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The road to industrial upgrading is not difficult to say, and it is not easy to say that it is easy. The key depends on whether it is a step-by-step upgrade or a leapfrog upgrade, and whether the country's industrial policy encourages industrial upgrading.

For example, the current era is the late stage of the first industrial revolution, and the second industrial revolution will not be fully rolled out in 20 years. In Europe, only a few industries have achieved large-scale industrialization, and most of them are still produced in handicraft workshops. Even the iron and steel industry, which is known as industrial food, is also a small workshop and a small factory, and there is no big factory with an annual production capacity of hundreds of thousands of tons of steel - how many crucibles do you have to make? It is simply impossible to support the complete evolution of the steel industry from a handicraft industry to a large industry, and the same situation exists in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, except for the production of black powder and ammonium oil explosives, which is somewhat like a large industry, and most of the chemical production is still the model of large workshops.

As for the production of foreign guns and cannons, it is not a big industry, at most it is a big workshop. Most of the blacksmith shops in Europe were able to produce guns, and although their jishu was more advanced than the Foshan iron industry, it was not an epoch-making progress. As long as Zhu Jishi's Lan Fangxing can provide a certain amount of jishu support, the thirteen banks will provide some capital, and at the same time use orders to stimulate Foshan Iron Industry to adopt new jishu, and there will be two or three years of effort to make Foshan Iron Industry reach the international advanced level - in fact, it is coke, reverberatory furnace plus crucible steel plus a little machine tool, steam engine, and there is also a standardized production.

These new jishu can drastically reduce the cost of the iron smelting industry and the casting and forging industry, and whoever does not adopt it is a fool! As for the standardized production, it is simpler, and the main customers produce samples and molds. The forging workshop is painted according to the gourd. It's not an industrial upgrade at all. It has been this way since ancient times. Whatever the customer wants, the workshop will do, otherwise people will not give money!

Therefore, the industrial upgrading of Foshan's iron smelting and casting industry is basically not difficult for Zhu Ming, in fact, it is to adopt some new jishu to reduce costs and improve efficiency, and does not touch the production organization model of traditional handicraft workshops. There is no need to adopt any new mode of production organization, because in the absence of Jishu progress, adopting the production management methods of large industries to engage in handicrafts may not improve much efficiency.

Compared with Foshan's iron smelting and casting industry. Foshan's textile industry is much more backward than the European textile industry. The first industrial revolution started with the textile industry, and the European textile industry was already a complete industry. Traditional looms and workshops will be eliminated, replaced by large factories using imported machinery and equipment, in the case of a tenfold increase in production efficiency, will cause a large number of machine owners to go bankrupt, weavers unemployed, more or less will cause some impact. However, Foshan's textile industry, like Foshan's metallurgy, ceramics, lacquerware and other industries, is export-oriented. Not only is the main market in the South Seas, but even cotton is imported from India, and in recent years, high-quality and low-cost foreign fabrics have begun to enter the South Seas in a big way. Foshan's homespun cloth has been greatly impacted, and it has come to the time when it has to be changed. Just don't change. After a few years, the foreign cloth will be washed away.

As for Foshan's ceramic industry, it has become even more dilapidated in recent years, and the export market is only Nanyang, which has long been kicked out of the European market! Because the ashes fired by Europeans have long surpassed Chinese porcelain in terms of texture and aesthetics - at least more in line with European aesthetics. However, the production cost of bone magnetism is higher, all of which are high-end goods, and there is no conflict with the low-grade products of Foshan porcelain industry, even if Zhu Jishi is ready to open a factory for firing bone china in Foshan, it will not conflict with Foshan's traditional porcelain industry.

As for lacquerware, it is not something that a big industry can do in the first place, so there is no need for industrial upgrading at all, and there is not much room for improvement.

In addition to the traditional four handicraft industries in Foshan, Zhu Jishi also proposed to focus on the development of seven pillar industries such as shipbuilding, shipping, foreign trade, mining, tea industry, silk reeling, and sugar refining on the basis of today's banquet.

These seven major industries, to put it bluntly, are still related to exports. At present, Guangdong's economy is actually export-oriented, relying on exports to stimulate industry and commerce, relying on industry and commerce to absorb too much labor, and import and export taxes and industrial and commercial taxes are also the pillars of Guangdong's tax revenue.

