Jin Mao, the head of the Nylon Hall, hanged himself when he went back, and even Zhu Jinglun was shocked. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Let Zhu Jinglun feel big, this old man obviously does not intend to admit defeat, at most he is not convinced, any era can become an industry leader, often have a kind of heroic temperament, for them, sometimes it doesn't matter whether you make money or not, winning or losing is the key.

In the face of the huge pressure of the machine silk reeling industry, since Jin Maocai dared to choose to use violence to confront, he was actually unwilling to admit defeat. After meeting Zhu Jinglun, in front of the emperor, he took soft words, but when he turned around, he drank poison, and his attitude really caused Zhu Jinglun some trouble.

No one dares to scold the emperor, but the suicide of the old man in the silk weaving industry must be carried by someone, and the government can only carry this black pot. And for a while, public opinion turned, not only some newspapers that originally supported machine silk reeling began to sympathize with the unemployed people, but the key was that Jin Maocai's death angered the traditional forces, and they also began to squeeze into the modern newspaper industry, which had never paid much attention, and a large number of old masters who were farming and reading heirlooms in the countryside regarded the development of the machine silk reeling industry as a ruthless blow to the livelihood of the small people.

In the continuous speculation of public opinion, Jin Maocai's coffin was finally buried, and silk shops, silk merchants and silk households from all over Guangzhou gathered 50,000 people to see him off.

The government obviously overestimated Jin Maocai's prestige, and the momentum was indeed very loud, but most of them were actually instigated by businessmen from all over the country, and even paid to hire them to support the façade.

But it's really impressive.

Finally, as soon as Jin Maocai's funeral was over, there were still newspaper reports in the first seven, and there were very few in the second seven, and when the third seven were over, only the Jin family and some of the Xingdong of the Nylon Hall went to participate in the memorial, and the newspaper basically didn't care.

At this time, the government hurriedly announced that in the next three years, it would distribute three taels of relief money every year to families who were unemployed due to machine silk reeling, and the Ministry of Industry also stipulated that the machine silk reeling factory built within three years must give priority to employing the original individual weavers, otherwise they will be heavily taxed.

Although some die-hard newspapers that love to scold the government still regard the government's actions as buying the hearts and minds of the people, most of the newspaper reports are positive, and the government's move has generally given itself a lot of points.

At the same time, a huge wave of opposition to the mechanization of the silk weaving industry was extinguished, but another wave rose irrepressibly.

Although the Jin family did not make high-profile preparations, the outside world still paid attention to the fact that the Jin family quietly dug up some female workers of machine reeling silk from Shunde and the South China Sea by the shopkeeper in the 771st year of the old man Jin, and ordered 100 sets of machinery and equipment from the largest silk reeling machine manufacturing workshop in Guangzhou, which has been renamed Chen Liantai Machinery Factory, and ordered ten steam engines from the foreign bank, and began to prepare for their silk reeling factory.

The Jin family is very low-key, they used to be the largest businessmen in the traditional silk weaving industry, they were the head of the nylon hall, with a strong old merchant label, and they switched to machine silk reeling, which itself has symbolic significance, symbolizing the surrender of the old industry to the new industry, or to put it mildly, it is the transformation of the old era to the new era, and the significance is no less than promoting the transformation of the squire.

But the Jin family probably also felt that their actions were a betrayal, a betrayal of the old industry, the handmade silk weaving industry, and even their own in the past, although this was Jin Maocai's will and the general trend, but they still didn't want to be too high-profile, that would be to embarrass themselves.

But such a symbolic event, how could Zhu Jinglun let it go, it is not easy for the Jin family to take the initiative to be high-profile, and it is too difficult for the strong people, because it is too embarrassing for the Jin family, so Zhu Jinglun came up with a way not to make the Jin family ugly, but also to make this matter widely known.

He issued a high-profile decree and sent someone to beat gongs and drums to the Jin family: "The Edict of the Nylon Silk Reeling Factory".

The Jin family didn't plan to use the banner of Nylon Hall, and they didn't want to fight the signboard of the old silk weaving guild, but Jin Maocai explained in his will that the descendants of the Jin family would never be allowed to serve as the head of Nylon Hall, and they didn't plan to disobey.

But now the emperor has issued a holy decree to them, which is equivalent to directly giving the name of the silk factory of the Jin family.

The Jin family burned incense to receive the order, which was contradictory and happy.

The contradiction is that the Jin family set up a factory, which is not a decent thing in the first place, if it weren't for the old man Jin repeatedly asked Jin Guangli to swear, before he drank the poisonous wine, he also asked Jin Guangli to kneel in front of the statue of Zhang Qian and swear, according to Jin Guangli's steady nature, he didn't plan to really set up a factory, but wanted to end the business, go home and divide the land, and everyone would live in peace in the future.

Happily, since I decided to set up a factory, I was worried about encountering all kinds of troubles like wanting to follow the Changlong Silk Reeling Factory, so being low-key is not only a shame, but also a fear.

Now there is a holy decree from the emperor to let the Jin family build a silk reeling factory, which is a holy decree. According to the management, there is such a holy decree in their hands, when the time comes, they can hang the word "Ejian" on the door of their silk factory, and put it in the past, that is, the official passes in front of this plaque, and he has to get off the sedan chair and walk over, who dares to make trouble in such a silk factory?

The only bad thing is that Zhu Jinglun's holy decree immediately set off a heated discussion, not only those new newspapers that have been supporting machine silk reeling praised it, saying that the emperor cares about machine silk reeling, which is the trend of the times, and advises those who insist on soil silk to see the general trend as soon as possible and open a machine silk reeling factory as soon as possible.

