Chapter 155 Yongding Woolen Factory

Luo Lian did not interact with her man shamelessly on the pier regardless of the occasion. Luo Lian already clearly understood some of the differences in each other's cultures, so When away from home, she chose to have more conservative contacts so as not to make her man lose face. Of course, behind closed doors, Deng Zilong couldn't help it.

Deng Zilong also wanted to attend the celebration banquet, which in Ming Dynasty terms was to reward the three armies. It was not until the moon rose above the willow branches that Luo Lian saw Deng Zilong coming back smelling of alcohol. Deng Zilong did not drink. Most of the alcohol was from sergeants, and only soldiers resting in Manila could drink to their heart's content. As a general, Deng Zilong needed to be ready to lead his troops to fight at any time.

"I just finished fighting." Deng Zilong tactfully expressed that he had just gone through a high-intensity battle and was not suitable for another high-intensity battle. Is it possible to reduce the intensity and intensity of the war?

"I can do it up there." Luo Lian said with a trace of confusion and pitifulness in her eyes: "No way."

"My dear, have I tired you already? You were not like this before. No matter how tired you were, when you got off the boat, you would pounce on me like a hungry tiger with red eyes, working all the time. Do you already...don't love me? "
 "Sure enough, only physical love is so cheap. To you, I have become nothing more than nothing. Is that so? That must be the case."

"I can think more pessimistically For the rest of my life, or are you going to sell me to someone else? This is extremely unfortunate news for me."

"I'm going to take a shower." Deng Zilong immediately raised his hands and surrendered.

This Luolian's mouth is too poisonous. He just wants to take a rest. When Luolian opened her mouth, it seemed as if the whole world was about to abandon her. He frowned and said: "Don't ruin my Ming Dynasty's idioms. , What a waste! This idiom usually describes articles or language, how can it be used in this kind of thing? ”

Luo Lian's eyes were as charming as silk, she stuck out her tongue and licked her lips gently, and whispered: "Why don't you stop taking a shower? I'm clean anyway, and I'm already ravenous. Did I use the right idiom this time?" 
Deng Zilong immediately ran away in panic. Luo Lian has been studying Chinese studies recently, and has made rapid progress and is now able to express her desires clearly and clearly in Chinese.

Luo Lian chuckled lightly, then raised her brows, and followed Deng Zilong. Deng Zilong still couldn't escape, because Luo Lian chased him to the bathroom and captured Deng Zilong directly in the bathroom.

“Sometimes I wonder who is whose prisoner.” After his passion calmed down, Deng Zilong drank a large bowl of sugar water. There were some wolfberries floating on the sugar water, which made Deng Zilong slightly She was a little confused. What kind of Central Plains culture had Luo Lian learned? How could she even understand this?

Luo Lian chuckled and said: "Is it important? Honey, replenish your strength, we will continue later."

"I think I need to rest." Deng Zilong said solemnly .

“It’s not going to work anymore?” Luo Li’an looked at Deng Zilong seemingly disappointed, and said slightly innocently: “It seems that it’s really not going to work.”

“Shut up!” Deng Zilong really succumbed to this woman. The person he captured was not a human at all, but a vixen. What kind of monster does this kind of vixen correspond to in Taixi?

"Did you win the battle?" Luo Lian leaned on the recliner, looked at the stars in the sky, and asked quite calmly. Deng Zilong was a man who kept his word and did not withdraw at the critical moment. Go, child, it will only be a matter of time. If the number of times is added, the child will be inevitable, if Luo Lian has no problem herself.

Luo Lian is not sure whether she has a problem or not. This requires many times of practice to verify.

It's not that Luo Lian, a vixen, doesn't like to be clingy, but in the scorching hot weather in Manila, when the battle is over, they just lie down on the mat, each of them is comfortable and tired of each other.

She would only ask to lie down for a while afterward when the weather was cool.

"Of course we won." Deng Zilong said matter-of-factly.

Luo Lian turned her head and looked at Deng Zilong and said: "Countless wars have taught us a very simple truth. When you think you are invincible, it is the most dangerous moment, just like before Commander-in-chief Gaudí and Francisco, just like the previous Ming Dynasty army, did not go well with the Cebu Islands, which led to a delay of a year."

"Dear, you promise me, never be arrogant, Never underestimate your opponent, okay? I don't want to be a widow. There are many disputes in front of widows, and I am a widow from a foreign barbarian, so I will be bullied even more."

"Okay. She agreed to Luo Lian's request with great conviction. Luo Lian just wanted Deng Zilong to survive on the battlefield.

