Daming Military Empire

Chapter 174 Development of the economy
After the end of the Beijing Police Project, the officialdom of Daming took on a completely new look. It does not mean that there will be no more corrupt officials in Ming Dynasty since then. Of course, this is unlikely.The biggest change in the rectification of Ming officials this time is that they all know that they must be diligent in government and love the people, and must develop the economy.

It's not that all the officials' brains suddenly became enlightened, but the emperor forced them. This time, all localities have made reports, not to mention whether they are accurate or not. At least the court knows the general economic situation of each place. The decree is that after three years, the foreign inspection will directly inspect the income of ordinary people. If there is no increase, they will be dismissed and investigated; if the income is less than doubled, they will automatically resign; It's scary, if you double it, you'll get an extra level!
If you want to say who is the most anxious among these local officials, it must be the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture. You must know that Shuntian Prefecture is where the capital is located, and other places can be mixed with a little fake, and it is almost over. Anyway, it only needs a little growth.He is under the eyes of the emperor, and the officials of the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate live here. If he wants to adulterate, there is really no way.

How to do it?He began to pay attention to economic issues that he had never paid attention to at all. He knew how farmers can increase their income. With the above, the income of the farmers can be increased by at least two times. Needless to say, hurry up and let the county magistrates below buy one set, and count it as office expenses.

How can the people in the capital increase their income?This problem is quite a headache. Fortunately, the "Beijing News" saved him again. In the past two days, the "Beijing News" reported a sensational news that the allied country Portugal actually ordered nearly 1000 million taels from Daming at one time. In addition, there will be more orders in the future. In order to catch up with the production of arms, Wang Gong factory specially assigned a group of "model workers" to let them build their own factories and organize people to produce firearm parts. It is said that the profits are scary.

What about these people?The prefect of Shuntian Prefecture quickly found them, and began to take the initiative to help them solve the problem:

No workshop?It's simple, all the squares and squares are here for me, and if there are vacant mansions for rent, I will report them to the official and take them to pick them out;

Not enough staff?It’s easy to handle. If you can’t write the recruitment notice, if you can’t write it, you can dictate it. My official will ask you to write it for you. It’s posted everywhere in the capital. Are you afraid that you won’t be able to recruit people?

Not long after, the outsourced processing factories of Wang Gong Factory were built and put into production one after another. The ten processing factories built in this batch are all for the production of gun barrels for Wang Gong Factory. The scale is not very large. The Wang Gong factory brought them over, and after they were finished, they sent them to the Wang Gong factory. The Ministry of Industry only provided machine tools, and each company could be equipped with several drilling machines, several lathes, several rifling machines and a small boiler.

As for the specific number of machine tools, it is up to them to consider, and the personnel are also recruited by themselves. Those who feel that they have strong ability and high management level should install a few more machine tools, and those who feel that their ability is limited should install a few less machine tools. Qualified gun barrels are enough. As for the output, they also control it themselves. Anyway, the more they do, the more they earn. These are model workers. If you don't believe them, they don't work hard.

After a few days of trial production, Song Yingxing calculated that even the factory with the lowest output can process at least one hundred qualified rifle barrels a day, and the factory with the highest output can process almost two hundred qualified rifle barrels a day. Calculated in this way, the production of muskets of Wang Gong Factory can be increased to at least [-] guns per month. If we work overtime, it is not impossible to produce [-] guns per month!
The frighteningly high profits are not fake. The processing fee for a rifle barrel is two taels, and the processing fee for a pistol barrel is also one tael, which means that each family can have at least 200 taels of gross income a day. The most one day even has a gross income of 500 taels. On average, each family can earn almost 1 taels a month!The prefect of Shuntian Prefecture doesn't care how much they spend and how much wages they have to pay. This gross income is pure economic growth. No matter who they send it to, anyway, it will be averaged to everyone in the end.

However, the average income of the millions of people in the capital does not seem to be much, and it is still far from doubling the income. The news is that the Ministry of Industry has developed a batch of civil machinery, such as flying shuttle looms, steam printing machines, steam milling machines, steam spinning machines, and what various machines can produce. Rixinglong Company bought them at more than twice the cost price. Those who have money can immediately order machines from the Ministry of Industry, and those who have no money can also borrow money from Rixinglong Company to order machines, as long as someone guarantees it. Production capacity is limited, so hurry up!
The Ministry of Industry will not talk about him for the time being, the reputation of Rixinglong Company, he said that the acquisition is absolutely true. They are in business, and it is normal to buy cheap products and sell them. This will definitely make money.

