Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 616 Cooperation ([-])

Siligu listened to the roaring sound in the factory workshop next door, and his heart felt extremely itchy as if a hundred cats were scratching. He was eager to go to the next door to see the mystery inside, but the east coast police who followed him were cold His gaze stopped his impulse, so he could only stand outside annoyed, thinking about what was happening in the workshop next door.

It was the woolen production workshop of Dayuhe Machine Textile Factory, a national key secret enterprise. The whole factory was tightly surrounded by a high wall, and strangers could not freely enter the factory area without the company of senior officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.At present, domestic textiles on the East Coast are mainly divided into two parts, namely cotton cloth and woolen cloth. Among them, cotton cloth is the exclusive income of Pingan Machine Weaving Factory, while woolen cloth is the forbidden area of ​​Dayuhe Machine Textile Factory.

In the past few years, the factory produced an average of tens of thousands of woolen cloths per year, and the main sales destinations were La Plata, Chile, Chalkas, Brazil, New Spain, Florida, and even the Portuguese Congo and Angola on the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The annual profit is more than [-] yuan, which is one of the important sources of profit for Dong'an Company.

The cooperation between Genoese people and East Coast people this time includes a package agreement involving multiple industries, among which technical cooperation in the textile industry is an important part.The Doria family transferred more than a dozen employees from Lyon, Madrid, and Cadiz who had been working in the textile industry for many years to participate in the cooperation negotiations with the people on the east coast. Some of these people were elite business personnel from the St. preferences and habits; some are senior managers of Lyon textile factories (run by Genoese), who know the production process of various textiles (especially silk products) like the back of their hands.

Sirigu is one of the top managers of the largest syndicate company in the Republic of Genoa - St. George's Merchant (also engaged in banking business). He was a manager of a silk weaving factory in Lyon. Having lived in Madrid for more than 20 years, he is considered a top practitioner in this industry.

In fact, he himself has reservations about the textile cooperation with the East Coast people initiated by the Doria family, because the Genoese are in today's increasingly competitive market, traditional woolen textiles (wool purchased from Spain), cotton cloth, etc. Textiles (purchasing cotton from Cyprus and France) have gradually declined, and what they are relying on at present is nothing more than a slightly advantageous position in the silk products (including silk, linen, wool, and cotton blended products) industry.Since I don't have much capital on hand, why bother to hand over the last golden hen to cooperate with others?

But this is just his own idea.According to Mario of the Doria family, even in the silk textile industry, the situation of the Genoese is gradually becoming less optimistic.On the one hand, the sericulture industry in the native Italian states gradually started, and capitalists in some regions (such as Lucca and Tuscany) gradually began to invest in the silk industry; The commercialist Mazaran government is wary of any outflow of funds from Livre (one of the manifestations is that the textiles of the people on the east coast were heavily taxed by them twice), and after years of being mired in war, financial constraints The French government will not let go of any profitable business. This is true for the cotton textile industry, and of course the same for the silk textile industry.

Therefore, it can be said that Genoese merchants with a keen sense of smell have already sensed the crisis. While gradually transferring the silk textile industry originally in Lyon to Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, they began to look for a new way out.And the low cost of the textiles of the magical East Coast people is well-known throughout Europe, so it is a very good choice to cooperate with them to reduce costs.If it is said that there were many people in Genoa who had doubts about cooperating with the pagan country on the east bank before, then after so many years and discovering that the people on the east bank have a certain ability to protect themselves, the young Genoa headed by Mario A generation of business heirs put forward the idea of ​​investing in the East Coast, and this idea quickly gained partial support from the older generation.

Like the grain industry, the Genoese in the textile industry urgently need to cooperate with the East Coast people to reduce costs and cope with increasingly fierce market competition.After all, Genoa has limited national strength and does not have much advantage in technology, so it is very difficult to compete with other countries' industries.And if they cooperate with people from the east coast, it is obvious that they can minimize the cost, and at the same time, they can greatly increase the output to occupy more market share and grab more lucrative profits-this is almost inevitable.

This seems to be a perfect cooperation, both parties get what they need, and the Genoese may lose their own silk weaving industry - which has already been lost, but will gain a huge market share and commercial profits - Genoa People will inevitably ask the people on the east bank to give them the monopoly right to sell silk products, otherwise the basis for cooperation between the two parties will no longer be established.

