Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1093 Industrial Revolution ([-])

This person who cooks private salt is not a good stubble.I felt aggrieved in my heart, why didn't I get any compensation in the end after working for the dealer for many years?Even the house was required by the land reclamation company to demolish it within a time limit.

At first, he didn't think of committing a crime, so he went to the land reclamation company to ask.

The land reclamation company said that they prefer to come from Haimen and Songjiang, people with cotton planting experience and land farming experience, and they don't like these salt workers very much.

And what the land reclamation company said is very clear, the purpose of hiring people is to make money, and these salt workers don't know how to farm land at all. Isn't it raising a lot of fathers to hire you?If you really want to do it, it’s not impossible to get the minimum wage.

This group of people was already simmering with anger, and in a fit of anger, the leaders felt that the injustice had its head and the debt had its owner, and what the land reclamation company said seemed to be correct.

My group of people have worked so hard for the merchants for so long, even if they want compensation, they have to be paid by the merchants.Now that he just patted his ass and left, is there any reason for this?

So a group of people went to ask for an explanation, and it turned out to be a big trouble.Not only did he injure someone, but later he got angry and burned some houses and sheds.

The government office is naturally open to the rich, and the gate of the yamen opens to the south, so don't come in if you have a reason and don't have money.Moreover, waste salt to cultivate wasteland is a policy that must be resolutely implemented. For this kind of rebels, we are going to kill chickens and monkeys, and we must crack down hard.

Fortunately, the one in the car ran away overnight.

I ran to Songjiang Mansion, just in time for the urban expansion and renovation there, and said that in the future, we will also have to implement a status hierarchy.

The hitchhiker knew that he still had a lawsuit against him, and that he was one of the leading criminals, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and went to the boat to recruit workers to the Northeast.

It is said that it is to dig for gold, and it is a bit of a hardship, but the money given a month is quite a lot.

Almost spit out the gall, and finally arrived at Yingkou.Go up the river from Yingkou, turn overland, and arrive at the Jilin Shipyard, which is considered to be the place.

But when I went to the place where the gold was panned, I realized that it was the place where people really eat people. If I went there, I wouldn't even think about running out.

Just like the story of the Xishan Coal Mine in Dashun, after being tricked into it, those who wanted to escape were killed by giant stiles.

Fortunately, he has a whole body of skills, and he has participated in the salt workers' struggle, so he organized a fugitive riot in this place.

Not only ran out, but also secretly brought out a piece of dog's head gold.

His luck was really good. After running out, he caught up with the queen's illness and the emperor's amnesty.After a change of appearance, after a while, I thought about going back to have a look.

See if my two younger brothers are still alive; if my wife and children are still alive.

The two younger brothers are both engaged in salt-related work, and both worked as salt workers on the original salt river, responsible for loading, unloading and transporting.

Thinking about the piece of gold he stole, he could exchange it for a lot of money.After returning to my hometown, if my younger brother is still there, if my wife and children are still there, I will bring them with me and come to the northeast to buy a piece of land.

The family started from scratch, got a few big animals, and worked hard for a few years. When the times were good, life would be easier.

When he fled from there, the reform of the salt administration had just begun.He doesn't know what his hometown is like now.

He didn't know how much his hometown had changed.But one day later, he knew that great changes must have taken place in his hometown.

Because of the horse sledge, I arrived at the mouth of the Tongjiang River where the Liaohe River and the Zhaosutai River meet.

He was deeply impressed by this place. It was here that he got off the river boat, took the old post road, and went to the Shangouzi Gold Mine on the other side of the Jilin Shipyard.

Over the past few years, Tongjiangkou is completely different from when I came here.

After all, before going to the gold mine, those recruiting fellows were kind and amiable, promising many benefits and good wishes.At that time, I stayed in Tongjiangkou for a while, and recruited some talents to go with me.

There were already many people in Tongjiangkou at that time, but it must be different from now.The main street has been replaced with a road paved with bluestone bricks. There are many shops and many large grain stacks.

The owner of the car sighed when he saw the ride, and said: "The Tongjiang Estuary has been developed in the past few years. It is sailing in summer and ice in winter. The beans from the East and West Liaohe Rivers are piled here. It is said that a large granary was built last year. It can contain seven or eight million shi of beans."

"A lot of people stock up here. They harvest in autumn and ship them in winter. Some of the goods can't be shipped until summer opens."

"The Liaohe River further down here can pass large ships. If it goes further up, it cannot pass such a large ship..."

The hitchhikers really couldn't imagine the power of capital. In just a few years, Tongjiangkou has been turned into a big town with an annual soybean storage capacity of millions of stones.

After passing through Shenyang, saying goodbye to my hometown, and taking someone else's sledge to Yingkou, I felt as if I had spent hundreds of years in a gold mine.

It is still in the frozen period, and the ship has not yet sailed.We have to wait until the middle of March of the new year before we can sail.

Fortunately, this paper ticket can be spent here; people here can fully understand what I say.

If you have money, you can do anything.

After inquiring at the pier, I learned that there are regular passenger ships sailing from Yingkou.They are all big boats, specially for soliciting customers, and you need to buy tickets in advance.

Of course there are boats of that kind, which are cheaper.

But a hitchhiker can be regarded as a person who has recovered a life in a gold mine, but knowing that kind of boat, the ghost knows whether it will kill people halfway, steal money, throw people into the sea, and they can't catch them.

