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Section 5 Discussion of Trade 1
"There's probably no chance of selling it to Hou Jin. Huang Taiji was an anti-smoking activist at first, and then a tobacco trade protectionist. It's really not easy for you to sell this thing to him."
Tobacco was introduced into Liaodong during the Tianqi period. It is said that the hobby was brought by soldiers transferred from Guangdong to Liaodong. Later, it was either through trade, capture by prisoners, or the conspiracy of the Koreans - anyway, by the time of Huang Taiji When he claimed to be emperor, some people in Houjin also smoked tobacco. Not only did some smoke it, but it was probably quite widespread, so much so that Huang Taiji enjoyed the title of the first ruler in the world to officially order a ban on smoking. Yu Eshui said At the time of this historical record, Hou Jin should have issued the first anti-smoking edict, because a few years later, he issued a decree to revoke the anti-smoking edict, but he only asked his subjects to sow and smoke themselves and not to go. North Korea bought it - typical trade protectionism.
A few years later, the Li Dynasty, which was not very active in fighting, was probably planning to use tobacco to engage in an "unrestricted war" against Hou Jin, so it sent a large amount of tobacco to the Manchu nobles and high-ranking officials. According to the actual records of the Ri Dynasty, Crown Prince Sohyeon of the Joseon Dynasty was a hostage in Shenyang at that time. The North Korean envoy secretly brought 300 kilograms of tobacco as a gift. Huang Taiji believed that this product was "non-native and a waste of wealth, so he ordered a ban." After discovering it, he ordered a strict ban again.
“So it’s still difficult for us to sell cigarettes to Houjin.”
"It's only 1629 now, let's take this opportunity to make a fortune first."
"The quality of Shengchuan brand cigarettes is a luxury. Do you really think that wild boar skin is a stupid thing for people with too much money?" Yanquezhi, who had tasted local cigarettes, said, "The cut tobacco keeps falling down, and it will break after a few puffs." My fingers are burning."
The Chuan Chuan people are not interested in the rare and special Chuan Chuan brand cigarettes. Although the tobacco imported from Macau is of good quality, it is not flue-cured tobacco processed according to modern people's habits. In addition, it has inferior cigarette paper and poor rolling technology - smokers must be very careful, otherwise the loose tobacco shreds will be He suddenly fell and burned a hole in his clothes. Making cigarettes just something better than nothing.
Cigarette paper was a special kind of paper in the 20th century. It is a thin paper with a weight of no more than 25g per square meter. The whiteness of the paper reaches above 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, with some bleached wood pulp or straw pulp also added. In order to adapt to the burning speed of tobacco, a small amount of combustion accelerant is added. A pressure roller is also used to press rib marks on the paper to increase air permeability and improve appearance.
If you have to make do with the shabby, the paper used in student homework books is a more suitable substitute. It's a pity that the paper that time travelers can make cannot even reach this level.
Although the papermaking workshop has been running for a long time, the quality of its products 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 output of paper. But the paper workers have nothing to do - they lack two key paper-making raw materials: caustic soda and sulfuric acid.
Without caustic soda, papermaking workshops can only use a very small number of raw materials to make paper, including all kinds of rags recovered from the "purification" process of immigrants, fishermen's discarded hemp nets, hemp ropes, 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. It does not play any role other than solving the use of toilet paper and wrapping paper in Chuan Chuan Group. So much so that the cultural and educational departments can only give students slates and ask them to write and calculate with chalk on the slates.
"It's not a big problem. We'll try to put it into production within the next month." Ji Sixui patted his chest. More than a thousand workers went to the construction site to erect the large structural frames and various towers using manual hoisting methods.
"I'm relieved if three acids and two alkalis can be released." Ma Qianzhu said, "So many important things are stuck here now."
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 entire island of Hainan are too small to provide us with all the manpower and material resources for industrialization. We need to build and Immigration has destined that the countries passing through must trade to build a nation. Light industry planning should also be based on this aspect."
Lu Rong, general manager of the foreign trade company, stood up and said: "I would like to report on the foreign trade company's comprehensive plan for future trade. This plan requires the support of colleagues from the industrial port."
"You can refer to the current situation of international trade. We mainly import raw materials, rough processing products and light industrial products with low technical requirements: such as raw cotton, ore, pig iron, non-ferrous metals, timber, livestock and population. In the first five-year plan, we crossed China's exports of light industrial products should reach the top, accounting for 60%. High-tech industrial products account for 20 to 30%. Ocean trade services and financial services account for 10%.
