Less than a month after the formal reform of Suzhou, the business community in Suzhou was faced with all-round sniping by businessmen from various provinces, and businessmen who went to do business in other places from Suzhou suffered heavy losses for a time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But just when everyone thought that the reform would end without a problem, the Ministry of Commerce of Suzhou, which had been silent for more than a month, finally broke out completely.

The first difficulty is the textile industry, the textile industry in the Ming Dynasty was relatively developed, generally the provinces are self-produced and sold, in addition to exporting overseas, there are few cross-provincial sales, so Suzhou's textile industry, before not much affected.

However, Li Hongfei did not give up, and directly ordered soldiers to be stationed at several non-governmental treaty ports in Shanghai County, stipulating that merchants who came to Shanghai County to purchase goods were only allowed to purchase silk cloth produced in Suzhou.

After all, most of the people of Suzhou support Suzhou products and will not buy the expensive goods from other provinces, and the merchants in charge of exports, forced by the obscenity of the Suzhou Yamen, do not dare to purchase any cloth outside Suzhou.

Silk, tea, porcelain, has always been an important export project in ancient China, Suzhou as a textile industry concentration, if the monopoly of cloth exports, the money earned, will be unimaginable.

Originally, there were many coastal private treaty ports, and you had to buy and sell in Shanghai County, so it was a big deal that you didn't go to Shanghai County to purchase.

But the Suzhou Ministry of Commerce then launched a series of products, so that those merchants who exported overseas could not refuse.

As early as 577 A.D., during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Chinese people had invented matches, and then matches were introduced to Europe during the Marco Polo period, but matches at that time were only a kind of material for ignition, and could not rely on friction to make fire.

Now, under the improvement of Li Hongfei and Song Yingxing, the paste of antimony sulfide and potassium chloride is made by using gum and water, which is applied to the match stalk and sandpaper.

This kind of match that can make a fire by friction, this kind of convenient and practical magic match, even the merchants of various provinces, can hardly resist its charm, let alone those who export overseas?

If it is a single match, it is not a huge profit, after all, this kind of item belongs to daily necessities, and it needs to rely on the volume to make money, so it is not enough for those businessmen to sell Li Hongfei face.

So the Ministry of Commerce launched another product, instant noodles.

The original form of instant noodles can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty in China, when Han Xin's army invented the noodles in the third year of Han Gaozu (205 BC), which was actually instant noodles.

In that year, when Han Xin led 100,000 troops in Heyang by the Yellow River, preparing to attack Hedong and Wei Bao, the king of Western Wei, in order to solve the problem of marching food, he invented the buckwheat flour and wheat flour to open the paste, boil it into eight ripe large flour cakes, and cut it into wide strips.

This kind of dough is easy to carry around, and it can be eaten as long as it is boiled with water, so it can also be regarded as the earliest form of instant noodles.

However, the instant noodles invented by Han Xin are non-fried instant noodles, which can be used for eating to satisfy hunger, but as for the taste, it is not very good.

Nowadays, the instant noodles made by the Ministry of Commerce are fried in boiled broth noodles, and when eaten, they only need to be soaked in boiling water and added with condiments, which is no different from the instant noodles of later generations.

This simple, fast and delicious pasta has made a group of businessmen who export overseas begin to think about selling this magical Chinese noodle several times.

If instant noodles can't make the hearts of those merchants move, then the appearance of cigarettes makes all merchants crazy.

Tobacco originated in the Americas, and during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, it was introduced from the Philippines to Taiwan and Fujian for cultivation, and then gradually expanded to all provinces across the country.

During the Chongzhen period, smoking dry tobacco has become a pastime for many people after tea and dinner, holding a dry tobacco gun, let's take a breath, look at the demeanor of the smoker, it is really a bag of cigarettes after dinner, happy like a fairy.

As a later generation, Li Hongfei didn't understand the power of cigarettes, how did he not understand the huge profits of cigarettes, when he first found out that there was a dry smoking gun, he had already thought of making cigarettes.

How troublesome it is to smoke dry cigarettes, and no matter where you go, you have to carry a smoking gun on your back, how can this little cigarette be convenient?

