Chapter 440 Dumping - The Threshold of the Industrial Revolution

[Today's third update]

Several people didn't seem to understand Gu Mingzhe's words, and continued to talk about the emperor's gossip news.

Cheng Ji asked, "When will the emperor take her into the palace?" If we can, let's take care of it first."

"What you said is" Wang Chengen said very approvingly: "This Chen Yuanyuan is the choice of the national color in terms of appearance and talent, plus he is young, and he is very competitive in the harem." If you can catch her line, I think it will be very beneficial in the future."

A few people, you and I said a word, and they talked happily, and took Gu Mingzhe's words as a deaf ear.

It wasn't until Gu Mingzhe next to him glared and his face sank that the few people stopped talking, but they still looked at each other.

"The emperor has deep feelings for the queen, the prince is an adult, and there is no fault, you still don't waste your efforts"

Gu Mingzhe told the three of them in a tone of lesson, meaning that no matter how favored Chen Yuanyuan was, it was impossible to shake the position of the queen and the prince. Instead of going to take Chen Yuanyuan's line, the three of them should hug the crown prince's thigh, and it is more practical to have the queen as a backer.

"What Master Gu said is reasonable," Ni Yuanlu said with a smile: "But the emperor is in his prime, and the days to come are still long. Therefore, it is the most practical for us to open up the relationship between the most favored concubines around the emperor."

Gu Mingzhe nodded and said, "This is also the case, the county official is not as good as the words of the current prince before he ascended the throne, or the words of the imperial concubine."

Unconsciously, Gu Mingzhe also forgot about business, and even chatted with the three of them about officialdom.

But soon, Gu Mingzhe remembered what was going on, so he corrected the topic again. The other three were just idle and didn't want to meddle in their affairs. Especially if it is not handled well this time, it will offend the two princes at the same time and even involve Concubine Duan and Concubine Xiao.

Gu Mingzhe said: "The provincial senate has already submitted this matter to the lower house for consideration, and we must make action now, otherwise it will cause dissatisfaction among the local senators, and I am afraid that the support rate of our Donglin Party will be affected when the next general election and the formation of a cabinet are held."

Gu Mingzhe insisted on making a decision, so Chengji and Ni Yuanlu had to help come up with ideas. However, Wang Chengen was not a member of the Donglin Party, but because of his close relationship with the emperor, the Donglin Party had to put the household department under his management in order to appease the emperor.

Sung-gi said, "You can't offend either side, so you have to think of a perfect solution."

Ni Yuanlu thought for a while and said: "I don't think it's better to use the power of the state to purchase and reserve the national treasury as war food, since I can't sell it in this way, since the domestic grain can't be sold?" ”

Gu Mingzhe waved his hand and said: "The grain reserves of the treasury have reached the limit, and even the grain reserves of the local government are full, not to say big words, the grain reserves of the empire over the years are enough for 10,000 comrades to eat for ten years."

Sungji said, "Then do you have some more reserves?"

"What you said is light" Gu Mingzhe glanced at Chengji and said, "Just ask Lord Wang."

Cheng Ji looked at Wang Chengen, who replied: "The empire's war grain has been stored for fifteen years, and a large amount of new grain will be purchased every year to be stored, but the previous old grain has not been able to be disposed of, and the annual loss of war grain alone in the empire is as high as 10 million silver dollars, and if the price factor and interest discount are included, it will be no less than 30 million silver dollars." This is not a small expense, and if we buy grain at a higher price than the market this year, the loss will increase to 40 million silver dollars and this will go into the fiscal deficit, and if you don't want to be held accountable by the council, you better not think about it!"

Ni Yuanlu nodded and said, "Even if the problem of unsalable grain is solved, what about wool?" What else does the plantation produce? To solve it, you need to solve it together."

Several people fell silent, and after a while, Ni Yuanlu suddenly said, "Do you think this will work?" We carry out regulation and control, and sell unsalable raw materials abroad. ”

"Selling abroad is a solution" Gu Mingzhe thought for a while and asked: "But although the price of raw materials in foreign countries is higher than ours, if you count long-distance transportation, the final cost is about the same as ours."

"We can use government subsidies to quickly sell our products to foreign markets at very low prices," said Ni Yuanlu

When Wang Chengen heard about the financial subsidy, his eyes suddenly widened, and he asked, "Is there a difference between your financial subsidy and government acquisition?" ”

"Of course it's different," Ni Yuanlu said with a smile: "I mean, our government subsidizes foreign trade companies to sell domestic unsalable products abroad at low prices." Foreigners must be the same as we think, with cheap and good quality materials and products. As soon as foreigners find out that our goods are cheap, they will terminate their cooperation with domestic manufacturers. It won't be long before the country's local manufacturers will have poor cash flow due to the backlog of unsalable goods. We continue to support for one to two years, I think that foreign manufacturers may not be able to support two years, two years will definitely go bankrupt and close down until that time, the foreign market is controlled by our products, the pricing power is what we say, and then the price will be raised, and all the losses will be earned, isn't it a great good? ”

"What are you?"

