During this period of turmoil in the capital, many officers and soldiers in the capital camp took the opportunity to sell their military status, positions, and merits.
The emperor didn't know it yet, but his capital camp was once again riddled with holes almost overnight. Those who could fight were all taken away by the Ministry of War. Some speculators came in instead.
Some of these new people came because of the good treatment in Jingying. Some just want to get an official position and find a way out for the family's children. These people don't know how to direct a battle, let alone the ability to fight.
People who can fight in the Beijing camp are like a flood, they come and go as quickly as they come. Almost all the imposters are gone.
Even those who were originally military households in the capital camp, many people were heartbroken.
This time when the army returned to the court, they all lost confidence in the court due to the court's shady operations. Anyway, they all made money, and many people took advantage of this rare opportunity to leave the Beijing camp.
I heard that Uncle Dingyuan is building an industrial development zone there and also sells textile machinery. It can double the efficiency of spinning and weaving. Flying shuttles, spinning Jennys, water-powered spinning machines, multi-shaft spinning machines, and spindle worsted spinning machines were all developed one after another.
Nowadays, it is said that buying machines and setting up a factory is extremely profitable. Many people plan to pool their money to start a textile factory. Nowadays, the safest businesses in Ming Dynasty are related to food, clothing, housing and transportation.
There was always not enough clothing material in the Ming Dynasty, and even the poor could not afford to wear clothes.
Therefore, it is best to work in the textile industry without worrying about sales. People have to wear clothes, but dressing comes before eating. Human beings are creatures with integrity. Wearing clothes is a sign of civilization.
There are also many people who are ready to rent dry land abandoned by big landowners to grow cotton. They have all studied and understood that they cannot buy land. One is that the tax is too high and the burden is too heavy. There is also the risk of being robbed by the gentry.
It is best to rent land that has been abandoned due to drought. The rent is so low that some of these dry fields cannot even collect seed grains.
The reason why they dare to rent this is because they have steam engines to pump out underground water and turn these dry lands into irrigated lands. The key to this matter is that Dingyuan Bo opened an equipment rental company. Lease water pumps and steam engines from veterans. They just pay the rent. The equipment belongs to Dingyuan Bo. ..net
The first batch of customers are tentatively planned to be these veterans. We will try to gain experience first. As for letting go of other customers, we will wait a few years before talking about it. Yang Fan deliberately supported these veterans so that they could complete primitive accumulation.
In this case, they are not afraid of landlords raising land rents.
If landlords see that they are making money this year, they will want to increase land rents. He moved the steam engine and water pump away and rented other wasteland. There is plenty of wasteland. Without the water pump, these wastelands immediately returned to their original shape.
Anyway, God has not rewarded us with food these years, but it has not rained. It never rains every year.
If the landowner attempts to seize and seize their equipment. Even more impossible. Because the equipment belongs to Dingyuanbo, they are rented. These gentry and landowners were so bold that they dared to occupy and rob Uncle Dingyuan's equipment, unless they were crazy.
As a result, these officers and soldiers from the Beijing camp who had obtained the money quit the army and invested their funds in business.
Some of them run logistics companies. Some rent land to grow cotton and cash crops. Some set up spinning mills and weaving mills. Some even set up garment factories. After all, Xinghe Supermarket and the new Xinghe Department Store sell ready-to-wear clothing. They place orders with garment factories.
The reason why Yang Fan chose to set up an industrial zone in Beitangkou is because it is connected to trains, is close to the seaport and Ji Canal, and is also very close to Dagukou and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
The industrial zone is actually developed and constructed on the saline-alkali land between Dagukou and Beitangkou.
There are currently mainly seafood processing plants and textile factories. There are also some metal tool processing factories. They bought steel raw materials from Zunhua and processed them into tools, farm implements, knives, etc. here. The products here can be sold throughout the Ming Dynasty through canals and seaports.
And there is another advantage here, that is, you don’t have to pay taxes.
None of the wealthy businessmen in the Ming Dynasty paid taxes. Yang Fan naturally doesn't pay taxes either. If Yang Fan pays taxes, wouldn't he become a target of public criticism? Yang Fan wouldn't do such mindless stupidity.
Yang Fan believes that new products
The main thing is to support the industry, and it will naturally reduce the burden, so it is necessary to reduce the burden.
Yang Fan's investment policy is particularly good. First of all, the factory land and factory buildings are constructed, and the rent starts from five years. The first two years are free of rent, and the third year is half of the rent. After that, you can just pay the rent normally.
Xinghe Bank also provides loans. Help factories solve the problem of insufficient working capital.
No physical collateral is required. You can use shares as a mortgage, or apply for a regulatory mortgage on current inventory. The advanced financial methods of later generations were also introduced.
In short, Yang Fan is currently supporting these small and micro enterprises. Because, the exchange in Beijing opened last year. When these enterprises become large-scale, they can go public and raise funds.
Now, many gentry and officials in the Ming Dynasty have realized the necessity of investment. Gradually, they began to take out their hoards of silver to buy stocks and invest in industries they were optimistic about.
More than a dozen stocks that were listed last year all paid dividends of more than 30% at the end of the year. Immediately caused a trend of investing in stocks. Although the imperial court's finances were still so bad, the circulation of silver among the people began to gradually improve.
Now, as the first batch of textile factories have begun operations, the price of textiles has suddenly dropped.
The human-powered hand spinning machine produced by Xincheng Textile Machinery Factory has 80 spindles, which increases the spinning efficiency eight times. Then the price of the veil was greatly reduced. This made the price of weaving in the north lower than that in the south of the Yangtze River for the first time.
This directly squeezed Jiangnan cloth out of the Beizhili market.
The northern market is so hungry that as long as cloth comes out, it will be bought by sellers immediately, and the factory has no worries about sales.
After the large-scale output of cloth, printing and dyeing workshops also appeared on a large scale in the development zone. They would print and dye the gray cloth from the factory into finished cloth. Then go to various places where you can buy it.
In this small place at the mouth of the Haihe River, a revolution is brewing that will change the entire Ming Dynasty, and even change the entire world.
At this time, in Ningyuan, there was a person with a frown on his face. I looked worried at the chart in front of me.
Yuan Chonghuan has made no achievements in the two years since he took office. Not an inch of land in Liaodong has been recovered. At this time, the emperor began to gradually lose patience.
The resources the court invested in him were several times those given to Yang Fan. But Uncle Dingyuan took care of everything in the north. It is said that most of the military expenditures have been recovered. The emperor spent 3.5 million taels and got back 3 million taels.
Such a comparison shows that he is increasingly embarrassed.
"Sir, Master He is here." His chief follower Yuan Gang came in to report.
Yuan Chonghuan sighed, this and He Kegang are really pressing forward step by step.
