The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 247 The Confidence of the Great Infrastructure Construction
Beiping Zhending Mansion.

The price of farm tools is getting lower and lower year by year, and the price is more than three times lower, and the variety is becoming more and more abundant.

The people's enthusiasm for buying farm tools has been stimulated, and more and more people are willing to spend money to buy a lot of farm tools.

In cities, there are more and more vehicles consigning briquettes, and citizens are used to using briquettes to light fires.

Surprisingly, the price of briquettes is getting cheaper every year, which is twice as low as the cost of buying firewood.

A large number of people in Zhen Ding Mansion went to Beiping to work, and their annual wages were more than what they could get in the farmland.

A family has fifteen acres of land.

Excluding taxes and corvee, as well as the living expenses of the whole family, there is only three or five taels of silver left, which is already considered saving and saving.

In the event of a sickness, marriage, and funeral, the savings for several years will be gone.

As for part-time jobs, a person can earn about ten taels of wages a year, and saving money on food and expenses is equivalent to directly doubling the family's income.

Caused a huge change in the town hall.

In every household, someone has to go out to work.

Reunion at the end of the year, the family has enough food and clothing, can afford to buy firecrackers and set off firecrackers in front of their own gates, a prosperous and prosperous day.

But the family who still stayed in the field and lived on the harvest of the field could only look enviously at the neighbors.

Even the most socially phobic people can only bite the bullet and ask their neighbors to introduce them, and take him or their own son to work together.

As for the factories opened by China Heavy Industries in Zhending Prefecture, such as agricultural tool factories, paper mills, railway stations, engineering teams, including the briquette factories established by the Honeycomb Association, it is naturally the best for locals who can stay and work locally.

The available jobs cannot be absorbed, and can only reach two to three out of ten. Therefore, most of the surplus labor force still needs to go to Peiping.

The common people have money in their hands, and the commodities on the market are also abundant, forming a virtuous economic cycle.

This is inevitable after industrialization.

Unconsciously.

In the 28th year of Hongwu, from spring and summer to autumn, the most robbing labor of the year began. Many workers returned from leave from factories and harvested the wheat or rice in the fields as quickly as possible.

Because of the different crops, the autumn harvest time varies from August to October.

Everyone has farm tools in their hands.

A large number of durable and cheap millet threshing machines produced by China Heavy Industry have been welcomed by the common people.

Although there have been machines for milling rice for a long time, many people still use the method of grinding rice by hand because of cost and promotion problems.

This farm work can be said to be the one that women are most afraid of, the most time-consuming, and they can only do it with a stern mind. It often makes children of all ages cry bitterly.

Now there is no such trouble, just pour the grain into the machine, and people use the handle to turn it to drive the parts in the machine.

There was a rumbling sound, and what came out was the separated husk rice, a steady stream of white rice.

This painful farm work that originally required four seasons of the year and took a few days every month has become a farm work that can be done in just one day, which is still very fun in the eyes of the children.

All kinds of agricultural tools represent various technologies, which shorten the cost of agricultural production and liberate manpower.

The larger the industrial scale, the cheaper the cost.

The resources of underground mines can be said to be "unlimited" for the Ming Dynasty based on the current reserves of the earth.

As long as the population can be fed to a full stomach, that is, on the basis of the original agriculture, the upper limit of development is unlimited.

This is the essential difference between agricultural society and industrial society.

There is an upper limit to land output, and no amount of population can make the land grow more food, but more people can be invested in industry to create more industrial production.

As long as three meals a day are guaranteed, industry can absorb countless people.

This is an unheard-of great change for mankind from the age of firewood to the age of coal, which heralds the entry into industrialization.

People 1000 years ago ate rice, and people 1000 years later ate the same rice, but the quantity of goods used by each person has changed qualitatively.

"Jingle Bell."

On the platform of Zhendingfu, a lot of people came down from the carriages of the railway carriages. With the increase of the number of migrant workers, the number of passengers on the railway rose sharply.

It is no longer like at the beginning, when there were only a few passengers on the platform.

of course.

The Zhendingfu railway platform is a large station, which is also the reason for the large number of passengers.

More than half of the people who got out of the carriages were wearing the overalls of China Heavy Industries, which was taken for granted and regarded as the norm.

Because of the regulations of China Heavy Industry, garment shops dare not sell the work clothes of China Heavy Industry to the outside world, but they can sell them to children.

So on the street, quite a few children were wearing children's clothes that imitated China Heavy Industry's uniforms, and even had a swallow embroidered on the left chest.

Two workers in China Heavy Industry uniforms, carrying yellow leather briefcases, followed many people towards the city.

"Excuse me, is this Zhang Qianhu's family?"

The two knocked on the door, and after a while, the courtyard gate was opened, and a woman asked curiously when she saw the stranger.

"Who are you, what do you want us to be in charge of?"

"Hello, Mrs. Zhang."

An older worker bowed his hands politely and said politely, "We are from the Research Department of China Heavy Industry."

The two introduced themselves and only said that they wanted to find Zhang Qianhu, but they didn't reveal what they were going to do.

Several people were talking.

