Chapter 299: The Weaving Bureau, CPI, Life in Change

Han Yue was originally a good criminal investigator, and she was busy all night, visited many people, and got a lot of evidence.

As soon as the morning dawned, these testimonies were sent to Sun Dan. Master Han's ability to move surprised Sun Dan, and he didn't feel that he looked at him. People who have been spies are different, this guy used to be a small boss in Jinyiwei and was really condescending, if he has read books and gained fame, he is an excellent political and legal talent.

After reading a few pages of the testimony sent by Han Yue, Sun Dan's face turned blue with anger, and he slapped the table: "This Liang Min is really a scumbag, if the official doesn't deal with him, the people of Fangshan will be in a good place, and he will really be scolded for being a dumb official." ”

It turned out that when Liang Min was in charge of the prison, he really did a lot of hurtful things, not to mention accepting bribes from local wealthy families, and he also handled a lot of unjust, false and wrongful cases in his hands. As the saying goes, it is good to practice in the public door. As a member of the public family, it is understandable to receive some gold and silver and reap some benefits, but there is one principle: no blood on your hands.

Once the yamen encounters a murder case, no matter how much the criminal's family pleads for mercy and how much money is thrown out, generally speaking, the case-handling personnel do not dare to bend the law for personal gain, for fear that once the law is done, even they themselves will fall into it. Moreover, this kind of bloody silver has not damaged his reputation without saying that he has a troubled conscience.

But this Liang Min is bold, he dares to eat any black money, and he is tired of several homicide cases in his hands.

Sun Dan: "Han Yue, you go down and thoroughly investigate these cases, all **** have been here." Also, arrest Liang Min immediately. ”

"Yes, sir, do you want to handle this case yourself?"

"No, I don't have time, you and Sun Hao deal with it." Sun Dan said.

Indeed, as Sun Dan said, he was really busy during this time. Shi Wanquan and Sun Jia are about to return to Fangshan, and as soon as the mulberry seedlings and the loom are transported back, it is time to prepare for planting. During this time, Sun Dan sent many people to publicize the benefits of planting mulberry and raising silkworms to the people, and Jin merchants also poured into Fangshan in large numbers and took out real money to put out a small loan.

Sang Miao hasn't seen a shadow yet, let alone raising silkworms, and the county lord has asked people to send down the estimated profits. Although the Chinese people are short-sighted, they have tangible benefits in front of them, but they cannot be unmoved.

Those who owned the land stopped planting winter wheat and dug ditches on their land to make room for the next year's mulberry seedlings. When the peasants who attached their land to the family saw so much money, their eyes were also red, and they kept rushing to the lord's house to make trouble, demanding that they return their land and plant mulberry. For a while, the whole Fangshan was in a lot of trouble, and disputes continued, and Han Yue and them quarreled like a fight.

Han Yue was originally involved in politics and law, and he was a good hand at handling civil disputes, and he also understood what Sun Dan meant, and when there was a conflict between the master and the tenant, he would judge the ordinary people in favor of the lawsuit.

As a result, in only half a month, more than half of the land in Fangshan returned to the hands of ordinary people. Moreover, as spring ploughing approaches, more and more land will be cleared by the farmers themselves.

The phenomenon of a large amount of land monopolized by big bureaucrats and big landlords, which had plagued the imperial court for many years, was greatly alleviated in Fangshan, and even if these lands were not used to grow mulberry and silkworms, all of them were planted with grain, and the taxes received by Fangshan would have to be doubled several times in the coming year.

Of course, the method of clearing the land in Fangshan County is only a special case, which has no specimen significance, and cannot be extended to the whole country as an experience. However, Sun Dan only wants to complete the tasks he has in office, and as for the so-called economic reform, he has no interest in it, so let others "worry" about it.

Because of the great results of the Qingzhang land, Sun Dan was rewarded by the emperor. The emperor even took the time to meet Sun Dan once in the Yuxi Palace, encouraging him to be more bold and not afraid of offending people.

The emperor had just taken the elixir at that time, his face was full of "tide", and his expression was excited: "If all the counties in the world are as honest as Sun Qing, I have no worries!" Whatever you want, just do it, and I'll support you. ”

Of course, Sun Dan would not take the words of a feudal emperor seriously, but it can also be seen how embarrassed the emperor's personal finances have become, and he is afraid of poverty.

