On March 30, 1638, the weather was fine and the southwest wind was force six.

Two merchant ships from San Vicente, Brazil, slowly docked at berths 1 and 2 of the commercial terminal of Port Vostil, marking the initial recovery of Port Vostyang, the largest port in the South Atlantic, from a suffocating blockade that lasted for a year and a half.

The two Brazilian merchant ships were laden with cotton, pig iron, wool, and ship timber that were urgently needed on the east coast. Almeida's younger brother, seventeen-year-old Sebastian, personally escorted the cargo on board. Considering that the Easterners might not be able to pay for the goods for the time being, Sebastian was even authorized by his family to sell the goods on credit to the Easterners before he left, which was a blatant overture.

But the Almeida family had good reasons to do so. It is important to know that the people of the East Coast made peace under the hands of the famous British East India Company, which is not something that anyone can easily do.

The Portuguese, for example, faced the Dutch West India Company, which was far inferior in strength to those British companies, but in the past few years they have lost more than they won, and they have lost a large and vast territory in the northeast of Brazil. Had it not been for the somewhat contented Dutchman's eagerness to digest the fruits of victory, they might not even be able to hold on to south-central Brazil. Thus, as the local white aristocratic elite of Brazil, the Almeida family instinctively made overtures to the East Coasters. Blanco's revelation of valuable information during negotiations with Britain on the East Coast and the first delivery to the door were an instinctive thigh-hugging behavior of the local Brazilian aristocracy.

In the minds of these native Brazilian whites, the Spaniards are disgusting, and even the Portuguese from the Iberian Peninsula are not so comfortable. These people have never really thought about Brazilians. They are all colonizers, predators in some way. Brazil's future depends on the country's own "civilized people". Of course. At present, the strength of the native white people in Brazil is still very weak, so it is natural to find a strong backer for themselves. Even better, this new patron is still a country in the New World, not far from Brazil, and can easily come to support in case of trouble – if people want to.

That's what Brazilians have in mind. The Executive Committee is well aware of their intentions, given the good cooperative relationship between the two parties and the complementary industrial economy at this stage. The Executive Committee was also determined to maintain good relations with the indigenous white aristocratic families of Brazil.

The cotton and wool brought in by the Brazilians were immediately transported by the coastal transport ships that resumed operations to the Ping'an Machine Weaving Factory in Ping'an Town, and then the workers who returned to work cheered and threw themselves into the intense production. During the war, transportation and trade were cut off, and the workers had to grow cotton and flax in large quantities under the organization of the town government, and on the other hand, they relied on the small harvested cotton harvested locally and in Fort Corps for intermittent production to meet the demand of the domestic market and neighboring Brazil, La Plata, etc.

Because Ping An Machine Weaving Factory adopts a piecework wage system, that is, the higher the output of a team, the higher the bonus and welfare. However, this kind of production situation of producing three or four thousand pieces of cloth every month is obviously not enough to ensure that they receive the enviable high income of the past, and you must know that the monthly salary of the textile factory workers in the past was 5-6 yuan in line with that of the soldiers, and I don't know how many ordinary people in Ping'an Town could not squeeze into the factory.

But it's been more than a year. The market of the workers of Ping An Machine Weaving Factory is bearish all the way, and they can pick and choose from objects in the past. Therefore. When the war ended, the first to cheer were the factory workers of all sizes in the country. They are most concerned about their own interests, and the end of the war means that the factory can operate normally, and they can share in the benefits of the normal production of the factory.

Tao Chenxi, director of the General Administration of Textile Industry, quickly rushed back to the factory in Ping'an New Town from his country villa in Ping'an Town, and began to supervise production as soon as possible. After fishing in the countryside fish pond for more than a year, his body was almost rusty, and after the war began, he, the head of the bureau in charge of the domestic textile industry, fell into an embarrassing state of having nothing to do, and happened to be sick at this time, so he simply went home to recuperate.

At this moment, after hearing the good news that the factory can finally produce at full capacity, this guy who has just completed his third marriage during the recuperation period almost instantly left his new wife full of resentment, a young lady from Brazil, and began to eat and live in the factory, full of passion for his career.

