Chapter 167: The Final Layout of the Second Road
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There are three necessary roads, and the other two have not yet completed the final accumulation, and Chen Jian is making the final preparations before setting sail.
Soon after discussing the issue of the island with Minamiyama, Minamiyama took office, and Nan'an also ushered in a new prefectural order from the capital.
At the beginning of the month, the sharp spirit is coming, and at the end of the month, the head is depressed.
It's useless to change the county order for 10,000, and the sky in Nan'an has changed.
Less than a month after Nan'an Ling came, he was honest, and his sharpness was worn out.
Without any changes he needs to make, he can't do any changes, and the slightest movement will shake the ground.
The new Nan'an Order is a real fire in his heart, and it is said that the new official has three fires when he takes office, but he has no chance to put a single fire.
Yu Yuanshan is completely different, and he let go of his hands and feet immediately after taking office in Minjun.
The old county guard was here to mess around, the tax officer had an inexplicable relationship with Chen Jian, a handful of reformist members and sympathizers in the council, the old cotton spinning company would not dare to raise the head of Chen Jian's bullying, silk weaving, pottery and other industries were subject to the new coal group and Chen Jian's canal transportation system, and a large number of middle-level people had shares in the Standard Oil workshop......
Charity trading cooperatives have replaced the official organizations for the relief of the poor, the grassroots organizations of the Mexican Party in some neighborhoods have completely replaced the existence of Reis, the population and wealth statistics and social surveys in the hands of the Mexican Party are more accurate and detailed than the official ones, and no one reads the official Tang newspaper but stares at the Mexican Party's "Social Newspaper", "Business News", "Minjiang Review" and the like every day.
The sheriff was determined not to carry the blame, and was determined that in the event of an accident, the cavalry stationed nearby would shoot first, and that he would never fire the first shot himself—that would result in dismissal at most, and if he did, he would probably be killed by the radicals.
In this case, after discussing with Jian Chen for a few days, Yuan Shan immediately started his three fires.
In the first fire, Mi Yuanshan took the lead in promulgating the decree, Chen Jian took the lead, and Mi Yuanshan was responsible for regulating the relationship.
Min County, and even the first joint-stock "navigation insurance company" in the whole of China, was established.
This is unprecedented, and those who are proficient in mathematics will know with a little calculation that this marine insurance company is sure to make money according to the odds.
However, the odds are meaningless to the individual.
There are two possibilities for a ship: loss, or no loss.
This insurance is advantageous for ship owners or cargo owners, who do not calculate all the odds and only care about their cargo.
The timing of its establishment is at a delicate critical point.
The news of the opening of the sea trade has spread, and there will be more and more maritime merchants in the future, not counting Chen Jian's planned circumnavigation of the world: the special location of Mincheng will become a crossroads connecting Europa, Asia, the Iberian colonies to the south, and the west coast of China.
Nan'an's coal industry group also began to exert its strength, fighting a price reduction war that injured the enemy by 1,000 and lost 100.
With a strong share capital and the convenience of the canal, and in collusion with Chen Jianduo's collection of tolls from competitors, several mines have been difficult to operate in just a few months.
It is impossible to invest a lot of spare money in the mine, so you can only go to two places. Either it is the land in the countryside or the city of Min County.
Although the coal mine owners who were squeezed across hated Chen Jian, they would not hate profits.
In the same way, some speculators and contractors of the Cotton Spinning Guild, which were not lightly tossed by Chen Jian, could be regarded as finding a way to make a fortune.
Under the combined effect of these reasons, the "Navigation Insurance Company" was soon established with sufficient share capital.
There were already some private insurance companies in the port, but compared to the regular insurance companies with strong equity and government platforms, their business was suddenly unpopular.
A marine insurance company has led to a series of industries. Appraisers, inspectors, ship escorts, etc., who specialize in valuation, either start from scratch, or become regular occupations, or set up an official special registration agency in Min County.
At the same time, in order to attract more ships to transit through Mincheng, all the business of this marine insurance company is handled in Mincheng Port.
Some ships from neighboring counties also passed through Mincheng in order to obtain insurance qualifications.
After the quick payouts for the two performances, more and more ship owners or cargo owners are choosing to purchase marine insurance for their vessels.
Marine insurance can greatly promote the future maritime trade, allowing capital to flow into the port, which can be regarded as a preparation for the future.
This fire can be said to be effortless, and with the east wind of wealth flowing to Minjun and sea trade, it has been effective in just a few months.
