With the help of the meeting, after stabilizing the interior, a full set of cooperation and methods were discussed, and with the joint efforts of Baotou and local businessmen, the preliminary came to an end, and the next step was to the outside world.

With domestic cotton, as well as Baotou-supported cotton textile machinery, it should be stable, but after all, there are still four years after the war, in a sense, China is fundamental, without China's market as a backing, Yang Yuanzhao may only get out of the huge gold and copper mine, with the original gold as a reserve to consolidate China's foundation, to avoid huge losses caused by the impact of the outside world, this is also a last resort, this is not in line with his ideas, the future of China, even the current China, You need to have enough gold reserves to be able to issue currency, so that you can have a stable economy.

Using precious metals in exchange for development opportunities, this is the worst consequence, not that Yang Yuanzhao is willing to see, even if it is his own strength, he has to make the last effort. The Cotton Textile Alliance, which has no strength to participate in it for the time being, is a real battle against the great powers. Most of the factories are established with the support of Baotou, and most of the production capacity has not been fully exerted, and the quality of the cloth produced is uneven, which cannot be compared with the professional production of Baotou.

Baotou's cotton textile industry, after about 2 years of development, has become professional from the beginning, the total number of 12 million spindles of Baotou, even if there are more than 5 percent, is the last year of expansion, but Baotou's huge team of workers and technological transformation, so that the expansion is stable, that is, 12 million spindles of cotton ingots. It can fully exert 100% of its strength, according to one spindle compared to 2.5 packs of cotton yarn, which is 30 million bales, which is converted into cotton cloth, close to 900 million horses of different types of cotton cloth.

Of course. This part of the cotton cloth can not be taken out all, most of the market in the north is monopolized by Baotou, the annual sales capacity, about 240 million horses, of which Baotou contributed 70 million shares. Almost one-third, Baotou's current population is about 2 million, plus Taiyuan, Suiyuan, and Datong, which are greatly affected by Baotou. In addition to several emerging cities, the affected population of Baotou urban circle is about 11 million to 12 million, and these people are under the influence of Baotou, either doing odd jobs, or becoming workers, or simply joining the Baotou reclamation company for agricultural production.

With the huge profit margin level of Baotou. Their wages are also quite high, high enough to support a large number of cloth sales, from ready-to-wear clothing to home bedding. The average cloth consumption power of these populations has reached an astonishing 5 horses per year, which is much higher than the national average.

The rest includes Hebei and Henan. Some markets in Shanxi and Northeast China, these markets are relatively close to Baotou. It is also a more traditional area for Jin merchants, so the sales of Baotou cloth are very good.

In Shanghai. With the help of various channels, Yang Yuanzhao mainly inquired about the local market, Hubei, Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, and even Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, these provinces and cities, which Baotou did not extend its tentacles.

Yang Yuanzhao found the difference, obviously, the shipments of foreign businessmen decreased significantly, which was expected by Yang Yuanzhao, otherwise, the products of many small cotton textile factories could not be directly acquired by several large foreign companies, but only a little strange thing is that Japan did not have a large number of shipments, you know, according to his cognition, in this era, Japan should attach great importance to China's grey cloth market.

Cotton textile industry, is Japan's priority development industry, even in the steel industry, Japan is sparing no effort to develop raw silk, cotton textile industry, this for the development of the country, has accumulated enough funds, in the case of Japanese factories do not take human life seriously, Japan's yarn mills, can complete the level of a single spindle annual output of half a bag, you know, Japan's cotton textile machinery, and China before the kind is not much different, are extremely backward, Japan's first 24-hour work system, It was not a four-shift like Baotou, it was a two-shift, or even two-day, three-shift method, which was extremely oppressive to the workers.

Because of the turmoil in the cotton market, Britain, France and Russia have shrunk the cotton industry, in the past year, only some high-end British muslin and calico, in Shanghai, Tianjin and other big cities for sale, leaving the traces of ordinary white cloth parts, the only more common sales, is the Japanese white cloth, but it seems that the amount is not very sufficient.

Thinking of Zhang Jingjiang and Zhang Jian's example, the foreign banks have placed orders for them, Yang Yuanzhao also knows that Japan should be the same as China, in the past year, received a large number of orders, which is impossible to refuse for Japan, in the past, it still needs to be taken out for sale, Japan can not consume so much cloth, part of it is taken to China, and the rest, barely through various channels, in some colonies and Britain and the United States sold at low prices, not much money, But it can expand Japan's cotton textile strength on a large scale, which is what Japan has always done.

