"Imperial Statistical Yearbook" 1966 Rudberg Edition Volume 1.

"Notifications and Materials Compilation of Various Agencies Affiliated to the Ministry of Finance" No. 5, 2016.

"Yearbook of the Ministry of Finance" No. 1, 8, 10, 12.

"Compendium of Factory Industrial Materials" published by the Department of Commerce and Industry

In front of Bai was a large stack of books, all of which were official reports published by the empire.

She was counting the official statistics of the empire and the opinions of general books and periodicals, and drawing conclusions from them.

The empire's method of distinguishing workshops and factories seems to be very simple. Whether it is official statistics or folk names, any large industrial enterprise with a considerable number of employed workers is called a factory.

In Bai's view, Mr.'s theory is more practical. He only calls a certain stage of exploitation in industry, that is, the highest stage, large-scale machine industry, or factory industry.

The main and most important sign of this stage is the use of professional systems and magic tools in production.

Note that it is not simply using professionals, but using a professional system, through assembly line coordination, to completely combine low-level professionals from different professions, just like... a battle formation in the army.

There used to be not that many level professionals, but recently, due to the sudden shortage of prison ice, and the spread of some knowledge without warning, the professional system has been truly integrated into the empire's original production system.

] The transition from manual workshops to factories marked a fundamental change in technology. This change overturned the craftsmanship accumulated for hundreds of years. Countless workshops began to go bankrupt and were forced to introduce the assembly line method, because otherwise, they would

will be eliminated by the fierce market.

In Bai's view, what will follow this technological change will inevitably be the most violent destruction of social production relations, a complete split between various production participant groups, a complete break with tradition, and the intensification and expansion of all the dark sides of capitalism.

And capitalism massively socializes labor.

Therefore, large-scale machine industry is the highest peak of capitalism and is the reason why its negative and positive factors coexist.

By reading these official statistical documents of the empire, it is completely obvious that during the current period, the empire is transitioning from manual workshops to factories. In terms of future development, this period must be of particularly important significance.

Looking at these in vain, the main problem lies in the reform and progressive role of capitalism. There is no doubt that from the perspective of the rulers, this newly born system has concentrated the originally dispersed productive forces and raw materials, greatly reducing the original

Redundant costs and greatly improved production efficiency

But the more Bai looked at these statistics, the more he frowned.

The economists in the empire made a big mistake, just like what she saw now. They naively equated labor aggregation with factory industry in statistics. They wanted to solve the new system through a simple discussion of factory statistics.

problems, and even solve the joint effects brought about by the new system.

Not to mention that these original scholars exposed their shocking ignorance on factory statistics. This may come from their past empiricism, but no matter the reason, they were very wrong.

Their main mistake is a very rigid and narrow understanding of the status quo.

First, they ridiculously reduce the development problem of factory industry to a problem of agglomeration.

But in fact, this is not only a statistical problem, but a problem of the forms and stages experienced by a country's industrial development. Only after clarifying the essence and characteristics of these forms can we use properly organized statistical data to illustrate a certain form.

development, this is meaningful.

If we limit ourselves to these meaningless statistical data, we will inevitably confuse the various forms of large-scale factory industry, and we will miss the forest for the trees.

Second, they attribute all phenomena to the increase in the number of factory workers, that is to say, they have no understanding of the theory, and even these people think that the socialization of labor is nothing more than the dispersion to the gathering of hundreds or thousands of workers.

Even the concept of "factory" did not have any precise definition in the empire. Therefore, provincial administrative agencies and city administrative agencies all used the word differently. Some also called workshops factories, and some also called workshops.

Others call a workplace with too many people a factory.

Even various provinces or territories between nobles have no consistent definition of what should be counted as a factory. For example, many provinces or kingdoms include wind mills, brick burning yards and small industrial workshops in the number of factories, while others include wind mills, brick burning yards and small industrial workshops.

The province does not take them into account.

Some factory owners only report workers who live in the factory because they do not consider workers who work at home to be factory workers.