"Mr. Tao, the assistants I brought are proficient in Spanish consumption preferences, such as what to wear on St. Sebastian's Day and what to wear on the Ascension Day. They will provide you with reasonable suggestions so that you can produce Marketable products. You don't have to doubt our Genoese commercial distribution network, in Cadiz, Madrid, Valladolid, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao, Naples, Palermo, Livorno, Turin, etc. We have a complete commodity distribution network and bank outlets in every city, and we can sell all commodities to those who need them at the fastest speed and at a suitable price.” Xiligujian could not see the production workshops of the people from the East Coast, Then he turned to Tao Chenxi, director of the Textile Industry Bureau of the East Coast Republic who was accompanying him, and said in Spanish: "You don't have to doubt the profits here. I have been operating in Spain for many years, and the profits here are very rich."

"You see, our sincerity is so high, why don't you allow us to cooperate to set up a factory?" Sirigu asked angrily: "I brought a lot of skilled workers and professional managers, and their business quality is not as good as Doubtful, I suggest that we jointly finance the establishment of a brand new textile factory, and then put the people I brought in, which will be very helpful for production.”

"It is possible to jointly invest and set up a factory, but it is absolutely impossible to share the 50% equity you requested." Tao Chenxi refused without thinking, also speaking in Spanish: "We will give you a quarter at most. You can share dividends with peace of mind, but you are not required to participate in the production and operation of the factory. Also, those people you bring over can be consultants for the new factory, and we will give them higher wages, but they are also not allowed to participate in the production and operation of the factory. During daily production. Regarding this point, it is a rigid condition that our government cannot discuss, and I hope you can understand."

Want to trade the market for technology?no way!Tao Chenxi sneered in his heart, what we value is nothing more than some customer information, business network and convenient banking services (receipt of payment) that you have mastered. Maybe you have some uniqueness in the silk industry that we can learn from, but That's no reason to cede technology to you.Jointly set up factories and operate together?What a joke!This factory can give you a quarter of the equity because you can provide a lot of help, otherwise you can't even think of getting 1%.

Hearing Tao Chenxi's non-negotiable words, Sirigu's face turned dark: "Don't you consider the issue of importing raw materials? There are some areas in Italy that have large-scale sericulture farming, and this is all in our hands. , What if we ask for an increase in shares with this shareholding? Can you also ignore this?"

"Sorry, I've never heard of sericulture on a large scale in Italy. Maybe in some out-of-the-way places, but the quality and yield are very low. If I remember correctly, you use it in the silk factories in Lyon. What is imported is raw silk from Persia. As for the sericulture industry in Italy, it is not on the table!" Tao Chenxi continued to attack mercilessly, the strong smell of gunpowder in the words made it impossible to think that this was receiving "foreign friends ".

In fact, what Tao Chenxi said is correct. Although the sericulture industry in Italy and France has begun to develop to a certain extent at this time, it is still not in the right place. Maybe it is a problem with the climate or breeding technology, or it may be that the silkworms were brought from East Rome back then. Mutations occurred when the empire came. In short, the sericulture industry in these two countries has always been a problem, and they had to buy Persian silk for re-export from the Ottoman Empire.

Persia, a country that has developed sericulture at this time, has a history of nearly a thousand years. They should have obtained silkworm eggs, breeding and silk reeling technology from Khotan in the Western Regions of China in the fifth century AD.It is difficult to judge when Khotan acquired the technology. It may have been during the Eastern Han Dynasty, or it may have been during the Western Jin Dynasty. In short, it was stolen from the Central Plains.After silkworm breeding and breeding technology were introduced to Khotan, large and small silk farms soon spread across the desert oasis towns in the Western Regions, but Khotan was the only country among them that had mastered silk reeling technology.

The sericulture industry in Persia was not small at this time, and the neighboring Kashmir region was also rich in silk, but it was wild silk.That is to say, the silkworms in Kashmir are not artificially raised, but local native species. The local natives harvest silkworm cocoons from the wild and then reprocess them.Wild silk has thicker fibers than domesticated silk, but it is tough and durable, and it is also an excellent raw material. The people on the east coast have already heard this information from the Portuguese, so they are not afraid of the threat of the Genoese at this time.

"You don't need to worry about the raw materials." Tao Chenxi said with a straight face, "We will find a way to import them from the Ottoman Empire. It shouldn't be difficult."

Tao Chenxi said so, but in fact, what he thought in his heart was that people from the New China Pioneering Team could take a boat to try to contact the Persians or Kashmiris.After all, it is cheaper to import raw materials from other people than to import second-hand things from Ottomans, which is very good for cost control.

(End of this chapter)