"Manager Fan was originally the governor of the Privy Council, and he didn't move much when he was there, how could Manager Liu move?"

"Longmen's bank bills have begun to lend to Jiangnan people? What does this have to do with Li Xu? ”

"Longmen weaving factory? Isn't that always only in the cotton business, and has nothing to do with silk? ”

Zhou Kunlai returned to his nest in Songjiang Mansion and began to sort out the news related to Yinghua, but at first he didn't know the essentials, but he could see reports such as "the berth of Longmen Port has been doubled", "Yinghua Bank Jiangnan Branch has settled in Longmen", "Luzon Lifu has entered Longmen in a big way", "Longmen Warehouse New Area is paved", and he faintly felt it.

The silver of the south, the goods of the south, and the people of the south, are menacing......

If Zhou Kunlai dares to go to Longmen in person, he will be able to have a more intuitive feeling, since the beginning of April, the number of cargo ships entering and leaving Longmen has increased suddenly, and the sails cover the sky and the sea. But with his weak economic knowledge, he can't see the essence behind this excitement.

In Longmen Port, a ship was loading and unloading goods, and the gantry crane struggled to spit black smoke and hoisted several large and heavy iron lumps ashore.

Yang Judong ...... Oh, Mr. Yang, I only shipped two boatloads of paper at the beginning of the year, and now I have moved the workshop here? ”

"It's a semicolon, Jiangnan has enough manpower and raw materials, the paper market is big enough, and if you set up a paper mill here, the paper price can be lower by two percent."

"Fuzhang Paper is just buying a warehouse here, it seems that they are going to cry."

"They haven't fiddled with the steam engine yet, so they're busy eating the domestic paper market first, hehe, it's the paper industry in Jiangnan that really wants to cry. We Shaozhou Paper came here to set up a factory, just to defeat them all! Let them buy raw materials for Shaozhou Paper, be helpers, and sell our paper. ”

"What a fight! Mr. Yang, don't forget that I, a fellow from Shaozhou, our Baihualou used to help Shaozhou Paper. ”

"That's that, old man, I have to rely on you to find the Shang Dynasty in Jiangnan, a reminder, don't miss the paper mills in Jiangnan, they are ready-made Shang Dynasty."

The two talked and laughed on the shore, and the general secretary Yang was the director of the former Qujiang Moshan Township Public Bureau, and the person who talked to him was the manager of the Guangdong grocer Baihualou in Jiangnan.

As they spoke, the conversation turned to the steam engine on the crane.

"The new steam engine is much smaller, and in the past, the boiler and flywheel parts had to be disassembled and shipped, but now they can be lifted together?"

"Well, Dongguan Machinery is new, I heard that the boring technology of Foshan Manufacturing Bureau is used, and the cylinders and lubricating grease are better than before. Although the price is a little more expensive, a piece costs more than 400 taels of silver, but the Ministry of Commerce subsidizes 30%, which is cheaper than before. ”

"Mr. Yang is so bold, Shaozhou Paper Industry will definitely prosper!"

"Developed together, developed together, haha......"

Yang Bailong, who was originally a small landowner in the countryside, experienced the same as countless tide makers who dared to chase waves in the big era, which was wonderful. first spoke for the villagers in his hometown of Qujiang Moshan Township and became a bureau director. Later, the county and township bureaus were transformed into county courtyards and township courts, and there were more people who spoke for the villagers, and they felt that they were not of great use, so they began to entangle the villagers to run industries and make money.

Shaozhou's paper industry has always been prosperous, Yang Bailong also worked as a papermaker when he was young, knows some tricks, in recent years, the country has prospered in business, account books and documents have soared, and the book and newspaper industry is booming, the demand for paper is getting bigger and bigger, Shaozhou paper mills are blooming everywhere, and Yang Bailong also set up a paper mill in Moshan Township.

At first, it was still a small fight, after all, papermaking is still a technical job, and the process is not refined, so you can only eat some bits and pieces with the flow. But after the rise of the steam engine, after reading the introduction of the newspaper, Yang Bailong felt an opportunity. Compared with other companies, the quality of his paper is not good, but with a steam engine, the output is pushed up, and the price is lowered, and he can compete with others.

