From then on, they not only have no spare capacity to expand, but may break out in war.

Because Yang Fuqing and Wang Haiyang will never make another northern expedition in the future, the Taiping rebels can go to the northern expedition with Li Xiucheng’s own troops, but Yang Fuqing and Wang Haiyang can’t safely and boldly send their troops to the north.
Li Xiucheng’s mistake in political prisoners not only ruined the future of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also buried a bomb destined to explode. When the bomb exploded depends on Li Xiucheng’s own strategy of Zeng Guofan’s mentoring.
But one thing is certain: the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is hopeless.
Based on this idea, Zhu Jinglun decided to expand the interests of the big areas in the south of the Yangtze River as soon as possible. While the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom government could resist the pressure of foreigners, it would infiltrate the big interests into the corners of this country and create a fait accompli. Even if the Manchu Dynasty regained these areas in the future, it must acquiesce in the big interests here.
Of course, this is a preparation, and military preparations are also under way, that is, to prepare for the annexation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by the North at any time before the Manchu Dynasty, or at least to divide it up with the Manchu Dynasty.
In general, this kind of plan is highly confidential and will not be passed by the government. Because it is passed by the government, it is difficult to ensure that it will not be known by Hurd. If Hurd knows, it is difficult to ensure that the British government knows.
To do such a thing, Zhu Jinglun directly consulted Wu Chongyao and directly moved Wu’s commercial power.
According to Zhu Jinglun’s request, Wu Chongyao really has a suitable candidate.
At the right moment, it’s still the Xu Rongcun family, the power of his foreign company.
The Xu family is a comprador family, but also a business tycoon.
Xu Run, the second generation leader in Xujia, managed it. They bought the bankrupt Yihe Silk Factory and moved it to the famous Rongji Silk Factory in shengze town, Suzhou.
However, after that, they encountered a great problem. Xu Run set up Rongji Silk Factory in shengze town in order to expand the production of silk in Jili Lake here.
Lake silk in this collection is the top silk raw material in this era, but in the future, because the luster and toughness of this raw silk are the best among raw silk, even if it is produced by hand and sent to the Expo, it will win the gold medal.
In this era, the pursuit of western breeding is yield, so the silkworm eggs in the west are developing in the direction of hypertrophy, and the size of silkworm cocoons is naturally large, and the output of raw silk is correspondingly large. However, the breeding concept of lake silk in Jili is highly pursuing quality. It is amazing that one lake silk in Jili can lift seven copper coins. To sum up, lake silk in Jili has the characteristics of "thin, round, uniform, firm, white, clean, soft and tough" and is first-class in this quality.
However, God is fair. In the series, the color and toughness of lake silk are first-class, but the output is much worse than other raw silk.
Because the silkworm eggs of Husi are a kind of silkworm eggs called lotus seed, as the name implies, this kind of silkworm eggs have the size of lotus, not to mention that compared with the big white silkworm cultivated in the west, it is also greatly inferior to the silkworm eggs in other parts of the south of the Yangtze River
The production of Lihu silk in the series has always been small, with small output and high quality, which is in line with the definition of luxury. Therefore, the production of all kinds of silk woven from Lihu silk in the series is also the most popular high-end clothing for western nobles.
Xu Rong village office Rongji silk shop used to be Jilihu silk won the gold medal at the London Expo, which made it famous, and with Xu Rongcun’s work in Ocean Division, it greatly expanded Rongji international network. They sent their offices to London and Paris to supply raw materials to Maxwell in England and Lyon in France.
However, the low output of this raw material has greatly restricted the acquisition of bankrupt Yihe Silk Factory by Xu Runcai of Rongji Development Institute, and intends to facilitate machine production and expand the output of Jili Lake silk.
However, Xu Run’s unfamiliarity with technology caused him to suffer heavy losses. He finally found that he spent a huge sum of money to move to shengze town for reeling. It was difficult for the machine to handle this kind of cocoon, which was planted in the lotus heart. Xu Run was an enterprising young man. He later became one of the four comprador in China. Naturally, he had his own excellent qualities and refused to give up easily.
Anyway, he has invested a lot of money. He insisted on hiring professional engineers from Italy and France and invited them to China to carry out experiments and adjust the machine to study the new production technology. After three years, he bought a large number of more sophisticated machines and finally successfully trial-produced a special machine for reeling lotus seeds. At the beginning of last year, Rongji Silk Factory really started normal production, but in a year, the output doubled, and the quality was much higher than that of manual production. In terms of uniformity, it was far higher than that of manual production.
As a result, Rongji’s profit was greatly high, and not only was it recovered, but two factories were set up in Nanxun Town and Zhenze Town of Huzhou to monopolize the source of this generation of lotus seed cocoons.
It also made Xu Jiacheng the most successful investor in Taihu Lake Basin.
Wu Chongyao recognized the Xu family as the best candidate to implement Zhu Jinglun’s policy of expanding Daizi’s interests in the south of the Yangtze River. He went to his own department, Xu Rongcun, and quietly said that this was the emperor’s intention. After learning that this was the emperor’s intention, Xu Rongcun immediately said nothing, but his nephew Xu Run invested heavily in establishing ten factories in Yixing, Wuxi and Changxing around Taihu Lake to directly monopolize the high-quality cocoon resources in this area.
