golden scales

In April of the 20th year of Chongzhen, the whole month of the Spring Silkworm Campaign came to an end, and each family began to count their income.What makes people feel happy is that except for the silkworm farmers near the silkworm farm who failed to buy enough mulberry leaves and suffered a loss of income, silkworm farmers in other places have different degrees of bumper harvests.

There are not many silkworm farmers affected, and the loss is not great, because the matter of buying shoot leaves in the mulberry garden by the crown prince has been announced before the silkworms are raised, and each family has consciously raised a few less cloth.Even so, the crown prince also gave these farmers a chance to let the women work in the newly opened silk reeling factory, not to mention food and housing, and the monthly money was also given a tael of silver.If you are willing to receive banknotes, you can also use the banknotes of this tael of silver to buy more valuable daily necessities in the factory.

Every housewife is a born actuary, and they quickly clarified the relationship between banknotes and commodities, and they are more willing to use banknotes to buy white flour pastries provided by the factory, and they can make double the profit by changing hands.

Before leaving, Zhu Cihong visited the silk reeling factory that had just completed the first phase of the project, with a total of 130 workbenches.The silk reeling techniques and procedures are not different from the native methods used by peasant women to reel silk at home.

Only two joints were changed by Song Yingxing.

One is to change the hand crank to a pedal, which liberates the hands of the peasant woman, and at the same time makes the power more even and the distribution of physical energy more reasonable.This was originally available at the turn of the Tang and Song Dynasties, but because of its large size and many silk mouths, small households have few cocoons and take up space, so it is best to put it in the factory at this time.

The second is to change the stove to boil the cocoons, and use the circulating hot water from the boiler to scald the cocoons.

The cocoons themselves are formed by sericin gluing the threads together, much like postage stamps are attached to envelopes.

The first thing to do in silk reeling is to dissolve the glue, just like peeling off a stamp.

The farmhouse method is to cook cocoons with charcoal fire, and the temperature cannot be constant, which affects the amount and texture of silk produced.And because the water cannot be changed frequently, it will also pollute the silk color.The newly named "Hangzhou No. [-] Silk Reeling Factory" adopts a unified water supply cycle, trying to control the temperature of the reeling water to be stable, and the water quality is clean and fresh, so the thickness of the silk is uniform.The silk color is clean and shiny, and the reeled silk is all high-quality silk.

Although Zheng Zhilong can sell even yellowed aged silk to Japan, everyone knows that the better the silk quality, the more expensive it is.

This "factory" named No. [-] Silk Reeling Factory still adopts the idea of ​​"you mention the process. I will improve it", and it takes the route of concentration and precise control.The improvement in productivity is significant, but it is a bit exaggerated to say that it has entered the age of steam.Because all power is still dominated by manpower, the function of the boiler is only to boil water, and the steam engine is only to lift and supply water.

Even so, many large households still set their sights on silkworm farms and silk reeling factories.If it weren't for the royal industry, I'm afraid they would have swarmed forward regardless of reserve.

Just as the royal family has always done, Zhu Cihong left Tian Cunshan as the eunuch in charge of the silkworm farm and silk reeling factory, not only to hurry up and raise summer silkworms.At the same time, it is necessary to expand the scale of the silk reeling factory and collect as many cocoons as possible.Only in this way can we combat farm workshop production and allow more farmers to find new ways to increase their income - such as recruiting workers.

Tian Cunshan was "domesticated" by Zhu Cihong, and he is very reliable.After he took over the factory and breeding base, in addition to ensuring production.It is also necessary to establish an image of "openness and fairness".All the income and expenditure in the factory were posted on the "Silk Reeling Factory Bulletin", detailing the proportion of salt and sugar water that each female worker drank.

Such an approach not only stabilized the hearts of the workers in the factory, allowing workers to work hard under heavy physical strength and poor working conditions, but also put an end to the middle management's malpractice and ensured the vitality of the factory.More importantly, after the factory and Canzhuang issued such a notice, the big households in Hangzhou also noticed it.They asked Tian Cunshan to go out to socialize one after another, hoping to keep the money in the cabinet.

Everyone knows that if the second season of silkworms can be raised, the cost will be lower, but the profit will be greater.

"I advise you not to rush to save money." Tian Cunshan said: "It's better to wait for a year to see if our summer silkworms and autumn silkworms can be raised. If they can be raised, there is no need to mention saving money, and they must be paid back. I can sell some shares to you."

Many large households come to save money not only to obtain interest, but also to climb high.Leaving aside whether it can make a profit, the "ministry photos" that come with the silk reeling factory alone are worth a lot of money.

This also explains the business system of Ming Dynasty.

In order to facilitate the collection of commercial taxes, commodity sales have to go through tooth shops.Or a specialized product guild.For example, silkworm farmers cannot directly sell raw silk to the machine room. They can only sell it to silk dealers, who then resell it.As a result, the silk industry has gained huge profits and pricing power, and of course it will also arouse the covetousness of others.

Those powerful families with background will take a "ministry photo" and participate in the raw silk trade.

