This is a force that Chen Jian can't afford to mess with. He is not afraid of taking out one alone than money and influence.But with such a huge interest chain and interest group, it is not something that Chen Jian's small body can compete with.

Spinning, weaving, ginning, etc., are all guilds with close exchanges.Unlike the glass guild, they have no upstream and downstream, at most they are small workshops that make soda from seaweed ash by the sea.

The cotton textile industry is an industry with close upstream and downstream interests.From controlling the price of seed cotton and lint to processing seed cotton, spinning, weaving, dyeing, etc., everything is indispensable.

The necessity of weaving is closely related to the spinning thread, the spinning thread is inseparable from the ginning, and the ginning must wear a pair of trousers with the speculators of seed cotton and lint.It is completely different from the small glass and soy sauce industries with short upstream and downstream.

In the guild of Min County, Chen Jian's reputation is actually not very good.

Some people say that whichever industry Chen Jian gets involved in, big troubles will happen in that industry, the glass guild is destroyed, the soy sauce guild in Mincheng is left with only some high-end lingering ones, and the soda guild depends on Chen Jian's breath, which is begging for this The vice-chairman of the Mincheng Alkali Manufacturing Guild should not get involved in other industries such as rinsing and reeling except for the alkali used in the glass industry.

This is the first time such a tragic situation has appeared in the stable guild system that has lasted for more than a hundred years, and people have to be vigilant.

What the guild beneficiaries need is a stable old age. For this stability, they will oppose all possible changes and unstable factors.

Therefore, one day in October, when Chen Jian extended an invitation to the merchants and workshops in Mincheng who controlled lint ginning, the entire textile industry in Min County exploded.

These businessmen and workshop owners have to guard against which line of business they are involved in, and which line of work has a reputation for great things.

This insignificant little person two years ago can now make the nights in Min City much more lively with just one invitation letter.

Even if a newly appointed sheriff stupidly said that the price of seed cotton is too low to hurt farmers, this group of people would laugh and ignore it, because it would be useless, and there are ten thousand ways to make the decree impossible to implement. go down.

But in the face of Chen Jian, these people still panicked. This is not a county guard, let alone a business officer, but a profit-seeking businessman like them.

Among the peers, they know their own fears and methods best.

Many people in the textile industry gathered together, and the owners of those cotton ginning workshops were the first to bear the brunt, anxious like ants on a hot pot.

"What is Chen Jian going to do again? Have you heard any rumors?"

"No. He...he didn't mean to get into the cotton gin business?"

"How much money does ginning make? Does he want to get involved in the textile business? After all, lint can be processed, and lint can only appear in ginning workshops."

"No, no, no! Don't let him enter this business. I'm afraid that he will come up with something and ruin everyone's interests."

Flower ginning usually seems to be a very inconspicuous and not very profitable business, but it is an extremely important business in the entire industrial chain.

Many large textile mill owners were disturbed by Chen Jian, and kept warning those ginning workshops and businessmen who controlled cotton prices.

"Cotton is not glass. Chen Jian can manipulate glass, but not cotton. His workshop can be built in Mincheng, but cotton cannot flow into his workshop! Not at all!"

"Yeah, who knows what he's going to do again?"

"He only invited the cotton ginner this time. According to the theory...he is still an old fox at a young age, and Tian Wenliang's family was ruined. Doesn't he know that cotton is not what the cotton ginners say?"

Everyone was also a little puzzled, and now they really don't know the depth.

If other people want to get involved and are ambitious, it's nothing at all. The big shots in the cotton textile industry in Mincheng don't even need to show up, they can be crushed to death with just a finger.

But the person he will face tomorrow is unreasonable, and it can be regarded as deeply ingrained, and he cannot be easily shaken.

During the debate, someone suggested: "If he really wants to get involved in the cotton spinning business... why not give up Nan'an? After all, the amount of cotton planted in Nan'an is not very large. It is better to take a step back from each other than to die."

As soon as this remark came out, it was immediately refuted by everyone.

"You can't take a single step back! If Nan'an is given up, who knows what he will do in the future? Just like those soda workshops back then, he was given up. It is true that Chen Jian is also abiding by the rules, but the problem now is that Chen Jian does not set foot in it. The use of alkali for rinsing and reeling is just for him to follow the rules, who can stop him if he doesn’t? You can’t put all your hopes on him to follow the rules.”

