Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Of course, the curve of the Ming Dynasty is a downward curve, while the curve of the West is an upward curve. The steel production will embarrass the Chinese after a few hundred years... In a big country, the steel production is not as good as Belgium, which has a population of several million Small country, this really makes all Chinese people feel ashamed.

At this time, the output of government-run iron factories is not high, and private iron factories were destroyed during the Wanli period, and now they are mainly concentrated in the south.Originally, the production centers of the Ming Dynasty were in the Northeast and North Zhili, such as the famous Tieling, which became famous because of the iron factory, but now it falls in the area ruled by the Qing Dynasty.

The famous Zunhua Iron Works has gone bankrupt, and the mountain farms are closed... The bureaucrats and officials of the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau, the Ministry of Land Rent and Silver Collection and Solution, bought iron for use...

That is to say, the government-run iron factory was declared closed, and all the officials in charge lost their jobs. Then the court rented the land and got money to buy iron for use.

This is of course an unimaginable spectacle in a certain dynasty when state-owned enterprises took over in later generations.Even in the Qin, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties, such a thing was absolutely impossible. [

In the monopoly of salt and iron in the Han and Tang Dynasties, these strategic materials were firmly held in the hands of the imperial government. Iron officials were set up everywhere to provide one-stop service for mineral sales. The benefits of salt and iron were not available to ordinary merchants.

In the Ming Dynasty, the official iron mines closed down, but the private iron mines were thriving, and the imperial court wanted to buy iron from the people... This kind of thing was only possible in the Ming Dynasty.

This was not a big problem at first, but the government-run iron mines closed down one after another, and the private iron mines were also devastated during the Wanli period. The output of this iron has indeed declined.

Moreover, there are many small-scale furnaces from the government to the private sector. In the 34th year of Jiajing, it was stipulated that the iron mine field allowed it to set up furnaces, so the owner of the mountain was allowed to be the head of the furnace. Only one furnace was allowed in each place, with no more than 50 people. People who have different nationality cook together, and no increase is allowed... The head of the stove is the chief, every ten people is a small, and the five small are handed over to each other, fill in the name and submit to the county, and each will be given a license.

That is to say, the production in the mining area not only limits the number of people, but also stipulates the general armor and delivery insurance, otherwise, they will be patrolled and inspected by the prefectural and county guards, and any violations will be severely punished.

Of course, at the end of the dynasty, all laws and regulations were written down.The so-called Wuzhuguan Mountain, as long as there are mines, there will be a large number of undocumented wanderers. Every year after the autumn harvest, hundreds of them will be gathered, and then distributed in various mountains, starting from the mountain, at least five or six, There are as many as ten or twenty, and at least hundreds of people in each furnace dig ore in the mountains to make profits.

Mountain owners and mine owners collect rent and tax, local ghosts and chief Xiaojia benefit from their routines, and small local people benefit from their recruitment.

In the entire industrial chain, the most unlucky thing is the government.

For official mines and mines licensed by officials, the imperial court has an iron tax or a mine tax of [-] per cent.

As a result, the official mines were all gone, and there were very few official licenses. The mine supervisors assigned to the mines were useless at all. There were such civilian mines everywhere in the south, and they didn't pay taxes at all, just bribed the local magistrates.

This kind of mine has enriched private individuals, and its output is not as good as that of the official mines in the past. Moreover, the number of military affairs has increased in recent years, and the places where iron is used for armor and weapons have greatly increased. Although the production of iron has increased year by year, it is still far from enough for use.

The largest distribution center for the current iron mines is in the Wuhu area in the south of the Yangtze River. There are not only iron mines, but also steel furnaces for tapping steel, which was the only one in Ming Dynasty at that time.