From Chief to Ball

As the second most popular futures and stock exchange, it has gradually become another center of Mincheng, and the nearby housing prices and land prices are also rising.

Many large farmers in the upper reaches of the Min River choose to conduct transactions here, some of them do not want to operate but only want to lease out their land.

And some people with rich capital seized the opportunity to lease these lands and grow various agricultural products that can be traded in futures.

Even some big businessmen from the two counties in the upper reaches of the Min River and some businessmen from the nearby coastal counties will gather here to exchange needs and look for business opportunities.

The cargo ships docked in Mincheng will also trade various bulk goods on the futures exchange, or earn the price difference by ordering first and then transshipment.

The speculators had new prey, and a large amount of spare money poured into Mincheng, impacting the original industries and guilds in Mincheng.

Relying on the advantages of water transportation, Nan'an Coal Industry Group has continuously merged the remaining mines. The price war is still going on. The coal price in Mincheng is one-fifth lower than that of two years ago. Even so, Nan'an Coal Industry Group, which has the advantage of water transportation There are still some profits, but the rest of the coal mines can no longer sustain it.

The futures trading and low price of coal have allowed the port of Mincheng to have a large number of coal carriers, which continue to supply coal for some nearby counties.

The new form of joint-stock company also caused a crisis in the guilds in Mincheng.

Many large workshop owners adopted the form of stock raising, and based on the pamphlet about the division of labor, they established new management workshops.

For example, ceramic workshops, taking advantage of the opportunity of coal price reduction, began to expand and squeeze those small workshops by raising equity and division of labor.

For example, printing and dyeing workshops use bleaching powder from chemical workshops for bleaching, dyeing with new dyes, and starting to use thermometers, etc.

People are constantly losing their jobs, and new jobs are constantly emerging.There is life in chaos.

The advantages of shipping, futures trading, lower coal prices, and ports for open sea trade...all of these have brought a new spring to Mincheng's handicraft industry.

The vigorous movement of cotton spinning cooperatives is still going on, and the contractors and the original old guilds can no longer survive, and they exist in name only.

Not long after Chen Jian went to sea, the Institute of Science and Practical Technology began to sell hand looms on a large scale.

Large and small weaving cooperatives have accumulated more than a year without exploitation by contractors and guilds, and they have enough money to buy this new type of hand loom.Even if everyone cannot be guaranteed to have one, each small cooperative can guarantee to raise funds to purchase one.

This is the real purpose of cooperatives, not just to fight against guilds and contractors, to pool individual scattered capital together to complete technological upgrades.

The efficiency of weaving has been improved, and the amount of weavers required for the same area of ​​cotton cloth has been reduced by half compared to before.

The sale of calcium hypochlorite bleach from chemical factories has made Mincheng's cotton cloth whiter and of better quality, making Min cloth a tight commodity.

There is also a steady stream of cloth traded in the futures exchange every day, and merchants continue to buy here and ship it away for sale.

The sale of cotton cloth has caused the price of cotton and cotton yarn to rise.

A skilled weaver, using a hand-pulled shuttle loom, can make the yarn of six or seven spinners in short supply.

The income of those families who spin spinning as a sideline has also increased compared with before, and it seems that life is really getting better and better.It may have been impacted by the cotton cloth of Min County outside of Min County, but the delay in the spread of technology made Min County prosperous first.

Large swathes of land up the Min River began to grow cotton, a trend facilitated by cotton gins and futures trading.

The fire of futures and stock trading burns most intensely in October.

This October was the second year after Standard Oil Works raised its share capital. Although Chen Jian was not there, the accounting department inside the workshop still wrote down the sales revenue in a complete list in accordance with the previous arrangement.

The owners of these stocks received the first dividend. After deducting the profits other than the provident fund, each shareholder received a dividend of two silver coins per share.

A large number of people lined up to go to the trading company to receive their dividends during the ten-week holiday.

Everyone knows that the future dividends will increase and become more stable.Kerosene lamps have begun to be sold on a large scale in the coastal areas, gradually replacing candles or oil lamps in the middle class, and are gradually spreading to the bottom families.

It is believed that before long there will be no candle or wick tallow in the coastal counties.

The big cakes I painted at the beginning seem to have the meaning of harvesting.Although there is news that kerosene may be taxed, even taxation cannot save those candle workshops or the few families that monopolize whale oil, and once the tax is too high, shareholders will resolutely oppose it.

