When Liu Bingzhong returned to Suzhou, Zhu Youjian had been touring Suzhou for three days. During these three days, Zhu Youjian did not visit the mountains and rivers, but made a field trip to Suzhou's textile industry.
Now in Suzhou, almost "every family has a spinning machine." A large number of women spin at home, spinning spindles or weaving, or selling them, which can supplement their families.
Zhu Youjian found that although the textile industry in Suzhou is blooming everywhere, it is extremely inefficient. It is completely manual labor and there are no real textile enterprises. Most textile factories purchase cotton and send it to nearby ordinary people’s homes to spin it on their behalf. The most primitive processing conditions are far from the textile revolution in Zhu Youjian's mind.
Daming has a vast territory, and the development level of various regions is seriously unbalanced. The industrial revolution can never be carried out at the same time throughout the country, and it can only be a key breakthrough.
At present, the textile industry in the Taihu Lake Basin has a huge scale and a large number of employees, but its efficiency is extremely low, and its profits are far below the expectations of industrial and commercial owners. It is the best time for the industrial revolution.
It seems that the industrial revolution in Britain started from the textile industry.
Zhu Youjian now wants to use hundreds of years of experience in later generations to promote Daming's first industrial revolution in the world and accelerate Daming's emergence.
The crux of the problem is that business owners have no sense of technology and will not seek benefits from technology.
Zhu Youjian not only encourages and guides technological innovation from the system, but also cultivates real textile enterprises in Suzhou from a point of view, so that the majority of textile owners can see the benefits of technological innovation to enterprises.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Youjian wrote on the white paper:
1. Increase the promotion of the New Deal in Jiangnan and Zhejiang provinces, especially in Nanjing, Changzhou, Suzhou and Songjiang in Jiangnan Province, and Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou in Zhejiang Province;
2. Establish a patent office in Suzhou to accept patent applications nearby;
3. Build a cement avenue around Taihu Lake between Nanjing, Songjiang and Hangzhou;
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"Master, Liu Bingzhong is here!" Fu Xiaojian came gently to Zhu Youjian's side and whispered.
"Liu Bingzhong? Master is looking for him!" Zhu Youjian didn't stop the brush in his hand, "Little Sword, let him wait first, I'll be fine now!"
"Yes, Lord!" Fu Xiaojian agreed to go out and closed the door easily.
After a while, Zhu Youjian completed his plan and called in Fu Xiaojian, "Xiaojian, let the nearby Jin Yiwei send this instruction to the capital, and then let Liu Bingzhong come in."
"Got it, Lord!" Fu Xiaojian said Liu Bingzhong entered the inner room, then closed the door and stood beside Zhu Youjian.
Zhu Youjian waved his hand, "Xiaojian, go ahead, it's okay here, just leave two guards!"
Fu Xiaojian hesitated, "Master..."
Zhu Youjian chuckled, "It's okay, Xiaojian, Dongzhu Liu is not an outsider, don't worry!"
Waiting for Xiaojian to leave, there are only two people left in the room, Liu Bingzhong rushed to Zhu Youjian's front, crawling on the ground, "Caomin Liu Bingzhong, see your Majesty!"
"Get up, Dongzhu Liu!" Zhu Youjian pointed to the opposite seat, "Sit down by yourself, this time I'm visiting with a microservice. You are like Xiaojian, call me Lord!"
"Yes, sire... Lord!" Liu Bingzhong knew that Zhu Youzhen had something to say, so he was welcome, so he sat down opposite Zhu Youzhen, "Caomin thank you!"
"Did Bingzhong go home?" Zhu Youjian went straight to the point, "I should know what happened in Suzhou?"
"If you return to the Lord, Cao Min has already gone home, and Zhi'er has told Cao Min everything. Cao Min has already reprimanded his unworthy brother," after a pause, Liu Bingzhong continued: "Cao Min did not reveal his identity!"
"Very good!" Zhu Youjian praised, "Bingzhong knows, why did the Lord ask Miss Liu to call you back to Suzhou?"
"Lord, isn't it because of Ma Youwei?" Liu Bingzhong suddenly understood that Zhu Youjian's private visit was not intended to disturb anyone. If it was for such a trivial matter as Ma Youwei, there was no need to call him back.
"First, anyone who obstructs the New Deal will be punished accordingly. Lord does not want the Liu family to be involved in the Ma Youwei case!"
Liu Bingzhong left his seat and bowed his head to the ground, "Cao Min thanked the Lord for his great love. The Cao Min family will never be involved in the Ma Youwei case!"
"Get up!" Zhu Youjian raised his hand and signaled Liu Bingzhong to take his seat. "The reason why the Lord called you back instead of using the power of the government is because the core of the New Deal is to act in accordance with the law and do not want the court to be judged. Interference from other factors," Zhu Youjian continued: "Bingzhong is a very trusted business owner. In the future, he must act in accordance with the law of Ming Dynasty!"
"Caomin is determined to act in accordance with the law and will never fail to teach him!"
"Yeah!" Zhu Youjian nodded slowly, "Besides, the Liu family is a big merchant in Suzhou, and I hope that the Liu family can take the lead in supporting the New Deal, especially the payment of business taxes!"
