Lao Zhu has been living a hard life since he established the Ming Dynasty, and he has never had a lot of money.

Now that he suddenly sees a workshop with an annual output of 10 million silk horses, he can imagine the excitement in his heart.

Even though he knew that it was just production and not the ultimate profit, it still made his heart flutter.

If this is all converted into money, it will be twice as much as the tax paid in a year in the Ming Dynasty!

Is it just possible?

Could it be that Zhang Qinglai deliberately covered up for Zhu Yunxi and deliberately made up a number to coax himself?

Everyone stared at Lao Zhu, looking at Lao Zhu with joy for a while, frowning deeply for a while, and looking at the imperial grandson curiously for a while......

Zhu Yunxi was also a little hairy by Lao Zhu, and asked weakly.

"Grandpa Huang, what news have you received?"

Lao Zhu beckoned to Zhu Yunxi, and Zhu Yunxi climbed the steps to Lao Zhu's side and took the song from Lao Zhu's hand.

Zhu Yunxi hurriedly glanced at it a few times, and his hanging heart suddenly let go.

"Hey!"

"What should I do, it's just this little thing!"

"Zhang Qinglai is really, this bit of is still worth writing to you, just write me a letter and it's over......

"Little things?"

"Still?"

Lao Zhu squinted at the rebel grandson, eager to slap him to death.

Such a big workshop is about to be built, and this grandson even said that it was a trivial matter?

"Let's ask you, is this workshop really as big as Zhang Qing said, and can really accommodate 90,000 people to weave at the same time?"

"Of course!"

Lao Zhu saw that this grandson agreed so happily, but he felt a little unsure in his heart.

"!"

"We'll wait until our people come back, and we'll get the exact news!"

Lao Zhu drove Zhu Yunxi down, and wanted to announce his retirement from the dynasty.

As for what they said about competing with the people for profit and so on, he didn't pay attention to it at all.

He only cares about one thing now, that is, whether their old Zhu family really has a big workshop with an annual output of tens of millions of silks!

However, Lao Zhu is unwilling to pursue it, but it doesn't mean that others will not pursue it.

What's more, Zhu Zhang, Zhu Hu, Zhu Di and others gathered together, and they came to the court early in the morning, wasn't it just to block someone?

"Father, don't you care about your grandson's stirring up of the people?"

"Father, how can you scold him......

Seeing this, the other ministers also hurriedly stepped forward to have fun.

Some of them took the money of the maritime merchants and came to speak for the maritime merchants, some took the money of the silk workshops in Suzhou and came to speak for them, and some of them heard about the chaos in Suzhou and came to speak for the people out of public intentions.

"Your Majesty, the imperial grandson's move is really undeserved, you should punish him well, so that he doesn't interfere in Suzhou's commerce......

"Yes, Suzhou is a major tax place for the imperial court, once chaos occurs in Suzhou and interferes with the imperial court's tax planning, it will be a loss for our imperial court......

Lao Zhu heard the noise of everyone, and he felt bored for no reason.

Just as he was pondering whether to slaughter the two sacrifices, suddenly there was an urgent sound outside the door.

"Jinyi Guard's Secret Report ......"

"Quick!"

Not long after, Qin Deshun handed over another secret report, and Lao Zhu took it and immediately stood up excitedly, dancing with his hands and hands.

"Great, our Daming is finally rich, hahaha!"

Everyone was stunned when they saw His Majesty's action, they had been with the old emperor for decades, and they had never seen the old emperor so excited.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean by that?"

"Could it be that we have discovered a gold mine somewhere in Daming?"

"Gold mines?"

Lao Zhu pursed his lips disdainfully when he heard this, and said in his heart that the gold mine could not compare to this chicken that lays golden eggs.

"There is no need to discuss the matter of Suzhou!"

"Our eldest grandson was ordered by us to go to Suzhou to expand the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, although there was a little turmoil during the period, but it quickly disappeared, so there is no need to be overly investigated."

"However, after the expansion, the Suzhou Weaving Bureau weaves tens of millions of silk horses every year, which is a great joy!"

"Tens of millions of horses......

The ministers in the main hall were also a little stunned when they heard this, silk and cloth are hard currency, especially fine silk, which can even be called a good thing at the bottom of the box.

Even the worst silk costs ten taels of silver, right?

Tens of millions of horses of silk, doesn't it mean that there are a million taels of silver a year?

"Your Majesty, how is this possible?"

"It takes five days for a mature weaver to weave a horse, seventy horses in a year without sleep, and only six million horses a year for 90,000 weavers......

