I'm really not doing business

Chapter 155 Yongding Woolen Factory

Luo Lian didn't interact shamelessly with her man on the pier regardless of the occasion. Luo Lian already knew some differences in each other's cultures, so she chose a more conservative approach when she was out of the house. Let his man lose face even more, and of course close the door, then Deng Zilong can't help it.

Deng Zilong was going to attend the celebration banquet. In Da Ming's words, it was to reward the three armies. It wasn't until the willows on the moon that Luo Lian saw Deng Zilong come back smelling of alcohol. Deng Zilong didn't drink alcohol. Most of the alcohol on his body was from sergeants Yes, only the soldiers resting in Manila can drink freely. As a general, Deng Zilong needs to be ready to lead troops to fight at any time.

"I just finished the battle." Deng Zilong euphemistically expressed that he had just gone through a high-intensity battle and was not suitable for high-intensity battles anymore.Is it possible to reduce the intensity and intensity of the war?

"It's okay if I'm on it." Luo Lian said with a hint of confusion and pitifulness in her eyes, "No way."

"Honey, have I tired you? You were not like this before. Before, no matter how tired you were, when you got off the boat, you would pounce on me like a hungry red-eyed tiger, working hard all the time. You have already ...don't love me?"

"Sure enough, love with only the body is so cheap. To you, I have become like chewing wax, isn't that so? It must be so."

"Can I think more pessimistically about the rest of my life, or are you going to sell me to someone else? This is extremely sad news for me."

"I'm going to take a shower." Deng Zilong immediately raised his hands in surrender.

This Luo Lian's mouth is too poisonous, he just wants to take a break, when Luo Lian opens his mouth, it seems that the whole world is about to abandon her, he frowned and said: "Don't destroy my Ming idiom, what tastes like chewing wax! This idiom It is usually used to describe articles, or language, how can it be used in this kind of thing?"

Luo Lian's winking eyes were like silk, she stuck out her tongue and licked her lips lightly, and said in a low voice: "Why don't you take a bath, anyway, I'm clean, I'm hungry, have I used the right idioms this time?"

Deng Zilong immediately fled in a panic. Recently, Luo Lian has been studying Sinology, and she has made great progress and has been able to express her desire clearly and clearly in Chinese.

Luo Lian chuckled lightly, then frowned, and followed Deng Zilong, but Deng Zilong still couldn't escape, because Luo Lian chased him to the bathroom and captured Deng Zilong directly in the bathroom.

"Sometimes I doubt who is the prisoner of whom." After the passion burns down to calm, Deng Zilong suddenly pours a large bowl of sugar water, and there are some goji berries floating on the sugar water, which makes Deng Zilong a little bit at a loss, and Luo Lian learns from it What kind of Central Plains culture has come to know, how can you even understand this.

Luo Lian chuckled and said, "Is it important? Darling, replenish your strength, we will continue later."

"I think I need to rest." Deng Zilong said solemnly.

"Is it not enough?" Luo Lian looked at Deng Zilong with some disappointment, and said innocently: "It seems that it is really not enough."

"Shut up!" Deng Zilong really convinced this woman, the one he captured was not a human at all, but a vixen, what kind of monster does this vixen correspond to in Taixi?
"Did you win the battle?" Luo Lian leaned on the recliner, looked at the stars in the sky, and asked quite calmly. Deng Zilong was a man who kept his word and did not withdraw at the critical moment. My child, it will just be It's a matter of time, if the number of times is added, then the child is inevitable, if Luo Lian has no problems herself.

Luo Lian didn't know if she had any problems, which required many times of practice to verify.

It's not that Luo Lian, a vixen, doesn't like being clingy, but that in the scorching hot weather in Manila, after the battle is over, they just lie on the mat separately, peacefully and together.

She would only ask for lying down for a while afterwards when the weather was cool.

"Of course we won." Deng Zilong said as a matter of course.

Luo Lian turned her head, looked at Deng Zilong and said: "Countless wars tell us a very simple truth, when you think you are invincible, it is the most dangerous moment, just like the previous commander-in-chief Gaudy, Francis Branch, just like the previous Ming Army’s attack on the Cebu Islands did not go well, which led to a delay of one year.”

"Honey, promise me that you will never be arrogant, and never underestimate your opponent, okay? I don't want to be a widow. There are many gossips in front of widows, and I am also a barbarian widow, so I am even more bullied. "

"Okay." Deng Zilong confidently agreed to Luo Lian's request, which was not considered a request. Luo Lian just wanted Deng Zilong to survive on the battlefield.

