"My lord, the labor required for this thing is only half of what it used before, and if all the Jiangnan workshops use these looms, it won't be long before there will be turmoil; Therefore, for the sake of the livelihood of the people, I also asked the adults to order the use of this kind of loom by the weavers of the world, and never compete with the people for profit, so as to keep the peace in the south of the Yangtze River. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" staff made a suggestion to Hong Seungchou.

However, Hong Chengchou saw the problem much more thoroughly than them, and immediately shook his head and vetoed, "Since this thing has already flowed out, I am afraid it is impossible to ban it again." Although he didn't understand that a hundredfold profit was enough to make people violate any law, he could also figure out something similar, "The benefits of this thing can be seen clearly by anyone who does this business, even if we destroy all the looms at the moment, but those merchants will still take them out in order to make money, which cannot be forbidden by the government alone." ”

"The point of this is that the weavers have been kicked out of the workshop and have no way to live, and if they can find a new way to make a living, they will be fine." Hong Chengchou stopped the staff's questions and continued, "Now that Liaodong and Liuqiu still need someone to go to reclaim the wasteland, let's ask them how many people are willing to go." ”

"My subordinates have already asked, but these people have lived in a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and I am afraid that they are a little reluctant to go to the capital, let alone a bitter cold place like Liaodong and a wild place like Liuqiu? Therefore, less than 20% of the people asked by his subordinates were willing to accept this plan, and the rest were still willing to leave Jiangnan. One of the staff members replied.

"Now the acres of land in the south of the Yangtze River are being inventoried, and many of these people have been taken away by the local gentry by illegal means, so they have to go to the city to work as weavers. Another official added, "This estimate could solve the problem of the livelihood of the weavers." ”

"Your Majesty's edict to reorganize the Jiangnan Guard, it is indispensable to recruit new soldiers, if any of them are willing to join the army, as long as they can pass the review, I can also accept some people there." Cao Wenzhao also helped Hong Chengchou find a way, "It's just that as the gentleman said just now, Jiangnan is a rich land, and I am afraid that there are not many of these people who are willing to join the army." ”

"But it can also solve a lot of problems, at least the livelihood of an adult." The sum of these items is forty percent, but there are sixty percent of unemployed weavers who can't find a way out, Hong Chengchou has discussed with people for a long time and has not discussed a good way, he can only write this into a song to play Li You, I hope that His Majesty the emperor can come up with a solution, he still admires Li You's strategy very much, as for those guys in the cabinet, Hong Chengchou doesn't think they can come up with any good solutions.

In fact, just as Hong Chengchou thought, when Li You distributed the folds to the ministers, Sun Chengzong, Wang Qia and others couldn't come up with any good solutions, but they just repeated the same old tune, saying something that should not compete with the people for profit, and should ban such looms, which made Li You shake his head again and again.

He knows what earth-shaking changes will occur in the world in the next few hundred years, and the root of this change is the continuous emergence of various new types of machinery. He must not agree to this, and he asked Song Yingxing to study this kind of loom in the first place, not to let these people ban it, he Hai Ji will use this thing to implement another plan.

"The workshops in Jiangnan are related to the food and clothing of thousands of weavers, so let's ask Hong Chengchou to let them recover as soon as possible, and the military uniforms for the border towns and guards should also start to be made, and the clothes will be purchased from Jiangnan, so that those weavers can earn more wages." Now that Hong Chengchou has gradually pacified Jiangnan, it is time for the suppression of them to be gradually relaxed, and this batch of cloth is enough to feed many weavers and allow them to get rid of the danger of unemployment.

"But Your Majesty, the fabric needed for this military uniform is limited after all, and it is not purchased every year, even if you can help them carry it for a while, what will you do next year?" Sun Chengzong raised a new question, "And the military uniforms are all ordinary fabrics, and the output of Jiangnan is not only these, but also many expensive clothes, and these troops are afraid that they will not be used." ”

"They have their own sales of silk and high-grade cotton cloth, so we don't have to worry about it." After all, there are a few high-end people, and the impact is not so great, so Li You plans to let them solve it themselves, and all he can do is to improve the internal transportation system of Daming and reduce the collection of tolls, so as to provide convenience for them, of course, these people should pay taxes are not exempt, and now is no longer the time for them to rely on their status to evade taxes.

"And there are hundreds of millions of people outside of my Ming Dynasty, and the Taixi countries are eager for the silk of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of Korea, the Wa Kingdom, and the Nanyang countries also need cloth wrapping, even if there are twice as many workshops in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no need to worry about sales." Now that the Ming sailors have begun to take shape, they can already provide security protection for the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty, so it is time to use the goods of the Ming Dynasty to occupy their market, the increase in demand will inevitably bring about the expansion of the scale of the workshop, and those unemployed weavers will no longer have to worry about the work, of course, since the commercial system in North Korea, the Japanese Kingdom, and the Nanyang countries will be seriously impacted, but it is still very cost-effective to solve their own troubles with the trouble of others.

"But if this is the case, the demand for cotton and sericulture will increase greatly, and there will be more and more landlords who change rice and cotton. Sun Chengzong was not easily persuaded by Li You, and the problem of food is the foundation of the country's peace.

"Mulberry trees grow on the ridges, and do not occupy too many fields, and the most suitable place to grow cotton in the world is the northwest, but not the south of the Yangtze River, now the army of Guyuan Town, Ningxia Town and other places has been trained, and after they recover the Western Regions, they can plant cotton there on a large scale to solve the problem of raw materials." Li Youke remembers the fame of Northwest cotton in later generations.

Of course, the northwest is too far away from Jiangnan, and if cotton is transported to Jiangnan for weaving, it may be too cost-effective in terms of cost, but at that time they can move the workshop to the northwest, which not only solves the problem of cost, but also drives the migration to the Western Regions, and gradually assimilates the local people, which is also a good thing in the long run.