Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 178 Change
Immediately after the decision on the number of new cabinet scholars, Zhu Youxiao directly promoted Lu Xiangsheng to be Minister of the Ministry of War, while Yang Sichang was replaced as the left servant of the Ministry of War, and still managed the daily affairs of the Ministry of War for Lu Xiangsheng.

For Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting and Wang Zaijin, they still hold the titles of Minister of the Ministry of War and Minister of the Left and Right, but they are not in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of War, but still manage the trilateral military affairs for Zhu Youxiao.

However, Gong Yonggu, the son-in-law captain, officially conferred the official position of Zuo Shilang of the household department, and mainly managed the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Bank. Of course, the Royal Bank was still directly in charge of Hu Shouchun.

However, this can be regarded as the first of its kind for Zhu Youxiao to let Xun Qi serve as an official in the court.

The reason for doing so is naturally related to the fact that the profits brought by the Royal Industries Company are enough to cover half of the national treasury revenue.

However, Zhu Youxiao handed over this new and fat and oily business to his relatives to lead, but it can be regarded as a win over these relatives, so that he will not be isolated when he wages a full-scale war against the civil servants and gentry groups in the future.

After Mao Yuanyi returned to Gui'an, he immediately started manufacturing Gui'an looms, and immediately established the Royal Weaving Bureau, and spent a lot of money to buy raw materials such as silk floss before their prices rose.

None of the merchants in the south of the Yangtze River cared about the impact of the new Royal Weaving Bureau on their business. After all, the Royal Weaving Bureau seemed to be very small at this time. As far as they are weaving workshops, such a small workshop is impossible.

Because their large workshops can set the price of silk fabrics very low but can make a lot of profits, but can small workshops do it? If the price is low, the profits will naturally be low, and I am afraid it will not last for a few days. close down.

However, after weaving the first batch of silk fabrics, the Royal Weaving Bureau not only did not increase the price of silk fabrics because of the word "royal", but directly lowered the price by half of the market price.

Some businessmen wrote an article in the "Daming Daily" to ridicule that the Royal Weaving Bureau was making money at a loss, and deliberately cheated the court's money to enrich their own pockets.

But it is also because the Royal Weaving Bureau has lowered the price of silk fabrics that many people come to the Royal Weaving Bureau to buy. As a result, the sales of the private owners of those large workshops have dropped a lot, and they have to follow suit. Therefore, profit margins are reduced.

Many merchants began to be dissatisfied, and they all complained about the Royal Weaving Bureau, and they all said that if it wanted to lose money, it would have to cut prices so that everyone in the weaving business would suffer losses.

Even, because of this incident, the inspector censor of Zhejiang Province also used the content of the "Daming Daily" to directly hear rumors and impeach the Royal Weaving Bureau for disrupting the order of the weaving industry, causing the common people to be hurt.

Zhu Youxiao in the capital did not take any action after receiving it. He naturally knew that once the Royal Weaving Bureau opened up the situation in the Jiangnan silk industry, it would inevitably encounter opposition from traditional businessmen.

But what Zhu Youxiao has to do now is to let the company that established a state monopoly control Daming's finances, so he must favor his own Royal Weaving Bureau.

The inspector censor was finally dismissed, and the Royal Weaving Bureau did not have the result that other businessmen expected to lose money within a few months.

Since the Royal Weaving Bureau used steam power as the main driving force for the work of silk fabrics, the reform of silk fabrics has begun. The cost has been greatly reduced, and the profit has been greatly increased. Because of this, more common people can afford fabrics.

This is the benefit of a country with developed productivity, but in this way, it also brings more surplus labor.

As a result, many traditional weaving workshops went bankrupt, a large number of weavers faced unemployment, and many workers who could have survived without land faced a survival crisis.

Unknowingly, the crisis in the entire Ming Dynasty is not only the problem of farmers having no land to plant, but also the problem of a large number of citizens having no work to do.

Of course, the advantages brought by the current Royal Weaving Bureau, like the Royal Glass Factory, generally outweigh the disadvantages. After all, the income of millions of taels of silver per month is finally enough for the once poor Emperor Zhu Youxiao. Do a few things that cost money.

Zhu Youxiao also realized that with the development of productivity, labor costs would decrease and it would be more difficult for a large number of landless civilians to survive.

Therefore, after establishing the Glass and Silver Mirror Factory of the Royal Industries Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau, he reorganized the Repair Department of the Ministry of Industry and established the Royal Engineering Bureau.

The Royal Engineering Bureau is directly in charge of Huo Weihua, Minister of the Ministry of Industry who has just returned to Beijing. Huo Weihua has been in charge of water conservancy dredging projects in various places from the seventh year of the apocalypse to the eighth year of the apocalypse. Therefore, he has rich experience in organizing migrant workers and planning infrastructure. experience of.

After Zhu Youxiao explained to Huo Weihua what the Royal Engineering Bureau was and how it was different from the previous Department of Construction, Huo Weihua also understood the meaning.

According to Zhu Youxiao's intention, it is to let the Royal Engineering Bureau be responsible for the infrastructure construction of the entire country, that is, to continue to expand the infrastructure reconstruction work for the entire Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, this is to spend all the extra money earned. Naturally, the best way is to distribute them to the working people through infrastructure construction. On the other hand, it is natural to solve the survival problem of more and more landless farmers.

Under the leadership of the state, the wealth hoarded by the great gentry in the private sector began to circulate, and it really enabled Ming Dynasty to truly gain the benefits of economic development.

Moreover, these benefits are not only reflected in the military and technological aspects, and it is not only that the apparent income of officials has been improved, but also in terms of people's livelihood, the common people have actually experienced many benefits.

Just taking the capital city as an example, Shuntian Prefecture has built public toilets made of glazed tiles and ink bricks at intervals on each of the main roads of the capital, which look no different from ordinary residential buildings, and the soldiers and horses of the five cities also specially organized The unemployed people were responsible for cleaning the streets and these public toilets which are now called "Bianfang Fu" by the people of Ming Dynasty, which greatly improved the sanitation of the entire capital.

Of course, the improvement of the sanitation situation in the capital is not only due to the improvement of these infrastructures and public services, but also the increase of punishment for spitting and defecating everywhere with the people of Bingmasi.

At the same time, the drainage system of the entire capital was also overhauled, which further improved the street environment of the entire capital. Even on rainy days, there was no longer any stagnant water in the entire capital affecting people's travel.

These naturally began to be promoted in other cities, first of all in several big cities in Gyeonggi, such as Tongzhou, Baoding and other places.

Even, as far as Jinan, urban system transformation has begun.

And all of this naturally laid a good foundation for the subsequent fight against the plague that swept across North China.

At the same time, due to the emergence of the public service system, jobs have been increased, and the survival problems of many people have been solved. However, because of this, more and more people have moved to the capital and other metropolises.

According to the report of Shuntian Mansion, in the summer quarter of the eighth year of Tianqi alone, the entire capital has increased by more than [-] people, and many of them are different from previous years. Just here for a job.

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