In early February of the first year of the reign of King Ming of the Ming Dynasty, Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing.
This first city in the southeast, which declined rapidly after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, has become prosperous at a speed visible to the naked eye since the end of last year with the arrival of the New Ming Dynasty. It is no exaggeration to say that this city is like some magical power, attracting money, materials, and people from the four provinces of the new Ming Dynasty. In the past three or four months, groups of people have gathered almost every day. Groups of "new Nanjing residents" came by boat, car, or on foot with their families and became a part of the city.
As the population gathered, demolition and construction began in full swing!
During the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing Yingtianfu was a metropolis with a population of more than one million and developed handicrafts and commerce. The urban area is very large, and enough blocks and houses have been built. However, after being ruled by the Qing Dynasty for more than 20 years, due to the sharp decline in population, many houses were left unmaintained and are now in ruins everywhere. Only the Qinhuai River bank in the inner city is slightly more decent.
Faced with this big and dilapidated city, Zhu Heji naturally resorted to the method of first demolishing and then rebuilding. First, all the "urban wasteland" except the areas on both sides of the Qinhuai River were enclosed, and the few residents there were moved out and resettled on both sides of the Qinhuai River. Then plan and dismantle at the same time.
Major projects such as Nanjing Imperial City, Tianwang Mansion, New Army Camp, Heroes Square, University Square, Weaving Square, Gold and Silver Square, as well as river dredging and road repair projects in Yingtian Mansion, and the restoration project of Xiaoling Mausoleum on Purple Mountain , have also started work one after another.
In order to support Yingtianfu's "major demolition and construction", Zhu Heji also asked people to search for clay and limestone everywhere in Yingtianfu, preparing to build cement plants and red brick factories.
This series of major projects naturally provided opportunities for the "new Nanjing people" who gathered in Yingtianfucheng to start a business and support their families.
It also makes the whole city full of thriving vitality!
If it weren't for the fact that horseshoe bells would ring from time to time on the streets of the inner city of Yingtian Mansion, and then the military advisor's palace messengers passing by on the streets delivering urgent military reports, the residents of this eastern metropolis would have thought that I am already living in a peaceful and prosperous age in the world!
However, the people of the new Nanjing were still a little surprised - was the new Ming Dynasty really not short of money? While still fighting the Qing Dynasty, they also opened such a large stall in Nanjing. I heard that the big projects in Guangzhou are no less than those in Nanjing, and they have been going on for two or three years, with no sign of ending.
In the midst of people's puzzled looks, several messengers rode flying horses and rode eastward, and in a blink of an eye they arrived at the Military Advisor's Office on West Chang'an Street outside the Imperial City of Nanjing.
After a while, I saw Zuo Chunqiu, the right deputy military advisor who was on duty at the Military Advisor's Mansion today, hurriedly riding his horse and heading towards the right gate of Chang'an in the Imperial City of Nanjing with a few followers.
At the same time, two small staff officers trotted out of the Military Advisor's Mansion and headed towards the Prime Minister Zhongshu's Mansion and the Ministry of War, which were also outside the gate of the imperial city. Three or four other staff officers simply rode out of the Military Advisor's Mansion. Mansion, go straight to several places by the Qinhuai River to grant titles!
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When the sign of Zuo Chunqiu's invitation was handed to Zhu Heji, His Royal Highness Prince Ming of the Supervisory State was in a large courtyard with a plaque of "Weaver Girl Palace" next to Bei'anmen Street in the north of the Imperial City of Nanjing. Where is the "Weaver Girl" who is both beautiful and talented!
Of course, his criterion for selecting people is their skills... As for face and figure, he has no requirements.
But how good are those sycophant officials in Southern Zhili and Zhejiang counties? The Jiangnan region of South Zhili and Zhejiang Province have always been rich in silk and cloth. Some of them are "weaver girls" who can raise silkworms, reel, spin, and weave cloth, and their skills are similar to those officials...
However, Zhu Heji still interviewed these "weaver girls" who were selected from all over the south of the Yangtze River very seriously, and then assigned them to various tasks such as planting mulberry, raising silkworms, reeling, weaving, printing and dyeing, and making garments based on their skills. Type of work. In addition, some young widows from small and medium-sized silk merchants and satin merchants will be selected to form the sales, research and development, personnel and financial departments.