“The agricultural and light industrial products that pass through may include: various wines, sugar, sewing needles, silk, glass, ceramics, cans, paper, fertilizers, pepper, and tea.
“Spices, tea, silk, and ceramics are re-exported. We do not directly produce the products ourselves, but enter the trade in the form of middlemen.
"Other products are provided by industrial outlets. These are products for which we have unique technology or production capacity advantages.
"Relatively high-tech industrial products are: medicines, soaps, MSG, optical instruments, precision instruments and tools - the latter items only need to be made better than the European products at the time. Not only can there be profit opportunities for sales 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 party's outstanding scientific and technological talents, and ultimately achieve the complete disintegration and elimination of the European scientific system -
Dr. Zhong was beaming when he heard this: "Now I'm going to trick Huygens, and recruit him as my assistant." He suddenly frowned, "It's terrible, he was only born this year. It will take at least another 20 years to be my assistant."
"Who is Huygens?"
"The inventor of modern clocks." Zhong Lishi said, "Strictly speaking, he is the inventor of the pendulum principle. But I decided to attribute these inventions to myself."
Ma Qianzhu said: "Clocks are very useful to us, but as trade goods they can only be regarded as luxuries. I don't see the need for accurate timekeeping among the people of the Ming Dynasty."
"Europeans should have a relatively large demand. They have advanced navigation, and precise timing is very important for navigators' positioning in the sea."
"This will completely destroy the future European watch industry." Lu Rong was immersed in his theory of "conquering enemies through trade."
Ma Qianzhu nodded, it was appropriate for him to continue.
"Then there are shipbuilding and various printed matter, which are all very competitive."
Li Haiping said: "Well, actually I think that at a certain time - for example, halfway through the first five-year plan, local gentry and businessmen should be encouraged to invest in things like instant noodle factories, canneries, and rice noodle factories. We provide cheap technology and machines, and they invest in setting up factories, operating and selling them. We have these things to do civilian industry. As long as it is not core, we leave it to private individuals. They know better how to operate and make money. We only need to teach them modern industrial production. Organizational and business management will do.”
Wang Luobin said: "This is too far away. It is more appropriate to engage in a planned economy at the moment - the planned economy is conducive to the unified dispatch of manpower and material resources. Besides, we are training a new generation of industrial workers, which cannot be effective in one or two years. You can Enterprises have been privatized, and the characteristic of capitalists is to make profits, so they have no interest in cultivating industrial workers. And Lingao does not necessarily have such capable gentry and businessmen."
Yu Eshui shook his head repeatedly: "Everyone, although the tone of our trade-based nation is not problematic, have you ever considered a single issue?"
Everyone's eyes glanced over together.
The imperial history geek said calmly: "Everyone, before you continue the discussion, I have to read a few paragraphs to you - I have recently read a few books about what foreigners saw in China in the late Qing Dynasty, and I feel that the consumption of the feudal small-scale peasant economy Habits and 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 their fabrics. If they cannot be used in one place, they must be used in another place. Some rags must also be put to good use. They are used to hold shoe soles. These items will always be put to their best use. , the final scraps should also be used with other fabrics until they are used up.
"Three bearers carried him for five hours and miles, and then walked back to Canton to eat the breakfast provided for them. They walked 46 miles before breakfast, half of which was with weights, and that was just To save 5 cents."
"Most of China's wheelbarrows rattle when pushed, which is due to the lack of lubricating oil. However, those with numb nerves think that noise is cheaper than oil, and would rather rattle than add a few drops of oil.
"A Chinese mother saw that her child was covered in dust, so she used an old broom to sweep the dirt off her child. A curious foreign woman asked, "Does your child bathe every day?" The Chinese mother replied angrily, He has never been washed since he was born. For ordinary Chinese people, even if a soap retailer puts up a sign that is cheaper than dirt, it will not have any effect.
"It is generally impossible to buy any ready-made tools, but you can buy some semi-finished products, and then process and modify them yourself. Because processing by yourself is always cheaper than buying ready-made tools. Everyone is looking for cheap, so there are no ready-made products.
"Although these descriptions may be biased and exaggerated, they can at least prove that the consumption concept of small peasant economic society is completely different from that of modern people. From them, we can summarize the general consumption of the lower class working people in ancient times - at least during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Observation: Time, energy, comfort and convenience are all "free". As long as you can save even a copper plate, you can squander these "free" elements. This consumption habit can still be seen in some old people today. Residue
"Strictly speaking, we have not really been involved in the production of mass consumer goods so far. From this, we can draw a topic: How to transform the consumption habits of ancient people in this time and space when we follow the economic route to build a country through trade."
