"Zhongcheng, it is difficult for us to accept such a regulation in your country, this can be said to be unreasonable!
Why do we have to use your currency, besides, your tariffs are really ridiculously high, not as high as you in Nagasaki and Manila, hasn't the Celestial Empire always advocated light taxation and good neighborliness, why did you suddenly collect such heavy tariffs in Songjiang?!
”Erik, the captain of the Hongmao Fan merchant ship, expressed his dissatisfaction to Sun Chengzong, the governor of Susong, at this time.Sun Chengzong replied directly: "You don't have to come to Songjiang to buy cotton cloth and silk from my official camp. ”When Eric heard Sun Chengzong say this, he slapped the table directly: "You deceive people too much!"
”Seeing this, Sun Chengzong just glanced at him, and put the tea away: "Send it off!"
”As a result, Eric had no choice but to leave the Yamen of the Governor of Susong.And Eric's deputy, Vidner, also hurriedly followed Eric, and whispered: "Mr.
Eric, what now, the silk and cotton here are the best and cheapest, we have no other better choice!"
”Eric huffed, "I can't wait to teach these hateful Orientals a lesson with a cannon!"
Just as we taught the Indians in the Americas!
”"But this is a large and difficult empire, and we can only play the role of merchants here."
Videna replied."
So, I feel even more annoyed, only the cotton yarn bureau and the weaving bureau here can provide such cheap and high-quality cloth, we have no choice!"
Eric replied, "Forget it, Vidner, let's do what they do." ”Next, because Eric and other foreign businessmen could not give up buying the textiles produced by the Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau, they still went to the branch of the Baoquan Bureau to exchange the Daming silver coins in accordance with the rules set by Zhu Youxiao, and also honestly went to the West Factory Lifting Division to pay a very heavy tariff.The government-run textile industry, established by Zhu Youxiao with new spinning and weaving techniques, successfully implemented the new currency reform and tariff policy in Songjiang Prefecture, and also enabled the Ming Dynasty to further open up the sea.And because of this, the imperial court had an additional income from the exchange of silver coins for foreign currency, and a customs revenue.Coupled with the profits made by the government-run textile industry itself, the amount of silver stored in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty has increased dramatically.Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to ask the Municipal Bureau and the Grain Industry Bureau to increase their efforts to import grain, cotton, raw silk, timber, iron ore, agate, and precious stones from outside, so as to offset the phenomenon of cheap money brought about by a large amount of silver.In this way, the price of Daming is still maintained at a low level.This is simply too happy for the people in the Songjiang Prefecture.Because the people in this area have just increased a large wave of income because of the expansion of the cotton yarn bureau and the weaving bureau and the increase in the income of workers, but the price is still not high, so the people in this area are living more and more affluent.In fact, not only Songjiang Prefecture, but also the people in other areas of Jiangnan around Songjiang Prefecture have become more and more prosperous because they have come to Songjiang Prefecture to work.Shanghai County in Songjiang Prefecture has two of the most profitable cotton yarn bureaus and weaving bureaus, and has absorbed a large number of poor people in the south of the Yangtze River, which has played a siphoning role, making the income of the ordinary people in the south of the Yangtze River increase and the gap between the rich and the poor narrowed, and it is no longer the same as before, but the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are particularly rich, and the people at the bottom are still hungry.Therefore, even if Zhu Youxiao asked Zhang Tongchang to severely suppress many troublemakers in this area, these Jiangnan people were not dissatisfied with the imperial court because of this.In addition to the foreign fans who also produce cotton cloth and silk, the real damage is naturally the Jiangnan gentry in China.After all, the benefits of silk and cotton cloth going to sea were originally monopolized by them.Now, part of this profit has flowed into the state treasury, part of it has flowed into the emperor's inner treasury, part of it has flowed into the powerful gentry who support the emperor, and part of it has flowed into the common people, but they themselves have no penny.As a result, they had to face the bankruptcy of their weaving and spinning mills.They also had to face the situation that a large number of their own clansmen and villagers entered the government-run cotton yarn bureau and weaving bureau to work, and thus lost control over these people.So much so that their people and villagers began to disobey them more and more.Their "independent kingdom" is beginning to crack.The Jiangnan gentry were very reluctant to accept such a reality, but they had to accept it unless they rebelled.Of course, some of them must have rebelled, but most of them still choose to forbear, just like in history, the Manchu Qing Dynasty strictly imposed a sea ban in order to prevent the southeastern gentry from providing logistical supplies to the Zheng clan in Taiwan, and even moved the coastal people inward for 30 miles, even if the interests of these people were seriously damaged, most of them still chose to forbear.It was a decision that they had to think about carefully, after all, they were not desperate, they still had land, and they had other properties.Most of these Jiangnan gentry still just hope that Zhu Youxiao's era will pass quickly, or that Emperor Zhu Youxiao will change his mind as soon as possible, so that the imperial court will return to the era when the sea was forbidden in Jiangnan before, abolish the Weaving Bureau and the Cotton Yarn Bureau, and let Haili return to the era that only belonged to the Jiangnan gentry.But this is no longer possible.Because, the powerful gentry who supported the emperor to run the official camp made a lot of money this time, and they now only feel that His Majesty the emperor is a good emperor who is really worthy of their allegiance, and even began to sincerely hope that the official textile industry can continue to be established like this, even if the emperor changes.Having already tasted the sweetness, they no longer want to spit out the meat that they have eaten in their mouths.What they didn't know, though, was that their Emperor Majesty was already thinking about cutting the flesh off their bodies."
The exquisite government-run porcelain and glass must be developed and sold as soon as possible, and in addition, how the glass, soap, cigarettes and other processes developed by Shang Gongjian are carried out, they must be put into production as soon as possible, and more luxury things must be made to sell them to these dignitaries and nobles, and the dividends distributed to them will be earned back!"
Zhu Youxiao very much hoped that the courtiers who had made a fortune with him would consume more, even if it was extravagant consumption, instead of buying land and lending usury, which he did not want to see, after all, the latter would only exacerbate land contradictions and class contradictions.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao had to rack his brains to let Shang Gongjian and the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering develop various new products to promote these people's consumption, and at this time, he gave Liu Ruoyu such an order."
In addition, you will pass on my will to gather Zhenheng and Jicheng, who are good at building gardens, to form a government-run construction bureau specializing in building luxury gardens, and design and build some luxury gardens so that they can sell them to these loyal ministers so that they can have a better place to live, so that they can be extravagant and expensive enough, and just use the wood hoarded by the city company from outside, and the price should naturally be set high, and it must be high enough."
Zhu Youxiao's real purpose is naturally not to let the powerful gentry have a good place to live, but to make money in the hands of these people by engaging in real estate."
Slave obeys!"
Liu Ruoyu replied.