After charging a certain amount of patent fees, the smelting technology of the Ordnance Bureau was awarded to the Jinxian Iron Works in Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi, Xingguo Iron Works in Huguang, Laiwu Iron Works in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong, Fuyangshan Iron Works in Guangzhou, Guangdong, and Shaanxi There are six Gongchang Iron Works and Fuguo Iron Works in Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi.
The Ordnance Bureau itself has Qian'an Iron Works, Luanhe Iron Works, Anshan Iron Works, Shandong Zichuan Iron Works and Nanzhili Xuzhoufu Iron Works.
Except for the five iron factories owned by the Ordnance Bureau, the remaining government-run iron factories have been sold to the private sector.
In the early years of Yongle, the annual iron output of the Ming Dynasty was more than 19.57 million kilograms.
By the Jiajing period, it reached more than 269.23 million kilograms, or about 160,000 tons.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, a total of 660 million kilograms of iron was produced by the private sector across the country.
This was the amount after taxes were paid.
The five iron factories owned by the Ordnance Bureau produced a total of 570 million kilograms of iron.
Jin, the total amount in the country is 1.23 billion jin.
As for steel production, originally only the five iron factories of the Ordnance Bureau and the Suzhou Iron Works were able to produce steel.
In the fourth year of Tianqi, the total steel production was less than 200 million kilograms.
Even if all of it was used to make rails, it could barely build a two thousand mile track.
Railroads, not to mention weapons manufacturing also require a lot of steel.
After the release of technology licensing, Tianqi has reached 320 million kilograms in eight years.
This speed still makes Zhu Youxiao very dissatisfied.
The annual output of a town-run steel plant in later generations may reach this much.
Although there is a big gap in technology, the steel output in later generations reached four just after the reform and opening up.
Tens of millions of tons, and in 2014 there were more than 800 million tons, equivalent to more than 1,400 billion kilograms.
The gap of more than 4,000 times is too big.
There is no way that technology can catch up for a while, so we can only find solutions from other aspects.
After the iron factory's tax rate was set at 15% tax, at the end of the eighth year of Tianqi, the Ministry of Household Affairs set the steel factory's tax rate at 20% tax.
Businessmen are animals with the most sensitive sense of smell in the world and are the species most sensitive to money.
The changes in the tax system of the imperial court have made businessmen know that mining ore can make money, but the profit is small.
If the ore is made into iron, they do not need to pay for the ore.
You can earn more tax money this way, and if you refine iron into steel, you don't even have to pay the tax on the iron.
Moreover, the more procedures you have to do, the less tax you have to pay.
How many people would be tempted by such a profit.
In the ninth year of Tianqi, steel production increased to 540 million kilograms, and there are now very few simple iron ore plants.
Those whose technology is not up to standard and do not want to spend patent fees will refine the iron ore plants into pig iron and sell it to For other large ironworks, after the large ironworks buy the iron and use it exclusively for steelmaking, of course their output will increase greatly.
However, there are two things that make the steel factory unhappy.
One is that the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, referred to as the Environmental Protection Bureau, always charges you environmental protection fees based on the number and size of chimneys in your factory.
But when they found out that the Environmental Protection Agency that had collected their money asked people to plant trees near their steel plant, they were not so unhappy.
The second is that when steel is sold to the Ordnance Bureau, it must meet the standards of the Ordnance Bureau, and the inspection is very strict.
However, when they meet the standards for two consecutive years, the Ordnance Bureau will give them the specifications of the rails and let them directly make the steel rails.
After passing the inspection, they will purchase them at a higher price, and the tax bureau will return 30% of the tax on the sold rails at the end of the year. , which makes them feel that this is actually quite good.
Zhu Youxiao has always believed that the official camp is the least efficient option.
According to the principle that power cannot be privately owned and property cannot be publicly owned, publicly owned property eventually becomes the private property of those in power and the operators.
In later generations, oil prices in China are higher than those in most developed countries.
However, PetroChina, the world's first state-owned enterprise with assets worth trillions, is actually losing money.
State-owned enterprises charge 50 cents or more for one kilometer of road robbery.
The highways in various provinces are basically empty.
Everyone suffered losses.
In fact, everyone knows where this loss has gone, but is there any reason for it?
Therefore, in this Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao wanted to privatize as much as possible.
Except for extremely special industries, such as banking, transportation, energy, military, tobacco and other enterprises, everything else that can be privatized must be privatized.
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The reason why he wants to add other people's shares to the agricultural cooperative is to prepare it to become a privatized enterprise when conditions are ripe one day.
Even as for the Royal Bank, he is also prepared to relax restrictions on banks and allow private banks to open banks after the domestic financial atmosphere is formed.
Of course, by then the Royal Bank will become an institution similar to supervising banks.
And he will also allow private newspapers to be run at the appropriate time, formulate news censorship laws, and establish management agencies.
Zhu Youxiao's privatization process has achieved great results, at least in terms of steel, as evidenced by the substantial increase in steel production year by year.
According to this development trend, it will only take more than ten years for the railway to be built to the border of Rakshasa Kingdom.
The Ordnance Bureau Steel Plant accumulated a large amount of steel rails, but did not have enough manpower to build railways.
Zhang Qianfang, the governor of Zhenyuan, sent two large ships to transport the first batch of 8,000 Indians, which greatly delighted the Railway Ministry, which was in desperate need of manpower.
Soon, the second batch of 6,000 people also arrived at Tianjin Port, along with some Indian women.
They heard that life was better in the Ming Dynasty and came to cook for the Indians.
Mao Yuanyi welcomed this, because soon after the first batch of Indians had eaten their fill, they began to dislike the food as unpalatable.
It would be a good idea to use Indians to cook.
These Indian women brought a lot of local spices, mainly something called curry, but also many other spices.
The rich aroma in the food made the railway officials drool, but seeing them grabbing the food with their hands, they suddenly lost their appetite.
Soon the officials of the Railway Ministry discovered that these Indian women were not just here to cook, but also to trade skins and meat.
The official reported the matter immediately.
Mao Yuanyi encountered this kind of problem for the first time and didn't know how to deal with it, so she went to ask Xu Guangqi for advice.
Xu Guangqi said: "It is forbidden for Indians to enter brothels, and it is forbidden for Ming people to patronize Indian women.
You have to ensure this.
Other matters are their internal affairs.
There are no major problems.
If it does not affect the construction of the railway, don't worry about it."
Chinese officials in Goa soon discovered that if they relied solely on Goan manpower to supply domestic railway construction, they would not have many people under their control.
So he used a "high price" of one tael of silver every ten days to lure Indians near Goa, causing a large number of Indians to come to Goa and then take a boat to the wealthy country they longed for, the Ming Dynasty
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