At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 337 Collective Workshop, Order Agriculture

February 8, the sixth year of the Han Dynasty.

This is a rare sunny day in spring. On this day, whether it is the Han Dynasty court, the workshops in Chang'an City, or the Lantian Coal Mine, the workshops in Guanzhong began to stop work, and the craftsmen all got a rare day off.

The craftsmen at the Lantian Coal Yard get this unexpected day off. Local craftsmen will take advantage of this rare day to go home and reunite with their families.

The Qiang craftsmen who work in Dahan cannot go home. They either go to the mining bathhouse to take a bath, or they find an open space in the mining area to vent their energy in a hearty football field. There were also a large number of craftsmen who went directly to Chang'an City, wanting to visit the capital of the Han Dynasty.

Jing Lei was full of expectations for the city of Chang'an. In the past few months, he had been mining in the Lantian coal field and finally learned Chinese. On this day, he finally couldn't help but yearn for the city of Chang'an and went to Chang'an alone.

"There are so many people!" This was Jing Lei's first impression of Chang'an City.

I saw crowds of people flowing everywhere, caravans and carriages entering one after another, and Han soldiers maintaining order could be seen at the city gate.

There were only a few hundred people in his tribe, and there were only a few thousand people in the Lantian Coal Mine. He had never seen such a crowded place like Chang'an City, and Jing Lei felt at a loss.

When he entered Chang'an City, he saw that the streets in the city were wide and clean, bustling and lively, with merchants gathered and people flowing in endlessly. All these scenes made him feel like he was in heaven.

Now that Jing Lei heard the name Li Kai, he instinctively walked into the teahouse.

At the same time, their mines also started to rest on Sundays, and he knew that all this was brought about by Li Kai. From then on, he regarded Li Kai as his benefactor.

Jing Lei had a deep memory of this incident, because their mine also stopped work that day to celebrate. From that day on, although he did the same amount of work, his salary was 200 yuan more. The master told him that this was his overtime pay, and it was Li Kai. Help them strive for the light they have come to.

What only disappointed him was that Li Kai never came back after he left the mine. He asked his master to know about Li Kai's situation.

As the working hours of craftsmen decreased and they had rest time, the workshop owners who thought they would lose income were pleasantly surprised to find that after the craftsmen had rest time, their consumption increased. As long as it was Sunday, the turnover was generally 30% higher. They Their business became even easier, and they discovered the holiday economy for the first time.

The second person who was kind to him was Li Kai. He often took care of him in the mine. Knowing that his family was poor, he would give him some clothes that he didn't need. He also taught him many songs and took him to play football.

"The Legend of Three Heroes" is the story that people all over the world like to listen to most at this time. Not only storytellers are telling it, but also many operas are adapting their stories. There are already many versions. If a few decades pass, these versions will The most exciting plots will be merged together and become a story that will be passed down through the ages.

Therefore, these workshop owners are now both sad and happy. They feel sorry for the extra salary they have paid, but they are also happy that the sales of their goods have increased.

But the master told him that Li Kai took some other people to work as miners elsewhere and would never return to Lantian Coal Mine in the future.

Later, I heard from his master that Li Kai took the craftsmen to go on strike in Chang'an City. They fought with the corrupt officials in the city for a month and finally won.

If it can't be done, it would be good to let the poor people take less from themselves. Watching others make more money is more uncomfortable than losing money yourself. It can only be said that there is still a certain distance between the big workshop owners and the capitalists.

In such a holiday atmosphere, the population of Chang'an City seemed to be several times larger than usual. Jinglei felt that everyone in the world was in Chang'an City, and he could only move blindly behind the crowd.

The story of a poor boy who stirred up troubles and became a trendsetter in the world has been enduring for a long time. It has always been the favorite story of the common people. They like to put themselves among the protagonists.

The most distressing thing for these workshop owners now is that there is no good way in the world that can reduce the salary of craftsmen and allow them to consume more goods, so as to get the best of both worlds.

But a few months ago, Li Kai took a group of people out of the mine and never came back, which made Jing Lei very sad.

The storyteller is talking about "The Legend of Three Heroes", which is a story based on Fang Hao, Ai Qiang, and Li Kai.

