Volume VII Chapter 24 Economic Development
After the end of the Jingcha plan, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty can be described as a new look, not that since then there has been no corrupt official in the Ming Dynasty, this is of course unlikely. The biggest change in the current rectification of Ming officials is that they all know that they must be diligent in government and love the people, and they must develop the economy.
This is not that all the officials' brains have suddenly opened up, but the emperor forced them, this time all the localities have made reports, not to say whether it is accurate or inaccurate, at least the general economic situation of the courts in various places is known, the emperor has issued a royal decree, three years later, the external inspection will directly check the income of the people, if there is no growth, directly dismiss and investigate; If it is less than doubled, it will also be automatically resigned; Of course, if you can multiply it more than twice, the reward is also very scary, and if you double it more, you will be upgraded by one more level!
If you want to say who among these local officials is the most urgent, it should be the prefect of Shuntian Mansion, you must know that Shuntian Mansion is the location of the capital, and other places can also be mixed with a little fake, and it will almost pass, anyway, as long as there is a little growth. He is under the emperor's nose, and the officials of the Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate live here, and if he wants to adulterate, there is really no door.
What to do? It turned out that he had not paid attention to the economic issues he began to pay attention to, how to increase the income of farmers, this he knew, the "Beijing News" has said, the first assistant Xu Guangqi has sorted out a set of "Agricultural Administration", as long as the above is followed, the income of farmers can be increased at least twice, there is nothing to say, hurry up and let the county order below buy a set, count it in the office expenses.
How can the people in the capital increase their income? This problem is a headache, fortunately the "Beijing News" saved him again, the "Beijing News" reported a sensational news in the past two days, the ally Portugal actually ordered nearly 10 million taels of arms from the Ming Dynasty at a time, and there will be more orders in the future, in order to catch up with the production of arms, Wang Gong Factory specially divided a group of "model workers" to let them build their own factories, organize people to produce gun parts, I heard that the profits are high and scary.
What about these people? The prefect of Suncheon Province quickly found them and began to take the initiative to help them solve the problem:
No factory? It's simple, all the squares are coming to the official, and the vacant mansions there are rented out to the official, and they will take others to pick them;
Not enough people? It's easy to do, the notice of recruiting people will not be written, and if you can't write it, you will dictate it, and the official will let people help you write it, and the capital will be everywhere, and you are afraid that you will not be able to recruit people;
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Not long after, Wang Gong factory's outsourcing processing plants have been built and put into operation, this batch of ten processing plants are for Wang Gong factory to produce barrels, the scale is not very large, the barrel of the blank they themselves pulled from Wang Gong factory, after doing a good job and sent to Wang Gong factory, the Ministry of Industry also only provides machine tools, each can be equipped with a few drilling machines, a few lathes, a few rifling beds and a small boiler.
As for the specific number of machine tools, they consider themselves, and the personnel are also recruited by themselves, feeling that they have strong ability, and the high level of management will install a few more machine tools, and if they feel that their ability is limited, they will install a few fewer machine tools, as long as they can produce qualified barrels, as for the output, they will also grasp it themselves, anyway, they will earn more if they do more, these are all model workers, I don't believe they don't work hard.
After a few days of trial production, Song Yingxing counted that even the factory with the smallest output can process at least 100 qualified rifle barrels in a day, and the highest output can process almost 200 qualified rifle barrels in one day, so that the output of Wang Gong's factory can be increased to at least 40,000 guns per month, and it is not impossible to produce 50,000 guns per month if you work overtime!
The processing fee for a rifle barrel is two taels, and the processing fee for a pistol barrel is also one tael, which means that each family can have a gross income of at least two hundred taels a day, and even a gross income of five hundred taels a day, on average, each family can earn almost ten thousand taels a month! The prefect of Suncheon Province doesn't care how much they spend or how much they have to pay, this gross income is pure economic growth, no matter who they give it to, anyway, in the end, it will be evenly distributed to everyone.
However, this income seems to be not much on average to millions of people in the capital, and it is far from doubling the income, fortunately, the outsourcing processing plant has just finished the "Beijing News" and new news, the Ministry of Industry has developed a number of civil machinery, what shuttle looms, steam printing machines, steam mills, steam spinning machines, ......, all kinds of machinery can produce what things have also been described in detail, and these things are prosperous and prosperous companies are more than twice the cost price of acquisition, If you have money, you can immediately order machines from the Ministry of Industry, and if you don't have money, you can also borrow money from the Xinglong firm to order machines, as long as someone guarantees it, the Ministry of Industry has limited production capacity, and you want to buy it as soon as possible!
The Ministry of Industry will not talk about him for the time being, the reputation of the Rixinglong firm, he said that the acquisition is absolutely true, people are originally doing business, and it is normal to buy cheap products and sell them, and this thing can definitely make money.