In the past year, for Japan's cotton textile industry, it is very comfortable, you don't need to sell, you can get orders, and the profits are not low.

In the past, it was not easy to obtain cotton textile machinery, but now it is open to sell, Mitsui Property, which is considering the transformation, Mitsui Property, which is considering transformation, actively intervened, in just one year, the total number of cotton ingots has expanded by 500,000, so that Japan's cotton ingot holdings, from the original 2.5 million, increased to 3 million, which greatly stimulated the development of Mitsui Property, in the Mitsui family, the status of Mitsui Property has also been greatly improved, and even Mitsui Property's president Mitsui Harukawa, also because of this contribution, Became one of the directors of the head office.

Yang Yuanzhao doesn't know this, his hand is not so long, it is impossible to lay out his eyes to distant Japan, but he doesn't know the news, so he doesn't delay his judgment on the current situation, if Japan, like China, is also a large number of cotton cloth purchased by the powers, now Japan, for the cotton crisis has not reacted much, then to make a move on China, I'm afraid the first bird to come out is Japan, with Japan's greed, as long as Britain and France open the gap, they will be like a dog seeing meat and bones, directly pounced, I don't care at all, whether this meat and bone is poisonous or not, whether it will break the teeth.

In about half a month, Yang Yuanzhao not only asked the personnel of the association to help monitor the movement of cotton cloth in various places, but also put his mind on cotton cloth sales and personnel exchanges in big cities.

In the middle, Yang Yuanzhao really realized the strength of the merchants of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Shanghai is a concession, it can be said that the most powerful in Shanghai is the foreign high-level of the concession, but this is in China, the entire Shanghai has a large population, the vast majority, are composed of Chinese, among the Chinese at the bottom, the unique Qinghong gang, basically control the underground world of Shanghai, they have many connections with the businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, bureaucratic strength, and even the revolutionary party, in Shanghai, in any place where there is a concession, The most well-informed are these low-level gangsters.

Yang Yuanzhao will not establish contact with the gangsters, he knows that the gangsters are a cancer in society, and in the future, once the strength is enough, it is necessary to eliminate the gangs, but now, he doesn't mind using indirect channels to obtain some intelligence from the gangsters, mainly in Shanghai, of course, Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan and other big cities, but also the focus of his investigation, the intensity, is not so heavy.

In order to identify this information, Yang Yuanzhao brought a group of assistants, including some army staff officers and carefully selected in the past, and after the countless information was summarized, a report would be formed, so that he could have an intuitive understanding of the current cotton sales in Shanghai.

As an important town in the south, but also the adventurer's paradise in the East, Shanghai has a huge population, and therefore, the sales of cloth are quite high, the daily sales volume is about 15,000 horses, most of which were occupied by Britain and France and other foreign companies in the past, and now, the British and French foreign companies did not shoot, only sporadic shipments, about one percent, of which high-end muslin and color cloth occupy more than 9 percent.

In addition to Britain and France, the largest sales is Japan, with the help of local yarn mills and weaving mills, Japan has a total of more than 200 stores in Shanghai, with a daily sales volume of about 4,500 horses, and the rest is the time-honored cloth village and the new weaving mills, they occupy the remaining 6 percent of the market, but the brand and the type are very mixed, the largest is the cloth under the Dasheng and the banker, they together occupy about one percent.

On the surface, this is one of the few major cities in China that occupies more than half of the industrial products, but Yang Yuanzhao knows that it is not the quality of their cloth that is good, but the fact that Britain and France have retreated slightly and have turned to occupy the market.

If you want to be powerful, you must retract it, so that it is advantageous to play out, Britain and France are like this, opening up part of the market and creating false prosperity, but high-end cloth has not been released, because they know that this is the real profit point and brand.

The powers did not make a move, Yang Yuanzhao did not underestimate it, and ordered the people below to continue to monitor, especially to pay attention to the movements of the Japanese, there is an intuition, this move, I am afraid that it will start with the Japanese, although the powers do not understand the ancient Chinese strategy, but in the use, the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch abounds, and among them, Japan is the absolute first bird and the vanguard. (To be continued) R655