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Chapter 746 The loom stops spinning

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    As soon as Magistrate Cai opened his mouth, the delicacies on the table suddenly lost their aroma.

    Chairman Weng suddenly looked sad, and the two vice-presidents Xu and Liu also suffered from toothache, hissing and gasping for air.

    "Why, what's the problem?" The smile on Cai Guoxi's face faded.

    "My husband, Zu Rongzhen, of course there is no problem in sending people to the city to talk. What if I go there myself?" President Weng looked confused: "But I'm afraid it will be counterproductive."

    "How?" Magistrate Cai asked in a deep voice.

    "When we talk, the other party will make demands. If they can satisfy them, of course everyone will be happy." Weng Jian said with a bitter smile: "But what if it cannot be satisfied? The other party will become even more angry and make the situation completely out of control."

    "Hahaha, don't worry, old president, I won't let you go empty-handed." Cai Guoxi waved his hand after hearing this and said boldly: "I have already talked with Eunuch Li. Not only can this year's bad regulations be waived, but also in the future  You can be exempted forever!"

    "That's great!" The main business of the Dongting Chamber of Commerce is the silk and satin business, and several senior executives couldn't help but be happy when they heard this.

    The Weaving Bureau, this abominable vampire, is not just satisfied with handling all kinds of textiles for royal and official use.  He also reached out to the private silk weaving industry and stipulated that each weaver's loom be charged a tax of three cents per month.  After the silk satin is produced, each piece of silk satin must be paid another five cents of silver, otherwise it will not be sold.

    This incident was caused by the Weaving Bureau collecting loom money from weavers.

    Magistrate Cai took advantage of Eunuch Li and threatened him sternly, finally getting him to nod and avoid all bad rules in the future.  In exchange for the civil officials not throwing him out as a scapegoat.

    ¡°Anyway, if something like this happened, he wouldn¡¯t want to do it in Suzhou, so there would be nothing to lose

    As for whether the successor weaving eunuch would curse his mother, Eunuch Li had no choice but to ignore it and just pretend that he didn't.

    This saves the cost of one piece of silver for each piece of silk, and the merchants are of course happy.

    But the fundamental problem still cannot be solved

    Every wrinkle on Chairman Weng¡¯s face is written with helplessness: ¡°The government is kind and kind, and the citizens will definitely appreciate this. But I¡¯m afraid it¡¯s still far from satisfying them.¡±

    "Oh?" Magistrate Cai said with an expression: "It sounds like President Weng understands the real demands of those rebellious people?"

    "Suzhou City is the foundation of the Dongting Chamber of Commerce. I have been anxious these days." President Weng looked at his son and said, "I have asked Weng Fan to check out the situation and I have a general understanding."

    "Brother Weng Xian, please give me some advice." Cai Guoxi turned to Weng Fan and said.

    "I don't dare." Weng Fan replied sternly: "To be honest, except for the bandits who took advantage of the situation, the vast majority of the citizens who made trouble started making trouble because they had no jobs, had nothing to do and were dissatisfied."

    "Yes, the citizens of Suzhou have no permanent income and most likely rely on work for a living. Once unemployed, the whole family will have no food and clothing. There have been too many unemployed people in recent months. This is why the riots this time are more violent than usual."  Xu Zhi also echoed to Vice President Xu.

    "Then let them resume work." Chen Tongzhi, who was sitting next to him, seemed to have grasped the key point and immediately shouted.

    But he saw the big businessmen looking at him with wry smiles, as if they were watching a joke.

    "If people can resume work, why are they leaving money without making any money?" Magistrate Cai glanced at Chen Tongzhi and motioned him to stop yelling.  Then he asked Weng Jian with a smile: "As long as we resume work, will the riots be settled quickly?"

    "Okay." Weng Jian nodded and said: "If the governor can help solve the problem, our Dongting Chamber of Commerce will promise to let the citizens go back to their homes."

    "Where does the difficulty lie?" Magistrate Cai asked in a deep voice.