"Dumping"

Gu Mingzhe said worriedly: "I'm afraid this is not appropriate, the imperial government dumps products to foreign countries like this, foreign governments will definitely intervene, and if it is not done well, it will lead to trade disputes."

Ni Yuanlu said: "I said, Lord Gu, you also have to keep pace with the times, and the current empire is not the previous Ming Dynasty. In the past, we always settled things and made peace with others, to put it bluntly, we would rather suffer a loss than fight back, but now it is different, the imperial government is a strong government. If there is a trade dispute, then we still have a strong force as a backing, in today's world, which country would dare to break out a full-scale war with us? ”

Cheng Ji said: "You are a power trade"

Gu Mingzhe figured it out, and immediately frowned, and replied: "I remember that the emperor often said that justice was only within the range of the cannon, and I didn't understand it at the time, but now I understand it a little."

Ni Yuanlu said with a smile: "Then it will be easy to deal with the unsalable things in China, and the government will subsidize them to foreign trade companies, and then dump them abroad." The funds spent by the government will be treated as usury, and within two years, these funds will be returned with interest, or even more."

Several people nodded yes, and the matter was resolved.

From then on, the vast productive capacity of the Chinese Empire would produce more industrial and agricultural products, and the profits generated by these products would be the Chinese Empire's own, but the negative debts generated would be passed on to other countries through dumping.

In this way, unconsciously, after the military expansion and aggression of the Chinese Empire, its economy also embarked on the road of foreign expansion and aggression.

However, due to historical limitations, Gu Mingzhe and others could not properly grasp the development of the economy. What they didn't know was that the unsalable mass of the product was not just an accident, but a stage that the capitalist economy of the Chinese Empire had to go through when it reached a certain stage.

This large number of unsalable products was only a precursor to the change in the economic structure of the Chinese Empire. With the transition from a large number of small workshops to intensive large-scale factory handicrafts, after the outbreak of the Chinese Empire's homemade salt industry, other walks of life have entered the era of industry.

Among them, the most prominent is the large-scale technological transformation of the wool textile industry. With the large-scale inflow of cheap wool, the structural reform of the wool textile industry in the empire was also quietly launched. Cheap raw materials, slave labor without wages, major textile factories in order to seek higher profits, the surplus money into the upgrading and improvement of textile machines.

Due to the large number of overseas colonies of the Chinese Empire, the abundant colonial resources provided sufficient cheap means of production for the local industry and commerce of the Chinese Empire.

For the textile industry, since the Chinese Empire occupied the Mughal Empire, cotton textiles produced in this region were cheap and high-quality, and they were sold for a while, triggering a boom in the local cotton textile industry of the Chinese Empire. However, the productivity of the weaving machinery has been greatly improved due to the use of shuttle technology. The cotton yarn needed for weaving is still slowly spun by the spinning wheels of many cottage industries.

Although most of the family workshops in the Chinese Empire were used as slaves to carry out their work, the cotton yarn produced was still in short supply, and the purchase price was high.

In the Jiangsu and Hangzhou regions, where the textile industry is most developed, the local private companies have used a large number of new technologies to improve their production capacity in order to compete with the Royal Weaving House.

First of all, in the Delong wool textile factory in Hangzhou, workers took the lead in using advanced looms, which were modified from one runner to drive one spindle to one rotor to drive eight spindles, which increased the efficiency of the entire spinning machine by eight times. As a result, the same worker, the Delong Woolen Mill produced more than eight times as much yarn as other companies, making it very profitable, and the tunnel attracted the attention of nearby wool textile companies.

The major wool textile companies have followed suit and improved production efficiency on a large scale, so that their company's production efficiency has increased several times, and many small workshops have expanded their production scale and introduced this new spinning machine on a large scale, making Hangzhou more than 100 spinning mills in just one year, becoming the largest spinning city in the empire. The competition with the Royal Weaving House tends to be fierce.

Soon, with the application of technology, more and more inventions appeared in the textile industry. Every year, the Textile Guild sponsors some advanced inventors to apply their new inventions to factories.

With the progress of science and technology in the Chinese Empire, a considerable number of people specializing in scientific and technological inventions emerged in the empire, and they brought a large number of new inventions to the textile industry, among which new inventions such as reel spinning machines, spindle worsted spinning machines, and water conservancy looms were applied to textile factories, which suddenly triggered a large-scale reorganization of the textile industry.

It turned out that the invention of the new spinning machine had led to an increase in the production of cotton yarn, and as a result, the price of cotton yarn purchased by the weaving mills fell. Spinning workers who did not use the new spinning machines not only had low yields, but also did not sell cotton yarn at a good price. As the days passed, they gradually lost their competitiveness, many small workshops gradually stopped production, and a large number of slaves were laid off, and life was not as good as day by day.

Of course, there were some hiccups along the way. Some of the workshop owners, who were not accustomed to the high profits made by other workshops, openly instructed their slaves to cause trouble, and even sued the mill owners for no reason because the price of yarn ingots fell, and their workshops were closed and their employees were unemployed. These disputes are often dealt with in local courts, and because many people do not understand the tremendous power that technology can bring to productivity, they are found guilty of blindly accusing the other party of disrupting market prices. These situations are inevitable, and after these events, society broadly begins to accept the tremendous productivity brought about by new technologies.

