"You can't buy Songjiang cloth, and you can't collect Weitang yarn."

Once upon a time, inside and outside the city of Songjiang, there were more than 100,000 weavers, thousands of weaving yards, and millions of Songjiang cloth were transported to various places by awning boats, and even exported to Europe and the Americas.

However, all this came to an abrupt end with the massacre of the Qing army, and even after the war, the survivors tried to resume production, but under the suppression of the Manchus, they no longer saw the glory of yesterday.

“…… Later, although it was fashionable, the Manchu Qing Dynasty required the weavers to guarantee each other, "five people guaranteed each other in a row, and took the final report." If there is abduction and theft, gambling, rape and brawl, gathering crowds to insert (歃) alliances, suspension of work, idle flower drums, and lawbreakers, the head of the workshop will report to Baotou, together with the head of the first year, fill in the book and submit it to the general manager, and declare that it will be investigated. If there is a hidden discovery, the guarantor of each other, the head of the workshop will be guilty of the same crime. ……””

Sitting on the bow of the boat, listening to Sun Yechen talk about the employment method called "work" but actually "prisoner" and "slave", Zhu Mingzhong nodded in agreement.

"The reason why Jiannu is like this, the reason is just to avoid the gathering of the people, and those who gather twenty people are rebellious, in this weaving yard, the name "work" is actually only slightly better than the prisoners, so, but how can anyone from a good family be willing to enter the factory, without the workshop, how can it be possible to reproduce the prosperity of yesterday......"

Thinking of the later generations, there were actually some scum among the Han people who denied the germination of capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty, and argued that it was just a natural development, even if there was no Manchu Qing Dynasty, it would die out naturally, and even said that after the recuperation of the Shunzhi period in the early Qing Dynasty, the reorganization of the early years of Kangxi has basically recovered to the water products of the late Ming Dynasty economically, and with the arrival of the "prosperous era of Kangqian", the commodity economy has gradually reached a certain height. And the so-called "workshop", although it existed, still could not develop into a modern factory. However, they apparently overlooked the fact that the craftsmen in the workshops of the Qing Dynasty, which owned hundreds of looms, were never workers, but "slaves" and "prisoners".

Just as a slave camp in Roman times could never have developed into a factory. The so-called factory owners, in fact, are just slave owners, they are not concerned with the improvement of machinery, the improvement of production efficiency, but how to squeeze the "slaves" to the extreme, in the face of the unbearable oppression of the weavers who "rest" the strike, their reaction is to suppress together with the government, the strikers as "rebellious" beheaded, not to mention, the Manchu emperor even demanded "severe punishment" with a "decree", and the local government also set up in various places the "Constitution Forever Ban Mechanics Call the Rest Monument".

Under this kind of oppression and enslavement by the integration of government and business, the factory can never develop into a factory, and the so-called "workers" are just a group of slaves with a certain degree of personal freedom.

"What this gentleman said is very much, Emperor Xiaolie's meeting, everyone is willing to work in the workshop, because in the workshop can not only earn money, but also learn things, and when the craft is learned, they can do it alone, if the owner wants to keep you, they will also give you silver, but when it comes to the dog, unless the family can't open the pot, but everyone is not willing to go over, why? It's not because entering the workshop is like entering a prison cell, and if you are not careful, you can even lose your head......"

When the boatman who rocked the oars was talking about those workshops, Zhu Mingzhong smiled and nodded, and then his eyes turned to the boats coming and going, because the river in the south of the Yangtze River is not spacious, so most of the rivers are canopy boats, and even Zhu Mingzhong himself is also a canopy boat transferred in Wusongkou, compared with the big boats, these small boats are more flexible in the rivers in the south of the Yangtze River.

Bundles of cotton cloth can be seen on the open boats that pass by, and the cotton cloth will be loaded onto large ships at Wusongkou, or transported to various places by river, or sold overseas by sea ships.

“…… Now, it is also our Ming Dynasty again, the emperor led the troops to fight away those dog days, the common people are living a good life again, the hard work of the past few years, our Songjiang cloth has also come back, although now we Songjiang has not been like Emperor Xiaolie that will have a thousand looms in the workshop, but there is a workshop of four or five hundred looms, there are not ten outside the city, there are seven or eight ......"

The boatman's words made Zhu Mingzhong's heart quite proud, but in just a few years, the economy that had been purged in the war had been restored, and the budding capitalism appeared with the Ming Dynasty again, and it has developed rapidly.

The spinners pedal, the axles rolled rapidly, the spindles sang merrily, the white slivers became smaller and smaller, and the rolls of cotton yarn gradually became round...... Such a scene of home spinning and weaving has once again become a grand scene in the towns around the south of the Yangtze River. Of course, spinning is impossible, and the emergence of water-powered yarn machines has replaced the homespun yarn of the people with cheap machine yarn.