Just like in the gold mine back then, when those people died and were thrown into the deep mountains, they disappeared in a few days, and the court didn't care about them.

Therefore, in this year and month, it is safer to take a big ship.

The scheduled departure time is early April.The passenger ship in mid-March had already run out of tickets.

Nowadays, there are many boats from Yingkou to and from North Korea, Tianjin, Songjiang, and Weihai.

The ticket he bought was not a direct flight to Songjiang.Instead, go to Weihai first, stop in Weihai, transfer to Incheon in North Korea, and then go to Songjiang from Incheon.

This is the earliest boat ticket back to Jiangsu that he can buy. Those direct flights have long been sold out.

It takes a little longer for this kind of midway transition, and those who really do a little bigger business, unless there are special circumstances, do not choose to take this kind of passenger ship.

There are still three months before the boat leaves, and those who take the car can only live in Yingkou first, waiting for the ice to melt.

For the rest of the time, I walked around here, feeling more and more as if I had lived in a gold mine for hundreds of years.

For example, those coal-burning fire mills with towering chimneys; some steam-powered sawmills for furniture; and some match factories that are really inconvenient to transport from Songjiang Prefecture for sale, etc.

In fact, this is really not the same as if it has changed all of a sudden in the past few years.

It was because when he fled to Songjiang Mansion, he was poor and had nothing.No matter how big the city is, it doesn't matter to him.

With neither money nor time, come and see the city that has developed over the years.

Earlier, he was just cooking salt in the Huainan Salt Farm, and his living radius was only [-] miles.

When there is no anti-smuggling inspection, they are responsible for spreading ashes, pouring marinade, and boiling salt.

Or go to the grass yard to cut grass, dry it, tie it, and transport it.

Either that or scratch the salt.

Salt workers generally don't even wear trousers, and their food is similar to that of pigs, except that they don't lack salt.

Even though Huainan is so close to the birthplace of the Dashun industrial revolution, he actually felt little change during the years he worked as a salt worker, and it can even be said that there was no change in his eyes.

There is almost no difference between the stories told by his father's generation and grandfather's generation.

As for the original style of the city, it has nothing to do with people like him.

There is a poem that this person does not know. The ancients said that if you have a hundred thousand guan in your waist, you will ride a crane down to Yangzhou.

You can enjoy the moon at the 24 bridges, the enchanting concubine, the gathering of literati, and the poetry of the brothel only if you have a waist of [-] guan.

Otherwise, if you go to Yangzhou Prefecture to work as a salt worker in Aoyan, you will be far away from these things.

Although he doesn't have a hundred thousand guan in his waist now, there is a large piece of gold hidden in his cotton trousers.If you have money and leisure, your mentality is very different. You can look at the city, but you don't understand it.

In fact, the development of Liaohe Estuary has already started.

Dashun went to Liaodong to sweep holes, and immigrated in large numbers. If he wanted to control the Northeast, he must rely on water transportation.

It's just that the previous development and immigration were basically the same in the early Ming Dynasty.

It was not until these years that capital began to intervene that development was different from the past.

First, here is the only valuable commercial channel in the entire northeast region at this time.

If you want to transport soybeans and other things, you need to rely on carts, horse-drawn carts, etc., to transport them to the pass, and you may have to pay for your underpants.Besides, the capital can't eat so many beans.

After the capital intervention, the development outside the customs is completely dependent on the Liaohe water transport.

Therefore, almost all soybean products are shipped from Yingkou to Jiangsu.The scale of several million stones a year has naturally developed.

At the same time, the temperature here is relatively higher, and more wheat is grown here.

The staple food in much of the Northeast is coarse grains, sorghum that occurs as a by-product of soybean farming.It is necessary to adopt the model of one year of beans and one year of sorghum.

But at that time, it was for the people at the bottom.

Whether it is a businessman or a gentry, they definitely don’t eat sorghum rice. How can they eat sorghum rice, which is rough and hard to swallow?

A group of old Shaanxi people in the capital also prefer to eat white noodles.

Therefore, there is still a relatively developed flour industry in Yingkou, and it is also following the original path of the late Qing Dynasty - steam engine with improved stone mill.

Transshipment of soybeans is a business.

Extracting oil, making bean cakes, and grinding flour are industries.

As an economic vassal of Jiangsu, it is basically a simple industry built around the needs of Jiangsu, and some of them, such as flour, are for supplying the capital.

Except for light industries such as match workshops, which can only produce white phosphorus matches these days, they generally do not choose to ship and transport them, which is prone to accidents and does not make much money.

Another example is glass, which is really not lucky, and there is coal here.

That's why I chose to deploy some light industries that Jiangsu also has here.

The rest are basically what Jiangsu needs.

Soy processing.

Tussah silk reeling.

Wooden furniture making.

It can be regarded as the initial establishment of a standard raw material origin economy that has emerged around the capital consortium of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

There is a tussah silk reeling industry here, but there is no silk industry, and it has to be transported to Jiangsu for reprocessing.Theoretically, cotton can be grown here, but Liu Yu did not allow the Academy of Sciences to improve the long-staple cotton that is suitable for the local climate. A little local cotton was planted in Shenyang before, and it was immediately extinguished by Liu Yu's command of financial capital.

(End of this chapter)