At this time, Mao Yuansheng, the head of the Royal Weaving Bureau, took the initiative to stand up:

"Your Majesty, this turmoil in Jiangnan has been caused by the Royal Weaving Bureau. Jiangnan is famous all over the world for its fabrics, and Songjiang white cloth is known as the world's clothing and quilts. Now the intervention of the Royal Weaving Bureau has led to the suspension of production of a large number of Jiangnan weaving workshops, which has made the people dissatisfied. The local people even burned down cotton cloth produced by the Royal Weaving Bureau several times, and this has also caused the Royal Weaving Bureau to be widely excluded in Jiangnan.

Weichen felt that since the Royal Weaving Bureau wanted to become the world's number one cloth merchant, he would have to assume the responsibilities that other weaving workshops had previously assumed, and train these weaving workers to learn how to use the Resident Machine and understand what machines and steam power are."

Mao Yuansheng said, "I have made an estimate. If we consider that the Royal Weaving Bureau will establish a branch in the 13th Provincial Administrators and Envoys of the Ming Dynasty in the future, with the maximum amount of cloth required today, the Royal Weaving Bureau can recruit 100,000 weavers, and these 100,000 people should be able to conduct simple training and directly take up the post."

"The Royal Weaving Bureau only focuses on the market for the failure of the 13th Ministry of Administration of the Two Capitals. Even the Qing Dynasty and Wu Xiang's troops in the north can be traded for important strategic materials that do not involve military affairs. Military is military, and transaction is trade. Some money is not profitable and will not be profitable. They rely on our economy and can even cause a greater blow to him in the future!

In addition, there are other foreign characters such as the West and the East. What is hateful is that the best seaports in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian are controlled by Zheng, which greatly restricts our trading. However, we can find ways to contact the Western Air from Liaodong, Guangdong and Guangxi. With the demand for Europa, you can double the Royal Weaving Bureau."

Zhu Youxiao is now eager to quickly solve the labor surplus problems caused by the rapid increase in productivity due to the steam power, so he didn't think so much and just said it nonsense. But who knew that he immediately heard Mao Yuansheng and said anxiously:

"Your Majesty doesn't know that the deal with the Western barbarians can only be passed through the Zheng family. Zheng family is now equivalent to forming a country on the sea. Neither the South China or the East China family are their opponents. Moreover, the Zheng family has already agreed that these deals between the Western barbarians and the Ming Dynasty can only be passed through the Zheng family. Otherwise, these Western barbarians will be destroyed by the Zheng family. Therefore, even if we are willing, the Western barbarians are unwilling to do business directly with us."

Zhu Youxiao did not expect that the Zheng Group had such a great power at sea, and directly monopolized and controlled the marine trade of the Ming Dynasty, making him naively think that as long as he created advanced productivity, he could produce a large amount of products and export them, and then earn a lot of wealth and enhance the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

But now it seems that it is not that the Ming Dynasty does not want to engage in overseas trade and foreign exchanges, but that these hidden selfish maritime landlord armed groups do not want the Ming Dynasty to have a free maritime trade.

No wonder, the Zheng family can run a deal that can be sold at one time of tens of millions of taels. Just imagine how can the maritime trade of a country or the world's largest country be rich and powerful?

"I'm afraid there are many people in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian area, who are in the same group as his Zheng family, and they are taking advantage of the powerless situation in our court at sea to make a fortune. The Zheng family is a good man for these big families, and these big families are his backers," Zhu Youxiao asked coldly.

Mao Yuansheng handed over a copy: "This is the Zheng family from the Royal Weaving Bureau in four months this year. In the first three months, they were three million, but this month it directly reduced to one million. The reason is that the Western barbarians (Spain) and Poordovar (Portugal) are not in conflict, and the Western barbarians do not need so much goods. The backlog of goods of the Royal Weaving Bureau increased by two million after the backlog of five million due to the turmoil in Jiangnan, and the loss reached 800,000 silver dollars. But in fact, it was because I wanted me to tell my Majesty to handle the gentry in Jiangnan carefully, and I submitted their secret letter to His Majesty."

Zhu Youxiao nodded. He did receive a secret letter from Mao Yuansheng, but he was unwilling to be threatened by a pirate group, so he ignored the secret letter from the Zheng family. However, he now has to admit that the Zheng family is really a roadblock that hinders his wealth. It is impossible not to eliminate it!

But now Zhu Youxiao has to admit that he has no way to deal with the Zheng group. The court does not have a strong navy, and even if there is one, it is difficult to compete with the maritime overlord Zheng group. However, it can be punished through economic blockade, but in this way, it is not only the Zheng family that suffers huge losses, but also the Ming court.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao can only adopt a policy of preferential treatment for the Zheng group, and said: "Yan Jizu, the director of the engineering department, once submitted a memorial to persuade me to recruit Zheng. Since this is the case, he will issue an order to the Fujian Governor Xiong Wencan to be responsible for this matter. If the Zheng family intends to submit to the court, they can serve as the coastal defense guerrillas and Yongzhen Minnan."

As far as Zhu Youxiao knows, in history, the Zheng family did indeed submit to the Ming court at this time, and now they can only follow the historical development. If as expected, once they successfully recruited the Zheng family, the Zheng family would legitimately attack other pirates, consolidate their maritime power and expand their territory.

But this is not good for the court. The pirates often can still beat the court. However, once the southeast coast, even the South China Sea, the Yellow Sea and other places are controlled by the Zheng family, then the entire Ming court will have no power to fight back against the Zheng family group at sea.

"At the same time, the order was sent to Yan Yingyuan to be responsible for pursuing the pirate Gu Sanmazi, and to ask the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Shang Zhouzuo to pursuing Li Xuanqi, Zhong Bin and other troops, but they were all given guerrilla positions, implying that if they join the court, the court would use the power of others to encircle them."

The world is as black as crows, and the pirates of the Ming Dynasty are all the same. It is common to surrender and rebel again. They also regard the court's admonition as a joke. These pirates who are used to robbing families and robbing are difficult to truly submit to the court. For example, Li Kuiqi mentioned by Zhu Youxiao is such a person, but Zhu Youxiao still does this. The reason is that the Zheng group loses the opportunity to legally annex these pirates, which can be regarded as giving these pirates a chance to protect themselves, and they can't help but refuse to agree.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty may have solved the sea troubles on the surface, and hope that these pirates will be more stable and will be able to export more goods to the Royal Industrial Company and the Royal Weaving Bureau, which will allow the people along the coast to suffer less damage and robbery.

At the same time, this will also give Zhu Youxiao more time to build his own maritime power. As long as he has a strong navy, he will not have to be afraid of the Zheng group at that time. Even the Ming Dynasty can expand maritime hegemony and survive.

Everything has to go step by step. Since you want to build your own navy, Zhu Youxiao also has to do a lot of things. You must first determine how to train naval officers and soldiers, and then determine how much it will cost, and at least how large a navy should be established at present.
Chapter completed!