86_86695 There was no tea in the teacup, but the person sitting on the chair still put the teacup to his mouth and unconsciously inhaled the air in the teacup.

The room was not very big and the furnishings in the room were very shabby. Because the location of the house is not good, the lighting of the guide zhì room is very poor. This combination of poor lighting and shabby furnishings gives the whole room a dilapidated feel.

The dilapidated room, coupled with a numb man, combine to create a sense of silence in this room.

The protagonist in this scene is none other than Wang Shuhui, Li Mingzhi, the former shopkeeper of Xiecheng Cloth Village in Zhijiang County.

Although the Li family is not a big family in Zhijiang County, it is definitely not a small civilian household. The Li family has hundreds of acres of land on the edge of the county seat, although most of them are cultivated by people in the clan. However, because there have been three lifters and five or six talents in the clan, basically the hundreds of acres of land of the Li family do not need to pay the national tax on imperial grain.

In this way, although the land occupation of the Li family, which can be tax-exempt, is relatively small, the overall income is still relatively high because of the tax exemption.

Compared with the ordinary landlord family, the Li family has a stronger sense of management. As early as the Zhengde period, the Li family began to do cloth business in Zhijiang County and founded Xiecheng Cloth Village.

Li Mingzhi, the eldest son of the second room of the Li family, accepted the family business of the entire Li family and served as the treasurer of Xiecheng Cloth Village after being a promising yamen official for several years when the imperial examination was hopeless.

The manufacturing industry, once there is a revolutionary productivity progress, will create a lot of profits.

Wang Shuhui has always felt that he has brought little change to the last years of the Ming Dynasty, and always thinks that the time and space of agricultural civilization in the last years of the Ming Dynasty are constantly affecting him. However, in fact, the cheap modern industrial products that he introduced from the modern society, through the time and space gate, and the modern steam-powered industrial machinery designed and manufactured by him using the mechanical processing factory he established, had already had a huge impact on Zhijiang County in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

In the beginning, Wang Shuhui only provided low-cost goods for shops in the Zhijiang area. After that, Sima Feng, who was very business-minded, had great ambitions and ambitions, and had a close relationship with Wang Shuhui, began to be dissatisfied with simply being a merchandiser of the Fuxing Society.

He began to introduce steam-powered textile machinery manufactured by the Fuxing Society, established his own textile factory, and took the initiative to participate in the upstream commodity production field.

Under the demonstration effect of Sima Feng's huge profits, most of the business operators in Dongtankou, a manufacturing and commercial center that occupies an important position in the entire middle reaches of the Yangtze River, have taken the initiative to join in this, shifting from commodity sales to commodity production.

They collectively learned from Sima Feng and continuously introduced new steam-powered textile machinery from the factories of the Fuxing Society to establish a large number of textile factories.

This change in the textile industry has driven other industries in Dongtankou. After discovering the benefits of steam power, all manufacturing industries in Dong Tankou began to order steam machinery for their own industries from Fuxinghui's factories to improve their own productivity levels, in order to produce more goods and generate more profits.

After more than a year of free integration, the entire Dongtankou manufacturing industry has been upgraded to steam. Manufacturing capacity is growing exponentially. The emergence of a large number of products has made the upstream and downstream industries of Dongtankou develop rapidly.

Faced with this situation, after consulting Wang Shuhui. As the economic leader of the Zhijiang region, Sima Feng, in order to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises in the entire Zhijiang region and achieve a more effective, active and responsive expansion to the external market, established a loose business alliance with enterprises in the Zhijiang area as the main member, the Zhijiang Business Alliance.

The emergence of the Zhijiang Business Alliance has further enhanced the competitiveness of enterprises in the entire Zhijiang region. In less than a year, the commodity market in the entire Huguang region became the sphere of influence of the Zhijiang Business Alliance. In the interior of the Huguang area, there is hardly a single shop dealing in goods from other provinces. Even Songjiang cotton cloth, which is the most widely sold in China, cannot compete with the products of Zhijiang Business Alliance in the Huguang area.

