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In Liu Jin¡¯s view, the Ming Dynasty was a vast land with vast resources, a very large population, and extremely rich products. It was simply not comparable to small places like the British Isles.
It was only after the British capitalism developed to a certain stage that the famous "sheep cannibalism movement" appeared. Because the price of wool soared, a large number of farmers switched to raising sheep to obtain wool.
This resulted in a large number of farmers becoming unemployed and forced to migrate to cities and become hired workers for factory owners, which in turn promoted the development of capitalism in disguised form.
"But Daming is different. Daming is very vast. In terms of cotton alone, there are many places in Daming that are ready to produce cotton.
Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Beizhili all produce cotton. The climate in these areas is very suitable for cotton production and the yield is high. More importantly, the Ming Dynasty has a large population. The cotton output is definitely the largest in the world in this era. First.
With such a huge cotton output, it is far from comparable to small places like the British Isles.
From the beginning of Ming Dynasty¡¯s capitalist development, it was able to achieve self-sufficiency, and it had an extremely vast raw material market and a huge domestic market.
There is a good side to this and a bad side to this.
The good thing is that the initial development does not need to rely on external forces. The bad thing is that it lacks the power of the other party to expand. This may be an important reason why the Ming Dynasty has never been able to eventually go global like the Europeans, because it has already It is rich enough, and there is no motivation to expand externally.
But who knows how long this textile industry has only been around? It only took less than two years for Liu Jin to develop new textile machines and looms.
Now it turns out that there is a shortage of raw materials, and there is not enough cotton.
This makes Liu Jin a little unbelievable. Daming¡¯s cotton production can¡¯t meet the current needs of these factories.
"Mr. Zhang, is this impossible? There will be no cotton now?"
Liu Jin said with some disbelief.
"How is it impossible~"
"Don't go out and take a look. There are at least thousands of textile factories, large and small, in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area. Large textile factories, like Wang's Caiyun Textile Factory, employ tens of thousands of people and have tens of thousands of machines working day and night. If we stop weaving, no amount of cotton will be enough."
"What's more, there are more large-scale textile factories under construction now. By then, cotton will be in even greater shortage and prices will rise."
Zhang Mao widened his eyes slightly and said helplessly.
¡°At first, we only saw the huge profits of the textile factory, but we did not see the huge risks behind the textile factory. There were too many people running the factory.
There are too many people investing.
As for the textile factory, as long as the machines are sold from the Jingcheng Machinery Factory, just a few people can open a textile factory and weave cloth continuously.
And as everyone knows, we always like to do business in a rush.
¡°As long as someone makes money from a certain business, everyone will follow suit to do that business. What is most lacking in the Beijing-Tianjin area now is rich people. When textile factories make money, everyone will follow suit and open textile factories.
¡°Why are there so many textile factories~¡±
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately became thoughtful.
The Ming Dynasty is the most powerful country in this era, and it is also the richest country. Its wealth accumulation itself is very strong.
It is different from the British Isles in history.
The British Isles themselves are very poor and have little capital, so the development of capitalism needs to go through a primitive stage of capital. This primitive accumulation stage of capital is carried out by relying on the bloody plunder of many overseas colonies.
After going through this stage, the British Isles obtained the original capital for capitalist development, and then developed rapidly, ultimately promoting the occurrence of the Industrial Revolution.
But the Ming Dynasty was different. The Ming Dynasty was so big that it was rich enough in itself.
These big landowners, big gentry, big nobles, etc. in the Ming Dynasty are all very rich themselves. Even without the primitive accumulation of capital, they still have enough wealth.
Once capitalism arises, Ming Dynasty¡¯s own wealth alone will be enough to promote the rapid development of capitalism.
The fact that just a textile industry has developed to such a huge scale in such a short period of time is enough to illustrate this point.
You must know that even after capitalism has developed to a certain scale and degree in the British Isles,sp; "If our merchants can go here to purchase cotton, or if we directly occupy the Western Region, then we will not have to worry about cotton at all in the future."
"Also, everyone, look at Huangjinzhou. The land here is very fertile and vast. In the future, we can plant cotton on a large scale here in Huangjinzhou."
Liu Jin pointed to the location of the Western Region and spoke slowly.
In later generations, the vast area from the Western Regions to Central Asia was the most important cotton-producing area in the world. The cotton produced here not only had high yields, but also was second to none in quality.
"Western Region?"
When the three of them heard this, they couldn't help being slightly surprised.
"While everyone's eyes were still limited to the interior of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Jin's eyes were already looking to the world outside the Ming Dynasty, to the Western Regions, and to the Golden Continent.
"Cotton is produced in this Western Region?"
Zhang Mao was slightly surprised and said that since the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains has basically had no connection with the Western Regions, and little is known about the Western Regions.
¡°In the past, even if we knew something about it, it was through businessmen, but no businessman would sell cotton to the Ming Dynasty, because that would be a loss to grandma¡¯s family. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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