This year's local economy of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be very poor for the Jiangnan region. The economy of the provinces under the New Deal was built on a large scale by state-owned enterprises and the imperial court, as well as the war against Mongolia, which secured jobs. However, the scale of luxury consumption has decreased a lot, and many luxury goods in the Jiangnan area are not sold so well.

At the same time, the textile industry of state-owned enterprises has further developed, a large number of factories have used steam engines as the power of textile equipment, and the textile workshops and textile factories in the Jiangnan area have basically collapsed, but more than a dozen state-owned textile factories have appeared in Songjiang Prefecture, and the production is in full swing.

Iron and steel, textiles, these industries used to be very prosperous in the Jiangnan area. Steel smelting has long been finished, and now the textile industry is completely finished.

The textile market in the entire Yangtze River basin has been occupied by state-owned textiles.

Steel, cotton, wool imitations, salt, grain, these things are gradually controlled by state-owned capital consortia in the Yangtze River basin.

Nowadays, on the surface of the Yangtze River, it is common to see those small steamers sailing on the river. The tonnage of these small steamers ranged from hundreds of tons to thousands of tons, and the emergence of these small steamers made the 'Yangtze River Freight Company' established by state-owned capital begin to gradually monopolize the Yangtze River water transportation.

This has created a very ferocious phenomenon of national advancement and retreat, and a large number of privately-funded businessmen have been squeezed out of their living space by state-owned enterprises and forced into the corner of bankruptcy and bankruptcy.

The economy of the Huguang area is relatively stable, after all, Huguang mainly produces commercial grain, and there is not much handicraft industry. After the intervention of state-owned capital, these commercial grains were sold well, and their prices were relatively stable. As for the industrial commodities needed, the people in the Huguang area do not care who buys them, as long as the quality is good and the price is more affordable, they will buy whichever is more cost-effective.

Sichuan and other places. Because transportation is not so convenient, although the rural natural economy has been hit by the goods of state-owned factories, the impact is not so great, plus there are not so many disasters, and the economy is relatively stable.

Coastal provinces such as Fujian and Guangdong, although they have also been hit by state-owned goods. The natural economy of the countryside is beginning to disintegrate, but it is not a big problem.

There are many immigrants in Fujian and Guangdong, and the local area is relatively stable.

The real impact in the Jiangnan region is still the industrialized population in the cities and towns, but the agriculture is still relatively good, especially the cultivation of cash crops, with the huge demand for raw materials for industrial production in the north, the scale has risen a lot. Agriculture has also begun to move towards a division of labor and has become more specialized.

The most popular reverse development is the raw silk industry, and the raw silk industry in the Jiangnan area has expanded with the expansion of maritime trade. Demand for exports is growing gradually. And with the development of the northern commodity market, the demand for raw silk is also growing in large quantities. In this era, the consumption of silk is a relatively common phenomenon.

At the same time, the demand for tea has also grown significantly, whether it is tea bricks or ordinary tea, the export demand is constantly expanding.

In the Huzhou area of Zhejiang, because of the prosperity of the raw silk industry, the local economy has become very good.

However, in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, state-owned silk reeling factories began to appear in the Huzhou area. Steam engine equipment was used, which led to a large number of local silk reeling factories closing down because they could not compete.

A lot of town workers who have lost their jobs. At this time, they all chose to emigrate or work in the north, and coastal shipping is now more developed, making it much easier to travel.

Under various adjustments, Daming was generally relatively stable this year.

Japan, on the other hand, is in dire straits, with civil war still going on. The war between the Tokugawa shogunate and those feudal clans entered a stalemate. And behind those like the vassals, it is the Ming Dynasty who is supporting. But sometimes the Ming Dynasty would support the Tokugawa shogunate. The balancing act was pursued so much that the situation became a stalemate.

Because of the war, Japan exported a large amount of precious metals to Daming, and at the same time, the scale of copper ore exports continued to increase, in exchange for more war materials.

The situation in North Korea is very stable. After all these years of economic colonization, the economy of North Korea has been very seriously infiltrated by the Ming Dynasty.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty controlled nearly three-tenths of North Korea's land at this time, as well as a large number of mining and forestry resources. With a large amount of investment, North Korea is continuing to produce various industrial raw materials for the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, the commodity market has been violently impacted by the Ming Dynasty's commodities.

