When Cai heard this, how could she not be interested, her family is the poorest family in the fort, even if she started weaving, but it is still much poorer than the Baochang's family and the old Shandong family, and it is still the last in the village, and it is of course good to be able to weave Nanjing cloth to subsidize the family.

So he agreed to Cai Li's idea, and agreed that Cai Li would send two men to help deliver the goods to the dock, and then load the ship before going back. The ship still stopped at the town first, and the chief of the security guard was already waiting here to help unload the cargo, load it and transport it back to the fort.

I went back and told the chief that I couldn't buy real Nanjing cloth in the whole city, and that the Chinese government had bought too much Nanjing cloth, which was in short supply in China, and that it couldn't be bought at all without a big price abroad, and the price had more than doubled in the past two years. He also told the chief's wife that she had bought some colored cotton and woven Nanjing cloth by herself, even if it was a congratulatory gift to the chief's family.

When Mrs. heard that she didn't want money, she was also satisfied, and even said that she would break the bank.

But a few days later, Cai's hard-woven cloth, but Mrs. was not satisfied, her son got married, and had to wear red and green, but Cai's cloth was too light. Cai explained that Nanjing cloth is like this, the color is light, and officials love to wear it, which is the official color.

The chief of the security guard clapped the board, saying that the groom official is also an official, so he used this Nanjing cloth.

After Cai's continued to weave cloth, saved enough amount, and then asked her husband to send it to the county to buy, but Cai Li gave a price she couldn't think of, and bought her cloth at five times the price of ordinary cloth, which made Cai's grateful, she still had a lot of colored cotton left in her hand, thinking that she could make tens of thousands of dollars by weaving it all, which even made her a little uneasy, and told her husband not to say it.

At this time, the Cai family had not yet discovered her own value, and she did not know that their family was actually very special compared to other immigrants.

They are almost the first generation of urban migrants, who were mainly farmers before China's urbanization has not yet reached an era of massive emigration of urban residents. The war led to the collapse of industry and commerce, and some city dwellers began to move out. Of course, the number is very scarce, because most of China's urban people have not broken away from the rural areas, and when the cities cannot survive, they go back to the countryside to live, and the countryside is a reservoir of labor and a safe haven.

Because of misfortune, the Zhang family cut off ties with the rural society, so they chose to emigrate, and there are families like them, but there are very few. What's even more rare is that Chua is a skilled worker, which is even more lacking in the Americas. If Cai's was not disabled, even if the market was bad in the past few years, a skilled worker like her would not have lost her job. So she is both a first-generation urban immigrant and a first-generation skilled immigrant.

Cai's hands are disabled, she weaves very slowly, and she can't use big machines, but her work is very fine. And she is indeed very knowledgeable, she through different color cotton and white flower ratio, with two kinds of color cotton is hard to weave five colors, try to do like China's Nanjing cloth.

After the war, the world market ushered in a boom, and the Americas were already a rich region with high consumption power, and her Nanjing cloth quickly became a bestseller.

With gratitude to Cai Li, Cai's was taken to the city by Cai Li from time to time to help, and Zhang Youfu did not stop him, because every time he came back, his wife would bring some money, and he followed him a few times, and he did not doubt it, knowing that his wife was going to help see the goods. Every time a cargo ship arrived, Cai Li would ask Cai to help inspect it so as not to be fooled, and then he would give a reward.

Cai's has been weaving Nanjing cloth, and everything is going well, and it is all handed over to Cai Li for sale. Cai Li is very satisfied with this cooperation, and the only thing he is not satisfied with is Cai's output.

Cai Li is an ambitious person, and when he split up, he took the initiative to give up the land and ask for this shop. He was a born businessman, educated, and open-minded at an American university. Little Rock is a place with well-developed transportation and is an important place for commerce and trade.

He was not confined to Little Rock, but traveled north and south, as far as Mexico and as far east as the United States, hoping to open up more trade. He laid the channel, but it was out of stock. In the middle of the year, he fired the old shopkeeper and partnered with an American friend in Memphis City, on the other side of the Mississippi River, whose family owned a plantation and raised hundreds of black slaves. The two sides met through business, he bought cotton from a friend's plantation, and the American friend was also very shrewd, honest, and interested in running a business, and at a ball, the idea of cooperation came to mind.

After becoming a partner with the American Bill, Cai Li made Bill his manager, recruited some new helpers, and he continued to expand the trade.

Nanjing cloth has become a powerful tool for him to open the market, because of the shortage of goods, the real goods are rare, and only provided to some of the most worthy partners.

Therefore, Cai Li hopes that Cai's can produce more cotton cloth, and Cai's method is to work day and night, but it still can't meet the demand of the market. Cai Li suggested that Cai might as well open a workshop and hire a few more people to help, so that she would not have to worry about the risk, and Cai Li could underwrite her cloth.

Cai reluctantly agreed, and discussed it with her husband, but her husband disagreed. Building machines, buying cotton, and hiring people all cost money, what if you lose money.

