Bachelor

Chapter 291 Weaving Bureau, CPI, Changing Life

Han Yue is a good criminal investigator. He worked all night, interviewed many people, and obtained a lot of evidence.

When daylight came, these testimonies were sent to Sun Dan.Sun Dan was taken aback by Mr. Han's ability to move, and he gave him a high look.People who have been secret agents are different. This guy used to be a small boss in Jinyiwei.

After reading a few pages of testimony sent by Han Yue, Sun Dan turned blue with anger, and slapped the table: "This Liang Min is really a scumbag. If I don't deal with him, the people of Fangshan will return to a bright future. I really want to He was scolded as a stupid official."

It turned out that this Liang Minzhu really did a lot of outrageous things when he was in prison. Not to mention accepting bribes from local wealthy families, he also handled many unjust, false and wrong cases.As the saying goes, it is easy to practice among the public.As a member of the public family, it is understandable to collect some gold and silver and get some benefits, but there is one principle: no blood on your hands.

Once the yamen encountered a homicide case, no matter how much the criminal's family begged for mercy or how much money was thrown out, generally speaking, the investigators would not dare to bend the law for personal gain, fearing that if the law was resolved, even themselves would fall into it.Moreover, not to mention the uneasy conscience, this kind of bloody money has not ruined his reputation.

But this Liang Min is so bold, he dares to take any black money, and the few homicide cases he handles are tricky.

Sun Dan: "Han Yue, go down and thoroughly investigate these cases and overthrow them all. Also, arrest Liang Min immediately."

"Yes, my lord, do you want to handle this case yourself?"

"No, no time, you and Sun Hao deal with it." Sun Dan said.

Indeed, as Sun Dan said, he was really busy during this time.Shi Wanquan and Sun Jia are going back to Fangshan soon, and when the mulberry seedlings and looms are brought back, it's time to prepare for planting.The matter of changing agriculture to mulberry is at a critical moment. During this time, Sun Dan sent many people to promote the benefits of planting mulberry and sericulture to the people, and Shanxi merchants also poured into Fangshan in large numbers, offering real money A small loan is issued.

Before Sang Miao saw his shadow, let alone silkworms, the county magistrate asked for the estimated profit to be distributed.Although the common people in China are short-sighted, there are real benefits in front of them, but they cannot be indifferent.

Those who have land have stopped planting winter wheat, and open canals to accumulate manure on their own land to make room for mulberry seedlings in the coming year.The peasants who attached their land to the aristocratic family saw so much money, their eyes were red, and they kept rushing to the master's house to make trouble, demanding to return the land to plant mulberry.All of a sudden, the whole Fangshan was in an uproar, and the disputes continued, only Han Yue and the others had a big fight.

Han Yue was originally engaged in politics and law. He was good at handling civil disputes. He also understood what Sun Dan meant.

In this way, in just half a month, more than half of the land in Fangshan returned to the hands of ordinary people.Moreover, as spring plowing approaches day by day, more and more land will be cleared by farmers themselves.

The phenomenon that a large amount of land that has plagued the court for many years is monopolized by big bureaucrats and big landlords has been greatly alleviated in Fangshan. Even if these lands are not used for planting mulberry and silkworms, and all of them are planted with grain, the taxes that Fangshan will receive in the next year will also increase. Several times.

Of course, the method of Qingzhang land in Fangshan County is just a special case, which has no specimen significance, and cannot be extended to the whole country as experience.However, Sun Dan only wanted to complete the tasks he had assumed. As for the so-called economic reforms, he had no interest, so let others worry about them.

Sun Dan was rewarded by the emperor because of the great success in clearing the land.The emperor even took time out to meet Sun Dan once in Yuxi Palace, encouraging him to be bolder and not be afraid of offending others.

The emperor had just taken the elixir at that time, his face was flushed, and his expression was excited: "If all the county magistrates in the world are as loyal as Sun Qing, I have no worries! Whatever you want to do, just do it, and I will support you."

Of course, Sun Dan would not take the words of a feudal emperor seriously, but it can also be seen how distressed the emperor's personal finances have become. He is afraid of poverty.

At the beginning of December, Shi Wanquan and the others finally returned to Fangshan with their looms and mulberry seedlings. In order to house the thousands of looms, Sun Dante spent some money to buy a piece of land in the east of the city as the workshop of the Fangshan Weaving Bureau.Next, it's time to debug the machine and train the workers.

