In addition to internal consumption, the main direction of the cotton spinning industry using new textile tools and processes is to earn foreign exchange through exports.
While waiting for the self-grown cotton to mature, a large amount of cotton was smuggled in from the warm south through Castilian black market merchants and processed cotton cloth was exported. The profit difference was used to purchase daily necessities such as livestock, salt, coal mines and cotton.
Such raw materials - a primitive and not perfect cycle, but the huge benefits make the elves fully experience the wonderful sense of satisfaction.
There are always two sides to everything. The front side of the coin is the smiles of the elves, and the back side is the mottled blood, tears and faint sadness of the Ajan Tolatong cotton textile handicraftsmen.
More! Wider! Lighter! Stronger! And the price is only a quarter of the market price!! Mother Goddess proves it!! I can’t live this life!!!!!!
Of course, the actual situation was not exaggerated to this extent. However, after witnessing the scene of horse-drawn carriages and merchants rushing to grab new cotton cloth, the workshop owners instinctively predicted that if they did not do something, their business would stop sooner or later, and then they should pack up their bags.
Get lost.[
Seniors in the industry quickly mobilized all the resources at hand to take action. They mobilized their connections to encourage sellers to boycott cheap and inferior products from foreign bastards, and told their textile workers: "Inhumane working conditions" and "extremely low wages" are allowed to be slaves.
The expansion of the sweatshops composed of workers will crowd out all the old workshops, and everyone will be unemployed! They will have to go to the streets to beg for food! Finally, it will be spread everywhere that "the newly launched cotton cloth is an unlucky thing made with evil magic, and wearing it will bring misfortune."
.], and reported it to the church, asking the clergy who served the mother goddess Marfa to impose sanctions and punishment on the heretics who used evil magic.
The workshop owners will never tolerate a foreign bastard touching their cheese. In order to defeat the new competitor, the workshops that used to have bad relations have become unprecedentedly unanimous.
The temporary alliance tried its best, but they did not achieve the expected results, and every measure failed without exception.
The sellers who usually get along well with each other completely forget that their birthplace is Agen Toratong. They pat their chests and promise not to buy that new cotton cloth again. However, in order to smooth out the losses caused by the price difference, they hope that the price will at least drop.
to one third of the past.
【Otherwise, our life will not be able to go on. 】
The sellers spread their hands with grimaces on their faces, as if they were going to close down tomorrow.
one third!
The workshop owners want to strangle these shameful gangsters a hundred times. This is robbery! Naked robbery by fire!! The price has dropped to one-third of the original price, which means that each workshop can't make even one even if they work hard.
Zi'er's profit! And the price is still more expensive than new cotton!
【Profiteer!】
The workshop owners, who kept blaming the sellers in their hearts and put on hard smiles on their faces, suppressed their anger and grief and accepted a shipping price that was different from suicide in order to kill the bastard who brought all this.
The workshop owners gritted their teeth and returned to the workshop, preparing to drown the new competitors with cotton yarn and cotton cloth. But before they could start gearing up, a piece of bad news almost paralyzed them to the ground.
Cotton prices have increased.
The price of cotton has gone up, it has gone up, it has gone up, it has gone up, it has gone up, it has gone up, it has gone up, it has gone up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since spring, a group of unidentified guys have been buying cotton. The already tight quantity of cotton has been in short supply due to this explosive buying. Cotton farmers and cotton merchants are not enthusiastic volunteers engaged in charity, let alone
Fools who understand the market. The price of cotton keeps refreshing. In just one week, the price of even the cheapest inferior cotton has doubled.
Many guys who smelled something wrong gave up their plans to continue. They were extremely reluctant to endure the situation where they could make money, and operating at a loss completely exceeded the bottom line of tolerance. They withdrew from the temporary alliance one after another and began to wind up their respective businesses and prepare to change.
Place to start over.
The workshop owners who stood firmer still planned to hold on, but the textile workers undermined the efforts of their respective bosses - protests, labor disputes, slack work, and small-scale strikes began to appear one after another.
Some terrible rumors began to spread among the textile workers: [In order to fight the price war and offset the increase in cotton prices, the bosses are preparing to reduce the salaries of textile workers]; [In order to reduce expenses, they are preparing to lay off workers], [The bosses are preparing to take away all the workers.
money - including everyone's salary and escaped]...
In order to protect their own interests, the textile workers decided to have a good talk with their bosses.
Until a result acceptable to both parties is negotiated, the workshop cannot hope to operate normally. As for the [result acceptable to both parties] - the employees expressed their hope that it can be negotiated before the workshop is completely shut down. Before that, only
It would be helpful for all bosses to spin their own yarns.[
At this point, no one has the energy to start a price war anymore.
But it's not over yet.
