Chapter 2007 Islands and Exports

Jia She’s death was both mourning and Dai Xiao’s death. It took more than two months of tossing around before the two houses completely stopped.

Taking advantage of this time, Jia Lian, Jia Baoyu, and Jia Rong’s uncle and nephew have already started experiments in Wang Xifeng’s dowry house.

The industrial revolution requires the accumulation of talents, trial and error, debugging, and a lot of investment in the early stage.

They went through the Xue family channel and bought a steam engine from overseas.

Just when the other two were about to start looking for someone to mount the steam engine, Zhao Han had experience and stopped them.

She said: “We must first build a closed and soundproof house, and also dig tunnels for smoke exhaust and exhaust steam and waste smoke into the nearby river ditches.”

“What do you want to do? It’s better to discharge it directly into the sky. You won’t worry about environmental pollution, right?” Wang Wenwen said strangely.

“Have you lost your knowledge? Do you know that the most direct resistance of those old-fashioned guys to industrialization is not that they violate their own interests, but that they offend Feng Shui.” Zhao Han said to himself.

“Understood.” Wang Wenwen recalled the history a little, and suddenly figured out, yes, the industrialization of Dongzhou was driven by the strong promotion of aliens, and those who talked about feng shui were all disposed of.

However, where there are no aliens, the steam will have bad feng shui, but it has become the consensus of the people.

And they were right. Wherever you go to a steam engine or a big factory, people in the vicinity often start to live beyond fifty and suffer from various diseases. No matter how rich or poor you are, you cannot escape this life.

The ancients may not know that this is caused by pollution, but they will habitually blame Feng Shui.

Thick smoke, firelight and noise, for them, are the most obvious evidence of breaking feng shui.

“Yes, those ministers and nobles are afraid of these movements. The so-called dynasty is to hope that the world is safe and stable, and no movement is the best. Here, we are lively and vigorous during the day and night, and it will definitely be taboo.” Wu Shan Shan nodded.

“But in this way, there is a problem. It will be extremely hot in the factory building, and it will be closed and soundproofed, and it will be difficult to discharge the heat.” Wang Wenwen said distressed.

“How did other people’s early industries do?” Wu Shanshan asked.

“Others’ families are led by the royal family to make money, and they don’t care about the living environment of the workers at all, because the workers are all farmers who have lost their land and have nowhere to go except the factory.” Zhao Han shook his head.

“Understood.” Wu Shanshan is thoughtful.

Industrialization is the accumulation of bones, and it absorbs more flesh and blood than all human activities.

But it does not absorb flesh and blood like a feudal society, a feudal society. However, after the absorption, there is no output, just an infinite loop. What was a thousand years ago, almost nothing changes after a thousand years.

“Of course we can’t do this. As for the problem of environmental humidity and heat, we can alleviate it by reducing working hours, working in shifts, and ventilating underground.”

“It is obviously expensive to do so, and it has no advantages over traditional handicrafts.”

“Yes, so this is just a testing ground. If we really want to use our advantages, we still have to wait until the two of us are admitted to the jinshi and seek to put them on an island as magistrates before taking these people to a big fight.”

“Then it’s settled.”

After the three people’s discussion stopped, they began to find people to build a factory, fully enclosed, and dig tunnels.

The craftsmen were given a considerable amount of money, and they used family children to do these things, ensuring that outsiders would not know.

When someone asked, they said that it was to build a family tomb.

When Jia She’s incident passed, a high wall also rose up in Zhuangzi, and behind the high wall was a closed factory building.

The steam engine is housed inside.

Jia Lian used her own channels to go out to buy many half-aged teenagers and girls who were about to starve to death, and all signed death contracts.

It is the kind of contract where the head of the family is beaten to death. It is sold to the master for the rest of his life, and it is the owner’s property.

Generally, slaves will not sign such contracts. All they sign are live contracts, which can be released after a certain period of time.

And it can’t be killed casually. Once someone sues the official, they have to spend money to settle the relationship.

And the servants who have this kind of death contract, the government will ignore the contract when they see it.

“Oh, there is a big advantage here. The labor force is too cheap. No wonder they don’t need industry or reduce labor costs. These people only need to manage 3 meals, and they will be pulled down when they are 2 or 30 years old.” Zhao Han Looking at the timid boys and girls, they shook their heads.

“Yeah, manpower is worthless. If you have something to do, you will train people to be machines. Where else do you need machinery?” Wang Wenwen also sighed.

