I'm really not doing business

Chapter 222 Resource Lock Technology Tree

Everyone in the empire thinks that they are so strong that they can tolerate small mistakes and problems.

Are the people of the Ming Empire clearly aware that the Ming Empire is about to fall?is unclear.

Even when Li Zicheng started the Northern Expedition in the 17th year of Chongzhen, he didn't know that he was going to destroy the Ming Dynasty. He even planned that if the war didn't go well and the court was willing to seal the king to Zhao'an, he could temporarily agree and make plans again.

For the civil unrest that spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, for the emperor and ministers in Gyeonggi, it was a counter-insurgency war that took place far away. Even if the Ming Dynasty was briefly defeated, it would definitely win back, because in the ninth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen had just Gao Yingxiang, the first generation of Chuang Wang, was beheaded in the capital for public display.

In the first month of the 17th year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng declared himself emperor in Xi'an, the people in Beijing were indifferent to the suppression of the rebellion in the northwest, and they were still complaining about the bad weather as always. Competing with each other is still full of enthusiasm.

Few people can feel the end is coming.

In the eyes of the emperor and the court ministers, what exactly is the coolie of the poor?They are not specific people, they are just cold statistics. Empathy with statistics is a very rare ability. When you don't come to your specific side, you won't have that urgent sense of crisis.

Even in the spring of the fifth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng had already established a set of political correctness in the court to save the head of Guizhou, but this was just a narrative style. Everyone continued to play power games under this established framework, such as woolen The official factory started work in the summer, and three people died of heat. The officials were taking the opportunity to overthrow the king, instead of thinking about improving the environment of the factory so that such tragedies would never happen again, let alone caring more about the lives of ordinary people.

So Zhu Yijun never thinks that the ancient tomb sects who hinder progress are stupid. In terms of performance, they are retro, pedantic, stubborn, and refuse to progress. But in fact, these people are all good at calculating and know how to protect their vested interests.

On the surface, the competition is about whether the official factories should collect profits, or whether they should support the New Deal, but in fact, the competition is about the official hat on the head, the patch on the chest, and the money in the pocket.

Counting on the carnivores to think about the majority of poor coolies is in itself vain.

And the reason why Zhu Yijun has been supporting Zhang Juzheng's New Deal all the time, and even intensified it, is because he really knows that Daming will perish, and he died in the Wanli period, so he will definitely do things more radically than Zhang Juzheng.

This is also the fundamental reason why Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng have different political opinions. Zhang Juzheng has been in the kingdom for only five years, and Daming has already had the intention of invigorating it. This can easily create an illusion that as long as the emperor or the chief minister of the country is willing Well, getting excited is a very common thing. If there is any danger, you only need to find another Zhang Juzheng.

But after Zheng He, there was no Zheng He, and after Zhang Juzheng, there was no Zhang Juzheng.

During the reign of Chongzhen, it was not that no one wanted to pick up Zhang Juzheng's New Deal again, such as examination into law, Qingzhang, return of land, Haicao, six books and one account, strengthening the army, giving military generals power, rectifying education and government, bypassing degrees, etc. Wait, but by that time, it's completely unavailable to pick up.

The social contradictions in Ming Dynasty have intensified to the point of being completely irreconcilable.

This is why Zhu Yijun made the courtiers feel sincere terror, not because the emperor was bloodthirsty and killed innocent people indiscriminately. In five years, the emperor even hit the court staff only once, and the biggest case only killed more than 700 people , this is nothing new in the long history of Ming Dynasty.

The reason why the courtiers were terrified was that the emperor had great love and ruthlessness.

This kind of great love is a great love for statistics, and this kind of ruthlessness is ruthless to specific people. His Majesty is full of love for those people who have never met before, but he has no mercy for specific people. .

Wu Qingbo Li Wei, the emperor's pro-grandfather, was almost shot to death by an arrow because he interceded with Zhang Siwei. Xu Congcheng, the son-in-law's uncle, was killed directly.