The reaction of the church and ordinary people became the last straw that broke the camel's back for the bosses. They originally hoped that based on the good relations and common beliefs established over the years, [our own people] would be able to give them a hand and get rid of it.
The immediate dilemma.
Still the same.
fail.
This time there was not even a splash, and the bosses in the cotton textile industry were completely defeated.
The priests, who carried thirty heavy petteu silver coins in their pockets and purchased brand new precious blue and white porcelain in their residences, declared categorically: "In the name of the Mother Goddess Marfa, the new cotton cloth has nothing to do with magic. The manufacturer is an honest man.
Christians are not heretics.]
Common people who received assurances from the church immediately snapped up new cotton fabrics with high quality and low prices without hesitation. After the only ideological barrier was removed, customers who knew how to save money could not find any reason to reject more competitive products.
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From the beginning, Li Lin's competitors in the cotton textile industry had no chance of winning.
The conditions necessary to resist cheap goods - two-party politics, political donations, the Senate with the Senate, lobbying groups outside the Senate, labor unions with a large number of vote resources, ideological firewall propaganda, and good prostitutes who use money to launder the land.
, financial hegemony that can loot the world, military bases in every corner...
The shop owners simply do not have the conditions and capabilities necessary for a major trade protectionist country (which claims to be "the strongest believer and protector of free trade") to build trade barriers. Under Li Lin's initiative of using cheap goods and money to buy and spread
Faced with the combined offensive composed of various rumors, the resistance of small workshop owners is not worth mentioning at all.
One-third of the cotton market in the Agen Tolaton region was occupied by textile machinery operating in three shifts day and night in the Niflheim Valley. The achievements made in three months attracted the attention of both elves and humans.
, if labor allocation and cotton production had not reached the upper limit, the results would have been even more exaggerated.
Fortunately, Li Lin's dumping attack also brought a bonus, and the labor problem was slightly alleviated.
The workshop owners who were knocked to the ground selectively ignored the lessons they had learned for various reasons, and made the stupidest decision among many stupid decisions to easily win the championship.
Unwilling to fail or with ulterior motives, the workshop owners exhausted their last savings and hired bandits or personally tracked the carriages transporting cotton. They planned to track down the production site, attack and burn the abominable textile machines that ruined their lives and careers.
Or you can get it and imitate it to make your dry wallet full again.
The workshop owners have very rich and beautiful ideas, but the reality is as skinny as a toothpick.
The defense and monitoring system set up by Li Lin is by no means impregnable, but it is not a rag that laymen can come and go freely either.
In addition to making more rational adjustments to the original reconnaissance system of the elves, Nidhogg and Wally's familiar goshawks have also been added to the rotation of aerial reconnaissance, which comes with its own thermal radiation, electromagnetic waves, infrared and other means to cover the entire field.
Scanning. A few humans who thought they were approaching were as eye-catching as cockroaches climbing onto a snow-white cream cake. The elves who were familiar with the mountain and forest environment achieved remarkable results with the support of super cheating devices such as Nidhogg's secret word magic that provided real-time intelligence support.
, in order to solve the labor shortage and implement the rule of "no work, no food", the Niflheim hard labor camp was grandly opened. In addition to the serfs purchased from outside, it also welcomed new guests.
Mining, sorting, polishing, transportation, watering, fertilizing, picking...all kinds of heavy, low-tech and potentially dangerous work are entrusted to human workers. The workers fully realized their purpose of sneaking into the valley and saw the sun
I thought about the equipment and its secrets all night, and got a job without salary. Sooner or later, due to the occupational disease of dangerous particles filling the lungs, and the extreme state of 12 hours of high-intensity work, I was called by the Mother God.
The output of another flagship product, porcelain, has remained unchanged, but the craze for porcelain has begun to spread rapidly. Thanks to the human aristocrats' tireless pursuit of luxury goods and their arty nature for exquisite works of art, the sales price of porcelain has exploded.
The sales of porcelain were exchanged for a large number of gold coins, which effectively supported the development of the cotton spinning industry and the launch of the dumping war.
Fine porcelain stands behind cotton cloth - Niflheim's textile industry is not fighting alone. The workshop owners who were cheated to the point where they didn't even know their father did not lose unfairly. If you don't have money, you can start a price war.
The elves, including the Emir patriarch, once again began to discuss plans to speed up the scale of porcelain production. Various suggestions emerged one after another, ranging from a 20-hour work system, reducing food rations for workers, corporal punishment for failing to meet targets, and all the way to large-scale human trafficking.
Road ambush and kidnapping, planned and organized attacks on human villages to plunder young laborers... It is understandable to be enthusiastic about real money, but the feasibility of eye-catching plans is not very high, and it will also attract a large number of people.
The reason why the human army is in such huge contrast with the previous cautious and cautious style of the elves... I'm afraid it can only be said that in the face of monopoly and huge profits, everyone has become a little fearful, even Fa Tian.[