Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 81 Ten Major Industries and Nanyang Colonization

Wu Dunyuan, Lu Jiguang, Pan Shaoguang and other thirteen merchants heard this.

His eyes just stared at King Zhu Daming.

All it takes is a word from King Zhu Daming, and the merchants of these thirteen lines will rush to Zhu Ming to be the comprador of the imperial merchant.

Collusion between officials and businessmen?

This has been the case since ancient times.

In fact, being an imperial merchant is kneeling down to give money to the emperor and officials.

Just like this, how many people want to kneel but can't.

However, King Zhu Ming obviously has his own ideas about business.

The collusion between officials and businessmen in the Qing Dynasty basically means that the court treats businessmen as fat pigs, and only one or two heads are fattened up.

The tax revenue of the Qing Dynasty was equivalent to more than 1000 million pounds, while the current fiscal revenue of the British Empire was almost [-] million pounds.

However, although there were frequent wars in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court was very sophisticated, and they could maintain financial balance by slaughtering fat pigs.

However, the British Empire has a fiscal revenue of nearly [-] million pounds, but it has been heavily indebted in previous foreign wars.

Both countries are government-business collusion.

The difference lies in whether it is official-based or business-based.

Boss Zhu didn't answer the emperor's words, but turned to ask Wu Dunyuan.

"Loyalty, what are the main export commodities in Guangdong?"

"It's mainly porcelain from Foshan, tea from northeastern Guangdong, eastern Guangdong, and southern Fujian, and raw silk from Jiangnan." Wu Dunyuan said,

"Can you still buy raw silk from Jiangnan?"

"Why can't it? As long as there is still open trade, the raw silk from Jiangnan can only be sold to Guangdong."

"Otherwise, how will the food and clothing of the tens of millions of mulberry and silkworm farmers in the south of the Yangtze River be settled?"

After Wu Dunyuan finished speaking, Zhu Daohua nodded.

under the previous trade model.

Jiangnan is the upper reaches of the industrial chain. It grows mulberry and raises silkworms to make raw silk, which is then sold to merchants in Guangdong and exported overseas through Western merchants.

"However, now that the Guangzhou port has belonged to the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Qing Dynasty should open another port for foreign trade in Fujian, Songjiang Prefecture and other places." Lu Jiguang said.

"If the king doesn't let them open it, they won't be able to open it!"

Zhu Daohua waved his hand and said.

The Strait of Malacca blocked Western merchants west of the Strait of Malacca.

Raw silk for export in Jiangnan can only be sold to Guangdong.

Otherwise, those farmers and landlords in the south of the Yangtze River who planted mulberry and raised silkworms would have to go bankrupt.

Guangdong and Jiangnan are the two pockets of the Qing court.

Guangdong is lost, if Jiangnan is in chaos again.

The Qing Dynasty could not afford it.

"Apart from porcelain, tea, and raw silk, are there any other industries that are competitive in the international market?"

Zhu Daohua asked.

The merchants looked at each other.

Finally they shook their heads.

"Your Majesty, in the past two to three hundred years, China has exported only these industries. What other industries can we do?"

"That's not acceptable." Zhu Daohua shook his head again and again.

"Porcelain, tea, and raw silk are good, but relying on these industries alone will not be able to absorb too many employed people."

"Employed population?"

Everyone present was taken aback by King Zhu Ming's out-of-the-ordinary thinking.

Didn't you ask what kind of business to make money from?

How did it transfer to what employment population?
For King Zhu Ming.

How much money an industry can make is of secondary importance. The key is how many industrial workers the industry can transform.

After all, the employment issue is the top priority for the government.

The 800 million people in Guangdong are just 800 million mouths waiting to be fed.

in history.

The two hundred years of fighting between the local people and the people in Guangxi and Guangxi is the embodiment of the extreme sharpness of the conflict between people and land.

If Zhu Mingwang does not develop industries to absorb employment.

The 800 million people in Guangdong, and the [-] million people in China in the future, are about to fall into the curse of that horrible cycle of chaos again.

Therefore, one of the goals of developing large-scale industry is to absorb a large number of people to become industrial workers, liberate the population from the land, and solve the current sharp contradiction between man and land.

"That's right, the land in Cantonese is densely populated, or in other words, the entire Han land, including Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangnan, and the Central Plains, is densely populated and narrow. The per capita arable land is even less than three acres. In such a situation, if it were not for the high-yield crops in North and South America Introduced, this Qing Dynasty has long been full of hungry people and wars everywhere." Zhu Daohua shook his head and said.

"What your majesty said is that even now, the people here are all sallow and emaciated, and most of them are barely eating enough."