This is why Zhu Yijun compiled this worsted woolen wealth myth. As long as the poor coolies will not be impacted by this incident, then Zhu Yijun will not stop and will continue.

"Sir, they exchanged their silver for big cloth. When they have no money, will they bring their relatives and friends into the game? After all, this is a rare opportunity to make a fortune." Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng in front of him and asked. To Hao right their reaction.

Shiyao Haoyou will not immediately lead the poor coolies to make a fortune together, but when the money in his hands runs out, he will inevitably tell all his relatives and friends about this opportunity to make a fortune through his huge network of relationships, and everyone will participate in it together. In this gamble.

The current social environment of Ming Dynasty is different from that of later generations.

Later generations can owe huge debts by solving the bank, and spread the risk to the whole society by using the basic logic of being too big to fail and kleptocrats. Currency is used to fill this hole, and the evil result of excessive currency is inflation, and the whole society bears the price.

In the current Ming Dynasty, there is no such thing as a bank. The currency of the Ming Dynasty is not the banknote method, but the money method. Gold, silver and copper are precious metals in the Ming Dynasty. They have use value and exchange value. The scarcity of gold, silver and copper is As a result, those who borrowed money were all real money, and those who bore the price were only powerful and powerful.

"Yes." Zhang Juzheng let out a foul breath. This time, he asked for a meeting letter to persuade the little emperor to be merciful and forgiving. He is so powerful that he is also His Majesty's people. Why does His Majesty treat his own people like this?
Powerful and powerful people will continue to confuse more of their kind to participate in this inflated feast. Even if everyone knows that this is a bubble that will burst with a poke, they will continue to pull people in. Participate in this bubble, so as to maintain this bubble.

"When relatives and friends are all done, it's time for them to borrow money everywhere. This bubble must continue to blow up, otherwise when the bubble is burst, how many people will be destroyed? Do you think they will borrow money everywhere?" ?” Zhu Yijun continued to ask calmly.

"Yes." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head again and replied, no one can stop a stone rolling down the cliff, but it will roll faster and faster, because there are too many people behind him pushing him, even if he is heavily in debt, I will continue to push it down, because only in this way, the wealth of myself and my family will not be wiped out.

But Zhang Juzheng had to consider whether this stone rolled down from the cliff would kill Daming.

Zhang Juzheng himself shaped the political correctness of the powerful and powerful to save the head of Guizhou, which caused His Majesty to only see the negative effects of the powerful and powerful, but not the positive effects of the powerful and powerful.

Of course, in the current social environment where nothing can be combined and nothing can be combined, it is extremely ridiculous to talk about the positive role of Quanhao. Even the Songjiang Sun Keyi Sun family is somewhat submissive, because they earn too much, and they are constantly receiving money. Donate to promote the development of Daming Kaihai, but it's just a Sun family.

Zhang Juzheng wanted to speak for Ming Quanhao, but he couldn't find any good reasons. Even if these merchants can build even a woolen factory, Zhang Juzheng can also say that the powerful people played an active role in solving landless tenants. , but the woolen factory has reached this point in full swing, and the powerful still cannot make it.

Faced with cumbersome factories, the rich and powerful chose to fry worsted wool. This choice itself conflicted with the imperial court's resettlement of landless tenants and refugees.

At present, there are still no private merchants who can make woolen business, in fact, it is because of the cost.

The main profit of the official woolen factory is woolen wool, because most of the worsted woolen goods are sent to the palace, and the price of woolen woolen must be kept down. When Yongding woolen factory was still expanding, it was almost It is impossible to continue to squeeze the cost downward.

Zhang Juzheng didn't remonstrate any more, otherwise he would be as boring as a speech officer who babbled nonsense.

Those who are powerful and powerful are too lazy, Zhang Juzheng can only let go of the plot of helping others and respect the fate of others.

