Under this action in full swing, the people in Xishan County have become more and more.

Some time ago, the weaving yard and blacksmith shop, which were still recruiting workers, were full of people overnight.

"Shopkeeper, just give your mouth to eat!"

"Folks, I'm not such a hard-hearted person, but our store really doesn't need so many people."

"The Zou family and the Hua family have bigger family businesses, why don't you go over there and try your luck?"

"Thank you for the shopkeeper's guidance."

“……”

Ning Jue walked on the streets of Xishan, his expression still solemn.

"Official, how good this Xishan is lively."

"It's all for a living, it's naturally lively, forget it, you guys go shopping, I'll go back to the county government to do some things."

Without waiting for Gu Qing to speak, Ning Jue threw the master and servant on the streets of Xishan, turned around and returned to Xishan County.

The situation in Xishan was even more urgent than Ning Jue thought.

There are 120,000 people in the whole Xishan, and the family members are around 300,000.

But before that, only more than 3,000 people lived in the county.

Since the day of its completion, this cramped county town has never imagined that there will be so many people living in the city one day, and when there are more people, many neglected problems will be exposed.

Safety and hygiene are secondary.

What really worries Ning Jue is that the tenant farmers have been released from that one-third of an acre of land, can Xishan really be able to absorb so much labor?

Before Ning Jue could send someone to find him, Zou Wang, Hua Linxiang and others hid in Xishan County as if they had fled.

"Help!"

Seeing these people, Ning Jue's face became more and more difficult to look at.

"What?"

"You Xian, since last night, my door has been full of tenants fleeing from various townships, all of whom have dragged their families over, that is, they want to come to my house to work, and some of them don't even want wages, just give them food."

"Then you're not crazy about it?"

Zou Wang repeatedly told me to spare: "You Xian, just spare me, can this be called crazy, they make such a fuss, can my original buddy be happy?" ”

"Without an old man to take them, even if their monthly salary is less, I will lose it!"

"If you continue to make trouble like this, you don't need the gentry to do it, and my guys will soon start fighting with these tenants."

Ning Jue's brows tightened, and he looked at these businessmen in front of him and asked, "Then can you find out the truth, how much can these tenants in Xishan raise?" ”

In fact, there is no need for Zou Wang to talk about this matter.

But if they can digest these tenants, who can run here.

Hua Linxiang and Zou Wang glanced at each other, and then spoke: "At most, thirty percent." ”

"And what if there's something new to hold on?"

Zou Wang was stunned when he heard this.

"What's new?"

Ning Jue glanced at the officials behind him, and then these officials carried out a loom from behind him.

Zou Wang and the others frowned suspiciously: "...... is this?" ”

"Zou Yuanwai also has a lot of cloth shops at home, will he not know this thing?"

Zou Wang smiled bitterly: "The loom is naturally recognized, but how can this loom solve the dilemma of Xishan?" ”

"You'll find out if you try."

Zou Wangjing stepped forward and fiddled with it twice.

Only then did I find that the shuttle was equipped with a slightly rough little spring, which could rebound on its own with a little fiddling.

Zou Wang froze in place, surprised for a long time and didn't come back to his senses.

"What a skill!"

"The name of this thing is called Flying Shuttle, and it is given to the monarchs, and it may save the people of Xishan from fire and water? It's as if Ning bought this thing, okay? ”

Zou Wang bowed his head and said, "You Xian, if you use this thing, won't we use fewer people in the weaving yard?" ”

"But if you keep the cost down, won't you be able to eat a bigger market? The entire cotton cloth market in Jiangnan only supports your family, can't you afford it? ”

Hua Linxiang hurriedly said: "But cotton cloth needs cotton yarn, and this cotton yarn ......."

"You can sell it to the other county, and then buy the cotton yarn back by the way."

Seeing this, Hua Linxiang wanted to speak and stopped, but was glared back by Zou Wang, and Zou Wang said repeatedly: "I don't dare to promise You Xian, I can only take it back and give it a try." ”

Ning Jue waved his hand at everyone and motioned for everyone to stand back.

Zou Wang happily moved the loom into the carriage with a few merchants.

"With the shuttle, the demand for cotton yarn can also be raised."

"I'm afraid it won't be long before someone kicks the spinning machine down."

Looking at the joyful Zou Wang and the others, Ning Jue couldn't help but murmur nervously: "It's all like this, if the gentry doesn't do it again, this will be an industrial revolution, and then there will really be no one to farm for you." ”

——

On the carriage outside the county office, Hua Linxiang looked at Zou Wang, who only had a shuttle in his eyes, and said, "Donghu, aren't you deceiving Youxian?" Are you really not afraid of blaming Youxian? ”

Zou Wang carefully wiped the shuttle without raising his head.

"Haiyue Qinggao, don't you want this baby?"

Hua Lin Xiang was speechless.

"But if we can't recruit so many people, something will go wrong in Xishan......"

Without waiting for Hua Linxiang to finish speaking, Zou Wang spoke: "What if it happens?" ”

"Done? Donghu, you won't even be able to settle this account, right? Even if you have this loom, what will you do? ”

"Didn't you say it, sell it to the side county."

Hua Linxiang immediately spoke: "But where did the people get the money to buy clothes? In the end, it is not to come out of the grain? When the cloth is sold cheaply, the people have to raise the price of food, and these people will still find it difficult to make ends meet! ”

"Then let's keep food prices down again."

