As the first New Year since the "Gregorian Calendar of the Song Dynasty" was officially promulgated in Guangzhou, the Guangzhou Municipal Government of the Song Dynasty spared no effort to implement the Gregorian New Year. On the occasion of "New Year's Day" on January 1, it announced a five-day holiday for government agencies and schools.
Various shops and workshops in and around Guangzhou also followed suit. They will have holidays starting from New Year's Day and will not open until the God of Wealth is received on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
Some trading shops were reluctant to part with the best business opportunity of the year, so they asked their clerks to take turns to rest. Although the Australians did not issue any official document of "implementation by the people and the people as one", everyone thought it would be better to follow suit.
After the Australians arrived, the gentry and common people in the city were shaken by thunder and rain. Especially the wealthy gentry families, most of them were frightened and uneasy. Hundreds of wealthy gentry families in and outside the city were ruined by the witchcraft case.
; Not long after the plague ended, the "new tax system" began to be implemented.
Since ancient times, countless people have been killed because of tax collection. Although Australians are not bloodthirsty, the frequent "exile" in several major cases not long ago has frightened them. Because the exile of Australians is not a
People are often exiled as a whole family. Although you are allowed to take away your property and people, the places of exile are "evil soldiers from far away states" that everyone has never heard of. It is said that they are exiled, but in fact they will never return.
Perhaps the Australians have realized that the recent killings have been too severe. Last year, there was another plague that seriously damaged Guangzhou's vitality. Therefore, starting from December, they consciously downplayed the atmosphere of purges and began to prepare for various activities.
It’s a celebration. Lanterns are decorated everywhere. Large-scale fireworks are also set off in Baietan and other places on New Year’s Eve. All kinds of large-scale fireworks were played for more than half an hour, and all kinds of fireworks lit up half the sky.
The sky is like a sky, and the whole city is crazy.
The Guangzhou Federation of Industry and Commerce also held a group visit party on the second day of New Year's Day. For members of the Federation of Industry and Commerce, although the group visit was just a formality, it was also a "reassurance". It also caused panic all year long.
The industrial and commercial people felt relaxed and happy.
At the group visit, Lin Baiguang, who came to preside over the meeting, and Liu Xiang, who came here specially, not only made some remarks, but also specifically mentioned a series of "industrial and commercial promotion projects" of the Senate, including the recently popular "Nanyang Company" project.
In addition to the Nanyang Company's stock offering and bond issuance, there are also a series of specific industrial investment projects. Liu Dafu personally gave speeches and took the trouble to do so. Of course, as the mayor of Guangzhou, it is his consistent purpose to spare no effort to promote industry and commerce. In addition to the planning institute's plan
From relocating to building new enterprises, encouraging local industrial and commercial entrepreneurs to set up entities is also a common idea of all colleagues from the Planning Institute and the municipal government.
The Planning Institute and the Guangzhou Municipal Government are not the only ones who are interested in "diffusion of production capacity". The agriculture and light industry departments are also gearing up for this hot land of Guangzhou and are preparing to do something big. Wu Nanhai is also tinkering with a "patent transfer" and is preparing to
Transfer a batch of civilian technologies in the form of patents to large companies in Guangzhou for a fee, allowing them to invest in setting up factories.
Although these projects have not yet been issued in the form of formal documents, Liu Xiang has disclosed the general contents to the big players in today's PPT.
There may seem to be a wide variety of projects, but in fact they all belong to "agricultural products processing", the largest and most important of which is "cotton spinning".
Cotton spinning used to be an industry that the Senate paid little attention to. The reason was simply that the Senate did not have a stable source of cotton and had to face competition from cheap Indian cotton and Songjiang cotton. Therefore, although the Senate has operated yarn mills and textile mills in recent years
, but the scale is not large, and it is mainly used to produce certain special textiles. Most of the cotton fabrics are imported from India and Ming Dynasty.
After occupying Guangdong and Guangxi, the supply problem of cotton has been basically solved. Secondly, various departments have criticized the existing "homespun cloth", whether it is the Indian Cotton Department or Songjiang Cotton. From an application point of view, cotton textiles are very important in the industrial and civil fields.
It is widely used, but the small number of spindles under the current industrial control of the Senate makes the special textiles of the Senate always hover at a low production level, whether in terms of output, variety or technology.
Expanding the production scale of cotton textiles was quickly put on the agenda. According to the established policy of the Senate for running industries, the establishment of this type of light industry has always been carried out using the model of "attracting private capital investment". Therefore, it became the "Guangzhou Industrial and Commercial Promotion"
case".
After Lin Baiguang presided over the group meeting, he also hosted a banquet for the members. It was very lively with people drinking and drinking. Everyone looked very happy. After drinking and eating, Wu Yijun said goodbye to his acquaintances and got on the sedan chair back home.
They were all thinking about Kun Ren’s motives. He was not in the cloth business, but a businessman who bought dried fruit packages, but the sandy land in the south was his, and Kun Ren bought it. People also heard that there was a real Kun who specializes in buying dried fruit bags.
After going around for a while, he smelled the business opportunities. He had long been eager to get Gao Li, and since he came into contact with the Kun people, he quickly became one of the top big players. However, before the "liberation" of Guangzhou, he had no business with the Kun people.
