Chongzhen said: "In short, buy all the houses and land you can buy for me."
"I accept the decree." Ma Mingluan nodded and said, "Your Majesty, there is one last thing to do. I don't understand why I have to hand over part of the firearm order to the Hubu Arsenal and a dozen other small workshops?
"
After saying this, Ma Mingluan said again: "I made a special trip to the Hubu Arsenal and the dozen or so small workshops to see it. The Lumi gun produced by them cannot be compared with that of the Ming Arsenal, and the price is even more expensive. The Ming Dynasty
The Lumi gun made in the arsenal is only quoted at 2 taels of silver each, but they want to sell it for 3 taels!"
"Then we must also give them orders." Chongzhen said, "If you don't worry about the long term, you will have to worry about the near future."
After saying this, Ma Mingluo immediately reacted: "Is the Holy Spirit worried that after the Ming Dynasty Arsenal monopolizes the supply of firearms, it will sell inferior firearms? Will the quality of firearms decline over time?"
"Definitely." Chongzhen nodded, "People are lazy, and factories are the same."
"So we have to cultivate competitors for the Ming Arsenal, and we have to let the Zhan family understand that they are not irreplaceable, so that they can always maintain a humble attitude and work seriously."
In fact, there was another reason why Chongzhen didn't tell Ma Mingluan.
That is, Chongzhen pointed to the arms industry to drive industrial development.
So the driving effect of just one Ming arsenal would definitely not be as good as the driving effect of more than a dozen arsenals together. For the industrial development of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen really worried about it.
When he thought of industrial development, Chongzhen also thought of industrial and commercial banks.
At that moment, Chongzhen asked: "By the way, has the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China opened?"
"It has been open for business a long time ago." Ma Mingluan said, "Zheng Zunqian is already planning to build a shipping and shipbuilding bank."
"Already open for business?" Chongzhen was stunned, thinking that he was indeed somewhat incompetent as an emperor. He did not attend such an important event in person to stand down.
Wang Chengen probably reported it to him.
But at that time, he was only focused on making blunderbuss and didn't pay attention to it.
After a pause, Chongzhen then asked: "Are there many workshops that come to Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to seek shares?"
"Your Majesty, that's really not an ordinary number." Ma Mingluan said with a smile, "The Industrial and Commercial Bank is crowded with customers every day. Even the workshop owners from Songjiang, Hangzhou and Yangzhou come here to seek shares."
"Very good." Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
The curtain of development of handicraft industry has begun.
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The time will soon come to the end of October.
Xu Yingwei has been training for more than half a month with his 270 soldiers from the Xu clan in the East.
After more than half a month of basic training, the queue has moved forward in a decent manner, but reciting the new performance book is a headache. These illiterate farmers really can't remember it.
But you must remember it even if you can’t remember it.
Even if you can’t memorize it, you must memorize it.
Otherwise, you won't be able to go to the battlefield at all.
So Xu Yingwei could only teach sentence by sentence.
After today's morning training, there was another random inspection of the regulations as usual.
Xu Yingwei glanced over, and the 270 descendants of the Xu family who were lined up suddenly felt their butts burning, especially Xu Wuniu, who had just received twenty boards yesterday morning.
However, whatever you fear will come true.
Xu Yingwei said sharply: "Xu Wuniu!"
"Here!" Xu Wuniu subconsciously took a step forward and responded loudly.
Xu Yingwei said in a deep voice: "Part 2 of the new performance book, concise terms of orders, general principles, memorize it!"
"Yes!" Xu Wuniu agreed and recited, "Our ears only listen to the trumpets and drums, our eyes only see the flags, and the three-color lights at night!"
"If a certain color flag is raised and moved, it means that the soldiers of a certain battalion are ready to attack. When the trumpet sounds, they will go out to fight immediately. They are not allowed to listen to the words spoken by others and move without permission."
"Even if the Lord speaks words, He is not allowed to move."
"If you have to go in when you are beating a drum, you have to go in even if the river in front blocks the road."
"When the charge horn sounds, we must charge forward even if we are facing mountains of swords and seas of fire!"
"When the rallying horn sounds, we have to retreat even if there are mountains of gold and silver in front of us!"
"This is true. We all have one eye, one ear, and one heart. There is no thief that cannot be killed, no slave that cannot be destroyed, and no merit that cannot be accomplished!"
"Okay, join the queue!" Xu Yingwei nodded happily.
This stupid cow finally understood the second general principle.
Xu Wuniu let out a long breath and quickly returned to the queue.
Xu Yingwei glanced at him again and said: "Xu Huhu!"
Another strong man no less powerful than a black ox came out: "Here we come!"
Xu Yingwei said: "The third chapter of the new performance book, Military Law, memorize it!"
"Yes." Xu Huniu's recitation progress was much faster than Xu Wuniu's.
"There are only a few heroes on the battlefield. Every time a leader is beheaded, there are often hundreds of people fighting..."
"Anyone who shrinks from battle will be ordered to have his ears cut off by the captain; if he flinches, the captain will cut off his ears; if the captain flinches, the commander of the sentry will cut off his ears..."
"Any soldier who ambushes, encounters thieves who can't afford it or wakes up early will be killed, as well as the leader of the army! Each soldier will be deducted twenty pieces of silver and a staff pension!"
"In every case, one person is in the lead. If nine people fail to save and are killed in battle, all nine of them will be killed! Anyone who is in the lead will be surrounded, and if one is besieged, then the other will be surrounded..."
I'm stuck and can't carry it anymore.
