A transport ship affiliated to the Taiwan Bank had just driven into Ningbo Dinghai Port Pier from the north and began the intensive unloading work. In addition to standard-sized shipboard boards, rigging, lead pipes, skins, wooden tar, sulfur and other essential parts for repairing ships, the cargo also has many intimidating materials including machines and arms.

Among them, the arms were transported to Madang, Hukou, Yuezhou and other places to the Shun Army to support the war between them and the Qing Dynasty. As for machinery and equipment, some of them were used for their own purposes, and some of them also needed to be exported to Shun Country, so that they could run coal mines, brick kilns, wood processing plants and other enterprises to produce various materials urgently needed on the front line, and maintain the continued war. Considering that Shun Country may not have enough cash to pay for the purchase of these equipment and military funds, the Southern Development Team even instructed the Taiwan Bank to come forward and provide them with a certain amount of loans to transport the above-mentioned batches of materials to Huguang as soon as possible.

Of course, many of these mechanical equipment were ordered by Ningbo, mainly some textile machinery, designed and produced by Heishui County, and introduced early domestic technology. However, even the early technology is still well-known in the Far East, which can greatly improve the efficiency of spinning and weaving, greatly reduce the cost of a piece of cloth and rapidly increase competitiveness.

The main reason why the local people agreed to establish a state-owned textile factory in Ningbo and lifted the ban on some corresponding textile technologies and equipment was that Europeans have made breakthroughs in this regard, and there is no need to keep the technology confidential: the breakthrough was made by British textile enterprises. Through their own careful research, they digested the technology of the Netherlands on the other side of the strait, and also sorted out various textile information from the east coast, and finally invented the spinning machine of Jenny spinning machine of great significance. At the same time, with weaving technologies such as shuttles that had been invented for a long time, they made England's textile technology revolutionary progress, and industrial expansion was about to begin.

For the East Coast people, after enjoying nearly fifty years of technological dividends, everything finally ended. From now on, there is no big difference between the textile technology of the East Coast and Europe in terms of principle. The East Coast is leading the way, nothing more than more optimized design, larger scale, more mechanized production, and better quality management system. It is much more difficult to compete for products than before. They need to work harder in the future. Of course, the ever-destroying dynasty of the East Coast people have enjoyed 50 years of wonderful time. If they still cannot compete with the Europeans in the future, there is nothing to say. They deserve to have no food to eat.

Considering that the English had made a breakthrough (actually sooner or later), the State Administration of Textiles felt that it was not very meaningful to implement a technical blockade, but instead restrained the hands and feet of its colony. So he happily approved the proposal to transfer textile technology to three places including New China (cotton textile), Australia (wool textile), and Ningbo and sell textile machinery, and immediately began to be implemented.

These machines will be installed in the Cixi River factory near the wharf in Dinghai County. There is no doubt that this is a hydraulic-powered equipment. Dinghai County has also invested an additional reservoir and power channel to serve as a power source for all spinning and weaving equipment in the factory. In order to improve the efficiency of these powers, the Southern Development Team government plans to invest in the construction of a semi-mechanized silk reel factory here, but it has not yet been officially put on the agenda.

With the Southern Development Team's investment in establishing these textile enterprises, this also means that Ningbo Prefecture, which is increasingly crowded and has few lands, has begun to transform its economic transformation, that is, while continuing to maintain a certain scale of traditional agriculture (providing a certain amount of grain may not be enough to consume, but it must stabilize the lower limit), it began to open up cotton fields, mulberry fields in large quantities, and develop cotton textiles and silk weaving industries as in the late Ming Dynasty. The export-profit market is currently still mainly in the San Francisco Francisco of the Far East. Silk fabrics may be sold to North Korea, Japan and other places, but most of the cotton textiles can only be digested by themselves.