Because of arrogance, the Red Mao Fan in Manila was defeated; because of arrogance, the Ming army’s advance in the war against the Cebu Islands was not as successful as expected. Fortunately, the opponent was weak enough in the far east. .

Luo Lian looked at the sky and said softly: "Those who are in awe are always invincible. How can there be a person in this world who wins every battle without being arrogant?"

Deng Zilong After thinking for a while, he said: "There really are, and there are two of them. One is named Qi Jiguang and the other is Yu Dayou. They are called Yu Long and Qi Hu. They are the two victorious generals of our Ming Dynasty. They are never arrogant."
 "There are actually two such people?" Luo Lian suddenly opened her eyes and said in surprise.

Deng Zilong said with a smile: "Qi Shuai was not always victorious from the beginning. When he first entered the war against the Japanese, he also lost three consecutive battles. You still have to run fast on the battlefield. After Qi Shuai survived, he formed the Nanfang Ke After that, they won every battle and never lost again, even in the north."

"Have they not become arrogant?" Luo Lian looked at Deng Zilong and asked.

Deng Zilong said with admiration: "No, so they have been winning, but our Ming Dynasty has a unique problem. Generals should not fight too many perfect victories. This problem is too complicated. I am very It’s hard to explain clearly.”

Luo Lian looked at Deng Zilong and said with some distrust: “Then can my man become such a cautious general? I know it is difficult, but my A man can’t say he can’t do it, can he?”

Maybe, the highest honor for a man is that you are great, and the greatest shame is that you are really incompetent. This is a great shame. Maybe, this theorem is universal in all aspects. It is applicable whether it is used on the battlefield or on the battlefield of bed.

“I’ll try my best.” Deng Zilong almost choked to death at Luo Lian’s words!

This woman is very good at playing with people's hearts, and she is very sharp-tongued.

Deng Zilong said with some curiosity: "I ask a question, not to offend. From your words, I found that it is not that you don't love your country. On the contrary, even as a prisoner, you I still love your country deeply, but it seems that you don’t care much about Fo Langji’s defeat.”

“Look, you don’t even hate me, the executioner.”

“ Thank you for your respect." Luo Lian said with a smile: "Actually, I care."

"But more importantly, the defeat in the far east can wake up the arrogant Felipe II, so that he can wake up and stop blindly looking into the distance. Spain is already an empire on which the sun never sets, and the empire itself The crisis is even more urgent."

Deng Zilong said even more curiously: "Can I ask about your specific origins? Your words and knowledge are not like those of a nun in a closed monastery. "

Luo Lian thought for a while and said with a smile: "I was born into a noble family, so I have no sympathy for these expeditionary colonists who are poor people or even desperadoes. My men are executioners, and they are just like them. Aren't they executioners? Their hands are stained with the blood of the Ming Dynasty, and then the Ming Dynasty kills them. Isn't it equivalent?"

"There are tens of thousands of Ming Dynasty people living and living in Luzon. He raised his butcher knife and pointed it at the civilians who had no weapons in their hands, but the Ming army was stronger and killed them."

"Although this idea is not in line with the identity of the nun, God loves the world and even puts his. The only begotten Son was given to them, so that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. But I am a noble, and everything becomes very reasonable."

Deng Zilong shook his head and said, "You are avoiding the important and taking the easy. You did not answer directly. My question. "

Luo Lian still didn't want to talk about the past, and said with a smile: "It's all in the past, isn't it? The past is the past, and the one in front of you now is just Luo Lian, a prisoner."

"Okay, if you don't want to say it, don't say it." Deng Zilong once again chose to respect it. She didn't want to say it, and Deng Zilong didn't force it.

Luo Lian looked at the bright sky and said: "What can I do even if I care? What can a weak slave who is completely dependent on you do? It's better to think about the good. ”

“Money is a devil that confuses people’s hearts.”

"A huge crisis is erupting in the Kingdom of Spain, and Felipe II is helpless to deal with this crisis. This crisis stems from the devil of gold and silver."

"More than twenty years ago, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V gave the Netherlands to his son, now King Felipe II of Spain, who, like his father, was warlike, tax-heavy and arrogant." 
“The Netherlands is the pearl in the crown of Spain. It is the most economically advanced and developed region. The two provinces of Holland and Zealand in the north operate handicraft workshops in the textile and shipbuilding industries, and Flanders and Cloth in the south. The two provinces of Laben operate handicraft workshops in the textile, metallurgy, sugar and printing industries. "

"The Spanish royal family can obtain more than 12,000 kilograms of gold from the Netherlands every year."

