Feng Yunshan learned from the reports of Li Hongzhang, vice premier of the cabinet, and Shen Guifen, minister of industry, that the industry of the Chinese Empire has really begun to get on the right track, although it is not as dense as Britain itself, but because of the large population of the Chinese Empire, the market and capital are abundant, all kinds of factories that make up the industry, whether they are directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court or run by local government officials or private capital, have begun to flourish, and the absolute number has surpassed that of the old industrial power Britain, which has to be said to be very unexpected by Feng Yunshan.

In particular, Shen Guifen, Minister of Industry, directly regarded Britain as a competitor of the Chinese Empire, and directly collected some data from the United Kingdom and began to compare it with the Chinese Empire, which allowed Feng Yunshan to learn a lot of real data.

As early as eight years ago, there were more than 5,100 textile factories in Britain, such as cotton, linen, wool and silk, and the power of machines such as steam engines and hydraulic engines used for textiles reached 160,000 horsepower, and the number of employees reached an astonishing nearly 700,000 people, and the annual export of cotton yarn alone reached 180 million pounds, 2.8 billion yards of cotton cloth, and the total export output value of cotton yarn and cotton cloth reached 670 million pounds.

And the data of the United States, Shen Guifen also got it, five years ago, that is, before the civil war began and was not divided, the gross production value of the cotton textile industry in the United States reached 115 million US dollars, and the number of employees reached 280,000.

Shen Guifen's explanation is that the territory of the Chinese Empire is also expanding, and the industrial development is developing day by day, and factories in different industries appear every day, of course, there are many bankruptcies, but the new and constantly small and large factories emerge in endlessly, and it is difficult to count clearly. The Ministry of Industry reluctantly came to a conclusion through a joint survey conducted by the Ministry of Finance and Taxation and the Ministry of Police:

As of last year, there were more than 8,000 textile factories in the Chinese Empire, with 250,000 horsepower of steam engines and hydraulic engines used for textiles, and an astonishing 3.8 million employees, including 2.9 million in cotton mills, 120,000 in wool mills, 380,000 in flax mills, and 400,000 in silk weaving mills. The total output value of cotton yarn and cotton cloth has reached 900 million saint dollars every year, of which exports have also reached nearly 300 million saint dollars.

Feng Yunshan was very pleased that the output value of the cotton textile industry in the Chinese Empire had surpassed that of Britain, and he was very proud of his appointment of Shen Guifen as Minister of Industry. However, Shen Guifen did not take credit, saying that this was the credit of Vice Premier Li Hongzhang and Minister of Finance and Taxation Yan Jingming.

Since Li Hongzhang took office as vice premier of the cabinet, he attaches great importance to the textile industry, in fact, it is not only the textile industry, but also attaches great importance to most of the industries except minerals, and has carried out means such as reducing taxes, relaxing bank loan mortgage conditions, and helping to contact the product and raw material markets, so that the textile industry has ushered in rapid development. In addition, the cabinet not only started with the Ministry of Industry, but also took advantage of the large population of the Chinese Empire, combined with the previous immigration project, and promoted the planting of cotton, mulberry and hemp and other textile basic raw materials on a large scale, so that the textile industry had a good foundation.

Li Hongzhang also reciprocated, saying that for the sake of the textile industry, Shen Guifen, minister of industry, personally took charge of several textile factories run by the imperial court, organized the skilled workers in several major textile factories, conducted itinerant training in textile factories sponsored by local governments, instructed new textile factories to start commissioning, and asked the four general bureaus of machinery manufacturing in the empire to set up special research and development and improvement of textile machines.

However, Shen Guifen told Feng Yunshan that the textile industry of the Chinese Empire has not developed enough, and although it surpasses the United Kingdom in terms of total volume, it is still far behind in terms of average output or balanced development. After all, five times as many workers produce less than 1.5 times as much. This shows that one British textile worker is almost the output of at least three or four textile workers in the Chinese Empire.

Feng Yunshan didn't care about this, but just encouraged Li Hongzhang and Shen Guifen to continue to work hard. He knows that no matter how Britain says, it is also an old industrial power, the textile industry has developed for nearly a hundred years, and his Chinese empire, only ten years since the founding of the country, has a low start, and it is already a great achievement to surpass Britain in total volume. Even if the average output is not reached, it doesn't matter, anyway, the Chinese Empire has a large population, and the capital, especially the private capital, is even stronger, as long as it continues to be encouraged, it will definitely develop even more.

Moreover, according to Shen Guifen, the British textile industry has suffered a huge blow in the past two years, and instead of growing, it has continued to decline. And the main culprit is the development of the textile industry in the Chinese Empire.

When Feng Yunshan heard this, he immediately became interested.

Shen Guifen explained that the cotton textile industry in the United Kingdom is mainly divided into two products: cotton yarn and cotton cloth, of which cotton cloth is the main one, accounting for 80%, and cotton yarn accounts for 20%. Half of the cotton yarn was exported to Europe for self-weaving, and the other was the British colonies of India and the Americas, as well as the East Indies and the Far East. But a few years ago, because of the impact of the American Civil War, the main raw material cotton production was not only reduced, but also because of the intervention of the Chinese Empire, Britain lost more than sixty or seventy percent of the cotton import share, as a result, the major cotton textile mills in Britain were greatly insufficient, after this blow, many British textile mills closed or closed down, and at this time, just as the Chinese Empire's industry continued to develop, or called the deacons of the Ministry of Public Works, through the relationship of the special envoy to Europe Guo Songtao, with high salaries to recruit many bankrupt textile technicians, A large number of skilled workers were transferred to the Chinese Empire.

Moreover, because of the defeat of Britain in the war against China and the continuous expansion of the Chinese Empire, all British colonies in the Pacific and Indian Oceans were lost, especially the loss of India, which completely crushed Britain. Not only did India lose its excellent supplier of cotton, but it also lost this huge market, and the British textile industry was in trouble. At this time, in order to enter the European market, Shen Guifen directly put cotton cloth into the European market at an ultra-low price lower than the local price of the Chinese Empire, especially the Ottoman Empire, Italy, etc., which were traditional textile dumping places in Britain.

Because of the high price of cotton yarn in European countries, it is not very cost-effective to spin into cotton cloth by itself, so the demand for cotton cloth has soared. At this time, the price of cotton cloth in the Chinese Empire was low, and these countries directly abandoned British cotton cloth in favor of cheap Oriental cotton cloth.

However, it is already the limit to be able to seize the European market and suppress the British textile industry to this extent. Shen Guifen is ready to raise the price of cotton cloth and no longer forcibly subsidize it, after all, this loss is too great, and Britain is an old industrial country, but also the birthplace of the industrial textile industry, if you want to completely defeat, it is still impossible. It has been the best result to be able to snipe its development and gain time and opportunity for the development of the textile industry in the Chinese Empire.

In addition to the textile industry, other light industries in the empire, like cotton cloth, were also gradually growing under the bold encouragement of Shen Guifen, Minister of Industry. The Chinese Empire creatively invented many food industries, such as the industrial production of dry food for the march of war, and the production of instant noodles, roasted seeds, biscuits, canned food, etc.

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