My Daming New Empire

Li Liang laughed and said: "Our family borrowed a sentence that His Highness often said to warn the deputy, I will use you, do your best, and you will not need it after you die. From now on, we will serve Your Highness together, communicate with each other, and go hand in hand .”

"The humble minister does not dare to stand up to the eunuch at the same time, and is willing to be attached to the tail of the horse."

Li Liang laughed even happier after being flattered by him. "Our family is only a young eunuch, so we don't dare to be eunuchs. Deputy Ma Suo, stand up, our family dare not accept such a big gift from you."

Yesterday, he was still in panic all day long, but today he was promoted to a noble rank. From a low-level official, he directly surpassed the fifth rank and became a regular seventh rank.

Most of the officials in the capital are half-level, and when I return to my hometown to meet the county magistrate, not only do I not need to go to the county magistrate, but the other party will come to visit him.

However, he also understands that although he has been promoted to five ranks, this position may not be handled by the Ministry of Industry, and he will mainly work in front of His Royal Highness in the future.

However, being able to serve in front of His Highness the Grandson is even more glorious than being a fifth-rank official in the Ministry of Industry.

The Ma family has been in business for generations. Although they cannot be said to be rich, they have a lot of money.Mrs. Ma saw that her husband was so happy that she was in a state of confusion, so she quickly arranged for her eldest son Ma to go in and take a plate of five taels of silver ingots to distribute.

Each Jinyiwei who accompanied the team had five taels per person, and the two leaders each had ten taels.

It was still the beginning of Ming Dynasty, and Ming was short of gold and silver. This kind of filial piety was not small, and everyone was very satisfied.

When they were about to say goodbye and leave, Ma Di saw that his uncle hadn't calmed down, so he couldn't help but tugged at the skirt of his shirt, and whispered, "Uncle, binoculars."

Ma Zhicai just woke up like a dream, and said loudly: "Young Supervisor Li, please stay, I have a treasure to offer to Your Highness!"

Li Liang was stunned for a moment, stopped and said with a smile: "It can be called a treasure, and our family's curiosity has also been hooked. I don't know what treasure it is?"

Ma Zhicai bowed and said, "This is a telescope made by Weichen's nephew..."

Li Liang was a little disappointed, and said: "You should know who invented the telescope, right? This thing is rare among the people, and in front of His Highness..."

Ma Zhicai regained his composure, and said, "My nephew's telescope can achieve forty times the effect."

Li Liang was taken aback. As someone close to Zhu Zhanji, he knew very well that Zhu Zhanji attached great importance to new technology. The telescope, that is a great achievement.

"Is this true?"

"Don't dare to hide anything."

Li Liang turned around and said with a chuckle: "Since this is the case, please take a look at it. If this is the case, His Highness will reward you generously."

In Xingqing Palace, in addition to the eunuchs who originally belonged to Xingqing Palace, there were also eunuchs from all over the country who had been transferred from the Ministry of Salt, Salt Class Promotion Division, and Shibo Promotion Division.

Hundreds of people gathered in the attached hall of the Xingqing Palace to classify and classify the business families, industry types, and technology types from all over the country, and then count them.

This work has been going on for more than a month. When Zhu Zhanji first returned to Beiping, he had already ordered the internal supervisor to conduct statistics.

However, for more than a month, these data have not been counted.Especially regarding the sorting out of technology, if you want to sort out all kinds of different technologies systematically, it is enough to make people satisfied if you can achieve good results in one or two years.

To create a primary industrial foundation at this time, Zhu Zhanji must have a general understanding of the technological capabilities of this era.

In this process, he can not only cultivate a group of subordinates who are good at auditing accounts, but also select some technical personnel with industrial development foundation, and these people will become the seeds of technology dissemination.

However, Zhu Zhanji hasn't figured out how to coordinate the interests here.

As long as it is an industry, no matter how simple and basic it is, it will involve competition and interests.

For example, the Wang family and the Zhang family both print and dye, and each has its own merits.It is impossible for the technical talents of the Wang family to be willing to contribute to the Zhang family, and it is impossible for the Zhang family to be willing to let their skills be learned by the Wang family.