Deng Zilong counted on his fingers and found that it was about 200,000 taels of gold. One tael of gold could be exchanged for 10 taels of silver. In other words, the tax revenue of the Netherlands alone, or the Low Countries, amounted to more than 200 taels. Ten thousand taels of silver.

"Perhaps I can understand the Netherlands as the fourteenth mansion of Nanya, the richest city in the Ming Dynasty?" Deng Zilong tried to understand the Netherlands, which indeed corresponds to the Ming Dynasty.

Lolian shook her head and said: "It's not exactly the same. The situation in the Netherlands is even worse. The Nanya of the Ming Dynasty is the core territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Netherlands is not a territory obtained from conquests, but a territory obtained through marriage. So resistance was everywhere. "

"In order to rule, Felipe II established a large number of religious trials in the Netherlands and carried out brutal suppression. William, the silent family of Nassau, began to organize resistance. , the war was raging across Flanders, Brabant, the Netherlands, and Zeeland. This war had been going on for more than ten years. The damn British kept instigating and supporting the Nassau family from behind, causing the situation to further deteriorate. "

Every Spaniard hates the English, because these British guys are provoking troubles all day long, supporting the silent William and William's brother Louis, making the situation more complicated, As much as the Ming Dynasty people hated Japanese pirates, the Spaniards hated the British.

The Maritime Beggar Army, or the Calvinist Beggar Army, which opposes the cruel rule of religion, is constantly attacking and robbing on land and sea. Behind these people, there is also the support of the damn British.

"The Ming Dynasty's war against Japan?" Deng Zilong seems to have found another war that can be roughly understood.

Luo Lian continued: "For more than ten years of war, our army has been winning on the battlefield. In the Battle of Jemmingen nine years ago, 15,000 Spanish squares faced 12,000 Dutch troops. The Dutch army There were more than 7,000 casualties, but our large phalanx maintained their usual combat power, with more than 80 casualties."

"Captain Antonio brought news last year, saying that in the Battle of Morkhead, We defeated the Dutch again. Henry and Louis of the Nassau family just mentioned were all killed on the battlefield, and we only lost 150 people."

"But from the seven provinces of Neland. The resistance did not stop because of the death of the leader, but became more intense. Killing William and Louis did not break up the resistance in the seven provinces of Neerland at all. The war would only continue to spread, and finally drag Spain into the quagmire of war. Falling deeper and deeper."

"The Spanish Empire is now trapped in a war trap, which is carefully prepared by the British." "If the war is not as expected, investment will continue to increase. , making the resistance more intense, the scale of the war became larger and more intense, causing more serious damage to production, and taxes were reduced again. Even if the war was won, it would be even more unable to meet expectations, and eventually investment would continue to increase, so A vicious cycle."

"No matter how powerful the empire is, it will be brought down by endless wars."

"Especially when this kind of war occurs. Within the empire, war is war, and destruction is destruction. To counter the rebellion in Niland, it is better to launch a war against the British. If we can win, although it will not solve the problem, it will at least export bad breath. "

"I can understand." Deng Zilong nodded with emotion. The Ming Dynasty's war in the northwest fell into this quagmire because it could not completely win.

The late emperor made a decision that went against his ancestors and made peace with the Northern Lu. This kind of peace resulted in the Ming Dynasty canonizing Anda Khan as the King of Shunyi. In name, Anda Khan was the king of the Ming Dynasty. A minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Deng Zilong asked with some confusion: "You are a noble, and there seems to be a queen in your Franji. As a noble, why don't you explain it to the king?"

Luo Lian shook his head and said: "Even if it's like My man, who is so brave and good at fighting, cannot catch a running wild boar with his bare hands. Felipe II is the running wild boar. He is stubborn to the point of paranoia. This is his personal problem;" 
“And he doesn’t have many choices, and the general trend does not allow him to stop the war. Spain, which is now fragmented and divided, needs religion as the rope to string together the fragmented country. If it can get rid of With the shackles of religion, he may have more choices."

"For me, what is more important is a healthy child!" Luo Lian changed the subject, stood up, and whispered: "I. Sir, no matter how tired you are, I can still find a way for you to continue fighting."

Deng Zilong clenched his fists and said, "If we go to the battlefield tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't even be able to wear armor, so just take it easy. Click."

"War is like a man. After a fight, he needs to rest. War will not come again in a short time. We have a lot of time." Luo Lian shook her head. Hair, bend down.

In the early morning of the next day, the sun was shining brightly. Deng Zilong appeared in the Governor's Mansion with his legs looking a little sloppy. Yin Zhengmao sighed and said, "General Deng is a very solid military commander."

