The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 267
The second day Yuan Rong left Beiping.

The research department sent a section of social report. The research department spent a lot of effort and sent a lot of staff to visit all parts of Beiping, even Jinzhou and the desert.

The report submitted to the young prince has been compressed and sorted out, and it is still dozens of pages long, so it is not easy to read through it.

Zhu Gaochi turned a few pages and smiled at the manager of the R&D department, "This report is very detailed, with a lot of data added to it. So far, it is a good report. I will read it carefully."

The manager of the R&D department was recognized by the little prince. Although it was not the final evaluation, he couldn't help being excited.

"This report is not the work of one subordinate. Many people have worked hard to compile it perfectly."

Zhu Gaochi agreed with this statement.

After several years of construction in China Heavy Industry, many qualified talents in various aspects have emerged.

In other words, qualified workers.

No matter how Western scholars beautify the Western literacy rate, the remarks of various scholars are full of contradictions.

Some scholars even said that on the eve of the British Industrial Revolution, the literacy rate was over [-]%.

In the face of these messy statements, it is impossible to reach a point of view, that is, there is no generally accepted answer to this question.

But one thing cannot be changed.

The printing industry can indicate the level of literacy in a region or country.

China's printing industry undoubtedly surpassed the entire West, especially in the Song Dynasty, which can be said to be the combination of the entire West.

The first industrial revolution was accomplished independently by Britain.

Not only did China miss the first industrial revolution, but the whole world missed the industrial revolution except Britain.

In terms of civilization and technology, Britain, which is despised by people in the West as a country bumpkin, completed the first industrial revolution alone.

The reasons for this are very complicated, but the geographical resources and environment of the United Kingdom undoubtedly provide the key factors for the United Kingdom.

Then in other respects, in terms of literacy rate, Ming Dynasty surpassed Britain.

After all, there were clear laws and regulations on reading education in the Ming Dynasty, and private schools were encouraged. It was a local custom in China for the country gentry to set up private schools in their hometowns.

This custom was eliminated until the Qing Dynasty.

After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Mancheng in the south was wiped out, and Han warlords were born, and these Han warlords promoted the recovery of the power of the southern gentry.

After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, private schools in the south were restored, increasing the number of literate people and providing soil for progressive youth.

These progressive young people provided support for the revolution.

So the textbooks say that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom shook the foundation of the Qing Dynasty's rule-the demise of Mancheng in the south.

It is the beginning of Ming Dynasty.

The improvement of literacy rate has provided a solid foundation for the vigorous emergence of talents in China Heavy Industry.

These are all causal and interdependent.

Seeing that the young prince had no intention of letting him leave, the steward of the research department quietly stayed aside. Zhu Gaochi picked up the report and read it seriously.

"From the 24th year of Hongwu to the end of the 28th year of Hongwu, in five years, the per capita income of Peiping increased by [-] times."

The data comes from the income levels of various industries 24 years ago in Hongwu.

This data sample is not complete enough.

But Zhu Gaochi didn't expect too much. Being able to reach the current level is already a very good performance, and he doesn't expect to reach the level of later generations.

The research department is an extremely important department, allowing Zhu Gaochi to fully understand the internals of China Heavy Industry and the social changes brought about by China Heavy Industry.

In other words, it is to grasp the current performance situation, and judge the direction of the next step through the performance of each subject, and decide which direction to tilt the social production resources.

If he wants to fully industrialize society in 20 or 30 years, he must do this, otherwise it will take a longer time.

In the eyes of Western scholars, most of the time the world has only promoted population growth, including the Qing Dynasty in China.

but.

In the writings of Western scholars, China specifically distinguished the post-Song Dynasty from the pre-Song Dynasty.

Substantial and semi-permanent increases in GDP per capita may have existed before Song China, but after Song these periods of growth have always faded away over a few generations.

The economic vocabulary of stagnation at a high equilibrium level was proposed by later generations of Western scholars to specifically address the outstanding performance of China before the Song Dynasty and the characteristics of social and economic development after the Song Dynasty.

If it is not specifically pointed out, then the theory put forward by Western scholars cannot be perfect.

It's actually quite understandable.

Before the Song Dynasty, Chinese civilization did not die out, so it has been developing, from agriculture to technology, all are progressing.

After the fall of the Song Dynasty, the achievements of civilization either stagnated, referring to the Ming Dynasty, and only recovered.But after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the restoration also ended.

The Yuan and Qing Dynasties did not, and at most they increased their population. Like other indigenous areas, including the West before the Industrial Revolution, social productivity did not increase, but only increased population.

The development of technology in the West has driven social productivity, so Western scholars use 1800 as a watershed of the times.

