Chapter 477: Fortune, Misfortune, Conspiracy

The output has suddenly increased by eight or ten times without increasing the number of manpower, and no matter how meager the original profit is, it has increased so many times at once, and it is difficult not to make a fortune.

Lu Shanren made a fortune, and people from all prefectures and counties in Cangzhou were rumored here, in the past, the Lu family did some spinning and weaving, producing raw materials by themselves, and selling them by themselves, but suddenly, all the helpers began to spin, and the output of cotton yarn was incredibly high, the output was high, and the price was also reduced.

Merchants are profit-seeking, naturally whose cotton yarn is cheaper, will use who's house, using the cotton yarn in the Lushan artificial field, their own costs can also be reduced a lot, selling to the merchants who come to buy cloth, the profit is also increased a lot. As a result, many spinning workshops and even private households were defeated by Lu Shanren's workshop, and no one needed to teach them anything about the next thing.

All businessmen will only do something consciously and unconsciously, and Lu Shanren signed a contract with the landlords below, stipulating that the cotton they planted must be handed over to the Lu family to spin.

By the time the people around him realized that the Lu family had made a fortune, Lu Shanren was already the largest yarn factory owner in Cangzhou and even in the south of Beizhili, his workshop was extremely well guarded, and the workers of the yarn factory were all eating and living inside, and they were not allowed to go out easily, and the Lu family also bought a manor outside the county seat.

Placing the helpers and their families in it, in general, for the sake of secrecy, has turned their own yarn mill into a semi-enclosed area.

The production of cloth in the south of Beizhili has increased, and the price of sales has gradually had its own right to speak, and what is even more incredible is that after the Lu family obtained the spinning machine from the hands of the gods, in another county, there was also a merchant because of the same way.

On weekdays, the reputation among the neighbors is very good, one is devout gods and Buddhas, and the other is always doing good, so a certain immortal chief of the fairy wind and bones came to the door and passed down the treasures and heavenly books, as a result, the merchant found two or three carpenters to enter the door, and after half a month, their family's cloth production also increased many times.

And it is said that there is very little labor, completely driven by the river, and weaving cloth with a water wheel, this merchant is not like Lu Shanren who knows how to taoguang and cultivate obscurity, but he hypes that he has won the favor of the gods because he has done a lot of good deeds.

Ordinary people do good deeds and accumulate virtues, although they have the intention of doing good deeds in their hearts, but I also think that if I do these good deeds, some people will see them, and there will definitely be good rewards, even if they are not in this life, maybe in the next life, although it is bitter and mean, but it is also the truth of the world.

Doing good deeds suddenly got the favor of the immortals, it must be to show off, Lu Kai's businessmen in the neighboring counties are like this, Lu Kai and the businessman, a yarn factory, a cloth factory, the business of the two people is as inflated as blowing, but this kind of expansion, at the very beginning, may be to promote the upstream and downstream industries around him, but after the business interface of the two companies, the huge output and low prices quickly squeezed other peers out of bankruptcy.

This situation was not much different from what Deng Min encountered in Songjiang, and soon, someone went to the government to report that it was Lu Kai and the businessman from the neighboring county who sacrificed to demons, believed in the White Lotus cult, and confined people in their own manors, and plotted soldiers and horses, and wanted to do wrong.

In Beizhili and Shandong, which have been in turmoil repeatedly, they have always had an attitude of rather believing such secret reports, and the government also covets the rapidly expanding property of the two families, and because the two families are rich, they do not know how to deal with the government, in other words, they have not had time to collude with the government and businessmen.

Cangzhou's yamen has never been so efficient, and the officials and officials quickly rushed to the two people's homes to copy it, and the result was very simple, of course, they would not copy anything.

But there is no secret about the spinning machine placed horizontally by the Lu family and the hydraulic loom machine in the neighboring county, and the officials more or less received the money from other merchants, or in other words, there were also people sent by other merchants in the hands of the people who followed them to copy.

I didn't find anything, but I still extorted a sum of money from these two families, and this is the end of it.

Two days after this copying, the entire Cangzhou and even the neighboring prefectures and counties, what is even more exaggerated is that there are no carpenters in Qingzhou Mansion in Shandong, and the various workshops and workshops are busy in full swing, and everyone is thinking about the opportunity to make a fortune.

After more than ten days of copying, many merchants have replaced their homes with new equipment, but the instantaneous increase in production capacity has led to a shortage of raw materials.

