On the way here, even the moment they received the invitation, the vast majority of people present, and even almost everyone could be said to have decided that Chen Kai was not rich in money, so he had to persuade them to donate money and materials. In this regard, everyone is even different from the government and the people, especially Chen Kai's current status in Fujian and Guangdong provinces, although these businessmen seem to have a lofty status in front of ordinary people, but they are still a group of fat sheep when they really face the officials.

I didn't dare to offend, and naturally I didn't dare to delay the time, for fear of causing dissatisfaction with the government, so I rushed to Hong Kong one by one. Bleeding seems to be inevitable for them, it is nothing more than how much they have to lose, and whether they can gain something from their cooperation with the Ming army over the years, or even lose a little bit.

This kind of apprehension lasted until this moment, until Chen Kai's words came out, and everyone listened to it, and it was like a thunderclap in their ears, and they were directly stunned on the spot.

"Make money!"

It is a fact that businessmen seek wealth, but they say it so blatantly, especially a high-level civil official, a feudal official is so outspoken and has no scruples, how have they ever seen such an alternative character. You must know that there is still a clean official like Hai Rui in these years, even if he is the most honest, some conventional gray income is inevitable, but even if everyone seeks profits, how can anyone ever see a civil official blatantly say this in front of so many people.

A merchant sitting on the back originally planned to take the lead when echoing, so pleasing to someone, who knew that what he heard was such an opening remark, and the echoing words were not up and down in his throat, and from time to time he made a uh-uh-uh sound, and he didn't know where he thought that the hen was laying eggs in the merchant's clothes.

In a moment of astonishment, Cai Cheng took the lead in standing up and clapped his palms. With a leader, and Chen Kai's cronies, everyone immediately stood up and applauded as if they had been untied, so as to cover up the embarrassment at the moment.

The applause gradually dissipated under the action of Chen Kai's hands pressing down, but the tone had been set. Returning to the things that these businessmen are best at and most important, in the following time, the echoes in the lobby from the very beginning are Chen Kai's speech and everyone's echo, gradually, the speeches of everyone present are more and more unconsciously, and later, it is completely reversed.

The meeting began in the morning, and the planned lunch break was canceled by the increasingly excited businessmen. So, I was so hungry and talked about it until the night, dragging my tired body, and the businessmen present reluctantly ended the day's meeting.

In the two days before and after, the meeting first imagined the future, and then formulated rules and regulations on the basis of ensuring the collective interests of the members, until everything was over, and the meeting was completely concluded.

It's just that, whether it is imagining the future or formulating systems, Chen Kai without exception found that the rules and regulations he had already customized were not as practical as those set by these businessmen, and they always seemed a little too much for the 21st century. So, later, he simply let it go and let these businessmen discuss it on their own.

According to the rules of the meeting, the businessmen present elected a special committee to adjudicate disputes between members within the GDH Business Alliance. However, the chairman of this committee, they didn't dare to work hard Chen Kai, who had a lot of opportunities, simply voted unanimously to elect Cai Cheng to be the post.

When the meeting officially ended, Chen Kai held a banquet at the Honghua Pavilion, and the participants were also happy to attend the banquet to celebrate the meeting that was about to change them and their respective families. Only at the end of the meeting, Nie Yiniang, who had been watching coldly for the past two days, confessed her thoughts to Chen Kai.

"Fu Jun, if you do this, will you be tabooed by the country's surname. After all, this sea trade thing ......"

"I have a tacit understanding with the surname of the country in this matter, and the matter of Haimao is still the responsibility of Jianping Hou, and he does not conflict with what I want to do."

The headquarters of the Guangdong Business Alliance is located on Hong Kong Island, and the Honghua Pavilion will be used for the time being, and will be adjusted after the construction is completed. However, members are required to return to their hometowns to set up and run the process first, even for the members of the committee. In the next two days, Chen Kai took the time to summon a group of maritime merchants and ship owners who had come to visit earlier, listened to their views on the current trade environment in Guangdong, and hurriedly set off to return to Guangzhou.

