Qiming 1158

Chapter 1185 Ming's Economic March

For the upper-class nobles of the Jin Dynasty, if they needed porcelain to decorate their facades, it would be better to import them directly from the Southern Song Dynasty. There was no need to invest a lot of money to restore the porcelain industry.

It is the so-called "buying is worse than buying, and renting is worse than buying". Anyway, the Southern Song Dynasty has to give them so many year-old coins every year, and the year-old coins are provided to the upper-class nobles to enjoy, so why not do it?

Therefore, the northern porcelain industry that Su Yonglin took over was a mess.

Except for the large-scale Cizhou folk kiln, which still stubbornly fires the coarse porcelain bowls and other items needed by the people, there are basically no artistic achievements.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the biggest task of Su Yonglin and the Ming government was to complete the social revolution, restore agricultural production, and promote technological innovation.

As long as it can provide enough daily necessities to the people, high-quality porcelain is meaningless to the people, so the firing has never been restored.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, because a large number of craftsmen fled south, they basically inherited the porcelain firing skills of the Northern Song Dynasty. They have a vast ocean market and a large number of internal and external needs, so they have a very strong motivation to study the art of firing porcelain.

As a result, the ceramic industry in Zhejiang has also developed rapidly, and the powder green and plum green fired in Longquan kiln have reached the highest level in history.

Jingdezhen kiln has innovated its technology because of the large number of Ding kiln craftsmen who went south, and produced a large number of treasures.

The products of Xiunei Siguan Kiln also recovered rapidly due to political and economic demands, basically reaching the level of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In this way, one trades off and one trades off, and the porcelain industry of the Ming Dynasty was beaten by the Southern Song Dynasty in all directions, and it is understandable that it cannot win in normal business competition.

Although there were court officials in the Ming Dynasty to discuss whether to set up a Daming official kiln to make porcelain, but Su Yonglin rejected it, thinking that this is not necessary at present.

There is no private demand, and the government does not actively support it. The competitiveness of Ming Dynasty porcelain is really not enough.

Not only porcelain, but also tea, one of the leading foreign exchange products exported in the Southern Song Dynasty, had no future in the Ming Dynasty.

First, the good tea gardens are basically in the south, and secondly, in Ming Dynasty, no one has the leisure to go to taste tea - the leisurely and leisurely ones are basically hanged on the southeast branch in the revolutionary actions again and again.

Isn't the revolution delicious?
Isn't it good to go to trial?
Isn't it nice to clear up?
Wouldn't it be fragrant to hang the first-class people on the southeast branch as a pendant?

Why drink tea?

Da Ming's Renaissance members and enthusiastic onlookers were full of question marks.

The reason why the mid-to-high-end silk industry cannot develop in Daming is the same as above.

For this reason, the famous export products of the Southern Song Dynasty, such as tea, porcelain, and silk, could not be beaten by Daming.

There is no need to set up departments without a market.

The only effort Su Yonglin made in order to preserve [National Rare Art] was to collect the scattered porcelain artisans from the original official kilns and other skilled artisans to the Ministry of Industry for the record, and then give them some resources to let them burn some of them. Porcelain, maintaining the inheritance of technology.

It can be regarded as a little work to restore the grand occasion of porcelain firing in the future.

Obviously, the results of this small work cannot have any impact on the overall business situation. If we want to make a comeback, we still have to rely on the military.

In the Ming-Song War, Daming won, and business competition has been left aside, and national power competition is the mainstream.

Therefore, the Tea Division and the Lacquer Porcelain Division came into being, which would completely swallow up the developed porcelain and tea industries in the Southern Song Dynasty for the Ming Dynasty, making them state-owned industries of the Ming Dynasty.

The top priority of the action is to swallow the crucial overseas sales channel.

As Lin Jingchun went south to rectify the municipal shipping department and port, the relevant personnel of these departments should also go south in an all-round way to receive and control the industries owned by the former Southern Song Dynasty in their area of ​​responsibility.

Lin Jingchun's right-hand man, Yu Xingyan, the right-hand servant of the Ministry of Finance, was in charge of leading the team forward, fully presiding over the liquidation and receipt of the real estate of the Southern Song losers, striving to eat the war dividends in one go, so as not to dream too much at night.

About ten days after Lin Jingchun went south, Yu Xingyan led a group of people from various departments to go south.

They entered the land of Jiangnan from the land of Xiangfan, took a break in Xiangyang, held a meeting, and arranged the next tasks.

