Chapter 243 Textile Industry Planning

What troubles the Executive Committee is not just the supply of canvas. In fact, all kinds of textile products are needed by the travel group. Gauze used by the medical department, cotton cloth needed by the people to make clothes, silk cloth used to wrap gunpowder bags, and currently

The most urgent need is canvas, but no suitable source has been found. Adding these textiles together, the amount required is actually quite large, but there is no merchant on Qiongzhou Island who can stably supply the Chuan Chuan Group.

The reason for this is actually very simple, because there are very few textiles produced locally on Qiongzhou Island. Fabrics like Yazhou Jibei cloth, which are made from kapok, have always been in short supply because of their low output. And Chuanchuan Group is interested in

The amount of fabric used is huge, and local production alone is completely unable to meet the demand.

Regarding this situation, it is not that no one has expressed doubts to the Ministry of Agriculture - why don't we grow our own cotton? Some insiders even pointed out that the materials prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture before crossing over included high-quality cotton seeds. Since

Self-development requires a large amount of textiles, and cotton seeds have been prepared, so why has there been no plan to open up cotton fields?

Regarding these questions, Mr. Yuan Ruoxiu, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, personally came forward to explain. Cotton is a heat-loving crop. Hainan's sunshine time and average temperature allow cotton to be grown, but cotton avoids water during the flowering and harvest periods, and Hainan is located in

The place has a tropical monsoon climate with a lot of rain and high air humidity. From this perspective, it is not suitable for cotton cultivation. The most terrible thing is that the cotton harvest season almost coincides with the rainy season in Hainan. This alone is almost impossible to grow cotton.

The road to the crossing was blocked. The reason why the Ministry of Agriculture prepared cotton seeds before crossing was not to grow cotton on Hainan Island—it would wait until the crossing group occupied an area suitable for cotton planting in the future to take out this good stuff.

play a role.

Mr. Yuan’s major is the study of cash crops. Since old experts have said that Hainan Island is not suitable for growing cotton, everyone can only look outside the island. It seems that all kinds of textiles needed by the Travel Group are currently available.

They can only rely on imports from outside. But at this time, Mr. Yuan gave the frustrated executive committee members a small surprise: Although Hainan Island is not suitable for growing cotton, according to the agricultural development experience of later generations, some areas of Hainan Island

The environment is suitable for growing mulberry and raising silkworms.

Some people also expressed doubts about Mr. Yuan's statement - why didn't you hear about silk produced in Hainan before traveling?

Yuan Ruoxiu explained that the temperature difference between the four seasons in Hainan is small, and the annual sericulture time is almost twice as long as that in the inland, which is very suitable for large-scale sericulture industry. In fact, Hainan only started large-scale mulberry planting and sericulture in the early 21st century.

In the beginning, it was less than ten years before the time travel. Although the feasibility has been verified, it is not very famous because it has not been promoted in rural areas of Hainan on a large scale. However, according to the twelve regulations formulated by the country before the time travel

According to the fifth development plan, the mulberry planting area in Hainan Province will reach 600,000 acres by 2020, and the number of people engaged in this industry will exceed one million, making it one of the most complete production areas of the sericulture and silk industry chain in the country.

Since the country has such a big plan for the sericulture industry in Hainan, it means that it is feasible to grow mulberry and raise sericulture here.

This has completely aroused the interest of the Executive Committee. Raw silk is completely soft gold in this era. Businessmen from Western countries travel across the oceans to China every year with real gold and silver and queue up to buy. According to non-professional history

According to the information provided by Jia Ningqi, the raw silk sold by Fujian maritime merchant Xu Xinsu to the Dutch East India Company during the same period was as high as more than 140 taels of silver per quintal. The later production data provided by Yuan Ruoxiu showed that in 2006, Hainan Qiongzhong

The area of ​​mulberry cultivation is more than 30,000 acres, and the annual output of fresh cocoons is 30,000 tons, which is about 4,000 tons of raw silk. According to the current foreign trade price of raw silk, it is a huge sum of money! If it is woven into silk and sold, the price will be at least

It can be doubled again. If it is done well, the money you can earn from this business will not be less than that from the arms trade.

