Foshan Town and Shunde Town belong to Nanhai County, and there were iron factories and silk cocoon factories in the early years. Jiangmen Town belongs to the newly established Xinhui County, and there were some iron factories and yarn mills early on, all run by local people.
These workshops are not large in scale and belong to the handicraft workshop level. However, there are quite a few of them, between two and three hundred, and they are also part of the supply source of the twelve factories in Nanhai.
Later, the Southeast Chamber of Commerce came and brought advanced factory technology. Using water power, animal power, and machines widely used in the Southeast region, steel mills, silk cocoon factories, cotton cloth and yarn mills were opened. Taking advantage of convenient sea and river transportation, collection from various places
of raw materials for large-scale production.
The production efficiency of these factories is dozens or hundreds of times that of the old factories, knocking them to pieces. Most of the employees in these factories are absorbed by the factories as workers, and they earn more salary. See
Everyone was happy to go up there.
But there are still dissatisfied people.
The first is the Twelve in the South China Sea. These factories used to be one of their sources of goods, but now they are almost completely wiped out. The supply of goods has been cut off. They can only purchase goods from the factories of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce. But they don’t have enough to sell themselves, so how can they have extra supplies?
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The second most dissatisfied people were the factory owners. These people used to make money by exploiting dozens or dozens of hired workers, drinking wine, and living a good life. However, when the Southeast Chamber of Commerce's factory opened, people were robbed, and goods were in short supply.
You have more, but it’s cheaper than you. Your goods are piled up and you just can’t sell them.
There is no way to live this life! Of course, these factory owners are filled with anger.
So in the past two years, these factory owners, with the support of the Nanhai Twelve Families, used their local connections to hire thugs, spread rumors and cause trouble, and incited the people to attack those factories.
Although the former county governor has made great achievements, he is still a Jinshi after all, and his thoughts are still stuck in the previous situation. When encountering problems, the most important thing he thinks about is to reduce the big problems to trivial matters and make peace with others.
As soon as he gave in, the Twelve Nanhai Families and factory owners became more and more arrogant, and finally a big incident occurred.
Ye Xun and Zhong Huizhi, together with Huang Chengyou, the military commander of Nanhai County, hurried to the nearest town of Foshan.
"Huang Bingbei is an old subordinate of Xu Gong, the envoy of Dongxuan Huiyuan and the right counselor?" Ye Xun asked.
At that time, Xu Chengzhi was the commander of the capital in front of the palace and a confidant of the late Emperor Zhemiao. When Zhao Si came to the throne, he stood firmly on this side. Therefore, he was always treated with courtesy. During the battle to destroy Xia, he was in charge of the post in Xi'an.
He was awarded the title of Doctor Jin Ziguanglu and was granted the title of third-level Lord.
During the Ping-Liao War, he sat in command of Daming Mansion and gained some glory. He was granted the title of Shangzhu and was awarded the highest rank of Lord. He was then granted the honorable post of envoy of the Xuanhui Academy and entered the Zhongshu Province.
Serving as the eighth-ranked Right Counselor is equivalent to retirement.
Huang Chengyou used to be tall and majestic, but now he has become stocky and fat. When riding on a horse, his breath is louder than the horse on his crotch.
"The county governor is well-informed. This general is an old subordinate of Duke Xu. When he was the commander of the Japanese army, I was his close army, Marquis Yu."
"Oh, how many years has it been since Huang Bingbei came to Panyu?"
"It's been four years. During the battle to destroy Xia, I led the second-line troops to garrison Gyeongju and protect the grain road. After the war, I was promoted to the first level based on my merits, awarded the rank of General Zhonglang, and the title of Guanglu Doctor. Then I entered
After studying at Wansheng Academy for a while, he was sent to Panyu."
"I heard that when Huang Bingbei first took office, he rectified the county soldiers and patrolled the local areas. He was responsible for causing harm to the black-faced bandits in Liangzhou for more than ten years, the Baixing Mountain bandits that harmed the three counties of Hunan, Jiangxi, and Nanhai, as well as the
Were all the water thieves in the Wuxi River in the upper reaches of the Xingjiang River wiped out by your troops?"