After sighing, the three first used their family to have children to establish a supervisory team, that is, the basic management.

Mainly from the servants of Ningguo government, select people to be supervisors.

“Remember, no matter what you see or do, don’t let a word leak out. If it leaks, the gentlemen will pull your skin!” Jia Rong said viciously.

Compared with Jia Baoyu and Jia Lian, he has a good person. He is the person who speaks for Ning Guofu, and he is also the head of the Jia family.

“Yes, Master Rong.” The supervisors said cautiously.

Now this one has fame and power.

Once the supervisory team is formed, he will take the supervisory team to manage and train the newly bought slave No. 150.

“This machine comes from the Western Ocean, and it is something on a self-propelled ship. You don’t need to worry about what it is, as long as you know that it can play the same role as an ox, horse and waterwheel. And it must be compiled strictly according to ours. Follow the operation manual, otherwise it will be easy to break your hands and feet.” Jia Baoyu said to the crowd.

“Yes, sir.” The servants agreed.

Then the three took turns to train these workers according to the instructions that came with the purchase.

Honestly, these guys are the best workers.

Because they have nowhere to go, they can only rely on these three masters to survive, so if they don’t understand, they have to force themselves to memorize by rote, and there is no possibility of slack off and not learning…

That kind of person was directly pulled out and sold.

Who doesn’t know that Jia Mansion is a famous charitable family, and everyone has made a fortune…

While training workers, with the help of the Xue family’s channels, he recruited top textile workers in Jiangnan, and began to use steam engines as power to transform the previous manual silk reeling machines.

Nowadays, the high-end clothes worn by wealthy people are basically made of silk, which are high-end goods in modern society.

But silk production is very labor-intensive.

And high-end clothing, in the later stage, are all customized, embroidered and so on.

The process of industrialization for the three of them could only be based on the supply of silk raw materials, and it was impossible to do embroidery.

With enough silk production, it is possible to beat others by cost.

After so tossing for half a year, the first batch of silk was finally made.

The raw materials are shipped from the south and processed into silk in the Zhuangzi factory. The output is 10 times higher than that of hand-made silk, and the cost is 90% of the same quality silk.

Because manpower is too cheap, the biggest function of the machine is to increase the output. It is actually difficult to reduce the cost.

But the larger the scale, the less profit they need for a single piece of silk.

Others have to sell at twice the cost in order to meet various needs in other areas, such as personal exchanges, various management, these are not obvious costs, but they must be paid.

And they are ten times larger, and they only need to sell at a slightly higher price, and there will be enough funds to cover the turnover.

Just like raising pigs, if your farm raises a pig, if you only earn 100 yuan, it is a year for nothing; if I raise 10,000 pigs, and I only earn 100 yuan, I can support it.

This is the scale effect, which can reduce costs in disguised form.

To produce one pen, the price will be unbearably high, but to produce one billion, each pen costs only a cent, and only a penny is enough.

It’s just that the good times didn’t last long. With a large number of silks on the market, it became difficult to sell silk in Jiangnan.

Many hand factories have closed down.

Then came the weaver troubles.

Although the court did not find that steam engines were destroying feng shui, they could see unemployed weavers making trouble.

Then the court ordered Jiangnan Weaving to deal with the matter.

“The market capacity is too small. How long did it take to sell before something happened?” Wang Wenwen said with a headache when he looked at the letter from the Xue family from the south.

“No, the market capacity is very large. We only produce this amount, which is not enough to hit the market. It’s just that some people have discovered our potential. This is a response in advance, and they are deliberately aligning us.” Zhao Han said directly.

“Are they so sensitive?” Wang Wenwen doubted.

“The gentlemen who live in the eight seats of the court are very slow to respond, but the large private merchants are very sensitive, because they are sent to them all year round, and they have to deal with all kinds of extortion. Those who are slow to respond will be eliminated long ago.” Zhao Han explained.

“It turns out that they found that there were people selling a lot. Although they can eat it, they know that if we don’t stop it in advance, our scale will become bigger and bigger, and they will be completely eliminated in the end. These people are really not to be underestimated. “Wang Wenwen said with a headache.

“Then what are we going to do?”

“Hey, these people won’t play legitimate business competition with us. They will only let officials and gentlemen take action. Our channels will soon be cut off.” Zhao Han predicted.

“Then what should we do?”