At the same time, in many industries, apparently due to misunderstanding, many purely handicraft workshops and purely handicraft workshops that have no factory character at all are included in the factory list.

Therefore, Bai Cai frowned. As a result, the statistical materials in her hands were completely meaningless. There was no central agency to formally do the unified work of collecting and reviewing statements. These were just waste paper. As long as the original data were collected,

As long as the main principles of materials are not changed, there will be no official and precise statistics on handicrafts and factory industry.

The empire failed to truly understand this social change! They even got the statistics wrong!

Bai can completely draw the conclusion from these reports of the Empire: The Empire's factory statistics are completely false, and the Empire has no understanding of the real industrial revolution.

What is the real industrial revolution? It is not just a revolution in production technology, but also a complete subversion of production relations!

This is a concept put forward by Mr. Wang, who wrote in his book that the empire was once mainly an industrial form based on slaves and manual labor, but now it has changed. This change is mainly divided into three parts.

Small commodity production, that is, very small-scale, is mainly a handicraft industry of farmers.

Workshop handicrafts are ordinary professional workshops, such as blacksmith shops, carpentry shops, or water mills.

and finally large industrial factories, intensive labor, and assembly line production.

The connection and inheritance of the above three industrial forms are very direct and rapid.

Facts clearly show that the basic trend of small commodity production is the development of capitalism, especially the formation of handicraft industry, where the owner leads some hired workers. In recent times, the handicraft industry has grown extremely rapidly into large industrial factories. Many large factories

The Lord and Yu were once small and small handicraftsmen. They experienced all stages from "people's production" to "capitalism", and all these transformations were completed in just ten years.

This is an era of change!

Why do you say this? Because the production of small commodities is characterized by completely primitive manual technology, which has almost remained unchanged since ancient times.

Handicraftsmen are still those who process raw materials according to traditional methods. The workshop handicraft industry adopts division of labor, which fundamentally changes technology and turns farmers into craftsmen and "partial workers."

However, manual production is still preserved. On this basis, the progress of production methods must be very slow. The division of labor is formed spontaneously, just like peasant labor, it is learned according to tradition.

Therefore, only the last large-scale factory industry caused drastic changes, leaving manual skills far behind, transforming production on a new rational basis, and systematically applying scientific achievements to production.

When the empire had not yet organized large-scale factory industries, within those industrial sectors, Bai saw industries where technology was almost completely stagnant. She could see that people were using the technology that had been used in production hundreds of years ago.

Primitive tools, and a lot of labor and a few professional craftsmen, just like in Larante.

On the contrary, in the industrial sectors dominated by large-scale factory industry, she saw radical technological reforms and extremely rapid advances in production methods, which were unprecedented phenomena in the past.

This is a positive aspect.

But on the other hand, large-scale factory industry has brought about negative aspects. It has created sharp opposition between workers and owners.

In the initial small-scale production, there was neither large capital nor a broad proletarian class, and everyone was equal to a certain extent.

In the workshop handicraft industry, these two have begun to form, and the gap between the owners of the means of production and the workers has reached a deep level.

When the real large-scale factory industry developed, a few businessmen had huge sums of money to purchase raw materials and sell products, and a large number of local workers lived a precarious life.

In large machine industry all obstacles disappear.

The polar opposites of society reached their highest development, and all the dark sides of capitalism seemed to come together: as we all know, the assembly line greatly promoted the infinite extension of the working day, women and children joined production, and a reserve army of unemployed workers was formed.

However, the most terrifying thing is the large-scale socialization of labor in factories, as well as the transformation of the emotions and concepts of people employed by factories, especially the destruction of traditional clans and production management, which has caused a reaction, namely: large machine industry

Different from the previous stages, it insists on the planned regulation of production and the implementation of social supervision of production! It requires even the most cruel means to maintain the continued expansion of production. This production method does not care about anything. It only urgently requires the production method.

