Chapter 55: Ten Ways to Save the Talents (3)

Yang Yuanxi has not yet arrived, the people sent to Hangzhou came back first, the matter of the governor yamen was not easy to ask, and it is rare that Liu Yikun has left office, but Nazanhua did not follow Liu Xianggong back to his hometown in Jiangxi, but in Hangzhou. Guo Zengfu's people found out the truth in a roundabout way, and it turned out that the post could be bought for one or two hundred taels of silver, which made Guo Dongzhu's heart feel a lot more at ease. It seems that Hu Barong's background is not as luxurious as he imagined, and it is true that he is rich, but judging from the fact that he has to spend money to buy famous posts, I am afraid that he is not a person with a big background, and the relationship with Xu Guangqi cannot be said to be just a model for outsiders, after all, that Xu Xianggong is from a small family, and his eyes may not be so big.

In the afternoon, after lunch, Guo Zengfu rested for a while, and the housekeeper came in to report that Yang Yuanxi had finally arrived.

After freshening up, Master Guo came to the main hall to meet people.

Yang Yuanxi is a thin man in his thirties, his ancestral home is Dinghai, and now his home is in Wunijing, and he is a local prank.

This person is neatly dressed, and he looks more like an outsider economy, but he looks like he is immaculate. When he saw Guo Zengfu come out, he bowed deeply. This person's subordinates are now following a group of idlers, and they are entrenched in the Xianmian Temple in Wunijing on weekdays. Wu Nijing over the years because of the silting up of the river gradually inferior to the surrounding counties and towns, the first cotton temple was originally enshrined Huang Daopo, now it has been abandoned, it has become some down-and-out weavers and his such splashing foothold, there is not far from the county seat of Shanghai, is a good place.

Deyuntang usually sends some idle money and grain to these splashes, which is a secret trick in the hands, and the flower season follows the economy and those big moneylenders to go to the countryside to bluff cotton farmers, and when needed, they will also help Deyuntang do some unsightly things, which is also a big reason why Guo Zengfu has been able to mix well in Songjiang Mansion over the years although he is not too extravagant in the background.

"Yuan Xi, Yi Ming will choose a few of Zhou Zheng's subordinates and go to Wantong to apply for work." Guo Zengfu spoke leisurely, and did not speak official words as in the scene, and a mouthful of Songjiang's rural talk made people feel cordial, "If you want them to sell some hard work, the hard work should be effective for more than a month, and I will have a heavy reward at that time." ”

After speaking, he threw out a money bag in his hand, Yang Yuanxi hurriedly followed, and after a rough weighing, there were at least fifty or sixty taels, and he couldn't help but rejoice in his heart.

"You scatter this silver first, and I will teach you how to do it."

"The villain saves." Yang Yuanxi smiled with a smile, but pretended to be embarrassed, "It's just that this recruitment has to be guaranteed, I'm afraid it can't be faked." ”

"You don't have to worry about the shop, just find people and clean them up so as not to be seen as flaws."

"It's just that it takes some silver to set it up." Yang Yuanxi's eyes rolled, obviously taking this as an opportunity to make money.

Guo Zengfu glanced at him, looked at the money bag in Yang Yuanxi's hand and snorted: "How much money has been used by the recruit, come out of here first, and your money will be developed later." ”

The words of the head of the line reassured the prankster, and Yang Yuanxi answered the call and went happily.

Looking at Yang Yuanxi's jumping back, Guo Zengfu still didn't have support in his heart, so he immediately asked the steward to gather several proprietors around Songjiang.

It was the morning of the second day when the people gathered for the cloth.

"I don't know why the head of the line summoned me and others to come here today?" Everyone was a little unsure, so some of them were anxious to ask.

"There is nothing else to do, just ask you to discuss this year's cotton harvest."

The Dong family and the Xu family offended Deyuntang because they were not good at Huating, but the big cabinet of the Cai family in Qingpu immediately complained when they heard it, "What is there to discuss?" Originally, all the water tanks and lake gates were set up according to the previous set of manpower, stuck the way of North cotton, but the feasible head later let us go, and led all the cotton sellers to Wan Tong, not to mention, each family also privately released a lot of cotton in their hands, saying that it was to do a trick to get away with it. But now that he is about to start weaving, he has collected a lot of cotton, and I want to ask the head of the line what his plan is. ”

"This idea is not false to me, but each family has also made a lot of money, where to find the price of two, two, two and one in previous years? This is the benefit of five dollars of silver, and there is no need to work for foot money. ”

"But if there is a lack of cloth this year, what will happen next year? Each family has made an order early, and those weavers are not raised for nothing. Tianjia said that he wanted to abolish the mine tax supervisor, but he didn't say that he wanted to abolish Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving, the war in the north was tight, and this year's increase was more than in previous years, so he couldn't let the people below go to eat the wind. Someone else complained, and it was obvious that he was deeply involved in the state-run weaving factory.

