Chapter 181 Empress Dowager Li returned to power, and the Qianqing Palace was on fire
Wang Chonggu looked at Zhang Siwei and said: "If a wealthy family like ours comes in from outside, even His Majesty will kill them. Haven't you noticed? Even for the Gu and Xu families who had their homes confiscated, as well as the Lin and Wu families now, His Majesty's killing was just to kill the head of the family and a bunch of servants and family members. The remaining people were exiled to the border. In a few years, when the wind blows over, They all have to come back.”
“Even during the Jingnan period, those ministers of the Jianwen Dynasty were executed in public, and their families were pardoned during the Renzong Dynasty, and their family members were reduced to official slaves. , were all released as people, and their fields were returned."
"This is the reason why the centipede insects are dead but not stiff. Isn't it true that even Fang Xiaoru, who was rumored to have been executed by the Ten Clan, is still prosperous? ”
During the Wanli period, there were constant efforts to exaggerate Fang Xiaoru’s injustice. Then the imperial court checked the list of exiles that year. Fang Xiaoru’s family was exiled to Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, and Guangdong. There were more than 1,300 descendants. people.
If Fang Xiaoru really killed ten tribesmen, where did so many tribesmen come from?
During the Jiajing period, Yu Bin from Songjiang claimed to be a descendant of Fang Xiaoru and complained about injustice. Some scholar-bureaucrats compiled the "Records of Guizong" for Yu Bin to stir up public opinion. Later, the Ninghai Fang family became Fang Xiaoru's Ninghai Fang family name. The incident was settled after he sued the government and found out that Yu Bin was a fake.
The theory that Fang Xiaoru was executed by the Ten Clan was simply an unjust, false and wrong case deliberately created by some literati and officials in Nanya in order to prove their position.
Wang Chonggu said quite sincerely: "Why do people from a rich family die? You commit suicide and destroy your ears. You commit your own sins and cannot survive. You have made yourself angry with both humans and gods, and made the world angry and resentful. If you don't die, who will die?"
“That’s not the case.” Zhang Siwei said immediately: “In the eighth year of Jiajing, the Qing Dynasty clarified the land occupied by Xunqi Quanjian in the capital, and the one million acres of land owned by the Empress Dowager Zhang’s father and brother were taken away! This is not life. Seize it?”
Wang Chonggu stretched out a finger and said loudly: "One million acres of land! One million acres of land! One million acres of land!"
"Why did Xiaozong's Empress Zhang and her brother occupy one million acres of land?" Xu Jie is greedy enough. He only owns 420,000 acres! The Zhang family owns more than one million acres!"
"Just because his daughter married the emperor! That year, a total of 300,000 hectares were found in the eight prefectures of Gyeonggi Province, and his family only occupied 10,000 hectares! , the Zhang family found out 10,000 hectares of land!”
“The Holy Mother’s family only has 4,000 acres of land today! Who in the court wants to deal with Wu Qingbo Li Wei for 4,000 taels of silver? , the Empress Dowager insisted on giving it, and the imperial court also tried to find a way to use the Ministry of Industry's accounts and the Ministry of Accounts to pay. After Emperor Sejong came to Beijing, Empress Dowager Zhang's father and brother actually wanted to be as rampant as they were during the Hongzhi and Zhengde years. "
< br>"Is it the unkindness of the imperial court or the unrighteousness of the powerful men?"
If you know a little about the evil deeds of Xiaozong's Queen Zhang's father and brother, and then compare it with the family members of the Queen Mother Li today, you will find the difference. Wu Qingbo Li Wei They had been quarreling for more than half a year over four thousand taels of silver.
Zhang's father and brother directly occupied one million acres of land.
Zhang Siwei and Wang Chonggu have stopped talking to each other.
"Uncle, forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. How is uncle's official woolen factory doing?" Zhang Siwei no longer talked about the affairs between the DPRK and China. It was normal to have differences, and quarrels continued around the differences. They would only lose their close friendship, so Zhang Siwei planned to talk about something in common and make money.
