It is no coincidence that the textile industry gave birth to the Industrial Revolution.

Because textiles are needed by everyone regardless of national class, unlike tea and porcelain, which are severely limited by consumer preferences and affluence.

Moreover, textiles are easy to wear, and the market demand is stable and long-lasting. Unlike porcelain and woodware, once owned, it lasts forever, but because the use period is too long, it restricts the market.

A large and stable market brings a large number of craftsmen. The relatively mechanized repetitive work makes machine production possible. The craftsman realized the burst of inspiration through the observation and improvement of the production process and tools day after day.

Zhao Hao himself has a very conservative attitude towards the production of machines replacing people. After all, the biggest problem of Daming is the surplus of labor, and large-scale manual production is in line with the current status quo of Daming.

No one dares to say what kind of consequences will be brought about by rashly taking the road of machine production. If it exacerbates the unemployment of the craftsmen and causes civil unrest, then everything will be closed.

But in any case, we must admit that the light industry represented by the textile industry is the direction and main force of development. It can not only greatly promote the arrival of the business revolution, but also create a huge number of jobs for upstream and downstream industries. It is the number one pillar industry replicated by Zhao Hao in the Jiangnan region.

The center of the textile industry is naturally in Susong, but the pulp and dyeing industry, as the most important downstream industry, should it continue to stay in Wuhu, or is it better to take back Susong? There has been a heated debate within the group.

The faction represented by Jiangnan Textile insists on 'dyeing and dyeing nearby, and ordering unification'...... Speaking of human words, it is to destroy the pulp dyeing industry in Wuhu.

Jiangnan Group does not only rely on performance, but allows its subsidiaries to temporarily not make money or even lose money in order to achieve a certain strategic goal. This made Liu Zhengqi, Xu Zhixiang and others see the hope of easily solving the Wuhu pulp dyeing industry.

As long as they don't release it to Wuhu for half a year, the large and small pulp dyeing workshops in Wuhu will surrender one after another, even if there is a giant like Ruan Bi in charge, it will not help.

But this plan was sharply opposed by members of the strategic decision-making committee, especially Xu Wei.

Xu Weixian followed the usual practice and ridiculed these Dongting businessmen for having no other skills, so they would rely on their monopoly position to get stuck in their necks. In the past, no one was allowed to sell rice to Kunshan, and now they are not allowed to sell Buwuhu, and they have not grown at all. No wonder he can only jump up and down on Su Song, and he can't compare with Hui Shang.

The three of them in the Dongting Chamber of Commerce were red-faced, but this belonged to their black history in the group, and they didn't dare to refute it at all. can only secretly scold this Xu fat man for not opening any pot and mentioning which pot, and he has to be humbly taught and criticized on his face.

Wang Mengxiang also believes that Gongzi's goal is to 'integrate Jiangnan and achieve common prosperity'. Jiangnan Group asked for half a life in Wuhu as soon as it appeared, what did the officials and gentry of the remaining nine prefectures, fifty-four counties and five prefectures think?

It's not conducive to unity, and it's a big loss because of a small one.

In the end, the Strategic Decision-making Committee rejected the proposal of Jiangnan Textile Corporation. Zhao Hao also followed the committee's decision and decided not to put pressure on Wuhu first. For him, this trip is enough as long as it can reach a strategic cooperation with the Wuhu Pulp Dyeing Association.

As for the future, I'll talk about it later. Anyway, even if he doesn't have to use Songjiang Buka's neck, there is a way for Ruan Bi to beg him and take him to play.

To put it bluntly, Zhao Gongzi's visit to Jiangnan this time is a goodwill trip to show the benevolence of Jiangnan Group, and it is the greatest success to create a model of cooperation between several groups and local governments and counties.

So he gave Ruan Bi very lenient conditions, how to choose depends on the other party, Jiangnan Group doesn't matter.

His attitude of not bullying the weak and respecting the weak side made Ruan Bi greatly moved and heartbroken, and finally understood why those Jiangnan clans were willing to follow him.

Ruan Bi thanked Zhao Hao again, and asked him to give himself a little time to discuss with the guild people, and try to give him a letter before Zhao Hao left Wuhu.

Zhao Hao persuaded him not to worry, as long as he had a general intention, and then Jiang Xueying would come over to discuss it in detail.

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Although Zhao Gongzi said this, Ruan Bi still convened all the members of the Wuhu Pulp Dyeing Guild and held a meeting overnight to discuss the matter.

Eighteen butter headlamps illuminated the guild hall as bright as a white ground. More than 100 large and small dyeing owners gathered together to listen to their beloved President Ruan tell the content of today's interview with Zhao Gongzi.

After the elder finished speaking, there was a lot of discussion in the hall, and the dyers exchanged their heads and ears, discussing their views on the matter.

Ruan Bi didn't urge, sat on the top spot, chewing betel nut comfortably, while closing his eyes slightly, and waited until they had fully discussed.

After discussing like this for half an hour, it was not until the Western clock in the hall pointed to nine o'clock in the evening that Ruan Bi opened his eyes and coughed lightly.

The chamber fell silent.

"Let's talk about it." Ruan Fan said in a deep voice: "Zhao Gongzi's proposal, should you do it?" ”

"Yes."

"Yes."

"Of course." Everyone nodded their heads one after another, and no one dared to say that they shouldn't.

It can be seen how much pressure Jiangnan Group puts on Wuhu pulp dyeing industry. After all, you can't defeat a business that doesn't make money, people can afford to lose, you can't afford to lose......

"Okay." Ruan Bi nodded, twisted another betel nut from the shallow dish, and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly. He has nothing to do in his life, but he loves betel nut as his life.

"In that case, then our guild has decided to restructure into a company."

"No problem." Everyone nodded.

The pulp and dyeing guild itself has the character of a joint-stock company. Each company contributed capital to the guild according to its strength, and the market share was distributed by the guild according to each company's capital contribution, so there was no substantial obstacle to the restructuring of the company, and everyone agreed.

But then, when discussing the appropriate amount of shares to exchange with Jiangnan Textile, disagreements appeared.

Some people think that it is enough to change two or three percent for self-preservation.

But some people also believe that two or three percent will definitely not be able to satisfy the appetite of the Jiangnan Group, and there will definitely be trouble in the future.

It's better to be in place at one time and give the big head to Jiangnan Group. In this way, the other party can be completely relieved and will not support Songjiang's pulp dyeing industry again.

In this way, everyone no longer has to worry, and they will work hard to expand production and make a lot of money.

The views on both sides are clear, and the camps are clear.

Most of those who hold the former view are big dyeers. These people have a lot of voice in the guild, and they are worried that after Jiangnan Group is in charge, they will deliberately support small dyeing owners to replace them, so as to reshuffle the Wuhu pulp and dyeing industry.

The latter view is mainly held by small dyeing owners. These people didn't count, they could only eat the leftovers of the big families. Whoever is in charge will only get better, not worse. Of course, I can't wait for a change of dynasty.

Neither side could convince anyone, so they could only vote according to the rules. However, instead of one vote per household, the number of votes for each family is determined according to the share of each household.

Therefore, although the small dyeing owners are large in number and loud, they are afraid that in the end they can only win the big ones.

But before voting, Ruan Bi, who usually does not express his position in advance, suddenly got up slowly.