Wei and Jin Cooks

The first year of Yuanzhen was a festive year. After the busy spring and summer harvest, there were many happy events in Luoyang city. Single young and middle-aged people in the court got married one after another, ending the days of paying single tax to the court.

 At the same time, it was also a year of rapid recovery of national strength. In later generations, it was listed as the most critical year in the ten years of take-off.

This year, the weather has been generally good in the north and south. Although there have been minor droughts and floods in some areas, due to the construction of water conservancy projects in the past two years and the hard work of farmers, the drought and flood conditions have quickly eased.

 After April, the wheat in the Jiangnan and Central Plains areas gradually turns yellow, and the heavy ears of wheat make people excited.

 The summer harvest and sowing lasted for one and a half months, and by the beginning of June, the farming season across the country was basically over.

 But most farmers cannot be idle, because the soybeans and rice they plant still require weeding, catching insects, and fertilizing. But after all, they have a lot of idle time, which can squeeze out a lot of labor.

At this time, county governments and schools across the country jointly went to the countryside to promote new textile machines and looms. At the same time, each state and county opened a new department—the Weaving Bureau.

  Craftsmen sent from Luoyang went to various places to serve as weavers in weaving bureaus or as technical guides. In addition to promoting new textile machines, they also opened large weaving workshops, built large-scale textile machines and looms, and weaved fabrics for the imperial court.

In addition to managing the world's textile industry, the Weaving Bureau's responsibilities are also to balance the prices of raw materials such as cotton, linen, and raw silk, to balance the proportion of cultivated land and mulberry, linen, and cotton cultivation, and to ensure the interests of mulberry farmers, hemp farmers, and cotton farmers.

Taking advantage of the slack agricultural season, when there was a large amount of labor, the nationwide vigorous "Warm Clothes" campaign was launched. Zhao Hanzhang said at the meeting: "My request is very simple. Within five years, under my rule, no one will be without clothes." , people who died of cold."

 It sounds simple, but everyone knows how difficult it is.

If you don’t suffer from cold, you will definitely not suffer from hunger. If you don’t suffer from hunger and cold, even the governance of Wen and Jing will be difficult to achieve.

But all the officials responded loudly and acted with high morale.

The ancestors could not do it, but their kings may not be able to do it.

 Prior to this, who would have thought that the efficiency of spinning machines and looms could be increased ten to fifteen times?

The large-scale textile machines are even more efficient. Although there is currently only one weaving workshop in one state, the output calculated by Fu Shangshu lets them know that it will not be a luxury to keep everyone warm in five years.

 Furthermore, this does not include private production.

You must know that their country has a small-scale peasant economy, and more fabric resources are actually owned by the private sector.

 Led by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works, and assisted by local yamen, the Weaving Bureau produced a large number of textile machines and looms for sale and lease.

 It’s true that in addition to purchasing, ordinary people can also rent a spinning machine or loom back home.

 Because of the high efficiency of textile machines and looms, many families will jointly purchase them, or even use the village as the purchasing unit.

 The village sets aside a piece of land to build a textile house, and puts the purchased looms and spinning machines in the textile house. Villagers in need can apply and queue up to use it.

  There are also those based on clans.

Among the Zhao clan in Xiping, Zhao Ming wrote back and ordered people to build a textile room on the east and west sides of the village, with five spinning machines and looms in each, for the use of the poor families in the clan.

Those who have money at home will not go to these two textile rooms with others, they will just buy them with a wave of their hands.

When Zhao Hu found out about this, he immediately asked the steward to go to the Weaving Bureau in the capital to order one hundred spinning machines and one hundred looms.

 The Weaving Bureau did not appear without any preparation. Their product was developed in the twelfth month, tested and confirmed in the first month, and production started in February.

At the end of February, the Mohists suddenly appeared in the capital and entered the palace under the protection of Yuan Li. In March, a large number of Mohist disciples came to surrender. In that month, craftsmen from the Gewu Division began to take orders to various states and counties to take charge of the production of textile machines. .