Wang Chonggu asked in confusion: "Why are you asking about this?"
"Let's make this money together." Zhang Siwei said with a smile: "Can you please get a copy of the Yongding Woolen Official Factory Chronicle, so that I can set up a woolen factory myself."
"Yes." Wang Chonggu agreed readily. If Zhang Siwei was only interested in money, Wang Chonggu would still recognize him as his nephew. After all, he was his nephew. But Zhang Siwei was not interested in money all day long and did those things that killed the nine tribes. Wang Chonggu couldn't recognize him. .
Wang Chonggu specifically asked His Majesty whether the official history of the Yongding Woolen Factory can be published externally. His Majesty’s answer was very clear: yes, it is originally a trick of sheep eating horses and sheep eating people. There are only so many water plants and there are so many sheep. There are fewer horses.
Whether it is an Anda Khan or a Tuman Khan, they have lost the most terrifying mobility on the battlefield.
Wool business, the bigger the scale, the better. The bigger the scale, the weaker the grassland. Zhu Yijun does not have military talent, but he still has economic talent. He should engage in economic warfare to weaken the enemy's strength and allow Qi Shuai's attack. Cutting is easier.
Wang Chonggu asked someone to bring a palace-engraved version of the Official Factory Chronicle, which was a fine product produced by the Sanjing Factory. The content included all the supplements of the Official Factory. The Official Factory Chronicle can be purchased directly at Huangzhuang. The price is relatively expensive, 3,000 taels per set.
"It's so troublesome." Zhang Siwei browsed through it for a few times and felt a little dizzy. He didn't expect that just washing wool could be so complicated.
Wang Chonggu sneered and said: "It's too troublesome to make money."
Zhang Siwei took the book and left with satisfaction, and Wang Qian walked out from behind the screen again and whispered: " Father, does he really want to make money?"
"He can't make this kind of money." Wang Chonggu shook his head and said, "This business seems to be full of flowers. The stronger the wind, the more expensive the fish. The thicker it is, the harder it is. In fact, it’s a fire cooking oil, Zhang Siwei can’t understand it.”
"Son, you must remember, why does a person like Zhang Siwei think about problems like this? It's not so much bad as incompetent. Am I not bad? But I can do things. If Zhang Siwei can figure out the woolen business, , can be regarded as a capable person. A capable person needs to talk a lot and talk a lot?” Just like Yuan Fu, it was very difficult to become a master, but didn’t he still succeed?”
“If a person who is not ambitious and perseverant can achieve something, then the sun will rise in the west.”
< br>"Your father and I are different. Your father and I are not ambitious but determined people. I don't have any ambitions in the world. I just want to make money and I can do something, such as making money."
Wang Qian shook his head and said : "But His Majesty and Yuan Fu said that Dad was able to do things well, and the herdsmen of Antu in the northwest were meritorious. A few years ago, His Majesty was still in the imperial court meeting in Huangji Hall, and issued an imperial edict. In front of everyone, he was appointed as the Crown Prince's Young Protector. Ah."
Wang Chonggu thought for a while and said: "This is when Zhang Siwei walked into a dead end. He only saw the words "weipu" and "weipu", not "qingshang". The wool business has really been giving 10% of the profit to our Lao Wang family. It is not obvious now. It is tens of thousands of taels of silver one year, and hundreds of thousands next year. In a few years, if His Majesty is willing to give it, we cannot ask for it openly. "
"What my father said is true." Wang Qian classified himself. In fact, he did not have ambitions for the world, but he had perseverance and was determined to bribe the people around Zhang Siwei. When you want to do something bad to kill the Nine Clan, start taking action.
Like father, like son.
Both father and son are arrogant and resolute people. They don't care about the world at all, they just want to make money.
Wang Chonggu shook his head again and said to Wang Qian: "Why do I say Zhang Siwei is stupid and incompetent?"
