Xiao Tian finally opened his eyes this time, and he didn't go far at noon, and he stayed in Xiyuan directly with Lu Bing and those eunuchs and other ministers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As soon as I sat down and slowed my legs, drank the good tea in the palace, and told these eunuchs a few jokes, it didn't take long for the ministers to come back.

Seriously, Xiaotian is okay to do business, but in fact, he doesn't understand why he quarreled in the afternoon, and he only realized the seriousness of the problem when he saw that the big guys were all like Lin Dadi.

Sure enough, in fact, the quarrel in the morning was all small officials, and several scholars in the cabinet didn't know much, but as soon as they came up in the afternoon, they were in a desperate posture, and the first person to speak was actually Xu Jie, the second assistant of the cabinet.

After the sound of the copper swell, Xu Jie came directly to Xiaotian and said: "Dingyuan Hou, do you know how much raw silk is needed for 700,000 horses of silk, how many weavers are needed, 500,000 tea bricks, how many acres of tea plantations are needed, 1 million horses of cotton cloth, and how many looms are needed, I can't take out such a large quantity."

Xiao Tian has also thought about this problem, but Xiao Tian comes from later generations, and always believes that the amount of production is determined according to the market, and this quantity is far from exceeding the productivity of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not now, Xiao Ye has stayed for a year. So Xiaotian said: "Elder Xu Ge, I don't want it now, I only want it at the end of the year."

As soon as everyone heard Xiaotian's answer, they knew that he really didn't understand, and it was also a seventeen-year-old boy who had already done such a big thing, and it was not normal for him to think about this kind of macro problem if he didn't think about it enough.

Xiao Tian didn't understand what was going on, Yan Song, who had slept all morning, slowly spoke: "Let me answer Xu Ge's question, first of all, there are a total of 10,000 looms in Nanjing now, 8,000 in Hangzhou, 10,000 in Suzhou, and 30,000 in other places in Zhejiang. At most every year, it can produce 700,000 pieces of silk and 2 million pieces of cotton cloth, deducting the needs of circulation in the market and the purchase of the imperial court to send to the princes of all walks of life, there are still 150,000 pieces of silk and 700,000 pieces of cotton cloth, the gap in cotton cloth is not big, Songjiang himself can solve it, the key is that the silk is poor, if you want to weave 700,000 pieces of silk, there is still a difference of 550,000 horses, and you need to add at least 40,000 looms before February this year. These 40,000 looms can be cooperated with businessmen, and the businessmen will pay to buy them from the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Industry can still have some money leftover.

Yan Shifan said: "Dad, the Ministry of Industry is stepping up the system, and my son and my colleagues in the Ministry of Industry are working hard."

Xu Jiedao: "But it's not enough to have a machine, cotton cloth can be said better, and the raw silk used to weave silk can keep up?"

Yan Song sat on the chair, unable to see his expression, and said slowly: "The problem of porcelain is not big, just let the Ministry of Industry send officials down and build a few more kilns." Tea is dispatched from various tea-producing provinces, squeezing it, it's easier than squeezing silver, and now the biggest problem is raw silk, Dingyuan Hou, this time you understand."

is a good Yan Song, these data come as soon as he opens his mouth, and he is worthy of being the first assistant of the cabinet, who said that he can only write green words.

Xiaotian listened for a long time, and nodded half-incomprehensibly.

Yan Song continued: "Among these profits, sixty percent of the profits are silk, right?"

Xiao Tian could only nod.

Yan Song continued: "Raw silk is not better than tea, it has always relied on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is no way, is the climate so, so the question now is, can Jiangsu and Zhejiang produce so much raw silk, the court discussed, mainly here, Dingyuan Marquis understands."

Xiao Tian nodded again. said: "Then, can't you let Jiangsu and Zhejiang produce more raw silk?"

Xu Jiedao: "This is the crux of the problem, in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, known as seven mountains, two rivers and one field, there is not enough rice to eat, and it is almost impossible to produce enough raw silk to weave 550,000 horses of silk."

Xiao Tiandao: "You can let them grow more mulberry, and if the grain is not enough, they can transfer it from neighboring provinces, and if they can't buy it from neighboring provinces."

Yan Song also said: "I agree with Dingyuanhou's statement, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have to transfer more than one million quintals of grain from other provinces every year, and this year it is all planted on mulberry, and it is nothing more than to transfer more to that."

Xu Jie said: "Let's not say that there is not so much grain in the neighboring provinces, even if there is, so much grain will inevitably lead to the rise in grain prices in Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

Yan Song was silent for a while and said: "The state affairs are difficult, and there is only one hardship for the people."

Only then did Xiao Tian understand why there was such a big controversy. It turns out that Xu Jie is from the perspective of the people, the farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are all planted with mulberry, and the grain will definitely rise sharply, not to mention Jiangsu and Zhejiang, even the grain prices in neighboring provinces may also rise, and many people are already living very hard, and it is difficult to eat enough.

But could it be that Yan Song must be wrong? Xiaotian has been listening to the quarrel in the morning, Daming is short of silver everywhere, only a little bit of money, but it has been owed for more than two years, you say, are you embarrassed to catch these people for corruption? If you don't embezzle, you will starve to death. With such a dilemma, it is no wonder that the imperial court will argue endlessly.

Just after lunch, everyone is quite strong, and the two factions have a fierce argument led by Yan Song and Xu Jie, and it is the public who says that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the mother is reasonable.

When Dangdang, Jiajing rang the copper gong again, and everyone naturally stopped, only to hear Jiajing ask: "Huaizhen, after all, this order was put forward by you, what do you think?"

Xiao Tianwei said: "I have listened to it for a long time just now, and there are two main difficulties in changing rice to mulberry, one is whether rice farmers are willing to change to planting mulberry seedlings, and the other is whether the grain will inevitably rise next year, whether the people can still live, and whether it will provoke a popular uprising.

Jiajing asked again: "Yes, you got to the point." Do you have any solution?"

Xiao Tian thought for a while and said: "The income generated by planting mulberry should be above the cultivation of rice, and the imperial court has made money on it, and it should also give back to the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It's better to be on par with or even lower than rice farmers, so that they should be willing to switch rice to mulberry. As for the price of grain, we can put the looms in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so that the people can earn some additional income from work in addition to the income from farming. Coupled with the tax reduction and exemption of the imperial court, it should still be able to live. If it still doesn't work, I can still buy a lot of grain from countries such as Luzon and Sriwijaya, and even if I lose a little money, I think I can still control it."

Xu Jiedao: "It's a big matter, don't act rashly, even if you really want to change rice to mulberry, you have to come up with a strategy in detail."

Xu Jie said these words, Jiajing understands, in the final analysis, the peasants sell raw silk to merchants at the usual price, and the merchants sell it to the imperial court at the price of silk in previous years, and the imperial court sells it to Xiaotian at a higher price. Jiajing is a Taoist monarch is a lazy monarch, but he is not a faint monarch, and he doesn't want to do this, but the state affairs are difficult, the household has always been his own home, and a lot of money cannot be saved, if you don't exploit the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, sooner or later you will have to increase the salt tax or even the agricultural tax, and changing rice to mulberry is actually the best way under the current situation.

After arguing for a long time, Jiajing still made a decision, change! However, it is necessary to pay attention to the interests of the people, exempt the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions from the mulberry tax next year, and try to make the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang have less blood.

Such a big thing determines the direction, but how to change it, how to implement it, who is responsible for it, and if these problems are not handled well, it will be a big disaster, and these cannot be discussed in front of the emperor, so they can only be discussed by the cabinet itself after they are dispersed.