William has been a Taipan for 10 years, and most of the 10 years have been in China, although part of the time is in Hong Kong, but he is also a China expert. China's printing and dyeing, know that it is divided into small workshops and large workshops, even if it is a large workshop, in his opinion, it is just general, Western academia has been carried out for so many years, and even in the field of chemistry, there has been a huge development, can already be seen from a system of various chemicals, although dyes are only a branch of chemistry, but in many universities in Europe and the United States research, is an important branch of the Department of Chemistry, or with reality, and business is more closely related to a branch.

Perennial contact with these, even if the Chinese market is not dominated by colored cloth, William still has it in his eyes, he went up to pick up the cloth, and observed it little by little. The color is uniform, the coloring is excellent, the most important thing is that the brightness, the pure color is bright, the black is black, the red is red, the yellow is yellow, don't underestimate this, with William's vision, it can be clearly seen that these are very different from China's small printing and dyeing workshops, uniform and excellent.

The other two people also followed William and stepped forward, and took the cloth in the hands of the servants, they were all business partners of Jardine, going back and forth in and out of Jardine, and the servants saw that William did not speak, so they opened up for them to see, there were many colors, both the more common blue and black, and some lighter, more beautiful colors, in short, the soft cloth, with the right color, looked particularly beautiful.

"Have you tried his fading?" William asked.

Zhou Zhilong was stunned for a moment, lowered his head, and said, "No." However, the propaganda of the cloth shop says that it will not fade! ”

"Take it. Wash it immediately and find a few people to scrub it with soap. Look at the effect, all of them have to be washed! William ordered categorically.

Zhou Zhilong hurriedly took the order and went out, but William's brows were furrowed, whether it faded or not, it was a worldwide problem, the printing and dyeing of cloth was a problem solved by most chemical experts, and it was not known whether Baotou could solve it, but Baotou's previous reputation and tricks with him were tricked. Without a little bit of certainty, he will not be so promoted, because this kind of propaganda, if it is false, it is easy to be punctured, businessmen in this era, reputation is simply more important than life, there is no money, you can earn it again. If you don't have credibility, you will definitely not be able to turn over.

Fedorov and Thomas also stopped talking and watched William arrange basically all afternoon. They are all waiting for the results here, and by the way, send someone to take a look outside. Obviously, the flower cloth of Baotou. Or it made waves in Shanghai, and many people are discussing. Although they didn't buy much, their sales of cotton and muslin began to stagnate.

Even if it is excellent printing and dyeing, it is impossible to not fade at all, even in the 21st century, it is only a part of the solution, even with the help of an all-in-one machine, complex dyes and dyeing processes, Yang Yuanzhao has not completely reproduced the standard of dyes in the 21st century, but it is much stronger than this era.

More than 20 maids, with the most powerful detergent, scrubbed for almost an afternoon, the color faded a little, but William's face was not happy at all, such a wash, put on a single clothes, at least more than 50 times of scrubbing, this is still relatively dirty situation, generally, maybe to double, according to the current change of clothes once a week, plus four different clothes, even if there is only one piece of clothing in a season, to wash to this level, it takes at least 8 years, the most important thing is that this fade, It's still compared with the new cloth, for the poor, what is the color of a little drop, it is evenly dropped, 10 years, the clothes have long been torn, what are you still wearing.

In this sense, it is also a fact that Baotou's propaganda does not fade, at least this cloth does not fade, even if he comes to the door with this faded thing, there will be no benefit.

Fedorov is not angry, Russia can make grey cloth, it is enough to make fine cloth, not to mention colored cloth, the United States is a little better, but most of it is supplied to Europe and the local market, no one would have thought that backward China, there will be any colored cloth market.

For a whole day, the results were not discussed, but the momentum of Baotou, they saw that in one day, the cloth sales of foreign banks were sharply reduced to less than 5,000, and the Chinese cloth stores, sales soared to about 15,000, has not reached the limit, but color cloth and grey cloth and muslin, not a grade, the price is higher, the most important thing is that the quality is good. At least on the surface, it does not fade, which is very in line with the choice of housewives, in the past, washing clothes faded, so that they did not dare to mix clothes together, especially dark and light colors, now, this problem does not exist......

William has thought a lot, Baotou may appear methods, and even will lose money to make money, continue to reduce the price, no matter how much it is reduced, he will buy them over, the British Empire has this strength, and how much cotton can China produce, how much cotton cloth can be produced, the reason why this is not the case, is that most of the assets of Jardine Matheson are now fixed production, because part of the funds invested in cotton is still in the international market, and it is not easy to withdraw back.

