Da Bo Ling was a little stunned by Zhu Heji's words. You stayed up all night and were actually thinking about drafting concubines!
But Da Bo Ling is Da Bo Ling, and she will definitely respond to Zhu Heji's requests!
She nodded immediately and said: "Ah Pao, there are indeed a few women in your harem... My aunt heard that there are many beauties in the south of the Yangtze River. Why don't you let me choose twenty or thirty beauties for you? Enrich your harem!"
How considerate!
Although Zhu Heji didn't mean this, Da Boling's words still made his heart warm. Da Boling was probably the only one who could treat his woman like this, right?
He sighed for a while and then said to Da Bo Ling: "How can twenty or thirty be enough?"
"Then..." Da Bo Ling was stunned, and immediately increased the number, "Then choose a hundred!"
Zhu Heji still shook his head: "Not enough, not enough..."
Can this body bear it?
Da Bo Ling was a little worried about Zhu Heji, but she still gritted her teeth and said: "Two hundred..."
She glanced at Zhu Heji. Under the dim candlelight, there seemed to be a dark cloud on a fierce face. It was really hard for her to refuse, so she added more, "Then three hundred, we can't." No more!"
"Okay!" Zhu Heji nodded and laughed, "Aunt, I listen to you... just choose three hundred people first! Aunt, help me choose!"
"Yes." Da Bo Ling nodded, "Auntie will definitely help you make a good choice."
Zhu Heji smiled and said: "Auntie, let me tell you the conditions!"
Da Bo Ling said: "Okay, tell me, I will remember it."
Zhu Heji said: "First, don't be too young. It's best to be in your twenties, especially a widow!"
"Ah..." Da Bo Ling was a bit dumbfounded. How could this condition be based on her? Should we have a broader mind? Does your body need to be plump? Do you also have some martial arts skills and can I practice boxing with you? Under such conditions, it is a bit difficult to select 300 people!
Zhu Heji went on to say: "Second, these women must be proficient in at least one of the techniques of silkworm rearing, silk reeling, weaving, printing and dyeing!"
"What?" Da Bo Ling didn't believe her ears, "Ah Pao, you fell in love with Weaver Girl? Auntie is not very good at this..."
Dabo Ling knows some needlework, but sericulture, silk reeling, weaving, printing and dyeing... these are too professional. She really doesn't know how to do it. Is it possible that she has to learn it from scratch?
"Like? How could I like them?" Zhu Heji knew that she had misunderstood, so he hugged her and said with a smile, "Auntie, you are my favorite!"
Da Bo Ling was very impressed by Zhu Heji's sincere words. She hummed and asked again: "Ah Pao, why did you choose these women to enter the palace? Are you going to let them serve as palace servants and do some miscellaneous work?"
Zhu Heji said with a smile: "The Gu family's harem is not big. The famous women are Shuzhen, you, Jiaxin, and Yubing. We don't need too many servants...there are dozens of harems." People are enough, we already have this number, there is no need to increase it.”
Zhu Heji was very economical in this regard... Although he was very energetic, he did not need to have too many concubines because he doted on Da Bo Ling. Since there are not many concubines, the size of the palace can naturally be made smaller. Not only does it not need many palace people, but it does not even need eunuchs.
"Then what are you going to do with three hundred show girls?" Da Bo Ling asked puzzledly.
Zhu Heji said: "To be honest with my aunt, I chose them to enter the palace in order to study the techniques of silkworm rearing, silk reeling, weaving, and printing and dyeing."
"Ah Pao, why are you doing this?" Da Bo Ling felt incredible.
Zhu Heji said: "The Gu family looked through the archives of Jiangning Weaving a few days ago and also looked at the collected inventory... and felt that there are many areas worthy of improvement! Although the Gu family will ask the following silk merchants and It’s up to you to think of a solution, but some things can’t be left to others, you have to work hard yourself, only in this way can you achieve something.”
Da Bo Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "But you are an emperor, and you go to study weaving. If it spreads, isn't it a bit..."
What happened to the weaving?
That is an entry-level skill for industrialization!
Didn’t the British Industrial Revolution begin with the textile industry? The emergence of the spinning jenny is generally regarded by later generations as one of the signs of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Now the textile industry in Jiangnan is much more developed than that in Britain. Why can't we invent a "big wave" spinning machine?
