Chapter IX: The United Front
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The autumn breeze is bleak. The day of autumn is approaching, and Chen Ming is unconsciously. When he was still busy in Xiaonangou, people didn't know that the old lady of the Chen family insisted on walking from her home to the Confucius Temple at the east entrance of Jidongkou every day, and respectfully lit a stick of incense on the mud tire wood carving of the old master Confucius.
Even the Gao family in the county seat went to the Confucian Temple in the city every day to offer incense. And there are many, many families like the Chen family in the entire Lushan County. All family members participated in this year's autumn festival.
Chen Ming, whose main consciousness was occupied by souls from later generations, still despised the influence of scientific research on this era, which was ten or a hundred times better than the vast torrent of college entrance examinations in later generations. But no matter how great the influence of Qiuqiu is, it can't hinder human beings' demanding demand for money, for several Haoqiang in Lushan County at the moment, what township tries Qiuqiu, it's all a breeze. Anyway, their family, their family's relatives don't have anyone who has ended up in this family.
For them now, getting more quotas of bone china from the Chen family is the most important thing. The toilet has no technical content, and the porcelain kiln in Lushan can be fired by turning its head, and the key is the bone china. The profit of high-end porcelain is definitely not comparable to that of low-grade coarse porcelain bowls. And the number of bone china is limited, no more than those coarse porcelain bowls, bone china is fired with bones. The bone meal used in the Chen family's experiment is all cow bones, but how many cow bones can there be in the entire Lushan?
In the middle of Qianlong, China did not pay as much attention to cultivating cattle as it did in the Tang and Song dynasties, but there were also a number of families who ate beef. When the Chen family purchased beef bones, in order to confuse people's eyes and ears, they also purchased a large number of fish bones, sheep bones, pig bones, etc., just to keep the formula secret.
This restriction is already a tight spell on the head of the Chenjiayao factory, and if you don't try to overcome it, the output of bone china will not be able to increase. The Chen family contacted Gao's mother's family for this question, Gao Pengqi is the inspection of Luyang Pass, and Luyang Pass is the largest livestock market in the entire Lushan County, and the next door to the south of Luyang Pass is Nanyang Mansion.
Nanyang cattle are a well-known signature specialty in the country.
Gao Pengqi is seventy-seven out of forty this year and is Gao's eldest brother. The face is not aging, with a square face, a pair of thick eyebrows, a high nose bridge, a height of five feet two three, and two bright eyes.
As an inspection, even if Gao Peng was born as a showman in his early years, how many years of red dust have been sharpened, and his demeanor is full of martial arts freshness and crispness. Or change it to say that he has the style of a strong and powerful overlord in the countryside, and there are still three points of bookishness left in the appearance.
Chen Ming had seen this uncle. In Chen Ming's eyes, this uncle is not a real scholar and literati, and the Four Books and Five Classics are more of a stepping stone to knock on the door of officialdom for this cheap uncle.
"Haha, good, good, good points. Interests are not eaten alone, this is the true ability to deal with the world and Tai Anping. In front of Chen Cong, Gao Pengqi praised his nephew loudly. The words are very sincere, and Chen Cong himself also feels that the eight words 'interests are evenly distributed, and don't eat alone' is very good, as Gao Pengqi said, it is the true ability to live in the world and protect the peace of the family.
The Chen family used bone china and flush toilets to envelop the powerful and gentry of the entire Lushan County, and after a while, they could even spread the formula of bone china on a small scale, and firmly turned the gentry and powerful forces of the entire Lushan County into their allies, and the Tumen Chen family was really entrenched in Lushan. This even benefits the Gao family.
What's more, the fundamental interests of the Chen family are not bone china with limited production at all, but salt and iron. On this road, Gaojia is the key point, and the mouth of Luyang Pass is the main road to the south of Lushan County. Gao Pengqi has been sitting in the position of Luyang Pass inspection for more than ten years, and the route to the south is very well managed. A lot of the Chen family's iron materials were taken by the local snakes of Nanyang Mansion and sold to Yunyang, Hubei.