"And that's not even counting the cost......

"However, where did your majesty get these tens of millions of horses?"

Lao Zhu heard everyone's doubts, and immediately looked at the eldest grandson on the side.

"Grandson, tell me what's going on, right?"

Zhu Yunxi stood aside, picking at his ears indifferently.

"This is not unusual, I improved the loom, and added iron parts such as pulleys and bearings to the loom, which improved the weaving efficiency a little......

"A little better?"

Qin Kui, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, can't stand it anymore, this thing has been used for thousands of years, and I haven't heard of anyone who can improve efficiency.

Because no matter how you improve, you have to weave it by hand.

"Dare to ask the imperial grandson, can you let the ministers and others see it?"

"Insight?"

Zhu Yunxi looked at Lao Zhu.

"Grandpa Huang, is it convenient now?"

Lao Zhu was a little sleepy and wanted to go to the harem to take a nap, but now when he heard the eldest grandson ask, he immediately nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

"Convenient!"

"Go to your workshop outside the city, right?"

"Yes!"

"Come with us and ride the dragon over!"

"Okay!"

After Lao Zhu said this, he happily led his eldest grandson to the outside of the hall, and happily sat on the dragon and slipped away first.

Seeing this, everyone in the hall looked at each other, and said in their hearts, why are we going, are we going to go over with our legs?

Just when the ministers didn't know what means of transportation to choose, Zhu Di stepped forward and invited.

"If you don't dislike it, you might as well take a lonely carriage over."

"How dare you ......?"

"If the ministers are in the prince's carriage, then what will the prince sit on?"

Zhu Di smiled indifferently when he heard this.

"Lonely is a rough man, he is not used to riding a carriage, so it is better to ride a horse comfortably!"

When everyone saw Zhu Di say this, they happily obeyed after thanking them.

After a short time, Lao Zhu led everyone to the ironware workshop near Xuanwu Lake.

Zhu Yunxi not only opened a textile factory in Suzhou, but also opened a few in the capital, but the scale was not large, just to make some money for the village women near Xuanwu Lake.

Then there is the resettlement of the families of some veterans.

Although Lan Yu has many singles under his hands, there are also many who have started a family.

Zhu Yunxi sent the Buddha to the west, and naturally he had to arrange a livelihood for them.

Lao Zhu first visited the loom production workshop under the leadership of Zhu Yunxi.

In the roar of the machine, Lao Zhu saw that the wood was sawn into planks, and the planks were sawn into wooden strips, and then the wooden strips were cut into various shapes by the rapidly rotating gears.

After witnessing this miracle, Lao Zhu no longer had any doubts about the loom to be seen next.

Qin Kui was also dumbfounded, in the past, it took two craftsmen to pull a large saw and pull it for a few days to cut a wooden plank.

However, in Zhu Yunxi's case, the birth speed of a wooden board is only a few breaths......

That alone is already saving

Lots of craftsman costs and time costs!

Qin Kui looked at it for a while, and saw that after the planks and strips were cut to the same size, they were pushed into a lathe and punched out of the mortise and tenon holes.

When Qin Kui saw this scene, his admiration for Zhu Yunxi had reached an overwhelming level.

No wonder the imperial grandson dares to argue with the workshop owners of the entire Suzhou City, according to his speed of producing looms, it is estimated that in less than ten years, every household in Daming can afford to buy looms!

If every household in the Ming Dynasty had a loom, what a prosperous scene would it be?

When Qin Kui thought of this, his body trembled slightly with excitement.

Isn't this what Sage Confucius called the prosperous age?

Daming will create an unprecedented prosperous era!

The other ministers were also thrilled to see the productivity of the loom manufacturing workshop.

Although only a bunch of parts are processed now, a finished loom is placed at the door, and anyone knows that these parts are used to produce looms!

In addition, many people have looms at home, and there are many people from poor families who have relied on their mothers to weave cloth since they were children, so that they can afford to study.

Therefore, when they saw the parts that were gradually taking shape, many people were moved to tears.

"It's a cloth stick!"

"This is the beating knife, and that is the brown rod of the thread, the twisting rod......

"Back then, the widowed mother relied on a loom, so that she could afford to study and gain fame in the lower officials."

"Now the widowed mother is gone, and there is only a loom...... Woo woo woo ...... "

"Xia Guan is the same, it all depends on his mother's loom to support him, so that Xia Guan is today, woo woo woo ......