"Look at the compilation of the Ming Dynasty Conference this time, he didn't try every means to become the vice president Dangdang, and let Ma Ziqiang snatch it away. Do you think he is not stupid or incompetent? With such a great contribution, it is just like when he was responsible for It is the same as the "Yongle Dadian" recorded in the branch. "
Compiling the "Da Ming Huidian" is definitely a great achievement. Zhang Siwei is indeed not Zhang Juzheng's party member, but Zhang Siwei can't get involved with the president or vice president. Being an editor is also a qualification.
But Zhang Siwei didn’t even get to be an editor.
The young emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yijun, was supervising the work. He was installing lightning rods in the imperial city. This thing is not new. As early as the Han Dynasty, fishtail-shaped copper tiles would be installed on the top of the palace.
The five spines and six beasts of the Ming Dynasty Palace all have a metal tongue that stretches out to the sky, and the base of the tongue is connected to an iron wire that extends underground for lightning protection.
However, this iron wire will not be painted, so there will be occasional electric shocks and fires, and the tongue is too small, which can easily cause scattering. The new lightning rod is a three-foot-long iron rod, with Cotton cloth soaked in wax and painted copper wire are used as leads and introduced to the ground.
Zhu Yijun also did a very interesting experiment. The method of creating a lightning strike magnet is to take advantage of the high terrain of the Ming Dynasty Palace, which is easy to trigger lightning, and wind enameled wire multiple times on an iron block to generate a magnetic field, and then make a magnet. .
In order to make the resistance as small as possible, Zhu Yijun chose to conduct a set of control experiments, one using silver wire, one using gold wire, and one using copper wire, to try to make it.
The imperial palace is Zhu Yijun’s testing ground.
Zhu Yijun's main purpose was to attract thunder. As for building magnets, that was just incidental. He was motivated to conduct magnetization experiments, mainly to select quartz ore.
The glass fired in the Ming Dynasty sometimes has a strong green color, changing from glass to green colored glaze. This is because there are iron companions in it. The craftsmen responsible for burning the glass in the Ming Dynasty have discovered that green is related to iron, and supplied it to the palace. Colorless glass has been selected using magnets, but the magnetism is not strong enough and it is easy to demagnetize.
The process of glass firing in the Ming Dynasty is crushing-impurity removal-grading-scrubbing-magnetic separation. However, some weakly magnetic iron cannot be removed, so strong magnets must be used.
For the green tint of glass, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty chose a simple and crude method. The optical instrument glass used in the palace was all made of natural crystals that were directly crushed and magnetically selected before being fired.
His Majesty and Qin Tianjian used those pieces of glass to directly bake them with crystals. These days, natural crystals are precious stones. In order for the emperor to see clearly, they directly used crystals. This is what an emperor did in Wanli In theory, everyone in the world is serving Zhu Yijun.
Of course that is just a theory, just like the theory that the emperor is the supreme ruler of the known world.
Zhu Yijun did not prohibit this behavior, but equally, he also wanted to use lightning to magnetize for further magnetic selection.
The demand for magnets was imminent, and the great inventor Zhu Yijun began to steal the power of Thunder God to make magnets in April of the fourth year of Wanli.
Making magnets requires high-voltage DC voltage, coils with extremely small resistance, cast iron alloy blocks, and copper-iron alloys.
Zhu Yijun has none of these, and the resistance is extremely small. Zhu Yijun directly used gold and silver wires. If the copper wires are enough, the gold and silver wires as thick as a finger should also be taken back. , that’s all money.
As for things like resistance, current, and voltage, Zhu Yijun didn't even consider them. He was going to use the power of Thunder God to create strong magnets, so he still had to calculate these?
April in the Ming Dynasty has entered early summer, and thunderstorms are increasing. If the experiment is successful, the magnet production base of the Ming Dynasty will be selected in Leizhou, Guangdong, where there are many thunderstorms. The reason why Leizhou is called Leizhou is because of the many thunderstorms.
Zhu Yijun supervised the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty climbing up and down, installing all the lightning rods, and building the lightning tower. Everything was ready, except for the thunderstorm.
