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After completing the settlement with the Russians the year before last, the Ming Dynasty stationed 800 garrisons there in the first year.

The official consideration of the Ming Dynasty was not not thorough enough, and even Zhu Jinglun personally cared about the local winter matters, and told every soldier to be issued enough winter clothes, at least two cotton clothes, and the same is true for quilts. Even the coal for the winter is very well prepared.

But the first winter, still let the soldiers from the south suffer a heavy blow, the cold they fought over, but the disease is pervasive, when the spring comes, more than 100 people due to illness lost their combat effectiveness, the last half did not survive, just a cold winter, so that the garrison lost 10%.

Soldiers from the south are not completely incapable of cold resistance, there is a phenomenon, in the cities of the north, it is often the residents from the northeast who are the first to put on sweaters, cotton clothes, and residents from the south, most likely, before the university still wear single clothes, ask them, they will say that they do not feel cold, and even take cold showers.

Is it that northeasterners are less frost-resistant than southerners? Obviously, this is impossible, the reason why Northeast people are the first to wear winter clothes is probably a kind of stress response to the climate, their bodies because of the biological clock, after the arrival of the season, the first to feel cold, in fact, is to remind them that it is time to change their pairs.

And the southerners don't feel cold, in fact, they don't form this kind of stress reaction, so he really doesn't feel cold, his body still thinks they are in the south, but they really stay in the cold for a long time, I'm afraid that the southerners are the first to freeze than the northeasterners.

It is this kind of body that has never been stimulated by the cold, which led to the Ming soldiers in the winter of Alaska, there were all kinds of uncomfortable symptoms, obviously the supplies were sufficient, but suddenly they became ill, with fever and dysentery as the main symptoms, and the herbs they prepared did not save everyone.

Seeing that this year's winter has arrived, Guangdong is still warm as spring, and even makes people sweat every day, but Alaska is already icy and snowy.

If these people are really to be sent over, it will be at least early summer next year, when the Alaska fleet will go to change guards.

Before that, the trial of these people needs to be completed, and even if Chen Qiyuan said that he would not pursue it, they committed a criminal case, and according to the charter, the government will report them to them.

Before going to court, they were held in a police station, and the police questioned them.

Although torture has been abolished, the police who have changed from the prison guards and government servants in the past have unconventional methods and do not beat you, but can intimidate, coerce, and even deceive. Those gang members, although they showed a certain amount of righteousness, but not everyone was hard-headed, under all kinds of dazzling means, there were still people who confessed, and some jailers poured two catties of wine on a certain prisoner, and then told the truth.

There are people behind these gang members, which everyone does not suspect, but they have never known who it is, and the result of the trial is both surprising and natural.

Unexpectedly, the main envoy turned out to be a commercial guild, because of Chen Qiyuan's identity as an official, everyone thought about the officialdom, and thought that they had offended the people in the officialdom, but they didn't expect it to be a private guild, and a guild dared to touch the industry of the Shang scholars, which is boring!

However, this guild has an absolute reason to smash Chen Qiyuan's shop, because this guild is a very large silk weaving industry guild, called Nylon Hall, which has built a nylon guild in Xiguan, Guangzhou, with members covering thousands of shops large and small in the silk weaving industry in Guangzhou, and at the same time established complex connections with ordinary silk households, in short, they can influence more than 50,000 workers.

Theoretically speaking, anyone who engages in business related to silk in Guangzhou basically has to be restricted by this guild, otherwise they will be collectively boycotted.

But the problem is that the emerging machine silk reeling industry has not joined this guild, they don't need the power of the guild, they don't need the channels of nylon Tang merchants, because their own production is huge, and they directly connect with the foreigners' trading houses, and they don't even need to establish a relationship with the foreigners, and they directly trade on the exchanges in Kowloon, and they don't even need to know who the other party is.

Generally speaking, although they have a certain competitive relationship with Nylon Hall, everyone doesn't even fight each other, and they haven't reached the point of life and death. But the problem is that the machine silk reeling industry has developed too rapidly under the impetus of Chen Qiyuan. It has long aroused their dissatisfaction, but Chen Qiyuan's status as a scholar makes them worried, and they don't dare to kill them. But with the opening of hundreds of new factories one after another this year, these machine silk reeling factories swallowed the cocoons on the market with a huge appetite, and in the case that the quantity of raw materials could not be increased in the short term, the result could only be that the price of cocoons was high, ordinary silk households could not buy suitable cocoons, and the merchants of Nylon Hall could not receive raw silk, and some workshops could not produce as scheduled.

Ordinary machine owners are soft-spoken, but those raw silk and silk merchants are rich and powerful, and they feel a great sense of crisis when they see their interests being eaten away little by little, and they have no end in sight, only seeing more and more silk reeling factories that do not cooperate with them being established.