With the establishment of the marine insurance company, some insurance companies in other industries are also in preparation, and before the first primitive life insurance company in Minjun was listed, Chen Jian gave a name to this life insurance company in its embryonic state.
Freemasonry.
Take the meaning of harmony.
This also caused a very subtle consequence, and later after the insurance industry began to spread, when people in China gathered with relatives and friends, they often heard someone ask: Have you ever heard of Freemasonry?
Later, after knocking on the door, whenever they heard the word Freemasonry, they closed the door and disappeared.
This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.
The second fire burned in Yuanshan was the establishment of the "Minjun Futures and Stock Exchange" and the "Stock Issuance Qualification Certification Association".
At the beginning of its establishment, it was extremely simple.
The Mexican Party mobilized the rural representatives of the cooperatives that had set up large cooperatives in the surrounding areas, and invited the big landowners and farm capitalists in Minjun and Nan'an to gather in Minjun to discuss it.
Since cotton is a commodity, why do you have to wait until after the harvest to sell it? Why not sell it early and then choose how much to plant?
In addition to cotton, coal, pig iron, rapeseed, raw silk, yarn and other things can be tried at all. Even if it is impossible to perfect the rules as in later generations, it will never be perfect without trying.
It is of great interest to representatives of cooperatives, farmers or operational capitalists, as are some speculators, normal businessmen, and small workshop owners.
Taking cotton as an example, the official establishment of a cotton quality assessment institute in Min County will evaluate the fiber length and lint quality of cotton by professional cotton merchants.
With fifty catties per pack as the minimum trading unit, the price is about six or seven silver coins, which is affordable for small workshops and the minimum acceptable for large merchants.
Cotton is not available now, but it can be planted right away. For smallholder farmers, contracts can be signed by specialized land speculators; This, in turn, reduces risk for large landowners and large cooperatives.
The emergence of ginning machines has made lint futures trading a possibility; The accumulated capital and the money in the hands of speculators allow futures trading to prosper in the short term.
With the experience of the last orchid craze, futures trading is not difficult to accept. At the beginning, when the rhizomes of flowers have not yet grown, they trade in advance - with the experience of the last time, people will be more steady, after all, they have already understood the difference between cotton and orchids.
In the long run, it can also have a huge impact on some villages with convenient transportation around the Min River and its tributaries.
Once profitable, various capital companies will step in to grow in the countryside. The small peasant economy in Min County will also be gradually squeezed and destroyed, either by leasing farmland to specialized planting companies or merging with them, and the connection with the city will gradually deepen.
With futures, there will naturally be stocks as well.
With the emergence of several giant joint-stock companies such as Standard Oil Workshops and Navigation Insurance Company and futures trading, the emergence of new industries, the guilds that were gradually suppressed by Chen Jian were on the verge of disintegration, the port boom caused by shipping insurance, the reduction of coal prices, and the employment of labor across counties.
Some small-scale joint-stock cooperative workshops or shops have also begun to appear, are they eligible to raise funds? This requires a specialized agency to assess the results.
With the geographical advantages of Mincheng, a large amount of idle capital caused by Chen Jian, and the situation that the prototype of Nan'an Coal and Iron Chemical Machinery Manufacturing Industrial Zone is about to appear, taking the lead in developing the financial industry in Minxian County can have an immediate effect.
As the first officially established futures and stock trading center, not only Minjun, but also businessmen from neighboring counties will also choose to trade here.
How to trade? How are taxes charged? How is it guaranteed? All of this needs to be tried, and the steps of the distant mountain are not big, but the small steps are also the first step.
After these two steps out, the mountain burned a third fire.
In fact, the third fire had nothing to do with him, this fire should have been burned a long time ago, but in order to collude with Yuan Shan to use it, Chen Jiansheng suppressed it.
The easiest way to achieve political achievements is naturally urban construction.
He was responsible for putting forward the slogan of slum transformation and building a benchmark slum in China.
Chen Jian and others found that the capital groups in Minjun County were profitable such as rising housing prices and gradually increasing population, and were responsible for helping him realize this slogan.
Buildings are for the poor.
The advent of cement, abundant wood, glass, etc., has led to the existence of buildings that can be seen from a distance and can be shocking.
In fact, after entering, you will find shortcomings such as small space and extreme inconvenience, but no one who is normally qualified to evaluate will go inside to take a look.
For the poor, when the land is not valuable, if they can live in a red brick building, it is undoubtedly a great progress and enjoyment.
Land may be worth much in the future, but it is not worth now.
