Wanli Youming

Chapter 424 Industrial Sprouts

Chapter 424 Industrial Sprouts

In the summer of the 13th year of Wanli, a torrential rain turned the south of the Yangtze River into ink and ink.

Lu Shude had no intention of appreciating the misty rain Jiangnan, he only had a gloomy face.

However, the hired workers and farmers in the major cities and towns in the south of the Yangtze River became more idle because of the urgent rain, and went to wine shops and wild shops in twos and threes to have fun.

Only the newly opened village social school and the sound of reading aloud, appearing in the hazy misty rain, make people stop.

Lu Shude also opened his eyebrows after hearing the sound of reading. Although he doesn't like to see people being lazy, he likes to see children study hard and read well.

However, without the sound of the shepherd boy playing the flute, it would be a dissatisfaction for Lu Shude.

Yes.

Lu Shude searched for a long time, but he did not see a shepherd boy playing the flute while hiding from the rain under the thatched hut.

This gave Lu Shude the feeling that all the children in Jiangnan had already entered school.

"If you go back to the public, there are more children studying now than before, and there are indeed fewer children herding cattle for the rich and powerful!"

"Thus, several of our family members and even Master Xiaolian have started to set up private schools, not just to train the children of the clan, but to make money!"

"Who is willing to spend money to send their children to school? The number of villagers is increasing year by year. Especially this year, when the Qing army's enlistment incident broke out, no matter how stubborn people are, they would rather work harder and spend money. Send your children to study for fame!"

"But what makes students a little worried now is that there are more and more people studying here. I'm afraid it will be more difficult for us old Gong students to pass the exam. But we can't stop people from studying, not to mention that we still rely on Teach people's children to seek for rice grains."

When Lu Shude was resting at a post station in Gaoyou, he specifically asked Mao Qide, an old local Gongsheng, and Mao Qide told Lu Shude about the local phenomenon.

Lu Shude nodded after hearing this: "That is to say, the common people are indeed a lot richer because of the New Deal, so it's no wonder that some officials are eager to take advantage of the Qing army's conquest of the army to plunder the people. It is really too much not to allow sergeants to be used in violation of the system and to make the gentry suffer, and it is inevitable that they will give up food because of choking."

"That's what you said!"

"But even if the court doesn't do this, the sergeant is not as easy to use as before!"

Mao Qide sighed.

After hearing this, Lu Shude asked, "How do you say that?"

"Because Mr. Gang Feng mobilized the common people to set up agricultural and industrial cooperatives when Governor Nan Zhi was in charge, now the common people are becoming more and more popular in setting up cooperatives!"

"Among the sergeants, there are also so-called military mutual aid societies. Even the postmen near the post station have mutual aid societies. If the government doesn't pay them and want to serve them directly, they will make trouble. In short, there are more and more thugs, and they even coerce and bully the gentry and scholars. It’s getting less and less respectful.”

Maude replied.

As Mao Qide said, from the first year of Wanli to the present, the reform of the Ming Dynasty has been going on for more than ten years, and it has deepened to change the etiquette and law, and clearly use the national policy of external expansion to benefit the people and enrich the country. The Internet still takes most of the increased cake, but it is still inevitable that the people will also increase their income through various direct and indirect methods.

And when people have money, especially after they are free from the pressure of survival, they will actively pursue the quality of life, respect and freedom of personality, and even more power.

The same is true for the common people, so up to now in Ming Dynasty, individualism has begun to appear.

A large number of ordinary people will pay more attention to themselves, pay more attention to enjoyment, and are more willing to consume and buy all kinds of good goods to satisfy themselves because they have copper coins on their bodies. They are also more willing to read books to pay attention to society and improve their understanding of the world. Officials are not completely afraid anymore.

In addition, the wind of reading has indeed become more prevalent, and people are more willing to spend more money on themselves and their children.

The same is true for the people of Ming Dynasty, especially in the Jiangnan area, a large number of common people's children study, not only men, but also women.

Because the large-scale textile industry and pad dyeing industry have appeared, a large number of female weavers have changed from family production to factory production, coupled with the emergence of better textile machines, all of which require female weavers to have a certain amount of literacy, and Easy to manage.

Therefore, schools have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and private schools for girls have begun to appear.

