"This is my nephew Chen Lin." Chen Xuan hurriedly bent down to introduce the Australian woman in front of him.
"Oh, I heard, it turned out to be the young master's family here." The woman said casually, and Chen Xuan's cheeks twisted.
Chen Lin hurriedly said: "Young master's family can't tell. This weaving workshop is the public property of the clan, and it was my father who was in charge. I just helped here with my father."
"It's so rare here, you can tell someone from the clan if you open your mouth." The woman smiled, "Sit, sit, everyone is bent over like a braised prawn." After saying that, she took her seat in front of the blackboard. Come down.
The uncles and nephews of the Chen family also took their seats. The woman said: "Let me introduce myself first. My name is Li Yao'er, and this is my student Shen Su."
Chen Lin was about to stand up again. Li Yaoer smiled and waved his hand: "You are a good young man, but you have learned so many tricks." Her eyes turned around Chen Lin a few times and asked: "How old are you?"
"The villain is twenty-two years older than he is."
"Oh, you are very young!" Li Yao'er said, "Your second uncle said that you are very familiar with this business - how many years have you been working in it?"
Chen Lin said: "It's embarrassing to say that I can't study well, so I helped my father in the weaving workshop when I was thirteen."
"What's there to be ashamed of? The books you read from sages are useless." Li Yao'er said a curse word without caring, "It's better to do real things in the weaving workshop."
Chen Lin was not a scholar, but when he heard the woman in front of him criticizing the sage's book as "farts", he still felt awkward.
She changed her words and said: "Shen Su and I were appointed by the 'Tiandi Hui' under the Senate to come here to work on improving the silk industry. Since you are an expert, I believe our future cooperation will be very pleasant."
"Yes, the villain obeys the horse's orders."
"Why are you so polite?" Li Yao'er looked at the young man in front of him. This Chen Lin was obviously different from his uncle. Although he was not good-looking, he was quite energetic. He spoke well despite being detained, but he could be seen as very smart from his brows. Compared with the "second uncle" who was full of philistine spirit and always spoke falsely and truthfully, this young man looked much more comfortable.
Li Yaoer has actually been in Guangdong for more than half a year. In the past few years, she has been traveling between Lingao and Hangzhou to implement her silkworm breeding improvement plan, with remarkable results. A seed production farm was built in Fenghuang Villa and Lingao in Hangzhou, specializing in cultivating silkworm seeds. Because of the excellent raw silk produced by the silkworm breeding farms in Hangzhou, they have gained a certain reputation among sericulture farmers around Hangzhou and have been gradually promoted. According to the promotion plan of the Council of Agriculture, the silkworm breeding farm in Lingao will be used as a scientific research base for the cultivation of silkworm seeds in the future, while the silkworm breeding farm in Hangzhou will carry out commercial scale breeding and gradually eliminate the indigenous varieties in the Hangzhou-Jiahu Plain.
But Hangzhou is not a green zone after all. No matter how powerful Zhao Yingong is in Hangzhou, he is just a gentry. There are many inconveniences and constraints.
As soon as the mainland strategy began, the Agricultural Committee set its sights on Guangdong.
However, before the 19th century, most of the raw silk and silk sold for export were produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In terms of silk fabrics exported from Guangzhou, "Nanjing silk" - that is, from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions - is the largest export; followed by silk and satin from Sichuan, which is transported along the Yangtze River to the two lakes, and then transported to Guangzhou via the Xiangjiang and Ganjiang rivers. Shandong and Henan in the north also have some special silks and satins shipped and sold.
This also means that all the export sources of the Senate are in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. After taking over Guangdong, the risks of this "re-export" business increased greatly. There is also a question mark as to whether Hangzhou Station can continue to undertake the procurement and transshipment business of raw silk. Once the Ming Dynasty cuts off trade channels and the source of silk fabrics is cut off or significantly reduced, exports will inevitably be affected - and thus goodwill. This is what the Senate least wants to see.
Expanding the sericulture and silk weaving industries in Guangdong has become an urgent matter.
Guangdong has a subtropical climate, and the water, heat and light conditions are much better than those in Jiangnan. Even in modern times, the Jiangnan area only raises spring and autumn silkworms, but the Pearl River Delta can raise silkworms for five seasons. The basic conditions for sericulture and silk reeling are very good. In the old days, starting from the Kangxi period, Guangdong silk production continued to increase due to foreign trade stimulation. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, all raw silk exported from Guangzhou was once produced in the Pearl River Delta region. The silk and satin weaving industry has also grown on a large scale.
However, judging from the intelligence data collected by Guo Yi's Guangzhou Station over the years, although there is sericulture production and silk weaving in the Pearl River Delta in this time and space, it is only a small player in the overall export of foreign silk in terms of scale and quality. There is great potential to promote the new silk industry here.
As soon as the Pearl River Delta was settled, under the arrangement of the Tiandihui, Li Yaoer took his personal disciple Shen Su and several graduates of the Fangcaodi Sericulture Vocational Class to Guangzhou.
