"Where do people care so much when they are greedy for profit!
For example, even if some officials know that they want to peel the skin and grass, they also know that the imperial court has the cultivation of incorruptible silver and the cultivation of honorable silver, but they can't help but be greedy, isn't it?
This is the inferiority of human nature!
Besides, it's not as simple as fame and fortune, first of all, Your Majesty is Your Majesty after all, and you occupy the orthodox name of the world; Secondly, our majesty is very good to the common people, Fang, Xu and others already hold the same concept as the ancient Confucianism, not like the current Confucianism, so they actually regard those grass mustard exiles as the people, so they also think that although the Son of Heaven is cruel but not unkind, although radical but not stubborn!
Although he is not a benevolent monarch, he is actually a master!
Therefore, they do not think that the Son of Heaven intends to make them slaves, or that they are now willing to be lackeys for the Son of Heaven!
”Zhao Nanxing smiled and said again."
No matter what you say, you can't let the Xu family betray my Jiangnan gentry like this again, and then let the inner court take advantage of the people through the Xu family!
The lower officials decided to send people back to Jiangnan as soon as possible, first of all, to organize a secret association of like-minded people, the imperial court did not let us form an association, we preferred to form an association!
How can we resist evil politics if we don't form associations?!
But a dead ear!
Then, we are trying to find a way to bring down the Xu family's cotton yarn industry, no matter what secret skills their Xu family has obtained in the cotton yarn industry by relying on the inner court, we have to smash him and get this skill in hand!
”Man Chaojian gritted his teeth and said."
I hope you can make it."
Zhao Nanxing smiled."
Whether it is to feed these displaced people by means of large-scale construction, or to immigrate to Liaodong Shibian, as well as the next military supplies, and the increased expenditure on maintenance and honor, we still have to spend a lot of money and food in the future; Last year, it can be used to pay the arrears from Nanzhili, but now we can't immediately continue to clear the acres of fields, and we can't continue to clear the acres of fields, and the return of fire consumption to the public will not increase much income, and it can only curb the excessive exploitation of the people by the localities, so these expenses this year and next year will have to rely on new inputs, in addition, at present, Yulinwei wants to expand the army, and the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau wants to expand the scale, and more money and grain are needed; Therefore, I decided to continue to expand the government-run industry, first, your Xu family's cotton yarn industry must continue to expand the scale, and second, Shang Gongjian's shuttle loom must be set up as soon as possible to promote, still using the old method, Aiqing recommended a few reliable wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan to handle this matter, and go to Jiangnan to build a new weaving factory to increase national benefits. ”Zhu Youxiao is still insisting on the Huadian Scripture Banquet, and the Sutra Banquet has still become a place where Zhu Youxiao and Xu Guangqi discuss alone.At this time, Zhu Youxiao put forward the idea of using flying shuttle weaving technology to build a new government-run weaving factory in Jiangnan.After hearing this, Xu Guangqi couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, it would be okay if you let the ministers recommend a few reliable businessmen to run the government-run weaving factory; However, the minister was worried that this would affect the interests of the ordinary people in the south of the Yangtze River, and before, the Xu family's cotton yarn had been in accordance with His Majesty's instructions and did not dare to increase the scale without authorization, nor did it reduce the price, and continued to collect the soil yarn, so that the Xu family basically only took the advantage of low cost; But now, if the scale is increased, it is inevitable to reduce the price of cotton yarn in order to squeeze out the share of cotton yarn sales occupied by other merchants, after all, the cotton yarn that Xiyang needs to purchase is limited!
