1230, the beginning of the Ming Industrial Revolution
During this period of turmoil in the capital, many officers and soldiers in the capital camp took the opportunity to sell their military status, positions, and merits.
The emperor didn't know it yet, but his capital camp was once again riddled with holes almost overnight. Those who could fight were all taken away by the Ministry of War, and some opportunists came in instead.
Some of the new people came here because of the good treatment in the Beijing Camp. Some just wanted to get an official position and find a way out for the family's children. These people didn't know how to command a war, let alone the ability to fight.
The people who can be beaten in the Beijing camp are like a flood, they come and go as fast as they come. Almost all the impostors have gone.
Even those who were originally military households in the capital camp, many people were heartbroken.
This time when the army returned to the court, they all lost confidence in the court because of the court's shady operations. Anyway, they all made money, so many people took advantage of this rare opportunity and left the capital camp.
I heard that Uncle Dingyuan is building an industrial development zone and also sells textile machinery. It can double the efficiency of spinning and weaving. Like a flying shuttle, a spinning Jenny, or a hydraulic spinning machine.
Multi-shaft spinning machines and spinning machines have been developed one after another.
Nowadays, it is said that buying machinery and setting up a factory is extremely profitable. Many people are planning to pool their money to set up a textile factory. Nowadays, the safest businesses in Ming Dynasty are related to food, clothing, housing and transportation.
There was always not enough clothing material in the Ming Dynasty, and even the poor could not afford to wear clothes.
Therefore, it is best to work in the textile industry, as there is no need to worry about sales. People have to wear clothes, and dressing comes before eating. People are all creatures with integrity. Wearing clothes is a sign of civilization.
There are also many people who are planning to rent dry land abandoned by big landowners to grow cotton. They have studied and understood that they cannot buy land. One is that the tax is too high and the burden is too heavy. There is also the risk of being robbed by the gentry.
It is most suitable to rent land that has been abandoned due to drought. The rent is so low that some of these dry fields cannot even be harvested for seed grain.
The reason why they dared to rent this was because they had steam engines to pump underground water and turn these dry lands into irrigated lands. The key to this was that Dingyuan Bo opened an equipment rental company and rented water pumps and steam engines to veterans.
They can just pay the rent. The equipment belongs to Uncle Dingyuan.
The first batch of customers are tentatively planned to be these veterans. They will try to gain experience first. As for letting go of other customers, we will wait a few years before talking about it. Yang Fan deliberately supports these veterans so that they can complete their primitive accumulation.
In this case, they are not afraid of landlords raising land rents.
If the landowner sees that they have made money this year and wants to increase the land rent, he will move the steam engine and water pump away and rent other wasteland. There is a lot of wasteland. Without the water pump, these wastelands will immediately return to their original shape.
Anyway, God has not given me enough food to eat these years, it just doesn’t rain. It doesn’t rain every year.
It would be even more impossible if the landlords tried to seize and seize their equipment. Because the equipment belonged to Uncle Dingyuan, they were renting it. These gentry and landlords were so bold that they dared to seize and seize Uncle Dingyuan's equipment, unless
They are crazy.
As a result, these officers and soldiers from the Beijing camp who had obtained the money quit the army and invested their funds in business.
Some of them set up logistics companies. Some rented land to grow cotton and cash crops. Some set up spinning mills and weaving factories. Some even set up garment factories. After all, Xinghe Supermarket and the newly emerged Xinghe Department Store
Both sell ready-made garments. They place orders with garment factories.
The reason why Yang Fan chose to set up an industrial zone in Beitangkou is because it is connected to trains, is close to the seaport and Ji Canal, and is also very close to Dagukou and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
The industrial zone is actually developed and constructed on the saline-alkali land between Dagukou and Beitangkou.
There are currently mainly seafood processing factories and textile factories. There are also some metal tool processing factories. They buy steel raw materials from Zunhua and process them into tools, farm tools, knives, etc. here. The products here can be sold through canals and seaports.
All over the Ming Dynasty.
And there is another advantage here, that is, you don’t have to pay taxes.
None of the wealthy businessmen in the Ming Dynasty paid taxes. Naturally, Yang Fan also didn't pay taxes. If Yang Fan paid taxes, wouldn't he become a target of public criticism? Yang Fan would not do such a stupid thing without thinking.
Yang Fan believes that new industries should be mainly supported, which will naturally reduce the burden, so the burden must be reduced.
Yang Fan's investment policy is particularly good. First of all, the factory land and factory buildings have been built, and the rent starts from five years. The first two years are free of rent, and the third year is half of the rent. After that, you can just pay the rent normally.
Xinghe Bank also provides loans to help factories solve the problem of insufficient liquidity.
There is no need for physical mortgage. You can use shares as mortgage, or apply for liquid inventory supervision mortgage. The advanced financial methods of later generations have also been introduced.
In short, Yang Fan is currently supporting these small and micro enterprises. Since the exchange in Beijing opened last year, when these enterprises become large-scale, they can go public and raise funds.
Now, many gentry and officials in the Ming Dynasty have realized the necessity of investment. They gradually began to take out their hoards of silver to buy stocks and invest in industries they were optimistic about.
More than a dozen stocks that were listed last year all paid dividends of more than 30% at the end of the year. This immediately caused a trend of investing in stocks. Although the government's finances were still so bad, private silver circulation began to gradually improve.
Now, as the first batch of textile factories have begun operations, the price of textiles has suddenly dropped.
The human-powered hand spinning machine with 80 spindles produced by Xincheng Textile Machinery Factory increased the spinning efficiency eight times. It then greatly reduced the price of veils. This made the weaving in the north lower than that in the south for the first time.
s price.
This directly squeezed Jiangnan cloth out of the Beizhili market.
The northern market is so hungry that as long as cloth comes out, it will be bought by sellers as soon as possible, so the factory has no worries about sales.
After the large-scale output of cloth, printing and dyeing workshops also appeared on a large scale in the development zone. They would print and dye the gray cloth from the factory into finished cloth, and then sell it to various places.
In this small place at the mouth of the Haihe River, a revolution is brewing that will change the entire Ming Dynasty, and may even change the entire world.
At this time, in Ningyuan, there was a person with a frown on his face. He looked at the sea map in front of him and was worried.
Yuan Chonghuan had made no achievements in the two years since he took office, and Liaodong had not recovered an inch of land. At this time, the emperor began to gradually lose patience.
The resources the court invested in him were several times that of Yang Fan. But Uncle Dingyuan took care of everything in the north. It is said that most of the military expenses were recovered. The emperor spent 3.5 million taels and got back 3.5 million taels.
One million taels.
Such a comparison shows that he is becoming increasingly embarrassed.
"Sir, Master He is here." His chief follower Yuan Gang came in to report.
Yuan Chonghuan sighed, this and He Kegang are really pressing each other step by step.