It is smooth and easy to expand the interests of raw silk industry in Jiangnan with such a suitable candidate as Xu family, but raw silk is not the only interest in Jiangnan
The history of Taiping Army ruling Jiangnan area has always been China’s affluent area. In the agricultural era, it was the best land of fish and rice, with the title of Suzhou and Huzhou being ripe and full of days. If Suzhou and Huzhou had a bumper harvest, there would be no hunger and worry. After the great sailing era, Jiangnan was integrated into the international economy, from grain production to economic production, and Su Hu became the best silkworm center.
However, Jiangnan is still the best high-quality tea producing area in China, and West Lake Longjing is the representative of famous tea in China. However, in the era of spheroidization, it is obvious that the western market is more important and westerners don’t like Longjing, a green tea. So Jiangnan tea merchants slowly introduced the method of making southern black tea, and successfully trial-produced Qihong, a high-aroma black tea, in Qimen area, just like Fujian Dahongpao, Jiangxi Ninghong and Guangdong Yinghong, which are the four high-aroma black teas in China.
Cuhk has now controlled three of the four major black teas, that is, Qi Hong, which has just been cultivated, has not yet controlled and monopolized the world tea production. The country has long regarded black tea production as a strategic industry. This year, Huizhou businessman Hu Yuanlong succeeded in trial production, and Qi Hong was immediately sought after by foreigners in the sea market. Obviously, it is impossible to let this situation continue.
Wu Chongyao is a world-class tea giant, but he really has no ability to penetrate into the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom tea producing area. After mobilizing government forces, Wu Chongyao chose a partner, that is, a tea merchant named Jiang in Fuliang State, Raozhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province
Fuliang is located in the northeast of Jiangxi Province. Besides Jingdezhen, the center of China porcelain, it is also a famous tea producing area in history. In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi wrote the poem "who, prizing money first, careless how he left her had gone, a month before, to Fuliang to buy tea", which was famous for its industrial production as early as the Tang Dynasty.
Another specialty of the floating beam is porcelain. Jingdezhen, the capital of porcelain in China, is located in the floating beam, producing silk. There is a saying in Nanxun Town, Huzhou Prefecture that a Huzhou Prefecture is less than half of Nanxun Town in the floating beam. This sentence is not an exaggeration. A Raozhou Prefecture may be really less than half of the floating beam city. The general county magistrate is all seven floating beam counties, and the orders are all different, which are special facial features.
Jiang set up a Tianxiang tea house in Fuliang, and managed the tea business for generations. Not only did he build a large area of tea garden himself, but he also had business in two counties, Qimen and Wuyuan, Huizhou Prefecture, which were near the Taiping rebels’ control area. More importantly, Jiang also set up a tea house in the sea, and the tea was exported overseas through foreigners.
The Wu family values Jiang’s business chain, but it’s not just that. Because the Wu family is not short of channels, he values Jiang’s geographical location, that is, the floating beam geographical location.
To the east of Fuliang, Wuyuan County and Qimen County, Huizhou Prefecture, which are controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, are adjacent to each other. These two counties are both high-quality black tea producing areas under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The famous Qihong came from Qimen, which is why Wu Chongyao really valued Jiang’s family.
Wu Chongyao is confident of monopolizing the tea resources in Huizhou in a short time by Jiang Tianxiang.
He was very overbearing. After talking to Jiang’s family, he invested 3 million yuan and mobilized a lot of technical force to enter Huizhou for a short time to set up 30 machine-made tea factories. Don’t dare to say that these 30 machine-made tea factories can monopolize the high-quality black tea resources in Qimen and Wuyuan, and then infiltrate the whole Huizhou with half the effort.
Monopoly of high-quality cocoon raw materials in the south of the Yangtze River, such as the Xu family, and the monopoly of high-quality black tea raw materials in Huizhou area, such as Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province, are convenient, but there is no way to deal with the cotton textile industry, another big economic business in the south of the Yangtze River, because the cotton textile industry is really disappointing.
Section five hundred and ninety The dilemma of the big cotton spinning industry
The big government attaches the same importance to the cotton spinning industry as it did to the production of tea and raw silk in previous years, but the cotton spinning industry just didn’t develop as fast as the tea and raw silk industry and ended up in a tepid state.
In 16 years, Zhu Jinglun came back from the French Expo, when the nylon hall was smashed and destroyed. Following the Changlong silk reeling factory incident, the final result was that hundreds of hooligans were exiled and the nylon hall leader committed suicide after pleading guilty.
However, Houjinluntang, a huge trade chamber composed of silk weaving workshops, cocoon merchants, raw silk and silk weaving merchants, has undergone a transformation with a kind of personal anger. They hate, of course, the silk reeling and weaving industries of the Ministry of Industry, Shang Chen Qiyuan and Changlong.