Yes, those who are powerful and right are lazy, not stupid, nor incompetent, just lazy. If you can make money lying down, you will never set up a workshop, because running a handicraft workshop is very hard, and you have to solve many problems, and you can earn money Small profits, how can you make more money by driving up woolen prices?

It is indeed easier to collect rent and harvest leeks while lying down than to run a factory.

Zhu Yijun saw that Zhang Juzheng chose to compromise, and continued: "Sir, in this trade, people's greed is clearly displayed, but at the same time they will gradually discover that their real gold and silver are exchanged for cloth and silk, and then in order to get them If we continue to play this game, we will definitely get rid of Yanxing Building and build a trading place by ourselves."

"This is what the court needs to pay attention to."

"The minister leads the order." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and took the order.

Zhu Yijun arranged a combination of punches to dig out the human-shaped silver mines that Daming was going to dominate, and squeeze out all the value of their silver.

"Your Majesty, the Queen of Shanzhou, Yaozhuo, is she still at His Majesty's side?" Zhang Juzheng asked about Wang Yaozhuo's arrangements after finishing talking about woolen foam.

When Zhang Juzheng saw Wang Yaozhuo last time, when he was doing the accounting, Wang Yaozhuo was holding the abacus, and he didn't know if this was His Majesty's wish.

"It's good that I'm still waiting by my side." Zhu Yijun didn't understand why Zhang Juzheng asked Wang Yaozhuo at first.

"Yesterday, Empress Dowager Rensheng and Empress Dowager Cisheng ordered the Ministry of Ceremony to choose a marriage, to choose a beautiful girl." Only then did Zhang Juzheng explain the second thing he had to meet with, the Empress Dowager ordered the Ministry of Ceremony to choose a marriage.

Your Majesty is already 15 years old, and His Majesty will get married in the sixth year of Wanli, so the first month of the fifth year of Wanli will start to draft girls into the palace.

Yes, in order to prevent the little emperor and the empress from being a superficial couple, and in order to allow the empress to be the mother of the world, they had to be selected in advance, and the grand wedding was held only after half a year of training in the palace.

This time it's just marriage.

A total of three people were selected.

If Wang Yaozhuo is still satisfied, then it is enough to choose two more.

"Is it too early?" Zhu Yijun blinked and said after hearing this, "Sir, what are you doing at my age?"

"When I was 15 years old, it should be the year when I won the exam. The order of my parents and the words of the matchmaker set the date of marriage." Zhang Juzheng recalled that he seemed to have won the exam. After that, he was very busy. Being a Jinshi, he has no time to think about marriage. These days, marriage is also decided by parents.

"How old were you married, sir?" Zhu Yijun asked curiously.

"In the 25th year of Jiajing, the minister was already twenty." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said.

He got married relatively late, and it should have been 25 years in Jiajing. The reason why he was so late was that the wedding was postponed for three years because of his grandfather's funeral, so he got married at the age of 20.

In the 26th year of Jiajing, he was named on the gold list, and before he had time to give his wife the good news, the news of his wife Gu's death spread to the capital.

Zhang Juzheng’s life has been magnificent and magnificent. It seems that his life is only government affairs, and he is a ruthless person, but Mr. Zhang is a living person with flesh and blood. Not long after, I wrote another song.

These are also two of the few poems in Zhang Juzheng's life that express his feelings. Most of the time, Zhang Juzheng is like a cold and ruthless political machine.

"I heard that this draft girl is going to be announced to the eight prefectures of the Northern Yamen, the three prefectures of the Southern Yamen, the two provinces of Henan and Shandong. If there is such a big fight, a secretary will be sent to select the candidate. Those who pass the test will bring their parents to Beijing to have a look. It's really disturbing the people, I thought it would be better to wait a little longer." Zhu Yijun wanted to procrastinate on the grounds of disturbing the people.

