Chapter 20: Cotton Prices
On March 23, Zhu Youzhen approved the concert of Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, and Zhao Yan was appointed as a guerrilla in Denglai. There is not much disagreement from the DPRK and China.
Guerrilla general, that is already the market in the year of the apocalypse. According to the current market, it is generally given to the deputy commander-in-chief. Zhu Dadian's ability to successfully appease with the grade of Denglai guerrilla is really rare.
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After the news of the imperial court's approval reached Shandong, Zhao Yan immediately sent people to the various guards to select craftsmen. Although the seal and paperwork have not yet arrived, Zhao Yan has already reached an agreement with Zhu Dadian.
Zhao Yan's station was located in Huang County, and he was responsible for suppressing bandits in Denglai and Lai. The imperial court was not responsible for the preparation of the weapons required by Zhao Yan, and allocated 500 craftsmen to make them themselves.
During this time, Zhu Dadian sent someone to investigate in Huang County, and the suspicions in his heart gradually let go. According to the results of the investigation, the Zhao family did set up porridge sheds in several counties in Dengzhou, and Tang Xianming, the county commander of Huang County, also proved that the Zhao family was settling the displaced people, and at the same time, the Zhao family did not commit any crimes with the people, and sent the villagers everywhere to suppress the bandits.
In addition, the Zhao family is a scholarly family, his father Zhao Gui is a person in the 31st year of Wanli, and Zhao Yan is also an itchy student, which is different from ordinary vulgar martial artists.
And there is a lot of filial piety, and the last shot was a thousand taels of gold.
Zhu Dadian's mind is also active, if this Zhao Yan can be used well, he is completely an excellent thug, which is very helpful to his political achievements.
So Zhao Yan wants a craftsman, so he can pick it.
When Zhao Yan rode to Jinan with more than fifty to meet Zhu Dadian, Zhu Dadian couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that Zhao Yan was only seventeen or eighteen years old in the mansion.
"Zhao Yan, what are you doing this year?" Zhu Dadian asked incredulously.
"Back to my lord, I am eighteen years old." Zhao Yan replied, feeling a little sweaty in his heart, this age is indeed a little terrifying, but youth is the capital, and it is not bad.
"Eighteen! Good age. Zhu Dadian couldn't help but say enviously, and couldn't help but think of when he was young, when he was as old as Zhao Yan, he was still immersed in hard study. Now, it's fifty-three.
After being melancholy for a while, Zhu Dadian smiled, "Eighteen-year-old guerrilla generals, which are rare in my Ming Dynasty, can there be a table?" ”
"I haven't taken the table word yet." Zhao Yan shook his head and said, the word "table" was taken after Cheng Renli, and he hadn't experienced Cheng Renli before he came, and it was estimated that he would have to wait for two years.
"Hmmm! How about Ben-sama give you a table of words? Zhu Dadian saw that Zhao Yan didn't say a word, so he didn't call very kindly, and asked.
"It's all up to you." Zhao Yan said humbly, he doesn't care much about this word, how to take love!
"Rock, Yijian, you will stroke this time, just take the word 'hold firm'! I hope you can be firm and loyal, and don't do anything against the king in the future. Zhu Dadian pondered for a while, and said to Zhao Yan seriously.
"Hold on?" Zhao Yan muttered a few words in his heart, I feel okay! So he shouted a slogan in his mouth, "Lord Xie gave the word, and the lower officials must be loyal to the Holy and the Ming Dynasty." ”
After shouting the slogan, I thought to myself, this general is loyal to the nation, if Zhu Youzhen can't support the wall......#@#¥%*%~~~
"The previous clerk is estimated to be here soon, you will be a guerrilla in Denglai, and now Denglai is rampant with bandits, what are your plans?" Zhu Dadian asked.
"The bandits should send troops to suppress them, but some local wealthy families in Denglai often make cameos as bandits, if they are afraid of being criticized, do you see if it is ......" Zhao Yan asked Zhu Dadian, wanting to ask for some privileges from him, such as suppressing those local wealthy families, Zhu Dadian helped him top the cylinder.
