Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1371 Must Buy
The silk customers have come, but the reeled silk cannot be sold!No one is willing to sell the hard-working silk at this pitifully low price, not to mention that most people have owed debts for this silk!
Every household in the village was hung up, except for the children who were not worried about anything, everyone had no smile on their faces.

The "silk guest" didn't receive the silk, but they haven't left yet. They all look very confident.I find a familiar "lower place" to live on my own, drink tea and chat in the wild teahouse at the entrance of the village during the day, let your old acquaintances come to plead and beg, just don't let go.They also have a set of rhetoric: they just keep sighing and saying that they are "involuntary", and they don't want to treat "folks" so harshly-this is what "yamen" means.In short, if you grit your teeth, you will not let go.Clearly showing the face of "sell it if you don't sell it", they are sure that the "folks" will have to cut their flesh to mend their sores sooner or later.They are all in the old business. Right now, Silk is the only hope for the villagers. If they can't cash in, where will the next expenses come from?Besides, silk and cocoons are things that cannot be put away, and there is absolutely no one that can stock up.

Someone finally came up with a brain, since the local silk trade has a fair price, but the state capital next door should not have such a statement, the price is about the same as last year - simply go to Huzhou, Jiaxing or Suzhou to sell silk.

It's just that it takes a long way to go from here, and it takes five or six days to go back and forth. It costs money to travel on the road, and it costs money to negotiate and pass the gate.If it were in the past, it would not count.But the current market is so low, if you don't take this trip, you will lose even more.

Shen Kaibao made a good plan and decided to go to Huzhou to try his luck—he had been to Wuzhen when he was young, so he knew a little about the local area.Immediately I asked Daqing to get some reed mats, and asked my wife and Daqing's daughter-in-law to cook, wrapped them in chopsticks leaves for the meal on the road, and brought some fried wheat flour, ready to stir with boiling water for eating on the road.

Da Qingniang cooked the rice, put it in a basket, and told him: "Sell it and come back soon! The rice at home is only a few days away!"

Shen Kaibao yelled as if he was going to quarrel: "No matter how fast you have to shake the oar, you have sold the silk for a lifetime, and you will be sent to the army when you are old!"

Daqing said to his mother: "It's time to stop, you should go to everyone in Shenyang to borrow rice. Mother Duoduo said, Master Zhao is willing to continue to borrow."

Shen Kaibao interrupted his son's words: "He is willing to borrow, but I am not willing to borrow. Where does the interest come from?! Pay it back with cocoons, such a low market price, it is nothing! You try your best to wait for me. Sell ​​the silk and get the silver back to measure the rice!"

Just in time for those few days when the sun cleared, Shen Kaibao took Daqing out with the boat, and the other families saw that Shen Kaibao's family had already set off, so they all followed the boat. Those who didn't have a boat borrowed a boat, or asked someone to take it with them go.

The flame of hope that had already become small will burn up again, and the faces of the people left behind in the family will have more smiles-there is no limit to the road, as long as the head of the family can reach the outer mansion peacefully, he can If you sell it at a good price, you can live a good life today!

On the contrary, the silk guests still drank tea at the wild tea shop at the entrance of the village with a determined face, with unpredictable smiles on their faces.It seems that it has been prepared for a long time.

Sure enough, within two or three days, the boats that went out came back one after another. Many of the boats were empty, but everyone on the boat was crying and mourning: not to mention the hardships and hardships, and some people still suffered from the pain on their buttocks. He got off the board and limped back.It turns out that all the water and land checkpoints leaving Hangzhou have received the Yamen brand. This year, when Yusi leaves the country, he must have a ticket from the Famine Relief Bureau. [-]% off and buy.If you don’t obey, it’s so light to eat a board——the one who is shackled is even worse, and you can’t even come back, and your family has to rush to bring money to collect the ransom, or you have to be shackled for a month. Let people go.

Shen Kaibao's family didn't suffer any losses - he was a bit clever, although he was the first to set off, he hid behind to pass the card, and when he heard the bad news ahead, he quickly turned the bow and rushed back.

Although the silk has not been "healed and bought", his family's silk still cannot be sold, and the family has a lot of cocoons - this year's silkworm flowers are good, and it is impossible for his wife and Daqing's daughter-in-law to make silk.

Those who were not so lucky were crying loudly, especially in a few families whose family members were arrested and sent to the shackles, and they had to bring money to redeem them-which family in the village still has cash to use?But if you don't redeem it, the shackles are in the open air during the day and night, and if no one delivers food, you will have no food, no water, and you will die of starvation and thirst.Besides, what about the farm work for this month?If it is delayed, the whole family will starve to death.

The cries of women and children drifted over from far and near.There is an atmosphere of despair in the village: How can the common people beat the Yamen?He has thought of everything you want, so you can't help but sell it.

In the end, it was Wang Siniang who came forward to help and lent the money for the redemption to these families.