"Cao Min abides by the order. Tomorrow, Cao Min will start to clean up the profit situation and strive to pay taxes to the tax official as soon as possible." Liu Bingzhong naturally didn't care about this tax and silver. He and Haishang Li Yusheng brought millions of silver bills to Zhu Youjian, but they were caught Zhu Youzhen refused. If he could use this small amount of money to make a good impression on Zhu Youzhen, he couldn't ask for it.
Liu Bingzhong has already seen that Zhu Youjian doesn't care about this silver, he cares about acting in accordance with the law, which is a precursor to the imperial court to implement the legal system throughout the country.
Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "Since Bingzhong has to pay taxes, he might as well make his voice louder!"
"Making the momentum?" Liu Bingzhong thought for a while, "Master, the Caomin understands. After the Caomin returns home, he immediately cleans up his account books and makes all preparations. A few days later, he will go to the government office to pay taxes with great fanfare!"
"If Bingzhong can think like this, my lord is relieved!" Zhu Youjian laughed, "This matter is over, in fact, if the lord wants you back, there is still something else.
"Lord..." Liu Bing asked in a low voice with no bottom in the center.
Zhu Youjian lightly stroked the teacup and looked at Liu Bingzhong suddenly, "My Lord visited Suzhou this time and found that almost every family in Suzhou has spinning machines. It seems that the textile market in Suzhou is not that big!"
"Yes, not only Suzhou, even Changzhou and Songjiang, but also Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places in Zhejiang Province," Liu Bingzhong said with a worried expression, "but now the textile industry has a pitifully low profit!"
Zhu Youjian frowned slightly, "Bingzhong, last time I was in Beijing, did you not teach you how to expand the scale of production to increase efficiency?"
"Master, Zhi'er has been improving the spinning machine, and it has not been put into production yet." Liu Bingzhong looked worried, he was obviously unsatisfied.
Zhu Youqian asked: "Is the cotton you bought distributed to the people for spinning?"
"Yes! Lord, the textile industry in Jiangnan has always been like this," Liu Bingzhong saw Zhu Youjian smiling, thinking that this is an omnipotent emperor, "Master, is there any better way?"
"Bingzhong, in order to form a real industry, you must have its own factory." No way, Zhu Youjian must use the experience of later generations to guide. "The current Takemoto spinning machine can already be used in spinning. Why is Bingzhong? No?" Seeing that Liu Bingzhong still didn't understand, Zhu Youjian continued: "Immediately organize craftsmen to mass-produce Takemoto spinning machines and concentrate production."
"Centralized production?" Liu Bingzhong seemed to understand Zhu Youjian's meaning this time. "Master said, put these spinning machines in one house and recruit skilled spinners?"
"For the same spinning worker, if the Takemoto spinning machine is used, the spinning speed will be greatly accelerated, and the cost of spinning spindles will be greatly reduced. Even if the spindles are sold directly, the price is at least 30% lower than the original price. Advantages can quickly seize the market, and profits will increase," Zhu Youjian asked again: "There shouldn't be any problems with recruiting spinners, right?"
"As long as you have silver, you should be able to recruit spinning workers," Liu Bingzhong said. "As for the training of newbies to mature hands, it will take some time."
"Why novices? There are a lot of skilled spinners now?" Zhu Youjian is puzzled. Why does Liu Bingzhong recruit novices for training instead of being skilled? Wouldn't it be because these people become skilled and then change jobs? Do others make wedding dresses
"Master, now I work as a family weaver. Skilled weavers are basically female workers. If you want to open a factory, you must recruit male workers." Without rice, Liu Bingzhong would also find it difficult to cook.
"Then recruit these female workers into the factory!" Zhu Youjian knows that it is not realistic to recruit female workers directly. Now Daming, under the shackles of Cheng Zhu Lixue, women basically can't get out of the door, and the second door can't be reached. How can they leave their own? Home? But the development of the textile industry has never been possible without these women workers.
"Female workers?" Liu Bingzhong's eyes dimmed, but dimmed in an instant, "Master, these female workers can spin at home. If they are allowed to enter the factory, I'm afraid... I'm afraid their family will not agree."
"It's man-made, someone has to eat crabs for the first time," Zhu Youjian disbelieves. Although there are a lot of rich businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, ordinary people are not rich. After losing their land, many people even have problems eating, especially military households. , Doesn't such a family need money to supplement the household? He thought for a while, "Now is the beginning. The factory can experiment with all-women management. Not only are women workers recruited, but the financial and management personnel are all women, so that their families will have less worry."
"Employ all female workers?" Liu Bingzhong rekindled hope, the emperor's vision was different, "Yes, yes, all female workers are employed, why didn't the Caomin think of it?"
"I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain!"
Zhu Youjian estimates that the current Jiangnan is far from starving, selling children and selling women. It may be unrealistic to recruit female workers completely. "Of course, if we cannot recruit enough female workers temporarily, we can also recruit male workers. , Or even both husband and wife are recruited, but in order to sign a contract with them, they must work in the factory for a certain period of time."
"Master, the Caomin understands something," Liu Bingzhong recalled Zhu Youjian's words, feeling that some of his ideas were too bold, and his mind seemed unwieldy. "Master, whether the Caomin can live in Liu's house, if there is any problem with the Caomin, Sooner or later, please ask!"
"Live in Liu's house?" Zhu Youjian thought. Anyway, he wanted to guide Liu's textile enterprise to the end, so he didn't shirk anymore. "This is a good idea!"