North Korea's textile industry is completely gone, steel smelting and everything else is completely gone, and all of them are imported textiles and steel from the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, the mining industry was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and the coal was also mined by the Ming Dynasty.

Cotton, coal, and steel, which were the main export products of the British colonial world in history, naturally became the mainstream commodities of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

It's just that in addition to cotton, coal, and steel, Daming also has many commodities. Ceramics, tea, raw silk, and glass products are also mainstream commodities.

The Ming Dynasty basically does not need to import any industrial commodities, only needs to import agricultural products and industrial raw materials, at this time the Ming Dynasty has any industry, just like China in later generations, the developed dream of other countries that trade with it is crushed.

Once other countries were opened up to the commodity market by the Ming Dynasty, their industries would not want to develop.

North Korea is becoming a country that produces agricultural products and mines ore for the Ming Dynasty, as long as the railway is built to North Korea, the scale of North Korea's mining industry will be expanded, and a lot of employment will be added at that time.

North Korea's national capital has basically been wiped out over the years, and a group of lackey capital was born with it. These lackey capitals are attached to Daming Capital, share the interests of commercial colonization of Korea, and serve Daming Capital exclusively.

North Korea's commerce is largely controlled and monopolized by Daming capital, and North Korea, a country with a population of 8 million, is gradually becoming a good cow for Daming.

The countries of Indochina developed rapidly in agriculture, and like North Korea, they began to continue milking the Ming Dynasty. However, the countries of the Indochina Peninsula are relatively rich in agricultural resources, so they mainly produce agricultural products and provide a large amount of rice for the Ming Dynasty. Then exchange rice, minerals, timber and other resources for the goods of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty did not even need to colonize these countries by force directly, commercial colonization was enough to plunder them. Therefore, in addition to controlling Annan, the Ming Dynasty has not directly intervened in the internal affairs of other countries in the Indochina Peninsula.

The development of the Ming Dynasty in the Nanyang region has still not completely developed the resources, and there are still many islands that have not been included in the scope of development.

The Golden State province of Sumatra has only been established for a few years. Only a very small part of the area has been developed. The most developed islands are Java and Luzon.

Java and Luzon can now provide a lot of spices such as cane sugar and pepper for the Ming Dynasty, as well as various fruits, oil palm, rubber, sisal and other cash crops, and the economic development is very good. Rice cultivation did not develop on a large scale, but was supplied to the local needs of the islands in the South Seas. The countries of the Indochina Peninsula are still responsible for the production of commercial grain.

Although the pace of resource development in the South Seas has slowed down, it has become very stable. The number of Han Chinese who immigrated to Nanyang to cultivate plantations is still increasing.

A large number of unemployed Jiangnan workers emigrated to Nanyang and Australia, where they were provided with sufficient production resources and were able to live a good life as long as they were willing to put in the effort.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty had basically swept away East Asia and Oceania, but there were a lot of things left that needed to be swept away. For example, Mongolia is still sweeping the tail, while Japan, the indigenous people of Nanyang, the indigenous people of Australia, and the regimes of Indochina are also targets that need to be further swept up.

But the whole of East Asia has become a commodity market and a source of raw materials for the Ming Dynasty. Daming's goods can be sold to any country in East Asia, and at the same time, all kinds of raw materials can be obtained in no region in East Asia.

By the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, the number of ocean-going merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty had reached more than 8,000, and now thousands of 2,000-ton galleons could be manufactured every year.

It's just that the production capacity of sailboats has been fixed and there is no longer any growth. In the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, more than 100 500-ton steamships, more than a dozen 1,000-ton steamers, and one 2,000-ton steamer were built.

The machinery manufacturing industry has developed rapidly in the case of a large number of steam engines, and the performance of steam engines has begun to gradually improve. There are also more and more factories using steam engines. Those privately-owned factory owners who have achieved technological upgrades are still mixing very well in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse.

Although the banks no longer issue loans out. However, the profit margin after the completion of the technology upgrade is very obvious, as long as there is no debt problem, you can still make a lot of money.

After years of reform, the level of industrialization in the north is gradually improving. Finally, in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, the industrial output value of the Ming Dynasty first surpassed the output value of agriculture and became the industry with the largest output value.

