Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 226 Discussion of Trade ([-])

"It's probably useless to sell it to Houjin. Huang Taiji was an anti-smoking person at first, and later he was a tobacco trade protectionist. It's really not easy for you to sell this thing to him."

The introduction of tobacco into Liaodong began during the reign of Tianqi. It is said that it was a hobby brought by soldiers transferred from Guangdong to Liaodong. When he claimed to be the emperor, some people in Houjin also smoked tobacco. Not only some people smoked it, but it was also widely used, so that Huang Taiji enjoyed the title of the world's first ruler who officially banned smoking. Yu Eshui said At the time of this historical data, Hou Jin should have already issued the first edict to ban smoking, because in a few years, he issued a decree to revoke the edict to ban smoking, but he asked the subjects to grow and absorb themselves, not to go North Korea bought it - typical trade protectionism.

A few years later, the Li Dynasty, who was not very good at fighting, probably planned to use tobacco to engage in "unrestricted warfare" against Hou Jin, so he donated a large amount of tobacco to the nobles and high-ranking officials of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.According to the records of the Lee Dynasty, Sohyun, the son of the King of Joseon at that time, was a hostage in Shenyang.The North Korean envoy secretly brought 300 catties of tobacco as a gift.Huang Taiji believed that this item was "non-native and expensive, so he ordered it to be banned." After discovering it, he ordered a strict ban again.

"So it is still difficult for us to sell cigarettes to Houjin."

"It's only 1629, let's take this opportunity to make a fortune first!"

"The quality of Shengchuan brand cigarettes is still a luxury. Do you really think that wild boar skin is a fool with a lot of money?" Yanquezhi, who has tasted local cigarettes, took a look, "The shredded tobacco keeps falling down, and it takes a few puffs Burn your fingers."

Time Travel is not interested in the rare and special products of Time Travel brand cigarettes.Although the tobacco imported from Macau is high-quality, it is not flue-cured tobacco processed according to the habits of modern people, plus poor-quality cigarette paper and poor rolling technology-smokers must be very careful, otherwise the loose tobacco shreds will be damaged. It fell suddenly and burned a hole in the clothes.Making cigarettes just a little bit better than nothing.

Cigarette paper is a special kind of paper in the 20th century.It belongs to thin-page paper, and the specification is that the weight per square meter does not exceed 25g.The whiteness of the paper reaches over 82%, and the texture is tight, soft and delicate.opaque.It has high longitudinal tensile strength, certain air permeability and suitable burning speed.The main raw material is bleached hemp pulp, and some bleached wood pulp or straw pulp is also mixed. In order to adapt to the burning speed of tobacco, a small amount of combustion enhancer is added.Ribbing is also pressed on the paper to increase air permeability and improve appearance.

If it is crude and simple, the paper used in the homework book for students is a more suitable substitute.It's a pity that the paper that the traversers can make can't even reach this level.

Although the papermaking workshop has been in operation for a long time, the product quality has never surpassed the times - the papermaking workshop is still making paper according to the papermaking technology of the 17th century.This greatly affects the quality and yield of paper.But the papermakers are helpless -- they lack two key papermaking raw materials: caustic soda and sulfuric acid

Without caustic soda, paper workshops can only use very few raw materials to make paper, including all kinds of rags recovered from the "purification" process of immigrants, hemp nets discarded by fishermen, hemp rope, waste cotton and a few trees. bark.The source of raw materials is greatly limited.Without sulfuric acid, pulp cannot be bleached.Therefore, the paper produced is neither white nor glossy. Apart from solving the use of the toilet paper and wrapping paper of the crossing group, it has no effect.So much so that the cultural and educational department can only distribute slates to students, and ask them to write and calculate with chalk on the slates.

"It's not a big problem, and we'll try to put it into production within the next month." Ji Si backed off and patted his chest. More than 1000 laborers went to the construction site to lift those large structural frames and various towers by manual hoisting.

"I'm relieved to be able to produce three acids and two bases." Ma Qianzhu said, "Now many important things are stuck on it!"

Wen Desi said: "It doesn't matter. With our industrialization process, it is only a matter of time before we overcome technical difficulties. Lingao, and even the whole island of Hainan, are too small to provide us with all the manpower and material resources for industrialization. We need to build and Immigrants are doomed to cross the country and must trade to establish a country. Light industry planning should also be based on this aspect.”

Lu Rong, the general manager of the foreign trade company, stood up and said, "I would like to report a comprehensive plan for the future trade of the foreign trade company. This plan requires the assistance of colleagues from the industrial port."

"You can refer to the current situation of international trade. We mainly import raw materials with low technical requirements, rough processed products and light industrial products: such as raw cotton, ore, pig iron, non-ferrous metals, timber, livestock and people. In the first five-year plan, through China should be the top exporter of light industrial products, accounting for [-]%, high-tech industrial products accounted for [-]-[-]%, and ocean trade services and financial services accounted for [-]%.

