For the textile industry, which is the largest industry in all industrial countries in the West, even Switzerland, which is in the mountainous region of central Europe, has its own textile industry, and it is impossible for the Ministry of Industry of Daming, who knows the most about Western technology, not to pay attention to it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But in recent years, no matter how the government promotes, in addition to Chen Qiyuan, who does not care about the benefits of politics and business, the cotton textile industry is really rarely cared for, the main reason is that there is no money, during the economic crisis, the overlord of the textile industry, Britain, dumped cotton yarn and cotton cloth cheaply all over the world, resulting in Chen Qiyuan's own factories are losing money, how to persuade others to invest in the factory, I did not expect that there were suddenly a few new investors this year.

Chunjiang Plumbing Duck Prophet, a businessman engaged in the business of importing cotton yarn and cotton cloth in Hong Kong, according to the market in his hand, made him think that it was already profitable to invest in the textile industry, and after a detailed investigation, he introduced a full set of British machines, and established a textile factory in Dongguan, which has convenient transportation and has a very port and railway, but the land price is far less high than that of Kowloon.

In this era, the dumping of the British was a commercial activity, but there was no government backing, and there was no high subsidy, but the businessmen kept prices down in the hope of surviving the economic crisis, but once the losses and dumping outweighed the losses, they had no incentive to continue.

In addition, as Western countries, especially the Germans, made a fortune after the Franco-Prussian War and established the gold standard with French indemnities, the international silver price continued to fall, and the pound sterling with gold as the standard became more and more expensive than the Ming market with silver as the currency, and the depreciation of the currency made the textile industry a profitable industry, passing the profit line drawn by the British first-mover advantage.

Yongtai Cotton Yarn Factory, the first textile mill in Dongguan, Yongtai Cotton Yarn Factory imports Indian cotton yarn for processing, and then exports it to the Pearl River Delta region by railway, and turns over by waterway or Guangzhou. In the first year of production, it was an instant hit and profitable.

This was already last year.

It is sometimes a good thing that Chinese love to get together, especially in the industrial promotion stage, after the rich businessman surnamed Zhou successfully operated the first spinning mill, three were built and put into operation at the same time this year, and the dawn of the Daming cotton yarn industry finally appeared.

Zhu Jinglun has always been very concerned about this kind of leading enterprise, he sent someone to quietly inquire about the news, and found an insider to make a detailed business report, and he was suddenly pleasantly surprised to find that the weather was different.

In the past two years, the voice of the diehards has gradually weakened, which represents not only the change in the thinking of the diehards themselves, but also the new atmosphere of the whole country.

I dare not say that the whole people have accepted industrialization, but a large number of people have already appeared, who understand the West, know the history and current situation of the West, and know the power and significance of the Industrial Revolution.

But the most important thing is that businessmen, who are already more open-minded and have a relatively weak sense of traditional morality, are not only not resistant to investing in new industries, but have begun to take action to find those feasible projects.

And now there has been a large number of businessmen who have accumulated a certain amount of capital from the international trade system after the opening up, including commercial houses that do business with foreigners, and even compradors who directly act as agents for foreigners, who have accumulated capital and do not contradict Western industry, and when the market is good, they will of course enter the industrial field in a big way.

This phenomenon deeply inspired Zhu Jinglun.

He had visited Denmark, Sweden and other countries in Northwest Europe, and he knew that those countries had already started the Industrial Revolution. According to his understanding, the cause of the industrial revolution in these countries was mainly the diffusion of British technology.

Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and other countries all coincidentally launched their own industrial revolution in the 1850s, and there is a very important foundation, that is, Britain in 1830, opened its own ban on the export of machinery, before the British machine was kept as a state secret, so France and Germany will try their best to steal British technology.

But the question is, it was only twenty years after the ban on machines that the industrial revolution began in these countries one after another, so why didn't industrialization flourish at the beginning?

Zhu Jinglun didn't know much before, but now he probably understands, I'm afraid that in the past 20 years, they have understood and mastered the methods of industrial production through British machine production, and the most important thing is to make these countries change in their thinking, Zhu Jinglun went to Sweden and other countries after the Paris World Expo, and saw their rapid growth of industrial production, but at the same time, he also noticed that they retained a large number of handicraft workshops.

In the interviews of several handicraft workshops, it was found that the owners of these workshops did not want to engage in large industries, but were limited by capital and technology, in fact, they all wanted to transform their workshops and build machine factories. Previously, the guilds formed by these workshops were probably the most opposed to mechanized production.

It can be seen that the witness of industrialization in the past 20 years has reduced their resistance to industrialization, and they have begun to actively embrace industrialization. Da Ming is not like this, since Zhu Jinglun opened the arsenal, almost 20 years have passed. Tea and silk reeling factories, which blossomed and bore fruit everywhere, were not large-scale factories, but because they were scattered in the vast countryside, close to the raw material producing areas, and close to the conservative people, the industry was directly displayed to the largest number of peasants.

This kind of propaganda is far more important than the agitation of newspapers, so the minds of the people of the Ming Dynasty are actually ready for the industrial revolution.

Upon learning of this new phenomenon, Zhu Jinglun immediately realized that it seemed that the government was not ready for the arrival of the industrial revolution.

The industrial revolution and industrialization are two concepts, and the scope of industrialization is larger, as long as it replaces traditional production with industrial methods, it is industrialization. However, the industrial revolution refers specifically to the phenomenon of high-speed industrialization in a short period of time and with high density.

The reason why there is a revolution is because its progress is rapid and sudden, and in addition, the revolution also has the significance of drastically changing the traditional society. Of course, the industrial revolution is a revolution that changes the traditional society much less than the violent revolution. After all, he is economical, so it is milder, but the side effects are also fewer.

Now that the majesty of the industrial revolution is beginning to blow, Zhu Jinglun does not know whether it can be swept into a stormy wave, but he must be prepared for this, what the government can do is no longer the extensive way of giving low-interest loans in the past, and what the emerging capitalists who have accumulated a certain amount of capital need is no longer initial capital, but a good market environment.

The domestic market environment can be guaranteed by formal laws and an efficient administrative system, but the impact brought by the outside world cannot be guaranteed by law, and the tariff rate must be changed again.

Zhu Jinglun put forward a suggestion to greatly raise the tax rates of the industries that have made the fastest progress in the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty and are mainly based on the domestic market, including cotton yarn, cotton cloth, iron and steel, machinery, soap, leather, papermaking, and sugar extraction.

But the biggest obstacle is that the largest importer of cotton yarn, cotton cloth, steel, and machinery is the United Kingdom, and the Ming Dynasty gave the best tax rate to British goods in order to get back the customs power from the British.

It's not enough to cause a war, after all, today's Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty of the past, although it can't fight London, but it has more than enough self-preservation. The point is that after the outbreak of the trade conflict, the Ming could not afford the retaliation of the British. Because Britain is not only the largest importer of Daming, but also the largest exporter of Daming. One of the largest export products of the Ming Dynasty, the largest export destination of tea is the United Kingdom.

It can be said that the sum of these eight major industries that intend to increase tariff protection is not as good as the benefits obtained by a tea from the UK, so in terms of pure benefits, the gains outweigh the losses. But in the long run, it is necessary to cultivate these new industries, because it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to rely on silk tea for a lifetime, and it is impossible to rely on silk tea to complete industrialization.

Therefore, the tax department announced the new tariff of Daming without hesitation, announcing that from next year, tariffs of 100/800 will be imposed on the eight major industries.

Sure enough, the British immediately protested, demanding that the Ming fulfill the old trade agreement, and the Ming took this opportunity to suggest that the British sit down and talk about the new trade treaty.