It is no coincidence that the textile industry gave birth to the industrial revolution.

Because textiles are not divided into national classes and everyone needs them, unlike tea porcelain, they are seriously limited by consumer preferences and wealth.

Moreover, textiles are easily depleted and the market demand is stable and lasting. Unlike porcelain and wood, once owned, it will last forever, and the market will be limited by the long service life.

The huge and stable market has brought a huge number of craftsmen to work. Relatively mechanized repetitive work has made machine production possible. Craftsmen have achieved the burst of inspiration through the observation and improvement of production processes and tools day after day.

Zhao Hao himself was very conservative about the production of machines replacing humans. After all, the biggest problem in the Ming Dynasty was overwork, and large-scale manual production was in line with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty.

No one dares to say what consequences will bring if he rashly takes the path of machine production. If the handicraftsmen are unemployed and cause chaos in the people, everything will be over.

But no matter what, it must be admitted that light industry represented by the textile industry is the direction and main force of development. It can not only greatly promote the arrival of the commercial revolution, but also create huge jobs for upstream and downstream industries. It is the number one pillar industry replicated by Zhao Hao in the Jiangnan region.

The center of the textile industry is naturally in Susong, but as the most important downstream industry, should the pulp and dyeing industry continue to stay in Wuhu or take it back? There has been a fierce debate within the group.

A faction represented by Jiangnan Textile insists on "nearby pulp dyeing and unified orders"... Speaking human words, it means destroying Wuhu's pulp dyeing industry.

Jiangnan Group does not only have performance theory, but allows subordinate companies to temporarily not make money or even lose money in order to achieve a certain strategic goal. This has given Liu Zhengqi, Xu Zhixiang and others the hope of easily solving the Wuhu pulp dyeing industry.

As long as they don’t release it to Wuhu for half a year, Wuhu’s large and small pulp dyeing workshops will surrender one after another. Even if there are giants like Ruan Bi in charge, it will be useless.

However, this plan was sharply opposed by members of the Strategic Decision-making Committee, especially Xu Wei.

Xu Wei first followed the convention and mocked these Dongting merchants for not having other skills and would rely on their monopoly status to get stuck. He used to not let anyone sell rice to Kunshan, but now he is not allowed to sell cloth Wuhu, so he has not made any progress at all. No wonder he can only jump up and down Susong and cannot compete with Hui merchants.

The three people in the Dongting Chamber of Commerce blushed, but this belonged to their dark history in the group and did not dare to refute it at all. They could only secretly scold Fatty Xu for not carrying any pot, and they would be humbly educated and criticized on the surface.

Wang Mengxiang also believed that the young master's goal was to "integrate Jiangnan and live together." However, Jiangnan Group lost half of its life in Wuhu as soon as it appeared. What do the officials, gentry and people in the other nine prefectures, 54 counties and five prefectures think?

It is not conducive to unity, and it is serious to lose the big one because of small losses.

Finally, the Strategic Decision-making Committee rejected the proposal of Jiangnan Textile Corporation. Zhao Hao also followed the decision of the committee and decided not to put pressure on Wuhu. For him, it would be enough to reach strategic cooperation with the Wuhu Powder and Dyeing Guild for this trip.

As for the future, let’s talk about it later. Even if I don’t have to slap Songjiangbu, there are ways to let Ruan Bi beg him and take him to play with him.

To put it bluntly, Mr. Zhao's inspection of Jiangnan this time was a kind-hearted and friendly trip to show the kindness of Jiangnan Group. It was the greatest success to create several examples of cooperation between groups and local prefectures.

So he gave Ruan Bi very relaxed conditions, and it didn't matter how he chose it, Jiangnan Group didn't matter.

His attitude of not bullying the weak and respecting the weak side touched Ruan Bi and was deeply moved and he finally understood why the Jiangnan tribes were willing to follow him.

Ruan Bi thanked Zhao Hao again and asked him to give himself some time to discuss with the guild members, and tried to give him a letter of approval before Zhao Hao left Wuhu.

Zhao Hao advised him not to worry, as long as he had a general intention, Jiang Xueying would come over to discuss in detail later.

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Although Mr. Zhao said this, Ruan Bi still summoned all members of the Wuhu Powder and Dyeing Guild to hold a meeting overnight to discuss the matter.

Eighteen butter headlights shone the guild hall as bright as the white ground. More than a hundred dyeing workshop owners gathered together to listen to their beloved President Ruan’s talk about the content of their interview with Mr. Zhao today.

After the old president finished speaking, the hall was full of discussions, and the dyeing shop owners whispered to each other, discussing their views on the matter.

Ruan Bi didn't urge him, and sat on the top seat, chewing betel nut happily, while closing his eyes slightly, and then talking until they had finished their full discussion.

He discussed this for half an hour until the Western clock in the hall pointed at nine o'clock in the evening, when Ruan Bi opened his eyes and coughed lightly.

The meeting hall immediately became quiet.

"Tell me," Ruan Fan said in a deep voice: "Do you all respond to Mr. Zhao's proposal?"

"answer."

"answer."

"Of course." Everyone nodded quickly, and none of them dared to say they didn't.

It can be seen how much pressure Jiangnan Group puts on Wuhu pulp and dyeing industry. After all, you can't defeat a business that can't make money. If others can afford it, you can't afford it...

"Okay." Ruan Bi nodded, twisted another betel nut from the shallow plate, and put it into his mouth and chewed it slowly. He had no interest in his life, so he only loved betel nut as if he was alive.

"Since that's the case, our guild decided to reorganize it into a company."

"No problem." Everyone nodded.

The pulp and dyeing guild itself has the nature of a joint-stock company. Each company contributes capital to the guild according to its strength, and the market share is distributed by the guild according to its investment. Therefore, there are no substantial obstacles to the restructuring of the company, and everyone agrees.

But then, when discussing how many shares it should be exchanged for Jiangnan Textile, the differences arise.

Some people think that changing to 20% or 30% of the self-protection is enough.

But some people also believe that 20% or 30% will definitely not satisfy the appetite of Jiangnan Group, and there will definitely be troubles in the future.

It is better to give up the big head to Jiangnan Group at one time. Only in this way can the other party be completely at ease and will not support Songjiang's pulp and dyeing industry again.

In this way, everyone will no longer have to worry. They will work hard to expand production and make a lot of money.

The views on both sides are clearly different and the camps are also very clear.

Those who hold the former view are mostly large dyeing shop owners. These people are talking in the guild, worried that after Jiangnan Group takes the lead, they will deliberately support small dyeing shop owners to replace them, in order to reshuffle the Wuhu pulp dyeing industry.

Those who hold the latter view are mainly small dyeing shop owners. These people don’t count, they can only eat the leftovers of the big ones. If anyone is in charge, the situation will only be better and will not be worse. Of course, they are eager to change the dynasty.

None of the two sides can convince each other, so they can only vote according to the rules. However, it is not a single vote for each household, but a number of votes for each company based on the share of each company.

Therefore, although the small dyeing shop owners have a large number of people and loud voices, the only ones who can win in the end are probably the big players.
Chapter completed!