In the city of Guangzhou, the jungles have been very lively in recent days, and the men, women and children who go to the incense are rubbing shoulders one after another, and the flow of people has hardly been interrupted. So much so, if it weren't for the curfew policy still in the city, those Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, nunnery, mosques and so on would have to consider whether to serve the believers all night.

It's not that the people in the city are happy, but because the two counties of Panyu and Nanhai issued announcements, which further confirmed the policy of land division, and announced Chen Kai's compensation policy for the delay in land division - in this world, it has always been what the government says, and the people listen, even if they are dissatisfied, they are at most secretly complaining.

For example, the nominal actions of the people against the government, such as anti-donation and anti-tax activities, are actually all backed by gentry, local tyrants, and even officials. And now, without anyone expressing dissatisfaction, and without the covert collusion and instigation of any powerful person, Chen Kai took the lead in proposing to compensate for the loss. For such a character who has always been known for his words, this is obviously inevitable, even if the date of compensation is not mentioned, but with the word Chen Kai, the local people are still very relieved.

With such a good news at the bottom, soon, I don't know where the news came, saying that Chen Kai's wife and a pair of children were about to reunite with Chen Kai from Chaozhou to Guangzhou.

Ten thousand families are born of Buddha, this word often has an exaggerated component, but in the eyes of the people of Guangzhou, it is the most appropriate to describe Chen Kai in their minds. Thanks to Chen Kai's kindness, the local people in Guangzhou rushed to the jungle to pray for Zheng Xiyuan and Chen Kai's children, and it has even become a trend, driving those businessmen and ship owners who go to Guangzhou to do business to imitate more.

The governor's wife, son, and lady were still on their way, but the meeting in Hong Kong ended first. The Guangzhou businessmen who were able to attend the meeting were basically rescued by Chen Kai from the city of Guangzhou, and they were Chen Kai's staunchest supporters. It's just that it's not just them who bind.

Returning to Guangzhou, the clubhouse of the Guangzhou branch of the Guangdong Business Alliance was in place within two days. According to the regulations set in the past few days, the businessmen organized their own meetings to discuss the direction of development, and in Guangdong, they still have to rely on the existing fist industry and specialties to take the first step.

The discussion, in fact, had already begun on the ship back, and even in the middle of the meeting, they had their original plan. In the meantime, after weighing the pros and cons according to their respective news channels, everyone went to various places except for the business they were still doing.

Shunde County, which is located in the area south of Guangzhou Province and north of Xiangshan County. It is famous for planting mulberry and raising silkworms and silk textiles, and it has been an extremely important silk and silk production area in Guangdong as early as the Song Dynasty.

Entering the Ming Dynasty, during the Yongle period, the annual turnover of soil silk in the bazaars of Longjiang and Longxu alone was as high as more than two tons. During the Jiajing period, due to the rebellion of the Japanese invaders, the Ming court closed the ports of Quanzhou in Fujian and Ningbo in Zhejiang, making Guangzhou's status as a foreign trade center more prominent. Influenced and stimulated by this, Shunde's sericulture, silk industry flourished, only 40 years, Shunde County Longjiang's famous silk fabrics "jade steps", "willow leaves" and "silk" have been listed as tribute, which shows that the quality of Shunde silk is superior.

However, since the death of the Ming Dynasty, there has been endless chaos in Guangdong. Li Chengdong swept through Liangguang, Lingnan Sanzhong raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, Li Chengdong anyway, and Shang Geng's two feudal domains went south, all of which caused varying degrees of damage to the local sericulture and silk industries.

A group of businessmen who decided to come to Shunde to inspect the sericulture and silk industry set off from Guangzhou and soon arrived at Longjiang in Shunde County. This is one of the most important production areas of silk in Shunde, with mulberry trees all over the mountains, machine workshops and machine households abound. With hundreds of years of development, as well as the policy stimulus of the Jiajing period, plus the vigorous development of Shanghai trade, this scale has been achieved.

