"Old Gao, your Trade Department will find a way to purchase these things this month. There is not much inventory at present..." The vest walked into Gaomo's office with a piece of paper. Then he saw Blanco sitting opposite Gaomo and his entourage Carlos, "Hey, Blanco, it's you. Have you defeated the battle again?"

Blanco and Carlos once gave pig iron and coal to the Ministry of Industry of the Vest several times, so the Vest recognized them at a glance. Gao Mo smiled awkwardly and did not translate the last sentence of the Vest. He took the vest back and took a brief look, then put it in the drawer, and said to the Vest: "Okay, the Trade Department will find a way to purchase these things, but I don't know what the quantity is."

"You try to do it." The vest waved his hand and said, "Uh, by the way, Blanco, I know there are many plantations in Brazil. Is your cotton yield large?"

Gaomo quickly translated the past. After thinking about it, Blanco said, "Most of the plantations in Brazil are planted with high-profit crops such as sugar and cocoa. Of course, there are also cotton plants, but not a lot of them. Of course, I can convince these planters to sell a certain amount of cotton to you, which is not troublesome. In fact, Santo Domingo and its nearby islands in the Caribbean have the largest and largest cotton plantations. If you have a lot of demand, you'd better go there to contact the supply, but I think it's not easy."

"Enough. In the early stage, we only need the production of the Brazilian plantations to meet the production needs. After all, the reliability of the equipment operation is still a little problem." Ma Vest said to himself, "Okay, Blanco, Lao Gao, I'll leave first. I have to go to the textile factory to see the hydraulic spinning trucks and hydroloons they have been working on recently. I have to go and see them, and leave first." After that, Ma Vest walked out of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' office again.

In the textile factory on the banks of the Dayu River, several designers from the Ministry of Industry's research team were busy with a group of European craftsmen around a hydraulic spinning truck. This spinning truck is huge in size and is placed next to the river. It hits the blades in the water wheel to generate power. This force is then transmitted through the bearing to other parts such as draft mechanisms, spinning, etc., thereby realizing spinning. This hydraulic spinning truck has 30 spindles installed in total, which means that it can spin 30 rolls of cotton yarn at a time, which is dozens of times stronger than traditional hand-made textiles. This efficiency is enough to squeeze all practitioners in the handicraft industry to bankrupt.

At present, this hydraulic spinning truck has been in production intermittently for several months. The designers of the research team and the maintenance craftsmen of the textile factory have solved the problems encountered in mass production, and are now very close to improvement.

"Two hydraulic spinning wheels, one wool spinning and one cotton spinning, the current average fault-free operation time is about 18-24 hours. It has been continuously operated and produced for 100 days, and the use is good. The yarn produced is both tough and wear-resistant, and is relatively smooth, which is better than European handmade products in terms of quality." Tao Chenxi, the leader of the hydraulic textile project research team and former textile factory technician, introduced to Ma Qi.

"What are the main aspects of the failures that occur when the equipment is running? Are there any problems with the design?" asked Ma Vest.

"There is no problem in design." Tao Chenxi said confidently, "This is a device designed by me referring to our existing technical level and the principles of spinning machines in later generations. The technical level is roughly equivalent to the level of the "mule machine" invented by the British during the industrial revolution in the late 18th century. The faults nowadays are mainly concentrated on the material of parts. Many parts are made of pig iron or even wood. The equipment is worn seriously after continuous operation, and it has to be replaced frequently. Next, I plan to replace these parts with steel parts, which should greatly enhance the service life of the equipment. Alas, these bad parts should not be used to save money and time."

"That's fine." Ma Wei patted Tao Chenxi on the shoulder and encouraged: "The textile industry is an extremely profitable industry in today's era. Especially cotton spinning. Now the European upper class has begun to popularize light cotton products, and the market share of traditional wool wool products is declining year by year. Now the Executive Committee has set the military industry and textile industries as key development industries. For this reason, 1,000 yuan is allocated as the research and development funds for textile machinery. Our Ministry of Industry can no longer drag it down. The election will be soon. This is a good opportunity. Get it out quickly and let the textile factory officially produce as soon as possible, so that everyone can live a better life. By the way, is there any problem with the loom?"

"The loom is fine, the only problem may be that it is insufficient work." Tao Chenxi joked.

"Haha, don't talk nonsense to me, boy." Ma Vest also smiled. "The wool raw materials are not very sufficient at present. There are many cattle raised in La Plata, and there are relatively fewer sheep. Every acquisition is very troublesome. So before our own flock grows, we should abandon those unrealistic ideas and focus on developing the cotton spinning industry."

