Bicycles and tricycles are not cheap, but they are much cheaper than cattle and horses. The price of a cow is about 12 to 15 taels of silver, and a horse is more expensive than an ox, almost 20 taels of silver, and a few hundred taels or thousands of taels of silver. And what about bicycles and tricycles? The bicycle only costs two taels of silver, and the tricycle can have the goods, which is only twice as expensive as the bicycle, not to mention that there is no need to wait after buying it, and there is no need to prepare forage to feed the forage every day, which is convenient and cheap, and ordinary people can afford to save money for a period of time. As a result, bicycles and tricycles sold like crazy as soon as they were launched, and many ordinary people pooled their money to buy cars, of course, the most sold were tricycles, after all, tricycles can pull goods.

There are also some wealthy people who like novelty things to see the bicycle interesting, and spend a lot of money to customize a more refined and comfortable bicycle, so that the Ministry of Industry can make more money on bicycles than selling tricycles.

Bicycles and tricycles are two good things that benefit the country and the people, and the ministers of the court did not expect that the emperor's carpentry could be used by ordinary people to facilitate the lives of ordinary people. Don't dissuade it, after all, the emperor should devote his mind to court politics, not a carpenter; Dissuade it, what if the emperor makes something good for the country and the people?

Zhu Youxiao heard the little eunuch report on the sales of bicycles and tricycles every day, and he was extremely proud, and he was more energetic, thinking about making something else useful to the people. However, for a while, Zhu Youxiao couldn't think of what to do, so he recruited Wei An, a bosom friend, into the palace and discussed it with him.

Wei An smiled when he heard Zhu Youxiao's thoughts. This idea is good, I can use Zhu Youxiao's hands to promote some practical equipment "inventions", facilitate the people, promote the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty, and suppress the growing line of scholars.

"Your Majesty, why don't we make a textile machine." Wei An proposed with a smile.

"Looms?" Zhu Youxiao loves carpentry, naturally unlike other rich and noble people, he doesn't know what the loom is like, he shook his head and said, "What is there to do with the loom." ”

Wei An said with a smile: "Your Majesty, what I said about making a textile machine is to improve the textile machine, so that the speed of weaving can be increased by more than ten times, so that the hard work of women can be reduced, so that they can weave more cloth in the same time, which can be regarded as benefiting the people." ”

"Ten times faster weaving?" Zhu Youxiao was surprised, "This, how can this be done?" ”

Wei An smiled: "That's why the emperor wants to study it." The minister believed that with the wisdom of the emperor, he would be able to make such a weaving machine. ”

Zhu Youxiao was said by Wei An to be high-spirited and devoted himself to the research of improving textile machines. Wei An secretly guided on the side, and asked Zhu You to make a water-powered textile machine and a wind-powered textile machine, and sure enough, the textile speed was more than ten times faster than that of ordinary textile machines. And the operation is not complicated, a person can weave the number of cloths woven in a month in a day.

The mouths and eyes of the ministers widened, and the emperor actually invented something good for the benefit of the country and the people. Then they won't stop the emperor from doing carpentry in the future?

Water-powered looms and wind-powered looms were put out, and the effect was top-notch, but there were also people who were affected by these two things, and the first of them was the Jiangnan scholar class. Although Wei Zhongxian strongly collected mining tax, salt tax, tea tax and other taxes in Jiangnan, these people evaded taxes and evaded taxes, so that Wei Zhongxian's taxes were less than half of what should be collected. In this way, these people were still not satisfied, and fully supported the Donglin Party to oppose the eunuch party represented by Wei Zhongxian, and in the name of justice, they actually wanted to hit Wei Zhongxian and cancel all kinds of taxes.

But now it can't be done, the two textile machines have driven the new economic model in Jiangnan, and Wei Zhongxian's party has taken the opportunity to enter their party's forces, and then secretly took action, cleaned up many businessmen and landlords, and disintegrated the power of Jiangnan scholars. Without the financial support of these scholars, the Donglin Party could not sustain itself, except for those who were already officials or had money in their families, the rest of the poor scholars all quit the Donglin Party. Gradually, the Donglin Party dispersed and became history. And with the dissipation of the Donglin Party, the troubles that their actions had buried among the peasants also dissipated.

Zhu Youxiao was so happy that he pulled Wei An to discuss what to do with the next item. Wei An had already thought about it and led Zhu Youxiao to set off a handicraft revolution......

Just before the handicraft revolution came, the agricultural revolution came first. Wei Zhongxian's men finally found corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes. Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed when he got it, and immediately went to find Wei An. However, Wei An was not at his own home, but went to the Wei Mansion where Brother Wei's family lived.

Since Wei Zhongxian and Wei An recognized each other, Wei Zhongxian took Brother Wei's family to the capital, and sent Brother Wei a three-entry house for their family to live in. Brother Wei's skills are good, Wei Zhongxian helped him find a position in Jinyi Wei Qianhu, Wei Xiangming passed the examination and was preparing to be admitted to the Jinshi, Wei Xianghui was also admitted to Xiucai. The life of the family is getting better and better.

Although the ministers of the court and the central government did not like Brother Wei very much because of Wei Zhongxian's relationship, but also because of Wei An's relationship, he did not hate Brother Wei much, after finding out that Brother Wei himself was loyal and honest, and his two sons were also motivated, his impression of their family was better, and he was not embarrassed by Brother Wei in the court, so that Brother Wei worked well and lived comfortably, and the whole person was a lot younger, and he had more time to consider marrying his younger brother a daughter-in-law every day, which scared Wei An to stay away from Brother Wei and Sister-in-law Wei. But as a family, he had to often go back to the Wei Mansion to have a meal with Brother Wei's family and get in touch with his feelings.

Wei Zhongxian turned to Wei Mansion, just as Wei Mansion was about to start dinner, Wei Zhongxian shouted loudly: "Big brother, sister-in-law, add another pair of dishes and chopsticks, younger brother, I haven't eaten dinner yet!" ”

When sister-in-law Wei heard this, she immediately asked her subordinates to add an extra pair of chopsticks. Although Wei Zhongxian ran away and left the debt to their family, which made Sister-in-law Wei very angry, but because Wei An even if he took out the prescription and sold it for money, the Wei family not only did not fall to selling children and daughters, but got better and better, and Sister-in-law Wei no longer resented Wei Zhongxian, plus Wei Zhongxian took them to the capital and arranged an official position for her man, Sister-in-law Wei no longer complained about Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian is in a high position, and Wei's sister-in-law faces him with a faint flattery.