However, when the merchants arrived, they saw a completely different scene. The mulberry forests outside the town were also cut down and burned, and they were gnawed by wolf-toothed dogs, which was very conspicuous even in the lush greenery of that summer. In the mulberry forest, you can't see groups of people picking, sporadic and not large-scale. When the car drove to the outside of Longjiang Town, the dense population no longer existed to match the dilapidated houses in the town, full of ruins, although there are always people tinkering, but it has long disappeared from the old view.

"In the past few years of war, this place has suffered a lot. Last year, hey. ”

Longjiang Town of Shunde County, which is located in the west of Shunde County, looks at Gaoming across the river to the west, reaches Foshan in the north, and Jiangmen and Xinhui in the south, and is in the place where the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties frequently clashed after the siege of Xinhui. Even at the end of the Battle of Jiangmen, when the rule of the Qing court in Guangdong could be declared over, Shang Kexi and Zhu Mala fled with the remnants of the Eight Banners Army and returned, preparing to return to Guangzhou via Foshan.

"Let's take a look at the machine shop first."

The leading merchant family was a maritime merchant in the early years, and later the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties fought repeatedly in Guangdong, and the world was not good, so it was inevitable that the family would fall in the middle of the road, especially when he fled from Guangzhou City, and most of the family's industries were lost here. In the past few years, he has been conscientious and conscientious in Chaozhou, and his children and nephews have also worked in the government, and his life is slightly better. When he returned to Guangzhou this year, the goods he had lost were naturally nowhere to be found, but the real estate was taken back under Chen Kai's policy.

Revitalizing the family business is the wish of almost all the people of Guangzhou who can return to their homeland. Here, I came to Longjiang in order to open up the situation in the sericulture and silk industry. Fortunately, they were businessmen before they left Guangzhou, and they had rich connections, even if the times changed, there were always some connections that could be used.

Rushed to the agreed machine shop, this one was not too big in the town, it was nothing more than a medium scale. But now, on the contrary, it is the largest machine shop in the local area - it is not that he has achieved an expansion that surpasses his peers, and even his current scale is still smaller than it was at the beginning, but other machine shops larger than him have either gone bankrupt or died under the disaster of the past few years, but he has inexplicably stood out.

The workshop of the machine workshop is not dilapidated, but it always reveals a chaotic smell, and several people entered the gate under the guidance of the owner of the machine workshop, and they entered the workshop directly without looking at any raw material reserves.

Step into it, the spinning wheel is in operation, and there is a loom in the back, weaving the silk threads into smooth silk. In the meantime, all the female workers were working there, and the merchant who was the leader looked at it, but turned his head to ask him, "Why don't you turn the spinning wheel with water?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the entourage refocused their attention on the small spinning wheels that were cranked by hand and pedal, but the owner of the machine was a little embarrassed.

In fact, as early as the Southern Song Dynasty, there were already water-powered spinning wheels in China, which were converted from water to large spinning wheels. It is a machine that uses water power as power, and according to historical records and books, it is about 9 meters long and 2 high. 7 meters, with two leather rope transmission to make 32 spindles run, each car can add 100 pounds of hemp yarn per day.

This kind of hydraulic machinery can definitely throw those hand-cranked and pedaled out of the eight streets in terms of work efficiency, but there is no such thing here, but a bunch of household spinning wheels are popular here.

"Hey." Before he spoke, he sighed first. The owner of the machine shop shook his head, and led everyone to a warehouse, opened the door, and the sun blew the dust, and everywhere he saw, there were many parts piled up there, obviously disassembled. If you look closely, some of them have some burnt marks, while others don't, and it's just that there is no place to support them before they can be separated.

"It's not that I don't want to use this water to turn a large spinning wheel, it's really that I can't go down to the river, and secondly, even if I go down to the ground and build a factory, female workers, silk, and many other things are also problems. Moreover, these have been done in my family for many years, and the villagers in the township are not good at getting rid of them. ”

These are all practical problems, and the owner of the machine has a bitter look on his face. Hearing this, the businessman who was the leader laughed out loud: "If you say anything else, it may be bad, but with Chen Fujun here, this is just a small matter." ”