?The impact of machine-made cloth on the small-scale peasant economy in rural areas is certain, but the impact is still controlled within a certain range, because most of the cloth made by women in rural families spinning and weaving is made into clothes for their families.
, and no, or in other words, there is no extra cloth to sell.
Therefore, the price of cotton cloth on the market will not affect their self-sufficiency. One tael of silver for a piece of cloth and ten taels of silver for a piece of cloth have no practical significance to them, because they are self-sufficient and have no influence on their self-sufficiency.
Do not participate in the market economy.
As for those who specialize in spinning and weaving for a long time, or simply organize many people to spin and weave for a long time, and then sell them for money, there is such a thing, but in fact the number is not large, and this model has actually been divorced.
Beyond the scope of self-sufficiency, this is already a traditional small workshop model and has little actual relevance to the vast number of ordinary farmers.
In fact, most of these textile workshops have undergone equipment upgrades in the past few years.
Large textile companies may purchase hundreds of machinery and equipment and employ hundreds or even thousands of workers to produce cloth, but for those small workshops, they can also purchase one or two machinery and equipment and continue
Their small-scale workshop-style production.
Therefore, the reform of the textile industry actually has not a great impact on the rural self-sufficient economy. The circulation of goods in rural areas is very scarce, which is destined to make it difficult for the market economy to affect closed, self-sufficient rural areas.
Regional.
In the innovation of the textile industry, and even the entire industrial revolution, the greatest impact was on the original traditional craftsmen, especially those who were stubborn and did not know how to adapt. They were the ones who suffered the greatest impact.
Among them, those who are quick-thinking will keep up with the times, but some who do not know how to adapt will sink in this change.
Every change, no matter what kind of change it is, will always create countless new opportunities and bury countless people at the same time.
If those craftsmen do not know about changes and do not take the initiative to embrace the industrial age, then what awaits them in the future will be that they will be completely lost among the public.
As for rural areas, the empire’s policy today is still focused on stability!
Stably increase food production and avoid large-scale famine!
On this basis, farmers’ additional income will be increased!
As for specific policies, the empire issued reclamation orders to organize rural labor to clear wasteland and develop more land.
At the same time, during the off-season, local governments hire a large number of young and strong laborers to build various infrastructures, mainly water conservancy facilities. With water conservancy facilities, they can better ensure food production and turn wasteland into fertile farmland, thus improving local
The development of agricultural economy will contribute more agricultural taxes.
On the other hand, it also provides ordinary young rural laborers with an opportunity to make money by doing odd jobs during the slack period, thereby increasing the additional income of rural laborers.
This kind of policy actually focuses on continuing to steadily expand agricultural production in rural areas!
Especially in some major grain-producing areas, maintaining grain production is an important task for local officials. Higher-level governments even require local governments to complete certain grain production targets.
In order to increase grain production, many local governments actually want every rural labor force to farm all day long, and do not even support them going to other big cities to work in factories to make money.
Well, of course, working in a factory to make money is actually not that wonderful. If you just have no special skills and no strength, you can only work as the most ordinary worker in a big city, and this kind of work is very labor-intensive.
High, the salary income is not high, and most importantly, the consumption in the city is also high. The salary you earn is just enough to support yourself at most.
However, this can always satisfy oneself!
If you work for a few years, gain experience, and learn some skills, your salary will still be higher in the future, and you can support your family by then.
Therefore, some rural children who are more courageous and active in thinking, or poor children whose families have little land and many people, have successively set their sights on major cities and flocked to cities to seek a way to make a living.
However, these two industries require a large amount of labor, which has triggered a conflict between industry and commerce and agriculture for population. This situation has not occurred on a large scale across the country for the time being, but only in areas where industry and commerce are developing relatively rapidly.
and surrounding areas.
In July of the 17th year of Xuanping, several companies settled in the Third Industrial Zone asked to see Feng Ni, saying that some of their employees had been detained in Jiaxing Prefecture, and asked the Huating government for help.
When Feng Ni asked, he learned that these companies could not find enough cheap workers in Shanghai due to the huge number of workers they employed and the average wages they offered.
In order to solve the workers' problem, several of their companies joined forces and sent people to the neighboring Jiaxing Prefecture in Zhejiang Province to recruit workers on the spot.
As a result, these company employees who went to recruit workers were detained by the Jiaxing Prefecture government.
