Guo Zhiqi left the Guangdong Governor's Yamen angrily, who can mess around in the Yamen, who is not a human elf, of course knows the contradiction between the Western Guangdong Civil Official Group and the Zheng Group, which are also royalists. In other words, Guo Zhiqi and Chen Kai don't speculate, this is a normal phenomenon, if one day two people swim together, talk happily, and it is the kind of sincere, then go and look up to see if the sun comes out of the west.

One left in a bad mood, and the other was lucky in the office for a while, and he left a cruel sentence in his heart, and then redevoted himself to the review of the official document.

From Guangzhou to Fuzhou, and then from Fuzhou to Guangzhou, this back and forth, and it was nearly two months, and in terms of civil affairs and litigation, Wang Jiang and Cao Conglong's political envoys and the Yamen of the Inspectorate were in charge, and the administrative system was sound enough to support normal operation.

After experiencing internal and external difficulties, some things can no longer develop according to the old plan, and the goal has been redetermined, Chen Kai's mind is all devoted to preparations, but there is less boredom.

Engrossed in reviewing official documents, his brain was running rapidly, and he couldn't even care about the passage of time. Throwing himself in the office, busy from noon to late at night, if it weren't for the fact that the scholar made some movement when he went in to change the candle flame, Chen Kai was afraid that he would have to stay up all night in the office.

"The villain deserves death."

Seeing Chen Kai raise his head, the scholar hurriedly fell to the ground. Chen Kai stretched his back, which was already a little sore, and yawned involuntarily. Stretching out his arm, Chen Kai glanced at the scholar, knowing that this guy was even more clever than his earliest scholar, Chen Song. is like this, purely deliberately, in order to let Chen Kai know that he can pay attention to the time, so as not to worry about Zheng Xiyuan in the back house.

"Get up."

There was no need to break it, Chen Kai looked at it again, and the number of official documents that still needed to be reviewed didn't seem to be too much. Seeing this, he cleaned up casually, and returned to the back house with the scholar, and sure enough, Zheng Xiyuan was still waiting for him to come back.

"It's for the father to tell the lady to wait for a long time."

"The husband is serious, but he is just working on state affairs, and he must also take care of his body."

It was already late at night, and it was said that the two children waited for Chen Kai for most of the day and did not see Chen Kai come back, so they couldn't stay up and rested under the care of the nurse and the maid. Back at home, although there was only a wall away, the nervous and busy mental state disappeared suddenly, the lax accelerant stimulated the tiredness, and at the same time, the hunger of the two unused meals was displayed in everyone's ears.

There was a lack of tribute in the temple of the five visceral organs, and the servants and maids didn't dare to do anything, but Zheng Xiyuan hid his face and smiled, but then his face sank: "It's easy to accumulate food when eating supper, and the husband must stop tasting it." ”

It's like a childish tone, but the cherry sip is a different kind of feeling. Holding the boneless hand, the husband and wife sat down at the table. There was no need to wait, just a wave of his hand, a few delicate snacks, plus a bowl of warm soup were directly delivered to Chen Kai.

"Originally, the lady knew that the master was back, and she made a few good dishes. Later, when I saw that the old man had been busy with official business, he coaxed the son and the young lady to rest, so he cooked this soup again, and it was ......"

"Mouthy."

There was a slight complaint in the soft and glutinous voice, Zheng Xiyuan stared at it, and the complaint stopped abruptly, and it was replaced by a confession of "the servant knows his mistake".

Originally, a small snack was about to be entered, hearing this, Chen Kai put down his chopsticks and held Zheng Xiyuan's small hand, and the old words of "ten fingers do not touch the spring water, and now I will make soup for you" came to mind, and the temperature of the palm of his hand couldn't help but be a few degrees higher.

Less than a month ago in Fujian, in that study, he and the Zheng Group stood on the verge of parting ways. During the time when he returned by boat, Chen Kai assumed again and again that one day he might have more unhappiness with the Zheng Group, or even break up. However, he has never questioned the relationship between Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Xiyuan, even if these are two completely different feelings, the reason is the same.

