Suzhou weaving a world!

Suzhou and the surrounding areas are really full of sericulture, full of splendor.

After the establishment of the Southern Ming Dynasty, vigorously develop the economy, Suzhou urban and rural silk weaving handicraft workshops set up a large number of people's weaving gradually expanding, the weaving of Suzhou City is now prosperous, there is "the northeast half of the city, ten thousand households machine sound" said.

There are many economic, trade, commercial and auxiliary industries such as various silk shops, silk tents, yarn and satin villages, guild offices, guild halls, etc., and silk production and silk trade present a prosperous scene.

The countryside around Suzhou has also formed silk bazaars such as Shengze, Zhenze and Dongting Mountain, and Suzhou has become a veritable "silk house".

"We now have a total of more than 5,000 wooden machines for silk weaving, more than 20,000 people engaged in the silk industry, and an annual output of 130,000 real silk satin, worth about 2 million taels of silver! The main products are makeup satin, woven gold satin, library satin, Zhang satin, velvet, Korean yarn, etc., especially Su satin! Su Guansheng introduced.

Silk is important, in order to facilitate work, Su Guansheng added the title of Suzhou weaving, which is not only the importance of him, but also makes him unable to blame--- he does badly, no one takes the blame, after all, all the power is given to him.

It's not bad, more than two million taels of silver, which is equal to half of Zhang Juzheng's Wanli Dynasty's financial revenue!

We saw brocade, satin, silk, silk and other clothing bedding in the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, the decorative patterns are extremely exquisite, there are phoenix peony, magpie perched branches, plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum, etc., the handiwork is super good, the material is so beautiful that it is not like words, no wonder the red hair fan and the Tokugawa next door rushed to ask, so that their subjects could not produce it for more than a hundred years!

"Suzhou is not only the center of silk production, but also the center of silk trade and distribution, the production of" the northeast half of the city, than the household weaving, no less than 10,000 homes", sales in the west of Suzhou, is the "Quartet merchants, group here, than the household trade" merchants from all over the country have opened shops in Suzhou, run a commercial house, come and go from the south to the north, and distribute silk goods. In order to facilitate trade between Suzhou, they tried every means to purchase land and choose a site in the city to establish guild halls, and there were already Taiwan guild halls, Chaozhou guild halls, Tingzhou guild halls, Lingnan guild halls, ......"

The princess whispered to the prince: "This is industry and commerce?" ”

"Yes!" Yan Changwu said: "Agriculture is prosperous in sericulture, industrial production of silk, and then commercial sales, into a dragon, when the industry is prosperous!" ”

Su Guansheng seemed to have become a silk expert, and said with great interest: "According to our five-year plan, it is expected that the total number of wood machines, the number of employees and the annual output will increase at a rate of 15% per year!" ”

Then he said a key thing: "Our GDP and tax revenue may grow by 20%!" ”

"Do you hear that?" Yan Changwu said to his little wife: "This is still the growth rate after the tax reform!" ”

Zhu Zhenzhen nodded silently, she knew what taxes were, in the past, when the Donglin Party was in Jiangnan, the local industrial and commercial tax was known as thirty and one, but often they didn't even collect it, and they all went into private pockets.

Yan Changwu collects taxes at a rate of 17 percent value-added tax, 1 percent education surcharge, 1 percent infrastructure surcharge, and 2 percent national defense surcharge, reaching 20 percent of the tax revenue.

At that time, there were many complaints in the country, and the waves of opposition were higher and higher!

But now?

The government collects heavy taxes, but the output of silk has reached a new high, and the price of silk has not risen significantly!

You can imagine how much profit the previous merchant made!

Zhu Zhenzhen knows this: "No business, no treachery!" ”

As if seeing her psychology, Yan Changwu said: "You can do an in-depth investigation, why is this happening!" ”

It is equivalent to taking a question to test her, and Zhu Zhenzhen agreed.

"How is the minimum wage and the maximum number of working hours to be six hours?" Yan Changwu asked.

