[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

If Zhu Houzhao was slowly changing the development direction of this dynasty as the prince, Du Ruo undoubtedly changed the development direction of this era.With Zhu Youtang's acquiescence, the shops under Du Ruo's name have gone deep into Jiangnan, Northwest, and the capital area, not only printing, textile factories and caravans, but also including new species cultivation, agricultural tool innovation and many other aspects.

It turns out that those precious and rare varieties such as cucumbers have also entered the homes of ordinary people because of Du Ruo's seed shop, not to mention all kinds of large-scale agricultural tools whose prices have been greatly reduced.Du Ruo still wouldn't touch those little things, after all, he wanted to leave a way for the craftsmen to survive.

In this way, only a few shops and farms in the capital are the most worry-free, as long as they check the account books, only the textile factory in charge of Xing Wu and the caravan under Du Sheng this year are the most troublesome.

The textile factories under Xing Wu and Xu Beiniang now dominate the south of the Yangtze River and are the largest.There are also big difficulties, as long as there is a slight misstep, the consequences will be unimaginable, and the textile factory accommodates tens of thousands of refugees, so Du Ruo can't help but care about everything.

The textile factory has now grown to this scale, firstly because of Du Ruo's own modern management knowledge, and secondly because the textile factory has absorbed many refugees, which solved a big problem for the local officials.There is no shortage of weather, location, and people, and this is what happens.

But these advantages are also disadvantages.Although modern management knowledge can increase efficiency very well, without the assistance of modern tools, there are big problems in terms of worker compensation, and the workload of managers is particularly heavy.

Although those refugees are temporarily content with the status quo of food and clothing, they work diligently under meticulous management.But if things go on like this, who knows if there will be two hearts.If they just leave, it's fine. I'm afraid that someone with a heart will use these refugees to stir up trouble. Who can take care of the tens of thousands of refugees.

Judging from the current situation, Xing Wu and Xu Beiniang, a man and a woman, are doing well together.Xing Wu was born in the army, and using the method of managing the army to manage these refugees seems to be very effective at this stage.Xu Beiniang is a woman who manages the accounts, and contacts suppliers and buyers of raw materials properly.

Du Ruo read the general ledger in his hand, and ordered someone to carry down the two boxes of ledgers.

"Uncle Xing has done a good job. Tonight I set up a table for Uncle Xing to welcome the wind. At noon today, I wronged Uncle Xing and I made it together." Ruo Xingwu is very satisfied with Xingwu's work. The income of 50 silver coins is not something anyone can do. Now, just operating the textile business in Jiangnan, the government of Anguo can have a pure income of 15 taels.

At this moment, Xing Wu's mood is terrified. Although he has a good nationality, he is a member of An Guogong's subordinates, and now he is engaged in business. Du Ruo's identity is very important to be able to eat at the same table with him No, let alone the word will.

"It's my honor to be valued by the young master. Don't mention this." Xing Wu is still very measured. It is his kindness that Du Ruo treats himself like this, but he still has to pay attention, after all, he is working under Du Ruo's subordinates. .

After lunch, Du Lin took Xing Wu to the guest room to rest, while Du Ruo lay on the bed alone thinking about things.Now the affairs of the textile mill are on the right track, but there are still many hidden dangers.Du Ruo had to think about what to do.

At the beginning of Zhu Youtang's ascension to the throne, he vigorously reduced the size of the weaving bureaus. After Li Guang fell, he had to clean up again. This allowed Du Ruo's textile factory to buy good-quality raw silk from the exposed places of the weaving bureaus.According to Xing Wu, the weaving bureau has gradually grown in the past two years, and the textile factories in various places imitating Du Ruokai have gradually grown in scale, and the source of raw silk has become a big problem.

Although it is said that changing rice to mulberry is the general trend, this general trend cannot be initiated by Du Ruo, and a safe and ingenious transition is still needed.It is necessary to achieve the purpose of changing rice into mulberry without leaving any traces and not attracting Zhu Youtang's attention.Although Zhu Youtang tolerated him in every possible way, he couldn't touch Zhu Youtang's limit.

Another thing is that the local government forced the textile factory to continue to take in refugees.The textile factory is already a giant now, and it will be dangerous if it grows any longer. If Du doesn't want to grow bigger, he just needs to keep the status quo.But as soon as the local governments have tasted the benefits of this, now all kinds of people from all over the country are sent here, in order to achieve their own politically clear achievements.It's not easy for Xing Wu to refuse, and now they have to think of a way.

Tossing and turning on the bed, still sighing that there are few people under his command.If there are enough manpower, open up wasteland to plant mulberry trees, or mulberry fishponds, and those who plant mulberry on the ground are excellent, but there is no reliable manpower to promote these things.Du Ruo would be willing to hand it over to others, but he was afraid that he would be the culprit if these things went wrong in the end.

Or, there is a capable person who simply trains these refugees and runs a free vocational technical school to store talents for the rising textile industry of large factories.Other textile factories do not accept refugees, so what about refugees who have a certain skill?However, this item is of great importance, and there is no reliable and reassuring manpower.

In the evening, Du Ruo was the host and greeted Xing Wu at the hotel opened by him at Puge. The banquet was full of Xing Wu's comrades and old friends from the past.This scene is over, and the next day is the New Year's wine for all the famous people under An Guogong, which is held by Du Ruo quite like a modern year-end tail.