A mother-in-law and a servant girl walked back with a baby in their arms and led a child, looking at the woman curiously.

Seeing that the family members had returned, the woman invited the two of them to sit down.

The woman asked a neighbor to help her run errands, and Zhang Wu, who was on duty at the yamen of the guard, rushed back an hour later.

After a few people greeted each other, Zhang Wu hurriedly led the two of them to his study.

Zhang Wu used to be one of the hundred households of the right guard of Yanshan. Later, when the little prince was in charge of the Beiping mansion, he was transferred by the little prince to the thousand households of Zhendingwei.

Now the Beiping guards have changed a lot.

Many generals of Yanshan Guard were sent out, and many generals from outside were transferred to Yanshan Guard. This kind of transfer was very frequent.

"Because I'm here for the first time, and my house is simple, I invite the two Haihans." Knowing that the two people in front of him are not only the identities of China Heavy Industries, but also the identities of Sheren, Zhang Wu looked very polite on his face.

"Zhang Qianhu and we are not outsiders, and the family does not talk about each other. We are here to bother Zhang Qianhu this time, because Zhang Qianhu has entered the list, and invited Zhang Qianhu to Miyun Stone Box Camp to participate in the evaluation of new firearms. .”

The new firearms should be equipped in the Shixia Camp. As a general from Yanshan Guard, Zhang Wu not only won the trust of the prince, but also the attention of the young prince.

And Zhang Wu also knew that the little prince was not simple.

It seems that the mutual transfer of the generals of Beiping's guards is a common thing, but Zhang Wu can see that the generals sent from Yanshanwei are generals who do not support or resist China Heavy Industry.

Most of the generals who were transferred to Yanshan Guard were frozen, and a few were really important. Zhang Wu was very convinced by the little prince's methods.

"When did you arrive at Shixia Camp? How many days do you want to stay there?" Zhang Wu asked in detail.

He was really determined when he first came, he didn't care about his family's affairs, and he was so absorbed in the guard, it was a critical period, and he didn't want to leave for too long.

The two quickly explained with a smile, "If Zhang Qianhu can't spare the time, it's not necessary for Zhang Qianhu to go there."

They have different attitudes towards different generals.

Zhang Wu belongs to the kind of Genzheng Miaohong, if you can make friends, you must make friends, and if you can't make friends, you can't easily offend them.

"Zhang Qianhu's here is the last stop we invited, so the time is very urgent. It is scheduled to be in three days, and the time for participation will be about three days."

Zhang Wu thought about it after listening.

The capital of Zhending Prefecture, which was later Shijiazhuang in Hebei.

From Zhendingfu to Miyun, the distance is less than [-] miles. During the long-distance railway carriage, the station will have a reserve of horses for replacement to ensure the health and longevity of the horses.

It is limited by factors such as the railway environment, stops at stations along the way, and the amount of horse reserves.

At the current speed of the railway carriage, it takes two days and nights, which means that he still has one day to settle things.

Zhang Wu agreed to the invitation, agreed to go to Miyun, and proposed to stay with the two of them. They thanked Zhang Wu for his kindness, but they did not stay.

The two of them didn't go to the post station with the help of Wang Fu, but rested at Zhending station in the name of China Heavy Industry.

The two of them need to take the railway carriage back to Peiping early tomorrow morning and submit the confirmed list.

Zhu Gaochi took people to inspect the No. [-] Coke Refining Plant located in Baoding Prefecture.

"To smelt one hundred catties of iron, the demand for coking coal alone is fifty catties. Not to mention the exponential increase in the demand for iron materials in various industries in Beiping. The railway construction plan in the three provinces alone requires as much as 7000 million catties of iron, which means at least 4000 million catties of coking coal."

"Counting the demand of the entire market and the planned preparations for next year, the annual output of coking coal will reach 3000 million catties this year."

Wang Ben is more and more like a shopkeeper. As for the original technology, this person has changed his path and is no longer a pure technician.

Zhu Gaochi thought the plan proposed by Wang Ben was appropriate.

The population and area of ​​Britain in the first industrial revolution were barely equal to Shandong plus Beiping, and its development was not regulated, so there were many shortcomings.

At that time, coal production in the UK was over 5000 million jin.

And now not only Beiping, but also Shaanxi and Shanxi, as well as the cooperation with the Southern Market, just a railway plan, is fundamentally different from the original development of the British Industrial Revolution.

Big infrastructure and big industry represent big investment.

It can only be supported by the participation of national power, even the British environment in the first industrial revolution cannot afford it.

"Not only must the production of coke be satisfied, but also the appendages in the coke refining process must be paid great attention to."

Zhu Gaochi added.

Not to mention kerosene and coal black, but the fertilizer that is distilled from ammonia water is also valued by Zhu Gaochi.

Each furnace of 720 jin of coal produces [-] jin of coking coal. During the production process, [-] jin of ammonia water can be obtained every day.

In the process of refining 5000 million jin of coal into 3000 million jin of coke, millions of jin of ammonia can be produced, which is self-evident for agriculture.

This is also one of the important sources of confidence for Zhu Gaochi to dare to make great strides and promote large-scale infrastructure construction.

(End of this chapter)