Some people may say, why not sell these cotton cloths to the Qing Dynasty? Ahem, this is a bit embarrassing. Just as the British in the late Qing Dynasty could not explain why cotton textiles produced in Bangladesh competed for Chinese local cloth, the East Coast people are currently facing a somewhat embarrassing situation, that is, fewer cotton textiles smuggled into the Qing Dynasty (shipped from the local area) are relatively small. One is that the overall cost is relatively high, and the other is actually due to quality.

Yes, you heard it right, it is because of the quality! According to historical records in later generations, in the late 19th century, compradors who represented foreign cloth all day long advocated "70 to 10 people wear foreign cloth" (such as the big comprador Zheng Guanying), but foreign merchants complained to consulates from various countries that it was difficult to enter the Chinese market. Even textiles produced by machines around China could not be sold. The reason is very simple, "The power of the hand-woven fabric industry is the main obstacle to preventing every Chinese from wearing Lancashire cotton."

But why?

According to the information of the Lancashire Blackburn Chamber of Commerce in later generations, "The fact that millions of lower-class Chinese who worked hard in 18 provinces and other large areas of lands are well known is that the fact that the poor wear garments because they are three to five times more durable than foreign cloth, because they are not so shattered, and because they are much warmer in winter. Therefore, when a wealthy businessman wears three or four beautiful garments of foreign cloth, the workers, farmers, porters and boatmen will be satisfied with a rougher set of clothes, but in fact, better texture, and will definitely be satisfied."

The British in the late 19th century could not solve this problem. Because of the characteristics of machine textiles, it was difficult for them to do the best like handicraftsmen, not to mention that they had greater problems in terms of cost. You should know that from India to China, cotton cloth needs transportation costs, insurance costs, import and export tariffs, and enough profit margins to give compradors. This cost is already very high. If you spend a lot of money to increase the materials for the woven fabric of the product, it is unacceptable.

In comparison, spinning and weaving are completely a side job for Chinese farmers, which means they do not count the time and labor costs they spend, which makes the cost of homemade cloth that is outrageous. In addition, the Chinese attach importance to cash, they are not very willing to spend cash to buy daily necessities. Therefore, homemade cloth that can be exchanged for eggs, grain, fruit, salt, leather, medicinal materials and other items has a high competitive advantage, and it is normal to beat foreign cloth to pieces. At this time, the British had no other way except to use non-economic and market means as in history.

The people of the East Coast will encounter the same troubles as those of the British in history. Therefore, cotton cloth shipped from the local area has been sold locally in the Three Feudals of the Far East for many years. On the contrary, some woolen products will have some sales in the Qing Dynasty. The Southern Development Team has already understood this point, so they set up factories to produce this time, but they are mainly facing the local market. They really don’t have much confidence in making profits in the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the textile industry is an exception to some extent. In this industry, the machine textile industry on the East Coast is embarrassing to compete with the local cloth, but in industries such as steel and metal products, people on the East Coast can easily defeat the iron and steel bars produced by the Qing Dynasty, the Nanming Dynasty and Dashun, and Hei Shui. Even the Qing Dynasty is trying to smuggle back from Denglai or Ningbo because it is really easy to use.

In addition to lifting the ban on Ningbo, Dongban people also attracted foreign and private capital through patent authorization, joint stock fundraising and other means, and invested in many small-scale workshop-style enterprises, such as Fenghua Xikou Paper Factory, Yinxian Chengxi Blanket Factory, Dinghai Brick Kiln Factory, Simingshan Roasting Tea Factory, Southern Printing Factory, Ningbo Gas Company (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dongban Gas Company), Yinxian Water Plant, etc.

These companies have basically been established in recent years by taking advantage of the trend of technology lifting bans in recent years. Just as factories in Shandong on both sides of the Guayan Line and port cities such as Yantai, Weihai, and Jiaozhou are springing up like mushrooms after a rain. It is the result of the Executive Committee's relaxation of restrictions on the industrial development of the San Francisco industry in the Far East. Although these companies currently produce more daily necessities related to the lives of the people, and enterprises with technical content are basically locked in the scope of Sakhalin Island (especially those produced using steam power), compared with the past, it is already quite good.

