The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 115 Cultivate Your Own Businessman

Zhu Gaochi cannot participate in the important affairs of the court.

However, according to Zhu Di's attitude, it's about his own country, and both the King of Qin and the King of Jin are tacitly aware of it.

Shandong's coal resources are not as good as Shanxi's, and he is worried about the battle of Jingnan, so Zhu Gaochi also recalled the deacons outside the cabinet in Shandong.

The laying of commercial roads in Shandong was stopped.

The situation that was about to set foot on the right track stopped suddenly, resulting in a lot of intangible losses, and also made several months of hard work of the outside cabinet deacons go to waste.

It's also a form of morale.

Zhu Gaochi specially summoned foreign cabinets to explain the suspension of Shandong commercial affairs.

"Individuals must serve the interests of the factory. Only when the factory develops well can individuals have a better future."

"You don't understand the affairs of the imperial court, and you don't need to know. You just need to do a good job in the affairs of the factory."

"Next, your focus will be on Shanxi and Shaanxi."

"Although the population of Shanxi is not as good as that of Shandong, Shanxi has better conditions than Shandong."

Zhu Gaochi's words were not recognized by people.

Shandong is the coal and iron center in the north, and Shandong has a population of more than 100 million more than Shanxi, and it is close to Yingtianfu.

Yingtianfu has a population of more than 1000 million.

Although these out-of-the-box deacons have had considerable training in business, they don't understand state affairs.

Moreover, the business atmosphere in the outer cabinet is stronger, causing them to pay more attention to profit even though they are full of enthusiasm.

Shanxi's coal resources are better than Shandong's, but this has not happened yet.

Coal wells need to be proven.

The exploration technology in today's era is not very good. It is often found by open-pit mines. Deep mines are rich in groundwater, and mining and exploration technologies are insufficient.

Zhou Shifeng also looked worried.

"The scale of Yingtianfu's business is ten times that of Beiping. It should develop southward. I don't know why the little prince is westward."

"As the little prince said, we want to monopolize the industry. If we don't control this place, I'm afraid we will bear the blame in the future."

There are many nobles in Yingtianfu, and the landlord class is powerful.

If we don't take advantage of the empty market to occupy the market now, I am afraid that within a few years, there will be businessmen in Yingtian Mansion who dare to offend the interests of King Yan's Mansion.

"We don't care about Ying Tianfu." Zhu Gaochi shook his head.

The coal mine resources in the south are not enough.

"In terms of money, population, and business scale, although Ying Tianfu crushed the northern provinces, it also brought him shortcomings, so he couldn't beat us."

Zhou Shifeng didn't understand.

What's the point of this?
Doesn't it mean that whoever has the bigger plate can beat the opponent in business.

"After mastering the coal mines in Shanxi, plus Beiping, we will be invincible in the coal industry."

"But what about the rest of the trade?"

As the big treasurer of China Heavy Industries, Zhou Shifeng has a better understanding of the little nobleman's business plan.

It's not just the coal industry in the future.

"Relying on the coal industry, when our business develops, the merchants in Yingtianfu will not be our opponents."

Zhu Gaochi was full of confidence.

When people's money holdings are increasing, luxury living habits are becoming more and more popular, and tax burdens are becoming heavier.

Then the wage level of the labor force in this country will inevitably increase accordingly, and it may be much higher than those commercial competitor countries that do not have the above-mentioned phenomenon. After that, this country with everything expensive will gradually lose its commercial advantages;

For example.

Isn't that true for Ying Tianfu?

Currency holdings, luxury in the Jianghuai area, and higher income than in the north, etc.

However, with the dense population, dense waterways, and mature textile industry in the Jianghuai area, there is indeed no rival in today's world.

But when Beiping opened up industry and entered the coal age, it was completely different.

Beiping relies on the market driven by emerging fuels, as well as cheaper wages, and a more simple atmosphere than JAC.

The cost of goods will be much lower than JAC.

In Beiping, coal is self-sufficient. If Jianghuai uses coal, it needs to be transported from other places, and the transportation cost is lower than that of Beiping.

In the age of coal, the north has an advantage over the south.

But the southern coast has another advantage. It is closer to the world on sea routes and has more advantages in sea trade.

When we enter the oil and gas era, things will be different again.

A large amount of imported oil arrived in China by sea. In that era, coastal cities had more advantages.

In the coal age, if coal-deficient areas want to reverse this disadvantage, they need to update and improve technology to offset this disadvantage.

But in terms of understanding of technology, who can compare to yourself?

Therefore, in Zhu Gaochi's eyes, the possible competition of Yingtianfu in the future is not terrible.

And maybe at that time, he would be in charge of Yingtian Mansion.

If they are all things in their own bowls, then there is no competition, and they may even wrong the coal-producing areas and transport cheap fuel to non-coal-producing areas.

Of course, everything has two sides, coming and going, feeding back to each other, complementing each other's advantages and disadvantages, and forming a virtuous circle is the kingly way.

Mr. Zhou Shifeng has made up his mind, so he can only turn around and persuade the deacons outside the cabinet.

