Listening to the roaring sound of the factory floor next door, his heart was tickled as if there were a hundred cats scratching, and he was eager to go next door to take a look at the mystery inside, but the cold gaze of the East Coast policeman who followed him stopped his impulse, so he could only stand outside in frustration, and make up for what was happening in the next workshop.

There is the woolen production workshop of the Dayuhe Machinery Qì Textile Factory, a national key secret enterprise, and the whole factory is tightly surrounded by a high wall, and strangers cannot freely enter the factory area without being accompanied by senior cadres of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At present, the domestic textiles on the east coast are mainly divided into two major parts, namely cotton cloth and woolen cloth, of which cotton cloth is the exclusive income of Ping'an Ji Qì Weaving Factory, and woolen wool is the forbidden part of Dayuhe Ji Qì Textile Factory.

In the past few years, the factory has produced an average of tens of thousands of woolen woolen wool per year, mainly in La Plata, Chile, Chalcas, Brazil, New Spain, Florida and even the Portuguese Congo and Angola on the east coast of the Atlantic, with an annual profit of more than 100,000 yuan, which is one of the important sources of profit for the east coast company.

The cooperation between the Genoese and the people of the East Coast included a package of agreements covering a wide range of industries, of which technical cooperation in the textile industry was an important part. The Doria family brought in more than a dozen employees from Lyon, Madrid and Cádiz who had worked in the textile industry for many years to participate in the negotiations with the East Coasters, some of whom were elite business personnel of the Saint-Georges comptoir and who were well versed in the consumer preferences and habits of the Spaniards; Some are experienced managers of the Lyon textile factory (run by Genoese) and are well versed in the production of all kinds of textiles, especially silk products.

Siligu was one of the top managers of the largest syndicate in the Republic of Genoa, the Comptoir de San Giorgio (which also operated a banking business), and he was a manager of the silk weaving factory in Lyon. Later, he entered the Spanish market and ran the Genoese textile business. He has lived in Madrid for more than 20 years. It's one of the top practitioners in the industry.

In fact, he himself had reservations about the cooperation initiated by the Doria family with the East Coast in the textile field, because the Genoese people in today's increasingly fierce market competition, the traditional woolen textile (wool from Spain) and cotton textile (cotton from Cyprus and France) have been declining, and at present, they are only relying on a slightly dominant position in the silk products (including silk, linen, wool and cotton blended products). Since I don't have much money on hand, why should I hand over this last hen that lays golden eggs to cooperate with others?

But that's just his own idea. According to Mario of the Doria family, even in the silk industry, the shape of the Genoese is gradually becoming less optimistic. On the one hand, the sericulture industry in the Italian states gradually started, and the capitalists in some regions (such as Lucca and Tuscany) gradually began to invest in the silk industry; The other is France, which is now on the rise of France. The mercantilist Mazarin government was wary of any outflow of capital from Livre (the East coasters were twice heavily taxed on textiles), and after years of war, the financially strapped French government was not sparing any profitable business, including the cotton and silk industries.

Therefore, it can be said that the Genoese merchants with a keen sense of smell have already felt the crisis, and they have gradually moved the silk industry from Lyon to Geneva and Lausanne in Switzerland, and at the same time they have begun to look for a new way out. And the amazing East Coasters are known throughout Europe for their low textile costs, so working with them to reduce costs is a great option. If there were many people in Genoa who were skeptical about cooperating with the pagan country of the East Coast, after so many years and discovering that the people of the East Coast had a certain ability to protect themselves. The idea of investing in the East Coast was proposed by the younger generation of Genoese business heirs, led by Mario, and this idea was quickly partially supported by the older generation.

Same with the grain industry. The Genoese in the textile industry also urgently needed to work with the East Coasters to reduce costs and cope with the increasing competition in the market. After all, Genoa's national strength is limited, and it does not have many advantages in technology, so it is much more difficult to compete with other countries in industry. And if you work with the East Coasters, it's clear that they can minimize costs, but at the same time they can dramatically increase production to capture more market share and make more profits—and that's almost a given.

It seemed to be a perfect cooperation, with each side taking what he wanted, and the Genoese might lose their silk weaving industry, which was already about to be lost, but would have gained a great market share and commercial profits, and the Genoese would inevitably demand that the East Coasters give them a monopoly on the sale of silk fabrics, otherwise the basis for cooperation between the two sides would no longer be established.

