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Chapter 390: Workers Riot

With the continuous increase in the number of steam engines in the new provinces, the textile industry controlled by state-owned capital in the tenth year of the revelation has increased by nearly 30,000 spindles, and textile production capacity has increased significantly.&1t;/p>

The cotton production in the Western Regions has begun to take shape in the ninth year of the Age, and the tenth year of the Age has become even larger. At the same time, at the junction of Henan, Shandong, and Jianghuai provinces, the commercial cotton planting industry has grown rapidly in recent years. Especially after Shandong and Henan were included in the scope of the new policy, the water conservancy irrigation facilities in the cotton production area have been repaired, and coupled with the expansion of the planting scale, cotton production has increased rapidly.&1t;/p>

The northern textile market has been monopolized and digested by state-owned capital. After some reforms, a large number of people have poured into towns. The textile industry in the natural economy of northern rural areas has been defeated. Textiles have been almost completely commercialized. After years of exhibitions, the northern textile market has been completely occupied by state-owned capital.&1t;/p>

After digesting the northern textile market, state-owned capital began to expand its market outward, and the first one to target was naturally the southern provinces.&1t;/p>

This is the homeland of the Ming Dynasty, with the largest population, a huge market, and a high profit. Under such circumstances, cotton fabrics and wool products produced by state-owned textile factories began to pour into the southern market on a large scale. There was no local trade barrier in the old system areas of the southern provinces, and the original textile industry was quickly destroyed by state-owned textile products.&1t;/p>

The drama of the country advancing and the people retreating has begun to continue to stage, and it is being staged wildly. More and more resources have begun to be captured by the court.&1t;/p>

In reform provinces, finance, mining, metallurgy, forestry, textile, transportation, chemical, machinery manufacturing, and military manufacturing are highly monopolized fields. The textile industry can enter the textile industry. However, because the cotton production areas have begun to be controlled by state-owned capital, the private textile factories can buy steam engines and textile machinery, but the cotton they buy is higher, and the steam engines and textile equipment are higher. There are still profits through improved management and other means, but they are easy to lose money and are difficult to shake the monopoly position of state-owned capital over the market. At the same time, private capital can also enter the mining industry. But they can only open some small minerals.&1t;/p>

The financial sector has also been basically monopolized by state-owned capital. Shanxi Piaohao has been completely shut down and has officially disappeared from the new policy province and has become a historical vocabulary.&1t;/p>

In terms of forestry, private capital is involved. However, it is not large in scale compared to state-owned forest farms. First, there were fewer forest farms in northern provinces themselves. In the past, because the scale of coal mining was not that large, many of the fuel in northern provinces burned firewood, so that forests were cut down in large quantities, but artificial afforestation could not keep up. There were few forest areas in the northern plains.&1t;/p>

After Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, artificial afforestation activities continued to develop in the north, so most of the forest areas in the northern plains were state-owned forest farms and generally had not yet been cultivated.&1t;/p>

Most of the forest farms in the Northeast are state-owned, because these areas were later recovered. Whether they are land or forest farms, they were fully nationalized at the beginning. Later, the land was rewarded to the meritorious soldiers and the people were allowed to open up the land by themselves, but the forest farms did not sell much. They did not receive much rewards.&1t;/p>

Forest farms in Taiwan, Nanyang and Australia are also classified as state-owned assets.&1t;/p>

In addition, state-owned capital also operates agriculture on a large scale, so naturally it will not monopolize the agriculture sector, but the area of ​​state-owned farms and pastures is constantly increasing.&1t;/p>

Especially in the rubber planting industry, cotton planting industry and commercial grain and oil, state-owned capital is involved in a large amount.&1t;/p>

In industries that have not been monopolized, private capital can operate freely, and those that are particular are market competition, which is basically similar to the Chinese model in later generations.&1t;/p>

In later China, for industries that the country has not monopolized, private capital basically cannot implement monopoly. It depends on its own abilities. This is very consistent with the fairness of market competition and makes the market have strong vitality.&1t;/p>

