnings of the industrial revolution in the textile industry has begun to appear? ’

However, Yun Xi thought about it again and understood that this was not the same as the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution. The industrial revolution is that after the emergence of new textile machines, the cost of cotton cloth is much lower than the cost of homespun cloth for one household through collective labor, which eventually leads to the bankruptcy of the natural economy in the countryside and the involvement in the era of large industry.

And now there is no such advanced textile machine, even the cost of collective labor cotton cloth is not lower than that of homespun cloth, so there is no machine room of that size, and it will not affect most people.

And the reason why there is a machine room specializing in weaving silk is because of the high value of silk, if you let a family take raw silk home, what if you are greedy for ink? Can you still go to the village to ask for it? It is basically impossible for the local government to support the merchants, and it is useless to go; Therefore, it is better to gather all the women in the computer room and weave together to put an end to greedy ink.

But Yoon-hee was still pleased. Although it is only the silk that is originally expensive, it is worth rejoicing that the dawn of modern handicrafts has appeared. To put it bluntly, this is also the dawn of the industrial revolution!

Yun Xi asked again: "Can any local merchant do business in Shanghai?" ”

"Your Majesty, I don't know." Xiang Bao said.

He, an official who believes in Confucianism, has always looked down on businessmen, and it is not easy to understand it reluctantly, so how can he inquire in detail.

Well, Yun Xi immediately reacted and shouldn't have asked him this question. Yun Xi beat his spirit again and said a few words to him and let him go down.

After that, it was the meeting of the left noble treasure of the house. Yun Xi only said two words to him, and he knew that he was a kowtow insect official who only promised him.

In Yunxi's eyes, this kind of official is worse than a corrupt official. Although the previous system of the Ming Dynasty was that the local prefectures, prefectures and counties had monopoly power, and the adjutant officials had little power, they did not do nothing, and they were still assigned work. Yun Xi is not sure whether he is doing nothing at this time, but if it is confirmed that he is not doing anything,

'Go home the and eat yourself!' ’

"No, let him go home and eat himself by himself, it's cheap for him, send him to Su Fan, Zhu Di will teach him to work." Yun Xi thought.

Since Zuo Guibao is such a person, Yun Xi didn't ask anything, so he let him go down.

The third official Yun Xi met with was Bai Wenxuan, the magistrate of Wu County.

Yun Xi didn't look like a pedantic person, and asked him the question he had asked Xiang Bao again.

Bai Wenxuan's answer to the first question was similar to Xiang Bao's, but the second one surprised Yun Xi, he actually answered whether there were local merchants doing business with Fan merchants in Shanghai, and by the way, he answered the third question that Yun Xi had not yet exported.

He said: "Your Majesty, the most famous businessman in this county and Changzhou County is the Li family in the west of the city. His family has thousands of acres of fertile land, but he does not plant mulberry trees to grow all food, buys mulberry leaves, and hires people to reel silk. After Hongwu opened the sea in Shanghai in the 31st year, he also sent people to Shanghai to do business, but what the situation was because it was in Shanghai, so the minister did not know. ”

Although he didn't know clearly, Yun Xi was already very happy. In this era, the status of businessmen is not high, Zhu Yuanzhang has cracked down on big businessmen, the richest businessmen everywhere do not have much money on the surface, only acquaintances know which one has how much money, as an official it is normal to ignore businessmen.

But it is very rare that he has an understanding of the most famous merchant family in the county. Yun Xi already has the intention of promoting Bai Wenxuan.