Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 359

From the Qihuo army to Jiangnan, the two major business groups have been in fierce friction, and sparks erupted from time to time. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the confrontation finally eased.

First of all, the Beishang Group made a compromise. Huishang’s Tairitianpiaohao really quickly established itself in the big cities in the north like the sun rising to the sky on Mount Tai, and quickly transferred the money accumulated by the Yangzhou Salt Industry. The loans were taken out and occupied a large area of ​​the market. The operations of Jinshang bank and Huishang bank were completely staggered. Thanks to Song Qingshu's efforts, Jiaduobao bank also blossomed in the Suzhou-Hangzhou-Changjiang area, and the bank was still implemented by him. The business strategy is to collect more and lend less, and almost all the profits of the lending industry are given to Huizhou merchants.

And just after the New Year's Eve, Song Qingshu gave Huizhou merchants another big opening gift. The timber industry in Daming is almost all controlled by Huizhou merchants. Orders of up to one million were placed.

In fact, there is no way to do this. The big wood used for shipbuilding needs to be dried in the shade for at least ten years. If you make the wood yourself, the Ming Dynasty will perish, and Song Qingshu may not be able to build a boat. The wood that made Song Qingshu bow his head.

As a large amount of wood was transported to Yingtian, Song Qingshu's cannery was also started up. Although the ship has not been built yet, there is a fishing industry in the Yangtze River Basin. Although the nearby sea fishing is all small boats, there are many of them. , These together are enough to support the operation of the cannery for a while.

It is also next to the Longjiang shipyard, imitating the factories of later generations, Song Qingshu built a long wall with stones, and built factories inside. It seems that those Shanxi merchants have also called Huizhou merchants, and they can play if they want to play. For the big ones, a total of five production lines were rolled out at the same time, and thousands of workers were also employed.

The fresh fish collected were transported to the factory in a four-wheeled carriage. Hundreds of workers immediately opened up the guts with knives, and were immediately retreated to the back. Bags and bags of seasonings were thrown directly into the pot, and workers in white coats leaned against the side of the pot, using a large spoon to scoop out the prepared fish and soup, and packed them in thick bamboo joints.

The next step is the most critical step. There are no modern food preservatives these days. The canned food invented by the French in [-] is sterilized by high temperature and then stored in a semi-vacuum. The factory behind is even hotter and unsealed. The bamboo tube cans are steam sterilized in a huge steamer, and then they are taken out while they are hot, and the lids of the bamboo slices, which are also hot, are quickly snapped on and sealed with wax.

When it is hot, the air also expands, and when it cools down, the air is compressed again, forming a sealed and oxygen-deficient environment inside the can. Such cans can be stored for at least half a year, which is enough to be transported from the southeast to the northwest, and even to Sichuan in the west. .

The final price of a can is [-] yuan, and it is sold by grocery stores all over the country. Not to mention, as soon as this product came out, it first became a hot seller in the vicinity of Yingtianfu.

If you cook by yourself, you need to light a fire, smoke, add salt and vinegar, which is very troublesome. If you buy it directly, you save a lot of cooking time and effort, and it is more affordable in comparison. Yingtianfu, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places have a large number of The machine households and salt households can also be regarded as the primitive working class, and they have formed a huge consumer group.

"The canal is too full. We have canned food here, but we can't make it up. If it is transported to the capital and trafficked to Liaodong, it will be a lot of money! These Hui barbarians have robbed all the positions of the tank boats. !"

Following Song Qingshu to inspect the production workshop, he walked away from Cao Sanxi and complained endlessly like an old lady, while Song Qingshu smiled helplessly.

"Old Cao, don't worry, the construction of our Dafu boat has already started since the beginning of spring. In May, the five big boats of Caiyuanguangjinfu are expected to be produced, and one will be broadcast at that time. Let's not take the canal, and go directly to the sea. It can be transported to Tianjin in [-] hours, and then all the way to Shandong, trafficked to the Central Plains, and sold to the Liaodong Army all the way, good things, do we still have to worry about selling them?"

"Hey! Don't throw away those fish intestines, fish viscera, they are all dried by me, I still have magical uses!"

Before he finished speaking, Song Qingshu rushed out again anxiously. Cao Sanxi couldn't help but shook his head with a smile. When we first met, he really didn't pay attention to this dude-like guy. Who knew it was just like that The seemingly inconspicuous young man can come up with ideas that even his old businessman could not think of, and now he has become the business leader of half of the Ming Dynasty.

Fish maw can be used to make glue, fish skin can be used to make wallets, fish bones and fish offal can be dried and ground into powder, and they can also be used to raise chickens and pigs.

But at this moment, outside the factory building, there was a sudden messy sound, and then the sound of beating and cursing from the security guards at the factory gate came in again, and Cao Sanxi couldn't help being shocked when he heard it.

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"What is this called?"

Fortunately, the fence was built back then, and Song Qingshu couldn't help the veins twitching on his forehead when he lay on the top of the wall and watched the thousands of protesters below the wall.

