Chapter 46: Changes in the Newspapers

After Zhu Jingyuan finished taking a bath, he lay on the comfortable big bed wrapped in a bathrobe and began to read the newspaper prepared by Chunxiang.

The most important information in the newspapers in the past two days is, of course, the lifting of the ban on the six industries of tea, sugar, iron, locomotives and ships.

First of all, some newspapers have made a very detailed interpretation of the policy itself, trying to avoid the misreading of the policy itself by ordinary people.

They specifically consulted with the relevant yamen of the Ministry of Industry, summarized the scope and scale of previous industry restrictions, and listed the specific content of this relaxation of restrictions.

The retail business of tea, sugar, steel, automobiles, internal combustion engines, steam engines, and small boats was originally open to the private sector.

The individual cultivation and sale of tea, and the construction of small inland rivers and offshore civil ships, have never been explicitly prohibited from the private sector.

The main content of this relaxation is actually the industrialized large-scale production, large-scale channel sales and wholesale of related industries, and the most critical import and export.

At the same time, the large ship industry, which is open to the private sector this time, is still limited to the civilian ship industry, and warships can still only be built by the royal consortium.

The production of internal combustion engines and steam engines, the production of trains and automobiles, and the production of railroad and road-related facilities were opened to the private sector.

However, the construction and operation of railways and highways themselves are still the core basic industries of the royal family.

If a private manufacturer produces trains and carriages, it can only sell to the Royal Railways, but cars can be sold directly to the private sector.

Restrictions on the smelting and sale of iron and steel were lifted to the private sector, but the mining of iron ore and the sale of ores, as well as the import and export of finished steel, remained the exclusive business of the royal family.

The reporters in question had apparently done their homework, and the information presented was largely truthful and sufficiently detailed.

Obviously, these specific policies were carefully discussed and planned by the relevant ministers and the big treasurers of the consortium on the basis of Zhu Jingyuan's proposal.

Zhu Jingyuan shouted loudly at that time to lift the ban, but in fact, when it was specifically implemented, there were a lot of internal problems that needed to be standardized, and it could not be solved in one sentence.

This policy is not so much about lifting the ban as it is about easing the restrictions again, because it was not a total ban in the first place, and it is not completely liberalized this time.

Then a newspaper observed the direct impact of the relaxation of restrictions in the six industries.

They have found that a large number of new manufacturers have poured directly into these six industries and are recruiting workers widely in the market.

A large number of tea shops and sugar shops were opened, and a large number of steel factories and machinery factories broke ground in the suburbs.

They also noticed that the wages of many manufacturers are directly paid on a daily basis, and when work is done on the same day, the wages of the day are directly paid.

Some newspapers praised the owners of these new manufacturers as good people, while others said that they had done whatever it took to recruit workers.

But Zhu Jingyuan knows another reason, these newly opened manufacturers are aware of inside information, and should also know that the minimum labor remuneration standard is being formulated.

The managers of these new manufacturers should be able to judge that this standard may be higher than 6 yuan banknotes, and even 8 yuan is possible.

If they do not pay according to the daily salary in the past few days, when the minimum standard is officially announced and implemented, they may have to pay the monthly salary according to the standard of more than 6 yuan.

Now they have paid the wages of these few days directly according to the standard of about 4 yuan, and after the minimum remuneration standard is down, they will definitely not make up the difference for these days.

This seems to show that businessmen are very cunning, but Zhu Jingyuan feels that this is indeed a good thing objectively, and some newspapers have discovered this.

When the workers are paid that day, there will be a slight increase in the sales of daily necessities such as food in the market from the evening to the next morning.

Although the magnitude is small, but now the market is just beginning to recover, just like you can't eat and drink too much if you're hungry, and this slow recovery is just right.

Other newspapers have conducted more in-depth impact analyses and have also contacted and explained the situation in the field.

