Although the two of you are friends, the GDH Business Alliance already has regulations on commercial confidentiality to protect the rights and interests of members. When the alternate member had reached the point, he stopped talking, and the friend also knew these rules, and made eye contact with the Confucian student, and the three of them tacitly agreed not to talk about business matters anymore, but to return the topic to some interesting things from childhood, and the room was full of laughter.

Chaozhou Sheng's long-term stability has brought about a strong foundation, which is second to none in Fujian and Guangdong provinces. While the Zheng Group was governing and collecting taxes in Chaozhou with a normal heart, Chen Kai and Wang Jiang and other officials who adhered to Chen Kai's wishes were also carrying out industrial upgrading and other good governance in the local area. For example, after the people of Guangzhou returned to their hometowns, in addition to selling them to local people, many of them were used as school fields to support rural schools, and the investment in education made the local people highly praised.

After the people of Guangzhou returned to Guangzhou, at the same time as the family property was returned, the abandoned land outside the city was also compensated and distributed according to the agreement, which undoubtedly further enhanced Chen Kai's prestige.

As a result, Wang Jiang went on to promote some of the new technologies they had widely publicized in Chaozhou in Guangzhou, and they were also more popular. The confidence of the people of Guangzhou in the government has increased, which has made the administrative effect of twice the result with half the effort.

It is still Shunde County, the devastation at the beginning of the recovery has become a thing of the past, and only those tombstones have disappeared, as well as the ruins of villages and towns that have not yet been swept by capital, and they are still loyally recording the smoke of gunpowder. Starting from Longjiang and Longshan, Shunde Silk Weaving Workshop has rapidly spread in Shunde County through acquisition, output, and return of funds, coupled with the increase in investment brought about by the favorable industry situation.

The large mulberry forests in Shunde County have been purchased by the workshops, and the owners are unwilling to sell them, so they have tried to draw them into the purchase system, and signed contracts to ensure the supply of sericulture.

In Longjiang Town, the mulberry forest they saw during their initial investigation has now begun to spread to the original rice fields. On the field path, a group of proprietors and shopkeepers, led by two members of the Guangdong Business Alliance, who are very familiar to local farmers, are visiting the local silk weaving industry.

These two people, one tall and one short, one fat and one thin, are more like a combination of praise and ridicule in later generations. However, this is only at first glance, in fact, the two are shareholders who are resident in Longjiang Town to preside over and supervise the work, and a few others are busy with other things.

"The mulberry forest in the distance, that is when we first came to Shunde, the original owner's family died, we bought it from the government, built a clothed mound, and worshiped at four o'clock......"

It is not an outright business, and there is such humanistic care from the beginning, which makes this group of people have a good impression of this Guangdong business alliance.

Led everyone to see the mulberry forest, the mulberry farmers inside picked mulberry leaves, mulberry leaves are selected, withered yellow and rotten leaves will cause silkworm poisoning and diarrhea, so it is strictly forbidden to use. Mulberry leaves will be sent to be cleaned and dried, especially the food of ants and silkworms must be specially selected and cut into strips and blocks. These were all done by special workers, and they walked around the mulberry forest, and then turned out from the entrance, and came to the original rice field.

"When we planted mulberry trees on this land, we chose the mulberry fish pond model. This is not only in response to the call of the governor's yamen and the political envoy's yamen, but also because fish manure and silt can be used to fertilize the fields and make the mulberry trees grow better. But those fish are almost for nothing. ”

The laughter amused and made everyone laugh. They are based in Longjiang Town, and they are in charge of the area on behalf of the shareholders of the workshop, and they know better than the laughing crowd that when they first lived in Chaozhou, the government promoted rice and fish farming, and when they set off for Guangzhou, the price of fish in Chaozhou continued to plummet, forcing some fishermen to either work ashore or turn to merchant ships to earn a living.

This phenomenon is not universal, but the food shortage in Fujian has indirectly relieved the fishermen in Chaozhou. However, with the cultivation of sweet potatoes in Fujian, the total number of fishermen fishing on the river has been declining, just to fill the employment gap in other areas.