The silk and cocoon were not sold, but the creditor and the food messenger came.Creditors don't want silk and cocoons—they are well-informed and know that this year's silk and cocoons cannot be sold at a price.He just put on a straight face and ignored him, and kept pressing for repayment of the debt.If you can't pay it back, take out the mortgaged land deed as soon as possible.

Shen Kaibao's family is not bad, after all, Mr. Cao agreed that he will pay back the principal and interest only after the Mid-Autumn Festival.The debt problem is not imminent.Right now, all he has to pay back is the little debt owed to Master Shen's family, Mr. Zhao.

After returning home, Duoduo Niang has been helping Wang Siniang to urge every household: Don’t forget to pay back the debts of Mr. Zhao’s family after collecting the silkworm cocoons: the debts of rice and leaves on credit, I don’t feel it when I borrow it, it will always add up Only then did I realize that it was not a small number.Fortunately, the interest is less.

It is easy to repay Mr. Zhao's debts. His family does not need silver or raw silk. It only needs to take silkworm cocoons to pay off the debts.It's just that Mr. Zhao's cocoon price is the same as that offered by the "silk guest", and the silkworm farmers are equally distressed, but they can't help but hesitate any longer.The silk customers refused to raise the price, and the cocoons would pupate after being left for a long time, and if they were bitten through, they could only be sold as silk cotton.

There was a black scale at the door of Shen's family, and each household carried baskets full of silkworm cocoons to pay the debt and interest.Wang Siniang has already spoken outside, borrowing and repaying, it is not difficult to borrow again, Mr. Zhao has a kind heart, as long as the debts are paid off on time with cocoons, everyone will help when there are difficulties in the future.

These remarks greatly accelerated the speed at which silkworm farmers used their cocoons to pay off their debts.Some families didn't reel the silk at all, and sold the remaining cocoons to Master Shen.After calculation, people who make their own silk have suffered a lot. Compared with the current raw silk market, the labor and firewood invested in silk reeling is simply horrible.On the contrary, the few families have few hands and cannot afford the time and manpower. Selling silkworm cocoons directly costs less, and on the contrary, they lose less.

Shen Kaibao's family had been hesitating at first, but now they had no choice but to use the cocoons that hadn't been reeled at home to pay off the debt.On the river port in front of Shen’s family, some boats came at some time. The silkworm cocoons that the silkworm farmers paid off their debts were packed in rattan baskets with covers, filling the cabin, and the top was tightly covered with reed mats. The boat was shaken out - it is said that they were all sent to the silk reeling field of Mr. Zhao's house.

The raw silk that has been reeled has to be sold at the public price.Some were sold to Si Ke and some were sold to Mr. Zhao.Although some young people said angrily that they would rather save it until next year before selling it, but this is just an angry remark after all, not to mention that the silk will turn yellow if it is kept for a long time, even if it does not turn yellow, there are so many places to spend money now—even if They can't wait for silk to sell for 100 taels next year.

In the end, the silk and cocoons that had been obtained through untold hardships flowed away from the fingers of the silkworm farmers who had worked hard for more than a month, and were replaced by more or less piles of scattered silver and copper coins.The remuneration they have spent a lot of labor on will become someone else's sooner or later. The debts owed, the government's taxes, the family's rations, and the next step is to rent cattle, buy bean cakes, and repair the land. Farm tools... everything is waiting for money-it's still a long way to fill in all these.

Difficult, the villagers had no choice but to continue their old way: borrowing money to maintain.Fortunately, Shen Da's host, Mr. Zhao, was willing to borrow money without mortgage, and the benefit was still one point.As a result, the villagers who had just paid off Mr. Zhao's debts soon took on their debts again.

Wang Siniang and Lizheng were very happy.The task the master gave them has been completed: enough silkworm cocoons have been bought, and at the same time, the villagers have been burdened with more debts—as long as they are burdened with debts, they will not worry about not submitting.

With the joint efforts of the government, Jinshen and Zhao Yingong, the sericulture households in Hangzhou Mansion were bled to death.The officials in charge, the committee members of the Famine Relief Bureau, the bosses of the silk shops... all made various fortunes from top to bottom.Zhao Yingong himself has gained a lot.Not only did they get a thousand dans of raw silk at a very low price, but they also made more than a dozen villages carrying out cooperative activities bear the debts of the cooperatives as they wished.

The sericulture households in the entire Hangzhou Prefecture are also on the verge of bankruptcy.Shanhai Wulu sent him a lot of news in this regard.

"These gangsters are really cannibals." Zhao Yingong thought.

I know they are dark, but I don't know they can be so dark.Zhao Yingong's purchase guide price for the Famine Relief Bureau this time is 50 taels of silver per load—roughly the same as the purchase price of Silk Bank last year.He originally estimated that the Famine Relief Bureau would peel off one layer, and the silk industry in charge of it would peel off another layer.The top and bottom managers will further divide the profit, and the real purchase price from the silkworm farmers is about 30 taels.

Unexpectedly, this group of people really came to a "half and half bargain".It's so ruthless.Let Zhao Yingong be wary of the "collaborators".It seems that I have to organize some powerful defense forces to ensure the safety of myself and my property.

(End of this chapter)