Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2254, headache old king
Here in the Palace of Wenyuan, where the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty works, Wang Shouren, the chief assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, is currently thinking about the problems facing the Ming Dynasty with some headaches.

Liu Jin resigned and went to visit the mountains and rivers. He lived a comfortable life and left a huge stall for Wang Shouren. The current Ming Empire is not only extremely vast, but also a true empire on which the sun never sets.

Moreover, the population is also very large, with a population of nearly 5 million. In addition, it is the empire with the most powerful military, technological, and economic power in the world.

Governing such a big empire is definitely not an easy task, especially as the chief assistant of the cabinet, the steward of the Ming Empire, assisting the emperor to govern the world, this job is definitely not something that ordinary people can do well.

In particular, Wang Shouren is not a person who is willing to do nothing and eat a vegetarian meal. He is a real big man, and naturally it is impossible for him to be a monk who hits the clock like those cabinet ministers in the past.

The current Ming Empire does not allow cabinet ministers to do nothing, because the development of the Ming Empire is undergoing unprecedented changes, and the path it is taking is a path that no one has ever traveled in history.

The road of capitalism and the road of colonialism, this is a road that no dynasty has ever walked before. Looking at ancient and modern China and foreign countries, no country or dynasty has experienced such an era.

In such an era, if something can be done, then the Ming Empire will become stronger, more prosperous, and richer.

However, if there is nothing to do, nothing to eat, or even not to follow the development of the times, then the prosperity and prosperity of the Ming Empire is very likely to turn from prosperity to decline, just like the Tang Empire in history. The child will decline.

Therefore, since Wang Shouren became the chief assistant of the cabinet, he has felt a lot of pressure, and he is always thinking about what to do to do better and make the Ming Empire more prosperous.

"When Liu Jin sat in this position, how did he think?"

"If it was him, what would he do?"

Wang Shouren was just thinking about it. There were still a lot of memorials on the desk to be reviewed by him, but he ignored them.

Wang Shouren is very clear that, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, the most important decision-maker and participant in various policies and systems of the Ming Empire, what he has to do is to think about the future development of the entire empire, and this daily trivial matter is not the most important thing .

The most important thing for the helmsman is to grasp the direction of the big ship of the Ming Empire, not to worry about the small things on the ship, but the current Ming Empire is driving on a road that no one has ever traveled, and no one knows the future What will happen, this makes Wang Shouren very secretive sometimes, not knowing how to do it.

"Now the textile industry of our Ming Empire has encountered an unprecedented crisis. A large number of textile factory products are squeezed in warehouses and cannot be sold."

"A large number of factories are seriously under-operated and even unable to pay salaries. Once these tens of millions of textile workers lose their jobs, a chain reaction will be formed at that time, affecting other industries and causing chaos in the entire society."

Wang Shouren frowned bitterly and kept thinking.

As the leader of Daming's textile industry, the Wang family knows the situation of Daming's textile industry best.

Now Wang Shouren has seen the first economic crisis that the Ming Empire is about to face, the economic crisis caused by the textile industry.

Although Wang's Caiyun Textile Factory is still doing well in its small days, Caiyun Textile Factory, which mainly deals with brand management, sporting goods, and directly-operated stores, has already begun to lighten up its factory.

The current crisis of the textile industry is nothing to the Wang family, but the problems of the entire Daming textile industry are gradually exposed.

"We have too many textile factories in Daming, too many, and they are everywhere. There are still many textile factories in the Beijing-Tianjin area that have not been relocated."

"A large amount of cotton and sheep are being planted all over the world. The supply of raw materials is unprecedentedly sufficient, which makes these textile factories run at full capacity. The cloth, clothes, and shoes produced soar suddenly and cannot be sold at all. Go out, there is a huge backlog in the warehouse."

"The whole market seems to be completely full at once, and all the products can't be sold."

"What has actually happened?"

"Why can't the good ones be sold?"

In fact, Wang Shouren himself has already thought of the problem, that is, the supply is seriously greater than the demand, which has led to the current serious overcapacity and economic crisis.

But in this era, no one has seriously studied these economic phenomena, and has not summed up the laws of the market economy from them. Therefore, even a master like Lao Wang is still thinking about why it cannot be sold at this moment.

