"Second brother, you can be regarded as back."

As soon as Han Zhong walked into the backyard of the Han Mansion, he saw his sister Han Qi.

The girl's appearance is beautiful and vulgar, but there is more heroism in her eyebrows, which dilutes the shock of her appearance.

Han Zhong saw her, just like a mouse saw a cat, and hurriedly bowed his head: "Sister." ”

The girl crossed her waist, not at all like a lady: "I forgot to go home after playing?" ”

"Where do you dare to forget? My sister is getting married, and my younger brother will crawl back if he breaks his leg. Han Zhong grinned.

"You'll talk." Han Qi blushed and looked at the front yard, "Fourth Uncle is also back." ”

"I'm talking to my dad outside. I'll come first to meet my mother and aunt. ”

"Niangniang is in the main room, talking to A-Niang. Aunt Yun took the sixth and seventh brothers to study in the back garden, and Aunt Xin was in the small kitchen. Han Qi accompanied Han Zhong to go inside, looking at his younger brother, "It's dark, it's thin." I went to Jiangnan to play, and I didn't have the heart to play wild. ”

"Where's the play? At this time, it was very cold, wet and cold, cold from the bones. Over there, I wanted to go home early. ”

"You're just talking nonsense. After playing for so long to come back, isn't it a pleasure to think about anything? Crossing a threshold lightly, Han Qi looked back at his younger brother, "Didn't you go to those places you shouldn't go?" ”

Han Zhong was stunned for a moment, and after he came to his senses, he immediately called out to hit the sky, "If I really go, the fourth uncle will not drag me back to Beijing and let my father beat me to death." ”

Han Qi raised his arm, patted Han Zhong's head like a child, "Okay, okay, I believe you, I believe you." ”

"Little brother will come back, I brought you a gift for my sister. There are also a few things for my sister and a few of them in your house. ”

Han Qiang said: "When you see people, you give gifts, and you can learn like the fourth uncle." ”

Han Zhong said with a smile: "Little brother, this is called long-sleeved good dancing." It's not easy to go back and forth, and bringing a little more gift is also considered to be a good effort. There are too many things, so I put them outside, unload the car later, and bring them in. ”

Han Zhong came back with many gifts. With the respect of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the sons of the Han family, of course, there is no shortage of good things at hand. During festivals and birthdays, there are people rushing to give gifts. But when outsiders give gifts, it is better for their brothers to know their preferences.

The third child likes to collect books, especially the comparison of different editions of the same book. Han Zhong brought a whole box. Just "Travels in the Nine Domains", there are three of them.

The fourth child likes calligraphy, so Han Zhong brought many inscriptions that he personally printed. The four brothers below were all young, and Han Zhong brought a lot of rare things from the Jingshi.

According to the preferences of several brothers, Han Zhong prepared the gifts one by one. Gifts for parents are even more appropriate.

After listening to Han Zhong count a lot, Han Qiang smiled slightly, and said worriedly: "How much money has been spent, don't spend your pocket money, let the mother know that she will be scolded." ”

"It didn't cost much, it was all cheap, so expensive that my little brother couldn't afford it. Some of them were brought back by my grandparents. There are also some that are to be transferred to the second uncle, the second aunt, Brother Jing, and Yue Niang's sister. ”

Hearing his younger brother mention his cousin, Han Qi didn't smile, "A few days ago, Yue Niang came to the house, and she didn't look very good, and the people sent by the palace were very strict, so she just sat down and left." ”

Hearing Wang Yueniang's news, Han Zhong's face darkened a little, and he forced a smile: "There are too many things in the palace, and I sent my grandmother over before I got married." ”

"Who made the concubine is that kind of temperament. The Queen Mother didn't say anything, she was as anxious as anything. Han Qiang was angry, "Niangniang went back to the palace, and when she met the concubine on the way, the concubine didn't even return the gift." ”

"Mother's angry?" Han Zhong hurriedly asked.

