Chapter 488 Zhu Yuanzhang’s Showdown: Fourth Brother, Are You Willing to Come Back?

In the carriage, everyone was stunned by the scene before them.

Rows of round cement covers with a diameter of four or five meters, like private soldiers buried deep underground, were arranged on the plains in the suburbs of Yanjing.

Each round cement cover was connected to an iron pipe painted black, as thick as an arm.

Countless iron pipes, neatly arranged, finally converged into a thick black iron pipe as thick as a person's thigh.

Rows of camphor trees were planted around this huge wide building that revealed the majesty of industry.

I didn't smell the stinking feces and urine as I imagined.

Instead, the unique smell of camphor trees, which refreshed the mind, repelled insects and deodorized, diffused in through the gaps in the car window glass in a short moment.

Workers in blue work clothes were busy in the meantime.

Each worker had a mask on his mouth.

Everyone present already knew about this thing called a mask.

The rescue team in the Yanfan Army often wore it.

When the imperial court reorganized the army, it also introduced masks when it fully introduced the Yanfan Army Rescue Team system.

This mask is made of two layers of cotton cloth with several layers of spun yarn sandwiched between them.

"Not only do the people of Yanfan wear clothes made of canvas, but even this lowly group of people who play with shit and urine wear clothes made of canvas, and those ignorant women in our Daming actually think canvas is high-end fabric...

Lü Ben looked at the busy workers in the distance and sneered.

Hu Weiyong's lips twitched fiercely.

Yanfan's canvas was indeed hyped up as high-end fabric by a group of noble ladies in Jinling City who secretly learned the new style of Yanfan.

The price is very expensive.

In fact, Zhu Silang said that this kind of fabric is actually very cheap because it uses cheap linen and cotton and linen blends.

It is cheaper than the silk and cotton blend that first appeared in Fujian.

The production process should not be difficult.

However, the noble ladies in Jinling have no interest in promoting Daming to produce canvas.

In the eyes of these powerful people, if Daming produces cheap canvas, those mud-legged people will wear the same as them, how can they show their status.

Moreover, he can be sure that even if Daming can Self-produced.

I am afraid that the noble ladies of the Ming Dynasty will still pursue Yanfan canvas.

No matter if they are willing to admit it or not.

With the introduction of new carriages, clocks, bicycles, hand-cranked sewing machines...

These things into the Ming Dynasty, anything with the Yanfan label, even if the Ming Dynasty has it, seems to be more noble than the Ming Dynasty.

Just like the bicycle factory that Yanfan Tuqiao Village helped build for the Crown Princess.

As far as he knows.

Even if this bicycle factory will soon be able to produce bicycles produced by the Ming Dynasty.

But children from families like theirs would rather buy a more expensive Yanfan bicycle.

In fact, this is also what they are afraid of.

The evil wind of Yanfan is uncontrollably affecting the psychology of everyone in the Ming Dynasty!

In the end, if one day, when everyone in the Ming Dynasty thinks that everything in Yanfan is better and more excellent.

How can this group of people deal with Zhu Silang?

...

Zhu Yuanzhang came back to his senses after a while, "Let's go and take Dad to see it. "

As he spoke, he pushed open the car door and walked down.

Zhu Yuanzhang moved, and the crowd, who were shocked by the monotony, order, and grandeur of the industry in front of them, got off the car one after another.

Zhu Di led everyone forward.

When they came to the first row, in front of ten circular cement lids with a diameter of five meters, everyone discovered that there was a small lid on the huge lid.

Zhu Di pointed and introduced: "Father, this is a biogas tank. All kinds of domestic sewage in the city, as well as human and livestock feces, will be washed here through toilets and feces collection areas in the city through water flow. ”

Yanjing has a population of 700,000.

The domestic waste generated requires a thousand circular biogas tanks with a diameter of five meters and a depth of eight meters for recycling.

