The crisis encountered by the silk reeling industry has made the government extremely nervous, especially the Ministry of Industry, in recent years, Chen Qiyuan has vigorously promoted the silk reeling industry, and even made trouble with several departments, competing with the Ministry of War for the arsenal, in order to provide technical support for the silk reeling industry, and the Ministry of Posts and Communications with the Criminal Department in order to get control of the railway and provide guarantee for the transportation of raw silk, of course, this is all an excuse, and other departments think that this is the Ministry of Industry, the Qingshui Yamen is fighting for power, so they are very dissatisfied with the Ministry of Industry. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There was no way to say before, but there was the support of the emperor above, and in reality, the industry of the Ministry of Industry had also greatly increased its fiscal revenue, so they had no reason to crack down. Now that the silk reeling industry is in crisis, they can take advantage of the topic. This made Chen Qiyuan feel unusually pressured. Because in his heart, it is really more important to be an official, and his emphasis on political future is far above the management of the industry, and even now the operation of the industry has completely become a way for him to obtain political achievements.

Therefore, seeing the crisis of the silk reeling industry, he immediately began to seek all kinds of support, mobilizing all the forces that the staff department could mobilize, and he first got the support of Shang Shuling and the emperor, and sought a year of tax exemption for the silk reeling industry. It also received government financing to provide emergency loans for the troubled silk reeling industry.

With the help of the Ministry of Industry, the silk reeling industry went through painful adjustments and got out of the crisis after three months.

At this time, the international silk price has recovered, from the initial explosion of more than 30%, to a decline of 10%. The most critical thing is the revival of the silk export market.

France was involved in the war, especially within a month of the visit to the shrine, the Prussian army entered in large numbers, the army approached Lyon, the whole city of Lyon prayed, and a miracle happened, the Prussian army did not attack Lyon, but moved. However, the entry of the Prussian army dealt a huge blow to the silk weaving industry in Lyon, and it was impossible to recover for a while.

Due to the momentary halt of silk production in France, a large backlog of raw silk in Guangdong was created. But the economic market was resilient, and after the French silk production was limited to a halt, the silk production of the Ming Dynasty was expanding, not to mention the Western countries that already had a machine-woven industry. Stimulated by high prices, the silk industry in Britain and the United States began to expand in scale, and workers worked overtime, and they wantonly swallowed up France's silk market share, and also absorbed France's previous share of raw silk imports, so the international raw silk market recovered again, but from France to other countries, Britain and the United States were the largest customers, and Belgium, the Netherlands and even Russia expanded imports.

The silk reeling industry of the Ming Dynasty has also completed the adjustment, and a large number of silk reeling factories that had a chaotic financial system in the past have rectified their finances and hired professional account rooms, rather than the squires who are not proficient in mathematics to manage the accounts themselves. Wage cuts, lower cocoon purchase prices, and lower production have also been taken. This is finally the time to go.

Overall, this is not an economic crisis that cannot be overcome, but just a man-made market volatility. Moreover, French silk exports and raw silk imports have different influences on the world market.

Unlike silk production, France is the ruling level, although the import of raw silk from France is also the largest country, but it is not much larger than the United Kingdom, because France itself is a big producer of raw silk, so their dependence on imported raw materials is not so great, and the impact on international silk prices is not so great, so the Ming silk reeling industry has avoided the fate of collapse.

On the other hand, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as other countries, expanded silk production, absorbing a large amount of raw silk raw materials. Even the rapid expansion of the silk industry in the Ming Dynasty also played a significant role in it.

The rapid development of the silk industry, in turn, stabilized the decline in the price of local raw silk, and at the same time due to the low exchange rate of silver, low labor wages and other dividends, even if the price of raw silk fell by one percent, business owners found that the raw silk industry is still profitable, silkworm farmers found that planting mulberry and raising silkworms is still more cost-effective than farming, and the income of one acre of mulberry garden is equivalent to three acres of rice field, so from silkworm farmers to silk reeling factories after a short blow, in the second half of last year began to expand again.

Needless to say, the silk reeling factory is now a well-known technology, and there is no mystery about it.

It is worth saying that the farmers in the Pearl River Delta region, began to open up new mulberry fish ponds, and the proportion of mulberry is constantly improving, in the past it was often six points of ponds, four points of mulberry, now we are deliberately expanding the fish pond embankment, the proportion of mulberry is increased to half or even sixty percent, this is already the limit, no matter how high, the pond mud dug out of the fish pond can not meet the fertility of fertilizing the mulberry.