It is reported that when Chen Jian comes back, more shares may be issued, and he may also go to other parts of the country to mine petrolatum and refine kerosene.There is also news that a new joint-stock company may be established. People are sure that Chen Jian will always catch the opportunity to make money. The capital of the coastal counties went to Mincheng, waiting for Chen Jian to come back. They also believe that Chen Jian will go outside this time to find Once successful in the future, it will bring new business opportunities.

These two fires only played a role in fueling the flames.

Even without these two fires, with the development of sea trade, the opening of new sea routes, the reduction of coal prices, the revolution of looms, the idle capital of industries that have been squeezed out, etc., the city of Fujian will be prosperous, thereby alleviating conflicts.

But this timing is because Ye Yuanshan has accumulated a lot of money since he took office.

And the third fire also brought countless compliments to Ye Yuanshan a year and a half later.

Originally dirty slums, the first batch of low-rise buildings built with red bricks, equipped with downstairs bamboo pipes for running water and brand new public toilets, gave Mincheng a real urban flavor.

The poor people who were demolished got their wish to live in a tube building. Many people with original cameras and tent darkrooms took photos in this transformed slum area, praising that this is what the city should look like.

The three emerging buildings of the trading company, the stock exchange, and the insurance company and the hard-surfaced road connecting the port allow everyone who travels to and from Mincheng to feel the rapid changes in Mincheng.

These three fires, along with newspapers, books, black-and-white photos, and the prosperity of Mincheng's textile industry, gave Ye Yuanshan a lot of unexpected things.

Before taking office, the only thing that worried him was the Mexican party, which had frequent activities and even started to get involved in the county council. But shortly after taking office, this deformed monster split into a progressive alliance of many factions.

In addition to relying on party assets to continue to maintain on top of relief and charity, the originally twisted rope was instantly scattered, and it was difficult for different factions to unite.

The only county council bill that was passed unanimously was nothing more than a progressive relief payment system. This was the only resolution passed unanimously by all the members of the Progressive Alliance in the council, relying on the advantages of numbers and public opinion to improve the county's bill .

In the next few proposals, the various factions constrained each other, and it was impossible to reach a consensus at all.And the few people in the Progressive Alliance with extremely high reputations who can ensure internal consensus... either go to sea to find the future, or form a party alone.

He Yuanshan let out a sigh of relief, and also heard that the group of people quarreled violently in July the year before last, and also heard that it was Chen Jian who gave the united faction a knowing blow that led to the official split of the Mexican party.

He didn't know what Chen Jian's purpose was, but he understood that this reality seemed to be very beneficial to him, so he didn't have to worry about what big things these people would do.

Chen Jian's faction has been very quiet this year. The cat is in the mining area and school in Nan'an, and it seems that he no longer interferes with the affairs of Mincheng.The Progressive Alliance continued to carry out the cooperative improvement movement and the consumer cooperative movement as the main body. The extreme radicals were wanted and hanged, and some factions agreed with absolute centralization and believed that Yuanshan was hope...

All in all, the turmoil with the other side that seemed to have been vigorous before Ye Yuanshan took office seems to have dissipated.

And Ye Yuanshan understands one thing: follow the path of the Progressive Alliance, leaving the Progressive Alliance with nowhere to go.

After the cooperative movement of the Progressive League achieved initial results, the smallpox eradication movement in Min County was launched.Therefore, Ye Yuanshan won a sum of stamp duty that has not been counted as national tax, and raised some money from wealthy businessmen, pinching the name of this movement in the hands of the Min County Government, and it was specifically implemented by the Progressive League. But a lot of financial support was given.

For a time, everyone praised, all praised.

During the New Year, Ye Yuanshan inspected the port of Min County, full of ambition.

Little did he know, however, that a new crisis had emerged.

In Nan'an, a new hydro-spinning factory... yes, a factory rather than a workshop, was quietly built on a river in Nan'an.From carding, rubbing, rolling and twisting to spinning, all are hydraulic or animal-powered machinery.Most of the workers used are local female workers in Nan'an, but the construction has not yet officially started and is still under construction.

In Nan'an, two new experimental horse-drawn cotton planters and horse-drawn wood threshers are being shipped to a nearby agricultural cooperative for next year's sowing as an experiment...

This is progress, but it is also a crisis for officials, especially those at the source, who have no experience to face the turmoil behind this progress.

After all, people replaced by machines have to eat.

Chapter 10 Welcome

It is not only the land that is in danger, but also the vast sea.