Tianjin Wei in June, the grass grows and the warbler flies, because it is located on the coast, Tianjin Wei has not been affected by the drought, the green potato stems and leaves in the field are fluttering with the wind, and the ridges are full of happy laughter of the victims who survived the disaster. The potato harvest season has arrived, and with a shovel down, you can shovel out a bunch of fist-sized baby bumps, and in a short time, the big bamboo basket can be full.

For the victims who have been hungry for months or even years, there is nothing more exciting for them than to eat, there is really no food in their hometown, the grass roots can be dug up and eaten, this potato is not a grass root, it tastes better than white flour buns, how can the victims not be happy.

Wuqing is the closest city to Tianjin Wei to the Beijing Division, originally a small county town of only 30,000 or 40,000 people, this time more than 100,000 victims moved in at once, the small county town instantly expanded several times, and the low city wall was surrounded by simple wooden houses.

On this day, the entire Wuqing City was suddenly occupied by the Beijing camp, and the streets of all sizes were lined up with the elite of the Praetorian Guards, and a team of brocade guards patrolled back and forth in the streets and alleys.

The victims of the disaster and the residents of the original county town all knew that they were afraid that some great people were going to come to inspect, and it was very likely that this posture would be the current emperor!

It turns out that the residents of the county town are just a legendary figure, and the emperor really has nothing to do with them, and those who are curious may run to see it, but others are what to do, and they don't react much.

The people who migrated over were different, the emperor was their savior, if the emperor hadn't let them move out of the disaster area where there was no grass, many people might have starved to death at this time! How to die of starvation Modern people estimate that few people can imagine, that kind of pain, really can't be expressed in words, when you are hungry and feel that your stomach is about to be digested by yourself, you know what it feels like to be hungry, of course, it is just the beginning, and it is still far from starvation.

The victims who had experienced hunger were full of gratitude to the emperor, and they spontaneously organized themselves, knelt on both sides of the official road, and put on the immortal tablets to burn incense if they could, and put out baskets of freshly harvested potatoes and placed them beside them. Of course, they didn't want to give it to the emperor to eat, but they wanted to tell the emperor that we had something to eat.

The person who came was naturally Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong, he originally wanted to pay a private visit, but when the queen mother of the two palaces heard that he was going out of Beijing, she insisted on coming with him, and said what to do. Zhu Cijiong had no choice, so he had to prepare for the battle, take 10,000 elite soldiers of the Beijing camp and 5,000 brocade guards, escort the two queen mothers along the way, and slowly came to Wuqing.

At this moment, our little emperor is tired of being in the arms of the beautiful Qin Mingyue, riding on a white horse of a divine horse, and looking around curiously under the escort of five thousand brocade guards. He really couldn't stay in the sedan chair, although the two queen mothers were scary, they were actually young women who were less than thirty years old, and they were nagging, holding him and saying that he didn't have a good time, and said that his head was big. Our little emperor said that his dragon ears were seriously injured, so he had to get rid of their arms and let Qin Mingyue carry him on horseback.

Zhu Cijiong came to Tianjin Wei this time mainly to see the situation of the weaving factory, the shuttle loom has been invented, naturally to build a factory to weave cloth, otherwise how to create benefits. He asked Song Yingxing to make 1,000 shuttle looms first, and then asked Bi Maokang to find a place to build a factory, preparing to come out of the entire weaving factory to see the effect.

Why build the factory in Wuqing? Because there is really no such a big place in the capital, Tianjin Wei is mainly a garrison, only this Wuqing county, there are not many garrisons, and there are many open spaces, so you can build a factory with a single move.

Now that the factory has been built and the loom has been installed, just waiting for the recruitment to open, Zhu Cijiong naturally wants to come over to see the situation, this is the first factory he has established. It just so happened that the season for the potatoes to ripen had arrived, and he could also stop by to see the situation of the victims.

Along the way, seeing the well-grown potato fields and the smiling victim Zhu Cijiong, not to mention how beautiful it was, this was an unprecedented drought, which was solved by him with a big move, and even he admired himself a little. When the team arrived outside Wuqing City and saw the people who were thanking him, Zhu Cijiong was even happier, and he couldn't help laughing and said: "Hahahaha, good, you have done a good job, and you will be rewarded." ”

As soon as he said the words, he regretted it, when it came to this reward, it was no longer possible to be promoted, their officials were big enough, especially Xu Guangqi's official residence, how could he be promoted. Since he can't be promoted, he can only reward silver, the problem is that he doesn't have silver now! After tossing and turning in the past few months, the problem of the victims has been solved, but the treasury is also clean and slippery, and the new taxes will not be collected until August, and he will be a poor egg in these two months!

