I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 236 His Majesty the Emperor Wants to Open a Factory
The birth of a new class cannot be achieved in a day or two, even if it is guided, it may take decades.

If you want to do it, you have to hurry up.

After Zida figured out who his real enemy was, Li Tian began to think about it all day long.

The day after the Royal Banquet.

Early in the morning, Li Tian took Jiang Bao and Wang Fu out of the palace in low clothes after practicing the viscera vigor method for a while.

Li Tian's purpose is very simple, he just wants to find out the predecessor of the factory in this era.

What are the workshops, and see if there is anything worthy of investment and guidance.

On the carriage, Jiang Bao and Wang Fu were sitting on his lower head. It was an extremely rare opportunity to ride in the same carriage with the emperor, and both of them looked very nervous.

Recently, because of the affairs of the Royal Bank, Wang Fu has won Li Tian's favor very much. Compared with Jiang Bao, he is much more courageous.

After being silent for a while, he began to find something to say, "Where are we going, Your Majesty!"

After being interrupted by him like this, Li Tian woke up from his imagination, and only then did he realize that he had been patronizing and talking about going out of the palace before, but he hadn't told them where to go.

"Where are the relatively large workshops in the capital usually concentrated?"

Being preempted by Wang Fu, Jiang Bao looked unwilling, and hurriedly said,

"I don't know if what His Majesty wants to ask is the workshop of the inner court or the workshop of the people?"

"Most of the workshops in the inner court are concentrated in the northeast corner of the imperial city, such as the inner dyeing bureau, the knitting bureau, the gunpowder bureau, and the wine and vinegar noodle bureau.

Where are they all concentrated, you can see them without going out of the palace. "

"The folk workshops are very scattered, there are several workshops, but the larger ones are generally located in Sicheng Workshop and Huanghua Workshop."

Li Tian knew about these two workshops. After all, the Guo Wenyu corruption case that caused a lot of trouble some time ago happened in these two places.

"Why are they concentrated here? Could it be because there are Taicang and Lumicang over there!"

Jiang Bao smiled all over his face,

"Your Majesty's guess is right. Because of the existence of these two large granaries, the larger folk workshops are concentrated here."

Li Tian asked puzzledly,
"Why is that."

Seeing that Jiang Bao rushed to say everything he could say, Wang Fu was also very unwilling, so he rushed to talk,
"Your Majesty does not know that most of the workshops that can form a certain scale are in the hands of the housekeeper.

And most of the largest private workshops deal with rice, noodles, oil, wine, sauce, vinegar and other things that are closely related to the lives of ordinary people. "

"No matter what kind of food is used to make rice, noodles, grains and oils, it is almost inseparable from food.

So it was only normal for their workshop to be close to the two largest granaries in the capital. "

Speaking of this, Li Tian finally figured out roughly that the main products of the folk workshop are now.

It's nothing more than firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea and the like.

In contrast, there are many workshops for papermaking, teamaking, winemaking, porcelain, ironware, and so on.

But compared to the necessities of survival, their scale is much smaller.

Dangling on the carriage for about half an hour, the three of them came to the largest workshops in Huanghuafang.

Looking up, the people coming and going are almost responsible for carrying heavy loads, and they are all shirtless.

His hair was tied up with sackcloth, and he was ordered around by a fat man with big ears who seemed to be in charge.

After looking outside for a long time, Li Tian was a little disappointed.

The situation here is far from what he imagined, where the workers' responsibilities are orderly and the division of labor is clear.

Coolies accounted for 80.00% of the huge workshop.

Except for those in charge, there are only two or three craftsmen who are responsible for adjusting the formula.

Not to mention the birth of a new working class in such a workshop, even if it cultivates a few people who can go out independently and start their own workshops, they will not be able to do it.

This is actually the real situation of the workshop in this era.

Both the secret recipe and the secret are in the hands of very few people, even the most common oil extraction workshop.

The most critical procedures are also in charge of specialized personnel, and no one is given the opportunity to peek and learn.

I visited several other vinegar workshops and wineries with a large number of people in succession, and the situation was similar.

In the so-called workshops, there are more coolies, and there are very few people who are really capable and have special skills.

Such a workshop is not only inefficient, but also a serious waste of human resources.

Those coolies can receive at most [-] to [-] Wen a day, and [-] to [-] Wen a month.

Feeding a family of three is barely enough. If you want to eat a meal of meat, or send your children to a private school, it is simply impossible.

Their children grew up because they did not receive much education.

You can only be the same as them, either working hard in such a workshop or going to a rich family to become a current person.

Their class and destiny were doomed the moment they were born, and there was no future at all.

Only the descendants of small landlords or bureaucrats with a little wealth can change their own destiny by reading.

How many of the so-called noble sons from poor families are actually born from poor families?

Li Tian wanted to give birth to a new class through his own guidance. After reading the models of these workshops, Li Tian completely gave up the idea.

In fact, this is not only the case with these few workshops, but also with other various large and small workshops.

The inertia formed over thousands of years cannot be changed by him with a few words.

Although he was disappointed with the existing workshop, Li Tian did not intend to give up.

"Since the existing model can't achieve the effect of giving birth to a new class, let yourself open a few workshops and let them germinate in it!"

Thinking of this, Li Tian no longer wastes time.

After getting on the carriage, he spoke directly,
"Go to Tiangongyuan."

Wang Fu and Jiang Bao still didn't quite understand what Li Tian wanted to do.

Seeing him walking around here without doing anything, I was very puzzled.

But Li Tian didn't want to say more at the moment, and they didn't dare to ask more, so they could only follow Li Tian around dully.

Soon a few people came to the Tiangongyuan near Wang Gong's factory.

Under the leadership of Yang Rong, a cabinet scholar, and Zhou Zhen, a capable official, Tiangong Academy quickly entered the right track.

Everything is in perfect order.

However, they currently only have one cement project in their hands. In order to keep it secret, Zhou Zhen did not arrange for more people to participate.

Therefore, most of these skilled craftsmen called from all over the world are actually very idle.

Seeing Li Tian's arrival, Zhou Zhen was very excited and introduced the progress of cement research to him.

It's just that the purpose of Li Tian's coming here today is not to look at the cement, but for something else. After hearing a few brief introductions from him, he interrupted him.

(End of this chapter)