Chapter 454: Songjiang Merchant Deng Min

Deng Min probably didn't expect him to be such a result, he thought that he was about to be prosperous and rich, Deng Min's father was a small official in Songjiang County, such a wealthy local official, worthy of the county order in a remote place, and he has been an official for decades, and he has also earned a lot of money.

Songjiang's weaving has a history of nearly 100 years, and Deng Min's father opened a hand-weaving workshop there, which is equivalent to a chicken that lays golden eggs.

In Jiangnan, there is a saying that hand-weaving catches up with thousands of acres of fields, and doing this workshop is to buy a foundation for generations of children and grandchildren. The old man's expectation for Deng Min is not to be a rich man, but to hope that he will achieve something in the scientific examination, but Deng Min, who has been pampered since childhood, will have any perseverance and perseverance to study, and when he is in his twenties, he will spend money to buy a showman's fame.

After his Lao Tzu died, no one cared about him, guarding a huge foundation, and his life was nourishing.

Ten years after Jiajing, suddenly everyone in the world loved money, if it was said that everyone liked money in the past, but it was still covered up on the surface, and suddenly everyone talked about profits, and the world valued business. Deng Min's factory profits are rising sharply every year, don't worry too much, this day is getting better and better.

Deng Min has been pampered since he was a child, likes to spend money like dogs and horses, and spends money like flowing water, but he also has a habit of being a carpenter and a skilled craft, which is also the tradition of the Ming generation, and has always been regarded as a trivial craftsman, and many people are addicted to it. There were even several emperors who were members of it, which can also be seen as the leap of the entire world civilization from ancient times to modern times.

The explosion of technology and the enlightenment of ideas brought about by this leap may not have been concretely expressed in speech and public opinion, but in the surrounding countries, under the influence of those missionaries who came to preach, and under the infection of the enthusiasm for invention and creation since ancient times, many people consciously or unconsciously invested in it. Deng Min is also one of them, and he also likes to make something by himself.

Although such a hobby is considered a prodigal thing by the people around you, if you are diligent in keeping your family, doing your duty, or concentrating on studying and working hard for the imperial examination, or being diligent and thrifty, you will do a good job there. Deng Min's move is considered absurd.

The weaving workshop in the south of the Yangtze River is divided into two kinds, one is to weave silk, the other is to weave cloth, weaving cloth needs a lot of yarn, in addition to farming and eating grain, spinning and selling to the factory is also an important pillar of income, since the trade order at sea is stable, the sea trade suddenly flourished, and the demand for goods is much greater. The demand for spindles in various weaving workshops is also relatively increasing.

After a while, the factories were the same as the landlords hired tenants, and a large number of households were breaded in the nearby villages, and these households were equivalent to half of the employees of the factory, and the spindles could only be sold to the factory, but in this way, only the supply was stabilized, and there was no improvement.

It's just that there has been a big change in the economic behavior of the people, many farmers who have farmed for generations have begun to farm with their whole family labor force not to farm, but to sell yarn to the factory, which is much better than farming and eating grain, and the people in each workshop are there to figure out how to increase production, but Deng Min, a heartless person, does not feel it at all, and still does his own thing, drinking and having fun.

One day after drinking too much outside, Deng Min came back in a daze, and after entering his house, he accidentally kicked down something, and after calling the servant, he lit the lamp, which turned out to be kicking down the spinning machine, and at this time the spinning machine that was originally erected was lying on the ground horizontally.

The servant wanted to help him up, but was stopped by Deng Min, although Deng Min was drunk, but in his mind, he felt that he had vaguely grasped something, waved his hand to send the inexplicable servants out, and was busy in the house alone.

What happened that night, Deng's family did not know, but the next day, Deng Min, whose eyes were red, sent a servant to find a carpenter and came to his house. The two of them were in the backyard and worked on it for five days, and after five days he gave the carpenter five hundred taels of silver and sent him away.

The carpenter made this fortune, and happily went home to buy land, and lived a comfortable life as a small landowner.

Five hundred taels is not a small amount, whether it is the Deng family's family or the people around who know about this matter, they all laugh at it, and they are disdainful of Deng Min's absurdity in their hearts.

What I didn't expect was that after another month, the output of the Deng family weaving workshop went up all of a sudden, which can be said to have increased several times, more than ten times. At this time, the production of goods in the factory was extremely limited, and the merchants at sea carried silver and other goods.

