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As for what is the origin of the Yuanshan Mountain, whether it will take this opportunity to pave the way in advance, that is not something that Chen Jian has to consider.

He Yuanshan is an orthodox bureaucrat, not an idealist who is a patriot and a man with lofty ideals, so Jian Chen doesn't have to be afraid of anything. If it was the latter, killing Chen Jian would not have set up the workshop in Nan'an, let alone say these words.

It would be even more perfect if this bureaucrat happened to be an opportunistic opportunist.

The ultimate in mutual use is that there seems to be no mutual use in the slightest, everything is handled in accordance with the law and regulations, and there is no favoritism.

Therefore, he can do nothing at all, govern Nan'an County with peace of mind, and wait for the breeze to rise up, no matter what, he needs an opportunity.

In the blink of an eye, in mid-October, a government decree was issued in Nan'an County, but it did not cause much turmoil. Not everyone can do such a thing as building canals and roads, not to mention the money spent, and there are few people in the entire Fujian City who can come up with so much liquidity.

October and November in Mincheng are very busy times.

Some landowners grow cotton that is harvested during the harvest season, and unlike the rest of the crops, the cotton harvest lasts for a long time.

It takes a lot of labor to squat in the field every day and pick the cotton peach little by little, because the cotton peach is not ripe in a day.

This huge amount of labor-intensive labor also means that the land managed by small farmers is not profitable for cotton. Merchants will manipulate the price of cotton, especially seed cotton, and the labor consumed will not make enough money at all.

This is especially true of those who will not need to be reduced to hired laborers. During the harvest season, all kinds of taxes and loans need to be repaid, and individual farmers have no bargaining power with the market, endure multiple exploitation by merchants, and have no spare money to consider waiting for prices to rise before selling - dampness, mold, rat bites, and so on are not something that small farmers can bear.

When picking cotton peaches, it is the slack period for the rest of the crops, so a large number of small farmers choose to go to the land of some large farmers to pick cotton to make money.

There is no need to pay taxes, the price is clearly marked, and the money is exchanged for money by catties, although the price is low, it is also stronger than growing cotton by yourself.

The various guilds have set the purchase price of seed cotton this year in advance, and as commercial capitalists, they have a strong capital and can easily manipulate the market under the premise of inconvenient transportation.

This is a force that Jian Chen can't provoke, and he is not afraid of money and influence alone. But such a huge chain of interests and interest groups is not something that Jian Chen's small body can compete with.

Spinning, weaving, ginning, etc., are all guilds that communicate closely. Unlike the glass guilds, they have no upstream and downstream, at most they are small workshops for making alkali from seaweed ash by the sea.

The cotton textile industry is an industry with close upstream and downstream interests. From manipulating the price of seed cotton lint to seed cotton processing, spinning, weaving, dyes, etc., all are indispensable.

The inevitability of weaving is closely related to spinning, the inevitability of spinning is inseparable from ginning, and the ginning must wear a pair of trousers with the speculative businessmen of seed cotton lint. It is completely different from the small glass and soy sauce industries, which have a short upstream and downstream industry.

In the guild of Min County, Chen Jian's reputation is actually not very good.

Some people say that which line of work Chen Jian is involved in, which line will have a big incident, the glass guild is ruined, the soy sauce guild in Mincheng is only left with some high-end lingering gas, and the soda guild will rely on Chen Jian's snort, which is to beg the vice president of the Mincheng soda guild not to get involved in other industries such as rinsing and reeling silk except for the alkali used in the glass industry.

The guild system, which has been stable for more than 100 years, has appeared in such a tragic situation for the first time, which has to make people vigilant.

What the beneficiaries of the guilds need is a stable old age, for which they will oppose all possible changes and instability.

So one day in October, when Chen Jian extended an invitation to the merchants and workshops in Mincheng who controlled the lint ginning, the entire textile industry in Minxian exploded.

The reputation of getting involved in which line of business and which line of business has a great deal to do makes these merchants and workshop owners have to guard against it.

Two years ago, this insignificant little person can now make the night in Mincheng much more lively with an invitation.

Even if a newly appointed county warden stupidly said that the price of seed cotton was too low and hurt the peasants, this group of people would laugh and just ignore it, because it was useless, and there were 10,000 ways to make the decree unenforceable.

But in the face of Chen Jian, these people were still panicked, this was not a county guard, let alone a business official, but a mercenary businessman like them.

Peers know best their own horrors and means.

Many people in the textile industry gathered together, and the owners of those ginning workshops were the first to bear the brunt, anxious like ants on a hot pot.

