In the fourteenth year of the Apocalypse, the industry of the Ming Dynasty was still developing rapidly, and this year, with the reform of the Huguang and Huaihe River basins, the internal market became larger, and the scale of commodity exports to the southern provinces also became larger. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info at the same time to develop overseas markets, Daming has not stopped the pace.

In the market development of the Indochina Peninsula, the Ming Dynasty adopted the means of military coercion. Gao Bangzuo, the governor of Nanyang, and Zhang Yan, the governor of the Ming Royal Navy, joined forces to continue to intervene in the situation on the Zhongna Peninsula. A series of trade and investment agreements have been signed with Siam and Myanmar.

These agreements allowed Ming goods and capital to freely enter the Siam and Burmese markets, and the Ming Dynasty's military force also made Siam and Burma feel awe-inspired, and they did not dare to make a mistake in front of the Ming Dynasty. If they are obedient, Daming will not invade them.

As for the countries of Annam, Champa and Khmer, the Ming Dynasty did not have the idea of being included in the scope of the territory for the time being, but only signed suzerainty agreements with these countries to determine the issue of territorial waters.

The Ming Dynasty did not need to occupy these countries by force, and it was enough to regard these countries as the backyard of the Ming Dynasty. If you really occupy it, you may have a bunch of troubles.

In the case of non-occupation, the Ming Dynasty interfered a lot in these countries, at least these countries could not do anything to damage the commercial interests of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time could not let the Indochina Peninsula have a military force that could unify the peninsula, so the Ming Dynasty would be on fire in the backyard.

Therefore, there is still basic political interference, after all, the Ming Dynasty is the suzerainty of these countries, and the intervention is justified, and there is no legal problem.

At the same time in India, the Ming Dynasty has gradually completed the layout, through the means of attracting a group, isolating a group, and suppressing a group, so that goods can enter India on a large scale, and the scale of trade with India continues to expand.

At the same time, the Ming trading fleet also began to enter the ports of the Middle East and African coastal countries for trade, and trade with Portugal and Spain also continued.

The external market is continuing to expand, the internal market of the Ming Dynasty is even larger, the northern provinces that have completed the reform, because a large number of people have become workers, and at the same time, the rural natural economy has been affected by the commodity economy, the market has become very broad, and the overseas immigration provinces also have a mature commodity economy market.

The huge domestic and foreign markets made the large-scale production of commodities in the Ming Dynasty profitable, thus promoting the development of the Industrial Revolution.

At this time, the industrial revolution of the Ming Dynasty has entered the stage of breaking through the three major aspects of energy, power and transportation under the guidance of the government.

The next stage is the stage of the second industrial revolution, which is the large-scale production of steel, chemicals, machinery including agricultural machinery, but at this time the Ming Dynasty has not fully entered this stage, but has begun to layout, among which the large-scale production of steel has been carried out at the earliest, and now the emergence of trains, so that this large-scale production has broken through the restrictions of transportation, like plugging in the wings of flying.

There is also a layout for the large-scale production of machinery, but the market demand has not yet been completely detonated. The chemical industry is in its infancy.

The second industrial revolution is a process of developing from the low-end to the mid-to-high-end.

After this stage, it is the stage of entering the welfare state. This is the stage when various welfare policies are established.

The Industrial Revolution is nothing more than divided into these stages.

It's like learning mathematics as a person, you have to start with addition and subtraction, and then learn calculus step by step. Reversing the order, or proceeding, would lead to the failure of the Industrial Revolution.

In later generations, many countries could not complete industrialization, but under the deception of Western countries, they expanded. Either directly develop the chemical industry and automobile manufacturing industry, or directly realize the democratic election of God.

Later generations of China, on the other hand, followed this development model and achieved the process that Westerners took more than 300 years to complete in 35 years. Of course, there are still 30 years of foreshadowing ahead, tightening the belt and allowing China to have its own industrial system, although the 30 years of the industrial revolution also failed, but it left a foundation.

At this time, the industrial revolution of the Ming Dynasty actually had a little shadow of leap forward, but the leap forward was relatively small. In the initial stage, for example, Zhu Youxiao did not develop the rural handicraft industry, but the flood of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty actually had this foundation, and in the second stage of planned production, the flood of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty also provided a certain foundation.

It's just that such a foundation is relatively strong in the south, and the commodity market in the north is still relatively backward. However, with the advent of the steam engine, commodity production began to move smoothly towards large-scale production. And through reforms, the government began to intervene strongly, maintain local order, and organize the population to develop large-scale commodity production.

Therefore, the industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty at this time was actually in the second stage, and the light industry had just moved towards large-scale production for a few years.

However, the third stage has already begun, and the three-in-one model of energy, power, and transportation is being rapidly put into construction under the intervention of the imperial court.

