According to Lin Xusheng and Shang Yi and others, it turns out that in the past few days, more and more silk farmers came to sell raw silk, because the purchase price of raw silk in the Xin Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory in Suzhou has not dropped, and all other weaving workshops have significantly reduced the closing price. This news has spread throughout the surrounding areas of Suzhou, and there are constant rumors that the Xin Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory will also reduce the price, which has also triggered collective panic among silk farmers.

Everyone has this mentality. No one knows when the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory will lower the price. Therefore, they plan to sell all the raw silks produced on hand before the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory will first sell all the raw silks produced on hand to minimize the losses as much as possible. Many of the silk farmers who originally planned to stabilize this year, after all the raw silks sold together could not sit still, and they all brought some of the raw silks produced to Suzhou for sale.

As a result, in the past few days, the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory purchased more than 40,000 kilograms of raw silk, spending nearly 50,000 taels of silver. And just yesterday, the peak of selling raw silk was ushered in, and the silver paid increased from 5,000 taels to more than 8,000 taels. Today, the silver supported by the support has exceeded 9,000. If it weren't for a turmoil, it would be entirely possible.

Shang Yi asked: "How much silver is there in the account now."

Lin Xusheng said: "It's less than 200,000 taels."

Shang Yi frowned and said, "Our silver is still sufficient, and the acquisition has not reduced the price. Why does it still cause trouble for the silk farmers?"

Lin Xusheng smiled bitterly and continued to tell. Although the number of silk farmers selling raw silk has increased in the past few days, the overall situation is still normal. Although rumors such as "The New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory will also cut prices tomorrow" are rumored every day, Lin Xusheng and others just thought it was a silk farmers who were uneasy and did not take it too much for a while. Looking back now, these rumors were obviously circulated by someone who had planned to spread.

Yesterday, due to the explosion of silk farmers, there were more than a thousand people. Although the price of the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory did not reduce, and although it had opened six purchase counters, the purchase volume was still limited. Therefore, until the closing of the store in the evening, there were nearly 300 silk farmers who could not sell their silk. The silk factory had to force the store to close and let them come again tomorrow. Although the silk farmers were not in a good mood and there were still people who slapped the door, after a while, they could only forget it. However, most silk farmers were reluctant to spend money to stay in the hotel, so they fell asleep at the door of the silk factory.

According to the people from the Fuwei Escort Agency, on the same day, someone spread rumors among silk farmers that the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory would also lower the price tomorrow, further arousing the emotions of silk farmers. This morning, before the silk factory opened, the silk farmers had already started to get a little erratic. However, after the silk factory opened, the price of the listing to purchase raw silk did not change, which temporarily suppressed the emotions of silk farmers.

But today's acquisition situation has changed a lot. It is obvious that a group of people are not selling raw silk at all, but are looking for opportunities to make trouble and constantly teasing the angrier of silk farmers. Moreover, when it was their turn to sell raw silk, they clearly claimed that it was one pound of silk, but they insisted on saying it was two pounds of silk. It was obviously inferior raw silk, but they had to sell it at a higher price. The purchaser argued with them for a few words, and immediately started to motivate the silk farmers to make trouble, fucking the factory and rob money. Some people threw stones at the silk factory.

Because in the morning, most silk farmers were only concerned about selling raw silk, and at most they just followed suit to these agitations and laughter, and there was not much response, so they could not control the situation. However, in the afternoon, it was obvious that a large number of people could not sell raw silk today, and the anxiety of the silk farmers became increasingly serious. In addition, there were constant fanning the flames, and the situation became more and more chaotic.

At this time, Lin Xujin also found that the situation was not good, so he hurriedly sent someone to the military camp to ask the merchant army to help. But before the merchant army arrived, somehow, the purchaser and the silk farmer had a small conflict due to the acquisition, and someone immediately started to stir up trouble in the silk farmer:

"The New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory is so bullying us, we can't finish it with it."

"Everyone is going to do it together and smash their factory."

"Let them know how powerful we are."

"Do it quickly! Otherwise, the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory will also cut prices."

In addition, the silk farmers were also very angry, so they all started to make trouble. I don’t know what happened, but some silk farmers had a conflict with the purchasers, and the conflict immediately expanded, and finally formed a large-scale chaos.

Although Huang Taisong and other escort staff tried their best to resist, there were still five or six hundred silk farmers at the scene, and they could not resist it. Seeing that the silk farmers were about to rush into the silk factory, fortunately Luo Yuanbin led a battalion of merchants to arrive at this time, and immediately controlled the situation, so that the silk factory was saved. Because Shang Yi emphasized in the past that the army was not allowed to use firearms when protecting the silk factory, Luo Yuanbin brought all the spearmen this time, and the silk farmers were still farmers after all, and they were only provoked, and they did not intend to explode. As a result, they were quickly dispersed. However, in the chaos, some soldiers and silk farmers were injured, but they were finally in danger of life.

