Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2403 Business Promotion Case

Nov. 1636, 1

As the first New Year after the "Gregorian Calendar" was officially promulgated in Guangzhou, the Guangzhou Municipal Government of the Song Dynasty spared no effort to promote the Gregorian New Year.On the occasion of "New Year's Day" on January 1, public offices and schools are declared to be closed for five days.

All the shops and workshops in and around Guangzhou City, also Xiao Guicao Sui, will be on holiday from New Year's Day, and will not open until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year when the God of Wealth is received.

Some shops that buy and sell shops are reluctant to part with the best business opportunities of the year, so they ask the guys to take turns to rest.Although the Australians didn't issue any official document of "integrated implementation of the people and the people", everyone felt that it would be better to follow along.

After the Australians came, the thunder and rain dew, and the rubbish of the city's common people were taken aback for a while.Especially the big gentry, most of them are panicked.In the case of witchcraft, hundreds of wealthy gentry families in and outside the city broke their homes; the plague was not long after the end, and the "new tax system" began to be implemented.

Since ancient times, countless people have been killed because of tax collection.Although the Australians are not bloodthirsty, their frequent "exile" in several major cases not long ago also made them tremble with fear.Because Australians are not exiled alone, they are often exiled with their families.Although you are allowed to take away all the property and population, the place of exile is the "Yuanzhou Evil Army" that everyone has never heard of. It is said that they are exiled, but in fact they will never return.

Probably the Australians also realized that the recent killings were too severe, and last year there was another plague that seriously damaged Guangzhou's vitality. Therefore, since December, they have consciously downplayed the atmosphere of purges and started to make lively preparations for various activities. Kind of a celebration.There are lights and festoons everywhere.On the night of New Year's Eve, large-scale fireworks were also set off in places such as Baietan. All kinds of large-scale fireworks went on for more than half an hour, and all kinds of fireworks lit up half of the sky, making the whole city crazy.

The Guangzhou Federation of Industry and Commerce also held a gathering on the second day of New Year's Day.For the members of the Federation of Industry and Commerce, although the group meeting is just a formality, it is also a "reassurance".It also made the industrial and commercial workers who had been disturbed for a whole year feel at ease.

At the meeting, Lin Baiguang, who came to preside over the meeting, and Liu Xiang, who came here specially, not only talked about the scene, but also specifically mentioned a series of "industrial and commercial promotion projects" of the Senate.Including the "Nanyang Company" plan that has been raging recently.

In addition to the Nanyang Company's stock offering and bond issuance, there are also a series of specific industrial investment projects. Liu Dafu gave speeches in person and took the trouble - of course, as the mayor of Guangzhou, it is his consistent goal to spare no effort to develop industry and commerce.In addition to relocation and construction of new enterprises in the plan of the Planning Institute.Encouraging local businessmen to set up entities is also the common idea of ​​the Planning Institute and all colleagues of 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 agricultural and light industry departments are all gearing up for this hot land of Guangzhou and preparing to do a big job.Wu Nanhai is also tinkering with a "patent transfer", planning to transfer a batch of civilian technologies in the form of patents to large households in Guangzhou for a fee, allowing them to invest in setting up factories.

Although these projects have not been issued in the form of official documents, Liu Xiang has disclosed the general content to the big players on today's PPT.

The projects seem to be various, but they all belong to "agricultural product processing", the largest and most important project is "cotton spinning".

Cotton spinning was an industry that the Senate did not pay much attention to in the past. The reason was that the Senate did not have a stable source of cotton and had to face competition from cheap Indian cotton cloth and Songjiang cotton cloth.Therefore, although the Senate has run mills and textile mills over the years, they are not large in scale and are mainly used to produce certain special textiles.Most of the bulk cotton fabrics were imported from India and Ming Dynasty.

After occupying Guangdong and Guangxi, the cotton supply problem has been basically solved, followed by various departments complaining about the existing "homemade cloth", whether it is the Indian cotton department or Songjiang cotton cloth.From an application point of view, cotton textiles are widely used in industrial and civilian fields, but the current limited number of spindles under the industrial control of the Senate has kept the special textiles of the Senate at a low production level. Is it output, variety or technology.

Expanding the production of cotton textiles was soon on the agenda.According to the established policy of the Senate for running industries, such light industries have always been carried out in the mode of "attracting private capital investment".Therefore, it went to the "Guangzhou Industrial and Commercial Promotion Case".