A large number of new factories have appeared, and the situation of recruiting displaced people has only appeared in Beijing yesterday, but today it has spread.

In Jiangnan, Guanwai, Shanxi and other places, a small number of manufacturers began to have received telegram news from Jingshi, and they also began to recruit displaced people.

The authors of these articles predict that the situation will be more obvious in the next few days, and the boom in the ban of the six major industries should soon overshadow the news of the civil uprising.

Because the displaced people will quickly become normal workers, the order of the city will naturally be restored.

Workers have wages, there is money in the market, and it is easier to do business, but they are also more anxious to find a way to keep their workers.

Most commentators believe that the impact of this change on the Ming Dynasty is definitely good, and the royal family finally no longer competes with the people.

A large number of articles spared no effort to praise the merits and virtues, praising the wisdom of His Majesty the Emperor and the cabinet ministers who were open and restricted, and blowing a whole page of rainbow farts.

Because the industry is banned, it is in the interests of all capital groups except the royal family.

Only a handful of ultra-conservatives are worried that opening up steel smelting to private manufacturers may endanger the safety of the country.

In addition to the lifting of the ban on the industry, the most lively thing is the removal of the feudal domain.

Although only the Western Sea states were actually withdrawn, the southwestern states of the Persian Gulf were merged and rebuilt.

But this incident has become the second hottest news, second only to the lifting of the ban on the industry.

Almost all newspapers have made special reports, and a large number of scholars have been invited to comment.

Almost everyone agreed that this was a definite wind direction, indicating that the imperial court had really begun to withdraw the feudal domain, and there would inevitably be greater big moves in the future.

Then there is a great deal of analysis of which vassal states should be abolished first and how.

Finally, there is the impact of the withdrawal of the feudal domain, everyone believes that as long as the withdrawal of the feudal domain is successful, the power of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably grow again, and it will inevitably be able to win the war.

Zhu Jingyuan only read a few articles a little, and he was 100% sure that this was the direct interference of the Ministry of Rites.

Otherwise, it is a question of whether or not a matter that has been officially decided by the DPRK this morning will appear in today's evening newspaper, and it is even more impossible for there to be so many comprehensive and positive reports and analysis.

The purpose is also very simple, and the specific strategy for withdrawing the feudal domain cannot be implemented immediately, but the goal and determination of the withdrawal of the feudal domain can be publicized through non-governmental channels.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that the analysis content in these newspapers would be transmitted to the whole world with the radio waves in no more than three days.

It was then specially printed out and placed directly in front of Western heads of state in Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Madrid, New York, and other places.

The feudal states around Daming are even more of the first to bear the brunt, and maybe someone won't be able to sleep tonight.

Other news, it's all about the things that were already there, mainly the progress of the war and the situation in the country.

But the sentiment of the reviews on these articles has changed, and most of the newspapers have become more optimistic than before, believing that victory is a matter of time.

The reasons have also been analyzed, mainly because of the ban and withdrawal of the six industries.

This was obviously influenced by the Ministry of Rites as well, but it was also what they should have done.

It is necessary to give hope to the people whose lives have not yet been directly affected by the reforms, and who are still living in dire straits, so that they can persevere in the darkness before dawn.

After Zhu Jingyuan finished reading the newspaper, he was in a relatively good mood.

Those old gentlemen in the court are, of course, very politically literate and administratively high.

Maybe when facing the line, they may be suppressed by their way of thinking outside the box, but when they really do things, they can also let themselves see what professionalism is.

They only need to provide basic ideas, and they can do things efficiently and safely, which should be better than doing it themselves.

The execution of this modern industrialized Ming court is not a little higher than that of the previous feudal dynasty.

The interests of the six major industries were enough to drive these ministers to compromise with the interest groups to which they belonged and follow the orders of the old emperor.

If they really still don't work, the old emperor may ban them again at any time.

Mr. Lao is the unified honorific title of the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, the six ministries, and the important ministers of the seven secretaries.