“Are you all engaged in industry and commerce?

But I would like to ask, if there are ten more cotton fabrics produced in Suzhou Prefecture every year and then they are put into the market, what will happen next?

Cotton is cheap like firewood.

You will see those textile mill owners who cannot sell cloth burn with cotton cloth.

The market capacity is limited.

In the past two hundred years, the Ming Dynasty had already formed a balance. How much cotton fabric is produced in Susong's textile mills every year and how much cotton fabrics the people in the Ming Dynasty need to buy every year. Although no one calculates, the market has automatically adjusted to balance. When textile mills increase, the price of cotton fabric will fall, and at this time, there will be unsustainable exits, and then return to balance again. When the number of people buying cloth increases, the price of cotton fabrics will rise, and the owner of the textile mill will increase the number of looms to produce more cotton fabrics.

It has been more than two hundred years, and everything is controlled by the market hand.

So what about the sudden increase of ten times?

To whom to sell it?”

Yang Xin said.

"overseas?"

Xu Guangqi said with some uncertainty.

"The world's population is at most 500 million, one-third of which is in the Ming Dynasty. The second only to the Ming Dynasty is the original Tianzhu area, which Europeans call it India. Currently, there are a bunch of messy countries and the largest Mughal Empire. The total population of all these countries is about 100 million, but most of them are extremely poor. Similar to our refugees, their lives are cheaper than livestock, and like our inner countryside, they rely on hand-spinning and weaving cloth, and are also important cotton-producing areas.

Even if our cotton cloth is better, there will be no more than 10 million people who have money to buy our cotton cloth on this land. In fact, most of them may not even afford to buy locally produced cloth.

And this is the only piece of land with a population of more than 10 million.

As for Thaisy.

The Netherlands has only one and six million people.

The whole of Taisie is probably less than ten million, and they are also trying to enter the industrial age with the textile industry.

Africa is left.

The people there were not wearing any clothes at all.

Most of them are still in the wilderness, almost the same as wild beasts.

So who will the cotton cloth production in Suzhou Prefecture be sold to after ten times increase? To sell it to the extremely poor Indians, or to the Thais who are desperately exporting to the outside world? Or to Africa, which does not wear clothes at all? We do have a lot of people outside, but unfortunately, there are very few people who can buy clothes, there are still people who don’t wear them at all, and they are also taking out food.

Industry and Commerce?

The cotton cloth market in the whole world is not enough to support ten Suzhou people."

Yang Xin said.

It really can't be maintained.

When the British Empire needed to use cannons to open markets, there were only a few hundred thousand textile workers in the whole UK. How many machine owners are there in Suzhou? Almost half of the city in Suzhou, the north and east of Suzhou City, it can almost be said that the same machine owners are all, conservatively estimated to be more than 500,000 people rely on the textile industry to live.

They are indeed not large industries, not steam engines and industries.

But they have a huge number.

And this is just Suzhou City, and there are more Suzhou Prefecture in the entire Suzhou Prefecture. Even Shengze is known as the sunrise and the sunrise is thousands of silks and clothes are all over the world.

What is the result of a tenfold expansion?

Economic crisis.

Rely on exports?

One-third of the world's population is in the Ming Dynasty, and two-thirds of the remaining are mostly poor. Why did the Ming Dynasty export large quantities of linen to the Americas? That is, the Indians there could not afford cotton, and cheap linen was more in line with their consumption level. The rest of those who could afford clothes were produced by themselves, and even the textile industry in Europe was still doing the same thing. This country did not need to use large-scale industrial exports to make money.

Because the Ming Dynasty had achieved similar goals based on the scale of handicrafts, the world's silver was flowing into the Ming Dynasty. The ideals achieved by the British using naval guns and steam engines were realized by lying down.

This country does not need an industrial revolution for the time being.

She needs an agricultural revolution.

She also doesn't lack money.

She only lacks food.

The industrialization of the UK relies on the entire world's population to support less than 10 million people to achieve industrialization. The Ming Dynasty wanted to use only 500 million world population to support the industrialization of a country with a population of more than 150 million...

The world means you are funny?

One hundred and fifty million?

Even Nanzhili alone cannot support it.

As for the current world population, it is probably able to support the industrialization of Susong-Chang Sanfu.

"But can the problem be solved by beating the local tyrants and sharing the land?"

Xu Guangqi said.

"Yes, because fighting the local tyrants and sharing the land allows everyone in the Ming Dynasty to afford new clothes, and even wear more than one new clothes every year. This year, the number of cotton cloth sold by Suzhou cloth merchants to Zhaoyi City has doubled compared to the past.

Because those who can’t afford to buy cloth can afford to buy cloth after they have divided the fields.

Some people even buy silk to wear.

