At the end of August, Su Youzhi invited the representatives of the mulberry farmers in various counties of Hangzhou, as well as the representatives of the rice farmers who had been affected before, to the yamen and told them in detail about the mutual aid cooperatives and the preferential policies for changing rice to mulberry.

Sang Nong was overjoyed when he heard that the government wanted to help them set up cooperatives, organize them, and make their own decisions.

On weekdays, they are weak due to the situation, and even if they unite against those buyers, they are easily disintegrated, and now with the support of the government, they suddenly feel that their backs are stiff.

When the rice farmers learned that there was a subsidy for the change of mulberry and that they would set up a cooperative after the change, most of the rice farmers said that they would try their best to persuade everyone to change their paddy fields to mulberry fields when they returned.

After meeting with them, Su Youzhi immediately issued a decree, ordering all counties to assist lower-level villages and towns to help the people establish cooperatives, and at the same time to do a good job in promoting the transformation of rice into mulberry after the autumn harvest of rice farmers.

On the fifth day of the first month of September, the Weaving Bureau held the opening ceremony of the first trade fair, and Qi Zhe, the minister of the Qin Mission and the governor of Zhejiang, Su Youzhi, the political envoy, Lu Jun, the envoy of the inspection, Wan Dong, the commander of the command, Duan Yankai, the prefect of Hangzhou, and others all came to watch the ceremony.

Weavers and satin merchants in Hangzhou, Huzhou and other places basically all came, wanting to see what the Weaving Bureau was doing.

The Weaving Bureau specially opened up an area to become the exclusive venue of the fair, and at the same time built a high platform, set up a booth area, information display area, trading area, signing orders and other sub-venues, the booth area provides booths for weavers, the information display area will display the supply and demand information of weavers and satin merchants, and the trading area provides a place for both parties to negotiate, and the signing is under the witness of the Weaving Bureau, so that the two sides can sign the agreement.

Dou Ren, Tian Tao, Pang Lu and others, although they were surprised by the appearance of Qi Zhe and others, did not intend to follow the wishes of the Weaving Bureau for their own interests.

They very tacitly talked to Han ??、 Chengde and others, but they would not reach any deals, nor would they entrust the order to the Weaving Bureau, they just wanted to wait for the matter to be over, complete the acquisition of raw silk as soon as possible, and then negotiate with Guo Cong.

Guo Cong walked to the high platform and first invited Qi Zhe, Su Youzhi, Lu Jun and other bigwigs to speak.

After the last paragraph of the short speech, he immediately said: "First of all, I would like to thank you for coming, the Weaving Bureau for the better development of the weaving industry in Zhejiang, the establishment of such a platform, aimed at providing you with a better trading environment, as well as better production and marketing services." ”

"Here this official has two good news to announce, the first is that the political envoy department, the weaving bureau and the mulberry farmers from all over Zhejiang have jointly established the mulberry industry mutual aid cooperative!"

Guo Cong said and glanced down, and continued: "The mulberry industry mutual aid cooperative is to unify all the local mulberry farmers in Zhejiang, and in the future, they will be unified in planting and sales, and the mutual aid cooperative will belong to the political department and the weaving bureau. ”

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With Guo Cong's introduction, the mood of Dou Ren, Tian Tao and others suddenly fell to the bottom, and the Weaving Bureau coincided with their ideas.

Guo Cong did not take into account the faces of Dou Ren and the others below, and announced the second thing with great excitement: "The second good news is that the Department of Political Affairs, the Department of Justice, the Hangzhou Government, the Weaving Bureau and the mulberry industry mutual aid cooperatives in various places will jointly establish a joint venture weaving workshop!" ”

Lu Jing originally only planned to build a joint venture workshop with the political envoy department, the weaving bureau and the cooperative, and introduce some private capital, but after Lu Jun heard about this, he actually proposed to join the envoy department, and Duan Yankai listened to the words and also joined it.

In the end, after some deliberation among several people, an agreement was finally reached to determine their respective capital contribution ratios and shares, and the Cloth Administration Department and the Weaving Bureau occupied the majority of the shares, each accounting for 20% of the shares, and the Judge and the Hangzhou Government each accounted for 10% of the shares.

Cooperatives occupy 10% of the shares, and those small workshops that join them jointly occupy 10% of the shares, considering the financial pressure of cooperatives and small workshops, their shares are all option shares, and they can only buy these shares at the negotiated price after three years of formation.

The joint venture workshop is supervised by the chief secretary, the inspector, the weaving bureau, etc., and the people elected by the small workshop are operated.

The remaining 20% of the shares are used to bring in private capital.

Because of the official force to lead, the current joint venture workshop has been established with the cooperative, and in full swing, those scattered weavers and some small workshops have joined it, and the joint venture workshop has begun to take shape.

After introducing the joint venture workshops, Guo Cong continued: "At present, Hangzhou has become 36 joint venture workshops, and more will be established in the future, and this model will be carried out in Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing and Ningbo. ”

Han ??、 Cheng De and other weavers heard the news, their faces suddenly became ugly, if the weaving bureau built these workshops, then their status will be greatly impacted, especially the mulberry farmers have joined it, and they will not be able to obtain the raw materials for weaving in the future.

