The new year came in Mincheng, and when the new year came, Chen Jian was still at sea, trying to sail forward, and he didn't know where. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Jian left Mincheng at the beginning of the year and set off from Turtle Island in March. According to the memories of the people of Mincheng, a year has passed when Jian Chen set sail in the Great Wilderness City.

A year and a half have passed since he was promoted to the deputy guard of the county and in charge of the city's business.

In the past year and a half, a lot of changes have taken place in Mincheng, and those quiet changes have penetrated deeper and deeper into this most influential county.

He really felt the power of the eight words of the predecessors planting trees and the descendants enjoying the shade, and was excited that he had made the right bet and carried the Mincheng that seemed to be a mess at that time.

The stakes at that time finally paid off a year and a half later, and the rewards were so great. When he chose to gamble, he thought about the return, but he didn't expect the return to be so large.

Before he came to Mincheng, the situation in Mincheng was not good.

At that time, the Mexican Party was active everywhere, the cotton spinning cooperative movement was in full swing, and the contractors' guilds at the bottom and top were on the same page.

The recent wave of miners' petitions has also given some people their first glimpse of the power of hired workers, and they are at a loss in the face of the new situation. The faces of the speculators in the storm made the contradictions in Mincheng even more difficult to suppress, and the tabloids fanned the flames everywhere and vented the accumulated grievances of the people little by little.

Through obscene cooperatives and voter building activities, it is the first time that the parties have joined forces to raise their voices, and although it is unlikely that too many people will enter the council due to hierarchical voting rights. The wealthy households, the big landowners, the big merchants, and the guilds were wary of this, and they went about instigating trouble, and it seemed that the rift was deep.

Old problems are not solved, and new ones keep arising. At that time, many people thought that Mincheng was a powder keg that would explode if they were not careful.

However, it was only after he took office that those who were terrified and uneasy realized that the situation had not deteriorated to such an extent, and on the contrary, it seemed that the previous confrontations and rifts were just an illusion of artificial exaggeration.

In the past year and a half, the effect of the predecessors planting trees and the later people enjoying the shade has gradually appeared.

After a year and a half of burning, the three fires of the new official have gradually become ablaze.

The first officially endorsed maritime insurance company, taking advantage of the open sea trade and the geographical location of Mincheng, made Mincheng a maritime industry center within two years.

The new shipping route discovered by Chen Jian, the use of latitude and longitude, and the marking of the northeast trade winds made Mincheng soon become the road from the port of Qi to the southern route for trade.

A small triangular trade began to emerge.

The well-developed handicraft industry in the upper reaches of the Min River and Mincheng, new glass, steel ingots, kerosene, explosives, alkali, soap and other goods were loaded from Mincheng.

A trade was carried out north to the mouth of the Great River, and then loading at the mouth of the Great River, passing through the port of Turtle Island and continuing eastward to the state of Qi. After loading the goods in the Qi country, it turned south and returned to Mincheng.

On the one hand, the shipbuilding industry began to develop rapidly, new cargo ships based on the Purple Quartz were widely built, larger ships were also trying, and more capital poured into the maritime industry, with marine insurance as a guarantee, so that they could feel more at ease.

On the other hand, cargo ships from neighboring counties will also go to the port of Mincheng, because the shipping insurance company only handles business at the port of Mincheng.

Ships from neighboring counties constantly stopped at the port of Mincheng, where people from the shipping insurance company boarded the ships to inspect the cargo and estimate the value. After that, the owner will choose different types of insurance depending on the destination, and you will need to stay for a day or two.

The stay of these two days has made the vicinity of the port more prosperous, and more and more teahouses, wine shops, Hualiu Street and other places are also full of people.

As the second fire, the futures and stock exchanges have gradually become another center of Mincheng, and even the nearby housing and land prices are also rising.

Many of the big farmers in the upper reaches of the Min River choose to trade here, and some of them don't want to run and just want to rent out their land.

And some people with abundant capital have seized the opportunity to lease these lands and grow a variety of agricultural products that can be traded in futures.

Even some big businessmen from the two counties in the upper reaches of the Min River and some merchants from nearby coastal counties would gather here to exchange ideas and look for business opportunities.