Because of arrogance, Manila's Hongmaofan was defeated; because of arrogance, the Ming army's advance in the war against the Cebu Islands was not as successful as expected. Fortunately, the opponent was far away in the east and was weak enough.

Luo Lian looked at the sky and said softly: "A person who is in awe is always invincible. How can there be a person in this world who has won many battles and is not arrogant?"

Deng Zilong thought for a while and said: "There really are, and there are two, one is Qi Jiguang and the other is Yu Dayou. They are called Yu Long and Qi Hu. They are my Ming Dynasty's two Baisheng generals. They are never arrogant."

"There are actually two such people?" Luo Lian suddenly widened her eyes and said in surprise.

Deng Zilong said with a smile: "Qi Shuai didn't win every battle from the very beginning. When he first entered the war against Japan, he lost three battles in a row. He still had to run fast on the battlefield. After Qi Shuai survived, he formed Nanfangke Soldiers, and then won every battle without defeat, even in the north."

"Didn't they become arrogant?" Luo Lian looked at Deng Zilong and asked.

Deng Zilong said with admiration: "No, so they have been winning all the time, but the unique problem of our Ming Dynasty, the general should not fight too many perfect victories. This problem is too complicated, and it is difficult for me to explain it clearly."

Luo Lian looked at Deng Zilong, and said with some disbelief, "Then can my man become such a cautious general? I know it's difficult, but my man, you can't say, he can't do it?"

Perhaps, the highest honor of a man is that you are very good, and the greatest shame is that you are really bad. Be applicable.

"I'll try my best." Deng Zilong was almost choked to death by Luo Lian's words!
This woman is very good at playing tricks on people's hearts, and she is eloquent.

Deng Zilong said curiously: "I'm asking a question, not to offend. From your words, I found that it's not that you don't love your country. On the contrary, even as a captive, you still love your country very much." country, but it seems that you don't care much about Frangji's defeat."

"Look, you don't even hate me, the executioner."

"Thank you for your respect." Luo Lian said with a smile: "Actually, I care."

"But more importantly, the defeat in the far east can wake up the invincible Felipe II, so that he can be more sober, and don't blindly look into the distance. Spain is already an empire on which the sun never sets. The crisis is more urgent."

Deng Zilong was even more curious and said: "Can I ask about your specific background? Your speech and knowledge are not like that of a nun in a closed monastery."

Luo Lian thought for a while and said with a smile: "I was born in a noble family, so I have no mercy for the expedition colonists composed of poor people and even desperadoes. My men are executioners, so aren't they executioners? They have stains on their hands. Isn’t it equivalent to being filled with the blood of the Ming people, and then the Ming people kill them?”

"There are tens of thousands of Ming people living and living in Luzon. They first raised their butcher knives and aimed at civilians who had no weapons in their hands. The Ming army was stronger and killed them."

"Although this idea does not fit the status of a nun, God loves the world, and even gave them his only begotten son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life, but I am a nobleman, and everything becomes very reasonable."

Deng Zilong shook his head and said, "You are avoiding the important and not answering my question directly."

Luo Lian still didn't want to talk about the past, and said with a smile: "It's all in the past, isn't it? The past is the past, and the one in front of you now is Luo Lian, a captive."

"Well, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it." Deng Zilong chose to respect again, she didn't want to say it, and Deng Zilong didn't force it.

Lori Ann looked at the bright sky and said, "What can I do if I care? What can a weak slave who is completely attached to you do? It's better to think in a better way."

"Money is a deceptive demon."

"A huge crisis is erupting in the mainland of the Kingdom of Spain, and Felipe II is helpless against this crisis. This crisis stems from the devil of gold and silver."

"More than 20 years ago, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V gave the Netherlands to his son, the current King Felipe II of Spain. Felipe II, like his father, was warlike and heavily taxed. and arrogance."

"The Netherlands is the pearl on the crown of Spain. It is the most economically advanced and developed region. The northern provinces of Holland and Zeeland operate handicraft workshops in the textile and shipbuilding industries, and the southern provinces of Flanders and Brabant operate Handicraft workshops for textiles, metallurgy, sugar, and printing."

"Every year, the Spanish royal family can obtain more than 1 catties of gold from the Netherlands."

Deng Zilong pinched his fingers and calculated, and the equivalent is about 20 taels of gold, and one tael of gold can be exchanged for ten taels of silver. silver.