"Your Majesty was born at the age of 16. Emperor Yingzong ascended to the throne at the age of nine and got married in the first month of the seventh year of Zhengtong; Emperor Wuzong ascended to the throne at the age of 15 and got married in August of the following year; At the age of sixteen, the law established by the ancestors cannot be violated, and the ministers are naturally ignorant and do not believe in the theory of the choice of yin and yang, so your majesty will only act according to reason." Zhang Juzheng's words are very clear.

The reason why the emperor wants to marry so early is entirely for the sake of future generations.

Future generations are the most important thing. Song Renzong just wanted to implement the New Deal, but he had no heirs to succeed him, so he just couldn't implement the New Deal.

Therefore, the biggest reason for the emperor is to get married and have children.

Seeing Zhang Juzheng's expression, Zhu Yijun knew that this matter could not be contested. On this matter, Zhang Juzheng was very resolute, with only three words, he could not delay it.

In fact, Zhu Yijun also expected this result. From the time when the Empress Dowager Chen and the Empress Dowager Li issued an edict directly to the Ministry of Rites, they knew that this matter was the top priority of the imperial court.

Parents to enrich people.

Zhu Yijun agreed to the selection of girls for marriage, but also emphasized not to disturb the common people too much.

"To disturb the common people is just like in the orthodox years, the draft girls, one selection, the light one is a few hundred, the serious one is a few thousand, the widows are scared to marry, for fear of being selected into the palace and become a palace maid, just choose two, there is no need to go to war. "Zhu Yijun gave further clear instructions, whether it disturbs the people too much depends on the quantity.

In the 13th year of orthodoxy, Emperor Yingzong recruited 400 women to enter the palace directly. 400 people seem not many, but you must know that these have gone through many rounds of selection, and you know how much trouble has caused local and civil Come on, even widows are scared to marry.

The absolute number is only two, so the selection will not be so troublesome, and the main palace is already in front of the emperor, so it will not disturb the public.

"Yin Butang said that Lu Song also sent beauties to be selected." Zhang Ju said with a complicated expression. The Ministry of Rites is in charge of this matter. Yin Zhengmao specifically asked about Emperor Zhang Juzheng's wedding when he returned to Beijing last time. At that time, Yin Zhengmao said that he would send beauties Enter Beijing.

What if the emperor loves to learn foreign languages?

"Taixi people?" Zhu Yijun was taken aback and asked with a frown.

Zhang Juzheng nodded and said, "Taixi people."

"Send it, send it to the emperor's uncle." Zhu Yijun chose a compromise method. The emperor's concubine involves the replacement of the throne. When the replacement of the throne has not been fully determined, he will not accept foreign women. Palace, this is likely to cause all kinds of troubles, but Yin Zhengmao, as the surname of the country, cooperates with the imperial court's decrees, and it is not easy for the little emperor to directly refuse.

Give it to the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu to enjoy.

"I obey the order." Zhang Juzheng bowed his head to take the order, with a smile on his face. Yin Zhengmao had to express his obedience and friendship. After all, the country's surname is Zhengmao, and the little emperor also wanted to express that Jane is in the emperor's heart and the saint. Juan Zhenglong, these foreign girls can naturally come to Beijing, but after entering Beijing, they will all be given to the emperor's uncle, and everyone is happy.

The little emperor always has various ways to make everyone very decent.

Zhang Juzheng left to draft the Huang Bang for draft girls, while Zhu Yijun took out "The Metamorphosis" and continued to study Taixi's culture.

The Metamorphosis has fifteen volumes, 250 myths and stories from ancient Greece and Rome, and the book in Zhu Yijun’s hand has already undergone many times of processing. The book in Zhu Yijun’s hand has never been translated. The foreign language is already very good, there is no need to continue to get a Thai and Western concubine to learn foreign languages ​​​​together.

