Who can make more money than Zhao Yan?

After clearing the throne, he would legitimately control the entire salt market in the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time he could attack the Zheng Group and search homes everywhere.

Why?

Because Zhao Yan can file a lawsuit against any criminal, he can circulate the house before the lawsuit, find out the evidence of the crime, and report it directly to the capital and other results.

Zhao Yan was already a little impatient. Those salt merchants in Lianghuai, Shanxi merchants and Zheng's group were all rich. If you copy all these guys, how much money would you get?

But this matter is still unhurried, so I will clean up one by one.

On the ninth day of the 10th month, Zhao Yan's Shandong army gradually evacuated the capital city, and the streets were surrounded by onlookers. Before Zhao Yan withdrew his troops, he did not say hello to the Beijing officials and Chongzhen.

He just gave a day, did not give a specific time, nor did he invite them to see him off. However, early on, a large group of officials gathered outside the Forbidden City, and under the leadership of Chongzhen, he watched the evacuated Shandong army in the distance.

When Zhao Yan rode a horse and saw Chongzhen and his group. He just stood on the horse, hugged Chongzhen and his group from afar, and then rode his horse to go.

Leaving, finally leaving.

Come quickly and go decisively, everything is so fast.

However, although Zhao Yan left, the capital still had an infantry battalion of Shandong troops. This unit would obey the orders of the cabinet and be in charge of the capital's public security.

This infantry battalion is Wang Zheng's second infantry battalion of the Liaodong Army.

Institutions such as Jinyiwei and Dongchang still exist, but these institutions can no longer go out to catch people on the streets. If they really go to the streets to catch people, they will be the ones who will be arrested.

It would be impossible for Zhao Yan's army to evacuate the capital without leaving some troops. If the cabinet was not protected by troops, Chongzhen had many ways to stumbling over the cabinet.

The troops of this battalion were in the capital, which could protect the normal operation of the cabinet, and also allowed Chongzhen to settle in the next few years.

However, Chongzhen did not understand these things, and thought that Zhao Yan would withdraw all his troops from the capital.

As a result, in the evening, Wang Zheng took the Second Infantry Battalion to maintain public order in the capital. After receiving the report, Chongzhen was stunned for a long time and immediately asked him to go and ask.

The answer he got almost made Chongzhen vomit blood.

Wang Zheng replied with a puzzled look at that time that the general announced the withdrawal of troops, but did not say that the troops were completely withdrawn? Who said that the troops were completely withdrawn?

After hearing this, Chongzhen threw a few precious porcelains directly and summoned Yang Sichang and Sun Chuanting into the palace to discuss countermeasures overnight. Not long after Yang Sichang was released, the accident this time made him look extremely bad and really scared him.

These days, Yang Sichang is eating in prison every day, and he is in a depressed mood, how can his complexion be bad?

However, Zhao Yan suddenly let him go, but Yang Sichang was stunned for an afternoon and didn't react. Was it for the 500,000 taels?

Yang Sichang believes that Zhao Yan is definitely not as simple as 500,000 taels of silver. There must be deep intentions included, but Yang Sichang thought about it now, but still couldn't figure out what this intention was.

"This thief kept saying that he wanted to withdraw his troops, but he kept more than 7,000 people in the capital. What should he do now?" Chongzhen was at a loss as usual. After losing his temper, he began to ask his ministers for decision-making.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to worry about the seven thousand soldiers. This is just a matter of Zhao Yan's stay to protect the cabinet. As long as you have no offense with the cabinet, you can be at peace with each other." Sun Chuanting replied.

As an important member of the royalist party, Sun Chuanting had already learned from Lu Xiangsheng about Wang Zheng's intention to stay in the capital.

"Your Majesty, the current situation is not good for the royal family. You should be more tolerant. In the process of endurance, you can destroy the Zhao bandits in one fell swoop." Yang Sichang said at this time: "These 7,000 Shandong soldiers and horses can be allowed to stay in the capital. First, these Shandong soldiers and horses have strict disciplines and will not cause trouble in the capital, and second, they will not block our entry and exit. It is the same whether they stay or not."

Sun Chuanting listened to Yang Sichang's bold words and couldn't help but look sideways and squint for a while.

Hundreds of thousands of strong soldiers?

Can the court really practice it? Sun Chuanting was deeply suspicious, but he didn't say anything, but just stood by silently. Chongzhen touched his chin and walked back and forth for a few times, shook his hand and said, "What Yang Aiqing said is good."

Chongzhen thought for a while and then said, "However, there is a lot of money and food required to train elite soldiers, and it is not enough to be able to train them. I wonder if the two dear ministers have good ideas?"

