Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 329
During this period, Zhang Qingfeng sold all the spinning machines in the textile factory to other businessmen.

At the same time, he changed the textile factory into a weaving factory and added thousands of shuttle looms.

At this time, there were more than 500 flying shuttle looms in the weaving factory. These machines can weave more than 15 pieces of cloth a day, which means that the number of [-] pieces can be reached in a month. factory three times.

The power of a steam engine can drive more than a dozen flying shuttle looms, so there is no need to equip each loom with a steam engine.

In addition, the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau at this time has become a larger yamen than the Military War Bureau.

In order to meet machine orders, Zhang Qingfeng successively recruited more than 5000 private craftsmen and young apprentices.

With so many craftsmen, except for some who are responsible for manufacturing textile machines, most of them are responsible for manufacturing machine tools and steam engines.

Time passed, and a few months passed in a blink of an eye.

After Zhang Qingfeng mobilized the entire textile industrial zone, Zhang Qingfeng found that with more and more spinning mills, [-] looms could no longer meet the demand.

Therefore, in the next few months, after Zhang Qingfeng asked Wanli for instructions, he opened two more large-scale weaving factories and recruited more than 5000 workers.

The three weaving factories have almost reached the speed of weaving 45 pieces of cloth per day, which is equivalent to a monthly production of [-] pieces of cloth.

With the expansion of scale, the profit of the weaving factory is also increasing. Every time a piece of cloth is woven, the weaving factory can obtain a net profit of three silver coins.

It is equivalent to Zhang Qingfeng earning 13 taels of silver a month.

Excluding part of the silver distributed to the partner merchants by the first textile factory, there are about 11 taels of silver left.

In the past, Zhang Qingfeng earned almost one hundred thousand taels a year for the emperor, but now with the expansion of the textile industry in the capital, he can earn 10,000+ taels for the emperor almost every month.

After a year like this, it is almost more than 100 million taels.

Such news stunned Emperor Wanli.

He sent hundreds of tax inspectors, but there was no way to earn him a million taels of silver a year.

And a little eunuch under his nose could earn him a million taels of silver a year. This news made him dumbfounded in surprise.

Moreover, this is just the money earned by the weaving factory. As the machine manufacturing factory expands, the speed of manufacturing machines is also accelerating. At this time, the machine manufacturing factory is no longer just manufacturing and selling textile machines.

Zhang Qingfeng also used steam engines to manufacture a batch of mining machines such as water pumps, rock crushers, and ventilators, and sold them to nearby mining businessmen.

For mining, groundwater and mine oxygen deficiency have always been a major problem for mining, and with these machines, these problems can be easily solved.

Of course, Zhang Qingfeng's steam engines are not expensive, and each one only costs about 500 taels to 1000 taels of silver.

But for the time being, only a few coal mines near the capital have purchased more than 2 mining machines, bringing Zhang Qingfeng an income of [-] taels of silver.

However, Zhang Qingfeng believes that as more mines buy machines, his income in this area will be higher.

In addition to the machines, Zhang Qingfeng let Wanli invest in the development of the industrial zone, which also made him a lot of quick money.

At the beginning of the investment, it was more than 30 taels of silver. Now Zhang Qingfeng rents these venues for businessmen, and he can recover more than 5 taels of rent in one year, and the cost can be recovered in almost six years.

The time enters 1603 AD.

This year is destined to be extraordinary.

During this period, several peasant uprisings broke out, but they were suppressed.

At the same time, the famous second demon book case broke out in October of this year.

The outbreak of the demon book case will also make the Ming party struggle more intense.

The so-called demon book case is an article about Concubine Zheng, saying that she planned to depose the prince and make her son the prince.

After the demon book case broke out, because the culprit who created the demon book could not be found, he had to find a scholar as a scapegoat.

This matter originally had nothing to do with Zhang Qingfeng, but after the demon book case broke out, he was still implicated.

The reason is that this time the demon book is not just delivered to the gates of the court ministers, but also in the form of small advertisements, which are posted all over several streets in the capital overnight.

All of a sudden, the contents of the demon book became known to the entire capital.

Zhang Qingfeng was the first to invent and use the form of posting small advertisements, so he suffered.

After the Yaoshu case broke out, Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Jingying patrols couldn't find a scapegoat for a long time, so they turned their ideas on Zhang Qingfeng, hoping that Zhang Qingfeng would be the scapegoat to end the case.

As a result, Zhang Qingfeng was arrested in the later stages of the Demon Book Case.

Fortunately, Emperor Wanli rescued Zhang Qingfeng as soon as he learned of his arrest.

Zhang Qingfeng is now the wealth-gathering boy of Emperor Wanli, and he can earn millions of dollars for Wanli every year, how could he see Zhang Qingfeng being used as a scapegoat.

In addition, he is also the person of Concubine Zheng, so it is impossible to create a demon book to frame Concubine Zheng.

For this reason, Emperor Wanli was furious, scolded the commander of Jinyiwei who ordered Zhang Qingfeng to be arrested, and dealt with several small characters to Zhang Qingfeng.

In the end, the ending of the Yaoshu case ended with a scholar named Lu Shengguang being executed by Ling Chi, and his family members were sent to the frontier.

However, because of the demon book case, two cabinet ministers jointly framed another cabinet minister, which also escalated the party struggle in the late Ming Dynasty and began to develop to the point of unscrupulous methods.

From this demon book case, Zhang Qingfeng also realized that his power is still too weak, and he needs a lot of power.

However, Zhang Qingfeng was a blessing in disguise for this demon book case, because in order to appease him, Emperor Wanli ordered the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau to be separated from the Military Warfare Bureau and set up another Bureau. .

In other words, from now on, the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau and the Military Warfare Bureau will be yamen of the same level.

That is to say, the 24 yamen of the Ming Dynasty will become 25 yamen from now on.

Zhang Qingfeng was naturally very happy about Emperor Wanli's promotion, because this would give him greater power.

For the eunuchs, the fifth rank is considered a great eunuch, and the eunuch, who is in charge of the supervisor of ceremonies, is only the official position of the fourth rank.

After the Bureau of Machinery launched its own military bureau, Zhang Qingfeng divided the Bureau of Machinery into several departments.

Among them, there are several major departments such as "Machine Tool R&D and Manufacturing Department", "Steam Engine R&D and Manufacturing Department", "Textile Machinery R&D and Manufacturing Department", and "Mining Machinery R&D and Manufacturing Department".Finally, there is the "Department of Trade", which is the department that Zhang Qingfeng considers to be the most important.

The establishment of these departments, and after Zhang Qingfeng became the eunuch of the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, he suddenly became the object of the eunuchs in the palace rushing to give gifts to curry favor.

Many eunuchs want a job in the manufacturing bureau.

Especially the Ministry of Trade, with extremely high profits and lucrative oil and water, is a department that eunuchs are vying for.

For these positions, apart from a few people recommended by Zhang Qingfeng who he could not refuse, most of them used the eunuchs who had followed him originally, as well as some eunuchs who had a good relationship with him in the inner school.

The Machinery Manufacturing Bureau has become a department that he has complete control over, so Zhang Qingfeng doesn't want any corruption and perversion of the law to appear in it.So he formulated a set of extremely strict supervision and management system and financial management system.

(End of this chapter)