More and more people open up mulberry fish ponds, which means that more and more farmers began to give up rice fields, in the Pearl River Delta area, the phenomenon of abandoning rice and planting mulberry has generally been formed, the most ordinary farmers are often the most realistic, compared with those squires, how to be able to eat enough is what they urgently need, so they are willing to change in order to make more money.

In just a few years, the area of mulberry orchards in the area of Guangzhou Prefecture has exceeded one million mu, doubling the number of people in the past. Moreover, the relatively poor western Guangdong region has also begun to abandon rice and grow mulberry, especially in the Yangyang area, and the growth rate is particularly severe. Where the common people are relatively poorer, and after the destruction of the peasant uprising, the power of the gentry class is relatively weaker, so the resistance is less, so the development is faster.

The reason for the phenomenon of abandoning rice and planting mulberry, the fundamental reason must be because of the silk reeling industry, in recent years, a large number of silk reeling factories have been intensively started, export-based machine reeling silk industry, last year's new silk reeling factory has 1,000, the total number is as high as more than 3,000, and there is still a continuous influx of capital into this industry, Guangdong silk reeling industry has begun to become an advantageous industry, began to form a competitive position in the world.

Another reason is the stability of the price of raw silk, before Guangzhou began to machine reeling silk, China's best raw silk, from Shanghai exported Jili Lake silk customs standard package of 1 pack but more than 200 taels of silver, the lowest even only about 140 taels (1 package equivalent to 0.8 quintals of customs).

However, since the rise of machine silk reeling in Guangdong, the price of silk has begun to rise, initially because of the improvement of the quality of machine silk reeling, and later because of the general rise in international silk prices, because the European silkworm has suffered from the epidemic of silkworm microparticle disease, and the output of silkworms in the entire Mediterranean region has been reduced year after year.

Another reason is that after the implementation of the gold standard in the United Kingdom, the international price of silver has fallen year after year, and the price of silver is only half of what it was 20 years ago. But silver's purchasing power in China has not changed much, meaning that importing Chinese raw silk is more cost-effective for Britain than it has been in the past.

Due to exchange rate changes and other reasons, the price of raw silk has risen. From 200 taels in the past, it has increased to about 300 taels, but the price of silver in China has not changed much compared with 20 years ago, so at this price, Daming silk reeling industry can withstand a certain degree of price decline, and after the price fall, it is still profitable.

Therefore, although it is more difficult this year, there are still 40 million taels of exports, and there may be a large increase before the end of the year, because no one thinks that the price of raw silk will fall before the end of the year, and there is even the possibility of further increase, because the merchants of Guangdong have long figured out a law, and after the autumn of each year, the price of silk often has to rise. For most areas, it is impossible to produce cocoons in winter.

But for Guangdong, this is simply the biggest benefit, because the Guangdong region, almost the world's largest production of raw silk this season. In this era, India's raw silk was mainly pressed silk, and the output was relatively scarce, which could not be produced on a large scale, and did not affect the silkworms. Therefore, as a silkworm area in the subtropics, Guangdong has a great advantage in the production period.

Mulberry silkworm is a seasonal creature, the mulberry silkworm in the south of the Yangtze River, generally only spring and summer can be produced, this is the biological law formed for thousands of years, the mulberry tree leaves in autumn, and the silkworm seed also entered dormancy at that time. But after the mulberry silkworm was transmitted to the Guangdong area, according to the local situation, adaptation occurred, the mulberry trees in the Lingnan area have long leaves all year round, and the mulberry silkworms in Guangdong have adapted to this law and have grown almost all year round.

Compared with the south of the Yangtze River, the mulberry silkworms in the Taihu Lake area can only produce two silks per year, while the silkworms in Guangdong can produce seven or eight silks a year, or even ten silks.

Of course, there is another law of biology, that is, the longer the growth period, the better it tends to be. Therefore, the silk in the south of the Yangtze River is often of the best quality, and historically, basically the hand-produced Jili Lake silk often gets the gold medal when it goes to the World Expo. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the price of raw silk in this region was still world-class, comparable to the high-quality raw silk produced in Italy, while the raw silk produced in Japan was about one-third lower.

Species are difficult to change, the cultivation of high-quality silkworm seeds, the cultivation of high-quality mulberry trees, it takes time. It took centuries of scientific breeding for Europeans to compare with Jiangnan handmade products after the Industrial Revolution, and they could almost never compare with Liangguang in terms of output.