During the half year he came to Dahan, the best thing for him was his master Lao Gen, who taught him Chinese, helped him write letters, and mailed his salary and goods home.

He was squeezed by the crowd and walked aimlessly.

But as the saying goes, when heaven is about to entrust a man with a great responsibility, he must first suffer his will, strain his muscles and bones, and starve his body and skin. Suffering has tempered his will. When the Mohist giant was in the Lantian Mine, he saw at a glance that his talents were inhuman. , saying that this person was not just a person to be taken for granted, and would become a pillar of the world in the future, so he was accepted as a close disciple. "

Suddenly he heard a voice saying: "It is said that Li Kai is a descendant of prisoners. He grew up in a prison. He was bullied by the officials of Qin and suffered all the sufferings in the world. That is to say, the founding of this dynasty and the sage of the emperor, he Let him be released from prison and become a miner under the order of the Han Shaofu.

Jing Lei stopped when he heard the name Li Kai.

A waiter came forward and said, "Sir, what kind of tea would you like to drink?"

"Tea?" Jing Lei was a little confused.

The waiter saw that Jing Lei looked like a country bumpkin and had a foreign appearance. He knew that he did not understand the rules of the teahouse, so he pointed to the sign and said: "If you want to come to our teahouse to listen to storytelling, you have to buy tea. We have Maojian and Longjing here." , Dahongpao and other teas, including Maojian for 1 yuan a bowl, Longjing for yuan, and Dahongpao for yuan.”

"So expensive!" Jing Lei said in shock.

He has been in Dahan for half a year, and he also knows the prices of some goods in Dahan. A liter of flour costs less than 1 yuan, but now this bowl of tea is actually more expensive than a liter of flour. You must know that one liter of flour can make three steamed buns. Yes, enough for a full meal. What is this tea? Why is it so expensive?
He looked at the tea bowl in the teahouse, which was less than half the size of his rice bowl. He instinctively wanted to leave.

At this time, a person grabbed his hand and said, "Two bowls!"

"okay!"

Jing Lei said in surprise: "Brother Li."

Li Kai smiled and said: "I saw you just now. I thought I saw you wrong, but I didn't expect you were really in Chang'an City."

Li Kai and Jing Lei sat down in the teahouse.

Then he asked: "How is the situation at Lantian Mine? Is everyone okay?"

Jing Lei said: "Fortunately, after you left, Lantian Mine increased our salary. We have one day off every sunny day. If you don't want to take a break, you can continue mining and earn double salary. Now I have more per month." The salary of 200 yuan, the master said, is all thanks to Brother Li.”

Li Kai smiled and said: "This is the joint contribution of all the students and craftsmen in Chang'an City, and I just played a part in it."

But Li Kai's inner pride cannot be concealed. He is not a big shot, but he can still accomplish feats that change the country. The demonstration a few months ago has become the most glorious moment in Li Kai's life. He also Always proud of it.

Jing Lei said: "Brother Li, wherever you are working now, I will go find you when I have a rest."

Li Kai said: "The Zhiyang Coal Farm is not far from Chang'an City."

Then he said to Jing Lei: "This coal field has been contracted by us. The giant wants to verify the new production model, that is, whether we craftsmen can survive without the workshop owner.

In this coal field, the court holds 70% of the shares, and the miners and I contribute 30% of the shares. Now we are doing things for ourselves. The mining craftsmen can earn more than 3,000 per month, and we also have a small briquette business. The factory can produce tens of thousands of briquettes every day, and its production capacity is still increasing. The factory's profits are still increasing. "

"And with the help of the imperial court, we built a small cement factory through a development bank loan, using coal gangue as raw material, and the efficiency is very good. The cement produced is in short supply. By this time next year, maybe everyone's salary can exceed 5000 yuan. Reaching the high income level of Chang’an City.”

"So much!" Jing Lei was extremely envious. Even if he worked overtime for a month, he could only earn between 1200 and 1300 yuan. His master could earn 2400 yuan, but this was already a very high income in Chang'an City. Life can only be exchanged for it. But now that he heard the number 5000, it was beyond his imagination.