"Perhaps I can understand the Netherlands region as the most affluent Nanya Fourteenth Mansion in Ming Dynasty?" Deng Zilong tried to understand that the Netherlands region really corresponds to the Ming Dynasty.

Luo Lian shook her head and said: "It's not exactly the same. The situation in the Netherlands is even worse. The Nanya of the Ming Dynasty is the core territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Netherlands is not obtained by conquest, but a territory obtained by marriage, so resistance is everywhere. "

"In order to rule, Philip II set up a large number of Inquisitions in the Netherlands and carried out cruel suppression. The silent William of the Nassau family began to organize resistance, and the war raged all over Flanders and Brabant , Holland, and Zeeland, this war has been going on for more than ten years, and the damn Brit keeps instigating and supporting the Nassau family, which has further deteriorated the situation."

Every Spaniard hates the English, because these Brits are picking things up all day long, supporting the silent William and William's younger brother Louis, which makes the situation more complicated. How much the Ming people hate Japanese pirates, the Spaniards Hate Brits so much.

And the sea beggar army, or the Calvinist beggar army, who opposes the cruel religious rule, is constantly attacking and robbing on land and at sea. Behind these people, there are also damn British people behind them.

"Da Ming's war against Japan?" Deng Zilong seemed to have found another war that was roughly equivalent to understanding.

Luo Lian continued: "For more than ten years of war, our army has always won on the battlefield. In the Battle of Jermingen nine years ago, 15000 Spanish troops fought against 12000 Dutch troops. The Dutch army suffered more than 7000 casualties, while Our large phalanx maintained their usual fighting strength, with more than 80 casualties."

"Last year, Captain Antonio brought news that we defeated the Dutch again at the Battle of Morkhead. The Henry and Louis of the Nassau family mentioned just now all died on the battlefield, and we only lost 150 people were recruited."

"However, the resistance in the seven provinces of Nyland did not stop because of the death of the leader, but became more intense. Killing William and Louis did not disintegrate the resistance of the seven provinces of Nyland at all. The flames of war will only continue to spread, and finally drag Spain down. Into the quagmire of war, sinking deeper and deeper."

"The current Spanish Empire has fallen into a war trap, which is carefully prepared by the British."

"If the war fails to meet expectations, it is necessary to continuously increase investment, and the continuous investment will make the resistance more intense. The scale of the war will become larger and more intense, causing more serious damage to production, and tax revenue will be reduced again. It won the war, but it failed to meet expectations, and eventually increased investment, such a vicious circle."

"No matter how powerful an empire is, it will be dragged down by endless wars."

"Especially when this kind of war takes place within the empire, war is war, and destruction is destruction. To suppress the rebellion in Nyland, it is better to launch a war against the British. If we can win, although it will not solve the problem, but At least you can vent your anger."

"I can understand." Deng Zilong nodded with emotion. The Ming Dynasty's war in the northwest fell into this quagmire because it could not completely win.

The late emperor made a decision against his ancestors and made peace with the northern captives. This kind of peace means that the Ming Dynasty canonized Altan Khan as King of Shunyi. In name, Altan Khan is the prince of the Ming Dynasty and a subject of the Ming Dynasty.

Deng Zilong asked with some doubts: "You are an aristocrat, and there seems to be a queen in your Frangji. As an aristocrat, why don't you explain it to the king?"

Luo Lian shook her head and said: "Even a man like me, who is so brave and good at fighting, can't hold a running wild boar with his bare hands. Felipe II is that running wild boar. He is so stubborn that he is paranoid. It's his personal problem;"

"And he doesn't have many choices, and the general situation does not allow him to stop the war. Now the fragmented and divided Spain needs religion as the rope to string the fragmented land together. If he can get rid of the shackles of religion, he There may be more options."

"For me, what's more important is a healthy child!" Luo Lian changed the subject, got on the horse, and said in a low voice: "My husband, no matter how tired you are, I have a way to let you continue to fight."

Deng Zilong clenched his fists and said, "If I have to go to the battlefield tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't even be able to wear armor. Take it easy."

"War is like a man. After a fight, he needs to rest. In a short time, the war will not come again. We have a lot of time." Lori Ann flicked her red hair and bent down.

In the early morning of the next day, the sun was shining brightly, and Deng Zilong appeared in the Governor's Mansion with his legs looking pretty. Yin Zhengmao sighed and said, "General Deng Shen is a general with a solid base."

