Several people returned to Liu Jin's house. In the study, everyone drank tea and began to think deeply.
"It doesn't matter whether it's cotton or wool, it seems there's no way around Wala."
Zhang Mao thought for a long time and said.
"We can't get around Oala. After we wiped out the army of the little Tatar prince last year, the Tatars are no longer a concern. Now the Tatar tribes are seriously injured and cannot pose the slightest threat to our Ming Dynasty."
"But it also gave the Oara a chance. The Oara are now annexing the tribes that originally belonged to the Tatars, and their power has been expanding eastward."
Liu Jin nodded and said, then he took out a map and started to introduce the situation of the Oara tribes.
"The structure of the Oara tribes is generally equal, and they can be divided into four tribes: the Heshuote tribe, the Junggar tribe, the Durbot tribe and the Torgut tribe."
"Among them, the Heshuote Tribe are descendants of the Golden Family and are nominally the leaders of the Oara tribes. The other tribes are Mongolians in a broad sense and are dependent on the Mongols. The leader is not a Khan. He only has the right to convene and not to centralize power."
"Ola was the most powerful during the Yingzong period. However, after Ye Xian's death, the various factions of Wala dispersed and their power gradually weakened. Now, the internal conflicts among them are actually quite serious. They are still Ola in name, but they have already gone their separate ways.
"
"Originally, after we destroyed the army of the little Tatar prince last year, the vitality of the Tatar tribes was greatly weakened. It was a good opportunity for them to annex the Tatars and unify the northern grasslands."
"But because they are internally dispersed and their strength is also dispersed, those who are really advancing eastward and intending to unify the northern grasslands are the Heshuote tribe and the Junggar tribe among the four tribes of Oara. The Heshuote tribe gradually conquered the Tatar tribes from north to south.
, the Junggar tribe conquered the Tatar tribes from west to east."
Liu Jin has been making preparations for the northern grasslands.
Whether it's Huangjinzhou or Australia, they're a bit far away from the Ming Dynasty, but this northern grassland is different.
There is a very vast land to the north of the Great Wall, the northern grasslands, and further north is the even more vast Siberia. Although this area is cold, it contains extremely rich mineral resources.
The survival of future generations of polar bears depends on the rich resources of Siberia.
With such a huge area and so close to the Ming Dynasty, is there any reason not to eat it?
What's more, only when the northern grasslands are truly pacified can the Ming Dynasty truly have no edge. Otherwise, the capital is so close to the grasslands, and the opponent can come to the capital at any time, which is extremely dangerous for the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Liu Jin paid close attention to the news from the Tatar and Oara tribes and paid close attention to every move on the grassland very early.
"We are taking action against Wala now, that is the best time~"
"Oara is internally scattered and the Tatar tribes are severely weakened. If we wait for Oara to unify the Tatar tribes, we will have to face a powerful enemy by then, maybe another Ye Xian or the Mongol Empire.
Already."
Liu Jin bluntly proposed taking action against Wala and seizing the opportunity to solve the problems on the northern grasslands.
After listening to Liu Jin's analysis, Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo couldn't help but nod.
Now is indeed a good time to use force against the Oara. The Oara tribes are scattered and the Tatars are severely weakened. However, the Ming Dynasty is now at its peak and its national power is at its peak. If we do not take advantage of the opportunity to eliminate the threat of the northern grasslands now, it will be difficult in the future.
"His Majesty is also very worried about the northern grasslands and intends to solve the problem of the northern grasslands now."
Zhang Mao thought about it and revealed it.
He was a popular person around Emperor Hongzhi. He was the first to know about any major events, and he also knew everything about Emperor Hongzhi's worries.
"It's just that if we use force against Oara, there will definitely be many ministers in the DPRK and China who will object, especially those civil servants. They will definitely oppose the use of force against Oara."
Zhu Fu thought for a while and said.
The civil servant group and the military generals and noble group are naturally opposed to each other. The thing that the civilian group opposes the most is the use of force.
Even though Zhang Mao and Liu Jin had a great victory over Japan not long ago, some people still impeached Zhang Mao and Liu Jin for committing mass murder in Japan, killing and plundering vassal ministers, etc.
Thinking of this, Zhu Fu felt that it was unrealistic.
"Yes, we just launched an expedition against Japan not long ago, and now we are going to use force against Wa La. I'm afraid the opposition from the court will be very loud."
"And His Majesty may not agree."
Zhang Mao also nodded and said.
"Mr. Zhang, Gong Zhu, just wait and see the good show. In a few days, even if we don't need to bring it up, the civil servants in the court will also bring up the idea of using force against Wa La."
After hearing this, Liu Jin smiled and said very confidently.
"Why is this?"
When Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu and Xu Guangzuo heard this, they immediately asked in confusion.
