At Liu Jin's house in the capital, it is so comfortable to not have to go to the morning court, especially when the weather is getting colder, the cold wind is howling, and the snowflakes are falling. I get up at three o'clock in the morning and prepare to go to the morning court. Think about that feeling.
I feel shuddering just thinking about it.
He hugs his two beautiful wives and sleeps until they wake up naturally. If he is in a good mood, he can do some morning exercises or something. Isn’t this a wonderful little day?
Anyway, Liu Jin was too happy to miss Shu and didn't want to go to the morning court. He said that if he didn't finish practicing in two months, Liu Jin would never go to work.
While drinking morning tea and eating breakfast, Liu Jin also read the newspaper leisurely.
Who reads the newspaper before traveling through time?
But now, besides reading the newspaper, it seems that there is no other choice. After slowly developing the habit, Liu Jin feels that reading the newspaper every day is actually quite good.
"The Ming Medical Journal has been established. Now not only doctors from all over the Ming Dynasty will subscribe, but also ordinary people will subscribe. Reading and reading newspapers can be considered as a way to gain knowledge and broaden their horizons. In this country where the means of disseminating knowledge are extremely scarce.
In the 1990s, newspaper sales were surprisingly good."
While reading the newspaper, Liu Jin also thought about it carefully.
The Daming Medical Journal is published once a week. Thanks to the channel of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post, sales have soared. In just a few issues, the sales of the Daming Medical Journal have exceeded 300,000 copies.
Not only in the Beijing-Tianjin area, but also in the Ming Dynasty’s home provinces, overseas provinces, and Ming Dynasty’s dependent countries, Japan, Korea, Luzon, and even various countries in the Nanyang region, people would order newspapers from the Ming Dynasty.
Although delivery is much slower, this does not prevent people in these places from reading newspapers. Many people have developed the habit of reading newspapers and feel uncomfortable without reading them for a day.
Three hundred thousand copies sold is an extremely scary number.
When the first issue of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post was first published, only 10,000 copies were printed. Of course, the sales volume of the Ming Dynasty Morning Post now exceeds one million copies of each issue.
So many people read newspapers, and those who are able to read newspapers and are willing to buy newspapers are the elites of the Ming Dynasty. Through newspapers, they slowly and invisibly exert some influence on these people.
This is what Liu Jin really wants to achieve.
The successful publication of the Ming Medical Journal can popularize a lot of medical knowledge and spread correct values and ideas to the entire Ming Dynasty.
Everyone is afraid of death. What the doctor says is more convincing than the average person. The doctor says that getting married early is not good for the health of the child and can easily lead to the death of the child born.
Maybe everyone won't believe it at first, but if you can come up with some data or typical cases, it will be more convincing and let everyone slowly believe it, and they will naturally change slowly.
The Ming Dynasty not only wanted to continuously expand and colonize the world, but also Liu Jin knew more clearly that what really restricted the development of this great country and nation was not what he saw on the surface.
It is a deep-rooted thought and culture.
Some things should be buried in the land with the ancestors, instead of harming the next generation from generation to generation. Only by changing ideological concepts can we truly liberate the shackles that bind this nation and country and let it really take off.
"Take your time~"
Thinking of this, Liu Jin smiled and continued reading.
After reading the Ming Morning Post and the Ming Medical Journal, Liu Jin quickly flipped through the Ming Commercial Journal.
Daming Business News is a newspaper that specializes in introducing business-related information. It was not run by Liu Jin, but by the bosses of business firms and factory owners in the Beijing-Tianjin area.
"The prices of wool and cotton have increased again~"
"And this time it has risen even more."
Soon, Liu Jin saw an extremely important message.
Cotton and wool prices surged again.
At the end of last year, the price of cotton soared, and the Ming court almost decided to immediately attack the Western Regions to obtain cotton. Later, Liu Jin found a way to come up with wool to replace cotton, so wool and cotton became important together.
Textile raw materials.
Liu Jin originally thought that after wool became available, and this year, people in Beizhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Henan provinces saw the price of cotton and planted cotton on a large scale.
The situation should be better this year, but unexpectedly the situation has become more serious.
The prices of cotton and wool have soared, even higher than last year.
"This shouldn't happen~"
"As far as I know, the cotton planting area in Ming Dynasty has increased more than ten times this year, and the wool output on the grasslands has also increased many times, but it is still unable to meet the demand for cotton by textile companies such as Ming Dynasty?"
Liu Jin frowned, feeling a little incredible.
After thinking about it, I immediately got up and prepared to go to Wang Shouren to understand the situation. Wang Shouren's Caiyun Textile Factory in Beijing was the largest textile and garment factory in the entire Ming Dynasty, so he must be very aware of the market situation.