The latter is a big powder keg during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Since the Yuan Dynasty, there have been displaced people to settle here, because the terrain of Yunyang Mansion is dangerous, the government is afraid that the displaced people will gather to make trouble, it is difficult to control, and this area will be used as a forbidden area in the Mengyuan period, and the people are not allowed to move in. At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang continued the Yuan system, still implemented a ban policy on the Jingxiang area, and also sent Deng Yu, the Duke of Weiguo, to lead troops to Fang County to clean up, "empty the land, and prohibit the displaced people from entering". But by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Yunyang was already the largest gathering area of displaced people at that time, and bankrupt peasants poured in from all directions, and the number of displaced people was as high as more than 1.5 million. Zhu Ming dispersed the people one by one, wanting to re-empty Yunyang, and the contradiction between the government and the people finally detonated the Jingxiang exile that shook for a while.
In the past five years, there have been two large-scale uprisings, which shook the entire Zhu Ming. When the dynasty was afraid to insist on the previous strategy and let the displaced people in Yunyang continue to riot, it pinched its nose and set up Yunyang Mansion. This system has continued until now, and the six counties of Yunyang have remained unchanged to this day.
But just like the middle of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, the current Qianlong Dynasty is not a real peaceful and prosperous era, every year there are a large number of bankrupt people become dispossessed homeless, Yunyang Mansion as a place of high mountains and lush forests, has always been a favorite place of homeless people, to this day there are not 1.8 million homeless people, and it will not be less than 350,000.
On the original trajectory of history. One of the flashpoints of the Sichuan-Chu White Lotus Rebellion that broke out in the first year of Jiaqing was the Yunyang exiles. At present, the situation of the displaced people in Yunyang has not yet reached the point of rebellion, but it has become a good dumping ground for the Chen family's iron materials.
The Chen family did not have the strength to send the iron directly to Yunyang, and the local head snake in Nanyang Mansion turned around from it, but this is also a line related to the economic lifeline of the Chen family. Therefore, there is no need to say much about the influence of the Gao family in the Chen family and the importance of the Chen family.
Chen Ming didn't look down on the small profits of the toilet bowl at all, and he didn't think he would get much profit even from bone china. What makes him fancy is iron, and the real good iron will not be bad in Lushan.
-- There is a lot of iron produced in Lushan, but the quality is generally inferior.
The new iron smelted in a small blast furnace has such a good texture that it simply blinds the eyes of the entire Chen family.
On the second day of the iron production, all the craftsmen involved in the construction of the new iron furnace signed a new contract with the Chen family, and this method must not be leaked.
Therefore, with this big source of wealth, the Chen family wisely made the decision to grasp the big and let go of the small, and use bone china to 'unite' the entire Lushan gentry and landlord class. Is it very important to do a good job in united front work, because when the united front 'unifies' the enemy, it is to strengthen itself.
At this family meeting, Chen Ming not only attended the meeting as the heir of the Chen family, but also won his own place in the family with all his 'talent + prestige'.
"Benefit evenly, don't eat alone!" The eight words he first came up with at the meeting. Of course, Chen Ming did not come up with a 'theory' based on a deep understanding of the entire situation in Lushan, but this is the philosophy of life that the overwhelming information on the Internet told him 250 years later.
When people are weak, when the rules are completely controlled by the other party, the interests that should be given up should be given up. If you want to become bigger and stronger, you must know how to make trade-offs!
"The insight of the world is knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is the article. Not everyone can understand this truth. Why didn't you see that this kid had such ability before? After Gao Pengqi sent away Chen Cong, who had achieved his goal, he returned home and told his family with emotion.
"Stone likes to read miscellaneous books the most, and my aunt always says that he is not motivated. Isn't the Chen family just stained with the light of those miscellaneous books now? Chen Ming's cousin, Gao Yanming, whose birthday was only twenty days younger than Chen Ming, muttered in his heart as he spoke: I have read many of those books, why haven't I seen any bone china formulas?
"In my opinion, the stone was raised as a domestic cat by the aunt tiger. Now that the man has come outside, he is not in the cone of the bag, and his end is immediately seen. I ......"
Before Gao Yanming finished speaking, his legs jumped up, and he saw Gao Pengqi grab the itch at hand and throw it at him. He scolded: "Rabbit cub thing, learn to turn around and chatter, right?" Get back in the books for me. I can't pass the boy's test next year, see if Lao Tzu doesn't break your legs! ”