According to past experience and history, no matter how much cloth and shoes there are, there is no need for too much, because cloth and shoes are consumables that will rot and need to be replaced frequently.

Especially in the past, the linen used was very easy to rot, and it was not wear-resistant at all.

Therefore, for ordinary people, clothes and shoes are the most lacking, such as shoes, straw sandals, and wooden shoes. In fact, the vast majority of ordinary people often only have one pair of shoes. Wearing, reluctant to throw away, wearing straw sandals and wooden sandals are very common phenomena.

The same is true for clothes. In the case of winter clothes, in the past, in many poor families, the whole family may only have one or two winter clothes, which are worn by those who have to go out to do errands, while others stay at home. In bed, because I have no clothes to wear, I will be cold when I go out, and I may catch a cold and get sick.

For people in the past, clothes and shoes were really scarce things. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as three years old for three years, and three years for sewing and mending.

So this is also a question that many people can't figure out, why the clothes, shoes, and cloth can't be sold all of a sudden.

You must know that everyone's living standards have improved a lot, a lot, and the entire Ming Empire has a huge demand for clothes, shoes, and cloth.

Nowadays, almost everyone in Daming has a lot of clothes and shoes, especially young people. A piece of clothing may be worn only a few times and not worn anymore. The waste is also very serious.

And these shoes, now there are all kinds of shoes, such as sports shoes, casual shoes, cotton shoes, sandals, etc. Young people almost have to match a few pairs.

With a huge population of nearly 5 million in the Ming Empire, and such a huge market, in the eyes of many people, no matter how much cloth they have, they can’t sell it. What’s more, now the people of Ming Dynasty can sell products all over the world and have a global market.

This is the reason why many people are optimistic about the textile industry, because in everyone's opinion, the transactions related to the four words of basic necessities of life, food, housing and transportation are all worry-free transactions. No matter how many clothes you have, you don't have to worry about them, they can always be sold.

Furthermore, the textile industry is a traditional industry, which is very mature, has experience to find, and is easy to operate, while the emerging automobile manufacturing, petroleum industry, chemical industry, film and television industry, etc.

Not only is the investment huge, but it also requires technology, which makes many people dare not invest in it, and would rather invest funds in the textile industry.

This is also another major reason for the thunderstorm in the Ming Dynasty textile industry. There are too many funds invested in this field. There are textile factories everywhere, producing cloth, clothes, and shoes in a steady stream.

In the past, the production capacity could not be released due to the limitation of raw materials. Now that the raw materials are in sufficient supply, it will be very scary when the production capacity is released.

In addition, many overseas vassal states and colonies also choose to invest in the textile industry for their own development. In particular, some places that specialize in cotton cultivation rely on their own advantages to run the textile industry. In order to solve the problem of labor force, even Yu also allowed the massive use of slaves.

These impacts on the textile industry of the Ming Dynasty were also very huge, taking away a large part of the overseas market, and even selling them back to the Ming Empire, impacting the local market of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the traditional concept, everyone is optimistic about the textile industry, and a large amount of investment in it has formed the current huge crisis, and this crisis has gradually become prominent and thunderous.

"Once a large number of textile enterprises close down, there will inevitably be a wave of unemployment, the city will become more chaotic, and bank loans will also become a huge problem."

"A lot of banks may go bankrupt because of this, especially those small banks. A large number of unemployment will also implicate other industries, causing a series of chain reactions."

"How to save this situation?"

Wang Shouren had a terrible headache. Although there was no official explosion yet, all signs indicated that this economic crisis was coming soon, and the problems that the Ming Empire would face would be extremely serious.

The textile industry is the most important industry in the Ming Empire. There are countless large and small textile factories, and the number of employees is tens of millions. Moreover, most of these employees are women, and many women can only find textile factories. inside the factory.

This is an industry that people in the Ming Dynasty generally believe that women are allowed to work in. If you hire waitresses in restaurants and hotels, everyone may think you are not good. Only brothels and Chuguan have women as waitresses.

During this period, there were very few types of jobs and positions available to women. The textile industry was the largest and the best one, because all the factories were women, and the tradition of men farming and women weaving since ancient times, so this is the Everyone agrees.

Once the textile industry thunders, a large number of women will lose their jobs at that time.

(End of this chapter)