Zhao Yingong was overjoyed, but he still had to make a good gesture and immediately said that he would not accept the ship charter shares. Of course, the four big sand ships and the sailors on them had to risk the storm. Even though Mr. Shen was loyal, he personally I couldn't help telling the Shen family, so I immediately took out six Delong bills worth one thousand taels and expressed my willingness to pay in cash as a deposit for the ship. <-> <-> Zhong, Wen, and Wang will take it back if they return safely.
A brand new large sand ship has a carrying capacity of about 4,000 shi, about 500 tons, and a cost of about 1,500 taels.
"You can't do this!" Shen Tingyang waved his hands repeatedly and refused. The two of them argued for a long time, but Shen Tingyang never accepted the ticket.
"However, I heard that ships going to Japan have to buy flags from Zheng Zhilong. Are you prepared?"
"Brother Ji Ming has already made arrangements for this matter. Brother Ji Ming doesn't need to worry too much." Zhao Yingong said confidently. Zheng Zhilong's command flag? Once the route is cleared, there will be no Zheng Zhilong's command flag.
The drinking lasted until the evening, and Zhao Yingong rested in the Shen family home that night. He returned to Shanghai early the next morning.
After returning to Shanghai, Zhao Yingong immediately became busy. Now that he has hooked up with the Shen family, the next focus of his work is to operate in Shanghai.
He has reached an agreement with Shen Tingyang, asking him to secretly prepare the ship's sailors, and the specific purpose of what he is going to do must be kept secret for the time being - Jiangnan is not Lao Zheng's territory, but there may be his commercial agent.
Zhao Yingong's temporary office in Shanghai is located at Baodaimen in Qi Shanghai County, also known as Xiaodongmen outside the city. This is the location of the waterway wharf in the Ming Dynasty. The Shanghai headquarters of Qiwei Escort Bureau is located here. The area is not large, because according to the long-term plan, the future headquarters will still have to be moved to the Bund by the Huangpu River. This is only used as a transitional place.
Although it is of a transitional nature, the house is still very elegantly built. It is a compound that combines modernity and tradition. It is not to appear different, but simply because modern buildings are better than traditional buildings in terms of use effect and space utilization. It is much stronger. It is said that the design drawing was made by the life secretary and female disciple of a veteran architect of the construction company. However, all the elders sneered at this - this was just to prepare the way for their secretaries to become famous and start a family in the future. It's just a little trick to raise your status.
Zhao Yingong originally planned to build a new headquarters on the Bund and use it as a starting point to rebuild the Bund. However, after some on-site inspections, he found that development was a bit difficult: the geology here is mostly tidal flats, and because the Huangpu River is connected to the sea, it is affected by The tides have a great influence, and the daily tidal level difference can reach 4 meters. With his current economic strength and the business situation of this time and space, building the "New Bund" is really a great leap forward. So in the end he chose to build the "New Bund" in Shanghai County, which is currently mature. Purchase land and build houses near Xiaodongmenwai Pier.
The Shanghai main office still has the traditional Jiangnan large-scale foyer shape. The front yard can park sedan chairs, carriages and horses. A large black lacquer plaque hangs on the main entrance, with the three characters "Qiweizhan" written on it - please come through the relationship with the Shanghai Church. Xu Guangqi wrote: Entering the main entrance is another large courtyard, all paved with stone slabs. There are only two golden trees planted in the courtyard. There are three two-story European-style buildings in the courtyard. Below is the service hall, and above is the structure of the office.
The main hall is the freight bureau, the east hall is the Civil Information Bureau, and the west hall is the Shanghai office of Delong Bank. It was almost noon, when there were the most people doing business. Zhao Yingong went directly to the back from the side passage.
In the courtyard at the back are rows of warehouses: used to store goods and letters for transshipment. Zhao Yingong passed directly through the passage until he entered the third courtyard.
The three-row, two-story office building in the third entrance houses the "Ren Zihao" of "Hailu" - the back-end department of the Qiwei Escort System's Shanghai head office. Zhao Yingong also has an office here.
Mao Sansheng was waiting in the foyer - he held two positions: he was the person in charge of the Shanghai main office and the person in charge of the Shanghai branch of Qiweizhan. In fact, it was a team with two brands. Mao Sansheng controlled the entire Jiangnan with one hand.
"Ren Zihao" is a very key figure. For this reason, both the Political Security Bureau and the Cheka have deployed personnel through their respective channels to monitor him and the entire zihao.
Mao Sansheng did not know that he was being monitored, but he understood the simple truth that one must express full loyalty when holding power. Therefore, since he was appointed as the person in charge of the Shanghai headquarters, he asked someone to monitor all his family members in Jiangxi.
Moved to live in Lingao.
He has been busy these days integrating Jiangnan's logistics system - this is a very complicated task that not only takes energy but also takes time. In the past year, he has traveled to almost all counties and most towns in Jiangnan and northern Zhejiang.
.He has been to every place where there is a navigable ship. He is dark and thin. He has initially built a journey from Nanjing to Hangzhou.
