Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 389 Is There Really a Spinning Machine Without Human Power?

Lao Zhu has always looked down on Sapphire. If it weren't for his dead brother-in-law and his usefulness, he would probably have snapped up this product long ago.

Therefore, he gave Sapphire a choice.

Just like the choice of a mother when she gives birth, whether to keep the big or the young!

Lan Yu also knew Lao Zhu's intentions. Lao Zhu thought that he had too many buddies and wanted him to take the initiative to cut off some of them.

It's just that when Lan Yu thought of those brothers who had fought against him and finally got some credit, she couldn't stop her heart.

When Lao Zhu saw that Lanyu hadn't responded for a long time, his old face turned cold on the spot.

"how?"

"Are you still reluctant?"

When Lan Yu heard this, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"no no!"

"What is there to be reluctant about, I will go back and kill those traitors!"

Old Zhu snorted coldly.

"Don't bother!"

"You go back and write a list and hand it over, we will naturally send someone to catch them!"

"Remember, this is the last chance we will give you for the sake of grandson!"

"If you don't cherish it, don't blame us for being ruthless!"

Lan Yu is usually quite arrogant, swearing at Butcher Zhu every time, but when she really sees Lao Zhu, she is as cute as a kitten.

"Yes Yes!"

"My minister must cherish it!"

"By the way, Your Majesty, how much do you think death is appropriate?"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he put his hands on the back of his head on the spot, and leaned back on the chair leisurely.

"It depends on your attitude!"

When Lan Yu saw Lao Zhu say this, she was so angry that she scolded her mother.

Is this so human?
It also depends on my attitude. If I really follow my attitude, I don't want to kill anyone!
But Lan Yu only dared to slander in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it on her face.

"Wei Chen knows!"

Seeing what he said, Lao Zhu waved his hands impatiently.

"get out!"

"Weichen, get out now!"

Lan Yu crawled out of the palace and shut herself in the study when she got home.

"Lan Yong has been with me for more than ten years, this one can't die..."

"Lan He is also a good boy. He blocked the knife for him several times in the charge, and he couldn't die..."

"This kid, Lan Ning, has only been with us for a short time, so let him..."

It's just the list of ten people, which made Lan Yu tangled up all night, and then revised it and made it out.

The next day, Lan Yu ordered someone to hand over the booklet, and closed the door at home to complain of illness, never daring to drink with friends like in the past.

When Lao Zhu saw the list that Lan Yu handed over, he frowned on the spot.

Truth be told, it wasn't the list he wanted.

Old Zhu was not interested in Lanyu's adoptive sons. What he was interested in were Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen, Heqing Hou Zhang Yi, Chaga Hou Zhu Shou, and Dingyuan Hou Wang Bi.

These few are Lan Yu's best friends, with Lan Yu's more than ten years of veterans, they are the blue party in the true sense.

If Lan Yu didn't turn his back on her, she should confess these people and cut off her own party members.

Now that he has made a few adopted sons who don't feel any pain, isn't this a fool?
Although Lao Zhu was very upset by the list submitted by Lanyu, Lao Zhu still pinched his nose and recognized it for his grandson's sake.

After all, Sapphire's virtues, he knows best.

It is possible to say that he is outspoken and disrespectful behind his back, but if he dares to rebel, then he has no guts!
Lao Zhu added a few more names to Lan Yu's own report and told Lan Yu euphemistically that he was very dissatisfied with his "attitude", then wrote the word "accurate", and threw the memorial to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. , Let the Ministry of Punishments deal with it.

According to Lao Zhu's previous habits, this kind of work is usually left to Jin Yiwei.But this time the one impeaching Sapphire is the Censor Yanguan, so use these dozen soldiers and crab generals to quell public anger.

After Lao Zhu's order reached the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the entire Ministry of Criminal Justice rejoiced, feeling that it was a victory for the rule of law, a victory for the censors, and a victory for civil officials.

However, when they happily took the officials of the Ministry of Justice to arrest people, they were beaten back by Lan Yu's adopted son.

Yang Jing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, was so angry that while the servants of the Ministry of Punishment were trash, he was also angry that Lan Yu's subordinates were a group of arrogant soldiers.

However, when Qi returns to Qi, people still have to catch it.