"I won!" Deng Zilong said very confidently after sitting down: "After fifteen days of continuous fighting, I came to the governor's mansion to participate in the former army's discussion."

Deng Zilong won, and Luo Lian couldn't even get up. It was not a wise choice to challenge a general who was good at fighting.

"Tell me about the harvest this time. We have obtained a large number of notes and documents. The imperial court seems to value them more. Let Luo Huhu copy a copy and send it to Songjiang Mansion." Zhang Yuanxun talked about the harvest with a smile on his face.

Luo Fox is Luo Lian. This is Luo Lian's nickname. There are mistakes in the name, but the nickname is usually correct.

Antonio presented a lot of nautical charts and notes. It is not known whether they have been revised or not. These notes will be an excellent reference.

Yin Zhengmao said with certainty: "Your Majesty seems to value notes and documents more, and never asks where we go every time we harvest gold and silver."

Zhang Yuanxun tried to explain from another angle: "The establishment of Luzon's Bureau of Shipbuilding and the Metropolitan Salary Office is a long-term income. This is our humble heart. Your Majesty can understand that there is still a difference between a single sale and a long flow of water." .”

Yin Zhengmao sighed and said, "But Yuanfu is always on guard against us."

Nautical charts, star charts, drawings of some astronomical instruments, a large number of nautical notes and old documents were put on the hydrofoil sailboat and sent to the Penghu Inspection Department by wind and waves, and then sent all the way north to the capital.

This sea route is already very familiar, Zhao Mengyou took over the prisoner Zeng Guang, and also took over these old documents.

After Zhao Mengyou returned to the capital, he followed His Majesty to travel. The emperor of Ming Dynasty left the capital rarely, not to Beitu City, but to Wanping County, Shuntian Prefecture. Wanping County is located near Lugou Bridge, outside the Guangning Gate on the west side of the outer city. 24 miles away, very close, but this is the first time His Majesty is so far away from Beijing.

In addition to Tiqi, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty Zhang Juzheng, the second assistant Lu Tiaoyang, the Minister of the Ministry of Households Wang Guoguang, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment Wang Chonggu, and the minister of the Ministry of Industry Guo Chaobin.

Zhu Yijun came to Wanping to see Daming's official wool factory, and to understand the specific output, he had to see it with his own eyes in order to confirm the existence of this official factory.

Zhu Yijun's car parked steadily in front of the official factory by the Yongding River. The official factory has a huge archway with the words Yongding Woolen Factory on it. .

Zhu Yijun appeared on the chariot, everyone saluted and shouted in unison: "See Your Majesty, Long live Your Majesty, Long live, Long live."

Zhu Yijun looked at the spotless cards and was a little disappointed. He thought that he had ventured out of the city this time, careerists, wouldn't they be excited?

Find a way to change to an obedient emperor, the ready-made Lu Wang Zhu Yixuan, is a good candidate.

But Wang Chonggu obviously didn't have this plan. Instead, he carefully prepared the inspection, and even cleaned the archway. He planned to show his credit.

"Excuse me." Zhu Yijun stood still, waved his hand, and signaled that it was just for me.

"Your Majesty, Yongding woolen factory only has an area of ​​more than 200 mu. Your Majesty, please come here." Wang Chonggu stepped forward and guided the little emperor to a list with the highest ranking among three people. It is the Daming official factory, divided into three parts by three roads, north, south and middle. The south is spinning and weaving, the north is washing and dyeing, and the middle is waterwheels, machine repairs and the general office."

Zhu Yijun stood on the bulletin board and looked at the clear map. This is only a preliminary construction. Depending on the amount of wool in the Northwest, gradually increase production, expand scale and production capacity.

Wang Chonggu shook his sleeves, bowed his head and said: "Washing, combing, spinning, weaving, trimming, dyeing and other workers, a total of 2600 weavers were recruited, including 900 male workers, more than 1700 female workers, and more than 4000 laborers. , and there are 300 soldiers in the Beijing camp who are responsible for the laws and regulations of the Employment Office, and the minister has "Yongding Official Factory Records" to submit."

Zhang Hong took the Zhishu and shook it vigorously. After he didn't find any entrainment, he presented it to His Majesty.

Zhang Hong made it clear that he didn't trust Wang Chonggu, otherwise Zhang Hong wouldn't do such a rude thing.

The official factory annals include several chapters such as construction, factory site, grassland, material quota, personnel, government offices, laws and regulations, Xingge, etc. Among them, there are more than six chapters in the category of laws and regulations, all of which are heavy in the production process. Require.