The Lu family originally ordered cotton from the vicinity, of course, this is not too large a quantity, many anxious businessmen took the money borrowed from relatives, money banks, and even loan sharks, and went to other prefectures and counties in Beizhili, and even Shandong, Henan cotton-producing areas to order and buy.

Many landlords and squires who honestly run land at home suddenly found that their income this year was much higher, because the price of cotton had risen rapidly, which was much more cost-effective than renting and selling grain.

Originally, it was used to exchange for some surplus food, because the so-called "foreign grain" and "Nanyang rice" influx is also becoming more and more cheap, and there is no land to grow mud legs, but not only farming is a way out, in the town, it is not difficult to find a hard job.

Coupled with the displaced people, coupled with the famine, only the continuous concession of land rent has farmers willing to cultivate, the days are getting tighter and tighter, the fields of the various landlords have always been mainly grain crops, cotton at the beginning, but only some generations of cotton people planted, and then the industry and commerce prospered, the profits of cotton planting gradually increased, and some people who were active also followed the planting of a small part, but that is, a few more pocket money.

But now, the profit of planting cotton is finally high, and many people have bought cotton in the coming year, and they have paid a deposit happily, and others have begun to prepare one after another, ready to turn the grain field into a cotton field.

Before this, the world's largest cotton cloth production area is Songjiang, a year cloth tens of millions, known as the richest place, in the canal transport, there are a lot of ships are loaded with cotton shipped to the south to sell, but this year is different, advanced spinning and weaving machines spread like a plague, this metaphor may be very inappropriate, but in Shandong, in Henan, there are some good people or evil people, through a variety of ways to get the 'artifact', and then inexplicably become the target of the public.

In general, advanced technology and machines who don't want to keep it secret for too long in the world, will always actively and passively leak out, the production of these things is very simple, carpenters can be built after looking at it, and now Shandong Henan and North Zhili, everyone needs cotton.

Many cotton boats were stopped when they arrived in Jining, and the whole ship of cotton was ordered......

Compared with the heat in the north, the chamber of commerce in Jiangnan is still operating normally, after all, it takes a while for news to come from the north, and not everything has the opportunity to use what is urgent.

The Thirteen Chambers of Commerce in Jiangnan immediately became frightened after knowing that the pursuit team they sent was actually sunk by indiscriminate shelling on the river, for fear that the business at sea would be affected.

However, no one has ever reacted, and the business of the Thirteen Chamber of Commerce is still doing so tremblingly, and gradually feels that nothing may happen, after all, such Western galleons are all armed merchant ships of Franc Machine, if this machine is taken to the West, the road is so far away, it has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty.

This is also the ostrich method of burying its head in the sand, but it can only respond like this, and there is nothing else to do.

The weaving workshops in Songjiang and Suzhou are still running continuously, and they still feel that there is a shortage of manpower, and every day people go to the countryside to recruit manpower, a thriving scene, and the dual-axis system of the government-thirteen chambers of commerce now seems to be so unbreakable that many people think it is thousands of years.

After Jiang Feng returned to Huazhou, Huazhou, which already had a population of nearly 700,000, and Yizhou, which had a population of nearly 500,000 in the south, began to concentrate on the regimental training of various civil guards, and the regimental training of each civil guard was left behind.

The rest of the people were converted to the regular army, and their family conscription was cut in half from the original preferential treatment. Various government-run and private-run workshops have also begun to push off private orders and begin to produce weapons and equipment with all their might.

Outside the Guan, the purchase price of horses on the grassland and the grain in the manor has been raised, and a large number of materials are concentrated in a few large manors, and the military machine under Jiang Feng's command has begun to operate silently but efficiently.

This kind of operation is all the subordinate people below who are busy there, Jiang Feng is more idle, his father-in-law Liu Shunhua's Huazhou Taishou Mansion is busy every day without touching the ground, Jiang Feng was complained by Liu Fangrui fiercely, saying that the child can't see his grandfather if he wants to.

Jiang Feng stayed in the second hall of the Governor's Mansion for three or four hours every day, and officials and generals from all walks of life came to ask for instructions and report during this time.

However, there is always a person who is untouchable and is with Jiang Feng in the back hall, this person is naturally Sima Liu Twelve of the Governor's Mansion, and this conversation is happening in the back hall at this time:

"Lord Dudu, the Taoist priests of the Holy Daomen have taken the spinning machines and looms to Shandong, Beizhili and the area of Beizhili together with Sima Cheng."