Cargo ships docked in Mincheng will also place various bulk goods on the futures exchange for trading, or use the method of ordering first and then transshipment to earn the difference.

The speculators had new prey, and a large amount of spare money poured into Mincheng, impacting the original industries and guilds in Mincheng.

Nan'an Coal Group relies on the advantage of water transportation, and continues to merge the rest of the mines, the price war continues, the coal price in Mincheng is one-fifth lower than two years ago, even if the Nan'an Coal Group with the advantage of water transportation still has some earnings, but the rest of the coal mines have been unable to support.

Futures trading and low prices for coal have allowed the port of Mincheng to have a large number of coal carriers, which continue to supply coal to some nearby counties.

The new form of joint-stock company also caused a crisis in Mincheng's guild.

Many of the big workshop owners used the form of a public offering to establish a new way of managing sub-workshops based on the booklet on the division of labor.

For example, the ceramic workshop took advantage of the opportunity of coal price reduction, and began to expand and squeeze those small workshops in the form of raising equity capital and division of labor.

For example, the printing and dyeing workshop uses the bleaching powder of the chemical workshop for bleaching, dyeing with new dyes, and starting to use thermometers.

There are people who are losing their jobs and new jobs are emerging. There is a lot of life in the chaos.

The advantages of shipping, the advantages of futures trading, the advantages of reducing coal prices, and the advantages of ports for opening sea trade...... All this has made the handicraft industry in Mincheng glow with a new spring.

The vigorous movement of cotton spinning cooperatives continued, and the contractors and the old guilds could no longer hold on, and they were completely extinct in name.

Soon after Chen Jian went to sea, the Institute of Science and Practical Technology began to sell hand-drawn looms on a large scale.

After more than a year of accumulation without contractors and guilds, large and small weaving cooperatives have more or less money to buy this new type of hand-pulled loom. Even if it is not guaranteed that everyone will have one, each small cooperative can guarantee to raise funds to buy one.

This is the real purpose of cooperatives, not just to confront guilds and contractors, to pool their scattered capital together to complete technological upgrades.

The weaving efficiency has increased, and the amount of weaving labor used for the same area of cotton cloth has been halved compared to before.

The sale of calcium hypochlorite bleach from chemical factories has made the cotton cloth in Mincheng whiter and looks of better quality, which has made the cotton cloth a sought-after commodity.

There is also a steady stream of cloth traded on the futures exchange every day, and merchants continue to come here to buy it and ship it away for sale.

The best-selling cotton cloth has made the price of cotton and cotton yarn rise.

A skilled weaver, using a hand-drawn flying shuttle loom, can make the yarn of six or seven spinners in short supply.

Those families who have made spinning as a side hustle have also increased their incomes compared to before, and it seems that life is really getting better. It may have been affected by the impact of Minjun cotton cloth outside of Minjun, but the delay in the spread of technology made Minjun prosperous first.

Large tracts of land in the upper reaches of the Min River began to grow cotton, and ginning machines and futures trading also made the trend smoother.

The fire of futures and stock trading burned at its peak in October.

This October was the second year after the Standard Oil mill raised its share capital, and although Chen Jian was not there, the accounting department within the workshop still wrote down the sales revenue in a complete list according to the previous set.

The owners of these shares receive the first dividend, deducting the profits from the provident fund, so that each shareholder receives a dividend of two silver coins per share.

A large number of people queue up to go to trading companies to receive their dividends on the holidays.

Everyone knows that in the future, dividends will be more and more stable. Kerosene lamps have begun to be sold on a large scale along the coast, gradually replacing candles or oil lamps in the middle floor, and are gradually spreading to low-level households.

It is believed that it will not be long before things like candles or wick fat grass will be extinct in the coastal counties.

The flatbread that I drew at the beginning seems to have the meaning of starting to harvest. Although there is talk that a tax on kerosene may be necessary, even if it is imposed, it will not save the candle workshops or the few families that specialize in whale oil, and if the tax is too high, it will make the shareholders firmly oppose it.