Lu Shude was also on a tall building, and through the rain curtain, he saw an old layman teaching many girls to read, and for a moment he didn't know whether it should be joy or worry.

originally.

He was happy to see more and more people studying, but he couldn't help thinking that if more and more people read, would the scholars become less and less worthy of respect because of his presumptuous words.

A kind of contradictory psychology spread in Lu Shude's heart, just like he supported the restructuring but couldn't see the reformers such as Shen Shihang becoming more and more arrogant, so that the officials didn't even dare to hear rumors casually. As long as it is found to be false, it will be punished.

of course.

Lu Shude is not the only conflicting official.

Many big gentry households still enjoyed most of the benefits brought by the New Deal reforms because they took advantage of their families’ advantages in knowledge and connections, but they also felt conflicted because the New Deal increasingly challenged their old privileges and status. I don't know whether to criticize the imperial court verbally or sing praises.

Most of the time, they can only compromise. While shyly saying that our emperor is wise and good at governance, they also frantically smear individual officials. In the end, they become anti-power ministers, not against the emperor, and against a specific policy. And no longer negate the entire restructuring direction.

In any case, the increase in people's income has indeed promoted the expansion of the domestic demand market.

Moreover, the fact that the Qing army hooked up the army actually promoted the consumption of the common people, which was a blessing in disguise for the entire Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, this directly leads to a surge in demand for industrial products.

In particular, cotton processing, ceramic smelting, agricultural tools, vehicles, clocks and other equipment manufacturing and mineral development and other industries.

Because the common people need industrial products, and the nobles need handicrafts more, after all, handicrafts can show nobility better.

Therefore, industrial products can lead to mass production, which in turn leads to the emergence of industrialization.

Because handicrafts need artisans with artistic talents, and nobles prefer to spend more money on limited edition handicrafts, they pursue a uniqueness, so even if the handicrafts are exquisite, it is difficult to mass-produce them.

It can be said.

The premise of industrialization is to have a large consumer group of ordinary people, and this group must be able to afford the sale of cheap goods through mass production.

But now, because the reforms in the early years of Wanli have not been interrupted, have been deepening, and have always regarded benefiting the people as important as making the country rich and strong, so the demand for industrial products among the people of Ming Dynasty is increasing day by day.

These non-central disturbing actions of the Qing army and the army have also become a catalyst, catalyzing the consumption of the common people, so that the demand for industrial products surges.

The surge in demand for industrial products also led to the transformation of the handicraft industry into industrialization.

"The order quantity of carriages increased by [-]% yesterday compared to the day before yesterday, but we don't have enough craftsmen. Even if the craftsmen stay up late to work for extra money, the order cannot be completed."

"Look, what should we do?"

Xu Minshi, who was in charge of the official affairs of the Chief Secretary of Yingtian, asked Sun Wei about this matter.

After hearing this, Sun Wei asked: "This is a question, what do you think?"

Xu Minshi thought for a while and said, "The subordinates have a way, which is to recruit more young and strong people who don't know the skills as apprentices, and let them do simple things with the old craftsmen first."

Sun Wei asked: "Too many people will easily leak secrets. The skills of our official car dealership are the new carriages developed by Shaozuka Prime Minister Shen Gong when he was appointed as Ying Tianfu. No matter how jittery! Once this secret is leaked, we may not be able to operate any private businesses."

"The lower officer has also considered this!"

"We can completely let these young and strong people only need part of the skills and only be responsible for part of the production. In this way, even if they want to leak it, they can only leak part of it. In the end, they will not get the point, and they are even not allowed to learn the core part. Only let reliable official craftsmen learn."

Xu Min said.

After hearing this, Sun Wei jumped at the case: "This is a good idea, then issue an order to recruit a group of young and strong students as apprentices, and this school will also ask Ying Tian to set up a government-run mechanical school."

Xu Minshi bowed his hands and said yes.

Therefore, affected by the background of increasing demand for industrial products, even the government-run industries in the Jiangnan area where the commodity economy is developed began to recruit people on a large scale to learn manufacturing technology and strive to achieve larger batches of production. They also had the idea of ​​assembly line production.

Zhu Yijun was also very happy after receiving Sun Wei's playbook: "This Xu Minshi is flexible in thinking, ordered praise, and approved Tianfu's play."

(End of this chapter)