The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 100 The Birth of an Oligarch

"The common people use 45 dan of firewood a year, but only [-] dan of coal, and the briquette has a long firepower, which can also solve the problem of ordinary people using hot water."

"Smelting one hundred catties of iron requires only fifty catties of coking coal, and one hundred catties of coal can burn sixty catties of coking coal."

"If charcoal is used, [-] catties of firewood are needed to refine one hundred catties of iron."

"People can't afford it, and iron factories can't sell it. Coal is not restricted, and you can have as much as you want. So coke will definitely replace charcoal."

Fireplaces have appeared in the West for a long time, but they have never been widely promoted until the early days of the Industrial Revolution.

With the advent of the convenience of coal, people all use coal.

With the development of the city, a large number of new houses have been built to meet the growing population. The new houses are basically equipped with new stoves and chimneys, so that coal can replace wood as the main fuel.

Large quantities of coal from Northumberland and Durham were shipped to the East Coast to supply London homes and factories.

Compared with population growth, is Britain fighting Ming Dynasty?

In terms of the wealthy class, Britain is even more inferior to Ming Dynasty.

The coal mining industry in Beiping City alone, along with private coal and industrial coal, will have an annual output value exceeding 100 million taels of silver.

What about Shandong.

Shandong is six times the population of Beiping, and it is a blank market.

This is only a relatively primitive stage. When the economy is driven, the prosperity of the market will follow, and it will expand exponentially.

Zhu Di couldn't help but breathe harder.

He has already seen the white money piled up in Yan Wang's mansion.

"Boss, how did you plan?" Zhu Di was a little excited, and his blood was a little hot.

What kind of coal mine owner, what kind of relationship network.

As long as you take it seriously, it's a fart!
Zhu Di couldn't help touching his chin.

"After my son takes control of the coal industry, he will bring down the total value of the coal industry. He will not be able to earn so much money."

"Cough...cough."

Zhu Di was caught off guard and was almost suffocated by his own breath.

What do you mean?
"Boss, do you look down on yellow and white things?" Zhu Di could only think so.

Where in the world does this make sense!
Don't make money if you have money, have a grudge against money?
"Father, making money is not the purpose of our father and son. Money is only a means of our governance. How can we reverse the order."

Zhu Gaochi retorted.

This sentence is correct, Zhu Di is not a mediocre person, he was not blinded by money, so he calmed down and listened carefully to his son's explanation.

Now he has no objection to his eldest son's attack on the coal industry.

Under the scale of the previous coal field, the output was small.

It can make up for the fuel shortage of the people, so the government is laissez-faire and supports, and Zhu Di also understands this economic truth.

But today is different.

According to the boss, the coal mining industry has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it can no longer be viewed from the perspective of the past.

How many miners are needed to meet the output that the boss said?
Since such a large force will emerge under the rule, and it is still a miner, it would be foolish to sit idly by.

Zhu Gaochi pondered.

The reason why I did the opposite.

Because with the advent and promotion of several core technologies, the transformation of all walks of life and the step-by-step development will take 150 to 200 years to reach the level of the first industrial revolution.

Although I have exercised, if it is still the same as history, the original owner is not a long-lived person.

To be conservative, if you plan to reach this level in 30 years, you can only come up with outside moves.

What is an off-board move?
The experience of later nations.

For all kinds of energy, push the price to the extreme.

Without cheap energy in society, where can there be prosperity in the market.

Looking at the past from the present, if you want to achieve your own goals, you must create extremely cheap fuel, and produce low-priced coal that does not conform to the natural laws of things.

This is also a summary of experience in the industrial revolution.

The consequence is that all walks of life don't have to adapt, and all of a sudden use coal as fuel, which has promoted great progress.

It is equivalent to accelerating the process of the industrial revolution.

To meet the current situation of Beiping City, isn't the total output value of the coal industry 100 million taels of silver?

I regard 100 million taels as a horizontal line.

This involves the allocation of social resources, not only to ensure the interests of coal owners and miners, but also to keep the price of coal low and promote all walks of life.

However.

I'm afraid the coal bosses in Daming will not be willing.

You can earn money lying down, so why do you have to work hard to make money.

The solution is to control them when they are still weak, otherwise, when they grow up, I am afraid they will not be able to do so.

"The cost of the steam engine, the amount of iron used for all the parts is about 100 catties. In the model of the steam engine factory, at the beginning, the cost was [-] taels."

"Last month, with the increase in production capacity and the stability of the production line, the latest cost has dropped to 70 taels, and the profit of each steam engine is as high as 230 taels."

"The manpower and production capacity of the coke refinery are no less than that of the steam engine factory, but the monthly benefits are not even one-tenth of that of the steam engine factory."

"Raw materials are always raw materials. Working on raw materials is worse than working on industrial products."

Hearing the eldest son's explanation, Zhu Di did not agree.