"What is Jian Chen going to do again? What do you hear? ”

"Nope. He...... He wouldn't want to get involved in ginning, would he? ”

"How much money do you make from ginning? Does he want to get involved in the textile industry? After all, lint can be processed, and lint can only appear in ginning workshops. ”

"No, no, no! Don't let him into this business. I'm afraid that he will come up with something and ruin everyone's interests. ”

Ginning usually seems to be a very inconspicuous and unprofitable business, but it is an extremely important industry in the entire industrial chain.

Many of the big textile mill owners were also disturbed by Chen Jian, and he kept warning the ginning workshops and the merchants who controlled the price of cotton.

"Cotton is not glass. He Chen Jian can manipulate glass, but he can't control cotton. His workshop could be built in Mincheng, but cotton could not flow into his workshop! Not at all! ”

"yes, who knows what he's going to do?"

"He only invited the ginning business this time, so to speak...... He is not very old, but he is also an old fox, which ruined Tian Wenliang's family. Wouldn't he know that cotton wasn't what the ginning workshop said it was at all? ”

Everyone is also a little puzzled, and now they really don't know the depth.

If others want to get involved and are ambitious, it doesn't matter at all, and the bigwigs in the cotton textile industry in Mincheng don't even need to come forward, they can be pinched to death with a finger at will.

But the people we have to face tomorrow don't follow common sense, and they can be regarded as deep-rooted and can't be shaken easily.

In the debate, one person asked: "If he really wants to get involved in the cotton spinning business...... Why don't you just give up Nan'an? After all, the amount of cotton planted in Nan'an is not very large, and it is better to take a step back from each other than to live or die. ”

As soon as these words came out, they were immediately refuted by everyone.

"You can't take a step back! If he gives up Nan'an, who knows what he will do in the future? It's like those alkali workshops at the beginning, let it out. Indeed, Chen Jian is also a rule-abiding, but the problem now is that Chen Jian does not get involved in the alkali used to rinse and reel the silk is just that he abides by the rules, once he does not abide by it, who can control him? You can't put all your hopes in him to follow the rules. ”

Everyone has reached a consensus on this point, and no matter what you want to say tomorrow, you must think clearly. In a word, Chen Jian's money can't enter the cotton spinning industry, and he is strangled to death from the source, and lint seed cotton is the key.

After discussing until midnight, the bottom line for tomorrow was finally determined: to tell Chen Jian that he was not welcome in the cotton textile industry. Don't want to get involved, if you do, it's your life and death, don't give an inch, and never compromise in the slightest.

The ginning mills and the speculators of cotton buying had a bad night's sleep.

Early the next morning, several carriages with four-wheel steering, glass windows and soft seats inside stopped in front of the men's doors and invited them to board.

Nowadays, there are many such four-wheeled carriages in Mincheng, which are light to sit on, and it is comfortable to walk on the main roads in the city, plus there are glass windows and soft seats, which are a symbol of status.

The price is naturally expensive, but this façade is open. After sending some to the county officials, some rich people naturally had to buy a ride, which was different and envied when they walked through the streets and alleys.

This carriage also derived some new words, at the beginning it was called a carriage, and later some people felt that they must be happy to hum when they sat in such a carriage.

Later, the carriage became known as the humming carriage in the market. Because in addition to the straight hum of music, there is also a much smaller creak when the vehicle turns and walks, and it sounds more like a gentle hum than a violent squeak.

The chair under the buttocks is a very important thing, and the people who can sit on the humming car in Mincheng are either rich or expensive.

Over time, people called those who sat in such carriages as tycoons, humming the chariots. Wealth is greatness.

The original meaning of the tycoon is just a person who rides a carriage, and this carriage just happens to be called a straight humming carriage that sits on the pleasure of being referred to as a humming carriage, and at the same time, the people who sit in such a carriage are all rich and high-status people in Mincheng, so the tycoon has changed from an adjective to a noun and has become a specific title.

Some of the people who came in the carriage today were not qualified to be called tycoons, but with the light of Jian Chen's invitation, they also became tycoons.

It's just that these pseudo-tycoons are not in the mood to hum happily, and they can't help but sigh as they look through the glass window of the carriage at the approaching building that stands out from the crowd.

The building wasn't much different from before, except that there were more cars coming and going than before.

The only difference is that there is an extra plaque, called "Nan'an Zhuchang Workers Association".

The room above the plaque is the office of the Hirers' Association. This venue is completely different from the rest of the rooms in this brick building, and it is instantly recognizable.

Because the glass in that room had been removed, it was the cheapest yellow paper that was used to keep out the wind and rain, not even the regular white window paper that was used to block the windows.

Occasionally, when someone walks by, they will always ask the person standing at the door, why is this employees' association a window of yellow paper? But the people standing at the door laughed and did not answer.

The Glassworks' Guild could not afford glass and used the cheapest yellow paper, which was a joke, and the joke soon spread throughout Mincheng.