Zhu Youxiao snorted, and without paying attention to Mao Yuanyi, he went directly to the Royal Weaving Bureau.

The entire Royal Weaving Bureau is like a large workshop, with dozens of Gui'an looms placed in the workshop in an orderly manner. As soon as you enter it, you can hear the sound of steam coming out and the rumbling of the machine running. Of course, the smell of coal smoke is also very strong.

In the entire workshop, there are technicians who operate the machine and ordinary operators who add coal and water, but not many people are needed. In less than a while, countless spindles can be seen turning rolls of thin threads into fine and smooth white cloth after running high and sliding out of the machine.

Not long after, the weaving roll with a diameter of one meter rolled down from a smooth track. The specific dyeing and processing were operated by the female workers below. The whole process was orderly and efficient. This was the production process carefully developed by Mao Yuanyi, and it was also the most advanced production model in the Ming Dynasty and even the world.

Even Zhu Youxiao admired Mao Yuanyi's genius steam power application talent. However, because he was a military officer, Mao Yuanyi was a little inferior in front of these civil servants in Jiangnan, and he could not show his power as a celebrity in front of His Royal Highness.

"Mao Yuanyi, you are now the fourth-grade Jiangning Weaving Manufacturer I personally named. He is in charge of the Royal Weaving Bureau, which has been open for millions of yuan this month. He is also the butler of Feishui Yamen. Why is his bones so soft? Some small pieces are killing people and setting fires in front of your Royal Weaving Manufacturer, and even beating merchants who come to buy goods here. You don't kill them!"

Zhu Youxiao looked at Mao Yuanyi. He was tall and mighty, even if he wore the fourth-rank Yun Yanwen official uniform, he always looked handsome, but he always lowered his head. Now that Zhu Youxiao said this, he straightened his chest: "Your Majesty blames me for being tough. Now that the sales of the Royal Weaving Bureau are decreasing, it has caused a backlog of goods, which is not unrelated to the increasing number of small gangsters in Nanjing. Many merchants in Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places dare not even come to our Royal Weaving Bureau to purchase goods."

"How much can the output be increased now? Can it be expanded to establish branches in Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yiyang and other places?" Zhu Youxiao naturally knew that the obstruction of the civil servants in Nanjing made it difficult for the Royal Weaving Bureau to open up the situation in the Jiangnan weaving industry by relying solely on advanced productivity and low costs. He did not say much about Mao Yuanyi's fear of civil servants, but asked whether the Royal Weaving Bureau could expand its scale.

After all, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao opened large state-owned capital enterprises not only to make money but also to solve the survival problems of employment, that is, the people. It is absolutely not enough to rely solely on grain production and land reclamation. The Royal Weaver Bureau, as the representative of state capital, naturally has this responsibility.

Mao Yuanyi did not think about the deep-seated reasons why Zhu Youxiao asked this, and immediately replied:

"No, Your Majesty, I believe Your Majesty also knows that if the moon is full, the water is full, the cloth demand for the entire Ming Dynasty cannot increase any further. It is not only the etiquette and rules that determine that the common people are not allowed to wear rich clothes, but silk fabrics cannot be purchased by the people even if they are cheaper. Now the amount of silk fabrics that can be purchased and can be used is almost satisfied;

If the scale is expanded, it will cause a lot of goods to be backlogged, and then silk fabrics will become worthless, and the Royal Weaver Bureau will collapse on its own, and thousands of employees of the Royal Weaver Bureau will be difficult to survive, and the Ming Dynasty's finances will be deeply affected."

Zhu Youxiao understood that Mao Yuanyi's meaning is that the silk fabric industry has become saturated now, and the Royal Weaving Bureau can still make profits from this market at its current scale, but if the scale is increased, it will cause a situation where supply is greater than supply. At that time, the depreciation of goods will lead to an economic crisis.

Since the late Ming Dynasty, the world has been declining, and etiquette has been corrupt. If Zhu Youxiao now announced that common people could wear brocade clothes and red robes, the opposition would not be too loud. However, just liberating the rules and constraints on common people would probably not open up much. After all, as Mao Yuanyi said, not everyone is willing to spend money to buy silk clothes and then wear them to farm. In Zhu Youxiao's view, the real demand to drive the engine is overseas.

So, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "In the East, South, Western and other places, as far as I know, the nobles of Europa liked the silk fabrics of the Ming Dynasty very much, and have always been a best-selling product. Many Western caravans came to the Ming Dynasty for this reason, risking their lives from thousands of miles to come to the Ming Dynasty."

With the popularization of social science knowledge in the Hanlin Academy and the guidance of the Daming Daily, many people from the Ming Dynasty, especially scholars and officials, are no strangers to the world, at least they know where England is, and even Elizabeth.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao asked this, Mao Yuanyi could understand what he meant, so he replied: "Report to Your Majesty, now our Ming Hai Trade area is almost controlled by pirates such as Zheng. Whether our Ming caravan wants to go out or the Western caravan wants to come in, we must obtain the consent of the Zheng fleet.

Nowadays, we can only export silk fabrics to Western cultures, but because of its monopoly, Zheng deliberately lowered the price and only collected a certain amount and did not easily increase the order volume. Therefore, our Royal Weaving Bureau has been restricted now and the profits collected from the marine trade area every year are very small."

"I didn't expect this problem. My Ming Dynasty's marine trade was actually controlled by several pirates. It's really a funny thing in the world!" Zhu Youxiao nodded. He suddenly realized that the Royal Weaver Bureau was not just the Royal Weaver Bureau, but the difficulties the Royal Industrial Company faced were not just the boycott of the civil service group and the suppression of the pirate group. Therefore, the two major royal merchants were unable to activate the capital market of the Ming Dynasty.

The pirate group must be eliminated as soon as possible and the dominance of the central government of the Ming Dynasty over the maritime hegemony must be reshaped. In this way, one must have its own strong navy. However, governing a big country is like cooking small fresh food, and many things can only be done one by one. Now that the Royal Weaving Bureau cannot expand its scale, we can only find ways to solve the high unemployment rate in Nanjing from other aspects.

Not only is it a problem of high unemployment, but also the new gap between the rich and the poor with the capital exhibition, as well as the protection of the rights and interests of ordinary workers and their survival protection, if these problems are not solved and guided, they are likely to be used by some people with ulterior motives and even encourage them to do extremely destructive things.

But now, the officials in Nanjing are often overstaffed officials, and they are even promoters of high unemployment rates and the gap between the rich and the poor. There are very few outstanding officials who have truly worked hard or realized that new class problems have emerged. It is not only a matter for the people to sigh, but also the people who are in charge of the empire.

"Your Majesty, Jiangning County Magistrate Ye Dingyi is here!"

At this time, Yidong Factory Fanzi came with an official who had been shackled. Zhu Youxiao looked back and asked directly: "Mr. Ye County, I will ask you, how do you, as the parent official here, govern this area? Do you know that the brave gangsters dare to beat merchants and blackmail them around the Royal Weaving Bureau?"
Chapter completed!