As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth, the temperature in the palace obviously dropped a lot.
When Yang Rong heard this, he couldn't help but sweat for Mr. Xia beside him.
Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger,
If you say one sentence incorrectly, you will really fall into a trap.
Yang Rong lowered his head and heard Master Xia breathing evenly beside him. He was not overwhelmed by the majesty of the Supreme Emperor at all. Yang Rong secretly glanced at Xia Yuanji with his peripheral vision,
I saw Master Xia's face remained calm and his heart did not beat. He seemed not to be afraid of Lord Hong Wu at all.
Xia Yuanji paused and said seriously,
"Your Majesty, Wei Chen does not mean that the Ministry of Revenue will not allocate money to replace weavers in several treaty ports in Guangzhou with new looms."
Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily,
"Then what do you mean? It took so much effort to allocate this money?"
"Your Majesty has really misunderstood Wei Chen. Wei Chen thinks that it would be extravagant and wasteful to replace all the weavers at the treaty ports with these new looms as your Majesty said."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Xia Yuanji with strange eyes. In his impression, Xia Yuanji was not such a short-sighted minister. He didn't understand what money should be spent and what money should not be spent. Didn't he still understand? !
"Go on."
Zhu Xiongying looked at Xia Yuanji and said.
Lao Zhu, on the other hand, was too lazy to say another word to Xia Yuanji. Anyway, anyone could see the disappointed look on Master Hong Wu's face, which meant that he was very dissatisfied with Xia Yuanji.
Although Xia Yuanji usually quarrels with Lao Zhu because of money matters, Lao Zhu is often angry and pale, but usually after Lao Zhu calms down, he will stop fussing, because he also knows that Xia Yuanji is right is right,
However, now Xia Yuanji really disappointed Lao Zhu.
"Your Majesty," Xia Yuanji turned sideways to Zhu Xiongying and reported, "It is urgent to promote the new textile machines to the coast of Jiangnan as quickly as possible!"
Lao Zhu glanced sideways at Xia Yuanji and his expression became slightly better. However, unexpectedly, Xia Yuanji immediately changed the subject again.
"However, Wei Chen absolutely disagrees with the idea of replacing all the textile looms in the homes of weavers along the Jiangnan coast with new ones!"
As soon as he heard this, Lao Zhu lost his face again.
"Oh? Why?" Zhu Xiongying asked lightly.
"Weichen thought very simply. If we replace them all with new ones, what should we do with the old looms?"
Zhu Yuanzhang's big hand shook violently. Just now, he was so excited about the appearance of the new loom that he really didn't expect what Xia Yuanji said.
Yes, if all the textile machines are replaced with new ones, where will the old ones go?
"A few days ago, Jiangnan was hit by a disaster.
Wei Chen had already updated the looms in that area, and even the looms in most weavers' homes had not been used for a full year.
If all these looms are replaced with new ones, it will not have a big impact on the Ming Dynasty's finances, but it is still a bit wasteful..."
Yang Rong kept his head slightly lowered from beginning to end, but now listening to Mr. Xia's words, Yang Rong couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
What is a master? This is the master!
From his point of view, this was already a doomed situation, and Master Xia was forced to pull him back with a showy move!
No wonder when he first came to the capital, Brother Yang told him that there was no need to hide his clumsiness in the capital. With His Majesty, there was no such thing as a tree that was as good as the forest and the wind would destroy it.
My father was still worried that he would stand out too much and cause trouble.
Dad is just overthinking it!
My son also wants to stand out in the capital, but he cannot stand out at all! Not to mention being a clumsy person, in a capital city full of evildoers, it is impossible to get along at all!
Yang Rong himself took himself into Master Xia's situation. It is no exaggeration to say that if he was the one standing there, he would have been pulled out by now.
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes towards Xia Yuanji became fiery again. With every tug and pull, this unprecedented high-ranking official from the Ministry of Revenue became even more favored!
Zhu Xiongying looked at Xia Yuanji with a smile in his eyes. From the day Xia Yuanji was promoted by him,
Compared with the favor he had shown to Xia Yuanji, it was obvious that Xia Yuanji would repay himself more!
"Then what can you do?"
Zhu Xiongying asked in guidance. He had always set up a stage for Xia Yuanji to express himself freely.
Xia Yuanji said respectfully,
"Wei Chen believes that it is better to change than to change."
"You can really think about it!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts were completely attracted. After carefully studying Xia Yuanji's words, he quickly followed Xia Yuanji's thoughts.
Sure enough, as Lao Zhu expected,
Xia Yuanji continued,
"In my humble opinion, although this new textile machine is extremely efficient, if you look closely, it is very different from ordinary folk textile machines.
Originally, the textile looms of those weavers along the coast were all new, so Wei Chen boldly thought about it, could he replace the old textile looms with this new type?
Wei Chen doesn't know anything about craftsmanship. Master Yang, what do you think? "
Yang Rong had been dumbfounded for a long time. After Xia Yuanji called out a few words, Yang Rong finally realized.
"Oh, oh, Mr. Xia, you called me?"
"Well, I want to ask you, can the old folk textile machines be transformed into new textile machines based on them?"
Yang Rong thought for a while, nodded and confirmed,
"It can be changed!"
"That's great!" Zhu Yuanzhang clenched his fists and laughed.
Although even if all the weavers along the coast were equipped with new textile machines, it would be nothing in terms of the Ming Dynasty's finances.
But that is for a country's finances, but if you take out this expense list, it is definitely a figure that makes people take a breath of cold air!
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. In recent years, Ming Dynasty has developed well, and even Lao Zhu is a little drifting.
But Xia Yuanji is still the iron rooster as always. When he has no money, Xia Yuanji can't wait to break a penny into eight petals and spend it.
Now that he has money, Xia Yuanji is still like that,
Save if you can, deduct if you can,
Zhu Yuanzhang walked up to Xia Yuanji and patted Xia Yuanji's shoulders with both hands, which shook Xia Yuanji's thin body.
“Hahaha, okay, such a big family fortune can be saved every penny!
Whenever possible, someone must remind our eldest grandson of this truth!
Grandson, we can see that Xiaoxia will live to be eighty years old, so you can use him until he is eighty years old! "
When Yang Rong heard this, he took a deep breath and said,
Lord Hongwu said personally that he wants His Majesty to use Mr. Xia until he dies!
As soon as these words spread out of the palace, it will definitely cause an uproar in the world! Is there any higher praise than this? !
There was certainly no such thing as retirement among officials in the Ming Dynasty, but most of them never had a good death. In the final analysis, they still had no luck with Lord Hong Wu.
But what Master Hong Wu said to Mr. Xia today was more effective than those ten death-free gold medals!
"Hahaha," Lao Zhu seemed to be in a very good mood. He looked back at his eldest grandson and confirmed again, "Eldest grandson, can the old loom really be modified like this?"
