Chapter 638: The First Cry of the Evil Beast (14) The Textile Industry
What should be the next step in the "Iron Ambition" plan, that is, the next step in the "Industrial Revolution" plan? The answer is already coming out, the "textile industry", it is through the "textile industry" that Britain has historically moved towards the banner of the "Industrial Revolution", and even the history textbooks of science students will remember the strong stroke of the Jenny spinning machine.
Wouldn't it be similar to change the location from the earth to the southern Xinjiang continent? In Dima, a revolution in the textile industry was set off and the door to industrialization.
There are many reasons why Leng Yi chose Dima at the beginning, and one of the reasons is that Dima is located at the mouth of the river and has sufficient water resources, which is undoubtedly closer to the history of the textile industry on the earth plane, and better than the earth is that they don't have to feel the stones to cross the river, Leng Yi can give advanced machines in line with this era.
The textile industry is not only a textile industry, but also many upstream and downstream industries, such as wool farming, industrial hemp and cotton farming, downstream printing and dyeing, garment and home textiles these industries, and cloth is related to all aspects of everyone's life, which can be said to be a good driving force for industrialization.
What's even better is that although this world is a fantasy world, it is not a multi-ethnic world, there are no dwarves, giants, and other races that are very different from human beings, only one human race, and the clothing and textile of one human race has the possibility of industrial mass production.
With the sale of Dima grain in the past ten years, it has led to the growth of the population around Dima, although Fei Argon and Ruiying Maiqiu did not spread the Hers-style farmland technology to the lower class nobles, but the planting in the royal farm has inevitably promoted the increase of grain production, and the population is already on the eve of explosive growth.
Other areas are still on the eve of outbreaks, but Dima, which has practiced Hulse-style farmland for the longest time, has already begun to explode, especially Hulse's "Abandoned Infant Prohibition Order" issued in 2413, that is, the harsh punishment of farmers who abandon babies at will, if the farmer must abandon the baby, if he wants to avoid punishment, he can only throw it to the orphanage set up by Huls.
Orphanages began in 2413, and were built and set up on the side of churches in various parts of Dima, due to the sharp increase in Dima's grain production, it was possible to maintain the life of orphans in the orphanage, and the nobles around the country had long suffered from the lack of people in Dima, so they naturally supported Huls's initiative, even if a few nobles who were distressed about money, they were not willing to work against Hulse in this regard.
The orphanage that began to be set up in 2413 will take at least twenty years for these orphans to grow up, and it will take twenty years for the growth of a generation of children in the Hers-style farmland, and this group of people will be Hers, who will be the staunchest supporters of the Dima system, and will also be the main fighting force against Philippine argon in the future.
So it is twenty years, Dima will not have the capital to challenge the filipino argon until at least 2433 later, before this is Dima's growth period, Dima has to wait for the growth of this group of children, and in order to maintain the orphanage from closing because of the inability to make ends meet, and in order to increase Dima's power, it is necessary to carry out a revolution in the textile industry.
In the past ten years, relying on the income from selling grain, Dima has lived a prosperous life, but a few days ago there was a bird "2418 Dima Agreement", which can not sell grain, which makes many Dima citizens panic, and the year is not good, the lord of the hill convenes a meeting of the nobles every day, and I don't know what the result is.
Among these worried citizens, Gu Laide, the president of the wool merchant guild, is one of them, in recent years, there are more and more people in Dima, more and more people buy clothes, so more and more people buy wool, Gu Laide's worth has increased several times, until last year, no one knows what will happen in the future.
This day is no different from this month, sighing at home, complaining about Urdocia, complaining about the great nobles of Bejara, if in the past the Dima people still considered themselves to be the inhabitants of Siber, and considered themselves loyal vassals of Filipino, now a Dima people complain about Urdoci and Bejara.
But the visit of a housekeeper broke the day as always, this housekeeper is not an ordinary person, he is the superior of Gu Laide's superiors, when Gu Laide left the relationship of the housekeeper's relatives, he and the housekeeper hooked up, so that the nobles served by the housekeeper accepted their own service, so they had this net worth.
Don't think of any "investment" as something that the aristocracy oppresses the citizens, some people just want to serve, and there is no way to do it, and if there is no nobleman who has surrendered, then the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods around the world will not be satisfied with just a little money, and they have to eat and wipe your cramps and skins clean.
The reason for Gu Laide's panic was not the butler, but the butler's personal arrival, you must know that the master served by the butler was the famous Esra Vogel! In the past, just wanting to see the butler would give him a huge amount of gift money, and it depended on whether the butler was in the mood or not! Today, the butler actually came to the door in person, which was unusual, really unusual.