The large-scale production of steel, chemical industry, machinery and other aspects in the four stages has also been laid out in advance, which is also a phenomenon of leap forward.

In terms of the fifth stage of welfare society construction, the imperial court has also made a certain leap forward, and has also invested money in welfare construction, but the welfare is relatively low, and there is no direct high welfare model, but only to ensure the basic right of survival of the people, so the pace of such a leap is not large.

The key to the success of industrialization is to build a stable social environment, and at the same time, the government must have strong organizational and maintenance capabilities for local governments.

The Westernization Movement at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the failure of industrialization in the Republic of China were due to the lack of sufficient control of the state. During the Republic of China, it was even more so, and it was directly fooled and lame by Westerners, and it was engaged in democracy when it came up. I thought that the strength of Westerners was due to the democratic system and some scientific spirit, but the reality is that at the time of the Industrial Revolution, Britain was still a period of serious bureaucracy and a large number of semi-nationalized enterprises, the East India Company.

Today's reforms address this issue. The reform of the New Deal of the Ming Dynasty changed the mode of high local autonomy in the past, increased financial investment in the administration, and even established township governments, which greatly strengthened the control ability of the official localities, and at the same time implemented mercantilism, the government was able to prevent farmers from investing in large-scale production of commodities, and punished those who committed market fraud, so as to maintain market credit instead of disorderly development.

Previously, when the scale of the northern market economy was not large, Zhu Youxiao carried out large-scale production of commodities by obtaining external markets. At this time, the second and third stages of the development process can be carried out at the same time, mainly because of the relatively rapid technological progress, and at the same time, the northern commodity economic market has also been cultivated.

As the reform of the Huguang and Huaihe river basins is on the right track, the next reform target has gradually emerged, that is, the Jiangnan region.

The resistance to reform in the Jiangnan region is undoubtedly the greatest. However, once the reform is implemented, it is the easiest place. Because of the Jiangnan region, the first and second stages of industrialization have been completed. In the past, the Jiangnan area of the Ming Dynasty was the area with the most serious commodity economy, and it was also the place where the large-scale production of light industrial commodities was most concentrated.

Once the reform is implemented, the imperial court can directly carry out the third stage of development in the Jiangnan area, and then engage in the trinity model of energy, power, and transportation.

Energy is nothing more than coal, power is nothing more than a steam engine, and transportation is naturally roads and railways. If these things are carried out, the economy of Jiangnan will be able to fly, and it will provide a large amount of tax revenue for the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the reform dividend, Jiangnan is the most attractive.

At the same time, it is also a place where Daming's private capital businessmen gathered, and completed the reform of the region, which is of key significance to Daming.

The interest group of the state-owned capital consortium founded by Zhu Youxiao fully understood this truth and began to step up its layout in the case of the next reform of Jiangnan.

The first is to continue to divide the private capital forces in Jiangnan, and attract a number of private businessmen into the consortium interest groups to become peripheral forces. Second, it is necessary to step up public opinion propaganda and win the support of the ordinary industrial and commercial class for reform, so that the common people can fully understand the benefits of reform.

At this time, with the construction of railways and the expansion of overseas trade in the north, the large-scale production of light industry developed very rapidly, and a large number of state-owned textile factories and private textile factories emerged, and the textile industry developed very rapidly. The popularity of the steam engine has made a huge leap forward in productivity. The railway has revitalized and expanded the commodity economic market, so that the cost of commodity transportation has decreased. The huge market has given birth to a large number of large-scale production of light industrial products.

The profits of these factories were very considerable, and many businessmen made money by opening factories. After tasting the sweetness, more people put their capital into this field.

In addition to the factories in the industrial zone, many township enterprises have also developed in various places.

These township enterprises, after obtaining the steam engine equipment, began to apply it to many production fields. The emergence of these township enterprises has provided many jobs for township and town peasants.

There are still many township enterprises and handicraft industries that do not use steam engines, but their goods also have a large market with the development of overseas trade and the development of the local market.

In the field of light industry, the degree of monopoly of state-owned enterprises is not high. Even in the textile industry, private enterprises can develop. Nowadays, the advantages of state-owned enterprises in the development of the textile industry are mainly in terms of equipment. However, private enterprises can also buy steam engines as the power of textile equipment, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in the textile industry market competition exists, this competition can eliminate those inefficient enterprises.

In addition to the textile industry, many other light industrial commodities are produced by these township enterprises. Because the previous transportation was not so developed, so these township enterprises have their own local market advantages, the existence of these enterprises, but also greatly improve the people's livelihood, after all, the supply of light industry goods is related to the quality of life of the people.

The fastest popularization of the steam engine is the textile industry, and at the same time, there is also the grain processing industry and the sugar extraction industry, which greatly reduces the production cost of textiles, commercial grains and sugar, thus generating profit margins. The greatest competitiveness lies in leading, and leading means having strong competitiveness.

