Fujian, Fuzhou.Huaxing Company has a lot of money, relying on the company's account, there are six or seven million taels of silver, plus the company's shareholders are powerful, and began to expand frantically in Fujian and Zhejiang.Within a few months, many spinning and weaving workshops were acquired, and many bankrupt artisanal owners in Zhejiang bought shares at a discount for looms, so that the company not only obtained workshops, but also obtained corresponding talents.In July, the company concentrated its scattered small workshops in Wenzhou and Fuzhou, bought a few mansions, and rebuilt them into the company's factories and warehouses.Zhejiang was originally the center of the textile industry in the Ming Dynasty, with many looms and workers, and Huaxing Company's workshop in Wenzhou obtained 2,500 looms and employed more than 7,000 workers.Fujian's textile industry has a poor foundation, and the Fuzhou workshop has only 800 looms and employs less than 2,000 workers.In the late Ming Dynasty, when the silk weaving industry in the south of the Yangtze River was at its most prosperous, there were more than 80,000 looms in Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou alone, and about 3,500 looms in the government-run looms, and the economy was extremely prosperous.Now the entire textile industry in China has shrunk sharply, and the scale of Huaxing Company is too far away from that time, but more than 3,000 looms are close to the scale of the Ming Dynasty's government-run weaving bureau.The two workshops of Huaxing Company were established in Wenzhou and Fuzhou respectively, and thousands of employees and a large number of family members poured into the city, which immediately stimulated the economy of the two cities.Every morning and evening, the people who were exiled here in the city saw the crowds of people pouring out of the door of the workshop, and their hearts were full of emotion, as if they had returned to the south of the Yangtze River.Fuzhou, at the gate of Huaxing Workshop, several down-and-out scholars stood in front of the street in front of the workshop, looking at the crowd pouring out, and the calm street suddenly became lively and noisy.When several people saw this, they remembered that when they were in Jiangnan, they were also like this, and they didn't want to see this scene in Fuzhou, so they couldn't help but burst into tears.At this time, a down-and-out soldier was waving his sleeves to wipe his tears, and a shouting came from a distance, and the soldier raised his head, just in time to see a person, pushing a food stall and shouting loudly, and immediately many hired workers surrounded him."
Huh!
Isn't this Hou Fangyu?
How did this dog thief get here?
”Shizi wiped his tears and said with a look of surprise.Many scholars looked for him, and when they looked closely, it was really Hou Fangyu, and they immediately rolled up their sleeves one by one and surrounded him.~~~~~ the warehouse of Huaxing Company, the manager of the textile factory of Fuzhou Huaxing Company, and He Bin, the export staff of the head office, were accompanying several Dutch businessmen to visit the goods in the warehouse.Although the workshop has not been established for a long time, hundreds of looms, divided into three shifts, people and machines run all day long, the production efficiency has been dramatically improved, plus the previous capture of Fuzhou, a lot of Zheng family's goods have been seized, so a large number of stocks have been accumulated in the warehouse."
Your Excellency, after we have seen your goods, we have unanimously decided that we can only give one or two pieces of silver per horse, which are far worse than the goods in Jiangnan."
A Dutch businessman paused, shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands.The manager of Huaxing Company who accompanied him, after listening to the translator's words, couldn't help but have anger on his face, "How is this possible, in the past, it was at least one or two or five dollars of silver, and the best brocade was more than ten taels and one horses."
The raw materials of the workshop are the previous inventory, and the hired workers are all recruited from all over the country, and the process has not changed, but now the price of raw materials has risen, one or two, one horse, and we do not make money at all. ”He Bin was also annoyed and said: "Your Excellency Mousse, this batch of goods, shipped by the East India Company to Europa, can be at least three or four times doubled, you are so low-priced, it's a little inappropriate." ”Mousse said very strongly: "If you can't accept it, then we can only go to Japan to purchase!"
”As he spoke, Mousse shrugged his shoulders and left with a group of Dutchmen, leaving He Bin and the others with angry faces.Mousse and his party left the workshop and returned to the post house where they stayed.A young Dutchman reminded: "Your Excellency, just like He Bin said, we buy at the original price, or even higher than the original price, and still make money, why do you have to insist on the purchase price of one tael?"
What if Akito doesn't accept it?
”Mousse was fearless and smiled, "Hmph, they will accept this price." ”"Why are you so sure?"
The young businessman asked.Mousse smiled confidently: "Because we don't buy cloth, we can also buy other goods, and the company's business can continue to do business, and the company will not lose anything, just make a small profit."
However, Huaxing Company buys raw materials and hires workers to produce, which requires the cost of raw materials and workers' wages, and if the goods cannot be sold, they will not be able to survive.Now that Zhao Guogong has offended the Spaniards, the only people who can transport goods by sea are us and the Portuguese, and the Portuguese are not our opponents, so Huaxing Company can only sell the goods to us.In the end, Huaxing did not have a choice, but we could still choose Japan, although the quality of their cloth was not as good as Huaxing, but we at least had one choice.Now do you understand?
”After hearing this, the business nodded contemplatively, and Mousse smiled: "Believe me, Huaxing Company will give in."
The East India Company must take the initiative in trade so that it can gain more profits, and the Huaxing Company will become a vassal of our company, making money for us to produce goods. ”When the Dutchmen heard this, they all laughed smugly, they didn't think there was anything wrong with this, there was anything immoral, and they even took it for granted.Taiwan.After the wedding, Zhao Ming rested for a while, he sent the guests away one after another, and at the end of July, after being tactfully reminded by his subordinates, Zhao Ming began to deal with political affairs again.However, the cultivation of wasteland, military training, the education of the Military Academy and Chongwen Academy, all of which are handled by the six departments of Tongzhi and Affairs, as well as the help of the staff of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, do not need Zhao Ming to worry about it, everything is done step by step.Zhao Ming does not have many government affairs to deal with, he mainly grasps the general direction and formulates a general strategy.At the beginning of August, after Zhao Ming resumed work, he finished the accumulated affairs in a few days, and at this time, Cheng Bi, who had just returned to Fujian, hurriedly ran back to Tamsui.In the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, in the shogunate, Zhao Ming sat in the hall, and Cheng Bi, who had just returned to Fujian, sat aside, and reported with some melancholy: "Dashuai, the Dutch have lowered the price too hard, and the sale agreement has not been reached so far."
Now there are two workshops in Wenzhou and Fuzhou, with more than 3,000 looms, producing day and night, and the goods have been backlogged.Although the company has abundant funds, in the long run, the goods will accumulate more and more, the price will only get lower and lower, the company will lose a lot, and the shareholders will inevitably be dissatisfied. ”Zhao Ming's main focus now is Huaxing Company, hoping that Huaxing Company can earn wealth for Donghai Town, and at the same time play an exemplary role to stimulate the rise of national capital.When Zhao Ming heard this, he frowned and said, "How many Dutch are out?"
”Cheng Bi said in a stunned voice: "Only one or two horses each, now the raw materials in the south of the Yangtze River are reduced, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty will replant cotton fields and mulberry fields with rice, resulting in the price of raw materials.What's infuriating is that, according to He Bin, even if the Dutch pay one, two or five dollars, they can earn three or four times as much, and they make such a huge profit that they still want to lower our price. ”Zhao Ming was also angry in his heart, the Dutch are the same as the big golden retriever, they are not good things, these Westerners always want to oppress others."!"
Zhao Ming felt aggrieved for a while, and took the case, "Does the red-haired ghost want Lao Tzu to work for him?"
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