In addition, a large number of nylon Tang Xingdong, who originally had doubts about the Jin family's opening of a silk reeling factory, and did not plan to buy shares, suddenly came to the door to send money, and the Jin family didn't know how to do it, they couldn't use so much money at all, but many wealthy businessmen came to talk about it, and directly put down the money and left, saying that they believed in the Jin family, anyway, the silver was here, and the Jin family looked at how many shares.

The old silk weaving industry has been operating for hundreds of years, and the accumulation is incomparable, if you talk about the strength of capital, I am afraid that only the thirteen merchants who operated tea in the past can compare, and in just ten days, these merchants sent more than 1 million taels of silver, not talking about how many shares they want, for fear that the Jin family would not accept it.

Jin Guangli is really big-headed, and those peers say it well, but when the real accounts are unclear, no one will give up, and he has to be careful. But the problem is that he didn't plan to build a big silk factory in the first place, the Jin family's own money is enough, and now these people give so much money as gifts, so he feels that there is nowhere to use it.

But it's not a matter of keeping the money in your own hands, once the Jin family's factory starts, you have to pay dividends to others according to these funds.

As a last resort, Jin Guangli discussed with several bank owners who had invested in the shares at the beginning to see how to use the money, and finally decided to leave 300,000 yuan of spare money, and the rest was used to expand the new factory.

Originally, it was only planned to hire 800 workers, the purpose was not to be smaller than Chen Qiyuan's silk reeling factory, and to buy 100 silk reeling cars, with an investment of less than 80,000 taels, but now with more than 1 million taels of silver in his hand, he can only increase the investment.

But they have never done the machine silk reeling industry, although they have hired skilled hands in the industry, but they have no bottom in their hearts, where can they rest assured that such a large amount of silver is smashed into it.

Therefore, he also decided to set up a silk factory, which was also explained by his father, and their family is more familiar with silk, even if the machine silk is not good, it can always recover a capital if it is sold cheaply.

In the end, they decided to build two silk reeling factories in Nanhai and Shunde at the same time, each with an investment of 300,000 taels of silver, and at the same time bought land in Xiguan, Guangzhou, to build a machine silk factory, with an investment of 200,000 taels of silver.

Zhu Jinglun, who was concerned about this, sent someone to the Jin family to spread the word that the silk factory could also hang a plaque for the construction of the silk factory, which could be regarded as support.

He was glad that the entry of such a traditional industry giant would play a greater role in promoting and driving the transformation of traditional industries than Chen Qiyuan.

But new giants have entered, but there are old giants who want to exit.

After Chen Qiyuan's blow, he didn't plan to let the Chen family do silk reeling.

He is already a scholar of the Ministry of Industry, and the Chen family's business is not decent, this time Nylon Hall smashed his factory, and in the end, the outside world evaluation was not very good, not to mention, the notoriety of ruining the livelihood of millions of silk households, and in the end, most of them were installed on his Chen Qiyuan's head. Jin Maocai finally reversed the crime of Nylon Hall with a death, and the reputation of the Chen family is notorious.

Therefore, since the silk factory was smashed, he fortunately took this opportunity to quit and go to his official steadfastly for a few years.

But Zhu Jinglun did not agree, and when he summoned Chen Qiyuan to inquire about the preparations for the Sino-British Expo, he specifically asked about his family's business, and after learning that Chen Qiyuan did not plan to do it, Zhu Jinglun immediately said that this would not work, if the Chen family had no money, the government could borrow it, but it could not be done.

He also told Chen Qiyuan that the Chen family's industry has an exemplary role, and if the Chen family is unwilling to do it, who will be optimistic about machine reeling.

Jichanglong silk reeling factory not only has to be rebuilt, but also the scale should be larger and the machines should be better. And not only to reel the silk, but also to weave thick.

What are you kidding, when Chen Qiyuan was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, he valued his identity, his family was a rural clan and a landlord, and he himself was born as a teacher, a typical squire, and he was the first squire to take the initiative to invest in industry, which is the identity of the industrial squire that Zhu Jinglun wants to create.

When he was in France, Zhu Jinglun was determined to guide the squire class to turn to industry and create an industrial squire class, hoping that the Ming Dynasty could also produce an industrial squire similar to the new British aristocracy and the German Junker landlords.

It is not easy for a squire to transform into an industry, Chen Qiyuan has regressed from an industrial squire, I am afraid that the bad impact will be greater, businessmen make money to buy houses and buy land, it is a centuries-old tradition, if industrialists are like this, after setting up factories to make money, they will go back to the local owners, then the country is still industrialized.

Therefore, Chen Qiyuan not only wants to continue to reel silk, but also expand the industry, and before the country completes industrialization, he must continue to be a symbol, even if he is not an official, he must continue to run a factory.

Now that the emperor has spoken, what else can Chen Qiyuan say, he plans to take advantage of the Sino-British Business Expo a few years ago to directly purchase new machines from the British, expand the Jichanglong silk reeling factory, and also set up a Jichanglong silk factory.

The opening of the expo is a big event, it was an agreement reached with the British Manchester Chamber of Commerce last year, this year has been preparing for a year, and it has been successfully opened before the end of the year.

The expo is a top priority here in Chen Qiyuan, and a small matter in Zhu Jinglun.

Although he will definitely participate in the expo and pay attention to it, the things that are not worth his energy to participate in personally, and the things that are worthy of his personal involvement must be things that are of great significance and are not done well by others.

At present, there are only two such things, one is the two major reforms to be carried out next year, the reform of the arsenal and the reform of education.