As soon as they got the news, these companies rushed to Feng Ni for help!
After learning about this, Feng Ni was furious!
He finally got Chen Lifu's platform support, and then used it to obtain part of the investment, and then used it to apply for a loan. Now the loan has already been received and used for various infrastructure construction in the Third Industrial Zone.
, in addition to the Yangtze River Avenue, two more north-south avenues have been constructed, and the second phase of the freight terminal project has begun.
Many factories have also been erected in the industrial zone, and more places are undergoing intense construction.
This situation made the investors who chose to settle in the Third Industrial Zone very happy. Although most of them chose to settle in the Third Industrial Zone at that time, they were deceived, but now that the various infrastructures in the Third Industrial Zone can follow up, then they
I don't mind investing in and building factories in the Third Industrial Zone.
The Third Industrial Zone was about to get on the right track, and now was the time to open up the situation. He didn't expect that the Jiaxing Mansion next door would dare to stumble him.
They are trying to force him to be cruel!
The company cannot recruit enough workers, and he knows this!
After all, Feng Ni is not an ordinary traditional official. He is a very typical economic official. He has always been engaged in economic construction. Naturally, he knows very well what is needed to develop industry and commerce, including investors and workers.
There are actually a lot of workers in Shanghai. Hundreds of thousands of workers live in the Shanghai area. But he also knows that most of these workers have jobs. In order to hire a sufficient number of workers, many companies have already paid a lot of money.
It has reached the top level in the country.
Currently in Shanghai, a worker without any special skills or doing heavy work can earn a salary of one yuan and fifty cents.
If they are skilled workers, such as textile workers with one year of work experience, their salary can generally reach about two yuan.
If a strong man carries goods on the dock, his monthly income can generally reach between three yuan and four yuan.
The salary of low-level technicians and managers is generally more than ten yuan.
This kind of salary level is actually very high nationwide!
Such high wages place a heavy burden on enterprises. Otherwise, why would so many enterprises be willing to spend large sums of money to purchase a large amount of machinery and equipment, because this can increase efficiency and reduce labor costs.
At the same time, many companies like to recruit workers directly from other places. If they recruit workers in this way, the wages given will often be lower.
This is why companies in the Third Industrial Zone organize groups to recruit people in Jiaxing.
However, the employees sent by these companies to Jiaxing to recruit people were detained by Jiaxing. This made Feng Ni very angry. Why did Jiaxing do this?
These companies just recruit employees, which is very common in many companies. In order to reduce labor costs and recruit enough workers quickly, many large companies like to go directly to other places to recruit workers on the spot.
This kind of thing is done reasonably and legally, and it's not like arresting people for selling slaves. Why do the officials over there want to arrest people?
Feng Ni immediately held a relevant meeting, and then sent people to Jiaxing to inquire about the relevant situation. Did the workers recruited by those companies do something that violated discipline, or did they suffer an unreasonable disaster.
However, at this time, the officials in Jiaxing also looked hard!
Li Kaiji, the prefect of Jiaxing, was an official with a related background in the former Ming Dynasty, but he had already joined the Dragon Army when the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty invaded Jiangxi. Speaking of which, he was also a senior official of the Dragon Palace.
He is a typical traditional official. He doesn't know much about the development of industry and commerce, but he is very good at developing agriculture and mulberry trees. It was precisely because he made contributions to the development of agriculture when he was serving in Hunan that he was transferred to Jiaxing.
, served as the prefect of Jiaxing Prefecture.
Jiaxing Mansion can also be regarded as the Jiangnan area in a broad sense. Such a mansion is also a superior mansion. Therefore, although it is only a regular position of the fourth grade, it is still considered to have been promoted by half a level.
However, after he took office, he felt that being an official in Jiaxing was even more difficult than when he was an official in Hunan, and there were many problems.
He is not good at developing industry and commerce, and Jiaxing happens to be sandwiched between Hangzhou and Songjiang Prefecture, which means that if both ends are not coordinated, the development of industry is unreliable.
So he could only focus on agriculture, which he was already very good at, but he soon discovered a problem, that is, when he was recruiting rural labor to try to reclaim more wasteland, he was actually recruiting for development.
Not many people.
After further questioning, I asked if there were not many people before, but I was told that a few years ago, when we recruited manpower to organize land reclamation, there were still many people, but in the last four or five years, the number of manpower has increased.