At the beginning of December, Shi Wanquan and the others finally returned to Fangshan with looms and mulberry seedlings, and in order to house these thousands of looms, Sun Dante took out some silver to buy a piece of land in the east of the city as the factory of the Fangshan Weaving Bureau. Next, it's time to debug the machine and train the workers.

Before the start of construction, though. Sun Dan has one more thing to do. To this end, he summoned all the squires of Fangshan County to the county yamen, and suggested that they all take out some silver to join the Weaving Bureau, and everyone would have a good interest.

If the cash on hand is not enough, the land can be mortgaged to Shi Wanquan and Shi Wanquan can plant mulberry trees. After the loan expired and the principal and interest were returned to the Jin merchants, Shi Wanquan returned the land.

Sun Dan thinks so, no matter how he says it, he is also the parent official of Fangshan, if he does not give the local gentry a little benefit, he is afraid that he will encounter great resistance when he implements the tax reform in the future. Moreover, although half of the land in Fangshan is cleared now, the other half of the land is mostly the ancestral property of the landlords. Besides, Sun Dan's economic capacity is limited, and if he wants to maintain these thousands of looms, he is afraid that the economic power is not enough.

Of course, it is not impossible to let Jin Shang participate in the shares. However, after all, the Jin merchants are outsiders, and if they take advantage of all the benefits, it will not only cause public resentment, but also expand the power of the Jin merchants in the future, and it will be difficult to control.

Although Shi Wanquan took out a large amount of cash silver, the gentry's eyes were dazzled, and their saliva was also watering. But after all, they are used to growing food, and some time ago, under the instruction of Sun Dan, the peasants and land attached to them were lost a lot, and these landlords were also full of resentment towards Sun Dan.

Sun Dan doesn't care, the nature of capital's pursuit of profit will guide them, as long as they see the real benefits, these guys will definitely take the bait.

The loom is still being adjusted here, and over there, Sun Jia has purchased a large amount of raw silk from all over Hebei and returned to Fangshan.

There are also people in Hebei who raise silkworms, and there are still a lot of raw silk among the people. But because it is not the main production area of raw silk, after the people extracted the silk, most of them were stored at home, waiting for Jiangnan merchants to come to buy. Because of this, the amount is not large, and it cannot meet the needs of Fangshan Weaving Bureau.

It can be used to convince the gentry.

More than a month, the plant was quickly completed, covering an area of 300 acres, all of which were yellow mud adobe houses, and the plant was arranged neatly, like a checkerboard grid, and the drainage canal was opened between each grid. The area of 300 acres was very large in ancient times, although the factories were very simple, but from a distance, it was a large house pressed by the black, like a new city in the flat land.

Especially when the looms were running, the rumbling noise rang out all night, shaking most of the residents of Fangshan County to lose sleep.

The people of Fangshan at this time may not know what an industrial base, even the most rudimentary handicraft workshop-style industrial base, means to them. But from the moment the foundation of the plant was laid, the surrounding life changed without the will of people.

First of all, building a new plant requires a lot of labor. During the slack of farming, Sun Dan hired thousands of young and strong construction workers in one go, working day and night. The sound of trumpets and ramming did not stop at night. Because he had to work the night shift and needed a lot of torches, the boss who bought tung oil in the city counted the money and counted until his hands cramped. Secondly, so many people had to eat and drink, and after getting paid, they had to go to the city to consume, and in just a few days, more than a dozen new grocery stores and small restaurants were opened in the city.

As the New Year approaches, workers also need to buy New Year's goods, and the goods in the dry grocery store are also sold out.

Even the shop that sells steamed buns has to queue up every morning, and if you go late, you can't eat a hot steamed bun.

Business is so booming, these days, as long as you want to make money, you only need to set up a stall on the street, and you can earn a lot of money.

The people of Fangshan saw the real benefits, and they all wished that Sun Dan's factory could be repaired forever and never completed.

When Sun Dan's factory was built, those newly opened shops were depressed, and they only hated that they were too late to do it and didn't arrive at a good time.

It turned out that their worries were purely superfluous, the factory was built, the construction workers all went home to Maodong, but the loom master invited from Jiangnan came, a total of 600 people. These 600 people in the Jiangnan area are nothing at all, and they only have a salary of six or seven cents a month, but in the north, they are a top technical backbone, and Sun Dan is also very generous, and gives them a monthly salary of two taels of silver.

Two taels of silver is a huge amount of money in this era, if it is not sticky and fishy, it is enough for an ordinary person to eat for five or six months, and in the event of a disaster, you can buy two yellow flower girls.

