Tang Yi established the transportation bank, and the most proud thing was not how much silver he controlled, but the establishment of a perfect connection between industry and finance, which was called a consortium after the industrial revolution.

As a good obedient treasure to memorize history textbooks, Tang Yi has always thought that the Industrial Revolution was a sacred thing, and it was the genius Hargreaves who invented the magical Jenny machine under the guidance of God...... Yarn, textile efficiency shows a geometric multiplier.

Led by the Jenny machine, the great Anglo-Saxon nation brought mankind into the industrial age......

After really arriving in the Ming Dynasty, Tang Yi found that it was not the case at all, in the magical land of the East, there had long been a machine that could spin multiple yarns at the same time, in Taicang, there were two people as eight people stirring the car, and some places also used water-powered spinning wheels.

After observing it for a while, Tang Yi completely dispelled the urge to be an inventor, and the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty were already good enough. The conundrum that restricts them is not what to invent, but how to use it.

Take textile machinery as an example, although it can improve efficiency, the yarn woven is uneven in thickness, often broken, and the quality cannot be guaranteed. In addition, there are many textile workshops with limited raw materials and very cheap labor, so they have to take the high-quality route. If you don't have machines, you can't promote it on a large scale.

On behalf of the weaving bureau of the highest level of Daming textile technology, the subordinate workshops also use relatively primitive and stable spinning wheels.

After figuring these out, Tang Yi focused on integrating forces and innovating business models.

For example, he adopted a franchise system, recruited workshops to join, set unified standards, and standardize quality. At the same time, it also attacked as a whole to talk about cotton supply. Let's talk about market development.

With sufficient raw materials, coupled with a broad market, more production can bring more profits. Then gather the best craftsmen and let them design the most efficient and standard looms, and sell them to the various workshops.

A breakthrough in technology and business. What comes is an increase in overall profits. Whether it is a workshop owner, or an ordinary weaver and craftsman, or a large cotton merchant upstream, as well as ordinary people, everyone can get more benefits.

The success of a project has completely convinced the families and businessmen behind the transportation industry, and they have given full support to use the capital of the transportation industry to fully promote industrial integration.

Arguably. Although the capital of the transportation industry may not have won the four major money banks of Jin merchants, its combat effectiveness, mobilization power, and organizational power are far ahead of the world......

Since Tang Yi had a premonition of the crisis in Suzhou, he decisively ordered to stop shipments and make every effort to increase inventory. Over the course of several months, the traffic line had prepared a large amount of ammunition. You can compete with Zhao Xu and others.

The flotilla entered the Wusong River from Yantietang and was sent to the Suzhou wharf.

The people were looking forward to it, and many people thought that the food was coming, so they rushed forward in a hurry, crowding the crowd. The ship docked and set up a springboard. The coolies carried the cloth to the shore, piled it up haphazardly, and soon became a hill.

When the people saw that it was cloth, they were greatly disappointed, and couldn't help but complain: "Don't transport these things to Suzhou." If you can't even eat, who has spare money to buy cloth! ”

The woman turned her head and left, but the other people's minds were lively, Suzhou City was not only short of food, cloth, coal, charcoal, nothing was enough, many people even postponed their marriage, if the price was fair, it would not be bad to buy a little. It's just that everyone is not hopeful, and in these days, they do not believe that businessmen can have a conscience at all.

An old woman boldly asked, "How much is a piece of cloth?" ”

"Hehe, old lady, cotton cloth is four taels or eight dollars, if it is more than ten horses, it can be cheap."

"How much?"

All the people were startled, and the woman who had just left rushed back.

Just kidding, the grain in Suzhou has exceeded ten taels, the cloth has reached seventeen taels, eighteen taels, and the silk has exceeded thirty taels, and it has gone straight to forty taels.

It's only sold in half here, don't be kidding, let's tease the big guys!

Looking at everyone's suspicious eyes, a big fat man was not happy, he strode to the middle of the people, and said loudly: "Folks, Changwen Paper Store knows, right?" Since the opening, we have sold pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and household items, which one is not the cheapest? Tell the big guys that hoarding and making black money is not our style. Cloth is more expensive than in previous years, but there is no way, the grandsons who have children and no asshole have raised the price of cotton, and we can't help it. But I can tell the big guys that we won't make an extra one! ”

When I heard about Changwen Paper Shop, many scholars knew that Dingding was famous, and their stationery was bought there, and it was indeed known for its high quality and low price.

A few guys dressed as literati squeezed out, picked up the cloth and looked at it, it was thick and flexible, and it was densely woven. The only flaw is that there are a lot of threads, but at this time, there is nothing to complain about.

"I bought it!"

Finally, someone took out five taels of silver with the courage to do so, and without saying a word, the young man asked him for eight pieces of silver, and the moment he turned around with the cloth, the people present were finally boiling.

"There are so many people who sell bargains!"

The women who had just been dismissive all crowded over, and they looked and looked at the cloth while they were in their hands, and those who knew how to do it muttered to themselves.

"Third sister-in-law, this cloth is woven with a loom that can weave a lot of yarns, it is not as smooth as one by one, there are many threads, there are many pimples, and the dyeing is also poor......"