In the end, there was no other way, Yang Jing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, borrowed a hundred people from the Ministry of War, and only then did he arrest a dozen of Lan Yu's adoptive sons and bring them to justice.

During this period, 13 yamen servants were killed or injured, which also became iron proof that the crimes of Lan Yu's adopted sons were added to the crime.

Originally, the Ministry of Criminal Justice wanted to convict the dozen or so people of Ling Chi, but considering that they had contributed to the country after all, Lao Zhu changed Ling Chi to beheading, which was considered a kindness.

On the day of the execution, thousands of people in the capital went to watch the execution.

In fact, for the common people, they watch whoever is killed.

Because I don’t know him anyway, as long as he knows that he is doing harm for the people.

However, civil servants exaggerated this grand occasion and wrote commemorative articles one after another. What's more, they submitted it to the newspaper office under the name of the emperor's grandson, Sanwei Bookstore, and carried out long serials.

With the publication of the newspaper, the people in the entire Jinling City knew about the crimes of these people, and applauded the court's execution of more than a dozen scum.

Zhu Yunxi's newspaper office has been in the trial operation stage, covering only Jinling City and a few surrounding counties.

Even so, it still caused an uproar and made many people realize the importance of newspapers.

This was unexpected by Xie Kui and others. Even Qi Tai, who was in charge of this matter, was confused by the sudden explosion of the newspaper.

Zhu Yunxi did not expect that he racked his brains to open the newspaper sales, and finally opened it with the help of civil servants.

When Lan Yu saw the long report in the newspaper, she was so angry that she slammed the table at home.But when he found out that the master behind the newspaper was actually his nephew whom he had been trying his best to protect, he was so angry that he wrote a letter to Zhu Yunxi on the spot to complain.

It was also through Sapphire's complaint that Zhu Yunxi knew that his newspaper was popular, and some vendors even took it to sell in other regions spontaneously.

It is said that the business is not bad. Scholars from various counties and schools, as well as literate merchants in the market, are very interested in this thing.

After learning that this thing comes out every ten days, they directly subscribed to the newspaper for a year.

Zhu Yunxi didn't feel anything about Lanyu's complaints, but felt that it was a good thing for Grandpa Huang to help him repair Lanyu's "adopted sons".

He believed in Lao Zhu, and would definitely keep the best for himself, and cut off those thorns and the like.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi wrote a letter directly to Lao Zhu, telling him to kill him casually, and just keep more useful people for himself.

Lao Zhu also believed that Dasun could understand his painstaking efforts, so he didn't have the slightest psychological burden when cleaning up Sapphire.

Lao Zhu laughed and cursed after receiving the letter from his grandson, and took the letter as a joke, and showed it to Zhu Fen when Zhu Fen was eating with him.

Seeing that the elder nephew and his grandfather were so indisputable, Zhu Fen was also happy for the grandpa and grandson.

However, after seeing the old man pampering his elder nephew so much, Zhu Yan felt a little bit aggrieved for his elder brother.

In order to keep his teacher, the eldest brother of the crown prince took a lot of effort. When did he get this kind of treatment?
After Zhu Fen stayed in the capital for a few days, other feudal lords also entered the capital one after another.

King Zhou was the second to arrive. On the first day he arrived in the capital, he had a conflict with the people in the capital camp. He hated the camp prepared by them and insisted on asking them to change them.

Zhu Yuanzhang's second son-in-law, Mei Yin, was in charge of the admiral's supervision of the Beijing camp. Mei Yin heard the complaint from her brother-in-law and directly reported the matter to His Majesty the Emperor.

When Lao Zhu heard that it was the king of Zhou making a fuss again, he just asked Zhu Yan to deal with it.

Zhu Yan's handling method is very simple, just scold King Zhou and tell him to go back to the palace and just stay there and it's over.

King Zhou didn't dare to argue with Zhu Yan, so he could only bring a few guards back to the palace.

Then came the King of Shu and the King of Xiang. The two met their father and queen.

King Qin came not too early or too late, but he didn't go to see his father immediately after entering the city, but went back to the palace to settle down, took a hot bath and had a good sleep before going.

Lao Zhu also received him very cordially.

"Second brother, on our big birthday this year, don't give it away if you can't bear it, but don't give us the whole broken bowl like last year!"

After a year of adjustments, King Qin also came out of the shadow of being cheated, blushing in embarrassment.

