Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 292
When Sun Xin and others entered the shop, someone greeted him immediately. Sun Xin saw that the man was dressed up, so he recognized that he was not a Han Chinese.

The man also looked at Sun Xin and the others curiously. Among the merchants in this border town, there are very few Han people. Most of them are Koreans. Their business is small and their business attitude is very immature. The guy tried to speak Korean After a few sentences, I found that since it didn't make sense, I didn't bother to say hello, so I simply asked Sun Xin and others to check the goods in the store by themselves.

Sun Xin and Le He took a closer look, and found that most of the products sold in the store were leathers of various grades. Le He touched them one by one, and then said to Sun Xin: "The quality of the leather goods here is good, the leather boards are thick, and the hair is also thick. There are many, but the tanning is not good, if it can be made into dry skin and sent to Dengzhou for tanning, it will definitely sell for a price."

Sun Xin, however, shook his head: "The smelly and dirty dry skin will definitely rot after being sent to sea ships for a few months. I think it is convenient to open a tanning factory here."

After discussing it, they went to see the linen yarn. The linen yarn factory has been open for so long and they have a very deep understanding of the level of yarn making in this era. They both shook their heads when they grabbed the linen yarn and looked at it.

This place is not the main production area of ​​hemp. Perhaps it is because the resources of the jute species are too poor. The fibers of the hemp yarn are all thin and short, and they will be shattered when pulled lightly.

"This thing is not even a third-class product in our supervisory committee factory. If our factory produces such a product, it will be judged as unqualified."

Hearing Wu Song's complaints, Sun Xin called the clerk of the store, and asked him the price, but they couldn't understand each other after talking for a long time. Finally, the clerk took a catty of hemp yarn and put it on the scale. , Fifteen big coins were discharged on the counter, indicating that this is the price of a catty of linen yarn, and better quality yarn is even more expensive.

Sun Xin and the others were startled when they saw it. Hemp yarn of this quality could not even be sold for six renminbi in Dengzhou at this time, but it can be sold for fifteen renminbi here.

Everyone knows it well: as long as the hemp yarn produced in Dengzhou can be transported here, it will definitely be profitable.

Walking out of this shop, Sun Xin took a few people into the clothing appraisal stall on the corner of the street.

For people of this age, clothes are valuables at home, and they can be worn for more than ten or twenty years if they are mended. If something really happens, they will sell their clothes to this kind of clothing store for some money.

This kind of business model is often operated by Han people, and the people standing at the stalls look like Han people, so he greeted Sun Xing and others when he saw them coming.

Several people chatted. Although the accents were very different, they could still understand each other's situation with some gestures.

Sun Xin found a few tattered thick linen clothes and asked the shop owner the price. The price given by the shop surprised Sun Xin and the others again. It was at least twice as expensive as the asking price in Dengzhou and Liao.

After coming out of the market, both Sun Xin and Lehe couldn't help showing excited expressions on their faces.Pan Jinlian had just decided to learn how to do business. Seeing that the two were so happy, she didn't understand.

She approached Sun Xin and asked, "Are their clothes expensive? Why are you so happy?"

"It's not just expensive," Sun Xin explained with a smile. "The key is that what we saw just now are the most ragged sackcloths. This place is very cold in winter, and even serfs have to wear some clothes to wrap themselves around their bodies. They have to pay for this money." out."

Sun Xin pointed to a poorly dressed man on the side of the road. That man was wrapped in a thick linen garment that they had picked out at the clothing appraisal stall before. The linen was so thin that he could only use a straw rope to tighten his waist tightly. , turned the sackcloth into a pocket, and stuffed a lot of hay and the like from the neck down to keep out the cold, so that he could barely walk in the cold winter.

"A piece of sackcloth in this place can be sold for such a high price. If we can sell them good clothes at half the price, even serfs can afford them, and there must be a market. Even if you are a cannibal Jurchen nobles, you don’t want your slaves to freeze to death for no reason, do you? If you can spend a little money to keep them warm through the winter, you will pay for it.”

Pan Jinlian finally understood when she heard it, "It means that as long as there is a market, I am not afraid."

Sun Xin nodded, just like later generations, the weaker the industrial base, the easier it is to become the target of dumping in industrialized areas. Now the Jin country is so impoverished, and the desire for the goods of the Song Dynasty is simply endless, enough to consume them in Dengzhou. out of stock.

After Sun Xin explained Pan Jinlian's face also brought joy, and she asked in a low voice along the way, and learned from Sun Xin about building a cargo station and selling things. With a flick, Pan Jinlian, who found the target, was already full of energy.

The next day, Li San and Deng Fei, who had been out all night, ran back from the outskirts of the city.

As soon as the two entered the house, they began to find a pen and paper to record the information obtained during this visit. The two ran outside the city and asked about the living conditions of many Han serfs. They wanted to establish a supervisory committee here in the future. Branches, it's all preparation in advance.