Now the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture has issued another order. Each Lizheng guarantees at least one family, and each Fangzheng guarantees at least two. They must help to set up the factory within a month. If there is no space, help them find a place. If there is no one, help them. Recruiting people, in short, the factory must be set up, whoever can't do it, get out, such a simple thing can't be done well, what use is it for you!
Now the whole capital has set off a frenzy of building factories. There are more than 20 neighborhoods in the whole capital, and there are no less than 150 miles. The magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture also worked hard to keep the black yarn. Whoever dares to be lazy so that he can't keep the black yarn, he will pick whose black yarn first. Anyway, it's just a word, build a factory for the official!

Building factories and factories, not only in the capital, but also in all parts of Daming. The Ministry of Industry even built a huge machinery factory in Dongdaying, specializing in the production of civil machinery. Wang Zheng, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, personally led the Leading more than 100 students from the Firearms Academy and recruiting thousands of workers, they can produce at least tens of thousands of civil machinery in a month. If each machine is calculated at 100 taels, that month is also 10 taels. Daying also belonged to Shuntian Prefecture, and it was such a huge economic growth point that the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth!

Thousands of machines seem scary, but they are actually not many. On the contrary, they are far from enough. In the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, there are hundreds of them in Guangzhou Prefecture, and there are more than a thousand in the county seat. That is to say, even a month Only a dozen or so looms can be allocated to each county to build the front stage, which is too little for a county. A small weaving factory needs at least [-] or [-] shuttle looms, otherwise a small loom will be burned. Boilers are not cost-effective. You must know that boilers also cost money. A boiler can carry at least [-] to [-] civil machinery. If it is too small, the profit will be low.

Everywhere is not only buying machines to build factories, but also agricultural production is booming. You must know that Daming is still a purely agricultural country, and the industry can be said to have just started. The arable land alone is over one billion mu, and the agricultural population accounts for almost [-]% of the total population of Daming. Well, as long as the magistrates of counties and prefectures everywhere are not fools, they will know the importance of grasping agriculture. As long as agriculture is grasped, not to mention promotion, at least the official position will be kept.

As far as economic development is concerned, no matter what industry it is in, there is actually a correlation effect. Taking agricultural development as an example, it is impossible for the magistrates and magistrates in various places to be all-round talents, and most of them do not understand agriculture. What should we do?Learn from the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture and buy "Nongzheng Quanshu". In this way, the sales of "Nongzheng Quanshu" will increase. If the fee is so soft, those printing workshops will make a lot of money, so that the printing industry will develop accordingly. After the printing industry develops, they will buy more printing machines, so that the machinery factory of the Ministry of Industry will also benefit up.

This is only on the demand side. From the sales side, it is even more serious. When the agricultural output increases, food and various raw materials will be abundant. Not to mention that Rixinglong can make a lot of money, various processing industries will follow suit With the rise of the processing industry, their consumption capacity will also increase, and they will be able to consume more commodities, which will also promote the development of other industries.This is an ever-expanding cycle, just like a snowball, as long as the snowball rolls, it will get bigger and bigger.

All of this has slowly developed under the guidance of Zhu Cijiong. The fastest-growing industry is the textile industry. The efficiency of steam spinning machines and flying shuttle looms is quite terrifying. The cloth output of Daming can be seen with the naked eye. The speed is growing rapidly, and the output of cloth will soon exceed the overall consumption of the Ming people. If all this happened in modern times, it would be a disaster. The price of cloth will depreciate rapidly, depreciate and depreciate again. Manufacturers will also gradually close down.

But what happened in the Ming Dynasty was different. This era was a colonial era. Many countries were under colonial rule and were severely suppressed by the colonists. Let alone the development of industry, they even had no choice but to grow anything in their own fields. The colonizers have the final say, which creates a blank period for the industries of the colonized countries. This blank period will be maintained until the local industries of the colonial countries reach a bottleneck and have to spread outward.

How long is this period of time? To be precise, it will last until the outbreak of the First World War, that is to say, nearly 300 years.This period of time was the period when the big powers used the wealth and raw materials plundered from the colonies to develop local industries crazily, and the economic gap between the developed and developing countries in later generations was also accumulated during this period.

Originally, this period was monopolized by the European powers who first invented the steam engine, but now, it is Daming who invented the steam engine first. That is to say, now only Daming can fill the blank period of colonial countries in the world. How big is this? Profit, so, not only is Zhu Cijiong not afraid of the rapid increase in cloth production, but he also thinks that the cloth production is not growing fast enough. How much cloth is needed in the global market? People always have to wear clothes!

(End of this chapter)