Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2262, Ningguo who picked up the treasure

In a factory area outside the city of Anning in Ningguo, Ningwang, accompanied by Liu Yangzheng, the left prime minister of Ningguo, brought some important ministers of Ningguo here to visit the Qinghe Cuiji Textile Factory that has been completed and will soon be put into operation.

Qinghe Cuiji Textile Factory is one of the top ten leading textile enterprises in the Ming Dynasty. It has a large scale, advanced equipment, and large production capacity. It is mainly engaged in cloth spinning, garment manufacturing, shoe manufacturing, and sporting goods manufacturing.

It can be said that it is definitely an extremely large textile enterprise, and it can be regarded as one of the representative enterprises in the textile industry of the Ming Dynasty. The owner behind it is Qinghe Cui.

The Qinghe Cui family is a very famous family in history. It reached its peak in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later, under the continuous suppression of the Li and Tang royal families and the implementation of the imperial examination system, the Qinghe Cui family began to gradually decline.

But as the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. In Qinghe, the Qinghe Cui family is still a wealthy family, and it is still the most important big family in the area.

Especially with the development of Daming's overseas colonies and vassal states, along with the rapid rise of industry and capitalism, many families, large and small, also emerged in the Ming Empire.

Among them, the most famous ones are of course the Liu family of the Duke of Liao founded by Liu Jin, the former chief minister of the cabinet, the Zhang family of the British Duke, the Duke of Ding, the Duke of Cheng's Xu family, etc. .

These families were not only the wealthy and noble families of the Ming Empire, but more importantly, they were the pioneers and pioneers of the capitalist and industrial ages, as well as the pioneers and the biggest beneficiaries of the colonial era.

Benefiting from the development of capitalism, colonialism, and industrialization, these big families completed a gorgeous transformation, and the original feudal aristocrats gradually developed into emerging big capitalists, colonialists, industrialists, etc.

Not only does it have an extremely huge influence within the Ming Empire, but it also has a huge influence in many overseas vassal states, colonies, and even in various regions of the world.

Many colonies were even established by these big families. For example, the South African colony was established by the military generals of the Ming Dynasty. It is now a huge colony second only to the Ming Empire. It not only has a vast territory, but also has developed industries. , technology and military strength are very strong.

With these big families taking the lead, the powerful big families, gentry giants, etc. in the Ming Dynasty also followed suit, setting up businesses, overseas colonization, and so on.

Under such trends and trends, the Qinghe Cui family gradually rejuvenated, reunited and united, not only established the huge factory Qinghe Cuiji Textile Factory, but also established a unique overseas Qinghe Cui's colony.

Although there is still a huge gap compared with those giants of the Ming Empire, it also revives the Qinghe Cui family.

At this moment, Cui Jing of Qinghe Cuiji Textile Factory also brought the main person in charge of the factory to accompany King Ning, Liu Yangzheng and others.

"Not bad!"

"As expected of the Qinghe Cui family, a famous family with five surnames and seven surnames in history, a big family, this factory is different, magnificent!"

King Ning looked at the textile factory in front of him. This textile factory is very large, covering an area of ​​several thousand acres. It is a super-large textile factory with many workshops, which can accommodate more than [-] workers to work in it.

This is the largest textile factory in the history of Ningguo. Compared with this factory, the previous textile factories are simply child's play, not worth mentioning.

King Ning worked hard to establish the Ning Kingdom overseas, and he has been painstakingly managing this huge country.

In the past, King Ning always felt that being an emperor was actually a very simple matter, but since he established the Ning Kingdom, he realized that it is not an easy task to manage a country well.

Especially to manage a huge country like Ningguo, it needs to spend countless energy, exhaust one's own wisdom, and requires a lot of talents.

Ningguo occupies nearly one-third of the Tianzhu continent. At the same time, there is a huge land in East Africa, with an area of ​​more than 500 million square kilometers.

And Ningguo also has an extremely large population. According to the latest population statistics of Ningguo, the total population of Ningguo has exceeded 1 million, which is an extremely large number.

Among them, there are more than 1000 Han Chinese, accounting for about one-tenth of the total population of Ningguo.

The main reason why there are so many Han people is that Ningguo has always adhered to a preferential immigration policy, constantly attracting immigrants from the Ming Empire to Ningguo.

I think there were only 2 people who came out with King Ning at the beginning, and this is the 2 people that King Ning tried his best to fool him from Jiangxi.

Over the years, Ningguo has been encouraging and attracting Ming people to immigrate to Ningguo, giving land, preferential policies, and free slaves, women, etc.

Even in order to attract talents to Ningguo, anyone who has a reputation in the Ming Empire can directly go to Ningguo to become an official in Ningguo, which is regarded as a Jinshi in Ningguo's imperial examination.