"Xia Guan remembers that the cloth stick is the most likely to break, and every time it breaks, he has to go to the village to find a carpenter to make a new ......."

"However, if you look at the cloth sticks made by others, there is a layer of iron sheet wrapped on the outside, which is strong and durable at first glance!"

Don't look at what these officials say miserably, in fact, in ancient times, if there was a loom, it was already considered a small middle class, and it could continue to be self-sufficient.

Ordinary people want to buy a loom, let alone save a few years ago, and it has to be in good weather and there are no disasters and diseases at home.

However, after Zhu Yunxi conquered the steam engine, made all kinds of lathes, and pointed out industrial smelting, the production of this wooden structure loom was like playing.

In fact, this kind of loom Zhu Yunxi can't look down on at all.

If it weren't for the fact that the workshop owners in Suzhou were pressing step by step and had to do things with him, he would not be willing to build a production line specializing in the production of looms.

This thing is only suitable for men and women weaving in a small-scale peasant economy, and it is not at all the same way as his desire to engage in large-scale industrial production.

However, it is good to make such a transition, at least it will stabilize employment and alleviate the problem of surplus labor in Jiangnan.

Zhu Yunxi took them on a tour of the production line of the loom workshop, and then took them to a small textile factory to show them the production efficiency of the new loom.

To tell the truth, Zhu Yunxi did not improve the loom much, but replaced the key parts with iron products, and added some pulleys, bearings and other things as auxiliaries, which can save part of the weaver's effort.

But even this level of improvement has greatly increased the productivity of the loom, allowing a skilled weaver to calmly weave a piece of silk in three days.

If a loom works in two shifts, two horses can be produced in three days!

But Zhu Yunxi didn't plan to do this, he came to Daming to engage in industrialization, not sweatshops.

Lao Zhu smiled and chatted with a few weavers, asked about the use of the new loom, and went back to the palace to count the money in a dream.

The other ministers were speechless when they saw this, only Chen Zongli pestered Zhu Yunxi and asked him how much commercial tax he paid to the court in a year.

"Imperial grandson, no matter whether this workshop belongs to you or whom, the lower official will ask you, do you pay the business tax?"

"You know, those workshops had to pay taxes before......

"Now that you've dug up their weavers, you'll have to pay their taxes for them, right?"

As soon as Zhu Yunxi heard the word "tax", he was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and he exploded on the spot.

"Lao Chen, what you say is not kind!"

"Why did you tell me to dig up their weavers, obviously they didn't want so many people, and fired a large number of weavers, I really couldn't see it, so I recruited them all!"

Chen Zongli saw Zhu Yunxi say this, and played a scoundrel on the spot.

"The minister doesn't care, the minister only knows that Suzhou Mansion pays hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to the imperial court every year, and now those workshops have been squeezed out by you, so you can only ask for this tax!"

Lao Zhu, who had walked to the door, suddenly heard the conversation between the two, and immediately looked lively with interest.

Seeing that the emperor was not leaving, the other ministers also followed Chen Zongli to intercede.

"Imperial grandson, you weave tens of millions of horses of silk every year, so you can evenly give them to the court, don't hold them all in your hands......

"Your Majesty, what about the annual tax of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in Suzhou Mansion, and you just let it go?"

Lao Zhu wanted to watch the joke for a while, but when he saw that all the officials were looking at him, he beckoned to the eldest grandson.

"Grandson, do you want to look at the intersection?"

"Intersection?"

When Zhu Yunxi heard this, his expression suddenly became strange.

In fact, the commercial tax of Daming is really not high, only 3.3% tax rate.

This tax rate is not as good as that of later generations.

But Zhu Yunxi is still unwilling to pay, because he is the most short of money in industry, and he can't wait to break every penny into two petals.

If according to the tax rate of the imperial court, Zhu Yunxi's silk workshop has to pay at least three million taels of taxes to the imperial court every year, who is not distressed.

But now that Lao Zhu has spoken, he has to give Lao Zhu some face, and it is impossible to pull out a dime.

"Grandpa Huang, how much do you say is appropriate?"

Lao Zhu didn't say anything when he heard this, but looked at Chen Zongli, who was so anxious that he was about to cry.

"Lao Chen, how much do you think is appropriate for a year?"

As soon as Chen Zongli heard this, his heart immediately began to calculate. In the past, Suzhou Mansion handed over 300,000 taels of silver to the imperial court every year, but now that the imperial grandson has made such a big move, why do you have to charge him 1 million taels?

It's just that such a lion's big mouth, will it annoy Your Majesty and the imperial grandson?