It has been three years since Du Ruo became a filial piety, and the annual wine of Du's family has been full and full.Just pick a good day in the middle of the twelfth lunar month. A group of old men gather, drink and eat meat on this day, and have a good time.

There were also various lottery activities during the banquet, and the prizes were rare things from various places under Du Ruo's men.Although the value is not great, but it is not easy to buy, it is also a good fortune.The final highlight is Du Lin's annual bonus.Du Ruo was still young, and he consciously avoided showing up on such occasions. Except for Wang Jiyun, Du Sheng, and Xing Wu, others didn't know that he was in charge.Everyone thought that Du Lin was temporarily in charge of the entire family business.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone led their subordinates to carry their own things down. Everyone's New Year's goods and bonuses were packed in a big box. No one could see what was in the others, and left it for everyone. a face.

Now the royal population is small, only Zhu Houzhao's three brothers and sisters and Du Ruo's adopted son. After Du Ruo's filial piety, Du Ruo spent New Year's Eve with Zhu Houzhao's family. After lunch, Du Ruo was sent home for New Year's Eve.Now that Du Ruogui is An Guogong, he has a lot of entertainment, and he is busy until the Lantern Festival.

After the Lantern Festival, Du Sheng returned to the capital.The caravan business was successfully handed over to Crimea. From then on, Du Sheng's subordinates from Hami to Datong will be protected by Xu Jin, and Du Sheng can be the shopkeeper.

Xu Jin cheated the Tatars hard. This winter, it was very windy and snowy, and the small group of Tatars who did not migrate really had no choice. They wanted to come to Hami to plunder. He beat back hard, and now Hami is safe for the time being.For this reason, Du Sheng also postponed his return from November to December, and he only came back to Beijing now.

"Is everyone okay, brother?" Du Ruo looked at the man in front of him. If he was in the modern gay circle, his appearance must be top-notch, but he is too lazy.Thanks to his laziness and his past, Du Ruo felt relieved to entrust him with such an important matter.

"Of course, otherwise I would still be sitting here." While Du Ruo was looking at Du Sheng, Du Sheng was also looking at him.He is not by nature so tired and lazy, it's just that he has experienced too many sad things, so he naturally becomes lazy.Thinking that when he was still drunk, this cousin who claimed to be his clan found him and aroused his interest, so he did something so serious.Looking carefully now, isn't he just a ten-year-old hairy kid? How can he have such guts?

When Du Sheng said this, Du Ruo was not annoyed, he knew that Du Sheng had such a temper.After asking a few gossips and nagging about opening new business routes, he put Du Sheng back.Du Sheng's courtyard in Beijing was given by Du Ruo, and he hadn't lived in a serious way for a few days. When he came back yesterday, it was very deserted. Last night, he spent the whole night. How could he want to go home and sleep on the cold kang.

"I'll just make do with you for one night, don't chase me away." Although a little surprised, Du Ruo asked Du Lin to take him to the guest room to rest.

Except for the slightly smaller willow branch, the girls who served Du Ruo were released.Du Ruo was single and would not have a female relative to visit her. Du Ruo usually didn't need girls to serve her. Now Liu Zhi took a few little girls to do some work of sweeping needles and threads.

Back then, because of a woman, that person abandoned him and was emotionally hurt. Du Ruopan had a quirk, as long as a girl served him, he would find fault with her.After drinking a few more glasses tonight, Du Sheng was in a daze and didn't know where to go. He scolded and cried several girls who came to serve him. Even the willow branches couldn't stand it anymore, so they had to come to Du Ruo.

Du Ruo also knew about Du Sheng's eccentricity, but he forgot about it after seeing each other for two years. Liu Zhi told him that he remembered it and asked the boy to change the maids, and Du Sheng was really quiet.

Du Ruo was bothered all the time, and Zhu Houzhao was not much better.

Zhu Hui has been jumping around since returning to court, and Zhu Youtang gets more and more angry the more he looks at him, he is already weak, and his anger can't be volatile, and he fell ill after the twelfth lunar month of the new year.

Dad is ill, so Zhu Houzhao will naturally take care of him.Watching the six departments arguing with the supervisor of ceremonies all day long, Zhu Houzhao was almost tortured out of mental illness.This year's battle cost more than 140 million taels of silver, far exceeding expectations.In order to make up for this shortfall, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households kept arguing.

Now the sea ban is temporarily lifted, and the income is temporarily collected by the household department. The saved money will be used to build ships and develop the navy in the future.At the beginning, everyone thought that even if the sea ban was opened, the income would be limited, and there was no theory. No one thought that the amount of money would be so large, and now everyone is very envious of it.Moreover, the money is said to be used for the development of the navy in the future, but now there is no shadow of the navy, so the whereabouts of this money naturally arouses some people's covetousness.

The Ministry of War only said that the money was spent on buying food in the same place because the Ministry of Households did not deliver the food in time.The Ministry of War said that the money was due to incomplete information given by the Ministry of War, which made the delivery of food to the guards untimely.

The two sides are dismantling each other, but they are just calculating this sum of money. The Ministry of War wants to use it to make up for the shortfall, and the Ministry of Households does not want to let go of this piece of fat.

Zhu Houzhao naturally understood how the money was spent, neither party should blame him, he was also embarrassed about this matter