Section 427 Destroying machine movements
Zhu Jinglun quickly understood what he was wrong with, and he couldn't just blame the jealousy of the people, mainly because the systems he introduced did not work at all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The purpose of the establishment of the Bank of Guangzhou was to promote paper money, so Zhu Jinglun directly gave the Bank of Guangzhou the exclusive right to issue paper money in Guangdong, and the paper money of the Bank of Guangzhou was the legal tender of Guangdong.
In fact, due to Zhu Jinglun's solid family foundation, coupled with the later acquisition of HSBC, he made sufficient preparations, through the channels of HSBC, the banknotes of Guangfu Bank were promoted smoothly, not only in Daming circulation, and even in Shanghai and other ports, are the most important circulating currencies, and the bank bills of other banks cannot compete at all, after the Shanghai financial crisis last year, before McLean left office, Through the acquisition of foreign banks in China, the business of issuing bank bills by these banks was completely ended, and the bank notes found by these banks were replaced by the banknotes of the Bank of Guangzhou, and now the banknotes of the Bank of Guangzhou have even penetrated into the interior of the Qing court.
Up to now, although the Bank of Guangzhou has been operating steadily and focusing on promotion, it has also issued 80 million taels of banknotes, which is virtually equivalent to an increase of 80 million taels of capital.
If you are profitable, you can hire people with high salaries, even if it is an apprentice, and you can attract the brightest students in the school.
It is true that the people who work in such high-paying banks are not ordinary clerks, and even the poorest apprentices are paid two taels of silver a month during the three-year apprenticeship, which is higher than that of the sons of workers who work hard in ordinary trades.
Therefore, Zhu Jinglun also promoted his concept in the bank, just as the state-owned banks of later generations increased the welfare of employees, and it was bound to fail to win the favor of outsiders.
To put it bluntly, experimenting with the new system on people who don't need it is too formalistic and promotes for the sake of promotion entirely.
After seeing the feedback from the outside world, Zhu Jinglun quickly reflected, knowing that he was thinking too simply, but he was not discouraged, the promotion of the new system could not be so smooth sailing, and the Japanese in later generations did not establish their management system in an instant, it was slowly explored step by step, and this was only the first step.
But Zhu Jinglun saw that it would not work in the bank, and it was necessary to really find a company that could play a role, and really have real skills to benefit employees and make the enterprise profitable.
Zhu Jinglun soon thought of the silk reeling factory of Chen Qiyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the Changlong silk reeling factory.
Although the Changlong Silk Reeling Factory is the industry of the Ministry of Industry, it is still a pure private enterprise, paying taxes according to regulations, and the main products are used for export, highly integrated into the world market, there is no domestic human relationship, and there will be no situation where someone can cooperate with Shangshucai.
The workers of the Changlong Silk Reeling Factory are also real industrial workers, and the monthly salary of a female worker is only one or two halves, and the salary of a male worker is only two taels, which is the highest wage level in the same industry.
In addition, Chen Qiyuan's original intention when he set up the factory was to have the idea of enriching the people and the idea of leading the villagers to get rich together, and he has been saying a slogan, "Let one person do the work of ten people and take the wages of two people", which is constantly his original intention, and it is also the declaration he used to persuade other squires to set up factories and publicize them to the outside world.
But when Zhu Jinglun came to Chen Qiyuan to discuss, he learned bad news that the Jichanglong silk reeling factory was destroyed.
Just when Chen Qiyuan accompanied Zhu Jinglun to the French World Expo, some people who were hostile to machine silk reeling gathered, first smashed the Yuhouchang silk reeling factory run by his cousins Chen Zhiqu and Chen Zhishu in Xuetang Village, Chen Qiyuan's neighboring village, and then came to the other side of the river, and Chen Qiyuan's Jian Village smashed his family's Jichanglong silk reeling factory.
After Chen Qiyuan became a scholar, his family also became a local family, the local government also took extra care of it, and the people did not dare to provoke, but his family relaxed their vigilance, after the silk reeling factory in the neighboring village was smashed, he thought of looking for the villagers to protect the factory, but it was too late, after the Chen family's clan rushed to stop it, it clashed with the rioters, and finally caused a fire, burning the silk reeling factory building together with equipment and raw silk and silkworm cocoons worth more than 100,000 taels of silver, and also burned to death a watchman who did not have time to run.
Zhu Jinglun really didn't expect this situation, but he was not completely unprepared, in fact, he had been worried about something similar happening.
The newspapers have never reported the news that the machine factory has forcibly taken the jobs of the workers in the workshop, and most of the comments are sympathetic to the workers, and the people's grievances are grounded.
After Chen Qiyuan became a scholar, he burned three fires less, and within a year, he encouraged the squires to set up thousands of silk reeling factories, although most of them were not produced by steam machines, but most of them used various machines and hired female workers to reel silk, which was much more efficient than the family workshops in the past.
