For the upper-class nobles of the Jin Kingdom, if they needed porcelain to decorate their appearance, they could just import it directly from the Southern Song Dynasty. There was no need to invest large sums of money to restore the porcelain industry.
It is the saying that "it is better to buy than to make, and it is better to rent than to buy". Anyway, the Southern Song Dynasty still gives them so many coins every year. The coins are provided for the enjoyment of the upper class nobles. Why wouldn't they do it?
Therefore, the northern porcelain industry that Su Yonglin took over was a mess.
Except for the large-scale Cizhou folk kiln that still tenaciously produces coarse porcelain bowls and other items needed by the people, there are basically no artistic achievements.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the biggest tasks of Su Yonglin and the Ming government were to complete the social revolution, restore agricultural production, promote scientific and technological innovation, etc. They were not very concerned about the art of firing porcelain and felt it was unnecessary.
As long as it can provide the people with enough daily necessities, it is enough. High-quality porcelain is of little significance to the people, so the firing has never been restored.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, because craftsmen fled south in large numbers, they basically inherited the porcelain firing techniques of the Northern Song Dynasty. They had a vast ocean market and large internal and external demands, so they had a very strong motivation to study the art of porcelain firing.
As a result, the ceramic industry in Zhejiang has also developed rapidly. The pink green and plum green produced in Longquan kiln have reached the highest level in history.
Jingdezhen kiln innovated its technology due to the large number of Ding kiln craftsmen who went south, and fired a large number of treasures.
The products of Xiunei Siguan kiln also recovered rapidly due to political and economic needs, and basically reached the level of the Northern Song Dynasty.
As a result, the porcelain industry of the Ming Dynasty was completely defeated by the Southern Song Dynasty. It is understandable that it could not win in normal business competition.
Although some court officials in the Ming Dynasty discussed whether to set up a Ming Dynasty official kiln to fire porcelain, Su Yonglin vetoed it, believing that this was not necessary at present.
There is no demand among the people, and the government does not actively support it. The competitiveness of Ming Dynasty porcelain is really not enough.
Not only porcelain, but also tea, one of the major export products of the Southern Song Dynasty, had little development prospects in the Ming Dynasty.
Firstly, most of the good tea gardens are in the south, and secondly, in the Ming Dynasty, few people had the leisure and leisure to taste tea - those who had the leisure and leisure were basically killed in the revolutionary actions again and again.
Isn’t revolution delicious?
Isn’t it nice to have a public trial?
Isn’t it nice to liquidate?
Wouldn’t it be nice to hang the superior person on the southeast branch as a pendant?
Why taste tea?
Members of Ming Dynasty’s revival and enthusiastic onlookers had questions on their faces.
The reason why the mid-to-high-end silk industry could not develop in Daming was the same as above.
For this reason, the Ming Dynasty could not beat tea, porcelain, silk and other key export products of the Southern Song Dynasty. The three major products were completely defeated and could not capture the market at all.
When there is no market, it is unnecessary to set up departments.
Su Yonglin's only effort to preserve [National Rare Art] was to collect the porcelain craftsmen from the original official kilns scattered among the people and other skilled craftsmen to the Ministry of Industry for registration, and then give them some resources to let them burn more or less. Porcelain maintains the inheritance of technology.
It can also be regarded as a small effort to restore the grandeur of porcelain firing in the future.
Obviously, the results of this small amount of work cannot have any impact on the overall business situation. If we want to make a comeback, we still have to rely on the army.
The Ming Dynasty won the war between the Ming and Song dynasties, commercial competition had been put aside, and the competition for national power was the mainstream.
As a result, the Tea Department and the Lacquer Porcelain Department came into being, and they would completely swallow up the developed porcelain industry and tea industry in the Southern Song Dynasty for the Ming Dynasty, making them state-owned industries of the Ming Dynasty.
The top priority of the operation is to swallow up crucial overseas sales channels.
As Lin Jingchun went south to rectify the city's shipping department and ports, the relevant personnel of these departments also had to go south to take over and control the industries originally owned by the Southern Song Dynasty in their areas of responsibility.
Lin Jingchun's right-hand man, the right minister of the Ministry of Finance, Yu Xingyan, was responsible for leading the team forward and fully presiding over the liquidation and takeover of the real estate properties of the losers in the Southern Song Dynasty, striving to eat up the war dividends in one go to avoid long nights and dreams.
About ten days after Lin Jingchun went south, Yu Xingyan led personnel from various departments to organize a group and go south.