These lightning rods extending to the Heavenly Palace are not exquisite. Zhang Hong felt that they were losing the majesty of the royal family and wanted to decorate them. However, Zhu Yijun rejected Zhang Hong's proposal with Shang Jianjian. What should be decorated and what should he spend the money on? That's fine.
When the little emperor returned to the Qianqing Palace with a group of little tails, he saw some palace people busy frequently, moving piles of things out of the palace. Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment, and then hurried Walked in front of Queen Mother Li and Queen Mother Chen.
“I’ve seen my mother and mother, what are we going to do?” Zhu Yijun asked doubtfully.
Empress Dowager Li smiled and said: "Move the palace."
"Some time ago, the courtiers began to report, saying that the emperor is wise and wise, and it is not suitable for me to continue to live in Qiang. The memorials have been read in the Qing Palace. They think I am happy to read them! Since they have mentioned it, they will continue to talk about it. Now that Cining Palace is ready, I will move there. I'm eating alone."
"I can't live with the emperor day and night in the future. The emperor must be cautious in doing things. Zhang Hong is not bad, he can be regarded as a close person, but the Qianqing Palace is a bit deserted. There are only six or seven people waiting on you back and forth."
"Sir, he was personally entrusted by the late emperor, and he received instructions day and night. Finally, because of the kindness of the late emperor, the emperor must obey the instructions well. We, the Ming Dynasty, are really tormented. It’s amazing.”
Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen are extremely relaxed.
In their opinion, the country is stable and improving. The emperor is wise and powerful, and he is a man of great determination. There are Zhang Juzheng and Lu Tiaoyang in the cabinet, and the court officials are generally ready for use. Zhang Han left the court and was replaced by Ma Ziqiang. Wan Shihe became the Minister of Rites, and most of the court discussions were discussed. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty also had exclusive power to govern. The courtiers were trained by the emperor so that they could not hold their heads up. The Ming Dynasty army also continued to win battles, and the national funds began to be enriched. Nowadays, there are far fewer memorials asking the emperor to practice frugality.
It's time. The emperor is growing up. If he stays in Qianqing Palace, he will probably call her, Queen Mother Li, a demon queen.
Empress Dowager Li is really not greedy for power. As soon as the courtiers said it, Empress Dowager Li immediately took action. After four months of cleaning up the Cining Palace, it was finally cleaned up. Even King Lu Zhu Yili will come. He lived in Cining Palace until he was thirteen or fourteen years old.
When Zhang Juzheng invited Empress Dowager Li to Qianqing Palace, the main purpose was to watch the little emperor's studies.
"Didn't you say that you will move out after the wedding?" Of course Zhu Yijun saw those memorials. Zhang Juzheng posted a blank floating note, and Zhu Yijun directly drew an ×.
But after Empress Dowager Li saw it, she planned to return to power. Compared with the empress dowagers and emperors in history who caused mother and son to turn against each other because of their power, Empress Dowager Li gave up directly, which is very rare. For example, Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty did not start taking office until the death of Empress Dowager Liu E and Liu at the age of 24. Only after taking office did Song Renzong know that the biological mother he had called for more than 20 years was not his biological mother at all, but was Concubine Li Chen.
Song Renzong was so distraught that he even sent troops to surround the home of Empress Dowager Liu's family. In the end, he had no choice but to give up.
On the other hand, Empress Dowager Li left a message lightly, saying that she must listen to her husband carefully and prepare to leave the core of power.
Empress Dowager Li is really tired of government affairs. If you don’t understand, you must understand. The little emperor talks about the principles of governing the country all day long. Some Empress Dowager Li can understand, and some she really can’t understand. The little emperor is sensible and direct. Just leave it to the little emperor.
