Chapter 8 The Wind Comes First

Matsue Prefecture. Xu family.

Xu Chunshen's dreamy family history made the Xu family the biggest powerful in Songjiang.

Even the largest mansion in the entire Songjiang is the Xu family.

It's just that the current grandfather of the Xu family, after receiving a piece of news from Suzhou Mansion, is full of sorrow. Ordered his children to invite the major families in Songjiang Mansion to discuss important matters.

After a dozen or so arrived, Xu Chunshen ordered his disciples to retreat, closed the door, passed a letter in his hand to the people below, and said, "Take a look." ”

These dozen or so people are all the leaders of Songjiang Mansion, but this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that these people all make a living from the cotton industry. Or rather, they make a living from the textile industry.

Even if the main business is not the textile industry, it is also closely related to the textile industry, such as the Shen family in Chongming, his family is the boat gang, transporting cotton from Shandong to Songjiang, and transporting cloth from Songjiang to various places, most of which are Shen families.

And there is one more thing, that is, the sailors of the Shen family, who occasionally act as everyone's big hand. When encountering something that requires the use of force, these people can invite a group of people from the Shen family to do things with a strip two feet wide.

In the case of the brutal development of business, such a thing is inevitable.

One of them frowned and asked, "What do you mean, Lord Governor?" ”

What is the seat of governance in Jiangsu Province?

Many people think that in Nanjing, it is not right.

It is impossible to be in Nanjing, because in the time and space of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing has special political significance, and it is an administrative unit at the same level as Jiangsu, or even one level higher.

How could Jiangsu Province put its administrative office in Nanjing.

After a period of competition between Yangzhou and Suzhou, it is best to finalize Suzhou.

Without him, Suzhou is too rich.

This letter from Suzhou came from the yamen of the governor of Jiangsu.

Xu Chunshen said: "What do you mean? Isn't it that Wang Tiemian is coming, he wants us to clean up and finish up. Don't be caught by Wang Tiemian. Otherwise, he will just fall into the trap and ignore us. ”

"In this way, we will send one million taels to Suzhou every year, and this is ------" I don't know who said it.

For a while, these people talked a lot. There are many complaints.

In fact, this is also the norm in this era.

Although Zhu Qizhen has released a lot of thresholds, the invisible threshold is still there, if Xian Jing hadn't married a princess, the Xian family's industry would not have been as developed as it is today.

It seems that there are countless people in the Jiangnan area who have millions of family assets, but if you count them carefully, every one who can be rumored to have millions of family assets may not really have millions, but they all really have a background.

The businessmen who did not have a backstage were all defeated in the cruel competition.

Not to mention anything else, with commercial disputes, some people can directly kill your whole family, how can you talk to others

Contend?

Even in this era of barbaric development, the life of small and medium-sized businessmen has become more difficult, and it has not changed much. More is squeezed by big businessmen with production efficiency.

Of course, this is not to say that there are no ordinary people who have become rich in this era.

But if you can change the courtyard to gather a family fortune of thousands of taels or ten thousand taels, it is no problem, but if there are more, there is no backstage.

This is not a blessing, but a curse.

Just look at the Xu family.

Although the more than one million taels sent to the governor's yamen were not only from the Xu family, but also from everyone here, it was also the Xu family who accounted for the majority.

But what is sold for hundreds of thousands of taels every year?

However, it was just a little bit of wind in advance. Not to mention that the Xu family gave silver, there was more than just one family. Although the Xu family's industry is not small, Xu Chunshen knows that although his family has a lot of property, it is far less than outsiders think.

No, he doesn't make that much.

It was never difficult for him to make money. If the family property is retained, the Xu family will have to pay for fifty percent of the annual income. Xu Chunshen's plan to tie up is not only the Jiangsu governor Yamen's family.

Xu Chunshen said: "Okay, what's the use of saying this? In the past half a year, I have restrained my children, don't make any moths, and wait for Wang Tiemian to leave. ”

Wang Shu's experience as a magistrate in the past few years has created a very good reputation for him.