Therefore, while the country advances and the people retreat, the private capital in the newly recruited areas is also exhibited, but the ones that show off are not big capital merchants, but small and medium-sized capital classes.&1t;/p>

These small and medium-sized capitalist classes do not have that strong political ambition, and will not, like those big capital merchants, be unwilling to let wealth flow to the lower class people once they grow to a certain extent.&1t;/p>

The first rise of state-owned capital was steel smelting. The technological progress successfully defeated private steel plants. With the advancement of steel smelting technology, low-quality iron ore can also be smelted. Then, technological breakthroughs have been made in the smelting of other metals. At this time, state-owned capital in the metallurgy industry has an absolute advantage.&1t;/p>

The coal mining industry has risen later. With the increase of ships and the repair of roads, the coal of state-owned coal enterprises has begun to be sold to southern coastal provinces and the Yangtze River Basin.&1t;/p>

Now the textile industry is rising strongly again, and a large number of unemployed textile workers have appeared in the Jiangnan region.&1t;/p>

The big capital businessmen in Jiangnan suddenly saw the opportunity and began to incite these textile workers to make trouble in order to oppose the current new policy and the state-owned capital system.&1t;/p>

Under the secret instigation of those big capital merchants, the emotions of textile workers in Jiangnan gradually began to lose control, and people everywhere promoted the court to steal their jobs.&1t;/p>

Under incitement, textile workers in various places continued to riots.&1t;/p>

First, textile workers in Nanzhili smashed a state-owned bank branch, and at the same time robbed the small treasury of the branch, causing cash losses of more than 100,000 yuan.&1t;/p>

Then there was another tax riot in Songjiang, killing several officials.&1t;/p>

The situation in the south began to become a little turbulent, and the news was quickly sent back to the capital through telegram. After reading the report, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered the suppression of the riot and thoroughly investigated the real murderer behind the scenes.&1t;/p>

The rioters are theoretically ignorant and incited by others. However, when they participate in the riot, they must resolutely suppress them. This is a posture and a bottom line.&1t;/p>

If the court does not suppress decisively, it will send out a signal of weakness, and more riots will continue to occur. If the suppression is carried out at that time, the scale will be too large.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the mastermind who incites riots behind the scenes must also be investigated. Otherwise, inciting them everywhere every day, how can you live a stable life?&1t;/p>

According to Zhu Youxiao's order, the Supreme Command quickly transferred the garrison brigade to the riot area. At the same time, the cabinet strictly required the local governments of Nanzhili to suppress the riots.&1t;/p>

Whoever dares to be lazy and unable to do anything, will strip them of their skin and hold them accountable for dereliction of duty.&1t;/p>

The cabinet's order was that no matter what method the officials in Southern Zhili used, they must suppress the riots, otherwise they would be controlled.&1t;/p>

This order was criticized by Xun, and the imperial edict immediately went out.&1t;/p>

Mobilizing the garrison brigade is not the main means to suppress riots, but only as a means of preventing riots from escalating into rebellion. This cabinet's order pushed the officials in Southern Zhili to a point where a decision must be made.&1t;/p>

Either counter or suppress.&1t;/p>

This is an indisputable fact that the officialdom in Nanzhili was severely infiltrated by Jiangnan's capital merchants. Especially after Zhu Youxiao formed the Han Imperial Party, the remnants of the Donglin Party were defeated into the Nanjing ******* system, and those scholars from the merchant family who had been born in the imperial examinations were also beaten to the Nanjing official system.&1t;/p>

What incited this riot was actually what the interests represented by these guys did. At this time, an imperial edict was suppressed to force them to make a choice.&1t;/p>

Either they will suppress the riots with all their might, be held accountable by the court, or rebel. In fact, there are only two ways to go. Once the court is held accountable, the officialdom system in Nanjing will inevitably collapse. At that time, the Han imperial party has established a name and can carry out a major purge of the officialdom.&1t;/p>

This imperial edict directly forced the officials in Nanjing to the corner.&1t;/p>
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