Ming Dynasty: My Brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

Many dignitaries and bureaucrats suffered heavy losses in the Wang fraud case, so that now they can only hope that the imperial court can make them rich; therefore, the court proposal to raise shares to establish an official ocean-going trading firm was quickly and smoothly passed.

Therefore, next, the Ministry of Household Affairs officially requested the establishment of Daming Dongyang Commercial Bank, Nanyang Commercial Bank and Western Commercial Bank.

The imperial approval was naturally passed.

Therefore, not long after, the Ming court reorganized the relevant officials and staff of the various city ship divisions and western factories that had been involved in the Eastern and Southern trades, and became the relevant persons in charge of the Eastern and Nanyang trading firms, and then promoted them. A group of middle and lower-level backbones were promoted to form the Daming Western Commercial Bank.

Daming Western Company is in charge of future trade with Europe.

Zhang Gui has great ambitions. He not only wants to dump domestic handicrafts to Europe, but also wants to dump industrial products to Europe. He even intends to destroy the textile and handicraft industries of European countries. Therefore, let The imperial court established the Daming Western Commercial Bank, hoping that in the future, Europe could only become a large market without independent industrial capabilities.

"Although the establishment of ocean-going trading firms will benefit the long-term increase in national treasury revenue in the future, in the short term, mining will come faster and its profits will be greater, so first use the funds accumulated after the establishment of major ocean-going trading firms, and then raise shares to establish a Ming Dynasty. Mining firms, to promote education in order to benefit the world as soon as possible."

"This grand master has already discovered a huge coal mine in the Hanhai area of ​​the Tatar country to the north of the Yin Mountain. An area called Tawen Taul will happen to be mining coal mines in that area. First, take advantage of the coal mines in this area and develop A New Deal for Education for All."

At a new court meeting, Zhang Gui suddenly mentioned the need to open a coal mine.

The Tawen Taole Coal Mine is the largest coal mine in the world in later generations. It is now outside the direct control area of ​​Daming and located in Tatar, which is equivalent to the South Gobi Province of Mongolia in later generations.

Zhang Gui has been eyeing this place for a long time, and he also asked Xichang to send people to investigate, and finally found the exact location of this mining area.

Now that Zhang Gui proposed it, he naturally hoped to gather the strength of the entire Ming Dynasty to develop this large coal mine, and then lay the energy foundation for the subsequent large-scale development of the steam industry.

Because the main energy raw material of the steam industry is coal.

The key point is that the high-quality coking coal in this Tawen Taole coal mine also has a high proportion, which will undoubtedly be very beneficial to the future development of Daming's smelting industry.

Of course, more importantly, if this coal mine is developed, more Han people can migrate here because of the coal industry, further expanding the actual territory of Ming Dynasty.

Instead of being like before, a farming and civilized empire would lose its national strength and increase the burden on the people because it occupied too many territories that were not worth agricultural development. Therefore, it had to give up these lands and had to take in.

It's just that this coal mine is too big, and it's too far away from Central Earth. Zhang Gui, a Duke, or even the power of Yixi Factory cannot eat such a big piece of cake. Many forces from various parties in Ming Dynasty came to eat this cake.

After all, it is just to get through the traffic between Tawen Taole and Middle Earth. It will take a lot of manpower and material resources to strengthen military control in this area.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly only possible to rely on the Ming court to concentrate its efforts in the name of the country to accomplish this matter.

This can be regarded as the benefit of Ming being a centralized dynasty now.

In terms of external plundering, we can concentrate more power, and in this era of global resource scrambles, we can cut a bigger cake for ourselves.

After what Zhang Gui said, there was an example of Maoshan Iron Mine first, how could the ministers who participated in the court discussion not believe it?

Therefore, most of them are facts that Zhang Gui said will no longer be questioned.

However, there are also some officials who have the mentality of being "feared by snake monsters once and afraid of well ropes for ten years" because of being cheated by Wang's Coal Mine once, and they are still a little skeptical about this.

Therefore, Wu Weiye went to Liu Hongxun's private house after the court meeting and asked, "Mr. Liu, isn't the coal mine of my uncle in this country a lie?"

Liu Hongxun glanced at Wu Weiye, then took a sip of his new teacup and said, "No way! Uncle Guo dares to lie to the court and the people of the world, unless he doesn't want the current power! Besides, we now If you want to restore the family business, besides trusting the industry with the involvement of the imperial court, where else would you dare to trust private merchants?"