"This ...... You can warn them first, let them repent, and there is no need to pursue the previous matter. Zhu Dadian's answer made Zhao Yan choke half to death.
Damn, this old man, it seems that he doesn't have to think about it, he can only go into battle shirtless.
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Out of the governor's yamen, Zhao Yan took people to walk around the street. Jinan is close to the canal, so it is relatively prosperous, and there are still more people on the street. But behind the prosperity, there are many homeless people and beggars on the streets.
There are also some people who have opened porridge sheds, but there are too few soup kitcheners after all.
Some even put it up for sale and can buy it for a small fee. Last winter, it is estimated that many people in Jinan City froze to death. Previously, Zhao Yan's recruitment of displaced people was not large, but in the prefectures and counties around Huang County.
Along the way, Zhao Yan walked leisurely in one shop after another, constantly inquired about the price, and bought something he was interested in directly, and let his personal soldiers carry it.
Zhao Yan's personal soldiers were newly selected and formed, and they were all elites in the battalion.
Asking about prices naturally has his intentions, and the most important thing in this late Ming Dynasty is silver! Learn more about the market, and know what can make money.
In the cloth shop, Zhao Yan found that the cotton cloth of this era was actually weighed by the pound, and it was definitely not a bully. The price of a kilogram of cotton cloth is about eight cents of silver.
It is understood that the price of cotton varies greatly from north to south.
A load of cotton in the south can be sold for about 4~5 taels, while cotton in the north is generally 1~2 taels per load, with 50 kg per load.
The price of cotton depends on whether there are cloth merchants to buy it, if there are not many cloth merchants to buy, then the price may fall to less than one or two silver.
The price of cotton cloth in the south can generally be sold for two cents per kilogram of silver, which should be related to the more developed economy in the south, the more developed the economy, the higher the price is generally higher.
At the same time, there is more silver in the south than in the north, because after the inflow of silver from overseas, it is first to stay in the south, and at the same time, the products in the south are more abundant. When the Manchu Qing Dynasty went south, they could often find more than 100,000 taels of silver in a wealthy family, and Zheng Zhilong's hometown was naturally the richest man.
The silver generally fell into the hands of the Baylors, the princes, and the Manchu soldiers.
Whenever there is a foreign invasion, it is the south that is most slaughtered, and it is the south that resists the most.
From the point of view of profit, cotton still has a lot of potential.
A kilogram of cotton cloth is sold for a penny of silver, and a load of cotton cloth has 5 taels, and the profit is more than half, and some of them have to be earned by the seller, but the profit share is less than 5 yuan. That is to say, there is still more than 2 taels of profit for a load of cotton woven into cotton cloth, of which 5 dollars are paid to spinning and weaving workers, and then deducted from the freight, the profit of cloth merchants is also about 1.5 taels.
If it is in the south, the profit of the cloth merchant may be as high as 2~3 taels.
If you sell it overseas, the profit is higher.
From the analysis of the economic situation of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to buying cotton locally, cloth merchants in the south would also buy cotton at lower prices from the north and overseas.
After weaving this cotton into cotton cloth, it is generally sold in the developed big cities in the north, but in those economically underdeveloped areas, it is generally self-sufficient and some local small cloth merchants dominate the market, and few cloth merchants in the south visit it. More cotton cloth was sold in the south and exported overseas.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, China's cotton cloth has always occupied the overseas market, and the textile industry in Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands has been suppressed.
Not only is the price of their cotton cloth not as good as that of Chinese cotton, but the quality is also incomparable.
Needless to say, quality is needless to say, in terms of contemporary textile technology, China is dominant. As for the price, it is determined by the amount of silver.
Westerners owned large silver mines in the Americas, which inevitably led to an increase in prices. China's silver is more valuable, and it has a large number of cheap labor, although the speed of weaving is not necessarily much faster than that of Westerners, but the price is naturally lower, which also forms the advantage of good quality and low price.
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