Chapter 9 Bufang

A meeting made many people feel heavy.

After Xu Shenchun sent everyone away, he wrote dozens of letters to send them to the people below. These letters were spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, some to Suzhou, some to Nanjing, some to Beijing, and some to Guangdong.

This is Xu Shenchun’s relationship network.

After Xu Shenchun finished these things, although he was worried, it did not prevent him from following his usual habits. That was to go to the Bufang to take a look.

Xu Shenchun took a team of servants out of the mansion and got into the sedan chair. He couldn't walk a few steps. Xu Shenchun only felt a pause and knew that he had arrived.

Xu Shenchun’s cloth shop is not far from Songjiang Prefecture City.

As soon as the curtain of the sedan chair was opened, Xu Shenchun came out.

The familiar scenery comes into view, and the first thing you can do is to hear all kinds of cracking sounds. This body is sharp and short, which is the sound of the loom.

But countless such sounds, mixed together, become noise, which is very unacceptable.

However, Xu Shenchun is very familiar with this voice.

"I've seen the master." More than a dozen servants standing guard immediately saluted and said.

Xu Shenchun waved his hand and said, "Open the door."

Immediately several people opened the high door.

This yard is not seen anywhere else, but one thing is certain, that is, the walls of this place are high enough and the doors are large enough.

The wall is high, but it prevents people from escaping. However, the door is large, but it is convenient to transport goods.

In terms of architectural aesthetics, it looks extremely clumsy and is somewhat different from the traditional architectural style of the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as Xu Shenchun came in, several old wives came to salute.

Xu Shenchun nodded slightly and ignored these people.

Because men and women in this era have great defense, most of the people who come to work here are female workers. Therefore, all the male thugs are outside and the managers inside are all female.

Men are not allowed to come in at all.

But Xu Shenchun is not an ordinary person at all.

Xu Shenchun walked in the tall factory with his hands behind his back.

In fact, the so-called factory building is just a large shed. It is full of straw mattresses supported by wood, with some thatch and other things on it.

However, the place is covered with three-dimensional soil.

This is not for employees or anything, but for the convenience of shipping.

Xu Shenchun pinched his beard and gradually saw a blurred look in his eyes. He saw female workers working constantly in front of a loom.

It seems that what I see is a ingot of silver.

Actually, this is not wrong at all.

Because in this era, cotton cloth can be regarded as hard currency in many places.

For a long time in Chinese history, cloth was used as money.

Although the market is a bit bad now, Xu Shenchun has no doubt about the prospects of the fabric industry.

From many factors, the prospects of the cotton cloth industry may be much stronger than the iron industry.

Because of the iron tools of this era, many people have to use for many years, and even from father to son, even if there is any problem, they will be repaired by themselves.

But even if the clothes are repaired, they cannot be used for many years.

Xu Shenchun sometimes even feels proud. So what about the Shaofu? Is the Xu family's industry worse than that of the Shaofu?

In the eyes of others, it is a chore to work hard to inspect the cloth workshop and the process one by one, but for Xu Shenchun himself, it is a supreme enjoyment.

But this supreme enjoyment was interrupted.

At this time, a woman suddenly knelt in front of Xu Shenchun with disheveled hair and said, "Master, let my child go, let my child go."

Xu Shenchun frowned first, then spread his eyebrows, letting the people around him get out of the way, and said, "What's going on with you?"

Xu Shenchun looked kind-hearted on the surface, but she was already extremely angry in her heart.

Xu Shenchun has such a large industry, and can even be said to be the largest businessman in Jiangnan. However, he also under tremendous pressure. Even though he asks for almost half of his net income every year, he gives gifts everywhere, but he doesn't feel too secure anymore.

And he also suffered many blame.

In the cloth shop, the most troublesome thing he had was the employment problem.

The Jiangnan woman is smart and skillful, and is the most suitable for textile workers, but after gathering a large number of textile female workers, there will be problems of this kind.

The biggest problem is the weathering problem.

Because this is the main reason for being criticized by the scholars and officials.

Therefore, Xu Shenchun made a lot of preparations.

The first source of workers he recruited was the woman he bought in the famine land in the north.

Although the disaster relief in the Ming Dynasty is still quite effective.

However, the power of the court is impossible to cover everything. Naturally, there are places that cannot be taken care of. Although the court has ordered the ban on slaves, there is no explicit ban on trading people.

Zhu Qizhen thought about it, but in the end he could only acknowledge this fact.

It is in a blank area where the imperial court has neither legal nor illegal.

Zhu Qizhen abolished the slave system at the beginning, and at least used slaves in the production field was completely abolished. As for those who were domestically employed in family services, although they were exempted from the status of slaves, this kind of strong dependence relationship was still there.

Many things, in another era, are tragic things, such as buying and selling populations, but there are certain reasons in the production relations in the Ming Dynasty.

Many ordinary people sell their children and daughters after being affected by the disaster, on the one hand, it is to make themselves live, and on the other hand, it is to let their children live.

If you don't sell it, the child can only die with them.

After selling it, even if you are a slave or a brothel, you can still survive even if you are a tragic slave.

When living itself is a task that can be accomplished with all your strength, many things are helpless.

Even if Zhu Qizhen prohibits the sale of people, he can export it into a constitution, so can people not dare to disobey it? Even so, it will cut off the last way for the people to survive.

However, Zhu Qizhen was naturally unwilling to endorse this aspect in the form of the Ming Law, but the laws that stipulated population trading were deleted before.

Population trading is prohibited, but it is not suitable now, but Zhu Qizhen always has something to make them suitable.

When even the poorest people in the Ming Dynasty could survive without having to sell their children.

This kind of population transaction is signed in the form of a contract as a commission. Generally speaking, it means that the two parties sign a document, and so-called so-called for many years. So.

But it's all false texts.

This still has a status. There are those who ascended the throne in the imperial court. This has to go through another form. As for those black householders, they don’t even have to go through any form.

But just this is not enough.

Trafficking of people from far away is also costly. After all, after the reform of the Ming Dynasty's clerks, the management became stricter, although it was not as good as the Hongwu era.

But it wasn't that even the road vein could be forged before.

The reason is very simple, the fine of silver is classified as local finance.

The county has to spend a good New Year, it depends on how much punishment it can be. If an official lets go, he will lose the interests of the entire yamen.

It's okay if I don't know, but I will definitely not allow it if I know it.

Before, the county magistrate could cover up the sky with one hand, but now even in a small county, there are more than a dozen officials with eighth and ninth ranks and nineth ranks in total.

The power of the county magistrate has been divided by so many assistant officials. Although it may not be impossible to do anything, it is not easy to deceive them all.

Therefore, even if the official bribes the county magistrate, it is not easy to operate.

This is something that will cause public anger. As long as the person who still wants to climb up, the officials will not do it.

As for human trafficking, business in such a gray area, is becoming increasingly difficult to do.

Therefore, the second largest source of female workers in Xu Shenchun is the wife or daughter of poor people nearby.

There are not many women in Jiangnan weaving cloths at home, but if the small peasant economy can be comparable to large-scale factory production, when Xu Shenchun made his fortune, he should have seen that the self-sufficiency small peasant economic model was broken in many places.

Xu Shenchun tried every means to let these female workers enter the factory to work.

Generally speaking, they signed a contract of age with the parents or husbands of these female workers. The ages of these female workers are also around thirteen or fourteen to thirty.
Chapter completed!