Chapter 134: Crisis
The price of raw materials needed for weaving continues to rise, and Zhao Hengyi has long been aware of it.
Even through Song San's people, the instigator behind this price increase was found.
The larger cloth merchants in Jiangling City all had a share, which made Zhao Hengyi a little surprised.
The weavers are looking forward to the price increase of raw materials, are you unable to get along with yourself?
In fact, the methods of these people are not clever, and they take the advantage of foresight.
Before the price increase, these big cloth merchants hoarded a lot of raw materials, and then took the initiative to raise the price of raw materials.
In fact, the current situation has exceeded the expectations of the cloth merchants, and although the efficiency of the Elm Bay textile workshop is high, the output is not amazing at the beginning.
The cloth merchants acted like this, a bit of a dismount, and also called the new entrants to see if they had the strength.
If you don't have the strength, you will naturally be scared, and it's always a good thing to have fewer peers.
However, with the continuous expansion of the textile workshops in Elm Bay, the output has been rising, and the cloth merchants have been somewhat unable to hold on.
The raw materials that have been hoarded in advance have long been consumed, but it is difficult to lower the price that has risen...... Because these cloth merchants are too expensive, Yushuwan and Zhao Hengyi are not too expensive!
can sell at a high price, raw material suppliers will naturally not take the initiative to reduce prices, other cloth merchants want to reduce prices, but find that people don't care about themselves at all.
As a result, the entire cloth industry has fallen into a situation where it is difficult to ride a tiger!
The price of the cloth produced in Elm Bay was not high, but this time the price did not rise, and other cloth merchants wanted to follow the raw material suppliers to raise the price together.
Nowadays, the whole cloth line, the higher the output, the more losses.
But if you don't produce cloth, you will be seized by Elm Bay to seize the market, and the cloth merchants are blocked at both ends, and they are all complaining.
The Liang family, who jumped up and down at the beginning, now dare not squeak, if other peers know about the grievances between the Liang family and Zhao Hengyi and Yushuwan, I am afraid that the end will be unpredictable!
Things would not have developed to the current situation, and the cloth merchants of Jiangling City walked step by step to compete with Yushuwan to see who had more funds and who could lose money more, and the Liang family contributed a lot to it!
Zhao Hengyi doesn't care about the price war of the cloth shop, anyway, his cost is lower, his efficiency is higher, and he has the new business of silver mirror to transport ammunition, and if he doesn't make the cloth merchants in Jiangling City want to die, this matter will definitely not be over!
As for the Liang family, they must always taste the bitter taste of the Miao family in Dangyang County, and then take revenge!
This matter must not be rushed, and it must be taken slowly to have a feeling of suffering.
As for the other cloth merchants who were dragged down by the Liang family, Zhao Hengyi also had no guilt.
It's like a murderer with a knife who wants to kill an innocent passerby, and the murderer himself falls down and his neck is cut by the knife in his hand, can the judge still convict the innocent passerby?
It was this continuous rain that worried Zhao Hengyi, the rain was not heavy, but it never stopped, if it weren't for the fact that Yushuwan was almost completely rebuilt, and the drainage canal was dug early when the workshop was built, I am afraid that the whole village would not be able to start construction!
Nowadays, the villagers of Elm Bay are well fed and clothed, and live in sturdy houses made of bricks, so they no longer have to pray to God in their shacks as before, but the employees of other villages are not so lucky.
Many people have begun to apply for temporary housing in the village, although it is only a wooden and grass house, but after all, it will not leak rain, and the elderly and children can always be more stable.
Fortunately, it was the height of summer, and if it were winter in this kind of weather, I don't know how many people would freeze to death.
Even so, everyone is grateful for the good of the owner, if it weren't for the owner to protect everyone, maybe everyone would not lose their lives now, but suffering is inevitable.
Since the end of last year, there has been a severe drought, and then it has rained, and the old people believe that the rain is going to turn into a flood, and once it really becomes a flood, this Gangneung province does not know how many people will be displaced, and I don't know how many lives will be killed or injured.
The world is not good, God also came to join in the fun, really, don't give the people a way to live!
Outside the city of Jiangling, a large number of displaced people gathered to escape the military disaster, Su Shenchang is dead, but he does not allow the displaced people to enter the city is still there, these displaced people can only gather at the base of the city wall, counting on the government or the rich households in the city to give porridge.
It stands to reason that Jiangling City is located in the hinterland of the Great Yan Kingdom, in addition to going to the first line of Yonggu City, the other defense lines bordering the barbarians are extremely far away, not to mention the Jingshi in the middle, even if they are hiding from the military disaster, the displaced people should not appear in Jiangling.
As a result, I inquired and learned that the exiles were not allowed to enter the land of Jingshi, and these miserable people helped the old and young to escape the iron hooves and butcher knives of the barbarians, and traveled a long distance to Jingshi to survive, but were driven all the way by the imperial court......
The new Jiangling Mansion Yin Zhang Qicheng has not yet taken office, and the Ningwu Army has made Zhao Hong, the king of Qi, reprimanded by the imperial court for dereliction of duty, and stayed at home to think about it behind closed doors.
The situation in the city is unstable, and the outside of the city is even more unsafe, and the hungry can do anything, especially the displaced people who are out of their original environment and cannot count their real identities.
Outside Gangneung, there were already villages that had been ransacked by displaced people, and there was a fight, killing more than a dozen people.
Some of the wealthy families and eunuchs in the city have proposed to close the city gates so that the displaced people will not become troubled and turn into thieves.
After Zhao Hengyi got the tip, he quickly sent someone to deliver the news, and together with Song San, withdrew most of the people in the city, and at the same time invited Wei Linglan to come to Yushuwan to live in the identity of Miao Xiaoyu......
This is a last resort, even if Yushuwan has long had the habit of storing grain at the insistence of Zhao Hengyi, but compared with the huge number of displaced people outside Jiangling City, this grain storage is tantamount to a drop in the bucket!
If you want to save these homeless people and prevent them from becoming homeless, you have to come forward with the government.
For nearly a month, it rained continuously, only three or five days of rain stopped in the middle, and it has not been sunny, the water level of the river continues to rise, and the waterlogging has been formed.
In this context, the convoy of Wei Linglan, the county lord of Xiangcheng, arrived at Yushuwan, and she arrived on the front foot, and the messenger sent by the county commander Liu Rui arrived on the back foot.
Zhao Hengyi could only entrust the matter of placing Wei Linglan and his daughter army to Miao Xiaoyu, and concentrate on dealing with the messenger of Liu County's order.
The reason why Liu County Ling is worried about the Liuhe River bursting in Dangyang County is because he is worried about the levee bursting in Dangyang County!
Zhao Hengyi had been paying attention to the situation around Yushu Bay before, for fear of disasters such as flash floods, but when he saw the messenger, he knew that the real danger was in the Willow River, which was not close!
This place of Elm Bay was previously unoccupied, and eventually the village was formed by outsiders and displaced people, precisely because once the Willow River bursts, this place is bound to become an ocean!