Several local families in Huating were a little worried, "Yes, I heard from the people who came back from Nanyang that the Australians occupied Luzon and set up weaving mills there, and the Australian cloth sold in the north was heard to be transported by sea, if they let them transport the cotton away and spin it into cloth in Luzon, then there will be no need to do this business next year." ”

There are also scheming, "Behind closed doors to tell the truth, the quality of this Australian cloth is not much different from our Songjiang cloth, but the price is inevitably too cheap. I have a nephew who runs the sea all the year round, and I have asked him to go to Luzon to find out what kind of method this Australian uses to weave such cheap cloth, and maybe I can learn it once and for all. ”

"Luzon is far away, and when your nephew comes back, it's a matter of the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse, the key is to burn your eyebrows right now." Someone else splashed cold water.

"Don't worry, the cotton that is in circulation can't go out of the ocean." At this time, Guo Zengfu suddenly interrupted everyone's discussion loudly.

A middle-aged man beside him showed a sly smile when he heard this, "I heard that a few days ago, a cotton transport ship of Wantong was robbed by gangsters on the Suzhou Ocean, could it be that it was also arranged by Guo Xingshou?" ”

"What nonsense, that's Hu Ba's own perverseness, I don't know where to provoke the jealousy, but now the time has come, I called you here today to say that you can arrange for cotton harvesting after you go back."

"Cotton harvesting? Today's market has made Wantong higher, how to collect it? You can't do it at a loss. ”

"If you want not to lose money, you will naturally reduce the price."

"Price drop?" The proprietors looked at Guo Zengfu with a joke expression, and some people looked thoughtful.

"Yes, one or two five per load, and take back what was released a few days ago, and make a profit." Guo Zengfu was confident in his words, "The old man might as well tell you that the silver of Wantong is about to bottom out." ”

"Where did this come from? I've heard it's very lively right now. Someone wanted to refute it.

"Naturally, Mansongjiang will not shout about his family's running to find a position on the black market, but he can't hide it from the old man."

"Really?" The others were shocked, and this was great news.

"Anyway, Deyuntang will re-hang out the sign of opening the scales in a few days, but don't expect to receive much in these days, as long as you pick up those flower sellers to go to Wantong to make trouble, and when Wantong collapses, I have an account to remember, and I have to teach a lesson after the incident." He added, "When I went back, I talked to the big moneylenders under my house, and forced the debts of those cotton farmers to be tighter, and asked them to make trouble together." ”

Wan Tong suspended the cotton harvest and turned to more moderate means to buy people's hearts, which is cowardice. It's just from a selfish point of view, Guo Zengfu has the intention to swallow Wan Tong's industry, but that is a long-term plan after defeating Hu Barong, at least wait for the people he sent to Guangdong to come back, after all, listening to Hu Barong's tone, Wan Tong's Guangzhou general number is not a small background, which makes Guo Xingshou hesitate a little in dealing with Hu and the others, but it is only slightly. At least if he wanted to come, within three or five days at most, Wan Tong, who was not able to continue with the money, should kneel on the ground and beg for mercy.

Seeing Guo Zengfu arranged like this, everyone seemed to be relieved a lot, and they all agreed to go back and began to harvest cotton at a low price.

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Wantong has suspended cotton collection for five days, but the owners waiting to buy outside the cabinet are still in an endless stream, Susong place, cotton cloth alone, in previous years, it was millions of taels of transaction amount, plus silk goods, it is tens of millions of taels. Although the bulk delivery has already been completed, just the little share leaked out by each of them is enough to make Wantong a little unbearable.

Fortunately last year, there was a silver base of the Spanish Galen ship, but the Australian cloth production was sold to the north, and a small part was shipped to the Americas through intermediate channels. This sentence should have come to me so quickly.

Although the chiefs have increased the number of purchases this year, the impact of Australian cloth on Songjiang cloth is still in the north, unless the output is increased several times.