Li Kai said proudly: "Now everyone is holding their breath and wants to make more money. We work so hard not to prove how great we are, but to declare to the world that we craftsmen can live without workshop owners." Better and more money.

We want to use the Zhiyang Coal Mine to prove to the world that the workshop owners’ support of our craftsmen is a blatant lie. They are exploiting our craftsmen. We deserve the salary they give us, and there is no need to be grateful to them at all. "

They did not pay a price for the October strike. After the Mohists showed their strong organizational skills, their giant Qin Bo was ostracized by all the high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty, headed by Prime Minister Zhou Zhang. Even now, Zhou Zhang still has lingering fears about the general strike organized by the Mohists. Qin Bo was able to organize hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City, and he could also organize hundreds of thousands of people to go on strike throughout the world.

This kind of thing may be nothing to Xu Fan, because he has seen too much in later generations, and hundreds of thousands of people are nothing.

But Zhou Zhang and the others were extremely frightened. What if the Mo family mobilized these hundreds of thousands of people to rebel? Even if the Han Dynasty does not perish, it will suffer heavy losses.

You must know that the emperor only mobilized 800 prisoners at the beginning. Although it is impossible for things like Qin Mo to happen in the Han Dynasty now, Qin Bo affected not only 800 people, but hundreds of thousands or even millions of people. .

Anyone would be frightened by the Mohist family's such powerful influence. The Han Dynasty did not allow such an influential person to exist, so Zhou Zhang led many ministers to write to the emperor, requesting the dismissal of Qin Bo, the Shaofu order.

And Qin Bo also felt that due to the restrictions on official positions in the imperial court, it was more difficult for the Mo family to exert their full strength. This strike should have been led by a giant like him, but because of his status as a young official, he had to just watch on the sidelines. their actions.

He felt that officialdom was not suitable for Mohists. After becoming a Han official, it was not conducive to Mohists' efforts to benefit the people.

And he also discovered that the Society of Sages has become a new battleground for interests in the world. These general strikes show the power of the Mohists, but they also show the power of the Society of Sages. The resolutions reached at the meeting of electors, even the emperor, I won’t veto it. Is there any better endorsement than the emperor?

The Mohists should strive for the position of sages, and through the sages' association, they should influence the development of the government of the Han Dynasty and benefit the people.

So Qin Bo wrote a letter to resign from his position as Shaofu Ling.

The emperor agreed.

At this point, Qin Bo was freed from the shackles of the imperial court and began to organize craftsmen in various counties of the Han Dynasty to help them safeguard their own interests. At the same time, he was also preparing for his election as a sage.

But Li Kai and the others are not so good. In their view, this is the revenge of those workshop owners. They made their giants lose Guanzhong. So they also want to use their own mines to prove the big lies told by those workshop owners and take revenge on them.

Jing Lei envied: "Brother Li, we Qiang people just lack heroes like you. I really want to take refuge in you."

Li Kai said: "We are also short of people now. If you really want to come, just come."

Jing Lei was overjoyed, but he quickly said with a gloomy expression: "We owe the court fees and cannot leave the Lantian Mine."

The Han court gave various princes an intermediary fee of 3 yuan, but the wool came from the sheep. The reason why Jinglei and the others only had half of the income of other miners was that they had to repay the intermediary fee with half of their salary.

Li Kai said: "I will lend you this money. With the income of our workshop, you can pay it back soon."

Jing Lei said happily: "From now on, someone's life will belong to Brother Li."

Then Li Kai took Jing Lei to the football field outside Chang'an City.

Jing Lei was surprised to see that the city-like building was actually just a place for recreation.

"Brother, why did you come so slowly!" Several strong men complained.

Li Kai smiled and said: "Meeting an acquaintance is a thunderbolt."

Jing Lei also immediately said: "Hello, brothers."

He has discovered that these people are the miners who left with Li Kai.

But at this moment Jing Lei discovered that they were wearing half-length silk clothes with numbers like 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 written on them, but he didn't recognize the words written in front of them.

These craftsmen also knew him, and then smiled and said: "It turns out to be Xiao Jinglei. I remember that I played football well. I ran fast and shot accurately. I have a chance to practice today."

