Chapter 390: Workers' Revolt
With the continuous increase in the number of steam engines in the provinces of the New Deal, the textile industry controlled by state-owned capital in the tenth year of the Apocalypse has increased by nearly 3 million spindles, and the textile production capacity has increased significantly.
The cotton production in the Western Regions region has begun to take shape in the ninth year of the Apocalypse, and the scale has become even larger in the tenth year of the Apocalypse. At the same time, at the junction of Henan, Shandong and Jianghuai provinces, the commercial cotton planting industry has developed rapidly in recent years, especially with the inclusion of Shandong and Henan in the scope of the new policy, the water conservancy and irrigation facilities in the cotton-producing areas have been repaired, coupled with the expansion of the planting scale, the cotton output has risen rapidly.
The northern textile market has been monopolized and digested by state-owned capital, after some reforms, a large number of people poured into the towns, the textile industry in the natural economy of the northern rural areas has been completed to crush, textiles have been almost completely commoditized, after these years of development, the northern textile market has been completely occupied by state-owned capital.
After digesting the northern textile market, state-owned capital began to expand the market outward, and the first target was naturally the southern provinces.
This is the native of Daming, with the largest population, a huge market, and huge profits. Under such circumstances, cotton and woolen products produced by state-owned textile factories began to flood the southern market on a large scale. There were no local trade barriers in the old system areas of the southern provinces, and the original textile industry was rapidly washed away by state-owned textile products.
The drama of the country's advance and the people's retreat began to be staged continuously, and it was staged frantically. More and more resources began to be grasped by the imperial court.
In the reform provinces, finance, mining, metallurgy, forestry, textile, transportation, chemical industry, machinery manufacturing, military manufacturing are highly monopolized fields, and private capital can enter the textile industry. However, because the cotton producing areas began to be controlled by state-owned capital, the commercial cotton channel was controlled. Although the private textile factories were able to buy steam engines and textile machinery. However, the price of the cotton purchased is higher, and the price of steam engines and textile equipment is higher, and there are still profits through perfect management and other means, but it is also easy to lose money, and it is difficult to shake the monopoly position of state-owned capital in the market. At the same time, private capital can also enter the mining industry, but only some small minerals can be developed.
The financial aspect has also been basically monopolized by state-owned capital, and the Shanxi ticket number has been completely shut down and officially disappeared from the New Deal provinces. It has become a historical word.
In forestry, there is private capital involved, but the scale is not large compared to state-owned forest farms. First of all, there are few forest farms in the northern provinces, because the scale of coal mining is not so large, and many of the fuel in the northern provinces is firewood, so that a large number of forests have been cut down, but artificial afforestation cannot keep up, and there are few forest areas in the northern plains.
After Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, afforestation activities continued in the north, so most of the forest areas in the northern plains were state-owned forest farms, and generally had not yet been cultivated.
The vast majority of forest farms in the Northeast are state-owned. Because these areas were recovered later, whether the land was still a forest farm. At first, it was fully nationalized, and then the land was rewarded to meritorious soldiers, and the people were allowed to open up the land themselves, but the forest farm was not sold much, and not much was rewarded.
Forest farms in Taiwan, Nanyang and Australia are also classified as state-owned assets.
In addition, state-owned capital is still engaged in agriculture on a large scale, and there is naturally no monopoly in agriculture, but the area of state-owned farms and pastures is constantly rising.
In particular, in the areas of rubber planting, cotton planting, and commercialized grain and oil, state-owned capital is heavily involved.
In those industries that do not have monopolies, private capital can operate freely, and those that pay attention to market competition are basically similar to the Chinese model of later generations.
In later generations of China, for the industries that are not monopolized by the state, private capital basically has no way to monopolize them, and they all look at their own abilities, which is very in line with the fairness of market competition and makes the market have strong vitality.
Therefore, at the same time as the country advanced and the people retreated, the private capital in the newly expropriated areas also developed, but it was not the big capital businessmen who developed, but the small and medium-sized capitalist class.
These small and medium-sized bourgeoisie do not have such strong political ambitions, and they will not be like those big capitalist businessmen, once they become big enough to let their wealth flow to the people at the bottom.
The first rise of state-owned capital is steel smelting, the progress of technology successfully defeated the private iron and steel mills, with the progress of steel smelting technology, for low-quality iron ore can also be smelted, and then in the smelting of other metals, technology has also made a breakthrough, at this time the metallurgical industry state-owned capital occupies an absolute advantage.
This was followed by the coal mining industry, which was sold to the southern coastal provinces and the Yangtze River valley as more ships and roads were built.
Now the textile industry has risen strongly, and a large number of unemployed textile workers have appeared in the Jiangnan area.
The big capitalist businessmen in Jiangnan suddenly saw an opportunity and began to incite these textile workers to make trouble in order to oppose the current New Deal and the state-owned capital system.
Under the covert instigation of those big capital businessmen, the mood of the textile workers in all parts of Jiangnan gradually began to get out of control, and there were people everywhere who propagandized that the imperial court had robbed them of their jobs.
Under the instigation, textile workers everywhere rebelled one after another.
First of all, textile workers in Nanzhili smashed a state-owned bank branch and looted the small treasury of the branch, causing a cash loss of more than 100,000 yuan.
Then there was another anti-tax riot in Songjiang, killing several officials.
The situation in the south began to become a little turbulent, and the news was soon transmitted back to the capital by telegram, and after reading the report, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered the suppression of the riot and a thorough investigation of the real culprits behind the scenes.
The rioting people were theoretically ignorant and instigated. But they participated in the riots and must be resolutely suppressed, this is a gesture and the bottom line.
If the imperial court does not crack down decisively, it will release a signal of weakness, and more riots will continue to occur, and when the time comes, the scale of the suppression will be too large.
At the same time, the mastermind who instigated the riots behind the scenes must also be investigated, otherwise they will be incited everywhere every day, how can they live this peaceful life?
According to Zhu Youxiao's order, the Supreme Command quickly transferred the garrison brigade to the riot area, and at the same time, the cabinet strictly ordered the Nanzhili local government to suppress the riot.
Whoever dares to be lazy and not contribute to the effort will strip them of tiger skins and then investigate the responsibility for dereliction of duty.
The cabinet ordered that the group of officials in Nanzhili must suppress the riot no matter what method they used, otherwise they would be punished.
The order was swiftly approved, and the decree was immediately issued.
The mobilization of garrison brigades was not the main means of suppressing the insurgency, but only as a means of preventing it from escalating into an insurgency. This order of the cabinet pushed the group of officials in Nanzhili to a point where they had to make a choice.
Either anti or repressive.
It is an indisputable fact that the officialdom of Nanzhili was seriously infiltrated by the big capital businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, especially after Zhu Youxiao formed the Han Emperor Party, the remnants of the Donglin Party were sent to the system of the Nanjing ******, and those scholars who were born in merchant families in the previous imperial examinations were also sent to the officialdom system of Nanjing.
And what instigated this riot was actually the work of the interest class represented by these guys. At this time, a divine decree came down, and it forced them to make a choice.
Either go all out to suppress the riots, or be held accountable by the imperial court, or rebel. In fact, there are only two ways to go, once the imperial court is held accountable, then Nanjing's officialdom system will inevitably collapse, and then the Han Emperor Party will get the name and carry out a purge of officialdom.
This holy decree directly forced the group of officials in Nanjing into a corner. (To be continued.) )