In this way, it will make other merchants more dissatisfied, and even ordinary yarn households will have to sell to the local cotton yarn industry at a lower price of cotton yarn, in addition to the cloth woven by the shuttle loom, the minister also saw that both the texture and the width are better than the homespun cloth, so once the shuttle loom begins to enter the weaving industry, it will attract a large number of purchases from the West without expanding the scale, and take away the profits of other cloth merchants, and then hurt the ordinary weavers, so please be cautious. ”"What Aiqing mentioned, I also considered, but there is no better way than to increase the profits of the official camp with new skills to supplement the increasing expenditure of money and food in the imperial court; Otherwise, it will be Kada endowed to the people of the world, which will make more people unable to live!
or increase the commercial tax on the gentry of the world, which will make the gentry of the world even more dissatisfied, which is not something that can be done now; or continue to clear the acres of fields, and in other provinces other than Nanzhili, they will also clear the acres of fields, which will make the vassal kings and nobles who have Zhuangtian dissatisfied, and the border generals who have elite families will be dissatisfied; The only way to use new skills to increase the profits of the official business, if the profits of ordinary weavers and cotton households are hurt, the court can make up for it, anyway, in the past, the major tooth shops did not give them much profit, but to make up for the needs of the family so that they will not starve to death, I can take the profits from the big households, divide more shares to them, expand the scale and let them directly become workers in the government-run workshops, not those weavers in the south of the Yangtze River who can only eat their stomachs, but weavers with monthly salaries, and even the monthly salaries are not low, at least they can support their families and have surplus; As for the big cotton yarn and weavers, then they can only suffer for them, they have made so much profit by smuggling cotton yarn and cotton cloth for generations, and they have not given the court a penny, and the court has not punished them is already polite!
Besides, if they lose this livelihood, it is not impossible to live, which of these big households is not fertile land and 10,000 acres, which is not complete with all kinds of industries, anyway, now this is the only way!
If the imperial court wants the people to be rich and the country rich, reform the finances, and increase revenue, it is inevitable that a group of people will suffer; Either the gentry or the common people, and if any of them are willing to earn money with the court, they can naturally become richer and richer. ”Zhu Youxiao looked at Xu Guangqi as he spoke.Xu Guangqi pondered, and said after a while: "That is the case, the minister has no objection, now it seems that this is indeed the most appropriate policy, I only hope that more big families can understand the general situation, follow the general trend, and would rather use new skills with the court to make foreign profits, rather than stubborn, just thinking about not letting the court take away their own interests, and refuse to comply with the arrangement of the court." ”"In that case, do it now!""
You know better than me that those rich businessmen in the Susong area of the south of the Yangtze River have foresight and general righteousness, when they come to Beijing as soon as possible to discuss with you, not only to discuss how to handle this matter, but also to discuss how to deal with the bankruptcy of a large number of ordinary cotton households and weavers at that time, the latter must have a response, which is conducive to them and the imperial court in the future has been relying on new textile skills to make profits, as long as the cotton households and weavers at the bottom are encompassed, the rest will be fine!"
Zhu Youxiao commanded in a firm tone."
Obey the order!"
Xu Guangqi replied.And Zhu Youxiao then said: "You are still the secretary of the military department, so you have to continue to recruit with Lu Jiude for this recruitment of new soldiers for Yulinwei, and in the future, the military department will mainly be responsible for the dispatch of military quartermasters, recruitment training and post-war pensions, and the rest will be handed over to the old generals of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies; Among them, recruitment and military quartermaster are the two most important things, and next, I will intend to let you supervise Gyeonggi, Shandong, and Liaodong as a scholar of Dongge University and a secretary of the military department, mainly to inspect the civil and academic affairs of Huangzhuang, Tianjin, and Qufu, as well as the military and political situation in Liaodong, so as to prepare for the next recruitment of Yulinwei recruits in Huangzhuang, Tianjin, and Qufu, and to encourage Shandong refugees to immigrate to Liaodong; Therefore, Huangzhuang, Tianjin, and Qufu, especially Tianjin and Qufu, must do a good job in complaining about grievances and thanking the emperor, so that the displaced people and the tenants of the original Qufu pseudo-Confucius know that I saved them, so that they can live a stable life again, and let them understand who made them displaced before, and then have the heart to serve the court in the future and know the righteousness of loyalty to the king!
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