Chapter 163 Unexpected Harvest (Second update! Please vote for me!)

"Raw silk, raw silk is actually my country's largest export commodity, with an annual export value of over 70 million taels per year."

Mu Xiangyue's words made Mu Xiangyue frown slightly. Although he came from a cotton weaving family, he was simply a layman when it came to raw silk, and he didn't even know the importance of raw silk in China's export.

"Chairman, Manager Mu Xiangyue, according to customs statistics, last year our country's total import value was Guan Ping Liang, and its export value was Guan Ping Liang. The import value exceeded 80,000 quintals. Last year, our country's raw silk exports reached 80,000 quintals. Because of the raw silk The value has increased, and the market value has reached nearly 10 million taels. It can be said that one ship of silk is shipped out, and one ship of silver comes back. Raw silk accounts for almost half of my country's exports. If my country's raw silk industry is impacted by artificial silk, affecting raw silk exports, I'm afraid... …”

When Fang Zhiyu mentioned the importance of raw silk to China, Li Zicheng just tapped his fingers on the armrest of the chair and thought about the question he had asked. This was a habit he had developed since he was a boy. While thinking, Li Zicheng

Listened carefully again.

"Chairman, when our rayon floods the market overwhelmingly and overwhelms China's raw silk industry, I'm afraid the Japanese raw silk merchants will really thank us. After all, we have accomplished in two years what they have been unable to achieve for decades."

Japan?

These two words only made Li Zicheng's brows jump slightly. He didn't know the importance of raw silk before, so he asked him to teach him and Ou Chu. Previously, he only thought raw silk was very important, but he didn't expect that there was Japan.

relationship.

"What does it have to do with Japan?"

After looking at Fang Zhiyu's face, Li Zicheng asked seriously.

"Chairman, China has a long history of foreign trade in raw silk, while Japan's raw silk exports were almost blank in the world's raw silk trade in the 1950s. More than 50 years ago, Japan's Yokohama port opened, and there were only six bundles of raw silk on Koshu Island.

Sold to Italy. Forty years ago, Japanese raw silk first appeared in the world raw silk market. 36 years ago, the world's raw silk production was less than 160,000 quintals. In that year, China's raw silk exports accounted for more than half of the quintals, while Japan's exports in the same year were only

And the world output is less than about 10%.”

Fang Zhiyu, whose ancestral home is Shunde, the center of the raw silk industry in Guangdong, would not have learned about raw silk if it weren't for chance. He knows a lot about the raw silk industry in China and Japan as his family runs a silk factory.

"In order to compete with my country, Japan accelerated the development of silk production in its own country, carefully improved the quality of silk, and flooded a large amount of high-quality raw silk into the international market. my country's raw silk will collapse in the international market. In order to realize its premeditated plan, Japan Since the 30s, Japan has focused on improving silk quality and introduced new European manual or machine silk reeling equipment. The rate of increase in Japan's raw silk production has been increasing year by year. In the years until ten years ago, raw silk production increased significantly year by year, and raw silk exports became Doubled growth. In just over thirty years of rapid development, raw silk output has caught up with and surpassed China's raw silk output. To be precise, six years ago, Japan's raw silk output surpassed China's. However, if Japan wants to be in the international The market, mainly refers to the European market, and it is not smooth for Japanese raw silk to crowd out Chinese raw silk. First, after more than ten years of silkworm breeding improvements, the quality of silk exported from China is not lower than that of Japanese raw silk. Second, since more than ten years ago, The European silk weaving industry is developing year by year, and the raw silk raw materials required are also increasing year by year. Although Japanese silk has sharply squeezed out Chinese raw silk in the European market, the current general market situation is that demand exceeds supply, and Chinese raw silk and silk fabrics are in the European market. It has a solid historical foundation and has maintained a good reputation from the trading market to consumers, and all the conspiracies and tricks used by Japanese silk merchants have not succeeded."

But when mentioning all this, Fang Zhiyu didn't have a trace of joy on his face. His understanding of the raw silk industry made him know that this was only temporary. Once the market is saturated, Chinese raw silk will inevitably suffer from Japanese raw silk in the international market.

Exclude.

"Chairman, since thirty years ago, Japan's silk reeling industry has become Japan's largest industry, and rural sericulture has gradually formed Japan's most important commodity production system. In order to achieve prosperity, Japan's silk industry, which has huge power to accumulate funds, has

However, due to the limitations of domestic production conditions and the narrow domestic market, Japan has to find a way out. Because promoting the export trade of raw silk is related to the lifeline of Japan's future development, Japan will

With almost all the efforts of the country, we started to improve mulberry planting, sericulture, silk reeling and other aspects, and the output of raw silk also increased year by year."

After saying this, Fang Zhiyu shook his head, and then sighed again.

"In the raw silk industry, the Japanese know how profitable it is, so they work hard to produce and supply it in large quantities. However, in the end, the quality of Japanese silk is not comparable to that of Chinese silk. Therefore, Japanese silk can only be used for ordinary products, and Chinese silk is still used for high-end fabrics.

However, the Japanese made great efforts to improve and increase production in order to surpass Chinese silk in quality and quantity. Japanese silk wanted to squeeze out the Chinese silk market in Europe and the United States..."

His words caused both Li Zicheng and Mu Xiangyue to feel worried. Maybe they didn't know much about the raw silk industry, but they knew clearly that technology has always been the primary productive force, and the whole country would develop raw silk.

