Ming Zuo

Chapter 81
Xu Erjue was mentally prepared, and felt that Zuo Menggeng was a warrior, and his rude temperament was what he should have meant.

Even so, in the face of Zuo Menggeng's straightforwardness, he was still severely impacted.

"Cough cough...cough cough..."

Xu Erjue's face was red and his ears were red, and it took a long time to recover, and his expression was quite unchanged.

"Why did the wise brother say this? A little busy, what's the matter? With the goodness of my family, it shouldn't make the wise brother embarrassed, right?"

Did you forget my sister?
Zuo Menggeng understood, but he didn't care at all.

"Little brother is short of money."

Xu Erjue clutched his chest in pain, and there were all Venus in front of him.

When he was in the south of the Yangtze River, Young Master Xu, there was a lot of Confucianism in chatting and laughing, and there was no white person in communication.In addition to the love of silk and bamboo, singing and singing are in harmony.Occasionally necessary, yet elegant.

Talking about money so bluntly, and speaking so bluntly, is the only thing he's ever seen in his life.

"Haha, the wise brother is joking. If the wise brother is shy, he can help one or two."

Zuo Menggeng immediately recovered.

"Brother Xu, Gao Yi, if you can help me with [-] to [-] taels of silver, my little brother is really grateful."

"Cough cough...cough cough..."

Xu Erjue wanted to make a move and smashed the wine glass directly on that annoying face.

If it weren't for the fact that the other party was young and invincible, he really couldn't help it.

It can't be beat!
Open mouth is only [-] to [-] taels of silver. Do you think the money from the Xu family came from the wind?

"Haha, Brother Xian is joking, don't you know that such a huge amount of money is involved, is it important?"

Zuo Menggeng was very happy.

"Why don't you know? With so much money, it's not a problem for my brother to raise the army here. Can Brother Xu really help me?"

Can you forget about this?

Xu Erjue, who pretended to be irresistible and was scolded, quickly changed the subject.

"My brother seems to be very concerned about this water-driven technique."

Zuo Menggeng was very serious, but he didn't hide it.

"The technique of hydraulic drive can be used in a wide range of applications. Just take weaving as an example. Once implemented, the output will be tripled, and the cost can still be saved by [-]%. Brother Xu, should you know the benefits?"

Xu Erjue couldn't sit still.

Go away from his gentleness, go away from his noble poetry, it doesn't matter at all in front of the white money.

"If this is the case, this water-driven technique is inevitable for my brother."

Zuo Menggeng knew that he could not refuse such a temptation.

"Little brother has two options here. One is to sell it to Brother Xu at a price. You and I will get along well, and my brother will give you a conscientious price of [-] taels of silver."

"This is impossible."

Xu Erjue's eyes turned red.

Robbery?
The Xu family can't come up with so much money.

Zuo Menggeng was light-hearted, and seemed to have known that he had said this for a long time.

"Another way is to use this technology to invest in Xujia's weaving industry, accounting for [-]% of the shares."

Zuo Menggeng didn't know how large the Xu family's weaving industry was, but as long as he took up the shares, the benefits of the transfer of hydraulic drives could always be recovered.

Xu Erjue laughed angrily, it was the first time he had seen such a lion speak.

"Brother, do you know the situation of Jiangnan's weaving industry?"

He has already thought about it, and when Zuo Menggeng asks, he will give a good science to this money-seeking science, so that he can understand the status of the Xu family in the Jiangnan weaving industry.

Is Zuo Menggeng a person who plays cards according to common sense?

"I don't need to know this, I just know that the Xu family needs this technology. And if this technology is given to any weaving merchant, they will be happy to pay."

"you……"

The continuous deflation made Xu Erjue go crazy.

It was the first time he was so frustrated, but there was nothing he could do.

Because Zuo Menggeng is right, if the hydraulic drive technology can really bring more than three times the production capacity increase for the weaving industry, all businessmen will rush to it.

Increased production and lower costs bring a price advantage that will definitely allow any weaver to dominate the largest market.

This is not unexpected for the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

Zuo Menggeng's advantages don't stop there.

"Although Songjiang cotton spinning is the best in the world, it is subject to geographical restrictions. Once new technologies are adopted, the supply of raw materials will become a big problem. The cotton currently grown in Jiangnan is of poor quality, which is not conducive to the prosperity of the weaving industry. In the future, we want to develop the cotton spinning industry on a larger scale. , Shandong is the best choice. If the Xu family agrees to my conditions, and the cotton spinning industry will go north in the future, the younger brother will give priority to the Xu family.”

Xu Erjue instinctively felt that Zuo Menggeng did not know how high the sky was.

As the saying goes, you can't buy enough Songjiang cloth, and you can't get enough Weitang yarn.

Does this kid not know how much Songjiang cotton cloth is produced?