However, under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, industry and commerce were regarded as the last industry, and the import and export trade was strictly controlled. The most typical is that Chinese merchants are not allowed to go abroad to do business, let alone build large ships to go to sea. The so-called "Thirteen Banks" were not real traders, but merely compradors, the agents of foreign firms in China. And now that the trade monopoly of the Thirteen Banks is gone, their comprador business naturally has little future, and it seems natural to change careers to become real traders.

After hearing this series of policies to encourage industry and commerce and develop industry, the thirteen wealthy businessmen present moved their eyebrows one by one, and their expressions turned wildly. Some of them began to whisper, and they were all discussing and brewing.

A fellow practitioner named Wu Tianyuan suddenly slapped the table, "I think the king's methods can be done!" Especially when shipbuilding goes overseas, why can foreigners come to Guangzhou to do business, and we can't go to London and Paris? Why can a foreigner's galleon come all the way to China, but our ship can't even go to Borneo? If it weren't for the Tartar court not letting us go to sea, we would have done all the business with Shunxing! ”

"And our tea industry and silk reeling in Guangdong also have to spend a lot of encouragement, and we have to rob the business of Jiangnan tea merchants and silk merchants. Otherwise, if Tartar does not allow tea and silk to come to Guangdong, we will not have enough supplies to export. ”

"If the Tartars don't let us, Daming won't fight over? I think this Jiangnan is also the territory of the Ming Dynasty sooner or later, we have to go to sea to do business first, and when Jiangnan returns to the Ming Dynasty, the brains of those lake merchants and Hui merchants can be activated. ”

"It's time to hurry, one trick is fresh all over the world, when they want to catch up, I'm afraid it's not so easy!"

The audience was talking happily, and Zhu Jishi just looked at everyone with a smile, and couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart. The current China is not lagging behind the West in an all-round way, if it is not born on its own, it will be difficult to catch up in a few decades by the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Europe has only experienced an industrial revolution, and apart from the textile and shipbuilding industries, it is not overwhelmingly advantageous in other aspects, and it is not difficult to catch up. The most important thing is that there is no shortage of capital in China, especially Guangdong! HSBC alone has absorbed more than 10,000 taels of deposits during this period! There are also more than 30 million pounds sterling. Moreover, China's tea industry and silk are still quite competitive in the international community, and if it were not for the outflow of silver caused by the import of opium, China would still be able to maintain a large trade surplus, which is a necessary condition for the development of industrialization.

It seems that he is really wearing a young age, and if it is a few decades later, this country will not be so easy to save.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jishi couldn't help but dance a little brows, smiled and raised his glass to the group of lords: "Ladies and gentlemen, this king is different from Emperor Daoguang in Beijing, this king is a businessman, and the military expenses for the revival of the Ming Dynasty are all obtained by this king from industry and commerce, so industry and commerce are really the foundation of my Ming Dynasty's restoration!" ”

Hearing this, the faces of Zuo Zongtang, Ye Mingchen and Lu Peifang on the side changed slightly, China has been based on agriculture since ancient times, and industry and commerce are the end......

Zhu Jishi glanced at Zuo Zongtang, Ye Mingchen and Lu Peifang, and said with a smile: "This agriculture and commerce industry is not actually opposite, but needs to be adapted to local conditions. For example, in the continent of Europa, England is an island country, with a narrow land and many people, and there is no condition for establishing a country based on agriculture, so it can only run large-scale industry and commerce, and the current situation in Guangdong is also the same. For example, France and Russia have wide plains and rich land, so they can take agriculture and animal husbandry as the national foundation. The income from agriculture and animal husbandry is used to support industry and commerce, and it has also achieved a hegemony. ”

The three Confucians looked at each other, and they all knew that Zhu Jishi was saying this to them. Zuo Zongtang put down his wine glass, and arched his hand at Zhu Jishi and said: "Your Majesty, you also said that Guangdong has many people and narrow land, if you don't vigorously develop farming, where should the food in the mouths of these tens of millions of Li people come from?" Please think again. (To be continued......)