The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 453 Xu Family Weaving Factory

It has to be said that it is a risky thing for Wang Shouren to be the vanguard of implementing the New Deal.

With his personality, he is bound to cut through the mess quickly.If you encounter an iron-hearted confrontation between the gentry, it is actually easy to form a stalemate.

But Xie Shen still decided to take a gamble, first of all, those who implement the New Deal must be those he trusts.At present, there seems to be no more suitable candidate except Wang Shouren.

Secondly, he just wanted Wang Shouren to make an example to those gentry.If you are more open-minded, you will be entertained with good wine and tea in accordance with the New Deal.If they obey the New Deal and oppose the New Deal everywhere, then they must be severely punished.

Although Wang Shouren is not as good as Hai Rui in terms of being unselfish, he still doesn't give in.

Of course, the status of imperial envoy still helped him a lot.If he didn't have this identity, would those gentry be obedient to him and not talk about it.Zhao Ji, the prefect of Songjiang, is likely to show his face here.

Above the officialdom, the most important thing is the rank status.

As the saying goes, the governor bullies the governor, the governor bullies the magistrate, and the magistrate bullies the county magistrate. When it comes to the county magistrate, I am afraid that he can only bully the low-level officials in the county.

But with the status of imperial envoy, this hierarchical status will be broken.Regardless of your original rank, as long as you add the status of imperial envoy, even the governor and governor will have to politely say hello when they see you.

Otherwise, with such a low rank as the censor, why do the local prefectural and county officials have to fawn on him wherever he goes?
For Wang Shouren, the Qingzhang land has now come to an end.There must be omissions, but we should not stand still just because there are omissions.

The implementation of the New Deal relies on one breath, and this breath must not be vented.

The reform of the business tax system is related to the foundation of the country, and the court had discussed it several times before Wang Shouren left Beijing.In the end, His Majesty the Emperor approved Xie Shen's request, and replaced the previous one-size-fits-all tax of thirty ones with a stepped tax.

In fact, the emperor was also very dissatisfied with the previous business tax model.But first of all, this was decided by the ancestors, and he couldn't bring it up by himself.Second, he knew that if he wanted to mobilize the commercial tax, the first person to jump out to oppose it would be the Manchao Gongqing whom he relied on.

Therefore, he needs an opportunity and an agent to speak out for him.

Xie Shen's appearance was just right.

After all, the emperor is also very poor.

The total annual revenue of the Ming Dynasty was so little. Seeing that there were only a few hundred thousand taels of silver left in the treasury, the emperor had to endure the Minister of Industry and the Ministry of Household crying for poverty even to build a leopard house, and his ears were worn out.

When the emperor lived such a useless life, there was no one else.

To change this situation, nothing more than increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

The effect of throttling is not great, even if the emperor saves, he can't save a few money, let alone the emperor doesn't want to save at all.

Then it can only be open source.

These merchants are rich in wealth and making money every day, but they hide it and don't want to serve the country. If they don't use knives against them, who will they attack?

It can be said that Xie Shen's proposal was mentioned in the emperor's heart, and it is not difficult to understand that it can be successfully implemented.

As soon as the news of the establishment of the factory came out, it immediately caused an uproar in Huating County.

The Xu family, the Wu family and other big families moved their minds one after another and convened various houses in the clan to discuss.

For them, what they have is capital, and what they lack is a channel.

Take the best-selling silk, satin and brocade cloth of Su Song’s generation as an example. Except for the scattered Songjiang cloth for civilian use, most of the sales channels are in the hands of the imperial court.

The Weaving Bureau was established for this purpose, and the emperor sent internal supervisors to Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places to supervise the weaving.

Merchants who cooperate with the Weaving Bureau need to complete the amount of weaving according to the quota stipulated by the court every year.This method of work is very intensive, and the weavers suffer unspeakably.If they fail to meet the quota on time, they will be severely punished.

The biggest problem with this cooperation model is not this, but the profits that can be obtained are too meager.

Although the price given by the imperial court was only slightly lower than the market price, the eunuch who presided over the affairs of the Weaving Bureau still needed a large sum of money as a tribute.In this way, there is very little money that can be obtained, and what these rich businessmen want is nothing more than small profits but quick turnover.

But if he could set up his own factory, he would save the filial money to the eunuchs, and he could sell the cloth and satin at the market price. Doubling his income would not be a dream.

Businessmen pursue profit, and they can best grasp the word profit.

When a good opportunity is in front of them, they will not miss it.

Soon, the big households in Huating County, headed by the Wu family and the Xu family, expressed their willingness to invest in the establishment of factories.In exchange, they supported the commercial tax reform proposed by Xianzun.

After their calculations, even after deducting the extra business tax, they can still earn more money than being an imperial businessman.Do everything early.Now that Huating County is a pilot of the New Deal, they can enjoy the most benefits by setting up factories at this time.

When the New Deal was implemented in the Ming Dynasty, there were so many people setting up factories that it would be extremely difficult to make money.

Of course, this is not to say that these wealthy businessmen will immediately throw money enthusiastically.Before setting up the factory, they have to do various investigations to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Finally, one month later, the first private weaving factory run by the Xu family opened.

The Xu family already controlled nearly [-]% of the Songjiang cloth company, and opening a weaving factory was a matter of course.

As the first batch of families to set up factories, the Xu family naturally received a lot of policy support, such as halving the tax paid in the first year and so on.

Xu Tan, the head of the Xu family, was very satisfied with this.In his opinion, Wang Xianzun is not so old-fashioned.The imperial court wanted to make money, so his Xu family also wanted to make money.Only when both parties have made money can they continue to cooperate.Otherwise, if the court earns all the money, but the Xu family can only eat the rest, then there is no need for cooperation, and he would rather not earn this bad money.

Xu Tan is not worried about the sales of the goods produced by the weaving factory.With the influence of the Xu family, not to mention Huating County, even Songjiang Prefecture and Nanzhili can be easily sold.

The only thing that worried Xu Tan was the weavers.Although the Xu family was engaged in weaving before, it was only a small-scale production in a handicraft workshop, and there were only hundreds of weavers in their hands.

After Ke established the factory, the scale of Xujia Weaving Factory doubled several times, and the number of weavers needed also increased greatly.

According to Xu Tan's conservative estimate, at least nearly a thousand weavers are needed.

This is not a small amount. Even if Xu Tan has doubled the monthly payment, he only recruited 500 people before opening the factory.Xu Tan was naturally not satisfied with this.He ordered his confidants to go to other counties in Songjiang Prefecture to recruit weavers.The reason for not considering the weavers in Suzhou Prefecture is not because of anything else, but because of the local complex of these weavers.

It is indeed difficult for them to leave their hometowns and go from Suzhou to Songjiang to weave cloth.

If it weren't for this reason, Xu Tan would naturally be happy to see Suzhou weavers with a higher level of weaving and brocade weaving come to Xujia Weaving Factory.

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