After they sorted it out, Deng Fei and Li San went to report to Sun Xin at night.

"Not only Han Chinese may join the supervisory committee, but also many Xi people are likely to be absorbed by our supervisory committee."

Deng Fei understood Sun Xin's idea of ​​eclectic demotion of talents. As long as he entered the Supervisory Council and stood under the banner of the Protectorate Army, no matter what nationality you were, you were all brothers for the same goal.

Sun Xin was a little surprised: "Didn't Xi people never mix with Han people?"

"That was the situation in the Liao Kingdom. In the Liao Kingdom, the Khitan people organized the Westerners together into households. Although many Xi people were not good at managing their industries and went bankrupt and became slaves of the Han people, but in their hearts, the crowds of Xi people must be watching. Those who are not Han Chinese, it is completely impossible to win them to join the Supervisory Committee with the Han people in Liao Kingdom, but it is a different situation in Jin Kingdom.”

Deng Fei explained: "Because the Jin people and the Khitan people are against each other, even Xi Ren, who was looked up to by the Khitan people in the Liao Kingdom, has become the target of the Jin people's suppression. Now the Khitan people in the city that the Jin people defeated People either ran away, or they were caught as slaves by the people of the Kingdom of Jin, and these Xi people ran away without knowing where to go, and they were often turned into serfs of the Jurchen nobles. Many people’s fields in their homes The pasture was directly snatched by the Jurchens."

"Although they have the same ethnic name as the Xi people of the Liao state, the Xi people of the Liao state at least have the ability to herd and grow terraced fields, but the Xi people here are still very primitive. Farming is just slash-and-burn farming, and grazing is even more impossible. Speaking of which, they were just tribesmen, unlike the Xi people of the Liao Kingdom who had been sinicized as early as the Tang Dynasty, and basically knew how to get along with the Khitan people. The Xi people here neither knew how to organize production nor knew how to fight. Originally Being bullied by the Bohai people and the Han people, and now being bullied by the Jurchen, there is really no place for redress, and now among the serfs, they are often closer to the Han people."

Sun Xin nodded: "So these people can be united."

Deng Fei added: "I also deliberately inquired. The Han people here are not uneducated, but their status is quite high. According to them, they were originally good citizens in this Liao city, because The Jurchens suddenly called over. The Jurchens tribe had few people. In order to strengthen their power, they randomly allocated many Han people's fields to their Menganmou customers. The Jurchens occupy a large area of ​​land and pay light taxes. It is a good field, but after the Han people's fields are violated by them, there is no place to appeal for grievances, and the Han people have resentment in their hearts."

Sun Xin nodded: With resentment and stronger production capacity at the same time, how could he not want to resist? No wonder the state of Jin has reached the point where the country has been defeated after more than 50 years of moving south.

He asked: "Do you have an idea of ​​how our Supervisory Committee would like to be established?"

Deng Fei thought for a while and nodded, "There is a vague way."

"Tell me."

Sun Xin asked Deng Fei and Li San to sit down, Li San took the initiative to pour tea for them, and Deng Fei began to talk carefully.

"The Jin people's management of the Han people here is very strict, and I asked, not only in this small border city, but also in Huanglong Mansion and Xianzhou. They want to be under such strict management. Organizing a supervisory committee of the Han people will definitely violate the taboo of the Jin people. I thought it would be better to establish a joint venture with the Jin people here, like in Dulonggang and Zengtou City. Zhongduo absorbed Han workers, formed a supervisory committee among the workers, and used the factories to slowly expand its power.”

"Our factory also needs to form a partnership with the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin, so that it can be protected."

Sun Xin thought for a while and nodded: "But this speed is not easy to control."

Deng Fei said: "That's right, the Kingdom of Jin's defense against the Han people is quite deep. So we must find a way to produce something that the Kingdom of Jin urgently needs, so that even if they are guarding against us, they will not be able to easily get rid of us. "

Sun Xin agreed: "This method is good. I saw a lot of fur growing here in their market these days, but the quality of the fur is so poor that there is no way to sell it for a price. Let's just set up a tannery. Being able to export to the Song Dynasty will definitely make the Jurchens pay attention."

After thinking about it, Deng Fei's eyes brightened, and he nodded, "That's right, the tannery is very good. The quality of their tannery here is very poor. Let's not use too high technology. We just need to invite some tannery from Song Dynasty. tanners can greatly improve the quality of the pelts they produce.”

The more Sun Xin thought about it, the more he felt that there was a way: "Anyway, we have to use a large amount of hemp yarn to sell here. It will cost a lot to return with a full ship and an empty ship. At that time, it is just right to put the fur here back to Dasong, which saves cost and saves money. Can earn two businesses."

"As long as the linen yarn business is in our hands, we will always have an advantage in freight rates, unless they don't use our linen yarn."

Sun Xin said with a smile: "Except for our Dengzhou, there is no other place in the world that can have such cheap linen yarn. It doesn't depend on them at all!"

(End of this chapter)