Chapter 547 Lao Tzu disagrees that the person who knows you best will always be your enemy.As Quan Xu's enemy, Huayang Club is the first and the person who knows Quan Xu the most.Fortunately, what makes Huayang Club very relieved is that Quan Xu has been going farther and farther on the road to death, and he seems to want to offend the people of the world again.Say, salt.In the early Ming Dynasty, the implementation of the law of opening the middle of the law, the opening system provided a powerful condition and a good opportunity for the salt merchants in Shanxi.The salt industry has always been monopolized in the hands of Shanxi merchants, from Liaodong, Xuanfu, Datong, Yansui, Taiyuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Xi'an, Hanzhong, Yan'an, Fengxiang, Guide, Henan, Runing, Huaiqing, Nanyang, from the northeast, to the northwest, and then to the Central Plains, almost all of them are the salt market of Jin merchants.Although the output of salt merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is high, their production and marketing areas can only be in the Jianghuai region, otherwise as long as they enter the north, it will be a dead end.As a result, Jeon Wook is good.Because of the low cost of drying salt and the technology of purification and analysis, the sea salt in Liaodong is not only good in color and good quality, but also low in price.It's not Quanxu's opponent, salt has been beaten by Quanxu to the price of cabbage, and now Shanxi merchants don't touch salt, because the more they produce, the more they lose.In order to impact the salt market of Shanxi merchants, Quan Xu actually speculated the price of salt to five cents of silver per stone, that is, five hundred, which is equivalent to more than two dollars per catty of salt.Due to the improvement of science and technology and the continuous improvement of salt drying technology, the salt production in eastern Liaoning has adopted semi-mechanized operations, and a mature salt worker can manage thousands of acres of salt fields, with a monthly output of up to 10,000 stones, and the area of salt fields has increased from more than 2 million mu.This makes Shanxi Shangyan extremely headache, is this what people do?
However, Quanxu not only did it, but did it very thoroughly.Scrapped the salt industry of Shanxi merchants, and started steel again, from the original steel per catty of two hundred, that is, a ton of steel four hundred taels of silver, and was directly smashed into a ton of steel worth ten taels of silver by Quanxu, equivalent to five dollars per catty, which is fatal.Shanxi merchants also controlled large and small private iron mines, as well as a large share of steel production, which they sold to Jiannu at a high price, and as a result, Quan Xu cut off the land passage between Huayang Society and Jiannu, and as for the sea, it was also the world of the whole army.In this way, the steel of Huayang Society can only be sold in Daming, but the price of each catty is five yuan, and they can't even earn back the capital, and the production cost of steel is as high as more than 100 in these years.Along with salt and steel, Quanxu used the high-yielding crops of Liaodong, such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, to make starch and flour to impact the grain market in the Central Plains.Huayang Society and Jiangnan merchants unite in a vain attempt to reach Quanxu, but the problem is that Quanxu, who has a lot of resources, completely bullies people with quantity.Everywhere the grain in Liaodong went, there was a wail, five coins of silver and one stone of potato flour and three or four taels of silver and one stone, short catties of wheat or yellow grain, fools know how to choose, the consequence of the increasing area of potato planting is that grain prices have fallen all the way, even in a year of great disasters, it is difficult to have a sharp rise in grain prices.Now this goods are even more excessive, in Liaodong, Taiwan, Luzon region Daxing textile industry, everywhere to collect cotton, pay attention, they are not selling cotton, but ready-to-wear!
The consequence of this is that the price of cotton in Shandong, Henan, Huguang and other places has risen in response, and the cost of cotton cloth has risen sharply.Now, several industries on which Huayang Society relies for prosperity have all been strongly challenged.In particular, the salt, steel, and cotton spinning industries have been particularly severely impacted, and these two are the lifeblood of Huayang Society businessmen!
Now someone is kicking their life, how can they bear it!
So, in this case, the financier behind Huayang Club couldn't sit still, and held a meeting in Xishan, Beijing.An old man in purple clothes and white beard coughed, and his voice was low: "How long will it take for you to bring down that surnamed Quan?"
”The big financier of Huayang Society is not a powerless businessman, but a gate valve with a super deep background, the gate valve was nominally destroyed in the Tang Dynasty, in fact, it was just a shell, and he continued to live, and he lived quite nourishingly.The big money lord spoke, and expressed his strong dissatisfaction with them without any disguise, Ruan Dayue and Qian Qianyi both sweated on their foreheads, and they were silent, completely lost the chic of talking and laughing in front of tens of millions of people.Several other old men in Chinese costumes also glared at the important backbones of Huayang Club with annoyed faces, and their dissatisfaction was written on their faces.That damn Quan Xu, it seems that the whole meaning of his life is to block their Huayang Society, and as soon as he debuted, he made steel, directly crushing the steel industry of Huayang Society; Then the Liaodong salt was grandly launched, directly crushing them in terms of output and cost.Qian Qianyi looked at Zhou Yanru and asked leisurely: "How is the progress of the whole trend we have launched?"
”Zhou Yanru smiled bitterly: "Now the whole country is scolding me, who cares what we are doing!"
