I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 419 New cotton cloth and dumping
The matter of compulsory education was finally finalized. Although there were many obstacles encountered along the way, the final result was good.

But it will take a lot of time to get the new school on the right track.

Whether it is the construction of a school or the training of teaching staff, it takes a lot of time.

In Li Tian's prediction, it will be considered fast to be able to get all of this done before the exam is completed in March next year.

In addition, the capital city has entered winter at this time, the ground is frozen and the water surface is frozen, so it is not suitable to start construction at all, and the start of school may be delayed a little bit.

But Li Tian is not in a hurry. As the old saying goes, it takes ten years to plant trees and a hundred years to educate people.

The great cause of education is not something that can be achieved in a short period of time.

The only thing worth considering for him now is how to earn it back quickly after spending tens of millions of money at once.

The industry that can make quick money in the early stage has basically been almost done by him.

In the future, if you want to make large sums of money, you can only focus on industries with more far-reaching influence and more difficult operations.

But where you can make money, it is as convenient and refreshing as stealing money.

But it is worth thinking about whose money to steal.

The countries around Ming Dynasty are all poor at this time. Whether it is Japan, the old neighbor Goryeo or Siam in the far south, if they start a war to grab a wave, it is estimated that they will not even be able to earn back their military expenses.

Therefore, there is no future in robbing, and the real master is good at using the rules of this era.

What this rule is, of course, is trade.

Dumping products with asymmetric trade, and then plundering cheap basic resources from the other country is the eternal theme of this era.

In the study, Li Tianyi looked at Tongchi Island where Tang Saier and the others were about to rush to, and then looked at Ryukyu and Japan not far away.

A bold idea came to mind spontaneously.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a pirate leader in the south accumulated huge wealth comparable to a small country just by collecting tolls.

Li Tian doesn't want to earn so much money in a short time, but he is still sure of getting 700 million taels a year.

In another time and space, Zheng Zhilong became the giant who dominates the East China Sea because he mastered the trade and navigation with Japan.

Being a pirate can make money like this, so wouldn't it be possible to make a lot of money as a serious businessman?

At this time, although Japan had experienced the Meiji Restoration, it was not very rich, but compared to Ming Dynasty, it was not particularly poor.

It still has a certain amount of spending power. If it works well, it’s not a problem to earn 80 taels in one trip.

It just so happened that some time ago, the Tiangong Institute had perfected the spinning jenny machine he made.

Even if driven by manpower, this brand new spinning machine can spin seven or eight spindles at a time, which is seven or eight times more efficient than the previous spinning machine.

And because the thread spun by the spinning jenny is finer and denser, the cotton cloth spun from this spindle is also stronger and more durable.

In the [-]th and [-]th centuries, when the textile industry reached its peak, the canvas imitated from cotton cloth could be regarded as the mainsail of a huge three-masted sail.

Even if the canvas that has been used for many years is cut by the poor, it can be made into wear-resistant and strong jeans for another ten years.

It can be seen that after the textile technology reaches a new height, the products that can be created are epoch-making.

After Li Tian received a reply from the Tiangong Institute, he ordered them to use this new type of spinning machine to weave a new type of fabric.

This new cotton fabric, no matter in texture or in the width of the fabric, is far behind the existing cotton fabric products.

In terms of strength, it is no worse than silk of the same quality.

This new type of fabric with both beauty and quality can be described as a great revolution in textiles.

Except for one of the new-style fabrics spun by the people of Tiangongyuan was sent to Li Tian for inspection, the rest were said to have been robbed by other people of Tiangongyuan on the same day, and there was not even a thread left.

Li Tian had long expected that this new type of fabric would become popular all over the country.

But at the same time he has a new worry.

China has been an agrarian society since ancient times, and men farm and women weave is a survival pattern that has been accumulated for thousands of years.

Once new-style textile machines and new-style fabrics appear in the Daming market on a large scale, it will inevitably have a great impact on the original production mode.

It is even very likely that the families of many ordinary people will fall into a predicament where they cannot survive.

But this new thing has already been born, so there is no reason to let it go silent.

So Li Tian set his sights on Japan, Ryukyu and other countries across the sea.

No matter how good the quality of cotton fabric is, it cannot compete with silk in terms of price.

However, it is still very suitable as a product for large-scale dumping.

The combined total population of Japan, Ryukyu, Korea, and Siam is nearly half of the total population of Ming Dynasty.

If you count the Wala and Tatars on the grassland, then the market will be huge.

Even if they can occupy three-fourths of their total population, the sales in that year are still a very impressive figure.

If while dumping these cotton cloths, they also purchase a large amount of the other party's basic materials, then the money they can make once and for all is estimated to be more than Ming's annual tax (tax is not equal to commercial tax).

Such a large amount of income is equivalent to finding a big treasure in a year.

Wouldn't it be a fool's behavior to leave so much money outside and not earn it.

The more Li Tian thought about it, the more excited he became, and he marked out a large area in the suburbs of Beijing overnight as the venue for the textile workshop.

An order was issued overnight to let Tiangongyuan produce this new type of textile machine on a large scale.

At the same time, he also ordered people to start buying cotton in large quantities on the exchange.

Under his order, countless people began to act.

The exchange made the biggest move. In less than two days, the price of cotton shot up like a rocket.

Among them, the most influential one is naturally the Wang family, which relies on grain and cotton textiles as its pillars.

When the Wang family raised grain prices earlier, they were attacked by Li Tian and suffered heavy losses.

At this time, the cotton textile industry, which was relied on for survival, was once again impacted by Li Tian's large-scale acquisitions. If they could not restore this situation, the Wang family might be removed from the aristocratic family business district in the capital next year.

In order to compete with Li Tian for cotton, the Wang family devoted almost all their resources to it.

A massive battle for cotton kicked off.

Whenever a boat of cotton arrives at the shore, no matter how much it is, it will be robbed almost instantly.

Someone seemed to smell the business opportunities hidden in this war, and immediately dispatched to collect cotton everywhere.

(End of this chapter)