This legal provision is still expanding, and this book will continue to be supplemented with the expansion of the official factory, and it will be revised every year.

"Da Si Kou has put his heart into his work." Zhu Yijun read through it roughly, and saw a few examples, which showed Wang Chonggu's heart in every way.

Theoretically speaking, wool is only worth a few cents per catty, so it must be very cheap to weave into woolen cloth. However, in reality, due to the coarse and miscellaneous raw materials and poor quality, 400 people are hired to pick wool every day, and each person can produce wool every day. You can only pick two catties, and the cost of wool is already very expensive before it is woven into woolen cloth.

And Wang Chonggu found a kind of bentonite in the Northwest. Bentonite is a kind of white soil that can decontaminate. People in the Northwest often use it to rinse clothes. Adding this kind of soil, coupled with water power to drive the water mill, suddenly made the artificial from four to four. One hundred reduced by 50 people.

For example, out of a hundred catties of wool, only 10 catties can be weaved with high-quality wool, 20 catties can be knitted with inferior quality, 50 catties can be knitted with coarse felt, and 20 catties are completely useless. It was born, and it was called Dajiner.

It is to comb and clean the inferior, rough felt and useless wool to make the wool usable.In this way, from the original fourth-class material to the second-class material, it is divided into worsted and woolen, and the main products of worsted and woolen are long hair and short hair respectively.

These are all researched by Wang Chonggu and the Ministry of Industry bit by bit during the construction of the official factory. In this process of hard work, there are six processes, oblique nailing and combing, stripping, clamping, cleaning, dehairing, Closely combed, the useless wool can be turned into woolen after four passes.

Wang Chonggu really put his heart into it. It is not clear how much Wang Chonggu is loyal to the emperor and the country, but Wang Chonggu must be loyal to his heart. He wants to make money, and the emperor let him make money.

This is actually enough. Zhu Yijun didn't ask Wang Chonggu to be a moral saint. If he wanted to make money, then he had a consensus with the imperial court, so there was no need to send him to Jiejieyuan.

Each piece is 5 feet long and 5 feet wide. It can produce more than 600 pieces of woolen cloth and 12 pieces of worsted fabric every day, and can produce [-] pieces of woolen cloth and about [-] pieces of worsted fabric a year.

This output is not as good as England's annual output of more than 15 horses.

However, in the third year of Wanli, England is not yet the British Empire, so naturally it cannot be compared with Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun looked at the last profit meter and said: "Da Sikou, this worsted cloth sells for 35 taels of silver per piece, and seven cents per foot. This woolen cloth costs 15 taels of silver per piece, and three cents per foot." Coins and silver, one piece of worsted cloth and one piece of interest at 12 taels of silver, one piece of woolen cloth and one piece of interest at five taels of silver, isn’t that too much? The net profit is about [-]%, can this be sold? ?”

"The profit is not determined by the minister, but by the Minister of the Ministry of Households." Wang Chonggu does not bear this responsibility, this is the price finalized by the Ministry of Households.

Wang Guoguang's pricing has gone through in-depth consideration, and he even referred to the figure set by the profit of the wool business in England. He shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, it's not expensive anymore. It's only [-]% profit. If it's lower, what's the point of this business?" ?”

"At this price, he would be extremely happy to sell it to Antonio."

At this price, Antonio can make some money by going back to Taixi, although it is not as lucrative as silk.

"Then try it." Zhu Yijun walked into the official wool factory. Guo Chaobin, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, introduced the cumbersome wool production process in detail, how many people are needed for each process, and how much output is there. It is so rare.

Zhu Yijun inspected the entire official factory, asked about some specific details of the actual production process, and highly affirmed the work of Yongding Wool Official Factory, and each weaver was rewarded with two silver coins as a celebration of the court.

"Go to the canteen and have a look." Zhu Yijun stepped out of the gate of Yongding Wool Factory, and suddenly turned his head and said to Wang Chonggu.

At noon, when it was time for dinner, Zhu Yijun wanted to see how the food in this official factory was. This was an unplanned process.

Wang Chonggu led his Majesty to the dining hall, and said with a smile: "Our official factory manages two meals a day, morning and noon. We can only work when we are full, right?"

　According to Wang Chonggu's nomenclature, what should Zhang Juzheng's woolen cloak be called?Worsted woolen cloak of mink wool with lotus blue python pattern?Ask for a monthly ticket, woo! ! ! ! ! !

　　
　
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