Wanli Youming

Chapter 425

Chapter 425

In early summer, as soon as the sky cleared, the dog began to stick out its tongue coating and crawl into the shade of the trees.

People can only stay in the house, read books and listen to music to pass the day.

Only on this day in Yingtian Mansion, when the sky was sunny and the sun was shining brightly, a group of young boys were queuing up to enter the newly established Yingtian Industrial School, sweating all over their heads.

That's right.

When Zhu Yijun agreed with Yingtian Governor Sun Wei to set up a school to train skilled craftsmen, he specifically named the school Yingtian Industrial School.

Xu Minshi didn't procrastinate. In order to increase official benefits as soon as possible, he immediately recruited and assessed a large number of young people to enter the industrial school as soon as he received the approval.

Most of these young people are the children of ordinary people in Jiangnan. They have read some books and know a few words, but because of the limited conditions of their families, they basically only read some books and did not show much potential in the imperial examination. Idle labor at home.

The reason why it is idle labor is because Jiangnan in this era has a lot of people and little land. In addition, land mergers are serious, and the arable land per capita is very small. When working as a long-term or short-term worker, it can only cause the labor force to be idle.

Then, because of the idea of ​​resettling the land and relocating, unless they are the bottom poor who are under great pressure to survive, most of them would rather be unemployed in their hometown than go out to make a living.

The emergence of industrial schools now naturally solves the employment problem of some idle labor, especially those who have read some books.

Zhu Yijun did not interrupt the reforms of Zhang Juzheng's era, even as the emperor, he allowed the reforms to be derived from the economic field to the military and ideological fields. moving forward.

Government-run industries began to show signs of industrialization, and private factories also began to move in this direction.

……

"Numbers are sincere and universally applicable!"

"So if you want to know how to weave, you have to learn, even if you want to manage money at home."

Shangyuan County.

The women's school next to the Liu Family Ancestral Hall.

A woman, Gu Qinglian, who was wearing a sky-colored pair of skirts, was holding a wooden stick to teach a room of girls in front of her, and she was talking about her own views on arithmetic.

It turned out that Zhu Yijun opened mines in Mongolia, carried out infrastructure construction in the pass, such as building the Guantai and Guanlu, and increased subsidies for military households in the Nine Sides. These measures have allowed the cotton industry market in Daming to grow at a high speed, which also made Liu The water-powered spinning wheel of the Quexian family has been increasing rapidly.

Therefore, the Liu family did not cause a large number of women who made a living by spinning to go bankrupt because the hydraulic spinning wheel was the same as the spinning jenny in history, because multiple spindles spun at the same time, nor did they give up because of insufficient market. Large spinning wheel technology, and return to the single-spindle spinning mode that has lower technical requirements for people but is more suitable for the natural economy.

As such.

Liu Quexian's wife, Laidi, also had to personally train more women with higher cultural and technical levels, so that she could manage the yarn farm and operate large spinning machines for herself, so as to solve the problem of insufficient senior technical women workers and management personnel.

Therefore, because Liu Quexian was already an official of the imperial court, Laidi had already appointed her own imperial order, so she had quite a status in the Liu clan, so she opened the Mingde Women's School in the clan to teach women in the clan and relatives to study. Foreign women will be recruited to study, but they have to pay.

However, because Laidi taught these women essentially for the greater development of the textile industry for himself and Liu Quexian, the content of the teaching was not mainly female virtues, but mathematics and literature.

Because factory management requires a lot of calculations and overall planning, it also requires accurate expression, and whether it is oral expression or written expression, it requires a stronger ability in literature.

Now, Laidi has invited the sixth girl Gu Qinglian who was taken in by Wang Changgeng to be the teacher in the school to teach these young girls to read.

This Gu Qinglian herself was originally the daughter of the Gu family of the official family in the southern capital, and was later taken in by Wang Changgeng as a concubine because her family was confiscated. Express your views on mathematics.

Because of the long days and short nights, Laidi saw this scene after noon, and took down an official newspaper from the newsstand in the school to read, and planned to see if there was any news about Liu Quexian.

In the end, she saw that an official newspaper reported that the imperial court set up a steam power R&D center in Zuo Temple, and she became interested for a while, wondering what steam power is. If steam power is used to drive a large spinning wheel, it will be more powerful than the water power of her own home. Is the spinning wheel more efficient?

The reason why Laidi pays attention to this issue is that the Liu family is no longer the only one in the Jiangnan Dazhifang with a large water-powered spinning wheel.

Although many wealthy gentry did not dare to seize the Liu family's property because Liu Quexian was an official of the imperial court, they still obtained the reason why the Liu family's cotton cloth was cheap through various means, and began to build large hydraulic spinning wheels. If we want to continue to grow bigger and stronger in the textile industry, we need further technological innovation.

but.

For the Liu family, the impetus for technological innovation is not so strong now, mainly because the cotton cloth market is still expanding rapidly, and the major internal weaving workshops are mainly focused on expanding the production scale, and have not yet had the energy to improve production technology. , after all, the latter requires more time cost.

The cotton industry market has indeed been expanding. Every year, merchants in the Ming Dynasty order a large amount of cotton cloth from the mainland to export to the customs or to the sea.

Especially after Haojing was taken over by the Daming government and through Wang Xijue's reform, the trade routes to Goa and Luzon were operated by domestic merchants under the name of Daming's shipping company, which directly further expanded the export volume of Daming's cotton cloth .

Because the cotton industry in these places can’t compete with Daming at all, and the cotton cloth they produce is neither as cheap as Daming’s cotton cloth nor as high-quality as Daming’s cotton cloth. Therefore, being a merchant of Ming Dynasty can trade with overseas natives better than second-hand merchants like Xiyi fan merchants. When Shi Geng dared to lower the price, the cotton market in these places could basically be directly occupied by Daming cotton cloth.

Turn the words back.

Because of this, after glancing at the latest news in the official newspaper, Laidi put this idea behind her, and only told her big maid:

"Order the weaving workshop to recruit more girls from poor families to train as new weavers. You don't need to buy out the contract, you can only hire for five years, you can take four days off every month, and you will also be paid during the training period, half of the wages of the weavers." ! In case there will be another big order at that time, and the weavers will not be enough!"

The big maid bowed her hands and said yes.

"Any out-of-province weavers who come to our Wang's weaving workshop and are willing to work for more than ten years will be given ten taels of silver dollars to settle down, and five taels of silver dollars will be given to them for less than five years!"

"If a family member needs to find an errand, our Wang family will help them solve it."

In Zhejiang, the Zhang family, a large weaving family, is even more exaggerated. In order to rob people and expand their production scale, they did not hesitate to pay high prices for housing expenses to go to other provinces to attract people. Take a slow step, the huge profits of the cotton industry brought by the New Deal will only be taken away by other wealthy businessmen.

(End of this chapter)