At this time, Mao Yuansheng, the head of the Royal Weaving Bureau, took the initiative to stand up:

"Your Majesty, the turmoil in Jiangnan this time is all caused by the Royal Weaving Bureau. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoJiangnan is famous for its cloth, and Songjiang white cloth is known all over the world, and now the intervention of the Royal Weaving Bureau has led to the suspension of a large number of Jiangnan weaving workshops, which has made the people dissatisfied, and even several times the local people have burned the cotton cloth produced by the Royal Weaving Bureau, and therefore the Royal Weaving Bureau has been widely excluded in Jiangnan.

Wechen felt that since the Royal Weaving Bureau was to become the world's number one cloth merchant, he had to take on the responsibilities that other weaving workshops had previously assumed, and retrain these weavers so that they could learn how to use the machine and understand what machine and steam power were. ”

Mao Yuansheng said: "Weichen made an estimate, if we take into account that the Royal Weaving Bureau will establish a branch in the Ming Dynasty in the future, with the largest amount of cloth needed today, the Royal Weaving Bureau can recruit 100,000 weavers, and these 100,000 people should be able to carry out simple training and go directly to work." ”、

"The Royal Weaving Bureau only focuses on the market in the two capitals and thirteen political envoys, even if it is the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Wu Xiangbu, the important strategic materials that do not involve the military can be bought and sold, the military is the military, the trade is the sale, some money is not made in vain, let them depend on our economy, and even in the future can form a bigger blow to him!

In addition, there are also Western and Oriental foreign countries, the hateful thing is that the best access to the sea in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian is controlled by the Zheng family, which greatly restricts our trading, but we can find a way to get in touch with Xiyi from Liaodong and Liangguang, and with the demand in Europa and other places, you can triple the expansion of the Royal Weaving Bureau. ”

Zhu Youxiao is now anxious to quickly solve the labor surplus problems in Jiangnan that have arisen due to the rapid increase in productivity due to the emergence of steam power, so he didn't think about it so much, so he said it, but who knew that Mao Yuansheng immediately heard Mao Yuansheng say a little anxiously:

"Your Majesty doesn't know, the trade with Xiyi can only be through the Zheng family, the Zheng family is now equivalent to a country on the sea, whether it is the South Seas or the East Ocean, it is not its opponent, and the Zheng family has already had an agreement, these Xiyi and the Ming Dynasty can only be traded through the Zheng family, otherwise these Xiyi will be wiped out by the Zheng family, so even if we are willing, Xiyi is not willing to trade directly with us."

Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that the Zheng group had such a big power on the sea, and it also directly monopolized and controlled the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty, so that he was naïve to think that as long as he got out of the advanced productive forces, he could produce a large number of products for export, and then earn a lot of wealth and enhance the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

But now it seems that it is not that Daming does not want to conduct overseas trade and foreign exchanges, but that these armed groups of maritime landlords with hidden selfish motives do not want Daming to have a free maritime trade.

It is no wonder that the Zheng family can operate a one-time transaction of tens of millions of taels at every turn, and imagine whether it is rich and powerful to control the maritime trade of a country or the largest country in the world.

"I'm afraid that there are many people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian who are in the same group as his Zheng family, and they jointly take advantage of the powerlessness of our imperial court at sea to make a fortune, and his Zheng family is a tooth man for these big families, and these big families are his backers", Zhu Youxiao asked coldly.

Mao Yuansheng handed over a copy: "This is the Zheng family from the Royal Weaving Bureau in four months this year, the first three months were three million horses, but this month it was directly reduced to one million horses, the reason is that Isibania (Spain) and Boerduvar (Portugal) are not in harmony, Xiyi does not need so many goods, so that the backlog of goods of the Royal Weaving Bureau has increased by two million horses after the backlog of five million horses due to the turmoil in Jiangnan, and the loss has reached 800,000 silver dollars, but in fact, it is because he wants the minister to tell His Majesty to deal with the Jiangnan gentry carefully, The ministers presented their secret letters to His Majesty. ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded, he did receive a secret letter from Mao Yuansheng, but he didn't want to be threatened by a pirate group, so he ignored the secret letter from the Zheng family, but now he has to admit that this Zheng family is really a hindrance to his wealth, and he can't get rid of it!

But now Zhu Youxiao has to admit that he has no way to take the Zheng group, and the imperial court does not have a strong navy, and even if he does, it is difficult to compete with the Zheng group, the overlord of the sea. It is possible to be sanctioned through economic blockade, but in this way, it is not only the Zheng family that suffers huge losses, but also the Ming court.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao can only adopt a policy of restraint and preferential treatment for the Zheng group now, so he said: "In the matter of engineering, Yan Jizu once played to persuade me to appease the Zheng family, and in this case, he sent a decree to Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, to be responsible for this matter. ”

According to Zhu Youxiao's knowledge, in the original history, the Zheng clan was indeed attached to the Ming court at this time, and now it can only obey the development of history, if it is not bad, once he succeeds in appeasing the Zheng clan, the Zheng clan will justifiably fight other pirates, and consolidate his sea power and expand his territory.

But this is not good for the imperial court, when there are many pirates, the imperial court can still pull one by one, but once the southeast coast and even the South China Sea, the Yellow Sea and other places are controlled by the Zheng family, then the entire Ming court will have no power to fight back against the Zheng group at sea.

"At the same time, Yan Yingyuan was sent to be responsible for appeasing the pirate Gu San Mazi, and the governor of Liangguang, Shang Zhouzuo, was asked to appease Li Qiaoqi, Zhong Bin and other subordinates, but they were all given guerrilla positions, implying that if they were attached to the imperial court, the imperial court would use the power of others to encircle and suppress them."

The world is as black as a crow, and the pirates of the Ming Dynasty are also a characteristic, and it is common for them to rebel, and they also regard the court's appeasement as child's play. It is difficult for these pirates who are used to robbing their homes to really belong to the imperial court, such as Li Kuiqi mentioned by Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao still did this for no other reason, that is, to let the Zheng group lose the opportunity to legally annex these pirates, and it can be regarded as giving these pirates a chance to protect themselves, but they can't help but not agree.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty may be able to solve the sea trouble on the surface, so as to hope that these pirates will be able to settle in Liangneng, so that the imperial court Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau can have more goods to sell, and the people along the coast will be less damaged and plundered.

At the same time, this can also leave more time for Zhu Youxiao to build his own sea power, as long as he has a strong navy, he does not have to be afraid of the Zheng Group at that time, and even the Ming Dynasty can expand its maritime hegemony and survive.

Since he wants to build his own navy, Colonel Zhu You also has to do a lot of things, first of all, he must determine how to train naval officers and soldiers, and then he must also determine how much money will be spent and how large a navy he will build at the present.