On March 30, 1638, the weather was sunny and the southwest wind was level 6.

Two merchant ships from San Vicente, Brazil, slowly docked in berths 1 and 2 of Oriental Port Commercial Terminal, which marked the initial recovery of Oriental Port, the leading port in the South Atlantic Ocean, from a year and a half.

The two Brazilian merchant ships were filled with cotton, pig iron, wool, ship materials, and Blanco Almeida's younger brother, seventeen-year-old Sebastian personally carried the goods with the ship. Considering that the East Coast people might not be able to pay for the goods for the time being, Sebastian even obtained the family's authorization to sell the goods to the East Coast people before departure, which was simply a kind of naked show of goodwill.

However, the Almeida family had a good reason to do so. You should know that the East Coast people achieved peace from the famous British East India Company, which is not something that anyone can easily do.

For example, the Portuguese faced Dutch West India Company, which was far inferior to those British companies, but in recent years, they had more defeats and fewer wins. They fought like shit and lost a large area of ​​vast territory in northeastern Brazil. If it weren't for the current satisfaction of the Dutch who were eager to digest the fruits of victory, they might not even be able to maintain the central and southern Brazil. Therefore, as the local white noble elite of Brazil, the Almeida family instinctively showed kindness to the East Coast people. Blanco revealed valuable news during the negotiations with the UK on the East Coast and the first door-to-door delivery was the instinctive act of holding the local Brazilian aristocrats.

In the minds of these native white Brazilians, the Spanish are disgusting, and even the Portuguese from the Iberian Peninsula is not so comfortable. These people have never really thought about Brazilians. They are all colonists and plunderers to a certain extent. Brazil's future still depends on Brazil's native "civilized people". Of course, Brazil's current white people are still very weak at present, so it is natural to find a strong backer for themselves. What's even better is that this new backer is still a country in the New World, not far from Brazil. Once something happens, it can be easily supported - if others are willing.

These are the little calculations in the minds of Brazilians. The Executive Committee is well aware of their thoughts. Given the good cooperative relationship between the two parties and the complementary industrial economy at this stage, the Executive Committee is also determined to maintain a good relationship with the native white noble family of Brazil.

The cotton and wool transported by the Brazilians were transported to the Ping'an Machine Weaving Factory in Ping'an Town by the coastal transport ships that resumed operations. Then the workers who resumed work cheered and entered the intense production. During the war, the traffic trade was cut off, and the workers could only plant a large amount of cotton and flax and other production materials under the organization of the town government, while relying on a small amount of cotton harvested from local and Corps for intermittent production to maintain the demand in the domestic market and neighboring Brazil, La Plata and other places.

Since Ping An Machine Weaving Factory adopts a piece-based salary system, that is, the higher the output of a certain team, the higher the bonus and the higher the benefits. However, this production situation of producing three or four thousand pieces of cloth every month is obviously not enough to ensure that they have received the enviable high income of the past. You must know that in the past, the wages of 5-6 yuan for textile factory workers were in line with the soldiers. I don’t know how many ordinary people in Ping An Town who couldn’t squeeze into the factory.

However, over the past year, the market for Ping An Machine Weaving Factory workers has been bearish all the time. They used to be picky and picky when they were looking for partners, and now they are all the people. Therefore, when the war ended, the first person to cheer was the workers of all sizes in China. They paid the most attention to their own interests. The end of the war means that factories can produce normally, and they can share the benefits brought by normal production of the factory.

Tao Chenxi, director of the General Administration of Textile Industry, rushed back to the factory area of ​​Ping'an New Town from his country villa in Ping'an Town and began to supervise production as soon as possible. After fishing in the fish pond in the countryside for more than a year, his body was almost rusted. After the war began, he, the director-general in charge of the domestic textile industry, fell into an embarrassing state of nothing to do. In addition, he happened to be sick at this time, so he simply went home to recuperate.

After hearing the great news that the factory can finally start full production at full speed, the guy who had just finished his third marriage during his recovery period almost instantly left his newlywed wife with a resentful face - a lady from Brazil, and began to eat and live in the factory, looking full of passion for career.