"Although the imperial court has repeatedly emphasized the friendship between fellow nationals, in fact, businessmen all over the world value profits, and there are a few merchants from the Han family who will value the friendship between fellow countrymen, and they only want to deceive their own compatriots. So, now I don't believe it. Uncle Guo, who else can you trust? In Daming, wealth can only be obtained by the imperial court!"

After hearing this, Wu Weiye thought for a while and said: "That's right, it's a pity that I don't have much money to be an official now, I'm afraid I can't buy much."

When the Trading Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs raised shares to set up Nanyang, Dongyang, Western Commercial Banks and Tawen Taole Coal Mining Commercial Banks, the powerful bureaucrats and ordinary wealthy households in Ming Dynasty enthusiastically spent money to subscribe for stocks. For example, Wu Weiye and Liu Hongxun talked about this I was in the same mood at the time, only hated that I didn't have enough money, and wished to go bankrupt to buy the stocks of several new commercial firms established by the imperial court.

For a while, the stocks of these firms soared.

As a result, the Ministry of Household Affairs has collected a large amount of funds and began to use them in coal mining and ocean trade. At the same time, it began to promote education for all in the country.

"There must be a government-run social studies and literacy class in every mile in the village, and there must be a government-run social study and literacy class in every square in the city. Each chief secretary must set up a normal school to train teachers. And the school needs to add a school. The Department of Textbooks will compile new textbooks based on the textbooks used in the pilot program of education for all in the south of the Yangtze River, and strive to achieve all these coverage within three years."

When Zhang Gui participated in the new court meeting, he expressed his specific ideas on promoting education for all.

However, Wen Zhenmeng, the newly added Minister of the Ministry of Education, took the initiative to ask after hearing this: "Is it possible to let Han girls go to school if we promote universal education?"

"Nowadays, the weavers in the weaving industry in this dynasty are gradually mainly women. Young and strong men are studying or joining the army or learning skills or farming. In short, if the weaving industry wants to continue to flourish in the future, it is inevitable to employ a large number of female workers. But right now The loom has developed into a complex loom with more than ten spindles working at the same time. In addition, in order to facilitate the management of various workshops, especially government-run workshops, women must be literate, at least able to read the operation manual and management manual, so , I have this question."

"inappropriate!"

"Men and women are great defenses! Don't girls have to study in the same school as men? It's really against customs! If so, I don't know how many obscene things will be brought out."

Sun Qifeng, Minister of Science and Science, immediately expressed his opposition.

Wen Zhenmeng continued: "If the girls of the Han family are not allowed to read and write, then we can only use slaves to let the barbarian people read and read. This is not in line with the national policy of only enlightening the wisdom of the Han people!"

"It is absolutely possible to let the major workshops recruit female workers and then teach them to read and write. Letting women and men study together is really detrimental to the atmosphere!"

Wu Weiye also said something.

"That's right! Even if the imperial court allows it, ordinary people may not be willing to send their girls to study at the same school as men!"

"Yeah, this is really unacceptable!"

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Many ministers objected.

But there are also many officials who support Wen Zhenmeng, such as Song Yingxing also said: "Workshops are not necessarily willing to spend money to train female workers. In fact, not only the weaving industry, but also painting on porcelain, planting famous flowers, etc., are already dominated by female workers. , and it’s not just about empowering female workers, but also enabling them to be able to read, write, count, and map to facilitate production. Therefore, starting from the national economy and the people’s livelihood, it is necessary to allow Han women to study, and they cannot be replaced by slaves. How could the core skills of many light industries be mastered by slaves!"

At this time, Zhang Gui saw that Wen Zhenmeng's formulation was not approved by many ministers, but many ministers proceeded from the reality of the Ming Dynasty and insisted that women should read and write, so he proposed:

"If it is really necessary for Han women to read and write to facilitate the development of the weaving industry, why not set up a girls' school first, so that a school only recruits Han girls to study, and even the teachers and scholars are all women? Step by step, Since the social atmosphere does not support the relationship between men and women, then separate schools for men and women first."

"Of course you can! I agree with Uncle Guo's compromise!"

Sun Qifeng responded immediately.

Liu Hongxun followed suit and said, "That's right! Separate schools for men and women not only take care of the actual needs of the court and society, but also take into account the customs of the people!"

For a time, everyone was in favor of this proposal.

But Zhang Gui himself smiled slightly, and thought, "The writer surnamed Zhou really didn't lie to himself."