Those fools in the village were blinded by the thief, and they listened to his rumors, mistakenly thinking that we and others were selfish, low-minded, and incompetent people who could only fight against each other, and how could they listen to our bitter words!
”The faces of several people in the audience were slightly hot, and these comments could not be more appropriate for them.Of course, they won't admit it, they won't admit it if they die, and they won't admit it if they don't die!
Qian Qianyi picked up the newspaper and swept it twice, threw it away with a disgusted expression, and said: "Vulgar, no, no picking, such a chapter is also believed?"
”Zhou Yanru laughed even more bitterly.It's a headache.This meeting soon evolved into a grievance meeting."
Quan Xu, this bastard, too much of a bastard!""
It's so damnning, it's not a thing!""
Yes, yes, yes, we have been beaten by steel, we have been beaten by salt, and we have to fight the idea of the cotton spinning and silk weaving industry!""
Over there in Liaodong, the sales channel is cut off, and there is no income at all!""
A big family, eating, drinking, and spending money everywhere, there is no way to live this day!"
There are also people who are more objective: "Quanxu's advantage is that he has advanced hydraulic machinery, which can use a large number of machinery instead of labor, the efficiency is doubled, and the cost is greatly reduced. ”"They are competing illegally and driving up prices!""
The most hateful thing is to get cotton at such a high price, but the woven cloth is sold to the garment factory at a low price, and then the garment factory makes the cotton cloth into clothing and sells it, and the listing price seems to be only cheaper than our cotton cloth!"
The problem is such a fuck, a price war, which forces the merchants of Huayang Society to pay a higher price to buy cotton, otherwise their workshops will be cut off.It's not over, in order to maintain market share, they have to reduce the price of cotton cloth, otherwise customers will run to buy textiles produced in Liaodong, this back and forth, their losses are quite large.The biggest purpose of capital is to chase profits, under the banner of Huayang Society, their business can be smooth, naturally around the banner of Huayang Society, but now the banner of Huayang Society is not working, so they began to change their court, but let Huayang Society feel the pain of the skin.At this moment, Zhou Yanru stood up: "Princess, it's not that I'm incompetent, it's really the Wen Party who controls the government, they are in the same stream with all the thieves, biased and shielded, plus all the thieves have some military exploits, they are quite favored in front of the saint, and it is not easy to bring him down in a hurry!"
”Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren joined forces to cut off Qian Qianyi's path to the cabinet, and then used Cheng Jiming, He Ruzhong, and Qian Xiangkun to protect themselves, and each of them broke through.In the end, Zhou Yanru was not Wen Tiren's opponent and was ousted by Wen Tiren.Zhou Yanru felt that the biggest mistake of Huayang Club was not to strangle this freak who was against the sky before he came to prominence, and now Quanxu has become a climate, not only has an invincible elite division, but also has the full support of Hui Shang, Yu Shang, and Liao Shang, and a newspaper to help him fight a war of words to discredit his opponent, it is not easy to deal with such a monster!
The old man in purple was not satisfied with Zhou Yanru's words: "Then how long will it take for you to bring him down?"
You know, if this person is in the world for a day, we will not be at peace!
”"The whole thief is strong, and he has deceived the saint, it is impossible to pull him down by relying on the previous sarcasm of the government, the only way is to "Zhou Yanru gritted his teeth hard, revealing a little crazy: "Change a cabinet!"
Change a cabinet that fully supports us and others!
”This is also a common practice of Huayang Club, if you don't cooperate, you will be replaced.The only way for Huayang Society to solve those problems that it is difficult to solve by itself is to change people, emperors, cabinets, and masters, many of whom died violently from the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, like Zhu Changluo, like Zhu Youxiao.The mainstream historical public opinion has always instilled in us the impression that Apocalypse is probably an idiot emperor who can only be a carpenter, or a blind person, who likes to eat, drink and have fun in addition to being a carpenter.And the records of the emperors in the middle and late Ming Dynasty in the history of the Ming Dynasty like to say the opposite, the more mediocre the more virtuous, and the more virtuous the more mediocre.Zhu Changluo, who played a generation of struggles, although he did not ascend the throne, began to revitalize the dynasty and formulated a series of reforms, but unfortunately it was finished before he could implement them.It's funny.The problem now is that because of Cao Huachun's variables, they can't reach out in the inner palace.Zhou Yanru actually wronged Wen Tiren, Wen Tiren really did not cover up Quan Xu, he and Quan Xu not only had no interest relationship, but had a serious conflict of interest.Because of the gentry bombarded by Quan Xu, but Wen Tiren, the basic plate of the first assistant, Zhou Yanru lost his protégé Zhang Pu, and his combat power was actually less than half, not to mention half, not even one-third.Compared with Zhang Pu, Zhou Yanru, the teacher, is a nerd.Zhou Yanru really wanted to return to the cabinet, but unfortunately, he couldn't go back because Qian Qianyi disagreed.Although Qian Qianyi couldn't fight Wen Tiren, he still had no problem dealing with Zhou Yanru.