Chen Zongli hesitated slightly, and immediately gritted his teeth.

It doesn't matter so much!

If he can't pay the full amount this year, the officials in the capital will have to stew him!

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen thinks that the imperial grandson has to pay at least one million taels of silver every year to be reasonable!"

"A million taels?"

Lao Zhu sighed in his heart when he heard this number, and his heart said that he wanted so much at once, and the rebel grandson had to turn his face on the spot.

However, to his great surprise, Zhu Yunxi agreed on the spot when he heard this number.

"Lao Chen, this is what you said, one million taels a year!"

"Lone will write you a check, and you take it to Jinling Bank to withdraw money, even if next year's taxes are paid!"

Before Chen Zongli understood what was going on, Zhu Yunxi had already written the check and stuffed it into his hand.

Chen Zongli took the check for one million taels of silver, and looked at Zhu Yunxi, who was leaving as if he was fleeing, and suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

He felt as if he was going to be less!

If you just asked for two million taels, it is estimated that the imperial grandson will also agree, right?

In fact, Zhu Yunxi was ready to pay three million taels of silver, and now when he heard that Chen Zongli had been crying for so long and was poor, it was only one million taels, and his heart blossomed on the spot.

Lao Zhu also realized that something was wrong, maybe the eldest grandson wanted to give more, but his household book was too shallow, and he said the lowest number......

But Lao Zhu didn't feel distressed, because no matter whether the court received one million taels or two million taels, it would not be a loss for him.

After all, the eldest grandson's money is also his own money!

When Chen Zongli went to the bank to withdraw money, Zhu Yunxi was in charge

Jinghaiwei was all scattered and carried out a three-month military patrol along the coast.

After enduring those maritime merchants for more than half a year, Zhu Yunxi finally showed his fangs.

Taizhou Mansion.

After Zhang Tianyou broke in Suzhou, he immediately ran to Taizhou Mansion.

One is to hide from the workshop owner who has been cheated by himself, and the other is that the monsoon has arrived, and it is time for him to deliver the goods to his trading partners.

At this time, the seaport of Taizhou was already full of merchant ships from various countries, from Korea and Japan in the east to Annam, Java, Sumatra, Sulu, Pahang, Siam and more than a dozen countries in the west.

However, just as they were about to load the ship, a fleet suddenly floated over the sea.

"Jiang Fan, the official of the Jinghai Navy, was ordered by the emperor's grandson to implement the policy of banning the sea, and there are those who dare to go into the water to trade with Fanshang privately!"

"No mercy!"

Zhang Tianyou saw that Jing Haijun blocked his and overseas merchants' ships in the port, and his face turned blue with anger.

Because until the Jing Navy drove over, he didn't receive a signal from the Taizhou Health Center!

You know, this Taizhou guard has always been raised by their Zhang family, and they don't even show themselves at all?

Shi Kuan, the commander of Taizhou Wei, was also very depressed, it was not that he didn't want to report to Zhang Tianyou, but he couldn't get out of the guard!

"This superior, can you be accommodating, Xiaguan's mother-in-law is really going to give birth, and Xiaguan is going back......

A military attache in a shark suit snorted coldly when he heard Shi Kuan's pleading.

"The emperor's grandson strictly ordered that during the military exercise, the officers and soldiers of the coastal guard station are not allowed to go to sea or camp!"

"Violators will be killed!"

After Shen Wen said this, he deliberately raised his left arm that shimmered with metallic luster.

He used to be subordinate to the Longjiang Left Guard, but was later wounded on the battlefield and was temporarily incorporated into the Xingwu Guard.

If it weren't for the grace of the imperial grandson, he might have been a wasted man for the rest of his life.

The imperial grandson not only disliked them, but also tailored them with artificial arms and legs, so that they could become like normal people.

The imperial grandson also rewarded him with a shark suit, which is said to be more noble than the flying fish suit of Jinyiwei, representing the imperial grandson's charter!

This is the grace of heaven and earth!

Now that the imperial grandson has sent them out to do things, it must be Ding is Ding, Mao is Mao, and it can't be bad at all!

The imperial grandson said that no one can leave, so don't even think about sneaking out of a mouse!

In fact, not only Taizhou Wei, but also the entire Jiangnan coastal guard station was sent to monitor the shark guard.

The so-called Shark Guard is a special unit that he selected from the disabled veterans that Lan Yu threw at him, and was specially loyal to his own special unit.

Now the pockets are tied up, just waiting to catch the thief!