noffsinger Chapter 114 Dilemma
Chapter 114 Dilemma
"Auntie, this won't work. Look at the people around you, they all want to come in. We really can't do anything about it. We have many people who come from far away. Please come back next semester." Mr. Liu kept persuading them, but many people refused to leave. In the end, he had no choice but to leave them alone and let them stay.
"I've registered today, and I'll be able to go to school in a few days. I've never been to a school before. When I saw they had finished building it, I went in to take a look. It's so big, with so many tables and chairs that I felt like I'd never sat there before in my life. Thinking that I'll be able to officially go in in a few days, I can't sleep these days." Sangou kept talking as he looked at the people next to him who had not registered.
"Let's go, you'll be here in a few days." Erlang said and left first. His father would probably be back very late today, so he didn't want to disturb him here.
Tian Xing'er had just finished the enrollment work when the county magistrate came and notified her to come over. Now that Jiang Jin and Fang Shiya were not around, she had to go out to help.
"My Lord, what is the matter?"
"Ms. Tian, thank you for coming here today to recruit students. But I think this is also very important, so I called you here. I'm afraid it will be a little late when Miss Fang comes back."
"Please speak, sir."
"It's like this. Since Miss Fang runs a cloth shop and you started out with the goal of developing the cloth shop, how about we in Shang County provide you with the raw materials for producing cloth?
In the future I will let the people plant more hemp fields. The land here is pretty good. Although it cannot compare with the grain output in other places, the output of hemp is still considerable, and each mu can produce 15-20 kilograms. In addition to paying taxes, the rest can be sold to you to make linen clothes.
Some people who have more land can grow mulberry seeds and raise cicadas to produce silk. As long as someone can teach us, everyone in our village can do it. In this way, the people in Shang County will have jobs and will not leave. If more people stay, more people can come to reclaim wasteland, and with more land, more trees can be planted.
This way, our Shang County can also be revitalized, and the cost of your fabrics can be lowered, and you don’t have to go out of town to import them. Soon, the waterway will be open, and I think your fabrics will be able to be sold to more places, right?”
Hearing the county magistrate say so much in one breath, Tian Xinger felt that the county magistrate was very courageous and daring. As for the production and manufacturing of fabrics, although it should not be a problem for the Fang family to do all this with their strength, the main issues were production technology and sales channels, and she was not sure whether they could be solved.
"Mr. County Magistrate, thank you for your kindness, but Sister Fang is not here now. This is mainly Sister Fang's business. I still need to discuss it with her. After all, I don't know much about the process of producing cloth. And when it is produced, where will it be sold? These are all important matters. I need Sister Fang to decide. I really can't give you an answer.
But I think the county magistrate's idea is good. If we can get the support of the entire Shang County, we will definitely have a great advantage in cost control. This is indeed a rare opportunity for us. I will send someone to notify Sister Fang as soon as possible and ask her to give an answer. "
“Okay, actually I had this idea before the New Year but was a little hesitant. I didn’t expect it to be delayed. However, this matter cannot be rushed. We need to think about it carefully. We don’t want the crops to be unsalable. We hope that you can have a good market so that the people in our county can have a stable livelihood.
I didn't think enough about it. We should take our time and think long and hard about this matter."
"Yes, but I also support the county magistrate's proposal. I will ask the shopkeeper to write a letter when I go back."
"Okay, then I'll wait for your reply."
"Thank you, sir. I will go back first."
"I'll see the girl off."
"My Lord, you are busy lately. You don't have to be so polite. You go ahead and do your work."
"Okay, girl, take care."
Tian Xing'er really couldn't stand the county magistrate's enthusiastic farewell.
"Uncle Zhenwei, what do you think of the county magistrate's proposal?"
"I heard that it's pretty good. Although the county magistrate is a little anxious, he is also thinking about the people of Shang County. He really wants to keep you two gods of wealth."
"Okay, I think it's a good idea too. With the strength of Sister Fang's family, production is definitely not a problem. I'm just a little worried about sales. I still have to look for Sister Fang. Jiangnan is all their Fang family's business. It's probably not easy for Sister Fang and her family to compete on their own now."
"Well, write a letter and I'll have my brother deliver it to you as quickly as possible."
"Okay, then thank you Uncle Zhenwei. I have to rely on you every time."
"Hmph, as long as you don't cause me any more trouble."
Soon after Tian Xing'er and his companions returned, they immediately wrote the letter and had it delivered to Yi County.
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Fang Shiya and her family had been home for several days. Before that, the family had not held a meeting to explain what was going on, so everyone had to wait until yesterday when they had the family meeting and received the notice.
"Dad, why are the elders like this? This was not the way you elected the clan leader before." Fang Shiya was very annoyed by the notice from the elders' meeting. They had designed to make her vote for Shang County, which was enough to make her angry, but she didn't expect that they would be so ruthless to her.
"They are trying to protect themselves from me. They are afraid that I will interfere too much and give you enough power to threaten others."
"They really want none of us to succeed, so they suppress us. I thought it was just some people plotting against me, but now I didn't expect that my brothers were also involved."
"Fortunately, my daughter, you are able to bring the dead chess piece back to life. But I'm afraid your brother won't be so lucky these days. I have helped as much as I can. The best thing is to let them hang there like this. It can't be too embarrassing."
“But now they are asking me to take over the territories around Shang County and to develop the cloth shop in Shang County as the head office. I cannot rely on other industries to fight against others;
There are only those people around Shang County. Except for the upstream and downstream areas, other places are relatively poor. I can't open the silk line. Their one silk shop can match countless of mine. They really don't give us a chance to breathe. We need your support if we want to develop. Aren't they trying to indirectly drain our bottom line?"
"Dad will think of a way. We are not that easy to bully. Dad originally thought it was just a clan quarrel among you younger generations, but I didn't expect that some people couldn't let go of their power and wanted to hold on to their positions tightly."
"Here in Shang County, I still rely on the support of Sister Xing'er and the others. Originally, we relied on those cold melons and anesthetics, and I was sure that we would have an advantage in the primary election. There are more choices in the next district, but now they have directly locked us in this area."