"Are they all engaged in industry and commerce?

But I would like to ask, if another 10 cotton cloth from Suzhou Province are produced every year, and then all of them are put into the market, what will happen next?

Cotton cloth is as cheap as firewood.

You'll see mill owners who can't sell their cloth using cotton cloth as firewood.

The market capacity is limited.

In the past two hundred years, Daming has already formed a balance, how much cotton cloth is produced by Susong's textile factory every year, and how much cotton cloth does the people of Daming need to buy every year, although no one calculates, but the market has automatically adjusted to the balance. If the number of textile mills increases, the price of cotton cloth will fall, and then there will be an unsustainable exit, and then return to the balance again, and the number of people who buy cloth will increase, the price of cotton cloth will rise, and the textile mill owner will increase the number of looms to produce more cotton cloth.

For more than 200 years, everything has been controlled by the hand of the market.

And what about a sudden tenfold increase?

Sell to whom? ”

Yang Xin said.

"Overseas?"

Xu Guangqi said with some uncertainty.

"The world's largest population of 50,000 people, one-third of which is in the Ming Dynasty, and the rest is second only to the Ming Dynasty in the original Tianzhu area, which Europeans call India, a mess of countries at present, the largest Mughal Empire. All of these countries together have a combined population of more than 10,000,000, but the vast majority of them are destitute, like our homeless people, whose lives are cheaper than livestock, and which, like our inland villages, are all hand-spun and weaved, and are still important cotton-producing areas.

Even if our cotton cloth is better, there will be no more than 10 million people in this land who can afford to buy our cotton cloth, and in fact the vast majority of them may not even be able to afford locally produced cloth.

And this is the only land with a population of more than 10,000.

As for Tessie.

The Netherlands has a population of only 1.6 million.

The whole of Tessie combined, it is estimated that it is less than 10,000, and they themselves are also trying to use the textile industry to enter the industrial age.

Africa remains.

The people there don't wear clothes at all.

Most of them are still savage, almost indistinguishable from wild beasts.

So who will Suzhou sell its cotton cloth to after its tenfold increase? Sell to the destitute Indians, or to the Tessi who are desperately trying to export? Or Africa without clothes at all? We do have a lot of people outside, but unfortunately, there are very few people who can afford to buy clothes, and there are those who don't wear them at all, and there are those who are also selling them out.

Business?

The cotton cloth market in the whole world combined is not enough to feed ten Suzhou. ”

Yang Xin said.

I can't really feed it.

When the British Empire needed to bombard the market with artillery, there were only a few hundred thousand textile workers in the whole of Britain, and how many machine owners are there in Suzhou at present? Almost half of the entire city of Suzhou, the north and east of the city, can be said to be almost the same number of households, conservatively estimated that more than 500,000 people rely on the textile industry for their livelihood.

They are indeed not big industry, not steam engines and industry.

But they have a huge number.

And this is just Suzhou City, the entire Suzhou Mansion is more, and even just one town in Shengze is known as the sunrise and silk, and the clothes are all over the world.

What is the result of a tenfold expansion?

Economic crisis.

Rely on exports?

One-third of the world's population is in the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining two-thirds are more than half of the extreme poverty, why did the Ming Dynasty export a large amount of linen cloth to the Americas? It was there that the Indians could not afford cotton, and cheap linen was more in line with their level of consumption. And the rest that can afford to buy clothes are producing their own, and even the textile industry in Europe is doing the same, and the country does not need to make money on big industrial exports at all.

Because the Ming Dynasty has achieved a similar purpose by relying on the scale of the handicraft industry, the world's silver is flowing into the Ming Dynasty, and the ideals realized by the British with naval guns and steam engines have been realized by lying down on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

The country does not need the Industrial Revolution for the time being.

She needs an agricultural revolution.

Nor was she short of silver.

She was short of food.

Britain's industrialization relies on the world's more than one billion people, supporting their less than 10 million people to achieve industrialization, and the Ming Dynasty wants to use the world's population of 500 million to support the industrialization of a country with a population of more than 150 million......

The world says you're funny, right?

150 million?

Just one Nanzhili can't support it.

With the current world population, I am afraid that it will be able to support the industrialization of Su Songchang Sanfu.

"But fighting local tyrants and dividing the land can solve the problem?"

Xu Guangqi said.

"Yes, because the local tyrants divide the land so that everyone in the Ming Dynasty can afford to wear new clothes, and even wear more than one new clothes every year, this year the number of cotton cloth sold by Suzhou cloth merchants to Zhaoyi City has doubled compared with the past.

Because those who could not afford to buy cloth bought cloth after dividing the land.

There are even people who buy silk to wear.

Believe it or not, there is a theory that you can try, set a rule for your tenants, that is, only buy the cloth of the Xu family, and then you reduce the land rent to 50%, and wait a year for you to see if your loss is really big. You can set the same rules for the workers of the Xu family, and then increase their wages in the same way, and finally you can see if they make the sales of the Xu family's cotton cloth increase. ”

Yang Xin said.