"I won!" Deng Zilong said very confidently after sitting down: "After fifteen days of continuous fierce fighting, triumph after victory, I came to the Governor's Mansion to participate in the discussions with the former army."

Deng Zilong won. Now, Luo Lian couldn't even get up. It was not a wise choice to challenge a general who was good at fighting.

"Tell me about this harvest. We have recovered a large number of notes and documents. The court seems to value these more, so let Luo Huxu make a copy and send it to Songjiang Mansion." Zhang Yuanxun said with a smile on his face. Gained.

Luo Fox is Luo Lian. This is Luo Lian's nickname. There are mistakes in the name, but the nickname is usually correct.

Antonio presented a lot of nautical charts and notes and documents. Whether they have been modified or not is not yet known. These notes and documents will be an excellent reference.

Yin Zhengmao said with certainty: "Your Majesty seems to pay more attention to notes and documents, and never asks us where we went every time we harvested gold and silver."

Zhang Yuanxun tried to look at it from another angle Explained: "The establishment of the Luzon City Shipping Department and the Du's Rate Office is a long-term income. This is our respectful heart. Your Majesty can understand that there is a difference between a one-time transaction and a long-term flow."

Yin Zhengmao sighed and said: "But Yuan Fu is always wary of us."

Nine charts, star charts, drawings of some astronomical instruments, a large number of navigation notes and old documents were placed on the hydrofoil sailboat On the way, he rode the wind and waves to the Penghu Inspection Department, and then went all the way north to the capital.

This sea route is already very familiar. Zhao Mengyou accepted the prisoner Zeng Guang and also accepted these old documents.

After Zhao Mengyou returned to Beijing, he followed His Majesty. The Ming Emperor rarely left the capital, not to Beitucheng, but to Wanping County of Shuntian Prefecture. Wanping County is located near Marco Polo Bridge, outside the city. Twenty-four miles outside Guangning Gate on the west side, it is very close, but this is the first time that His Majesty has been so far away from Beijing.

In addition to Tiqi, he was also accompanied by Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Tiaoyang, the second assistant, Wang Guangguang, the minister of the Ministry of household affairs, Wang Chonggu, the minister of the Ministry of punishment, and Guo Chaobin, the minister of the Ministry of industry.

Zhu Yijun went to Wanping to see the official wool factory of the Ming Dynasty. To understand the specific output, he had to see it with his own eyes to confirm the existence of this official factory.

Zhu Yijun's car stopped steadily in front of the official factory on the bank of the Yongding River. The official factory had a huge archway with the words Yongding Woolen Factory on it. Under the archway, in front of the gate were two teams of Jin Yiwei and sharp soldiers from the Beijing camp. .

Zhu Yijun appeared on the chariot, and everyone saluted and shouted in unison: "See your Majesty, long live your Majesty, long live, long live your Majesty."

Zhu Yijun looked at the spotless He was slightly disappointed with the card count. He thought that if he ventured out of the city this time, the careerists wouldn't get excited?

Looking for a way to replace an obedient emperor, the ready-made King of Lu, Zhu Yiliu, is a good candidate.

But Wang Chonggu obviously had no such intention. Instead, he carefully prepared for the inspection. Even the archway was cleaned. He planned to show his credit.

"No courtesy." Zhu Yijun stood still and waved his hand, indicating that no courtesy was required.

"Your Majesty, the Yongding Woolen Factory currently only has more than 1,200 acres. Your Majesty, please come here." Wang Chonggu took a step forward and guided the little emperor to a list of three people tall. , said with a smile: "This is the official factory of the Ming Dynasty. It is divided into three parts, north, south and middle, by three roads. The south is for spinning and weaving, the north is for scouring and dyeing, and the middle is for water trucks, machine repairs and the general office. . ”

Zhu Yijun stood on the public notice list and looked at the map that was clear at a glance. This is only preliminary construction. It depends on the amount of wool in the northwest, and it will gradually increase production, expand scale and production capacity.

Wang Chonggu shook his sleeves, bowed his head and said: "A total of 2,600 weavers were recruited for washing, carding, spinning, weaving, trimming, dyeing and other workers, including 900 male workers and more than 1,700 female workers. , there are more than 4,000 soldiers, and there are 300 soldiers from the Beijing Camp who are responsible for the labor and materials. I have the "Yongding Official Factory Chronicle" to submit."

Zhang Hong took the book and shook it vigorously. After shaking for a while and finding no entrainment, I presented it to His Majesty.

Zhang Hong made it clear that he did not trust Wang Chonggu, otherwise Zhang Hong would not do such a rude thing.