Finally, a large number of wealthy businessmen could not stand their ground, and they all looked for the head of the nylon hall to find a way, and everyone conspired to come up with a sum of money together to find someone to smash Chen Qiyuan's silk factory.

Why smash Chen Qiyuan's silk factory, not only because this is the first, but also because the entire machine silk reeling industry is Chen Qiyuan is strongly promoted, even if Chen Qiyuan is the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, they can't take care of it, when Chen Qiyuan and Zhu Jinglun went abroad, they thought it was a good opportunity, so they immediately found a gang in the market and invested heavily to let them sell.

Because they received a price that was difficult to refuse, these gangs not only kept it strictly secret from the beginning, but even the people who did it didn't know who was behind it, but also let everyone draw a life and death lot, and the little leaders who went to smash the silk factory could be said to be dead soldiers, if they dared to betray, the rules of the rivers and lakes would be slashed and slashed, and the key was that their families were also controlled.

The more the trial became, the more alarming it became, and in the end, Shangshu of the Criminal Department felt that he couldn't hold it back, he didn't even dare to carry out the public prosecution procedures in accordance with the regulations, he couldn't carry this pot, and hurriedly reported to Chen Zhiting, after Chen Zhiting learned about it, he immediately reported it to Zhu Jinglun, and Chen Zhiting also felt that this matter was too big.

A commercial guild actually made Shang Shuling, who was the prime minister, feel hot, and it was not a big fuss at all.

Because the status of this nylon hall is really special.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the mulberry fish pond model in Guangdong began to popularize, resulting in a great increase in the production of raw silk, coupled with a trade in Guangzhou, the sufficient cocoon material supplied by the mulberry fish pond and the huge market brought by the arrival of foreign merchants greatly promoted the silk weaving industry in Guangzhou, after the development of the Kangxi Dynasty, there were hundreds of silk weaving shops in Guangzhou.

Such a large number of shops, will inevitably lead to vicious competition in the market, so they need to establish a set of rules, according to Chinese tradition, is everyone pooled money to build a guild, the formation of a guild, the industry internal constraints, the members of the guild are called the Xingdong, everyone jointly elected as the head of the line is called the head of the line, the internal industry and the head of the line agree on the rules, we abide by it together, to avoid vicious competition, externally, once there is a dispute, then we pay together, by the head of the line to take care of, condensed business guild, Let their power increase greatly, whether it is in the face of official looting, or in the face of hooligan blackmail, they have more strength to fight, and at the same time avoid vicious competition, the interests of the industry have also been protected, their profits are more abundant, and they have more strength to protect themselves.

Obviously, this is a spontaneous, autonomous non-official organization that is prevalent in various mature industries.

But if it's just an ordinary guild, it won't make the prime minister feel tricky, nylon hall is not ordinary, very unusual, he is not a single guild, but a guild alliance, first of all, during the Yongzheng period, some silk weaving shops and silk weaving workers in Guangzhou jointly donated to build this guild, he covered the interest groups of all aspects of the silk weaving industry at that time, and there were 1338 shops and individuals who contributed at that time.

But this hall, is not for a certain industry to use, the beginning of the name is the Guangzhou silk weaving industry owner hall, by the various industries have a head and face, the east of the line to sit together for a meeting, at that time and the subsequent rest of the capital contribution record included in the guild yarn line, foreign goods Dunren line, foreign goods weaving line, python line, Gongning line parallel, Jincai weaving line, plain line weaving line, Yuanqing weaving line, Huaba silk line, weaving foreign goods line and other more than ten industry guilds, not to a single guild, but to the guild alliance of the situationThis is unique in Guangzhou.

It is precisely because he contains too many and complete industries that it is very powerful after its establishment.

Internally, different industries in the silk weaving industry regularly communicate here to negotiate the circulation price of each link, and it can be said that the prices of silk-related products such as silkworm cocoons, raw silk, silk, embroidery and so on are almost all decided in this hall.

Even the Thirteen Lines, which were granted exclusive trade and export rights by the government, were very tricky when facing Nylon Hall. The Thirteen Lines are also in the Xiguan area, and coincidentally they are face to face with the Nylon Hall.

So every year when the silkworm and trade season, it is the various banks of the nylon hall to meet first, and wait for them to negotiate the price of silk fabrics this year, and then they will communicate with the opposite thirteen lines to export the price of goods to foreigners, of course, the thirteen lines act as a middleman, so that foreigners can bargain with the nylon hall, but with other industries the thirteen lines can basically determine the price is still very different, it can be said that at least in the silk weaving industry, the market discourse is not in the thirteen lines, but in the hands of the nylon hall.