Yuan Ruoxiu further pointed out that the benefits of developing the sericulture industry are not only the production of silk, but also the development of a series of industries such as fruit mulberries, tea mulberries, vegetable mulberries, bamboo weaving, textiles, import and export trade, etc., which will promote regional economic development.

It will have a very positive impact. Even in the future, as long as a product like silk can reach scale, it will be enough to transfer part of the trade center of the entire East Asia region to Hainan Island.

Of course, with so many benefits, developing this project is not without difficulties. Before the executive committee members were about to clamor to immediately promote mulberry planting, Yuan Ruoxiu explained to everyone several major difficulties in developing this industry.

The first is the rainy season problem in Hainan. July to October every year is the rainy season in Hainan Island. The high temperature and high humidity environment will speed up the reproduction of bacteria and fungi. If there are no reasonable measures, it is easy to cause a large-scale outbreak of silkworms.

The second problem is that there are many insects in the wild in Hainan. Some species also use mulberry leaves as food and can spread silkworm diseases, which is also one of the hidden dangers. The third problem is that the local people have no experience in raising silkworms, and agriculture

The ministry also seriously lacks relevant technical personnel, and it is almost impossible to do large-scale promotion in a short period of time; the last reason is that there is no high-quality silkworm seed locally, because this thing cannot be preserved for a long time, so it is difficult to cross the pre-agricultural

The ministry did not bring silkworm seeds, but only brought a few mulberry trees adapted to the climate and geographical conditions of Hainan. To develop this industry, we must try to introduce silkworm seeds from other places, and it will take time to re-cultivate them locally to withstand high temperatures and humidity.

New silkworm species for the environment will do.

By the time Yuan Ruoxiu explained all the details, most of the initial enthusiasm of the executive committee members had dissipated. Whether it was introducing silkworm breeds from the mainland, conducting scientific research and breeding locally, training technical personnel, or promoting large-scale promotion in rural areas, there was no way.

One link can be completed in a short period of time, but the entire industry may not see results within two or three years from planning to production. This industry is good, but it can only be included in the development plan of the Ministry of Agriculture first.

Take it one step at a time.

These situations in the base camp have been informed to the Guangdong Office through telegrams and letters. The Guangdong Office believes that it will not be too difficult to introduce silkworm breeds, because Fujian, which is close to Guangdong, has been an important sericulture production area since ancient times. The local area

There has been a certain scale of sericulture industry since the Northern and Southern Dynasties. By the Song Dynasty, the scale of the silk weaving industry had become one of the three major silk textile centers in the country along with Sichuan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Quanzhou, known as the "Citron City", had a developed silk weaving industry.

, in the Middle Ages, Europeans who did not know the truth directly used "Erythrina" as a pronoun for "satin". Marco Polo also compared the prosperity of Quanzhou Port with Alexandria Port in his travel notes.

It can be said that Fujian has very rich resources, whether it is excellent silkworm seeds, skilled workers in the silk weaving industry, or even all aspects of the sericulture industry chain. In this era, it also follows the law that money is easy to do.

As long as the Guangdong Office is willing to spend money, it is not a difficult task to complete this task for the base camp. All that is missing is the right opportunity and channels.

The emergence of this "Yongfeng Cloth Shop" just catered to the current actual needs of the General Office of the People's Republic of China. Schneider immediately asked He Xi to write a reply to the appointment, and then called Yu Xiaobao in and asked him to send the reply to

The other party's place.

On the evening of the next day, the Guangzhou shopkeeper of "Yongfeng Buhang" took a sedan and came to the Guangdong Office located outside Guangzhou to visit. The reason why he chose the Office instead of a restaurant in Guangzhou city was

Hotels, Schneider and others have also considered this. This is to adhere to the principle of promoting the "Advanced Haihan Lifestyle" and try their best to allow merchants to have direct access to various products that the Guangdong Office wants to promote in the mainland, such as

Glass tableware, stationery, bathroom equipment, chemical products, and even various special spices from Port of Victory added to the dishes, etc., all highlight the differences between Haihan lifestyle and Ming Dynasty, and these differences reflect the Haihan lifestyle.

