Because many powerful bureaucrats have suffered heavy losses in Wang's fraud, they can only hope that the imperial court can bring them rich; Therefore, the proposal to set up a government-run ocean-going trading firm was quickly and smoothly passed.

Therefore, next, the Ministry of Household officially requested the establishment of the Ming Oriental Commercial Bank, the Nanyang Commercial Bank and the Western Commercial Bank.

The royal approval was naturally passed.

Therefore, not long after, the Ming Imperial Court reorganized the relevant officials and staff of the various cities and factories that had been involved in the Oriental Trade and Nanyang Trade, and became the relevant persons in charge of the Oriental and Nanyang Commercial Firms, and then also promoted a group of middle and lower-level backbones to form the Daming Western Commercial Bank.

Daming Western Commercial Bank specializes in future trade with Europe.

Zhang Gui's ambition was very great, he not only wanted to dump domestic handicrafts into Europe, but also wanted to dump industrial products into Europe, and even intended to destroy the textile industry and handicraft industry of European countries, so he asked the imperial court to set up the Ming Western Commercial Bank, in order to make Europe only become a big market without independent industrial capacity in the future.

"Although the establishment of ocean trading firms is conducive to increasing the income of state funds in the long term in the future, but in the short term, it is still fast to open mines, and its profits are greater, so the funds accumulated after the establishment of major ocean trading banks are first used to raise shares, and then raise shares to set up a Daming mining firm, so as to let the people of the world benefit and prosper education as soon as possible."

"Ben Taishi has already discovered a huge coal mine in the area of Hanhai in the Tatar Kingdom north of Yinshan, an area called Tawintole, and when the time comes, it will be mining coal in that area, and first take advantage of the coal mines in this area, and carry out a new policy of education for all."

At the new court meeting, Zhang Gui suddenly mentioned the matter of opening a coal mine.

The Tawen Tole Coal Mine was the world's largest coal mine in later generations, and is now located outside the direct control area of the Ming Dynasty, in the territory of Tatar, which is equivalent to the area of the South Gobi Province of Mongolia in later generations.

Zhang Gui had been eyeing this place for a long time, and he had already asked Xichang to send someone to explore, and finally found the exact location of this mining area.

Now Zhang Gui proposed, naturally hoping to gather the strength of the whole country to develop this large coal mine, and then lay an energy foundation for the large-scale development of the steam industry in the future.

Because the main energy raw material of the steam industry is coal.

The key is that the proportion of high-quality coke coal in this Tawen Tole coal mine is also very high, which is undoubtedly conducive to the development of Daming smelting industry in the future.

Of course, more importantly, if this coal mine is developed, more Han people can move here because of the coal industry, so that the actual territory of the Ming Dynasty can be further expanded.

As before, an agrarian and civilized empire will lose its national strength and increase the burden on the people because it occupies too many territories that have no agricultural development value, so it has to give up these lands and have to retract them.

It's just that this coal mine is too big and too far away from Middle Earth, Zhang Gui, a national prince, or even just the strength of the West Factory, can't eat such a big piece of cake, so he can only continue to concentrate the strength of the whole Ming Dynasty and unite more forces from all sides of the Ming Dynasty to eat this cake.

After all, it is just to open up the communication between Tavintole and Middle-earth. Strengthening military control in this area will require a lot of manpower and material resources.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the Ming court can only rely on the Ming court to concentrate on this matter in the name of the country.

This can be regarded as the benefit of the Ming Dynasty as a centralized dynasty now.

In terms of external plunder, we can concentrate more power, and then in the global resource war in this era, we can cut a bigger cake for ourselves.

After Zhang Gui said this, there was the example of Maoshan Iron Mine first, how could the ministers who participated in the court meeting not believe it?

Therefore, most of them will no longer question the facts of what Zhang Gui said.

However, there are also officials who have the psychology of "once being a snake demon and being afraid of the shaft rope for ten years" because of a time in the Wangjia Coal Mine, and they are still a little skeptical about this.