"Biogas is a gas produced by composting. The workers here have a daily job of chopping the collected straw stalks with animal-powered guillotines, and then discharge the domestic waste into the biogas tank according to the law of circulation. Biogas can be produced in almost ten days..."

...

Zhu Di walked forward while changing his position.

Zhu Yuanzhang listened carefully while counting the workers he could see.

There were at least more than a thousand people just by his sight!

"How is the profit?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked at some point.

Zhu Di glanced at Xiong Ying and Cai Lu who were following him, "This biogas plant was built two years ago. The investment in the construction of the biogas plant, the laying of gas pipelines, and the installation of street lights... In short, the investment in the lighting system of the entire Yanjing is all the responsibility of the biogas plant. ”

"Our Yanfan regime holds 30% of the shares, and the workers and the biogas plant union hold 70% of the shares. "

"At that time, the construction of this project cost 200,000 taels of silver."

At that time, it happened to be the peak period of migration and transportation of Mongolian captives.

They could not arrange for the huge population that arrived in a short time.

It's not that there was no land.

At that time, the construction of the immigrant village lagged far behind the speed of migration.

It's impossible to ignore all the people who migrated to Yanjing, mark off a piece of land, and leave them there, letting them open up wasteland and build houses by themselves, right?

This is irresponsible.

Whether it's Mongolian captives or people who migrated from the Central Plains.

They are unfamiliar with the place and have not learned the order and discipline brought by socialization.

In a place like Luzon, where malaria is very easy to get, if you ignore it, it will inevitably cause a large number of deaths.

Therefore, the migrants can only be managed in a semi-militarized manner.

Using the method of work-for-relief.

On the one hand, some strong laborers were organized to reclaim wasteland and build a complete immigrant village.

The remaining population was used to build the infrastructure of Yanjing.

Roads, industrial zones, biogas plants, etc.

During the construction process, a group of industrial workers were also trained, and many people who originally wanted to farm also decided to stay in Yanjing as workers.

At the same time, when these migrants were lined up for diversion and arrangement, every household earned a sum of money during the work-for-relief period.

This money also gave these people who were almost penniless when they migrated to Luzon the capital to start over.

This money was eventually converted into expenses for purchasing farm tools, livestock, pots and pans, and kitchen utensils.

It promoted the industry and trade of Yanfan.

Of course, in the years when Yanjing was built.

The deficit rate was also very high.

Almost every year, they had to conduct huge amounts of loans with factory owners and merchants like Shen Zhi.

The Economic Research Department under the Ministry of Finance.

From this, a theory was also proposed: a certain effective deficit rate (used for basic livelihood construction, not for enjoyment and squandering) will help economic development.

The concept of deficit finance was also proposed.

The terms deficit rate and deficit finance were named by him.

But he did not participate in these concepts.

They were all developed by the Economic Research Department led by Jiang Jinzhong based on the results of Yanfan's practice.

Now, this group of people are studying what the maximum upper limit of the deficit rate is in an environment where gold and silver coins are used.

And when the deficit rate is at what position, it is most beneficial to economic development.

For their research.

He is very supportive.

The importance of the Economic Research Department is even equivalent to that of the Technical Research Department!

In this era, the research on the economy in the Central Plains is actually ahead of the world, just like science and technology and agriculture.

The famous "Salt and Iron Theory" is the best proof.

Wang Anshi's reform is actually an economic reform.

But the original economic research results of the Central Plains were largely based on the small peasant economy.

They are not suitable for the economy of Yanfan, where the proportion of industry and commerce is increasing.

If the industry develops.

But the operating laws of the industrial economy, based on industry, and the operating laws of the regime's implementation of economic policies have not developed with progress.

Something will definitely happen in the future.

He is very confident now.

Starting from this historical fork in the road.

China will continue to lead the world not only in science and technology and culture.

Regarding economy and finance, it will also continue to lead the world.