As an industrial country, Japan currently surpasses China in terms of output, and it is not impossible that it will surpass China in terms of quality in the future.

In silence, Li Zicheng pondered every word in his heart over and over. A boatload of silk went out, and a boatload of silver came back. No matter what, cheap rayon cannot compare with it, and more importantly... it is related to the future of Japan.

lifeblood of development

"Cheng Yuan, you mean that the raw silk industry is very important to Japan?"

"Chairman, like our country, raw silk is Japan's largest export product. It is the export of raw silk that gave Japan the warships that won the Battle of Tsushima, as well as a large number of machines. It is raw silk that supports Japan's trade and provides Japan with

In exchange for a steady stream of gold and silver, Japan was able to develop its own industry."

raw silk

The seemingly inconspicuous raw silk is actually...the lifeblood of Japan. His eyes lit up, and Li Zicheng asked slowly and softly.

"Then what is the key to developing the raw silk industry?"

Under Fang Zhiyu's introduction, Li Zicheng actually had the idea of ​​investing in the raw silk industry.

"Chairman, more than ten years ago, a virtuous man named Ku La Yinghu Shishi was appointed as the Customs and Taxation Department. He wrote to the Qing government, asking him to organize sericulture education and administration in various provincial capitals, improve sericulture and silk production, educate his children, and distribute them to various states. County, in order to promote the development of sericulture, is an important political issue for a wealthy country, but the Qing government ignored it. In fact, the improvement in raw silk quality was due to technology and the mechanization of silk reeling. The former, as early as sixteen years ago, our country began to establish silkworm Schools of sericulture were established in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places. After the Republic of China, due to government requirements and production needs, various provinces established sericulture schools and sericulture schools. In terms of sericulture, my country's sericulture schools are excellent. In Japan, improvements are made to increase production, and the most important thing is the silk reeling process. The quality of factory silk is far better than that of workshop silk..."

Listening to Fang Zhiyu's introduction, Li Zicheng just nodded from time to time, and finally asked the most concerning question.

“How much raw silk did China produce last year?”

"Hmm... maybe, it should be about 250,000 quintals."

"What about Japan?"

"One hundred and fifty thousand quintals"

"How much do they export?"

“140,000 quintals of Japanese people’s patriotic act of not using raw silk”

"Our output is 250,000 quintals, and we only export 80,000 quintals. However, Japan exports more than 90% of the total output."

No need to ask, Li Zicheng knows the reason. Japan's raw silk industry is originally export-oriented, while China's raw silk is domestic-oriented.

"But even so, it still cannot meet the needs of the European and American markets. Europe and the United States require more than one million quintals of raw silk raw materials every year, of which 500,000 quintals cannot be met."

"Five hundred thousand quintals"

Compared to Fang Zhiyu's worries, after listening to his explanation, Li Zicheng not only did not have any worries, but actually showed a look of joy.

"This year is a market of 600 million taels."

Li Zicheng clapped his hands vigorously, stood up suddenly, and said decisively.

"Ouchu, now, start the second rayon factory immediately, and we must complete the production capacity of the second and third factories within this period."

"What"

Both Fang Zhiyu and Mu Xiangyue were shocked. What's wrong with the chairman? Doesn't he know that the raw silk industry is related to China...

"Chairman, if you do that, it will impact..."

"It will impact the raw silk industry"

Li Zicheng smiled and shook his head.

"No, don't say it won't happen. Even if it does, I won't allow this to happen. I want our rayon to turn into um..."

After thinking for a moment, Li Zicheng uttered a word.

"Export Substitute Industries"

"Export substitution?"

"Yes, our raw silk is mainly for our own use. I want to use cheap rayon to replace the domestic raw silk market. At the same time, we will establish a modern silk reeling factory and use the new reeling machine produced by the company to produce raw silk that meets the needs of the European market."

"Chairman, you...you want to..."

It was Mu Xiangyue and Fang Zhiyu's turn that they could not understand the chairman's intention, but they could still vaguely guess what he meant.

"Yes, I just want to compete with Japanese raw silk in the international market."

Li Zicheng nodded and said.

"What is the advantage of our rayon? Any rayon product is much cheaper than similar domestic production and caters to the needs of my country's low consumption level. Making a piece of raw silk clothing costs only a few yuan in terms of materials, while rayon only costs a few dollars." If you only need a few cents, people will naturally switch from raw silk to artificial silk..."

"But this will make the raw silk unsaleable, and the silkworm farmers will inevitably suffer losses..."

"We set up our own factory and produce raw silk ourselves. Not only will this not have any impact, but we can take out the share of rayon in the raw silk market. At the same time, we can also promote the development of domestic raw silk, and then put this raw silk into Europe and the United States. The European market will take one year.

But in a market with more than one billion taels of silver, the key is to earn money from foreigners."

After telling the two of them his thoughts in detail, Li Zicheng finally said.

"The current raw silk market is the competition between us and Japan. If we can put 200,000 tons of raw silk into the market next year, then Japan's raw silk development will be restricted due to the shrinking market. What we have to do now is to sacrifice

Domestic share in exchange for international share, only in this way can we finally..."

With a sneer, Li Zicheng's eyes flashed with a cold light.

"Destroy Japan's raw silk industry"...
Chapter completed!