Daming 1805

Chapter 47 Changes in the Newspaper
After Zhu Jingyuan finished taking a bath, he wrapped himself in a bathrobe and lay on the comfortable big bed, and began to flip through the newspaper Chunxiang had prepared.

The most important information in the newspapers of the past two days is of course the lifting of the ban on the six industries of tea, sugar, iron, locomotives and ships.

First of all, some newspapers have made a very detailed interpretation of the policy itself, trying to avoid the misunderstanding of the policy itself by ordinary people.

They specifically consulted the relevant yamen of the Ministry of Industry, summed up the scope and scale of previous industry restrictions, and listed the specific content of this relaxation of restrictions.

The retail business of tea, sugar, steel, automobiles, internal combustion engines, steam engines, and small boats was originally open to the private sector.

The personal cultivation and sale of tea and the construction of small inland and offshore civil ships have never been explicitly prohibited to the people.

The main content of this relaxation is actually the industrialized large-scale production of related industries, large-scale channel sales and wholesale, and the most critical import and export.

At the same time, the large ship industry opened to the public this time is still limited to the civilian ship industry, and warships can still only be built by royal consortiums.

The production of internal combustion engines and steam engines, the production of trains and automobiles, and the production of railway and road-related facilities were opened to the private sector.

However, the construction and operation of railways and highways are still the core basic industries of the royal family.

If private manufacturers produce trains and carriages, they can only sell them to the Royal Railway Company, but cars can be sold directly to the private sector.

Restrictions on iron and steel smelting and sales have been lifted to the private sector, but the mining of iron ore and the sale of ores, as well as the import and export of finished steel, are still the exclusive business of the royal family.

The relevant reporters have obviously done their homework, and the introduction is basically true and detailed enough.

As for these specific policies, it is obvious that the relevant ministers and consortium treasurers carefully discussed the detailed rules planned on the basis of Zhu Jingyuan's proposal.

At that time, Zhu Jingyuan loudly shouted six lifting of the ban. In fact, when the specific implementation was carried out, there were a lot of internal problems that needed to be regulated, which could not be solved in one sentence.

This policy is not so much a lifting of the ban, but a relaxation of the restrictions again, because it is not a complete ban, and this time it is not a complete release.

Then some newspapers observed the direct impact of the relaxation of the restrictive policies in the six industries.

They have found that a large influx of new manufacturers has poured directly into these six industries and is recruiting workers widely in the market.

A large number of tea shops and sugar shops have opened for business, and a large number of steel factories and machine factories have broken ground in the suburbs.

They also noticed that the wages paid by many manufacturers for recruiting workers are directly paid on a daily basis.

Some newspapers praised the owners of these new manufacturers as good people, while others said that they had spared no expense to recruit workers.

But Zhu Jingyuan knows another reason. These newly opened manufacturers all know the inside information, and they should also know that the minimum labor compensation standard is being formulated.

The managers of these new manufacturers should be able to judge that this standard may be higher than the 6 yuan silver note, or even 8 yuan.

If they don't pay according to the day, when the minimum standard is officially announced and implemented, they may have to pay the monthly payment according to the standard of more than 6 yuan.

Now, according to the standard of about 4 yuan, the wages of these days are paid on a daily basis. After the minimum remuneration standard is lowered, they will definitely not repay the difference for these days.

This seems to show that businessmen are very cunning, but Zhu Jingyuan felt that this was indeed a good thing objectively, and some newspapers discovered this.

The workers received their wages that day, and the sales of daily necessities such as food in the market would increase slightly from the evening to the next morning.

Although the magnitude is small, the market has just begun to recover, and it is as if it is too hungry to eat and drink. This slow recovery is just right.

There are also newspapers that have done a more in-depth analysis of the impact, and have also contacted and explained the situation in other places.

A large number of new factories have appeared and began to recruit refugees. Yesterday, it only appeared in the capital, but today it has spread.

Jiangnan, Guanwai, Shanxi and other places have begun to have a small number of manufacturers. They should have received telegram news from the capital and began to recruit refugees.

The authors of these articles predict that the situation will become more obvious in the next few days, and the upsurge of lifting the ban in the six major industries should soon overshadow the news of the civil unrest.

Because the refugees will quickly become normal workers, the urban order will naturally be restored.

When workers have wages, and there is money in the market, it will be easier to do business, but they will also become more uneasy, trying to find a way to keep their workers.

Most commentators believe that the impact of this change on the Ming Dynasty is definitely good, and the royal family finally no longer competes with the people for profit.

A large number of articles have spared no effort to praise the virtues, praise the emperor and ministers who have opened the restrictions for their wiseness and martial arts, and blow the whole page of rainbow farts.

Because the industry is banned, it is in the interests of all capital groups except the royal family.

Only a very small number of extreme conservatives worry that opening up steel smelting to private manufacturers may endanger the safety of the country and society.

In addition to the lifting of the industry ban, the most lively thing is the withdrawal of the feudal lords.

Although only the West Sea Kingdom actually evacuated the vassal state, the countries in the southwest of the Persian Gulf were merged and rebuilt.

But this incident has become the second most popular news, after the lifting of the industry ban.

Almost all newspapers have made special reports and invited a large number of scholars to comment.

Almost everyone agrees that this is a clear trend, indicating that the imperial court is really starting to withdraw from the vassal, and there will inevitably be bigger moves in the future.

Then there is a lot of analysis, which vassal states should be revoked first, and how should they be revoked.

Finally, there is the influence of the withdrawal of the vassal. Everyone believes that as long as the withdrawal of the vassal is successful, the power of the Ming Dynasty will inevitably grow again, and it will be able to win the war.

Zhu Jingyuan just read a few articles and was [-]% sure that this was the direct interference of the Ministry of Rites.

Otherwise, it would be a problem whether the matter that was officially decided early this morning could appear in today's evening news, and it would be even more impossible to have so many comprehensive and positive reports and analyses.

The purpose is also very simple. The specific strategy for withdrawing the feudal vassal cannot be immediately announced, but the goal and determination of withdrawing the feudal lord can be publicized through non-governmental channels.

Zhu Jingyuan felt that the analysis content in these newspapers could spread all over the world with the radio waves in no more than three days at most.

It was then specially printed and placed directly in front of Western leaders in Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Madrid, New York and more.

The vassal states around Daming are the first to bear the brunt, and maybe some people can't sleep tonight.

The other news is all the things that were there before, mainly the progress of the war and the domestic situation.

But the trend of comments on these articles has changed. Most newspapers have become more optimistic than before, and they believe that victory is a matter of time.

Some people have also analyzed the reasons, mainly the lifting of the ban and the withdrawal of the feudal lords in the six industries.

This is obviously also influenced by the Ministry of Rites, but these are indeed what they should do.

We should give hope to the people whose lives have not been directly affected by the reform and are still living in dire straits, and let them persevere in the darkness before dawn.

After Zhu Jingyuan finished flipping through the newspaper, he was in a relatively good mood.

Those old gentlemen in the court, of course, have high political literacy and administrative ability.

Maybe when facing the line, they may be suppressed by their way of thinking out of the frame, but when they really do things, they can also let themselves see what it means to be professional.

They only need to provide basic assumptions, and they can do things efficiently and securely, which should be better than doing it themselves.

The executive power of this modern industrialized Ming court is not 01:30 higher than that of the previous feudal dynasty.

The interests of opening up the six major industries are enough to drive these ministers and their interest groups to compromise and follow the old emperor's orders to do things.

If they really still don't work, the old emperor may issue a ban again at any time.

The old gentleman is the unified honorific title for the cabinet ministers, six ministers, and seven ministers in the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)