Section 424 The Little People of the Great Era (5)

Zhang Youfu couldn't live in the fort, and used an ox cart to carry his Fanren concubine to the city to take refuge in his wife, the cow is his own, since he was made difficult by the chief of security, he was ruthless, and bought a cow in anger, and did not borrow the cow of the official family.

In fact, Zhang Youfu is not satisfied with marrying a girl, but the girl will serve people in bed, and she is very wild, so that he has a different kind of stimulation, but he is not at ease, and the girl has no woman's virtue. Seeing the sky, staring at the young offspring in the castle, the people watching were very angry.

After entering the city, Zhang Youfu was relieved.

He suddenly found that his wife Cai had also changed and became different from before. In the past, Cai's was cautious when talking to people. But now he is majestic in the factory, and he is shouting at everyone. And talking and laughing with the Yiren in the factory made Zhang Youfu very uneasy.

Xiao Fannu is even more disagreeable, walking around the city, needless to say, to see those young offspring, more young offspring.

Half a year after entering the city, Cai, who thought that he could not give birth, was pregnant again, and gave birth to another son to Zhang Youfu at the end of the year. This must be his species, not with Yi, otherwise it is blue-eyed. My wife still has women's virtues, so I can rest assured of my wife, because only one of the Yiren hired from the United States in the factory is a man, and the others are women.

Cai Li went back to China, and when he came back, he brought a lot of seeds, saying that he bought colored cotton seeds from the area of Songjiang Prefecture, and that Cai Hexing would produce authentic Nanjing cloth in the future.

Now the world's color cotton, only China's Songjiang Prefecture into a scale of planting, so the output has not been large, the Chinese government and the government stipulates that the government with color cotton, cloud brocade and other high-grade fabrics, but also caused the shortage of Nanjing cloth.

The British thought that Nanjing was well clothed because of the good colored cotton, and a few years ago there was a case of the British stealing seeds, and they were imprisoned for several years. Cai Li also stole it, and if he was caught, he would go to jail.

But this is not the case, the British have long stolen the colored cotton seeds, introduced them in India, and successfully cultivated them. The British also produced Nanking cloth in India, but it did not sell well, just like the cotton cloth of the Mexican Indians.

Cai Li talked to Cai's for a long time, and told him all about what he had seen and heard in China, and he lamented that the Nanjing cloth produced by himself could only deceive Americans and hillbillies, and it was not authentic Nanjing cloth at all. He told Cai's that the Nanjing cloth in Songjiang Mansion has a different appearance every year, and there are special designers to design colors, patterns, and the best textile textiles. And a lot of machines are used, which are small and delicate, and cannot be done manually.

He personally visited several designers, and he followed them on a touring of the landscape. He found that these designers had a very high level of art. Some people like to find inspiration in landscape gardens, some like to observe the murals of temples, and some people spend their days in museums copying the paintings and calligraphy of the ancients.

Designer design, skillful craftsman, this is completely the French luxury system, has taken root in Nanjing cloth. Cai was also dumbfounded, he had heard that the silk industry was like this before, but he didn't expect the weaving industry to become like this. In this comparison, the Nanjing cloth she weaves with a similar style is really not worth mentioning. This kind of Nanjing cloth can no longer be called cloth, but is similar to the pattern cloth that is directly patterned by Yunjin. In fact, Chinese craftsmen did introduce some brocade weaving techniques into the production of Nanjing cloth.

Fortunately, the output of Nanjing cloth has always been limited, and the color of the colored cotton introduced to India by the British has changed, probably because the climate is different, but these colored cotton has not been as the British imagined, the Nanjing cloth industry has risen in India, but has become a raw material to be sold back to China again. Chinese designers added Indian colored cotton, which enriched the content of Nanjing cloth. Just as the French imported Chinese silk and made luxury goods to sell well in Europe, the cultural industry, the British could not play with it.

Cai is very worried, she is good at production, but it is difficult for her to engage in design.

Cai Li told her not to worry, he signed an agreement with several Chinese designers, and these designers would send in their designs every year, and he would pay them according to the sales volume. He also went to China to start another business, which was to sell locally grown colored cotton to Chinese factories. Just like the Chinese colored cotton mutated in India, the color cotton in Mexico has also changed in the United States, which is not better, but there are differences.

As for the American Nanjing cloth he brought, it was completely unmarketable, and it was inferior in quality, color, and design, and could not be sold at all. On the contrary, it was the colored cotton cloth produced by the Mexican natives that made some designers quite interested, and they hoped that Cai Li would send them more American colored cloths, and they felt that the other party's textile techniques were a little chic.

Cai Li knows that these designers are looking for inspiration, not that the cloth of the natives is really good. So he had an idea and told these people that there were a lot of local products in the Americas, and he could help send samples back, and even help copy some South American murals and gods. That's when he moved a few designers who were willing to let him use their designs.

Cai Li also brought back a complete set of machinery and equipment, very strange, the Chinese government banned the export of colored cotton seeds, but did not refuse the export of these machines for weaving Nanjing cloth, the Chinese made a lot of innovations, the Nanjing cloth was completely steam powered. The machines are not large, but the output is still much higher than that of manual work, especially the manpower saving, which is what Cai Li values the most.

