Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 262 The price of industrialization, Datong Society seizes the profits of smuggling from all over the world

Zhang Cheng had long expected that the rise of industrialization would bankrupt many urban handicraft industries and destroy the self-sufficient economies of many rural areas.

Then, many weavers and embroiderers who earn a living by weaving and making clothes for their owners in wealthy families will lose their jobs.

Many women from lower-class families will also have fewer opportunities to collect homespun cloth, which will drive down the purchase price of homespun cloth. They can no longer even weave homespun cloth in exchange for food to supplement their family income.

The people can only become poorer as a result, and some poor women even have to sell themselves to make ends meet, and may even be forced by their husbands to do so in order to maintain the family's livelihood.

In general, these are some problems that will inevitably arise after the emergence of industrialization.

In order to avoid and solve these problems, Zhang Cheng has been increasing investment in infrastructure and education while carrying out industrialization.

Moreover, the Chinese Army continues to expand its recruitment.

Therefore, many young adults either join the army to earn fame or are heavily involved in infrastructure construction.

In terms of railway trunk lines alone, the cabinet has already begun preparations to build railway trunk lines to Nanchang and Hangzhou, which will undoubtedly require a large number of young people to participate, which will in turn provide many young people with employment opportunities.

Because the governing philosophy of Datong Society is to enrich the people, Zhang Cheng’s investment in infrastructure is not only to provide employment, but also to increase the income of young people. Therefore, many young people can basically get good wages after joining Datong Society’s infrastructure projects. , and income will increase with years and technical experience.

Because, with the industrialization of Datongshe, the labor requirements for physical labor in many industries have dropped a lot, and many industries that do not require strong physical strength have appeared, but the demand for mental labor has increased.

Many young and middle-aged people are able to support women and children in addition to themselves.

The reason why women also need to be educated and cultivated is because industrialization has reduced the physical requirements and increased the mental requirements of many industries under the rule of Datong Society, which has led to the emergence of a large number of positions that require mental work and light physical work, and men can no longer fully satisfy them. The demand for these positions also requires some women to fill the demand for these positions. Anyway, the physical requirements are not high, so naturally they can be replaced by women.

As long as the employment of young adults is solved, these social problems will not become serious.

And their children basically don’t have to do child labor and can study full-time.

Datong Society also needs to train the majority of young adults and even women who can only perform physical labor into a workforce with certain knowledge and technical levels.

Thus.

Although investment in infrastructure and education can solve the problems caused by industrialization, it will also increase the financial expenditure of Datong Society.

Since Zhang Cheng did not pay too low a salary to workers engaged in infrastructure construction, even if the wives and daughters of these workers could not supplement their family income through weaving and embroidery, they did not need to sell themselves to supplement their family income.

of course.

What's more.

Therefore, education is very important.

After all, infrastructure and education have always been expensive matters.

Zhang Cheng is also increasing investment in education, keeping the cost of education very low, allowing many civilian children to enroll in school, and even some girls have begun to enroll in school.

Zhang Cheng also knew that if he wanted to completely transform this society and bring it into industrialization, the most important thing was to collect money and increase fiscal revenue.

Zhang Cheng’s main directions for making money are two:
One is internal, confiscating the private property of the Yuan Dynasty or other powerful officials in the conquered areas;
One is external, that is, frantically selling goods and competing for resources in order to use the money earned from outside to make up for internal losses caused by infrastructure construction and investment in education.

Today's world is at the end of the Yuan Dynasty in history. The problem of land annexation is very serious, and the annexation of other means of production is also very serious. Therefore, the private property controlled by the powerful bureaucrats is indeed quite large. Every time Datong Society confiscates the private property of these powerful bureaucrats on the pretext of guilt, it can obtain a large amount of income, which is used for infrastructure and education construction.

Externally, Datong Society is frantically seeking resources from the outside in the name of development to make up for the domestic losses that have occurred after the overhaul of infrastructure and education.

Precisely because these two aspects can also bring a lot of official income to Datong Society, Datong Society has not yet experienced a money shortage.

What's more, Zhang Cheng has already sent a fleet to explore the resources of Golden Continent (America).

In Zhang Cheng's view, by allowing China to industrialize, the people at the lowest level can live more like individuals than in the traditional farming era. In this life, there is no need to sacrifice the interests of the farmers, but the interests of the foreign dignitaries. way to achieve industrialization.

Back to the topic.

After Cheng An saw many people kneeling in front of him and shouting so loudly, Cheng An hurriedly ordered his people: "Let them get up and say that I, Datong Society, care about their life and death!"

"Yes!"

As for the businessmen who gathered around Cheng An, representing the powerful gentry behind the scenes, many of them couldn't help but chuckle to themselves after hearing what Cheng An said, and wondered how Datong Society planned to control the lives of these people, and whether they would be helpless. .

But as Cheng An said, Datong Society does care about the life and death of these people.

Because not long after Cheng An arrived in Huai'an, the Railway Administration Secretary of the Datong Society Cabinet came here to recruit workers, and even chartered a train to directly pick up the people here to participate in the railway construction in Jiangxi.

Many common people who were servants were recruited as workers under the Iron Administration Department.

There are even many female workers who are responsible for cooking and washing clothes.

Therefore, this made many powerful gentry feel disappointed and surprised. They did not expect that Datong Society really cared about the life and death of these people.

"Where on earth did their Datong Society get so much money to build a new railway!"

Sheng Wenting, who was the prefect of Huai'an in Zhang Shicheng's Zhou regime, asked his colleagues in surprise.

Tongzhi Pei Du said with a stern face: "They have made all our money, so they will not be short of money. What's more, their Datong Society is now going to sea to seize the world's smuggling profits!"

"That's exactly what it means!"

"Datong Society relies on its strong ships and powerful guns, so that many wealthy families along the coast can no longer rely on pirates like Fang Guozhen to monopolize the profits of smuggling."

"Even the navy of their Datong Society used the strength of their ships and cannons to directly cross the ocean and kill the leaders of the Japanese pirates who caused the smuggling of the wealthy coastal families, while they both went to sea for trade and marketed locally. Goods, two profits, naturally, Datong Society is now rich and can continue to build railways! "

The judge Mao Chengyi also started talking at this time.

Sheng Wenting sighed after hearing this: "It seems that the world has really changed a lot!"

"In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people."

Sheng Wenting even suddenly recited a poem and said:
"The benefits from all over the world have really flown into people's homes because of Datong Society."

(End of this chapter)