If Ren Daorong doesn't object, then he supports it. It's just that if something goes wrong, his old man won't admit it.

However, Hu Xiaoyan didn't care, after basically figuring out the situation of the silk industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he didn't have a trace of worry.

In 1910, Japan was already the world's largest exporter of raw silk, with a total annual output of 12,460 tons of raw silk and a total export of 9,462 tons, accounting for 75% of the world's total exports. It is six times that of the Qing State

In 1868, Nishijin Busan Co., Ltd. was established in Kyoto Prefecture to provide relief to impoverished silk farmers and weavers. In the third year of the Meiji era, the Shemi Bureau and the Maternity Office were established, which were equivalent to the Chemical Research Institute and the Technology Promotion Institute. In 1870, a sericulture farm was established to promote new silkworm species and new technologies; In 1871, a livestock farm was set up, new cattle breeds and sheep were promoted, and people were sent to France to learn new silk weaving and Western dyeing techniques, and new machines were purchased...... In seven years, a weaving workshop was set up to promote new hand-weaving machines and processes. These "farms" all brought together the work of collecting, researching, improving, and disseminating technology, and quickly transformed Kyoto's silk industry from decline to prosperity, and spread the successful experience to the whole of Japan. Although Kyoto Prefecture has also taken many detours, it is much more positive compared to the policy of "nothing is wrong" of the local governments of the Qing court.

Japan's major conglomerates began to develop their own industries with the vast wealth of silk and tea. By 1910, Japan's wide range of industries was far beyond the comprehension of the Qing state.

Hu Xiaoyan sold more than 100 antiques, how could he be short of money? What's more, the raw silk industry in the Qing Dynasty is basically a mess. Without Hu Xueyan as the leader, the raw silk industry is the object of slaughter, but foreigners are too lazy to slaughter. After 1900, the silk mills established by foreign merchants closed down on a large scale, and after 1910, almost all the silk mills of foreign merchants withdrew from the Chinese market.

In other words, the raw silk industry of the Qing Dynasty is actually chicken ribs. The food is tasteless and discarded.

Therefore, it is the right time for Hu Xiaoyan to agree with China's raw silk industry, if it is a few years later, Japan's raw silk can completely ignore the raw silk of the Qing Dynasty. A few years earlier, the raw silk of the Qing Kingdom had to face the price reduction of foreign merchants.

Changshu, Nantong, Huzhou, Jiaxing. Branches of raw silk industry cooperatives were set up in these four places. It is headquartered in Hangzhou. The cooperatives sign contracts with silkworm farmers in various places, and the cooperatives provide technology and funds to help the silkworm farmers, and the raw silk obtained by the silkworm farmers can only be sold to the cooperatives.

With Hu Xiaoyan's financial resources, after investing the 25 million taels of silver he had just obtained to set up the raw silk industry cooperative Qianzhuang, basically no one dared to compete with Hu Xiaoyan. Unless some guy is looking for death. For anyone who wants to get involved in the raw silk industry, whether it is Ren Daorong, the governor or a local elder, Hu Xiaoyan will definitely die.

In order to ensure that the implementation of the money village and the raw silk industry plan would not be interfered with, Hu Xiaoyan asked Li Jingfang for the formation of a railway escort team. A team of 1,000 people, five strongholds, two hundred people each. All of them were recruited from the newly recruited army of Jiang Yanxing in Anhui Province. Armed with a Mauser G98 rifle and grenades (already made). Two hundred people went to fight the green battalion, and two thousand soldiers had no problem at all.

With a name, there are troops. Hu Xiaoyan let go and handed it to Dai Yongni to get it. He is not afraid of Ren Daorong's interference. Because Ren Daorong didn't have that guts. The officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were all the same. The greater the official, the less courage he has. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were not many people who really had the courage to do practical things.

And Dai Yongni, who has signed agreements with silkworm farmers in various places, is in charge of at least tens of thousands of silkworm farmers. annoyed her and made these silkworm farmers make trouble, and Ren Daorong had to walk around without eating.