The superiority of the Han Dynasty was enough to attract the gentry of the Ming Dynasty to imitate, thereby achieving the purpose of exporting commodities and culture.

Secondly, meeting guests in the Guangzhou Liaison Office can also avoid the suspicion of being separated by walls. After the bookstore opened in the limelight yesterday, the name "Haihan" became popular in Guangzhou almost overnight, and people

I discovered that the various novel seafood products that were sold out of print in the Guangzhou market in the past few months were from a new business name "Haihan" that I had never heard of - yes, most people in Guangzhou still only know it as

The appearance of the Haihan people was treated as a new trading house settling in the local area. In addition to selling many novel and valuable gadgets, this new trading house seemed to be no essentially different from other trading houses. So merchants from all walks of life set out one after another, hoping

Being able to contact Haihan allows you to join the sales channels of Haihan products.

Thirdly, this is also done for security reasons, with reference to the opinions of two members of the Military and Police Department, Xiao Liang and Yu Yao. Although the Guangdong Office now has more than a dozen armed personnel stationed including militiamen, if members need to enter the city

, then there must be military and police personnel to follow - although Schneider and He Xi disagreed with this, they often wandered around Guangzhou alone before the arrival of the second echelon. But Xiao Liang and Yu Yao still insisted on following the instructions.

Rules and regulations work, especially if you want to stay overnight in Guangzhou at night, you must be accompanied by at least two security personnel. As the first and second leaders, Schneider and He Xi cannot stay overnight in Guangzhou at the same time. At least one person must stay in Guangzhou.

Prepare for emergencies.

Therefore, out of various considerations, the General Office in Guangdong Province finally took on the main task of external reception. Fortunately, the renovation project of the General Office in Guangdong Province has been completed at this time, and visitors will not see any mess.

After receiving the notification, Schneider and He Xi went to the gate of the courtyard to greet the shopkeeper of "Yongfeng Buhang". In addition to the people from "Furuifeng", this was also the first person to visit the General Office after its establishment.

merchants.

Although it had only been one day since she received the call from the other party, He Xi still managed to get some information about the shop and the shopkeeper from certain channels.

"Yongfeng Cloth Shop" is based in Hangzhou, and is said to be one of the top five local cloth merchants. Of course, the business scope of cloth merchants in this era also included other textiles, and was not limited to cotton. Facts

According to the gossip He Xi received, these large cloth merchants all own a considerable area of ​​mulberry fields and hired silkworm farmers in the local area. In other words, what they control is not only sales channels, but a one-stop service from production to sales.

A complete industrial chain, and this is what the Guangdong Office is interested in.

The shopkeeper surnamed Ma is over 40 years old. Although he is not from the same family as the boss of Buhang, it is said that he is related to the big boss. Chain businesses in this era basically will not get rid of the family business model, especially pie.

If you are a shopkeeper who is out of town and has no blood relationship with the big boss, it will be difficult for you to gain enough trust to take this position.

"Yongfeng Cloth Shop" runs a large shop in Guangzhou city, mainly selling Songjiang cloth and silk and satin products produced in Hangzhou and Quanzhou. Its target customers are basically the middle and upper class of society.

Prior to this, a considerable part of the bulk goods purchased by "Furuifeng" for the Chuanchuan Group, including textiles, especially silk and satin products, came from "Yongfeng Clothing Company" - after these silks and satins were shipped back to Victory Port,

Basically they are used in making custom gunpowder bags for artillery.

The business negotiation method pursued by the Executive Committee has always been conducted at the wine table - several of the Executive Committee members responsible for external affairs are time-tested veterans of the wine shop, and they all like to make their opponents half-drunk before negotiating.

This can achieve the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort. Schneider is also one of them. When Li Nai first came to Victory Port, Schneider was one of the main players at the wine table, and this also indirectly caused the cooperation agreement signed by the two parties.

There are a large number of unfavorable terms for "Furuifeng".

After the Guangzhou Liquor Office was established, the Executive Committee specially approved dozens of kilograms of liquor from the inventory for them. But when they came to Guangzhou, they found that there were also several delicious local wines, even better than the ones they specially made.

