Chapter 280: Confucian Merchants (II)

(TXT ) (TXT ) (TXT ) "The second master's change of words is good, but the change always has to be explored slowly. (TXT )し”

Saying this, Meng Luochuan is also a little lacking in confidence, Meng Luochuan is a scholar, a descendant of Yasheng, but the clearest identity is still a businessman, the news of businessmen is well-informed, many things that seek innovation and change, Meng Luochuan has also been contacted, change, not because he doesn't want to, but because of his identity to take the school, can't!

The so-called slow groping is just Meng Luochuan's prevarication, not to mention anything else, just say that the machine-milled noodles and stone grinders that are very popular in the north and south are only grinding one or two thousand catties of flour a day and a night, and the color is not good; Water mill, the flour ground out is the same as the stone mill, but it is ground more, only three or four thousand catties a day and a night.

Several flour mills built in the north and south, how much can be milled in a day, it is said that it is tens of thousands of catties, and the flour that is ground out is delicate and white, and the taste of the cake bun is also very different, the distinction between brown rice and polished rice is almost the same, there is a lot of land in Confucius and Mencius, and most of the wheat is planted, and the machine grinds about it, Meng Luochuan has inquired carefully, but for various reasons, he does not dare to get too involved in it, and it is difficult to change, especially for the descendants of Confucius and Mencius!

Li Dacheng's change of words, but also made many scholars tremble, the abolition of martial arts during the Restoration, the sound of abolishing the imperial examination is not small, so the change, this way of Confucius and Mencius......

"What the fourth master said makes sense, you have to explore it slowly, but I don't know how much the fourth master's Qingxiang, Ruifuxiang, and Ruishengxiang have groped?"

After asking a question, Li Dacheng reached into his arms and took out his notebook, opened one of the pages, and looked down.

"Meng's industry, what it does is silk, cloth, clothes, shoes and hats, all of which are to maintain the livelihood of small people, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to change a lot, right?"

Most of the Lu merchants do the exchange of the north and the south, which is very traditional, and Meng Luochuan's statement is reasonable for the merchants of the Qing Dynasty, but on Li Dacheng's side, this is not the case.

"Thirty years ago. There is an American-style sewing machine in Yantai commercial port, which can be used to make clothes and shoes, a sewing machine. At least three or five skilled tailors, and the stitches are finely and neatly, no worse than the best tailors.

More than 20 years ago, the Germans opened a machine textile factory called Franta in Yantai Commercial Port. This machine loom is worth half a year's production of a skilled weaver in one day.

Twenty years ago, Li Zhongtang built Huafeng Silk Reeling Bureau in Yantai, and later expanded production by Sheng Xuanhuai, and more than 1,000 boxes of raw silk were exported a year.

Eight years ago, the British priest Ma Maolan created Rende Foreign Company to promote lace crochet in Yantai, which made huge profits every year through the lace industry.

Thirty years ago, the Germans built an egg powder factory in Yantai. The annual output is also around tens of thousands.

The fourth master is making silk, cloth, clothes, shoes and hats, sewing machines, looms, silk reeling bureaus, lace crochet, these can't drive the livelihood of the little people? Egg powder factory, eggs are just powdered, raising chickens and ducks is not the livelihood of small people?

Thirty years, twenty years, ten years, how many decades does it take for the fourth master to explore? ”

Li Dacheng said these words not very politely, with an obvious questioning tone, these are some business information collected by Li Cheng and some people in Yantai Commercial Port, and there are small livelihoods in it. The slow groping in Meng Luochuan's mouth was too pushing.

What Li Dacheng said, Dacheng's people also explored below, and Li Dacheng also gave a specific scope. In addition to weaving and spinning, there are straw weaving and willow weaving industries, straw top hats, willow baskets can be exported for profit, lace can also temporarily replace weaving, spinning these traditional handicraft industries, this is a road that can be taken temporarily.

The promotion of these handicrafts can also rely on Dacheng Gong, but Li Dacheng wants to pull Meng Luochuan into the gang. With Meng Luochuan as an example for the world's readers, perhaps other places other than Shandong can slowly find their own way.

In the past one or two years, Dacheng Gong has no ability to take care of the Shandong market, and the burden of Zhenwei Army does not allow Li Dacheng to push Dacheng Gong to other places outside Shandong, and there are three eastern provinces behind! A little bit of spreading out Dachenggong, the cost is a lot more than the Zhenwei army.

In addition to Dacheng Gong and Zhenwei Army, Li Dacheng also had to open coal mines, build iron works, and build railways, all of which had to be bigger.