However, before starting work.Sun Dan still has one more thing to do.For this reason, he summoned all the squires in Fangshan County to the county government office, and suggested that they all take out some money to invest in the Weaving Bureau, so that everyone can benefit equally.

If the cash on hand is not enough, you can mortgage the land to Shi Wanquan to plant mulberry trees.After the loan period expires and the principal and interest are returned to the Shanxi merchants, Shi Wanquan will return the land.

Sun Dan thinks so. He himself is the parent official of Fangshan. If he does not give some benefits to the local gentry, he may encounter great resistance when the tax reform is implemented in the future.Moreover, although half of the land in Fangshan has been cleared, the other half of the land is mostly the ancestral property of the landlords. If those people don't change farming to mulberry, Sun Dan has nothing to do.Besides, Sun Dan's economic capacity is limited, and if he wants to maintain these thousands of looms, he may not have enough economic power.

Of course, it is not impossible to allow Shanxi merchants to participate in the shares.However, Shanxi merchants are outsiders after all. If they take all the benefits, not only will it cause public resentment, but the power of Shanxi merchants will expand in the future, and it will be difficult to control.

Although the large amount of cash that Shi Wanquan took out made the gentry's eyes dazzled and their mouths watering.But after all, they are used to growing food. In addition, under Sun Dan's instigation some time ago, a large number of farmers and land attached to them were lost. These landlords are also full of resentment towards Sun Dan. Seeing Sun Dan talking about this, Everyone is obedient on the surface, but no one is willing to take a share.

Sun Dan doesn't care either, the profit-seeking nature of capital will guide them, as long as they see real benefits, these guys will definitely take the bait.

This side is still adjusting the loom, and there, Sun Jia has bought a large amount of raw silk from all over Hebei and brought it back to Fangshan.

There are also people in Hebei who raise silkworms, and there are still a lot of raw silk among the people.But because it is not the main producing area of ​​raw silk, after the common people extract the silk, most of them are stored in their homes, waiting for merchants from Jiangnan to purchase.Because of this, the quantity is not large enough to meet the needs of Fangshan Weaving Bureau.

It can be used to persuade the gentry.

In more than a month, the construction of the factory building was completed very quickly, covering an area of ​​about [-] mu, all of which were made of yellow mud and adobe. The factory buildings were arranged neatly, like a checkerboard grid, and drainage ditches were completed between each grid.The area of ​​[-] mu was very large in ancient times. Although the factory buildings were very simple and simple, but from a distance, it was a huge house, like a new city built on the flat land.

Especially when the looms were running, the rumbling noise kept going all night, causing most of the residents in Fangshan County to suffer from insomnia.

Fangshan people in this era may not know what an industrial base, even the simplest handicraft workshop-style industrial base, means to them.But from the moment the foundation of the factory building was laid, the surrounding life changed regardless of human will.

First, building new factories requires a lot of labor.During the slack season, Sun Dan hired thousands of young and strong construction workers at one go, working day and night.The sound of chant and ramming lasted all night.Because he needs a lot of torches to work at night, the boss who buys tung oil in the city counts the money until his hands cramp.Secondly, so many people want to eat and drink, and after getting their wages, they have to go to the city for consumption. In just a few days, more than a dozen grocery stores and small restaurants have opened in the city.

As the end of the new year approaches, workers also need to buy new year's goods, and the goods in the dry grocery store are also sold out.

Even the shop that sells steamed buns has to line up every morning, and it is too late to eat a hot steamed bun.

The business is so booming, these days, as long as you want to make money, you only need to set up a stall on the street, and you can earn money all over your body.

Seeing the real benefits, the people of Fangshan wished that Sun Dan's factory could be repaired like this forever and never be completed.

When Sun Dan's factory building was completed, those shops that had just opened were depressed, and they only hated that they were too late to make it to the right time.

Facts proved that their worries were unnecessary. The factory building was completed, and the construction workers had all gone home, but the loom masters invited from Jiangnan came, a total of 600 people.These 600 people are nothing at all in the Jiangnan area, with a monthly salary of only six or seven renminbi, but in the north, they are the top technical backbones. Sun Dan is also very generous, giving them a monthly salary of two taels of silver.

Two taels of silver is a huge sum of money in this era. If it is not sticky, it is enough for an ordinary family to eat for five or six months. In a disaster year, you can buy two big girls with yellow flowers.

