Chapter 468: Taking the Initiative (Helmsman Plus Change)
"You look for Zhao Fugui for this matter, he is more aware of the cotton planting situation in western Guangdong, maybe he can help you solve your urgent needs!" Lin Haoran didn't shirk it, and showed him a clear way.
When the shopkeeper Weng heard this, his face showed a little hesitation, and Lin Haoran said with a smile: "Although he didn't participate in the workshop, you told him that it was me, and I believe he would sell me this face!" ”
"Okay, I'll go find him when I get back!" The shopkeeper's eyes flashed with joy, and he said with a bright smile.
Although their Weng family is a top family in Guangdong, their connections are mainly in Guangzhou Mansion and eastern Guangdong, and they are almost blind to western Guangdong.
Even if you know that the Li people in Qiongzhou Mansion have always been rich in cotton, but they are also suffering from no way, and now with the help of the local snakes in western Guangdong, it will undoubtedly make things much easier.
But I don't know what means Lin Haoran used, businessmen in western Guangdong such as Shen Liuye, Zhao Fugui and Gu Mancang all obeyed his words. Now that I have told this matter, I will definitely do my best.
The two of them continued to walk through the workshop, listening to the intertwined "chirping" of weaving.
Lin Haoran came over this time, mainly to check the production progress of the workshop. Now that the weather has turned cooler, and the golden season of cotton cloth is coming, he wants Leizhou cloth to come out as soon as possible.
Although Leizhoubu's main responsibility is to help him open the sea, the wharf is still in the construction stage, the fangs on Jinzhou Island have not been removed, and there is still a lot of preliminary work that has not been put in place.
It is precisely because of this that he recently wants Leizhou cloth to occupy the entire western Guangdong and surrounding markets, first start the name of Leizhou cloth in Daming, and then try to seek overseas markets.
As in later generations, the looms were as close to the wall as possible, and the female weavers were busy facing the wall, and the setting sun poured in through the windows, dyeing several looms golden.
Lin Haoran walked through the busy workshop, but unexpectedly saw the figure of the girl Han Meng'er, the woman who had been on death row with Zhang Min and others.
With the cracking of Liu San's case of pretending to be a magistrate, his comrades were also found out one by one, including Han Meng'er's fiancé Zhao Wu.
Although Han Meng'er was not angry that her parents forced her to marry Zhao Wu, and angrily stabbed Zhao Wu to constitute a capital crime, because Zhao Wu was originally a wanted criminal, and now she has forged her identity, so Lin Haoran also opened the net, and sentenced Han Meng'er to intend to murder her fiancé and released her on the spot.
In addition to Han Meng'er, Li Chunyan, the daughter of the former Li County Cheng, was also released. Because Liu San was worried that Li Chunyan would do bad things, he set up a fake death scam, planning to punish Li Chunyan with the law.
The contours of Han Meng'er's side face are very good-looking, her eyelashes appear slender, and a sunset just happens to fall on her. It's just that there is no sense of twilight in her, there is just a new life and a love of life.
Probably sensing the commotion of her companions, she also followed the gaze of others in a certain direction when she used her sleeve to probe the beads of sweat on her forehead. When she saw Lin Haoran, she showed a happy smile.
Lin Haoran was stunned for a while, and didn't understand why this girl smiled at him, after all, the two had only met two or three times, and they had never even talked.
Maybe it's a kind of reverence for life, or maybe it's infected by this innocent smile. He knew that this girl was not easy, this time it could be said that she had escaped death, and seeing that she could still be so optimistic, he also responded with a smile.
It's just this response, but it made Han Meng'er stunned, hesitated for a few seconds, her pretty face blushed slightly, and hurriedly continued to be busy with the work at hand.
Lin Haoran looked at her reaction, shrugged helplessly, and finished the unfinished road. He continued to talk with Weng Yuanwai, checking the operation of hundreds of looms in the workshop, and was very satisfied with the progress.
After coming out of the joint workshop, he did not stop, and went next door to see the operation of the spinning mill. From cotton to white cotton, there is actually a spinning process, that is, cotton into cotton thread.
In fact, there is an inevitability in the emergence of everything. Just like the advent of television, it will inevitably lead to the improvement of photography technology, so as to shoot more colorful film and television works.
In later generations, not long after the advent of the shuttle loom, the factory owners soon faced a new problem - the lack of cotton yarn supply. It was in this way that the invention of more efficient looms became a new desire of the factory owners.
Similar to Newton, who was hit on the head by an apple and realized the theorem of gravitation, a weaver named James Hargreaves came home from work and unintentionally kicked over the spinning machine his wife was using, so he had to break away from the fixed idea that the spindle had to be horizontal, and invented the Jenny spinning machine with the spindle upright.
With the advent of the Jenny spinning machine, the overall technology of the entire textile industry in Britain has been greatly improved, thus laying a firm foundation for the textile industry in this empire on which the sun never sets.
Now, this kind of Jenny spinning machine with eight yarns rotating at the same time has appeared in the workshop of this Leizhou city, and the piles of cotton have slowly turned into soft white cotton threads.
With the establishment of these two workshops, Lin Haoran's layout of Leizhou cloth production links has been basically completed. As long as these two workshops are the core and other workshops assist, there will not be too many problems in the production of Leizhou cloth.
After seeing the good operation of the two large workshops, Lin Haoran was also relieved, and seemed more confident in the future, knowing that he could continue to promote the plan of opening the sea step by step.
For now, he faces two main problems. One is how to remove the Blue Flag Gang on Jinzhou Island and open the last obstacle to Leizhou's passage through the sea; The second is how to solve the problem of raw materials for cotton in the future and make Leizhou Mansion a new cotton weaving center.
For the former, he knew that he couldn't be in a hurry, after all, the Blue Flag Gang was stronger than the Yellow Flag Gang, and Jinzhou Island had a strong geographical advantage, so he couldn't be in a hurry.
For the latter, he is actually inclined to establish colonial estates overseas for cotton supply, but this idea is destined to be unrealized in the short term, and now he has to find a way around Leizhou.
Fortunately, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the great ancestor ordered: "Where there are five to ten acres of people, half an acre of mulberry, hemp, and kapok are carried each, and more than ten acres are doubled." Because cotton is better than kapok, cotton is scattered all over the country, and if these scattered cotton can be concentrated, it is actually enough for the needs of Leizhou Prefecture.
Lin Haoran understands that people should not always wait for trouble to come to the door, and occasionally take the initiative to attack.
On the second day, Lin Haoran held a banquet and invited all the big families in Haikang County to the government.