Pygmalion was a king of Cyprus and a sculptor. Out of his aversion to women's depravity and bohemianity, Pygmalion decided not to marry for life. He carved a woman out of ivory and prayed to the God of love to give life to the statue. Cupid satisfied Pygmalion, and finally lived happily together.

This story is a fairy tale. After the emperor Zhu Zaiyu knew about it, he must have something to say. It is not something that can never be forgotten without echoes. For example, the little emperor’s artistic cells have been cultivated for several years, but the emperor still has no research on music theory. interest.

In the [-]th century, the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw created a satirical play called "The Flower Girl" based on this fairy tale.

The story told by the flower girl is: the upper-class people, a professor with the honor of the duke, and a colonel made a bet, using the street flower girl Eliza as an experiment, and spent six months training the flower girl to become a born girl. The lady of the noble family.

The professor successfully shaped the flower girl into an eye-catching and shining woman, but the professor pursues celibacy and does not intend to marry the flower girl. The flower girl can neither become a noble duchess nor return to the vegetable market sell flowers.

Wang Yaozhuo seems to be very suitable for this story. She was born in poverty, precarious and deeply enmity. Because the emperor wanted to meet foreign officials, county magistrates, elders, and common people, she came to the capital from Shanzhou, Henan, and the Lu family in Shanzhou was confiscated by the emperor. , Wang Yaozhuo avenged his revenge, studied in the inner study, was liked by the queen mother, and studied music and arithmetic with Zheng Wangshizi.

If Zhu Yijun didn't like it, Wang Yaozhuo would not be able to become a queen, nor would she be able to return to the poor situation again. She seemed unable to settle herself down.

But Zhu Yijun knew that this was not the case. Wang Yaozhuo's arithmetic had entered the classroom, and he could participate in the bookkeeping in the inner study. Moreover, Wang Yaozhuo was always there in every bookkeeping. Even if the emperor didn't like her, she could still do it. A maidservant next to the Empress Dowager, who helps the Empress Dowager sort out the accounts in the palace. Even if no one dares to ask her to be a wife after leaving the palace, she can settle herself well.

Zhu Yijun couldn't help but think of Chen Xuexue, the Minister of Honghe Temple who has been attacked by civil officials recently. Such things as concubine and illegitimate children are nothing in Taixi. Spain likes to open up borders by marriage. Enough is enough, the marriage is for claiming.

Under the huge profits, some merchants began to tentatively build woolen factories again, because the sales of official factory annals in Huangzhuang increased again. big fat man.

Some merchants chose to merge some small handicraft factories around the Yongding woolen factory. These factories were mainly responsible for supplying goods to official factories, such as washing wool; some merchants aimed at the purchase, primary processing and transportation of wool; Looking at the collection and distribution of woolen wool, these are all profitable.

This time, the powerful and powerful are finally willing to choose to be down-to-earth and choose to take it step by step.

In fact, Zhu Yijun also hopes that the powerful people of Ming Dynasty can show their positive effects. The expansion of the official factory is subject to the influence of the wind and rigidity of the court, and the speed is not very fast. The powerful people are willing to enter the market and set up some handicraft workshops. Zhu Yijun Still would love to see it.

However, soon, Zhu Yijun discovered that a new problem appeared.

These merchants, who are ready to support the right, began to deduct the wages of the poor coolies for the sake of profit.

This is a kind of path dependence. The tenants who lost their land, the idlers in the city, and the military households who fled are almost equivalent to slaves these days. Not a few.

Therefore, for merchants, it is a very reasonable and natural thing to temporarily not pay wages due to debts.
If it was the past, the craftsmen would at most change their employers and continue working, but now it is different, the official factory is expanding and requires a lot of manpower.

This has resulted in the fact that no one can use the factories that have not paid wages for two months or three months, while the labor costs of official factories are actually further reduced, and the expansion speed is further accelerated.

The screening has begun, and the business field is always so ruthless. Any path dependence will become a fatal flaw in a new industry, and changes require expensive costs and costs.