Here at the Caiyun Textile Factory in the capital, Wang Shouren was also frowning. While he was going to lead troops to conquer Nanyang, his family did not follow his own arrangements and expanded the size of the Caiyun Textile Factory on a large scale this year.
Not only has a large branch factory been built here in Tianjin, but also two branch factories have been opened in Songhu and Zhejiang hometown. The three newly built branches are all very large in scale. Compared with the factory here in Beijing, the scale is even
Even bigger.
With such a huge scale and simultaneous layout in the north and south, although Caiyun Textile Factory's weaving and spinning capacity has soared, it also brought about an extremely serious problem.
That means more raw materials and a larger market are needed.
The market is not bad. As the Ming Dynasty colonizes the world, Ming merchants travel to all five oceans and seven continents, selling Ming products continuously to the world. The cloth business is considered the best among all businesses.
The cloth of the Ming Dynasty is not only cheap, but also has bright patterns, bright colors, and strong durability. It is sold all over the world. People in the vassal country of Korea and the Japanese country like the cloth of the Ming Dynasty.
The natives of Golden Continent also like the Ming Dynasty's cloth. The Middle Easterners, Persians, and even the Portuguese on the Indian Ocean also like the Ming Dynasty's cloth. The sales volume is very large. Ship after ship of cloth is shipped to all over the world, but it is not enough.
Sell.
But now an extremely serious problem has arisen.
The price of raw materials has skyrocketed, and the key is that they are still very difficult to buy.
This time, it is not someone deliberately hoarding, but a normal market reaction.
"I told you a long time ago, don't build any new factories this year, don't build any new factories this year."
"It's okay now. Cotton and wool are no longer available. Then so many people and so many machines will have to stop."
Wang Shouren looked at Wang Gui, and Wang Fu said, these two people have been managing Caiyun Textile Factory.
"Master, how dare we disobey you? All this is what the master asked for."
"The master said that everyone is working hard to expand now. If we don't keep up, we will not be able to maintain our leading position in the market. This is absolutely not allowed to happen to our Wang family."
"So despite your repeated warnings, young master, the master still requires us to expand and maintain our leading position."
Wang Gui said helplessly.
Wang Shouren's father, Wang Hua, still has the final say in the Wang family, although Wang Shouren's current official position seems not to be much lower than that of his father.
"Old Wang~Old Wang~"
At this time, Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao came over with a smile on their faces.
Because he and Wang Shouren were at the same time and had gone on several expeditions together, they were all old acquaintances, so Liu Jin liked to call Wang Shouren "Old Wang" in private.
Well, a kind of bad taste from later generations, Lao Wang next door.
"I have met His Royal Highness~"
Seeing Zhu Houzhao, Wang Shouren quickly led others to salute respectfully.
"No need~"
Zhu Houzhao waved his hands indifferently, and Liu Jin really said, why did you bring yourself to this textile factory? There is nothing fun.
"Old Wang, I came to see you this time to find out why the prices of wool and cotton have suddenly risen sharply. If I remember correctly, the output of wool and cotton has increased many times this year. It should be
Prices will not skyrocket."
Liu Jin didn't say anything nonsense and asked directly.
"Oops~"
"I'm also worried about this."
"When we went to Nanyang, my family opened several branches without consulting me. They opened three large branches in Tianjin, Songhu, and Zhejiang. Now the prices of wool and cotton have soared, and I am worried.
I’m going to have a headache.”
Speaking of this, Wang Shouren sighed helplessly.
"Does your family have three branch factories in a row?"
"Last year, didn't you say you emphasized making ready-made clothes?"
When Liu Jin heard this, he was slightly startled. After thinking about it, he immediately understood why the prices of cotton and wool had soared.
After all, it is still the urine of Chinese people.
In any industry or industry, as soon as you see someone making a fortune, there will immediately be a swarm of people rushing in, and everyone will rush to enter this industry.
In a very short period of time, this industry will be overcrowded and turned into a red ocean.
In the textile industry of the Ming Dynasty, too many people had tasted the benefits. It relied on new spinning machines and looms to accumulate and develop rapidly.
Others have also entered this industry one after another. In the past two years, it has ushered in explosive development. There are too many new factories opened in various places in Ming Dynasty, and there are no one knows how many new spinning machines and looms are added.
No matter how much cotton and wool production is increased, it will not be able to stop Ming merchants, landlords, big families, etc. from investing crazily in the textile industry.
Especially this year, the southern part of Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan and other regions have begun to exert their power. With the addition of new factories, textile machines, looms, etc., it is natural that the prices of cotton and wool will soar.