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Chapter 176 Change

After the new quota for the Cabinet Grand Secretary was decided, Zhu Youxiao was promoted to Lu Xiang as Minister of War, while Yang Sichang was replaced by the Left Minister of the Ministry of War, and still served as Lu Xiang as the daily affairs of the Ministry of War.

Sun Chengzong, Sun Chuanting and Wang Zaijin were still in charge of the titles of Minister of War and Minister of Right and Right, but were not responsible for the affairs of the Ministry of War, but were still in charge of the three-sided military affairs for Zhu Youxiao.

However, the son-in-law Gong Yonggu officially appointed the position of Left Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and mainly managed the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Bank. Of course, the Royal Bank was still directly responsible by Hu Shouchun.

However, this is also the first time Zhu Youxiao made a precedent for Xunqi to serve as an official in the court.

The reason for doing this is naturally related to the fact that the profits brought by Royal Industries are enough to match half of the treasury income.

Zhu Youxiao handed over this emerging and fat business to Xunqi to lead, but it was also considered a win over these Xunqi, and he would not be isolated when the civil servants and gentry group started a full-scale war.

After returning to Gui'an, Mao Yuanyi immediately began to manufacture Gui'an looms and immediately established the Royal Weaving Bureau, and spent a lot of money to buy them before the increase in silk cotton and other raw materials.

No one in Jiangnan cared about the impact of the newly-launched Royal Weaving Bureau on their business. After all, the Royal Weaving Bureau at this time looked very small. For large weaving workshops where thousands of weaving workers work every day, such small workshops cannot be achieved.

Because their large workshops can set the price of silk fabrics very low but can make a lot of profits. Can small workshops be able to do it? If the price is low, the profits they make will naturally be lower. I am afraid that they will not last for a few days before going bankrupt.

However, after weaving the first batch of silk fabrics, the Royal Weaving Bureau not only did not increase the price of silk fabrics because of the word "royal", but instead directly lowered the price of silk fabrics by half the price on the market.

Some businessmen wrote an article in the Daming Daily to mock the Royal Weaving Bureau for losing money and making a name for themselves, deliberately cheating the imperial court's money to fatten their pockets.

But it was precisely because the Royal Weaving Bureau reduced the price of silk fabrics that many people came to the Royal Weaving Bureau to buy them. As a result, the transactions of private owners of those large workshops dropped a lot, and they had to follow suit, which reduced the profit margin.

Many merchants began to be dissatisfied and complained to the Royal Weaving Bureau. They all said that if they want to lose, they will lose by themselves, so why should they cut the price? And the people in the entire weaving industry will suffer losses.

Even because of this, the inspector and censor of Zhejiang 0 Jiangdao also used the content of the Daming Daily to directly hear the news and impeach the Royal Weaving Bureau to disrupt the order of the weaving industry, which hurt the people.

Zhu Youxiao from the capital did not make any move after receiving it. He naturally knew that once the Royal Weaving Bureau opened up in the Jiangnan Silk Weaving Industry, it would inevitably be opposed by traditional merchants.

But what Zhu Youxiao needs to do now is to control the Ming Dynasty's finances by establishing a state-monopoly company, so he must favor his Royal Weaving Bureau.

The inspector censor was eventually dismissed, and the Royal Weaver Bureau did not have the result of the failure that other merchants expected in a few months.

Since the Royal Weaving Bureau used steam power as the main driving force for silk fabrics, the reform of silk fabrics has begun. The cost has been greatly reduced, but the profit has increased significantly, but the prices on the market have also decreased. It is precisely because of this that more people can buy fabrics.

This is the benefit of a country's development of productivity, but this will also bring more surplus labor.

Many traditional weaving workshops have gone bankrupt, a large number of weavers face this unemployment problem, and many workers who had no land to survive, therefore faced a survival crisis.

Before we knew it, the crisis of the entire Ming Dynasty was not just the problem of farmers having no land to plant, but also the problem of a large number of citizens having no jobs to work.

Of course, the benefits brought by the current Royal Weaving Bureau, like the Royal Glass Factory, are generally more beneficial than disadvantages. After all, the monthly income of millions of taels of silver is finally able to do a few things to spend money for the once poor Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao also realized that with the development of productivity, it will lead to a reduction in labor costs and make it more difficult for a large number of landless civilians to survive.

Therefore, after establishing the Royal Industries' Glass Silver Mirror Factory and the Royal Weaving Bureau, he reorganized the Ministry of Works' Management and Construction Department to establish the Royal Engineering Bureau.

The Royal Engineering Bureau was directly under the charge of the Minister of Works, Ho Weihua, who had just returned to Beijing. Ho Weihua was almost responsible for the dredging projects of water conservancy in various places from the seventh to the eighth year of the revelation, so he had rich experience in organizing migrant workers and planning infrastructure.

After Zhu Youxiao explained to Ho Weihua what the Royal Engineering Bureau was and how it was different from the previous Operations Department, Ho Weihua understood the meaning.

According to Zhu Youxiao's intention, the Royal Engineering Bureau was to be responsible for the infrastructure construction of the entire country, that is, to continue to expand the basic reconstruction work of the entire Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, this was to spend all the extra money earned, and the way to spend it was naturally distributed to the people who were working through infrastructure, and on the other hand, it was to solve the survival problems of more and more landless farmers.

Under the leadership of the country, the wealth hoarded by the great gentry began to circulate among the people, which really made the Ming Dynasty truly gain the benefits after economic development.

Moreover, these benefits are not only reflected in the military and technological aspects, nor have they only allowed officials to gain public income, but also allowed the people to truly experience many benefits in terms of people's livelihood.

Taking the capital as an example, Shuntian Prefecture built public bathrooms made of glazed tiles and ink bricks at every distance on each main road of the capital, which looked no different from ordinary houses. The Five City Military Affairs Office also specially organized unemployed people to be responsible for cleaning the streets and these public bathrooms that are now called "Convenience Mansions" by the people of the Ming Dynasty, which greatly improved the sanitation conditions of the entire capital.

Of course, the improvement of the sanitation situation in the capital is due to the improvement of these infrastructure and public services, and the people in the Bingma have also increased the penalties for spitting and urinating everywhere.

At the same time, the drainage system of the entire capital has been newly repaired, further improving the street environment of the entire capital. Even on rainy days, there is no water accumulation in the entire capital that affects people's travel.

These naturally began to be promoted in other cities, first of all, several big cities in the capital, such as Tongzhou, Baoding and other places.

Even when we arrived in Jinan, urban system transformation began.

All of this naturally laid a good foundation for the subsequent fight against the plague that swept across North China.

At the same time, due to the emergence of the public service system, the survival problems of many people have also been solved, but this has also led to more and more people rushing to metropolis such as capitals.
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