Chapter 474 The Rising Sun of Industrial Civilization
Yang Qing is not worried about his own land reform captains......
They are the brocade guards.
Even if they have mercy on some landlords, they will still strictly perform their duties, and if they are just merciful, can they still gamble their future and life for a little pity?
Jin Yiwei has strict internal discipline.
In fact, the internal discipline of Jinyiwei is on par with that of Comrade Steel, and the degree of fanaticism exceeds that of Steel's subordinates, and Jinyiwei regards Yang Qing as a god of the world. Not to mention disobeying Yang Qing's orders, even this kind of thought will fall into deep shame, there have been examples of Jinyiwei taking the initiative to run to Nanya to surrender because he was afraid that he would be punished after death, and he couldn't bear the inner torment.
Of course, prophylactic encephalography is also a must.
"Industrialization is the future!"
In a factory at the foot of the Shogunate Mountain, Yang Qing said to the busy scene.
This is his model factory.
To be precise, he is a specialist factory for experimenting with new machines, which are currently dominated by the latest steam-powered textile machines, but also new printing and dyeing machines and even the latest jacquard machines. That is, it is based on the improvement of the flower building machine, using the jacquard jacquard machine of perforated cardboard, but it is still manpower, and it will take time to solve the steam power. This thing is mainly used to make flower cloth, and its performance even exceeds that of the flower floor machine being used, which is actually the source of the modern jacquard machine, and has begun to be promoted to replace the old-fashioned flower floor machine.
It's already high-end.
Originally, this was already the time of Little Nana.
There is more than one such factory.
In his arsenal, even steam-powered boring machines began to be used, and the next focus was on steam-powered lathes, according to Yang Qing's plan, in the next ten years, to strive to make his military production enter the steam power era. Especially relatively speaking, there are some high-end steam-powered blowers, because he can build converters because of this, and the use of hydraulic blowers cannot blow the molten iron in it anyway. This is not to blow the fire to make it burn stronger, but to blow directly into the molten iron, and let it heat itself with the help of the oxygen in it to achieve a completely liquid state. As long as the converter steelmaking is solved, then the Ming can sit back and relax, the current steel industry is not good, and it is not much different from Europe in essence.
That is, it has the advantage of crucible steel.
However, in terms of pig iron maturation, which is mainly used, it is the same as in Europe.
"Steam engines drive industrial geming.
While others are still laboriously turning a manual spinning machine with dozens of spindles, when others stop those hydraulic looms because the rivers freeze in winter, in our factories, the steam engine drives hundreds or thousands of spindles day and night, and our looms are also day and night. The shrill whistle, the reciprocating roar of the pistons in the cylinder, the grinding of the steel parts, shouted the advent of a new era. Every factory is a giant beast, it keeps devouring cotton, and then spits out bundles of cotton cloth, a factory can meet the clothing of a prefecture, ten factories can meet the clothing of a province, and the cloth produced by a hundred factories can not be worn by all of us in the Ming Dynasty.
With enough raw materials, we can make the whole world wear our clothes.
The wealth of the whole world will come flooding in.
And that's just one.
The steam engine can solve almost everything we need to solve at the moment, the train on land is speeding on the railway, the steamship is also riding the wind and waves in the sea, the steam engine in the mine drives the rock drill to mash the hard ore, and the steam engine in the mill drives the grinding disc to grind the fine flour......
It can do anything.
But there's one thing it can't.
There is one thing that no machine can have, no factory can.
Grain.
Food can only be grown from the land.
Food is the foundation of everything, without grain factories are a pile of scrap iron, wealth is a pile of waste paper, without food, even if the rich rival country can only bear gold and jade and starve to death. Therefore, the first consideration in doing anything is food, and everything else must be backward in the face of food supply, making money is not the most important thing, but eating enough is the most important thing. It can be said that having enough to eat is the foundation of everything, and only when everyone is well fed can we talk about industrial development, wealth, and flowers, otherwise everything will be wiped out under the impact of famine.
Therefore, farmers must be given arable land sufficient to feed themselves and those who are not agricultural.
This is the meaning of our land reform.
Changing the old land control so that the peasants had their own land, and the Ming peasants cultivated their own land, so that they could have enough to eat and be able to produce surplus grain to buy other things. Ten thousand peasants can buy one piece of clothing for each of them, and they can make a hundred of these textile factories day and night, and all the workers in these factories will be paid.
And the land can feed the family, and the farmers can do other things.
For example, fighting for the country.
For example, participate in infrastructure construction such as road construction.
It can be said that our future and the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty are built on the basis of letting the peasants have enough to eat, or on the basis of land reform. ”
Yang Qing said earnestly.