"But there are many difficulties in the cotton textile industry," Tao Chenxi reminded. "At least, there are some wools that can be purchased at La Plata, but if you buy cotton, you will get plantations on small islands in Brazil or the Caribbean. We only have a few boats now, and it is not enough to transport supplies and building materials between Zhenhai Fort and Oriental Port, let alone buy cotton in other places. Moreover, Brazil is in chaos now, and the Caribbean is basically the Spanish territory. People are full and sell cotton for you. In short, it is very difficult."

"Where do you get so many complaints?" Ma Qi cursed, "You don't have to worry about these messy things. It's the right way to fix the equipment problem for me quickly. It's already the 26th today. Give me a clear message. How long will it take for the spinning machine and loom machine to be finalized? Can it be done before the end of the month?"

"Try to do it." Tao Chenxi didn't dare to make a promise at this time. There was no way, it was a shortage of talents. It was so difficult to build a hydraulic spinning machine and a weaving machine. This was still the case when he and others had a little technical foundation. If he had to solve the steam engine that was completely unfamiliar to everyone in the future, he would not have to surrender directly.

"Damn!" The vest cursed, and his big hand like a palm fan patted Tao Chenxi hard on the back, patting Tao Chenxi's shoulders shorter and grinned. "I don't care about that much. If you don't solve all the problems for me before the end of the month, let's see how I deal with you!"

"You are trying to kill someone." Tao Chenxi looked at Ma's vest with grievance and said, "Why are you so anxious? It's just for the election of the Central Executive Committee? No? Member of Ma's University, I'm sorry, no one can shake your position yet, really!"

"Bang!" The vest slapped Tao Chenxi on the back again, and cursed with a smile: "Is this kind of person?"

Tao Chenxi rubbed his shoulders and looked at him without saying anything, but his eyes were clearly saying "You are such a person."

Ma Qi was so angry: "Okay, I'm serious. It doesn't matter to tell you the truth. You'll know next month anyway. Isn't it all for money? Do you know how much money we still have now? As of November 25, 1633, yesterday, the surplus funds in the treasury of the East Coast Republic of China (the loan of 200,000 yuan was still owed to Dongban Company but the surplus funds of the East Coast Company were 147,905 yuan, and the total of the two was only 18.

More than 10,000 yuan. This is our current financial foundation. Judging from the current spending speed, we may not be able to hold on for half a year next year. Now the people from the Ministry of Finance told me that this budget cannot be continued at all, and the fiscal deficit is too large. The monthly deficit is more than 10,000 yuan, and the existing money cannot be subsidized for a few months. Now you know, textile machinery is officially established one day earlier, and our machine textile factory will be officially put into production one day earlier.

Cotton, wool velvet, etc. are exported one day earlier. In China, La Plata, Brazil, and even Chile and Peru, a super market of one or two million people. Why do the British occupy so much profit? The British export more than 100,000 wool velvets every year, and then re-export hundreds of thousands of wool velvets from India. The huge profits generated nourish their industry, cultivate the power of the bourgeoisie, and support their huge navy. We want to do so from their mouths

The fat piece in it was torn down hard. Not to mention anything else, we first occupied the domestic and La Plata market, and then looked at the others. Now we can't even completely occupy such a small market in China, and it has made the UK's goods popular. Isn't this because we don't have enough production capacity? Okay, I won't give you more political lessons. I understand the truth, and I still have to rely on my feet to do it down-to-earth. Xiaotao, the textile industry is the cornerstone of our career, work hard."

"Okay, you have raised this to this level, so what else can I say? I'll do it!" Tao Chenxi also said readily, "I won't go home from today, and I'll sleep in the workshop at night. There is no big problem with spinning machines and weaving machines. It won't take long. Next, I will focus on cotton ginning machines! Currently, the efficiency is too low by relying on original hand-made cotton ginning. Not only does it occupy a lot of labor, but it will not keep up with the production of the machine in terms of production efficiency, thus restricting our production capacity."

"Okay, that's great!" said Ma Vest with a smile, "Then I'll wait for your good news. Well, I won't be too slow. I'll go to the Ministry of Finance to see if I can give you some money."

"That's great!" Tao Chenxi smiled, "Go quickly. If you apply for less than 1,000 yuan in funds, don't come back to see your brothers."
Chapter completed!