Li Dacheng asked Zhan Tianyou in the north to estimate the cost of the Jiaoyi Railway, which cost more than 10 million yuan for a single line and about 15 million for a double line, and if it crosses the Yellow River and connects with the Jinghan Railway, it will be an investment of about 10 million.

To do the industry of the whole province, the initial investment is too large, Dacheng Gong has not yet fully rolled out, Li Cheng is facing financial pressure over there, during this time, Li Cheng has several times remembered the cash of the Sun family compound and Weishan, Li Dacheng did not agree, borrowing the stage to sing and donate to help education, that is, Li Dacheng has become a way to alleviate the financial pressure of Li Chengyou.

"The second master is prepared!"

"Hehe, since he was in Jingshi, Li Er has been eyeing Meng Siye."

Meng Luochuan originally wanted to borrow Li Dacheng's way to donate to build a medical house, but he never thought that this Second Master Li was also waiting for him to enter the set! What Li Dacheng said, Meng Luochuan had no way to fight back, what was behind the loom and silk reeling bureau, Meng Luochuan knew very well that planting cotton and raising silkworms was where the livelihood of the little people lies, and refuting would only bring humiliation on himself.

"Meng's financial resources are limited, Ruifuxiang and Ruishengxiang want to open a branch in Shandong, and they want to build a branch in the north and south, Meng is really a little powerless!"

When it comes to money, Li Dacheng doesn't care, although he is now facing the pressure of funds, but he still takes out millions of silver, not to mention the Weishan Tibetan silver, the Sun family compound is about 20 million in cash, and it is not impossible to move out millions for the livelihood of Shandong, and the financial pressure does not mean that there is no money, Li Dacheng and Li Cheng still have a considerable amount of foreign currency in their hands, and if these are exchanged for cash and silver, there are tens of millions of dollars.

"The Shandong government is promoting the cultivation of sweet sorghum, Meng Siye has heard about it, right? I don't know what the fourth master thinks here? ”

As he spoke, Li Dacheng changed his words and talked about sweet sorghum again, it was not easy to convince Meng Luochuan, maybe sweet sorghum was a good breakthrough.

"I heard that this matter was also caused by the second master, right?"

"Exactly! I don't know what the fourth master thinks about this? ”

"Sorghum is indeed drought and alkali tolerant, and the yield is guaranteed, but sorghum rice is not palatable, and the price cannot go up, so as to increase the tax on cotton and wheat. Promoting sweet sorghum to protect grain for Shandong, the second master's intentions are good, but his actions are too arrogant, which will hurt the livelihood of the little people!

Don't hide it from the second master. Meng also has thousands of acres of land in Shandong, sowing seeds this spring, Meng still has to plant wheat! ”

Regarding the Shandong government's arrogant promotion of sweet sorghum planting, Meng Luochuan also has a saying here to protect grain for Shandong. It sounds good, but when the time comes to pay the land tax and rent, how much can the people leave in the hands of the people for the production of one mu of sorghum?

"Hmmm! What if I buy green stalks at 10% of sorghum rice? ”

For the output of sweet sorghum, Li Dacheng also has a plan here, the average grain yield of one mu of sweet sorghum is around 300 catties, and the output of green poles is at least seven or eight thousand catties.

Although Dachenggong's sugar and wine industry could not be built for a while, it took a few months. It is also enough for Dacheng Gong to build some small workshops for sugar and wine making in various places, even if sweet sorghum is planted in the whole province of Shandong, even if Dacheng Gong's production capacity is limited, the purchase of green poles will make Dacheng Gong lose about one million at most.

Judging from the efforts of the Shandong government to promote, it is impossible for sweet sorghum to spread throughout the province this spring, and there is a focus on building sugar and wine workshops, and if we don't do a good job of purchasing green poles this year, we can do it without making money or losing money, but this must also have a premise. That's how Dacheng was able to get his hands on making rum.

Although there are still a few months to go, Li Dacheng is not sure if Li Cheng can hire a qualified winemaker on his side, and he can't find a winemaker when he harvests this autumn. It's really going to be a loss.

"In this case, Meng also grows sweet sorghum!"

"Then let's decide, I will produce the seeds, and then the sorghum rice and green stalks, I will also harvest all the orders!"

"Second master, what are you for?"

"People's livelihood!"

"People's livelihood?"

"That's right! Shandong has been plagued by floods and droughts for many years. Even if the sorghum rice is not harvested, the green poles can be sold for money.

As long as the drought is not thousands of miles of red land, how can there be thousands of catties of green poles in one acre, and the big water, as long as the water can recede in a few days, the sorghum will not be waterlogged.