"Your Majesty, the ministers can try their best to get some military expenditure in the cabinet," said Sun Chuanting. "However, half of the cabinet are Zhao Yan's minions, and Your Majesty must not have too many expectations."

After hearing this, Chongzhen and Yang Sichang both nodded. It was almost impossible to ask the cabinet to allocate more military expenditures. Therefore, they had to do it themselves.

"Your Majesty, I have contacted several Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants before, all of whom are loyal to their faith. I just need to contact them again and we will soon establish an imperial merchant." Yang Sichang said at this time: "Now we also have Shandong's textile tools, so we start with textiles and then continue to expand the scale of the imperial merchants..."

Yang Sichang became an investment expert for a while and kept giving advice to Chongzhen. After hearing this, Chongzhen kept nodding and finally determined three development directions.

1. To start an industry, start with textiles, and at the same time draw craftsmen with superb skills to encourage their innovative technologies, and then continue to spread to other industries.

2. Enter the sales industry, use the strong capital of the imperial merchants to concentrate their efforts on controlling market prices, and thus make profits.

3. Carry out large-scale land enclosures, enclose the barren lands in the Ming Dynasty, and then vigorously develop settlements.

The first two points proposed by Yang Sichang were all thought out after reading Zhao Yan's "About the Interpretation of Industrial and Commercial Regulations". Zhao Yan gave a detailed explanation of industry and commerce in the Interpretation of Industrial and Commercial Regulations. It can be said that it is an industrial discourse work that surpasses all the works of predecessors.

After studying the "About the Comprehensive Evaluation of Industrial and Commercial Regulations", Yang Sichang developed many awareness, just like the words "technology" and "capital".

The sales industry is the traditional business model of the Ming Dynasty. Such a business model is extremely skillful. After Yang Sichang came into contact with several Jiangsu and Zhejiang businessmen, he soon thought of a good way to make a fortune.

That's the market!

Once the signs of the imperial merchants were released, those big merchants naturally flocked to them. As long as these strong capitals were aggregated, they could generate huge energy and control prices.

After hearing this, Chongzhen kept nodding. Sun Chuanting was shocked when he listened. If Yang Sichang was like this, wouldn’t he compete for profit with the people? And he did not use ordinary means.

Chongzhen can't control so much about competing for profit with the people now.

He only has enough military expenditure.

Anyway, the administrative power is no longer in his hands, so he just manages the troops in his hands well. With the troops, he can regain the administrative power.

...Zhao Yan retreated directly by land, and Shandong's merchant ships had evacuated from Dagukou and were all transferred to Japan to transport property. In late October, Zhao Yan returned to Shandong.

Shandong has completed its autumn harvest, and this year's autumn harvest is pretty good, and Shandong has not suffered any disasters.

The main disasters in Shandong are drought problems in spring, but the river water and groundwater in this era are very abundant, and under various water conservancy measures, no problems occurred in spring.

The main harvests of autumn harvest are sweet potatoes, soybeans, and corn, while in Liaodong, they harvest potatoes, corn, soybeans and other crops. Handan is the same as Shandong, while in Yingzhou, they contain rice and sweet potatoes.

During this summer harvest, the average yield of wheat per mu exceeded one stone. Under slightly extensive planting, it would definitely be a bumper harvest.

The yield of sweet potatoes during autumn harvest is even greater, and frequent military use this year, coupled with the continuous recruitment of people to come to Shandong, the demand for food has increased significantly, thus expanding the area of ​​sweet potato planting.

At this time, all parts of Shandong were processing dried sweet potato flour, and many people were already tired of eating this thing. But it still had to be processed in large quantities. At present, I am afraid of less food, not too much!

This year, it is expected that about 10 million shi of dried sweet potato flour will be reserved in various places. This 10 million shi of dried sweet potato flour will be used as a reserve and will not be circulated in the market, but will only be used for emergency use.

Qingzhou has no grain output, and the grain produced is only enough to be self-sufficiency in Qingzhou, but there are already 300,000 mules and horses in Qingzhou.

At the same time, 80,000 military mares are raised in Qingzhou, and 80,000 military horses can be produced every year, while mares account for about half, which can increase by 40,000 war horses. At the same time, mares increase, and the number of war horses produced will also expand year by year.

There are only about 10,000 war horses that can be slaughtered this year, which means that the number of Zhao Yan's cavalry can be increased to about 30,000.

The cultivation of military horses has been used for genetics. After continuous research by the Denglai Academy of Sciences and the Denglai University of Sciences, a complete horse mating system has gradually been formed.