Zhu Heji plans to build a whole silk industry chain this time...from mulberry farming to clothing design, garment production and product sales.
Of course, he does this not all to make money, but to improve technology and promote industrial development.
The so-called Weaver Girl Palace is actually a textile research institute, and may also be regarded as a high-tech textile company.
To improve the technology, of course, we must first understand the technical trump cards of the new Ming Dynasty silk industry chain.
It is not easy to find out these trump cards, because each faction likes to hide what they have, and they do not welcome the intervention of large outside capital like Zhu Heji.
If Zhu Heji wanted to force the mulberry households, silkworm households, machine households, and silk merchants below to hand over their technology, I am afraid they would not get the real thing.
That's why he came up with such a stratagem...by "cheating" knowledgeable widows from all walks of life in the silk industry chain into the palace, he "cheated" the entire industry chain into his hands!
Then understand it thoroughly first and then improve it. In the process of improvement, we can also train and examine those widows to see who among them has more management and business capabilities, and who is more suitable for technology... In the future, we can also release them from the palace and give them "wind". "Investment" and technology, help them build sales channels and financing channels, support their entrepreneurship, and allow them to earn a lot of profits for the Weaver Palace...
What a genius idea!
Looking at the girls from Jiangnan who looked likeable, seemed to have good craftsmanship, and were quite clever, Zhu Heji really admired his own IQ!
After all, he is a genius who can discuss calculus with Leibniz. He really has genius-like ideas in everything he does!
When he was feeling proud, Ni Niangzi, who had just been elected as the maid of the Weaver Girl Palace a month and a half ago, walked lightly in front of Zhu Heji and made a blessing ceremony.
This Madam Ni is only in her twenties, a native of Songjiang Prefecture, and was originally the child bride of a small silk merchant. When she grew up, she became slim and graceful, with picturesque features, and became an outstanding beauty. But her husband fell ill and died early, before he was old enough to consummate the marriage.
Such a beauty, but still a young widow...you can imagine how much trouble there is in front of her!
When the little widow saw Zhu Dasheng, she naturally liked him, so she smiled before saying anything. She even glanced at Zhu Heqi timidly with her big, talkative eyes, which made her own face turn red.
Zhu Heji looked at her and smiled without saying a word. He was also a little anxious, so he asked: "Ni Amei, if you have anything to do, please tell me!"
After being reminded like this, the palace lady remembered what she was here to do.
"Your Highness, the right military advisor has just handed over a sign asking for an audience...hurry up!"
"What?" Zhu Heji was stunned, and his face suddenly became serious. What time is it now? Urgent?
"Sister Ling," Zhu Heji turned to Dabo Ling, who had just been made a noble concubine of the Zhinu Palace, "please preside over, the Gu family has to go to Wuying Palace!"
After saying that, he stood up, took Ni Niangzi and two attendant military attaches, and quickly left the Weaver Girl Palace.
The distance from Weaver Palace to Wuying Palace is not close. When Zhu Heji arrived, the Prime Minister Zhuge Sanhe on the left of Zhongshu, Yu Zhongxian, the Prime Minister on the right of Zhongshu, Su Yong, the left minister of the Ministry of War (Ministry of War), and Chen Shangchuan, the right minister of the Ministry of War All have arrived.
When these people saw Zhu Heji, they saluted him together, and then heard Zuo Chunqiu, who was the first to speak: "Your Highness, King Ming, I have just received an urgent call from Jiangxi Province for six hundred miles... Wu Sangui is dead. Got it!"
"What? Wu Sangui is dead?" Zhu Heji was stunned, "How did he die?"
"He was poisoned to death!" Zhuge Sanhe said calmly, "Wu Yingxiong said that we poisoned his father... It seems that Wu Zhou is planning to become our enemy!"
Zhu Heji snorted: "Once Old Wu died, the two Wus fought... This is taking the Yuan family's book from Hebei! It's interesting, it looks more and more like the Three Kingdoms!"
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