Wheat has to be ground into flour to cook, and grinding flour alone requires a lot of manpower, and as long as the flour sold is not too expensive, many people will definitely be willing to buy flour instead of grinding it themselves.

With a population of nearly one million, Beijing consumes an astronomical amount of rice and noodles every day, making it a large market, and even if the noodle mill has a small profit, it can make a lot of money. As long as the scale is large enough, it should not be a problem to earn 100 taels of silver a day.

However, Zhu Youzhen was still not satisfied, because this amount of money was really small to him, and it could not quench his hunger and thirst.

"Can you help me design a water-powered spinning and loom?" Zhu Youzhen asked suddenly.

Cotton cloth has always been a bulk commodity of sea trade, and the domestic demand for cotton cloth in Daming is also very large, and the profit of textile is countless times greater than that of any mill.

In Daming, the largest area of cotton planting is Songjiang Mansion, Songjiang cotton is famous in the world, exported to Daming provinces and overseas, bringing countless silver to the Songjiang gentry every year.

However, cotton is also produced in the north, and it is grown in Shandong, Henan, and Shuntianfu, and the weather in the north is cold, and the quality of cotton is better than that of Songjiang.

If you can design a machine for water-powered spinning and weaving, and build such a spinning mill, the production efficiency will be much greater than that of hand-spinning and weaving, and then the cotton cloth produced will be shipped overseas through the royal trading houses, and a large amount of silver will be earned every year.

"Hydro-spinning machines and water-powered looms?" Deng Yuhan blinked his eyes, "Weichen should be able to design it." ”

"If you can design it, I will allow you to build a church in the city of Beijing, and you can preach at will." Zhu Youzhen said categorically.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Deng Yuhan was overjoyed.

For a long time, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were very resistant to Western religion, and the Xiyi missionaries operated in the Ming Dynasty for many years, took the initiative to learn Han culture, and made friends with the Ming officials and gentry in exchange for acquiescing in the mission. And if I can get the support of the current Ming Emperor, or even say that the Ming Emperor can be baptized, the missionary cause will inevitably advance by leaps and bounds, maybe, because of the missionary work, I can still be a cardinal!

Thinking of this, Deng Yuhan's heart thumped.

Zhu Youzhen glanced at Deng Yuhan with a smile and reminded: "Don't fool me at will, the efficiency of the hydraulic loom must be high, and the higher the efficiency, the better." ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, rest assured, Weichen will definitely do a good job." Deng Yuhan assured.

Speaking of textile workshops, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but think that he could let the Academy of Sciences improve the process, build more royal workshops, and make money by producing various products?

What the gentry can do, why can't I? Why should they take away their money?

Well, it's time to make an industrial plan, set up a royal industrial group, textiles, steel, ceramics, papermaking, these can all be done, by the way, Deng Yuhan just presented a telescope, why can't Daming produce it?

"Let's go, go to the pond!" Zhu Youzhen said immediately.

......

Jishuitan Royal Academy of Sciences, dozens of Chinese and Western professors were summoned.

Zhu Youzhen announced that scientific inventions will be rewarded with heavy sums, and that all those who invent or improve useful instruments or production processes and can use them for production will be rewarded heavily, with bounties ranging from several hundred taels to 10,000 taels of silver.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, can the water-powered mill invented by Weichen be rewarded?" Deng Yuhan hurriedly asked.

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said, "Of course, you can reward two hundred taels of silver!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor!" Deng Yuhan was overjoyed, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when silver was not flooded, two hundred taels of silver was already a lot of wealth.

"I have decided to establish the Royal Industries Group, which consists of various workshops, and each of your inventions can apply to open workshops to make goods, and the Royal Trading House will be responsible for the sale, and you can enjoy a share of the technology in addition to the bounty of the invention. The first workshop that Royal Industries will set up is the Cotton Spinning Factory, and I hope you will be able to produce hydraulic textile machinery as soon as possible. Zhu Youzhen said.

"Hydro-textile?" Song Yingxing said, "Weichen has read an ancient book, and in the former Song Dynasty, it was advantageous to spin and weave cloth with water power, but the drawings have long been lost. ”

"You are all erudite people, and there are professors from the West, can you learn from the strengths of the East and the West and remake the hydraulic textile machinery?" Zhu Youzhen said.

"The ministers will do their best!" Song Yingxing and others all said.

"Song Aiqing, I heard that you are compiling a technical book on the design of various industries of agriculture and industry, and you can take out the technology you have sorted out, improve it to improve efficiency, set up a workshop, and produce goods." Zhu Youzhen said.

"Wechen obeys." Song Yingxing hurriedly said.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Xu Guangqi again: "Xu Yuanzheng, the business department has also been established for a while, has it cultivated some business talents who can manage it?" When the Royal Workshop is established, these people will be able to work in the Workshop. ”

Xu Guangqi said: "Back to Your Majesty, the first phase of business has accepted more than 200 people, and they have studied for nearly a year, and they have almost learned the basic operations of arithmetic, bookkeeping, and business, but they still lack experience. ”

Zhu Youjian said: "The royal family has the Huangzhuang Huangdian in Gyeonggi, the Royal Arsenal and various workshops under the Ministry of Industry, as well as the Royal Commercial House in Zhangjiakou, you can let them go through the experience, and when the royal workshop is established, they will be transferred to work in the workshop." ”

"Xu Aiqing, Song Aiqing, you are all erudite people, you can help me plan it, formulate a five-year and ten-year industrial plan, and strive to set up some royal factories in five or ten years."

"But will this compete with the people?" Xu Guangqi hesitated. Zhu Youzhen's ambition is too great, and he wants to set up many workshops, involving textile, smelting, papermaking, and ceramics, which will inevitably have an impact on the original workshops in various places, which makes Xu Guangqi faintly uneasy.

"Petropolitan! What is competing with the people? Could it be that all the money I earn goes into my pocket, and I can't use it for pleasure? Zhu Youzhen said unhappily, "The silver collected by the inner treasury is not used to raise soldiers and use it for disaster relief?" ”

"Besides, does it need to hire workers to set up a workshop? There are so many landless peasants, who can just go to the workshop to work to earn money to support their families, and they can benefit the people. Zhu Youzhen continued.

"But ......" Xu Guangqi still hesitated.

"There is nothing to do, Da Ming is big, and Da Ming is even bigger outside! Most of the products produced by the royal workshop will be shipped overseas by sea in exchange for a large amount of silver, which will be used to raise soldiers and people! On the contrary, the people you are talking about are the gentry who set up workshops, and the money they earn will only go into their own pockets, and will only be used to annex land! Zhu Youzhen said coldly.

"Your Majesty said yes." Xu Guangqi said.

As long as it is beneficial to Daming, it is not so much to damage the interests of a few people, and this is where his interests lie, Xu Guangqi quickly figured it out.