For those who only have money but no background, it is not easy to get a ministry license, and they can only buy shares.This is somewhat similar to the affiliation of later generations, who go to the countryside to collect silk under the banner of a Ministry of Finance. Although a certain fee is required, this industry is inherently profitable, and a small amount of money does not matter.

It stands to reason that no matter if you get a ministry license or a dental office, you should pay commercial tax.In fact, the link of paying taxes has been artificially ignored, so Zhejiang is a big province of silk tea, and it is also a big province of smuggling, because everyone thinks that paying taxes is of no benefit.

In the northern provinces where the economy was directly hit, the intermediary link of the dental bank was almost suppressed and disappeared.All merchants can pay to advertise in newspapers, or to sell their goods in the marketplace.The Taxation Department will directly collect taxes from them according to different industries and commodities. As an intermediary service agency, the dental office can only collect commissions if you like, and you must also report taxes to the Taxation Department.

The economic form in the south is still conservative and traditional. Many powerful families are vested interest groups, and the dental practice is a channel for them to make profits.If you want to attack the dental industry directly, it will inevitably cause new problems. It is better to destroy it in a softer way-establish more royal industries, sell ministerial licenses, and break the industry monopoly.

For example, the silk industry in Zhejiang this year has suffered unspeakably.The crown prince's silk reeling factory can produce silk with more than six times the efficiency, and the quality is good.In this way, a large number of cocoons in the market can be digested, and the purchase price given is 50 taels per load, which is almost equal to the price of raw silk.

With such a high purchase price, farmers are naturally willing to sell the silkworm cocoons directly, which reduces their own workload and avoids the loss caused by silk reeling.

If another local tyrant dared to do such an outrageous thing, he would most likely be punished by the silk industry and all the big silk families together, and to put it lightly, he would have to get out of Zhejiang.However, this matter was done by the crown prince, the murderous god. It would be a pity if he didn't come to trouble everyone. Who would dare to break ground on Tai Sui?

And the silk reeling factory is like a bottomless pit, no matter how many silkworm cocoons can be taken in.If it weren't for the problems of geography, transportation, and silk cocoons not being able to survive for a long time, I am afraid that this year's silk industry will not be able to collect even the current amount of silk.

With only [-]% of previous years, how can we not let the families of the "silk" families be gloomy?

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"Daughter-in-law of the Sun family, another batch of reeling carts have entered the silk reeling factory. How about I recommend you?" The first lady found the wife of the Sun family, with a smile on her face full of joy of asking for credit.

The Sun family's wife has long heard that the silk reeling factory only reels silk, and there is a basic salary, and the female workers will pay extra for the amount of silk they produce.However, she was not good at reeling silk. When she was at home, she could only help her mother-in-law, so she didn't sign up.

Seeing that the lady of the Sun family was hesitant, the lady in charge said again: "I gave up my face to beg for you. You think, if you can't enter the factory, I'm afraid you will be fired by Zhuangzi in the future."

"Ah?" The Sun family's wife was anxious: "How do you say that?"

"Our Zhuangzi raises silkworms, so that the silkworms in the nearby farmers have no mulberry leaves to eat." The leading lady said: "So next year the spring silkworms will find a nearby woman's family to work. Your family is from Nanzhi, so you must retire. back."

Madam Sun was full of unwillingness, but she couldn't say anything to refute.She thought that if she went home, she wouldn't be able to raise a few more silkworms... With that little money at home, where can I buy mulberry leaves?Being able to provide food, lodging and wages here is really helping to solve the major issues at home.This year's Spring Famine family borrowed a lot of young crop money, and seeing that a few children can eat enough, isn't it just the subsidy here?

"It's fine if you enter the factory, but I'm afraid that if you don't do well, you will be kicked out and it will be embarrassing." After the Sun family's wife quickly reviewed it, she immediately changed her tone.

"All the bicycles are used inside. Anyone who goes in has to learn. Besides, you may not be assigned to the silk reeling room, maybe you are sending cocoons and winding silk?" the head lady said.

The lady of the Sun family made sense after thinking about it, but she was afraid that she would really lose her job and go home to spend the half-starved days, so she nodded and agreed.

The first lady couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, secretly thinking that it was dangerous.It turned out that she had already recommended someone to join the factory, but the woman's man came to the factory and insisted on asking the woman to go back without the money.The factory blamed it, and let the leading lady eat a good meal and hang up.

Fortunately, the lady of the Sun family is easy to talk and is willing to stand up to her, otherwise her crime would be even greater.

The leading lady heard that the silkworm room will be expanded next year, and more silkworms will be raised, so there will be more people who want to manage it in the future.If you are fired now, you will lose a lot.

This kind of distress is not the only lady in charge, many men have already come to him, wanting to take his wife back.In the inherent concept, silkworms must be raised in the silkworm farm, so there will be no men, otherwise, if you offend the silkworm god and prince, you will not be able to receive silk.So they are also happy that their mother-in-law will provide food, housing and money here.

The silk reeling factory is a new thing. Although more than [-]% of the employees are female workers, there are always a few students from technical colleges who are responsible for repairing reeling cars, checking and accepting new cars, and troubleshooting boiler failures.These people are all men, how annoying is it to eat and live with so many women?

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