"In the two years since its completion, while we are paying the workers, we also expect that by the end of this year, we will be able to pay off all the initial investment costs. Next year, we will enter the profit period. Such a factory serving the 700,000 people in Yanjing will support a total of 1,500 people, allowing 1,500 people to live with an annual income of at least ten taels of silver."

"Although it is a bit shabby to work in this industry, the salary and dividends are actually higher than that of an ordinary worker in the factory. Therefore, many people in Yanjing want to work in the biogas factory."

"In the future, the Yanfan court will gradually withdraw from the management of the factory and hand it over to the union for management. We will only retain a certain share, collect a certain dividend and play a supervisory role."

...

"Fourth uncle, is it so profitable just to sell fermented fertilizer?" Xiong Ying asked.

Everyone looked at Zhu Di.

This profit really surprised them.

Invest 200,000 silver.

Recover the cost in two years.

Not to mention the maintenance costs during the period, the costs generated by the workers' salaries.

Just recovering the cost means that the sale of fermented fertilizer every year can sell 100,000 taels of silver? !

Seeing everyone's faces full of surprise and disbelief, Zhu Di knew what they were thinking. He looked at Xiong Ying and Cai Lu and asked with a smile: "Do you know how many gangs in Jinling City control the seemingly shabby business of collecting night incense?"

"How many people with difficult lives are responsible for collecting night incense? How many people are supported by the night incense industry chain?"

Although night incense is shabby.

But such a humble thing has supported many people.

Like Jinling, a big city with a population of millions.

The economic benefits generated by night incense are actually very huge.

It's just because this matter is shabby that everyone present has never really understood it.

And those gangs of all kinds of people are making money quietly.

Although he has not investigated it.

But it is also certain that the gang leader who controls the night fragrance industry chain in Jinling City can get at least thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver from this industry chain every year.

There are at least 20 or 30 gangs like this in Jinling City, if not a hundred!

"Take the biogas plant in Yanjing as an example. Each biogas pool needs to be cleaned every month. A biogas pool can produce 3,000 bags of highly fertile fermented fertilizer every month, and this factory has 1,000 biogas pools."

"The annual output of fertilizer is more than 2 million bags. If the people drive to the biogas plant to buy it, the price of a bag is only one penny..."

"One acre of land only costs five pennies, and using five bags of fermented fertilizer, according to our statistics, can achieve a 20% increase in production."

...

It was approaching noon.

When the weather became hotter.

Zhu Di led everyone away.

When the convoy left the biogas plant, more than a hundred flat-bed bullock carts passed by the convoy and headed towards the biogas plant.

"Boss Wang, are you here to pull fertilizer again?"

"Yes, Village Chief Wang is here to buy fertilizer for your village? Why bother with this? It will be more convenient for me to deliver it to the village for you."

"Haha, Mr. Wang's family, our village has just been established for a year and is still very poor. It's good to save a little. When our village becomes rich, I will buy with Mr. Wang's family. I won't have to walk more than fifty miles just to save a penny. Way to go."

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Everyone in the car was thoughtful as they listened to the discussion.

Zhu Yuanzhang kept watching as the bullock cart walked away, entered the factory, and disappeared from sight. Then he turned his head and looked at Zhu Di, "Is there anyone else engaged in this business?"

Zhu Di smiled and nodded, "Not only are there, but there are many. Buy them in the factory and bring your own sacks. Each bag costs one penny. If sold to a village with a radius of a hundred miles, a bag will cost at least one and a half cents, or even two cents. Some local village communities, during the slack season, gather their own or neighboring villages’ horse-drawn carriages to work together to haul fertilizer to the factory. Some businessmen hundreds of miles away directly hire ships for transportation.”

"Don't the people make their own fertilizer?" Ma Xiuying asked curiously: "My mother remembers that when you were in Tuqiao Village, you took the villagers to make your own fertilizer."

