Daming: Is There Imperial Examination Fraud At The Beginning? I Cry As A Candidate During The Test

Chapter 118 The prototype of cotton capitalism! The Empire of Tomorrow Never Sets is about to be born!

port.

blue sea, blue sky.

Looking into the distance.

A ship several feet high is docked on the coast, with a red-painted exterior and sails that outline the shape of the wind.

The salty sea breeze came without blowing, making my clothes rustle.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned to look at Ye Xuan and asked:

"Now that we want to rule the colonies and build an empire on which the sun never sets, what else do we need to do?"

Ye Xuan replied:

"After the colonies are established, these fleets can be used to conduct maritime commercial trade and global navigation."

"Commercial trade and global navigation?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was thoughtful.

These two words are relatively new.

But he had heard Ye Xuan say similar words before.

"Commercial trade."

"Commercial trade refers to the sector engaged in economic activities such as the acquisition, transportation, storage and sale of goods."

"That is, trading with colonies and other overseas countries."

"Global Voyage."

"That is, sailing in various sea areas and traveling to various countries in the world."

“With the large number and scale of ships our Ming Dynasty currently owns, our Ming Dynasty can definitely dominate the sea easily.

The navigation technology, number and size of ships in other countries are simply not comparable to our 717 Ming Dynasty. "

Ye Xuan said.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

Pride arose in my heart.

Of course.

How can those small foreign countries be compared with their Ming Dynasty? Their navy and navigation technology are top-notch.

Even the navigation technology of those small foreign countries is far, far worse than that of the Ming Dynasty.

to be honest.

This is all thanks to Chen Youliang.

If Chen Youliang hadn't been so obsessed with building ships and naval forces, and studying navigation technology.

Even they, Ming Dynasty, cannot pick up the slack.

Chen Youliang was taken advantage of.

The Ming Dynasty took away the navigation technology, shipbuilding technology, etc. that he had worked so hard to study.

"My dear, what are you talking about about commercial trade? How should we carry out commercial trade?"

Zhu Yuanzhang still didn't understand.

"For example."

“Isn’t our textile industry in Ming Dynasty very developed?”

"We can use the cotton cloth woven by our Ming Dynasty to conduct commercial trade with other countries and colonies, thereby accumulating wealth and controlling the economies of those countries."

"In addition, we can conduct global navigation, occupy some underdeveloped colonies, and plunder those precious resources."

Ye Xuan explained.

However.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned even more tightly.

"My dear, do you want to use the cotton cloth woven by our Ming Dynasty to conduct commercial trade with other countries and colonies?"

"What exactly is this operation?"

He was used to not understanding anything in front of Ye Xuan.

I don't know how to ask directly now.

No more pretending.

Directly smashed.

Anyway, what Ye Xuan knows is not "common sense" but unpopular knowledge that he learned from nowhere.

It's normal that he doesn't understand.

After all, Liu Bowen, Li Shanchang and other smart people don't understand.

He doesn't understand.

Also normal.

Ye Xuan explained:

"I just said that you can use cotton made in Ming Dynasty to conduct commercial trade with other countries and colonies.

These "Ming Dynasty weaving" cotton cloths do not have to be woven in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty's weaving technology can be used in the colonies to be woven by the local slaves and indigenous people, and their labor is cheaper. "

"This saves labor costs."

"In addition, weaving cotton cloth requires a lot of cotton."

“We can let colonial slaves grow cotton in colonies suitable for growing cotton.

Then a colonial processing plant was added, allowing slaves to weave using local cotton and Ming weaving technology. "

“In this way, the cost of raw materials is also saved a lot.”

"These finished cotton cloths can be sold to more developed countries. After all, handicrafts are very valuable. Coupled with the advanced hand-weaving technology of the Ming Dynasty, I believe many countries will like the cotton cloth woven with our Daming technology."

"From this, we can gain a lot of wealth and even control the economies of those countries."

Good guy!

Zhu Yuanzhang called him a good guy.

Ye Xuan came down with this combination of punches.

Labor costs were saved by half.

After all, those manpower are slaves in the colony.

If you give me something to eat, it's considered good.

Even if they were treated like livestock and made to do (bhdi) work until their hair was dry, even if they wanted to resist, they would not be able to resist under the iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.

They can only be obedient slaves [grow cotton, spin yarn, and weave cloth for them].

Growing cotton, spinning and weaving.

This whole process.

Slaves grew raw materials, and the raw materials were produced and sold by themselves.

It doesn't cost much.

Human beings are slaves.

It doesn’t cost much.

Slaves were also used for spinning and weaving.

It doesn't cost much either.

They will weave the cloth into publicity, what kind of hand-woven cloth, the Ming Dynasty weaving technology, and those slightly more developed countries like "hand-woven cloth" the most.

The weaving technology of the Ming Dynasty was so advanced that people in those countries would definitely rush to buy it.

At the same time, the fabric can be sold at a good price.

This is almost a hugely profitable deal.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Ye Xuan with eyes full of admiration.

This guy always comes up with ideas that surprise him.

He could imagine.

If it follows what Ye Xuan said, then Ming Dynasty will be able to plunder a lot of wealth from other slightly developed countries.

And their Ming Dynasty can rely on global navigation.

Occupy underdeveloped colonies.

Loot precious resources.

in short.

Slightly developed and less developed countries.

All their wealth will go into the hands of Ming Dynasty.

The Sun Never Sets Empire in the previous life relied on this to get started.

At that time, those capitalists also created plantations.

Let those black people grow cotton.

In modern times, "growing cotton" is a humiliating history for black people.

Who dares to mention it.

Who is he in a hurry with?

Even if someone posts a picture of eating watermelon in a cotton plantation, these black people will get excited.

"The strategy Aiqing said is very good."

"Sounds doable."

"Our textile industry in Ming Dynasty is indeed developed."

"Using cotton cloth for trade can indeed promote the development of our Ming Dynasty."

"but."

"There is a gap between the Ming Dynasty's textile technology and the ancient prevention and control technology. Many high-efficiency textile technologies are gradually disappearing. We estimate that in a few hundred years, many of these high-efficiency textile technologies will disappear."

"There are few high-efficiency textile technologies now."

"I want to find someone."

"It's also more difficult."

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Ancient China had high-efficiency textile technology, but it was not taken seriously in ancient times. As a result, this high-efficiency textile technology gradually disappeared at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

This is because there was no shortage of labor force in ancient China.

Highly efficient prevention and control technologies have emerged.

This means less labor to do.

If the labor force is reduced, a large part of the labor force will have no work to do.

This will cause public outrage.

For example, the weaver Hargreaves invented a high-efficiency spinning machine, which caused many people to lose their jobs.

Then Hargreaves' house was burned down by angry unemployed workers.

The family lives on the streets.

It is different now. Ming Dynasty needs to improve the efficiency of textile machines to produce a large amount of cloth and sell it all over the world.

Moreover, the improved efficiency of textile machines can save manpower, material and financial resources for their Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Ye Xuan said:

"Your Majesty, I have a method that can increase the efficiency of weaving several times.