Most of the rivers in Luzhong are silted, and the purpose of planting sweet sorghum is to fight floods.

As long as the grain in Shandong Province is about to be enough, and the canal project is about to be launched, once there is a large-scale famine, it is good to directly attract refugees to the canal construction site.

But the lack of food makes it difficult to do this, the price of transporting grain from the south is several times that of the local grain, and the funds for the canal project are also limited, and it costs too much, and it is impossible!

Planting sweet sorghum will bring down people's income in a short period of time, but it will not starve people to death! So it's for the sake of people's livelihood. ”

After listening to Li Dacheng's somewhat biased explanation, Meng Luochuan also recognized it, so that planting sweet sorghum is really beneficial to Shandong.

"Second Master Gaoyi!"

is beneficial to the people of Shandong, Meng Luochuan must be recognized, praised, and above the righteousness, Meng Luochuan, a Confucian businessman, also insisted.

"Gao Yi can't talk about it, what he sees is just benefits, the green pole can be squeezed for sugar, the residues after sugar extraction can be used to make wine, and the residues after brewing can be fed to livestock, this is Li Er's change!

In addition, Li Er also wants to learn the method of making biogas from foreigners, if this method is feasible, the sewage in the prefecture, county and town can also be used for lighting, cooking, and fertilizing the fields, which is also a change in Li Er's food.

The sugar and wine produced by the green pole can be sold for money, the livestock fed can be sold for money, and the biogas and biogas residue can also be sold for money, and the benefits in this are much more than grain, three or five catties of grain for one catty of sugar, and ten catties of grain for one catty of wine, which is the market price.

Fourth master, the so-called change is actually so simple, there are big interests in it, as long as you want to do it, there is a way, we businesses, shouldn't we change? ”

After listening to Li Dacheng's use of green rods, Meng Luochuan did not question what sweet sorghum is, when it was promoted by the Shandong government, Meng Luochuan also asked people to check that sugar production is feasible, and sugarcane wine in Sichuan is also feasible to make wine with green rods.

Although I don't know what biogas is, but with the sugar and wine in front, this should be true, if this is the case, sweet sorghum is really a big fuss.

"The second master is far-reaching, Meng admires, I don't know how Meng's industry should change?"

Saying this, it's just that Meng Luochuan agreed with Li Dacheng's statement, and he didn't mean to join the gang, it didn't change, and he didn't have the final say alone, although he was in charge of the three major numbers, he was also a descendant of Yasheng, and some things could not be done.

"If you look at clothes, shoes and hats, sewing machines, the fourth master should get dozens of them, and the clothes need to be customized, let's not talk about it, shoes and hats can be made.

With dozens of sewing machines, which are worth hundreds of skilled tailors, in my opinion, the fourth master might as well open a shoe and hat factory.

With a sewing machine, some tailors may be squeezed out, but the population of the Qing Dynasty is too large, and more shoes and hats are needed.

With the sewing machine, the working hours of making hats and shoes will be shorter, and the cost will be smaller, and the cost will be smaller, and the price of shoes and hats will fall, so that more people can afford to wear hats and shoes.

The same is true for machine weaving, the cost of homespun cloth is too large, and the price remains high, with machine yarn and machine cloth, the price of cloth will also be reduced, and more people will be able to wear clothes......

Fourth master, what do you think? ”

Not to mention the interests and people's livelihood, this is also a good way to deal with Confucian businessmen, after speaking, Li Dacheng looked at Meng Luochuan's expression, this person was obviously moved.

"Second master, Meng is a descendant of Yasheng after all, isn't it okay to do foreign affairs?"

Regardless of whether Meng Luochuan is conservative or not, his background determines his position, and westernization means change, which is in conflict with Confucianism, and when it comes to Westernization, this matter cannot be done.

"This is simple, I heard that the former Beiyang Machinery Bureau can also make sewing machines, and we can use the things we make ourselves, this shouldn't be considered a foreign business, right?

How about I plan for the fourth master in this matter? ”

Li Dacheng's method for Meng Luochuan is also simple, just deceiving the world and stealing fame, this can be regarded as a workaround, right?

"Meng has to think about this again."

"Okay, then let's take a look at Weishan Island!"

Meng Luochuan wants to take it slowly, and Li Dacheng is not in a hurry, let Dacheng Gong make a start first.

took Meng Luochuan and his party to Weishan Island, but coincidentally, before Meng Luochuan, a semi-official businessman, went to the island, there was a real big official businessman who also went to the island, and some said about this today. (To be continued.) )

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