Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 283 Royal Capital and Zheng Capital

Zhu Youjian saw that Han Shoujing was at a loss recently, and he was quite at odds with Yang Mingshen, the right servant of the household department. He even took advantage of the opportunity to advance Yang Mingshen's slander in front of him when he was on duty. The Yang family and so on made Zhu Youjian feel bored.

Although Zhu Youjian does not believe that Yang Mingshen is as clean as water, he does not think that Yang Mingshen will screw up the Central Bank of Daming, because the bank can only be opened by the imperial court, and Yang Mingshen has shares in the only bank in Daming, the Central Bank, which is It is equivalent to his own bank, he can't do anything wrong, and with Dongchang and the Metropolitan Procuratorate watching over him all the time, he doesn't dare to do anything wrong.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian sensed something was wrong with Han Shoujing, so he questioned Han Shoujing, asking him why he was dissatisfied with Yang Mingshen, and Han Shoujing had to tell the truth, saying that Yang Mingshen directly instigated him to take advantage of his position as the vice president of the central bank. Younger brother Yang Mingguang borrowed 2000 million silver dollars to set up a textile company, and bought a large number of looms and hired mechanics, which made the Yang family occupy a greater advantage in the textile market.

And he, Han Shoujing, also had his own large silk reeling workshop, but he was gradually squeezed out of the textile market due to the large number of helpers in his workshop quitting jobs and the lack of new looms, so Han Shoujing gradually became dissatisfied with Yang Mingshen.

"By peers bullying each other, Yang Mingshen thought of taking this opportunity to expand the scale, but you didn't think of it?" Zhu Youjian asked with a smile.

"Slaves have to be on duty as supervisors of ceremonies, and are in charge of His Majesty's internal funds. They only think about making money like him. They are just like profiteers who take advantage of loopholes to make profits for their own family. Your Majesty, such a person cannot stay in the central bank," Han Shoujing said strongly suggested.

Zhu Youjian waved his hand: "Needless to say, he didn't embezzle public funds directly, so he can't be punished. I don't mean that whoever gets rich has to be punished. Since he took the lead, you can use formal means to punish him." Go and rob him, and get those looms and weavers back, but you are not allowed to use your power to oppress others, or even use me to slander your competitors in front of me, understand?"

Han Shoujing replied yes with some disappointment.

He is also helpless, he has been a big textile household in Nanjing City since he was the eunuch guarding Nanjing, but now he has to close the door, and he feels very distressed. Although he is not short of money now, his textile The workshop also supported a large group of people, and now I can only figure out how to arrange this group of people who are loyal to me.

"I understand the difficulty, but I can help you. This person is limited. You can't get all the people in the world to weave. Why don't you start from the loom? Tomorrow you will take me to your workshop Go, I will give you pointers," Zhu Youjian said, and sure enough, on the second day, Zhu Youjian really found time to direct Han Shoujing and Jin Yiwei's affairs, Wang Shide and others, to Han Shoujing's weaving workshop.

Zhu Youjian also brought the blueprint of the Jenny spinning machine, and said to Han Shoujing in detail: "This loom is similar to the loom used by Western fans, but there is one difference. The spindle of this loom is vertical. Yes, there is a spinning wheel here, which can be manually driven to drive the spindles to rotate. This can greatly improve the efficiency and the quality is better than the previous cotton yarn. You use this to produce cotton yarn, and then Using flying shuttle weaving, a large amount of cloth can be produced with a small number of mechanics."

"Your Majesty, can this really be so good?" Han Shoujing asked in disbelief.

"I'll know if you find someone to do it. Explain in advance that this is my patent. If you want to use this textile, I need to occupy [-]% of the shares of your textile workshop, which is regarded as a technology stake."

Zhu Youjian went back to the palace after saying that, and Han Shoujing could only agree, and dubiously ordered someone to manufacture this kind of spinning machine according to Zhu Youjian's blueprint. It was manufactured, and after Han Shoujing ordered people to try it, he found that the production efficiency was greatly improved, and it was directly increased to [-] spindles running at the same time.

All of a sudden, Han Shoujing's textile workshop also began to come back to life, and relied on the advantages of high quality and low price to defeat the Yang family's textile company, and even Han Shoujing founded Han's textile company by himself.

Zhu Youjian even allowed this spinning machine to be named after Han's spinning machine, and it was considered a reward for Han Shoujing's work in him for so long.

The Yang family's textile company was hit, but he didn't dare to take revenge on Han Shoujing, just like Han Shoujing didn't dare to take revenge on the Yang family.

Because of this, after the Daming version of the Jenny spinning machine appeared in the Ming Dynasty, it was not like in the history of England. In the early days of the emergence of new production tools, some people dared to smash this spinning machine because of the contradictions of commercial competition, and even prevented it from being produced. The appearance of this spinning machine.

Because Zhu Youjian mediated in the middle, the Yang family could only import this technology from Zhu Youjian, and even improved Yang's spinning machine with 24 spindles in order to defeat Han's Textile Company.

As a result, the two textile giants behind Han Shoujing and Yang Mingshen fought against each other, and began to rush to improve the spinning machine and swallow up the surrounding market.

And it is undoubtedly Zhu Youjian and the people who benefit the most. Zhu Youjian has shares in the Yang family and the Han family. Cheaper and cheaper cloth.

Zhu Youjian even directly asked Han Shoujing's nephew to be in charge of weaving in Jiangning, and Yang Mingshen's younger brother to be in charge of weaving in Suzhou.

It is equivalent to making these two companies become imperial merchants, and it also lays the foundation for them to enter overseas markets in the future and compete with the Zheng Group.

That is to say, so far, the enterprises and institutions controlled or participated in by Zhu Youjian's royal capital include Daming Central Bank, Daming Ordnance Institute, Daming Academy of Engineering, Daming Academy of Sciences, Jiangning Weaving Bureau, Suzhou Weaving Bureau, Daming Shipping Bureau, Huai'an Speech Bureau, etc. Wu Tang, etc., but the only ones that are really profitable are the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty and the two weaving bureaus.

Maybe there will be more profitable companies that Royal Capital will control or participate in in the future, but at present these three will be the main force against the Zheng Group.

After Zhu Youjian granted the Zheng Group the tax-free privilege, it gave the Zheng Group the opportunity to become the largest private capital.

Zheng Zhilong not only crazily included tea farmers and silk farmers in his own business, but also crazily contacted wealthy businessmen in Ningbo, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Yangzhou, etc., and persuaded these private merchants to cooperate with Zheng at a fee lower than the imperial court's tariff. Under Zheng's banner, he went to sea for trade.

Just as a large number of ordinary people will contribute land to the name of the scholar after being elected, in order to avoid tariffs, a large number of private merchants began to invest their own properties under the Zheng family, seeking to obtain maritime trade benefits at a lower cost.

Therefore, the Zheng Group has evolved from a simple pirate group to a large-scale business empire covering all walks of life, and even directly established the Zheng Company. The group has been reborn, and basically abandoned the initial business of looting and collecting protection fees, and evolved to mainly collect Zheng's tax.

Because you have to pay a certain fee if you want to join the Zheng's firm and go to sea under the Zheng's firm, it is called Zheng's tax to distinguish the court's tariff.

(End of this chapter)