I was so tired last night!

Li Zicheng really didn't expect that at the beginning, Liu Ru was squirming and refusing to cooperate, but when he got to the point, he was more active and crazy than Li Xiangjun.

I don't know how her delicate body can withstand it?

By the time I opened my sleepy eyes, it was already dark, and the sunlight was already shining through the curtains of the windows, and the room was half bright and half dark.

He stretched slowly, and found that the fragrant wind was still there.

Li Xiangjun lazily turned over in Li Zicheng's arms, put her head on Li Zicheng's chest, she was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyelids, "Your Majesty, it's still early in the morning, and you will ...... sleep again when the lights are out."

Lights out? Li Zicheng smiled secretly, the sun is indeed the largest and most energy-saving lamp, but unfortunately, no one can extinguish this bright light!

Li Xiangjun suddenly felt that something was wrong, and opened half of his beautiful eyes with difficulty, and was taken aback, "Ah, it's dawning, how do you feel like you just fell asleep......"

"It's okay, you can sleep more, I will get up by myself!" Li Zicheng patted Li Xiangjun's face, pressed her in the quilt, and raised his eyes to look at the other side, Liu Ru covered his head with the quilt, but revealed a pair of white and slender legs.

He didn't believe it, he and Li Xiangjun made such a big fuss, Liu Ru could still sleep soundly?

It must be that he is ashamed and does not dare to come out!

Li Zicheng glanced at the beautiful legs opposite, but he didn't reach out to touch them, since Liu Ru is pretending to be asleep, then let her sleep, last night her physical strength and energy were consumed a lot......

He got out of bed by himself, got dressed, and went out of the palace, if he went to the palace garden to run at this time, it was too late, and everyone could see that the emperor must have been overindulged last night, so he slept lazy!

Under Zhou Qingrou's service, he first washed up, and then went to the imperial study for a turn, and there was no important information coming, so he ordered his soldiers to pass on the new Jiangnan governor Ma Shiying and wealthy businessmen Huang Qing and Zhou Xianglin, and went to the palace garden to breathe fresh air.

Back at the Qianqing Palace, Zhou Qingrou not only made hot tea, but even prepared breakfast, "Does the emperor use some tea first, or breakfast first?" ”

Li Zicheng took a sip of warm tea and said, "Let's have breakfast, well, have Xiangjun and Miss Liu gotten up?" ”

"Back to the emperor, they all got up, and they have already washed this time!" Although Zhou Qingrou is young, under Li Xiangjun's training, she has gradually matured, and the green taste has faded a lot.

Li Zicheng put down the teacup and said lightly: "Let them come over to eat together!"

"Slave obeys!"

After Zhou Qingrou went out, Li Zicheng also left the dining hall and went to the imperial study for a turn.

Liu Ru just accepted Huan last night, and when she got up early today, I'm afraid she still can't wipe her face, let her get used to it for a while first, so as not to see herself embarrassed again.

Sure enough, when Li Zicheng returned to the dining hall, the three girls were already sitting at the table and chatting about something, maybe they were waiting for themselves, right?

But when she saw Li Zicheng, the three girls hurriedly left their seats, and Liu Ru almost jumped away as if she was being harassed by a strange prodigal son.

Li Zicheng nodded slightly, and didn't look at the three daughters, but said lightly: "It's all a family, so there's no need to be polite, sit down and eat!"

Li Xiangjun took Liu Ruye's hands back to the dining table very casually, Liu Ru secretly pumped hard, but did not pull away, so she had to follow her back to the dining table and reluctantly sat down.

Zhou Qingrou didn't know what happened in the dormitory last night, seeing that Liu Ru sat down naturally, she was secretly surprised in her heart, Li Xiangjun glared at her, and she was stupid to distribute dishes and chopsticks to everyone.

After breakfast, Li Zicheng glanced at the three daughters, and went to the imperial study, and after a while, Ma Shiying came.

Li Zicheng didn't put too much pressure, but just asked him to act as soon as possible, from near to far, so that all prefectures and counties could operate, except for the eight prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River around Taihu Lake, the rest of the prefectures and counties still had to implement the "Land Law".

In addition, according to the specific situation of each place, if the Ming Dynasty and the Hongguang Imperial Court have already taxed the prefectures and counties, they shall not be levied repeatedly, and the prefectures and counties that have not been taxed, if the people are really poor, can also be reduced or exempted from summer grain.