Because they are still at odds with the Ministry of Industry, Nylon Hall does not need the support of government funds, and they are not short of funds. It is because they have accumulated many years that businessmen have formed organizations and adopted additional funds. In a short time, they set up a large-scale silk weaving factory.
In the raw silk industry, merchants went to the countryside to buy cocoons and raw silk, and directly set up factories in the fields to produce raw silk materials. In the weaving and thickening industry, they built two large-scale weaving and thickening factories in Foshan and Guangzhou respectively to produce various kinds of silk, and printed silk and plain silk were the largest output.
In just seven years, with the help of the old guild, they mastered the commercial network, and they released the high efficiency of industrial production perfectly, which eventually turned into a rich profit report.
Zhu Jinglun was quite touched by the fact that Nylon Hall could surpass the Chen Qiyuan family business. After analyzing the advantages of this old guild, he thought it was a matter of course. They used to be engaged in the silk industry. They knew where there was a cocoon and where there was a market, but an industrialist like Chen Qiyuan completely changed from a squire. Obviously, it was better for squire and businessman to engage in industry than squire.
Zhu Jinglun was greatly inspired by the example of nylon hall. In the past five years, the big government has been promoting a policy, that is, promoting the transformation of the guild to modernization, and promoting the transformation of the Fujian Club into a modern shipping group in the Ministry of Industry; Foshan Railway Company and Cannon Company have established new machine manufacturing plants respectively.
It also promoted the cotton textile guild to establish a machine spinning and weaving factory.
In the process of promoting the transformation of these guilds, the Chen family continued to take the lead. Following the expansion of the silk reeling industry and silk weaving industry, Changlong cotton mill and weaving factory were established in Kowloon Port, where the imported cotton source is convenient.
However, the cotton yarn production can still maintain the woven fabric base, and even the money may not be recovered if it is sold at a loss.
This is something that no one has thought of.
The Ministry of Industry has conducted a special investigation on this. They believe that the spinning industry has formed a machine cotton yarn market after the promotion of foreigners’ cotton yarn for a hundred years. The people have long learned the method of making machine-made cotton yarn warp and hand-made soil yarn weft to produce soil cloth. The annual import of British and Indian cotton yarn has reached the scale of 10 million taels of silver.
The large cotton yarn industry is easy to enter this industry that has formed a market.
However, woven fabrics have encountered the same problem as the British have encountered in the past hundred years, that is, finally let the people of China accept woven fabrics.
The British Ministry of Commerce has done a survey. The problem that China people don’t like foreign cloth is that although the foreign cloth looks exquisite and detailed, it can’t be worn by China people. It can be worn for three or four years. This is still doing farm work, but if it is replaced by foreign cloth, those farmers who do heavy work can wear it for a year at most.
The British fine cloth finally found business among the middle class in a few port cities, because these people don’t need to do hard work, they pay more attention to their clothes, and the beautifully printed British fine cloth can make the middle class in the city replace expensive silk to some extent.
The British believe that foreign cloth can’t compete with homespun with higher tolerance if it is reduced in price, because foreign cloth can’t be reduced to one-third of the price of homespun, and the durability of homespun is three or four times that of foreign cloth, so the British believe that their production market is very promising in cities, and the urban middle class is rapidly expanding with economic development to eliminate demand.
However, the British can dump Indian homespuns in India without China market, and the British can raise the tax on hand-woven fabrics by a large margin, so that the Indian workers can compete with the British workers who adopt machine-woven fabrics, but Dafa makes it necessary for him to face the competition of a large number of China homespuns and complete the industrialization of cotton spinning industry without hitting this market.
After careful investigation and research, the Ministry of Industry found that the best-selling foreign cloth in China market is American coarse cloth, which is very popular with miners in the west and is also liked by ordinary people in China as the only cloth that can compete with homespun.
The Ministry of Industry intends to encourage businessmen to copy this coarse cloth to compete with homespun for a huge rural market. They don’t know the history yet. The British copied American coarse cloth for 17 years, and the export of British cloth to China tripled this year.
The Ministry of Industry successfully copied American coarse fabrics last year and immediately promoted and produced a large number of coarse fabrics in Jichanglong Textile Factory. The sales of these coarse fabrics in Shanghai and Tianjin are quite good, but it is still in the promotion stage and it has formed a big market at present.
As a result, except for the Chen Qiyuan family business, which is not the first target of economic interests, other businessmen are not very interested in it. Even the cotton cloth chamber of commerce is more willing to sell homespun and import foreign cloth to meet different types of consumers respectively, and is not interested in the Ministry of Industry encouraging them to carry out machine production.
Therefore, after five years of promotion, whether the cotton spinning industry is large or not is a government and an industry closely related to the government, and whether private capital is interested in it has not formed an investment boom.
There is no condition for Dazi to go to Jiangnan to compete for cotton resources in Songjiang Prefecture around the sea without forming a capitalist giant.
There are also major businessmen like Chen Qiyuan who are willing to blindly set up a cotton textile factory in the sea in the absence of prospects according to Zhu Jinglun’s instructions, and set up a large spinning factory and a textile factory with a capital of 22 thousand respectively