delicious little cook

Chapter 1052 Depressed
On the return boat, Bai Kou rested alone in the cabin, and the men gathered together to chat. After all kinds of bragging, Gu Yun and Gong Changji took the opportunity to bring up the topic of wool. It seemed that they were just talking casually. Sensing the true intentions of the two of them, he smiled and took the topic away, but hinted that they would talk about it when they returned to the capital.

After returning to the capital, the news of these two big orders naturally spread, and it was impossible to hide it. Bai Kou spread the news about the purchase of lint in the circle of the textile industry, collected the lint accumulated in the hands of colleagues, and contacted the lint merchants to make an order. This year's new cotton, she opened her mouth wide and dared to eat as much as she could.

The situation in the textile circle in Beijing is in turmoil. Bai Kou, a newcomer, is coming aggressively, and she does have the strength to occupy a place. However, the old people who are pushed aside are still trying to keep warm, knowing that she is short of lint raw materials and cannot complete orders. She was about to lose a lot of money, so she wanted to get stuck in the raw materials, and the old lint merchants in Lianhe Capital refused to supply Bai Kou, and those who had stock also said hello not to sell.

Bai Kou had been on guard against this move, she didn't expect her colleagues in the capital to supply her at all, the out-of-town businessmen who were looking for a living in the capital were her targets, and these businessmen would not let her down, cats have cats, mice have Shu Dao said, they can transport lint from other places, and each person can make a little, which is enough to fill up the raw material warehouse, and the prince's two orders can also start production.

Doing business in this way, the bottom weavers were the first to collapse. The merchants who bought yarn and gray cloth did not tell them the news of the price increase of lint, and still received the goods at the original price before. Then the weavers took the money to buy lint, only to find that the lint The price increase has made many weavers unable to reproduce at once. If they use food money to buy lint, their families will starve to death before the yarn and gray cloth can be sold, let alone their self-produced and self-sold products. Family workshops are also taxed.

When more and more weavers are caught in the dilemma of whether to eat or produce, the yarn and gray cloth that can be purchased in the market are getting less and less, and many dyeing workshops are gradually shutting down. To be able to do business with Bai Kou, the textile factory is now in full production in three shifts.

Such a move also affects the textile production of the farm shareholders. There is also a dyeing workshop in Ye Guogong's mansion. Sun Qing, the youngest of the five Sun family brothers, married Gu Yun's old girl, Meilun. Half stop.

But these few of them are not in a hurry. This situation has been expected for a long time. Now is a good opportunity to hold these weavers who have lost their livelihoods, and let them switch from their own production and operation to only processing with supplied materials, earning a lot of money. They have nothing to do with the increase in the price of raw materials and finished products. They only earn money by working at a fixed price of one catty of yarn and one piece of cloth, and sign an employment contract for more than ten years. This contract has the status of a worker. , is no longer a small producer, and does not have to pay commercial taxes.

This is still what Bai Kou is best at. She accidentally discovered that the money-making tricks of those veteran colleagues for so many years were only to force the purchase price, instead of treating Zhihu as her own workers. In this case, she accepted it bluntly.

The current main products of the textile factory are only yarn-dyed fabrics, which are sold at a high price, and only middle- and upper-class residents can afford them. Cheap dyed fabrics are still the main force in the cloth market, and these weavers are snatched into their own hands. The new structure of the dyed cloth market in the capital is thus re-divided. The textile business of Gu Yun and other shareholders is only for the civilian market. The more lucrative silk industry makes high-end fabrics, but traditionally there is no sericulture industry in Beijing, and high-end fabrics require high-level weavers. Bai Kou doesn't care where such high-level talents come from. She just wants to complete the monopoly of the capital and Zhili first. The cotton market is a small target.

Affected by the price increase of lint, the weavers stopped production one after another. The high-ranking lords found that they could not receive new goods. They didn’t care at first, and took out the trick of crediting raw materials. They thought that the weavers would be grateful to Dade and resume production. Immediately, it was discovered that a large number of weaving households were signing contracts to become employed workers one after another, and their employers were the princely families behind Bai Kou's shareholders, and finally got angry, but it was too late, and those who had not yet signed contracts There are too few weaving households to support the demand of the imperial court.

If you want to make a large order from the imperial court, you must have a sufficient source of cloth. Without weavers, there will be no cloth, and you can’t even complete the order you are making. At this time, the Ministry of Households made a move, specializing in textiles for decades. The few imperial merchants in the city have been given a one-year inspection period. If they can't get out of the slump, their qualifications as imperial merchants will be revoked. At that time, the cotton cloth market in the capital will be completely monopolized by Bai Kou and his gang.

The prince went to the factory to see it. He knew that it was only a matter of time before the factual monopoly was achieved. There were still several confidential new textile machines under trial production in the textile factory. Who can.

The ruling and opposition parties watched the drama that lasted for a month in stupefaction. The owners of those old imperial merchants seemed to have aged in their teens and twenties overnight, while Gu Yun and the others were all young.

The grievances and justice of Song Carpenter's family have also been upheld. The magistrate of Hong'an County in Xingning Prefecture was dismissed and investigated. The hand of this great talent was sent to Bai Kou, and Bai Kou lived up to God's expectations, she gave full play to the role of talent.

The chairman of the Jingcheng Textile Guild announced his resignation, and then the guild invited Gu Yun, a young imperial merchant, to join the association, preparing to elect a new chairman, but Bai Kou was the only one who refused to join, even if she was the first shareholder of United Farm The reason is that she is a woman, and the guild is full of men, and it is against women's morals for her to show her face among men.

Gu Yun immediately mercilessly ridiculed that a group of men in the guild lost to a 16-year-old girl in this business war, and now they still have the face to dislike them for being women, so he doesn't bother to join such a guild.

When the people in the capital heard this gossip, they also laughed at the shamelessness of the textile guild. In the officialdom, no one said anything, and they all watched the show with their hands folded. The orders for winter quilts for the city defense battalion are almost delivered. Who would have imagined such a speed before.

The textile guild had no choice but to bow its head and compromise, and invited Bai Kou to join the association, but Bai Kou inquired about the benefits of joining the association, and learned that there was not much discount for buying lint, so she was not interested, and let Gu Yun stay in it alone a spy.

Bai Kou didn't join the guild, and Gu Yun was also not interested. He was so busy every day in the Hanlin Academy that he couldn't spare time to participate in the guild's entertainment. His status as an imperial merchant was given to Bai Kou by a saint because he could make money. Yes, if the imperial court allows Bai Kou to be the queen merchant, he is very willing to take off the imperial merchant hat on his head.

Seeing the attitudes of these two people, the textile guild is quite depressed. The guild, which has always been a high-ranking and respected guild, is sometimes despised by others.

"These two guys sang together, so consistent, why don't they get married!"

(Author's note: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone! Eat more grapefruit, eat less mooncakes! The bug has a whole box of egg yolk mooncakes waiting to be eliminated~~~)

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