These craftsmen came all the way from the south of the Yangtze River to Shuntian. Their lives are boring. When they are not working, they will inevitably not go to the city. The spending power of this group of people is much stronger than that of the previous construction workers. The 600 people are more than the thousands of people in the past. People cost more.

As a result, the hotel industry in the city has also flourished.

This is just the beginning. With the number of looms in Sun Dan's hands now, if there are three shifts, each machine will need three workers, adding up to tens of thousands.The tens of thousands of workers who have left agriculture do not know how many industries in the city will be driven.

The textile industry directly solves the livelihood of tens of thousands of people, but the related downstream industries will also flourish. In this way, at least 10 people have benefited from the Weaving Bureau opened by Sun Dan.

For now, because it is the end of the year, the workers are not yet in place.However, with the arrival of [-] artisans, these Jiangnan grandmothers with cash in their hands spent all day drinking and having fun on the street, and Fangshan people discovered that there were more funds circulating in the market.

At the same time, larger changes suddenly occurred.

Because the weaving bureau was done jointly by Sun Dan and Shanxi merchants, it will be done after the loom arrives.Shi Wan and hundreds of Shanxi businessmen are permanently stationed in Fangshan, and these guys are all extremely rich.As soon as they arrived in Fangshan, they bought land and built a house. Fangshan County is so big. After being speculated by Shanxi people, the land price rose three times a day, and gradually approached the price of the capital.Many urban poor wake up from sleep, and are shocked to find that their dilapidated small houses are worth a lot of money, and they have become upper-middle class families.

Smart people keep their houses in their hands, waiting for their wealth to rise a little bit.But there are also people who can't wait to exchange all the houses in the city for cash, and move back to the countryside to become small landlords.

With the further rise of land prices, many businessmen in the capital rushed to Fangshan to buy houses and speculate land. More than 1000 people flocked in within a month.

The hotels in the city were already full, and even the Datong shop where ordinary porters rested had risen to [-] yuan a shop, and there were Beijingers lying on it.

These days, the businessmen who came to Fangshan from the capital to speculate in real estate almost turned their eyes red. One of the best businessmen bought more than 100 houses and a dozen shops in a breath.

With the influx of a large number of merchants and hundreds of merchants from Shanxi, the prosperity of the Fangshan market is no less than that of the capital city.These people are not alone, each of them brought dozens of family members.In other words, the population of Fangshan County suddenly increased by tens of thousands.In terms of population density, it has reached the standard of Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou.

However, there are also discordant voices.First of all, with the increase of the urban population, the public facilities are not enough, especially the huts, each hut is full and not to mention.Just the few public huts that Sun Dan let the gentry pay for to build are already full to the street.Not only that, there are also unconscious people who take advantage of people's unpreparedness and find a random place to solve the problem, which makes the wild dogs in the city feast on the sun and eat it.

Fangshan, which used to be beautiful and peaceful, has now become a stinking yellow and white city.

The farmers digging out the manure were so busy that their feet didn't touch the ground, they still couldn't cope with the sudden increase in the excretion of tens of thousands of people.It is conceivable how crowded the city will be after more than 1 workers are in place.Sun Dan is afraid to go to the street now. As soon as he goes to the street, people stop the sedan chair and complain: "Master Qingtian, we are almost suffocated to death by outsiders."

This is the first, and second, with the further increase of the consuming population, special industries in the city have also sprung up like mushrooms after rain.Brothels and gambling houses are blooming in all directions, Yingying, Yanyan and Yanlong are selling and laughing, brokers, real estate middlemen, and silk merchants shuttle among them.Among them, the largest brothel was opened by Guo Pu, which spoiled the atmosphere and disturbed the law and order.

Although Sun Dan hates these special industries, he is also very helpless. After all, there is no provision on anti-pornography and anti-illegal in the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", the only thing he can do is to impose heavy taxes.However, once the tax increases, the price of goods in Fangshan will also increase. In the past, it only cost one penny to go to a brothel for a round of tea, but now it has become one tael, and the business is still booming.

Sun Dan was amused, he didn't expect that his factory hadn't been put into production yet, the land had been robbed by unscrupulous businessmen first, even the price of vegetables on the street had doubled, and the CPI had even hit new highs.Facts have proved that speculators have a keen sense of smell and are always one step ahead of those who do business.