"Mother, if you stay here any longer, I'm afraid all kinds of nonsense will be spread everywhere. First He Xinyin, then Zeng Guang, and then Yu Maoxue. Mother returned to Cining Palace. Go and enjoy your happiness." Empress Dowager Li waved her hand, looked around, and whispered: "Son, my mother has left you a maid, Wang Yaozhuo, who is beautiful and has a good figure, and the key is. The most important thing when serving you is to have an innocent background."
"What about the old relatives of Prince Yu's Mansion?"
"It's better to have an innocent background! Ah, he doesn’t even have any relatives of his own, and he is completely devoted to the emperor.”
Empress Dowager Li fell in love with Wang Yaozhuo for three reasons: he was good-looking, good at raising children, had a clean life experience, and was alone, so he was the most suitable companion. Driving around, others being reasonable and smart are bonus points.
As for her humble status and her humble background, Empress Dowager Li herself was of humble origin. She fled to the capital when she was destitute. When she was destitute, Empress Dowager Li’s biological father, Li Wei, directly sent Empress Dowager Li to Prince Yu’s Mansion as a maid. , It is said to be a gift, but in fact it is a sale.
Zhu Yijun said without much restraint: "The child will go over to see my mother."
"Yeah, mother is gone." Empress Dowager Li saw that the emperor understood her. Mother's meaning is very clear. Having more children means you will be blessed.
Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen waved their hands and got into the sedan chair, heading towards Cining Palace.
On the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, you must go to pay your respects. The rest of the time is not that far away if you want to see it.
Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Yaozhuo, looked it over, showed a gentle smile and said: "In the future, you will live in Qianqing Palace, study in the inner study, and learn music theory from the emperor's uncle."
"My servant obeys the order." Wang Yaozhuo saluted and accepted the order. She had no dissatisfaction with Queen Mother Li's arrangements, and Wang Yaozhuo had no objection.
From the day Empress Dowager Li called her to her, Wang Yaozhuo knew her fate. She was not dissatisfied or even grateful.
His Majesty the Emperor asked Tiqi to track down the Lu family in Shaanzhou and avenge her father. She had already made plans to tie a ring with grass in her mouth to taste the divine grace.
As for the emperor in front of him, Wang Yaozhuo was not dissatisfied. Even if he put aside his status as emperor, the little emperor himself was a very reliable person. How could a born noble be beaten by his sparring partner every day? Of course, this noble man mostly beats others.
It’s just that Wang Yaozhuo always felt that the emperor in front of him was bad, and he could tell an idea just by turning his eyes. He was afraid that he would inevitably be bullied in the future.
"Are we going to start the marriage relationship today?" Wang Yaozhuo asked slightly confused. The marriage relationship is a major event in life.
Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Yaozhuo and said with a smile: "You? Little bean sprout, let's grow and develop. I am a martial artist! You can't withstand the attack yet."
Ten The three-year-old little emperor's body is still growing, and Zhu Yijun's recent martial arts progress has been rapid. Of course, he will be a little impulsive in adolescence, but he is not restrained, mainly for the sake of development.
Although Wang Yaozhuo has a good foundation, he still needs to grow and develop, just like a bean sprout. Zhu Yijun is not a priest in Taixi, so this is good.
Zhu Yijun waited until mid-April before the storm came.
On April 13th, at noon, cumulonimbus clouds covered the sky. At noon, it became as dark as night. From time to time, lightning and thunder continued to shine and spread in the clouds. , there were roaring sounds, strong winds were blowing, dark clouds pressed the entire sky extremely low, and heavy rain could come at any time.
Zhu Yijun has repeatedly ordered all palace officials to stay away from the thunder tower on rainy days. Anyone who disobeys the edict and is struck by lightning will consider himself unlucky.
The thunder pagoda is more than thirty feet tall, almost as tall as the glazed pagoda of Dabaoen Temple, stretching straight into the sky.
Zhu Yijun stood at the window, letting the strong wind carry the cool air and blow the curtains.
“Close the window?” Zhang Hong asked His Majesty’s opinion in a low voice.
Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "No need."
