In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, with the inclusion of the southern provinces in the reform and the collapse of the Jiangnan chaebol as a top capitalist group, the development of light industry in the Jiangnan region also entered a stage of rapid development. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the reform, although the imperial court levied taxes on industry and commerce, it also provided a good environment for merchants to develop. The first is to set up industrial zones in various places, and after the reform, local governments will divide local land into three types: agricultural land, industrial land, and commercial land.

Factories can only be built on industrial land, and the price of industrial land is relatively low. At the same time, in terms of industrial and commercial registration, the government has also done it as fast as possible, so that businessmen who want to enter those open industries can enter smoothly, so as to increase market competition.

The more businessmen enter an industry, the more fierce the competition, the lower the price of goods, and the more the common people benefit. As for what technology can't be developed, it has nothing to do with it. Those companies that are competing in the Red Sea will always have a group that will try to get rid of the Red Sea competition and then invest in research and development technology. At this time, Daming also has a patent law, although the patent law is very rogue, but this thing still needs it.

After all, when an enterprise researches technology or something, it always has to be eaten by mouth. Otherwise, as soon as the technology is researched, it will be coaxed by others to divide it, so who still studies the technology. It's just that the 60-year term of protection is too long, and Zhu Youxiao revised the patent law.

In the patent law of the Ming Dynasty, the external patent protection is 60 years, while the internal patent protection is only 5 years and 10 years.

If a patent has not been used, the maximum term of protection can be 10 years. However, once a patent is in use, the term of protection is only five years. At the same time, the state can compulsorily grant some valuable patents once they have not been put into use within two years.

Because the patent protection period is relatively short, the patent law is also very strict in Daming, and any act of copying other people's patents will be punished to protect the rights and interests of patent owners. But after the five-year protection period, anyone can use it.

After Zhu Youxiao's improvement, the patent law has become less rogue. However, externally, it is still a 60-year-old protector, and it is still relatively rogue. It's just that at this time, the earth has not yet fully entered the era of industrial globalization, and even many countries have not yet established diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty.

Many countries are not included in this system, but in the future, with the increase of contacts with other countries, various conventions and other things will be signed one after another.

As far as the present day is concerned, North Korea and those countries in the Indochina Peninsula have signed these conventions with the Ming Dynasty one after another. Korea and the countries of the Indochina Peninsula, as countries under the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty, naturally had to abide by these rules.

With the reform of the Jiangnan region, the rapid development of industry has produced an explosive growth effect, especially in light industry.

Because of the improvement of technology, steam engine technology has become more and more mature at this time, and it has been applied to more and more production fields, and these state-owned enterprises are not blockaded by private capital, and equipment can be bought from machinery factories as long as they spend money.

At the same time, there are a large number of workers in the Jiangnan area, the urbanization is relatively high, and the cultural heritage is also the best area in the Ming provinces.

With advanced production technology, the factory owners who relocated their factories to industrial zones purchased advanced equipment, and a large number of steam engines began to operate in the factories in the Jiangnan area. The industrial productivity in the Jiangnan region has been directly and rapidly improved, among which the industry and commerce in the southern Zhili and Zhejiang regions are the most active, and a large number of businessmen choose to build factories.

Because of the advent of the steam engine, the era of industrialization has come, and opening a factory at this time is the most profitable, and it is also the era of factory owners.

A large number of private businessmen joined the ranks of industrialization, which also greatly improved the production capacity of light industry in the Ming Dynasty, especially in efficiency.

The extensive use of steam engine equipment has increased the industrial production efficiency by hundreds of times, which makes the labor cost of goods extremely low. Nowadays, the labor cost of commodities has been greatly reduced, so that Daming's goods have begun to have a very broad sales channel at home and abroad, especially abroad, and when Daming successfully opened the Indian market.

Now the problem has become a shortage of raw materials. So in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, the price of raw materials such as cotton rose sharply.

This is despite the rise in cotton prices, which has pushed up textile prices. However, such a price still has a strong competitiveness in overseas markets. The reason why the price of cotton will rise is mainly due to the competition for raw materials by manufacturers. The rise in the price of raw materials has also strongly promoted the cotton planting industry in Daming, and the income of cotton farmers in the delta of the Yellow River Basin and the cotton planting areas of the Western Regions has risen.

