The reason why the fabrics of the Australian Huasheng Textile Co., Ltd. were so attractive to Portuguese merchants was first and foremost because of the excellent quality of the products – which of course was relatively relevant to the times.

Because it is machine spinning, compared with artificial spinning, the pure cotton and fine linen textiles produced by Huasheng Textile are more fine and uniform, and the cloth surface is very neat, so compared with the best quality Indian calico in this era, Australian calico not only looks neat and beautiful in appearance, but also the fabric is stronger and more wear-resistant than Indian calico.

In addition to the advantages of equipment, the production of Australian calico has the advantages of internal technology and technology, not to mention the advanced nature of mechanized spinning and weaving technology to ensure the quality of fabrics, only the primary organic chemical dyes have surpassed this era.

Today, with the help of Mr. Zhao and Mr. Zhao, Zhou Yuye and Wang Nabin are able to use a natural acid dye with organic chemicals added to the seawater chemical equipment that has just been put into experimental use.

This dye is a combination of natural biological dyes and organic chemicals from the South Seas, those produced in the Sulu Islands, Sulawesi and Borneo indigo plants, mangosteen peel and other natural dyes are combined with the alkaline chemical products of Baisha Group, thus obtaining a variety of reactive dyes and acid dyes, these dyes have a good combination with pure cotton fibers, so that the colored cloth becomes very resistant to exposure and soaping.

In addition, mechanized pad dyeing is more quality guaranteed than the manual dip dyeing of this era in terms of uniformity, so Huasheng Textile's calico is taken out, whether from the color, brightness, or from the diversity of colors, a little more expert cloth merchants can immediately judge that Australian calico is much higher than Indian calico from the inside to the outside.

Another key factor in the popularity of Australian calico is the size of the fabric.

The width of Australian calico reaches 1.5 meters, don't underestimate this, the width of the cloth is related to the efficiency of clothing and the application of various fabrics, which is one of the factors that users are very concerned about.

By the way, in this era, the cloth measurement system in the local market is extremely messy, some places use length, such as yards, rulers, zhang, and some places use weight, such as catties, pounds, stones, and all these units of measurement are not all decimal system, there are twelve decimal and hexadecimal systems.

And whether it is length or weight, it is divided into different standards such as artificiality, official system, and commercial system according to different industries, and even the scale of the ruler is different.

In addition, many places divide these sizes and weights into "large sizes" and "small sizes" because of the habits of the crowd.

Australia's textiles are all measured in kilograms and meters, of course, for the conversion and measurement of these units of size and weight, it really tosses the brothers of the Macau Trade Representative Office.

In Macau, in order to measure simple and clear, easy to calculate the cost, the cloth in the Macao market is usually measured by weight, usually a roll of cloth, can also be said to be a piece of cloth, regardless of the quality of the color, it is necessary to weigh first, and then according to the quality of the price, anyway, Indian calico in Macao is bought and sold in this way.

So the merchants of Macao were delighted to find that because the Australian cloth had fewer defects, the cloth surface was smooth and strong, and it was slightly thinner, the result was that under the same weight, the Australian calico was 5 to 8 percent longer than the Indian calico!

What's more, the unit price of Australians' supply is one-third cheaper than that of Indian calico!

You must know that in South Asia and the South Seas today, Indian calico is not only a fabric, in many places Indian calico also plays the function of currency, and it is a more popular hard currency than gold and silver.

The key point is that in the secondary wholesale and retail stages, the buying and selling of fabrics is measured by length, which undoubtedly makes the traders who buy and sell Australian calico extra profitable.

All in all, the availability of higher quality Australian calico on the market means that merchants get more secure hard currency, in other words, they get better gold and silver without having to pay more.

From this point of view, how can Australian calico not be crowded?

Therefore, at the beginning, the families of the four Chinese businessmen were not very reluctant to transfer the amount of Australian calico to the Portuguese, after all, everyone is a businessman, and everyone knows how huge the benefits are.

However, after two secret talks between the four family members and the substitute doctor, the Chinese businessmen readily agreed to the request of the Portuguese businessmen, and they successfully obtained the "national treatment" in Macao.

Of course, the term "national treatment" is just Dai Xiaoshan's own internal expression, to use the vocabulary that everyone can understand in this era, the four Chinese businessmen have actually obtained an identity similar to a kind of "Portuguese and Indian company registered partners", although these four Chinese businessmen are not shareholders of Portuguese and Indian companies, but this status of "registered partners" is roughly equivalent to obtaining non-discriminatory "national treatment" of Portuguese and Indian companies.

An important reason why Dai Xiaoshan asked the four Chinese merchants to exchange the quota of Australian calico in exchange for this status was that this status allowed the merchant fleets of the four Chinese merchants to freely buy and sell goods at all the Portuguese East India Company's trading posts off the coast of Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the South Seas, and to obtain goods that were not normally sold to outsiders:

For example, population, firearms, metal minerals, some important local products, as well as food, medicine, and cold weapons such as armor and swords from Europe.

If the merchant does not have this status, in addition to the lack of tax incentives, under normal circumstances, even if you have the money, you can only buy the goods from the merchants of the Portuguese and Indian companies at a higher price, and there is no guarantee of supply.

Obviously, as one of the most important trading partners of Australians in Macao, the enhancement of the trading status of the four Chinese businessmen in the sphere of influence of the Portuguese-Indian Company means an increase in the supply capacity to Australia, which is undoubtedly very much in line with the fundamental interests of the Australians.

On the surface, the four Chinese businessmen did lose most of the Australian calico purchase quota in the port of Macau, however, what the Portuguese did not know was that the development of the Australian people on the big and small Wanshan Islands made it impossible for the Chinese businessmen to obtain Australian calico through the port of Macao in the near future.

Regarding this point, after Dai Xiaoshan sent a telegram to the Red Mansion and Zhu Beiguo, he assured the four Chinese businessmen on the spot that when the wharves of the Great and Small Wanshan Islands were completed, you could go there directly to do business with us.

Obviously, the items traded are not only Australian calico, but also other goods that Australians can provide, including but not limited to glass products, wine, sugar, spices and so on.

On 30 August, the Pride completed all the purchases and sales in the port of Macau, this time for 100,000 taels of silver, including 200 Dutch flintlock pistols, 300 Spanish arquebuses and 100 arquebuses.

The first two types of firearms will be converted by the Shugon Machine Factory to equip the armed forces of Sinanseong and Mansando, and the latter will be turned into a type of export weapon to be sold to King Tunhara in Sulu, and of course, if the Portuguese and Dutch are interested, they will also be sold to them, in short, it is another business with great promises.

In the past two days, Li Sanduo and Zhu Beiguo also took the crew to live in the house, and everyone was immediately shocked by all kinds of "luxury" after entering the door, but not in terms of hardware, but in terms of "software".

As soon as the door was opened, the little friends were surrounded by a large group of servants and maids, whether it was drinking tea or eating, as well as visiting and walking in the courtyard, or even going to the toilet, there were people waiting for them at any time, which made the brothers who had just gotten off the boat very unaccustomed.

Especially Zhu Beiguo and Li Sanduo, especially these two people looked at the brother who looked calm and relaxed, and looked accustomed to it, they couldn't help but sigh secretly, Zhu Beiguo said to Li Sanduo, probably this is called "raising the body, living and moving the qi", this brother has been in the environment of Macao for a long time, and he has actually developed an indescribable "noble" temperament......