Wu Weiye came to Liu Hongxun's private residence after the court meeting and asked, "Liu Gong, won't this uncle's coal mine be a lie?" ”

Liu Hongxun glanced at Wu Weiye, then picked up his new teacup and took a sip of tea and said, "No!" Where does Uncle Guo dare to deceive the court and the people of the world, unless he doesn't want his current power! In addition, if we want to restore the family business now, in addition to believing in the industry with the participation of the imperial court, where can we dare to believe in the private merchants? ”

Although the imperial court has repeatedly emphasized the friendship of national compatriots, in fact, the world's businessmen are profitable, and there are several Han businessmen who will attach importance to the friendship of compatriots, and only think about deceiving their compatriots. Therefore, who else can you trust Uncle Guo, who does not believe in holding the power of the DPRK for His Majesty? In Daming, wealth can really only be obtained by the imperial court! ”

Wu Weiye thought for a while after hearing this: "Yes, it's a pity that the lower officials don't have much money now, and I'm afraid they won't be able to buy much." ”

In the following days, when the Household Department of the Ministry of Transactions raised shares to set up the Nanyang, Dongyang, and Western commercial banks and the Tawintole Coal Mining Company, the powerful bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty and the ordinary wealthy people enthusiastically threw money into subscribing for stocks, just like Wu Weiye and Liu Hongxun when they talked about this matter, they only hated that they did not have enough money, and they were eager to buy the shares of several new commercial houses established by the imperial court with all their fortunes.

For a time, the stocks of these commercial banks rose sharply.

As a result, the Ministry of Household Finance collected a large amount of money and began to use it for coal mining and ocean trade, and at the same time began to promote education for all in the country.

"There must be a government-run social studies and literacy class in every mile in the villages, and there must be a government-run social studies and literacy class in every square in the city. The school department needs to set up a teaching materials department to compile new teaching materials based on the textbooks used in the first pilot of national education in Jiangnan, and strive to achieve all these coverage within three years. ”

When Zhang Gui participated in the new court meeting, he expressed his specific ideas for promoting education for all.

However, after hearing this, Wen Zhenmeng, the newly added school secretary, took the initiative to ask: "Can the implementation of universal education also allow Han girls to enroll?" ”

"Nowadays, the weaving industry of this dynasty has gradually become mainly women, and young and strong men study or join the army or learn skills or farming. In short, if the weaving industry is to continue to flourish in the future, it is inevitable that a large number of women will be employed. However, at present, the loom has developed to become a complex loom with more than ten spindles working at the same time, and all workshops, especially government-run workshops, need to be literate and at least able to read and manage manuals. ”

"No!"

"Men and women are the great defense! Shouldn't girls go to school with boys? It's really a hindrance to customs! If this is the case, I don't know how many obscene things will be brought out. ”

Minister of Science Sun Qifeng immediately objected.

Wen Zhenmeng continued: "If you don't let the Han girls read and write, then you can only use slaves and let the people read and write, which is not in line with the national policy of only enlightening the wisdom of the Han people!" ”

"It is completely possible to let the major workshops recruit female workers and then teach them to read and write, and let women and men study together in the same class, which is indeed detrimental to the atmosphere!"

Wu Weiye also said.

"That's right! Even if the imperial court allows it, the common people may not be willing to send their girls to study in the same school as the boys! ”

"yes, that's unacceptable!"

……

Many ministers objected.

But there are also many officials who support Wen Zhenmeng, such as Song Yingxing also said: "The workshop is not necessarily willing to spend money to train female workers, in fact, not only the weaving industry, porcelain painting, famous flower cultivation, etc., have been dominated by female workers, and it is not just to let female workers have strength, so that they can have the ability to read and count and read pictures in order to facilitate production, so starting from the national economy and people's livelihood, now it is necessary to let Han women study, and can not be replaced by slaves, many core skills of light industry can be mastered by slaves!" ”

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Zhang Gui saw Wen Zhenmeng's proposal at this time, which was not agreed by many ministers, but many ministers insisted that women should read and write from the reality of the Ming Dynasty, so they proposed:

"If there is a real need for Han girls to read and write, so as to facilitate the development of the weaving industry, why not directly set up a separate school for girls, so that a school only recruits Han girls to study, and even teachers and scholars are women? Step by step, since the social atmosphere is not yet in favor of men and women getting along, then men and women should go first. ”

"Of course this can! Uncle Guo's compromise proposal is deeply agreed! ”

Sun Qifeng immediately responded.

Liu Hongxun also said: "That's right! The separate schools for men and women not only took care of the actual needs of the imperial court, but also took into account the atmosphere of the people! ”

For a time, everyone agreed with this proposal.

It's just that Zhang Gui himself smiled slightly, and said in his heart: "The writer surnamed Zhou really didn't lie to himself. ”