"Father, that's all in the past, don't mention it..."

Seeing this, Lao Zhu laughed heartily, left him to have a meal in the palace, and then sent him away.

King Qin returned to the palace and complained about the poor quality of the food in the palace, praised the luxury of his father's palace, and started the renovation plan of the palace.

Later, when he found out that the interior decoration of the new palace was made by his nephew Zhu Yunxie, he was too lazy to bother.

Because, he didn't want to beg Zhu Yunxi!
What's more, he couldn't get what he wanted, and his eldest nephew was busy fighting with the nine big merchants right now.

After purchasing the raw silk, Zhu Yunxi went to Songjiang Shipbuilding Department again. After finalizing several large overseas orders, he ordered the Suzhou Manufacturing Bureau to recruit workers, and also ordered the Nanjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau to build improved handcrafts. loom.

Because the idea of ​​building a steam-powered loom cannot be achieved in a short period of time, and it will have an impact on Suzhou's existing economic structure.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi wanted to make a transition by hand, so that more low-level weavers could rely on this to survive.

However, to his surprise, all the weavers in Suzhou City were hired away at high prices, and even a lot of weavers in the Weaving Bureau were poached away.

Regarding this situation, Zhu Yunxi didn't even need Jin Yiwei to inquire about it. He could figure it out with his toes. The counter-revolutionary group headed by Zhang Tianyou was once again fighting against himself, the grandson of the Great Ming Emperor.

Last time I was robbing myself of raw silk, this time I was robbing myself of weavers!
If it weren't for Wang Bo, who is holding a steam engine in his hand, he would have commanded Jin Yiwei, and the world would have to arrest these dogs and bring them to justice.

At that time, under Jin Yiwei's means, what do they want them to do, dare they not do it?
Lu Shiyuan, acting as the agent of Songjiang Shipbuilding Department, learned that the weavers in Suzhou had been recruited away, so he didn't want to sign a contract with overseas fan merchants on the spot, and wanted to void the signed contract.

"Emperor grandson, we can't sign any more orders. If we sign again, we won't be able to deliver the goods!"

"Old Lu, you can sign with confidence!"

"Let's not talk about their little goods, even if they double it ten times, Gu can still fiddle with it!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Shiyuan hurriedly explained.

"Your Highness, this is different!"

"Fan merchants come to order with patterns, and they have to weave according to their patterns..."

"What?"

Zhu Yunxi was also dumbfounded when he heard this. He had no idea that there were so many requests from overseas fan merchants.

"What pattern?"

Lu Shiyuan hurriedly showed Zhu Yunxi the drawings provided by overseas fan merchants.

"This is the statue of the Virgin Mary..."

"This is Jesus..."

"And this pattern..."

"Runculus?"

"That's right, that's what Mr. Michael Harris called it. He said it was a plant from the West, implying..."

Zhu Yunxi blurted out.

"It implies wisdom and art, exuberant vitality, as well as regeneration and resurrection."

Lu Shiyuan's eyes were about to pop out when he heard the words. He used to think that the emperor's grandson only valued the benefits of maritime trade, but he didn't expect that the emperor's grandson knew so much about overseas customs.

"Emperor Grandson Shengming!"

"This thing does have these meanings, and our Nine Great Merchants have woven a lot of silk like this for them over the years."

"The patterns of the porcelain going to sea in Quanzhou, Fujian are also customized, and they need to be made according to the patterns and styles they provide, so that they can be shipped back to sell at a good price!"

After hearing Lu Shiyuan's words, Zhu Yunxi was deeply moved.

He used to think that as long as it was something produced by Daming, Westerners would rush to buy it.

The merchants of Ming Dynasty dare to support sample customization at this time!
Although the delivery time is a bit long, it's not that the craftsmen of Ming Dynasty are slow, it's really limited by the transportation conditions of this era.

Zhu Yunxi felt a lot of emotion, and realized that he still knew too little about maritime trade, and what he knew was too biased.Afterwards, he became even more determined to be a hand-off shopkeeper, and decided that he would never intervene in the affairs of the Shibo Department casually in the future, and let the professional work be done by professional people.

It's just that he still strongly opposes the cancellation of the order.

"Old Lu, you can do it with confidence and boldness. Leave the silk weaving to Gu, and Gu will definitely not smash the signboard of our Shibo Division!"