As soon as he finished speaking, before his words could even be finished, a bolt of lightning tore half of the sky apart, quickly streaking across the sky like a spider web. The fork illuminates the entire sky, and the sound of lightning piercing the sky is like the sound of tearing silk.
Even the carbonized black wound on the roof of Jianji Hall was looming in the thunder light. It was the wound struck by lightning in the fourth year of Longqing. In that year, the courtiers rushed to remonstrate and persuade Emperor Longqing. Repair province.
Lightning moved along the sky toward the thunder tower. The lightning struck the top of the tower and flowed down the river to the ground.
There was no crackling with sparks as Zhu Yijun imagined, it just hit the top of the tower, and then the roar of thunder came.
The thunder tower is working normally.
The heavy rain poured down violently. This heavy rain lasted for only half an hour, then gradually became lighter, and then began to clear up. When the sky cleared completely, Zhu Yijun took Zhang Hong and others to go Check to see if your magnet is finished.
"Your Majesty, it seems to be done, but it seems not to be done." On a sunny afternoon, Zhang Hong opened the wooden box, bypassed the wrapped copper wire, and took out a piece of iron. After sucking it in, Zhang Hong picked at it and then picked it off.
Then I turned on the gold thread and the silver thread, and the results were similar.
This piece of iron is magnetic, but it is just a magnet.
After tedious tests, Zhu Yijun announced that although the magnetization was successful, the scientific research and exploration failed and the strong magnet was not obtained.
Practice has proven that lightning can indeed be magnetized, but the strength of the permanent magnet is still related to the material.
Failure is the mother of success. Zhu Yijun did not intend to succeed at once. He actually wanted to prove one thing, that is, thunder and lightning are not the wrath of heaven and man. What he wants to break is the theory that heaven and man are induced.
From the guest star in the sixth year of Longqing to the recent Sichuan bolide, one red and one green, Zhu Yijun has been a little irritated by this set. The reason why he built this lightning tower to attract thunder is the magnet. The magnetization is just incidental, just a small experiment. The most important thing is to break this set of heaven-human induction gameplay.
What they don’t understand is the infinite principle of all things that Ming Dynasty has not yet understood, rather than the so-called wrath of heaven and man.
The purpose of this lightning tower is to succeed in attracting thunder. Thunder, meteors, solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and guest stars are all natural phenomena, and they are not meant to be used as a warning to the gods.
The emperor also has shackles on his body, and this thunder tower is his sharp blade that breaks the shackles.
Zhu Yijun announced his research and findings.
While Zhu Yijun was busy tossing the thunder tower, Zhang Siwei was busy tossing the woolen factory, and he failed.
His failure had nothing to do with Wang Qian. This time Wang Qian did not stop Zhang Siwei or bribe anyone, but Zhang Siwei himself failed.
Yongding Woolen Official Factory Records are sold in Huangzhuang. Zhang Siwei did not explore it alone, but many merchants came over after smelling the smell. Then, on the banks of the Yongding River, within a few days, ten Several workshops sprang up in response.
The demand is indeed there. The Ming Dynasty woolen official factory mainly supplies military supplies, leaving only some scraps for the people. Private merchants are hard to find. The imperial court directly discloses the craftsmanship to the public. Logically speaking, Just get on the horse and go.
It can be achieved by copying the gourd, but soon the merchants discovered that the woolen business was not that easy to do. In the end, only one woolen factory was left, called Yongshenghao, which directly It was announced as a success, but the owner was extremely mysterious and did not leave much news.
Wang Chonggu knew that the only successful owner on the Yongding River was named Li, Li of Wu Qingbo Li Wei, but in fact the real owner was the emperor. It was simply an imperial village, this Yongsheng Woolen Factory, It was basically a gift from the emperor to Empress Dowager Li. Empress Dowager Li returned to power so easily, beyond Wang Chonggu's expectation.
It was clear that His Majesty had rejected the proposal to move the palace, but the Queen Mother left on her own, which made the courtiers who were ready to take sides particularly disappointed.
How could you return to power so lightly?
