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Chapter 864 Background
Qian Fugui still had quick wit, and immediately told Hauge that he was Hauge's loyal servant, and because of this, the group leader didn't like him very much.Originally, he wanted to withdraw from the group on his own initiative, but he had to go against his will to stay in the group and keep silent so that the group leader would forget about him, so how could he report to the group leader? !
Hauge naturally also knew that the group leader hated the so-called collaborators. When he was still in the group, Qian Fugui was often scolded. Thinking of this, he let Qian Fugui go.However, because Qian Fugui kept telling him some trivial matters in the Ming Dynasty, and now that the crown prince was abolished, he didn't want to listen anymore, so he left Qian Fugui aside.

As a result, Qian Fugui had no way of knowing what happened in Chongzheng Hall in the first place.

Regarding this matter, Emperor Chongzhen also knew about it, and ordered Qian Fugui to act carefully, put safety first, and not deliberately ask for information.Anyway, the focus of this year should be domestic. As for Liaodong, we will continue to station troops and food in Haizhou to put pressure on Jianlu, and wait until there is a good opportunity to talk about it.

On the capital side, whether it is the cabinet or the ceremonial supervisor, the regulations for collecting personal income tax in disguise are still being drafted. Emperor Chongzhen did not intend to wait any longer, so he left Suzhou and went to Nanxun Town, where raw silk is concentrated.

Along the way, the Jiangnan side seems to be more prosperous.As you can see along the road, what is planted on the fields is no longer rice grain, but cash crops such as mulberry cotton, especially mulberry trees.

Regarding these, Emperor Chongzhen had known and understood some of them beforehand.It is nothing more than the fact that the people in the south of the Yangtze River saw that it is more profitable to plant cash crops such as mulberry cotton, so they all changed rice to mulberry. Unlike a TV series in later generations, it was the imperial court's request to change rice to mulberry, but the people's spontaneous behavior.From the end of the [-]th century to the beginning of the [-]th century, the original granary of the Ming Dynasty became a land of food shortage, while Huguang became the granary of the world.That is to say, "cooking in Huguang, enough in the world" replaced the original pattern of "cooking in Suhu, enough in the world".

Among them, Xiangtan is the largest distribution center for rice grains in Hunan, while Hankou is the largest trading market for rice grains in Huguang and Sichuan.Grain is transported down the Yangtze River, and the transportation method is also very simple and convenient.

Of course, Suhu doesn't grow any grain.Generally speaking, the approximate ratio is [-]% to [-]%, that is, [-]% of grain and [-]% of economic crops.

Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about these things while letting the horse trot.Suddenly, I heard Tian Guifei's voice: "Master, it seems that many people are going forward this way, it seems that there is a gathering?"

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen came back to take a look, and asked with a smile: "If there is a chance, just ask."

He knew that Concubine Tian Gui likes to watch the excitement, so he gave a little signal, and naturally a guard in plain clothes left the team and stopped people to ask about the situation.

After a while, the plainclothes Jinyiwei came back and reported: "Master, madam, these people are specialized hired workers. Most of them are veterans in silkworm rearing. They come from all over the world to make money. Some of them are in cotton planting. Veteran, go to a further town."

"Huh?" Emperor Chongzhen was a little puzzled when he heard this, so he looked at the plainclothes Jin Yiwei and hummed.

Or this Jinyiwei plainclothes is not good at this, he was a little nervous, and quickly added: "People in the south of the Yangtze River, whose family background is better, don't do things like silkworm raising and weaving by themselves, they will hire Some familiar hands."

This time, Emperor Chongzhen understood that capitalism had begun to appear in the co-author Jiangnan, and there was a large-scale employment and employment relationship.But thinking about it carefully, it seems normal.Just as landlords do not go to farm in person, rich people will only exploit the fruits of other people's labor in order to obtain greater benefits.

Emperor Chongzhen was very interested in this situation, so he paid more attention to this aspect, and even asked a few people at random in person.The final result was indeed the case.

In this Jiangnan area, some specialized market towns have emerged.There are market towns mainly engaged in the salt industry (Zhoupu Town), oil-extracting towns (Shimen Town), pen industry towns (Shanlian Town), kiln industry towns (Ganjiayao Town), Weaving towns (Weiting Town, Tangshi Town), embroidery towns (Guangfu Town, Xiasha Town), etc.

These cities and towns were not designated by the government, but formed spontaneously due to factors such as geography and transportation.The most distinctive feature is that these towns often form a network effect. For example, one town is specialized in planting mulberry, while the next town is specialized in silkworm rearing, and there is even a town specialized in cultivating silkworm eggs; between these towns , Self-owned merchants communicate with each other.

The advantage of doing this is that each of these towns has a specialty, can choose the best from the best, and has more cost and technical advantages than other places.And these are formed spontaneously by economic development.

And the emergence of this kind of specialization made it difficult for those small-scale farm individual production to make breakthroughs in quantity and quality. They were replaced by specialized methods, and manual workshops characterized by hired labor appeared.This is especially true in weaving machine workshops, training workshops, dyeing workshops, and shaft workshops, where the most labor is employed.

This also led to the emergence of labor markets in various places, such as what Emperor Chongzhen saw now, and rushed to the corresponding places to be hired according to the changes of the seasons.Generally speaking, in the current season, in order to make more money, the employer will pay more wages to the employees, and even entertain them with wine and meat; instead of the seasonal season, not only the money is less, but there is no chance of employment. For money, you can only beg along the street to wait for the coming year.From another point of view, these people are probably the earliest proletarians in Chinese history.

It is also because of these circumstances that the quantity and quality of the goods produced by Daming has always been well-known, crushing all opponents.Indeed, it can be said that in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Ming Dynasty, rural industrialization, that is, early industrialization, had already occurred.

If we can correctly guide these industrial capitals on this basis, ensure the stability of the overall situation, and prevent external forces from interrupting this evolutionary process, maybe the industrialization of Ming Dynasty will be able to proceed smoothly, and with its solid foundation, it will far exceed the industrial revolution in Europe .

In the original history, this process was not only interrupted by Jianlu, but also had no corresponding political and cultural soil.But on this plane, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but secretly said in his heart: "Since I'm here, I will definitely not let Europe surpass Daming!"

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