After Zhu Jingyuan finished taking a bath, he lay on the comfortable bed wrapped in a bathrobe and began to read the newspaper prepared by Chunxiang.
The most important information in the newspapers these two days is of course the lifting of the ban on the tea, sugar, iron, locomotive and shipping industries.
First of all, some newspapers gave a very detailed interpretation of the policy itself, trying to prevent ordinary people from misunderstanding the policy itself.
They specifically consulted the relevant yamen of the Ministry of Industry, summarized the scope and scale of previous industry restrictions, and listed the specific contents of this relaxation of restrictions.
The retail business of tea, sugar, steel, automobiles, internal combustion engines, steam engines, and small boats was originally open to the public.
The personal cultivation and sale of tea, and the construction of small inland river and offshore civilian ships, have never been explicitly prohibited to the private sector.
The main contents of this relaxation are actually large-scale industrial production in related industries, large-scale channel sales and wholesale, and the most critical import and export.
At the same time, the large ship industry that is open to the private sector this time is still limited to the civilian ship industry, and warships can still only be built by the royal consortium.
The production of internal combustion engines and steam engines, the production of trains and automobiles, and the production of railway and road related facilities were opened to the private sector.
However, the construction and operation of railways and highways themselves are still the core basic industries of the royal family.
If private manufacturers produce trains and carriages, they can only sell them to the Royal Railway Company, but cars can be sold directly to the private sector.
Restrictions on steel smelting and sales were relaxed for the private sector, but the mining of iron ore and the sale of ore, as well as the import and export of finished steel, were still exclusive to the royal family.
The reporters involved have obviously done their homework, and the situation they introduced is basically true and detailed enough.
These specific policies are obviously detailed rules planned by relevant ministers and financial group bosses based on Zhu Jingyuan's proposals.
Zhu Jingyuan loudly shouted for six lifting of the ban. In fact, when it comes to implementation, there are a lot of internal problems that need to be regulated, which cannot be solved in one sentence.
This policy is not so much about lifting the ban as it is relaxing the restrictions again, because it was not a total ban in the first place, and this time it is not a total relaxation.
Then some newspapers observed the direct impact of the relaxation of restrictions on six industries.
They have discovered that a large number of new manufacturers have poured directly into these six industries and are recruiting workers extensively in the market.
A large number of tea shops and sugar shops opened for business, and a large number of steel plants and machine factories broke ground in the suburbs.
They also noticed that many manufacturers' wages for recruiting workers are paid directly on a daily basis. When work ends that day, the day's wages are paid directly.
Some newspapers praised the owners of these new manufacturers as philanthropic people, while others said that they had gone to great lengths to recruit workers.
But Zhu Jingyuan knew another reason. These newly opened manufacturers all knew inside information, and they should also know that the minimum labor remuneration standards were being formulated.
The managers of these new manufacturers should be able to judge that this standard may be higher than a 6 yuan banknote, or even reach 8 yuan.
If they don't pay according to daily wages in the past few days, when the minimum standards are officially announced and implemented, they may have to pay monthly wages at a standard of more than 6 yuan.
Now the salary for these days is paid on a daily basis according to the standard of about 4 yuan. After the minimum wage standard is lowered, they will definitely not pay the difference for the past few days.
This seemed to indicate that businessmen were very cunning, but Zhu Jingyuan felt that this was objectively a good thing, and some newspapers also discovered this.
When the workers get their wages that day, there will be a slight increase in the sales of food and other daily necessities in the market from that night to the next morning.
Although the amplitude is very small, the market has just begun to recover. It is like being hungry but not eating and drinking. This slow recovery is just right.
Some newspapers have done a more in-depth analysis of the impact, and also contacted and explained the situation in other places.
A large number of new factories have appeared, and refugees have begun to be recruited. Yesterday, they only appeared in the capital, but today they have spread.
A small number of manufacturers began to appear in Jiangnan, Guanwai, Shanxi and other places. They must have received telegram news from the capital and began to recruit refugees.
The authors of these articles predict that the situation will become more obvious in the next few days, and the enthusiasm for the lifting of bans on the six major industries should soon overshadow the news of the civil unrest.
Because the refugees will quickly become normal workers, urban order will naturally be restored.
Now that workers have wages and there is money in the market, it becomes easier to do business, but they also become more anxious and have to find ways to keep their workers.
Most commentators believe that this change will definitely have a good impact on the Ming Dynasty. The royal family finally no longer competes with the people for profit.
A large number of articles spared no effort to sing praises, praising His Majesty the Emperor and the cabinet ministers for their wisdom and prowess in opening up restrictions, and they blew a full page of rainbow farts.
Because the lifting of industry bans is in the interest of all capital groups except the royal family.
Only a handful of ultra-conservatives worry that opening up steel smelting to private manufacturers may endanger the country's security.
In addition to the lifting of industry bans, the most exciting thing is the withdrawal of vassals.
Although only the West Sea Kingdom was actually withdrawn, the countries in the southwest of the Persian Gulf were merged and restructured.
But this matter has become the second hottest news, second only to the lifting of the industry ban.
Almost all newspapers have made special reports and invited a large number of scholars to comment.
Almost everyone agreed that this was a clear trend, indicating that the imperial court was really starting to withdraw from the vassal, and there would definitely be bigger moves in the future.
Then there is a lot of analysis, which vassals should be revoked first and how they should be revoked.
Finally, there is the impact of the withdrawal of the vassal state. Everyone believes that as long as the withdrawal of the vassal state is successful, the power of the Ming Dynasty will definitely grow again and it will definitely be able to win the war.
Zhu Jingyuan just read a few articles and was 100% sure that this was the direct interference of the Ministry of Rites.
Otherwise, it is questionable whether a matter that was only officially decided this morning would appear in today's evening news, and it would be even less likely that there would be so many comprehensive and positive reports and analyses.
The purpose is also very simple. The specific strategy for removing the vassal state cannot be announced immediately, but the goal and determination to remove the vassal state can be publicized through private channels.
Zhu Jingyuan felt that the analysis content in these newspapers would be spread throughout the world on radio waves in no more than three days.
Then it was specially printed and placed directly in front of Western leaders in Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Madrid, New York and other places.
The vassal states around the Ming Dynasty were the first to bear the brunt. Maybe some people will not be able to sleep tonight.
Other than that, the news is all about the things that already existed, mainly the progress of the war and the domestic situation.
However, the trend of comments on these articles has changed. Most newspapers have become more optimistic than before. They believe that victory will be a matter of time.
The reasons have also been analyzed. The main reasons are the lifting of bans on six industries and the withdrawal of vassal states.
This is obviously also influenced by the Ministry of Rites, but this is indeed what they should do.
We must give hope to the people whose lives have not been directly affected by the reform and are still living in dire straits, so that they can persevere in the darkness before dawn.
After Zhu Jingyuan finished flipping through the newspaper, he was in a relatively good mood.
Of course, the old gentlemen in the imperial court have very high political literacy and administrative abilities.
Perhaps when facing the line, they may be suppressed by their out-of-the-box thinking, but when they actually do things, they can also let themselves see what professionalism means.
They only need to provide basic ideas, and they can get things done efficiently and securely, which should be better than what they can do themselves.
The execution ability of this modern industrialized Ming Dynasty was not a little higher than that of the previous feudal dynasty.
The interests of opening up the six major industries are enough to drive these ministers to compromise with their interest groups and follow the orders of the old emperor.
If they really still fail to work, the old emperor may issue another ban at any time.
Mr. Lao is the unified honorific title given to ministers in the cabinet, six ministries, and seven ministers in the Ming Dynasty.