"Boatman, don't go directly to the dock of Songjiang City for a while, we will get off the boat at the market closest to Songjiang City."

Because he came to Songjiang this time, he just wanted to feel the "cloth capital" that had slowly recovered yesterday's prosperity, so Zhu Mingzhong did not want to go directly into the city, there was nothing to see in the city, except for the shops that gathered in Songjiang to buy cloth, the factories and weavers were all outside the city.

"Okay!"

About three hours later, Zhu Mingzhong came to a market, said to be a market, but the prosperity is not inferior to the small city in the north, in this market, you can see both sides of the street, all the wiring villages, Songjiang cloth is sold to various places through these wiring villages.

"The owner, you look at these wiring villages, from the village number, you can see that they are the line villages there, you see, those over there must be from Guangdong, and there are ......."

As a native of Songjiang, Sun Yechen seems to be familiar with everything in Songjiang, although he has been away from home for several years, but all this is engraved in his memory, after all, four years ago, when he left here, everything in Songjiang was slowly recovering.

"Qingdong, since you have arrived in Songjiang this time, you can go home and have a look."

His Majesty's words made Sun Yechen stunned, and he hurriedly shook his head and said.

"You can't be separated from the owner in the next place."

Sun Yechen is a soldier and also an attendant, according to tradition, in a few months, he will leave the palace and go to the army, and the status of the palace guard will help him in the future, but as a guard, he must protect His Majesty's safety with other colleagues.

Zhu Mingzhong formulated a system to use military cadets with excellent academics as guards, the purpose of which was to master the army through these young officers, after all, every group of palace guards was the best academic officer, among them were nobles and commoners, and in the end, they would all become middle and senior officers in the army. Influencing them at a young age can ensure their future loyalty, and decades later, the "royalized" military will be filled with these court-born generals.

"It's okay, it's not in the way, who can hurt me, besides, there are patrols on this street, isn't it?"

For Zhu Mingzhong, who has long been accustomed to micro-service travel, he has never worried about his safety, in this era, even if everyone knows him, how many people have seen him?

"That's it, Qingshan, even if the owner has intentions, after entering the city tomorrow, you can go home and stay for a day."

Yao Sheng on the side said with a smile that every time he travels, he is like now, "one master and two servants", which is not ostentatious in the market, but also makes the crumbs dare not be malicious.

"When the time comes, let's talk about it."

In fact, Sun Yechen also thought about going home to take a look, but he had to protect the safety of the "owner".

Wandering around the market, occasionally Zhu Mingzhong would enter those cloth villages as a merchant and talk to them a few words, although those merchants could also see that he was not a businessman, but no one dared to slack off him, these people who had been in the mall for a long time could see at a glance that this was by no means an ordinary person. Although no one thinks in that direction, almost everyone thinks that this person must be a big man, and since he is a big man, he has to be politely complimented. Because of this, after an hour of wandering around the street, I basically have some understanding of the situation here. Just as they were walking, they saw a lot of people surrounded by the door of a wiring village not far away.

"Why are there so many people there? Let's go, go over and have a look? ”

Seeing that there was a bustle to see over there, Zhu Mingzhong suddenly became interested, to be honest, every time he traveled in Weifu, he always hoped to be like in those braided dramas in later generations, or a hero to save beauty, or an affair, and punish a bully or something. But every time the result made him extremely disappointed, not to mention saving the beauty, he couldn't even see much excitement.

When he arrived at the wiring village, he saw someone standing on the side of the road outside the door, so Zhu Mingzhong asked.

"What's going on here?"

The young man standing on the side of the road was in his early twenties. looked clear and capable, and when he heard Zhu Mingzhong's question, he sighed and said.

"Hey, it's a mother and daughter, the two of them are skillful, they have always been to undertake the work of the line village, this year received as much as in previous years, this year's spring mother fell ill all of a sudden, the mother and daughter's personal work, all fell on the girl's body, how can a person do the work of two people? This is not the time to deliver, can not deliver the goods, to pay the line of the village, this loss, these months is equivalent to a waste, this is not, is begging the owner of the line village can open the grace of which ......"

Hearing someone say this, Zhu Mingzhong didn't speak, but didn't speak, and walked straight towards Xianzhuang. Sun Yechen and Yao Sheng naturally knew the owner's thoughts, exchanged glances with each other, took a step faster, and quietly pushed the person in front of him, so that the owner didn't have to be pushed by others.

"It's really not that I'm not gracious, this rule is the rule, Liao can't break the rules......"

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