Recently, there are some "Barbar-1-modified (textile general-purpose)" steam engines purchased from the First Machinery Factory to replace some hydraulic machinery. Although the outside world is blocked, Li Hongxing from the boiler workshop of the First Machinery Factory has not been idle for more than a year. After the high-precision boring machine (actually the processing accuracy is only more than 1 millimeter) is in place, the cylinder processing accuracy of the civil steam engine finally barely meets the standards. Therefore, the boiler workshop has developed a series of civil steam engine models, such as mine general-purpose, textile general-purpose, forging hammer general-purpose, etc.

In the plan of the State Council, the power of these textile machinery will be gradually replaced by hydraulic power to steam engines in the future. After all, the efficiency of steam engines is much stronger than hydraulic power, and it is relatively stable.

These textile machinery with steam powered replacement are generally stable. After more than a few years of continuous research and improvement, civil steam engines with not very high processing accuracy requirements have already had certain practical value, and the average fault-free working time has been greatly extended. At present, it has been widely used in mines, factories, docks and farmland water conservancy facilities. Not only has it achieved considerable economic value, but more importantly, it has also cultivated a large number of steam engine designs, application technicians and skilled production and maintenance workers, which has played a huge role in promoting the development of the entire industry.

Tao Chenxi was wandering around in front of several steam looms, watching the beautiful patterned cloths being weaved out, and he felt a huge sense of pleasure from the bottom of his heart. The people in the Chemistry Branch of the Natural Science Research Institute were really powerful. Since the Henan Glass Factory was able to produce qualified glassware in large quantities, they have used their simple and limited organic chemistry knowledge to summarize the molecular structure and uses of benzene, aniline, anthracene and other substances separated from coal tar through countless experiments. Then, repeatedly experimented, and finally produced artificial synthetic dyes such as aniline purple, magenta, aniline black, aniline green, aniline red, and aniline yellow under laboratory conditions.

Song Qiang, the head of the chemistry group and former high school chemistry teacher, said with great interest: Give them enough time and materials to develop more derivative dyes. As long as the coal tar production in the coking plant is stable, they can completely form the dye factory. On holidays, the synthetic dye industry will surely become a pearl in the organic chemical industry in the East Coast.

Considering that the Dutch already has improved textile machinery with high efficiency (although it is far less than that of the East Coast people), in order to occupy the market and compete with the East Coast people, they will continue to invest huge amounts of money to develop new textile machinery and reorganize new factory production models. With the Dutch's developed capitalist economy and full mobility talent advantages, perhaps in the near future, they can really create more efficient textile machinery.

By then, East Coast textiles would not have much advantage. Compared with the Dutch, the English almost neglected shipping costs and cheap workers' wages, the competitiveness of East Coast textiles would definitely decline sharply. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare for the future at this stage. The main product of the General Administration of Textile Industry is dyed floral cloth - focusing on the lucrative high-end printed fabric market.

At present, the high-end floral cloth market in Europe is basically monopolized by printed cloth from India. The cotton fabrics woven from India are well-made and first-class in quality. They are supplemented by various bright natural dyes produced locally in India. The competitiveness of their products can be seen. However, this kind of Indian floral cloth is not without weaknesses. First of all, it is because it uses natural dyes and its color is not bright enough; secondly, its dyeing fastness is also poor, not resistant to washing, wear, and sun exposure.

There is no problem with artificial synthetic dyes. Their colors are bright enough and their dyeing fastness is extremely high, which can completely knock down the high-end Indian printed cloth that is currently high. It can be imagined how much sensation it will cause when people from the East Coast introduced these new dye cloths to Europe. I still remember that after Bai Qin first synthesized aniline purple dye, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom wore such a dyed purple dress to attend her daughter's wedding. This brightly colored purple dress fascinated everyone present at that time, and Bai Qin also made a fortune.

Of course, the specific time for launching new dyed cloths will be determined by the Executive Committee. They do not want to launch these high-end products that will inevitably attract covetousness before they are ready. At that time, the jealous Europeans may join forces to rob the East Coast people. In this era when everything seems so naked, everything is possible.
Chapter completed!