Zhu Di retorted: "You can manufacture industrial products, and you don't need to lower the price of coal. It's just a matter of hating the coal mine owners. Isn't it just something out of nothing?"

Zhu Gaochi shook his head.

"What my son means is that if he earns money, he can make industrial products, such as steam engines, and soap. Soap is a better thing than saponins."

"However, there are some industries that cannot make money, such as the iron factory that my son is building."

Zhu Di couldn't help laughing.

The world is full of goodwill, and the world is all good.

Seeing his father's attitude, Zhu Gaochi also smiled.

This is the ignorance of the transformation of the mode of production.

The industrial revolution is a revolution in technology, which has changed the mode of production. With the development of the times, there has been a higher understanding of the way of change.

Just like the price of some commodities, such as energy or food.

"For a catty of pig iron, the folk price is one cent and six cents per catty, and the amount of iron used by ordinary people in Beibei is 80 taels of silver."

"My son wants to double the output, keep the total output value unchanged, and lower the price of pig iron to less than [-] yuan per catty. Then we need to lower the price of fuel."

"Let the common people use iron more and more in their daily life."

"Iron farm tools are more efficient than wooden farm tools. Even the construction of ditches that my father cares about, everyone has a sharp tool. Doesn't it save the people's labor and reduce the suffering of the common people?"

"Even if it only increases the crop yield by [-]%, it is an immeasurable material."

"Besides, the price of iron has become cheaper and the output has increased. The government can also collect more ironware from the people to increase the armor rate of the army, or build a few more full-body armor troops."

"Isn't it impossible to even lay a layer of iron plates on the warship, so that we can bump into whoever we see on the water in the future."

"That's what you said."

The last sentence of the boss, Zhu Di thought it was a joke.

But he already recognized it in his heart.

Not only because of the boss's explanation just now, but also because of what the boss has done these days, and he has not made any mistakes so far.

The benefits are also visible.

"How are you going to control the coal industry?"

"To establish a Beiping Mining Association, all mine owners in Beiping must join and abide by the Mining Association's charter."

"Why do people listen to you?"

"It's a method to reduce ten meetings with one force, but as you said, there is no perfect method in the world. Your uncle just uses force to suppress others, and he will be mistaken in the end."

Zhu Di thought that Zhu Gaochi would use the name of King Yan's Mansion to oppress coal mine owners.

Although this is a method, the consequences are too great.

"How could it be? My son has always followed the rules. He doesn't know how to overturn the table, so he naturally responded with business methods." Zhu Gaochi said with a smile, "We will never oppress anyone who doesn't follow the rules."

"Only using business means, are you someone's opponent? With your identity, others dare not disobey you in front of you, but what are you afraid to do behind your back?"

Zhu Di became curious, and wondered what weird method the boss had come up with.

Zhu Gaochi said to himself: "The steam engine belongs to the palace. If you sell it to someone or not, do you still need other people's consent? It doesn't make sense."

"Don't think about the steam engine, you have to return what you bought."

"The briquette was also invented by my son. Although various companies are allowed to imitate it, the premise is that the ownership of the briquette still belongs to us. The briquette workshop is not allowed to purchase coal from this mine."

"It's all my son's stuff. If you buy it and sell it to someone else, can you still force us? Is there such a bully?"

"There is also coke. The coke used in the entire iron smelting industry in the future will be produced by the coke refinery. If you don't listen to us, who will the coal mine owner sell the coal to?"

After Zhu Gaochi finished speaking, Zhu Di in front of him was completely stunned, his eyes were in a daze.

a long time.

Zhu Di was surprised: "Could it be that before you invented the steam engine, there was briquette, and the coke refinery had already thought so long?"

"This is the advantage brought by technology. Whoever masters the technology will have the right to speak in the industry. It is not a conspiracy."

Just like the coke refinery, a key link in this industrial chain is equivalent to controlling the fuel.

The cost of the workshop, how can you beat the factory?
Take the output of one blast furnace as an example, how many workshops and flat kilns are needed to achieve it.

With the low price of coke, not only can it beat charcoal, but it can also crush the surrounding coke workshops.

The monopoly of coke is not only a means for Zhu Gaochi to control the downstream coal industry, but also laid a solid foundation for him to run the Litie Plant.

Some industries need to be developed by the people, and some industries need to be controlled by the imperial court. There are sayings and particularities.

Everyone has to abide by his rules.

Don't talk about power over others, but simply force people to bow their heads as an industry oligarch, who would dare to refuse?He holds the rice bowl of each family.

Zhu Di couldn't turn the corner.

These things, the boss said one by one, it is relatively simple to hear, but why they are put together, he is a little confused.

And how did the boss come up with it?

Let's say the boss is smart, but some aspects are mediocre.

Is this what the ancients said no one is perfect?

(End of this chapter)