Chapter 519: My Lord, Times Have Changed! (1/4)
The textile industry of the empire was promoted by the first emperor.
The rise of industry has led to the investment of a large number of relevant personnel.
Now Wang Lanling has not had much impact, his influence is limited, and he has only affected the three major places of Muzhou, Yunzhou, and Shanzhou.
Compared with the people who set fire to Wang Lanling, the industrial age he brought brought made more people lose their jobs.
Although many people have a lot of skills to survive, there is usually only one ability to make money.
The cotton in Lanzhou could not be sold, and the cloth, carpenters, papier-mâchés, and glasssmiths in the city were all greatly affected.
This effect is mainly reflected in the lower levels.
At least forty-five percent of the people of the empire were involved in the textile industry, most of which were simple spinning.
Men must plow, women must weave, and every family must be clothed.
In particular, the children of peasant families in the cotton spinning area can spin cotton wool at the age of seven or eight, weave cloth at the age of twelve or thirteen, and when they can embroider and weave cloth skills, they will be a qualified female worker, and they can marry a good family wherever they go.
It is a craft, and the importance of this craft originates from the importance of the ability to weave in rural and urban areas.
Farmers relied on grain and cloth to pay their taxes, and men grew grain and women weaved cloth.
The above is handed over to the state as a tax and a credit for forced labor.
The following is a cloth village sold to the county town to feed the family.
The farmers on the side of Longcheng Tongzhou were all farming, and most of the textile industry in the empire was developed by waterways, and at the same time, it was possible to grow mulberry and raise silkworms.
In feudal times, there was no habit of handing people over to factories, and even if there were, there were not many of them, and most of them were produced in the form of small peasant families, relying on consignees and hired laborers to deliver their goods to the merchants.
The pace here is slow, and the traffic for business is as much as it is in modern times, and it's nice to have a dozen people a day.
Wang Lanling has been constantly smashing the corners of the wall since Heishui County, and at present, to a certain extent, he has smashed part of the corners of the empire.
The homespun cloth in the countryside is sold to the county seat and several better places for money.
The superior people still used silk clothes that were not produced in high quantities, and most people used medium commodities such as homespun cloth.
The steam weaving of the first emperor was to expand the textile industry, so that more wealthy merchants and nobles were accustomed to buying more cheap clothes, so that more people could buy a new dress a year.
Wang Lanling's technological improvement is industrial upgrading, which is to impact the low-end market with a large number of cheap fabrics and clothes with a large number of cheap fabrics and clothes with higher aesthetics than the production technology and great power of this era.
This market is the sideline business of the majority of rural women and rural families, that is, in addition to farming, the largest income, even more than the breeding part.
The commodity market of the empire is actually not large, and Wang Lanling squeezed the markets of three states with the power of one county, so that thousands of women and hundreds of thousands of families were severely hit!
In modern society, in the market share of a certain commodity, one county occupies the market of the three surrounding provinces.
This is a very normal thing in modern society, but in this feudal era, what Wang Lanling did was no less than a natural disaster that shook the earth!
There are 50 million people in Muzhou, and there will be no more than 100,000 people buying clothes in a year, and Wang Lanling's 1,000-person factory can produce 600 pieces of sportswear every day, which is more than 220,000 pieces a year, which can roughly meet the needs of the three nearby states.
The market doesn't need to be completely saturated, and some people can't buy new clothes, which will make sales more stable in the future.
This is just clothes, and with cheap cloth, it directly impacts those homespun cloths to the point of nothing.
The cloth of Lanling County, because it is produced by machines, has advanced production technology, excellent workmanship, fine and soft fabrics, and is comfortable and durable to wear when made into clothes.
Because the homespun cloth is hand-woven, it is also known as coarse cloth, the gauze coarse cloth is thick, the workmanship is rough, and the comfort of making clothes is extremely poor.
The feeling of wearing it is different, and the feeling of looking is also different.
The dyeing of Lanling County is uniform and bright, and it is not easy to fade.
The dyeing effect of the homespun cloth is poor and the color is monotonous.
There is also a huge gap between efficiency and output, and the manual is not comparable with the machine, and the price of the cloth here is cheaper than that of the homespun cloth even if it passes through a few middlemen.
Not only did the masses choose the cloth of Lanling County, but even those nobles also chose this.
They not only wore high-end clothes from Wang Lanling's side, but also ran this business.
Every month, dealers from all over the country gather outside the paper mills and textile mills to fight for the purchase of these goods.
Every month, 10,000 or 20,000 pieces of clothing and tens of thousands of pieces of fabric are transported to prosperous places and are bought by the big girls and little girls in the city.
The purchasing power of the empire is constantly improving, and those small workshop-style peasant economies cannot meet the increasing spiritual needs and comparison psychology.
Originally, the textile industry that existed all over the empire, and because many people began to do business, there were various problems with turnover, and at this time, when it encountered the impact of Wang Lanling's cloth, it simply collapsed.
Even the big bosses behind the scenes want to buy the fabrics of Lanling County as their own fabrics to sell, not to mention the small bosses below.
The problems of the empire are constantly expanding, and after the income of the people at the bottom is reduced, they cannot find a new livelihood, and those who have money are only sucking blood.
There is no way out for part-time workers, and the workers in this era can only expect their boss to be a good person, and there is no other law that can protect them.
So most people don't want to do this kind of thing.
If you don't do it, you will starve to death, and you will have no extra income from weaving, and your family will have to pay taxes, and you will have to eat, drink, and Lazar.
You have to pay taxes when you go out of the countryside, you have to pay taxes for raising chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep, and you have to pay taxes to the dung division even when you go to the toilet!
Except for Wang Lanling's territory and a few sites, the big dung division in most places still follows the old system, and it is still a fat gap that collects money and collects money.
Harsh taxes are fiercer than tigers!
This autumn, after a rebellion on the Shanzhou side, there was also a rebellion on the Yunzhou side, and the tax collectors who went down to collect grain were torn to pieces by angry peasants.
The family has no money, there is no hope for the coming year, and the little grain that has just been harvested has to be pulled away by a car.
The bureaucracy of the empire will never be able to find the real reason for the rebellion of the common people.
The lord of the Lingtong County Inspection Department sent his elite to suppress this group of people.
In the early years, those mud-legged people who didn't know how to resist were all dead, and now those who dare to resist are either a group of horse bandits and robbers with guns, or a group of people with guns!
As soon as they entered the village, they were beaten into a sieve by the mud legs hiding on the roof.
My lord, times have changed!
Who was the last one who was eliminated by the times?
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