The sacred sense of mission of those land reform captains arose spontaneously.
But what they saw was really shocking.
These people have been in Guangxi for many years, basically dealing with the land, although Guangxi Huangzhuang also introduced new looms, but the scale is relatively small, in fact, more manual Jenny machines, the number of hydraulic looms is not much. After all, it is far away from the industrial zone of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there is no need for this, at this moment, this huge factory full of steam, rows of machinery, and countless busy workers make them feel the charm of industrial civilization at once......
Uh, it's just a little bit polluted.
The air was also filled with the smell of soot.
Outside the surrounding glass windows, the sky is also obscured by the pervasive soot, although it is not to the point of fog, but the air quality in the southern capital has also been seriously reduced by Yang Qing in recent years.
However, Nandu is better.
The most polluted area is actually Shanghai.
It is the largest textile base, as well as a printing and dyeing base, and the Huangpu River is no longer clear, and the smoke has begun to pollute the sky after the port has introduced a large number of steam-powered booms. Occasionally, when the northeast wind blows, it will blow the smoke of Liaojiaozui oil refining in Jiangbei to there, in short, the Ming Dynasty, which began to stride into industrialization, is also inevitably bidding farewell to the green mountains and green waters.
Of course, no one cares about this at this time.
There are even outsiders who come to smell this wealth.
The smell of real wealth.
Industry was producing new groups of capitalists and wealthy burghers at an astonishing rate, and women workers in textile factories were the most popular marriages. Sweatshops were almost non-existent in the areas controlled by the imperial court, because the wages were too low to go to Huangzhuang, and if you wanted to let the workers work with peace of mind, their income could not be lower than that of Huangzhuang. This is fundamentally different from Guangzhou, so the labor cost of the products here is higher, but because the machine is more advanced, there is no obvious difference in price. At first, the new capitalists were dissatisfied, but they gradually realized that this was not entirely a bad thing, because the wealthy workers' burghers had more and more purchasing power......
They've got Ford's consciousness.
It is true that the sweatshops in Guangzhou have lower labor costs, but the latter's local purchasing power is dismal and they are completely dependent on exports.
This one is very shaky.
Europeans are also improving, for example, sugar exports have begun to decline in recent years, because the Dutch have started to grow sugar cane in Java after losing Taiwan, and the British have also started to grow sugar cane on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Although the production is still insufficient because of the short time, it also means that the Ming Dynasty's near-monopoly on cane sugar has ended, and soon there will be no more British merchant ships that are crazy about purchasing cane sugar.
But domestic demand is different.
Domestic demand does not have to worry about external influences.
Of course, it would certainly be best for the capitalists to pay less wages, but the current situation will not be unacceptable to them.
After the steam engine is promoted, there is no need to think about this problem, Guangdong's hydraulic machinery is completely unable to compete with this kind of thing, and it is useless for them to reduce the wages of workers, not to mention that those workers are almost unbearable, and at this time they have begun to run to Leizhou.
They will also choose with their feet.
After visiting the factory and feeling the baptism of industrial civilization, the captains of the land reform team went north with great ambition, and then they will carry out a thorough land reform in the area originally controlled by the Qing army. A comprehensive inventory of all fertile land and dry land suitable for cultivation should be carried out, and then according to the population of each locality, these farmlands should be divided equally according to the standard of not less than one mu of irrigated fields and four acres of dry land per person. No matter who these properties originally belonged to, even those landlords who had not been traitors, they were all redistributed and then unified into the Huangzhuang......
They are all skilled in this work.
Yang Qing's land reform teams have been practicing in Guangxi and Guangdong for many years, and they all have sufficient experience.
Including experience in dealing with resistance.
In fact, these land reform teams are all fully armed, and the level of equipment is not inferior to the elite of the marines, and they are even equipped with horses, in fact, they are all dragoons.
As for the rest of the division according to this standard, that is, those thin lands, they will be left to compensate those southern landlords after the Southern Public Land Law in the future. Although cotton actually needs water very much, and the yield of these lands is definitely not high, but this is Yang Qing's business, anyway, they all have money, buy more slaves, and then use the whip to repair the channel! It is said that Hu Guogong has already begun to study water pumps, and relatively simple screw pumps have begun to be applied, and a steam engine drives the screw pump to lift water from the river to a high place, and then flows through an elevated canal to the irrigation ditch of the cotton field. This level of investment in hydraulic engineering is completely affordable for the landlords in the south, and the north is full of coal mines, and coal is not a valuable thing......
I have to say that the protector is thoughtful.