They entered the land of Jiangnan from Xiangfan, took a short rest in Xiangyang, held a meeting, and arranged the next tasks.
The first step is to take over all relevant maritime trade industries on the ceded land and identify them as industries under the control of the Tea Department, Lacquer Porcelain Department and the General Administration of Weaving.
Yin Zizhen, a "strong general" of the Ministry of Finance and a doctor in the tea department, rushed to the original Jiangnan West Road, now Jiangxi Province, and acquired the production areas of Shuangjing Tea, Xieyuan Tea and Linjiang Yujin Tea in Jiangxi Province.
Although they were devastated by the war, the tea trees in the three famous tea gardens are still there. The tea gardens are generally intact. Many tea workers were killed by the rebels, production was stagnant for a time, and even some tea trees were destroyed.
But after the peasant army took control of the situation, Zhao Yucheng and Wen Anzhi realized the significance of these tea gardens to economic development, so they specially ordered to protect these tea gardens and control them.
Later, under the management of the peasant army, the tea workers slowly resumed tea production.
So when the Tea Company went south and entered Jiangnan West Road, what it saw was a fairly well-managed tea garden.
They immediately registered all the tea gardens that produced these famous teas and brought them under the control of the Tea Department. Every tea tree and every tea worker was registered and became a treasure of the Tea Department.
In addition to these tea gardens that can be obtained immediately, there are also many tea gardens in the areas controlled by Jiangnan Kingdom that belong to the descendants of the Zhao and Song clan, waiting for him to hand over.
After a set of handover procedures, the tea department can make a lot of money.
Wu Hao, a doctor in the lacquer and porcelain department who is also a powerful figure in the Ministry of Finance, feels the same way.
Although Jingdezhen, where one of his biggest targets is located, is still under the control of Jiangnan Kingdom, there are actually not a few in the huge folk kiln system of the Southern Song Dynasty that belong to the descendants of the Zhao Song clan.
Although the only famous kiln that the Lacquer Porcelain Division can directly control is the Jizhou kiln located in the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty, this does not mean the end.
At the moment, what he needs to do is to integrate the Jizhou kiln, which is the only one under control, and then integrate the private kilns and kilns scattered in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, and integrate the technical personnel, all concentrated in Jizhou, to restore the kilns that were damaged due to the war. Jizhou kiln has stalled in production.
Jizhou kiln was originally one of the best export products for earning foreign exchange. However, due to the outbreak of the Jiangnan West Road Revolutionary War, Jizhou kiln was plundered and destroyed by the earliest rebels and government troops, causing heavy losses.
After the peasant army took control of the situation, Zhao Yucheng and Wen Anzhi worked together to protect the remaining Jizhou kilns in the same way as they protected the tea gardens, and searched for the surviving Jizhou kiln porcelain craftsmen, which protected the vitality of the Jizhou kilns to a certain extent.
Now, it is time for Jizhou kiln to revive.
The recovery of Jizhou kilns will be accompanied by the Ming Dynasty's control of famous export-generating kilns such as Jingdezhen kiln and Longquan kiln. Many kilns that were originally controlled by the descendants of the Zhao and Song clan will now all belong to the Ming Dynasty Lacquer Porcelain Department. The Lacquer Porcelain Department You will also make a lot of money.
Coincidentally, like Wu Hao, Duan Jianzhong, director of the General Administration of Weaving, is also very happy.
Although it failed to capture Jiangnan in one fell swoop, the General Weaving Bureau could only steal a piece of meat from the extremely prosperous silk industry in the Southern Song Dynasty - Zhenjiang Weaving Bureau.
The cession of Zhenjiang Prefecture was not for the Zhiluo Bureau, but mainly for military purposes. Therefore, although the Zhiluo Bureau was of a good scale, it was dilapidated after the war, and it was very difficult to resume silk production.
However, the descendants of the Zhao and Song clan control a large number of textile factories and raw silk production areas. Although their quantity and quality cannot be compared with the government-run factories of Jiangnan Kingdom for the time being, compared with the current industrial scale of the Ming Dynasty, there is no doubt that The snake swallows the elephant.
Yin Zizhen, Wu Hao and Duan Jianzhong each led their respective teams to eat high-quality resources that they could directly control. Then they entered the Jiangnan Kingdom and began to collect the properties of the Zhao and Song clan children one by one.
Their footprints spread all over the economic elite of Jiangnan, that is, the area around Lin'an, harvesting high-quality assets and greatly expanding the scale of the Ming Dynasty's state-owned economy.
