The Ming Dynasty followed an economic route with public ownership as the mainstay, and the economic lifeline is now in the hands of the national team.
Of course, private businesses are not absent. Su Yonglin does not allow individuals to run businesses, but the scale is small and common in the catering, accommodation and small commodity industries.
Key fields and some emerging fields are now under the control of the national team, so the scale of the Ming Dynasty's state-owned economy is indeed very large.
A long time ago, the private salt trade with Jiangnan Country, controlled by the national team, was doing very well.
Now the various business categories controlled by the national team are also doing well.
For example, industries such as agricultural tools, agricultural livestock breeding, fertilizers, and weaving that are currently needed in large quantities by the private sector are all state-owned in the Ming Dynasty.
The essence of the agricultural tools industry is steel smelting.
In the past, when the efficiency, quality, and quantity of steel smelting were insufficient, the salt and iron government camp really suffered for the people, so that they could not afford expensive salt. In winter, they did not dare to turn over the soil at will because of the lack of farm tools, and they could not freeze to death. locust eggs, causing an insect plague.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the industry was reorganized, iron and steel smelting was reorganized, and the sales of agricultural tools were reorganized. High-quality and low-priced iron farm tools were introduced to the private sector. State-owned farm tool shops were set up in counties across the country to sell high-quality agricultural tools of various types directly to farmers, which greatly improved the industry. improve farmers’ production efficiency.
In addition, after the craftsmen successfully illuminated the coking technology, the quality of Mingguo Steel was further improved.
Although coking technology has not yet been fully promoted and the production capacity of high-quality steel is not high, it is only a matter of time. In the future, not only ordnance but also agricultural equipment will be able to achieve high-quality steel.
In addition, the breeding of agricultural livestock and the manufacture of fertilizers were also state-owned in the Ming Dynasty.
The breeding and sale of agricultural livestock such as cattle, donkeys and mules are under the overall control of the Livestock Department under the Ministry of Finance.
They have set up branches in various provinces across the country to carry out professional breeding and reproduction of cattle, donkeys and mules, and streamline everything into a scientific process to increase production, reduce costs and benefit farmers.
Fertilizer is the top priority of agricultural production.
In the era when there were no chemical fertilizers, compost was a common fertilizer used by farmers. Livestock excrement and human excrement were both important raw materials. In the past, there were private tycoons who made a fortune by collecting excrement and making fertilizer. In some places, there were even Monopoly power - shit bully.
The existence of feces bullies makes it difficult for local people to poop freely.
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court, which attached great importance to agricultural production, quickly conducted a thorough investigation of the composting situation across the country under the arrangement of Su Yonglin, and then proposed a state-run fertilizer plan.
This plan is very interesting.
Because this plan can also involve the Ming Dynasty's sanitary revolution and the army's firearms needs.
The sanitary revolution is something that Su Yonglin is very concerned about. Ancient China was not unhygienic. Larger cities had very good sanitary conditions. They had public toilets and specialized personnel to clean up excrement and urine. Public urination and defecation were not allowed. Want a spanking or something.
But this is limited to some big cities or famous historical and cultural cities. Small cities and rural areas do not have such treatment. After all, there are relatively few big cities and famous historical and cultural cities. Most of them are small cities and villages. There is no hygiene in these places. .
It's okay to have a feces bully, at least he can collect feces, but in many places there aren't even feces bullies, so the environment where people live is called a clean and sanitary one!
Out of various considerations, Su Yonglin started a nationwide public toilet construction plan during his time at the Zhongdu General Affairs Bureau.
We strive to have at least one public toilet in an administrative village under the guidance of the village farmers' association with a decent sanitary environment that allows the whole village to relieve themselves conveniently, and then require all people in the village to go to the public toilet for convenience and not to defecate anywhere.
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If he is found out once, he will be publicly criticized and sentenced to public punishment. If he is found out twice, he will be fined.
All in all, it is necessary to allow all people in the village to go to the toilet in the public toilet. After using the toilet, they must scoop out water and wash their hands. The cleaning work of the public toilet is left to the farmers in the village in turns, so as to spread the correct concept of hygiene to everyone in the Ming Dynasty. A corner.
This is an important task for the staff of village farmers' associations and collective farms. The higher-level farmers' association organizations and the Renaissance Association organizations must go to the countryside from time to time to conduct random inspections on the rationality of the location and number of public toilets and the acceptance of farmers, and then report to the Renaissance Association in real time. central government to facilitate the central government to adjust policies at any time.
While developing hygienic habits, this method also facilitates the centralized collection of excrement and the centralized production of compost, and this task is left to the rural farmers' association.
The rural farmers' association should set up a composting brigade specifically responsible for this work, which will go to the public toilets in the village to collect animal excrement and human excrement for specialized composting and fermentation.
After the compost is successfully produced, it will be sold to village farmers' associations at relatively low national guidance prices for uniform distribution and use to increase agricultural output and increase the production of food and cash crops.
As of the beginning of the sixth year of Hongwu's reign, the number of administrative villages that had built at least one public toilet had exceeded 30,000, according to the Central Committee of the Renaissance.
As funds are released and supervision is in place, this number will continue to increase. As the population increases in the future, one public toilet will definitely not be enough, and the number will inevitably continue to increase.
The public toilet establishment plan can not only affect agriculture and the sanitary environment, but also the military.
Gunpowder requires saltpeter, and good saltpeter mines are very hard to find. The saltpeter mine exploration team sent by Su Yonglin is currently running around the Central Plains, exploring for saltpeter mines everywhere, but the harvest is very limited. The current saltpeter mines alone are definitely not enough to provide an army. The demand for gunpowder.
The Privy Council in charge of military logistics was very troubled by this, and the smooth progress of the public toilet operation greatly reduced the pressure on the Privy Council.
What saltpeter mines could not provide were supplied by numerous public toilets.
For this reason, the Privy Council regarded the work of collecting saltpeter as very important.
Every state and prefecture in the Ming Dynasty had saltpeter commissioners sent by the Privy Council to monitor the saltpeter collection work for the Privy Council. Township farmers' associations and village farmers' associations would assist them in regularly scraping the saltpeter from their respective public toilets, and they would gather them together and send them to It is boiled in a special saltpeter factory and then sent to a gunpowder factory to make gunpowder.
The Shenji Battalion of the Ming Army consumed a huge amount of gunpowder, and a considerable part of the gunpowder they used was made from saltpeter collected from public toilets all over the place.
It is no exaggeration to say that public toilets provided the Ming army with combat effectiveness.
Public toilets can improve public hygiene, provide manure fermentation and compost, and provide saltpeter for making gunpowder. It can be said that a public toilet connected three important strategies for the Ming Dynasty. Killing three birds with one stone is .
The public restrooms are great.
The Ministry of Finance and Commercial National Team of the Ming Dynasty also became more and more mature in this heavy work and test.
Obviously, the policies that can be successfully implemented in the Ming Dynasty will inevitably be implemented in Jiangnan. Jiangnan’s flagship products that can gain fame and sales volume in foreign trade will naturally be controlled by the Ming government and become part of the public-owned economy.
It is impossible to leave this part of foreign trade to private individuals, and even under the rule of Jiangnan Kingdom, these large amounts of foreign trade are still in the hands of a few powerful people.
Although the leaders on the surface are all businessmen, their attributes are the white gloves of the powerful and wealthy. Without the support of the powerful, such huge profits are enough to tear them apart in an instant.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, you still wanted to start a foreign trade business from scratch?
Think beautifully.
