The change of the arsenal began when Hao Kejiu took over the arsenal three years ago. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The biggest change is not that he introduced the body stock system, to be honest, even if there is no body stock system, the arsenal's generous salary can still retain people, coupled with the publicist ideology in the concept of people in this era, even if the outside world is more generously paid, it is difficult to impress the senior talents of the arsenal, because these senior talents still carry the grade of officials, and many people take up this false name.

The biggest change is that Hao Kejiu brought the arsenal into the market, and brought it into a big market that was originally controlled by a small workshop.

Before him, the arsenal was for the army to produce, the order was done, the rest was gone, the Ministry of Industry assigned tasks to them, they did it, and everyone did what they liked to do if there was no task.

As workers in the arsenal, they are naturally very comfortable, with a high salary, and they don't have to worry about work, how can they be uncomfortable. The price of their comfort is that the factory has been in deficit for many years.

The government wanted to throw off the burden and invited Hao Kejiu, Hao Kejiu was thinking at that time to produce a profitable business, what business can make money, of course arms can also make money, but at that time it had not been developed, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom itself copied the cannon, plus the products of the Foshan workshop, the arsenal was mainly to make rifled guns that they could not make. But these guns still have to compete with foreigners, and there is no profit at all.

Hao Kejiu saw that the civil machinery market was very hot, so he asked the arsenal to develop civilian industries, anyway, what was in the market, he copied what to sell.

The first successful industry is the imitation of the silk reeling machine, and the products of the Foshan Iron Workshop are completely incomparable with the arsenal, so as soon as the arsenal enters the market, it immediately grabs a considerable market share.

In the following years, the Ming Dynasty co-organized a trade fair with the British every year, the British machinery and equipment continued to be exhibited, some private businessmen, squires began to introduce machines, the government encouraged them, the Ministry of Industry gave a certain loan, as a result, silk factories appeared, spinning mills appeared, weaving factories appeared, and even some people set up a woolen mill.

These factories used British machines at first, but as soon as the British opened up a market, the arsenals immediately went in. Faster than the arsenal response, is those squeezed very hard iron workshops, they under great pressure, have to desperately seek innovation, change, they found that the past to play farm tools, cast iron pot era they can not go back, these years because of the casting of cannons, the introduction of machinery and equipment, employing dozens of hundreds of people, the market of agricultural tools and iron pots can no longer accommodate them, they can only imitate the machine on the road to the black.

Under the pressure of strong competition, coupled with a machine market is forming, the whole industry is desperately moving forward, desperately developing the market, the arsenal reaction is not fast, those iron workshops are the new force, in order to survive, they can not wait for the market to appear, every year they first value a certain British machine, and then feel useful, immediately buy a prototype imitation, imitation at the same time to some workshops to promote, encourage local workshops to use new machines, it can be said that the expansion of the market, these iron workshops are promoting.

Sadly, once the market begins to take shape, the giant Arsenal will come in, relying on its own powerful power to cut a large piece of the pie. Not only did they have to face the squeeze of the arsenal, but they also had to face the impact of foreigners. In most fields, the strength of foreigners is much stronger than that of arsenals, making it impossible for them to compete.

Up to now, there has not been a workshop that can compete with the arsenal in terms of quality and scale of raw tea, let alone compete with foreigners.

Fortunately, this market is big enough, despite being squeezed, but they can still survive, and in order to survive, slowly we have formed different strategies, some are innovative, as soon as possible to imitate the equipment that may be promoted, some choose to survive in the cracks, they give up competing with giants such as arsenals, they enter a market segment, some choose the machine maintenance industry, they operate repair business everywhere, door-to-door services to various factories, and some value the business of those vulnerable parts, specializing in the production of those parts, You can live.

In short, due to the emergence of the arsenal, so that the market has become extremely cruel but vibrant, at this time the Japanese also joined in, after the Meiji Restoration began, Japan also began to import a large number of machinery and equipment, the Japanese at first through the foreign companies in Japan ordered, but some foreign companies know that the Ming can also produce a small part of the quality of machinery and equipment that is not lost to the West, they out of the consideration of making high profits, at Western prices, resold the purchase of equipment from the Ming Dynasty, as a result, part of the Japanese machine orders also arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

When they smelled the money on the Japanese, Daming's enterprises walked in, and they canceled the indirect trade with foreign companies and contacted the Japanese directly.

The Arsenal soon became a major supplier of general-purpose steam engines, silk reeling equipment and textile equipment to the Japanese market.