Recently, the factory has purchased some "Barbarian-1 modified (textile general)" steam engines from the First Machinery Factory to replace some of the hydraulic machinery. Although the outside world has been blocked, Li Hongxing in the boiler workshop of a machine factory has not been idle for more than a year. After the high-precision boring machine (in fact, the machining accuracy is only more than 1 millimeter) is in place, the machining accuracy of the cylinder of the civil steam engine is finally barely up to the standard, so the boiler workshop has developed a series of civil steam engine models, such as the general type of mine, the general type of textile, the general type of forging hammer and so on.

In the planning of the Government Council, the power of these textile machinery will be gradually replaced by steam engines by hydraulic power in the future. After all, the efficiency of the steam engine is much stronger than that of hydropower, and it is relatively stable.

After more than several years of continuous research and improvement, the civil steam engine with low processing accuracy requirements has a certain practical value, and the average trouble-free working time has been greatly extended. At present, it has been widely used in mines, factories, wharves and farmland water conservancy facilities, not only has achieved great economic value, but more importantly, it has also trained a large number of steam engine design, application technology personnel and skilled production and maintenance workers, which has played a huge role in promoting the development of the entire industry.

Tao Chenxi walked around in front of several steam looms, watching the beautiful patterns of cloth being woven, and he sincerely felt a great sense of pleasure. Since the Henan Glass Factory was able to produce qualified glassware in large quantities, they relied on simple and limited knowledge of organic chemistry, and summed up the molecular structure and use of benzene, aniline, anthracene and other substances separated from coal tar through countless experiments, and then repeated experiments, and finally made synthetic dyes such as aniline violet, magenta, aniline black, aniline cyanine, aniline red, aniline yellow and so on under laboratory conditions.

Song Qiang, the head of the chemistry group and a former high school chemistry teacher, said with great interest: if they are given enough time and materials, they will be able to study more derivatized dyes. As long as the coal tar output of the coking plant is stable, they will be able to completely set up the dye factory, and the synthetic dye industry will surely become a pearl in the organic chemical industry on the east coast during the holiday season.

Considering that the Dutch already possessed improved textile machinery with high efficiency (although it was still far from being comparable to the machines of the East Coasters), they would have to invest huge sums of money in the development of new textile machinery and the reorganization of new factory production models in order to occupy the market and compete with the East Coasters. With the Dutch's developed capitalist economy and the advantages of fully mobile talents, perhaps in the near future, they will be able to drum up more efficient textile machinery.

At that time, the advantages of East Coast Textiles were not much. Compared to the almost negligible cost of shipping and the cheap wages of workers in the Dutch and English, the competitiveness of East Coast textiles is bound to plummet. Therefore, it is necessary to take precautions at this stage. The main product of the General Administration of Textile Industry is dyed fabric, which focuses on the lucrative high-end calico market.

At present, the high-end floral cloth market in Europe is basically monopolized by calico from India. The cotton cloth woven from Indian long-staple cotton is of excellent workmanship and quality, supplemented by a variety of bright natural dyes produced in India, and the competitiveness of its products can be seen. However, this Indian cloth is not without weaknesses, first of all, because it uses natural dyes, and its color is not bright enough; Secondly, its staining fastness is also poor, not washable, wear-resistant, and not resistant to exposure to the sun.

Synthetic dyes do not have this problem, their colors are bright enough, and their dyeing fastness is extremely high, which can completely knock the current high-end Indian calico into the dust. One can imagine what a sensation it caused when the East Coasters introduced these new dyed fabrics to Europe. I still remember that back then, after Baiqin first synthesized aniline violet dye, Queen Victoria of England wore such a dyed purple dress to her daughter's wedding. This brightly colored purple dress fascinated everyone present at the time, and Bai Qin made a windfall because of it.

Of course, the specific timing of the launch of the new dyed cloth will be determined by the Executive Committee. They don't want to rush into the rush of these high-end products that are bound to be coveted before they're ready. At that time, the red-eyed Europeans might band together to plunder the East Coasters. In an age where the law of the jungle prevails and everything seems so naked, anything is possible.

Throughout April, the Ping An Machine Weaving Factory produced 19,000 pieces of white cotton cloth and 1,000 pieces of dyed cloth at full capacity; At the same time, the Dayuhe Machine Textile Factory in Dongfang County also produced 300 horses of woolen wool and 2,500 pieces of white cotton cloth; The textile industry in the entire East Coast Republic of China finally ushered in a full recovery after the war, and the income of workers also ushered in an explosive growth. (To be continued......)