Thank you again for the tipping of the boy and Hou Dongfeng!

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"This piece is woolen wool, this piece is cashmere, cashmere feels better, but the cost is higher. The woolen velvet is wrinkle-resistant and wear-resistant, soft to the touch, elegantly structured, elastic and warm. However, it is more difficult to wash and is not suitable for making summer clothes. Xiao Xiao introduced.

"I'm going to make a military coat for winter soldiers." Zhu Youxiao took out two design drawings from the table and said.

Xiaoxiao took the drawings from Zhu Youxiao's hand, looked at them and asked, "Does Your Majesty have any requirements?" ”

Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said: "The uniforms of officers above the head of 100 households are made of cashmere, and the rest are made of wool. When tailoring clothes, you must pay attention to the fit and fit the waist to reflect the beauty of body strength. ”

"I'll make a few samples of military coats first, and if Your Majesty is satisfied, I'll start producing them in large quantities." Trail.

"You can find Tang Xiaohong first, and ask Tang Xiaohong to send you a few female soldiers as models, I believe in your vision." Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said.

"No."

"Can't keep up with the production capacity of textile mills now?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"It is expected that by the end of this year, the annual production capacity of the textile mill will reach 3,000 horses, and by next year it should reach 5,000 horses, but if we do not continue to expand the production capacity, I am afraid that it will not be able to meet the needs of 1.5 million people in a few years." Trail.

"Don't rush, take your time, my purpose is to make wool weaving an industry, so you can buy wool from other people. And there are many places where woolen can be used, and you have to encourage others to find more uses for it, and don't wait until the production of military uniforms is finished, and the whole wool textile industry will die. Zhu Youxiao said.

"I understand." Trail.

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Zhang Guoji knew that the matter of shipping was very important, and he personally invited several businessmen with whom he had close business contacts to discuss the formation of a company.

"Come, come, a cigarette per person." Zhang Guoji handed out a cigarette from the palace to everyone present.

"Uncle, what is this? Tobacco? Jiang Yan sniffed and asked.

"It's called a cigarette, and it's made from tobacco leaves, but this cigarette is very different......," Zhang Guoji said with a smile.

"Uncle, what's the difference?" Jiang Yan asked curiously.

"This cigarette was designed and made by His Majesty himself, simply put, it was made by the royal family." Zhang Guoji said with a smile.

"It was designed and made by His Majesty himself, it is a rare thing, but it can't be smoked like this, it has to be kept." Liu Qi said and was ready to put it away.

"Since Uncle took out this thing and distributed it to everyone, it should have another meaning, Uncle." Jiang Yan said with a smile.

"Baron Jiang is really powerful, I am indeed looking for you to come here this time to discuss important matters, before we get down to business, let's try the cigarettes made by His Majesty. Someone, light a cigarette for you. Zhang Guoji said with a smile.

As soon as Zhang Guoji's words fell, several beauties immediately rushed in and lit cigarettes for everyone. Zhang Guoji took a sip first and said, "Taste it." ”

The crowd followed suit, and there were a few people here who had never smoked before, and one of them choked on the smoke on his first puff.

"This cigarette is indeed more fragrant than the usual tobacco leaves, and it should be filled with flavor." Liu Qi usually smokes pipes, and you can feel the difference in one puff.

"I don't know, this cigarette is made by His Majesty, as for the formula, I don't know." Zhang Guoji said.

As soon as he finished smoking, Jiang Yan couldn't wait to ask again: "Uncle, let me wait here today for the sake of this cigarette?" ”

"It's about it, but it's not about it." Zhang Guoji said.

"Please also explain it to the uncle." Jiang Yan said.

Zhang Guoji carefully talked about shipping and imperial commerce with several people present. When Zhang Guoji finished speaking, no one present spoke, as if they were all in deep thought.

"What do you guys think?" Zhang Guoji asked.

"Now there is a shipyard in Songjiang Prefecture that can build 20,000 stone large merchant ships, but the price of each ship is about 150,000 taels, and we need at least 20 such large ships to transport 4 million stone grain, which means that we need 3 million taels of silver dollars just to invest in large merchant ships, which is a very large amount." Jiang Yan said.

"There are nine of us here, and the three million taels are only more than 300,000 taels evenly distributed to each of them." Zhang Guoji said.

"Uncle, you also know that if you put more than 300,000 taels in other places, you can recover the cost in three or five years at most, but it may take ten years or even longer to pay back the cost of helping the imperial court transport grain by sea, and it is really not cost-effective to press more than 300,000 taels here." Liu Qi said.

"You mean you don't want to be a part of it?" Zhang Guoji said impatiently.

"Uncle misunderstood, what the villain means depends on everyone's meaning, if everyone is willing, then the villain must also be counted." Seeing this, Liu Qi hurriedly said. Since the Ming Dynasty occupied the Myanmar and Laos regions, Liu Qi's jewelry business has become bigger and bigger, and now he is also wealthy, but he finally mixed into Zhang Guoji's circle, and he didn't want to give up so easily.

"Uncle, don't be angry, Liu Qi is not unreasonable, we are all businessmen, and we are talking about business!" Shen Jiang smiled and said, "Actually, even if the shipping returns to the capital in twenty years, I don't care, as long as I can return the capital, after all, this is to help the imperial court do things, and this is also what we businessmen should do, but I have a small wish." ”

"What wish?" Zhang Guoji asked.

"I hope that Your Majesty can take a 10% share of the dry shares, of course, Your Majesty does not have to pay. Uncle, you also know that the matter of Cao Yun is complicated, and there are many people who have offended, although we have a little money, but in the eyes of the court officials, it is worse than an ant, if Your Majesty can take a share of the dry shares, the situation will be very different. Shen Jiang said.

"This can be considered." Zhang Guoji thought for a while and said.

"Twenty merchant ships can transport four million stone of grain, and it only takes ten round-trips to transport four million stone of grain, and one round trip will only take half a month at most, which means that we can complete the shipping in five months, and there may be seven months before these twenty merchant ships will be empty in the port." Jiang Yan said.

"Of course it won't be empty, isn't the imperial court paying to hire immigrants from civilian ships now? We can help the imperial court transport immigrants, we can also help merchants transport goods, and so on. Zhang Guoji said.

"That's very good, uncle, you still need to come out of this matter, after we talk about shipping, we will discuss other things, how about it?" Jiang Yan said politely.

"Yes, I will go to the emperor tomorrow to discuss this matter." Zhang Guoji nodded.

(End of chapter)