It has to be said that the control of Dingnan and Jiaozhi by the entire palace is no longer the extensive management of the past, and now it has begun to be gradually refined with the passage of time, for example, although there is no yellow book system here, there is also a household registration and the like, which is convenient for management. {3.

And this also provides convenience for Hao Fenglou.

The household registers of the two provinces have reached 8 million, and the number of people is more than 20 million, of which the population of Han people is as high as half.

There are more than 9,000 workshops registered in the two provinces, ranging in size and scale, some workshops recruit thousands of craftsmen, and some workshops are only a dozen people, covering everything, including steel, pottery, porcelain, wood, chariots and horses, textiles, and so on.

It is also because of the foundation of the workshop, so that many industries have bloomed, such as books, now there are tens of millions of articles, books, and newspapers published every year. In addition, there are theaters, there are more than 70 in Lang Son alone, the emergence of handicrafts and primary industries, completely defeated the self-sufficient small peasant economy in the past, the so-called small peasant economy, nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation, are their own cooking, farming, grinding, weaving, all their lives may be trapped in the countryside for ten miles, rarely go far away.

However, the emergence of workers and craftsmen is nothing more than the emergence of a finer division of labor in the industry, because of the need to work on time, so that there is a ready-to-wear garment, thus making the wine and food shops prosperous, so that the carriage began to sell well, the emergence of this change, plus prosperity, many industries derived. A number of industrial links have been formed.

Because of this, the two provinces of Jiaozhi and Dingnan are no longer what they used to be. In addition, the current railway network has begun to take shape, at least from Lang Son to Jiaozhou, from Jiaozhou to Dacheng railway has been through, other branch lines, are also continuing to develop, which makes the exchange of people and goods more convenient.

In fact, Hao Fenglou understands that everything is carried out throughout. It's nothing more than two words, efficiency.

Because of the subdivision of social functions, the efficiency is greatly improved. Take textile as an example, small farmers and small households weave by themselves, and their looms come first. It is often passed down from ancestors. The east repairs, the west supplements, barely used, and the technical level is extremely backward, as for the women who weave, after all, they are not familiar female workers, they need to take care of children, need to cook. Need to take shoes and female red, this textile. After all, it is only an amateur, using the most old looms, and an unfamiliar woman may weave two pieces of cloth all year round, which is not only of low quality, without color, but also inefficient.

And the appearance of the workshop, the same is a female worker, they use the most advanced loom qì, they work in the workshop every day, so they are extremely skilled, skilled, because they are paid, so they can work without distractions, and clothing, food, housing and transportation, can be taken care of by other more professional people, so a female worker, all year round, she produces as many as 100 pieces of cloth.

The same person is a hundred times more efficient, which means that there must be a hundred women in the small-scale peasant economy to be worthy of a woman in the workshop, and that's not counting the quality of the cloth, the quality of the clothes, the quality of the colors, and so on.

Textiles are like this, and the same is true for all walks of life, the blacksmith shop in the countryside, the same blacksmith, the steel smelted, at the end of the day, may only be a few catties, because his production tools are just a bellows, a forging platform, but a craftsman in the steel workshop, at the end of the day, cooperate with others, but can produce hundreds of catties of steel, because they use a blast furnace, use the most advanced bellows, division of labor, everyone, focus on doing their own thing, so in every procedure, The craftsmen who can ensure the work are top in efficiency.

It is precisely because the same people adopt different production methods, but the things they produce are so different, which means that everyone in Lang Son has ten times the ability and efficiency of small farmers, ten times more than a hundred times the efficiency, and the things produced are also ten times a hundred times, so the 20 million people, the annual output value, is not less than the hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, and the fact is also the same, the production of many cloths and silk in the Ming Dynasty has been the small Lang Shan Yue, the amount of steel in the Ming Dynasty a year, It is far from the half-year output of Dingnan and Jiaozhi, so compared, if the number of people is removed, as well as the factor of territorial area, based on this alone, Daming may not be the opponent of Langshan.

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Because of the subdivision of all walks of life, this also leads to a change in the functions of the government.

In a county in the Ming Dynasty, there is a tradition, that is, the so-called political power is not under the county, and the imperial court only appoints a county order, a county officer, and a master book, which can be managed, and these officials can manage tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people by only recruiting a few errand soldiers.

The reason why this is so is only because, in this kind of place with a single form of production, in fact, there are not many affairs, a county, is nothing more than dozens of big surnames, everyone is looking for food on the ground, even if there is something, the patriarchal law can deal with it, the number of scholars is a minority, only a few hundred, basically do not need to worry.

But here is different, the same county, must include the need aspect, first of all, because most of the people here are foreigners, the patriarchal law has no longer become a link to the society, so the problem of public security, it is inevitable to establish a special patrol bureau, because the dispute is no longer just a dispute between the villagers over the land, so there must be a special judicial body, no longer a county order to discuss the idea, so the special judge also appeared. Therefore, the industrial and commercial enterprises, the government must manage the workshops, so the special industrial and commercial bureaus have also appeared, because the taxation is becoming more and more complex, and the taxes collected by different industries are very different, and it is no longer a single agricultural tax, so the tax bureau has also appeared.

In this way, the emergence of many specialized yamen, although there are many more 'idlers' here, and the cost of social support has also increased a lot, but what cannot be erased is that the control power of the government has also increased, which is unprecedented in all dynasties, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. (To be continued!)

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