And even the students who graduated from the new colleges of the Ming Empire can get the same treatment, and also enjoy the treatment and background of Jinshi, and can directly become officials in Ningguo.

This kind of policy also attracted a large number of Han immigrants and some talents who were frustrated in Ming Dynasty to Ningguo to develop in Ningguo.

Of course, the main reason is that the population growth rate of the Ming Dynasty is very fast. At the time of the first census, the population of the Ming Empire was only 1.5 million people, but now, the total population of the Ming Empire has exceeded 5 million. up.

In just over 30 years, the population of the Ming Empire almost doubled.

This has also led to a large number of Ming people choosing to immigrate to overseas for better development, choosing to go to overseas vassal states and colonies, where they can live a good life.

Among all the overseas colonies and vassal states, the three places that Ming people like most are Ningguo, South Africa, and the colony of the Western United Commercial Bank.

Therefore, the population of Ningguo is also growing very fast, especially the growth of the Han people is very fast.

King Ning paid special attention to this point, because he clearly knew that the foundation and foundation of Ningguo's development were Han people. Only when the number of Han people increased and the proportion increased, could Ningguo be truly stabilized. It is too difficult, too difficult, and too dangerous for ten thousand people to rule tens of millions of people.

Therefore, King Ning introduced many policies to encourage Han people to give birth and emigrate. In order to expand the number of Han people, he even directly distributed a large number of female slaves to Han immigrants, requiring them to have enough children.

This is also an important reason for the extremely rapid growth of the Han people in Ningguo, because the Han people occupy enough resources and enjoy the best policies and treatment.

In order to increase the population of Han people in Ningguo and attract Ming people to emigrate, King Ning has spent a lot of thought.

Population is just a small aspect that needs to be faced in governing a country, but even such a small aspect has made Ning Wang a headache.

Let him understand that governing a country is definitely not an easy task.

The population can also be increased by encouraging births and immigration, but if Ningguo wants to develop, it is really not an easy task.

For example, if Ningguo wants to develop, it needs money, but whether it is Tianzhu or East Africa, the original economy is mainly based on agriculture, and East Africa is even a primitive tribal economy.

It is too difficult to develop in such a place. Ningguo once faced serious economic problems, and there was no money in hand to build and develop Ningguo.

Later, King Ning found a way to get money from slave trading, which gradually improved the economy of Ning State, allowing King Ning to have money to build his own country.

However, there is still a huge gap compared with the Ming Empire. The railways and roads of the Ming Empire are everywhere, but Ningguo has just started to build the first railway.

In this respect, the little money King Ning earned from the slave trade was nothing but drizzle, not enough to spend at all.

King Ning and his ministers pondered for a long time before they finally figured out that the rapid development of the Ming Empire was entirely dependent on industry.

If it weren't for the rapid development of industry, the Ming Empire would not be any different from before.

Because of the rapid development of industry, the national strength of the Ming Empire was unprecedentedly strong, and the speed of development was beyond imagination.

Therefore, King Ning also set his sights on the industrial field, wanting to promote the industrial development of his Ning country.

However, this road is also very difficult.

Ningguo does not have the conditions and foundation for industrial development at all. The infrastructure is poor, the transportation is inconvenient, and there are not enough industrial workers and qualified talents from new education.

King Ning tried to set up a steel factory, a cement factory, a textile factory, etc., and even tried to set up Ningguo's own automobile factory or something.

But these factories are half dead in the end, and the car factory can't be run directly. Ningguo can't make cars, let alone ships.

Even if some enterprises are established, they cannot compete with the enterprises in the Ming Empire and South Africa. They are all making money at a loss and can only breathe in Ningguo's internal side.

There is no way, King Ning can only continue to learn from the Ming Empire, and wants to study the development of the Ming Empire and copy the development of the Ming Empire.

However, Ningguo's side has never been able to do it. Many of the ministers under King Ning are traditional civil servants, and they are not comparable to Liu Jin and Wang Shouren at all.

In the end, Ningguo came to the conclusion that the development of industry is based on a complete new education. If Ningguo takes the road of industrialization, it must also develop new education.

Therefore, King Ning had to start introducing the new education of the Ming Empire, popularize the new education among the Han people, establish Ning's own new colleges and universities, and so on.

It can be said that it is definitely not an easy task for a huge country to develop. There are too many, too many things in all aspects.

When King Ning was in Daming, he thought about rebelling and replacing him, but when he actually went overseas, he became the king of a country, and he felt that it was more comfortable to be an idle prince in the past.

Governing a country is not an easy task.

Ningguo's industrial road has always been very bumpy, stumbling, very unsatisfactory, and very difficult.

In particular, there are no trade barriers with the Ming Empire, and the industrial products of the Ming Empire are flooding the Ningguo market, which makes it difficult for Ningguo's own industry to develop, and it simply cannot compete with Ming's enterprises, let alone overseas, South African colonial enterprises It's also a big deal, and it can compete with the companies of the Ming Empire.

