During the Spring Festival of the eighth year of the Tianqi period, firecrackers were blowing everywhere, and the biting cold wind finally ended. The gentle spring breeze was ushered in. People's mood was much better in such a solar term.&1t;/p>

More and more people are full of hope for the future, but for ordinary people, not everyone is having a good Spring Festival this year.&1t;/p>

Many farmers who have left the land may not be in such a good mood. Many of them who have just entered the town are not yet adapted to the new environment.&1t;/p>

However, the trend of land enclosure movement has become irreversible in northern provinces. More and more laborers leave the land and invest in industrial production and construction activities, becoming the current mainstream trend.&1t;/p>

But for most people, this is a good year.&1t;/p>

In the context of economic prosperity, those willing to do things earn enough money to live and still have surplus in their pockets. And those who take advantage of the times and develop their lives have improved rapidly. For example, various technicians, shipbuilding, machinery manufacturing, etc.&1t;/p>

Over the years, the capital has become increasingly large. After the industrial exhibitions, various commodities exported to the south and overseas are constantly increasing the capital scale of the newly seized areas. Steel, coal, salt, machinery manufacturing, military industry, and glass are the advantageous industries in the past in the New Deal region.&1t;/p>

Nowadays, leather, textile and ceramics have begun to become advantageous industries. With the intervention of state-owned capital consortiums, the technology has begun to improve rapidly. Leather raw materials have also grown in large quantities with the expansion of production scale of Mongolian herders in the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

In the past, the textile industry could only rely on trade barriers to resist the textiles of factory owners in Jiangnan, and rely on marine trade channels for export. However, with the emergence of chemical dyes, the rapid development of textile machinery and the emergence of high-pressure steam engines, the current textile industry's competitiveness has become extremely strong and has become a highly advantageous industry.&1t;/p>

Although the ceramic industry is not comparable to Jingdezhen's ceramic industry, in the mid- and low-end ceramic market, the ceramic industry in the new policy area has begun to gain an advantage and has begun to export large amounts of overseas markets.&1t;/p>

In the seventh year of the revelation, the scale of Ming products purchased by the Portuguese from Malacca increased again, reaching nearly 50 million yuan, of which military products were more popular among European countries. The Ming Dynasty's flints were of good quality, reliable performance, and also had bayonets.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the Ming artillery was also popular among Europeans. Now the Ming artillery performance has obviously surpassed the level of Europe for decades. These artillery range is longer. They are more powerful and lighter. Almost all European countries have paid for some Ming artillery.&1t;/p>

Exporting flints and artillery to Europeans obviously does not threaten the Ming Dynasty. After all, the technological level of this era is relatively low. If Europeans get these weapons, they will not be able to attack Asia.&1t;/p>

The most important thing is that these military factories are very profitable, and the court can exchange them for a large amount of precious metals by exporting these arms. The Portuguese also like to buy these arms. These things are definitely the most popular things in Europe today, and they can be sold at high prices by replacing them.&1t;/p>

The Ming Dynasty also appropriately reduced the price of military products, thereby expanding exports. For the Ming Dynasty, maintaining the operation of military industry is the most important thing. Moreover, exporting these military factory products to Europe can attack the European military manufacturing industry.&1t;/p>

Among these goods purchased by Europeans, industrial products in the New Deal region account for the majority. The largest exports of southern provinces are tea and raw silk, but these goods are also purchased directly from the local area by state-owned capital consortiums, and they cannot make profits from exports.&1t;/p>

The chemical dyes that just appeared were also popular among Europeans. The Portuguese, who saw the business opportunities, directly purchased a large number of chemical dyes and sold them to European countries.&1t;/p>

Export, consumption, and investment are the three mainstays that drive the economy. Now exports have been greatly monopolized by state-owned capital. The chaebols and businessmen in the south are a bit tragic. This Spring Festival only feels that the sky is a little dark.&1t;/p>

In the past, the economies of southern provinces were mainly driven by exports and consumption, and exports were the main force.&1t;/p>

In terms of investment, the Jiangnan region has been developing for so many years. The garden and other industries of wealthy families have been built, and there are fewer construction projects. Moreover, after the rise of northern industry, there are even fewer construction activities.&1t;/p>

The chaebols and businessmen in the south are basically all types that only enter and cannot go out. After the money is in their pockets, they do not want to flow the money to the people at the bottom of the society.&1t;/p>

This has also caused the economic difficulties of the southern provinces today. The economy is truly recession. The result of a sharp decline in commodity export scale is that people are unemployed in a large number of people, which leads to a recession in consumption. Those chaebols and merchants are unwilling to invest money, so the economy of southern provinces will naturally not be prosperous.&1t;/p>

However, it can still be supported by force. After all, the rise of northern industry has not yet driven out the production of southern commodity, and there are still exports. The exports from the Indochina Peninsula and South Ocean can still be inserted. At the same time, agriculture in southern provinces is still relatively high, and the planting area of ​​various economic crops is relatively large. These economic crops now do not have to worry about the market.&1t;/p>

For those businessmen, what they suffer at this time is not just that the reform knife will be cut off from their heads at any time. The current economic situation also makes them suffer.&1t;/p>

Although the southern provinces are highly autonomous, especially in the Jiangnan region, no matter how they are autonomous, they can undermine the power of the imperial court. But after all, it is the territory managed by the imperial court. These merchants cannot set up local trade barriers in their own country like Zhu Youxiao. They can only watch a large number of industrial commodities in the north pour into the southern market, and watch workshops and factories go bankrupt under the impact of northern commodities.&1t;/p>

This process is really too painful.&1t;/p>

It is like reform is like cutting down with one knife. Some people will be done, but some people will not be done. Without reform, it is like being slowly cut by a dog emperor with a blunt knife.&1t;/p>

The increase in unemployed people in Jiangnan is indeed a big problem. The gentry and chaebols in Jiangnan obviously want to do something about these unemployed people, such as inciting the people to become more and more. But how could Zhu Youxiao make them get what they want? The Civil Affairs Bureau has been popularized in the seventh year of the Tianqi period.&1t;/p>

People who cannot survive can always get a meal when they go to the Civil Affairs Bureau, and they will also arrange for them to immigrate or something. Or they will arrange for them to work in the north, especially those technicians and intellectuals. They will not have to worry about not being able to find a job when they go to the New Deal area. The streets are full of recruitment advertisements, which is simply crazy poaching. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!