These were his achievements. Huang Chengyou raised his head proudly, exposed his four front teeth, and laughed. From his face to his belly, all the fat trembled together.
"Nine years after the Apocalypse, why did Huang Bingbei never leave Guangzhou again and sit back and watch the Baixing Mountain Bandits and Wuxi Water Bandits reappear?"
Ye Xun's questions were very sharp.
Huang Chengyou was stunned for a moment, then looked around and said: "The main reason is that Huang was seriously injured when he went to suppress the White Star Bandits, and then an old injury was caused. He couldn't heal it for a long time, and he has been neglecting it until now. I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I'm really ashamed.
The expectations and entrustment of the officials."
Ye Xun glanced at him and snorted in his heart.
It sounds so nice, but you have been bribed by the Twelve Families of the South China Sea. I heard that you have taken seven or eight concubines in the past two years. Looking at your fat and vain appearance, can you handle it?
But thinking about it from his perspective, Huang Chengyou probably figured it out on his own.
He does not belong to the direct line of the official family. He could barely get a drink of soup in the battle to extinguish Xia, and could not even get close to the battle of Pingliao. Military generals cannot get military merit and can only endure it slowly. But the generals who are the direct line of the official family can only survive.
At such a young age, he has already created more than a dozen names.
The rest of the Huaide Camp, Xiaoqi Camp, Changzi Camp, Wansheng College, and Di Wuxiang Military Academy are all lining up in batches, waiting to go to the battlefield to perform meritorious service. It will never be his turn.
Forget it, just lie down and make as much money as you can before you retire. Then it would be nice to retire and return to your hometown and become a rich man with a farm and a group of wives and concubines.
Ye Xun thought about Huang Chengyou's mentality for a while, and that's probably it.
He shook his head and couldn't help but sigh a few words in his heart. Today's officials are different from those in the past. You have no merits and demerits, but you have made mistakes. Now you are still taking bribes and neglecting your duties. Officials are not good at it.
Who are you going to deal with?
Speechless all the way, we soon arrived at the scene of the fight in Foshan Town - Jinli Iron and Steel Plant, the largest steelmaking plant in the South China Sea. Coal from Guangning and iron ore from Qiongya were smelted into wrought iron, pig iron and
Steel. There are also Wuzi iron ingots from Tianzhu, which are processed into refined steel here, and then transported by water and sea for transportation everywhere.
The output of its family is equal to the combined output of all the iron factories in the entire Nanhai region. It employs more than 5,000 workers and produces 2.6 million kilograms of various steels every year. According to the new system, this is 1,300 tons.
Less than one-third that of Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant.
But for other hand-crafted iron factories in the Nanhai area, it was already a Category 13 super typhoon, leaving not a single tile in its path.
Those bankrupt factory owners hated it and repeatedly incited local people to attack it.
Anyone who dares to open a steel plant is not a good person. The managers and supervisors of Jinli Steel Plant seem to be very experienced. They have taken many measures. First, they hired employees from bankrupt local subway plants - giving them money and food.
Quite a few, enough to support a family, and many people are tempted.
Local factory owners also responded to the call and used relatives and family connections to persuade some employees to quit. Making money is important, but relatives and clan members are also important.
Jinli Steel Works directly went to Huizhou, Gaozhou, Leizhou, and Tengzhou, Hezhou and Guizhou in Yulin County to recruit workers. They were all strong young men and had nothing to do with the local area.
If the locals dare to make trouble again, you'll be rude. You actually dare to destroy my job. I can't kill you!
So the tip of the knife was pointed against the tip of the spear, and the more things happened, the bigger the trouble became.
Thinking about these nonsense, Ye Xun couldn't help but glance at Huang Chengyou and Wu Xueliang, the director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The two major institutions that control violence in Nanhai County seemed to have been bribed by the Nanhai Twelve Families.
This is a bit of a headache!
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