This has made it more difficult for the industrial development of other overseas colonies and vassal states, which are basically based on agriculture, mainly plantation economy.

Mainly planting certain cash crops, relying on the huge system of the Ming Empire, they can live a good life.

But King Ning is not reconciled that his Ning Kingdom only grows rice, sugar cane, spices and so on. He also wants to manage his Ning Kingdom like the Ming Empire, with not only a developed agriculture, but also a developed industry.

This is actually a typical oriental character, princes and generals are kind!

What the Ming Empire can do, so can Ningguo. If the Ming Empire has it, Ningguo must also have it. No one is worse than anyone else.

But on such a road, Ningguo had a very difficult time walking.

The industrial enterprises established by Ningguo could not compete with the Ming Empire at all, and it was difficult to develop, and they could not develop.

If you haven't tasted the meat of the initial golden period of capitalist development, it will naturally be difficult to develop, not to mention that Ningguo's education, talents, technology, roads and other aspects are not comparable to the Ming Empire, so it will be even more difficult.

But this time, King Ning picked up a treasure!

Because the textile industry of the Ming Empire is migrating from the interior of the Ming Empire to overseas colonies and vassal states on a large scale, most of the textile factories have chosen to lag behind and come to Ningguo.

Slavery is allowed here in Ningguo, and there is extremely cheap labor here in Tianzhu mainland. At the same time, Ningguo is also the most important cotton producing area overseas. The cotton planting scale is large and the output is very high.

In addition, King Ning also introduced preferential policies in real time, so it also attracted a large number of textile factories to settle here in Ning State.

The Qinghe Cuiji Textile Factory in front of you is the largest one.

"Haha, King Ning has won the prize!"

"It is thanks to your support, King Ning, that we were able to build this factory."

Cui Jing smiled and said to King Ning.

Moving out of Daming was also a helpless choice, and he had to choose to move out.

Because it is impossible to get along with the Ming Empire, labor is too expensive, and they cannot compete with these overseas textile factories. In the field of textiles, the textile factories of the Ming Empire do not have an advantage at all, mainly because labor is too expensive.

However, these overseas textile factories have very cheap labor and extremely low cost, and their advantages are very obvious.

"Ningguo always welcomes everyone to invest, and has formulated many preferential policies. Tax exemption for the first three years, half of the tax for the next three years, and free land."

"We can even provide individuals with a lot of land, slaves, etc. as long as they are willing to immigrate to Ningguo."

King Ning said with a smile that the Qinghe Cui family is still influential, and he wondered if he could attract more people to invest or immigrate to Ningguo.

"I really appreciate your support, King Ning!"

"After our factory moved to Ningguo, I estimate that our cost can be reduced by at least [-]%, and our products will be more competitive in the global market."

Cui Jing also expressed his gratitude to King Ning again.

"Although Ningguo is not as good as Daming, in the field of textiles, Ningguo still has many advantages. The textile factories established in Ningguo in the past have developed very well."

Ning Wang said with a smile that other industries in Ningguo are not doing well, but the textile industry is developing very well.

But what Ningguo wants is not only the textile industry, but also the steel, automobile, electrical, shipbuilding and other industries, Ningwang wants to develop.

It's just that these companies are not willing to invest in Ningguo at all, and Ningguo is not yet equipped to develop these heavy industries and industries with technological content.

Even with preferential policies, Ningguo is still far behind in many other aspects.

Especially for industries such as automobile manufacturing, it needs extremely complete supporting enterprises and industries to truly develop, and it is not possible to manufacture automobiles only by a single factory.

And Ningguo doesn't have a complete industrial system at all, the transportation is not good, and there are no relevant talents, only a fool will move the car factory to Ningguo.

Labor is cheap, but they are all illiterate, don't even know words, let alone other things, don't expect these people to be able to manufacture qualified cars.

Even if a screw is needed, it may need to be transported from the Ming Empire. How can this cost be reduced, and how can it compete with the companies of the Ming Empire.

Ning Wang and others inspected the textile factory in front of them.

For the current Ningguo, it is already very rare to be able to seize the opportunity of the first wave of industrial transfer from the Ming Empire.

At least for Ningguo now, he can produce clothes and shoes, and can also generate a lot of tax revenue, drive the development of related industries, promote employment and so on.

This is a good start, and we can slowly develop other labor-intensive industries in the future, and then develop other industries after maturity.

In Ningguo's plan, in the next few decades, the main thing is to focus on new education. After the new education has cultivated enough talents, it will slowly develop heavy industry, automobile manufacturing and other industries.

King Ning is not a person who is willing to lag behind. In his heart, he has always wanted to run Ningguo into a powerful empire comparable to the Ming Empire, but this goal is very ambitious, and it is not so easy to achieve.

PS: two chapters in one~~
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