I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 761, bad money drives out good money

The silk from the south to the north is mainly transported by sea. Whether it is Yangzhou, Jingzhou or Yizhou, they all go through the Yangtze River waterway, run to the wharf in Danyang County, and then transfer to sea ships to Jidu by sea, so I want to check the silk. The source is really a bit troublesome, and the general silk shop owner doesn't care where your silk comes from.Even if the sea merchants say what the place of origin is, they believe it is the place of origin.

At this time, the servant at the side said: "Even if the silk does not come from your Jingzhou, it is wrong for you to beat people. If the shopkeeper is willing to private, we will not arrest people, but compensation must be given, and there is one more thing. I want to remind Prefect Xu to take good care of your own people, this is Jidu, not the rural areas like Jingzhou, if something like this happens again, don't blame us for being intolerant."

In Jidu, when a brick was thrown down, more than half of them were officials, and the officials in Jidu saw too many officials, so even though Xu Lun was the prefect, these yamen servants were not very afraid of Xu Lun, a foreign prefect. Of course, they still gave them face. Otherwise, Jing Yi would have been arrested by them long ago.

But they didn't dare to please Xu Lun too much, because Xu Wei, the ruler, was extremely strict about such things of using power for personal gain, and if they were a little careless, they might lose their jobs.

Xu Lun asked the shopkeeper several times to find out the source of this batch of low-quality silk, but the shopkeeper didn't know where the sea merchants bought the silk from. He just found out that the price of this batch of silk was low, and he wanted to sell it to the people of Jidu at a low price. .

Xu Lun found out that the shopkeeper didn't know the source, so he could only compensate the shopkeeper for the medical expenses and the loss of silk, and settled with the shopkeeper.

But Xu Lun still warned the shopkeeper that it is fine to sell these low-quality silks, but he cannot pretend to be silk from Jingzhou. Otherwise, he will also report to the court to make his business impossible. The shopkeeper dare not fight with the officials and promises not to If you buy such inferior silk, the two parties will reconcile like this!

On the way back, Shen Jianxin touched a piece of low-quality silk and said strangely: "This silk is so low-quality that it feels worse than woolen cloth. How can these merchants sell it? Aren't they afraid of ruining their business!"

Xu Lun lost the silk shop's money, and he took all the inferior silk. He didn't want to see these inferior silk damage the reputation of Jingzhou silk!
Zhen Xing smiled wryly and said: "You have really stayed in school for a long time, and you are already the same as the stupid king who didn't eat minced meat in the ancient stories that the ruling told us. The price of silk in Jidu is not low, generally it is 1500-2000 yuan Above, the price of the high-end Shu County even exceeds ten thousand yuan, which is the price I learned a year ago, and I am afraid that the price is even more expensive now!"

"I have just inquired about the price of this batch of silk in our hands. It is generally around 900 yuan, and even if you buy a lot, it can be as low as 800 yuan. This price is only slightly higher than gauze. Many ordinary The people in the world will buy this kind of inferior silk for the sake of cheapness!"

It's just that Zhen Xing doubted: "This is the first time I have seen the poor quality of this silk. You must know that even if I am a woman with a primitive loom, it is difficult to weave such inferior silk. Not to mention that with the development of water conservancy looms and steam looms over the years, the quality of silk has been greatly improved. It is really hard for me to imagine where the female textile workers weave such inferior silk? I doubt them all. Can we weave cloth!"

Shen Jianxin smiled and said: "Could it be that some people think that the salary of female workers is too high, so they simply find men to weave cloth?"

Now the textile industry in Dagan is developing extremely fast. The widespread use of water conservancy textile machines and steam engines has led to a steady increase in the output of the three major cloths: woolen cloth, cotton cloth, and silk. The development of the South China Sea has brought a market of tens of millions of people. The military action also brought a large market of tens of millions.

So now there is a new wave of prosperity in the large-scale textile industry. The major textile factories are increasing their production capacity. If the factory owners want to grow, they must find a way to increase the salary of the female textile workers. As a benchmark, low prices can hardly recruit female workers, so the salaries of women within a hundred miles of the Dagan Textile Factory are at a relatively high level, even higher than that of ordinary men.

Xu Lun touched the cloth and said, "Now that there are steam engines, even men can weave silk better than this. Where did this silk come from?"

Then he looked at Zhen Xing and Shen Jianxin. After all, they were local snakes in Jidu. If Xu Lun wanted to know the situation, he could only ask them.

But Shen Jianxin rolled his hands and said: "I haven't come to the market for several years, and my usual clothes are made by my wife!"

Zhen Xing also smiled wryly: "I've been overseas all year, so I don't know what's going on, but I can check it out for you!"

In the beginning, the silk sales were all controlled by his father. After all, when the big men occupied the south, and all the silk was in the south, the Zhen family had some influence in the south to get the goods.Later, although the Zhen family could not monopolize the sale of silk because of the large-scale occupation of the south, the Zhen family still had a high status in the silk industry.

Xu Lun clasped his fists and said, "This is related to the development of our Jingzhou, please, brother."

After that, Xu Lun took his men to investigate the silk market in Jidu. Although he had already asked Zhen Xing to investigate, he still wanted to know the situation of the fake in Jidu.

It's just that if you don't check, you don't know. If you check it, you will be shocked. It turns out that there are many counterfeit and inferior silk shops, and not only the silk family in Jingzhou is counterfeiting, whether it is Yangzhou silk or Shu brocade, he has counterfeited it.In short, all the origins of Dagan silk were faked.

It is very difficult for Xu Lun to crack down on counterfeiting, because what happened last time has already alerted other silk shops. When they saw Xu Lun, if they hadn’t changed their words and said that they were selling Yangzhou silk, that is to say, it was Sichuan silk. Some people even simply did not mention the origin of the silk, so that Xu Lun would have no reason to crack down on counterfeiting.

And Xu Lun was surprised to find that these extremely poor quality silks were actually selling better than their genuine products.

It turns out that the silk sales market has been extremely hot in the past few years, but the production of silk is limited by the shortage of raw materials, and it is difficult to expand production.

The shopkeepers of many shops saw that the market was so hot, but there were no goods. They could only watch the money slipping away from their hands, and they were anxious. At this time, this batch of inferior silk immediately filled the gap, and the price was extremely low. They earn more per silk.

It is because of the high profits that these silk shops are eager to sell these low-quality silks, and the people of Jidu also like these low-quality silks. There is no other reason, it is because the price of these silks is generally doubled, which makes many cash-strapped People can hardly refuse this price.

(End of this chapter)