Han Qiang shook his head, "Niangniang didn't say anything, she made the Queen Mother angry." The next day, he specially invited the mother to go, and apologized on behalf of the concubine. ”

Han Zhong's face was slightly cold, "I don't even talk about the number of courtesies, and it's no wonder that the reputation of the concubine is not good." ”

Han Qijiao's eyebrows furrowed, and she was a little more worried: "If the official family is really in power, after listening to the concubine's slander, I don't know what to think of our family." ”

"Don't worry, Daddy is here."

Han Qi immediately smiled: "Yes, there is a father." ”

"Where did my brother go?" Han Zhong asked.

"Sister Su's family has arrived in Beijing and lives in Su Pingzhang's house, and my brother will go there to see his father-in-law today."

"Where's my brother-in-law?"

"He's going to study." Han Qi replied, Fang Jue lost his words, his cheeks turned crimson, and he raised his leg and kicked Han Zhong hard, "Not yet!" ”

"Not yet?"

When the two siblings said this, they had already arrived in front of the main house in the backyard. Han Qiang screamed with shame and indignation, which made Wang Yi and Zhou Nan in the room hear it.

Hearing the question inside, Han Qi glared at Han Zhong and ran into the house: "Niangniang, the second brother bullied me." ”

"Second brother bullying you? It's good that you don't bully him. Zhou Nan stood up and stepped forward to welcome Han Zhong in, "Second brother is back." ”

"The child meets Niangniang, Aunt Nan."

Han Zhong straightened his clothes first, then entered the house and knelt down to meet Wang Yi and Zhou Nan.

Wang Yi called his son forward, looked at it carefully, and saw that there was no bump in it, so he put his heart down and asked, "Did you go to Jiangning to see your grandfather and grandmother?" ”

"My grandfather and grandmother are in good health, and my grandfather now reads and writes poems at home every day, and he goes to the academy every two days."

Wang Yi listened, but couldn't help complaining: "I'm all sick, and I don't know how to rest." ”

Han Zhong smiled: "Grandma also said the same about grandpa. ”

While talking, Su Xin and Yun Niang came over with a few younger brothers. Yan Suxin looked at Han Zhong and smiled at Wang Yi: "The second brother went out for a trip, he is taller, and he is much more capable. ”

Yun Niang said: "It's just that I've lost weight, haven't I eaten well?" ”

"The taste outside is not as good as at home. But the child was not hungry, only because he had grown a little taller, so he looked thinner. When he was outside, the fourth uncle also forced the child to eat more dishes, saying that going out is not as good as at home, so don't pay attention to the taste, only by filling the stomach can you have energy. ”

It is rare for Han Zhong to go out, and it is not like last year, when he went to Jiangnan because Wang Anshi was seriously ill, and he has been staying in Jiangning, but he has gone around Jiangdong and Liangzhejiang and has experienced a lot.

He smiled and said, first let people go out to get gifts, and then took out the letter brought back from Jiangning to Wang Yi.

……………………

Just as Han Zhong entered the backyard, Han Gang was talking to Feng Congyi, "How is the situation in Jiangnan?" ”

"Everything else is not bad, only the weaver is not good." Feng Congyi said succinctly, "The plain silk woven by the people can't be sold now, and the raw silk can't be sold anymore." A family of five in the south of the Yangtze River who makes a living from farming and weaving can cultivate ten acres of land and have more than a dozen horses of silk a year, and rations, rents and taxes all come from this. Now only the soil is left to dig food, and at most it can only feed three people, which forces the farmers to reduce rent. Although the number of tenants is not as conspicuous as that of the silk factory, the number of tenants is indeed more than in previous years. ”

"It can't be helped."

Han Gang can't feel too much, and it is inevitable that small-scale peasant production will be eliminated by large-scale industrial production. In addition to being transformed into handicrafts, as long as they are daily necessities, handmade products cannot compete with industrial products in the market.

