God bless the Ming Dynasty!
Why is God bless the Ming Dynasty!
Of course it was because of the economic crisis of 1873!
Emperor Zhu Da has been looking forward to this crisis for a whole year.
In fact, as early as a few months ago, Zhu Xianhai had asked the intelligence department to pay attention to market changes in European and American countries.
Four months ago, the crisis first began in Vienna. This was because the activities there were more speculative. According to intelligence collected by the intelligence service, between 1870 and the first half of 1873, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
There were 528 entrepreneurial activities and securities issuances totaling 2.5 billion florins, and various banks and construction companies were set up to make speculative profits.
On May 9, 1873, the Vienna Stock Exchange fell into extreme chaos. Within 24 hours, the stock price depreciated by hundreds of millions of dong, so it was called "Black Friday". What followed was a large number of bankruptcies of companies and credit losses.
Paralysis, the cessation of securities trading.
Before the crisis, 135 of the 294 joint-stock companies that opened for trading in Vienna declared bankruptcy. The crisis on the Vienna Exchange quickly spread to other exchanges in Europe. In the following months, as the crisis deepened, Europe
Countries stopped exporting capital to the United States. At the same time, a series of banks in New York that supplied railway funds also stopped allocating funds to railway companies and industries.
Just today, September 18, 1873, with the bankruptcy of Jay Y. Cook Financial Company, which owned a large number of bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the world economic crisis with the United States as the main source finally broke out.
How long will this crisis last?
This was the most serious crisis in the history of capitalist crises in the 19th century. It not only affected a wide range and scale, but also lasted for a long time, starting in 1873 and ending in 1879, which lasted 7 years!
7 years!
Ming Dynasty won back 7 years of time!
During these seven years, the industries of various countries in Europe and the United States have entered a period of decline. As long as Ming Dynasty seizes this opportunity and continues to improve itself while others are declining, maybe in seven years, Ming Dynasty's industrial strength will be no less than
They exist!
"Qian Qing's family, have you compiled a list of potential acquisition targets collected by the intelligence department?"
Emperor Zhu asked.
In another world, Soviet Russia took advantage of the economic crisis to move a large number of American factories back to Soviet Russia for reconstruction. Emperor Zhu Da also had the same plan. While weakening the enemy, it also strengthened itself!
"The list has been made. Basically, it is a list that has been negotiated with experts in the company. They are ready to acquire it, just like we bought British textile factories during the last cotton crisis. We can do it at any time..."
Before he could finish speaking, Emperor Zhu Da waved his hand and said.
"The company should not participate this time. Let the authorities handle the matter uniformly. Some factories can be rebuilt, and some factories can sell machines to the private sector at low prices. As for the company, it is better to specialize in development. After all, they are just some old machines.
The company doesn’t need to get involved, just tell the company what I mean and they will understand!”
The power of the company does not necessarily need to be restricted at the moment, but it should be controlled within a certain range. In this five-year plan, it is better to seize the opportunity to develop state-owned enterprises. As for the company, even if they do not need special care, they
Powerful enough.
Not to mention in this era, even in a hundred years, there may not be such a huge enterprise!
However, the rise of Ming Dynasty requires such a leading company!
“This economic crisis couldn’t have come at a better time!”
When Qian Zizhuang left, Emperor Zhu Da once again reviewed the railway and a series of other infrastructure plans in the "Second Five-Year Plan".
When formulating the "Second Five-Year Plan", Emperor Zhu Da fully drew on the most common experience of later generations to escape from crises-infrastructure investment.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty's infrastructure is not perfect. It still needs to build a large number of railways, highways, ports, military ports and even fortresses. The construction of these infrastructures can not only absorb a large amount of labor, but also require a large amount of steel, cement and other raw materials.
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"With this wave of infrastructure construction, Ming Dynasty can at least survive this economic crisis, and the rest will be development!"
Emperor Zhu Da is proud to stand on the shoulders of historical giants. After all, the human world, which has experienced many economic crises and even the Great Depression, has many ways to deal with crises.
But what about European and American countries?
They can only let the economic crisis hold them back for the next seven years.
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On September 25, the fourth year of Shengde in the Ming Dynasty, as the whistle of the "New Tangshan" sounded, when the ship sailed into Linhai Port, Liu Zhongjiao and others on the ship finally saw what they had been longing for.
The Ming Dynasty in a foreign land.
"This this……"
Looking at the towering buildings in the bay and the towering steel tower cranes in amazement, these people from North Korea were all stunned and speechless. They could not even believe that what they were seeing was created by humans.
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In fact, they have experienced many surprises along the way. Not to mention the iron ship floating on the sea, even the flush toilet in the cabin once surprised them. As for the electric light that does not require a fire to light,
It made Liu Zhongjiao and others look at it again and again, trying to figure out how it lit up.
The surprises along the way were nothing compared to now!
Now, when the prosperous Linhai City came into their sight, the impact they felt was unimaginable to outsiders.
After all, they are not ordinary workers, they are the best talents on the Korean Peninsula. Even if they are masters of Neo-Confucianism, they still need a certain IQ to become such a master!
Now a city that completely subverted their understanding of the city just broke into their sight!
Oh my God!
When they arrived at the trestle from the station, Jin Yujun looked at the trestle that seemed to be paved with a huge stone on the ground and said in surprise.
"This, this is really a miraculous workmanship, the weather of heaven, the weather of heaven! To actually pave a road with such huge rocks..."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone answered.
"What a huge boulder, it's just cement. This trestle is paved with a layer of cement!"
"cement?"
Jin Yu was puzzled.
"What is cement?"
Just like a country bumpkin... No, even the country bumpkin in the Ming Dynasty has more knowledge than Jin Yujun and others. After all, for Liu Chongjiao and Jin Yujun, when they came to the Ming Dynasty, it was equivalent to starting from hundreds of years ago.
The ancient society suddenly broke into a scientific and prosperous modern society, and the immediate feeling was... I was scared to death!
This chapter has been completed!