But all prefectures and prefectures had to be taxed in autumn and winter, except by obtaining a concession from the imperial court.

The most important thing is commercial tax, the Ming Dynasty did not levy commercial tax, since Huaxia has levied commercial tax, all merchants must be registered, except for small and micro merchants with an annual turnover of less than forty taels, they are not exempt from tax.

Ma Shiying nodded yes, he has always hated these merchants in Jiangnan, they have a lot of money, and they usually support Shi Kefa to go against him, but this time he finally had the opportunity.

Li Zicheng saw the gloomy atmosphere in Ma Shiying's eyes, and was worried that he would abuse his power for personal gain and retaliate against merchants, so he warned him that the provincial government must be based on the law when running errands, and at the same time must accept the supervision of the Supervision Yuan, and must not be corrupt or pervert the law!

After Ma Shiying said goodbye and left, Li Zicheng summoned Huang Qing and Zhou Xianglin again.

Huang Qing and Zhou Xianglin were mainly businessmen, and as giant businessmen in Nanjing, they were naturally involved in the textile industry, and Li Zicheng asked them to introduce their machinery and factories.

If from the textile industry, they are not big players in the south of the Yangtze River, at most they just follow the trend and involve the textile industry, and they can't talk about production efficiency and production scale at all.

Li Zicheng frowned slightly, it is really difficult for such a merchant to be transformed into the real economy.

It is actually very difficult to change a person's mind, especially rich businessmen like Huang Qing and Zhou Xianglin, who have already formed a complete set of understanding of shopping malls.

After thinking for a moment, Li Zicheng decided to adopt a roundabout tactic, "Do you know what industry is the most profitable in the world?" ”

"The most profitable?" Huang Qing and Zhou Xianglin's eyes were full of light, and they disappeared in a flash!

As a businessman, who doesn't want to find the most valuable industry in the world and make a lot of money? But who can find the most lucrative industry?

Li Zicheng hooked their gluttony, and continued: "The most profitable industry is 'no one has it', because it is a seller's market, and I naturally set the price. ”

"No one has me?" Huang Qing suddenly came to his senses, "The proprietor of Xining is transporting many novel things, because there is no substitute, the merchants in Jiangnan can only ......be priced by him."

"Huang Dongzhu said it well," Li Zicheng praised casually, "However, such things are hard to come by, or if everyone can produce, the goods will be worthless." ”

“……”

"If you can't achieve 'no one has me', you can only retreat to the second, 'people have my superior'," Li Zicheng said with a faint smile: "In the final analysis, it's all about production technology." ”

"Production technology?"

"People are superior to me?"

"Lord Mu can produce many novel goods because he has mastered the technology to produce these goods, and if you have the technology, you can also produce them," Li Zicheng said: "So I said that the most profitable industry in time is not a rule, but to see who has mastered the most advanced technology!"

Huang Qing and Zhou Xianglin glanced at each other, and they couldn't help nodding, "Huang Shang, how can the grass people get the most advanced technology?" ”

"Naturally, people need to study," Li Zicheng said with a faint smile: "Don't hide it from the two of you, I have set up a special research institute to gather the best talents to specialize in the study of various technologies, and the technology of the proprietor Mu is all bought from me." ”

"Ah......" Both of them were shocked, no wonder the proprietor Mu and the emperor got close......

"You may wonder why I want to sell technology," Li Zicheng said: "The talents who develop technology also need food, clothing, shelter and transportation...... I am afraid that you will not understand the research and development of technology for a while, but you only need to understand that technology can be transformed into goods, and then exchanged for silver. ”

"Your Majesty, the grass people seem to understand," Huang Qing said: "The emperor sells us technology, and we use technology to produce novel goods, and then make money......"

"That's pretty much what it means," Li Zicheng nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "The eight provinces in the south of the Yangtze River that surround Taihu Lake will soon have a flat, sturdy, and water-resistant avenue, in addition to pedestrians and common carriages, there is also a kind of bicycle that does not require horsepower, and the speed is comparable to that of a war horse, which is produced with advanced technology......"

Zhou Xianglin thought for a long time, and said tentatively: "Your Majesty, the grass people are waiting for ......."