Undoubtedly, this gave them a wake-up call for the lessons of the past. However, the workshop requires more manpower, even when many aspects are already using hydraulic machinery. However, as the mulberry forest began to crowd the grain fields, the county of this county is scratching its head more and more, lest one day Shunde County really does not produce grain, and it is all dependent on other prefectures and counties to buy, and I always feel that I can't feel at ease.

In Longjiang Town, the silk weaving industry can no longer be described as a pillar industry, and it can be said that the whole town is pointing to the silk weaving workshop to eat!

After leaving the mulberry forest, they took everyone to see the silkworm workshop, and then came to the workshop by the river. Here, it is still a system integrating silk reeling, spinning, and weaving, but the previous outline can no longer be seen in terms of scale.

"When silk arrives here, it goes through a series of processes, some of which are woven directly into silk, and some of which are simply made into spindles...... When it comes to the printing and dyeing process, the town of Longjiang Town is now a workshop, and we mostly order dyes such as indigo from Fujian, where the indigo is of high quality. ”

The next stop is the county seat, where the silk weaving workshop recruited many embroiderers from various prefectures and counties, and they all worked in the workshops there, or in the houses arranged by the workshops, and embroidered various patterns on silk. Some of them are booked by the orderers, and some are designed by the workshops themselves, and many of these embroiderers are also involved in the design, and their income is very different from that of their previous ruins in people's livelihood, and they had to become housewives again, or engage in sewing and mending work.

From here to the county seat, the first thing you have to do is to go back to Longjiang Town. After looking at the printing and dyeing workshop, everyone boarded the boat and the water flowed down. As far as I could see, the mountains and rivers were still the same, but when I boarded the boat, I saw that the wastewater from the dyeing workshop was poured straight into the river, which was colorful and seemed to be endless. What I thought about in my heart, there was no such thing as environmental protection, and some were just shocked by the production capacity of the Shunde silk weaving workshop.

Rushed all the way to the county seat, and when I arrived, it was past the time to close the city gate. Fortunately, once the silk weaving workshop is busy, it will not care about any day and night. The officers guarding the city gate were familiar with each other, and when they saw the people of the silk weaving workshop, they didn't care about informing the county and the garrison, so they opened the door directly and let them in.

It has passed the hour of the next value, and the silk weaving workshop has completely followed Chen Kai's customization when he was in the Ordnance Bureau, and the embroidery process will be seen tomorrow.

The two of them first settled the people in the inn, and they returned to their clubhouse in the county seat. After meeting with the other members and talking about today's situation, I quickly moved on to other things.

"What does the county say?"

"It's still a cliché about growing food, growing food, growing food, and there are no other new words."

From the beginning, grain was mainly purchased from other prefectures and counties, and the land they acquired in Shunde was used for silk weaving-related industries, even if they hired people to grow vegetables, it was only to fill the bellies of craftsmen and workers, not to do it as an industry.

They only have silk and silver in their eyes, but they still have to consider the issue of taxation in the county - silver is important, but if the local food is not produced, where should the military food be obtained, without military food, the army will continue to counterattack, but I am afraid that the army's morale will be unstable.

It stands to reason that Chen Kai is worried about major military affairs, and it is not his turn to be a seven-grade sesame official. However, he is not like those county officials east of Guangzhou, they were all appointed by Chen Kai, he was appointed by Guo Zhiqi, who knows that it will only take half a year, and this place will be under Chen Kai's control, if it weren't for his long-term obedience, I am afraid that he would have been driven away early, and he could still sit on the throne of Shunde County for a long time.

However, he is not a descendant, or even appointed by a political enemy, and the magistrate has always had doubts about how long he can work under Chen Kai's hands. To this end, he gave great cooperation in the development of Shunde silk weaving industry in the Guangdong Business Alliance, in order to show favor to Chen Kai. But the problem is that the development of the Shunde silk weaving workshop is really too rapid, and even the entire Shunde County has been deviated. Out of concern about multiple unknowns, he became even more worried about military affairs, for fear that a change in the general environment would give him a change and go home.

