Chaos in Jiangnan
Chapter 919:Chaos in Jiangnan
"Father, children day and night to stare at the workshop, and the craftsmen who build the looms are reliable old people, and they will never reveal secrets."Zhang Suzi even distinguished, but let him rack his brain I am afraid that he would not think that the leaking secrets was not his side of the hand, but the book student Li Heng, who had committed suicide.
After Li Heng created a self-infused illusion, he came ashore from an unassuming corner under the response of his colleagues, then changed his clothes, and took a drawing to deceive another Jiangnan's rich businessman son; like him, there were many hands brocades and east factories like him, with the cooperation of these people, many of Jiangnan's loom shops received this drawing, and began to secretly try to make a big deal.
As early as the years of Jiajing Wan, Jiangnan area of silk weaving, oil, mining and other hand-industrial industries have appeared to form a workshop, the recruitment of employees to work in the signs; from the Suzhou Province record, it can be seen that in the Ming Dynasty Suzhou City, there are a large number of free laborers, they "she as a group", "bridge to call", "flies set up flower bridge, gauzeg stands Guanghua Temple Bridge, carmaker Lixi Bridge", according to the city, according to the number of employees.Thousands of people; in the notes of some missionaries, there are even the exaggerated claims of 100,000 weavers, and the prosperity of Jiangnan's commerce can be seen.
Although these luxury companies have not been able to sum up the relationship between demand and commodity prices, but the economic law is still playing an important role, if only Zhang Suzi family to increase the acquisition of strength, although their home base is thick, but compared with the whole of Jiangnan can provide textile raw materials but nothing, you can get the loom drawings ready to take this big windfall, re-division of the southern textile industry pattern but do not know how many people, these people add up enough to shake the whole Gangnam.
Under their promotion, a variety of textile materials and other raw materials to be used in the textile process prices have risen all the way up, at the beginning of the time they have not cared, that although the price has risen, but the efficiency of the new loom is twice the original, labor expenditure is greatly reduced, the production efficiency is greatly improved, so there is still a very large profit, so not only did not attract their alarm, but also let them put more money into the competition for textile raw materials.
At the same time, in order to reduce expenses, they cut nearly half of the textile workers, anyway, with this new type of loom, leaving half of the manpower is enough to use, since there is still such a thing as these people do?Lord, I started the workshop, but it is not a good house, there is no reason to spend money to raise these useless people.
However, the next exhibition is completely out of their expectations, under the scrambling of these people, the price of various raw materials all the way up, soon rose even if the use of a new loom, can not guarantee the degree of profits, more important is those raw material merchants even began to hoard Qucci, stuck raw materials do not want to put out, to provide these textile workshop raw materials are far from meeting their scale, the use of new looms after the production of demand, they are busy everywhere, only now Jiangnan city.
This is like a cold water thrown on their heads, breaking their dream of a big windfall, but things have not allowed them to turn back at this point, if they do not get enough raw materials, resulting in the inability to work at full capacity, then all the silver invested in the early stage will be lost, their own workshop will be squeezed by others, and if they continue to persist in killing others, they may be lucky, their own industry will be taken advantage of.
However, there was another bad news coming soon, first the court suspended the purchase of cloth for the new army to prepare the military uniform plan, and then Zheng Zhilong also reported that his fleet and red hair in the South Ocean fierce battle, the commercial road to the South Ocean temporarily cut off, this year's demand for silk and other goods greatly reduced; suddenly less than two large customers, even if the production of cloth, silk, can be sold to whom?Do you want to leave those high-quality silk cloths in the warehouse to get moldy?
At the same time, the weavers who were laid off also spent their savings, and tried their best to find a job, and saw that they were going to starve to death; there were many gentlemen in the area of Jiangnan, and these people were forced to land mergers by the power of their own families, and drove these people out of the countryside and into the city; before they could go to the workshop to work, in order to earn meager wages to support themselves and their families, and now they have lost their jobs, and the countryside can not be returned.
“There has been no workshop for a whole month to recruit weavers, and for many years there has been no such thing.”A older weaver murmured that he was now in a gathering area where weavers were looking for work, and that there had been a constant stream of staff to select employees, and now there were many days without sight of them, and more and more unemployed weavers gathered here.
“Come on, how can we live!”I don't know who cried, and then it caused more people to agree.
"If the first half of the year, really can not live, you can also go to the gate to sign up to participate in the pioneer team, but now there is to stop recruiting, even if we want to go out of life without this opportunity."The old home can not go back, the work is lost again, the savings have long been spent, and now even the last way out has been blocked, a burst of despair gradually spread in the crowd.
“If the owner hadn’t built those new looms, why should we fall into this field?”Despair slowly brews anger and hatred, but with the insight of these people, it is difficult to find the real culprit in which they have fallen, and can only expose the anger to the most intuitive factors that lead to their unemployment - those new looms.
"If you smash those looms, the owners will have to use us."Soon, people react, and in their eyes, it may be the perfect solution, but they don’t realize what the consequences of smashing the home machine will be.
“Yes!Wang II was right, let’s go and smash those looms!”If it is only three or five people, even if no one dares to act on these topics, but the adventurity of the group is always individual, and the thousands of weavers on the scene also give them a lot of courage, these people try to act.
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