Feng Congyi is also very calm, "Natural selection, survival of the fittest." If you can't fight, you can't fight, if you change careers smartly, if you have the perseverance to learn to weave ayara, if you don't have anything, you can only be eliminated. ”

The quality of woven silk and machine-reeled raw silk is stronger than that of private handmade. The biggest difference between machinery and manual work, one is scale, the other is stable, both of which are the absolute advantage of machine qì.

In the case of silk with special patterns such as various silk patterns, the manufacturing technology is in the hands of the government and a very small number of professional producers. The silk produced by the life of a small farmer who ploughs and weaves can only be the most ordinary plain silk. And the silk produced by the machine qì is at this level. High-grade silk cannot be produced by the machine, but the silk produced by the machine can collapse the market of folk hand-woven silk with the advantages of output and quality.

Small production was eliminated, this is the historical process. Although it was said that Han Gang pushed the car, he couldn't stop pulling it now. Giving cheap sympathy to those victims is crocodile tears, but it is a sarcasm.

"In the future, the imperial court will increase the laying of railways. Each place will have its own specialty, and if it can be shipped, it can also make up for the loss of silk. In this regard, the government will guide it. ”

"That's a good thing." Feng Congyi nodded, but asked again: "Doesn't it mean that the conditions for building railways in the south are not as good as those in the north, and the focus of railway construction will not move south for the time being?" ”

"The steam engine is almost ready to use. In a few days, you ask the Chamber of Commerce to go to the Ordnance Superintendent to buy the blueprints and production licenses. ”

Feng Congyi smiled, "Brother, you have to keep the price low." ”

"How much did the court spend on the steam engine? Can it be lowered? Let's get together for 200,000 runs, and there will be gossip if there are fewer people. Han Gang said, "After the drawings are taken back, they should be compared with the steam engine in the Chamber of Commerce, and they should not be copied completely, and the foundation of the previous research of the Chamber of Commerce must not be abandoned." ”

Feng Congyi nodded solemnly, "Junior brother understands, elder brother rest assured." ”

"That's good." Feng Congyi said this, Han Gang was relieved, and asked another thing, "You have been to see Xiuzhou Worenfang, how is the situation?" ”

"That's not a silk mill, it's an oil mill." Feng Congyi sneered, "If the widows who go in don't squeeze out the oil from the bones and grind the bones into powder, those people will not be satisfied." It's also a shame that Liao Guo can sell people without shame. ”

"The population of the Wa Kingdom is not much less than that of the Liao State, and of course Yelu Yixin must take precautions to avoid trouble in the future. Compared with selling women and children, he sent the men of the Japanese country to the mines, which was called ruthlessness. What is this now? ”

"What to prepare for? The upper-level Japanese have been killed, and now there are not even many people who know the Japanese people, and there is not even one who can come out to lead. ”

"It's the smartest thing to do. After destroying the grammar of the Wa State and turning the Wa State into a border tribe like a female straight and Murowei, it would be much easier to rule. ”

"The Wa Kingdom is over, and Goryeo is almost over. After a while, the same will be sold here. Feng Congyi said to Han Gang worriedly, "Brother, do you just let them go on so unscrupulously?" Maybe the chamber of commerce will also bring it over, after all, it's too cost-saving."

These are two routes. One is to purely take the technical line and reduce costs through the guò technology exhibition, and the other is to rely on squeezing workers and doing sweatshops. The route is different, and the position is of course different.

Purely in terms of effect, it is impossible to say who is good and who is bad, and the two routes are not opposites, and they can also be combined. However, technological progress can bring social progress, and sweatshops can, but the progress is much slower. Han Gang didn't want the atmosphere of the Yongqin Chamber of Commerce to be ruined.

"After a few years, it broke out in the newspaper that their life was not good. Even the Japanese people, that are also people, and if they don't look at people as people, there are a few people who will stand on their side. ”

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