Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chongzhen said: "In short, buy all the houses and land that can be bought for me."

"I'm in command." Ma Mingpao nodded and said again, "Your Majesty, there is one last thing, I don't understand why you have to take out a part of the firearms order to Hubu Arsenal and a dozen other small workshops? "

Having said this, Ma Mingpao said again: "I made a special trip to Hubu Armory Factory and the dozen or so small workshops to see it. The Lumi blunderbuss they produce are completely incomparable with Daming Armory Factory, and the price is still expensive. Daming The Lumi guns made by the arsenal are only quoted at two taels of silver, but they want to sell them for three taels!"

"Then give them orders." Chongzhen said, "People have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries."

After saying this, Ma Mingpao immediately reacted: "The Holy One is worried that after the Daming Armory monopolizes the supply of firearms, they will use inferior ones as good ones? Will the quality of firearms decline over time?"

"Of course." Chongzhen nodded, "People are lazy, and so are factories."

"That's why we have to cultivate competitors for Daming Arsenal. We must let the Zhan family understand that they are not irreplaceable, so that they can always maintain a humble attitude and do things seriously."

In fact, there is another reason, Chongzhen did not tell Ma Mingpao.

That is, Chongzhen pointed to the arms industry to drive industrial development.

Then relying on the driving effect of one Daming arsenal alone is definitely not as good as the driving effect of more than a dozen arsenals together. For the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen really broke his heart.

Thinking of industrial development, Chongzhen also thought of industrial and commercial banks.

Immediately Chongzhen asked: "By the way, has the Industrial and Commercial Bank opened?"

"It has been opened for a long time." Ma Mingtao said, "Zheng Zunqian is already preparing to build a shipping shipbuilding bank."

"It's already opened?" Chongzhen was stunned, thinking that he was indeed a little incompetent as an emperor, and he didn't attend such a big event in person to stand down.

Wang Chengen probably reported it to him.

But at that time, he only cared about making the gun barrel, so he didn't care about it.

After a pause, Chongzhen continued to ask: "Are there many workshops that come to Industrial and Commercial Bank for shares?"

"Your Majesty, that's really a lot." Ma Minglu said with a smile, "Industrial and Commercial Banks are full of people every day, and even workshop owners in Songjiang, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou come here to seek shares."

"Very good." Chongzhen heaved a sigh of relief.

The curtain of handicraft development has been opened.

……

The time will soon come to the end of October.

Xu Yingwei has been training with 270 soldiers from his grandfather Xu's family for more than half a month.

After more than half a month of basic training, the queue has gone decently, but reciting the new performance book is a headache, and these illiterate farmers really can't remember it.

But if you can't remember, you must remember.

If you can't memorize it, you must memorize it.

Otherwise, you won't be able to enter the battlefield at all.

So Xu Yingwei could only teach sentence by sentence.

After the morning training today, there was another spot check order as usual.

Xu Yingwei glanced over, and the 270 Xu family members lined up suddenly felt their butts burning, especially Xu Wuniu, who had just passed the [-]th board yesterday morning.

However, whatever you are afraid of will come.

Xu Yingwei said sharply: "Xu Wuniu!"

"Here!" Xu Wuniu subconsciously took a step forward and responded loudly.

Xu Yingwei said in a deep voice: "The second part of the new performance book, orders, concise terms, general rules, memorize!"

"Yes!" Xu Wuniu agreed, and recited, "Our ears only listen to the trumpets and drums, and our eyes only look at the command flags and the tricolor lights at night!"

"If a certain color flag stands up and starts to move, it means that a certain battalion is ready to attack. When the trumpet is sounded, they will immediately go to battle. It is not allowed to listen to the words spoken by the population and act without authorization."

"Even if the master speaks words, he is not allowed to move."

"If the drum is beating, you should enter, even if the big river ahead blocks the way, you must enter."

"If the charge horn sounds, even the mountains of swords and seas of fire will charge forward!"

"If the assembly call sounds, even if there are mountains of gold and silver ahead, we must retreat!"

"It's like this, everyone has one eye, one ear, and one heart. What thief can't be killed, what slave can't be destroyed, and what merit can't be done!"

"Okay, join the ranks!" Xu Yingwei nodded happily.

This stupid cow finally learned the second general rule.

Xu Wuniu heaved a sigh of relief and hurried back to the queue.

Xu Yingwei glanced again, and said: "Xu Tiger!"

Another burly man no less than Wu Niu came out: "Here!"

Xu Yingwei said: "The third chapter of military law in the new book of performance, memorize it!"

"Yes." Xu Huhu's reciting progress was much faster than Xu Wuniu's.

"There are only a few heroes who are ready to fight, and every time they win the first rank, dozens of people often fight..."

"Where anyone retreats before the battle, Xu Shichang will cut off the ears of the retreater; if the chief retreats, the captain will cut off his ears; if the captain retreats, the whistle chief will cut off his ears..."

"Anyone who ambushes, if he encounters a thief or wakes up early, will be executed along with the leader of the army! Each soldier will deduct twenty silver and pension sticks!"

"Everything, one person will be the first, if nine people are not rescued, they will be killed, and nine people will be beheaded! Whoever is the first will be surrounded by one person, and those who are besieged will be besieged by one person..."

I got stuck and couldn't carry it on.

The more anxious Xu Hu was, the more he couldn't remember.

