After understanding, the various supervision bureaus of Ye Xiang's inner government include almost all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation, which is simply a small society. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wine vinegar noodle bureau in the palm of the official palace people to eat wine, sugar, oil, vinegar, sauce, plum, salt; The inner government supplies the rice noodles and white vinegar in front of the palace; The wine room specializes in making bamboo leaves and other wines, dregs of melon and eggplant, and dried tempeh; The confectionery room makes all kinds of sweets such as silk nest tiger's eye, cutting muffins, and reducing cooking; The Siyuan Bureau is in charge of the vegetables and fruits in the palace, as well as the cultivation of arts; Shanglin Yuan palm deer, roe rabbit, vegetables, watermelons, fruits and so on.

In addition to the inner government, there is also the Guanglu Temple under the jurisdiction of the department, such as the department of livestock to raise livestock, depending on its fat and thin and slaughtered and washed; The Department of Treasures and Treaties is in charge of supplying meat and fruit products for the palace meal; The director of the Good Brewing Department is in charge of the supply of fine wine.

In addition to the edible, there are also royal supervisors, front decorations, and screens; The royal front made dragon beds and cabinets; The internal official is in charge of construction; Shang Yi is in charge of the royal crown robe; Inner weaving and dyeing bureau palm dyeing; The official hat of the scarf and hat bureau is in charge; The Needlework Bureau is in charge of the official clothes; Treasure banknote palm straw paper; Salary, firewood, charcoal, etc.

To sum up, there are more than 15,000 craftsmen in the inner government and the palace envoys, not counting the factories under their respective jurisdictions, and they are also great large enterprises in later generations.

There is a shortage of silver in the interior and Taicang, but the royal family and the imperial court are not short of food, and every time they make a financial summary, they do not convert rice, wheat, cloth and other things into silver, but count them in kind. Ye Xiang, who came through it, grew up in the commodity economy environment, and the above-mentioned manpower and treasury were all white flowers and silver in his eyes.

Where is the silver? Most of the things that have not been mined are underground, most of them are still abroad, and most of the parts in China are in the hands of wealthy people.

Now that the mining capacity is low, and there is a mining tax in front of it, the first one is not feasible. Building ironclad ships, opening ports and trade can not solve the urgent need, and now the silver mines in the Americas have been mined in large quantities, such as the opening of the sea like Jiajing to ban the inflow of silver caused a large surplus, will inevitably cause the price of silver to fall, the small peasant economy of the Ming Dynasty handicraft and commerce has just sprouted, there is no series of measures such as regulations to escort, will make the Ming economy fall into a situation of no return.

Therefore, the best way at present is to let the people take out the silver from the cellar and circulate it, and complete the original idea of legalizing Ye Xiang's silver currency.

The best way to turn grain, cloth, etc. into cash is to produce products for clothing, food, shelter, and transportation. Ye Xiang let each bureau act separately according to the common sense of life in later generations, and took the existing inventory of the inner government as the standard, and gave full play to its strengths and produced corresponding items without affecting the daily life of the royal family and the imperial court.

In addition to the items that are already made nowadays, there is also a division of labor. For example, the internal officials and supervisors let the glaze factory make porcelain jars for wine and vinegar, make honeycomb coal stoves, and let the Mentougou kiln factory burn floor tiles; The Weaving and Dyeing Bureau and other bureaus will grade people according to their body type and make them into ready-to-wear garments; The Wage Division suppressed honeycomb coal; Shanglinyuan and Nanhaizi collect, wash, and dry all kinds of feathers, and hand them over to the Needle Industry Bureau to make down jackets. In addition, there is a silver bureau that makes metal buttons, a confectionery room that makes biscuits and sweets, a polyester that tries to make knitted sweaters, and a wine vinegar noodle bureau that makes dry goods such as vermicelli and dried noodles.

In short, Ye Xiang wants to commercialize everything that can be made by the existing process at this time, not just self-sufficient. He asked each supervisor to make separate accounts and calculate the cost, and then rushed to the imperial prison outside the Xihua Gate accompanied by Wang Chengen, Wang Guochen, and Wang Tiqian.

Wang Tiqian and Wang An are between the two poles except for their age, and the rest are all polar, with a dry body and a soft and healthy face, and An is fat and sick; The body is dry, soft and upright; The body is greedy and honest.

Wang Tiqian was originally the supervisor of the Wanli clerical room, and after the Taichang Imperial Pole, he was able to take charge of the seal of the East Palace Seal Bureau under the name of Li Li with a heavy amount of money, and he thought that he was the best candidate for the imperial horse supervisor, but he did not expect Ye Xiang not only not to be promoted, but even Li Shi did not let him act as an agent when he went to Liaodong.

Wang Tiqian, who was wearing a three-mountain hat and a straight collar, bent down and carefully followed Ye Xiang half a step behind, reminding him from time to time, "Master, be careful of the threshold, be careful of the slippery road......

Ye Xiang smiled, he had already learned the reason from Zou Yi's trial of Liu Xun's case, and said, "The things handled by the royal supervisor are all valuable, you have to take care of me, and the things you take, make and wear and tear must be recorded, and I will send people to check them from time to time." ”

Wang Tiqian wiped the impure sweat on his forehead when Ye Xiang didn't pay attention, and replied with a smile, "Don't worry, the slaves will definitely convey their will to the craftsmen when they turn around, and they will ensure that there will be no problems." ”

Entering the west on the south gate facing the east is the imperial supervisor, it covers an area from the Xihua Gate along the line to the Jinshui River, there are thousands of craftsmen, second only to the factory. The division of labor of the royal supervisor is clear, there are ivory chess, dominoes, red sandalwood, huanghuali, ebony tables and chairs around the screen, there are also small pieces of workshops such as plate boxes, fan handles, etc.