"All the standards are met, and all the businesses have signed an agreement with the government to guarantee the minimum wage!" Su Guansheng smiled with a smile on his face.

He laughed very much, but when he carried out Yan Dashao's instructions, the means were not so river crabs, and he adopted all kinds of "legal" methods, such as inspecting those merchants all day long, affecting their business, using fishing to enforce the law, inciting the guys to fight the boss, and doing everything.

The bosses are not allowed to do their bidding!

The method he used was introduced on the internal reference, and many local officials agreed.

Internal reference is an internal publication of the middle and senior civil service system, giving him a space for communication.

With the continuous expansion of the scale of folk silk production and the increasing prosperity of trade, the capital invested by the private sector has continuously entered the production field, which has promoted the development and expansion of the folk silk industry.

At the same time, the handicraft owners and businessmen are constantly squeezing and exploiting the workers, squeezing the workers' labor to obtain more economic benefits, and there is a growing contradiction with the workers' demand for survival.

As far as Su Guansheng knows, the apprentices in some shops work for a whole year without any income, and the bosses take care of food and housing, which is called church technology, and does not charge tuition, so they cannot pay wages.

Those apprentices worked hard from morning to night every day, and they didn't know when it would end, and there were apprentices up to five years!

Although there are not many, there are, three-year apprenticeships are very common, and the hearts of the bosses are black, black!

The relationship between the owners and craftsmen of handicraft workshops such as silk loom households, between employers and employees, and between guild masters and helper apprentices continued to deteriorate.

At this time, as soon as the minimum wage came out, the bosses were not satisfied, but had to implement it.

With the minimum wage and maximum working hours for workers, the resentment is not so great, so that the whole industry can operate stably.

"In the past, the government was on the side of the bosses!" Yan Changwu said eloquently: "The bosses are rich and powerful, they are for the gentry, and the government is polite to them. ”

"But we are in power to be on the side of the majority of the people, or the side of the majority of the forces, such as the peasants!" Yan Changwu continued: "This peasant rebellion has sounded the alarm for us. ”

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant uprising in the north became the last straw that broke the former Ming Dynasty, and Yan Changwu used this as an excuse to implement a policy, which was supported by the civil officials of the dynasty.

Let everyone live!

Properly handle the interests of the government, the bosses, and the workers and peasants, and the officials generally support the collection of taxes---- if they do not collect heavy taxes, they will not be able to get the money they will be able to maintain incorruptible silver!

In this way, the Donglin Party, which protects the industrial and commercial bosses, has changed to a Nanming official who supports tax collection!

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After graduating from the Suzhou Weaving Bureau, they moved to the Suzhou Silk School, a new school that enrolls teenagers over the age of 14 and offers majors covering the agricultural, industrial and commercial aspects of the silk business, including sericulture, textile production and dyeing, clothing design, silk engineering and trade, etc., so as to cultivate talents in the silk industry.

It covers an area of 330 acres, has its own mulberry field, machine room, dyeing and printing workshop, etc., and the trainees have been opened for two sessions, with 560 students studying.

Yan Changwu told Zhu Zhenzhen: "Future talents should come from the school, and only the school can assume this responsibility, because the school is selfless!" ”

"The bosses and craftsmen will keep the skills, for fear that after teaching the apprentices, they will starve to death and hide their armpits, and many skills will be lost. However, the school will not leave a hand, only the open technical level can promote the development of technology and the improvement of productivity! Yan Changwu gushed endlessly.

They visited an exhibition of the school's achievements, and although the silks and clothes made by the students were lacking in many places, a change from society was brewing.

"Come on, leave them an ink treasure!" Yan Changwu encouraged Zhu Zhenzhen.

So Zhu Zhenzhen wrote an inscription to this school: "Inherit the silk culture and cultivate the talents of the silk capital!" ”

If the school is a treasure, it has become the school's motto!

Later, Suzhou was also known as the silk capital of the world!

Yan Changwu and Zhu Zhenzhen's itinerary and all the speech instructions were recorded by reporters and published in various newspapers.

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