The establishment of these enterprises is undoubtedly crucial to prospering Ningbo's local economy and increasing employment positions. Taking the coastal clothing factory located in Dinghai County as an example, the factory has undertaken an order for the production of more than 3,000 sets of woolen military uniforms for Li Shun's regime this year (custom-made for officers), and also undertaken a order for the provision of 2,000 sets of military uniforms for newly recruited sergeants from the Fifth Division of the Zhejiang New Army. For this reason, it had to expand the production scale on the original basis and hired dozens of people to work overtime to make military uniforms.

For example, the Simingshan Roasting Tea Factory, which was established by the Southern Development Team Government, Fenghua County Government, Taiwan Bank and some Ningbo merchants jointly invested 250,000 yuan, hired more than 700 workers and produced more than 50 brick teas, with a daily output of more than 9,000 baskets. Through semi-mechanized production, the production cost of tea has been reduced a lot, making more and more Ningbo people and Denglai people able to afford this cheap brick tea.

The Yinxian Southern Printing Factory, which was established with a government investment of more than 20,000 yuan, employs more than 30 workers, with an annual output value of more than 10,000 yuan. The county people are following the trend and engaged in lead printing and lithographic workshops, and often only invests thousands of yuan and hires 5-10 small workers to open a carving hall. The profit is pretty good.

The Zhaoxing Rice Milling Factory in Cixi County has an investment of 75,000 yuan, employs nearly 100 workers, and produces an average of about 500 dan of rice every day, with an annual output value of about 1.5 million yuan. The public welfare egg factory in Cixi County uses new machine crushed eggs, which can crush up to 200,000 eggs per day. The egg powder produced is sold throughout Ningbo, Denglai and Heishui areas, making a lot of profits.

The large amount of idle funds and a population of tens of thousands of thousands provided good conditions for these industrial enterprises that seemed to have flourished overnight. Naturally, these were not originally available, but the wealth accumulated by the East Coast people after they focused on operating Ningbo for 30 years. This wealth accumulated for 30 years. Once it was removed from its constraints, it immediately developed explosively under the guidance of the government, thus providing new impetus for the development of the local economy.

As Ma Wenqiang pointed out at the cadre work meeting he presided over: "When mechanized large-scale industrial production was produced, human beings escaped from the Middle Ages and entered a modern society. A brand new production model, a brand new management system, and a brand new technology have been developing in full swing for fifty years in the local area. Although Ningbo cannot achieve the same level as the local area, it can also be done to give priority to the development of some basic industries related to people's livelihood. At the same time, it can also provide local governments with sufficient financial resources so that they can respond in the increasingly elusive situation in mainland China."

In fact, as Ma Wenqiang said at the meeting, the most direct benefit of the local lifting the restrictions on the Sanfan civil industry in the Far East is the great improvement of the productivity level in the Sanfan area, which corresponds to the enhancement of the resource allocation ability of the pioneering team government, because they have more wealth at hand. In addition to improving people's livelihood and developing infrastructure, the increase in wealth can naturally afford more troops. While maintaining their own security, they can better perform their innate strategic tasks to collect more people's population and immigrate to the east coast. The more, the better!

According to the recent break between the local government and the Far East, the southern development team will basically focus on light industry and daily necessities production in the future, and the Denglai Development Team will focus on manufacturing industries with a certain content such as mechanical processing. As for the most eye-catching Blackwater Development Team, there is no doubt that the most advanced and sensitive technologies will still be given priority to settle here. It can be said that it is mainly heavy industry with high-tech content. It does not seem to be visible, but it is the basis for the development of industry in Ningbo and Denglai.

There is undoubtedly a certain degree of technical generation difference between these industrial enterprises and their local areas (for example, the core power is still not a steam engine, which makes the machine performance impossible), but it is still amazing for mainland China and Europeans, especially the beauty of industrial production they show is even more exciting.
Chapter completed!