Although Lao Zhu also praised the strategies that Xu Yungong and Xu Miaoyun said, there was no surprise on their faces. Thinking about these two strategies, they were originally in Lao Zhu's original plan. Asking them is just a test.

But he is different, he has participated in the formulation of the Ming national policy, since he also specially sent someone to summon himself into the palace this time, it will not be just a common talk, this is already a matter of the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Da showed difficulties in managing the grassland, and in order to expand Huaxia's influence to the grassland, he should also do his best.

Zhu Su thought deeply for a long time, and during the banquet, whether it was Lao Zhu and Queen Ma, or Xu Da and the Xu family's sisters and brothers, they all quietly did not disturb. After a long time, Zhu Sufang raised his head and said, "Since this is the case, the little nephew will say something immature." ”

"Uncle Xu wants to pass through the grassland, and the little nephew thinks that the most important thing is still in business."

"Business?" Xu Yungong frowned. "By the kindness of His Majesty, I have given the woollen mill to my father. Ordered my father to pass through the grassland. ”

"But after a while, after all, it still depends on manpower...... The woolen mill has the ability to make money every day, and it can also use the benefits of sweaters to let the grassland tribes profit from the wool and make them return to their hearts, but after all, they can't increase their manpower out of thin air......"

"Yes. Therefore, I mean, the technology of woolen looms will be announced, so that my businessmen can also get a piece of this emerging industry......"

"Announcement?" Xu Da wondered. "If it is announced, will the profit of the woollen mill be diminished? If money is insufficient, won't it be even more difficult to navigate the wilderness of the grasslands? ”

"On the face of it, it does." Zhu Su said. "However, there are benefits to publishing wool technology. Not to mention, in recent years, my Ming royal family and the Xu family have made hundreds of thousands of silver profits every year by wool spinning, so they are just marketing wool to Jiangnan and Shuntian. ”

"I have four seas in the Ming Dynasty, and even the land south of the Yangtze River needs sweaters to keep out the cold in winter. Don't talk about the people of the Jiangbei provinces. There are also sergeants and soldiers in the army, and now only the Shuntian and Liaodong border armies have been issued sweaters, and there are still millions of military households who still have no protection from the cold in winter. We first introduced sweaters so that everyone in the world could have clothes to wear and everyone would not be frozen in winter. The announcement of the technology is just to get other businessmen to help us and sell sweaters to all over the world. ”

"And I wait for my own interests, and I won't lose too much if I think about it."

In the words of later generations, the market is too big, and only the Zhu and Xu families cannot monopolize it. It's better to divide it out, and everyone will eat this cake together, and there is no need to hide and worry about making enemies.

"Xiao Wu'er is right. You and I are both members of the country, and eating too much is a blessing rather than a curse. Queen Ma nodded. The more the royal family eats, the less it leaves for the people. It is important for the people to have clothes to wear in winter. ”

Everyone nodded. Zhu Su continued: "Since the wool spinning technology has been announced, there will definitely be countless businessmen in the world who have invested money to build factories. If there is a factory, then naturally there should also be raw materials. Where do the raw materials come from? You must know that I am a heavy farmer in the Ming Dynasty, and the land in the area of the gate is definitely not allowed to raise sheep in captivity. Then, the merchants could only come to the grassland to buy. ”

"There are businessmen who go there, and on the grassland, there is naturally popularity. With popularity, are you still afraid that you won't be able to gather manpower? ”

Xu Yungong's eyes had already lit up: "Wonderful! The advent of a technology is enough to turn the grassland upside down! If there are often Han merchants coming and going on the grassland, although it is a foreign land, how is it different from the Central Plains? ”

Xu Da also nodded.

"It's not over yet." Zhu Su said with a smile. "Uncle Xu, do you know that there is a place called 'Sakai Port' in Yingzhou?"

"I heard a little." Xu Da nodded. "I heard that it is a port temporarily built by His Highness and the officers and soldiers in Yingzhou?"

"It's not just the port at this point." Zhu Su said, in his tone, there was a bit of complacency. "Today's Sakai Port has become an important town under my Ming Yingzhou Propaganda Division."

"In Sakai Port, Japanese merchants, Han merchants, and even red-haired merchants come and go endlessly, although they are not as prosperous as Suzhou and Hangzhou, but when it comes to the population occupied, they are comparable to Kyoto in the old days."

Xu Da, Xu Yungong and others were all surprised. Sakai Port is just a port built temporarily by thousands of Ming troops, and now it has become a prosperous port city?

"As for the reason, it is precisely because Sakai Port is connected to me by sea trade routes. With the help of business, this previously uninhabited place has become a prosperous place for my Ming Dynasty overseas. ”

"If I want to truly control the grassland, I must build more cities like Sakai Port, so that I can rely on it as a foundation. And even if there are merchants coming and going to the grassland, they all come today and return tomorrow. Without the protection of the city, they would only be passers-by after all, and they would not live in peace in the grassland. ”

Therefore, the little nephew's idea was that he needed to work harder to build a road on the grassland. The so-called 'if you want to get rich, build a road first', if you have a road, and then build a field on the side of the road, you can attract businessmen to gather. You can also hand over the right to manage the vacant grassland around the field to the merchants, and the people of Mongolia can buy wool, after all, they do not have the economic benefits of raising sheep and grazing by themselves. If the grassland is full of Han merchant pastures, it is natural that there will be children of Han merchants who will move to the grassland. These people are the foundation that Uncle Xu can rely on first. ”

"When merchants settle down in the grasslands, they will naturally seek shelter and convenience, and they will also run their own farms. Even if they were asked for funding for the construction of the wall, they would surely be generous. After all, the city protects their own safety and wealth. ”

"In this way, we don't need to waste our own assets in everything, and our own businessmen help build the grassland. Where the road is repaired, where the field is located, my Han family city can be built. With the city, you can live in peace, and then continue to educate and develop, after the passage of time, on the grassland of Anzhi, will it not become a piece of Chinese paradise? ”

Zhu Su finished speaking in one breath, borrowing the power of Shangjia, this is the most terrifying part of "sheep eating people".

As long as it is profitable, where the merchants will care about the bitter cold of the grassland, they will swarm and encroach on the grassland...... And now the Ming Dynasty needs this kind of cannibalization.

"Okay, what a 'if you want to get rich, build a road first'!" Old Zhu was overjoyed. "With the power of businessmen, expand the territory of our Daming, this strategy is very wonderful!"

"Tiande, the beginning of all things in the grassland, it is time to work together. Wooing businessmen is also a good recipe. You don't have to pick at the rope and give up the money for the idea of building the road. ”

"Yes. Now that there is cement, the cost of road construction has been greatly reduced, and the minister will naturally not lose a lot of money because of the small money. Xu Da replied. Xu Yu sighed again: "After all, it is not what it used to be, wool spinning, cement, two small innovations, have become the key to opening up the world." ”

"If anyone says these are tricks in the future, the minister should draw his sword. This is the foundation of the country's development, what is the ingenuity? ”

The crowd laughed.

(End of chapter)