The more anxious Xu Huhu was, the less he could remember.
Xu Yingwei's face fell down and he said sternly: "Drag us down, fight for twenty!"
When two soldiers on duty came forward, they couldn't help but carry Xu Laohu to the side of the sunbathing field, and then took off his pants in front of the onlookers, women, children, and women, revealing his two big black buttocks.
The women and children around him laughed loudly, while the women all blushed with embarrassment.
Xu Laohu's dark face was flushed with shame, but he did not dare to say a word.
Because they had already learned Xu Yingwei's method, adding ten sticks to each sound, who could withstand this?
"Pah! Pah!" The jujube wood board hit Xu Laohu's black buttocks one after another. It only took two blows to make bleeding marks, but ten times left bloody marks. Xu Laohu still didn't say a word.
After twenty sticks were finished, the two soldiers on duty were ready to step forward to help him.
"No need!" Xu Laohu got up on his own and limped back to the queue.
Xu Yingwei said: "This morning's training subject is still mountainous marching with heavy loads, everything is included..."
Before he finished speaking, his third brother Xu Yingxiong suddenly rushed over and shouted: "Brother, daddy wants you to go back. My uncle from the Huangtan Shi family is here. Hurry up."
"I know." Xu Yingwei agreed, and then said, "Xu Yinglong."
Xu Yinglong, whose name was called, took a big step forward and responded loudly: "Here we go!"
"It's up to you to return to the team for this morning's training." After Xu Yingwei said that, he went home.
When I got home, I saw Shi Jiuke, the eldest brother of my wife's mother's family, also wearing a t-shirt.
"Master Xu." Seeing Xu Yingwei walking in proudly, Shi Jiuke quickly stood up and bowed to the ground.
The two were both Linshan students from Xinchang County School, and they were uncle Lang's in-laws. In the past, Shi Jiu could look down on Xu Yingwei, because the Huangtan Shi family was a prominent family in the southeast. Since the ancestor Shi Fen moved to Shiniu Town, it has been here for thousands of years.
It has been prosperous for a long time. Since the Ming Dynasty, there have been an endless stream of ministers and ministers, and there have been countless Jinshi candidates.
Xu Yingwei’s father-in-law, Shi Zhengwen, was a famous scholar in Southeastern Neo-Confucianism.
Meeting a master like Liu Zongzhou, Shi Zhengwen could also have a seat.
So when Shi Sanniang married Xu Yingwei, she was really marrying down.
However, time has passed, and in just one year, Xu Xiucai, who still relied on the old Taishan family, suddenly turned into a terrifying existence that even the county magistrates looked up to.
Therefore, Shi Jiuke would never dare to make any excuses.
Xu Yingwei does not have the bad habits of a bureaucracy.
"Brother, what are you doing?" Xu Yingwei helped Shi Jiuke up affectionately and said with a smile, "You and I are both classmates at the county school and uncle, how can we be so polite?"
A smile immediately appeared on Shi Jiuke's face.
It's good. He's still the same Xu Xiucai as before, and he doesn't show off just because he succeeds.
On the contrary, Xu Shiyi, who was accompanying him next to him, was a little unhappy. He felt that since Xu Yingwei became a high official, he should have the first-class majesty of a high official. How could he be so without pretensions? If he didn't have pretensions, would he still be a high official?
After a few words of greeting, Xu Yingwei asked directly: "Brother, is there something wrong with you?"
"There really is one." Shi Jiuke nodded and said, "As you know, Youzhen, I quit the science test three years ago and just wanted to try my luck in the business world."
"I know this." Xu Yingwei said, "Aren't you planning to plant mulberry, raise silkworms and weave silk?"
"That's exactly what happened." Shi Jiuke said, "After three years of hard work, the mulberry seedlings were able to produce mulberry leaves and even harvested several cocoons. However, the silk reeling and weaving processes got stuck.
"
"What's going on?" Xu Yingwei said, "No one knows how to reel silk?"
"Who says it isn't?" Shi Jiuke sighed, "It doesn't matter if no one knows how to weave silk. At worst, we can just sell raw silk. But if no one knows how to reel silk, it's over. We can only let it rot."
"Then invite people over." Xu Yingwei said, "Now that the craftsman status has been cancelled, craftsmen can move freely. As long as the wages you pay are high enough, are you afraid that no one will come over?"
Shi Jiuke sighed: "Isn't it just because I can't afford the wages?"
After a pause, he continued: "I have spent tens of thousands of taels of silver on buying fields to plant mulberry seedlings, buying silkworm seeds, hiring workers to collect mulberry leaves, harvesting silkworm cocoons, and opening silk reeling and weaving workshops.
, I have completely emptied my family fortune, and now I really can’t put any more money into it.”
"Brother, you have found the wrong person." Xu Yingwei said directly.
"Our family can spare hundreds of taels of silver, but what you are short of is tens of thousands of taels."
At this time, Xu Shiyi, who was accompanying me, gritted his teeth and said, "It's no problem to scrape together a thousand taels of silver."
Xu Shiyi has never been an old-fashioned and warm-hearted character. The key is that being able to help the Shi family once gives him a unique sense of accomplishment. Their grandfather, the Xu family, can also help a famous family like the Shi family in Huangtan.
Xu Yingwei said angrily: "Dad, one thousand taels is of no use."
"Father-in-law, this junior is not here to borrow money." After Shi Jiuke finished speaking, he said to Xu Yingwei, "That's it. Yesterday I went to the county and saw an announcement about the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on the fourth page of the Huangming Times.