And what the housekeeper said afterwards made Gu Laide's heart tremble: "Gu Laide, get in the carriage, the master is waiting for you people." ”
"Don't you dare, don't dare, I'll just walk," Gu Laide didn't understand what was going on, so he immediately flattered the housekeeper, and then prepared to tip on the way to inquire about the news.
After going on the road with the housekeeper, after Gu Laide's clever words and stuffing money, the housekeeper finally loosened his face and mentioned Gu Laide slightly: "Actually, the person who summoned you this time is higher than my master, what they tell you to do after you go there, you just agree." ”
Isn't Gu Laide's scalp buzzing open, isn't it the "madman" Huls? What does this "madman" want to summon himself for? Can he solve Dima's predicament? This is the result of the madman's meeting?
Along the way, Gu Laide's nervous brain made up many strange scenes, until he was sent to the door, the housekeeper bowed to the guards, and then the guards brought themselves in, but when Gu Laide saw this, he was so shocked that he almost couldn't walk My God! The housekeeper couldn't even enter the venue, and it wouldn't be the highest-level nobleman in the whole Dima, right?
After entering, Gu Gu saw a few people sitting around, all of them were his partners in other guilds, no matter how bad they were, they were also people they knew, and most of the people sitting around Gu Laide didn't know each other, but the two leaders were too familiar, the "madman" Huls and the "great sage" Boligu!
After a moment of Gu Laide's uneasiness, everyone came, so the "great sage" Boligu spoke first: "You pick someone who can represent it." ”
Gu Laide looked around, these people are all presidents of various guilds, they are wool merchants, as well as cloth guilds, textile guilds, wool industrial guilds, printing and dyeing guilds, etc., how can these all be presidents?
In the end, everyone looked at each other and chose the youngest Gu Laide to come out, so that even if something happened, it could be said that it was the reason why Gu Laide's too young, too simple Tucson was broken, and no matter how bad it was, everyone would not carry the pot together.
Seeing Gu Laide stand up, the "madman" Hulse spoke:
"In the words of the divine realm, in the autumn of this Cheng's survival, Dima grain can no longer be sold, Dima must find a new profit point, and under the advice of the great sage, we think that your guilds are the new profit points, and your industry is different from grain, you have your own guilds, so we have to gather you together to discuss first. ”
Isn't it just that the nobles who have joined the service interfere in the production of guilds? There are too many examples of this Gu Laide, and there are examples of the aristocracy forcibly interfering in their own merchants that will lead to bankruptcy, and just as he was about to speak, the "great sage" Boligu spoke.
"In the past, due to the serious shortage of productivity in various places, you decent citizens had to form guilds to deal with these crises, such as distributing the amount of production of guild masters, suppressing outsiders, so that the market price of guilds was always maintained on your psychological line, and I and we all understand. ”
In fact, few nobles understand, they don't understand the rules of the guild, but Boligu said so, and they just let go of the promise of "grace", and Gu Laide didn't fully understand Boligu's words, such as the phrase "productivity" seems to be unheard of, but this does not prevent Gu Laide from saying some scenes.
"This, the nobles are of noble birth, and they should go to rule the country and lead the army to fight, and it is normal to not know the operation of our guild. ”
Boligu did not follow Gu Laide's words: "But you can't cope with the Hulse textile era, so you must make adjustments, adopt Huls's new machines, implement new management methods, we are your managers, and we should be benevolent to help you upgrade your own industry and integrate upstream and downstream industries." ”
This, this, this, why are more and more words Gu Laide can't understand!But the meaning is still understood, the other party wants to meddle in himself, not only himself, but all the guilds related to him...... Now Gu Laide understands that the guild presidents who were called this time are all guilds related to his wool merchants!
If any stunned young man dared to say this, as long as he didn't want to form a mortal enemy with the Textile Guild, he would have been beaten out of the door by Gu Laide with a stick, but now the person who said this is the "Great Sage" Boligu, and the surrounding nobles are all existences that Gu Laide can't provoke, but because he was elected as a representative, Gu Laide still said a few words.
"Since the great sage said that it was Hers-style weaving, then the amount of this textile must have increased as dramatically as the amount of grain produced in these years, but in this case, the price of textiles will not go down, so what should those textile masters do?"
In fact, when it comes to textiles, it has little to do with Gu Laide, and there is even a little surprise, after all, the output of your textile industry has increased, so isn't the selling price of the wool merchant also going to increase? But looking at the meaning of this nobleman, it is not to kill the textile merchant's family, but to annex all the guilds together with the textile merchant.
"They can go to other jobs, or they can continue in the textile industry and start from scratch," Boligu said with a smile, a phrase that no one at the time had yet realized its horror.
There were so many nobles on the field watching, all of them were characters that Gu Laide couldn't provoke, so Gu Laide could only look back at the other guild leaders, and saw the tumblers who were watching their ears and noses, and finally they could only salute respectfully: "It's all based on the opinions of the adults." ”