The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 142 Royal Capital
For the sake of keeping the new type of spinning machine secret, although idlers are not allowed to approach the workshop, thousands of women come in and out of the city every day, and they still have a lot of cotton on their bodies.

In addition, in the past few months, a large amount of cotton has been shipped from all over Shandong, and almost everyone has guessed what is going on in the hundreds of large workshops outside the city.

For nobles and ordinary merchants and civil servants, it is just lamenting that His Majesty is not doing business properly, and the farther and farther he goes with the merchants, the more addicted he is.

But for the cloth merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the cotton cloth merchants, and the officials of the Donglin Party who had a close relationship with them, it was like a bolt from the blue.

Because only from the scale of the workshops that have been built or are being built outside the city, we can see His Majesty's ambitions. He absolutely wishes to gather all the cotton cloth in the world to the capital for weaving.

Although everyone didn't think that the cotton cloth produced by His Majesty could be better and cheaper than Jiangnan's, but he was the emperor, and he didn't follow the rules, so he was extremely nervous.

As for admonishing His Majesty not to use the people for profit, the civil servants of the Donglin Party thought about it, but the emperor didn't go to court, didn't meet him, and didn't read the memorials, even if he thought about it, he couldn't do anything.

The only way is for everyone to collectively go to the gate of the palace to petition and kneel, or spread rumors to force the emperor to retreat under the pressure of public opinion.

However, these two methods have been proved, one is not good, it will pay the price of ransacking the family.

So when everyone counted up, they had to wait and see, after all, the workshop hadn't produced cloth yet.

It can be said that it was only at this time that Zhu Cihong touched the real interests of the officials and businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River.

As for the civil servants, Zhu Cihong also adopted an attitude of ignoring them for the time being, and ignored him if he did not cause trouble, and killed whoever caused trouble, and he did not rely on them to do things anyway.

As the grain harvest in various places comes to an end, the reform of each military station has also begun to advance. In fact, it is very simple, that is, to send some scholars to each station, and then select some veterans from each army to serve as military officers and banner officers at all levels. The system is also completely in accordance with the Xuanfu of Datong.

After the Xuanfu Datong reform was completed last year, thousands of talented scholars came out, and they were all brought back to the capital to support them.

And Zhu Cihong also summoned all the remaining gentlemen and landowners from all the prefectures and counties in Yingtian Prefecture to the capital for a meeting.

These gentry and landowners were all big households whose land had been confiscated, or some barren land was left, but they were unwilling to leave and still depended on the local area.

Zhu Cihong was very clear about the thoughts of this group of people, he just wanted to kill him, or he wanted to wait for a long time in the future, when his attention would no longer be on this, and then slowly get those lands back from the military households.

Regarding their methods and patience, Zhu Cihong had no doubts at all. If he changed to another emperor, he would definitely not exceed 20 years at most, and those military households would definitely become tenants of those big households, or become tenant farmers of those hundreds of households.

This is also the reason why Zhu Cihong did not directly distribute the land to the people. If the people's own quality is not improved, they will eventually have nothing again.

As for relying on systems and supervision to restrict, it is also a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

It can be guarded for a while, but it cannot be guarded for the first life, it can be guarded for the first life, but it cannot be guarded for the second or third life.

This is an iron case that has been proven by countless dynasties.

So Zhu Cihong will not let these landlords and gentry just sit and eat all day long, staring at the land of those military households.

It was still on the square of the Emperor's Hall, plus those nobles who were excluded from the five armies, the number also reached nearly a thousand people.

"I called you here today mainly because I want to solve the future for you. Although you have rich family backgrounds, it may not be a long-term solution to sit and eat like this all day long!"

When everyone in the square heard Zhu Cihong's words, they were both nervous and expectant.

Most people only thought that the emperor would let them work as contractors just like he treated those military officers, so all of them pricked up their ears.

"Presumably all of you have also seen that I have built a very large group of workshops outside the city for spinning. I can tell you the truth that the efficiency of the spinning machine I made is three times that of the Jiangnan spinning machine." Bei, everyone should know what this means, don't I need to explain it?"

Everyone was taken aback, obviously they didn't expect the spinning machine made by His Majesty to be so efficient, and some nobles have already begun to be tempted.

If other people said this, everyone would naturally scoff and would not believe it, but what the emperor said was definitely not false.

"As everyone knows, this cotton cloth is not just spun, it has to be woven, then dyed, and finally sold.

So I plan to cooperate with you, the royal will supply the cotton cloth, and you will open the dyeing workshop to be responsible for the dyeing, and then you can choose to sell it to various places, or you can sell it to the royal family at the price of the commercial supervisor, and the imperial shops in various places will sell it. "

Zhu Cihong didn't plan to eat the piece of dyed cloth alone, but planned to tie these honorable gentry together to do it.

Firstly, there is a shortage of manpower in the palace, so doing so can occupy the entire cotton cloth market faster.

Secondly, if you want to develop the industry, the royal family alone may not be able to go far. You need to attract more people to join in, forming a huge interest group, or even a brand new capitalist class.

Only in this way can the old gentry class be replaced, and the system that is conducive to the development of industry and commerce in the future can be sustained for a long time, so that it will not be overthrown after his death.

Of course, this brand-new capital must be led by the royal family, and the state should hold a large share.

Zhu Cihong's plan is that in the future, the royal family will lead a new type of businessman to develop industry and commerce together.

However, for some huge profits and important industries, the imperial court must take a large share, but it can only supervise the accounting and distribution of money, and cannot intervene in specific business matters.

In the future, the royal family and the state will be two concepts, just like the current inner court and outer court.

Royal money and business belonged to the emperor and the royal family privately, while state money belonged to the public and belonged to everyone in Ming Dynasty.

Although after a long period of time like this, corruption will definitely prevail, but at least it will not be like the current Daming, making the emperor and the household department poor to death, and the poor can't even pay the army's military salary and officials' salaries.

However, the gentry and landlords in the world are so fat that their money becomes moldy when buried in the ground.

Compared with the extremely selfish capital in the West that has no family and country, the emperor, as the ruler of the country, must have slightly better royal capital.

At least they will not care about the life and death of the country, and will put the royal dominance first, instead of putting wealth and immediate interests first.

This time after Zhu Cihong finished speaking, discussions finally erupted in the venue. First, the nobles chatted quietly, and then the gentry and landlords also boldly communicated.

(End of this chapter)