With so much cash support, Zhao Dagui can start to make some layouts.

After entering April, the Dagui Commercial Bank, which had been dormant for a while, began to operate again.

Dagui Commercial Bank used to only do cash delivery business, almost withdrew from the trade of all things, and even did not hesitate to give up the position of the big man in the foreign cloth industry, and this time it is about to reappear.

Zhao Dagui convened a meeting of all the staff of the Dagui Commercial Bank, demanding that the Dagui Commercial Bank make more achievements in the new year, and even put forward the slogan of "unifying the business community in Shanghai within one year" to dominate all businesses except opium.

Zhao Dagui has also experienced it over the years, especially inciting people's hearts, doing his best at the general meeting of all workers, saying a lot of exciting words, and promising high dividends and commissions, so that the shopkeepers of Dagui Commercial Bank screamed excitedly.

Then, the proprietors of the Dagui Merchant House began to actively come into contact with the captains of the ocean-going merchant ships who did business in Shanghai, and were willing to exchange goods such as raw silk and tea for the foreign cloth and other foreign goods they had brought with them, as they had done in 1844.

Originally, in January, the foreign cloth business was not as good as before, and many shrewd businessmen felt that something was wrong, such as Wu Jianzhang and others almost saw through Zhao Dagui's intentions, but seeing that Dagui Commercial Bank was back in the rivers and lakes this time, they actively revitalized it, and gradually eliminated their doubts about Dagui Commercial Bank and turned to pay attention to business.

Strange to say, perhaps because the Dagui firm began to sell foreign cloth to Huzhou and Hangzhou, the original declining sales of foreign cloth increased again, and the speed of cloth retail was faster than before, which dispelled many people's hesitation about foreign cloth business.

In this case, it is the re-emergence of the noble commercial banks and the competition for market share is even more worrying.

Lin Aqin's Yisheng Bank, Wu Jianzhang's Qichang and Yang Fang's Jardine Matheson, as industry leaders, were unwilling to regain the original market share and become the same behemoth as before, so they tried their best to resist it, compete desperately, and strive to get goods at a higher price than Dagui Commercial Bank and ship goods at a lower price.

In the days that followed, Dagui Commercial Bank was almost embattled, and on the surface the slogan was loud and loud, saying that it wanted to unify the business community, but in fact it could not get much business, and it was at a great disadvantage in the competition, which made many loyal shopkeepers of Dagui Commercial Bank anxious.

In addition to Wu Jianzhang's 10,000 pieces of foreign cloth, less than 30,000 pieces of foreign cloth were obtained, all of which were put on sale in Huzhou and Hangzhou, and they were sold out quickly, and they only earned about 15,000 yuan.

The only thing that is commendable is that the stock of foreign cloth has remained at a very low level.

Soon after, Dagui Commercial Bank encountered a joint attack from other commercial banks, and almost reduced Zhao Dagui's full plate plan to empty talk.

Originally, Dagui Commercial Bank worked hard to develop markets in northern Zhejiang such as Huzhou, Jiaxing, and Hangzhou, and set up stores in these prefectures and cities to buy tea and raw silk, and sell foreign goods by the way.

The compradors of other foreign banks paid more attention to the development of Suzhou, an easier place to make money, and did not care about Zhejiang's business for a while.

However, since April, Yisheng Bank, Qichang, Jardine Matheson and other commercial houses have set up branches in cities in northern Zhejiang, and most of them are not far from the branches of Dagui Commercial Bank.

These trading houses bought silk tea at a higher price than the purchase price of the Dagui trading houses, and after taking the goods to Shanghai, they sold them to foreign merchants at a cheaper price.

For example, the Dagui Firm used to buy the Silk at a price of 180 yuan per pack in Huzhou and then sold it at about 420 yuan in Shanghai, but with the participation of these firms, the purchase price immediately exceeded 200 yuan, and the price dropped to 350 yuan.

Zhao Dagui asked Lin Aqin, Wu Jianzhang, Yang Fang and others to theorize, and asked if the price alliance set before was still complied with, but one of these people was very ashamed and apologized countless times, but they were unwilling to make concessions on the price, and said that the business is not good now, and Zhao Dagui asked him to understand.

At this point, what else is there to say, these companies are united and work together to deal with the big noble firms.

If Zhao Dagui wants to break the game, he can only fight a price war and compete with these three companies, but this will also lead to a serious decline in his income.

At the same time, there was a counter-current among foreign businessmen in Shanghai, who united to demand a reduction in the price of land in the concession.

In addition, those who sent people to the Dagui firm to poach people, probed into the secrets of the firm, and snatched good business were all tried to suppress it.

"Now Lin Aqin, who has the largest market share in Shanghai, not me, these people did not work together to deal with Lin Aqin's righteous ascension, but rushed at me, I don't know what they were thinking. Zhao Dagui was puzzled.

The problems encountered by Dagui Commercial Bank at this time were quite serious, at least on the surface.

The firm had ordered a large number of raw silk in Huzhou and other places, if it could not be sold as soon as possible, it would form a certain amount of unsalable, resulting in poor capital turnover, which would cause many problems.

"Sure enough, the mall is like a battlefield, I thought I had the upper hand, but I didn't expect the possibility of capsizing in the gutter. Zhao Dagui couldn't help sighing, but he had to find a way to solve it.

"Our Dagui firm is now encountering extremely serious problems, and if we want to break the situation, we can only rely on your help. ”

Zhao Dagui summoned 50 members of the rewinding factory project to point out all the difficulties encountered by the trading houses, telling them that if they wanted to get rid of the current predicament, only by establishing the reeling factory as soon as possible, producing high-quality raw silk, attracting the favor of more British businessmen, and obtaining more cash, could they break through the blockade of other trading houses.

The reeling factory project, there were originally twenty scholars and twenty workers, and later there were ten more craftsmen with particularly good skills, and there are currently a total of fifty people, and they all nodded solemnly after hearing Zhao Dagui's words.

After several months of preparation, the imitation of reeling equipment was officially put on the agenda.

This work, in fact, is not difficult, is to determine which machinery and equipment to be used in the reeling process, the parameters of the equipment are geometry, and then draw the design drawing, and finally imitate the equipment according to the design drawing, and finally assemble it.

By reading a large number of books related to silk reeling equipment, everyone has long figured out what equipment to use in the rewinding process, isn't it boilers, steam engines, gears, spinning wheels and water pipes, Zhao Dagui sent people to Europe to collect the design drawings of mechanical computers, and the books related to rewinding are also very complete, that is, among the more than 10,000 books brought by Gu Sheng, there are also a lot of information in this regard.

In the entire Dagui Department composed of the college and the factory, only Zhao Dagui, Xie Erdun and Chen Fan have the ability to design, they look at the books, each come up with a set of design plans, and then take out all three sets of plans to negotiate and discuss the most suitable plan.

So, the design and sketches are ready-made, and the next step is to produce the relevant parts using the machine tools and other machines obtained by the shipyard.