This time, Ajige abducted hundreds of thousands of young and strong people in Jiangbei, causing the labor force in Jiangbei to be greatly reduced.

In this way, even if the court makes resettlement, it will be difficult for the elderly, weak, women and children who return home to take care of the fields.

Therefore, Zhao Mingcai proposed to let Liu Rushi set up a factory in Jiangbei to recruit women to engage in silk weaving production with relatively low labor intensity.

Although the style of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty was open, men and women had almost no chance to work in all walks of life in society.

This phenomenon was not until World War I, when men were on the front line and women had to enter factories, and the situation gradually changed.

Now, due to the lack of labor in Jiangbei, these women, children, the elderly and the weak will find it difficult to complete farming even if they are resettled back, so the resettlement strategy must be changed.

The orders for Qian's workshop were mainly given by Zhao Ming. Now that Zhao Ming makes a request, Liu Rushi will naturally not refuse.

For the workshop, the most important point is to have enough orders. As long as you have a good relationship with the Regent, you will not have to worry about orders in the future, let alone help those poor refugees.

"I will naturally be willing to share your worries!" Liu Rushi bowed.

Zhao Ming was very happy. Chen Ming had already achieved his goal when he met, so he urged Zhao Ming to enter the city as soon as possible on the grounds that it was not too early.

This made Zhao Ming frown slightly, feeling that it would be difficult for him to find any signs of his prime minister.

The group left Qian's workshop and headed to Songjiang City.

Songjiang is one of the centers of the Ming Dynasty's textile industry. The city is extremely prosperous. Many great merchants and gentry in the Han Dynasty all came from Songjiang.

Now, Zhao Ming has taken over Nanjing, and the Nanjing court was first established. In order to wipe Zhu Yihai's butt, although he received a huge sum of 20 million taels of money this year to fill it into the national treasury, the Nanjing court is still not rich.

First of all, in order to support Zhu Yihai in confronting the Longwu court, the Han Dynasty once borrowed a large amount of debts to Zhu Yihai.

Now that Zhu Yihai has fallen and has abdicated and become the Supreme Emperor, if it were in the past, the successor would definitely not return it and would not admit his account.

However, the Yongli Dynasty abdicated from the Jianwu court. The emperor changed, but the court did not change. Zhao Ming decided to maintain the credibility of the Nanjing court and continue to repay the 8 million taels owed.

Therefore, this money was not owned by Zhao Ming, but was loaned from Huaxing Silver, which contained shares of gentry and merchants in Jiangnan.

In the future, the Nanjing court will inevitably raise debts for the sake of development. If this reputation is not maintained well, it will be difficult to get money in the future, and it will also lead to merchants and the people not trusting the court and not daring to cooperate with the court.

Secondly, of these 20 million silver dollars, six million taels were tax advances. In addition, the imperial court gave tax exemption policies to various places in order to restore local governments, which shows that the imperial court will not have too much taxes next year.

Now, after paying owed wages and rewarding soldiers in the treasury, there is actually not much money, which makes Zhao Ming, who has never had to worry about money, become nervous.

Although Zhao Ming has many industries under his name and has already deposited 30 million taels of silver in Huaxing Silver, that is his personal money, not the money of the Nanjing court.

Zhao Ming can indeed use his own banknote as before, but in this way, the Nanjing court cannot develop healthily, and Zhao Ming's purpose is not to make money by himself.

This time, Zhao Ming came to Songjiang to inspect the production of materials in the workshop. On the one hand, on the other hand, it was mainly for coal mining and the restoration of Jiangbei. He was preparing to bring gentry and merchants from Jiangdong to work together.

Zhao Ming is so generous and unwilling to enjoy how much money the coal boss makes.

Although the official business has the benefits of the official business, it is easy for the official business to be a yamen, so Zhao Ming decided to bring the gentry and merchants to run it together.