After Zhu Yunxi separated from Lu Shiyuan, he wrote a letter to the commander of the Jing Navy, asking when the Jing Navy could go to sea for trial voyages.

He couldn't bear the situation of being held back by a group of profiteers, and wanted to directly seal the port and rot their goods in the warehouse, waiting for them to come to beg for mercy.

However, the letter from Li Qi, the commander of the Jing Navy, is very frustrating, saying that the soldiers are not yet proficient in the operation of the ship, and it will take at least two months.

After reading the contents of the letter, Zhu Yunxi went directly to Suzhou and personally supervised the preparation of steam spinning machines and steam spinning machines.

It just happened that the location of the factory was selected before, and now it can be started directly.

Since the construction cost of the spinning machine is relatively low, he started from the spinning machine, and invited the bosses of all the loom factories in Suzhou to visit after the completion.

While Zhu Yunxi was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, Zhang Tianyou, who sneaked back to Suzhou, led several sea merchants and local merchants in Suzhou to hold a meeting.

This time they held a celebration party to celebrate that they had blocked the emperor's grandson's plan and recruited the weavers in Suzhou one step ahead of schedule.

"Drink to our victory!"

After everyone raised their glasses to celebrate, they naturally praised Zhang Tianyou a lot.

"Brother Zhang Xian is far-sighted and considerate, he really has the style of a general!"

"This time, tens of thousands of weavers were recruited in advance, and almost all the weavers on the market are in our hands. Let's see how the emperor's grandson weaves silk, hahaha!"

Listening to everyone's praise, Zhang Tianyou pretended to be modest and authentic.

"Where is!"

"I'm just seeing tricks and breaking tricks!"

"Some time ago, I was frantically collecting raw silk, and the emperor's grandson gave me a flash, which caused me to lose several million taels for nothing!"

"If I hadn't run so fast, I would have become the emperor's grandson's prisoner by now!"

When everyone heard this, there was a burst of fear on their faces.

It has long been known that the emperor's grandson ransacked the ambassador's house in Suzhou.

Although the emperor's grandson did not kill people on the spot, he just transported them back to the capital and handed them over to the old emperor, but everyone knew that Ambassador Ku's death was certain.

The only uncertainty is how he will die, whether he will be flayed and killed, or will be executed lightly.

If it's the latter, then he really got a big deal.

Many of the merchants in Suzhou are Sun Yuan's customers, or have had business cooperation with him.

After all, if Sun Yuan wants to turn the materials in the warehouse into money, he must deal with merchants and sell these materials.

Therefore, everyone felt very sorry to hear that such a business partner had been arrested.

"Brother Zhang Jiaxian, I heard that the imperial court plans to build a tomb for your father?"

"The imperial court's move should be to reassure you?"

Zhang Tianyou said with disdain on his face.

"Humph!"

"Everyone, don't worry, I won't join the imperial court like Lu Shiyuan did. My Zhang family swears that I will never live with the Zhu family dynasty!"

Seeing what Zhang Tianyou said, everyone applauded him.

"Brother Zhang said it well, this is what you should say after Sijiugong!"

The reason why everyone applauds so much is because they have already excluded the Lu family from the Nine Great Merchants.

Although Lu Shi originally planned to let his daughter take over the family business and work for the court himself.But Jiu Dashang still excluded his daughter Lu Hongfu, and didn't even notify their family of the secret meeting.

Because there is no such thing as a so-called fence-sitting faction in this world, and if you want to sit on the fence, you will be the first to die.

"Hey, have you heard that the emperor's grandson is building a new factory in Suzhou, saying that there are looms that don't use manpower!"

When everyone heard this, they all scoffed.

"gab!"

"There is no loom in this world that does not use manpower!"

"Although there are hydraulic mills and water-pulsed rice, weaving silk and spinning yarn are complicated things. How can a little hydraulic power understand it?"

Everyone laughed at the emperor's grandson's innocence, played the crowns and celebrated with each other all night before sneaking back to their respective homes.

The sea merchants who came to Suzhou from other places were fine. The local merchants in Suzhou received invitations from the magistrate not long after they returned home, saying that they were invited to visit the newly built spinning machines.

Everyone who received this kind of invitation had blankness written on their faces.

Is there really no spinning machine in the world?

It's impossible, right?
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　　Fight for full attendance!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)