From Chief to Ball

The mine owners sitting here today are no longer satisfied with just reducing transportation costs and increasing profits, but under Chen Jian's instigation, they want to completely monopolize the coal supply of Mincheng and seaborne coal to neighboring counties.

Originally subject to balance, they had to adopt the method of internal negotiation.However, once the gap widens and the balance is broken, the original internal negotiation is meaningless. This is also an important factor for these six mine owners to express their sympathy for the employees independently of the original trade association.

Before, Chen Jian had suggested to these people that a new coal industry monopoly group should be established with six people's capital.

According to capital dividends, unified management and unified control, it is no longer an independent internal negotiation, but twisted into a single rope.There is no need for gaps in the distribution of shares between each other, only the dividends at the end of the year according to the investment.If there is any matter, discuss according to the amount of investment, and select professional management personnel to form a unified whole.

On the one hand, it can be profitable, and on the other hand, it is not a weak alliance through a few words, but the interests of everyone are one, and they can also be united.

This is not without precedent. Chen Jian's glass factory is a typical example. Through internal integration, internal friction has been reduced and a monopoly group centered on Mincheng has been formed.

Recently, the cost of glass has been reduced a lot through the reduction of prices, the construction of canals, cheap fuel, the development of the soda industry, and the purchase of salt monopoly. glass industry.

The glass workshops that Chen Jian operated with share capital have grown and grown, and those original workshop owners have also made a lot of money in recent years.

These mine owners know very well that with the help of the transportation cost of the canal that Chen Jian spent a year and a half planning, as long as they unite and rely on strong capital to fight a price reduction war, it will not take long to monopolize the coal market in Min County.

To fight a price war, alliances are needed, not just alliances with oral agreements, but to give up personal independence and form a joint enterprise.

Chen Jian also analyzed them from a developmental perspective.

Once this joint coal industry group is reached, the coal price in Mincheng will drop, along with the related industries.Nowadays, there are still a large number of refugees in the north. Although the movement restriction order has not been released, the workshop owners here can use the advantage of shipping to develop their industries by employing non-refugees across counties.

If the freight rate of coal drops, Mincheng will develop; if Mincheng develops, it will use more coal.

As for the possible steam age within a few decades, the important ports leading to Europe, Africa and the west coast in the age of great navigation, these are too amazing, but the above reasons alone are enough to make these people tempted.

These six people had already had an affair with each other before, so there is no need to hide it today.

They want to bring Chen Jian on board, as a shareholder of this newly established coal industry group, this is what they want to talk about most today.

"Mr. Chen, how did you think about what you discussed last time?"

Chen Jian shook his head with a smile and said, "It's better to avoid it. You said that I just started the miners' movement, so how did I become a shareholder of the coal mining group? Besides, I don't have much spare money now..."

"Mr. Chen was joking. If Mr. Chen had no money, Min County would be poor. Besides, we also have a conscience. Last time the hired workers petitioned, we were the first mine owners to sympathize with them. Mr. Chen needless to say It seems that we are at odds with each other. Besides, even if there is no money, Mr. Chen’s canal access rights, barges, and those boat trackers and punters can all buy shares.”

Another mine owner also said: "Yes, Mr. Chen, we can cooperate completely. If it's just mining, the profit will be a bit smaller. We can form a mining, transportation, and sales consortium..."

Chen Jian looked at the mine owners whose appetites were increasing, and said with a smile: "Are you afraid that we will continue the employment movement in the future, and want to pull me into the board of directors? If you think so, then it will be avoided. My head and The butt is sometimes separated, and it's useless to pull it in."

The mine owners smiled awkwardly, and knew that Chen Jian was always straightforward, so they said: "Mr. Chen himself has an industry? Speaking of which, everyone is not the same? We have nothing to do, Mr. Chen's industry is a monopoly Yes, there is no competition. We are fighting each other, if Mr. Chen is involved in some other industries, I understand that it will be difficult for you to gain a foothold."

Chen Jian laughed and said: "You are so right, so we are currently discussing internally how to solve this problem from the root. You can look forward to this, maybe there will be a solution within ten years."

The mine owners thought it was a joke, and there was nothing they could do about such a conversation. Apart from what Chen Jian said they were worried about, there was another point that Chen Jian completely controlled the canal.

They worried that although they had a good talk with Chen Jian now, and Chen Jian also expressed his support for them to squeeze out the rest of the mines, if something happened in the future, they would be embarrassed.

Dig another canal and their funds will be drained, and they may not be able to find so many people.Chen Jian's oilfields and oil refining workshops are short of people, and the cost of building a new canal is too high to be necessary at all, but Chen Jian is stuck in the canal as a transportation route.Even if they have money and people, it will take a year and a half to two years for a new canal to be completed from survey to completion, and the time waits for no one.

It would be the best choice if we could get Chen Jian to become a shareholder.Not to mention the settlement of the canal issue, the workers' association can be dismantled.

These mine owners also know that now that Chen Jian has controlled the cotton in Fujian County, once the kerosene is sold on a large scale in the future, it will only take a few years for the mine owners to unite and they will not be able to withstand Chen Jian's capital.

The reason why the game of big fish eating small fish was not so bloody before was because of the balance between the forces of all parties. Now this balance has been broken, and Chen Jian is holding the canal and the track in his hands - when the canal was built , The mine owners woke up halfway through the construction and wanted to invest, but they were all rejected by Chen Jian.