Guo Cong continued: "Of course, in order to promote the development of the overall weaving industry in the province, so that everyone can participate, the joint venture workshop deliberately set aside a share of 20%, if someone wants to join it, you can buy these shares, you will also be the owner of the joint venture workshop in the future, you will enjoy the right of priority procurement, you can also participate in the management of the joint venture workshop, and will enjoy the income dividends of the workshop every year." ”

"Now the Weaving Bureau divides these shares into seventy-two shares, and the next auction will be held here, and the highest bidder will win!" After Guo Cong finished speaking, he ignored the crowd in the audience, and hurriedly walked off the high platform.

Immediately, Zhang Min, a small official in the weaving bureau who can speak well, walked on the high platform, although Lu Jing had trained him in relevant speech skills a few days ago, but the moment he stepped on the high platform, he was still a little nervous.

After Zhang Min calmed down, he said with a smile on his face: "Hello everyone, everyone, Zhang Min is the host of this auction!" ”

After a brief opening remarks, Zhang Min began to introduce the rules of the auction.

The auction originated in the Tang Dynasty, called 'singing clothes', 'sending singing', the Song and Yuan dynasties are recorded, when the monks want to build a temple will issue prayer coupons for people to buy, financing the construction of the temple, and at the same time will be those monks' clothes, hats, handwritten scriptures, take out regular auctions, the highest price gets.

"The first joint venture workshop will be auctioned below, and we will invite Li Hu, the shopkeeper of the first joint venture workshop, to introduce the situation of their workshop!" Zhang Min said with a smile.

"Our workshop is jointly established with the Shanghuai Village Cooperative in Chun'an County, and is jointly established by the original workshop of the contemptible people, Xicheng Zhou Dalang and his wife...... and other joint formation, the existing loom 68 units, 138 workers, although it is still small, but the contemptible people promised, a month later will increase 300 looms, three months later will reach more than 500 looms, workers will also reach more than 800 people, after the production of raw silk in Huai Village, will also be mainly supplied to the contemptible workshop, at present the workshop has received a thousand orders from the Weaving Bureau......"

After Li Hu finished speaking, Zhang Min hurriedly said in a very inflammatory voice: "Thank you for the detailed introduction of the shopkeeper Li, the joint venture workshop of the shopkeeper Li has great potential, you want to get it, buy it is earned, there is only one opportunity, not to be missed, if you are interested, you can immediately shout the price, the reserve price is one thousand taels of silver, each increase is not less than one hundred taels!" ”

After Zhang Min finished speaking, there was a sudden silence below, Pang Lu, Tian Tao and others all looked at Dou Ren, wanting him to take an idea, now the Weaving Bureau not only controls Sannong, but also collects weavers, which is to completely control the weaving industry in Zhejiang.

Han ??、 Chengde and others looked even more ugly, with the support of the government and the weaving bureau, and the supply of cooperatives, although these joint venture workshops look weak, but the potential is huge, if they grow, it will pose a huge threat to them.

"I'll give you fifteen hundred taels!" Zhang Ke, the shopkeeper of Zhang's Silk Village, suddenly shouted.

"Two thousand taels!" Lu Xun, the shopkeeper of Lu's cloth village, also joined the competition.

"Two thousand one hundred taels!"

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Lu Jun looked at his nephew beside him and asked, "You found all these people?" ”

"Yes, it's the nephew's arrangement!" Lu Jing nodded and said, two days ago, through Guo Cong, he invited some family members of cloth and silk villages, and reached an agreement with them to let them invest in the joint venture workshop, and promised that the workshop they invested in would be given priority to supply.

Don't look at the excitement of these people's shouting, but most of them are arranged by him in advance, and there are not many silk merchants who have really joined the bidding.

In the end, Lu Xun won the first auction share at a price of 3,200 taels.

Then the second round of auctions, until the fifth round, more and more silk merchants joined the bidding line.

"What shall we do?" Pang Lu asked with an ugly face.

"No matter what the Weaving Bureau has in mind..."

Before Dou Ren finished speaking, Li Jiu, who was not far from him, joined the bidding army, and finally won the bidding.

Dou Ren glared at Li Jiu with a sullen face, and continued: "No matter what the Weaving Bureau has in mind, let's take a picture first." ”

Immediately, Dou Ren, Tian Tao and others joined it, and they all won a hundred percent of the shares of the joint venture workshop.

When more than 30 rounds were carried out, Han ??、 Cheng De and other weavers saw that Dou Ren, Tian Tao and others had won their shares, and their faces were even more ugly.

"Brother Han, what should we do, the Weaving Bureau is going to force us to a dead end?" Cheng De endured his anger and said.

"Let's try it too!" Han?? Helplessly, compared with these joint venture workshops, they are congenitally insufficient, and the original government doors are now all abandoned, and now they can only try to invest in these joint venture workshops and re-establish contact with the government.

After the auction, Lu Jing saw the list of successful bidders, and several silk merchants and weavers in Hangzhou were impressively listed, and immediately signaled to Guo Cong to proceed to the next step.

Guo Cong originally let Lu Jing toss, and he couldn't blame him for what happened, but when he saw all the means of Lu Jing, he slowly changed from not caring to admiring, and began to fully cooperate with Lu Jing, otherwise he would never have stood on the stage and shouted at these businessmen.

Guo Cong stepped onto the high platform again and said loudly: "This official congratulates you all on getting your wish. ”

When Han ??、 Dou Ren heard Guo Cong say this, they were immediately as sick and uncomfortable as eating flies, they were completely forced by the situation in front of them, thinking that after the matter was over, they were discussing countermeasures and counterattacking.