This cannery has only been open for a month, and I don't know how to offend people. Suddenly, so many local children came, gathered around the gate, shouting and yelling to rush in. Behind the gate with iron bars, more than 20 security guards desperately dragged He opened the door, afraid that the door would be crushed, Cao Sanxi, who was watching the turbulent crowd, was also dumbfounded.

"Boss, quickly notify the government and let the Nanjing Imperial Army send people to disperse these guys!"

"The key is to get out!"

The whole factory was tightly surrounded. Song Qingshu has been in power for so many years, and he has never encountered such a embarrassing situation. If the officers and soldiers came to kill him, throw down a few explosive bags, and then the revolver opened the way, he was confident that he would kill it easily. A bloody road came, but this melon-eating crowd who didn't know what happened, he really didn't dare to act rashly, who knows what kind of moths will be caused?
"My lord, I also know some people in Yingtian, why don't the villains go out and find someone to deal with these troublemakers?"

The person who spoke was Shi Lang, captain of the personal guard. Don’t look at this guy who is only eighteen or nineteen years old, but the village is poor. He has run out since he was 13 years old. The surge of refugees in the late Ming Dynasty formed a big river and lake. With loyalty, he can be regarded as an old driver, but it is a pity that he was killed in Anqing City, and he was caught by Song Qingshu when he invited his friends to Anqingping.

On the other hand, he is not considered a failure. Following Song Qingshu, he has changed from a bastard to a sixth-rank military officer of the imperial court. The commander-in-chief Anqing in the begging army is still the commander-in-chief. He has reached the sky in one step, so this person is also loyal to Song Qingshu dedicated.

However, Song Qingshu, who gave this suggestion, also had blue veins on his forehead. He was a handsome man, and he started as a thief.He can't afford this face!
Just as he was struggling with kung fu, suddenly there were a lot of shouts behind him, and Song Qingshu was even more confused when he heard it, again?

This time, it was our own people who came. Somebody ran back to the Longjiang Shipyard and yelled, someone besieged our commander, and the shipyard immediately exploded.

Almost all the workers in the Longjiang Shipyard were brought out by Song Qingshu from Yinghuo Mountain. In the mountains, facing the mountains and back to the sky, they couldn’t earn a tael of silver a year. They came out with Song Qingshu, one tael a month. These workers were still local adults. Those who were selected into the local militia had a little loyalty to Song Qingshu, and now they are even more loyal.

Without saying a word, these people dropped their work, turned around and ran out with hammers, picks and mallets in hand, and saw this large group of people rushing in from behind the local households surrounding the cannery. Like falling leaves, he easily smashed the locals twice as many as himself.

When Qi Jiguang fought against the Japanese, the local guards were vulnerable. He invited the imperial court and recruited Shaoxing soldiers and Lishui soldiers to join the army. As a result, in the battle of Zhoushan, Qi Jiguang's new recruits suffered a disastrous defeat, with more than 3000 casualties, while the Japanese pirates only suffered thousands of casualties. It is a sad reminder. On the way to the village, Qi Jiguang witnessed the Yiwu miners fighting with weapons, so he recruited his Qi family army from the impoverished Yiwu.

This place is a bit similar to the old days. Regardless of the poor nutrition of the workers in Yinghuo Mountain, they seem to be much shorter than these local children, but the fierceness is not comparable to that of the local children. The place in the rich area of ​​Tianfu is really unbearable. In a blink of an eye, Song Qingshu and Cao Sanxi were dumbfounded. They had already run away, leaving empty shoes.

Listening to the yelling and cursing of the workers under his own hands, Song Qingshu froze for a long time, and then jumped out a few words in a stupid way.

"Hurry up, hurry up and watch the reward!"

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The cannery resumed production again, and the fighting was really impressive. Dozens of nearby families were scared and moved away, but Song Qingshu, who had returned to his residence, was not happy.

It's the Donglin Party making trouble again!
It has to be said that these guys not only have great influence in the imperial court, but also have great influence in Nanzhili. Today's matter is about Mao Xiang, Hou Fangyu, Fang Yizhi and other Fushe The leader made it up, and the matter is related to the recent business of Jiaduobao Company.

A few days ago, Beishang almost bought up all the food in Lianghuai, which caused the price of food in the south of the Yangtze River to skyrocket, and the establishment of the canning factory robbed the poor of the most commonly eaten protein fish. Raising his arms and blaming the cannery for everything, tens of thousands of citizens in Yingtianfu surrounded Song Qingshu's factory angrily.

There is another important reason for this. The workers recruited by the cannery are all from Yinghuoshan, and they did not recruit workers from the local area. Many people are jealous.

Not only that, Hou Fangyu and Chen Zhenxiu also wrote to the imperial court, impeaching Song Qingshu to seize the food and livelihood of the people. In the past few days, there have been news from Beijing that it seems that the censor will be sent to Nanjing to investigate him. I am not afraid of the investigation. Check, but I don't know how much money it will cost to send these gods of wealth.

"What's the matter? You can't come with the recruitment notice. This is no longer a job, and you're still on the pole!" Sitting in the office with a sullen face, Song Qingshu knocked on the table depressed and growled...

(End of this chapter)