The first step is to take over all the relevant maritime trade industries on the ceded land and identify them as industries under the control of the Tea Division, the Lacquer and Porcelain Division and the General Administration of Weaving.

Yin Zizhen, the "tough general" of the Ministry of Finance and the tea secretary, rushed to the original Jiangnan West Road and now Jiangxi Province in ecstasy, and took the production areas of Shuangjing Tea, Xieyuan Tea and Linjiang Yujin Tea in Jiangxi Province.

Although devastated by the war, the tea trees in the three famous tea gardens are still there. The tea gardens are largely preserved. The tea workers were killed by the chaos of the army. The production was stagnant for a time, and even the tea trees were destroyed.

But after the peasant army brought the situation under control, Zhao Yucheng and Wen Anzhi realized the significance of these tea gardens to economic development, so they ordered to protect these tea gardens and bring them under control.

Later, under the management of the peasant army, the tea workers slowly resumed tea production.

Therefore, after the tea secretary went south and entered Jiangnan West Road, what he saw was a well-managed tea garden.

They immediately registered all the tea gardens that produced these famous teas and brought them under the control of the Tea Division. Every tea tree and every tea worker was registered and became a treasure of the Tea Division.

In addition to these tea gardens that can be obtained immediately, there are many tea gardens in the areas controlled by Jiangnan Kingdom that belong to the children of the Zhao Song clan, waiting for him to hand over.

After a set of handover procedures, the tea company can make a lot of money.

Wu Hao, the lacquer porcelain secretary who is also a powerful general of the Ministry of Finance, is in the same mood.

Although Jingdezhen, where one of his biggest targets is located, is still under the control of Jiangnan Kingdom, there are not a few in the huge folk kiln system in the Southern Song Dynasty that belonged to the children of the Zhao Song clan.

Although the only famous kiln that the Lacquer Porcelain Division can directly control is the Jizhou kiln located in the control area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, this does not mean the end.

Right now, what he needs to do is to integrate the Jizhou kilns that are the only one under control, and then integrate the folk kilns scattered in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, and integrate the technicians, all concentrated in Jizhou, and restore the kilns that have been destroyed by the war. Jizhou kilns that are stuck in production stagnation.

Jizhou kiln was originally one of the good export products to earn foreign exchange, but because of the outbreak of the Jiangnan West Road Revolutionary War, Jizhou kiln was plundered and destroyed by the earliest rebel army and official army, and suffered heavy losses.

After the peasant army grasped the situation, Zhao Yucheng and Wen Anzhi together, like protecting the tea garden, protected the remaining Jizhou kiln farms and searched for the spared Jizhou kiln porcelain craftsmen, which protected the vitality of Jizhou kiln to a certain extent.

And now, it is time for Jizhou kiln to recover.

The recovery of Jizhou kilns will be accompanied by the Ming Dynasty's control of Jingdezhen kilns, Longquan kilns and other famous export kilns that earn foreign exchange. Those kilns that were originally under the control of the children of the Zhao and Song clans will now belong to the Ming Dynasty Lacquer Porcelain Division, Lacquer Porcelain Division It will also make a lot of money.

Coincidentally, like Wu Hao, Duan Jianzhong, director of the General Bureau of Weaving, is also very happy.

Although it failed to win the Jiangnan land in one fell swoop, the General Bureau of Weaving could only tear down a piece of meat in the extremely prosperous silk industry in the Southern Song Dynasty - Zhenjiang Prefecture Weaving Bureau.

The cession of Zhenjiang Mansion was not for this Weaving Bureau, but mainly for military purposes, so although the Weaving Bureau was good in scale, after the ravages of the war, the Weaving Bureau was dilapidated, and it was not easy to restore silk production.

However, the descendants of the Zhao and Song clan mastered a large number of textile factories and raw silk production areas. Although their quantity and quality cannot be compared with the government-run factories in Jiangnan for the time being, compared with the current industrial scale of the Ming Dynasty, there is no doubt that snake swallow elephant.

Yin Zizhen, Wu Hao, and Duan Jianzhong each brought their own teams to eat the high-quality resources that they could directly control, and then entered the territory of Jiangnan and began to pocket the property of the children of Zhao Song's clan one by one.

Their footprints have spread all over the essence of the Jiangnan economy, that is, the surrounding areas of Lin'an. They have harvested high-quality assets and greatly expanded the scale of the Ming state's state-owned economy.

(End of this chapter)