Although the raw silk industry has technology stolen from Japan by the French, as well as machinery designed by the French themselves for Japan, etc., these are not something that can be used overnight. For example, what kind of mulberry leaves silkworms like to eat. What kind of mulberry leaves produce what kind of silk? These technical problems cannot be solved in one or two years. Anyway, what Hu Xiaoyan has is money, as long as he has money and technology, he doesn't believe that he can't handle Japanese raw silk. It's a big deal to fight a price war with Japanese raw silk, Hu Xiaoyan himself can afford to lose, but Japan can't afford to lose. As long as Japan's raw silk falls by 10 percentage points, Japan's raw silk industry owners will have to go out of business.

China's raw silk is not sold so much that the price is low, and the livelihood of the corresponding silkworm farmers is very problematic. This is also one of the reasons why Ren Daorong compromised. Now cooperatives bind themselves and silkworm farmers by contracts for the purchase of raw silk at a fixed price. Dai Yongni, who has a lot of money, doesn't talk nonsense with the local raw silk businessman at all, and directly comes to the door with a post: I want money or death!

The post did not intimidate the local businessmen, but rather frightened Hu. When Qin Yun teased him with this, he could only touch the unwarranted cold sweat. Mourning for his nephew Hu Caoqing for a second, with such a domineering daughter-in-law, I don't know how his nephew's life is lived? Then he left without thinking. As for the lives and deaths of those people? Hu doesn't have that much effort to talk nonsense with them. It's the same sentence on Dai Yongni's post. Either pay the money and buy the shares, or die.

After leaving Hangzhou, Hu Xiaoyan went to Shanghai. After sending off another group of international students in Shanghai, he got Cai Yuanpei's actions in Anhui.

After Cai Yuanpei arrived in Ma'anshan, he immediately organized manpower and material resources to reorganize Ma'anshan Institute of Technology. This engineering college is mainly composed of foreign technicians from the steel plant and teachers from the former Beiyang University Hall in Tianjin. Another group of teachers from the United States was accepted with Miss Roosevelt.

This job is very easy, and Cai Yuanpei has a good relationship with Hu Xiaoyan's teacher Mike. What I learned from him was enough to cope with the establishment of a science student. He was also concerned with the establishment of the Faculty of Letters. Originally, according to Hu Xiaoyan's task requirements, the students in Ma'anshan were built into a very professional science and engineering university, but Hu didn't care about the College of Liberal Arts.

But Cai Yuanpei doesn't think so. He soon joined forces with the local academies in Anhui to form the Faculty of Letters. Because of Emperor Xuanwu's imperial examination strategy, everyone has understood that traditional Confucianism alone is no longer the mainstream. Even the imperial examination is no longer dominated by traditional Confucianism, where are the major academies still not understanding? Therefore, the cooperation with Maanshan Institute of Technology became logical.

Cai Yuanpei wanted to merge Confucianism and polytechnics. The local academy also wants to use the science and technology of the Polytechnic to cultivate its own imperial examination talents. The two sides hit it off.

As for Zhang Binglin, he scoffed at Cai Yuanpei's set.

"Can you still expect that group of boys who have studied Confucianism for more than ten years to be admitted to the Jinshi in just three years of study?"

Cai Yuanpei disagreed: "They studied with the attitude of being admitted to the Jinshi, but I didn't plan to let them be admitted to the Jinshi." Although Brother Youling (Yan Fu) seems to be reused by His Majesty, he is actually walking on thin ice. I will cultivate more supporters for him, and there will be more hope for him and the country in the future. ”

Zhang Binglin just threw out two words: "Childish." ”

Cai Yuanpei left with a smile.

In any case, Enke is still held as scheduled, and the topic is related to the work, and in modern times, it can be said that few people can answer it, so it is said that those who are backward in the imperial examination should be slapped in the face by themselves, so as not to be stepped on after being beaten.

Hu Xiaoyan also got the paper after the exam.

PS: The question of the last imperial examination in China in 1904-1905, I will put it in the work later. These topics are very interesting. I took it out and used it in advance. Book friends who have a habit of cleanliness, please raise your noble hand. Capable and strong book lovers can try to open the book and do it, and see if they can be lifted when they travel back. Hahaha,,,,