"My virtuous brother has never been to Jiangnan, so I don't know that Jiangnan is prosperous. In terms of cotton spinning..."

"It's just [-] horses per day."

Being interrupted when pretending is about to succeed, that taste...

Xu Erjue was about to vomit blood, and glared at Zuo Menggeng angrily, thinking about killing.

Not a man!

Then he heard Zuo Menggeng's words, and the whole person became stupid.

"In the south of the Yangtze River, there are many people and narrow land, and the land is expensive. A large workshop can only produce more than [-] weavers. How much cloth can be produced? Brother Xu saw this glass factory today. What is the scale? If a cotton spinning factory is built on this scale, Hundreds of hydraulic drives stand along the river and tens of thousands of workers, so what?”

Xu Erjue's mind was full of thunder.

When he saw the construction site of the glass factory today, there was only one thought in his mind.

Really grand!

Zuo Menggeng is right, since the glass factory can be made to this scale, then it will definitely work to make the cotton spinning factory in Shandong this scale.

Only in Jiangnan will not work.

Xu Erjue couldn't imagine that if such a factory really appeared here in Shandong, supplemented by a hydraulic drive system, would the textile industry in Jiangnan still survive?
Zuo Menggeng was on his way to attack him, and he would never stop.

"How much is artificial in Jiangnan? Brother Xu, do you know how much is artificial here?"

Xu Erjue said in a trance: "It takes only one tael of silver tattoos every month."

Jiangnan is prosperous, and natural labor costs are high.Even the most common textile worker was paid a tael or two a month.

Zuo Menggeng laughed and said complacently, "Brother Xu, you know that the workers here are only paid ten cents a day."

"what?"

Xu Erjue jumped up directly, his face full of horror.

The daily wages are ten cents, but only three hundred cents a month, which is equivalent to 0.3 taels of silver.

The income of Shandong workers is only one-third of that in Jiangnan.

This alone will directly explode the textile industry in Jiangnan into slag.

Originally, it was possible to find a balance based on the technical gap between the textile workers in the two places, but when he thought of the hydraulic drive created by Zuo Menggeng, Xu Erjue knew that the gap was meaningless.

When replaced by mechanical production, the skills of textile workers are no longer important.

He swallowed dryly, trying to make up for it.

"The land in the south of the Yangtze River has abundant water resources..."

"Is there a shortage of water in Shandong?"

Well, the last reason was smoothed out by Zuo Menggeng.

Although Shandong is located in the north, there is really no shortage of water.Even though there was a severe drought last year, the water power was still intact.

In Shandong, not only the Yellow River flows, the most important thing is that the canal runs through the north and south, and there are also many other rivers.

In fact, compared with Jiangnan, the hydraulic conditions in Shandong will be better.

The water system in the south of the Yangtze River is a bit too much.

A big disadvantage of the vertical and horizontal water network is that the land is divided into countless pieces, resulting in low utilization rate.

If you want to build a large factory, let alone labor and land prices, it is not easy for you to find a piece of land that is large enough to accommodate it.

The water system here in Shandong is very reasonable.

Much, not much.

Some are cheap land, and factories can be built as big as they want.

In the end, Zuo Menggeng completely destroyed Xu Erjue's pride from two aspects.

"Nowadays, there are many natural disasters in the north, and there are countless refugees. Under the pressure of hunger and cold, there are not many people who want to exchange labor for money and food."

The British used sheep to eat people to drive farmers off the land and convert them into industrial workers.

Zuo Menggeng always felt that this natural disaster that ran through the end of the Ming Dynasty was actually a godsend opportunity.

Anyway, the farmers have been forced to leave the land, why can't they be absorbed into industrial production?

Their requirements between work and remuneration are almost negligible, which solves the biggest labor cost problem in industrial production.

Zuo Menggeng's second question is more realistic.

"In the south of the Yangtze River, it is rainy and humid, which is not conducive to the growth of cotton, and the yield is not high. Moreover, the quality of cotton seeds is insufficient, which limits the production capacity. Only the vast land and suitable climate in the north is a good place to grow cotton. ."

At this time, the cotton planted in various parts of the Ming Dynasty belonged to the Asian cotton species, which lasted until the [-]s.

After that, it was replaced by upland cotton.

Upland cotton is the most widely grown cotton species in the world, accounting for 90% of global cotton production.

With the existing conditions, this kind of cotton cannot be planted in Jiangnan.

But Shandong can, once put into production, with more advanced production technology and lower cost, it is no problem to destroy the existing textile industry in Daming.

Xu Erjue sat silently, already imagining in his mind the horrific scene of a large amount of low-priced cotton cloth appearing on the market, and the cotton spinning workshops in Jiangnan going bankrupt one by one.

Xu Family, what should I do?

　Thank you Wei Ai Qinger for the reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)