    "The loom won't spin." Weng Jian replied word for word, and then explained:

    "Of course I know that Suzhou is known to be prosperous in all industries, but the silk weaving industry is the real foundation. There are 30,000 looms in the city, and there are no less than 200,000 weavers, embroiderers, dyers, etc. working in this industry. Other industries and even  The rise and fall of the entire city of Suzhou is closely related to the loom."

    "Yes, as long as the buzzing of the loom continues, no matter how big the problem is in Suzhou. If the loom stops spinning, no matter how small it is, it will become a big problem." Vice President Xu answered again  In a word, it is still very expressive.

    ¡°Then how do you make this loom spin?¡± Magistrate Cai asked.

    "We need the silk merchants of our chamber of commerce to lend silk to the weavers." Vice President Xu replied.

    ¡°Are you out of silk?¡± Magistrate Cai guessed.

    "We have plenty of silk." Vice President Xu said, angrily glanced at Liu Zhengqi who was silent on the side and said:

    ¡°Thanks to Vice President Liu, weI haven¡¯t used up the high-priced silk yet this year.  This year I only have one or two new silks that I haven¡¯t used yet.  "

    "It turns out that the problem lies with you!" Chen Tongzhi immediately changed his expression and said: "You are deliberately trying to cause trouble, right?!"

    This time, Magistrate Cai did not stop Chen Tongzhi, and he obviously saw it this way.

    "Sir, please calm down. Vice-President Xu didn't explain clearly how the silk weaving business operates." Weng Fan secretly cursed Xu Zhixiang. This guy didn't want to talk things over properly. He insisted on stabbing Liu Zhengqi around the corner, which made everyone uncomfortable.  .

    "Then please make it clear." Magistrate Cai scooped up a spoonful of boiled dried shreds and chewed them carefully.

    "Yes. Because most weavers have limited funds and cannot afford the expensive price of raw silk. Therefore, they will borrow raw silk from our chamber of commerce in advance and repay it with a certain amount of silk after production is completed. This can greatly reduce the burden on weavers and also promote  This has contributed to the vigorous development of our Suzhou silk weaving industry."

    "If you borrow silk, you will get silk back. What a bargain." Magistrate Cai swallowed the food in his mouth and asked puzzledly: "Then why didn't you borrow it?"

    "Because our silk can't be sold." Weng Fan said with a grimace: "To be honest, the sales volume of silk this year is extremely poor, less than half of previous years. Our warehouse is full of raw silk that cannot be borrowed, and there are also unsalable items.  of silk, but the funds on hand have basically bottomed out.¡±

    "Yes, Mr. Fu." President Weng nodded with a pained look on his face and said, "Silk farmers, silk societies, weavers, weavers, and our Dongting Chamber of Commerce are like grasshoppers on a rope. Silk farmers and weavers cannot eat.  If we don¡¯t have enough food, the silk weavers can¡¯t start working, and we can¡¯t make any money.¡±

    "Therefore, when the market is bad, we have always been willing to make less money, even if we lose a little, so that the silk farmers and silk farmers, the weavers and the weavers can survive."

    President Weng sighed and said: "But this time, we really can't hold on anymore. They just don't make money, and we have to lose all our money - those precious raw silks are all real money."  Come up!"

    "I must still remember the raw silk war last year." Xu Zhixiang complained again: "Due to a misjudgment at that time, we received too much raw silk at an extremely high price. Many of our colleagues not only exhausted their wealth,  And I borrowed debt.¡±

    "I thought that if I persisted until this year, I would be able to recover, but who would have thought that sales would plummet again." Vice President Xu said with a gloomy look: "It's really like a leaky house, a continuous rain, a broken ship, and a headwind. We  The Chamber of Commerce really can¡¯t hold on anymore.¡±

    "You have to persist even if you can't persist!" Magistrate Cai put down the ice porcelain bowl and said in a deep voice: "Now is not the time to cry about poverty. Every family gritted their teeth and lent out the silk, so that the weavers could start work quickly and first put the silk in front of them.  Let¡¯s solve the trouble later!¡±

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