In fact, the people called Wang Shu Wang Qingtian. There is a nursery rhyme in history: "Two capitals and twelve provinces, there is only one king forgiveness." But now, although this is not the case, the people still respect Wang Shu very much.

And the heroes and heroes everywhere can't say anything, they all secretly call him Iron Mask, and even the dignitaries and dignitaries who folded in the hands of Wang Shu, as well as two county kings.

It makes many people feel that they can't be provoked.

Therefore, as soon as the news of Wang Shu's descent to Jiangnan came, it shocked many people, large and small.

It also said that the imperial court would levy a commercial tax. Brother Xu, what should I do? A businessman said.

"yes? This year, the cotton production in the north has decreased, and my looms have been empty for a while. ”

"Yes, in the past two years, cotton cloth from all over the country has not been sold. You can only go to the South Seas, but how much can you eat in the South Seas? ”

"When this is fatal, there will be taxes, and no one will live."

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Xu Chunshen listened to the complaints below, gently rubbed the bridge of his nose, pinched his sour eyes, and fell into contemplation for a while.

Xu Chunshen was able to seize the opportunity, jumped up, and became the leader of the cloth industry, naturally he has the ability and means, especially in business, and is even much more sensitive than Xian Jing.

He had actually felt an ominous aura.

That's the feeling of saturation in the Ming market.

Of course, Xu Chunshen doesn't know this statement.

But this feeling is there, and the cloth is becoming more and more unsellable.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are the needs of people, and Songjiang cloth is the world, and Songjiang cloth is also thought to be cheap and of good quality.

However, there were many disasters in the north, and although the imperial court tried its best to provide disaster relief, the consumption capacity of the north was also greatly reduced, and they had to face the competition of Tianjin's cloth industry.

After all, in the north, any profit is under the shadow of the behemoth of Shaofu.

The largest market of Songjiang cloth industry is the southern provinces, as for the overseas Nanyang, Japan and other places, it is just a supplement.

The explosive development of Songjiang cloth industry comes from three points, the first is the factory system, which improves the efficiency of this large division of labor, and the second is the spontaneous improvement of various textile machinery.

Thirdly, before that, Songjiang was not without a cloth industry.

After all, the Songjiang cloth industry was rooted in the Yuan Dynasty, and the famous figure was Huang Daopo.

These three points have created the rapid rise of Songjiang cloth industry.

But any expansion has an end, and the surplus of products is something that many people have never experienced, but after the arrival of this large-scale industrial production model, it is something that everyone has to experience.

It's not that Songjiang cloth has been so much that every Ming people have worn it, but those who really have purchasing power will buy it for a while, and those who don't have purchasing power will naturally not be able to buy it.

As a result, the competition within the Songjiang cloth industry has also begun to intensify.

Although Xu Chunshen contacted everyone to keep warm, he already felt that the internal contradictions were becoming more and more acute and difficult to integrate.

Xu Chunshen did not have a specific knowledge structure to analyze all this, but it did not prevent him from feeling this.

What if you just feel it?

Xu Chunshen could only take one step at a time, he coughed twice, and said: "Bu Nai is what the people need, Emperor Taizu Gao is not allowed to levy high taxes on the things that the people need, and he will not levy more taxes if he wants to come to the imperial court." ”

"And Wang Tiemian also loves the people like a son, as long as we talk about Xiang Xiang together, I think he can understand our hardships, but the court is difficult after all, and we still need to have money to pay and make a strong contribution."

Xu Chunshen's high-sounding words naturally made many people not very satisfied. After all, Xu Chunshen's family has a big business, and although the situation is not very good now, it can still hold on.

But for others, not necessarily.

It's just that the biggest advantage of this kind of high-sounding words is that although it can't solve the actual problem, there will never be anything wrong.

Although these cloth merchants were full of complaints, they did not dare to speak disrespectfully to the imperial court in front of the public. No matter how much you complain, you can only press it in your stomach.

Xu Chunshen wanted to raise a sum of money, and when Wang Shu arrived, he would donate money to the imperial court. Although everyone was unwilling, they had to grit their teeth for it.