By 1621, not only was the market in the Huguang area monopolized by the Zhijiang Merchant League, but the Zhijiang Merchant League frequently launched attacks on the markets of the surrounding provinces.

It is conceivable what kind of huge wealth the Zhijiang Business Alliance, which monopolized the market in a province, earned. What's even more amazing is that this huge wealth has been accumulated in just over a year.

However, under the backward relations of production and in the general environment of the feudal agricultural society, advanced production technology was used, advanced industrial enterprises were established, and huge wealth was earned.

The first crisis faced by the heads of the various enterprises of the Zhijiang Business Alliance was not at the government level, but from within their families.

Li Mingzhi is a typical example of this. Although Xiecheng Buzhuang is not set up in Dongtankou, it is set up in Zhijiang County. However, Li Mingzhi, who has a keen sense of smell, was one of the first few people to discover the trick of Sima Feng's wealth and sudden large-scale growth.

As the person in charge of Xiecheng Cloth Village, Li Mingzhi, who discovered the secret of Sima Feng's rise, learned from Sima Feng very decisively. He immediately set about it, introduced a new type of steam-powered textile machinery from the factory of the Fuxing Society, and established his own textile factory, Xiecheng Textile Factory. Taking advantage of the Zhijiang Business Alliance to expand the market, the Xiecheng Textile Factory established by Li Mingzhi earned amazing profits for Xiecheng Cloth Village.

But just when the career of Xiecheng Textile Factory was booming and making more and more money, the decision from within the family brought a huge blow to Li Mingzhi.

The patriarch of the Li family in Zhijiang, who had made a name for himself and had served as a county magistrate in the southwest region for more than ten years, Li Mingzhi's uncle Li Shouli, in the name of the patriarch, deprived Li Mingzhi of the right to operate the Xiecheng Cloth Village and the Xiecheng Textile Factory. Li Shouli let his own second grandson, a bastard with no practical experience at all, take Li Mingzhi's place.

The person who issued the threat of force to the staff of the Trade Office of the Renaissance Association in Dongtankou was the new head of Xiecheng Cloth Village, the second grandson of Li Shouli, and the son of Li Yuzhi.

It is conceivable how much of a blow this situation is to Li Mingzhi, who is bent on making contributions with his own ability, striving for status in the family, and impressing the clansmen.

This time the blow was different from the previous one. In his early years, because of his failure in the imperial examination, he brought a blow to Li Mingzhi. Later, his defeat in the yamen brought him another blow. However, the last two blows, Li Mingzhi was relatively easy to accept. Because those two failures were caused by his own lack of ability after all.

This time, however, the situation is completely different.

Li Mingzhi completely used his keen business vision and practical work ability to establish a steam textile factory, which brought great wealth to the family. He really relied on his own ability to achieve success in his career.

In such a situation, his family not only did not give him the corresponding respect, but also improved his status within the family. On the contrary, because the patriarch wanted to be able to hold more power and obtain more benefits, he pulled him down from the management position of Xiecheng Cloth Village and Xiecheng Textile Factory, and sent his grandson to occupy the position.

The blow from within his own family tore the veil of warmth within the family, and dealt a double blow to Li Mingzhi from emotional to rational.

In Li Mingzhi's view, the blow from external competitors is not terrible. What is really is that it is this kind of competition of interests from within the family that makes his heart bleed. The kind of kinship preached by feudal ethics, the hypocrisy and fragility in the face of competing interests, really made Li Mingzhi feel the impact of values.

It is this kind of ideological impact that makes Li Mingzhi's heart more of a new and real sense of pain about the world. As for the loss of profits that have been deprived of actual management power, it is very insignificant in the face of this cognitive pain.

When Li Mingzhi was losing his soul in his room, Wang Shuhui was reading the report written by Hu Qifan, the person in charge of the Commerce Department, in his office.

Hu Qifan, like the cadres of the Yiqiē Fuxing Association, has a relatively poor ability in written expression. Even Hu Qifan, who had already received a formalized education in the form of official documents taught to them by Wang Shuhui, still wrote a report that was very shoddy.