Of course, he still has silver tickets, the silver tickets of the Rixinglong firm are printed with 100 million taels, and now the silver deposit is only about 10 million taels, and there are 90 million taels of silver tickets that are placed at Cao Huachun's place. But this silver ticket can't be used indiscriminately, he can use a million taels at most, otherwise others can't withdraw the silver with the silver ticket, and he will have to close the door when he is prosperous! Now the capital's Rixinglong general number has just opened, and the branches in various places are under construction one after another, and it is the time when silver is needed, if it is not for the silver support of Chang Wei and their nine Jin merchants, he would not dare to use this million taels of silver tickets.

The emperor's reward naturally can't be too stingy, but he can't give out all the million taels of silver tickets, he is weighing it there, but the weaving factory has already arrived. Seeing the newly built factory, he couldn't help but suddenly brighten up, and laughed: "This weaving factory will definitely make a lot of money in the future, so I will make a price of 10 million taels, reward you with 10% of the shares, 200,000 taels of dry shares per person, and dividends at the end of the year." ”

Xu Guangqi and the other five naturally knew that this weaving factory would make money, just kidding, the same cloth can be nearly one-third cheaper, and it is strange if it does not make money. When they heard that each person could get 200,000 taels of dry shares, they couldn't help but be excited, don't look at it as just dry shares, the dividends will be more than 200,000 taels in a few years, as long as they have been following the emperor, they will not have to worry about eating and drinking in this life, and even their children and grandchildren will be rich because of this!

Although Qin Mingyue didn't know what this dry stock and dividends meant, she knew that it was a good thing by looking at the excited looks of Zhu Cijiong's cronies next to her, and she couldn't help but bow her head and whisper in Zhu Cijiong's ear: "Your Majesty, what about me, my aunt and brother?" ”

Zhu Cijiong was in a good mood at this time, and said in her ear without hesitation: "Give you the Qin family a share of one percent, one million taels of dry shares, this is a good thing, don't tell people everywhere, lest people be blushing." ”

Qin Mingyue was naturally happy to respond, and took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, so she kissed him on the face.

So, our little emperor Zhu Cijiong walked into the weaving factory with a group of cronies in a daze, and walked around like a drunk for a long time before coming back to his senses.

According to Zhu Cijiong's meaning, this weaving factory has built a field shape, with a steam room in the middle and a loom room around it, which is not only convenient for the connection of steam pipelines, but also has a good lighting effect. Wang Gong factory machining workshop construction did not consider the problem of lighting, there is no electric light, only oil lamp, the effect of the oil lamp can be imagined, the sky is a little dim Wang Gong factory machine workshop must be lit full of oil lamps, increase the cost not to mention, the full workshop of the smell of oil smoke can smoke people to death!

The newly built weaving mill is different, with a zigzag structure, all the looms are placed in front of the windows, the lighting effect is good, and there is no need to light oil lamps at all. Moreover, Zhu Cijiong is also going to install glass on this window, if he still uses paper paste, he will not be able to work on a rainy day.

Zhu Cijiong didn't know how this glass was made, and he didn't plan to buy it from the Europeans, but planned to exchange the glass manufacturing technology with the Portuguese East India Company with the European agency, and then build his own factory to produce it.

At that time, there was no concept of customs, and all the money was earned by private individuals, and private individuals could organize some armed merchant ships to escort them at most, but the navy did not have it at all, so the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty were getting richer and richer, and the imperial court was indeed getting less and less money.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong is ready to establish a customs office to regulate foreign trade, whether it is a merchant or a country, foreigners who want to do business with the Ming Dynasty, or the people of the Ming Dynasty who want to do overseas trade must be approved by the Ming Dynasty government, and pay customs duties, you Portuguese East India Company If you want the agency in Europe, you must send me the glass manufacturing technology, otherwise don't want to buy a thing from the Ming Dynasty.

Don't underestimate this overseas trade, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most advanced country in the world at that time, cloth, ceramics, and tea are all sought-after goods abroad, so the overseas trade at that time was already very profitable, and those maritime merchants did millions of taels of trading, and it is said that the richest maritime merchant Zheng Zhilong's assets have even reached hundreds of millions, which is not hundreds of millions of dollars, but hundreds of millions of taels of silver!

These people can be said to be richer than the country, the Ming Dynasty is poor, but they are rich, what is the result? It's not in vain that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is cheap, as soon as the Qing army kills them, they don't talk about money, and their lives are gone!

Therefore, only when the country is strong is it really strong, no matter how rich the private is, if the country perishes, people want to pinch you to death, just like pinching an ant to death.

Of course, these are all afterwords, the establishment of customs is not a matter of a day or two, overseas trade is not to say that the norms can be standardized, the road to a strong country in the Ming Dynasty has just begun, our little emperor Zhu Cijiong is still a poor egg, everything has to start from scratch.