Northern Song Dynasty: Starting from the son of Song Renzong

Chapter 76: Lu Yijian destroyed his teacher’s job?

Chapter 76: Lu Yijian destroyed his teacher’s job?
The next night.

His father came over and asked him how the military training was going.

Zhao Xin could only say it was okay.

Then his father told him not to overwork himself.

Zhao Xin said that he would pay attention to it.

Fourth day.

With the help of a group of people, the first improved loom was made.

Then, he bought some raw silk from the market and tried it himself.

to be frank!
After learning about the price of raw silk, Zhao Xin felt that what he earned was mostly hard-earned money.

The price of a piece of silk is about one or two hundred coins.

The price of raw materials for raw silk accounts for at least 60%.

The remaining 40% is what you earn.

I also have to pay the female workers' wages, food, and shipping costs.

The most you can earn from one horse is probably only two or three hundred coins.

Let's compromise and take two hundred and fifty cents.

How much he could earn that month depended on how many rolls of silk he could weave.

Suppose there are 100 women, and they can weave at least two pieces of silk a day. In a month, that would be 6,000 pieces of silk, and they would earn 1.5 million coins, or 1,500 strings of cash.

To support a royal guard, according to the highest standard of fifty strings of cash per year, you can only support thirty people.

Depend on!
So after working hard for a month, I can only support thirty of them.

There are twelve months in a year, so one hundred female workers can support three hundred and sixty people.

One thousand female workers can support three thousand six hundred men!

……

After testing the new loom, Zhao Xin asked everyone, "How is it? Has it become more convenient?"

The craftsmen below also replied: "It is indeed more convenient than before."

Zhao Xin also asked: "So, is this matter going to work?"

The craftsman below said, "It shouldn't be a problem."

Zhao Xin said, "That's good! But the raw silk purchased in Dongjing City is too expensive. Let's find an opportunity to unite some farmers and ask them to raise more silkworms every year. Then we can buy from them at a price that is 10% to 20% lower than the market price. This way, we might be able to make more money."

"Or maybe we can look for remote rural areas that are not accessible by business and roads but have huge development potential."

"Zhao Xun!"

Zhao Xun said, "Yes!"

Zhao Xin said, "In the next month and a half, all of you go down and ask about the price of raw silk in all places within 400 miles of Tokyo City. Don't miss any rural area."

Zhao Xun also said: "Then this military training..."

Zhao Xin said, "We don't need to fight now, so why bother training so hard? And... I will be responsible for the training."

Zhao Xun: "Duke Shou?"

Zhao Xin: "Don't worry! I'll take care of it."

Then...

Zhao Xin brought out a map and asked them to choose a route to investigate the situation.

of course!

Zhao Xin also had to give them travel expenses, food and accommodation for one and a half months.

Ok!

There were only a dozen or so people, and he could still afford them with his monthly salary of two hundred thousand coins.

As for the craftsmen, they would naturally build another 100 looms like this, and as for hiring female workers...

Just recruit workers directly, what else can you do?

Things were quickly assigned.

then……

He also needs to find his father again and ask for a place that can be used as a factory.

Zhao Xin thought that the East Palace was quite empty and no one lived there anyway, so he might as well put all the looms there. One can imagine the expression on his father's face.

disagree!
If you don’t agree, there’s nothing I can do!
We can only build it in a place outside the city.

For one hundred looms, there would need to be at least twenty or thirty small thatched huts.

in fact……

Even requisitioning his father’s palace would be fine!

His father rarely went to the palace anyway.

It's a waste if it just sits there.

Moreover, the palace is well kept secret and ordinary people cannot enter.

Zhao Zhen also discovered that Zui Xinglai's brain was really flexible.

Said: "How do you know how to make money?"

Zhao Xin sat barefoot on the couch and replied to his father seriously, "Because there is a saying in the art of war that food and fodder must be sent before troops move."

But you have directly bypassed me, your father.

At this time, do you still have to wait until you make money before you start recruiting soldiers?
then……

Zhao Zhen looked at him helplessly.

but……

It is understandable that he is still young, has no manners, and does not understand the court's procedures.

For example, when it comes to things like making money, he should first submit a memorial to himself stating that he has to do so because of military needs.

Then he can do it only after he agrees!
But now...

After all, he is my own son, there is nothing I can do!
Zhao Zhen was very calm, and then asked, "Zhang Fangping said that he wanted to abolish the Privy Council and transfer its duties to the Secretariat. What do you think, Zui Xinglai?"

Zhao Xin also asked: "What do you mean? The teacher is going to be unemployed?"

Zhao Zhen: "...It's not that I will lose my job, but I want to merge the duties of the Privy Council with those of the Secretariat."

Zhao Xin: "Is it Lu Yijian? Lu Yijian is going to destroy the teacher's job?"

Zhao Zhen thought about it and decided that although what Zui Xing said was not entirely correct, it was basically the same.

Zhao Zhen then asked, "Zui Xinglai, do you know what Zhongshu does?"

Zhao Xin said, "It was Fang Xuanling who did it. He drafted the imperial edict, issued the imperial edict, and made decisions on things."

Zhao Zhen said, "Zhang Fangping said that now the military and the political are separated and each is in charge of its own affairs. What happened in the Privy Council here may not be known to the Secretariat, and what happened in the Secretariat here may not be known to the Privy Council either."

"So... he requested that the Privy Council be abolished and merged into the Secretariat. In that case, once the Privy Council becomes a department under the Secretariat, the Secretariat will be able to control both administration and military affairs."

"Just as you said, it's almost the same as Fang Xuanling. The power of the prime minister will become very great by then."

Zhao Xin then said, "So, Dad, you don't want Lu Yijian's power to become too great."

Zhao Zhen replied, "It's not that I don't want to, but our ancestors established the two ministries and three departments for the purpose of dividing power. If we follow Zhang Fangping's memorial, wouldn't it be a regression to the Tang Dynasty?"

It seems that everything about the Song Dynasty today is not going well.

However, I don’t know how to change it.

Once it is changed, it will inevitably return to the Tang Dynasty.

It's like taking a step forward and then taking a step back.

But as we all know, the Tang Dynasty has fallen.

The absolute power of prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty also provided them with valuable reference.

Zhao Zhen didn't know whether it was a bit too early for Zui Xinglai to ask such a question.

but……

There's no harm in asking.

after all……

If all the ministers in the court cannot be trusted, then since Zui Xinglai is his son, he should be trustworthy, right?

then……