From Chief to Ball

The indescribable anger in these contractors' hearts was that when Chen Jian bought cotton at first, they didn't think it had much to do with them.

At that time, the contractors felt that Chen Jian had to sell the cotton he received, and it had to go through their hands, and they would still make money at that time.

It has always been like this.

But this time it was different, Chen Jian completely shook off them and stopped playing with them.Instead, they used the grassroots organizations of the Mexican Party in the name of charity to completely bypass the contractors.

And the winding is so thorough, digging directly from the root.In addition to formal political parties, many organizations are organized in the name of charity at the grassroots level. The Mexican Party also used such a name at the beginning, and people have obtained enough information at the grassroots level without knowing it.

As soon as such a thing happened, public dissatisfaction boiled over for a while, and turmoil in the meeting broke out again. I hope that the government will come forward and ask Chen Jian to abide by the long-standing tradition.

However, it was of no use. Chen Jian and the Mexican party did not care about this group of people at all. This cooperative movement won the support of many petty bourgeois utopians in the party for Chen Jian, and there were no more utopians after the miners petitioned. resentment.

The Min County officials who were tortured by Chen Jian just now really don't want to go into this troubled water. They are already too busy to take care of themselves, and they don't want to and dare not provoke the Mo party who has just had great prestige in this matter - they have suffered a loss once. , this group of people also understand now that if they dare to come forward and force Chen Jian to sell cotton to contractors, all the handicraftsmen in Mincheng will get up and make some noise. Mincheng really can't stand such a toss .

At the end of the first lunar month, a large amount of baled lint was continuously shipped from the warehouse in Nan'an, and many people who originally dug the river were engaged in baling work in Nan'an.

The people of the Cotton Spinning Guild were completely anxious this time. Now that Chen Jian had money and raw materials, he dug their roots from the source.I thought that Chen Jian just wanted to eat the profits of lint, but he didn't think that Chen Jian would simply leave them and go it alone.

Panicked, they found a gang of hooligans in Mincheng, but when they heard that they were dealing with the Mo party, they all refused, because they couldn't beat the picket team of the Mo party in a fight, and no one wanted to touch this bad luck.

The leaders of the various gangs also put down their words, don’t conflict with the members of the Mexican Party, absolutely not, even if it’s theft and robbery, don’t go to places where the Mexican Party is often active, and if they offend them, they cut off their fingers to apologize.

With the help of newspapers and public opinion propaganda tools controlled by the Mexican Party, a slogan called the Spinning Cooperative Movement soon spread throughout Fujian.

First, he used the facts to expose the oppression of the contractors and guilds, and used mathematics to calculate an account for these small handicraftsmen. He used a simple formula of addition and subtraction, which immediately increased the persuasiveness of this statement several times.

Then he chanted the slogan of bypassing contractors and guilds and organizing labor cooperatives to prevent those blood suckers from making the difference, which aroused enthusiastic responses.

This is an ideal society dreamed of by the petty bourgeoisie in the typical small handicraft era. Chen Jian keenly grasped the advantages of the large number of handicraftsmen, analyzed the psychology of this group of people, and with the help of tabloids and grassroots charitable organizations, short Within three days, all the handicraftsmen in Mincheng who were engaged in spinning knew the news.

Organize the family handicraftsmen who own spinning wheels together, set up family cooperatives in groups of four or five, and collect cotton uniformly.Dozens of cooperatives within a block form a large cooperative, and this large cooperative collects cotton yarn uniformly, and then sells it in a centralized manner, completely cutting off the opportunity for contractors to manipulate prices.

However, when the cooperative was established, Chen Jian made a request that four or five companies need to write a statement when selecting a trusted person to serve as the president of the cooperative. The president, as the legal person of the cooperative, nominally owns all The spinning wheel and the money everyone pooled together to buy cotton.

This statement is guaranteed by the Mexican party, which proves that it is only in name. Once there is an incident of engulfing other people's spinning wheels or conflicts with the help of this agreement, the Mexican party will mediate and resolve it.

At the same time, with these spinning wheels as a pledge, he obtained a small low-interest loan from Chen Jian.The interest on the loan is much lower than normal usury, and Chen Jian does not support cash, and uses cotton as the loan payment.

After spinning, it is up to these cooperatives to decide whether to sell or not, and they are responsible for their own profits and losses.But because of the establishment of a large cooperative, it has certain bargaining power.

Originally, there were no two layers of exploitation by the contractor in terms of cotton and loan interest. If the price of cotton yarn can be completely followed by market rules, it seems that it is profitable no matter what.

That interest rate is much lower than that of the previous contractor, and there is really no reason to refuse.

It is equivalent to the amount of profit completely determined by the market, and the profit is the money worth of their labor minus some of the fees charged by Chen Jian, and they are completely responsible for their own profits and losses.It's just that in this way, hope can be seen earlier, and the primitive accumulation of labor can be completed earlier.

Weaving is also in the same form, but it is also the same as spinning, and several cooperatives must be jointly established to elect a person as a representative of risk-taking and borrowing.