For supper, Chen Kai ate very happily. After a little exercise, I eliminated my food, and after washing, I went back to my room to rest. Lying on the bed, the feeling of shaking in the cabin no longer appeared here, which made Chen Kai a little unaccustomed. Seeing this, he turned his head and asked Zheng Xiyuan about the recent situation of the Guangdong Business Alliance, but in exchange for only a coquettish face.

"Okay, rest early, and we'll talk about that tomorrow when we wake up."

………………

The sky is bright, and the largest restaurant in Shunde County is already a busy scene. This was originally an ordinary restaurant, and at most it had an elegant reputation in the circles of literati and businessmen in the county. Not long ago, the silk weaving workshop, which was mainly composed of merchants from Fucheng in Guangzhou and the owners of silk workshops in this county, bought this restaurant and used it as their club in Shunde County. To this end, they have expanded it, and specially invited chefs who are good at cooking other dishes to come here and cook with the famous chefs of the county.

Face is the most important thing, this is not flashy, but clearly showing their strength to others, from a side angle.

Today is the day of the workshop's general meeting, and it is still busy preparing the ingredients for the banquet and singing and dancing. In a large mansion in charge of meetings in the city, everyone sat around the chairs of the Taishi, some sat upright, some leaned on the back of the chair, and some leaned forward, but no matter what posture, they couldn't take their eyes off the largest shareholder on the stage who was running around so much that his stomach was smaller, and made a report and outlook to everyone.

“…… Over the past year, we have worked hard to develop and grow rapidly under the care of the old man of Fujun. Now, a county in Shunde, the towns where the silk weaving industry flourished have gradually restored their prosperity, from planting mulberry and raising silkworms, to reeling silk and spinning, and then to weaving, printing and dyeing, silk continues to supply Guangzhou Guangdong embroidery workshops, as well as shops in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places, is gradually regaining our Guangdong silk market! ”

The perennial war has dealt an immeasurable blow to the silk industry in Shunde, making the silk manufacturing industry here sluggish for a time. However, with the capital injection and management of the Guangdong Business Alliance, as well as the extensive use of hydraulic machinery, silk production recovered very quickly. After all, this thing is in short supply there, even if it is in normal times, let alone now.

Don't worry about the market, which gives them the motivation to continue to expand. During this period, imitating the two towns of Longjiang and Longshan, the silk manufacturing industry integrating silkworm breeding, silk reeling, weaving, printing and dyeing, supplemented by vegetable planting for the daily consumption of industrial workers, the successful experience quickly spread to the entire territory of Shunde County. Even grain is no longer grown locally, but is purchased directly from other prefectures and counties.

In this way, it is no wonder that the county lord of this county will talk about it to his family in private, saying that the economy of Shunde County is now completely tied to silk manufacturing.

This is exactly what Chen Kai is happy to see, and it is also what these beneficiaries here are concerned about. The major shareholders talked eloquently about the development of the previous year to these shareholders in detail, and then mentioned the vision and plan for the next development of the shareholders who are in charge of the main business on a daily basis.

"For the silk weaving production in Shunde County, we have spread out all the stalls. Next, the county is more focused on further in-depth development. For example, plant more mulberry trees, breed more silkworms, and increase the output of silk reeling, spinning, and silk weaving. ”

"These will inevitably require more funds and personnel. In terms of funds, what we discussed is to still follow the old rules, invest a certain amount of money to obtain shares, and dividends with shares. As for the personnel, we have already sent someone to visit Mrs. Chen a few days ago, and Mrs. Chen said that Mrs. Fujun is happy to see that we can bring more people to work, and the recruitment market in the north of Zhaoqing Mansion will be open to us. ”

"The boss of the army is sympathetic to the people."

"Mrs. Chen is also a heroine among women, and women are not allowed to shave their eyebrows!"

Offstage, compliments came and went. They all know that the Shunde Silk Weaving Workshop was originally a joint-stock enterprise developed under the framework of the Guangdong Business Alliance, and there was a huge capital injection from the Guangdong Trading Company.

Representatives of the Guangdong Trading Company also attended the meeting, and the middle-aged shopkeeper sitting in the front row was Zheng Xiyuan's confidant family member who came from Zheng Hongkui.