Everyone has reached a consensus on this point, and they will not give an inch. No matter what they want to say tomorrow, they must think clearly.In a word, Chen Jian's money cannot enter the cotton spinning industry, strangle him from the source, lint and seed cotton is the key.

The discussion lasted until midnight, and finally determined the bottom line for tomorrow: tell Chen Jian that he is not welcome in the cotton textile industry.Don't even think about getting involved, if you get involved, it will be life and death, you will not give an inch, and there will never be the slightest compromise.

The speculators of the cotton gins and cotton purchases slept restlessly all night.

Early the next morning, several carriages with four-wheel steering, glass windows and soft seats stopped in front of these people's doors and invited them to get in.

Nowadays, there are many such four-wheeled carriages in Mincheng. They are light and comfortable to walk on the main roads in the city. In addition, they have glass windows and soft seats, which are a symbol of status.

The price is naturally expensive, but the facade is clearly open.After sending some county officials, some rich people will naturally buy a ride, which is different when walking in the streets and alleys, and is envied by others.

Some new vocabulary was derived from this car. At first it was called a carriage. Later, some people felt that riding in such a carriage would make them hum happily.

Later, this carriage was called the Hem Carriage in the marketplace.Because in addition to the straight humming, the creaking sound of the vehicle when turning and walking is much smaller, and it sounds more like a gentle humming than a violent creaking.

The chair under a person's buttocks is a very important thing. People who can sit in a humming car in Mincheng are either rich or expensive.

Over time, people called those who sat in such a carriage a tycoon, humming the cart.Wealth is great.

The original intention of the tycoon is only for people to ride in a carriage, and this carriage just happens to be called a carriage that rides on and enjoys a straight hum, or a carriage for short, and at the same time, the people who ride in such a carriage are all rich in Mincheng People and people with status, so tycoon changed from an adjective to a noun, becoming a specific title.

Some of the people who came here by carriage today were not qualified to be called tycoons, but thanks to Chen Jian's invitation, they also became tycoons once.

It's just that these fake tycoons were not in the mood of joy and humming. Looking through the glass window of the carriage, they looked at the building that was getting closer and closer and stood out from the crowd, and they couldn't help sighing.

That building is not much different from before, except that there are more vehicles coming and going than before.

The only internal difference is that there is an extra plaque called "Nan'an All Factories Employed Workers' Association".

A certain room above the plaque is the office of this employment association.This site is completely different from the rest of the rooms in this brick building, and it can be recognized at a glance.

Because the glass in that room was removed, the cheapest yellow paper was used to block the wind and rain, not even the regular white window paper specially used to block the windows.

Occasionally, someone walks by, and always asks the person standing at the door, why is the employment association a window of yellow paper?The people standing at the door all laughed but did not answer.

The employee association of the glass factory couldn't use glass and used the cheapest yellow paper. This was a joke, and the joke quickly spread throughout Fujian.

Chapter 1 The idea is good

The joke of yellow paper pasting glass was insisted by Chen Jianli against all opinions.

It's not that I can't afford the money, but I feel that the yellow trade union has such a nice name, don't be overwhelmed by myself.

Due to the original promise and the current situation, Chen Jian decided to be a good person again.

Under the excited gaze of everyone in the party, several workshops controlled by Chen Jian started the simplest improvement of labor conditions.

He took the lead in proposing the [-]-hour work system, and did not lower wages, which aroused warm welcome from the employees.And put forward the slogan that half of life belongs to oneself and half belongs to the factory. For a while, everyone in the party seemed to see new hope.

In addition to the [-]-hour working system, there are various symbolic disability compensations, a half-day rest every ten days, and one month's salary for unilateral layoffs due to business conditions, so that those who are fired can have a buffer period.

In addition, Chen Jian took the lead in implementing a symbolic social security system in his workshop.

Due to the highest salary in the glass industry under the Apprentice Law, each employee pays a symbolic part of the money into social security every month. If he can live to 50 years old, he can receive a little money every month to maintain his life. The worries of these employees have been eliminated.

The average life expectancy today is about 35 years, maybe slightly higher.[-]% infant mortality rate, [-]% underage mortality rate...

Diphtheria, whooping cough, colds, pneumonia, chickenpox, etc., can easily take the life of a minor.It can be said that everyone who lived to adulthood at this time was stronger and tenacious than the 40.00% who died.

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