"Mr. Tao, the assistants I have brought are well versed in the Spanish consumption preferences, such as what you like to wear on the feast of St. Sebame, and what you like to wear on the day of the Assumption, and they will provide you with reasonable advice so that you can produce a marketable product. You don't have to doubt the commercial distribution network of our Genoese people, in Cadiz, Madrid, Valladolid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Naples, Palermo, Livorno, Turin and other cities, we have a complete distribution network and bank outlets, we can sell a qiē product to the people who need it as quickly as possible and at the right price. Seeing that he couldn't see the production workshop of the East Coast people, Sirigu turned to Tao Chenxi, director of the General Administration of Textile Industry of the East Coast Republic, who accompanied him, and said in Spanish: "You don't have to doubt the profits here, I have been operating in Spain for many years, and the profits in this are very rich." ”

"You see, our sincerity is so sufficient, why don't you allow us to cooperate in setting up a factory?" Sirigu asked: "I have brought a lot of skilled workers and professional managers, and there is no doubt about their business knowledge, I will build a brand new textile factory with both of us, and then put the people I brought in it, which will be very helpful for production." ”

"It's okay to co-fund a factory, but it's impossible for you to ask for a 50% share." Tao Chenxi refused without thinking about it, and he also used Spanish: "We will give you a quarter of the share at most, and you can rest assured that you will share the dividends, but you must not ask to participate in the production and operation of the factory." Also, the people you bring with you can be consultants for the new factory, and we will pay them a higher salary, but they will also not be allowed to participate in the daily production. This is a non-negotiable condition for our Government, and I hope you will understand it. ”

Want to trade the market for technology? No way! Tao Chenxi sneered in his heart, what we value is nothing more than some customer information you have, business network and convenient banking services (receipts), maybe you have some unique features in the silk weaving industry that are worth learning from, but this is by no means the reason for us to hand over our technology to you. Set up a factory and operate together? What a joke! The fact that this factory can give you a quarter of the equity is already because you can provide a lot of help, otherwise you don't even think of 1%.

Hearing Tao Chenxi's non-negotiable words, Sirigu's face also darkened a little: "Don't you consider the issue of raw material imports?" There are some areas in Italy where there is a large-scale sericulture industry, and this is all in our hands, what if we ask for an increase in shares with this shareholding? Can you ignore this? ”

"I'm sorry, but I've never heard of a large-scale sericulture industry in Italy. Maybe in some remote places, but both in terms of quality and yield, if I remember correctly, your silk weaving factory in Lyon uses raw silk imported from Persia. As for the sericulture industry in Italy, it is not yet on the table! Tao Chenxi continued to strike mercilessly, and the strong smell of gunpowder between his words made it impossible to imagine that this was a reception of "foreign friends".

In fact, Tao Chenxi is right, at this time, whether it is Italy or France, although the sericulture industry has begun to develop to a certain extent, but it is still not a climate, maybe it is a problem of climate or breeding technology, maybe it is a mutation when silkworm seeds came from the Eastern Roman Empire, in short, the sericulture industry in these two countries has been very problematic, and they have to buy Persian silk from the Ottoman Empire for re-export sales.

At this time, the country of Persia has been developing sericulture for nearly a thousand years, and they should have obtained silkworm seeds, breeding and silk cutting technology from Khotan in the Western Regions of China in the fifth century AD. It is difficult to judge when the technology was acquired in Khotan, perhaps during the Eastern Han Dynasty, perhaps during the Western Jin Dynasty, in short, it was stolen from the Central Plains. After silkworm breeding and breeding technology were introduced to Khotan, the desert oasis towns in the Western Regions were soon filled with large and small silk farms, but Khotan was the only country that mastered the technology of silk cutting.

Sericulture in Persia was on a large scale at this time, and the neighbouring region of Kashmir was also rich in silk, but wild silk. That is, the silkworms in Kashmir are not bred in captivity, but are native to the local population, and the local natives harvest the cocoons from the wild and then reprocess them. Wild silk has coarser fibres than domestic silk, but it is tough and durable, and it is also an excellent raw material, and the people of the east coast have already heard about this from the Portuguese, so they are not afraid of the Genoese threat at this time.

"You don't have to worry about the problem of raw materials." Tao Chenxi said with a straight face, "We will find a way to import it from the Ottoman Empire, it shouldn't be difficult." ”

Tao Chenxi said this, but in fact, what he wanted in his heart was to let the people of the New China Pioneer Team take a boat to try to contact the Persians or Kashmiris. After all, it is cheaper to import raw materials from other people than second-hand things from the Ottomans, which is extremely beneficial for controlling costs. (To be continued......)