"Because of interests, because the butt determines the head~"
Liu Jin smiled and said in a pretentious manner.
"Benefit?"
"The butt determines the head?"
Zhang Mao and the others quickly began to think deeply in their minds.
"You mean this cotton and wool?"
Soon, Zhang Mao suddenly thought of something and said.
"Mr. Zhang is amazing! How did he guess it so quickly?"
Liu Jin smiled and nodded.
…
Things were just as Liu Jin expected.
As the price of cotton continues to rise, and at the same time, cotton is in short supply, and the situation of having a good price but not having a market is getting more and more serious, people who invest in textile factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area are anxious to death.
There are thousands of textile factories, large and small, in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, which involves almost the interests of the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, and even the entire Ming Dynasty's dignitaries and upper-class people.
There are really too many people investing in textile factories, from high and low in the court, from princes and nobles to ordinary officials, even eunuchs in the palace, ordinary people in the market, etc.
Needless to say, the military generals Xungui Group, Sangong Textile Factory, Zhang's Textile Factory, etc., the textile factories invested by these military generals Xungui Group are all very large in scale, with many workers and many machines.
On the civil servants' side, the Wang family's Caiyun Textile Factory, the cabinet Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, the six ministers, ministers, etc., almost all civil servants of all sizes have invested in some textile factories.
This is also a phenomenon in the Beijing-Tianjin area now. Investing in textile factories, investing in maritime trading firms, investing in cement plants, etc. has become a trend and a very hot topic.
After all, no one can have trouble with money.
Now the price of cotton has skyrocketed, reaching the point where there is no market for it. Even those with money have no place to buy cotton. This has caused huge turmoil in the entire Beijing-Tianjin region.
The first problem that arises in the development of capitalism is before everyone. Instead of facing the problem of market saturation, it first faces the problem of insufficient raw materials.
Because of this incident, no one in the Beijing-Tianjin area can eat or sleep.
Although the investment in a textile factory is not as large as that of an ocean trading house, the investment of an ocean trading house can easily amount to hundreds of thousands or millions of taels of silver.
However, investment in a textile factory requires at least several thousand or tens of thousands of taels of silver. After all, new spinning machines and looms are very expensive.
Also because the investment in the spinning mill does not need to be too large, it has also attracted people from the entire Beijing and Tianjin areas to invest, and the connections and interests involved are really too wide.
Everyone in the capital was discussing cotton and the sharp increase in cotton prices, and at the same time they were looking for cotton everywhere.
Textile factories that were once bustling and busy have also stopped working one after another, making the owners of the textile factories even more sad and helpless.
At this time, the Ming Morning News began to exert its efforts under Liu Jin's instruction.
First of all, the Ming Dynasty Morning Post, as always, introduces the world outside the Ming Dynasty to the people of the Ming Dynasty. In recent days, it has dedicated a large space to introducing the Western Regions in detail.
The historical relationship between the Western Regions and the Han family tells in detail the rule and management of the Western Regions by the Central Plains Dynasty during the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.
The climate and products of the Western Regions collect the climatic conditions of the Western Regions in detail and introduce the special products of the Western Regions. The focus is naturally on the cotton in the Western Regions.
It talks about cotton cultivation in the Western Regions with a long history, high yield, slender cotton lint, high quality, etc.
When they saw this, the people in Beijing and Tianjin who were worried about cotton immediately grasped at straws. There was no cotton in the Ming Dynasty, but there was plenty of cotton in the Western Regions.
Moreover, you need to take a boat to go to Huanghuangzhou, and you also need a boat to go to Nanyang. The investment is huge, but you don’t need to go to the Western Regions. There is land directly connected to the Western Regions. Get a camel team, and the horse team can continuously sell cotton back from the Western Regions.
.
Suddenly, a large number of businessmen in the capital went to the Western Regions in order to make huge profits from cotton.
However this is not over yet.
After the Ming Dynasty Morning Post introduced the cotton in the Western Regions in detail, it began to talk about the reasons for the shortage of raw materials this time, and then also proposed a method of using wool to replace cotton.
It also introduced in detail how to clean, soak, deodorize, etc. the methods and steps of wool. Liu Jin even asked people to demonstrate in a public place in the capital, turning dirty wool into clean and snow-white.
of wool.
This suddenly made people in the Beijing-Tianjin area even more rejoicing. Cotton can only be planted once a year. The cotton used now was planted last year, and this year's cotton will not be available until autumn and winter.
Therefore, it is difficult to reduce the price of cotton in a short period of time. Even if cotton can be purchased from the Western Regions, the price will not be cheap.
But this wool is different. There is a lot of wool on the grassland. There are no people on the grassland for this kind of dirty wool. If you give the grassland something casually, you can get a cart of wool.
return.
If such wool is used to spin and weave cloth, the cost of the cloth can be reduced and the profit will be higher.