Take out a match, swipe lightly, watch the pale yellow flame dance, then light a cigarette, take a puff, the smell of cigarettes, mixed with the fragrance of the burning match, that is enjoyment!

In another time and space, China was knocked on the door by Westerners with opium, and now Li Hongfei is quite benevolent, only using cigarettes to earn Westerners' gold.

Matches and cigarettes, the addition of magical instant noodles, and a series of novelties launched in Suzhou have made merchants all over the coast boil.

Several freight terminals in Shanghai County, the daily throughput is simply scary, many merchant ships do not hesitate to take a long detour to take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and go directly to Suzhou to purchase because there is no berthing place.

It is the nature of businessmen to pursue profits, and when there is money to be made, who will resist you?

One by one, in order to curry favor with the Ministry of Commerce of Suzhou, not only did Suzhou choose to buy Suzhou's cloth, even tea, porcelain, etc., in short, as long as Suzhou had it, and they just needed it, they all bought it in Suzhou.

But all products produced in Suzhou must be high-quality products.

For a time, the Suzhou businessmen who had just suffered serious losses all made a lot of money.

Even businessmen from other provinces who spoke harshly before had to lick their faces and come to Suzhou to do business at this time.

There is no way, the attraction of things produced in Suzhou is too great, as long as you can get the goods, it will change hands and make several times the profit.

For these capricious businessmen, Li Hongfei didn't feel too embarrassed, after all, the things he came out of basically had similar products before, and it was no problem to really provoke these people and spend a lot of money to imitate them.

The Ming Dynasty did not have the so-called patent rights, and if people wanted to copy your products, you had no way to take them.

Taking advantage of these products, there is only one Suzhou now, and the most important thing is to dump quickly and earn enough silver.

With silver, we can continue to research new products, so as to continue to innovate, and constantly open the gap between Suzhou workshops and provincial workshops.

Fortunately, Li Hongfei's previous reform measures have absorbed a lot of craftsmen with real skills, otherwise he would not have improved these previously unpromising commodities into sacred objects that swept the entire Jiangnan in just one month.

Today's Suzhou is a good interpretation of the classic quotation that science and technology are the primary productive forces.

Suzhou, which has gathered a large number of industrial talents, and Li Hongfei has used substantial benefits to encourage craftsmen to research and innovate, and almost every few days, new products will appear, and the rest of the provinces want to copy them, but they can only follow behind the butt and eat ashes.

Now in the southern provinces, in addition to the landlords also vigorously criticized the reform of Suzhou, even businessmen from all over the country have appreciated the reform of Suzhou, Suzhou's reform policy, after two months of development, has gradually entered the right track, and the Ministry of Commerce of Suzhou has become the mouth of the people, a magical color of the official yamen.

PS: The second volume of "Jiangnan Smoke and Rain" is over.

The third volume of "Wolf Smoke Everywhere" is about to be serialized..........

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In addition: I found out how difficult it is to travel to ancient times to open a golden finger, high-tech things, I can't do it at all, but some simple ones, such as matches, cigarettes, instant noodles, the result is 100 degrees, the ancients are better at playing than us, and some have been made out hundreds of years ago.

I wanted to write a soap before, or the whole high liquor to come, but when I checked Baidu, soap appeared in the Song Dynasty, and it was recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica, which is a pure natural Chinese herbal formula, which is more advanced than modern chemical soap.

As for liquor........ The Arabs invented the technology of distilling liquor in the 8th and 9th centuries, and the distilled liquor in China was introduced and popularized during the Yuan Dynasty from the Persian region of Central Asia conquered by the Mongols.

These things, which are easy to produce in later generations, but are very profitable, have long been played by the ancients.

The reason why I popularize these things to everyone is purely so that after reading them, book friends will pretend to be slapped in the face.

In the future, if you meet a time travel novel, who made money by making liquor in the Ming Dynasty and soap in the Song Dynasty, you can slap your face.

In fact, the scientific and technological level of the ancestors is really not low, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, did too many stupid things, almost the previous level of science and technology to break the line, this will appear, the gunpowder firearms invented by the Chinese people, were used by foreigners to invade the people, the various daily necessities invented by the Chinese people, were slightly improved by foreigners, and then to earn a lot of money from the people.