Sun Dan naturally raised his hands to welcome the land speculators.But it can’t just be so cheap for real estate speculators. Sun Dan asked Sun Hao to set up a real estate transaction office. Private real estate transactions need to be registered with the government and the land deed should be changed. Sun Dan took this opportunity to collect [-]% of each transaction A transaction tax.

In this way, as the turnover rate of speculators is getting higher and higher, the transaction tax obtained by Sun Dan has gradually accumulated to a staggering figure.

On Lunar New Year's Eve, Sun Dan asked Sun Jia to do the math, only to be surprised to find that the addition of real estate transaction tax and commercial tax has already completed the task of next year's summer tax.Of course, there is still a long way to go before the annual target of 28 taels.However, there is no need to worry about this, as long as the factory starts operation, let alone 5, even [-] can be scraped together.

Rubbing his head, Sun Dan suddenly asked Sun Jia who was settling accounts: "The food in the yamen doesn't seem to be very good recently, it's not good. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and I'm going to give birth on New Year's Eve. Raw silk Are you all ready?"

Sun Jia was a little surprised: "Brother Dan, are you not going back to the capital to reunite with your family?"

"I really can't leave, I can only hope that Mother Zhi can forgive me." Sun Dan smiled: "I will go to the city to see her after the Chinese New Year is over and everything is settled."

Sun Jia nodded: "The raw silk business has also been prepared, but the raw silk production in Hebei is only at that point, and I have basically purchased all of it."

"So, with our current inventory, how many days can we produce if we run the looms fully?"

Sun Jia did the math: "It can be produced for a month."

"It's only been a month!" Sun Dan was a little disappointed: "If it doesn't work, let Shi Wanquan go to Jiangnan to buy more."

"It is also a way. However, there is a problem here."

"What's the problem?" Sun Dan asked.

"I've run out of money." Sun Jia said, "You have already used up all the money you have to build a factory and purchase raw materials. If you really can't do anything, you can go to the Lu Family Bank to borrow some money, or Boss Shi can think of something. I don't understand, the gentry in Fangshan are so uncooperative, why do you have to force them to buy shares."

Sun Dan said: "You don't understand now. The Lu family bank is too sensitive, and it will not move if it can be moved. If Lao Shi buys a share again, I am afraid that the Shanxi people will have the final say on the weaving bureau. I do it in Fangshan. Officials, no matter what, we must work for the welfare of the Fangshan people. In the future, there will still be many things that require the cooperation of the local gentry. If we have a stalemate with them, it will not be a good thing. With their shares, our liquidity problem can also be solved. Besides..." He smiled: "I want to tax the looms. I initially plan to levy a one-dollar value-added tax on each loom every month. If those wealthy gentry become shareholders, these taxes will all be paid to them."

Sun Jia laughed and said: "But they just refuse to pay for the shares, so what can you do, Mr. Sun?"

Sun Dan: "So, I will celebrate the New Year in Fangshan this year. On the night of the New Year's Eve, I plan to invite all the nobles in Fangshan to the Weaving Bureau for a New Year's Eve dinner, and then let them watch the textile machinery start. By the way, I will make another order Yes, let all the silk dealers who come to Fangshan go to the factory to pick up the goods. As long as they see the actual benefits, the Fangshan gentry will be tempted."

Sun Jia's expression changed: "Good idea."

"I'll leave this to you."

"I'm afraid I can't do it well."

"why?"

"No money."

"Holding an order meeting, it won't cost much to invite people to eat a ton of food, right?"

"My Eldest Sun, you put it simply." Sun Jia shook his head and said, "As the year approaches, the monthly allowances and bonuses of hundreds of people in the mansion are a large sum. You invite people to eat in the factory, labor, vehicles Do you want money for horses? My lord, go to the street to see how high the prices are now. Nowadays, people in Laofangshan can't stand it anymore, and they have moved to the countryside. Now, the city is full of Foreign accent."

Sun Dan's head is a little swollen, the recent expenses are too high, and his pockets have been emptied.

It's really difficult!
"I have no choice but to ask Zhiniang to borrow some."

After obtaining hundreds of taels of cash from Zhiniang, Sun Dan's groundbreaking ceremony and order meeting finally went smoothly.

It was finally getting dark, and the sounds of Tianwang Temple in the north of the city also rang out.

Standing in the lobby of the Weaving Bureau and hearing the bell, Sun Dan was stunned to realize that the first year of Jiajing had finally arrived.

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