"This is my nephew Chen Lin." Chen Xuan hurriedly bent down to introduce the Australian woman in front of him.
"Oh, I heard that 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 really rare here. Every mouth you speak is from the tribe." The woman smiled and said, "Sit, sit, everyone is hunched over like braised prawns." After saying that, she took a seat in front of the blackboard, minding her own business. 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, and 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 you are very familiar with this industry - 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 at the age of 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 felt a little uncomfortable.
She changed her words and said: "Shen Su and I were appointed by the 'Tiandihui' 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 only 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 handsome in appearance, he was quite energetic. He spoke well despite being detained, but he could be seen as very intelligent 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. She has built a system in Fenghuang Villa and Lingao in Hangzhou. The breeding farm specializes in cultivating silkworm seeds. Because of the excellent raw silk produced by the silkworm breeding farm in Hangzhou, it has gained a certain reputation among sericulture farmers around Hangzhou and has gradually been promoted. According to the promotion of the Committee of Agriculture According to the plan, in the future, the silkworm breeding farm in Lingao will serve as a breeding and research base for silkworm species, while the silkworm breeding farm in Hangzhou will carry out commercial scale breeding, gradually phasing out the native species on 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 limitations.
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 exported were produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In terms of silk fabrics exported from Guangzhou, the largest export was "Nanjing silk", that is, from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions; followed by silk and satin from Sichuan, along the Yangtze River It is transported to the two lakes, then along the Xiangjiang River and Ganjiang River to Guangzhou. In the north, Shandong and Henan also have some special silks and satins shipped and sold.
This means that all the export sources of the Senate are in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. After taking over Guangdong, the risk of this "re-export" business has greatly increased. Whether Hangzhou Station can continue to undertake the purchase and transshipment business of raw silk also depends on
A question mark. 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 then goodwill will be affected. This is the last thing the Senate 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, Jiangnan only raises spring and autumn silkworms, but the Pearl River Delta can raise silkworms for five seasons. The basic conditions for silkworm rearing and silk reeling are very good. In the old time and space, from Kangxi
Beginning in the 1980s, 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 produced in the Pearl River Delta region. The silk and satin weaving industry also developed 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 entire foreign silk export in terms of scale and quality. New methods are promoted here.
The silk industry has great potential.
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 her 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, she set up a sericulture workshop at Phoenix Villa. After she left Hangzhou, this class
So Furong took charge of it. She took the two daughters of 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 business trips. Although the two sisters are young, they are already the main technical staff of the Agricultural Committee in sericulture.
However, not long after arriving in Guangzhou, we encountered the plague and were trapped for several months. Finally, the plague subsided and we were able to start promoting sericulture.
Li Yaoer's promotion plan is to follow Fei Dasheng's approach of 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 species.
, new technology to improve the quality of raw silk. This method requires less manpower and material resources and is relatively safe.
Where to find the "open string bow" of the Senate? In Guangzhou, Li Yaoer held many discussions with the senators and naturalized citizens who were familiar with the local situation, 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 and formed into land during the Ming Dynasty. The degree of development was still relatively low and it was classified as a "lower county". The relative population density and land prices were also low. It has a large space for development. It is not far from Guangzhou and is connected by the Pearl River waterway, so the transportation is convenient. As a
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 immediately received a positive response from Chen Xuan.
Yaoer visited Fengsheng and Zhifang again and felt that the basic conditions here were pretty good and there were many sericulture farmers nearby. He decided to open a promotion center here.
Having determined the address, Li Yaoer wrote 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 "aspirations towards 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, Chen Xuan didn't know everything about it, and he couldn't explain many details.
As time went by, the local villagers gradually became familiar with Li Yao'er's people and weavers, and then they realized that Chen Xuan was a "ground stick" type of person, and that the silk workshop did not belong to him - he took advantage of the chaos to seize it.
came down.
After knowing the truth, Li Yaoer was greatly disappointed. But at this point, there was no way to change the course. He could only hold his nose and continue to cooperate. Although Chen Xuan was terrible in the professional field, he was very capable in "doing things". As long as he gave orders
Everything given to him can be done.
Originally, she was somewhat wary of villages with powerful clans like Nansha, but Chen Xuan was surprisingly "manageable". No one in the clan or the village dared to disobey him. This made her work in the village go very smoothly.
.It has become one of the indispensable "talents".
When Chen Xuan saw the Australian woman's expression, he was very satisfied and knew that his introduction was correct. In fact, he was very conflicted in his heart: 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, this would
The silk shop itself was in vain. It would be unimaginable if Chen Lin held a grudge and came to blow wind in the chief's ears.
He was secretly worried when 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 Yaoer stopped what he was saying: "I know that your father is the master 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 stare at it.
The small silk factory in front of us will not be abandoned. 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 him 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, the originally depressed and forced mood became much brighter. He immediately said: "Since the chief thinks highly of the villain, the villain should do his best to do things!"