In June, Tianjin Wei is full of grass and birds flying. Because it is located on the coast, Tianjin Wei has not been affected by the severe drought. The green potato stems and leaves in the fields are filled with the happy laughter of the victims who have survived the disaster. The season for potato harvest has arrived. With a shovel, you can shovel out a bunch of fist-sized gnaws. In a short while, the big bamboo basket can be filled.

For the victims who have been hungry for several months or even years, nothing can make them more excited than what they eat. At that time, I really didn’t eat anything in my hometown, and I could dig out all the grass roots to eat. These potatoes are not grass roots, and they taste better than white flour buns. How could the victims be unhappy?

Wuqing is the city closest to the capital of Tianjin Wei. It was originally a small county town with only 30,000 to 40,000 people. This time, more than 100,000 victims were moved to it. The small county town expanded several times in an instant, and the low walls were surrounded by simple wooden houses.

On that day, the entire Wuqing City was suddenly occupied by the Beijing camp. The streets of all sizes were lined with elite guards. Teams of Jinyiwei patroled back and forth in the streets and alleys. I was afraid that if a mouse accidentally rushed to the street, they would be killed by them.

The victims and the residents of the original county town knew that there was a great man coming to inspect. It is very likely that this situation would be the current emperor!

It turned out that the residents of the county town were just legendary characters, and they really had nothing to do with them. Those who were curious might go and see, while the others were doing whatever they should do, and they didn't react much.

The migrated victims are different. The emperor is their life-saving benefactor. If the emperor had not let them move out of the disaster area where there was no grass, many people might have starved to death! How is starving death a death method? I guess few people can imagine that kind of pain cannot be expressed in words. When you feel hungry, your stomach is almost digested by yourself, you will know what kind of feeling hunger is. Of course, it is just the beginning, and it is still far from starving to death.

The victims who experienced hunger were all grateful to the emperor. They spontaneously organized themselves, knelt on both sides of the official road, put the tablets of immortality to burn incense if they had the conditions, and put the potatoes they had just harvested out in baskets and put them beside them. Of course, they did not want to give them to the emperor for food, but wanted to tell the emperor that we had something to eat.

The person who came was naturally Emperor Chongzheng Zhu Cijing. He originally wanted to visit him in a private place, but the two empress dowagers heard that he was going out of Beijing and insisted on coming with him, saying that they would come for a trip. Zhu Cijing had no choice but to prepare a formation, bring 10,000 elite troops in the Beijing camp and 5,000 Jinyiwei, guarding the two empress dowagers along the way, and slowly came to Wuqing.

At this moment, our little emperor was riding on a white horse with a divine horse under the arms of the beautiful Qin Mingyue. He looked around curiously under the escort of the Five Thousand Jinyiwei Guards. He couldn't stay in the imperial sedan chair anymore. Although the two empress dowagers were so famous, they were actually young women under thirty years old. They were so nagging that they said they had no fun when they hugged him, and they said that they were too big to say that they were too big. Our little emperor said that his dragon ear was seriously injured, so he had to get rid of their arms and let Qin Mingyue carry him on a horse.

Zhu Cijiu came to Tianjin Wei this time mainly to see the situation of the weaving factory. The flying-screw loom machine was invented, so he naturally wanted to build a factory to weave cloth, otherwise how to create benefits. He asked Song Yingxing to make a thousand flying-screw loom machines first, and then asked Bi Maokang to find a place to build a factory, preparing to come out to see the effect of the entire weaving factory first.

Why do we need to build the factory in Wuqing? Because there is no such big place in the capital, and Tianjin Wei mainly garrisons. Only this Wuqing County has few garrisons and many empty spaces. You can just relocate it and build a piece of empty space to build a factory.

Now that the factory has been built and the loom has been installed, he is waiting for recruitment and opening. Zhu Cijing naturally wants to come over to see the situation. This is the first factory he has built. Just in time, the season for the potatoes to mature is also here, so he can also come over to see the situation of the victims.

Along the way, Zhu Cijing felt so beautiful when he saw the well-growing potato fields and the smiling victim. This was an unprecedented drought. He was able to get rid of it with one move. Even he admired himself a little. When the team arrived outside Wuqing City and saw the people who were thanking each other, Zhu Cijing was even happier. He couldn't help but laugh: "Hahahaha, okay, you did a good job and you all have rewards."

As soon as he said that, he regretted it. Speaking of this reward, the promotion is no longer possible. Their officials are old enough, especially Xu Guangqi, who is ranked first-rank, how can he be promoted? Since he cannot be promoted, he can only reward silver. The problem is that he has no money now! After the troubles over the past few months, the problem of the victims has been solved, but the national treasury has also been clean. He has to wait for the new taxes in August to be collected into the treasury. He has been a pauper in the past two months!