According to Wang Shuhui's report on Hu Qifan, it can only be seen that in recent days, some members of the Zhijiang Business Alliance and the Office of International Trade and Commerce in Dongtankou have mainly focused on the textile industry. The main ones involved in the conflict and the most hostile to the office were the new heads of the four textile mills.

Wang Shuhui looked at Hu Qifan's analysis of the causes of the conflict in his report, and said, "The main reason for these things is that both sides have problems. The comrades in our office are new comrades, and it is a problem that they do not know much about the work of the Trade Office. It is also a problem that the new heads of the four businesses do not understand the rules we set with the old ones in the past. The main cause of the problem is the combination of these two problems. ”

Regardless of Hu Qifan's shortcomings in written expression, just looking at his position, Wang Shuhui's face showed a sneer.

In his opinion, this conflict is not a conflict between the Revival Society and the Zhijiang Business Alliance at all. Rather, it was the contradiction between the Zhijiang Business Alliance, a new industrial bourgeois group that was promoted by the use of steam engines, and the feudal social environment of the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why these businesses are in conflict with Fuxing is that the new person in charge wants to prove to his family that he is more capable and qualified for the position than the original person in charge.

Because of the characteristics of their own feudal landlord class, the way they thought of was not to expand production, increase production efficiency, expand production, and sell more goods. Rather, they hope to achieve their goal by guò as a simple way to raise the price of goods.

Unlike those who personally experienced the establishment of the factory and participated in the operation of the factory, they profoundly realized that the market competitiveness of Zhijiang Business Alliance was based on the application of the advanced power of the steam engine and the use of advanced textile machinery as a production tool, so that the products of Zhijiang Business Alliance maintained a low market price.

With that numb, stiff and ignorant mind, they can only think of a simple and crude means of directly raising the market price of commodities.

They don't know at all that once the market price is raised, they can indeed make a large profit in the short term because of the market monopoly. However, in the long run, the Zhijiang Business Alliance will immediately lose its market competitiveness in the Songjiang cotton cloth in the Jiangnan region.

If you want to raise the price of goods, you will break the cooperative relationship between the Enoe Business Alliance and the Fuxing Association. And once the relationship with the Renaissance Society is broken, they will no longer be able to receive industrial support from the Renaissance Society. Soon, their factories would be crushed by the Renaissance's own textile factories because they could not repair and replace their own production machinery.

It's a simple choice between a trickle and a one-shot deal.

Wang Shuhui was not prepared to interfere in the affairs of the Zhijiang Business Alliance. He's ready to watch a good show.

First of all, within the Zhijiang Business Alliance, there are a total of thirteen enterprises specializing in the textile industry. Now there are only four companies that have proposed to change the market price. Wang Shuhui wanted to take a look at the Zhijiang Business Alliance led by Sima Feng and how he was going to solve this problem internally.

Second, the price agreement reached between the review meeting and the Zhijiang Business Alliance is actually accommodating the new factories in the Zhijiang area and protecting their development. Otherwise, with the industrial level of the Renaissance Society, it can easily make these weak enterprises bankrupt in an instant by using a lower price than the current market price.

There is no need for Wang Shuhui to pull textiles from modern society. The current production capacity of the Fuxing Society textile mill alone will be able to do this once it is fully released.

Third, although Wang Shuhui knew that the national bourgeoisie was very weak. When they faced the powerful feudal forces in China, they would always compromise lightly, take the wrong road, take the evil road, and even take the road of regression.

However, Wang Shuhui still wants to see if the Zhijiang Business Alliance, an emerging asset-active interest group, can make some revolutionary moves in the environment of Zhijiang County, where the power of his revival society is fully controlled and the social environment is relatively relaxed.

Finally, and most importantly, Wang Shuhui wants to educate the entire revival society on a realistic basis through this incident. He wanted the members of the Revival Association to see what kind of face the feudal landlord class had in the face of advanced productive forces and advanced production relations