"What did you say? The court issued an edict to inform the world that it prohibited hoarding and housing. At the least, it was exiled, and at the worst, it was confiscated?"

Qian Longxi asked in shock after hearing Ni Wenhuan's words.

Ni Wenhuan nodded with a serious expression.

"It's a bullying of others again!"

Qian Longxi said gritted his teeth, and then slapped the Huanghuali wooden table heavily.

Bang!

Ni Wenhuan couldn't help but tremble, and breathed heavily: "They really deceived me, the scholars and people in Jiangnan, dare not rebel! They are trying to seize profits from the people!"

Qian Longxi waved his hand directly: "Don't worry! If you should keep stocking up, you have to see how the imperial court can check it! In addition, we can not directly stock up on cotton and raw silk, and buy cotton and silk cloth at high prices, so that the price of cotton and raw silk can be increased, and small vendors and weaving households and cotton households will take the initiative to stock up on cotton and raw silk! The court has to ban the stockpiling of cotton and raw silk, but it cannot ban all small vendors and weaving households. Cotton households buy cotton and raw silk cloth, and even restrict how much cotton and raw silk cloth they buy?"

"Mr. Qian said it is reasonable. If the court really wants to do this, he will not be afraid of the weavering households below, and the cotton households and small vendors will not rebel!"

Ni Wenhuan agreed.

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"It is not enough to just ban the stockpiling of cotton and raw silk. Once the official textile industry is established, more cotton and raw silk will be needed. The prices of cotton and raw silk will inevitably rise. Ordinary weavers, cotton and small vendors will consciously stock up, and even the powerful and powerful gentry will do the same. Therefore, we have to think of other ways."

Political Affairs Hall.

After Zhu Youxiao issued an order to ban the stockpiling of cotton and raw silk, he talked about this with Fang Congzhe again.

"Your Majesty is wise. After Nanzhili has implemented the implementation of the land clearance of Zhangzhang, many unowned fields have been found. Moreover, due to the developed weaving industry in Jiangnan, a large number of people are unwilling to farm again. Therefore, these fields are still deserted. In the opinion of the minister, it is better to change them to mulberry fields and cotton fields and hire people to cultivate them. In the future, other provinces will do the found landless fields after clearing the land clearance of Zhangzhang."

In Fang Conzhe's view, many powerful and noble gentry in the north now have already participated in the official textile industry, and will naturally support the court to continue to clear the fields and mulberry fields. Taking advantage of the opportunity of clearing the fields and mulberry fields, we will obtain more cotton yarn and raw silk to increase our own interests. As for the land losses caused by clearing the fields and mulberry fields, we will naturally not be considered a matter of the case. After all, everyone knows that cotton cloth and silk benefits are far higher than grain harvests.

Therefore, Fang Congzhe suggested this at this time.

"Inappropriate! Increasing grain output is still the basis of stability in the country. The prices of cotton yarn and raw silk have increased. The powerful and noble gentry will change rice to mulberry, and drive away tenant farmers, displaced many tenant farmers. The things the court has to do to make these tenant farmers who were driven out of farmland survive by working or even joining the army. In the future, the fields found after clearing the fields across the country will still be divided into the people to encourage the people to grow grain to cope with the situation where too much cotton fields lead to food shortages in the future. After all, people can only rely on eating grain and wheat to solve hunger, rather than cotton and mulberry leaves."

Zhu Youxiao rejected Fang Congzhe's suggestions.

Fang Congzhe had to think deeply: "Yes! I ask Your Majesty for the instructions."

"The court should continue to build large-scale construction! The main purpose is to improve transportation, and build official roads, followed by water conservancy and river engineering. The digging of canals that should be dug, the digging of dams that should be built, and the cotton yarn and raw silk will rise. Someone will change the fields where they grow their own rice and wheat into mulberry fields. What the court should do is to prepare to feed the landless refugees who were driven out. Why is the increase in grain in Jiangnan now becoming less than that of Huguang. With Huguang ripening, the world's words are sufficient, rather than the previous Suhu ripening and the world's best? It is because a large number of rice fields in Jiangnan turned into mulberry fields, which also caused a large number of landless people to appear. Now this phenomenon will intensify. What the court needs to do is to make these landless people unable to become refugees, but workers."

Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty is far from worrying about, and I cannot reach it."

Fang Congzhe couldn't understand and immediately replied.

"Go immediately. The cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue will agree on what projects to build in the next few years, how to raise funds and how to arrange the progress. Don't just think about saving the future grain tax that the court will increase, and then wait for it to be washed away or rotted."

Zhu Youxiao ordered.

Then, Zhu Youxiao said: "But it is not possible to prohibit the accumulation of cotton and raw silk. The court does not care. Those who hoard and speculate too much of the price of cotton and raw silk must be severely cracked down on it. Change their rice fields into mulberry fields. It's nothing, but hoarding and hyping must be severely cracked down! They can only make money that I allow them to make, otherwise I will let them lose all their money! No matter what kind of royal relatives, ministers and nobles he is!"

"yes!"

Fang Congzhe was chilling after hearing this. He knew that His Majesty the Emperor was also warning him as the chief minister.

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"The Duke of the State means that we have to make money that the court allows us to make, and we have to make money that the court does not allow us to make! Therefore, we have invested in the official textile industry, but we have to do the next thing to stock up on raw silk and cotton! Even if the court is not sure, it won't work! Your Majesty really wants to turn against someone like us."

Zhu Xiao, the steward of the Duke of Chengguo's mansion, then ordered the wealthy merchants in Zhili, Xu Hongru, who were doing business for many powerful gentry secretly.

"Our Eunuch Du also means the same thing. The price of cotton and raw silk has risen. There must be southern merchants speculating behind the price. How can we northern merchants miss this kind of thing? Besides, when the official textile industry opens in the future, the price will only continue to rise, so we have to make money with the emperor and make money from the emperor. You businesses must continue to do this. Don't be afraid of anything, we will bear it later."

Du Wang, the eunuch Du Xun's housekeeper, also started to say the same thing at this time.

Xu Hongru and Wang Sen both agreed one by one.

The two were the main leaders of the incense sect in northern Zhili and Shandong. Many people developed behind their backs, and in history, they even launched an uprising in the second year of the Tianqi period.

Of course, the reason why the two of them were able to develop the Scented Sect behind their backs without being discovered and even their respective businesses were getting better and better is naturally because there were many powerful families behind their backs.

It can also be said that King Xu and others are making money for these powerful families.

Therefore, only the inner court like Duke Cheng and eunuch Du Xun will find them now.

"How many goods have you already stored?"

At this time, Zhu Xiao even started asking.

Xu Hongru replied first: "If you say that to Master Zhu, we have already saved 300,000 taels of goods."

Wang Sen then replied: "The young one saved almost 200,000 taels."

Zhu Xiao and Du Wang both nodded.

But at this time, Liang Qinghong, the number one under Xu Xianchun, rushed in with a large group of people from the East Factory.

Liang Qinghong shouted: "Catch all the people here! Seal the warehouse and check the goods. Damn it, you dare to hoard cotton yarn, raw silk, and spread the cult at the feet of the emperor. I am really tired of living! Don't you take my Dongchang seriously?!"

“Bold!”

Du Wang stood up at this time: "What are you doing in Dongchang? What are you hoarding cotton yarn, raw silk, and spreading cults? Can you tell who I am?!"

Liang Qinghong, who died for the Ming Dynasty in history, asked coldly: "Dare you ask, who are you?"

"I am the eunuch Du, the eunuch in charge of the seal! Even your factory has to give me some slight qualities. Who asked you to come here to make trouble? I won't ask whose territory it is before coming."

Du Wang said this and taught Liang Qinghong a lesson.

"That's going to be copied!"
Chapter completed!