Zhu Di nodded, "The rural areas in Yanfan also make their own retting. However, in a village, the amount of retting fertilizer is small and cannot satisfy all their cultivated land. If it is simply made from crop straw, the fertilizer effect is not as good as that made in a biogas factory. In addition, even if you buy it, the additional cost of one acre of land is only ten cents. Compared with the 20% increase in production, this cost is very small, so almost all rural villages are willing to buy some as a supplement. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang gently kneaded and patted his knees, looked at Zhu Di, and said with emotion: "In recent years, your rice from Yan Fan has been imported into the Central Plains at very low prices. Dad thought this was just because your land was vast and sparsely populated, and everyone owned less land. More, more output, less consumption, resulting in lower prices.”

Now it seems that this is not simply the case.

Retting fertilizers, when used on a large scale, can produce great results.

This factory is more like a fertilizer factory than a lighting factory.

"Father, in fact, Yanjing is the only place where we can build such a factory on such a large scale."

other places.

The nominal county seat.

In fact, there are no large cities with tens of thousands of people.

It is said to be a county capital, but the maximum population of a county capital is just over 10,000.

A large number of people are located in the rural areas where the county capital is located.

"In our Ming Dynasty, even a lower county has a population of at least 15,000, and the population concentration reaches this order of magnitude. According to research by our Economic Research Department, investing in a biogas plant can recover the cost within five years, and a In a city with a population of 100,000, the cost of building a biogas plant can be recovered within three years.”

"If biogas plants can implement a worker-share system, biogas plants in cities with a level of less than 100,000 can be liberalized and allowed to be constructed and operated by private parties."

"It is absolutely possible to arrange some in this type of factory. In the city, very poor people can be engaged in work. This will first solve the survival problem of some people."

"Secondly, our Ming Dynasty's city can be illuminated at night, and the economic effects produced by the night economy are also very large. For the court, it can promote the increase of commercial taxes. For ordinary people, wealth circulates in the night economy, regardless of How, they can also get some money in their hands.”

"Finally, for farmers, a large number of biogas plants are also fertilizer plants. One barrel of night scented rice and domestic waste can be mixed with straw for retting, and the fertilizer efficiency is not reduced, and it can produce twenty barrels of fertilizer. The amount of fertilizer, The amount has increased 20 times. The large-scale and centralized retting fertilizers, coupled with the self-retting fertilizers in rural areas, cannot fully meet the needs of agricultural fertilizers. "

"It covers 30% of the farmland in Ming Dynasty. If this part of farmland increases production by 20%, how many more people can be fed?"

"In addition, there are actually many benefits. In fertilizer transportation, either sacks or large wooden barrels with iron hoops are used. Let's talk about sacks. In the Central Plains, we were the first to use hemp to weave clothes. With the emergence of silk and cotton , the economic benefits generated by hemp are gradually decreasing, which is actually a waste in economic operation.

Hemp cultivation does not require much land or manpower. It can be grown even in mountains, forests and slopes, and it does not require too much manpower to weed, water and fertilize.

Our Research Department under the Ministry of Finance tracked and investigated the hemp industry in Yanfan and came to the conclusion that every million sacks are weaved and used, and the entire industry chain starts from the common people growing hemp on the mountain slopes, to rural women weaving sacks, When sold and used, one million sacks can generate economic benefits of one million silver! "

"The common people can benefit from it, and our Yan Fan regime can collect one hundred thousand taels of tax silver from this industrial chain for every one million sacks! The other nine hundred thousand taels of silver flow through the industrial chain. common people and businessmen.”

"So many?" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened.

Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun smiled.

Zhu Di nodded very seriously.

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent.

Thinking.

Actually, there were some things that the fourth child didn’t say.

But from Laosi, cities with a population of less than 100,000 are allowed to privately operate biogas plants with joint-stock workers.

He knew what the fourth child was hinting at.

After a long time.