Let’s fight! It would be fun to fight like Empress Dowager Zhang and Emperor Sejong did.
This woolen factory is not big, only one-tenth of the scale of the official factory. It can make at most two to thirty thousand taels of silver a year, but this money is obviously for Empress Dowager Li's own disposal.
How did Wang Chonggu know such a secret? Because His Majesty told him directly that he was also running the Yongshenghao woolen factory.
Wang Chonggu felt that the emperor's business was not a loss, or even a big profit. Even if he packaged the entire woolen factory to Queen Mother Li, this would not necessarily be a loss for the little emperor.
The turmoil caused by the tearing of top-level power is extremely dangerous, but a violent turmoil that should have affected the entire Ming Dynasty calmed down without even a flame being ignited.
It is reasonable that Zhang Siwei’s business failed.
The official factory must be close to the water source. The land by the water is a lot of money, and the construction is a lot of money. In addition to the construction, there are hired labor, which is another big money. This is the screening Someone who lost part of it.
If it’s just about money, we also need to open up the supply of raw materials, such as wool washed with fermented gold liquid, white clay, the palace’s secret recipe of plant ash crystals, etc. These things are not so easy to open up. , even though the imperial court has stated that they will treat everyone equally, the supply of white soil and the expansion of official factories are not enough. Where can it be purchased?
Without the support of imperial policies, Wang Chonggu would have great abilities, and the official factory would not be able to achieve such a scale.
Even if the supply of raw materials is opened up, there is still a huge problem, that is, labor, whether it is laborers or weavers, when the imperial official factory is expanding, it must pay higher than the official factory. Hire labor, which is another huge investment.
Wang Chonggu took the opportunity to expand the scale of a wave of official factories and put all these failed businesses under his own name. It was not a robbery, but an extremely reasonable price. What about business competition? Can you say that Wang Chonggu added insult to injury?
What surprised Wang Chonggu was that a large number of small handicraft workshops were born around the Yongding official factory. These handicraft workshops were not engaged in woolen cloth, but in supply. The people of the Ming Dynasty were very hard-working. If the official factory accumulates wool, it can be handed over to them for cleaning, and the woolen wool from the official factory can also be given to them to make ready-made clothes. Labor can be hired for the construction of the official factory.
Everything is full of vitality.
Wang Chonggu returned home at night. He was humming a Shanxi tune. He was in a great mood. The expansion rate of the woolen factory was far beyond expectations. He planned to discuss it with His Majesty at the end of this year. Next, he changed the 10% dividend to a fixed dividend of one hundred thousand taels. No matter how much money he got, he was afraid that it would kill him. Too much money would be too hot.
He took a shower and went to the study to prepare for tomorrow's court meeting.
When Wang Qian rushed into the study, he tripped over the threshold and fell heavily to the ground. Even so, Wang Qian didn't care whether he was injured or not. His face was full of shock, and his whole body was trembling with fear. He said: "Dad! There is news from the palace that there is a fire in Qianqing Palace!"
"Look, you are getting younger. Last time there was news from the palace that His Majesty Long Yu was a guest! Yang Dazai was so frightened that he fainted. His Majesty showed up at the Wenhua Palace the next day. Feng Daban in the palace kept spreading false news. This is the fourth year. Isn't Wang Chonggu tired of this trick? I don’t believe this kind of news, I’ve already been fooled.
Wang Qian did not stand up or lie down, but curled up and said tremblingly: "It's true, the direction of the palace, the fire is soaring into the sky!"
Wang Chonggu rushed out of the study and looked in the direction of the palace. His whole body began to tremble, and then he became furious. He immediately said to his son: "Go and inquire about the news quickly to see if your Majesty is okay!"
Li The Queen Mother's return to power is also an understatement in history, but if you look at the party struggles in the Zhengde period and the early Jiajing period, and the monogamous Empress Dowager Zhang, you will know that the top power of the Ming Dynasty was indeed torn apart. In fact, it will cause extremely serious party disputes and negative consequences. Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! ! !
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