"Agricultural and light industrial products in the crossing may include: all kinds of wine, sugar, sewing needles, silk, glass, ceramics, canned food, paper, fertilizer, pepper, and tea.

"Among them, spices, tea, silk, and ceramics are used in entrepot trade. We do not directly produce products, but enter the trade in the form of middlemen.

"Other products are provided by industrial ports. These are products that we have unique technology or production capacity advantages.

"Relatively high-tech industrial products are: medicines, soap, monosodium glutamate, optical instruments, precision instruments and tools - as long as the latter few things are made better than the European products at that time. Not only can they get the profit opportunity of selling back to Europe, We can also take this opportunity to make the European scientific system dependent on our products, eliminate its creative inventions, absorb the other's outstanding scientific and technological talents, and finally achieve the complete disintegration and elimination of the European scientific system——

Dr. Zhong was beaming when he heard this: "I'm going to screw Huygens now! Forget it, let's recruit him as my assistant by the way." He suddenly frowned, "Damn it, he was born this year! .It will take at least another 20 years to be my assistant."

"Who is Huygens?"

"The inventor of modern clocks and watches." Zhong Lishi said, "Strictly speaking, he is the inventor of the pendulum principle. But I decided to attribute these invention rights to myself."

Ma Qianju said: "Watches and clocks are very useful to us, but they can only be regarded as luxury goods as trade goods. I can't see that the people of Ming Dynasty have the demand for accurate timekeeping."

"Europeans should have a relatively large demand. They have advanced navigation, and accurate timing is very important for navigators' positioning in the sea."

"In this way, it is tantamount to completely destroying the future European watch industry." Lu Rong was immersed in his theory of "trading the enemy".

Ma Qianzhu nodded, it was suitable for him to continue.

"Then shipbuilding, all kinds of print, there's a lot of competition."

Li Haiping said: "Well, actually, I think that after a certain period of time—for example, halfway through the first five-year plan, such as instant noodle factories, canned food factories, and rice noodle factories, local gentry and businessmen should be encouraged to invest. We provide cheap technology and machines, and they invest in setting up factories to operate and sell them. What do we have these things for? Civilian industries, as long as they are not core things, we leave them to private individuals. They know how to operate and make money. We just need to teach them modern industry Production organization and enterprise management will do.”

Wang Luobin said: "This is too far away. It is more appropriate to engage in a planned economy right now - a planned economy is conducive to the unified deployment of manpower and material resources. Besides, we are training a new generation of industrial workers, and this will not produce results in a year or two. You put The enterprise is privatized, and the characteristic of the capitalist is to make profits, so he has no interest in training any industrial workers. Moreover, Lingao does not necessarily have such capable gentry merchants."

Yu Eshui shook his head again and again: "Everyone, although our fundamentals of building a country through trade are not a problem, have you considered a problem?"

All eyes swept over together.

The otaku of Imperial Capital History said calmly: "Everyone, before you continue the discussion, I have to read a few passages to you—I recently read a few books about what foreigners learned about China in the late Qing Dynasty, and I feel that the consumption of the feudal small-scale peasant economy Habits and the modern commodity economy are completely different things. Here are a few excerpts to pour some cold water on:"

"All Chinese housewives know how to make the best use of her fabrics...whatever is unusable in one place is safely used in another, and some rags are used to the best of their ability to hold the soles of shoes...these items are always Will use it to the best of its ability, and the last scraps will also be used with other fabrics until they are exhausted.

"...Three bearers carried him for 5 hours, a journey of 23 miles, and then walked back to Guangzhou to eat the breakfast provided for them. Before breakfast, he walked 46 miles, half of which was carried, and It's just to save 5 cents."

"...China's wheelbarrows mostly rattle when they are pushed, and this is due to lack of lubricating oil...But those who are insensitive think that noise is cheaper than oil, and would rather rattle than a few drops of oil.

"A Chinese mother saw that her child was covered in dust, so she swept the child with an old broom. A curious foreign woman asked, 'Does your child take a bath every day?' 'Every day?' China Mom replies in exasperation, 'He has never washed since he was born.' To the average Chinese, even a soap retailer with a 'cheaper than dirt' sign will have no effect.

"...It is generally impossible to buy any ready-made tools, but you can buy some semi-finished products, and then process and trim them yourself. Because processing by yourself is cheaper than buying ready-made tools. Everyone is trying to be cheap, so there are no ready-made products .

"These descriptions may be biased and exaggerated, but at least they can prove that the consumption concept of the small peasant economy society is very different from that of modern people. From it, it can be concluded that the ancient times—at least during the Ming and Qing Dynasties—the general consumption of the lower working people View: Time, physical strength, comfort, and convenience are all "free". As long as you can save even a copper coin, you can squander these "free" elements. From some old people today, you can still see this consumption habit. residual...

"So far, strictly speaking, we have not really set foot in the production of mass consumer goods. From this, we can draw a topic: In this time and space, how to change the consumption habits of the ancients if they take the economic route to build a country through trade?"

(End of this chapter)