At this time, in the whole Songjiang area, a year's lint, that is, the so-called seed cotton output is always around 750,000 quintals, and there are more than 200,000 looms in Songjiang Province to weave day and night, and nearly 300 days a year are weaving cloth, and 500,000 quintals of cotton production every year will be woven into various colors of cotton cloth locally, and the total number is 40 million horses in the calculation of people's feet. Other lint will be sold to northern Fujian and Nanjing, and the insufficient cotton will be followed by northern cotton.

The cotton mills in Luzon produced less than one million horses last year, but most of them were invested in the north. And this year, although the production capacity has increased greatly, but according to the previous purchase quota can only weave more than three million horses, in order to completely replace the production capacity of Jiangnan, the five-year plan is not nonsense, this is also the quality and price of Australian cloth does make Jiangnan cloth jealous, otherwise if it is low-key in the first two years from the surplus cotton to a piece is not difficult, at least the first year of Wan Tong is to do so, and this year is to spend money to buy a lesson.

During this period, Hu Barong's news was not closed, because he was in charge of intelligence, and the various places under the rule of Ao and Song also knew a little about the progress of governance.

As for cotton, the most important of these is the geographical conditions, and now except for the newly expanded Oceania, there is no stable ruling area suitable for large quantities of cotton cultivation such as Jiangnan under the rule of the Australian Song Dynasty. Cotton likes light and heat, planting needs a large temperature difference between day and night, but at the time of flowering and pollination, it is the most taboo rain, which is the biggest problem in Nanyang, and even if it is Qiongzhou, only the inland Li people are suitable for small-scale planting, the southern foot of Limu Mountain near Sanya has now reclaimed a lot of cotton fields, and even Sanya itself is organizing the newly attached Li Min weaving, but the scale is not as good as Luzon, and the production is more aimed at Annan and other places, plus Pan Daxi also tried his best to maintain, which did not attract much attention from Guangdong.

But after all, it will not be a big climate, because Luzon's textile industry can only rely on the import of raw cotton from the mainland in a short period of time, at least two or three years, and wait for a large amount of cotton production in Oceania to get rid of this industrial pattern, and this also requires the import of population.

As for the north, Hu Barong only knew that the Fubo army was to have a layout in the direction of Liaodong and Korea, and the capture of Ryukyu was also one of them, but the more specific strategic arrangements were not something he could know at this level.

At present, he still has to focus on dealing with cotton sellers and flower farmers, although these small households have no background and can only stick to it, but the fatal thing is that as long as the cash and silver transactions, it is not even feasible to use a fold to keep accounts, and they all recognize the high market of Wan Tong some time ago and are unwilling to leave.

For this reason, not only have there been no fewer people on the counter in the past few days, but they are also recruiting local supporters, in order to appease the emotions of the shippers.

"What's going on outside?" When only the two of them were left alone in the backyard, Hu Barong asked about Hu Hai.

"It's still not dispersed, there have been a lot of people gathering in the past two days, and rumors have spread a lot, and there are always no good words." Hu Hai smacked his mouth and said, "Now there are at least twenty or thirty thousand quintals of cotton waiting to be harvested on the ground in Songjiang Mansion, I'm afraid half of the goods are here with us, which is why other families are now suspended, although we have also stopped, but they are coming, and they will not move easily if they want to come, and they will not be willing to disperse for another ten days and a half months." ”

In fact, according to the plan of the Senate, these cotton have exceeded the previous expectations, even if it is purchased openly, another 10,000 quintals will be enough to make a difference, but if there is really plenty of silver, it is not a bad thing to collect an extra 10,000 or 20,000 stones, the problem is only that there is no money.

"This is to be expected, I'm just afraid of long nights and dreams, and there are not only shippers in this group." Hu Barong's worries are not unreasonable, some things cannot be airtight, and there are always some words that come out of the way.

What does Stationmaster Hu mean, where can Hu Hai not understand, he has been paying attention to the crowd with a spirit of twelve points these days, but fortunately, the newly built Hailan Hall began to recruit workers, and the porridge shed is also operating normally.

But with so many people gathered, Hu Hai still hoped to be relieved, "Stationmaster, I have discussed with the counter beforehand, but I haven't told you yet. ”

"What?"

"I think, now that those cloth shops have lowered the price to open the scale, we might as well lower the price, as long as the price is lowered, plus the speed is measured, it is better than now, and gradually let some unwilling people go to other houses to try their luck."

Before Hu Hai finished speaking, he saw a guy running in with a stumble, "The owner...... Go out...... Something went wrong......"

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