Zhu Youxiao snorted, didn't pay attention to Mao Yuanyi, and went directly into the Royal Weaving Bureau. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The whole Royal Weaving Bureau is like a large workshop, dozens of Gui'an looms are placed in an orderly manner in the workshop, and when you enter it, you can hear the sound of steam coming out and the rumble of the machine, of course, the smell of soot is also very strong.

In the whole workshop, there are technicians who operate the machines, and there are ordinary operators who add coal and water, but there are not many people needed, and in less than a while, countless spindles can be seen sliding out of the machine after running at high speed.

And it didn't take long for a weaving roll with a diameter of one meter to roll down from the smooth track, and the specific dyeing and processing were the operations of the female workers below, the whole process was orderly and efficient, which was the production process carefully developed by Mao Yuanyi, and it was also the most advanced production mode in Daming and even the world.

Even Zhu Youxiao admires Mao Yuanyi's genius in the application of steam power, but because Mao Yuanyi is a military attaché, he has a little inferiority complex in front of these civil officials and scholars in Jiangnan, and he always can't show his power as a celebrity in front of His Majesty the Emperor.

"Mao Yuanyi, you are now also the Sipin Jiangning Weaving that I personally sealed, and the Royal Weaving Bureau, which is in charge of the multi-million yuan industry this month, can also be regarded as the big housekeeper of the Feishui Yamen, why are the bones so soft, some small miscellaneous pieces kill people and set fire in front of your Royal Weaving Bureau, and even beat the merchants who come to you to buy goods, you don't kill their prestige!"

Zhu Youxiao looked at Mao Yuanyi with two eyes, he was already tall and mighty, even if he wore the four-grade Yunyan civil official uniform, he looked dignified, but he always lowered his head, and now after Zhu Youxiao said this, he puffed up his chest: "Your Majesty blames that Weichen is the tough point, and now the sales volume of the Royal Weaving Bureau is decreasing, resulting in a backlog of goods, and it is not unrelated to the increasing number of gangsters in Nanjing, many merchants from Sichuan, Xiang, Yungui and other places do not even dare to come to my Royal Weaving Bureau to purchase." ”

"How much more can the output be increased now, and can we expand the scale and go to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yiyang and other places to establish sub-bureaus?" Zhu Youxiao naturally knew that the obstruction of the civil affairs in Nan 0 Beijing made it difficult for the Royal Weaving Bureau to rely solely on advanced productivity and low cost to open up the situation in the Jiangnan weaving industry, so he did not say much that he Mao Yuanyi was afraid of the problems of civil officials, but asked the Royal Weaving Bureau if it could expand its scale.

After all, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao opened a large enterprise of national capital not only to make money, but also to solve the problem of employment, that is, the survival of the people.

Mao Yuanyi didn't think about the deep-seated reason why Zhu Youxiao asked like this, so he immediately replied:

"Absolutely not, Your Majesty, presumably Your Majesty also knows that when the moon is full, it will be lost, and when the water is full, it will overflow, and now the demand for cloth in the entire Ming Dynasty can no longer be increased, not only the etiquette rules determine that the common people are not allowed to wear brocade clothes and gorgeous clothes, but silk fabrics, even if they are cheap, they cannot be purchased by the small people of Shengdou, and now the amount of silk fabrics that can be bought and can be used is almost satisfied;

If the scale is expanded, it will make a lot of goods backlogged, and then the silk fabric will become worthless, the Royal Weaving Bureau will collapse on its own, and the thousands of employees of the Royal Weaving Bureau will be difficult to survive, and the Ming finances will also be affected by this. ”

Zhu Youxiao understood what Mao Yuanyi meant that the silk fabric industry has become saturated, and the Royal Weaving Bureau can still make profits from this market at the current scale, but if the scale is increased, it will cause a situation where the supply exceeds the supply, and the depreciation of the goods will cause an economic crisis.

Since the late Ming Dynasty, the world has been declining, and the etiquette outline has often been corrupted, if Zhu Youxiao now announces that the common people can also wear brocade and red robes, the opposition will not be too big, but just liberating the rules and constraints on the common people is estimated to not be able to open up much of the market, after all, it is true that as Mao Yuanyi said, not everyone is willing to spend money to buy silk clothes and then wear them to farm, in Zhu Youxiao's view, the real demand pull engine is overseas.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "What about the Oriental, Southern, Western and other places, as far as I know, the nobles of Europa are very fond of my Ming silk fabrics, and they have always been bestsellers, and many Western caravans have come to my Ming Dynasty for this." ”

With the popularization of social science knowledge in the Hanlin Academy and the guidance of the Daming Daily, many Ming people, especially scholars and officials, are no strangers to the world, at least they know where England is, and even know Elizabeth.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao asked like this, Mao Yuanyi could also understand what he meant, so he replied: "Back to Your Majesty, now my Daming Sea Trade is almost controlled by Zheng and other pirates, whether my Daming caravan wants to go out or the Western caravan wants to come in, it must be agreed by the Zheng fleet."

Nowadays, we export silk fabrics to the West, and we can only give Zheng's, but Zheng's because of its monopoly and deliberately lower the price and only collect a certain amount of orders not easily increase the amount of orders, so our Royal Weaving Bureau has been limited now, and the annual profit from the sea trade is very small. ”

"I didn't think of this problem, my dignified maritime trade was controlled by a few pirates, it's really funny in the world!" Zhu Youxiao nodded, he suddenly realized that the Royal Weaving Bureau was not only the Royal Weaving Bureau, but also the predicament that the Royal Industrial Company was facing now was not only the resistance of the civilian group but also the suppression of the pirate group, which caused the two imperial merchants to be unable to activate the capital market of the Ming Dynasty.

It is necessary to get rid of the pirate group as soon as possible, and reshape the dominant position of the central power of the Ming Dynasty on the hegemony of the seas, and in doing so, it is necessary to have its own strong navy, but governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and many things can only be done one by one, and now since the Royal Weaving Bureau can not expand its scale, it can only find a way to solve the high unemployment rate in the south 0 capital from other aspects.

Not only the problem of high unemployment, but also the problem of the new gap between the rich and the poor brought about by the development of capital, as well as the protection of the rights and interests of ordinary workers and the guarantee of their survival, if these problems are not solved and channeled, they are very likely to be exploited by some people with malicious intentions and even instigated to do extremely destructive things.

However, the current officials in Nan 0 Beijing are often superfluous officials, and even the promoters of the high unemployment rate and the gap between the rich and the poor, and there are very few outstanding officials who really work hard or realize that new class problems have emerged, and the difficulty of finding good officials is not only something that the people sigh, but also the rulers of the empire.

"Your Majesty, Jiangning County ordered Ye Dingyi to arrive!"

At this time, Yidongchang Fanzi came over with an official who was already shackled, Zhu Youxiao looked back, and asked directly: "Ye County Order, let me ask you, how do you, as the parent official here, govern this area, and the bold gangsters dare to beat the merchants and extort money around the Royal Weaving Bureau, do you know?" ”

Jiangning County Ling Ye Dingyi said very aggrievedly: "Return, the non-ministers are incompetent, this South 0 capital has been too many gangsters who have done evil recently, the small cells have been filled with people, and they can't be caught, and even the county government with the guilty ministers has been sprinkled with dog blood and pig dung." ”