Chapter 693: One step a year
In the autumn and October of the eighth year of Qiansheng, just after the most important autumn harvest festival of the Daheng people, a large number of people returned to the city from their hometowns in Luohaicheng Railway Station.
In Luohai Railway Station, Ma Chunlin was carrying a big rattan box, and his wife behind him was actually carrying a small bag, grabbing a son with one hand, and the family walked out of the train station and then got into the public carriage.
Ma Chunlin's family had just returned from their hometown in Qingyuan County.
This is also the first time in recent years that he has brought his wife and children home to visit the two elders.
Ma Chunlin, like many Daheng people who roam the city, is the second son in the family!
His hometown is in Qingyuan County, and his family owns nearly 1,000 acres of land, but his life is not good during the war, because the taxes are too high.
According to the tradition of the eldest son centralized inheritance system that has lasted for thousands of years in Daheng people, it is impossible for Ma Chunlin, as the second son, to inherit the family's land, so after graduating from middle school, Ma Chunlin left his hometown with the fifty Hengyuan funded by his father.
The fifty Hengyuan is also all the family property he has received as an adult.
As for the family's thousand acres of land and other properties, they all belong to his eldest brother and have nothing to do with him!
Ten years ago, when he came out, Daheng was still in the midst of civil strife, he was only eighteen years old at the time, after wandering in Luohai City for more than a year, plus he didn't know how to save, the money was almost spent quickly, and it was not good to find a job, and then Lin Ziran led the army to Luohai City, and he signed up for the army as soon as he gritted his teeth.
After he signed up for the army, although he could not directly apply for the military academy because of his insufficient academic qualifications, he still entered the sergeant training school, and after a simple few months of study and training, he entered the army with the rank of third-class sergeant, followed the army to fight in the north and south, and was finally promoted to a first-class sergeant, and finally made meritorious service and obtained the opportunity to participate in the officer's crash course.
However, he had just finished his crash course, and before he could be assigned to the army, Daheng had already been unified.
After the reunification of the empire, the Imperial Army began to reorganize on a large scale, the promotion of officers was gradually regularized, and the requirements for officers became higher and higher.
However, he also has a corporal and a military knight, no matter how young he is, he is also an officer, and when he retired and changed jobs, he was assigned to a patrol station under Luo Haicheng as a deputy director.
As an ordinary farmer's child, it is not easy to get into the position of deputy director after being out for a few years, and he has been in Luohai City since then.
Later, he married a wife and had children, and after being proud for many years, he was promoted to the director of the patrol police station in a neighborhood, and he can be regarded as having his own career and family!
This year, his eldest brother wrote many times and asked him to bring his wife and children home for a reunion, so he took advantage of the Autumn Harvest Festival holiday to take his wife and children home.
After returning to his hometown, he actually still envied his eldest brother.
Just because he was born two years earlier than himself, he inherited almost all the family's property, and after the reunification, the eldest brother began to grow a large amount of cotton on his small farm, earning a lot of money.
Today, his eldest brother's farm has reached more than 3,000 acres, employing many farm workers, not only growing grain, but also raising horses and cattle, and earning a lot of income every year.
Although his eldest brother stays in the countryside, his eating and drinking expenses are much better than him, the director of the city patrol station in Luohai City!
Even on the way back by train, his wife kept sighing at the beauty of rural life, which actually had the intention of persuading her husband.
But this time his eldest brother invited him to return to his hometown with his wife and children, not only to visit the two elders, but also for other factors.
The old father probably felt that the family conditions had been better over the years, and he had also treated his second son a little badly back then, so he discussed it with his eldest brother and prepared to pull him as the second son.
It's not that the family's land is given to him, which is not in line with the tradition of the Daheng people.
But the eldest brother of the Ma family is ready to expand his investment and prepare to open a textile factory, after all, if the Ma family grows cotton themselves, and has a good relationship with the surrounding farmers, they can get a large amount of low-priced cotton.
If you start a textile mill with these cotton raw materials, the supply of raw materials is guaranteed, and the price is not expensive.
For this reason, Brother Vest began to prepare last year, and he was basically ready.
This time, I asked Ma Chunlin to go back, in fact, I wanted Ma Chunlin to resign and follow his eldest brother!
It doesn't matter if he doesn't have money to invest, his eldest brother can lend him a part of the funds interest-free, and wait for the textile factory to make money, and then pay it back when the profits are shared.
To put it bluntly, Brother Ma Chunlin wants to pull him!