"If we keep the price of food down, won't there be more tenants entering the city? We can't even feed this little bit of people! ”

Zou Wang was speechless for a while, because he had also discovered a logical loophole in it.

If you sell it cheaply, the people's expenses will increase, and the price of food will rise.

By forcibly lowering the price of grain, the people who have worked hard to farm the land will not even be able to afford a single set of clothes, but more people will abandon the land and go to the city, and the more people who do not farm, the more difficult it will be to suppress the price of grain.

"Then let's sell it to other provinces?"

Hua Linxiang looked at Zou Wang speechlessly, Zou Wang interrupted with a wave of his hand: "Then let's just sell it directly to the outside world, the people of the imperial court Gu Huguang and Shuzhong are alive and dead, and they can still eat enough to care about the lives and deaths of those widows and sticks?" ”

"Yes, and the imperial court is just about to open the sea."

Hua Linxiang shook his head helplessly.

"Donghu, why don't you understand, you weren't like this before, this Jiangnan is so rich, one acre of land is a year, and it is five stone of grain to die, not that the cloth we sell is not cheap."

"But the price of food can no longer continue to fall, and if the price of food is lowered again, the farmer will starve to death, and it is none of our business to die of the outside, but if the people of the outside world are starving to death, even if our cloth is cheaper, who can we sell it to? Besides, they can't just starve to death! ”

Zou Wang was speechless for a while, and killed all the sheep, where to grow hair.

"But this baby delivered to the door, we can't push it out again, right?"

"Do your best, listen to the fate of heaven, Grandpa Mai sent me a letter, saying that if I can't hold it, I'll go to him, and when the sky falls, Grandpa Mai will stand on it, don't panic."

Hua Linxiang was stunned when he heard this.

"Isn't Grandpa Mai not wanting to get involved?"

Zou Wang said in a mysterious whisper: "Grandpa Mai is wholeheartedly devoted to the king's affairs, Grandpa Mai was just in trouble before, this time not only sent me a letter, but also told me that in some time, Your Majesty will summon you and me." ”

"Is Donghu serious?"

"Grandpa Mai's own handwriting, how can it be fake? With Mingjun in power, the good days of you and me are coming, just let go and do it. ”

Originally, Hua Linxiang's worries were completely dispelled by Zou Wang's words.

A group of Xishan businessmen went home separately, and in less than a night, they each imitated their own "flying shuttle", but the reality was far more cruel than what Hua Linxiang and Zou Wang imagined in the carriage.

That is, these cloths can't be sold at all.

These cloths can indeed be transported to other counties.

It's just that with the decline in cotton prices, the freight has increased more and more significantly, and the final result is that Zou Wang and the local cloth merchants in other counties have no money.

Even if the Zou family sent people to the countryside to sell them, there was no way.

For the people in the village, anything that I can spare at home, as long as I don't delay wearing it, it is equivalent to no money.

No matter how cheap this rag is, it will cost money to buy it after all.

Asking people who have difficulty making ends meet to buy these things is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

But this cloth is unaffordable for the poor, and the rich look down on it.

In the end, all these cloths were finally squeezed in Xishan County.

But a new paradox arises.

These cloths can only be sold to the people in the county, and if you want to digest these cloths, you must have enough people in the county, and the more people in the county, the more cloth you need to sell.

If there is too much cloth, the cloth merchant will not be able to make any money.

In less than a few days, these newly imitated "flying shuttles" were abandoned at home by merchants in Xishan.

The food is tasteless, and it is a pity to abandon it, so it can only be shelved.

It's just that when Ning Jue walked on the streets of Xishan, there were obviously a lot fewer tenants begging for a living on the street.

However, the number of tenants who sign up for helpers outside the Zou family and the Hua family every day is increasing day by day.

Zou Laipeng looked at all this in front of him with a puzzled expression.

"Brother, isn't that shuttle not profitable?"

"That's right."

"Then why is there a shortage of so many people in our family?"

"The shuttle can't make so much money, but our dad can blow it!"

"Others think that this is the hand recruited by the shuttle, this person is a lot, don't let others know about the big thing that broke my father, hurry up and endorse it."

Zou Laipeng was stuffed back into the room by his brother to study.

And all this that happened in Xishan has become a nightmare for all the gentry in the world.

Poor tenants don't just have the option of not farming.

These businessmen also provided them with a way to live, and even heard that they were living better than before!

Gohama Village.

A group of filial sons and grandsons of the Wu family will not even be able to see cloth.

"Remove all the rags! It's all these tricks and tricks that have harmed my Wu family like this! ”

"Who stipulates that the funeral must be clothed! Change the hemp for Lao Tzu! ”

Several elders of the Wu family couldn't help but cry when they looked at the white cloth scattered all over the ground.

"Your Majesty! Just open your eyes! When people go to weave, can they go without food? ”

"In the long run, the country will not be a country!"

Water has a source, trees have roots, and no matter how absurd it is, it has a certain degree of rationality in a special historical context.

It doesn't have to be just ignorance or ignorance.

On the contrary, there are so many things to worry about.

It is impossible for a person, no matter what kind of work he is engaged in, not to eat grain, and a person can plant so many acres of land at most, and one acre of land can produce so much grain at most.

Xishan's whipping method seems to have become a flood beast in the eyes of many people, among them there are upright people who are limited by their own limitations, and there are also gentlemen whose own interests are damaged.

Their voices are gradually converging into two words that are as simple as the extreme.

Stop it!

(End of chapter)