When the machine arrived in Little Rock, let Cai try it first, and after figuring out the principle, teach it to others. At the same time, a large number of people were found to prevent it, and the production of Nanjing cloth was further expanded. In addition to local supplements, the raw materials that are insufficient are also ordered from India.

Cai Li was very shrewd, he kept an eye on the production of cloth in Nanjing, although the cotton in the Americas was very cheap and exported to China in large quantities, he just did not touch the white cloth. In the past two years, no one has considered building a factory, but the cloth produced is absolutely unmarketable, the manpower in the Americas is too expensive, and the cotton cloth produced is more expensive than the one imported from China, and the quality is not comparable.

But Nanjing cloth is different, this kind of cotton cloth has the taste of luxury, the world's output is not large, the scarcity is not as good as silk products, but it is much scarcer than ordinary cloth, and China's local consumption power is too strong, no matter how rich the Americas are, the rich cannot add up more than China.

Therefore, Nanjing cloth has always been sold in the United States, even if it is Cai's imitation of Xibei goods.

Unfortunately, imitators appeared in a race to appear, and more than a dozen Nanjing cloth factories appeared in Little Rock City alone.

However, Cai Li took the first step, returned to China to retrieve the scriptures, and established contacts with domestic designers, who will use colored cotton from the Americas and India to design different schemes. Their design is not just a pattern, professional designers, will also consider the technology and methods of weaving, otherwise there is no need for professional designers, directly find painters, in fact, how to design complex pictures, design into a textile process, is the embodiment of the professional ability of these designers. Patterns are just the most superficial appearance.

Cai's hands are handicapped, but she is ingenious, she doesn't need to weave herself, she only needs to explore the technology, and she quickly understands the principles of those new machines in China and teaches others. But also got new designs, according to which the product was realized on the machine, and a new Nanjing cloth was born.

In a few years, Cai's accumulated a lot of wealth, of course, the factory is not her alone, she is just a partner. But this was enough for her to get a dividend of tens of thousands of taels and return to her hometown to build a bigger mansion. Not to go back to Wangjiabaozi, but to go back to China, back to the countryside of Huating.

As for the royal fort, it was almost destroyed in the rebellion of the Indians again. Later, the rebellious Indian tribe was killed by the officers and soldiers, and Wang Baochang was killed while resisting the Indians. The new chief is his son, and the royal fort is still worthy of the name.

Young Master Wang was more enlightened than his father, and asked the Cai family to return to his hometown to open a factory, so that some orphans and widows could make a living. At this time, Wangjiabaozi already had more than 300 households, and had become a small town, with its own wharf and steam ships to dock at any time. It is surrounded by endless cotton fields, most of which are colored cotton.

Because of its prosperity, it attracted the invasion of the impoverished Indians, but this land is like this, blood and prosperity are intertwined, and there are infinite possibilities.

After the government suppressed the Indian rebellion in the area, the rebellious Indians were dismissed, and only the rebellious Indian villages of women and children were incorporated into the royal fort, and the Indian women and children were placed in new factories. Wangjiabaozi was also changed to Wangjia Town, covering eight surrounding villages with a population of thousands.

Xiao Wang Baochang hopes that Wangjia Town can become Wangjia County, and there is only one condition for establishing a county, with a population of more than 100,000 people. It's impossible to attract immigrants, but it's possible to recruit workers, so Mr. Wang, who has studied in China, hopes to increase the population of Wangjia Town to 100,000 by opening a factory.

At that time, he was the county magistrate, the real court official.

Zhang Youfu married another concubine, and he wanted to have more sons.

Chua is so focused on the factory that she learns to read and write, and she hopes to become a designer.

Cai Li continued to expand his cotton and cotton cloth trade, he bought land in Little Rock, built larger warehouses, opened more than a dozen branches along the river, imported cotton cloth from China, purchased cotton from the Americas, and set up a warehouse in New Orleans, where he hoped to be the largest cotton cloth merchant in the Americas.

Everyone has their own dreams, and the same is true for the little people, if these dreams have the possibility of coming true, it is lucky for the little people, because there are not many such times.

There are countless such little people, who have nowhere to find a livelihood in China, but they quickly become the pride of the people when they come to the Americas.

The reason is simple, it's just a matter of resources. In your homeland, if you want to be an official, you need to study hard, you want to be a designer, you need special training, and you need to put in more effort than ordinary people, draw artistic inspiration from all over the world, and express it through professional knowledge.

In the Americas, you may simply copy some of the technology in China, and you may become an industrialist; If you are more adventurous than ordinary people, you may become a wealthy businessman; It is even possible to become a prefectural magistrate with even a not-so-clever administrative ability.

It's not that immigrants are smarter and harder, it's that they have more resources on average than their compatriots back home.

As a result, there was a situation in Little Rock where a disabled female worker like Cai became an industrialist; A well-developed silk weaving industry was born in California; The leather industry was born in Sancai City. The wave of China's industrial revolution has finally reached the territory of North America.

So that this is no longer just a commodity market and raw material production area, a large number of advantageous industries have emerged, squeezed into China's industrial chain. The United States, which is across the river from China's North American territory, is no less impressive, and its industry is even more than that. In this big era, it quickly stands out and transforms from a small country to a big country.