Those blended wines brought from later generations.

Distilled liquor was not a rare thing in this era. Shajue had already been invented in the Tang Dynasty. There were records of distilled liquor and stills in the documents of the Yuan Dynasty, and even more in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty.

It explains in detail the production method and medical value of shochu. Therefore, strong liquor has always been sold in wine shops in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the wine produced by the General Office of the People's Republic of China is much more upscale than ordinary restaurants because they use glass wine bottles that are difficult to see in the Ming Dynasty market. This is exactly what the General Office of the People's Republic of China has offered to Shengli Port.

One of the new industries declared was to produce glass wine bottles from Victory Port and transport them to Guangzhou. The Guangzhou Liquor Office in Guangzhou organized local liquor sources and workers to fill them, then put a nameplate on them and sold them at more than ten times the original price. This door

The feasibility of the business is extremely high, and it is difficult for merchants in the Ming Dynasty to imitate it because of packaging constraints. However, after this plan was reported to Victory Port, it was temporarily put aside by the executive committee - the existing glass product production capacity is really limited, and even if it is completed

There are still difficulties with the orders on hand, let alone glass bottles with a relatively complicated production process. This thing is only blown manually by the current pure manual process. It is difficult to talk about the production volume. At least we have to wait for the Ministry of Industry to study it.

Let’s talk about the simple production line for extrusion molding.

But even the ordinary liquor bottles brought by later generations are now enough to suffocate the shopkeeper Ma who once thought he was well-informed - not only the bottles, but also the bowls, plates, cups and cups on the table, except for the chopsticks.

Everything outside, even the small holders for chopsticks, are made of crystal clear glass. This kind of luxury is something that Shopkeeper Ma has never seen in his past life. Even if he was a prefect who had the honor to attend before,

The adults' family banquet only consisted of two single-handled melon-shaped glass bottles to hold wine. The shape of the glassware on the table in front of us has never been seen on the market. It must be for the Haihan people's own use.

The high-end goods, shopkeeper Ma quickly estimated the price in his mind, it should be at least five hundred taels.

Of course, these things are not for sale, because they are industrial products from later generations, with regular sizes and advanced craftsmanship, rather than rough products made by hand in the glass workshops in Port Victory. After these things were sold to the outside world in small quantities in the early days of time travel,

It has been listed as a prohibited item for sale by the Executive Committee. It is currently only used as a display item in social events or other special occasions, and will no longer be easily sold in large quantities to the outside world.

After seeing these things, Shopkeeper Ma was basically convinced that the rumors on the market were true. The glass products that were so popular in Guangzhou a few days ago were indeed supplied by Haihan people, and this also made him even more convinced that he would

It's a worthwhile trip - the Haihan people who have mastered this advanced technology are undoubtedly equivalent to mastering a huge amount of wealth. The rest depends on how capable they are of taking money out of the Haihan people's pockets.

After three rounds of drinking, Shopkeeper Ma began to inquire about the roots of the Haihan people, intentionally or unintentionally. Schneider did not hide this, claiming that his property was located in a certain seaport in Yazhou, and invited Shopkeeper Ma to visit him at a convenient time.

You can go and travel for yourself. Of course, the focus of Schneider's promotion is not how beautiful the local natural scenery is, but the rich variety of Haihan products and the free tax-free policy of Victory Port.

Shopkeeper Ma is obviously someone who has been out and about for a long time. His eyes lit up when he heard the word "tax-free": "Mr. Shi, are you saying that when trading in Victory Port, the goods do not need to pay taxes?"

Schneider laughed and said: "You don't even have to pay a copper!"

Shopkeeper Ma rolled his eyes and asked: "Will the fee be charged according to the size of the ship or the size of the cargo hold?" This is not a new thing. The rates levied by the Guangzhou Shipping Department are based on the size of the ship.

Collect, as long as you want to collect money, the competent authority can always think of a way.

Schneider explained: "There are no taxes levied in any name on foreign merchant ships in the Port of Victory. Of course, if your company wants to open a store to sell goods in the Port of Victory, it will be a different matter."
Chapter completed!