At the same time, the horse farm is using European stallions brought back by the American fleet to improve the quality of war horses. The first batch of hybrids have come out, but there are no results yet. We have to wait until those hybrids grow up to observe.

Zhao Yan withdrew his troops back to Shandong. Whenever he arrived at a place, there were always many gentry and merchants. When Zhao Yan rode his horse on the official road, he saw cotton next to the pipelines of the three western prefectures.

The cotton at this time has entered the last picking process. Many cotton farmers are busy picking cotton in the field and then selling it to Zhao Yan's textile factory.

On the way, Zhao Yan called an employee of a textile factory that purchased cotton in Dongchangfu and asked about Shandong's cotton production this year.

The textile factory employee reported that Xisanfu cotton has collected 7 million dans this year, and after the last piece of cotton is picked, it is expected to reach 8 million dans.

The cotton production in Xisanfu has soared. The landlords and merchants in Xisanfu are all crazily developing the land of Xisanfu. In addition, Zhao Yan began to repair water conservancy in Xisanfu, so that cotton can be grown on many lands.

In addition, after the improvement of the method of peeling cotton seeds, the biggest problem that has always restricted the cotton planting area has been solved, and cotton production has soared.

From the first four million stones, it soared to eight million stones.

At the same time, the cotton production area in eastern Henan also received 5 million asbestos this year. Now the textile industry in the Ming Dynasty was squeezed by Zhao Yan's textile factory, and the living space was getting smaller and smaller. This year, there were almost no people competing with Zhao Yan's textile factory in the acquisition of commercial cotton.

The entire Ming Dynasty's commercial cotton production areas were mostly concentrated in the "Golden Delta" area in eastern Shandong and eastern Henan. The commercial cotton produced here accounts for more than seven layers of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the cotton yield in the south is also good, many of them are planted on small scales, mainly based on family handicraft workshops.

The cotton production this year is very high, so Zhao Yan's textile factory no longer purchases cotton in the south, and commercial cotton in the central part of the Ming Dynasty is enough.

Although the capital of textile mills has reached a terrifying scale of 20 million taels this year, it is still unable to cope with such large-scale cotton acquisitions.

Zhao Yan's textile mill is different from normal textile mills in cotton purchases. Other textile mills purchase cotton that have been stripped of cotton seeds. So in this way, it is not that cotton is purchased after cotton is produced, but that cotton is purchased throughout the year, so funds are easier to flow.

At present, only Shandong has mastered cotton seed peeling technology and has not yet spread to other provinces, so Zhao Yan's advantage in this regard has also been used in cotton snap-ups.

In order to crack down on the textile industry in the south, Zhao Yan always asked the textile mill to collect the cotton directly after it matured, which led to a large amount of money being paid at once and then slowly turning back.

Therefore, the textile factory still lacks funds this year. For each purchase price of 13 million dan of cotton, it will cost 32.5 million taels of silver. In addition to other expenses, it will cost about 35 million taels. The textile factory has previously loaned 5 million taels from the bank, but it is still not enough.

Therefore, the textile factory once again borrowed 10 million taels from the bank.

Zhao Yan's Denglai Bank has developed more rapidly, at least in eastern Henan and eastern Shandong, those big landlords who grow cotton all put their profits in the banks.

Now the deposit of Denglai Bank has exceeded 30 million taels, and there is enough funds to lend to the textile factory.

In general, because there is no pressure of competition, and Zhao Yan's textile factory undertakes the cotton seed stripping process, the cotton price is lower, with a price of only 2 taels and 5 cents per leu, which is much lower than before, but the textile factory and growers have obtained higher profits than before.

The original cotton yarn and textile workshops were dead.

Zhao Yan thought about it for a long time on the road and decided to change the current acquisition method next year.

Cottonseed peeling technology is not a secret. This simple machine is everywhere in the homes of the people of Denglai. It has been spread to other provinces now, but other provinces have not yet been spread on a large scale.

Next year, it will definitely spread on a large scale. In addition, the textile machinery with low efficiency has been handed over to the emperor, and competition will definitely occur next year.

It is definitely not possible in the current form, so changes must be made. At the same time, after changing the current acquisition form, the capital utilization rate and rotation speed will be greatly improved, so that funds can be drawn as military expenditure next year, etc.

Change does not mean that the textile factory has lost its competitive advantage. Denglai's new steam engine has entered the end of its development. Once the steam engine is launched, the textile factory will be able to start construction throughout the year. At the same time, the efficiency will be greatly improved. In addition to the continuous improvement of textile machinery, there is still an overwhelming advantage.

Due to the loss of the Japanese market, most of the cotton cloth this year will be sold in the Ming Dynasty.
To be continued...