The carriage has entered Yanjing Avenue.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the flow of people on the street, came back to his senses, and turned to look at Zhu Di, "Fourth brother, you want to tell me that through the control of access policies and biogas plants, we will establish a batch of demonstrations of the employee-share system in the Ming Dynasty. As for the project, let the people living in the city understand the model of employee-shareholding system through the biogas project. Secondly, let Dad be the hero for future innovation and be the first to break the situation, right? "

In fact, the employment-share system exists only in places like Jinling, Peking, and Fujian where Laosi used to be more active.

Most of the other people in the city didn't understand.

This is because many people who hate the employment-share system deliberately restrict the spread of information.

After all, the spread of news about the Ming Dynasty was largely in the hands of gentry, merchants and officials.

"Yes." Zhu Di hummed softly, "With my father's prestige, no one dares to stop me when I come to break the situation. If anyone dares to stop me, my father can take advantage of the situation and kill a group of die-hards on behalf of Xiongying."

"By controlling access policies, establishing a number of privately owned biogas plants with a shareholding system for employees can also cultivate a group of businessmen who support the shareholding system. As long as these people dare to take risks and establish a shareholding system, there will definitely be Some people agree, and some people, because they are hated by the conservatives, can only turn to reform. Of course, there will also be some people who superficially engage in the labor share system, but in fact they are in the Cao camp and their hearts are in the Han Dynasty. For example, Our Mr. Hu.”

"But no matter what, supporting such a group of people is tantamount to revolutionizing the heroes and completing the most difficult breakthrough,"

"In addition, once such a batch of biogas plants are built in the entire Ming Dynasty, the demand for iron will be greatly increased. If nothing else, even if it is only built in Zhili, the iron smelting in Jinling Industrial Zone can be completely revitalized. As for technology, , It’s not a problem at all. Children can help with the process of casting large thin iron pipes and the process of glass firing.”

Zhu Yuanzhang glared slightly and asked with a smile: "Aren't you afraid that after assisting in the construction of glass production technology, there will be competition and squeeze on your Yanfan glass firing factory?"

This is very possible.

Zhu Di smiled, "Don't be afraid. If the access policy to control glass firing technology is passed and a group of factories with employees are supported, the child will only be happy."

First of all, the innovation situation of Ming Dynasty will get better and better.

At the same time, full competition will also be conducive to the industrial upgrading of Yan Fan.

Now burn a glass, blow a glass, blow a glass lampshade.

To be honest, this kind of industry is too low-level.

He doesn't like it anyway.

The most advanced thing is to grind a telescope lens.

He hopes that through full competition, Yanfan's glass industry will develop into telescope lenses on a large scale.

Secondly, the people of Ming Dynasty had more money in their hands.

You can also buy Yanfan's sewing machines, new carriages, bicycles and other products with more advanced industrial technology.

So, in fact, there is no disadvantage at all.

"Fourth, are you willing to come back and inherit my father's throne?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly spoke, staring at Zhu Di.

The fourth child’s words.

Make him understand better.

In terms of mind, Biao'er is actually far behind Laosi.

To be honest, he didn't know how Biao'er would treat the second and third vassal kings after his death.

But through what Lao Si just said about technical assistance, he knew it very well.

If he were the fourth child, he would be his successor.

The fourth child will definitely use the manpower and material resources of the Ming Dynasty to support the second child and the others to go out of the Ming Dynasty and start a career outside the Ming Dynasty, as he had originally advised him to do.

Like the descendants of Genghis Khan.

Just like the Mongolian Hulitai Conference!

This question was indeed asked impulsively, but it was definitely not to test the fourth child.

As long as the fourth child nodded.

After he returns, he will not hesitate to persuade Biao'er to give up his position as crown prince.

Ma Xiuying was stunned for a moment.

Looking into Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, she knew clearly that Chongba meant it.

Looking towards Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun who were also stunned...

Relatives came to the house and they rested, so I started typing. It didn’t reach 8,000 words, but it was back to 6,000. I will strive for 8,000 words tomorrow, but today I have no shame to ask for votes (crying). Sorry, sorry...