Essentially, it's about increased productivity. In those areas, labor inputs are saved. So that other labor force can be engaged in construction and production activities in other fields.

At this time, there were more and more township enterprises using steam engines, and in the provinces of the New Deal, there was a pattern of light industry blooming everywhere and a hundred flowers blooming.

Local governments were also influenced by the mercantilism of the imperial court and were very concerned about the development of local industry and commerce. Local industry and commerce also means a problem of money bags, whether more taxes can be collected, depends on whether the local industry and commerce are prosperous or not, after some reform of agricultural tax, although it can also receive a lot of taxes, but it is not as good as industry and commerce has development potential.

There were already many businessmen in the Jiangnan area who also coveted the steam engine, because they did not have a steam engine in their hands, and they were losing ground in the market competition, and their factories had to be shut down and closed. If they had a steam engine, then everything would be different.

Today, the atmosphere of resistance to reform in Jiangnan has harmed the interests of those factory owners and workshop owners. This has turned many small and medium-sized businessmen in Jiangnan into groups that support the New Deal reform.

With the prosperity of the textile industry in the Ming Dynasty, a large number of exports overseas, and the internal market is also very huge, the production and supply of commercial cotton has also developed, most of which is local production, and at the same time, Luzon and Java, as well as the colonies in Australia and the Americas, will also produce some cotton.

Especially for immigrants in the Jinshan Bay area, cotton cultivation is the pillar industry of the local area.

The cotton planting industry in the Yellow River Delta has developed extremely rapidly, and the scale has continued to expand year by year, which can be said to be the largest cotton producing area in the Ming Dynasty.

It was followed by the cotton production area in the Western Regions, where the cotton planting area had risen to 15 million mu in the 14th year of the Apocalypse.

The third largest cotton producing area is the Jiangnan region, where the raw silk and cotton industries are still prosperous, especially the raw silk industry, which is even more prosperous at this time.

In addition, India has also become a cotton importer of Daming, Daming buys cotton from India, and then produces cotton cloth and then exports it back.

Daming does business overseas, and the goods can be described as extremely complete.

Textiles, raw silk, porcelain, glass, iron and steel products, tea, spices, medicinal herbs, as well as various handicrafts, as well as military equipment, can all be exported.

However, the imported things are basically raw materials, and all kinds of raw materials are shipped back as long as they are available. Sometimes there is not enough ballast for anything, and it is even possible to transport a bunch of shells back. For example, blacks in some parts of Africa have gold and precious stones, but no commodities, such as the blacks in the Congo region in later generations.

The merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty transported a bunch of worthless pottery or something, which could be exchanged for a lot of gold and precious stones, and when they came back, there was no commodity ballast, and many times they even transported a bunch of wood back, anyway, there was nothing to be lucky, and some wood could be sold for some money when they went back, so as not to waste capacity.

The value of Daming's commodity exports is much higher than the value of imported raw materials and some native products, forming a large surplus.

Such trade is not sustainable, so in some countries, the capital of the Ming Dynasty has begun to invest. For example, in North Korea and the Indochina Peninsula, North Korea is developing various raw material extraction industries, mainly minerals, timber, fisheries, etc., and then selling them to the Ming Dynasty for money, and then importing goods.

The Indochina Peninsula mainly exported rice to the Ming Dynasty, as well as various tropical agricultural products and resources, and then continued to import Ming commodities.

At the same time, the goods brought back by Da Ming also have a very special kind, that is, slaves.

In this era of underdeveloped productive forces, the slave trade was very common, and slavery was widespread all over the world, even in some feudal dynasties.

For these slaves, the Ming Dynasty brought them back basically as contract laborers, and the employer paid for food and housing, and would give a little pocket money and a little freedom. These slaves were transported to work in mines or cotton plantations.

The Ming Dynasty needed a large amount of cotton at this time, and the textile industry was gradually becoming the most important export commodity. After all, textiles are a commodity that everyone needs, and Daming's textiles can be eaten in any country.

Indian labourers played a role in the production of cotton in the overseas colonies, as the influx of Indians from Bengal created a surplus of labour. The Ming needed workers in many colonies, especially cotton plantations and pastures.

Although these Indian laborers are a bit lazy, they still have no problem herding sheep, picking cotton, and planting some sugar cane, and many Indians are relatively skilled.

In addition to Indian laborers, North Korean laborers left North Korea earlier and went to work in various parts of Daming.

These laborers are collectively employed, all of them are laborers, and they are sent back after a certain number of years of work, and the daily management is relatively strict to avoid social security problems.

These behaviors of the Ming Dynasty are also plundering the world's demographic dividend.

The wages that were sent out were brought back to their homeland by these laborers, and then they would enter circulation, thereby increasing the ability to import goods, so that they could continue to consume the goods of the Ming Dynasty. To be continued.

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