Li Kai also took off his coat, revealing his silk competition uniform and said: "Today we must win, in front of the people of the entire Chang'an City, and make our brothers' football team famous."

"Okay!" all the players yelled.

After the holidays in Chang'an City, football took off rapidly. Now the people who come to football stadiums to watch football games are no longer middle-class people or above, but ordinary people who have time to come and watch.

Now there is an amateur league in Chang'an City. In order to get the name of their products or workshops in front of tens of thousands of Chang'an people, many workshops will form a football team and write the names of their workshops in front of the players.

As long as the football team has a high winning rate, the business of the workshop will also become better. This situation will quickly lead to the regularization of primitive football games.

After Li Kai and the others defeated five teams, they had already established a certain reputation in Chang'an City. But today they were playing against the Dahan Chongqi football team. They were the real kings of this stadium.

The situation on the field was similar to what most viewers expected. In the first half, the Chongqi football team scored three goals in a row, beating the brother team without any temper.

In the end, Jing Lei gave Li Kai and the others a surprise, helping them score two goals in the second half. Although they lost 5:2 in the end, it saved them some face in the end.

Jing Lei was also more excited than ever before. This was the first time that tens of thousands of people cheered for him. This was unprecedented. He felt that he no longer wanted to leave Chang'an City. This was where he should stay.

Chang'an City, cotton spinning factory, factory director Ai Qiang is holding a pen and busy calculating this year's bills.

Last year Ji Bu brought hundreds of kilograms of cotton seeds to Xu Fan, and students from the College of Agriculture used these seeds to cultivate thousands of acres of cotton fields.

Under the careful care of these students, various soil fertilizers, struvite and other fertilizers were used. During the autumn harvest, the cotton harvest was about hundreds of kilograms per mu. Thousands of acres of cotton fields harvested 10 kilograms of cotton, and then used a thresher. , separate cotton lint and cotton seeds, and obtain 5 kilograms of cotton lint.

The cotton seeds are kept for sowing. This year, 2 acres of cotton fields have been planted in Chang'an County.

The remaining cotton skin was first spun and then woven, and soon a piece of cotton cloth that was more valuable than gold was born.

Tens of thousands of pieces of cloth were woven from 5 kilograms of cotton skin. Except for a few pieces of cloth that were given to the upper echelons of the Han Dynasty and various princes, most of them were sold at extremely high prices.

During this period, cotton cloth became a hot topic in the entire Chang'an City. Cotton cloth has the characteristics of softness, breathability, hygroscopicity and comfort. It has become the best cloth in the entire Han Dynasty. The upper class people in Chang'an City are proud to own such a piece of cotton cloth. crazy.

After finishing the accounting, he looked at the half-stopped textile machine and muttered to himself: "We can't keep shutting down like this."

After all, the quantity of cotton is too small to be supplied for a long time, so half of the machinery in his textile factory has been stopped, and the remaining half of the textile machines are also producing linen and silk, but raw materials are a big problem after all.

Ai Qiang came to Qi Township and went to the local villager Lu Shu and said: "We, Chang'an Cotton Mill, plan to cooperate with your township."

Lu Shu said: "How to cooperate?"

Ai Qiang said: "Our textile factory lacks raw materials. Your village wants to make money, but you dare not plant too many hemp and mulberry trees. You are worried that you will not be able to sell them. Our textile factory can solve this problem. Our factory uses this year's silk The price of hemp is set at 100 million kilograms of hemp and 50 kilograms of silkworm cocoons. Our textile factory can pay one-tenth of the price as a deposit. In this way, the silk and hemp produced in your hometown will be contracted by us, and you will not have to worry about risks. ”

Ai Qiang plans to use Qixiang as his own economic crop garden.

After thinking about it, Lu Shu, the villager, realized that his people were not at a disadvantage, so he convened 10 villages under him. With the guarantee of the Chang'an County Magistrate, the two parties signed a contract, and Ai Qiang immediately gave 100 million yuan to the elders of Qixiang.

At this point, the model of cooperation between textile mills and raw materials was born.

(End of this chapter)