These craftsmen come all the way from the south of the Yangtze River to Shuntian, life is boring, in their spare time, it is inevitable to go to the city Hutian Haiti, this group of people's consumption power is not known to be much stronger than the previous construction workers, 600 people cost more than the previous thousands of people.

As a result, the city's hospitality industry also flourished.

This is still the beginning, with the number of looms in Sun Dan's hands now, if there are three shifts, each machine needs three workers, adding together, tens of thousands of people. Tens of thousands of workers who have left agriculture do not know how many industries they will drive in the city.

The textile industry directly solves the livelihood of tens of thousands of people, but the related downstream industries must also flourish, so that at least 100,000 people benefit from the weaving bureau opened by Sun Dan.

For now, because it is the end of the year, the workers are not yet in place. However, with the arrival of 600 craftsmen, these Jiangnan grandmothers with cash in their hands drank and had fun on the street all day long, which still made the people of Fangshan find that there were more funds circulating in the market.

At the same time, bigger changes happen suddenly.

The Weaving Bureau was jointly done by Sun Dan and Jin Shang, and waited for the loom to arrive. Shi Wan and hundreds of Shanxi merchants are resident in Fangshan, and these guys are all very rich. As soon as he arrived in Fangshan, he bought land to build a house, and the county seat of Fangshan was so big, and the land price rose three times a day, gradually getting closer to the price of the capital. Many urban poor people wake up and are shocked to find that their dilapidated little houses are worth a lot of money and have become middle-class and upper-class families.

Savvy people keep the house in their hands, waiting for their net worth to rise little by little. But there are also people who can't wait to exchange all the houses in the city for cash and move back to the countryside to become small landlords.

With the further rise in land prices, many businessmen in the capital have come to Fangshan to buy houses and speculate on land, and more than 1,000 people have poured in in a month.

The hotels in the city have been full, and even the Chase Shop where the ordinary porter rests has risen to 30 wen a shop, on which are lying Pekingese with bad money tickets.

These days, the businessmen who came to Fangshan from the capital to speculate in real estate were almost red-eyed, and one of the most bullish businessmen had the courage to buy more than 100 rooms and more than a dozen shops.

With the influx of a large number of merchants, coupled with the entry of hundreds of Jin merchants, the prosperity of Fangshan Market is no less than that of Beijing. These people are not alone, each with dozens of family members. In other words, the population of Fangshan County suddenly increased by tens of thousands. In terms of population density, it has reached the standard of Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Suzhou.

However, there are also discordant voices in this. First of all, with the increase in the population of the city, there is not enough public facilities, especially thatched houses, every thatched house is full and not to mention. The few newly built public thatched houses that Sun Dan asked the gentry to pay for were already full and flowed into the streets. Not only that, but there are also unconscious people who take advantage of people's unpreparedness to find a place to solve the problem, so that the wild dogs in the city will feast on the sun and eat happily.

In the past, Fangshan, which was beautiful and tranquil, has now become a stinking yellow and white city.

The peasants who were digging dung were so busy that their feet did not touch the ground, but they could not cope with the sudden increase in the excrement of tens of thousands of people. It is conceivable that after more than 10,000 workers are in place, the city will not know what it will look like. Sun Dan didn't dare to go to the street now, and as soon as he went to the street, people stopped the sedan chair and complained: "Lord Qingtian, we are all about to be smoked to death by outsiders." ”

This is the first thing, and the second is that with the further increase in the consumer population, special industries in the city have also sprung up one after another. "Brothel" and gambling houses are blooming on all sides, and warblers and swallows are laughing, brokers, real estate middlemen, and silk merchants are shuttling through. Among them, the largest "brothel" was opened by Guo Po, which corrupted the atmosphere and "disordered" public order.

Although Sun Dan hates these special industries, he is also very helpless, after all, there is no provision on the "Da Ming Law" to eliminate pornography and illegal activities, and the only thing he can do is to impose heavy taxes. But as soon as the tax increased, the price of goods in Fangshan also rose even more, and in the past, it only cost one penny of silver to go to a "brothel" to play a tea party, but now it has become one or two, and the business is still booming.

Sun Dan was amused in his heart, he couldn't imagine that his factory had not yet been put into production, and the land was first made every inch of land by unscrupulous businessmen, and even the price of vegetables on the street had doubled, and the CPI had reached a new high. Facts have proved that speculators have a keen sense of smell and are always one step ahead of those who run businesses.