The following sound lasted for a while, and the major shareholder re-opened his mouth and continued to speak the following words: "Next, we will continue to expand to the existing mulberry forests in other counties, whether it is the acquisition of mulberry silkworms, or further investment and factory, we must always do it first and seize the area." This is also what Mrs. Chen has taught. The target, after investigation, we initially chose two places, one is Xinhui County, where the population has decreased sharply, the channels of the government have been opened, and the land is very cheap; On the other hand, there are two counties of Nanhai and Panyu attached to the prefecture, not to mention that these two counties have a large amount of idle land, and there are also a lot of land allocated by the people who came back from Chaozhou, which can be used and benefit the township. ”

One south and one north, all of them can be selected, but the total amount of funds they want to pave at this stage is not enough to pave all the situations they want to pave, so they can only choose the most suitable place to do it first, a little bit of development, steady progress, and it is also more in line with the traditional businessman's style.

These two places have already been selected in advance. But which one to choose, they still decided to vote according to the rules. The ballot paper and pen and ink were sent, this time it was not like the original time when you had to write your position, the words "Xinhui", "Fucheng", "Both" and "Abstain" were already written on the ballot paper, and the shareholders only need to draw a circle on the handwriting to represent their opinions, and there is no need to worry about some discord with others, especially the opinions that may offend the government.

The servants handed out the paper and pen and ink, and then everyone hurriedly wrote with their heads down, and some servants walked by in order with ballot boxes in their arms......

Far away in the southwest of Guangdong, in the large cotton fields, the farmers employed by the Qiongzhou Cotton Spinning Association are also bent over and busy, completely ignoring the scorching sun overhead.

On the ridge of the cotton field, a group of well-dressed members of the Guangdong Business Alliance looked at the cotton field here, and the heroism in their chests was spontaneously born. However, compared with Shunde, which has a large area of mulberry forests as a backing, they have to buy land, cotton seeds, hire farmers, step by step, and the results will inevitably be much later.

"A good meal is not afraid of being late, and the output of silk is always no better than that of cotton. Moreover, the cotton cloth production in our Qiongzhou Mansion has a tradition, and if Huang Daopo hadn't returned to her hometown, the title of the clothes quilt in the world would not necessarily be anyone's. ”

The member said this confidently, and it immediately aroused the echo of everyone. In fact, after the rapid development of the Song and Yuan dynasties, by the Ming Dynasty, cotton had surpassed other raw materials such as silk, linen, and wool to become the most important textile raw materials in China. Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations" has recorded that "there is every inch of cotton cloth" and "there must be ten rooms of looms", which shows that cotton planting and cotton textile industry have spread all over the country at that time.

Before the Opium War, China was not only self-sufficient in cotton and cotton cloth, but also exported to Europe, the Americas, Japan and Southeast Asia. American merchants came to China to sell goods, mainly homespun cloth, not only to the United States, but also to Central and South America and even Western Europe. Britain also used to sell Chinese homespun cloth in large quantities. In the early 30 years of the 19th century, the average annual shipment of homespun cloth from Guangzhou was more than 1 million, and the highest number reached more than 3.3 million in 1819.

Last year, they had already purchased a large amount of cotton, and in terms of processing, with the gradual construction of workshops on the banks of the Limu River, the production of cotton cloth continued. With the help of hydraulic machinery, the efficiency is naturally much better than that of manpower.

"I heard that it is said that Shunde's silk production has rebounded rapidly, and there is a stake in the old man's family of Fujun......"

"The building near the water gets the moon first, but it's really cheap guys."

With the shares of the Chen family, the local government is naturally a green light, and it is easy to get through the customs. During this time, the people who heard the news were inevitably sour, but the old man with white hair at the head seemed much calmer, and soon gave them a reassuring pill.

"The old man made a special trip to Fucheng some time ago, and asked the shopkeeper Liu over there to send a letter to Cai Yuanwai. The reply has arrived, and Mrs. Chen said that she will inject capital into our Qiongzhou Cotton Spinning Association this year. It can be seen that the boss of Fujun treats us equally. ”

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