As long as all kinds of things are produced, purchased by merchants, transported to ships, and sold outside, it is several times more than ten times the profit, of course, because of the expansion of maritime trade throughput, the profit is not as high as before, but this is still a huge profit, amazing huge profit.

The output of Deng Min's factory has increased sharply, and the businessmen have paid more attention to profit than affection, and a large number of orders have fallen on the Deng family, and the surrounding factory owners are extremely puzzled, according to the output of the Deng family's factory, I am afraid that one-third of the spindles were bought by his family.

However, the output of the Deng family's factory has skyrocketed, and the spindles of other people's houses have not decreased, which is really a strange thing, and after another month or so, the hired households who originally spun yarn for the Deng family have been fired a lot, and they have all been thrown out.

Some well-intentioned people went to inquire about it, only to know that the Deng family's handicraft workshop had added some strange machines, and the spinning equipment could almost catch up with the output of nine people, and the total amount of raw materials was about the same, and fewer people could do more work, so naturally they would not raise extra people.

Everyone wants to improve their equipment and increase production, hearing that the Deng family has such a magical thing, everyone has a covetous mind, and sends people to investigate, find, Deng Min, who has always been a prodigal, is much more cautious this time, and the servants and servants of the Deng family are all mobilized, firmly guarding the workshop and the Deng Mansion, and not letting anyone who wants to spy on the secret enter to watch.

The precautions here are strict, and other merchants have other ways to continue to find out the news, and the manufacture of equipment always needs craftsmen, just ask these craftsmen.

No one thought of the result of the inquiry, but they found nothing, and they couldn't find any clues at all, so it stands to reason that carpenters and machine craftsmen will always be involved in it, but nothing can be found.

In the past three months, the weaving factory in Songjiang went bankrupt for the first time after the beginning of the boom of the maritime trade, because the Deng family raised the price of raw materials, and the goods sold were cheaper and the output was large, and many maritime merchants were willing to deal with the Deng family.

When the sea trade was prosperous, as long as you pooled money to borrow money to open a weaving factory, and there were products out, you should not worry about the survival of this workshop, it must be to make money. Therefore, there are more and more transactions, and the business is booming, no one would have expected that in such a situation, there are still factories that cannot support it and will go bankrupt and close down.

And the rest of the weaving workshops are all in a similar situation, all of them are struggling to support there, eating the old money earned in the past.

Even the hired households and workers below are panicked, many of them have abandoned their land, do not become farmers, concentrate on work, the factory is bankrupt, they have already lost their land, what else can they do, are they arrested by the government officials on the charge of being a homeless people, and then sent overseas to be slaves and farms, and sell their sons and daughters?

After the bankruptcy of the second weaving factory, the Thirteen Chambers of Commerce finally noticed this situation, and many of the Thirteen Chambers of Commerce were the owners of handicraft workshops in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and they felt that Deng Min's abnormal phenomenon was likely to ruin the entire prosperous situation, which was a strange thing.

At that time, Deng Min was already carried away, a lot of silver in his hands every day, the merchants on the sea were polite to him, and those colleagues who looked down on him in the past were all smiling and begging him to give everyone a way to live, Deng Min no longer felt that he was a prodigal.

The Deng family's family business has been carried forward in his hands, and he didn't expect that behind such a scene, there are dangers and turbulent undercurrents. There is a rumor among the weavers in Songjiang that the Deng family has a demon method to produce cloth from the bones of the dead, and many people's ancestral graves in the countryside are cut open, and the ancestral graves are touched and destroyed, which is completely intolerable at this time.

In the first month of the nineteenth year of Jiajing, two more handicraft workshops in Songjiang went bankrupt, and on that night, the weavers and employees of each family took to the streets, and under the leadership of several leaders, they were also dressed as weavers, saying that they were driven out by the Deng family in the past, and everyone was excited, and no one would specifically identify anything.

The Deng family would resist so many people, and soon they were attacked, and the unorganized mob in history was the most terrible, the Deng family's house was burned, the weaving machine and spinning machine were also destroyed, and the Deng family's family members and hired households were also surrounded and beaten.

However, the men who led the mob were the first to rush into the spinning place and carried away a machine......

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