During his more than a year in Hangzhou, Li Yaoer took in more than a dozen girls as students to learn sericulture. Based on this group of students, another sericulture training center was set up in Phoenix Villa. After she left Hangzhou, this workshop was hosted by Furong. And she took the two daughters from Wang Si’s natal family to Lingao and sent them to the sericulture vocational class in Fangcaodi.
The two sisters Shen Hang and Shen Su have made rapid progress in their studies, and Li Yaoer has to take them with him every time he goes on a business trip. Although the two sisters are young, they are already the main technical staff in sericulture of the Committee of Agriculture.
However, not long after arriving in Guangzhou, we encountered the plague and were trapped for several months. After the plague finally subsided, we were able to start promoting sericulture.
Li Yaoer's promotion plan is to follow Fei Dasheng's approach in setting up a promotion center in Kaixiangong Village, Wujiang. He will find an area with a certain basis for sericulture breeding and processing, set up a demonstration sericulture farm and silk reeling workshop, and gradually promote new silkworm breeds. , new technologies to improve the quality of raw silk. This approach requires less manpower and material resources and is relatively safe.
Where can I find the "open string bow" of the Senate? Li Yaoer held many discussions with elders and naturalized people who were familiar with the local situation in Guangzhou, and finally selected Nansha Village in Xiangshan County.
The traditional sericulture industry in Guangdong is mostly concentrated in Shunde, Dongguan and Xiangshan. After some screening, Li Yaoer selected Xiangshan County.
Xiangshan County had just been silted up into land during the Ming Dynasty, and its degree of development was still relatively low. It was classified as a "lower county". Relative population density and land prices are also low. There is a lot of room for development. It is not far from Guangzhou and is connected by the Pearl River waterway, so the transportation is convenient. As a key management area of Guangzhou Special City, safety is quite guaranteed.
In addition, the owner of a large-scale silk workshop in Nansha Village, Xiangshan County, had a "positive attitude" towards the Senate, which was one of the reasons why she finally chose this place.
Li Yaoer came to Nansha Village with her own promotion team and a National Army security team sent by Beiwei to escort her. She talked with Chen Xuan about "cooperation" and immediately received a positive response from Chen Xuan. Li Yaoer visited Fengsheng and Zhifang again and felt that the basic conditions here were pretty good and there were many sericulture households nearby. We decided to open a promotion center here.
Now that the address had been determined, Li Yaoer wrote a letter back to Guangzhou and immediately started things in Nansha. He was very busy renovating the factory building and ordering equipment.
However, she soon discovered that this "activist" was unreliable.
This is not to say that Chen Xuan has a "conspiracy" or "aspires to the Ming Dynasty", but after being in contact with him for a long time, I discovered that this person actually knows nothing about sericulture and the silk industry.
The reason why Li Yaoer chose to find a local partner was to understand the local traditional sericulture industry in order to make targeted improvements. However, this Chen Xuan didn't know anything about it, and he couldn't explain many details. As time went by, Li Yao'er's people gradually became familiar with the weavers and local villagers, and they realized that Chen Xuan was a "ground stick" type of figure, and that the silk workshop was not his - he had taken advantage of the chaos to seize it. of.
After knowing the truth, Li Yaoer was greatly disappointed. But things have come to this point and there is no way to change the course. We can only hold our noses and continue to cooperate. Although Chen Xuan is terrible in the professional field, he is very capable in "doing things" and can do everything he is told.
Originally, she was a little wary of villages with powerful clans like Nansha, but Chen Xuan was surprisingly "manageable", and neither the clan nor the village dared to disobey him. Her work in the village went very smoothly. It has become one of the indispensable "talents".
Chen Xuan saw that the Australian woman was very satisfied and knew that his introduction was correct. In fact, he was very conflicted: if he wanted to please the Australians, he had to let his nephew take the lead; but if the nephew gained the trust of the Australians, the silk shop itself would be in vain. It would be unthinkable if Chen Lin held a grudge and blew wind into the chief's ear.
Just as he was secretly worried, he suddenly saw Li Yao'er's eyes wandering towards him, but he didn't speak. He quickly stood up and left.
Li Yaoer saw Chen Xuan going out, and this time he said to Chen Lin: "We will be partners from now on. We Australians are very straightforward in everything we do. If you have any concerns or questions, you can tell me in person."
"yes……"
Li Yao'er stopped what he was saying: "I know that your father is the owner of Fengshenghe, and your second uncle, I also understand in my heart."
Chen Lin was so frightened that he quickly stood up and said, "I don't dare, I don't dare."
"What are you afraid of?" Li Yao'er didn't care, "But your second uncle is still a capable grassroots cadre for us. As for you uncle and nephew, you should look further and have a bigger picture. Don't focus on The small silk factory in front of us will not be let go. Under the rule of the Senate, there will be great opportunities to make a fortune."
Chen Lin couldn't help but think of what his cousin said to him - it seems that the Australians are really planning to open a big workshop! The Australian woman in front of me actually came to such a remote place to open a workshop!
If I can learn some Australian skills in running factories here, or go one step further and win the favor of this Australian woman, with her support, it will be a matter of course for me to set up a cotton spinning factory in Nansha!
Thinking of this, my originally depressed and forced mood became much brighter. Immediately he said: "Since the chief values the villain, the villain should do his best!"
(End of chapter)