Xu Yingwei's face collapsed, and he said sharply: "Drag it on, fight for twenty!"

When even the two guards on duty stepped forward, they couldn't help but pick up Xu Huhu to the side of the drying yard, and then took off their pants to reveal two big black buttocks in front of the women, children and women who were watching.

The women and children around laughed loudly, and the women all blushed.

Xu Huhu's black face was also flushed with embarrassment, but he didn't dare to say a word.

Because they have already learned Xu Yingwei's method, adding ten sticks to each sound, who can resist it?
"Crack! Crack!" The jujube wooden board hit Xu Huhu's black buttocks one after another. After only two blows, there were bleeding marks, and after ten blows, the flesh was bloody. Xu Huhu still didn't make a sound.

After twenty sticks, two soldiers on duty were ready to step forward to help.

"No need!" Xu Huhu got up by himself and limped back to the queue.

Xu Yingwei said: "This morning's training subject is still marching with heavy loads in the mountains, all of them..."

Before the words were finished, the third younger brother Xu Yingxiong rushed over and shouted: "Brother, father told you to go back, the uncle of Huangtanshi's family is here, hurry up."

"Understood." Xu Yingwei agreed, and then said, "Xu Yinglong."

Xu Yinglong, who was named, took a big step forward and responded loudly: "Here!"

"This morning's training, you will return to the team." Xu Yingwei said and returned home.

When I got home, I saw Shi Jiuke, the elder brother of my wife's natal family, also wearing a shirt.

"Master Xu." Seeing Xu Yingwei walking in boldly, Shi Jiuke quickly got up and bowed to the ground.

Both of them are granshan students of Xinchang County School, and they are also Lang's uncle-in-law. In the past, Shi Jiu could look down on Xu Yingwei, because Huangtan Shi's family is a prominent family in the southeast. Everlasting prosperity, since the Ming Dynasty, there have been countless ministers and ministers, and countless Jinshi candidates.

Xu Yingwei's father-in-law, Shi Zhengwen, is a famous scholar of Neo Confucianism in the southeast.

After seeing a master like Liu Zongzhou, Shi Zhengwen can also have a seat.

So when Shi Sanniang married Xu Yingwei, she was really married.

However, time has changed, and in just one year, Xu Xiucai, who was still relying on Lao Taishan's family, has transformed into a terrifying existence that even the county officials look up to.

So Shi Jiu never dared to make any mistake.

Xu Yingwei has no bureaucratic habits.

"Brother, what are you doing?" Xu Yingwei affectionately helped Shi Jiuke up, and said with a smile, "You and I are both a classmate from the county school and uncle Lang, how can you be polite?"

A smile immediately appeared on Shi Jiuke's face.

It's good, he's still the same Xu Xiucai from before, and he didn't show off just because of his success.

On the contrary, Xu Shiyi, who was accompanying him, felt a little displeased, thinking that since Xu Yingwei became a high-ranking official, he should have the dignity of a high-ranking official, how could he be so airless?Is he still a high official without airs?
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Xu Yingwei asked directly, "Brother, what's the matter with you?"

"There really is one." Shi Jiuke nodded and said, "You Zhen also know that I gave up thinking about scientific examinations three years ago, and only wanted to venture into the business world."

"I know that." Xu Yingwei said, "Aren't you planning to grow mulberry, raise silkworms and weave silk?"

"That's exactly what happened." Shi Jiuke said, "After three years of hard work, the mulberry seedlings have been able to produce mulberry leaves, and even the silkworm cocoons have been harvested a few times, but they got stuck in the silk reeling and weaving process. "

"What's going on?" Xu Yingwei said, "No one knows how to reel silk?"

"Who says it's not?" Shi Jiuke sighed, "It's okay if no one knows how to weave silk. At worst, they can sell raw silk directly, but if no one knows how to reel silk, it's over and they can only let it rot."

"Then invite someone to come over." Xu Yingwei said, "Now that the craftsman registration has been cancelled, craftsmen can move freely. As long as your wages are high enough, are you afraid that no one will come?"

Shi Jiuke sighed, "Is it because I can't afford the wages?"

After a pause, he continued: "Before I bought fields to plant mulberry seedlings, bought silkworm seeds, hired workers to pick mulberry leaves, harvest silkworm cocoons, and opened silk reeling workshops and weaving workshops, all of which cost tens of thousands of taels of silver. , I have emptied out all the money in my family, and now I really can’t put any more money into it.”

"Brother, you have found the wrong person." Xu Yingwei said directly.

"Our family is so powerful that we can come up with hundreds of taels of silver, but what you are short of is tens of thousands of taels."

At this time, Xu Shiyi, who was accompanying him, gritted his teeth and said, "Chouba Chouba, it's no problem to make up one thousand taels of silver."

Xu Shiyi has never been an old-fashioned and warm-hearted character. The key is that being able to help the Shi family once gives him a sense of accomplishment. Their grandparent Xu's family can also help a famous family like the Huangtan Shi family.

Xu Yingwei said angrily: "Father, one thousand taels is also useless."

"Father-in-law, this junior is not here to borrow money." After Shi Jiuke finished speaking, he said to Xu Yingwei, "That's right, I went to the county yesterday and saw a notice on the fourth page of the Huangming Times that there was a notice from the Bank of Industry and Commerce .”