The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 162 The Controlling Plan of the Forty Guards
Office.

The compartment is the waiting room. Li Qi sat in the waiting room cautiously. There was a cup of hot tea on the table. He didn't drink it, but quietly looked outside.

There is a side of transparent glass, which is said to be a product of the R&D department, and Li Qi can see the profit of this thing at a glance.

However, this product is not on the list, indicating that the main factory will organize its own factory.

In the past six months, the research and development department has heard that the results are gratifying.

There are things called chemical fertilizers whose efficacy is unknown, and new commodities such as coal black, asphalt, and cement, many of which are already in the practical stage and will soon be put into production.

Mei Hei is a colleague of the foreign cabinet. He traded with merchants in the south in Tianjin and placed an order of more than one thousand catties in total.

This item is expensive, and most of the merchants in Beiping prefecture buy it with taels, and the merchants in the south are rich and powerful.

Sure enough, the south is rich, but unfortunately, the development plan of the main factory has been suspended even in Shandong, and it is not known when it will be restarted.

But these were none of his business, he left the outer cabinet.

There are many opportunities in the outer cabinet, and you can make a lot of money. Last year, he earned 80 taels of silver in the outer cabinet.

80 taels a year. If the main factory starts the Shandong market plan, he is confident that it will be doubled, but he has a higher pursuit.

Through the glass, he looked at the clerical room.

The documents in the study room all come from the guard. I heard that the three people recruited recently are the servants of the guard, that is, the children of thousands of families.

The document room has doubled in size, with eight long tables, and an entire reference room next door, where the charter papers provided by each factory are placed in an orderly manner for filing.

After arranging a stack of papers, the young secretary opened a yellow cover with a crease in the middle, put the stack of sorted papers in, and then closed the yellow cover.

Pick up a brush and write down on the yellow cover, Hongwu 26th August [-]th, July production and sales of the general factory.

It contains the materials provided by various factories and workshops, and the collection is not too thin. The document is carried to the reference room next door and filed into the warehouse.

Li Qi looked away. Although he didn't know what the clerk was busy with, everyone looked capable.

The study room is the closest place to the little prince. There are more than [-] guards in Beiping, so many children rushed to come in.

In the meeting room next door.

There was a fierce dispute between Ma Lin and Xu Ning, but Ma Lin ignored him. He was recommended by Xu Ning, and he knew that Xu Ning would not care.

The two are smart people, they knew that fighting for reason in front of the young prince would not only not make the young prince angry, but would actually increase the young prince's impression of the two.

"Under Xu Ning's dispatch, the railway project has won a huge victory, and many sections have been successfully opened to traffic." Ma Lin flattered Xu Ning.

Xu Ning snorted, knowing what Marin would say next, and interrupted directly: "Although this year's construction plan has been completed seventy-eight out of ten, next year's construction plan will be doubled, and the railway engineering team needs more manpower."

It has been eight months since the railway project started at the beginning of the year, and the progress is neither fast nor slow, but it was completed on schedule.

It has been proposed next year to extend the state capitals on the basis of this year's main line.

There are seven counties and four prefectures in Beiping alone.

Daxing County, Wanping County, Liangxiang County, Changping County, Shunyi County, Miyun County, Huairou County, Tongzhou and its subordinate Huo County, Jizhou and its subordinate Pinggu County, Zhuozhou and its subordinate Fangshan County
Northern Parallel Province has eight prefectures, 37 states, and 130 six counties.

"According to the new plan, the 37 states of North Parallel Province and some counties with large populations in some state capitals will be covered next year. The manpower of the railway engineering team cannot be reduced."

In front of Xu Ning, Ma Lin fell into a disadvantage, so he looked at everyone with a bitter face and played the bitterness card.

"The construction plans of the outer cabinet factories cannot be completed with the current construction capacity of the engineering team, and more workers need to be recruited."

Xu Ning is old, but the current income of the railway is flat, and he can only support himself, not making profits for the main factory.

Engineering teams are different.

Relying on projects in the private sector, such as new coal stoves, orders from the honeycomb coal chamber of commerce to build and renovate workshops, as well as orders from princes, government offices, and big households, plus scattered small projects.

The profit of the engineering team last year was more than [-] taels of silver, so Marin had the confidence to compete with Xu Ning.

The two expressed their opinions, and then the rest of the shopkeepers also made demands.

foreseeable.

With the advancement of the [-]-factory plan, the demand for labor will rise in a straight line, and these productivity will create huge wealth.

In short, the economic theory of increased per capita income.

In traditional agricultural society, food is the main commodity, while industrial society expands the exchange of other commodities and commodities to create greater value.

People cannot live without food, but money can not only buy food.

One tael of silver and two stones of grain, a family of five, consumes five taels of silver a year to satisfy their stomachs, and the rest of the silver is used for more needs.

Clothing, furniture, agricultural tools, civilian supplies, etc.