The Ministry of Industry has now fully grasped these situations, and they have also hired many silkworm experts from France and Italy to set up a special breeding factory, hoping to breed high-quality silkworms suitable for Guangdong, but there is no tension at present.

But with the current advantages, Guangdong raw silk can also gain a foothold in the world. In terms of quality, it is impossible to compare with Jiangnan, because that place is uniquely blessed, and the advantages formed over thousands of years cannot be shaken in the short term.

In the international classification, Jiangnan silk is characterized by white, clear, translucent luster and roundness, and is the top grade in silk. Compared with the gray of Japanese silk, the Broadhide silk is yellow, and the Indian silk is directly yellow. The only thing that can be compared with Jiangnan silk is the high-quality raw silk produced in individual regions of Italy.

This is a precious treasure left by the ancestors, and the Chinese will probably be able to eat for decades. Before enjoying the dividends of the ancestors for decades, the Ministry of Industry hopes that it must cultivate its own unique advantages.

French and Italian experts hired by the Ministry of Industry not only helped to set up breeding factories, but also found a variety of different silkworm species from Jiangnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places for cross-breeding, but European silkworms did not dare to introduce them, fearing that the virus would enter. Although microscopes have been introduced for microscopic examination, there is widespread anxiety.

At the same time, based on the experience of Europe, these experts combined with the traditional technology of mulberry silkworms in Guangdong, standardized production, scientific fertilization, pruning and other technologies, and uniformly increased the number of silk production times of silkworm farmers in Guangdong to ten years.

It's just that the large-scale sericulture suggested by European experts is currently very difficult to achieve, because it means that millions of small silkworm farmers have to compete for food, and the Ministry of Industry, which has been frightened by the nylon hall incident, does not dare to promote this technology at present. They just build on the silkworm farming of smallholder farmers, make improvements, and hand over the improved technology to silkworm farmers.

However, the Ministry of Industry decided to carry out a demonstration in Guangxi, after the war in Guangxi, the population was reduced from more than 7 million to 5 million, there was a large amount of abandoned land, where the Ministry of Industry bought hundreds of acres of land, set up a sericulture demonstration factory, built a unified workshop, ventilation equipment, temperature control facilities, has produced a large number of high-quality silkworm cocoons.

They hope to promote it in Guangxi first, but as for the mulberry fish ponds in the Jiangnan area, they really dare not move.

There are two major expenditure industries of silk tea, the Ministry of Industry believes that the output of Daming will continue to expand in the next few years, especially the raw silk industry, France's mulberry sericulture is not easy to recover in the next few years, Daming will continue to enjoy this dividend, coupled with the continuous expansion of its own advantages, the development of Guangxi mulberry industry, the silk reeling industry will continue to develop rapidly.

So far, the Ming Dynasty has monopolized the traditional industry of tea, and achieved a dominant position in the raw silk industry, the new industry weaving industry is developing rapidly, while the price change is not large, the surplus of more than 10 million silver for several years has not caused inflation, which itself shows that the funds have not flowed into the field of consumption, but has become the people's savings, has become the investment of capitalists, in terms of the theory of later generations, that is, the Ming economy is enjoying a beautiful era of high growth and low inflation.

No matter how you look at this beautiful era, it is impossible to end in the short term, so after the crisis in the silk reeling industry, Zhu Jinglun decided to start the next round of reforms.

Zhu Jinglun decided to take the initiative to attack offensive changes, and carry out changes at the best time, instead of waiting until he can no longer get by.

When a country develops at its best, it is often the time when contradictions accumulate, but high growth can often cover up these problems, so most countries are often unwilling to change when they are developing rapidly, and even feel that their system is the best and does not need to be changed.

However, once the growth is over and when we encounter difficulties, these contradictions are suddenly exposed, and at this time we want to change, but we find that the problems have accumulated deeply, and some countries have successfully survived through painful reforms, while some countries have fallen forever.

Obviously, the ancients also thought of this idea, and they would think of change when they were exhausted.

Zhu Jinglun has always seen those problems, but because the opposition is too strong, he can only stand still, but now that the society has begun to develop rapidly, he thinks that the time for change has come, not that he does not care about those opposition forces, but that he knows that when a country is developing rapidly, it is often more able to withstand pressure, and the cost of change is actually the lowest.

Taking 10,000 steps back, the risk of change is also the lowest at this time, because no country in history has collapsed at a time of rapid growth.

Zhu Jinglun decided to seize this opportunity to do what he wanted to do before, what he had to do but couldn't, and he wanted to go deep into the most fundamental, sensitive and stable core of this ancient country:

That's China's rural society.