Of course, the largest order of Japanese customers is still military, in recent years Japan has been renewed, but it has not been completely peaceful, the daimyo in the northeast has not been convinced, the government needs to suppress it at every turn, the ronin everywhere is not restless, the government also needs to clean them up, and the Japanese themselves can not produce rifled rifles and cannons for the time being, historically they mostly bought the United States, and now they have also been robbed by the arsenal.

The production of a large number of lucrative munitions naturally makes the arsenal make a lot of money, and the development of civilian machinery is the icing on the cake, but in the arsenal, this is not the most profitable business, the most profitable business, and no one can even imagine burning bricks.

In the past, including Zhu Jinglun to the Ministry of Industry officials, who would have thought that the arsenal could also burn bricks. However, the arsenal does have a brick-burning factory, which was established very early, and the brick presses are all manufactured by themselves.

But all along, burning bricks has been used for one's own use. After Hao Kejiu came, in order to turn losses into profits, he could do any business, anyway, as long as there was demand, the arsenal could do it, then he would do it.

In recent years, the hottest development of Daming is not all kinds of factories, but the construction industry. Kowloon Port, Chiwan Port and other port areas, the development is getting bigger and bigger, the demand for construction is unimaginable, before everyone used stones, with the local people to burn the green bricks, but these costs are quite high, the arsenal burns red bricks brick factory, a furnace can burn hundreds of thousands of pieces, and the folk kiln, a kiln brick is at most tens of thousands, this is the technical limitation of two kinds of bricks, the need for closed firing of green bricks, it is impossible to make the kiln as big as the open red brick brick kiln.

Mass production of red bricks soon flooded in various ports, see that can make money, Hao Kejiu is a big investment in this area, not only the port cities of the Ming Dynasty are now using the red bricks of the arsenal, even Shanghai is importing these red bricks, the people nearby to build houses also began to like to use these standards to unify, the quality is unified, the most important thing is the cheap red bricks.

But just as the arsenal intervened in the Minyong machinery industry, the pain of squeezing those iron workshops was unbearable and had to do their best to deal with it, the traditional brick kilns were also squeezed and were about to be unraveled.

This kind of brick kiln is extremely popular in Chinese society, almost every county has, and even each county has a number of many, in the past can not form a unified market, everyone can only choose the nearest brick kiln to buy bricks and tiles, but now at least in the railway connection of Kowloon to Guangzhou line, everyone can easily purchase red bricks. Dozens of lines along the Pearl River can also be bought. This has made hundreds of small brick kilns almost bankrupt, and those who can run brick kilns in the local area are often not big families, or local tyrant families, especially some strong and powerful, but also contaminated with gang-like organizations, they exist in large numbers in the brick-burning industry. These people's jobs are not so easy to grab.

So when the arsenal was like a wild boar that broke into the field, impacting the originally calm field into chaos, a crisis against him also quietly came.

Before the New Year, a group of kiln workers in Xin'an County saw that this year could not be passed, so they ganged up and broke into the new brick factory of the arsenal near Shekou at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, and smashed it wildly, and even the fence that had just been built was torn down.

Zhu Jinglun has always been the most concerned about this kind of thing, and he has long explained it, and this kind of thing must be reported to him. This kind of civil affairs is generally under the jurisdiction of the criminal department, and when it comes to people's livelihood issues, the household department must also be in charge. But Zhu Jinglun told them that they all had to report it to him.

Officials thought that Zhu Jinglun was concerned about the people and put a halo of love for the people on his head, but in fact, how did they know that Zhu Jinglun was mainly worried.

Zhu Jinglun knows very well that the period of social change is a period of high incidence of various social problems.

Even the most natural and gradual industrial revolution, the most blessed British Empire, in the process of industrialization, they also had to face various problems, traditional industries smashed machines every year, until the whole society formed a culture of industrial society, everyone began to think that machine production is right, this phenomenon disappeared.

During the Meiji Restoration in Japan, there were dozens or hundreds of rice riots every year. The Russian Industrial Revolution led to a constant revolt of serfs. The most direct impact of the efficiency improvement brought about by the new industry is that many people lose their jobs, which is a big problem in itself. If it is not solved, it will be a revolution.

The industrialization of the Ming Dynasty has just begun, and it is impossible not to encounter these problems, as exemplified by the smashing of the silk reeling factory of Chen Qiyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, three years ago.

Zhu Jinglun has not relaxed his vigilance in the past few years, he is still a little confused, feeling that he has been too calm in the past few years, and he didn't expect that what should come is still coming.

When something happens, it's like a bullet coming out of the chamber, and people don't worry about it, and the problem is solved.

It's just that Zhu Jinglun is a little puzzled, why was he so calm in the past few years? Is there any mechanism that can alleviate or even solve the social problems of this period of change?