The three of them, the only thing that is a little fortunate is that the other party's flower cloth has not been killed, in fact, there is no need, the price of the flower cloth is high-end, now the price is about 7.5 yuan, which is only 1.5 yuan more expensive than the current cotton price, and there is still room for their cotton cloth, and then reduce it by 5 cents, maybe they can't sell a piece of cloth.

William thought about it for a day, and finally called Thomas, Fedorov's Dao Sheng, he couldn't intervene in it at all, and Britain and the United States had flower cloth, so in terms of discussion, he could only ask Thomas to talk about it.

Hearing William's thoughts, Thomas frowned, and said with some embarrassment: "Our flower cloth is also just starting, and the local and European markets are insufficient, I'm afraid it can't be shipped to China!" ”

William listened to the excuse of trust, and his heart was out of anger, what local and European markets, it is not good to see the other party's cloth dyed, the price is not expensive, and it will not have much benefit if it is shipped over, and it can't say much, everyone has their own ambitions, after Thomas said goodbye, he sat in the office for a long time, more or less, he had an ominous premonition in his heart, too, to deal with a Qing country, it took so much preparation, and did not occupy much of the upper hand, but suffered again and again, Japan did not say anything, it was not on the table, However, Russia, the United States, and France all left, although France only focused on the financial and futures markets from the beginning, but Russia and the United States followed him to block Chinese cotton, and now they have also parted ways.

William never thought of letting go, not to mention the huge Chinese market, he couldn't give up casually, even if it was for the sake of momentum, he couldn't let go at will, he had to be colored.

A few telegrams were sent, and the network of Jardine Matheson in the whole world was moved, and finally, the successful completion of the mobilization, William sat down with peace of mind, not a single qiē is over, good things are still to come, wait and see, see if your products are good, or the textile industry in Britain is developed.

For a week or so, Britain did not move, and even Russia and the United States have retreated, Britain borrowed some cotton cloth and muslin cloth, with the number of thousands of horses per day, slow shipments, and Shanghai because of a large amount of release of purchasing power, although because of the cheap cloth to stimulate some, but on the whole, the daily sales volume has been reduced to about 10,008 horses, belonging to Baotou, is less than 10,003.

This amount is okay, which is equivalent to occupying the vast majority of the market, but the insistence of the United Kingdom still makes Yang Yuanzhao a little vigilant, the other party is not admitting defeat, obviously there are waves behind, the more he waits, the more terrible he feels, the first power, it is really the first power, even if the enemy is unknown, and he doesn't even know the current situation in China, he still persisted for so long, and he insisted to the end.

However, a few days later, a telegram from Harpy revealed the root of the problem, and Jardine Matheson was mobilizing a large amount of flowers, and the earliest had already passed through Malacca, and it was estimated that it would take up to 3 days to reach Shanghai, and the number was extremely large.

Yang Yuanzhao smiled a little wryly, Britain is really the United Kingdom, rich and rich, losing people does not lose the battle, such a global mobilization of goods, this is the beginning of the 20th century, not the end of the 20th century or the 21st century, shipping is developed and even there is air transportation, such a big deal as global transfer, and only the United Kingdom, the world hegemon, can do it.

Itself, with the flower cloth instead of white cloth, is the sales model of Baotou, Baotou cloth, there is no grey cloth sales, in order to save the opponent scared, according to the routine, now the opponent into the urn, then, let them under more yards.

Instructed the personnel to monitor the docks, how much flower cloth will Britain arrive, Harpy's side is just an approximate amount, Jardine Matheson has almost mobilized 20 million pounds, according to this price, it is 20 million horses, even if it is a large foreign company like Jardine Matheson, it is not easy to mobilize so much during this time period.

The sales of cotton cloth are still continuing, especially before the New Year, because the Chinese traditional Chinese wear new clothes for the New Year, this sales are gradually expanding,

3 days later, sure enough, the first batch of flower cloth in place, a total of 200,000 horses, and then in the next week, 15 million horses were in place one after another, a huge number, plus a lower price than Baotou, the two sides launched a fierce competition, the United Kingdom, which has a large profit margin, temporarily occupies the initiative of Shanghai, 18,000 pieces of flower cloth per day, can occupy 6 percent, and the other markets, also because of the intervention of the United Kingdom, slowly swallowed, Baotou's sales began to decrease.

Yang Yuanzhao was not in a hurry, and even the price was not much lowered, he had been waiting patiently until the goods from Britain had been in place, and the 20 million horses were basically unloaded and loaded into the warehouse. (To be continued......)