I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Wu Changqing is not particularly concerned about the current pilot immigration.

Try it, try it first.

The current focus of development is not immigration, but the acceleration of industrialization.

How to accelerate the development of industrialization?

The cabinet, Wu Changqing and several other bigwigs got together again to study how to promote accelerated industrialization.

Although Wu Changqing rarely attended the morning court, there were actually quite a lot of cabinet meetings held.

Many times, even if Wu Changqing already has a good idea in his heart, he still needs to take a form and listen to the opinions of the audience.

And, sometimes there are gains.

"The biggest problem at present is the lack of workers. Moreover, this is still a relatively unsolved problem, because too many farmers cannot be recruited to become workers, otherwise there will be a shortage of food."

Qian Taoli said.

The people take food as the sky, the country takes the people as the foundation, and all dynasties and dynasties have attached great importance to the people.

If there are fewer people working in the fields, there will be less food, so it will not be able to feed so many people, and the world will be in chaos.

Throughout the dynasties, they liked to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce, which also has a certain truth.

Compared with other dynasties, Dahua was the one that cared the least about the number of peasants, and a large number of people were converted into workers.

If he were another emperor, he would have already panicked in the face of this situation.

Once there is not enough food, it is the beginning of chaos in the world.

Right now, the level of Dahua's "farmer-to-worker" is okay, if there are more, there may be a situation where there is land and no one is farming.

"Why don't you go overseas to buy food if you don't have food, otherwise what will you keep the money for?"

Hong Chengchou said.

"It's not easy to buy, and merchants may not be willing to import food."

Ruan Dacheng said.

In the current ocean trade, food imports are relatively small, almost none. Because Dahua is not short of grain now, the price of grain is not high, and it is not cost-effective to import grain.

The profit from shipping food back is far less than shipping back other materials.

Although it is beneficial for Dahua to bring more food back, capital is all about profit, and it is unprofitable. How can those businessmen do it?

If you let the government do the work, the government doesn't have that much budget.

When it comes to money-related issues, everyone starts to have a headache.

In this world, everything is easy to do, but it is hard to do without money.

After all, all people can think of is to increase taxes.

After all, this is a common practice throughout the dynasties.

Wu Changqing didn't like to increase taxes for the common people, so let's add more to the businessmen.

The current commercial tax in Dahua is actually quite heavy, but because of the high profit of commercial trade, businessmen can still make a lot of money. If they insisted on adding a little more tax, those businessmen did not do the same.

However, Wu Changqing was not satisfied with their approach.

He doesn't like raising taxes rashly unless he has to.

Tax increases are likely to have an impact on all walks of life.

Originally, an industry only had 10% of the profit, so it could only barely continue.

The imperial court added taxes, their profits were cut by five percent, and they were about to go bankrupt.

From the point of view of encouraging industry and commerce, tax increases are not advisable.

"It seems that the government can only provide part of the money to subsidize it."

Wu Changqing thought for a while and said.

This is often done by countries in later generations. For a commodity that requires a lot of reserves but is not cost-effective, the government can only subsidize it so that businessmen can earn some money.

One advantage of this is that the court doesn't have to spend too much money, most of the money is paid by the merchants, and the court only subsidizes a small part.

And as long as there are enough grain reserves, Dahua can turn more farmers into workers.

At the same time, it also has the confidence to let more workers learn majors and advanced production skills.

Only when the number of skilled workers increases can the speed of industrialization be accelerated.

Otherwise, capital alone will not work.

This kind of subsidy needs to continue to consume the money of the court, but Wu Changqing is not worried at all.

As long as industrialization is accelerated and the production capacity of industrial products is increased, none of these matters.

When the production capacity of industrial products rises, additional taxes can be added, and the money will come back.

Government subsidies increase the enthusiasm of merchants to import food, the increase in food, the increase in workers, the increase in the number of industrial products, and the increase in tax revenue.

It's a perfect virtuous circle.

The final result is that the great Chinese can still have enough to eat, but the industrial production capacity has increased, and the industrialization process has also been improved.

Merchants dumped industrial products overseas, exchanging industrial products for food.

In a steel factory with a thousand people, the steel produced is shipped overseas to be exchanged for grain, which can at least be exchanged for rations for 10,000 or even tens of thousands of people.

This is a very cost-effective trade, far more cost-effective than growing your own food.

Of course, this kind of trade will definitely hurt the interests of those countries overseas, bankrupt the handicraft industries in other places, and block the process of their industrialization.

However, this is exactly what Wu Changqing wanted.

Of course, there must be talents with unique vision in other countries who will discover this kind of problem, and then may adopt policies such as banning grain exports.

At that time, Dahua's warships can play a role again.

Wu Changqing posted

After thinking about it, everyone thought that this method was better than their own, and naturally they passed it quickly.

When you passed it, you still felt a little bit regretful in your heart. After all, this method was thought up by the emperor, and it had little to do with them.

There are so many times of this kind of thing, it seems that they are very useless, and the experience of being an official is extremely poor.

Many people are constantly learning in secret and want to improve themselves.

But no matter how hard they tried, they found that they were often inferior to Wu Changqing.

Program passed.

The next step is to study how to subsidize and how much to subsidize.

The amount of subsidy will not affect domestic food prices, but also allow businessmen to earn some money and mobilize their enthusiasm.

This is a very detailed job.

At this time, other ministers can finally play their role, because Wu Changqing has never been involved in such specific numerical settings.

In addition to promulgating the grain import bill, Wu Changqing also asked the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites to cooperate to set up a professional technical school for adults in the society.

The conventional knowledge in the classroom is not taught, and it is specially used to cultivate the vocational skills of ordinary people.

For example, car repair, machine tool processing, decoration and even chefs, etc., as long as it is an industry that requires skills, relevant training courses can be set up.

Although the later generations of New Oriental and Lan Xiang are often taken out to ridicule, it has to be said that these two schools have cultivated a large number of people who can rely on technology to make a living.

Without this technology, those people may only be able to work as assemblers in electronics factories, and have no future.

A technology may not make people rich, but it is enough to make a person live better than many people.

The talents cultivated by these vocational schools are destined to be flawed, but Dahua really needs them.