Although the cooperation projects offered by Australians are very tempting, in fact, there are not many wealthy businessmen who dare to sign cooperation agreements.

The first is that the place of cooperation is not in their sphere of influence, and the second is that this Australian country is an overseas state after all, and it is uncertain what the imperial court thinks, although the prefect of Guangzhou secretly expressed support for the Australians, but there is no open support, otherwise this meeting will inevitably meet the representatives sent by the Guangzhou government.

However, for a craftsman like Shi Muqun, who is on the verge of bankruptcy, it is a rare opportunity, and now everyone is waiting to see if they can seize this opportunity.

In fact, Shi Muqun also thinks the same as the hungry and wealthy merchant gentry, but he has now been forced to go to Liangshan and has to change.

After everyone left, Shi Muqun looked left and right to make sure that no one had re-entered the courtyard.

"Minister Zhao, Shi is here to disturb again, I want to talk to you about cooperation, I don't know if it's okay."

Looking at the stone and wood group who had just left for a short time, he returned, and directly said that he wanted to cooperate, a little puzzled, although the big guys have signed a letter of intent for cooperation today, but it is obvious that they have great concerns about cooperation from their eyes, and the reason why they signed such an agreement is just to leave a way back for themselves, so as not to get someone to eat crabs without their own points.

Originally, according to Zhao Shijie's estimate, it should be two or three days later to take the initiative to come to the door to cooperate, but I didn't expect someone to come up so soon.

Seeing that Zhao Shijie was silent, "Shi Muqun simply said it himself, not to hide it from Minister Zhao, I also hope that this is an opportunity to cooperate, because of Australian fabric, I have lost two months in a row, if it goes on at this rate in less than a year, many years of savings will be lost." ”

"In this way, Master Shi is really cooperative." Zhao Shijie raised his eyebrows and asked very seriously.

He still doesn't know much about Shi Muqun, although Australia wants to have a partner, but it doesn't mean that everyone will agree when they come, and he must go through a review to assess whether he has the ability to become a partner.

If anyone can cooperate, how dare you guarantee that there will be no empty gloves white wolf, after all, this is the Ming Dynasty and not Australia and Southeast Asia, and Australia's military strike here will definitely have a huge impact on future immigrants.

"Sincerely, Minister Zhao rest assured, if I Shi is not sincere, I will thunder and thunder, but I don't know when this cloth will be produced as soon as possible if we cooperate." For this point, Shi Muqun is very eager to know, now that the market sales are so good, the cloth can earn back an extra amount of money if it comes out a day earlier, which is very important for him who has been losing money for two consecutive months.

"Time? It seems that Mr. Shi is very concerned about the production of finished products, if according to the normal situation, it will take six months to build the plant and debug the machine at the earliest, but if the progress of the project is accelerated, it may be possible to advance by two months. ”

"Four months, which means that the finished product can be produced in four months." Shi Muqun asked, holding up four fingers.

"Well, theoretically it is possible, but in this way, the workers who build the plant and the workers who debug the equipment have to work overtime, and the cost is bound to increase by two percent.

After listening to Zhao Shijie's introduction, Shi Muqun finally understood a little, that is, money can make the ghost grind, if you spend more money, it is also very good to be able to go on the cloth market earlier, I am afraid that you don't have to go out to find someone else to buy it, and the large and small cloth houses in Guangzhou will come to order it yourself.

"If Boss Shi really wants to cooperate, you can take this contract back and take a good look at it, and consider it carefully, so as not to sign it when you get it, but you have to pay the default amount."

Zhao Shijie handed an agreement to Shi Muqun, and the main reason why he asked him to take it back was that he still needed to make a telegram contact with Yang Wenwen in China, and also asked the intelligence department staff to investigate Shi Muqun's identity, saying that it was to give the other party a few days to think about it, but in fact, it was also to facilitate himself to have enough time to deal with these things.

"In this way, then Shi will leave first, I will carefully consider this agreement, and I believe it will not take long to give Minister Zhao a reply."

"Well, okay, Master Shi will go slowly, and he will stay not far from Zhao."

Shi Muqun, who was holding the agreement, arched his hand and said goodbye, and politely said no.

After the others left, Zhao Shijie found the person in charge of intelligence in the Guangzhou Office, Zhang Xu, to investigate Shi Muqun's background to see if there was anything wrong.

Zhang Xu took the order and left, and immediately summoned his spies to go to Shi Muqun's hometown to investigate, the time only took half a day, and in the evening, Zhang Xu had already completed the basic mobile phone intelligence.

Zhang Xu, who strode from outside the main gate, gave a military salute to Zhao Shijie, "Report to Minister Zhao, the situation has been almost investigated, Shi Muqun is a native of Shicun, sixty miles away from Guangzhou City, in addition to being a famous local weaver for a generation, he is also the largest local landowner, according to the report, this Shi Master was still born in Xiucai, and he started to run the industry because of repeated failures in his early years. ”

"Zhang Xu doesn't need to be so polite, I'm not your minister, you can be more accommodating, sit down and continue." Zhao Shijie smiled and pointed to the chair and asked him to sit down, according to Liu Yun, this is also one of his protégés, so his protégés have great respect for Zhao Shijie.

"Well, Minister Zhao, the reason why this old man Shi is so anxious is probably related to the loss of these two months, although he is a famous weaver in this generation of Guangzhou City, but the money he has earned over the years is either used to buy land or put it on expanding business, so he is not abundant in terms of liquidity, if he really wants to make a joint venture with us, I am afraid he needs to sell some of the land."

"So that's the case, the funds are not abundant, but it doesn't matter, as long as he has land, even if he doesn't sell the land, if he is willing to cooperate with me, I can also help him use the land as collateral to apply for a loan from Manchester City Bank."

"Minister Zhao, is this really okay? If he really can't pay the money, the land won't be of much use to us," Zhang Xu reminded.

"Of course I know this, but at present, we need to find someone to open up cooperation, and this person's background needs not to be very complicated, according to your information, Shi Muqun is not bad." Zhao Shijie said with a meaningful smile, obviously having made up his mind.