Change the business strategy of going south to the business strategy of going west.It is definitely not cost-effective in terms of profits, but it is cost-effective politically.

How to control the coal industry in Shanxi?

Zhu Gaochi was not in a hurry.

Although Shanxi has rich coal resources, its foundation in the Ming Dynasty is weak, and it will take time to accumulate and lay a foundation.

And with the presence of Prince Jin's Mansion, it is impossible for him to be like Beiping.

What can be obtained is honeycomb coal.

It is time to cultivate a group of businessmen with intermediate strength to seize the briquette market in Shanxi.

Control the coal industry in Shanxi through the businessmen in Beiping.

Shortly after.

The outer cabinet sent several deacons to investigate the current situation of the honeycomb coal workshop in Beiping, and then collected them in a notebook and handed them over to the shopkeeper.

Gao Zhen came to Zhu Gaochi's office, handed the brochure to Zhu Gaochi, and handed over the report.

"Nearly [-]% of the coal workshops still maintain the family workshop model and have not recruited outside workers."

Gao Zhen said with a smile: "These people are afraid that people outside will learn their own business, so even though they know that the more workers they hire, the more briquettes they produce and the more profits they get, they are still stubborn and unwilling to change."

This is a matter of human concepts.

There will be many such people in future generations.

People are used to the status quo, and it is difficult to muster up the courage to go to an unfamiliar environment, and dare not step out and try, even without paying the cost.

"There are 37 companies employing less than ten people."

"There are twelve companies employing more than ten and less than 20 employees."

"There are six companies employing more than 20 people, and one of them employs more than 50 people."

"50 people?" Zhu Gaochi asked in surprise.

50 people is a lot.

"The model of this honeycomb briquette workshop is a bit different from other houses. In addition to the workers in the workshop, there are more than forty workers selling briquette briquettes."

"The briquette workshop, and the workers who sell the briquette, take [-]-[-] points, the workers get [-], and the workshop gets [-]."

"The sales volume of this briquette workshop is the sum of the other five."

"This person has some skills and courage."

Forty to sixty percent is a lot.

The workshop still has raw materials and workers' costs, which means that the owner earns less than the workers who sell briquettes.

Because of Zhu Gaochi's reasons at the beginning, briquette has long been designated as a livelihood industry like firewood.

The Ming Dynasty did not care much about the people's livelihood industry.

For example, Beiping, which is the future Shuntian Prefecture.

When the forest trees were exhausted, the imperial court realized that it was about to intervene in the coal industry, only to find that there were more than a hundred coal kilns in the entire Shuntian Prefecture, but only one official kiln.

Moreover, this official kiln does not face the market, and only provides coal for the government offices and palaces. The government organizes corvee labor and produces regularly every year.

Therefore, employment is not a problem in Daming.

This kind of workshop also absorbed a large number of hermits.

There is no land, and it is not a craftsman or a military member. Naturally, it is not included in the government's statistics. On the contrary, Jianghuai's textile industry is under the semi-control of the government because it is too dazzling.

"In your next post, please invite these workshop owners to come to the factory."

"You come out and have a meeting with them."

"What meeting?" Gao Zhen asked.

"Since they want to increase the scale, they must be ambitious. They have mature technology, skilled experience, and a certain amount of capital."

"I don't know if any of them are more courageous and willing to open up new and huge markets."

Honeycomb coal cannot be monopolized.

Although the market is large, it is also a business that directly faces the people.

Honeycomb has a low technical threshold, too low price, and its model, even in a state capital, must be dispersed among all parties.

Doomed to fierce competition.

This kind of industry that is relatively scattered, unable to form centralized production, fierce competition, and not profitable, is not suitable for the Wangfu to control.

Steam engine factories, coke refineries, and iron smelters are different.

The technical threshold is high, the capital to set up is large, and there are certain requirements for social relations, so Zhu Gaochi wants to monopolize it.

In fact, the coal industry should also be controlled.

However, the risk of mining in the coal industry is too high, especially in the Ming Dynasty, it is really beyond our capabilities in terms of safety.

Therefore, Zhu Gaochi needs to change the control mode, that is, the association model that is being planned, and transfer the risk to the businessmen, while the palace only needs to take care of the interests of the miners, which is the best method.

Gao Zhen understood what the little prince meant.

While letting people post posts, organize the meeting charter.

Zhu Gaochi called back several times and asked to revise it again. It was only the day before the meeting that Gao Zhen's idea was approved.

The small bosses of more than [-] honeycomb briquettes came to China Heavy Industry with anxiety.

The size of the factory made them even more embarrassed.

They are only big plates, how can they be worthy of being invited by China Heavy Industry, it seems that they are not qualified, and no one has the confidence.

Only a middle-aged man with a short beard and round eyes asked the reception staff a lot of questions with concern.

Inquire whether it is the meaning of the little nobleman, or it is just the idea of ​​China Heavy Industry's cabinet.

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up when he learned that although the organizer was Gao Zhen's shopkeeper, he was indeed thinking of a nobleman.

(End of this chapter)