However, Ma Chunlin was very hesitant, he naturally knew the kindness of his eldest brother and his father's expectations, and he could make a lot of money by doing a good job of setting up a joint stock factory, which was much better than being the director of a small neighborhood patrol station and getting thirty or forty Hengyuan every month.
However, this business is risky!
Once you quit your job to do business, and the business loses again, won't it be doomed at that time?
Even if the income of being a patrol officer is lower, it is better to be stable, if nothing goes wrong, you will basically have no worries about food and clothing in this life.
But the old father asked him: How do you plan to provide for your two children to go to college in the future?
With his current income, he can't afford to send his children to college, let alone two.
I got out of the train station, got into the public carriage, and after three consecutive bus trips, I arrived home.
When I got home, I looked at the hundred-square-meter apartment that I was proud of a few years ago, and then thought about the big and commanding house in my hometown, how unpleasant it was.
That night, Ma Chunlin discussed with his wife, and finally decided: resign and start a business!
However, the two husbands and wives don't plan to take the eldest brother's money for nothing, although they don't have much money, but they have saved some over the years, make up some by themselves, and then borrow some from the eldest brother, and give it according to the bank interest, so that the capital can be regarded as having it.
When the decision was made, Ma Chunlin replied to the eldest brother!
After his eldest brother received the letter, he came to Luohai City not long after, and this textile factory was also established in Luohai City.
Then the two brothers were busy preparing to build a factory together, to be honest, he Ma Chunlin didn't know much, and more often he could only run errands and do chores, and many things were handled by the eldest brother who had been running the farm for many years.
After more than a month of busyness, the two brothers finally got the textile factory down, and soon they were in production by buying a poorly run textile factory, then buying a few advanced textile machines, and then buying low-priced cotton directly from the farmer from Qingyuan County.
The quality of the cloth produced by the new machines was quite good, and their raw materials were low, so they quickly opened up the market and established partnerships with several textile trading companies.
These cloths are still for export!
This is also a feature of Daheng's contemporary industry, that is, good things are basically used for export, and domestic self-use are low-grade goods.
Even the so-called high-quality goods used for export are actually cheap and low-end goods in the international market.
There's no way, now Daheng's industrial technology is such a scum!
But even if it is to do this, it is not easy, if it were not for the vast territory, the huge amount of arable land, the abundant various resources, and the population of more than 200 million, it would not have been possible for the Great Heng Empire to develop its current industrial level in just a few years, and its industrial products could compete with the products of other industrial powers in the international market.
Even if it's just the low-end market!
The industrial technology level of the Daheng Empire has been a step a year in recent years, and it is very difficult to progress rapidly.
In addition to the good basic conditions of the Daheng Empire itself, this has a great relationship with the economic policy of combining government and business implemented by the Daheng Empire in recent years.
Before the reunification, Daheng's industry was basically under the official control of the feudal towns, which belonged to a very special economic model of the feudal towns, but all the industries that made money were directly controlled by the feudal towns, whether it was heavy industry or light industry, and even ordinary service industries, as long as it was a little profitable, the feudal towns would not let go.
In the process of the unification of Daheng, these feudal towns were successively accepted and managed by the State Assets Management Commission.
This also led to the fact that after Lin Ziran unified the Daheng Empire, almost all the industry and commerce of the empire were under the control of the imperial government, and the unified Daheng Empire State-owned Assets Management Committee managed more than 95% of all kinds of industries in the Daheng Empire, and heavy industry was completely under official control.
However, this economic model did not have much benefit for the development of the entire empire, and it was easy to ossify and lack competitiveness.
But it also gave Lin Ziran the possibility of making it more convenient to adjust the layout of industry and commerce, after all, these industries were received from the hands of various feudal towns, and there were not too many messy interest disputes, and the state-owned asset management committee could merge and split as much as it liked.
After the reunification, under the leadership of Lin Ziran, the State-owned Assets Management Commission made nationwide adjustments to many of its subordinate assets.
State-owned assets began to withdraw from many ordinary industries in addition to the national defense industry, core industries, and people's livelihood industries, such as the textile industry, which is a large-scale withdrawal, on the one hand, to support and encourage private capital to invest in industry and commerce, and on the other hand, it is also to concentrate resources and expand and strengthen a number of core industries related to national defense security and people's livelihood pillars.
Such as weapons, iron and steel, mining, chemicals, petroleum, machinery, shipbuilding and other typical core industries.
In the process of expanding and strengthening the core industries, the State-owned Assets Management Commission has merged, split and combined many enterprises and factories in the above-mentioned industries.
Eventually, more than 300 large or specialized enterprises were established to drive the industrial development of the entire empire, many of which would support two enterprises of the same type at the same time in order to maintain healthy development.