In fact, this kind of utopian cooperative movement is useless. The utopians in the party vaguely feel that labor is the only source of wealth, but they do not realize that wealth can only be created when labor and means of production are combined.

The idea of ​​this school is to rely on the state to establish cooperatives, and to unite small handicraftsmen. In theory, as long as there are no problems, the cotton will be spun into yarn, and the yarn will be turned into cotton cloth, and it will definitely make money.As long as all the money in it comes from workers, this is an ideal society.

The current situation is that Chen Jian and the party produce money, and the grassroots organizations control the situation, creating an illusion in the cotton spinning industry in Mincheng that the government has been replaced, making some people mistakenly think that this is a desirable path.

All of this relies on the so-called conscience. The problem is that if there is no conscience, it is only necessary to increase the price of cotton and manipulate the price of cotton yarn, and these cooperatives will fall into the same situation as when the previous contractors existed.

However, no matter what, these actions still dealt a severe blow to the cotton spinning guild and contractors in Mincheng.

A large number of contractors lost their normal income in a few days, and they didn't know where to spend the money.The Cotton Spinning Guild is also on the verge of collapse. It can neither control the price of cotton yarn nor the price of cloth, and has completely lost its existence value.

Chen Jian has loosened control over cotton in handicraft workshops, but the number of handicraft workshops is small compared to the number of participating cooperatives, which makes it difficult to control prices.

Depending on the form of control over raw materials, grassroots labor, and eventual acquisition and sale, this approach can exist temporarily and may benefit these cooperatives.

It seems that Chen Jian is purely trying to gain fame, because the money should be used to earn more elsewhere.

However, this is not the case.

In February, when it was time to count voters who were eligible to vote, the person in charge of the statistics suddenly discovered a serious problem: Fujian City and the surrounding countryside suddenly had half the number of eligible voters compared to last year voter.

From the surrounding villages to the cities, the Mexican Party uses this form of organizing cooperatives, using its own reputation and financial resources as a guarantee, to use loopholes in the law to turn the legal persons of the cooperatives into natural persons with voting rights.

Individual handicraftsmen are not entitled to voting rights because of their financial resources and family property, but they are united to become one, and their family property and property amount just have voting rights.

A large number of members of the Mexican party who do not have voting rights have registered with the stocks owned by the party and the dividend stocks of some workshops of Chen Jian, and have become people with voting rights.

A large number of properties purchased by Chen Jian during the orchid craze were transferred to some members of the Mexican Party.

Leng Shengsheng created a large number of vote qualifications before counting.

There is no such unreasonable law.Furthermore, if there is no party organization, normal people will not use this method, nor do they have such organizational power.

No one has ever done such a despicable thing, and no one has thought about it, but the people of the Mexican Party have done it with such a shameless loophole.

This time, something really happened in Mincheng.

You don't need to think about it, you will know who the sudden extra voters will vote for.

Counting the accidental miners' petition and the cotton ginners' rebellion in the northern cotton-producing areas, this is already the fifth big news brought by Mincheng that can alarm the whole country.

Chapter 161 The Gossip

Another turmoil in Mincheng will not spread to the capital so quickly.

It has been two years since Chen Jian went to the capital last time.

In the past two years, many subtle changes have taken place in the capital.Many of these subtle changes can be recorded in the annals of history, just like the first cloud in a clear sky, which seems light but is the beginning of the subsequent rainstorm.

And too many things are inseparably related to Min County, Mo Dang, and Chen Jian in the south.

The two battalions of Habayashi Guard replaced the new-style flintlock guns and bid farewell to the old matchlocks and spears.

In a drill after the change of clothes, many generals witnessed the horror of the salvo after the change of clothes.The reloaded soldiers have not had time to practice the reloading speed of two rounds per minute, but compared with the arquebus, which must be separated by more than one step, the flintlock can bring people's shoulders together.

A battalion of 400 people lined up in three thin long lines, densely packed like candied haws strung together.

After an order was given, there was a crackling sound, white smoke rising three to five times thicker than the arquebus team, and the shattered grass target that was hit by a volley on the opposite side...

All this made the officers present dumbfounded.After the salvo, the soldiers hurriedly and unskillfully inserted the bayonets into the muzzles and turned them into short spears. The officers finally used their own eyes to verify the birth of a new era of land warfare-from then on, the infantry only needed one .The spearman was eliminated, the arquebus was eliminated, the armor was eliminated, and the melee short swordsman was also eliminated...

This battalion, which was equipped with flintlock guns, couldn't wait to show it to the visiting envoys of Qi State to increase the bargaining chip for this negotiation.

The envoy of the State of Qi neither stood still in fright, nor said nothing more than that, but expressed his admiration.

People in the military are not afraid of anything happening. As long as there are enough craftsmen for this kind of thing, it can't be hidden.

On the contrary, in this era, it is completely the era of national power and population. If this kind of gun is fired, a group of recruits can be trained in three months. This is an upright deterrent.