Chapter 454: Songjiang businessman Deng Min

Deng Min probably didn't expect that he would have such a result. He thought he would be prosperous and prosperous soon. Deng Min's father was a minor official in Songjiang County. Such a wealthy official could be as good as a county magistrate in remote areas. He had earned a considerable fortune for decades.

The weaving in Songjiang has been around for nearly a hundred years. Deng Min's father opened a hand-woven factory there, which is equivalent to a chicken that lays golden eggs.

There is a saying in Jiangnan that hand-woven fabrics have caught thousands of acres of land. After building this factory, it was to buy several generations of foundation for his descendants' families. The old man's expectation for Deng Min was not to be a rich family, but to hope that he would achieve success in scientific examinations. However, Deng Min, who was spoiled since childhood, would have the perseverance and perseverance to study. When he was in his twenties, he spent money to buy the fame of a scholar.

After he died, no one cared about him. With a huge foundation, life would be prosperous.

Ten years after Jiajing, everyone in the world suddenly loved money. If it were to say that everyone liked money in the past, it was just that there was something hidden on the surface. Suddenly everyone talked about profit and the world valued business. Deng Min's factory profits rose sharply every year, so don't worry too much, and life is getting better and better.

Deng Min was spoiled since childhood, and liked to spend money like a lot of people and horses, and he also had a habit of being a carpenter and skilled craftsmanship. This was also a tradition of the Ming Dynasty. It was always considered a craftsmanship technique, and many people were addicted to it. There were even several emperors who were also members of it. This can also be regarded as a leap of the entire world civilization from ancient times to modern times.

The technological explosion and ideological inspiration brought about by this leap may not be specifically expressed in speech and public opinion. However, in the surrounding countries, under the influence of missionaries who came to preach, and under the enthusiasm of inventions and creations since ancient times, many people consciously or unconsciously devoted themselves to it. Deng Min is also one of them and also likes to do something by himself.

Although such a hobby is considered a scattered thing by people around you, if you are diligent in your family, do your job attentively, or focus on studying and working hard on the imperial examination, or be thrifty in your family, and do business well there. Deng Min's behavior is considered an absurd act.

There are two types of weaving workshops in Jiangnan, one is weaving silk and the other is weaving cloth. Weaving cloth requires a lot of yarn. In addition to farming and eating grain, selling spinning to factories is also an important pillar of income. Since the sea trade order has stabilized, sea trade has suddenly flourished, and the demand for goods has increased a lot. The demand for spindles in various weaving workshops has also increased relatively.

However, in the family of all the private households, one and two people spin and sell yarn there, and there will be more than the output there. After a while, each factory was just like the landlords employed tenants, and a large number of households were housed in nearby farms. These households were equivalent to half of the employer of the factory, and the spindles could only be sold to the factory. However, in this way, the supply volume was stabilized and no improvement was made.

However, there have been great changes in the economic behavior of the people. Many generations of farmers who have farmed have begun to work together instead of farming, but have specially spinning and selling them to factories. This income is much better than farming and eating grain. People in various factories are thinking about how to increase the yield. However, Deng Min, a heartless person, has no feeling at all, and still does his own way of doing things and drinking and having fun.

One day, he was drinking too much outside. Deng Min came back in dizzy. After entering his room, he accidentally kicked something down. After calling for a servant, he lit the lights. It turned out that he kicked the spinning machine down. At this time, the spinning machine that was originally erected was lying horizontally on the ground.

The servant was about to help him up, but he was stopped by Deng Min. Although Deng Min was drunk, he felt that he had vaguely grabbed something in his mind. He waved his hand and sent out the inexplicable servants, and became busy in the room alone.

The Deng family didn't know what happened tonight, but the next day, Deng Min, with red eyes, sent his servant to find a carpenter and came to his house. The two of them were in the backyard and were busy for five days. Five days later, he sent the carpenter away for 500 taels of silver.

The carpenter made the fortune and happily went home to buy land, and lived a comfortable life as a small landlord.

Five hundred taels are not a small amount. Whether it is the Deng family’s family or the people around who know about this, they all laughed it off and were disdainful of Deng Min’s absurdity.