“To reduce shipments, we should focus on training workers, and we will do this when we are appointed as officials and preside over a place.” Zhao Han said using his previous experience.

“Looks like that’s all it takes.”

Soon Jiangnan Weaving discovered that the Xue family was selling a lot of silk, and they called the shopkeeper of the Xue family to the yamen.

Due to the face of the four major families, it was not too difficult, but a shipment share was forcibly stipulated.

That is to say, no matter how much the Xue family produces, they can only sell this amount every year. If they exceed this amount, they are competing for profits with the common people and creating trouble for the imperial court.

Today’s Xue family is different from the past. In the absence of Jia and Wang’s family, they can only agree and watch a lot of money drain from their hands in vain.

To know that so much silk, selling it is money.

However, a shopkeeper of the Xue family approached Jia Lian privately and said that he could eat the silk on the premise of giving him a 10% profit.

Jia Lian inquired a little, and it turned out that the other party was bought by a big sea trade merchant and wanted to come to buy these silks.

Only then did Zhao Han wake up, yes, the Chinese and Western countries have already penetrated into the Red House, and they are in great demand for oriental porcelain and silk, and for a long time, they have been in a seller’s market.

That is, they get only a small quota of purchases and trade opportunities only by bribing local officials.

Until the invasion, the eastern dynasties relied on silk, tea, and porcelain to maintain an absolute surplus. Basically, they could sell as much as they produced.

It’s a complete seller’s market right now.

This is unimaginable for the highly competitive buyer’s market in the future.

In this case, they quickly adjusted their strategies and tried to smuggle silk to those maritime merchants.

Yes, maritime merchants cannot distribute goods at will. The imperial court on the bright side prohibited the free flow of goods, only a few external ports were opened, and only specific merchants were allowed to come in and buy and sell.

This has created a very strange scene in history.

Zheng Zhilong relied on the goods provided by the land and traded with Siyang, earning tens of millions of taels of silver every year. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty was dying of poverty.

Guarding the gold and silver mountains, I went to the coal mountain by myself.

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty completely banned the sea, Zheng Chenggong could not get the goods on the mainland, and it gradually declined, and finally his foundation was destroyed.

Later, with the help of overseas channels, Zhuangzili’s silk industry could finally expand unscrupulously, without worrying about any impact on the court and the weavers.

Just expand to a certain scale, and encounter new bottlenecks.

Not enough coal…

Yes, steam engines consume a lot of coal every day.

Previously they were purchased from nearby coal yards.

But now the scale is expanding, the roads are not good, and the coal yard is also excavated manually. It is okay to meet the cooking and heating needs of ordinary people, but for factories, it is a drop in the bucket.

Living needs and industrial needs are two orders of magnitude.

Then increase the price to buy.

Soon the owners of the coal farms complained that the imperial court had restrictions, not allowing too many miners to gather, that is to say, the output of the coal farms was capped.

And it is artificially limited.

“No money is allowed to be earned. Now I know how feudal society hinders the development of capital.” Wang Wenwen sighed.

“A large number of miners gather, and there is a natural basis for rebellion. The imperial court has always been strictly guarding it, and it is often the reason why private mining is often not allowed. It is loose and tight.” Zhao Han also sighed.

If there is not enough fuel, if more purchases are made, there will be no coal on the market, and the price will rise, which will attract the attention of the imperial court.

“I still need to find an island, bring guns and guns, and develop it freely. In this case, with the power of industrialization, an island can defeat an entire land.” Wang Wenwen said bitterly.

“No wonder the teacher asked us to transmigrate into men. Only men can go out easily. How could Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai do these things?” Zhao Han said.

“It seems that we have to dormant for some time. After three or five years, we will wait until we are admitted to the jinshi.” Wang Wenwen said.

Zhao Han nodded.

Although now you can rely on the status of a scholar to go out as an official, UU reading www.uukanshu. com but after all there are too many restrictions.

Jia Yucun relied on the platform of Jia Mansion, and he was born in the two ranks, and he quickly rose to prominence.

Two years later.

Jia Baoyu was admitted to the capital, and Jia Rong was also selected.

Afterwards, Jia Rong did not continue the examination, but sought to be released, and finally found a magistrate of the southern island.

The people of Jia Mansion were indignant, believing that it was someone in the imperial court who discriminated against them.

But there was nothing he could do. After all, it was the civil servants who were the most important, and even Wang Ziteng had to be a man with his tail between his tails.

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