For businessmen who speculate on land, Sun Dan naturally welcomes them with both hands. But it can't be so cheap to speculate tenants, Sun Dan let Sun Hao set up a real estate transaction yamen, private real estate transactions need to be registered with the government, and change the title deed, Sun Dan took this opportunity to collect one-thousandth of the transaction tax from each transaction.

As a result, as the turnover rate of speculators is getting higher and higher, the transaction tax obtained by Sun Dan has gradually accumulated to a staggering figure.

On the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Sun Dan asked Sun Jia to calculate, and was stunned to find that the real estate transaction tax and commercial tax together had completed the task of next year's summer tax. Of course, there is still a long way to go from the annual target of 50,000 taels. However, there is no need to worry, as long as the factory starts, don't say 50,000, I'm afraid that 100,000 can be made up.

"Touching" and "touching" his head, Sun Dan suddenly asked Sun Jia, who was settling accounts: "The food in the yamen doesn't seem to be very good recently, and the food is a little worse." The Chinese New Year is coming soon, I am ready to officially produce on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, is the raw silk ready? ”

Sun Jia was a little surprised: "Brother Dan, aren't you going back to the capital to reunite with your family?" ”

"I really can't leave, I can only hope that Zhiniang can forgive me." Sun Dan smiled: "After the New Year, everything is in order, I will go into the city to see her." ”

Sun Jia nodded: "The matter of raw silk has also been prepared, but the output of raw silk in Hebei is just that, and I have basically purchased it." ”

"So, with our current inventory, how many days can we produce with the loom fully opened?"

Sun Jia calculated: "It can be produced for a month." ”

"It's only been a month!" Sun Dan was a little disappointed: "If it really doesn't work, let Shi Wanquan go to Jiangnan to purchase a little more." ”

"It's also a way. Here's the catch, though. ”

"What's the problem?" Sun Dan asked.

"There's no money." Sun Jia said: "The little silver you have in hand has been exhausted just to build factories and purchase raw materials, and you really don't take action, you can go to Lujia Qianzhuang to borrow some, or, Boss Shi can also think of some ways." I don't understand, the gentry in Fangshan are so uncooperative, you have to pull them into the shares. ”

Sun Dan said: "You don't understand, the Lu family's money village is too sensitive, and if you can, you won't move." If Lao Shi reinvests in the shares, I am afraid that this weaving bureau is the final say of the Shanxi people. I am an official in Fangshan, so I have to work for the welfare of Fangshan people no matter what. In the future, there are still many things that need the cooperation of the local gentry, and it will not be a good thing to have a stalemate with them. With them in the shares, our liquidity problem can also be solved. Besides......" he smiled: "I want to tax the loom, and the initial plan is to levy a silver value-added tax on each loom per month, and those gentry have shares, and these taxes must be implemented on their heads." ”

Sun Jia said with a smile: "But people just refuse to contribute money to shares, what can you do with Master Sun." ”

Sun Dan: "So, I'm celebrating the New Year in Fangshan this year." On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I was going to invite all the Fangshan gentry to the Weaving Bureau for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and then let them watch the spinning machine start. By the way, there will be another order meeting, so that all the silk sellers who come to Fangshan will go to the factory to pick up the goods. As long as they see the actual benefits, the Fangshan gentry will be tempted. ”

Sun Jia's expression moved: "Good idea." ”

"I'll leave this matter to you."

"I'm just afraid I won't be able to do this."

"Why?"

"No money."

"It doesn't cost much to hold an order meeting and invite people to eat tons of rice, right?"

"My grandson, you are simple." Sun Jia shook his head and said, "Approaching the end of the year, the monthly minutes and bonuses of hundreds of people in the house are a lot of money. If you invite people to eat in the factory, do you need money for labor, carriages and horses? My lord, when you go to the streets, how high are the prices today? Nowadays, the people of Lao Fangshan are a little unbearable and have moved to the countryside. Today, the city is full of foreign accents. ”

Sun Dan's head was a little swollen, and the recent expenses were too great, and his pockets had been emptied.

What a dilemma!

"I have no choice but to borrow a little from Zhi Niang."

got a few hundred taels of silver from Zhi Niang, and Sun Dan's groundbreaking ceremony and order meeting was finally held smoothly.

It was finally dark, and the sound of the Tennoji Temple in the north of the city rang out.

Standing in the lobby of the weaving bureau and hearing the bell, Sun Dan was stunned to find that the year of Jiajing had finally arrived.