Therefore, he worked hard to introduce the steam engine into the paper mill, and there are six major links in papermaking: chopping bamboo and drifting in the pond, boiling and wandering over the fire, licking the mortar, swinging the material into the curtain, covering the curtain and pressing the paper, and drying through the fire. To make bamboo paper suitable for printing books and account books, the first link takes 100 days, the second link takes five or six days or even seven or eight days, the third link takes a lot of labor, and the fourth link to the sixth link needs to control the heat, which is a technical work. The time, manpower and technical work of these six major links add up to make it difficult to reduce paper prices.

An old "copyist" can produce up to 500 feet wide Shaozhou bamboo paper a day, only on the wages, a knife (100 sheets) will cost 10 yuan, plus raw materials and other links of labor, a knife of book paper on the market to sell more than 30 yuan. Paper is expensive, books are expensive, to the fifth year of the Holy Road, the price of books in the Anglo-Chinese Middle School has not changed much, how can a book be worth hundreds of texts, so that the country is flooded with inferior paper books, everyone is indignant. ..., Duan Guoshi's "History of the Southern Ming Dynasty" and "Ming History Discernment" and other books, because the paper is expensive, even if there is the emperor's favors and subsidies, plus the silver he fished in the stock market turmoil, the print run is only one-third of what he expected......

Yang Bailong became a monk halfway, and he dared to think and dare to do more than other paper mills that relied on craftsmanship to eat. He first used a steam engine to cook the pulp and mash the pulp, and then from the summer fresh rot and xiangdao chopping bamboo and drifting pond is actually a rotten process, he made a large iron pot and smoked it with the heat of the steam engine.

Three links down, the work efficiency increased tenfold, from feeding to paper out, a slot, that is, a batch of paper production cycle only seven or eight days, Yang Bailong's paper mill quickly rampant in Shaozhou at a low price. But he is still not satisfied, the papermaking link is still manual, and it also needs to be skilled "copying", to expand the scale, you have to increase the number of people.

This link was difficult to overcome on his own, and finally he asked Qujiang Zhixian through the township and county court, and the county magistrate coordinated with the government to find Dongguan Machinery Company. Dongguan Machinery was very interested, so they pushed the steam engine into all walks of life, and immediately sent craftsmen to help Yang Bailong design the automatic papermaking roller blind. The effect of making paper with a transfer machine similar to a waterwheel has been increased by as much as thirty or forty times. In the case of ensuring that there are no problems with the roller shutter parts, the quality is very stable.

Yang eventually achieved the initial industrialization of the paper industry, but it was difficult for him to expand production on his own. At this time, Qingtian Company appeared, sprinkled a large amount of investment, and helped him set up this business. The "machine paper" produced by his paper mill swept the Guozhong Paper Industry at less than a quarter of the price of "soil paper", merged a large number of Shaozhou paper mills, and established the Shaozhou Paper Company in the seventh year of Shengdao, and also went on the market.

Fujian Paper is far more prosperous than Guangdong, but it collapsed under the suppression of Shaozhou Paper. Forced to be helpless, Fujian Paper also introduced steam engines on the one hand, and also carried out mergers and acquisitions on the other hand, and established Fuzhang Paper with Zhangzhou Paper Mill as the core. However, there is a lack of strong leaders, internal contradictions, and the development is much slower than the rapidly growing Shaozhou paper industry. Fujian Paper has just stepped out of the south and set up sales points in Jiangnan, but Shaozhou Paper has begun to set up factories in Jiangnan.

Of course, just the paper of Fujian Paper has made Jiangnan Paper feel like falling into the abyss.

Just when Yang Bailong was chatting with the manager of Baihualou at the dock, in a commercial station in Longmen, several Susong paper millers were holding a knife of white bamboo paper and burst into tears. That's one-third of the local paper! This Nanban's machine paper, do you want people to live?

"Nanban's paper mill must be losing money and making money! Throughout the ages, papermaking is the set of regulations, I can't think of how they put the cost to such a low, this is impossible, this is unreasonable! ”

"Most of them are Luzon Lifu who don't need money, and the government doesn't take taxes, and it is expected that the trees are cut down in Nanyang, and they don't cost anything!"