Whether you believe it or not, there is a theory that you can try and set a rule for your tenants, that is, you only buy the Xu family's cloth, and then you reduce the land rent to 50%, and wait for a year to see if your losses are really huge. Then set the same rule for the Xu family's workers, and then increase their wages. Finally, you can see if they have increased the sales of Xu's cotton cloth."

Yang Xin said.

The Red Turban Army is real.

Because the land rent of the Apocalypse is physical, the common people can only grow food. The flood did not feel the change before. After the new food came down this autumn, the militia who suddenly had no worries about eating almost set off a frenzy of making new clothes.

Suzhou was caught off guard.

The price of cotton cloth in Suzhou was increased by 20% by these militiamen who were crazy about making new clothes.

And not just new clothes, the militia who finally had the remaining money even set off a wave of marrying a new wife. Countless bachelors who had no money to marry began to realize their dreams after the new food came down.

Then their marriage led to the increase in consumption, building new houses, buying pots and pans, buying jewelry for new daughter-in-laws, and even buying big animals, which made the prices of cattle and donkeys rise a lot. Even the craftsmen who built small boats were busy day and night. After all, small boats are the main means of transportation in that area, and who doesn’t want to drive a new boat to pick up the new daughter-in-law?

This is domestic demand.

This is the real way the Ming Dynasty is going to take.

Xu Guangqi was pondering.

Of course, Yang Xin did not expect him to change anything because of this, but for now, the gentry Su Song did change. Faced with the threat of the Red Turban Army, they did try to ease the conflicts so that the poor on their own territory could not cause trouble. After all, judging from the situation in Changzhou and Zhenjiang, if this happens, their group training will be very lingering. Tens of thousands of group training may be overwhelmed by crazy people, and group training will cost money.

Instead of continuing to increase the number of group training, they may not be able to suppress it in the end. Why not give up some benefits to the poor and ease the conflicts between the two sides to maintain it? They don’t really have to rely on 60% to rent the land, and 50% of the land rent is not unacceptable.

This is what Yang Xin wants to see.

He did not want to see the land fall into a lasting war.

The Red Turban Army was to force the gentry to make some changes.

The main reason is that all the gentry in this area have moved into industry and commerce, and agriculture itself is only a part of their wealth, and its proportion is constantly declining.

They have room for concessions.

The concessions have little impact on them.

But it's just this area.

Don’t think about other places. Those pure land gentry will never give in. Yang Xin is still very clear about this. They are not gentry like Su Song. They rely on the exploitation of tenants and demand that they reduce their rent? They would rather use swords and guns, and they are used to swords and guns. It is the end of Chongzhen that Sun Chuanting was only cleaned up the gentry’s land and was crazy revenge from them!

And that was when Li Zicheng's knife was almost slashed to his neck, those pure land gentry were stubborn at this point.

At this time, there was noisy outside.

Yang Xin and Xu Guangqi walked out of the Huangji Palace, and then they saw another group of ministers coming. The leader was also a Grand Secretary, Zhu Yanxi, the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion. He was not very responsible for the affairs, mainly because he was responsible for revising the records of the two dynasties. But at this moment, Grand Secretary Zhu also had a serious face, and behind him were Zhao Nanxing, the left censor of the Censorate. The number of people in this team was smaller than the previous one, but the level of officials was generally higher, especially the left and right censors of the Censorate.

They also walked directly to the Qianqing Gate behind.

"Old Master Zhu, where are you going?"

Yang Xin shouted enthusiastically.

Zhu Yanxi bowed to him casually, but did not answer him.

Zhao Nanxing's eyes were a little complicated behind him.

The current situation is really messy. Yang Xin is undoubtedly their biggest enemy, but Yang Xin is their side at this moment, because Yang Xin is behind the queen, and he will not tolerate Keshi getting this Empress Dowager. The main opponent they have to face is not the eunuch party, but the same Donglin party, and the former core of the Donglin party. The biggest enemy has the same interests at this moment, and his former comrades have become enemies.

Zhao Nanxing was almost in chaos at this moment.

Yang Xin looked at him with a smile.

The two looked at each other silently like a pair of dead glasses.

This team just passed by.

"I just like watching this, Mr. Xu, don't you go to watch the fun together?"

Yang Xin said to Xu Guangqi.

Needless to say, these people are going to fight Gu Bingqian's group. There are two cabinet masters, one is the Grand Secretary of Jianji Hall and the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion. Currently, the cabinet is the two of them, except for the chief minister Ye Xianggao, the Grand Secretary of the Dongge and Minister of War Sun Chengzong, and the Grand Secretary of Wuying Hall Zhu Guozhen. Currently, there are five Grand Secretarys in the cabinet, and the remaining old ministers basically resign themselves, including Liu Yiyin, who was resigned. Now the two Grand Secretary each brought a group of ministers to set up a ring outside the Qianqing Gate. This is a grand event, so Governor Yang of course has to watch the fun.

"I don't have this interest!"

Xu Guangqi said speechlessly.
Chapter completed!