At the same time, a large amount of state-owned capital is also entering the field of light industry.

In particular, after eliminating the chaebols in Jiangnan, a large amount of resources were obtained, and these resources were injected into state-owned enterprises at this time, and the reorganization was basically completed in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse.

The Jiangnan capital chaebol destroyed by Zhu Youxiao is essentially a kind of bureaucratic comprador capital, and it is also the ugliest, lowest, bloodiest, cruelest, most barbaric, greedy, most despicable, and most disgusting kind of capitalism. Because it is the primary stage of capitalism, all the primary stages of capitalism in the history of the world are so dirty, shameful, disgusting.

The end of the Ming Dynasty was the embryonic period of Chinese capitalism, and another meaning of germination was primary.

If you understand the nature of primary capitalism, you can understand why the Ming Dynasty perished. Letting a group of savage, cruel, greedy, shameless, and low-level capitalists control the resources of society is completely looking for death.

The advanced stage of capitalism is nationalist capital and nationalist capital, and Zhu Youxiao's development at this time is actually nationalist capital and nationalist capital.

The state-owned capital consortium of the Ming Dynasty is a capital model with the blood of nationalism and statism, and it is also an advanced form of capitalism. In the original history, the Germans followed this path. At the same time, later generations of China actually followed this path.

Capitalism at the end of the Ming Dynasty may not be appropriate to call it bureaucratic comprador capital, but the characterization of bureaucratic capital is absolutely not wrong, the Donglin Party is the political bureaucratic force supported by these bureaucratic capital, many officials of the Donglin Party are the children of businessmen, and they have a lot of money at home, so they naturally do not need to be corrupt, on the surface it seems that it is indeed a clear stream, but in essence it is the spokesperson of bureaucratic capital, which is more terrifying than the harm of corrupt officials.

With the liquidation of these bureaucratic capitalism by Zhu Youxiao, the imperial court also obtained a large amount of resources, and with the reorganization of these resources with the state-owned enterprises, the business of the state-owned enterprises had fully entered the southern provinces in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, especially in the Jiangnan region.

The light and heavy industries of the Ming Dynasty went hand in hand in the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, producing strong economic vitality. And the demand for raw materials is indeed very huge.

In the fifteenth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty's expansion in the Western Regions has reached a certain scale, and the pace of immigration has entered the West Asian steppe, and irrigated agriculture has also developed in Kazakhstan in later generations, and a large number of cotton is planted, and the cotton grown in the Western Regions and West Asian steppes has been transported back to Guannei by railway. Especially with the rise in cotton prices and the production subsidies issued by the imperial court to cotton farmers, the income of cotton farmers is very considerable.

At the same time, in the Mongolian steppe, grassland animal husbandry has also developed very well, Mongolian herdsmen have all settled, no longer adopt a nomadic way of life, the same Mongolia, the military trade group in the past, at this time also completely disappeared, become a pure herding people, naturally there is no need for military.

Mongolian herdsmen can produce a large number of raw materials, wool, leather, etc. for the Ming Dynasty every year, so as to exchange for the Ming Dynasty's commodities and grain. Moreover, this model can be well sustained, because the population of Mongolia has been effectively controlled, and Zhu Youxiao's promotion of Huangjiao in Mongolia has achieved great results.

The control of the population means that Mongolian herders have enough pastures and will not become short of pasture because of population growth.

At the same time, Daming also opened up a large number of pastures in Australia, and also produced a large amount of wool and leather. In the southeast of Australia, there is also wheat cultivation, and now Australia has begun to take shape after years of immigration. As raw material prices rise, raw material production activities are also expanding at an accelerated pace.

Southeast Asia is an area deeply colonized by the Ming Dynasty, and because of the development of a large number of Ming people, more and more tropical cash crops have been planted, which also provides a large number of raw material resources for the industrial production of the Ming Dynasty.

A huge system of division of labor has gradually emerged, with heavy industry in the north and light industry in the south. In terms of agricultural production, the national economy has basically completed the division of labor in areas that produce commercial grain, animal husbandry, cotton, and other cash crops, but this system still needs to be further improved.