But after this incident, the entire silk factory was panicked and the craftsmen were a little scared. Moreover, news that Cheng Xiexiang and Wang Bai were about to withdraw their investments spread in the factory. Many people began to find another way out in private. However, the wages offered by the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory were relatively high in the entire industry. Since the beginning, they have a good attitude towards craftsmen, much stronger than other workshops. What is more important is that all weaving workshops in Suzhou City have been suspended and no workers are recruited. It is impossible to think of finding work in other places. Moreover, the extreme appearance of the merchant army today has also brought some confidence to craftsmen. Therefore, most craftsmen decided to wait and see for a few more days, and only a few craftsmen with slightly better families or other skills have resigned.

After listening to Lin Xusheng's story, Shang Yi nodded. Obviously, Longxingtang was manipulating these things behind their backs. It seems that this time I was facing not only Longxingtang's raw silk dumping, but also facing the anger of the silk people. Moreover, being able to come up with such a systematic plan is obviously guided by experts. On the other hand, after the Chinese New Year, some local gangs in Suzhou are about to move, as if they have forgotten the lessons of the Pinghu Gang. Therefore, the current situation is far more complicated than expected when they were in Hangzhou.

However, Shang Yi has no room for retreat now. No matter how complicated or difficult the situation is, he can only face the difficulties and must win the battle of raw silk.

Shang Yi said: "Shopkeeper Lin, Mr. Huang, you have worked hard some time ago. Please rest assured. Now we have made sufficient preparations. Longxingtang will definitely not be able to destroy us."

So Shang Yi immediately started the arrangement overnight, first of all, asking Lin Xusheng, Xu Renzhang, Lin Chen and others to quickly go to appease the craftsmen and tell them that the silk factory is protected by the merchant army and there will be no trouble. They ask them to try not to resign and to produce with peace of mind. As long as this most difficult period is passed, the silk factory will definitely not treat everyone badly. For craftsmen who are determined to abandon their jobs, it is easy to disperse, and for every craftsman who abandons his job, he will settle his wages and never default, and let other craftsmen see the attitude of the silk factory.

The second is to immediately organize a doctor to treat the wounded silk farmers outside and bandage the wounds. Those with serious injuries will be carried into the factory for resettlement. It is also promoted in the middle of the silk farmers that the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory will never lower the price of raw silk. Please rest assured that the silk farmers must respect order when selling raw silk. Then clean the surroundings of the silk factory again and prepare to continue opening the next day.

At the same time, Shang Yi asked Luo Yuanbin to lead his troops back to the military camp. After all, the silk factory is a factory, and the army is always stationed here, which will inevitably lead to a new Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory bullying people with the power of the merchant army. The safety of the silk factory is arranged by Shang Yi.

Shang Yi first ordered that in a reconnaissance company he brought, he drew out a platoon of scouts to change into the men's clothes and stayed in the silk factory to defend it. He ordered the other platoon to change into the silk farmers' clothes, each of which was given ten kilograms of raw silk, and to mix into the silk farmers' emotions tomorrow to comfort the silk farmers' emotions in the crowd as much as possible, and also searched for the silk farmers. The other two platoons also changed into plainclothes, mixed with the people watching the fun, secretly protecting the safety of the silk factories, and at the same time followed those who incited the stirring, captured them in secluded places, and then brought them back to the silk factory for interrogation.

Later, Shang Yi discussed with Lin Xusheng, Xu Renzhang, Li Gefei and others and believed that although he had raised one million taels of silver, he still had to be prepared for a protracted war. Therefore, with the current financial resources of the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory, the daily expenditure on purchasing raw silk cannot exceed 15,000 taels.

Therefore, everyone also decided to set up four counters to purchase raw silk in the silk factory tomorrow, so that the purchase counters can reach ten, which is almost the largest purchase limit for the New Silk Road Silk Weaving Factory at present. Shang Yi also calculated in advance that the purchase of raw silk is divided into three parts: silk inspection, scale and payment, which is quite troublesome. After a person sells raw silk and receives payment, it usually takes ten to fifteen minutes. In one hour, a purchase counter can only handle the purchase of raw silk for five silk farmers, and ten counters are only fifty. Based on the ten to twelve hours a day, they can only purchase about five to six hundred and six hundred silk farmers.

Because the raw silk production season is not over yet, a silk farmer usually only sells ten to twenty kilograms of raw silk. In this way, he will buy about 15,000 taels of raw silk a day. He will tie the account once every hour, and once it is overspent, he will slow down his hands and feet and achieve the goal of balance.
Chapter completed!