In fact, Malin had long thought about developing the wool textile industry, but there was no steam engine in the past, and Beihai Kingdom did not have a big river, so there was no condition to build hydraulic machinery.
Although Marin built an artificial reservoir near Lair City in the Beihai country, artificially raised the water level and then impacted the hydraulic forging hammer to make weapons and armor.
However, the cost of artificial reservoirs is too high, so Marin gritted his teeth to build one to build weapons and armor. This kind of industry that is related to national security is worth the investment. However, if it is to build another artificial reservoir for the wool textile industry, it is not worth it. The main reason is that it is not economically cost-effective.
Today, the main wool spinning is Ghent and Bruges in the Flanders, as well as England.
However, it seems that England's wool textile industry has more advantages in this regard. Because the purchased wool requires rinsing and combing. Among them, the rinsing process is mainly due to workers stepping on the water basin, which consumes manpower. The wool textile center in England is concentrated near reservoirs and waterfalls with rich hydraulic resources in the mountains, and has realized that hydraulic machinery has replaced labor. Therefore, the cost is still lower. Including the rinsing after the wool wool is woven, hydraulic bleaching machines can be used instead of labor.
However, the higher labor wages in the UK offset a lot of cost advantages. For example, the daily wages of textile workers in the Flanders are only two or three Finneys. The wages of textile workers in the UK are as high as four or five pennies (the same value as pennies and Finneys), which is more than 1.5 times that of the Flanders. The reason for this is that the price of grain in the UK is about 1.5 times that of the German region. In this era, textile workers earned money mainly to buy food. Therefore, wages in various places are mainly related to the price of grain.
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The Flanders region is more miserable because, for more than a century, England has implemented a policy of imposing high tariffs on export wool since Edward III, which encouraged the development of England's wool textile industry in disguise. Therefore, the cost of importing wool from England in the Flanders region is very high. Because England raised the tax rate for exporting wool to more than one-third. In this era when the pound tax was only one or two pennies, it was definitely an extremely high tariff and the earliest trade protection tariff.
In England, when a buyer purchases wool from a noble estate or abbey where sheep-raising sheep, the purchase cost of a bag of wool (364 pounds) is only about £4, or 80 shillings.
But wool buyers need to pay taxes to the king, and at the same time, they need to make a high enough profit. Therefore, in the English market, mainly in the port market, the price of a bag of wool is around £8.
However, after the royal family imposed more than one-third of the high wool export tariffs, plus the cost of ship transportation, and the management tax levied locally in the Port of Calais, the price is already 12 pounds or even 13 pounds. The cost accounts for three-quarters of the price of wool in the Flanders region. (To put it silently, in this time and space, Calais has been conquered by France. Therefore, the export of British wool has now been distributed in the Port of Antwerp in the Netherlands)
In other words, the profits that can be made in textile factories in the Flanders are already very meager after deducting the wages of textile workers, depreciation of machines, and taxes.
Therefore, the textile workshops in the Flanders area have now closed down in large numbers. Especially small textile workshops with few looms are forced to close because of their low profits. Only large-scale textile workshops can barely survive with large quantities.
Fortunately, because of the marriage with Spain, the Habsburg family relied on this relationship to find a new source of wool for textile factories in the Flanders - the Spanish Merino wool!
Spanish merino wool is of better quality, exceeding British wool. However, the price is also more expensive. Moreover, Florence, the Italian wool spinning center, is also competing for Spanish merino wool as raw material. Therefore, the price of Spanish merino wool remains high, and because of the competition in Florence, there are not many quantities that can be obtained.
But because the quality of Merino wool is excellent, some textile workshops that rely on the quality of Merino wool to produce and sell high-end wool wool are very comfortable. These textile workshops that can get Merino wool are generally the bosses behind the scenes of the Netherlands nobles with great energy. However, the textile workshops opened by other civilian businessmen are still difficult to survive.
Of course, the difficulty of these Flanders' textile factory owners has nothing to do with Marin. Instead, Marin plans to take this opportunity to poach a group of skilled craftsmen and textile workers from Flanders. After all, the Flanders region is a famous wool textile center in Europe, and there are quite a lot of skilled craftsmen, so they are considered talents.
This problem was naturally left to Kohler to arrange his men to poach people. At this time, many textile factories in the Flanders area went bankrupt, and naturally there were many skilled craftsmen and skilled textile workers in the wool industry who were unemployed at home...
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Sure enough, when Kohler sent people to Flanders, many wool craftsmen and textile workers who had not been working for a long time expressed their strong desire to come to Beihai Country. After all, the most important thing for them is to make money to support their families!
However, when Kohler's subordinates recruited craftsmen and skilled textile workers in the wool-textile industry in Ghent, they attracted the attention of Prince Philip, who lives in Ghent, and caused his dissatisfaction.
Then, Prince Philip rushed to Beihai Kingdom in a qi, accusing Marin of poaching his corner...
You should know that these days, craftsmen and textile workers have to pay taxes. Unlike farmers, both craftsmen and textile workers need to pay taxes every year.
Therefore, the kings of England like to develop their local wool textile industry, rather than directly exporting wool. Because vigorously developing the wool textile industry can not only solve the livelihoods of many unemployed vagrants, but also contribute tax revenue to the country.
Needless to say, the unemployed vagrants have the potential to become rioters and are social instability factors. The taxes for textile craftsmen and textile workers are mainly collected by handicraft guilds that were popular in the Middle Ages.
In England, the guild of artisans and workers in the industry are responsible for taxing all craftsmen and workers. All craftsmen and textile workers must also be forced to join the guild of artisans.
Generally speaking, the handicraft guild adopts a tax-packing system. The king gives the handicraft guild a tax indicator, and then the handicraft guilds in various industries are responsible for the collection.
Moreover, the handicraft guild has the function of unifying pricing and allocating raw materials for products in this industry, and its power is very great.
Generally speaking, handicraft commerce will price products, which will reserve profit margins so that practitioners in the industry can afford taxes.
The king asked the handicraft guild to collect taxes on his behalf, which saved a lot of trouble. Because in this era, the king did not have so many professional tax talents under his command. He handed over the handicraft guild to collect taxes, which saved trouble and labor costs.
However, if the handicraft guild is in the hands of evil people with bad intentions, it will also become a disaster. Moreover, the handicraft guild is almost not controlled by the official except for taxes, and is a bit like an independent community organization. The most important thing is that if the leader of the handicraft guild incites, workers in this industry may rise up and rebel... This is a big safety hazard...
Therefore, from the beginning, Marin did not allow the Beihai Kingdom to establish a handicraft guild. The seized vassal states also banned the handicraft guilds to avoid becoming a hidden danger of social stability.
However, after banning the old handicraft guilds, Marin discovered that his control over those handicraft guilds was a little weak.
The area originally controlled by Beihai Kingdom was fine, and the craftsmen were basically controlled by Marin himself. However, after the vassal states seized later disbanded the handicraft guild, Marin discovered that he could not control the handicraft guild...
Chapter completed!