At the same time, the division of labor with the outside is that the Ming Dynasty provides industrial goods, while other countries provide the Ming Dynasty with raw materials, precious metals and other wealth.

The Ming Dynasty exchanged industrial goods that could be manufactured quickly for more raw materials and other goods that required more labor to produce, and the overall wealth increased.

It's just that now Daming is in a kind of policy swing stage. Zhu Youxiao has not made the final choice for a long time, whether to choose self-reliance or colonial plunder.

Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.

On the road of colonial plunder, Zhu Youxiao has already taken a step forward, colonizing Southeast Asia and India. The islands of Southeast Asia have been completely colonized by the Ming Dynasty, while India is semi-colonized by the Ming Dynasty.

It is undeniable that colonization has brought huge benefits.

So that the Ming can step on the heads of other nations to calm their own internal contradictions and inject more powerful impetus into their industrial development.

But the shortcomings are obviously obvious, once the predatory nature is formed, it will inevitably develop national inertia, and the most important thing is to play yourself down. Moreover, colonization will inevitably be accompanied by resistance, and the world will become very unstable. That is, the Ming Dynasty colonized Southeast Asia more thoroughly, and the Southeast Asian monkeys were brutally suppressed and intensively transformed, and they have been gradually cultivated into the slave race of the Ming Dynasty, and the success rate of the counterattack is basically zero, and the genes and culture of the Southeast Asian monkeys are destined to be impossible for them to succeed even if they fight back.

In India, the Indians are relatively incompetent, and they also do not have too strong resistance to the colonization of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, at present, the Ming Dynasty did not directly colonize India, but adopted a semi-colonial model, and did not have much direct contact with the Indians.

Although Australia is also considered colonial, it is more of an immigrant, and it is an overseas province that has no institutional difference from the Ming Dynasty. Aboriginal Australians use the model of contract labor, so that they only need two or three generations to integrate into society. Because the number of Australian aborigines is not very large, and the character of Australian aborigines is not very brutal, they chose to integrate those aborigines.

In the Americas, there were pure immigrants, and the barbarian natives of North America were expelled.

If the Ming colonized and plundered the world, it would also destroy the traditional tributary system. Moreover, for the Chinese nation, as a productive empire, there is no need to achieve prosperity through colonization at all, and it can achieve prosperity by engaging in production by itself.

So at present, for Zhu Youxiao, what he hesitates about is nothing more than the choice of the tributary system and the colonial system. As a reborn, Zhu Youxiao understands that the colonial system and the Entente system during the Cold War cannot really bring peace to the world, which has been proven by history to be a failed system.

The tributary system adopted in Chinese history was relatively stable within the system. As long as China, the suzerain, is still strong, those small countries usually have some coup d'état, but they will not be invaded and destroyed by external aggression. However, once the suzerainty weakened, the vassal states within the system were subverted by the invaders, and various wars arose.

If you want to make the world peaceful, you have to choose the tributary system.

The essence of the tributary system is to be thick and thin, but the condition is that the countries that enter this system must recognize China as a big brother, and no longer develop military and so on. China, as the big brother, guarantees the stability of those vassal states, and will also pull them in times of economic difficulties.

The colonial system of Westerners was characterized by intimidation, plundering, and the use of force to suppress it.

The reason why Zhu Youxiao took a step forward in the colonial system was really because he was about to go crazy and developed advanced military forces, so he didn't stop it for a while, and he colonized Southeast Asia and India.

However, in terms of the tributary system, Zhu Youxiao also made achievements. The Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula were within the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty at this time. Although the Ming Dynasty is also plundering the resources of the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula, it is through trade, and at the same time it is helping the countries of the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula to develop resources, build roads, etc., so that they can produce more primary products and exchange goods of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why this is so is mainly because the Korean Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula also belonged to the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty before, and Zhu Youxiao did not go too far.

Rationally and from a long-term perspective, it is obvious that the Ming Dynasty can no longer engage in the colonial system. However, from the perspective of short-term interests, the colonial system contains huge profits, and the military technology of the Ming Dynasty has advanced wildly, and it seems that it is not too much of a problem to suppress the world.