Zhu Yijun not only paid attention to the many contradictions and conflicts in the woolen factory, but also looked at the Xishan Coal Bureau.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the Xishan Coal Bureau under the Ministry of Industry was officially established, which means that the preparatory work has ended, and today Zhu Yijun will go to the Xishan Coal Bureau in person, not only to express political support, but also to implement it looking for an answer.

Cutting down the mountain into a bare mountain without using coal, is it because of things like Feng Shui, or because of other reasons.

Guo Chaobin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, led His Majesty towards Mentougou, and Zhu Yijun finally saw the mining of the Ming Dynasty.

"This well is 45 feet long?" Zhu Yijun stood in front of a kiln well, looked at Guo Chaobin and asked in amazement.

Forty-five feet, one foot is about the height of a one-story building, which is about equal to the height of a fifty-story building in later generations. The kiln well is a very deep well.

"There is half a mouthful of porridge at home, and I can't reach Mentougou." Guo Chaobin said helplessly. The kiln people are poor coolies, relying on their strength to earn money. Wages, this is the living conditions of kiln dwellers.

"There is a censor in the court who said that since there is a lot of coal in Xishan, and most of the coal comes from Mentougou, then we should set up a sub-bureau at Lugou Bridge to collect taxes. Why do we need to build a coal bureau?" Zhu Yijun stood in the kiln. In front of the well door, inside the black hole, it is like a bloody mouth that chooses people to swallow, devouring the lives of countless people.

The statement made by the royal censor of the imperial court is actually a typical example that one thing more is worse than one thing less. Since the captains-in-law are opening coal in Xishan, let them open it. As long as the points are drawn, the court will get the tax. He had to make preparations in person, even the emperor's own uncle was involved.

When this bottomless hole appeared in front of Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun confirmed the importance of preparing to build the Xishan Coal Bureau.

Because the imperial court set up a sub-division bureau, the tax collected will definitely be apportioned to the kiln people more vigorously, and the kiln people are working hard to earn their living needs, and if they are deducted, the consequences can be imagined.

Zhu Yijun has always known clearly that mining coal mines in Daming is not as simple as England, where there is coal under three feet, but he never expected it to be so difficult.

Science is an ideal, and it pays attention to possibility; engineering is a reality, and it pays attention to feasibility.

The current mining of the Xishan Coal Bureau is entirely based on the excavation of huge manpower to supply the needs of the capital. As for the number of poor coolies who die every year, it is just a number.

Zhu Yijun looked at this kiln, and did not choose to go in. Everyone who followed him would not allow the little emperor to go down the well, because it was too dangerous, but Zhu Yijun was still wandering around the mines of the coal bureau, and Li He, the son-in-law captain, also Following on the left and right, the kiln well that the emperor looked at was the Pushuigou kiln.

This kiln well originally belonged to Li He. He took out three of the six kiln wells in his family and connected the imperial court's Xishan Coal Bureau official factory into one.

"Long-term pumping is required, long-term ventilation is required to prevent the accumulation of gas (gas), and horsepower is required to drag coal up from the mine. In short, power is needed." After watching Pushuigou Kiln, Zhu Yijun confirmed that the Xishan Coal Bureau is now urgent Something needed, a steam engine.

There are many casualties in opening kilns without steam engines, and only those who can’t survive will go to the kilns. The technology of steam engines requires massive resources to be piled up, burned, and wasted to produce them.

Without massive resources to invest, technology cannot progress.

Resource locked tech tree.

　Coal in England has been mined since the fifteenth century. The coal on their side is like this, 1 meter of soil...10 meters of soil, and all below 10 meters are coal. In Ming Dynasty, 1 meter of soil...10 meters of soil...ground water...stone ...69 meters of stone...151 meters of coal gangue...coal, which is extremely difficult to mine, but urgently needed.Ask for a monthly ticket, woo! ! ! ! ! !

　　
　
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