There are reports that when Chen Jian returns, he may issue more shares, and may also go to the rest of the country to mine resin to refine kerosene. There is also news that a new joint-stock company may be established, and people are sure that Chen Jian will always be able to seize the opportunity to make money, and the capital of the coastal counties has run to Mincheng, waiting for Chen Jian to return, and they also believe that Chen Jian will bring new business opportunities if he goes outside to look for the future once he succeeds.

These two fires only play a role in fueling the flames.

Even without these two fires, with the progress of maritime trade and the opening of new shipping routes, the reduction of coal prices and the loom revolution, the idle capital of the industries that have been squeezed across, etc., will make Fujian prosperous and alleviate the contradictions.

But this time was when he began to accumulate after he took office.

And the third fire also brought countless praises to the distant mountains a year and a half later.

The first batch of low-rise red brick buildings built in the original dirty slum area, equipped with bamboo pipes and running water downstairs and brand new public toilets, give Mincheng a real urban flavor.

The demolished poor were given a house to live in, and many people with primitive cameras and tented darkhouses took photos of the transformed slum to celebrate what the city should be.

The three emerging buildings of the trading company, the stock exchange, and the insurance company and the hard road connecting the port make everyone who comes and goes to Mincheng feel the rapid changes in Mincheng.

With newspapers, books and black-and-white photos, as well as the prosperity of the textile industry in Mincheng, these three fires have made Yuanshan harvest too many unexpected things.

Before taking office, the only thing that worried him was the Mexican Party, which was active and even began to get involved in the county council, but soon after taking office, this deformed monster split into a progressive alliance of many schools.

In addition to relying on party assets to continue to maintain on top of relief charity, the originally twisted rope was instantly dispersed, and it was difficult for different factions to unite with each other.

The only unanimous passage of the county council bill was the progressive payment system, the only time that all the members of the council of the progressive coalition passed a unanimous resolution, and the county bill was perfected by numerical superiority and public opinion.

In the next few proposals, the various factions constrained each other, and no consensus could be reached at all. And there are a few people within the Progressive League who are extremely prestigious and can ensure internal consensus...... Either go to sea to find the future, or form a party alone.

He also heard that the group of people had a lot of quarrels in July the year before last, and that it was Chen Jian who gave a blow to the Perseverance Unity faction that led to the official split of the Mexican Party.

He didn't know what Jian Chen's purpose was, but he understood that this reality seemed to be very beneficial to him, and he didn't have to worry about what this group of people would do.

Chen Jian's faction has been very quiet this year, and the cat is in the mining area and school in Nan'an, and it seems that he no longer cares about the affairs of Mincheng. The Progressive League continued to carry out the movement for the reform of cooperatives and the movement of consumer cooperatives, and the ultra-radicals were wanted and hanged, and there were still factions that agreed with absolute centralization and believed that the distant mountains were hopeful......

In short, the turmoil of the other party, which seemed to be possible before he took office, seemed to have disappeared.

And he understood one thing: take the path of the Progressive Alliance, so that the Progressive Alliance has no way out.

After the cooperative movement of the Progressive League achieved initial results, the smallpox eradication campaign in Min County was launched. So he won a stamp duty that had not yet been counted as a national tax, and raised some from the wealthy merchants, and put the name of the movement in the hands of the Min County government, which was carried out by the Progressive League, but gave a lot of financial support.

For a time, everyone praised and praised in unison.

On the occasion of the New Year, he inspected the port of Min County and was full of pride.

Unbeknownst to him, however, a new crisis had emerged.

In Nan'an, a new water-powered spinning factory...... Yes, it was the factory, not the workshop, that quietly built a factory on a river in Nan'an. From carding, stripping, rolling and spinning, all are hydraulic or animal-powered machinery. Most of the workers are local women workers in Nan'an, but they have not officially started construction and are still being built.

In Nan'an, two new experimental horse-drawn cotton planters and horse-drawn wooden threshers are being shipped to a nearby agricultural cooperative for next year's planting......

This is progress, but it is also a crisis for officials, especially those in the source of the project, who have no experience in dealing with the turmoil behind this progress.

After all, the person who replaces the machine, has to eat.