At present, the rapid development of overseas trade has made the problem of labor shortage more prominent. The demand for labor is increasing in all walks of life, and overseas trade requires sailors, ships, and goods. Workers have money, and the demand for food, clothing, shelter and transportation is also increasing. So far, it's a very virtuous cycle.

"I'll get back to you as soon as I can." Yuan Deyu nodded and said.

"To be honest, if you can join the caravan of the father-in-law, I won't say anything, but you can't join the caravan of the father-in-law with this little money. Then you might as well join my shipbuilding workshop, you must know that my current shipbuilding workshop orders can be scheduled until the end of next year. Pan Shujin said.

"I understand, three days, three days at most I will give you an answer." Yuan Deyu said.

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Seeing Pan Shujin away, Yuan Deyu decided to visit the family workshop he often cooperates with to investigate next year's business. As things stand, he had to prepare a few months earlier than usual. Part of Yuan Deyu's silk is self-produced and sold, and part of it comes from some scattered family workshops around.

"Master Yuan is here, please take a seat." The person who spoke was called Fu San, one of the families that Yuan Deyu often worked with, and Fu San's whole family was engaged in silk production. Fu San sold the silk produced to Yuan Deyu, who in turn sold the silk.

"Fu San, I'm here today to discuss with you about this year's autumn silkworms and next year's silk." Yuan Deyu said.

"Master Yuan, even if you don't come, I'm just going to discuss this matter with you." Fu San said with a sad face.

"What happened?" Seeing Fu San's demeanor, Yuan Deyu knew that something must have happened.

"Master Yuan, the price of this raw silk has risen too fiercely recently, and the villain also heard that the seventh master has spoken, the raw silk produced by the autumn silkworms this year is not allowed to be taken out, and the villain doesn't even have raw silk now, let alone silk." Fu San said.

"Could it be that his seventh master wants to eat the raw silk of the entire county alone?" Yuan Deyu said angrily.

"Master Yuan, there are six CDs in Sangtian in this county that belong to his family, although the remaining forty percent are not his family, you also know that the relationship between him and the county master, he said that he wants them all, who dares to sell them to others, not to mention that the price he pays is not lower than others." Fu San said.

After Fu San finished speaking, he lowered his voice and said, "I heard that the Seventh Master is buying Sangtian, and now many people are forced to sell Sangtian to him. ”

"Isn't there anyone in charge of this? He is not afraid of arousing public anger, and he will not be able to end the scene when the time comes. The more Yuan Deyu listened, the more angry he became.

"Master Yuan, in previous years, there was a famine, who didn't borrow some money to live, and now the seventh master is buying mulberry fields everywhere in the name of collecting debts, you see that the autumn silkworms have not yet been listed, most people have no money in their hands, and those who can't afford to pay off their debts can only sell their mulberry fields to pay off their debts. Debts and repayments, a matter of course, who dares to make trouble? Fu San sighed.

When British capitalism was rising, there were sheep eating people, and in the Ming Dynasty, due to the sudden and substantial increase in demand for raw silk and silk, silkworms began to eat people, and it can be expected that with the further expansion of overseas trade, this situation will be more serious next year.

Marx once said: "Capitalism came to the world dripping blood and filth from head to toe from every pore." "In Daming, it seems that such a scene is about to happen. Zhu Youxiao didn't know all this at all, and he didn't expect that the overseas trade he was trying to promote would bring such consequences.

The pains brought about by every social change are unavoidable, let alone such a major change. Zhu Youxiao remembered that when he was still Chen Kaiyang, when he was still in college, his class was commissioned by the Ministry of Social Labor and Social Security to conduct a social survey of laid-off workers, which made him understand the pain of social change for the first time.

During the investigation, he saw so many tears that you can imagine what it would be like for a man in his forties and fifties to cry in front of a strange twenty-year-old. It also made him feel that the Chinese people are really a very tolerant group of people.

But society needs change, just like capitalism replaces feudal society, this is a historical trend, and no one can stop it. This change is either top-down or bottom-up. Reform from the top down, revolution from the bottom up.

How to deal with this change will be the most important question for Zhu Youxiao after he disposes of Houjin, or he will be greeted by a bourgeois revolution.

"And what are you going to do?" Yuan Deyu asked.

"Two days ago, a tooth man came to me, and the tooth man said that if both of our families are willing to go to work in the silk workshop, each person can get one or five taels of silver per month, and this month there will be three taels of silver, which is a lot more than the income of our own work at home for a year, of course, a little more tired than before. Master Yuan, you also know that we are from a cropper's background, it doesn't matter if we are tired, as long as we have money to earn, after discussion, our family has decided to go to work in the silk workshop. Fu San said.

"In that case, then I'll take my leave." Yuan Deyu said helplessly.

"Master Yuan, go slowly!" Fu San kept sending Yuan Deyu to the door.

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Yuan Deyu walked around, and he found that the situation this year was already very unoptimistic, and more than half of the families who had cooperated with him before were facing the situation of having no raw silk during this year's autumn silkworm period. Yuan Deyu knew that this silk business was likely to be unsustainable, and these big businessmen and big landlords were like gluttonous people, frantically devouring the entire raw silk market.

Zhang Guoji is definitely one of the leaders of the monopoly acquisition of raw silk, Zhang Guoji's current funds are not abundant, he needs to buy merchant ships and goods, and he also needs to hire people, etc., which determines that he can not buy a variety of goods, and finally he chose raw silk to start.

Raw silk is a category he once heard Zhu Youxiao mention, and also told him that the profit of shipping to the West can be as many as several times, and now it is the time when the autumn silkworm is about to go on the market, so he chose raw silk directly without much thought. may be influenced by Zhang Guoji, and there are not a few businessmen who choose raw silk to start. Of course, there are many other categories to choose from.

The entire caravan is expected to go to sea until January next year, but the fleet looking for Jinshan does not dare to delay in the slightest and has already gone to sea early. This fleet consisted mainly of warships, with only a small number of merchant ships, and the goal of everyone was to find Jinshan first, and then send merchant ships there, and now this fleet is not far from Manila.

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