Furthermore, Zhao Ming is now a regent of the Ming Dynasty, with a high position and a powerful position. He has many eyes to look at everything he does and figure out what he means.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang had dug the coal mines in Huainan by himself, when Zhao Ming digging them, it was inevitable that they would easily arouse other people's associations and were incited and exploited by those who were interested.

If it makes people feel that the Regent was digging the ancestral tomb of the old Zhu family, destroying the dragon veins of the old Zhu family, and preparing for usurping the throne in the dynasty, it would still have a bad impact on Zhao Ming, which would not be conducive to the great image that Zhao Ming would establish at this time, and the unity within the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhao Ming decided to take Jiangdong gentry and merchants to work together. The more people participated, the less people dared to spread rumors.

Otherwise, if Zhao Ming makes money from mining coal alone, he will inevitably be hated.

After Zhao Ming took over the Nanjing court, he could feel a gap between the gentry and merchants in Jiangnan and him.

This may be related to his entry into Nanjing, his identity change, and his claim to establish centralization. The capitalists and gentry in Jiangnan have always disliked the strong central government. He liked to lock up imperial power, restrain and control the court.

The Ming Dynasty was used by them to manage the civil service group and was able to be submissive. Several southern provinces basically did not take the imperial court and the emperor seriously.

The Ming Dynasty could not collect taxes in Jiangnan because it could not control the gentry and merchants in Jiangnan.

Zhao Ming came this time just to repair the gap, not wanting to be as opposed to the same as before the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time also solve the problem that the Nanjing court did not have money to develop.

In the Songjiang County government office, more than a dozen gentry came here and sat in the hall for a long time.

At this time, everyone whispered to each other and whispered to discuss.

"Manager Cheng, why is the Regent convened us this time?" asked a businessman.

Cheng Bi can be said to be an official and businessman in the Han Dynasty, the president of the Jiangdong Chamber of Commerce, and a celebrity around Zhao Ming. It can be said that he responds to Jiangdong.

"It should be a disaster relief in Jiangbei!" Cheng Bi said in a deep voice.

When it was heard that it was Jiangbei’s disaster relief, everyone’s faces became cold.

At this time, outside the hall, the guards suddenly shouted loudly: "The Regent is here!"

When many merchants and gentry heard the words, they stood up and bowed, "Welcome to the Regent!"

Zhao Ming walked in with a smile on his face, sat down in the middle hall, and waved his hand and said, "Everyone can sit!"

After everyone sat down, Zhao Ming immediately opened the point and smiled and said, "This time I recruit you to discuss something. I am planning to join forces with you to set up a company and develop Huainan coal mine. This way, I can make money by mining coal, and second, I can resettle refugees, drive the economy, and carry out disaster relief. What do you think?"

The merchants and gentry sitting on both sides lowered their heads and did not speak.

They knew that there was a mine in Huainan, but the mining value was not high and there was basically no profit.

In the era of underdeveloped productivity, some salt merchants made money, some maritime merchants made money, and some cloth merchants made money, but I never heard of coal mining making money.

There is not much coal in Shanxi, but I haven’t seen Shanxi merchants rushing to dig coal. They are all small workshops with no way to dig, and they can’t make much money.

At this time, coal mines are difficult to mine and transport. If the road and land are more than fifty miles away, the cost will be doubled. The cost of water transportation is lower. If it can be transported to Jiangnan, the price will be so high that ordinary people cannot afford to burn it.

People burn firewood, and how many coal can be burned by dignitaries is not worth the investment of these big guys.

For big businessmen, money has costs and requires benefits. They have more profitable businesses, so they don’t want to dig coal.

Therefore, in everyone's opinion, the Regent did not want to set up a company, but wanted them to pay for disaster relief.

The merchant’s money was not something that the wind did. Everyone was silent for a while. An old gentry who was quite friendly with Zhao Ming smiled and said, “Your Highness, the villain will not participate in digging coal. I will donate 30,000 taels of disaster relief. How about it?”

As soon as the old gentry spoke, the merchants present also spoke out and pledged to donate.
Chapter completed!