For such thoughts, in fact, many shareholders of Shunde Silk Weaving Workshop are aware of it. However, they don't dare to get involved too much in political matters, even on the side of the Consultative Bureau, many members of the Guangdong Business Alliance have become members or alternate members, and for them, they are completely acting according to Chen Kai's wishes, cheering for Chen Kai in the Advisory Bureau, and ensuring their own interests, that's all.

In the final analysis, it is still a matter of interests, and after two clichés about the county, they will not continue to diverge. One is to avoid falling into the mouth, and the other is that the careful thinking of the county is really not very important.

"As for the garrison, we have never been less than the silver we give to the garrison every year, and now that the goods have been intercepted by those river pirates, it is time for them to come out and do something."

Shunde silk weaving workshop has developed rapidly in the past two years, not to mention, with a workshop, with continuous expansion and acquisition, it seems that the momentum has swallowed the entire Shunde County. Others, if there is no envy, jealousy and hatred, it is deceptive, one is that the interests are even, and the other is that the backer behind is really not a guy to provoke, these two years have been peaceful, until the last few months, the cargo ship transporting silk ingots and silk has been intercepted several times, and a lot of goods have been lost.

"Well, he has promised to do his best, and he has already identified the hiding place of a group of river bandits, and he has already led his troops to suppress them this afternoon. However, listening to the meaning of his words, it seems that there are other river bandits, all of whom have fled from other prefectures and counties, and some seem to be involved in other official and military activities. This matter is no longer something that he can say alone, and after finding out about the family yesterday, he immediately reported it to the governor's yamen, and he had to wait for the decision of the boss of the Fu army. ”

The matter of the river pirates even involved other Ming troops, which couldn't help but surprise the "cross talk combination". Undoubtedly, this involves a political matter, not only are they stunned by this, but they don't even dare to give Chen Kai too much hope - they don't think they have so much face to fight a civil war for a few boats of silk and silk.

"It's probably to calm things down, just hope that I can get those bastards away, so as not to continue to lose, and no matter how big the family is, I can't bear it."

Due to the general environment, Chinese businessmen are often cautious, and even if they have an official and business background, they do not dare to say anything to the military in these troubled times.

The business still has to go on. In the final analysis, this investment is aimed at providing funds for further expansion of production.

Compared with others, the shareholders of these silk weaving workshops know best that they are far from being able to compare with the businessmen of Chaozhou and Qiongzhou in terms of family background, broken hometown, and perennial uprooting. Not to mention, today's Guangzhou, Shunde's silk weaving industry is just a driving point, Dongguan, Xin'an's fragrant wood production industry although the cycle is slow, but the profit margin is high and scary - Dongguan incense sold to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Chengping is worth a lot of money, and now it can be sold to Chengping ten times, more than ten times, and even dozens of times the price. It was originally weak, but also divided a lot of resources in the fragrant wood industry, the momentum is rapid, the situation is also a good one, but the background has led to the weakness of the successor, we must try to pull more help.

Energetic, the "cross talk group" took everyone to visit the workshop in the county early the next morning. In the afternoon, there happened to be a batch of goods to be shipped to Hong Kong, they made an appointment with the freight terminal, took these people to visit again, and then the matter of capital injection still needs to be discussed, but the goods are all the way down the river, and there are no twists and turns on the road to Hong Kong directly.

A large part of this batch of goods was resold to the Zheng Group through the Guangdong Trading Company, and it is unknown where the Zheng Group resold it.

The goods soon entered the warehouse of the Guangdong Trading Company, but Cai Cheng did not appear this time, but only sent a shopkeeper to come to contact. As the person in charge of the trading company, the rat beard naturally has a place where he needs to appear, and this time it is the only old man he knows in the five merchants of the sea who has come to visit, and it is still necessary to socialize.

"Don't hide it from Brother Cai, this time I was ordered by the Marquis of Jianping to come to Brother Cai to discuss the matter of increasing the amount of purchases."

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