The third sister-in-law glanced at the chattering woman and chuckled, "Sister, if you don't want it, give the silver in your pocket to your sister-in-law, and your sister-in-law will buy two horses back!" ”

"How can you!" The woman's face turned red, "Third sister-in-law, you don't know, my daughter has just been married for seven days, and there is not even a new quilt in the dowry, it's not that I'm stingy as a mother, I really can't afford to buy cloth, I didn't say it, give me a horse!" ”

You have one, I have one, and soon you have three horses and I have five horses, and everyone is crazy to buy them, and the cloth on the boat was snatched away by the anxious people before they reached the shore.

The news of the availability of cheap cloth at the wharf soon spread throughout the city, and the people were all tormented, and as soon as they heard that there were cheap things, they all poured over, and the black pressure could not be seen.

When everyone arrived at the pier, their eyes lit up. Not only cotton cloth, but also charcoal, furniture, pots and pans, clothes estimators, water tanks...... All in all, there was everything but food, and these things were surprisingly cheaper than those in the city, and the eyes of the people were red.

After careful calculation, leave enough money to buy food, and use the rest to rush to buy, who knows when the price will rise, you can't go to the street with your bare ass!

200,000 pieces of cotton cloth were sold in one day.

The fat man silently calculates the accounts, and the cloth woven by the machine costs only one or two or five horses, and it is sold to four or two five, which is twice the profit, and the people still have to think of your goodness, what is this called the world!

He couldn't understand it, and the people couldn't understand it, so he returned to the city with the cloth, and when he passed by the shop, everyone spat hard, and the big one simply slammed the window with bricks and clods, so frightened that the boss shrank his head and didn't dare to raise his head.

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In the backyard of Hongruixiang Commercial Bank, Zhao Xu and several people gathered together again. Zheng Qiming walked around on the ground and said, "Evil Gate, really evil Gate!" Where did the freaks come from, they don't make money by putting the silver, they don't know what the price has risen in the city? ”

Lu Jun sneered: "Of course not, I think it was the rescuers invited by Wang Chonggu, I heard that the fleet was brought by that stinky boy named Tang Yi, he first helped open the warehouse and release grain, and at the expense of blood, he suppressed prices, and was more filial than Wang Chonggu's son!" ”

Zheng Qiming hurriedly asked: "Is this surnamed Tang a native of Shanxi, or is it Wang Chonggu's son and nephew?" How I haven't heard of it. ”

Zhao Xu sneered, "He is not from Shanxi, he is from Taicang, and his father is Tang Shen, a soldier from eastern Zhejiang." ”

"What's the big deal about just a soldier!" Lu Jun sneered: "I'll talk to the Seventh Taibao when I go back and abolish this kid." ”

"Hahaha!"

Zhao Xu suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, laughing so much that tears came out, making Lu Jun wonder.

"What, my words are funny?"

Zhao Xu restrained his smile and sighed: "Brother Lu, to put it mildly, if you have a conflict with him, the Seventh Taibao may help him, at least neutrally." ”

"How so? I am a relative of the Lu family, the Metropolitan Governor! ”

Zhao Xu waved his hand, "The two virtuous brothers don't know Tang Yi's Taoism, his father is a soldier, and his stepmother is the younger sister of Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo." ”

As soon as these words came out, the two of them showed expressions of sudden realization, it turned out that there was Xungui's support!

Zhao Xu shook his head again, "Not only that, he has two teachers, one is Wei Liangfu, the former political envoy of Shandong, the other is Tang Shunzhi of the Southern Military Department, his uncle is Wang Chen, the governor of Jiliao, and he is also a brother and brother of Zhou Shuo, the seventh Taibao of Jinyiwei, and Huang Jin, the eunuch of Jiangnan weaving, is also his friend......"

Every time Zhao Xu said the same, these two people flickered in their hearts, what kind of monster is this, compared to him, he has become a turtle, and behind them are standing civil, military, court, wild, inside, and outside, all of which are all matched. With this kid helping Wang Chonggu, what else is he fighting, just admit defeat as soon as possible.

"What's the matter, the two virtuous brothers are scared?"

"I'm not afraid, I am, but I feel that I have no chance of winning."

"Hahaha, after I knew Tang Yi's background, I was also shocked. But then I thought about it, it was Wang Chonggu who we had to deal with, not Tang Xingzhi, just put him aside. ”

"Brother Zhao, what if he must be reconciled?"

Zhao Xu sneered proudly: "He, it's not enough." ”

For three days in a row, Tang Yi opened up the supply, and he was still a little confused at first, but on the third day, in addition to the price of grain, the prices in the city began to fall, and various shops had to reduce their prices. However, they were surprised to find that the common people did not care about it at all, and the three words "traffic line" had been engraved in the hearts of the people and had become synonymous with conscience. This crisis actually created the first famous brand trademark in the history of the Ming Dynasty, which even Tang Yi never expected.

"Okay, I walked around the city again, and the price did drop, but only the price of food did not fall but rose, the people take food as the sky, the price of food can't come down, everything else is nonsense!" Xu Wei sighed.

Tang Yi's eyes lit up, and he smiled excitedly: "Really? It seems that those people have been forced to go to Liangshan, and they are not far from being wiped out. (To be continued.) )