Emperor Ming Dynasty

Chapter 719 Human Resource Competition
"Oh?"

Zhang Qi was thoughtful: "What do you mean, there are no suitable female workers in Tianjin?"

"Hey, the imperial court implements the road guide system, and you have to get a guide if you go out of your hometown. The government of Tianjin is in Zhigu County, and the nearest Jinghai County is more than 100 miles away..."

"Then you can go to Jinghai County!"

"But Jinghai is not as convenient as direct selling. The Dagu mouth goes up the river and unloads directly."

The businessman said with a bitter face: "Jinghai County has to cross Sanjiaodian Lake and the canal, which is very troublesome."

"Lu Yin is the foundation of the imperial court, and it must never be discarded."

Zhang Qi shook his head and quickly refused.

He really can't help this kind of court policy.

If there is a loophole in other places, but in the land of Gyeonggi, he would not dare to give him ten guts.

But he remembered in his heart that it was getting more and more difficult to open a factory in Tianjin, and he had to find a good place.

Taking a boat from Tianjin to the north, the canals are crowded, and it is much slower than sea transportation, but the advantage is that it is safe and not disturbed by wind and waves.

Just tens of miles away from Tianjin city, when I opened the window, I saw two groups of people shouting and fighting, no less than fighting with weapons.

"There is such a thing near Gyeonggi?"

Send someone to ask, and the servants replied: "A group of people are recruiting workers in the market, and they are female workers. The villagers all said that they are human traffickers, so they fought."

After a while, the yamen servants rushed over and stopped the brawl.

Zhang Qi shook his head, he had never been short of people to Tianjin, to such an extent.

When he returned to the capital, he went to Yuquan Villa and reported the situation.

"Wait a moment."

The eunuch politely brought melons, fruits and tea, and Zhang Qi was not too polite, and accepted with a smile, and quietly rewarded him with a few golden beans.

This is his consistent style, and he is friendly to everyone around the emperor.

And the easiest thing to get close to is the charm of money.

Sure enough, seeing his reward, the eunuchs smiled.

Zhang Qi ate a few melon seeds, and saw an official in his thirties coming back.

Huang Zongxi, he came back from Chongqing to announce the decree?
Pulling himself together, Zhang Qi nodded with a smile.

Such promising officials, especially in Shizhong, are worthy of association and respect. These people are the ones who like to impeach their relatives the most.

Huang Zongxi also saw the emperor's royal businessman, the old man, nodded casually, and then skipped it directly, not at all interested in talking.

Zhang Qi didn't take it seriously, straightened his clothes, and under the leadership of the eunuch, he had an audience with the emperor.

"Veteran Zhang Qi, I greet Your Majesty."

"Get up and give me your seat."

For his own people like Zhang Qi, Zhu Yixi gave him a smiling face and asked, "How is the current situation of the Taiwan government?"

"Your Majesty, the number of people in Taiwan's government is increasing day by day, and there are many people migrating up and down in Fujian. There is no shortage of labor, but it is also true, and there are more and more sugar houses..."

Zhang Qi described the situation in Taiwan government in detail.

There are more and more people growing sugar cane, brown sugar is also increasing, and Xiyi people purchase a lot, so the price will inevitably decrease.

The establishment of the Sugar Merchant Guild is only to stop internal friction, and it only serves to stop the boiling water.

"Since the price of Xiyi is cheap, we should transport more to and from the mainland. Although there are some shipping costs, we can still earn more. Jiangnan and Gyeonggi have huge cities in the world. There must be a lot of people who eat sugar."

The emperor didn't care about this: "North Korea, Japan and other countries also love brown sugar very much. Don't just stare at Xiyi and be afraid of the shipping fee."

"That's what Your Majesty said."

Zhang Qi hurriedly flattered, and then put forward his own suggestion: "Those Mongolians have never seen sugar. From now on, we can not only use tea, but also sugar."

"That's right, draw inferences from one instance!"

Zhu Yixi nodded in satisfaction.

As for white sugar, it appeared as early as the Jiajing period.

Legend has it that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a sugar producer in Nan'an County, Quanzhou Road, Fujian Province accidentally discovered that the yellow mud on the wall had been soaked by rain and fell into the brown sugar. Not only did it not destroy the sugar, but it turned the brown sugar into white.

After continuous exploration, this family invented the method of decolorizing yellow muddy water to make sugar.

However, this kind of white sugar is different from the white sugar of later generations, which is only yellowish white. For example, the steamed buns at this time cannot be truly milky white.

Even this kind of white sugar can be sold several times as much as brown sugar, but the process is more complicated.

Zhu Yixi is not satisfied with this, he wants to make real white sugar, that is, snow sugar.

Charcoal, filter gauze, boil, evaporate and concentrate, this is the method.

"The price of sugar is unstable, so give up some sugar houses and focus on selling sugar cane and brown sugar."

The emperor pointed out: "The hard-boiled brown sugar does not earn as much as the one that is handled. It is always good to give up some."

"Grasslands, plateaus, countless deals are waiting."

When it comes to business, Zhu Yixi has a lot of fun and talks endlessly.

As the emperor, as long as he has an idea, he can directly generate a lot of benefits, and no one dares to go against the emperor.

Power is the backing of wealth, and what kind of wealth does a person of what status have.

With the income from the Taiwan government, which is almost comparable to that of the customs, the past few years have been the easiest for domestic funds.

"The brown sugar I bought is ready. The baron has a hundred catties, the viscount two hundred, and so on."

"Civil and military officials don't be left behind, take out two thousand stones and give them as a reward for the Mid-Autumn Festival."

After talking about the business, the emperor suddenly remembered something, took out a book of memorials, opened it, and asked, "You are from Tianjin, have you ever known about its situation?"

"The old minister doesn't know!"

Zhang Qi was at a loss.

"Shangshu in Jinghai County and Wuqing County said that a large number of women were abducted in Tianjin, so that the families were broken and the people were in a mess."

"Is there such a thing?"

Hearing these words, Zhang Qi came to a sudden, and hurriedly cupped his hands: "I heard from some merchants that there are not enough female workers in Tianjin..."

It turned out that after the popularity of the ZTE machine, the production efficiency doubled, and the businessmen began to expand their factories to make a profit. Instead, female workers in Tianjin City became a rarity, and their monthly wages continued to increase.

And the businessmen are stingy from the bottom of their hearts.

So they recruited workers from the villages near Fucheng, and hired them at half the price of female workers to keep costs down.

However, limited by the guide system, female workers near Tianjin Fucheng were recruited in sevens and eights.

Due to the high monthly wages of textile workers, the female workers were willing to stay.

But at this time, the men found that their sisters and daughters were unwilling to come back, and their desire to marry a wife and have children became a desire, so they thought that these businessmen were human traffickers who abducted women, and fought violently.

The gentry under the jurisdiction of Tianjin, such as Wuqing County and Jinghai County, were outraged. Such a large-scale trafficking is too abominable.

Therefore, when agitated on a large scale, the county government could not bear the pressure and had to go to the imperial court.

Since Tianjin Prefecture is located in Gyeonggi, the cabinet naturally paid attention to it.

Piao intends to suggest that the Tianjin government investigate and deal with the kidnapping, and the patrol battalion can be dispatched as appropriate.

Zhu Yixi felt a little strange, so he ordered Dongchang to investigate, just when Zhang Qi came back and ran into him.

　Mid-Autumn Festival reunion brothers
　　
　
(End of this chapter)