Before the Song Dynasty in China, technology was constantly improving, and new technologies were born in each dynasty, and real objects and books were unearthed.

That is to say, the substantial growth of GDP fluctuates with the war. After all, even in the period of the Three Kingdoms, technology has also improved, so for this period, it is called semi-permanent growth.

Westerners' research on China has always been at the first step, even in later generations.

"The next main direction of the research department is to investigate the whole society of Beiping, the agricultural population, the industrial population, the military households in the guards, and the military workers in factories."

Zhu Gaochi ordered.

The director of the research department nodded repeatedly.

"The following content, after I read it, I will send someone to find you."

Hearing this, the supervisor of the research department knew that he could leave, and after bowing his hands and saluting, he left Zhu Gaochi's office.

Three days passed.

Zhu Gaochi recruited Zhou Shifeng, Cai Wen, Xu Ning, Ma Lin and others, and proposed a new plan to distribute agricultural subsidies to the partners of military household economic cooperatives.

The size of the military household economic cooperative includes [-] military households.

"In order to improve the interests of military household cooperatives and the vast number of cooperative military households, China Heavy Industry should give each household a subsidy based on the principle of the corresponding situation."

Hearing the young prince's new request, everyone was at a loss, and no one understood the reason.

"For example, at the most basic level, a military household that raises three pigs can subsidize food coupons worth five renminbi, and implement according to this basis."

According to this method, China Heavy Industries will subsidize at least 2 taels of silver.

2 taels of silver is a lot.

Guyun Wanguan's family property refers to a person with extremely rich family property.

One tael of silver is equal to a guan, and 1 taels is [-] guan, so it can be equivalent to Jack Ma.

That is to say, to subsidize more than two Ma Yuns for these military households.

Of course, the conversion is not that simple, it's just a description, it can't be accurate.

To put it simply.

It is a disguised form of home appliances going to the countryside.

Many of China Heavy Industry's projects, such as the three-province railway project, cost tens of millions of resources.

But the price/performance ratio is different.

This time, China Heavy Industries took out real money.

Zhu Gaochi thought of this, but suddenly felt that it was not accurate, and he couldn't say that, it should be food stamps.

Although food stamps are equivalent to silver, it is not such a simple exchange principle.

In short.

This is based on the report of the research department, and the plan formulated by Zhu Gaochi is also a means for the agricultural population to enjoy the dividends of industrial development.

It can also be said to balance the gap between rich and poor.

There are many theories contained in it, which cannot be explained clearly in a few words, so the group of people in front of them.

Even Zhou Shifeng didn't quite understand the little prince's thoughts.

He even thought, is it the meaning of the little prince paying for people's hearts?

Obviously not this theory, but according to this principle, it still makes sense, it is this fact.

In short.

At the request of Zhu Gaochi, several major departments cooperated, and after the summing up, the military household economic cooperative issued this notice to the cooperative military households.

One tael of silver.

For nothing.

Who wouldn't want a month's wages for a worker in China Heavy Industry?Who is not happy?
After it was confirmed, the military households set off a climax, and people praised China Heavy Industries and the little prince for his benevolence.

Many people did not save the food stamps worth one tael of silver, but went to the city with high spirits to buy goods from the supply and marketing cooperatives in the city.

Over the years in Beiping, the status of military households has improved so fast that many people are overwhelmed.

A new drama about soldiers saving lives and sacrificing their lives at the Peking Grand Theater began touring around the country, and just happened to be a military household economic cooperative, and another incident of subsidizing money to military households happened.

for a while.

Military households became fragrant momos.

Marrying the daughter of a military household, and marrying one's own daughter to a military household, has become something that ordinary people are willing to do.

The atmosphere of discriminating against military households in those days has all but disappeared in Beiping.

This kind of improvement in social status is visible. Many people are grateful to the little prince, not only for the good life he brought, but also for raising them up.

In the palace.

Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaochi to see him tomorrow morning. Zhu Di knew that Zhu Gaochi left early and returned late every day, so he didn't let Zhu Gaochi rush back from the headquarters.

Early the next morning.

Zhu Gaochi took his wife Guo Cailian to ask An Yanwang and his wife.

"Boss, you have too much money and no place to spend it, so you started throwing money away." Zhu Di joked with a smile.

Guo Cailian looked at her husband adoringly.

Zhu Gaochi's reputation in Beiping has reached an unbelievable level. When the family members come to Shizifu, they will tell Guo Cailian.

Zhu Gaochi smiled.

The purpose of planned economic regulation has never been to pursue profits, but to satisfy everyone's needs.

Under the harsh competitive environment and external pressure of later generations, this model faces great challenges.

But this is Daming.

This high-level social model is the most favorable era because of him as the helmsman.

(End of this chapter)