 As of June now, a large number of spinning machines and looms have been accumulated in three months.

Jingcheng Weaving Bureau has accumulated the most, but they also receive the most orders. In addition to orders from Sizhou, there are also a large number of orders from Yuzhou and Shu.

As soon as he received Zhao Hu’s order, Zhang Zhizao from the Beijing Weaving Bureau had a headache. He hesitated and rejected Zhao Hu.

If Zhao Hu is really given a hundred units each, one-third of the current inventory in the warehouse will be cleared. Your Majesty has said that textile machines and looms must come to the people first, and then to the merchants.

After Zhang Zhizao rejected Zhao Hu's offer, he immediately went to Fu Tinghan of the Gewu Department and reported the matter when he walked out of the laboratory in a sweat.

Fu Tinghan thought for a while and said: "There is a new rule. Within two years, a unit cannot purchase more than twenty textile machines from the Weaving Bureau at one time, and the application time must be more than six months apart."

 Zhang Zhizao was dumbfounded. He didn't expect there to be such a rule.

Such non-legal regulations could be stipulated directly by Fu Tinghan as the minister, without having to go through Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province. Zhang Zhizao immediately responded, posted the regulations, and telegraphed it to all the weaving bureaus across the country, and held meetings at the same time. this rule.

Zhao Hu, who had already asked people to build a cloth village, was very angry when he found out, "Is this rule specifically targeted at me? Who made this rule blindly?"

 Wu Yin: "This is Mr. Fu Langjun."

Zhao Hu remained silent.

Wu Yin said anxiously: "Master Sir, are we still going to buy it? Or should we ask someone to form another trading house to queue up to buy it?"

Zhao Hu said angrily: "Everything you do now requires household registration and road guidance, and commercial banks also need to have business records. Due to the cancellation of the death contract, the government offices have been enlarged, and the sources of funds and employees of each commercial bank have changed." I remember it clearly, do you think you can hide it?"

What's more, the person who serves as the county magistrate in Luoyang is his own grandson. He can't cheat anyone but his own grandson.

If he plays this kind of trick in the capital weaving bureau, he can ask the censor to stab him in front of the imperial court. What will happen to him may not happen, but Zhao Zheng will definitely be accused of favoritism.

 Although Zhao Zheng may not know it at all.

In addition to him, Zhao Cheng will also be accused of lax governance.

Zhao Hu clearly distinguishes between the career of his children and grandchildren and his own financial career, and he is not short of money.

 So although he was angry, Zhao Hu still waved his hand and said: "Follow the regulations."

 Wu Yin took the order and left.

 But Zhao Hu was still unhappy because he had a great opportunity to make money but could not make it.

After enduring it for a day, he still couldn't bear it and went to the palace to find Zhao Hanzhang for dinner the next day. Of course, he was not empty-handed. He brought generous gifts.

Zhao Hanzhang's status was different, and Zhao Hu became more generous.

As soon as Fu Tinghan returned to the palace, he heard that Zhao Hu had come and wanted to have dinner with them. Only then did he remember the new rules and said to Zhao Hanzhang, "He must have come through the back door."

Zhao Hanzhang smiled and said: "Seventh uncle is confused. He wants to make money but he doesn't even make it."

Fu Tinghan was confused, so Zhao Hanzhang took him to have dinner with Zhao Hu. After hearing what Zhao Hu said, he said: "Seventh Uncle, what others have is not as good as what I have. The current output of the Weaving Bureau cannot keep up. Why don't you make it yourself?" Where are the spinning machines and looms?”

Zhao Hu: "Your Majesty is joking. The new spinning machines and new looms are new products from the Gewu Department. I don't have the drawings..."

Zhao Hu paused after saying this and looked at Zhao Hanzhang. Seeing a faint smile on her face, her eyes widened.