"Zhou Dongzhu also wants to use the latest technology to produce goods that 'no one else has'?" Li Zicheng shook his head with a smile and said, "This kind of technology is actually very rare, and it is very difficult to study, not just want to have it." ”

Huang Qing seemed to understand something, and hurriedly said: "The emperor said, 'People are superior to me'?" ”

"Actually, it's not bad that 'people have me'," Li Zicheng said with a faint smile: "The two proprietors are both engaged in spinning and weaving, so they should be very familiar with the process of spinning and weaving, right?" ”

Both of them nodded, "The grass people are naturally very familiar with their family's industry......

"I ask you, if it is spinning, how many spindles can a skilled hand spin in a day?"

Huang Qing and Zhou Xianglin glanced at each other, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "An ordinary skilled female worker can spin ten spindles a day, and the highest one is twelve or thirteen spindles. ”

"Take ordinary female workers as an example, ten spindles a day," Li Zicheng nodded, and said: "Someone can build a machine that can spin twenty spindles a day, or even forty spindles, tell me, will the cost of spindles decrease?" If it is sold in the market and competes with similar spindles, will it make a lot of money? ”

"Forty ingots?" Although the two are extremely rich and have seen many scenes of strong winds and waves, Li Zicheng's words still shocked them very much.

They narrowed their eyes slightly, and quickly calculated in their hearts that if a skilled worker could spin forty spindles a day, the same spindle would reduce a lot of manpower costs, or under the condition that the labor cost remained the same, several times more spindles.

If it is put on the market, the price is slightly lower, and it can also earn more profits, while the opponent's spindle, because the price is too high, is likely to be unsalable......

The two of them were like children, the more they thought about it, the more excited they became, until they saw Li Zicheng opposite, and then they suddenly realized that all this may be a mirror in the mirror......

Li Zicheng smiled faintly: "The two proprietors, are you willing to pay for technology?" ”

"Buy?" Huang Qingdao: "The emperor really has such technology? ”

"Yes!" Li Zicheng said: "Moreover, I guarantee that after reading the technical drawings, you can produce a new type of spinning machine!"

Zhou Xianglin was afraid of losing the opportunity, so he hurriedly said: "The grass people are willing to pay money to buy, I don't know how to sell this technology......"

Huang Qing also said: "The grass people are also willing to ......"

"However, in this way, you will become opponents in the textile industry," Li Zicheng said: "Actually, if a person does one thing to the extreme, it is already very good." ”

“……”

"Well, I will give you different technologies, and you can be in a cooperative relationship." Li Zicheng took out two documents from the drawer and put them on the imperial case, "Huang Dongzhu is a new spinning machine, and Zhou Dongzhu's new loom is priced at five thousand taels. ”

Huang Qing and Zhou Xianglin are both concerned about technical drawings, but they don't care much about the price of 5,000 taels.

Li Zicheng said: "Huang Dongzhu can buy a large amount of cotton and use new technology to spin a large number of spindles, while Zhou Dongzhu uses Huang Dongzhu's spindles to produce qualified cloth. ”

He deliberately separated the spinning technology from the weaving technology, so that they could carry out technological innovation and progress together in the future, and they could not sleep on the original technology forever.

Li Zicheng's spinning machine drawings for Huang Qing are the later British Jenny spinning machines, of course, this achievement can no longer be counted on the heads of Jenny and her husband, because the machine tool is equipped with eight spindles, and the name was changed to "eight spindle spinning machines"; The loom that Zhou Xianglin got was named "Flying Shuttle Loom", and the name did not need to be changed, but he added a picture of "Flying Shuttle" to the drawings.

These two kinds of machines, can only be regarded as the textile industry to mechanization, the basis of scale, to develop a more efficient spinning machine and loom, it is up to the merchants themselves in the south of the Yangtze River, the innovation of textile technology, not only the textile technology itself, but also the common progress of related industries, such as materials, grinding, bleaching and dyeing, etc., need to accumulate merchants.

However, Li Zicheng told Huang Qing and Zhou Xianglin that in Nanjing, he would only sell textile technology to them, but he would also sell the same technology to merchants in Suzhou, Songjiang and Hangzhou, and the new technology would even be promoted to the rest of the prefectures and counties around Taihu Lake.