After the number of new cabinet scholars was decided, Zhu Youxiao directly promoted Lu Xiang to the secretary of the military department, while Yang Sichang replaced him as the left attendant of the military department, and still took charge of the daily affairs of the military department for Lu Xiangsheng. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

For Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting and Wang Zaijin, they still hold the titles of Shangshu of the Ministry of War and left and right squires, but they are not responsible for the affairs of the Ministry of War, but still take charge of the trilateral military affairs for Zhu Youxiao.

However, Gong Yonggu, the commander of the horses, officially gave the official position of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Households, and mainly managed the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Bank, of course, the Royal Bank was still directly responsible for Hu Shouchun.

However, this can be regarded as Zhu Youxiao's precedent for letting Xun Qi serve as an official in the DPRK and China.

The reason for this is naturally related to the fact that the profits brought by the Royal Industrial Company are enough to cover half of the treasury revenue.

And Zhu Youxiao handed over this new and fat business to the Xun Qi to lead, but it can be regarded as the wooing of these Xun Qi, and he will not fall into isolation when he launches a full-scale war against the civilian gentry group in the future.

After Mao Yuanyi returned to Gui'an, he immediately began to manufacture Gui'an looms, and immediately established the Royal Weaving Bureau, and spent a lot of money to buy raw materials such as silk cotton before they rose.

None of the merchants in Jiangnan cared about the impact of the new Royal Weaving Bureau on their business, after all, the Royal Weaving Bureau at this time seemed to be very small, and in the large weaving workshops where thousands of weavers worked every day, such a small workshop could not become a climate.

Because their large workshops can set the price of silk fabrics very low but can get a lot of profits, and small workshops can do it, if the price is low, the profits will naturally be low, and they are afraid that they will not be able to maintain a few days and then go out of business.

However, after the first batch of silk fabrics were woven, the Royal Weaving Bureau not only did not raise the price of silk fabrics because of the word "royal", but directly lowered the price of silk fabrics by half compared with the price on the market.

Some businessmen wrote an article in the "Daming Daily" to ridicule that the Royal Weaving Bureau was losing money and making money, and deliberately pitted the silver of the imperial court to fatten their own pockets.

But it was precisely because the Royal Weaving Bureau lowered the price of silk fabrics that many people came to the Royal Weaving Bureau to buy them, so that the private owners of the big workshops had to buy and sell their business by a lot, and they had to follow suit, and thus reduce the profit margins.

Many merchants began to be dissatisfied, and they all complained about the Royal Weaving Bureau, and said that if it wanted to lose itself, why should it reduce the price and harm the whole weaving industry to suffer.

Even, because of this incident, the governor of Zhejiang 0 River Province also used the content of the "Daming Daily" to directly hear about the matter, impeaching the Royal Weaving Bureau to disrupt the order of the weaving industry, so that the people were harmed.

Zhu Youxiao in the capital did not make any move after receiving it, and he naturally knew that once the Royal Weaving Bureau opened up the situation in the silk weaving industry in Jiangnan, it would inevitably encounter opposition from traditional merchants.

But now what Zhu Youxiao wants to do is to let the company that establishes a state monopoly control over the finances of the Ming Dynasty, so he must favor his own Royal Weaving Bureau.

The Inspector was eventually dismissed, and the Royal Weaving Bureau did not suffer the inevitable loss of money that the other merchants had expected in less than a few months.

Since the Royal Weaving Bureau used steam power as the main driving force for silk fabrics, the reform of silk fabrics has begun, the cost has been greatly reduced, the profit has been greatly increased, but the price in the market has also been reduced, and because of this, more people can buy fabrics.

This is the benefit of a country's developed productivity, but in this way, it also brings more surplus labor.

As a result, many traditional weaving workshops went bankrupt, a large number of weavers faced the problem of unemployment, and many workers who could have survived without land were faced with a survival crisis.

Unconsciously, the crisis of the entire Ming Dynasty was not only the problem of peasants having no land to plant, but also the problem of a large number of citizens having no work to do.

Of course, the benefits brought by the current Royal Weaving Bureau and the Royal Glass Factory generally outweigh the disadvantages, after all, the income of millions of taels of silver every month is finally able to do a few things that cost money for the once poor Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao is also aware of the problem that the development of productive forces will lead to a reduction in labor costs and make it more difficult for a large number of landless civilians to survive.

Therefore, after establishing the glass and silver mirror factory of the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau, he reorganized the Ministry of Industry and the Renovation Department to form the Royal Engineering Bureau.

The Royal Engineering Bureau was directly in charge of Huo Weihua, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, who had just returned to Beijing, and Huo Weihua was almost always in charge of the dredging of water conservancy projects in various places during the seventh year of the Apocalypse to the eighth year of the Apocalypse, so he had rich experience in organizing migrant workers and planning infrastructure construction.

After Zhu Youxiao explained to Huo Weihua what the Royal Engineering Bureau was and how it was different from the previous Battalion Division, Huo Weihua also understood the meaning.

According to Zhu Youxiao's intention, it is necessary to let the Royal Engineering Bureau be responsible for the infrastructure construction of the whole country, that is, to continue to expand the basic reconstruction work of the entire Ming Dynasty, on the one hand, in order to spend all the excess money earned, and the way to spend it is naturally to distribute it to the people who have paid for their labor through infrastructure construction, and on the other hand, it is natural to solve the problem of the survival of more and more landless peasants.

Under the leadership of the state, the wealth hoarded by the great gentry began to circulate, and really made the Ming Dynasty really reap the benefits of economic development.

Moreover, these benefits are not only reflected in the military and science and technology, nor only have the income of officials been improved on the surface, but also in terms of people's livelihood, so that the common people can truly experience many benefits.

Taking the capital as an example, Shuntianfu built public toilets made of glazed tiles and ink bricks at intervals on each main road in the capital, which looked no different from ordinary houses, and the Wucheng Terracotta Division also specially organized unemployed people to be responsible for cleaning the streets and these public toilets that are now called "convenient houses" by the people of the Ming Dynasty, which greatly improved the health situation of the entire capital.

Of course, the improvement of the health situation in the capital is due to the improvement of these infrastructure and public services, and the increase in the punishment of spitting and open defecation with the people of the Terracotta Division.

At the same time, the drainage system of the entire capital has also been overhauled, which has further improved the street environment of the entire capital, and even on rainy days, there is no longer water accumulation in the whole capital that affects people's travel.

These natures also began to be promoted in other cities, starting with several large cities in Gyeonggi, such as Tongzhou, Baoding, etc.

Even as far as Jinan, the urban system transformation has begun.

And all this naturally laid a good foundation for the later fight against the plague that swept across North China.

At the same time, because of the emergence of the public service system, jobs have been increased, and the survival problems of many people have been solved, but because of this, more and more people have crowded into the capital and other metropolises.

According to the report of Shuntianfu, in the summer quarter of the eighth year of the Apocalypse alone, the entire capital has increased by more than 100,000 people, and unlike in previous years, many of them did not come because they fled the famine, or even sold land, they came here just to get a job.

(To be continued.) )