Zhu Youzhen saw that Han Shoujing had been at a loss recently, and he was quite at odds with Yang Mingshen, the right attendant of the household department, and even when the celebrant was on duty, he would see the opportunity to enter Yang Mingshen's slander in front of him, and he secretly took bribes, and moved all the money from the central bank to their Yang family, etc., which made Zhu Youzhen start to feel bored.

Although Zhu Youzhen does not believe that Yang Mingshen is as honest as water, he will not think that Yang Mingshen will mess up the central bank of the Ming Dynasty, because the bank can only be opened by the imperial court now, and he Yang Mingshen has shares in the only bank in the Ming Dynasty, that is, the central bank, which is equivalent to his own bank, he can't come nonsense, plus Dongchang and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are always staring, he doesn't dare to come nonsense.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu felt that Han Shoujing was wrong, so he questioned Han Shoujing and asked him why he was dissatisfied with Yang Mingshen, and Han Shoujing had to tell him frankly, saying that Yang Mingshen relied on his position as the deputy governor of the central bank, and directly instigated his brother Yang Mingguang to borrow 20 million silver dollars to set up a textile company, build a large number of looms and hire mechanics, so that the Yang family occupies a greater advantage in the textile market in the market.

And he, Han Shoujing, also had his own large-scale silk reeling workshop, but because of the large number of helpers in his workshop, he was gradually squeezed out of the textile market because of the lack of new looms, so Han Shoujing became dissatisfied with Yang Mingshen.

"Peers bully each other, people Yang Mingshen can think of taking this opportunity to expand the scale, don't you think of it?" Zhu Youzhen asked with a smile.

"The slave and maid still have to be the celebrant and the eunuch, in charge of His Majesty's internal affairs, where he only thinks about making money like him, he is a profiteer, taking advantage of loopholes to make profits for his own family, Your Majesty, such a person cannot stay in the central bank", Han Shoujing strongly suggested.

Zhu Youzhen waved his hand: "Needless to say, he didn't directly embezzle public funds, so he couldn't cure his crimes, and I didn't say that whoever gets rich has to be punished, since people have taken the lead, you can use formal means to rob him and snatch those looms and weavers back, but you are not allowed to use your power to oppress people, or even use me to slander your competitors in front of me, understand?" ”

Han Shoujing replied with some disappointment.

He is also helpless, he has been a big textile household in Nanjing since he served as the eunuch of Nanjing, but now he has to close the rhythm of closing, he is quite distressed, although he is not bad for money now, but his textile workshop also feeds a large group of people, and now he can only find a way to arrange this group of loyal people.

"I understand the difficulties, I can also help you, this person is limited, you can't let the people of the whole world come to weave, why don't you start with the loom, tomorrow you take me to your workshop, I will give you pointers", Zhu Youzhen said, sure enough, the next day, Zhu Youzhen really took time to come to Han Shoujing's weaving workshop with Wang Shide, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and others.

Zhu Youzhen also brought the drawings of Jenny's spinning machine, and said to Han Shoujing in detail: "This loom is similar to the loom used in the West, but there is a difference, the spindle of this loom is vertical, there is a spinning wheel here, which can drive the spinning wheel by manual way to drive the spinning wheel to rotate, which can greatly improve the efficiency and the quality is better than the previous cotton yarn. ”

"Your Majesty, can this really be so good?" Han Shoujing asked with some disbelieving.

"You will know if you have found someone to do it, explain in advance, this is my patent, you want to use this textile, I need to occupy 20% of the shares of your textile workshop, even if it is a technology share."

Zhu Youzhen said that he went back to the palace, and Han Shoujing could only agree, and the suspicious person made this spinning machine according to Zhu Youzhen's drawings, this Jenny spinning machine is not technically difficult, and it was manufactured soon after half a month.

Suddenly, Han Shoujing's textile workshop also began to come back to life, and relied on the advantage of good quality and low price to defeat the Yang family's textile company, and even Han Shoujing established Han's textile company himself.

Zhu Youzhen even allowed this spinning machine to be named after Han's spinning machine, which can be regarded as a reward for Han Shoujing for doing something to himself for so long.

The Yang family's textile company was hit, but he didn't dare to take revenge on Han Shoujing, just as Han Shoujing didn't dare to take revenge on the Yang family.

Because of this, after the appearance of the Daming version of the Jenny spinning machine in the Ming Dynasty, it was not like in the history of England, in the early days of the emergence of new production tools, because of the contradictions of commercial competition, some people dared to smash this spinning machine, or even prevent the emergence of this spinning machine.

Because Zhu Youzhen mediated in the middle, the Yang family could only introduce this technology from Zhu Youzhen, and even improved the Yang's spinning machine with 24 spindles in order to defeat the Han Textile Company.

As a result, the two textile giants behind Han Shoujing and Yang Mingshen pinched each other like this, and kept rushing to improve the spinning machine and rush to devour the surrounding market.

And the most beneficial place is undoubtedly Zhu Youzhen and the people, Zhu Youzhen has shares in the Yang family and the Han family, as long as these two families still make money, he can continue to sit and dividends, and the people can also enjoy the cheaper and cheaper cloth.

Zhu Youzhen even directly asked Han Shoujing's nephew to serve as Jiangning Weaving, and Yang Mingshen's younger brother to serve as Suzhou Weaving.

It is equivalent to making these two royal businessmen, and it also lays the foundation for them to enter the overseas market in the future and compete with the Zheng Group.

That is to say, so far, Zhu Youzhen's royal capital controls or participates in enterprises and institutions such as the Daming Central Bank, the Daming Ordnance Institute, the Daming Academy of Engineering, the Daming Academy of Sciences, the Jiangning Weaving Bureau, the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, the Daming Shipbuilding Bureau, the Huai'an Lecture Wutang, etc., but only the Daming Central Bank and the two Weaving Bureaus are really profitable.

Perhaps there will be more profitable companies controlled or participated in by Royal Capital in the future, but at present, these three will be the main force against the Zheng Group.

After Zhu Youzhen gave the Zheng Group tax exemption privileges, it was equivalent to giving the Zheng Group the opportunity to become the largest private capital.

Zheng Zhilong not only frantically included tea farmers and silk farmers under his own industry, but also frantically contacted wealthy merchants in Ningbo, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Yangzhou and other wealthy merchants, and persuaded these private merchants to cooperate with Zheng with a fee lower than the imperial tariff, and went to sea to trade under the banner of Zheng.

Just as a large number of ordinary people will donate land in the name of the scholar after the scholar's promotion, in order to evade tariffs, a large number of private merchants began to donate their own industries to the Zheng family, seeking to obtain the benefits of maritime trade at a lower cost.

As a result, the Zheng Group has evolved from a simple pirate group to a large business empire covering all walks of life, and even directly established the Zheng business, Zheng Zhilong has made a lot of wealth like a white wolf with empty gloves, and now his Zheng Group has been reborn, basically giving up the original looting business and collecting protection fees, and evolving into collecting Zheng taxes.

Because you need to pay a certain fee to go to sea under the name of Zheng to join the Zheng firm, it is called the Zheng tax to distinguish the tariffs of the imperial court.

(End of chapter)