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    Yang Shaowen seemed to understand somewhat.  The machine yarn has good quality, low price, guaranteed supply and very strong competitiveness.  Precisely because there are low-priced machine yarns outside, the price of local yarns has never gone up.  It is difficult to find traces of machine yarn in the local market in Wujin County. This should be the result of human control, with the purpose of resisting the invasion of machine yarn from outside.  With the little historical knowledge Yang Shao had learned, he had also thought of the existence of foreign gauze and foreign cloth.  But from what he saw locally, except for foreign cloth, which had a certain market for mid- to high-end fine cloth, homespun cloth occupies an absolutely dominant position, and there was no trace of foreign yarn.  He thought it was because homespun homespun yarn was more competitive.  This is not impossible.  Of course, the competitiveness of foreign gauze and foreign cloth is very strong due to large-scale mechanized production.  But China has a lot of people and cheap labor.  Southern Jiangsu has been a major textile center in China for generations, with a certain brand effect and traditional craftsmanship. Coupled with the constraints of transportation costs for foreign yarn and cloth, it is understandable that homespun yarn can maintain a certain degree of competitiveness in the local area with these advantages.  Now it seems that I was wrong.  At least when it comes to cotton yarn, native yarn has no advantage at all.  The reason why foreign yarn has not entered the local area is entirely due to local protectionism.  ?Then the problem comes.  Since it is local protectionism, if he rashly introduces machine yarn, the local conservative forces will never let him off lightly.  This force can wipe out Jisha in the local area, and its strength cannot be underestimated.  Industry forces such as flower shops, fabric shops, flower gauze shops, and cloth shops should be the main force in local protection, and the support of the government should be indispensable behind them.  Thinking about it again, not only in Wujin, but also in surrounding cities and counties such as Wuxi, Changzhou, and Zhenjiang, it is difficult to find traces of machine yarn. This shows how huge this force is.  It¡¯s not easy to mess with!  But if the cheap yarn is left unused, Yang Shaowen is really reluctant to do so.  Now in his textile system, the monthly cost for weavers to purchase local yarn is 8 yuan (20 kilograms * 0.4 yuan).  If he can supply yarn to the weavers at a price of 0.35 yuan, the weavers will earn an extra 1 yuan per month, almost doubling their income.  The income of the weaver household is increasing rapidly, and the profits of his Yang's flower gauze shop will grow by leaps and bounds.  On the one hand, stimulated by the nearly doubling of the income of these weaver households, a large number of new textile households will definitely join Yang Shaowen's textile system; on the other hand, the man-hours required for spinning are nearly three times that of weaving. If everyone only  With the weaving process, the output of homespun cloth will be four times the original.  What a benefit this is!  Yang Shaowen paced back and forth in his hall, weighing the pros and cons, and couldn't make a decision for a long time.  Lu Tonghai said: "What, Shao Wen, you don't dare to use these yarns, right? You have to think clearly, this yarn is 5 cents lower than our purchase price of 4 cents for local yarns!"  He knew somewhat about Yang Shaowen's concerns.  It's just that he is fearless by nature, so he doesn't take these difficulties to heart.  "Of course I know how big the interests are, but I also know how powerful my opponent is. In the face of such huge interests, I can kill them all. You can imagine how powerful the opposition is. I don't dare to act rashly because of my small arms and legs.  !¡± Thinking about it carefully, most of the people who oppose the force are my own guesses, and I still need to find out.  Yang Shaowen turned to Lu Tonghai and said: "Tong Hai, did you know about the local ban on Jisha?" "Know a little." Lu Tonghai shrugged and said with contempt: "They are all local.  It was done by old stubborns, and among them, my old man was the most active.¡± According to his introduction, in the 17th year of Guangxu¡¯s reign (1891), machine yarn appeared in Wujin, but it was not foreign yarn but machine weaving layout in Shanghai.  Produced yarn.  Because machine yarn was cheap and in abundant supply, the homespun cloth woven into it had a uniform texture and quickly became very popular.  However, the opposition forces also responded quickly.  At first, it was mainly a few flower shops, fearing that their cotton would lose market in the local area after everyone used machine yarn to weave cloth.  The local government is also not very welcoming of machine yarn. They are afraid that without spinning work, many people will have nothing to do, which will affect local stability.  Several cloth shops in Wujin are the largest industry forces. Their original attitude towards machine yarn was optimistic. However, as the output of homespun cloth increased, the price of homespun cloth began to decline sharply. For this reason, these cloth shops also joined in.  Block the ranks of organza.  As the president of the Cloth Industry Guild, Lu Guangsheng took immediate action. He first announced that all cloth shops in the city would reject homespun cloth woven from machine yarn.  At the same time, flower gauze shops in the county were also asked to lower the purchase price of native gauze.  The price difference of local yarn and machine yarn has been reduced, and the impulse of middlemen to make arbitrage has also been reduced a lot.  The purchasing price of native yarn is low, and farmers no longer have the urge to spin yarn and sell it. The native yarn is only used to satisfy their own weaving needs.  In this way, yarn as a commodity was basically extinct.  Farmers are engaged in spinning and weaving at home, and their employment opportunities have not been reduced.  Homespun prices have stabilized again.  cottonThere is no local commodity market for yarn, and there is no demand for machine yarn.  Everything is business as usual, Wujin's homespun cloth industry has weathered a crisis.  Lu Tonghai finally sneered: "It's really sad. Do they think that the progress of industry and technology can be stopped by just a few industry regulations? They bury their heads in the soil and think everything is peaceful? How pitiful!  Shao Wen, you must not give in to these old stubborns. They are conservative and backward!" Swearing, Lu Tonghai brought up the Sino-Japanese War again.  "I've been thinking these days, why did we suffer a complete defeat in the Sino-Japanese War? It's because we didn't open up enough. We talked about Chinese learning as the body and Western learning as the application, but Japan is completely Westernized. Their Western learning is deeper and more thorough than ours.  So they defeated us. This is a lesson! It is absolutely unacceptable to close the door and be afraid of competition." After getting along for a while, Yang Shaowen knew that Lu Tonghai had some extreme ideas.  Sometimes it is even suggested that there is something wrong with Chinese writing and that it should be transformed into Western writing. There are a lot of weird theories.  Yang Shaowen felt that he might have been stimulated by the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 and his thoughts went to extremes.  But now is not the time to worry about Lu Tonghai's ideological problems. He needs to decide whether to use the yarn he bought.  ¡°We still have to use machine yarn.¡± Since he knew that local yarn was not competitive in front of machine yarn, Yang Shaowen would of course choose machine yarn without hesitation.  In the face of real competitiveness, all artificial protection is in vain.  However, caution must be exercised in specific implementation.  "Let's test it out first!" Yang Shaowen decided to mix part of the machine yarn with the native yarn. If he could get through it, that would be the best.  If someone finally sees it out, then test the reaction of the publishers. If the opposition is too strong, then retreat. If their attitude is ambiguous, then fight for it.  Lu Tonghai doesn¡¯t think much of such a timid approach, but Yang Shaowen is the boss, so he can¡¯t do anything about it.
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