For example, one tael of silver for a pot, one tael of silver you get, you can buy a set of clothes, and one tael of silver you get for clothes, you can buy another pot, and the silver for one pot can buy another set of clothes repeatedly.

Industry exploits the remaining resources of the land: iron ore, coal, copper, gold, silver, lime, marble . . .

With the development of technology, all kinds of rare ores, gas mines, liquid mines have begun to be consumed...

Therefore, scholars of later generations pointed out that Western countries imitated the British Industrial Revolution, failed technically, and succeeded only after imitating the production model.

Because coal is the most efficient land resource in today's era, what is needed is coal-related technology.

Start with coal and promote all walks of life.

"Can you relax the restrictions on recruitment and switch to recruiting private households?" Zhou Shifeng suggested.

Zhu Gaochi shook his head.

The factory currently recruits mainly military households, not just to strengthen the palace's control over military households.

"Compared to military households, civilian households have fewer restrictions. The wages they earn and their savings are easier to transfer to buying land."

"Military households are different from civilian households. They have restrictions on their status in purchasing land, which will prompt them to use the money for consumption."

An ordinary military household cannot do without the guard, and his identity is not qualified to annex fields, unless he is a general.

However, the system in the early Ming Dynasty had not yet collapsed, and the military field was not something that generals could occupy at will.

The military household system indirectly restricted military households from buying land.

A military worker earns 18 taels of silver a year to feed his family, and only needs five taels of silver.

Then the extra 13 taels of silver can be used for consumption.

Ten thousand military workers can create a consumer market of 13 taels of silver every year.

One hundred thousand military workers cost 130 million taels of silver.

130 million taels of silver are put into the market and circulated, and the production value created will be several times that of 130 million taels of silver.

If it is an ordinary household, they will save 13 taels of silver to buy fields, which is not worth the loss for economic development.

Of course, the development of things is not so simple, and private households will also consume.

The total number of employees of China Heavy Industry has exceeded 5000. If the employment of coal mines and briquettes is included, the total number may exceed 4 or [-].

For the other tens of thousands of workers, their wages are not as good as those of China Heavy Industry, but they will also generate consumption.

It's just that Zhu Gaochi needs a market at present, so he naturally gives priority to military households.

This is a social resource allocation problem.

Later generations restricted field transactions, and even minimized the profits of field transactions, making people unprofitable, similar to this economic theory.

There is no upper limit to industry. The more people involved, the more goods will be produced, unlike land crops that have restrictions.

Then the benefits brought by it exceed that of agriculture, and the wages earned by workers are far from comparable to farming.

And workers can use the silver exchanged through commodity trade to buy the grain harvested by farmers from the land.

This pattern leads to industrial value exceeding agricultural value, indicating an unequal exchange of industrial and agricultural product values, which can be called scissors difference.

"The issue of employment still starts with military households."

Zhu Gaochi emphasized: "In the past, the poor households were recruited from the guards, which solved the poverty problem of the guards. Now they can recruit retired military households instead."

"The retired military households are too old, will it affect the factory?" Zhou Shifeng quickly thought of the problem and raised concerns.

"Then let the guards lower the retirement age, and all military households over 40 years old in the army will retire, and it can even be lowered to 35 years old."

"Unless they are elites, or low-level military officers, ordinary soldiers, the limit is 35 years old, quit the army, the factory accepts them, and provides a stable and high-paying job."

This method has aroused people's conversation.

The in-depth integration of China Heavy Industry and military households makes people here familiar with military households.

"This move is good for the military."

Xu Ning agreed aloud.

He is in charge of the railway engineering team, and has dealt with the guard from top to bottom, and even has friendship with the commander.

Xu Ning gave an example: "The army can recruit more young people, and the retired middle-aged people have a calm personality and the discipline retained by the army, which fully meets the employment requirements of the factory."

"It not only solved the problem of factory employment, but also improved the combat effectiveness of the army, and finally resettled retired military households."

The labor requirements of heavy industry are different.

Zhu Gaochi is very sure that people between the ages of 35 and 40 have more serious personalities, have a clear understanding of reality, know what they want, and have superior and stable jobs.

They are willing to fight for this long-term job and pass it on to the next generation.

The front line that is suitable for the environment of heavy industry workshops, rather than Internet companies like later generations, needs young people under the age of 35.

There are 23 guards in the capital of Beiping, and [-] guards in the capital of Beiping, not counting the independent defense post, forty guards in total.

The 22 households are responsible for farming and providing troops, and they must be self-sufficient.

Each household provides one Zheng Ding, which is 22 people, and one more Yu Ding, that is more than 40 troops.

So Zhu Di launched the Northern Expedition in Beiping, bringing out more than ten and 20 troops at every turn.

Because manpower is too abundant, in Zhu Gaochi's view, it is a waste of manpower.

It is better to use the material resources needed by more than [-] people to build a cavalry team of [-]. Elite soldiers, armor and weapons are more invincible than relying on the accumulation of numbers.

In the past, agriculture could not provide long-term support, but with industry, it can.

(End of this chapter)