Of course, he still has silver notes. The silver notes of the Rixinglong Business Company were printed in 100 million taels. The deposited silver he had absorbed is only about 10 million taels, and the ninety million taels of silver notes were all kept in Cao Huachun. But the silver notes cannot be used randomly. He can only use one million taels at most. Otherwise, if others took the silver notes to withdraw cash, they would have to close the door in the future! Now the Rixinglong General Account in the capital has just opened, and the semicolons in various places are under construction one after another. It is time for silver to be needed. If it weren't for the silver from Chang Wei and the nine Shanxi merchants, he would not dare to use the one million taels of silver notes.

Of course, the emperor should not be too stingy in rewarding, but he can't give all the million taels of silver bills. He was weighing the trade-offs, but the weaving factory had arrived. Seeing the newly built factory, he couldn't help but suddenly enlightened and laughed: "This weaving factory will definitely make a lot of money in the future. Just give 10 million taels of your shares, each with 200,000 taels of dry shares, and dividends will be distributed at the end of the year."

Xu Guangqi and the other five naturally knew that this weaving factory would make money. Just kidding, the same cloth could be nearly one-third cheaper, but it would be strange if they didn't make money. They couldn't help but get excited when they heard that each person could get 200,000 taels of stocks. Although they were just doing stocks, they had more than 200,000 taels of dividends in a few years. As long as they kept following the emperor, they would not have to worry about food and drink in their lives, and even their descendants would be rich!

Although Qin Mingyue didn't know what this stock and dividend meant, she saw the excited look of Zhu Cijing's confidants next to her that this was a good thing. She couldn't help but lower her head and act coquettishly in Zhu Cijing's ear: "Your Majesty, what about me, where is my aunt and brother?"

Zhu Cijiong was in a good mood at this time and hesitated to her ear and said, "Give it a share of 10% for your Qin family, one million taels of taels. This is a good thing. Don't tell people everywhere, so as not to jealous."

Qin Mingyue naturally responded happily, and even kissed him on the face while others were not paying attention.

So, our little emperor Zhu Cijing walked into the weaving factory with a group of confidants in a daze, and walked around like a drunkard for a long time before he came to his senses.

The weaving factory built a field-shaped shape according to Zhu Cijing's meaning. The middle is a steam room and the surroundings are a weaving machine room. This not only facilitates the connection of steam pipelines and has a good lighting effect. The construction of the machining workshop of Wanggong Factory did not consider the lighting issue. At this moment, there are no electric lights, only oil lamps. The effect of the oil lamp can be imagined. The sky is a little dim and the processing workshop of Wanggong Factory must be full of oil lamps. Not to mention the increase in costs, the smell of oil smoke in the workshop can kill people!

The newly built weaving factory is different. The field-shaped structure and all the looms are placed in front of the windows. The lighting effect is good, so there is no need to light an oil lamp at all. Moreover, Zhu Cijiong is also preparing to install glass on this window. If he still uses paper paste, he still can't work on rainy days.

Zhu Cijiu didn't know how this glass was made, and he didn't plan to buy it with Europeans. Instead, he planned to exchange glass manufacturing technology with the Portuguese East India Company using agency rights in Europe, and then build a factory to produce it himself.

At that time, there was no concept of customs in the Ming Dynasty. All the money was earned by private individuals. At most, private individuals could organize some armed merchant ships to escort them. The navy did not have it at all. Therefore, the maritime merchants in the Ming Dynasty were getting richer and richer, and the court was indeed getting less and less money. Not to mention dominating the sea, they could not even build a decent fleet.

So Zhu Cijing is preparing to establish a customs and regulate foreign trade. Whether it is a merchant or a country, foreigners want to do business with the Ming Dynasty, or the people in the Ming Dynasty want to do overseas trade, they must be approved by the Ming government and pay tariffs. If you want the agency rights of the European region, you must send me the glass manufacturing technology, otherwise you will not want to buy something from the Ming Dynasty.

Don’t underestimate this overseas trade. At that time, the Ming Dynasty could be said to be the most advanced country in the world. Cloth, ceramics, and tea were all popular abroad, so overseas trade was already very profitable at that time. Those maritime merchants were doing business for hundreds of millions of taels. Legend has it that the most wealthy maritime merchant Zheng Zhilong’s assets were even over 100 million yuan, but over 100 million taels of silver!

These people can be said to be richer than the country. The Ming Dynasty was so poor that they were rich, but what happened? It wasn’t it that the Qing Dynasty was in vain. Once the Qing army killed them, they would lose their lives!

Therefore, only if the country is strong is really strong. No matter how rich a private person is, if the country is destroyed, it will be like killing an ant.
Chapter completed!