Cai Li could only politely refuse Cai Li, after Cai Li asked the reason, patted his chest to ensure that all the expenses were borne by him, the plant, machinery, raw materials and operating funds, all of which were from him, and Cai only needed to be responsible for providing technology.

In this case, Zhang Youfu couldn't refuse, but he was a little worried.

There are more and more immigrants from Wangjiabaozi, there are more than 30 households, and the Zhang family is no longer a new household, but an old household. And it is already the richest family, in fact, it is richer than the chief family, but the husband and wife dare not say it. The economic conditions of the new family are relatively poor, so it is easy for Cai to say that the women of these families are sent to work in her workshop, and the wages paid are very considerable, which is not worse than the farming of the men in their family.

With Cai Li's help, the workshop is very advanced. The machine is no longer a wood machine that Cai's own people are looking for, and many parts have been replaced with more precise iron parts, especially the rotation mechanism, the iron components are more flexible, more labor-saving, and more precise, and the cloth made is more fine. Cai Li even invited professional mechanics from the Americans to help build thirty ironwood machines.

The raw materials are still purchased from Mexico, and the Indians grow a lot of colored cotton, although it is not sold much, and there are a lot of scattered pieces.

The production of Nanjing cloth is expanding rapidly. Cai Li's business also expanded rapidly, opening up the road in Nanjing, and establishing business contacts with many Americans. The cloth business of the Cai Hexing grew bigger and bigger, and the Americans occupied the mouth of the Mississippi River, but the merchant ships from China could go directly north to Little Rock, which became more and more prosperous as the closest city to the United States. Cai Li ran a cloth business, not only in the United States, but also along the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes with his trading partners. He is now almost the largest cloth merchant along the Mississippi River, not only retailing, but also direct wholesaling.

Now there are fewer people who cheat him, because he began to order directly from China, and the big ships unloaded directly in Little Rock, sent to his family's warehouse, and then distributed elsewhere.

Cai's workshop ran into trouble, not in business trouble, but in human trouble, and she found that the people in the fort began to alienate her, especially the old immigrant families, who gradually began to exclude her. It was nothing more than because she had earned more money, and even the chief of the guard, whom she had always respected, began to look for trouble one after another, and her husband had expressed his dissatisfaction many times, because the chief had made things difficult for him when he borrowed the ox.

Cai Li continued to urge her to expand, but the labor force in the fort was limited, so Cai Li suggested that he go directly to Little Rock to open a factory, which was crowded and easy to transport raw materials.

After discussing with my husband, my husband dragged his feet again, and the blue brick and tiled house that was just built last year was moved in, which was the most magnificent in the village, so I was reluctant to move out. But Cai said that she could earn more money by going to the city, and said that it was better to let her go to the city to open a workshop, and her husband is now farming in the countryside, and when the workshop is ready, she will come back.

Zhang Youfu was reluctant to let his wife go.

"Ugh."

Cai sighed.

"Haven't you always wanted to find a woman? I thought I could still give birth, but I haven't been pregnant for two years, I'm afraid I won't be able to give birth. The Zhang family can't be desperate, you are looking for a woman. Find someone who can give birth, even if it's a child. ”

Cai came to the city on the condition that she allowed her husband to take a concubine in exchange for her husband's support.

Somehow, as soon as she entered the city, Cai felt comfortable, she liked to listen to the stories of the people here from all over the world, not the parents in the neighborhood, and she liked the colorful life here, not the mountains and rivers in the countryside.

Cai Li's ambition was very great, he ordered 300 looms in one go, bought more than 100 acres of land outside the city to build a factory, and said that he would expand it in the future.

Through the establishment of the workshop, as well as her past experience in the factory, Cai soon brought production into formalization, and a large amount of Nanjing cloth flowed out of the factory, but the supply still exceeded the demand.

This time, the main thing that is restricted is the raw materials, the Indians' cotton is limited, and the purchase by Cai Li has raised the price, but the supply is still insufficient.

Cai Li is a man of action, he decided to plant colored cotton directly, he has cottonseeds, and many of the colored cotton sold by Mexicans are unproductive. Pick the seeds out and let the locals plant them.

Cai's immediately asked Ying, she brought the seeds back, now planted at home, after planting, only began to persuade others to follow the planting, the old Shandong is a good hand, his family's color cotton is always better than others' homes, the Zhang family is the first to plant, but the Zhang family's cotton growth has not been as good as the old Shandong family.

After two seasons, Mexican colored cotton began to be fully spread in Wangjiabaozi, except for the chief of the family, all other families have planted. The chief of security is more and more unkind to the Zhang family. During the autumn harvest, Zhang Youfu even had the courage to quarrel with the chief of security.

It's not because of the food, but Zhang Youfu used two barrels of wine to change a girl from the Fan's family in the south of the racecourse, and the chief of the security just didn't agree to let the girl enter the fort, saying that it would be unlucky to enter the castle. Zhang Youfu said that the chief of the security wanted to make his family die, and after drinking a bottle of wine, he went to the chief's house to sprinkle it.