The rapid transformation of relations with all society replaced the previous stagnation.

This is his negative influence.

Obviously, the empire knows nothing about this, as can be seen from these statistics.

"Perhaps... it will be useful to you, sir?" After thinking about this, Bai took out a pen and paper and began to report to his superiors in the form of an official document.

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The conversation between Livia and Kara continues, on the other side of the world.

The Hall of Glow is the most important commercial hub city besides the Imperial Capital Headquarters, Glow City.

This is an extremely developed commercial city. Even the lowest-end poor people here can earn as much as the monthly income of many urban poor people every day. You can even pick up silver coins on the street.

Every year, countless young people from the empire rush here, because the wages and benefits in Glow City are extremely high. Although the work is basically life-changing, there are still many people who want to come here to chase the first-line opportunities.

There is the most complete business mechanism here. A lot of high-level professionals do nothing but analyze the market every day. They can extract a clear portrait of the user group from any move in the market, and then extract many insights from it. Something that the market itself is unaware of.

They watched the entire financial and industrial markets of the empire indifferently, like observing experimental subjects.

Most people in the market actively express various reactions to different stimuli, prompting them to continuously improve their theories until they completely control the market and the psychology of most people.

It can even be said that every collective action resulting from large-scale capital flows will be a footnote in the data of their paper.

This group of people are the ones who truly silently and secretly influence the entire financial direction of the empire.

In Glow City, in addition to luxurious commerce, there is another characteristic, which is the luxurious enjoyment that crushes all cities in the empire.

There are countless young people spending their youth here. Young men and young girls flock in like garbage. There are also many wealthy businessmen gathered here, and it is even the largest commercial hub of the Hall of Glow.

A place like this, Jinjin Grotto, is definitely indispensable.

The Hanging Garden is one of the landmark buildings of Glow City. Business in Glow City is very developed. Many chambers of commerce have their headquarters here. Glow Hall is also very open-minded about the business policies here. The social status of merchants here is Yes... No, it should be said that the social status of businessmen here is very high, and even the senior officials of the ruling group and the city hall are full of big businessmen.

These people will basically choose to invest and build in Glow City, or come and enjoy it themselves.

The Sky Garden is the ultimate in this kind of enjoyment. It is an artificial floating island that uses the rune engines of 274 aerostats, and the top masters have specially drawn rune arrays for it to allow it to operate. and float in the sky.

Although the area is not large and cannot be moved freely, it is more than enough as a base for enjoyment. There are pubs, restaurants, dance halls, casinos, etc., and various entertainment venues for dignitaries to have fun all night long. .

The decoration here is magnificent, with carpets made of silver, diamonds, sapphires, crystals of various colors, and gold. All the gems are condensed in the ground and entangled with each other. It is luxurious without losing artistic taste.

This is the ultimate gold sales cave, and even the slaves working here are richer than many successful businessmen outside, even though they are just slaves.

After all, even slaves live on this small island with a diameter of one kilometer, and the wealth contained in this small island can dwarf all the treasures collected by other ordinary cities in an empire, and several cities combined.

This place has also become the best place for dignitaries to show off their wealth and buy countless enjoyments with money. Every night, these high-society people who spend a lot of money will make the Hall of Glory make a lot of money, just once. The reward is thousands of gold coins, which is money that many people will never earn in their lifetime.

Sid is here, and according to her father's wishes, she received an order from the family.

It was completely normal for a noble child to carry out the family's orders, so she took it without much resistance. After all, she was just attending a dinner party.

The maids began to lead the way. Sid was used to it, but the brilliance and splendor of this place still caught her eyes.

She didn't wear the usual armor and equipment, but changed into a normal one.

Walking into a glass restaurant, today's dinner officially began.

(Hmm, then I will reduce the theory part in the future, so that I can save my brain... To be honest, the plot is much easier to write than the theory. When I write a paragraph about those things, I have to read four or five books for an hour or two to ensure that there are no fallacies.
Chapter completed!