Since the summer of the fifteenth year of Shenwu, the textile industry in the Chinese Empire, centered on Hangzhou and Suzhou, has set off a large-scale industry**. This industry is different from the previous salt industry, and the scope of this impact is quite extensive and the impact is very deep.

Because the textile machine from the beginning of the mechanical equipment reform, to the later precision spindle machine, and then to the water conservancy loom, its scope is no longer limited to simple textile, but from the mechanical equipment manufacturing, precision instrument calibration, and mechanical energy to replace the labor of the comprehensive industrial reform.

It is not so much that the industry that occurred in the textile industry this time is a sign that the Chinese Empire has fully entered the industrial era, but that this time it is a harbinger that the Chinese Empire is about to enter the industrial era.

In recent history, the entry into industry was marked by the widespread use of the steam engine. At this time, although the Chinese Empire already had a steam engine, it had not yet reached full use.

Of course, the first naval ship factories to use steam engines already have the conditions for large-scale use of steam engines, and the mining and pumping facilities of mines are also inseparable from steam engines. However, the steam engine equipment is expensive, and the application industry is very rare, so it cannot be regarded as entering the industrial era.

However, with the vigorous development of journalism in the Chinese Empire, Chinese people need to consume a large number of newspapers every day. Therefore, in the publishing industry, the reform of printing has quietly taken place and been completed.

This was mainly due to the invention of lithography, which came from several scholars of the Hanlin Academy of the Chinese Empire. At that time, they were ordered by Emperor Shenwu to print and compile the Yongle Ceremony many times, and sorted out the key content and top-secret technology in it and compiled it into the Shenwu Ceremony.

As a cultural treasure of the Chinese Empire, the Shenwu Grand Ceremony has mobilized more than 700 officials of the Hanlin Academy, as well as more than 6,000 professors and tutors from 12 colleges and universities across the country, including the Imperial University, and includes 730,000 books on the history of China for 5,000 years from ancient times to the present, as well as 1.03 million foreign classic books. More than 100 times more than the Yongle Grand Canon, the tunnel is regarded as a treasure of the Chinese Empire.

The project of arranging the Shenwu Grand Ceremony ordered by the emperor was huge, and it was more than ten times more difficult than the construction of royal gardens and imperial mausoleums. In particular, the emperor required that more than one Shenwu Grand Ceremony be recorded, and that at least six Shenwu Grand Canons be recorded to prevent accidental losses. Under these circumstances, the officials of the Hanlin Academy had to find ways to improve the printing technology in order to shorten the construction period.

Thus, lithography was born.

However, this technology was not initially popularized throughout the country, and with the exception of the Hanlin Academy, the technology was popularized on a large scale in the press and publishing industry, greatly improving the quantity and quality of newspaper printing. At the same time, all kinds of printed books were distributed on a large scale, so that a large number of printed books could be obtained from all parts of the country, and the Chinese Empire stepped into the threshold of the industrial age from the cultural aspect.

The Chinese Empire has gone from the economic dumping of foreign products, to the large-scale distribution of books and newspapers in culture, and then to the complete manual to manual mechanization of the productive forces, which marks that one leg of the Chinese Empire has entered the threshold of industry.

However, one of the most important thresholds during this period was the hindrance of backward feudal thinking. This blind spot in the mind can not only promote social progress, but also pull society backwards. However, the Chinese Empire was established after the Ming Empire, and during the Ming Empire, people's thinking had loosened and the capitalist economy had sprouted. Therefore, after the establishment of the Chinese Empire, with the prosperity of the empire and the improvement of people's living standards, the ability to accept advanced ideas has also improved by leaps and bounds, and it is no longer difficult to change ideas.

Of course, this qiē is happening quietly. In this era, only Deng Haonan can know the direction of the world's development, but he is only one person, and he can only sit on the throne of the Forbidden City and listen to the reports of his subordinates. The occurrence and change of many things may not be able to be perceived by his subordinates, let alone conveyed to Deng Haonan.

So what is Deng Haonan doing at the moment? Of course, it is the beauty in her arms, and she is free.

Since meeting Chen Yuanyuan, whether it is historical or personal reasons, Deng Haonan is full of curiosity about this legendary woman who changed the history of the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps because of this, Deng Haonan was deeply attracted to this woman.

In order to please her, Deng Haonan used the power of the Security Bureau to turn her father Xing Zhihua's case upside down, and finally rehabilitated Xing Zhihua.

It is for this reason that Chen Yuanyuan is grateful to Deng Haonan from the bottom of his heart, so he gave Deng Haonan a lot of opportunities to get close to her. The two have been together for a long time, and Deng Haonan, an alternative man who is different from all men in this world, suddenly attracted Chen Yuanyuan's attention. Curiosity is always the culprit that kills cats, for Chen Yuanyuan, a woman's natural curiosity made her fall into Deng Haonan's arms, and it is difficult to climb out again. A