Unexpectedly, another month later, the output of the Deng Family Weaving Factory suddenly increased, which can be said to have increased several times or more than ten times. At this time, the production of the factory was extremely limited, and merchants at sea were holding silver and other goods.

As long as all kinds of things are produced, purchased by merchants, transported to ships, and sold outside, they will be profits of several or ten times. Of course, because of the expansion of the throughput of the sea trade, the profits are not as high as before, but this is still huge profits and amazing huge profits.

The output of Deng Min’s factory increased sharply, and merchants valued profit rather than feelings. A large number of orders fell on the Deng family. The owners of the surrounding factories were extremely puzzled. According to the output of Deng’s factory, one-third of the spindles were bought by his family.

However, the output of Deng Family Factory soared, and the spindles of other families did not decrease. It was really strange. After about a month, many of the employers who had spun for Deng Family were fired and were driven out.

Some people who are interested went to inquire and found out that some strange machines were added to the handicraft workshop of the Deng family. The spinning equipment can almost catch up with the output of nine people. The total amount of raw materials is almost the same. Fewer people can do more work, so they will naturally not raise excess people.

Everyone wants to improve their equipment and increase production. When they hear that the Deng family has such magical things, everyone has the intention of coveting and sending people to inquire and search. Deng Min, who has always been scattered, was much more cautious this time. The Deng family's servants and servants were mobilized, and they firmly guarded the workshop and the Deng family's mansion, and did not allow anyone who wanted to spy on the secret to enter and watch.

Precautions are strictly guarded here, and other merchants also have other ways to continue to find out the news. The manufacturing of equipment always requires craftsmen, just inquire about these craftsmen.

No one expected that the result of inquiry was to find nothing and could find any clues at all. Logically speaking, carpenters and craftsmen in the agency would always participate, but nothing was found.

In the past three months, the weaving workshop in Songjiang had its first bankruptcy factory after the prosperity of maritime trade. Because the Deng family raised the price of purchasing raw materials, and the goods sold were cheaper and the output was large, many maritime merchants were willing to deal with the Deng family.

When the maritime trade was booming, as long as you were spending money to borrow money to open a weaving factory and if there were products, you should not worry about the survival of the factory. It would definitely make money. So there are more and more transactions, and the business is booming. No one would have expected that in such a situation, there would be workshops that could not be supported and would go bankrupt and close down.

Moreover, the remaining weaving and handmade workshops are all in the same situation, and they are all struggling to support them, eating the old money they have earned in the past.

Even the employees and workers below were panicked. Many of them had abandoned their land, did not work as farmers, and focused on their work. The factory went bankrupt. They had lost their land. What else could they do? Was they arrested by the government's yamen runners on the charge of being displaced and chasing the rioters overseas, and were then sent overseas to do slave farming and selling their children and daughters?

After the second weaving workshop went bankrupt, the Thirteenth Chamber of Commerce finally noticed this situation. There are many handmade workshop owners in Suzhou and Hangzhou. They think that Deng Min's abnormal phenomenon is likely to ruin the entire prosperity situation, which is a strange thing.

At that time, Deng Min was already proud and had a lot of money in his hands every day. The merchants at sea were polite to him. Those who looked down on him in the past smiled and begged him to give everyone a way out. Deng Min no longer felt that he was a liar.

The Deng family's family business has been carried forward in his hands. He had never expected that behind such a glory, there were dangers and undercurrents. There was a rumor circulating in the weaving workers in Songjiang that the Deng family had magic and relied on the bones of dead people to produce cloth. Many people's ancestral tombs in the countryside were dug up and destroyed by touching and destroying, which was completely intolerable at this time.

In the first month of the 19th year of Jiajing, two more handicraft factories in Songjiang went bankrupt. That night, weaver employees from each household took to the streets and led several leaders to move towards the Deng family's industry. Those leaders were also dressed up by the weaver, saying that they were driven out by the Deng family in the past. Everyone was excited and no one would specifically identify anything.

The Deng family would resist so many people, and they were soon attacked. The unorganized mob in history was the most terrifying thing. The Deng family's house was burned, the weaving machines and spinning machines were also destroyed, and the Deng family's servants and employees were surrounded and beaten.

However, the people who led the mob rushed into the spinning site first and carried away an instrument...
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