Although Chen Jian now says that he doesn't want to get involved in the mining industry, once he turns around and gets involved in the mining industry in the future, relying on high capital and controlling the employment association to instigate the struggle of other mines... two-pronged approach, the mine owners know that their lives will not be good by then. It's better.

This was their thinking, while Chen Jian's thinking was simpler.

On the one hand, the upcoming stable period of Mincheng and the great development of seaborne trade will definitely bring about an increase in coal consumption.The advantages brought about by the reduction in coal prices can make Mincheng a handicraft center and attract more capital and people to set up workshops here.There are more workshops, more workers, and capitalists are stronger, and various ideas are more likely to appear, and the power will become stronger.

On the other hand, he's a troublemaker.There are disputes and competitions between different mines. As a result, it is difficult for employees in various mines to unite closely together for a long time, and it is easy to divide and disintegrate and fight with each other.After the coal industry group formed a monopoly, the employees of different mines lost the reason to fight, and only struggled for their own interests. They could be more united and it was easier to develop partisan activities.

The mine owner meant to let him give up the right of passage of the canal in the form of shares. This is his bottom line and he will never give up.With the canal in your hands, you will have more strength in the future.

Seeing that Chen Jian would not let go of his death, everyone stopped pressing, and could only settle for the next best thing, hoping that Chen Jian would cooperate with them for the time being.

Using canal barges and transportation control on the canal, help them achieve a market monopoly on Mincheng coal, and hope that Chen Jian will not cooperate with the rest of the mine owners.

The condition given by Chen Jian is that when the rest of the mines cannot make ends meet in the future, they must give priority to hiring unemployed workers from other mines, and the specific list will be controlled by the labor union.

Although the mine owners don't like the key members of the employment association, but now is the time for cooperation, they can only accept this condition.

Anyway, once the market monopoly is achieved, the mine will need more miners, and the lack of people is inevitable. The miners in other mines are all engaged in this line of work, and there is no problem with their work. The main reason is that if the backbone of the employment association is not among them It's the best.

There is both confrontation and cooperation with each other, and a delicate balance has been reached at this moment.

Soon after, the Min County Coal Industry Association was officially disbanded, and a new coal industry group with six mines in Nan'an was established.It is no longer the previous verbal union, but the independence of each has been cancelled, which is completely different from the previous union.

The Min County Federation of Miners with this new coal industry group as the main body was formally established subsequently, and the employee associations of the six mines were the main body to reorganize and unite first.

So far, the miners' petition movement in Min County has truly come to an end.

And the subsequent price cuts around the canal, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy, and raw material price cuts caused capital to flow to Mincheng, refugees from other counties to work in Minjun, miners migrated, new towns rose, old mining towns declined, housing shortages in Nan'an mining areas, and bankrupt mine owners The influx of funds into Mincheng, the scarcity of housing in Mincheng and other issues will be carried out slowly, affecting and changing for a long period of time.

1 The fifth step of the sixty chapters of the big news

Not long after the incident in the Nan'an mining area, the small handicraftsmen in the cotton spinning industry in Mincheng also encountered the utopian movement called the Cooperative Movement within the Mexican Party.

It's just that this turmoil was not carried out in the form of a rally, but started with a normal economic activity without bloodshed.

Chen Jian raised enough cash on the grounds that Standard Oil monopolized the stocks of the workshop, and coupled with the activities of the Mexican Party at the grassroots level, completely controlled the lint in Min County.

This made a large number of speculators and cotton price manipulators hate it, but Chen Jian was not afraid.It's just that there are too many debts to worry about, and too many lice don't itch, and the people who hate him to the bone are no worse than this group of people.

People in the cotton spinning industry thought that Chen Jian was just taking this opportunity to earn away the money that should have belonged to them, but they didn't expect that Chen Jian was going to dig out the roots.

Just after the New Year, the grassroots organization of the Mexican Party, which has taken root in Mincheng for more than two years, has grasped the family situation of most of the small handicraft workers and proletarian workers.

With the help of the impact of this miners’ petition and the previous social investigation campaign in the name of charity, it can be said that the party’s internal control over the employees of the cotton spinning industry in Mincheng is no worse than those of the contractors and guilds.

What contractors do is nothing more than relying on their ability to get cotton, find sales channels, and have capital.

To control these three, lend a portion of the cotton to cottage industry practitioners, or provide a portion of small amounts of money.Spinning and weaving cloth by these cottage industries, and then buying by contractors, deducting the cotton borrowed or provided at the beginning, so as to make a profit.

Theoretically, there is a way for a single handicraft worker to climb up: first rent a spinning wheel from a contractor, borrow cotton or funds, and accumulate for about 20 years. You should be able to own two or three spinning wheels and have a certain amount of capital. Thus leaping into the petty bourgeoisie.

In 20 years, there is still hope, but this is only in theory, and it is very difficult to implement it in practice. For these 20 years, there must be no illness, no family changes, no children, etc., to be possible.

However, even if you become a petty bourgeoisie and have three or five spinning wheels and looms, you will still be exploited by the guilds.Once the machines appear, they will be in the most dangerous situation, and they will be completely reduced to the fate of having nothing but working part-time.

Originally, Chen Jian thought it would be cruel to give these people hope, and then expose them, but there is no way to rely on their power to disintegrate the guild and contractors.

So just after the new year, the grassroots organizations of the Mexican party under the pretext of charity began to haunt the homes of some small handicraftsmen with spinning wheels, block by block.

New Year's is the time for contractors to start preparing for the year's business, calling in loans, and refinancing.However, these contractors did not get any cotton this year, and Chen Jian grabbed all the cotton, which cut off the way of these contractors from the root.