Chapter 94 The Dawn of Textile Industry
Because of backward communication technology, there is a situation where "the general will not accept the orders of the king outside the army". The generals and generals at the front must make correct responses based on the ever-changing battlefield situation, and cannot be unresponsive because the king is in the first place.
If this is the case, nine out of ten battles will be defeated.
Therefore, although Zhu Youlang judged Duoduo's strategic intention in Nanjing, he still had to rely on Li Dingguo's decision in tactical execution.
The alarm for the battle of Kaifeng has been issued, and the imperial examination is still in progress. Zhu Youlang has put his energy on the preparations of the Royal Bank.
Wang Huaping is a talented man. In less than a month, he used his connections in the business circle to build Royal Bank.
The Royal Bank he built was in the form of a money bank, and the people he used were Chaofeng and his friends of the original money bank.
However, due to the large amount of gold and silver involved and the high security of the silver warehouse, the people who use it all have families and businesses in Nanjing and have their own family affairs cleared.
At the same time, Chen Bangyan also gave him an idea to recruit some veterans, especially those who followed Zhu Youlang to fight the Wushishan Battle and the Guangzhou Defense War. As long as they were not physically disabled and literate, they were basically recruited.
These people were determined to Zhu Youlang, and had no problem with loyalty. They had seen blood. After life and death, they were not afraid of things. They were most suitable for doing things in a yamen like a bank.
What's more, there is no problem with more people. Anyway, banks will be open all over the country in the future. Now let them come in and get familiar with the business, and they can stand on their own if they are sent out in the future.
Wang Huaping reported the bank's preparations and said it could be opened.
Zhu Youlang has two goals for running a bank. One is the short-term goal, which is to promote the development of industry and commerce. There is also the long-term goal, which is to operate currency.
From later generations, he had a much deeper understanding of money than anyone in the world.
Nowadays, wars are all about fighting for territory, and most of them are fighting for territory. When human society develops to a certain extent, fighting for territory becomes fighting for economic interests, especially after the development of world trade, currency war is an economic war with invisible smoke.
By then, whoever masters the common currency in the world will master the means to plunder the wealth of other countries.
For example, the Miyuan of the United States is so powerful and the people are so rich. To a large extent, it is relying on Miyuan's plunder of wealth from other countries.
In order to maintain Mi Yuan's hegemony, the United States did not hesitate to provoke other countries to attack each other, and even went barefoot to fight, protecting Mi Yuan's plunder of other countries' wealth in an extremely bloody way.
For example, the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands in later generations was caused by the fact that China, Japan and South Korea wanted to establish a free trade zone and exclude Mi Yuan.
This caused great dissatisfaction from the United States. It immediately mobilized the opposition from Japan and South Korea, provoking the Diaoyu Islands dispute between China and Japan and the "Doubo Islands" dispute with Japan and South Korea. The idea of the China-Japan-South Korea Free Trade Zone was also still alive.
By the year he traveled through time, he did not see the China-Japan-South Korea Free Trade Zone successfully established.
As for the "Asia Yuan", it is even more distant.
This way of getting rich was vividly called "cut wool".
When the wool grows, the United States will stretch out large scissors to cut it, so that the United States will become richer and stronger, and other countries will never be able to surpass the United States.
Among them, China is a relatively big complaint.
Zhu Youlang was very angry and helpless about this, and hated Mi Yuan very much.
At that time, he was just an ordinary college student. Many times he could only spray on the Internet and vent his dissatisfaction - that's all, but it actually couldn't change the slightest part of that world.
However, since he was lucky enough to travel through time, he would definitely not let this happen again.
The Ming Dynasty must be strong, the Chinese nation must stand proudly at the top of the world, and the Chinese civilization must last forever and become the mainstream of the world. The Ming Dynasty's currency must become the hard-working goods of this world.
Therefore, his long-term goal is to manage currency.
Of course, the second goal is still far away. The currency has not been produced yet and has not been pushed away all over the south of Jiangnan. It is not realistic to think about that.
However, to achieve the first goal, a bank in the form of a money bank can be achieved.
Therefore, Zhu Youlang agreed to open it very well.
However, before the opening, Zhu Youlang issued an order to conduct intensive reports on the Royal Bank of China in the Ming Weekly.
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There is a famous guild hall in Nanjing City called Wuxian guild hall.
The Wuxian Guild Hall was founded by Tang Shengshen, a native of Shengze Town, Wuxian County, Suzhou Prefecture.
The purpose of Tang Shengshen’s establishment of this guild hall was originally a place where Wuxian merchants contacted each other. Everyone gathered together to have tea, talk about their hearts and minds, and later it gradually developed into a guild for Wuxian textile merchants.
The textile industry in the Ming Dynasty was very developed, and Nanjing and Suzhou were the two most developed centers of the textile industry.
When it comes to the textile industry in the Ming Dynasty, we have to start with Zhu Youlang.
At the beginning of the founding of the country, Zhu Youlang ordered that every ten acres of mulberry, hemp, and cotton should be planted for more than ten acres of land.
The cultivation of large amounts of mulberry, hemp and cotton provides rich raw materials for the development of the textile industry.
In the middle and late periods, the textile industry in the Ming Dynasty, whether it is textile tools or textile technology, reached a new level. The variety of fabrics was richer than that in the Yuan Dynasty, and many products with unique colors and patterns emerged with great aesthetic value.
The cotton textile industry was widely distributed and became a popular handicraft industry in various places at that time, and a prosperous scene of "home textiles and household weaving, far and near circulation". Some excellent textiles, "wealthy businessmen and giants came to the market with heavy capital, had tens of thousands of silver, most or hundreds of thousands of taels, and fewer than tens of thousands of taels."
Unfortunately, with the decline of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing people invaded, the textile industry in Jiangnan was severely damaged. In the past, those rich merchants in order to save their lives, their wealth was swept away by the arrogant and brutal Qing soldiers, production stopped, and maritime trade stopped.
It was not until Emperor Yongli took over Nanjing and issued a government order to encourage agriculture, sericulture, industry and commerce, and reopen maritime trade that those textile owners who had been exploited by the Qing soldiers in the past saw the dawn.
And Tang Shengshen’s experience is one of the representatives.
Shen in Tang Shengshen was from Shengze County, Wu County. Every household in Shengze Town has a spinning machine and everyone knows how to make the cotton cloth. The cotton cloth produced is even more famous all over the world.
Tang Shengshen was quite smart and gradually developed from the owner of a handicraft workshop to the largest textile merchant in Shengze Town and even Wu County.
It can be said that all the textiles produced by Shengze must be sold through his hands, and those foreign merchants holding huge sums of money will not even buy a foot of cloth from Shengze without passing by him.
Soon, Tang Shengshen became the most powerful man in Wu County. He could not only call the wind and rain in Wu County, but also be regarded as the number one person in Nanzhili.
Chapter completed!