This Shuntianfu prefect issued another order, each Li Zheng at least one guarantee, each Fang Zheng at least two guarantees, within a month must help to run the factory, no place to help them find a place, no one to help them recruit people, in short, the factory must be run, who can't do it, get out, such a simple thing can't be done, what use do you!
Now the whole capital has set off a frenzy of building factories, the whole capital can have more than 20 neighborhoods, no less than a hundred, not counting the people who want to build factories themselves, there are nearly 150 under the index of Shuntianfu, the prefect of Shuntianfu is also fighting in order to keep the black yarn, who dares to be lazy so that he can't keep the black yarn, he will pick up whose black yarn first, anyway, it is just a word, to build a factory for the official!
Build a factory, not only the capital is building a factory, the whole Ming Dynasty is building a factory, the Ministry of Industry is building a huge machinery factory in Dongdaying, specializing in the production of civil machinery, by the Ministry of Industry Zuo Shilang Wang Zheng personally commanded, with more than 100 students of the Firearms Academy, recruited thousands of workers to build, at least a month can make tens of thousands of civil machinery, according to each one hundred taels, that month is also hundreds of thousands of taels, just Dongdaying also belongs to Shuntianfu, white so huge economic growth point, The prefect of Shuntianfu laughed so much that he couldn't close his mouth!
Thousands of machinery looks very scary, in fact, not much, on the contrary, it is far from enough, the Ming Dynasty two Beijing thirteen provinces, there are hundreds of Gwangju Mansion, the county is more than a thousand, that is to say, even if a month to build the front desk of each county can be divided into more than ten units, ten or so for a county is too little, just a small weaving factory at least twenty or thirty shuttle looms, otherwise it is not cost-effective to burn a small boiler, you must know that the boiler also counts the money, a boiler can bring at least forty or fifty civil machinery, the whole is too little profit is low.
All over the country is not only to buy machinery to build factories, agricultural production is even more prosperous, you must know that Daming is still a pure agricultural country, industry can be said to be just starting, the arable land alone is one billion acres, the agricultural population accounts for almost more than ninety percent of the total population of Daming, as long as the prefect of the county is not a fool to know the importance of grasping agriculture, as long as the agriculture is grasped, not to mention promotion, at least the official position is kept.
To say that this economic development, no matter which industry, in fact, is related to the effect, take this agricultural development as an example, the prefects of counties and counties in various places cannot be all-round talents, most of them do not understand agriculture, what should we do? Learn from the prefect of Shuntianfu and buy the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", in this way, the sales of "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" will come up, "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" is not cheap, a set of 60 volumes, not to mention that Xu Guangqi earns copyright fees to make a soft hand, just those printing workshops have to make a lot of money, so that the printing industry will develop, after the development of the printing industry, will buy more printing presses, so that the machinery factory of the Ministry of Industry will follow the profits.
This is only the demand side, from the sales side, it is even more amazing, the output of agriculture has come up, grain and various raw materials are abundant, the day Xinglong can make a lot of money, not to mention, all kinds of processing industries have also risen, the processing industry has come together, their consumption power has also come up, and they can consume more goods, so that they can promote the development of other industries. It's an ever-expanding cycle, like a snowball, and as soon as the snowball rolls, it gets bigger and bigger.
All this is slowly developed under the guidance of Zhu Cijiong, the fastest effect is the textile industry, the efficiency of the steam spinning machine and the shuttle loom is quite terrifying, the output of cloth in the Ming Dynasty can be said to be growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, the output of cloth will soon exceed the overall consumption of the people of the Ming Dynasty, if all this happens in modern times, it is simply a disaster, the price of cloth will depreciate rapidly, depreciation and depreciation, and the manufacturers of cloth will gradually go out of business.
But it happened in the Ming Dynasty is different, this era is a colonial era, many countries are under colonial rule, by the colonizers fiercely suppressed, not to mention the development of industry, even what to grow in their own land has to be decided by the colonists, which caused a blank period of the colonized country's industry, this blank period has to be maintained until the local industry of the colonial countries has to spread outward.
How long is this period, to be precise, until the outbreak of the First World War, that is, nearly 300 years. This was the period when the great powers used the wealth and raw materials plundered by the colonies to develop their own industries frantically, and it was during this period that the economic gap between the developed and developing countries of later generations accumulated.
Originally, this period was monopolized by the European powers that were the first to invent the steam engine, but now, the first to invent the steam engine was the Ming Dynasty, that is to say, now the only one who can fill the gap in the colonial countries in the world is the Ming Dynasty, how much profit is this, so Zhu Cijiong is not only not afraid that the output of cloth will increase too fast, he also thinks that the growth of cloth production is not fast enough, the world market, how much cloth is needed, people always have to wear clothes!