In the era of small-scale peasant economy, China's historical economic structure has always been based on self-production and self-sufficiency, and there has never been such a term as large-scale imports.

It was not until the early 19th century that China was invaded by European countries, and during the Ming and Qing dynasties, China was the richest country in the world, and nearly one-third of the world's silver flowed into China because of silk, tea, porcelain, and trade.

This surplus in foreign trade lasted until the early nineteenth century, when the Western powers knocked on China's door, and it was a trade war from the initial war launched by Britain against the Qing Dynasty, because the various industrial products produced by Britain were not sold to China at all, and China's exports of silk and tea were goods that Western countries had to import.

Compared with the Qing Dynasty's seclusion, the Ming Dynasty was quite good, at least there was an early Zheng He's trip to the West and the Longqing switch, and there was much relaxation for private overseas trade, and from this period, a large amount of world silver flowed into China.

However, the wealth brought by overseas trade did not solve the internal contradictions of the Ming Dynasty, but accelerated the land annexation, and the people did not have enough to eat.

With the lifting of the ban on the Zhao family by the Zheng family, coupled with Australia's intention, Australian goods can only be purchased in Guangzhou in this short period of time, which also makes a lot more merchants from all over the world.

The Zhao family has become a newly rising family in Guangzhou, but because of the lack of background, Zhao De is also very good at giving up some interests, after all, it is not possible to eat alone in this Guangzhou.

Recently, Australia has produced a new monochrome cotton cloth, which has been loved by people as soon as it was launched, this kind of cloth is not only thick to the touch and the style is also good-looking, and the most important thing is that it is cheap and wear-resistant, and it is loved by many families who are not wealthy.

Even some wealthy people even bought a lot of cloth and made new clothes for some of the maids and servants in the family.

Although the amount of monochrome cloth in Australia is not large, anyone can see that the market of this cloth is indeed very good, the sale is less than ten days, all the cloth shops in Guangzhou are sold out of stock, and people who have not bought cloth are running to the cloth shop every day to ask when the next batch will arrive.

This phenomenon also made the shopkeepers of the major cloth shops in Guangzhou happy, and they went to Zhao's house to pay a deposit to inquire about the arrival time of the next batch of flower cloth.

Zhao De is both happy and worried about this, this Australian monochrome cotton cloth was originally one of the ordinary goods recommended by Australians, whether it is profit or sales prospects are far less than the mirror that has opened the market, it was only because of the face of the little to ask for, but I didn't expect it to sell so well now, he even began to regret a little bit that the price was set too low.

"Shopkeeper Zhao, you must give me ten more pieces of cloth this time, you don't know how easy this cotton cloth is, now those dock coolies and rich families are scrambling to buy this kind of cotton cloth, I shouldn't have listened to your price so low."

Speaking of the big shopkeeper of a cloth shop in Guangzhou City, surnamed Qian, named Qian Erliang, at this time he regretted the price given by Zhao De at the beginning, this kind of cotton cloth he specially asked someone to take back and try, not only thick but also wear-resistant, that is, the sales price is set too low, and now it is too late to raise the price and take the high-end road.

This new monochrome cotton cloth is the first overseas main cloth produced by Yang Wenwen clothing company, if you find it carefully, you can see that this kind of cloth is the denim of later generations, the main sales group is the ordinary people, as for why it is not placed in the high-end area, it is because Yang Wenwen has calculated that the rich people of the Ming Dynasty will not sell too much even if they buy, and the huge ordinary consumer market can drive the sales of cloth.

Thanks to the promotion of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the first horse, 100 horses, was basically distributed to Zhao De and several Chinese families in Batavia who operated cloth shops.

Don't say that Qian Erliang regrets it at this time, Zhao De also regrets it, although the profit of this cloth is thin, but the sales volume is very large, if Huguang is in the inland cloth shops to pick up the goods, this small profit is not lower than the mirror and other high-profit products.

The most important thing is that this cloth is a daily consumable, which is the daily needs of the people, and it is no more expensive than a mirror, which only the wealthy officials and gentry can afford.

"Money shopkeeper, you drink tea, if I have a step, how can there be no reason not to supply, the key is that my warehouse is also out of stock, this time from the Australian only 40 pieces of cloth, so there is no stock at all, I'm afraid it will take ten days at the earliest to have cloth supply."

"Ten days," Qian Erliang said in his heart, these ten days are not long or short, he is wondering if he wants to raise those horses by a little bit, after all, it is a strange commodity to live in now.

"The shopkeeper heard that the cloth shop in Guangzhou City still has goods for you, I don't know if it's true." Zhao De asked with a smile.

"This, this, there are a few horses, but they have been sealed by me." Qian Erliang replied honestly.

Sealing, needless to say, he knows that he wants to increase the price, but this is not a matter for Zhao De to change, what he does is trade and does not directly operate cloth, these are things between other people's cloth shops.

It's just that he is also a little worried about whether the goods will arrive in ten days, and he has not received a reply to the letter sent by the Australian Consulate in Quanzhou to ask for the goods in the past, and ten days is just an inference from his previous shipments. Whether this is true or not depends on the reply from the consulate in the evening.

"Money shopkeeper, although this hoarding is good, it is not very good for the reputation, as far as I know, your Qian's cloth shop is also considered to be the big number in this Guangzhou city, if you do this, it is not very good." "Haha, what Shopkeeper Zhao said is, I'll go back to Brother Ran and let people take out the cloth and sell it, I'll wait for your good news in ten days, but this time I'll give me more."

Qian Erliang said this, even if he accepted Zhao De's suggestion, after all, ten days is not a long time, if a large number of fabrics are really on the market at that time, he has a precedent for price increases, and it may really have a bad impact on himself.

In the evening, Zhao De took people to the consulate's office in Guangzhou to inquire about the news, whether the cloth could arrive or not had made him a little uneasy, this is the deposit of so many fabrics, if it is not here, the silver earned for more than a year will be lost.

"Mr. Zhao, you are here, Director Chen is already waiting in the living room," a staff member of the Guangzhou Office cautiously welcomed Zhao De in.

"Director Chen, please have an answer to your matter the day before yesterday," Zhao De asked straight to the point.

"Mr. Zhao, don't worry, this matter has been answered, the domestic Yang Wenwen clothing company has promised to rush to work overnight to weave this batch of orders for you."

"In this way, then thank you Director Chen," Zhao De finally felt a lot more relieved when he heard the reply, and sighed secretly in his heart, Australians are really friends.