If the superiors have something to do, the subordinates will have a lot of things to do.

In any case, after Zhu Youchao, as the emperor, commended some cultural works and literati of this era, it indeed inspired many literati to continue to actively create in the direction Zhu Youchao hoped.

Feng Menglong and Ling Mengchu left the capital because they were encouraged by the emperor in the Ganqing Palace, and were preparing to write the "Three Words and Two Pawns" that had already been written.

With the encouragement of the emperor, Yang Tingyun began to plan to standardize the pinyin of Chinese characters based on the Ming Dynasty Mandarin.

Ruan Dacheng, who served as an official in Chongwen Temple, also decided to use his own play skills and devote himself to creating scripts. He did not just think about using other ways to obtain official positions like in history.

Zhang Dai also had the idea of ​​creating "Dream Memories of Tao'an" in advance.

Song Yingxing also began to write a book called "The Creation of Things in Heaven" based on his years of experience in various miscellaneous studies.

Zhu Youxiao only spent some silver coins and more than a dozen casual official positions, which made the Ming Dynasty's cultural undertakings show signs of a big explosion.

The cultural changes in the Apocalypse Dynasty may not be that obvious.

But economic changes have become very obvious.

With the end of the Jiangnan riots and the conspiracy of the Jiangnan gentry to prevent the Xu Cotton Mill from growing and running the official textile industry failed, the Xu Cotton Mill was not only saved, but also successfully renamed the Daming Cotton Wire Bureau.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also issued an order to establish the Songjiang Weaving Bureau, which was the land of the Weaving Bureau that confiscated some gentry and then entered the official.

In this way, the official textile industry in the Ming Dynasty officially began to kick off in Songjiang Prefecture, Jiangnan.

The population in Jiangnan is prosperous, and there are a large number of weavers who are unemployed at any time in the prefectures such as Yingtian, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Songjiang, Huzhou, and Wuxi.

Therefore, the Daming Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau also recruited a large number of weaving yarn workers after expanding the scale, and successfully expanded the scale of survival.

Next, the Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau began to actively reduce the price of cotton cloth and silk to achieve the purpose of Ming Dynasty's textile industry occupying more foreign markets and expanding domestic demand.

After all, the current spinning machine of the Ming Dynasty's cotton yarn bureau is already a machine with twenty spindles that can work at the same time, and the weaving machine has greatly improved the efficiency and quality of weaving due to the implementation of shuttle technology.

Therefore, the Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau have long had the basis to reduce the price of cotton cloth and silk.

However, the reduction of cotton and silk prices by the Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau will undoubtedly lead to the bankruptcy of many families who make a living by producing native cloth.

Zhu Youxiao had already responded to this. On the one hand, he asked the Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau to increase the treatment of yarn workers and weavers to absorb these bankrupt people into the weaving factory. On the other hand, he also asked the government to encourage and help these bankrupt people in the family to work in the Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau or engage in other work.

However, the most challenging thing here is not the bankruptcy of many weaver households, but the problem that most weaver households are women. If these women want to leave their families and go to factories, they will still be subject to secular and etiquette.

Fortunately, the etiquette and law in the Ming Dynasty were no longer as strict as before, and in Jiangnan, the rituals and music were broken down. It was a common phenomenon for merchants to wear silk and women to go out. In history, Liu Rushi and women traveled around, so the binding force in this regard was not that strong. Moreover, because Zhu Youxiao also took this into consideration, he took the initiative to ask the Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau to set up men's factories and women's factories that are distinguished by gender. Therefore, after many women allowed their own women to enter the factory in the form of dressing up men and bring more income to their families, many families still could not resist such economic benefits, and had to abandon old customs and allow their own women to enter factories with only female workers.

The social foundation of traditional Neo-Confucianism is being destroyed little by little.

In any case, it is impossible to prevent the price of cotton and silk from falling after the emergence of advanced spinning and weaving technologies.

Either the price of textile products will be reduced by foreigners in the form of "foreign cloth" for hundreds of years, or the official textile industry controlled by the court can only reduce the price of textile products.

The latter is undoubtedly worse than the former, after all, the latter will have to take care of the interests of bankrupts for their own ruling interests.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not regret doing this.

Although many people are still dissatisfied with this.

The most gratifying change brought about by the Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau lowering the prices of cotton cloth and silk is that a large number of foreign investors began to come to the Ming Dynasty to rush to buy textiles.

These foreign investors no longer buy cotton cloth from North Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, and Manila in South China, but only buy textiles from cotton yarn bureaus and weaving bureaus.

The profits of the cotton yarn bureau and the weaving bureau naturally rose sharply.

Silver from America and Australia flowed into the Ming Dynasty more than before.

In addition, as the prices of cotton and silk in the Ming Dynasty fell, especially the prices of cotton, more and more ordinary people were wearing cotton coats in this cold winter, and many people who could only wear patched clothes also began to have complete clothes.

However, when Zhu Youxiao lowered the prices of cotton cloth and silk, he asked the official cotton yarn bureau and weaving bureau to raise the prices of raw silk and cotton in China.

Because Zhu Youxiao thought of increasing the income of those with land in this way, after all, producing raw silk and cotton requires mulberry fields and cotton fields, and the current taxation in the Ming Dynasty was mainly to collect land taxes.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also increased the income of domestic common people in this way to make up for the losses of some local producers.

"Let the prices of cotton and silk fall, and the prices of raw silk and cotton rise, which made the people of Ming Dynasty rise in income, but prices fall. This can make the people live happier, and this is considered a prosperous dynasty. However, the price of cotton and silk alone is not enough, and the prices of grain and salt cannot be too high, so the people can afford it, especially grain."

Zhu Youxiao was talking about this in the Political Affairs Hall.

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of my ministers, the food may not be too cheap, otherwise it will hurt the farmers."

Fang Congzhe replied.

What Fang Congzhe said about hurting farmers mainly affects the interests of landlords. After all, ordinary farmers and tenants do not have enough food to eat by themselves, so how could the income be affected because the food price is too low?

Zhu Youxiao did not expose it, but just smiled and said, "It cannot be too low, but it cannot be too high. You plan to tell the decree that Songjiang Prefecture has officially opened a port. As the second sea opening area after Yuegang in the Ming Dynasty, internal and external merchant ships are allowed to trade here. The Ministry of Revenue formulated a settlement system and road guide system for foreign merchants in Songjiang Prefecture, as well as a tariff system. Xichang established a Songjiang Customs Examination Division in this area, requiring them to trade and pay taxes with silver coins. The Cotton Yarn Bureau and the Weaving Bureau must take this well.

Head, Baoquan Bureau set up a Baoquan branch in Songjiang Prefecture. The eagle foreign merchant ships must be exchanged here for our Ming silver coins before they can be traded and paid tariffs! Otherwise, the order will be driven away by the commander! Then the announcement will be made that the entry of grain will be temporarily exempted to curb the rising grain prices in China. After the price of grain falls, the tax on grain entry will be imposed or even increased. In addition, the Grain Industry Bureau will continue to use the treasury surplus to hoard grain in places where the grain prices are too low and release grain in places where the grain prices are too high."

"I obey the order!"

Fang Congzhe replied.

So, next, the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the large number of foreign merchant ships gathering in Songjiang area to officially open a port for trade in Songjiang Prefecture under the official name, and took this opportunity to forcibly implement a unified currency policy and launch a system of tariff collection.
Chapter completed!