The official factory chronicle includes several chapters including construction, factory site, pasture, material amount, personnel, official offices, laws and regulations, reforms, etc. Among them, there are more than six chapters in the category of legal provisions, all of which It is a heavy requirement in the production process.

This legal provision is still being expanded, and this book will continue to be added as the official factory expands, and will be revised every year.

"Da Sikou worked hard." Zhu Yijun read through it and looked at several examples, which reflected Wang Chonggu's hard work.

Theoretically speaking, wool is only worth a few cents per kilogram, and it must be very cheap to weave it into cloth. But in fact, because the raw materials are rough and miscellaneous, the quality is so poor that 400 people are hired to pick the wool every day. , and each person can only pick two kilograms per day. The cost of wool is already very expensive before it is woven into cloth.

Wang Chonggu found a kind of bentonite in the northwest. Bentonite is a white soil that can remove dirt. People in the northwest often use it to rinse clothes. Adding this kind of soil, coupled with water power to push the water mill, All of a sudden, the labor force was reduced from 400 to 50 people.

For example, out of a hundred kilograms of wool, only 10 kilograms can be woven into high-quality wool, 20 kilograms into inferior wool, 50 kilograms into coarse felt, and the remaining 20 kilograms are completely useless. The cost is really high. Gao Gao, a craft came into being called Dajinger.

It is to comb and clean inferior, coarse felt and useless wool to make the wool usable. In this way, the original fourth-class material has become a second-class material, which is divided into worsted and woolen. The worsted and woolen materials are mainly long hair and short wool respectively.

These were studied bit by bit by Wang Chonggu and the Ministry of Industry during the construction of the official factory. In this intensive process, there are six processes, slanting combing, stripping, and clamping. , clean, open and densely comb the useless wool four times before it can be turned into slubbing.

Wang Chonggu was really attentive. It is not clear how loyal Wang Chonggu was to the emperor and the dynasty, but Wang Chonggu must be loyal to his heart. He wanted to make money, and the emperor asked him to make money.

In fact, this was enough. Zhu Yijun did not ask Wang Chonggu to be a moral saint. If he wanted to make money, then there was no need to send him to Jiecuiyuan if he had a consensus with the court.

Each piece is 5 feet long and 5 feet wide. It can produce more than 600 pieces of woolen cloth and 20 pieces of worsted cloth every day. It can produce 120,000 pieces of woolen cloth and about 5,000 pieces of worsted fabric a year. cloth.

This output is not as much as England's annual output of more than 150,000 horses.

But in the third year of Wanli, England was not yet the British Empire, so naturally it could not be compared with the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun looked at the final profit table and said: "Da Sikou, one piece of this worsted cloth sells for thirty-five taels of silver, one foot costs seven coins, and one piece of this woolen cloth costs ten Five taels of silver, one foot costs three taels of silver. One piece of worsted cloth costs 12 taels and 4 taels of silver. One piece of woolen cloth costs 5 taels and 1 taels of silver. Is it too much to make a pure profit? About 35%, can this be sold?"

"The profit is not determined by the minister, but by the minister of the Ministry of Revenue." Wang Chonggu does not bear this responsibility. This is the price determined by the Ministry of Revenue.

Wang Guoguang’s pricing was based on in-depth consideration, and he even set the figure with reference to the profits of England’s wool business. He shook his head and said: “Your Majesty, it’s not expensive, it’s only 35% profit, no matter how low it is, What is Zhang Luo doing with this deal?”

“At this price, he is very happy to sell it to Antonio.”

At this price, Antonio can still make a profit by bringing it back to Taixi. Not as profitable as silk.

"Then give it a try." Zhu Yijun walked into the official wool factory. Guo Chaobin, the minister of industry, introduced the tedious wool production process in detail. How many people are needed for each process and how much output is there? Guo Chaobin, who was born in the household department, has many treasures.

Zhu Yijun inspected the entire official factory, asked about some specific details of the actual production process, and highly affirmed the work of the Yongding Wool Official Factory. Each weaver was rewarded with two silver coins as a reward from the court.

"Go to the dining hall and have a look." Zhu Yijun stepped out of the gate of Yongding Wool Factory and suddenly turned to Wang Chonggu and said.

At noon, when it was time for dinner, Zhu Yijun wanted to see how the food in the official factory was. This was an unplanned event.

Wang Chonggu led His Majesty to the dining hall and said with a smile: "Our official factory is responsible for two meals a day, morning and noon. Only when you are full can you work, right?"

According to According to Wang Chonggu’s nomenclature, what should Zhang Juzheng’s woolen cloak be called? Mink wool worsted crane cloak with lotus green python pattern? Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! ! ! !

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