Ye Xiang inspected the workshops one by one, and found that the materials were not only high-quality, but also the finished products were exquisite, which showed how superb the craftsmen's skills were, and suddenly understood why Zhu Youxiao liked carpentry.

The Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Household Affairs has been abolished, and the yamen in Jiaozhongfang has become vacant, so Ye Xiang plans to set up a more profitable furniture store where to sell beds, chairs, cabinets, sofas and other things to those wealthy households, so he will come to the imperial prison again.

Ye Xiang felt that it was feasible after in-depth understanding, and instructed Wang Tiqian before leaving, "The royal supervisor should hurry up and make a batch of ordinary tables and chairs, etc., without using rare wood, and cannot violate the system. Be beautiful, I have my own use. ”

Wang Tiqian's hanging heart finally landed, and when he saw that there was a will, he hurriedly bowed down to receive the order, "The slave obeys the order and sends it to Your Majesty." ”

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The next day, in the armor factory in Chongwenmen, Ye Xiang was taking the cabinet and six Jiangnan officials to see the developed steam engine.

The iron quality of the steam engine, under the demonstration of the craftsman, suddenly emits white smoke outward, and under the drive of steam, the heat energy is converted into kinetic energy through the piston. More than 30 officials of various ages pointed and talked loudly from time to time.

Ye Xiang let everyone's expressions in their eyes, and asked Wang Chengen beside him, "How long will it take for Mao Yuanyi and the Song brothers to arrive in Beijing?" ”

The armor factory and the Wang Gong factory are both arsenals for the manufacture of armor, guns, bows and arrows, gunpowder and other things, so Ye Xiang set the trial production of the steam engine here, and the Wang Guochen of the War Bureau is also in charge of the factory seal, with 90 craftsmen and a number of craftsmen.

The principle of the steam engine will not be repeated, and the current prototype has no shortage of functions, but the heat energy conversion rate is low, mainly due to the coordination and sealing of the piston and gear. Ye Xiang has a lot of things every day, and it is impossible to focus on this all the time, so he thought of Song Yingxing, who came to mind because of Li Rubai's recommendation.

Song Yingxing returned to his hometown in Fengxin County, Yuanzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province because he failed to pass the palace examination last year.

"Back to the emperor, I'm afraid that the eunuch has not yet arrived in Nanzhili, and he will go to Yuanzhou Mansion ......"

Wang Chengen was pushed away, and an old man flashed in front of Ye Xiang, it was Fang Congzhe, "Your Majesty, why do you ignore military affairs and stay with eunuchs all day long, play with these strange and tricky skills, and let the ministers put aside the official affairs of the yamen and accompany them, this is ......?" ”

Ye Xiang saw that his voice was violent, and motioned to the craftsman to disconnect the transmission, and his good mood was completely destroyed, he took a step back, stared at him and said coldly, "I said for you, this is simply a sign of the loss of mind and the loss of the country, right?" ”

"I don't dare."

"The cabinet is the head of the civil ministers, what is there to dare to do?" Ye Xiang looked at the officials of the six ministries beside him, "Do you know what is in front of you?" Although it was ugly, it generated the impetus that propelled the Ming Dynasty forward two hundred years. ”

Ye Xiang walked in front of Li Ruhua with his hand, "Isn't the household department often discounted to let me allocate the internal silver?" The strange and ingenious technique that Your Excellency Fang is talking about is silverware. I have read your resumes, most of them are from the rich land of Nanzhi, and I must have had frequent contacts with businessmen in private, so I asked you to come today to tell them through you that I want to sell them the machine I invented. Each unit is two hundred taels, and the silver obtained is all returned to Taicang except for the iron purchased by the armor factory and the craftsmen. Whoever dares to make it privately in the provinces is regarded as stealing the treasury and will be killed. ”

"Your Majesty, what is this name? What is it used for. ”

The speaker was Gu Bingqian, a 70-year-old scholar of the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, who is a native of Kunshan, Nanzhili, and is now the assistant director of the Zhan Shifu. Although he was born in Jiangnan, he was not a member of the Donglin Party, and later became one of Wei Zhongxian's Five Tigers. His appearance is not good, because of his age, the cheekbones on his face are prominent, his cheeks are deep, and his whole body looks weak.

Ye Xiang saw that Gu Bingqian agreed, so he sang a double reed, explained the application prospects of the steam engine to everyone one by one, and finally said, "Don't think that I am messing around, if this steam engine is fully utilized, it can not only reduce the cost of the merchants, but also improve efficiency. ”

In addition to the source of innovation and drugs, there are also monopolies, such as salt and iron in the present and oil and tobacco in the future. The money obtained went to the household department, so that the courtiers had no reason to object, and the monopoly on the steam engine was only the first step, and in the future, coal and other energy sources would also be strictly controlled until the Ming Dynasty completely got rid of the financial crisis.

Ye Xiang is not worried that no one will buy the machine, businessmen are the personification of capital, they are all profit-seeking, there will always be people with superior vision who will come to Beijing to beg for it.

Another benefit of buying a steam engine to a merchant was to upgrade the power and expand production, laying the groundwork for future trade with countries such as Europe. As for the short-term environmental pollution, it is not to be taken into account, even if all kinds of electricity are developed in later generations, megacities are still serious haze, which is the inevitable development of history.