This means that the Ming Dynasty has officially entered the stage of industrialization.

Industrialization and a large number of merchant ships continued to engage in overseas trade. This made Daming further rich. The income of the state-owned capital consortium has further increased, and the dividends paid to the imperial court have also become even larger.

In the north, with the completion of the main railway line, the commodity market expanded rapidly, the urbanization speed accelerated, and the imperial court tax revenue was also growing.

The imperial court became very rich. Zhu Youxiao also became extremely wealthy.

At the end of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, the dividends paid by state-owned capital to the imperial court reached nearly 200 million yuan, while the dividends shared by Zhu Youxiao reached 10 million yuan.

At present, the dividend model of state-owned consortiums is to hand over 20% to the state, and then distribute dividends to consortium members according to this base.

There is only one shareholder in the state-owned capital consortium, that is, Zhu Youxiao accounts for 5%, and the others have no shares, only dividends.

The ministers of the Han Emperor Party in the court, as well as the executives of state-owned enterprises, all have some dividends, which add up to only about 30%, among which Yang Guorui and Shen Yan got the most dividends, both reaching 1%, and they all received dividends of 2 million yuan in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, which is even more terrifying than those chaebols in Jiangnan.

Is there a chaebol in Jiangnan that can earn 2 million yuan a year?

At the end of the year, the members of this interest group established by Zhu Youxiao received their own benefits one after another, and they were immediately full of joy.

Shen Yu and Yang Guorui hugged the emperor's thighs, and now their families have become the top wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty, but they are now relatively low-key.

And now the politics of the Ming Dynasty have become relatively moderate, although the courtiers are quite rich, they will not threaten the emperor's position, and they don't have to worry about being clicked by the emperor.

The interest group built by Zhu Youxiao does not require the courtiers below to have a clean sleeve, as long as they do their work well, they can share dividends from the state-owned capital consortium, and this is still a legitimate income, which can be used to spend it openly.

Zhu Youxiao, as in the past, began to distribute wealth everywhere after the consortium paid dividends.

Where there was a disaster, the emperor took the lead in donating.

Since the construction of the library, museum and opera house, Zhu Youxiao has invested in the construction of a large stadium in the capital.

At the same time, at the end of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, a 'Apocalypse Fund' was set up with 5 million, which will be used for various investments, and its profits will be used to reward people who have made outstanding achievements in various fields, which is basically similar to the Nobel Prize in later generations.

The Apocalypse Award covers literature, science, economics and other fields, and has become the most valuable award with generous bonuses and the highest honors.

As the so-called upward and downward effect, Zhu Youxiao is now throwing money everywhere in charity and public welfare, and members of the interest group of the state-owned capital consortium have also followed suit.

The reason why the dividends of state-owned capital consortia are so high is mainly due to the windfall profits brought about by industrialization and the windfall profits from overseas trade.

This interest group continues to move forward today.

At present, in order for the state-owned capital consortium to continue to develop, the first thing is to continue to operate the internal market and complete the thorough reform of the whole country.

The second is to continue to expand the commodity market and raw material production areas, and now the commodity markets and resources in East Asia and Oceania are basically in the bowl. The next step was to expand into Central Asia, the South Asian subcontinent, the Middle East, and Africa, while operating the West Coast Colonies of the Americas.

"By the end of next spring, the Mongolian battlefield will be basically over, and most of the troops will be able to be transferred back from Mongolia by then. It's time to bring the southern provinces into the reforms. Zhu Youxiao decided, and a group of ministers suddenly became excited.

If the southern provinces were to be included in the reforms, what would be the huge economic benefits?

At that time, the profits of the state-owned capital consortium will definitely rise rapidly. Although the heavy industry in the south is not as good as that in the north, the economic development potential is definitely greater than that of the northern provinces.

They've been staring at this piece of fat for a long time.

"In this reform, if there is military cooperation, it will basically be nine out of ten." Shen said that it is actually very simple to reform the southern provinces, and directly press the border with a large army and sit in the southern provinces. Whoever dares to be the first bird, without saying a word, will be killed with a stick.

When the reform is over, the common people will certainly support the reform, and when the time comes, the army will be withdrawn, and the interest classes whose interests have been damaged will not be able to make a fuss. (To be continued.) )