Today's Xue family is different from the past. Without the Jia and Wang families coming forward, they can only agree and watch a large amount of money drain from their hands.

You must know that so much silk can be sold for money.

However, a shopkeeper of the Xue family came to Jia Lian privately and said that he could eat the silk, but the prerequisite was to give him a 10% profit.

Jia Lian inquired a little and found out that the other party was bribed by a big sea trade merchant to come and buy these silks.

Only then did Zhao Han realize that, yes, the West had already penetrated the Red Mansion, and they were in great demand for Eastern porcelain and silk. For a long time, it was a seller's market.

In other words, they can only get a small purchase quota and can only obtain trade opportunities by bribing local officials.

Until the invasion, the Eastern Dynasty was in an absolute surplus position relying on silk, tea, and porcelain. Basically, it could sell as much as it produced.

It's a complete seller's market right now.

This is unimaginable in the fiercely competitive buyer's market of later generations.

In this case, they quickly adjusted their strategy and found ways to smuggle silk to those maritime merchants.

Yes, maritime merchants could not allocate goods at will. The imperial court explicitly prohibited goods from flowing out at will. It only opened a few ports to the outside world and only allowed specific merchants to come in and buy and sell.

This resulted in a very strange scene in history.

Zheng Zhilong relied on the goods provided by the mainland and traded with the four oceans, earning tens of millions of taels of silver every year. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty was almost dying of poverty.

Guarding the Jinshan and Yinshan, I went to Meishan.

Later, when the Manchu and Qing Dynasties completely banned the sea, Zheng Chenggong could not get goods from the mainland, so he gradually declined, and finally his foundation was destroyed.

Later, with the help of overseas channels, Zhuangzili's silk industry could finally expand unscrupulously without worrying about any impact on the court and weavers.

Just when it expands to a certain scale, it encounters new bottlenecks.

There is not enough coal...

Yes, steam engines consume a lot of coal every day.

Previously, they were purchased from nearby coal mines.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But now the scale has expanded, the roads are not good, and the coal fields are also manually excavated. It is okay to meet the needs of ordinary people for cooking and heating, but when faced with the challenges of factories

To put it bluntly, it's just a drop in the bucket.

Living needs and industrial needs are two orders of magnitude.

Then increase the price to buy.

Soon the owners of the coal fields complained that the court had restrictions and did not allow too many miners to gather. In other words, there was an upper limit on the output of the coal fields.

And it is artificially limited.

"I'm not allowed to make money even if I have money. Now I know how feudal society hinders the development of capital." Wang Wenwen sighed.

"When miners gather in large numbers, there is a natural basis for rebellion. The imperial court has always strictly guarded against it and often forbids private mining for this reason. It is sometimes loose and sometimes tight." Zhao Han also sighed.

There is not enough fuel, and if we purchase more, there will be no coal on the market, and the price will skyrocket, which will attract the attention of the court.

"We still need to find an island, bring guns and guns, and develop it freely. In this case, with the power of industrialization, one island can defeat an entire landmass." Wang Wenwen said bitterly.

"No wonder the teacher asked us to travel through time and become men. Only men can go out easily. How could it be possible for Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai to do these things?" Zhao Han said.

"It seems that we have to lie dormant for some time. After three to five years, we will wait until we are admitted to Jinshi." Wang Wenwen said.

Zhao Han nodded.

Although you can now rely on your status as a scholar to go out as an official, there are too many restrictions after all.

Jia Yucun relied on the platform of Jia Mansion and his background as a Jinshi, and he quickly rose to prominence.

Two years later.

Jia Baoyu passed the imperial examination and Jia Rong also passed the examination.

Later, Jia Rong did not continue to take exams, but sought to be released to other places, and finally found a job as a magistrate on a southern island.

The people of the Jia family were aggrieved, thinking that someone in the court was obstructing them and discriminating against their nobles.
Chapter completed!