"Three percent full, seven percent hungry. If it weren't for this, why would we Cantonese go to Nanyang to make a living at the risk of beheading?"

Zhu Daohua talked about this.

Luo Fangbo and others were quite touched.

This is Nanyang to make a living.

But they were all forced out.

If you can live comfortably in your hometown, who is willing to risk your life to travel to Nanyang.

"So, if we want to solve this problem, we can only do it in two ways. The first is to colonize and transfer the excessive population out to occupy a good place in the world with few people and fertile land. You will all belong to the new Ming Dynasty in the future. Merit and honor, if there are hungry people all over the country, what you nobles are doing is probably not safe."

After Zhu Daohua finished speaking, everyone present nodded their heads.

"However, if you want to colonize, you must have strength. Where is the strength? In this era, I think it is big industry! Industrialization, business prosperity. The government has money, the army has good equipment, and the market can prosper. It can afford to support more troops, open up more colonies, and at the same time absorb more people into industrial and commercial industries, alleviating the pressure on arable land.”

Zhu Daohua snapped his fingers and said, "In the future, Guangdong will focus on the development of the ten major industries of iron and steel, shipbuilding, shipping, mineral mining, tea, silk weaving, sugar refining, and pharmaceuticals!"

Most of these top ten industries are related to export.

At present, Guangdong's industry and commerce is an export-oriented economy that relies on exports.

Rely on export to stimulate industry and commerce, export porcelain, tea, silk, and import silver and precious metals.

But under the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

Business is the end of the business.

Import and export trade is strictly restricted.

Merchants were not allowed to trade at sea, and were not allowed to build large ships with two masts or more. The so-called Thirteen Banks were not traders who went to sea, but only as agents between foreign merchants and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the nobles of the Eight Banners, that is, compradors.

"These ten industries will all receive policy support from the Ming Palace, including building factories, recruiting workers, preferential export tariffs, and technical support."

Zhu Daohua looked at the merchants of the Thirteenth Bank and said with a smile.

"This industry and commerce, to put it bluntly, is to have industries. For example, sugar production, sugar cane must be planted upstream, middlemen buy sugar cane, and then squeeze white sugar to produce finished products, and then export and distribute. This is an industrial chain. In this industrial chain In the world, sugarcane plantations, distributors, sugar factories, exporters, and the workers employed in them can make a living in this industrial chain, and it will also promote the development of industries such as logistics, shipping, and shipbuilding. The imperial court It can also get tax revenue from it, and it can absorb a large number of people to relieve the pressure on the land, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.”

Zhu Daohua's words cheered up the merchants present.

This is the process of establishing an industry. After the establishment of an industrial chain, the employment and tax revenue that can be driven are quite considerable.

White sugar has always been an advantageous industry in Guangdong, but the white sugar industry has shrunk significantly in recent years due to the sea ban policy. The remaining white sugar industry has also been monopolized by the imperial merchants and government merchants from the north, and it is exclusively for the domestic market.

"Your Majesty, among the ten major industries you mentioned, the other nine industries can be developed in Guangdong, and all of them have a certain foundation. However, Guangdong does not produce much pharmaceuticals, does it?"

"Yeah, if you want to say that the Chinese medicinal materials are better from Fujian and Yunnan."

A group of merchants were beaming with excitement, discussing in a hurry.

It made Gu Song, Qian Heng and other Confucian scholars sitting in the other row look a little unhappy.

The majestic king of a country.

Go and discuss how to make money with a group of businessmen at such an important meeting.
This is really a bit. It's not outrageous.

But he didn't dare to interrupt the discussion between King Zhu Ming and Xingshangmen.

After all, the situation of the new Ming Dynasty was opened by King Zhu Ming, and the majesty of the founding king still exists.

"I'm afraid you don't know. When I was in Europe, this king was a well-known doctor in Europe. I still know a thing or two about this medicine."

Knowing a thing or two is of course modesty.

If Boss Zhu is willing, he can get penicillin for you.

But what Boss Zhu is making now is not penicillin.

But allicin.

Allicin is also a broad-spectrum bactericide.

The biggest difficulty in colonizing Nanyang is malaria, gastroenteritis, dysentery and other diseases caused by the climate and sanitary conditions of Nanyang.

In the era of lack of fungicides.

These diseases are enough to kill more than half of the colonists.

In fact, don't look at how comfortable Europeans are in modern times.

People actually risked their lives to colonize.

And allicin, a bactericidal drug, can greatly reduce the death caused by these bacterial infections!
It is definitely the magic medicine of this era.