This system has now begun to make a profit, especially the "people's letter" business. Industry, commerce, and agriculture in Jiangnan, Zhejiang, and North are very prosperous. There are many landowners in the city, and there are also many commercial practitioners, so there is a huge demand for sending letters.
In the past, these letters were sent by ship. The postage was high, the charges were arbitrary, and the security was not strong. And generally they could only be delivered over short distances, and they could not be delivered if the routes were longer or more complicated. Qiweizhan's public trust business is
It is operated according to the model of a modern express delivery company, which is not only more efficient, but also has wider coverage. Generally, all towns in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang can be reached within one week from the date of delivery. In addition, special "express mail" is launched, which is sent by dedicated personnel
With dedicated ship delivery, the time can be cut in half.
It is precisely because of this yiti connection that Zhao Yingong can conveniently direct the activities of the Hangzhou Station in various places when he is active in Hangzhou, Shanghai and Nanjing.
Zhao Yingong chatted with Mao Sansheng for a few words and asked about the recent business activities of the Shanghai head office. Then he arrived in front of his dedicated office. He has dedicated offices for each of the outer cabinets and branches under the Hangzhou Station.
It is always locked, and only he has the key.
As soon as he entered the office, Fenghua sent letters from various branches. His itinerary was sent from the branch where he was located to branches in Hangzhou Station to ensure that all branches knew about him.
His whereabouts can be reported promptly and accurately. In this way, he can grasp the situation in various places at any place and give timely instructions. This is crucial for Zhao Yingong who has to carry out multiple tasks at the same time.
The first letter that Zhao Yingong opened was from Hangzhou Station, and it was a report written by Fenghua about the silkworm breeding farm of Fenghuang Villa.
After buying the Shen family, Zhao Yingong began to experimentally carry out sericulture in Wanbi Villa. A sericulture garden was specially opened and the Shen family was responsible for it. Wanbi Villa is mountainous and suitable for planting mulberry trees. Zhao Yingong passed the Agricultural Committee
Several hundred high-quality mulberry saplings and a batch of silkworm seeds were transported to prepare for high-quality sericulture planting and breeding in Hangzhou.
The largest share of Sino-Japanese trade in the Edo period was raw silk. Japan needed 750,000 to 1,000,000 koku of raw silk every year, half of which had to be imported. Except for a few for its own use, most of it was made into foreign trade silk and velvet and exported to the Dutch. It was equal to two ends.
Processing industry outside.
Lingao Neng does not provide much raw silk. Most of the raw silk purchased from the Pearl River Delta through Wanyou and business partners is sold directly to the Dutch and British. Therefore, Zhao Yingong must purchase Zhejiang raw silk locally.
The source of silk in Zhejiang is quite abundant. As long as there is money, it is easy to get enough raw silk for export. However, Zhao Yingong is not convinced about the quality of native silk - to be precise, he was instigated by Wu Nanhai and Si Kaide.
mǎnyi, Zhao Yingong actually knew nothing about sericulture and silk weaving, but he had often heard these two people’s disdainful comments about domestically produced silk. So as soon as he got Wang Siniang and her daughter in Hangzhou, he immediately became ambitious.
Started the silkworm breeding industry
Although China is the country of origin of sericulture, its sericulture and silk weaving industries lagged behind in the Qing Dynasty. Due to neglect of breeding, the silkworm breeds of native silkworms continued to degrade, and the yield and quality of raw silk also continued to deteriorate. Japan during the Meiji Restoration
Later, in order to expand exports, a lot of energy was spent on silkworm breeding, sericulture guidance and silk reeling equipment improvement. As a result, it quickly emerged as a new force and took away the Chinese soil silk that originally occupied the major share in the international market. And since then
Since then, Japan has always been in a leading position in sericulture, with high output and good quality. In the 1920s, when people of insight such as Fei Xiaotong hoped to revive domestic silk production, they had to introduce all silkworm breeds, technology and equipment from Japan.
.Almost all the first batch of professional teachers in the modern sericulture industry were Japanese students.
Japan's advantage in sericulture has even been maintained into the 21st century. Dozens of excellent silkworm seeds brought from old times are bred in the constant temperature and humidity breeding farm of the silkworm breeding farm under the Ministry of Agriculture. Some of them are used for export.
Special varieties of ties, kimonos, evening gowns, and chiffon fabrics. Most of these varieties are cultivated in Japan and raised in Brazil and Southeast Asia. These silkworm breeds were originally strictly controlled when imported into China. Fortunately, in the early 21st century, Japan grew
The economy was in recession at that time, so we got it through a little detour. At Wu Nanhai's request, the North American branch even obtained transgenic silkworms containing the spider silk protein gene, and they are currently undergoing breeding at the Silkworm Breeding Farm of the Council of Agriculture.
I hope it can be used to make body armor one day.
The climate in Lingao is not suitable for promoting large-scale sericulture, so as soon as the silkworm breeding farm in Fenghuang Villa was established, the Agricultural Committee transported most of the silkworm seeds to Hangzhou. With a stable breeding base, all these silkworm seeds, including
Adapted species that hybridize with ancient indigenous silkworm species can be cultivated on a large scale. As long as there are orders, they can be outsourced to sericulture farmers. To be continued.