"I want to move the paper mill to the south......"

was full of indignation, and the guys at the merchant station put down a few knives of paper on the paper stall, and at first glance, they saw that they were good bamboo paper, and these owners immediately hugged it.

"From Shaozhou, Shiwen, you heard it right, Shiwen."

"Brother...... Stand firm......"

When they hear the price, some will go to the ground.

"Shaozhou Paper will also set up a factory in Longmen, and it will be reduced to Bawen ......"

The man at the merchant station said one more word, and now even the helper was servant to the ground.

"Has the Shaozhou paper arrived? That's it? Forget it, let's come to Fuzhang paper first! ”

"We are not the Shang Dynasty, we can only give zero price, you know. It's enough to earn, how many, three hundred quintals? It's all over! Okay, let's divide ......"

"Yo, Qin Fang Master, Bai Fang Master, you are all here, yes, your paper is still selling, talk about it later, talk about it later!"

A group of people who should be paper merchants rushed over and greeted the old relates perfunctorily, for fear that they would not be able to grab these machine papers, so they placed orders in a swarm.

Looking at the paper merchants who left happily, as well as the paper mill owners who gritted their teeth and hated to set fire to Longmen, the guys at the merchant station had a calm face, he was used to seeing this kind of thing these days.

The trading station is run by the Jiangnan Federation of Industry and Commerce to display goods to local merchants. There are a dazzling array of commercial goods on the stall, and the guys are almost familiar with them, because every kind of commercial goods will cause the scene just now, some people cry, some people laugh.

The small one is like a belt, thick cowhide, the lacquered iron buckle is particularly eye-catching, the local goods are worth this iron buckle, one costs one hundred and twenty Wen, and the zero price of Baihualou is ...... Forty texts. In Yinghua, this iron buckle was smashed out of a steam engine, but it was not knocked out manually with a hammer, and it was not a problem to produce 10,000 a day. ..., and this enamel (enamel) ware, which was originally used by large families, was extravagant and expensive. The white enamel cup produced in Foshan on the stall, 60 Wen, white enamel water basin, pot and plate, the most expensive is only 150 Wen, strong and sturdy, enough to heirloom, ordinary people will buy and use. From the beginning of the year to the present, Jiangnan grocers have sent out three or four hundred thousand goods from this trading station.

These majolicas are just pressed into steel by a steam engine, and then the paint is sent to a large kiln to be fired, and there are hundreds or thousands of them in batches. I heard that the price of steel is still high now, and when the price of steel is lower, the price of these steel enamels will fall.

Then I saw the corner of the stall, a pile of dark thick cakes stacked on the ground, and there were dense holes on it, and the man said in his heart, this thing is the real seafood, called honeycomb coal in China, which is most suitable for people to make fires, and the smoke is also less, the key is that the price is cheap. The coal was crushed in a steam engine and dried with clay.

Using a special coal stove to burn this thing, a family spends less than 100 Wen stove fire money a month, Jiangnan firewood is so expensive that it is scared to death, 100 catties cost 70 or 80 Wen, how can a family burn 200 catties of firewood in a month, and half of it can be saved with honeycomb coal.

There are all kinds of commercial goods on the stall, but all the ones with extremely cheap prices are basically related to the steam engine, and the guy at the merchant station secretly said, this machine is really a magic weapon that fell from the sky, I don't know what kind of immortal made it, if you get out of the agency and stand in the stall instead of yourself, then you won't have a way to live? That's okay, just force yourself to go to Nanyang to toss, if you have the guts, you have tossed a career in Nanyang, and you are cowardly......

The man's mind was full of confusion, and he saw the manager of Baihualou walking over with a person, and said as he walked, and he heard that the person was from a paper company. Seeing the steward's bright smiling face, the guy felt that he was not used to it, in the past, all the workshops were smiling at the steward, and there were no merchants like Baihualou, they couldn't sell things, but now, the situation is reversed. Those who sell things have to give the smiling faces of those who make things.

The corner of his eye swept to the commercial goods on the stall, and the guy said in his heart, that is really no way, he has to accompany the smiling face if he changes, such a cheap, sufficient amount of commercial goods, you don't sell them, others rush to sell them. is the face of the manager of Baihualou, I'm afraid that I will laugh every day, and it will soon be really rotten.

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