Chapter 8 The wind arrives first

Songjiang Prefecture. Xu Family.

Xu Chunshen's dreamy history of making a fortune has made the Xu family the biggest tyrant in Songjiang.

Even the largest mansion in Songjiang is the Xu family.

However, after receiving a piece of news from Suzhou Prefecture, the Grand Master of the Xu family was full of worries and ordered his children to invite the big families in Songjiang Prefecture to discuss major events.

After more than a dozen arrived, Xu Chunshen ordered his children to retreat, closed the door, passed a letter from his hand to the people below, and said, "Let's take a look."

These dozen people are all the leading figures in Songjiang Prefecture, but this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that these people make a living by the cotton industry, or by the textile industry.

Even if the main business is not the textile industry, it is closely related to the textile industry. For example, the Shen family in Chongming, who runs ship gangs, transports cotton from Shandong to Songjiang, and transports cloth from Songjiang to various places, mostly the Shen family.

And there is another thing, that is, the Shen family sailors occasionally act as everyone's big hand. When encountering things that require force, these people are only two feet wide and can invite a group of people from the Shen family to do business.

In the case of barbaric business development, such things are inevitable.

One of them frowned and asked, "What does this governor mean?"

Where is the capital of Jiangsu Province?

Many people think that it is not right in Nanjing.

It is impossible to be in Nanjing, because in the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing has special political significance, and is an administrative unit that is on par with Jiangsu and even higher than that.

How could Jiangsu Province place its capital in Nanjing?

After a battle with Suzhou for a while, it is best to finalize Suzhou.

Nothing else, Suzhou is too rich.

This letter from Suzhou was from the Jiangsu Governor's Office.

Xu Chunshen said, "What does it mean? Isn't it just that Wang Tiomeng is coming, he wants us to clean up and finish it up. Don't be caught by Wang Tiomeng. Otherwise, he will only add to the wrong side and ignore us."

"In this way, we send a small amount of one million taels to Suzhou every year, and that's it----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For a moment, these people were talking and complaining.

In fact, this is also the norm in this era.

Although Zhu Qizhen has relaxed many thresholds, the invisible threshold is still there. If Xian Jing had not married the princess, the Xian family's industry would not have been as developed as it is now in ten lives.

It seems that there are countless families with millions of dollars in Jiangnan, but if you count them carefully, it may not be a million people with millions of dollars, but they really have a backend.

Businessmen without a backstage were all knocked out in the cruel competition.

Not to mention anything else, if there is a business dispute, some people can kill your whole family directly. How can you argue with others?

Even in this era of barbaric development, small and medium-sized businessmen have become more difficult to live, and there has not been much improvement. They are more often squeezed by big businessmen with productivity.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that no ordinary people get rich in this era.

However, if there is no problem if the family can be changed to gather a family fortune of thousands or tens of thousands of taels, but if there is more, there is no backend.

This is not a blessing, but a disaster.

You will know by looking at the Xu family.

Although the more than one million taels sent to the Governor's Office were not only paid by the Xu family, but also by everyone here, the Xu family also occupied the majority.

But what are the hundreds of thousands of taels sold every year?

However, it was just a little bit of news in advance. Not to mention that the Xu family gave money, it was definitely not just a single family. Although the Xu family's industry is not small, Xu Chunshen knew that although his family's property was quite large, he was far from as much as outsiders thought.

No, he can't make that much.

It has never been a difficult task for him to make money. If the family wealth is retained, the Xu family will pay tribute to him after 50% of the year. Xu Chunshen's decision to curry favor with him is not just the Jiangsu Governor's yamen.

Xu Chunshen said: "Okay, what's the use of saying this? In the past six months, I have been restraining my children. Don't make any trouble. Let's talk about it when Wang Tiomeng leaves."

Wang Shu’s experience as a local official in recent years has created a very good reputation for him.

In fact, the people call Wang Shu Wang Qingtian. There was a nursery rhyme in history: "There are only one Wang Shu in the two capitals and twelve provinces." But although this is not the case now, the people still highly respect Wang Shu.

No matter how powerful people in various places are, they secretly call him Iron Face, and even the dignitaries and nobles who were broken into Wang Shu's hands, there were two princes.

It makes many people feel that they can't afford to offend.

Therefore, as soon as the news that Wang Shu went to Jiangnan came, it shocked many people of all sizes.

"It also says that the court wants to impose commercial taxes. Brother Xu, what should I do?" said a businessman.

"Yes? The northern cotton production has been reduced this year, and my loom has been empty for a long time."

"Yes, cotton cloth from all over the world has not been sold in the past two years. I can only go to Nanyang, but how much can I eat in Nanyang?"

"When this is a fatal situation, taxes will be imposed, whether people will live."

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Xu Chunshen listened to the complaints below, gently rubbed his nose bridge and pinched his sour eyes, and fell into deep thought for a moment.

Xu Chunshen was able to seize the opportunity, jump up and become the leader of the fabric industry, so he naturally had the ability and means, especially in business, and was even much more sensitive than Xian Jing.

He actually felt an unknown aura.

That is the feeling of saturation in the Ming Dynasty market.

Of course, Xu Chunshen didn't know this statement. But there was a feeling that the cloth was getting less and less sold.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are what people need, and Songjiang Bu is the best in the world, and they also think that Songjiang Bu is cheap and of good quality.

However, the north has suffered great disasters for years. Although the court tried its best to provide disaster relief, the north's consumption capacity has been greatly reduced, and they have to face the competition in Tianjin's cloth industry.

After all, in the north, any profit is shrouded in the behemoth of Shaofu.

The largest market of Songjiang Laundry Industry is several southern provinces. As for overseas Southeast Asia, Japan and other places, it is just a supplement.

The explosive development of Songjiang cloth industry comes from three points: the first is the factory system, which improves efficiency, and the second is the spontaneous improvement of various textile machinery.

Third, Songjiang was not without the fabric industry before.

After all, Songjiang cloth industry was based in the Yuan Dynasty, and the famous figure was Huang Daopo.

These three points have led to the rapid rise of Songjiang Fabric Industry.

However, any expansion has an end. Product oversupply is something that many people have never experienced before. However, after the arrival of this large-scale industrial production model, it is something that everyone has to experience.

It is not that Songjiang has so many that every Ming people wear it, but that those who have real purchasing power will buy it in a while. Those who have no purchasing power will naturally not be able to buy it.

As a result, the competition within Songjiang Laundry Industry began to intensify.

Although Xu Chunshen contacted everyone to join in for warmth, he already felt that the internal contradictions were becoming increasingly acute and difficult to integrate.

Xu Chunshen did not analyze all of this with specific knowledge structure, but it did not prevent him from feeling this.

So what if I just feel it?

Xu Chunshen could only take one step at a time. He coughed twice and said, "Bu is what the people need. Emperor Taizu Gao is not allowed to impose high taxes on the things needed by these people. I think the court will not impose too much taxes."

"And Wang Tiomeng loves the people as much as his son. As long as we talk about it carefully together, I think he can understand our difficulties. However, the court's expenses are difficult after all, so we still have to pay the money and make strong efforts."

Xu Chunshen's high-sounding words naturally made many people not very satisfied. After all, the Xu Chunshen family has a great career, and although the situation is not very good now, they can still hold on.

But for others, it may not be.

But if this kind of high-sounding effect is that although it cannot solve the actual problem, there will definitely be no mistakes.

Although these cloth merchants were full of complaints, they did not dare to speak rudely about the court's major policies in public. No matter how many complaints they complained, they could only be in their stomachs.
Chapter completed!