After Lin Baiguang presided over the meeting, he hosted a dinner for the members.The toasts were mixed, and it was very lively.Everyone looks happy.After drinking and eating, Wu Yijun bid farewell to his acquaintances, and got into the sedan chair back home, thinking about Kunren's motives all the way.He was not in the cloth business, but a businessman who bought dried fruit bags, but the sandy land in the south was his, and the Kun people bought it, and I heard that there was a real Kun who went for a walk, which made him Smell a business opportunity.He has long been eager to raise his eyes, and since he came into contact with the Kun people, he has quickly become one of the largest households. However, before the "liberation" of Guangzhou, he had no place where the industry of the Kun people intersected.Originally, it was just advancing and retreating with the class, so I came here to make a point.

I didn't expect that there would be such a show in this party!This so-called "business promotion case" is the Merchants Association of the Senate.

Among the projects at the Merchants Fair, he was most interested in cotton spinning.Because he has a lot of newly dried sand fields in his hand, these sand fields are not very useful except for growing cotton.You can't make much money just by selling cotton. Only by spinning and weaving can you make the biggest profit.And judging from the current appetite of Australians for cotton cloth, there is no need to worry about sales in this business-both Liu Dafu and Director Lin have made it clear that the Senate will fully support the local industry.

However, in the past, local cotton spinning in Guangfu was not as strong as silk weaving. Most of the cloth on the market was Songjiang cloth, and a lot of cloth was used by farmers themselves.In addition, after the arrival of the Australians, a large amount of foreign cloth was imported, and the cloth shops in Guangzhou have long since lost local cloth. There are still farmhouse cloth in remote counties, but it is in chaos, and it is unknown how many weavers are still there.

There are three kinds of plans offered by Kunren.The first type is the simplest, and it is actually a variant package buyer.In the past, contractors provided raw materials to farmers, and then bought them for resale after they finished weaving. The process of contract buying was also different. Some directly provided raw cotton and linen, some provided spinning yarn, and some big workshop owners directly produced their own. It is sold by itself, but the looms are basically owned by each workshop.And the Kun people have added a credit machine. In addition to buying goods, the people who get the machine will get a part of the profit for every piece of cloth sold, and the profit will be permanent. This is much more ruthless than those big credit customers. .Unless the "shares" in the hands of the Australians are bought back, and the purchase price of the shares is more than ten times that of selling the machine directly, although the people who are invested can also accept the technical and management guidance of the Australians, and draw as much profit as possible decision, but basically it can be said that he sold himself to the Australians.

As for the dividend distribution of legal person shares, in Wu Yijun's view, the "East and West System" has changed its name. The east is the wealth owner, and the west is the shopkeeper.But in fact there are some differences. For example, the company that recommended him as a legal person also needs to be invested in, but they don't do specific business.He originally thought that the rich man was the young fake Kun, but to his surprise, the shareholder was not one person, but another company, and the company's shareholders should be the real Kun.After thinking about it carefully, he felt that this Kunren was worthy of being a sea merchant. Although it looked complicated, he could earn money while lying down.

Finally, there is a pattern.That is, the businessman owns a sole proprietorship or a joint venture to set up a factory. The Australians only sell equipment and technology to the factory, and do nothing else. The profits can be pocketed after paying taxes.

To say which is the best, it is naturally the third.But the third type is self-evident, this investment is not something ordinary big households can care about.At least a few joint ventures.

When he returned to the mansion, he told the servants at the door: "Move everything in." The 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 is a relative of Wu Yijun in Nanhai County.The family used to be a silk workshop.Not long after the Australians called, there was a riot of bandits and soldiers in the countryside.The Chen family was robbed first, and then it was destroyed by Huilu disaster.So he fled to Guangzhou to seek refuge with him.

Originally, after the peace of the four townships, Chen Lin was going back to clean up the family business, but he didn't expect to encounter the plague later, and this toss was delayed in the city.

A few days ago, Chen Lin had come to bid farewell, saying that he would leave Guangzhou someday and go back to his hometown.

From this point of view, it happened to be an opportunity.

Chen Lin came over to greet him - he was a handsome man in his early thirties.I used to be a silk seller in the countryside, and my face was tanned.After staying in Guangzhou for more than a year, I became much fairer and looked like a scholar.

Wu Yijun greeted him a few words, and asked him how his luggage was prepared and whether the boat was hired.He also told the servants 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 some samples to Chen Lin.

Chen Lin took it, looked it over several times, frowned, and said, "I don't know where Uncle got these cloth samples."

"Don't worry about this, let's see how the color quality is?"

He responded and said: "My nephew's family has always made silk. Although I know a thing or two about cotton cloth, 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. You just say you understand."

Although he thought about starting a cotton spinning business, he always felt that something was not right.Because the cotton cloth competition in Guangzhou is quite fierce, whether it is local homemade cloth, fine cloth from Songjiang, or cotton cloth of various colors from the West, they all firmly occupy the market, and there is not much room for price.If you really want to do it, the competition is very high.

(End of this chapter)