Therefore, it is true that a large number of people's food and clothing are affected.
But unlike history, Chen Qiyuan is an important minister of the imperial court, not the small squire who was just a teacher in the original history, it stands to reason that his family's silk reeling factory will be the same as the Shunde Wen family's silk reeling factory, no one dares to destroy it, and finally become the seed of the expansion of the silk reeling industry in the local area, but I didn't expect it to be smashed.
Zhu Jinglun was busy promoting his management philosophy before, but he didn't pay attention to it, and this incident happened a few months ago, and there was no news in the newspaper for a long time, it should be said that it was no longer news, and Chen Zhiting didn't report this matter as a major event, so Zhu Jinglun really didn't know.
knew that when I discussed with Chen Qiyuan, I knew that there was such a thing.
When asked about Chen Qiyuan's situation, Chen Qiyuan only said that some spinners who were struggling to make a living vented their grievances, the main reason was that there were too many silk reeling factories built in a year, and after these factories started, they bought cocoons on a large scale for a while, resulting in those spinners finding that they could not buy cocoons for a while, or that the price of cocoons was too high, and buying spinning was also a loss, and their livelihoods were affected for a while, so they gathered together to retaliate against the silk reeling factory.
Chen Qiyuan lamented the difficulties of people's livelihood, and seemed to have fallen into a kind of hesitation, and his own idea that using machines could increase workers' incomes was shaken, in fact, when he was in Paris, Chen Qiyuan learned the news, so when Zhu Jinglun discussed with him about the introduction of machine looms, he began to hesitate.
As for the loss of his family, it's not that he can't bear it, those losses are at most the loss of his profits over the years, he is now a scholar, and he is enough to support his family, but he doesn't care about those belongings, so Chen Qiyuan said that he doesn't plan to pursue it.
According to Chen Qiyuan's description, Zhu Jinglun understood that this was a social event similar to the movement of manual workers to destroy machines in the early days of the British Industrial Revolution, and the root cause was the new machine production mode, which destroyed the old mode of production and led to the bankruptcy of many manual workshops.
But Zhu Jinglun always felt that something was wrong, because he heard that only the silk reeling factory of the Chen brothers was smashed, and the factories run by other squires did not have such a thing, but Chen Qiyuan is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and there is no reason to dare to smash the factory of the Shangshu family of the Ministry of Industry, and he does not dare to smash the factories of other squires.
Confused, he summoned Shangshu of the Criminal Department to inquire about it, and found that there was another inside story behind this matter.
The reason is indeed because of the competition in the machine silk reeling industry, which makes the life of the manual silk reeling industry very difficult.
But the people who ran to smash the silk reeling factories in Jian Village and Xuetang Village were not a group of silk reeling workers at all, you must know that the silk reelers were all female workers, and the rioters who ran to smash the factory were all men without exception, and they were not the husbands or brothers of these female workers.
Guangzhou is a big wharf, in international trade is now not as good as Kowloon Port, but as the confluence of the Pearl River system, Guangzhou is the entire upper reaches of the Pearl River undisputed material distribution center, relying on this port to live a variety of industries, and these have nothing to sell their labor, often like to join some gangs to be protected, so the wharf feeds the hard workers, the blood and sweat of the hard workers feed some gangs.
These gang members are usually habitual offenders who fight and fight, and there are many people who are arrested and do hard labor, but when they catch a stubble, a stubble will always pop up, and even if they hit a gang, there will be new gangs popping up, so that the government is also one head and two big, and I feel that there is nothing to do with them.
But Zhu Jinglun has a big doubt, it is not strange that these gangs will fight, but why did they go to a village in Nanhai County to smash a silk reeling factory? This is something that can't be fought with them, isn't this full of food?
Not only Zhu Jinglun suspects, but the Criminal Department is also suspicious that there is a gang standing behind the rioters, so are there other forces standing behind the gang?
It's just that for a while, they can't find out the forces behind it, because the large number of thugs they caught only explained who the gang brothers who sent them were, but those gang brothers had very tight mouths, biting them to death to eliminate harm for the people, and they were spinners who couldn't get used to seeing the Shang Shujia using foreigners' machines and gadgets to harm innocent people.
The Criminal Department believes that there must be someone behind these gang leaders, but it is not easy to pry open the mouths of these people, these people who eat food in the rivers and lakes have to speak a righteous word, if they take other people's money to do things, they have to carry it themselves when the incident happens, and shaking out the employer behind them does not conform to the rules of the rivers and lakes, and it will not be good to mix in the rivers and lakes in the future, so they are determined to carry this black pot, even if they end up in prison for a few years, they don't care.
"Check, check to the end, I want to see who is so bold. As for those unemployed thugs, don't lock them up and send them directly to Alaska for exile. ”
Since these gangs parasitic on the low-level laborers are like weeds, cutting stubble after stubble, then simply send these tumors to the colony, and let their vigorous vitality take root and sprout in the colony.