In order to prepare for the possible situation of black flags and barricades in the future, Chen Jian chose the first batch of slums to be renovated to the south of the trading company building.
A building similar to a trading house building will be built there, and a model district will also be built.
Chen Jian promised all the poor people who were demolished that he would give them a glass building, and he only had to pay a small land fee and a small temporary resettlement fee.
The carpentry factory and the hydraulic sawmill in Nanan Huangde can mass-produce windows, wooden frames and doors in a division of labor.
In addition, he received a strange commission: Chen Jian asked him to help design a pile of woodwork, which was playful, ingenious, and magical, so that young people who like to do carpentry work will love it. Huang De asked Chen Jian what kind of standard did this young man follow?
Jian Chen thought for a while and said, "The most expensive child of the aristocratic family."
Huang De thought to himself, which child of a big family likes to play carpenter's work? I had doubts, but I was still busy organizing the production of wooden frames, and I pondered Chen Jian's commission.
In terms of glass windows, the cost of the glass factory controlled by Chen Jian himself has actually been very low.
In addition to the price reduction of coal, as a reward for Chen Jian, Yuan Shan allowed Chen Jian to pay a salt tax, and the salt used in the alkali making workshop was legally reduced to an almost negligible level.
Some conditions, such as cement workshops and the price reduction of the brick industry due to the reduction of stone and coal prices, also made sufficient preparations for this construction.
Slum buildings are all the same, with the lowest cost model. The room is not big, the toilet, the kitchen are downstairs.
By the way, there is also a water tower that carries water from a water wheel, and uses bleaching powder, a by-product from a chemical plant, as a disinfectant. Using terracotta pipes and bamboo joints, the first batch of tap water is not sent to the building, but to the kitchen downstairs.
There will be several large water tanks on each floor, and the water will be discharged at regular intervals every day. There is no faucet device, but it is plugged with a wooden plug and plugged and unplugged on time to get water.
Arrange for a property manager, such as an unemployed old man, to be responsible for keeping an eye on the water pipes every day. If the owner is not at home, you can help put the water and check whether the wooden stopper is broken.
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After lighting these three fires, he was excited to think about his future plans.
Once these three fires are burned, his reputation and status will be improved again, and as long as the position of the county guard of Minjun County does not change too much, it will be as stable as a mountain.
Chen Jian thought that the economic foundation preparation for the second road before going to sea was finally completed.
After going to sea, a new handmade machine will be thrown here, and it will be none of his business.
In agriculture, the advent of futures led to the influx of capital into the countryside, and horse-drawn farm machinery could quickly spread on large farms.
The merger intensified, the price of grain dropped, and the wives of the few small yeoman farmers in Min County one day found that the price of cotton yarn and homespun cloth had also been reduced...... Then sell the land and smash the spinning wheel to go to the city or the colony.
In the handicraft industry, Chen Jian has betrayed the handicraftsmen, and the little primitive accumulation of the small cooperatives cannot afford expensive water spinning machines.
More and more middle-level and wealthy businessmen are involved in stocks, futures and real estate, and they will not let Min County go unchecked.
The cotton spinning shop will be tossed by Chen Jian half to death, and there will be a lot of idle capital involved after the emergence of new machines...... At least in Min County, once the movement of handicraftsmen to smash machines broke out, it could only be suppressed.
The upper strata expected stability, and the dispossessed class of hired workers did not care about smashing machines, and the hand-drawn looms could be bought by the primitive accumulation of weaving cooperatives, and they would not bother with the spinning burghers of small assets.
The Mexican Party has already split, and it is impossible to participate out of sympathy; The Craftsman's Moral Guild Utopian faction was powerful but had no program; Chen Jian's futurists will only shout in words to show sympathy, and will not encourage miners and dock workers to participate; Chen Jian hiding at sea has nothing to do with him; The weaving industry will not object to the price reduction of yarn in anticipation of ......
This time, the capitalists, the merchants, the speculators, the lowest strata of the hire-rolls, the divided parties, the petty bourgeoisie of weaving, will invisibly unite to strangle the last revolt of the cotton spinning craftsmen and the guilds.
Dead.
Whether it is a small bourgeoisie spinning or a cotton spinning guild, it will come to an end.
This was just the beginning, and by the time the petty bourgeoisie in the rest of the industry realized that the problem was serious, the noose had been tightened, and they were born to fight and waver.
It just so happened that after the bloodshed and shock, he was sentenced to exile in batches to the colony as a model for the whole country, otherwise Chen Jian would not have gone to great lengths to hold up the distant mountains.