Although he is not a mechanical major, he has always had strong hands-on skills, so he thought he could give it a try.
In addition, the textile industry chain is quite long, including not only textile machinery, but also the big project of printing and dyeing!
With Zhu Heji's chemical knowledge, it was not difficult to produce sulfur dyes.
With sulfur dyes, Daming's textile industry is expected to export more satins and cloths - exporting dyed satins and cloths can have a longer industrial chain and more profits than exporting raw silk.
And a longer industrial chain and more profits can help Daming's textile industry cross the threshold of industrialization as soon as possible!
However, the emperor's weaving was indeed a bit unprofessional.
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji glanced at Da Bo Ling in his arms and said with a smile: "Auntie, why don't you just take care of this matter."
Of course Da Bo Ling nodded immediately: "Okay, Auntie listens to you."
Zhu Heji said: "A few days later, when the consultation meeting began, the Gu family told the county leagues that they loved textiles and wanted to build a Weaver Palace in the palace. Then they asked them to help select people who were good at raising silkworms and reeling silk. Three hundred widowed women who specialize in textiles, printing and dyeing are all sent to the palace. In the future, when the Gu family becomes the emperor, I will make you the grand concubine of the Zhinu Palace!"
Da Bo Ling said with a smile: "Then I would like to thank the Emperor for your kindness!"
Zhu Heji laughed loudly and said: "Thank you, words are not enough, you have to take action..."
...
"Teacher, this is President Wu's personal letter to you..."
On the same night, Huang Zongxi did not fall asleep at the Imperial Master's Mansion in Wuyi Lane. Accompanied by Wan Sida and Huang Baijia, he was meeting with his disciple Wan Sitong, who had just returned from Jiangling City.
Wan Sitong has now become an official of Wu Sangui and has been granted the title of Minister of Rites. This time he came to Nanjing from Jiangling in the name of a congratulatory envoy. The news of Zhu Heji's recapture of Nanjing reached Jiangling. Of course, President Wu Sangui had to express something. .
In addition, now is the time for Wu Sangui to worry about Zhu Heji's raids on Wuchang and Hanyang.
So he had to send someone to Nanjing to find out the news.
"I cannot read President Wu's letter as my teacher." Huang Zongxi did not reach out to receive it. "Although the supervisor is the lord of benevolence and righteousness and will not send anyone to monitor you and my teacher, the principle of sincerity and sincerity is still the principle of studying Confucianism for half your life. knew."
"Teacher," Wan Sitong said with a smile, "Actually, the president's letter doesn't say anything big... He just wants to ask the teacher to persuade the third grandson to join the meeting at the upcoming consultation meeting."
"Encourage entry?" Huang Zongxi was stunned. "Didn't we agree that whoever enters Beijing first will be the king? Whose plan is this?"
"It's Liu Xuanchu's plan," Wan Sitong replied truthfully, "President Wu's Northern Expedition army has been assembled in Xiangyang and can march north to Nanyang at any time... The reason for the delay is because the President is worried Zhu’s third grandson made a surprise attack on Jiangling. That’s why Liu Junshi came up with this plan. If the scholar-bureaucrats in Jiangnan and Zhejiang all support the third grandson’s ascension to the throne and restoration of the Ming Dynasty, then the third grandson will probably not betray the alliance and march westward.”
Huang Zongxi snorted: "They are judging a gentleman's belly with a villain's heart... The third grandson is a saint and a gentleman, and he cannot do such a thing."
Wan Sitong said with a smile: "What the teacher said is absolutely true, but the students thought that the teacher was the one who took the lead in persuading... This can reassure the third grandson and let him know that people in Jiangnan and Zhejiang are also like this." The people of Fujian and Guangdong supported him.
Secondly, it can also reassure President Wu... President Wu actually has no objection to the third grandson proclaiming himself emperor. "
"Teacher, what Ji Ye said is right." Wan Sitong's elder brother Wan Sitong said, "The third great-grandson has an appointment with President Wu, but we have no appointment with President Wu... The third great-grandson does not want to break the contract. It doesn’t mean we don’t have to take a stand.”
When Huang Zongxi heard what he said, he thought it made sense, so he said to his son: "Baijia, write a form of persuasion to join... and ask everyone who participated in the consultation meeting to add their names."