A place of intersection. Originally, it was just a matter of advancing and retreating according to the class, so I came here to click Mao.
I didn't expect that such a thing would happen during this group visit! This so-called "Industrial and Commercial Promotion Case" is the Senate's investment promotion meeting.
Among the projects at the investment fair, he was most interested in cotton spinning. Because he had a lot of newly dried up sand fields in his hands. These sand fields were of no great use except for growing cotton. He couldn't make much money just selling cotton.
Only those who have money can make the biggest profits by spinning and weaving by themselves. And judging from the current appetite of Australians for cotton, you don’t have to worry about sales in this business - both Liu Dafu and Director Lin have made it clear that the Senate will
Fully support local industries.
However, in the past, the local cotton spinning in Guangzhou was not as strong as silk weaving. Most of the cloth on the market was Songjiang cloth, and many cloths were only used by farmers. In addition, after the arrival of the Australians, a large amount of foreign cloth was imported, and the cloth shops in Guangzhou city had no local cloth for a long time.
Yes, there are still homespun weavers in remote counties, but with the war and chaos, I don’t know how many weaving households there are.
There are three plans given by Kun people. The first one is the simplest, which is actually a variant of the package buyer. In the past, the package buyer provided raw materials to farmers, and then waited for them to weave them and then bought them and resold them. The package purchase process also had some differences.
Different, some directly provide raw cotton and linen, some provide spinning yarn, and some big shop owners directly produce and sell their own looms, but basically each shop owns its own looms. The Kun people have added credit machines, in addition to the
The product package is purchased, and for every piece of cloth sold by the person who obtains the machine, the Kun people will take another part of the profit, and it will be a permanent profit, which is much worse than those big credit owners. Unless the "shares" in the hands of the Australians are acquired back
, and the purchase price of the shares was more than ten times that of selling the machines directly. Although the people who were bought into the shares could also accept the technical and management guidance of the Australians, and the amount of profit was determined by the amount of income, it could basically be said that they were selling themselves to
Australian.
As for the dividend distribution of corporate shares, in Wu Yijun's view, the "East-West System" has been renamed. The East is the Caidong, and the West is the shopkeeper. The Caidong pays for the shopkeeper to run the business, and it is common for several companies to invest in joint ventures. But in fact, there are some
The difference, for example, is that the company that elected him as a legal person also wanted to be a shareholder, but they did not do any specific business. He originally thought that Caidong was the young fake Kun, but to his surprise, the investor was not a person, but another company.
, the shareholders of the company must be Zhen Kun. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that this Kun was worthy of being a maritime businessman. Although he looked complicated, he could make money just by lying down.
Finally, there is another model. That is for businessmen to set up factories as sole proprietors or joint-stock companies. The Australians only sell equipment and technology to the factories and do not intervene in other matters. The profits can be pocketed after paying taxes.
To say which one is the best, it is naturally the third type. But it goes without saying that the investment in the third type is not something that ordinary large investors can afford. At least a few companies must form a partnership.
Returning to the mansion, he told the servant at the door: "Move everything in." Kunren distributed some samples to members who were interested in the cotton textile industry.
After returning to the study, he pondered for a while and then asked someone to call his cousin Chen Lin. Chen Lin was a relative of Wu Yijun in Nanhai County. His family used to be a silk mill. Not long after the Australians arrived, there was a commotion in the countryside.
The bandits revolted and the army revolted. The Chen family was robbed first, and the family was almost destroyed due to the Huilu disaster. They fled to Guangzhou to seek refuge with him.
Originally, Chen Lin had to go back to clean up his family business after the peace in the four villages. Unexpectedly, he encountered the plague again, so the trouble was delayed in the city.
A few days ago, Chen Lin came to say goodbye, saying that he would leave Guangzhou and return to his hometown some other day.
From this point of view, it is just an opportunity.
Chen Lin came over to greet him - he was a handsome man in his early thirties. He used to work as a silk dealer in the countryside, and his face was tanned. After staying in Guangzhou for more than a year, he became much fairer and looked like a scholar.
Wu Yijun exchanged some polite words with him and asked him how his luggage was prepared and whether the ship had been hired. He also asked his servant to prepare some local products from Guangzhou.
Finally he got to the point: "Your family has been eating looms for generations, how about taking a look at these pieces of cloth?" He handed a few pieces of samples to Chen Lin.
Chen Lin took it, looked over it several times, frowned, and said, "I wonder where uncle got these pieces of cloth."
"Don't worry about this, let's take a look at the color and quality first?"
He responded and said: "My nephew's family always makes silk. Although I know a thing or two about cotton, I am not an expert in this industry, so I can only speak nonsense."
Wu Yijun smiled and said: "If you don't understand, I don't understand even more. Just say you understand."
Although he was thinking about starting a cotton spinning business, he always felt that something was wrong. Because the competition for cotton in Guangzhou was very fierce. Whether it was local homespun cloth, fine cloth from Songjiang, or various kinds of cotton from the West, they all had a firm hold.
In the market, there is not much room for price. If we really want to do it, the competition will be very high.