Boss Zhu intends to produce this medicine on a large scale. First, he will make a name for himself in Guangdong's pharmaceutical industry. In the future, he will be able to continue to expand the product line, expand production, and monopolize the world's pharmaceutical industry.

He has the signboard of the greatest doctor of this century.

These real life-saving medicines will definitely be popular all over the world.

"Everyone, please take a look, this is the medicine refined by this king, and it can be regarded as a cure for all diseases."

Zhu Daohua distributed the allicin packaged in porcelain bottles to everyone.

Allicin, a broad-spectrum bactericidal drug, can indeed be called a cure-all in this era.

"Everyone can take it home to see the effect. Whether it is a cold patient, dysentery or malaria, it can be treated quickly."

"There are other medicines?"

"Then how much should this be sold for?"

"What's the name of this medicine?"

Everyone was surprised.

"This medicine is called life-extending water." Zhu Daohua smiled.

Life extension water, why don't you buy a few more bottles?

Moreover, it was created by King Ming, but whoever was saved by this medicine must not thank King Ming for his great kindness?
"With this blockbuster product, Guangdong's pharmaceutical industry has great potential!"

Allicin must be produced on a large scale.

Otherwise, the establishment of semi-military plantations in Nanyang will be filled with human lives.

King Zhu Ming is a doctor after all.

He can't be so cruel.

Instead, with allicin.

It is not too dangerous to go to Nanyang to make a living and establish plantations one by one.

In this way, the cost of large-scale colonization will be reduced to a minimum.

"Everyone, if you want to gain a foothold in the international market, you don't rely on the monopoly of the imperial merchants, but on industries, truly competitive industries!!"

"Only by establishing a competitive industrial chain and producing products with enough competitiveness can we go abroad and make a lot of money."

Zhu Daohua concluded.

He stood up.

"Masters. This king is different from Qianlong. This king was born as a businessman. The military expenditure for the revival of Ming Dynasty comes from industry and commerce. Therefore, this king does not despise industry and commerce. This industry and commerce will also become the foundation of my Ming dynasty."

As soon as this word comes out.

Gu Song, Zhao Wen, Xue Siyuan and others all changed their expressions slightly.

Since ancient times, agriculture has been the foundation and industry and commerce have been the end.

Zhu Daohua turned to look at the crowd.

"Agriculture and industry and commerce are not opposed to each other, but should be adapted to local conditions and promote each other. Cantonese people are densely populated and the land is narrow. If industry and commerce are further suppressed and 800 million people are huddled in this mere area of ​​Guangdong, this will be a burial for future generations. The next big bomb is bound to explode sooner or later."

Several Confucian scholars present looked at each other.

King Zhu Ming's words were obviously meant for them.

Zhao Wen hesitated to speak.

"Yuan Jin, but it doesn't matter." Zhu Daohua said with a smile as he called Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen looked around and said, "Your Majesty only said that industry and commerce can absorb the population and ease the pressure on the land, but the total amount of land remains the same. Industry and commerce such as pharmaceuticals and sugar production need to consume land to grow medicinal materials and sugar cane. In this way , where does the food that millions of people eat come from?"

Hearing these words, the Confucian scholars nodded repeatedly.

It is not without reason that Confucianism emphasizes agriculture.

Most of the civil strife in the past dynasties originated from the hungry people who could not eat enough.

Whether the food is sufficient or not is related to the stability of the country.

However, the current situation seems unreasonable in Guangdong, where there is a surplus of labor force.

Thinking of this, Zhu Daohua nodded and said, "Everyone's concerns are also my king's concerns. Therefore, it is even more important to promote commerce and exchange the commodities of Guangdong for the food needed by Guangdong. The rice in the Nanyang Islands can be grown three times a year, plus Annan, Siam and other places are the main rice producing areas, and their rice production is no less than that of Huguang, and even exceeds it.”

"The rice grains that Guangdong needs can be obtained from Nanyang trade."

"Moreover, in the future, the king will also set up a plantation in Nanyang with guards as the unit, and produce rice, rubber, sugar cane and other things according to local conditions, so there is no need to worry about food shortages."

The population of Borneo and Java Island in later generations is almost hundreds of millions.

Such a small area can support so many people, relying on the local good water and heat conditions, which can produce a large amount of rice.

Therefore, if Guangdong, which is next to Nanyang, lacks rice, it is really a joke.

Speaking of it.

King Zhu Ming stood up.

"Furthermore, the land of Nanyang is the area that my Ming army can influence and cover. If there is a shortage of rice in Guangdong, this king can personally raise a large army to plunder the grain of Nanyang and support the people of Guangdong!"

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