It's true on the Red Turbans' side.

Because the rent of the apocalypse is in kind, so the common people can only grow food, and the flood did not feel the change before, but after the new grain came down this autumn, the militia who suddenly did not worry about eating almost set off a frenzy of making new clothes.

Suzhou was caught off guard.

The price of cotton cloth in Suzhou has been raised by two percent by these militiamen who are crazy about making new clothes.

And it's not just new clothes, those militiamen who finally have money to spare have even set off a wave of marrying new daughters-in-law, and countless singles who originally had no money to marry wives began to realize their dreams after the new food came down.

Then their marriage led to the growth of the whole consumption, building a new house, buying pots and pans, buying a set of jewelry for the new daughter-in-law to wear, and even some people bought large livestock, which caused the price of cattle and donkeys to rise a lot. Even the craftsmen who build small boats are busy day and night, after all, small boats are the main means of transportation in that area, and who doesn't want to drive a new boat to pick up a new daughter-in-law.

This is domestic demand.

This is the way Daming really wants to go.

Xu Guangqi was pondering.

Of course, Yang Xin didn't expect him to change anything because of this, but for now, the Su Song gentry did change, and in the face of the threat of the Red Turbans, they did try to ease the contradictions, so that the poor people on their own turf could not make trouble. After all, judging from the situation in Changzhou and Zhenjiang, if this situation really occurs, their group training is very suspenseful, and tens of thousands of group training are likely to be drowned by crazy people, and the group training will also cost money.

Rather than continuing to increase the number of group exercises, which may not be able to be suppressed in the end, why not give up a little benefit to the poor and ease the contradictions between the two sides to maintain it? Left and right, they don't really have to live on the rent of six or seven percent, and fifty percent of the rent is not unacceptable.

This is what Yang Xin wants to see.

He didn't want to see the land plunged into a protracted war.

The Red Turbans were there to force the gentry to make some changes.

The main thing is that the gentry in this area have already moved into industry and commerce, and agriculture itself is only a part of their wealth, and its share is declining.

They have room to make concessions.

For them, the impact of concessions is minimal.

But that's just the area.

Don't think about it elsewhere, those pure land gentry will not give in to death, Yang Xin is still very sober about this, they are not Su Song These gentry, everything they rely on the oppression of tenants, and ask them to reduce rent? They would rather use knives and guns, and they are also used to knives and guns, it is said that it is the last years of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting just cleaned up the gentry's fields, and they were subjected to their crazy revenge!

And that was when Li Zicheng's knife was about to cut into his neck, and those pure land gentry were stubborn at this point.

At this time, it was noisy outside.

Yang Xin and Xu Guangqi walked out of the Imperial Palace, and then saw another group of ministers coming, led by a scholar who was also a scholar, Zhu Yanxi, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, who was not very in charge of things, mainly because he was responsible for repairing the records of the two dynasties. But at this moment, Scholar Zhu also had a serious face, and behind him were Zhao Nanxing and others, the number of people in this team was smaller than the one just now, but the rank of officials was generally higher, especially the imperial history of the left and right of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

They also walked directly to the Qianqing Gate in the back.

"Elder Zhu Ge, where are you going?"

Yang Xin shouted enthusiastically.

Zhu Yanxi casually bowed his hand to him, but did not answer him.

Zhao Nanxing's eyes were a little complicated in the back.

The current situation is really messy, Yang Xin is undoubtedly their biggest enemy, but at this moment Yang Xin is on their side, because Yang Xin is behind the queen, and he will not tolerate the Hakka family to get this empress dowager. And the main opponent they have to face is not the eunuch party, but the same Donglin party, and it is also the core of the former Donglin party, the biggest enemy has the same interests at the moment, and the former comrades-in-arms have become enemies.

At this moment, Zhao Nanxing is almost messy.

Yang Xin looked at him with a smile.

The two looked at each other silently like a pair of dead glass.

That's how the team went.

"I just like to watch this, Xu Gong, don't you go to see the excitement together?"

Yang Xin said to Xu Guangqi.

Needless to say, these people went to fight with Gu Bingqian's gang, two elders, one is a scholar of Jianji Hall and one is a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and the current cabinet is in addition to Ye Xianggao, the first assistant of the cabinet, Sun Chengzong, a scholar of the East Pavilion and a scholar of the Ministry of War, and Zhu Guozhen, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, are the two of them. At present, there are a total of five scholars in the cabinet, and the rest of the ministers basically resign by themselves, including Liu Yixie, who was resigned.

"I'm not interested in that!"

Xu Guangqi said speechlessly.

Since this is the case, Yang Dudu was not reluctant, he bypassed Zhu Yanxi's team and went straight to the Qianqing Palace from the other side.

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