After sorting out these technologies, how to promote them will involve more interest distribution issues.

Today, there is no communication and transportation conditions for future generations. If we use state-owned enterprises to guide them, we will only breed moths one by one.

Moreover, after the formation of the monopoly model, the improvement of this technology will stagnate for a long time, and each one will only learn to eat the coffin.

If you want technological innovation, business prosperity, and the advancement of technology, the private economy is the best way to promote it.

However, the private economy is not conducive to the country's unification of resources and enhancement of competitiveness.What's more, today's people's recognition of the country and the nation is far inferior to that of later generations, and most of them are family-oriented.

If this development continues, it will only become a moth to the country and the nation like the Shanxi locust merchants of later generations.

The root of everything is the foundation of the system. Without a good system, each company develops according to different models. Although a hundred flowers bloom, they will not exert their greatest competitiveness.

All the affairs were so chaotic that Zhu Zhanji didn't even know what to do for a while.

In fact, there are too many places that need to be changed!

And he is not the emperor now, it is impossible to change the fundamental system.

Even if he becomes the emperor, at that time, he will face greater resistance.

Now there is Zhu Di to help him shelter from the wind and rain and bear the pressure, but at that time, he will directly face the resistance of the civil servants.

Things still need to be done one by one, and it is useless to think too much.

Picking up a stack of statistics on the overall size of the Jiangnan silk industry, Zhu Zhanji looked at it seriously.

Silk, porcelain, ironware, tea, white paper, these are the five major varieties of Ming foreign trade.Needless to say silk, porcelain and tea, even in later generations, Zhu Zhanji knew the scale of these trade varieties.

But after coming to this era, Zhu Zhanji discovered that the sales of ironware and white paper in this era are definitely not small.

White paper is mainly sold to Japan and North Korea, where the literati class has a great demand for white paper produced in Ming Dynasty, and even the supply exceeds the demand.

Ironware is not only weapons, but also kitchen knives and iron pans.The largest export sales volume is the iron pot that Zhu Zhanji has never paid attention to.

Chapter 74 Meet

Especially in Southeast Asia, where there are many islands, similar to primitive society.Most people depend on the sky for their food, they have almost no pursuit at all, and the development of science and technology is almost non-existent.

Therefore, apart from simple tools, no complex craft products can be produced.The iron pot is the product they need most, and the demand for iron pots is astonishing. The seemingly simple iron pot is the most demanded thing there.

Without rice bowls, cups and saucers, they can use leaves and branches to eat, but without iron pots, it is difficult for them to cook.

Through the export over the years and the understanding of the internal supervision personnel stationed there, Zhu Zhanji also has a preliminary understanding of the needs of Southeast Asian countries.

In a word, as long as it is a product of Ming Dynasty, there is no country that does not need it. It is nothing more than the price and profit.

Since his first voyage to the West ten years ago, Zhu Di was influenced by Zhu Zhanji, accepted the first compensation, and decided to develop business.In the next few times, every time they went to sea, the internal supervisor would fill the big ship with various commodities, and behind the fleet, there would be many merchant ships sent by nobles and ministers.

Compared with the original history, the current business environment is much more relaxed.However, it is still only those with strong connections who can participate in maritime trade, and those ordinary people can only choose to sell their goods to high-ranking officials and nobles, so that they can hope to sell overseas.

This kind of monopoly is of course not conducive to commercial development, but in the current Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di's ability to allow high-ranking officials and nobles other than internal supervisors to participate in maritime trade is progress in itself.

North Korea and Dongying, which have the closest relationship with Ming Dynasty, are also the largest trading countries of Ming Dynasty, and they are still tightly controlled by the internal supervision.

No one can do trade between these two countries alone, it can only be operated through the entire internal monitoring system.In recent years, the internal treasury has been abundant, mainly due to these trade profits and tariffs.

However, Zhu Di was used to being extravagant, and he spent almost all of the money. Just to build a Wudang Mountain Taoist Palace would cost 300 million taels of silver.

And that's not a big deal, because it costs more to build the Great Wall.This time it was because of a big victory and the discovery of the Tongshan Mountain in the grassland that he decided to mobilize the men who built the Great Wall to build roads on the grassland.