Guo Huamao came to Zhang Jian and showed him the plan of the cotton mill, thus indicating that foreign businessmen would gradually build more factories, and that opening a cotton mill would be equivalent to seeking skin from a tiger.Zhang Jian believes that foreign merchants are now dumping cotton yarn. If things go on like this, the cotton spinning market will all fall into the hands of others. If his own enterprises do not revitalize, they will not be able to strengthen the country. If every factory works together, foreigners will not be able to take it away, and there is no reason for them to make money.

However, Li Hongzhang suddenly recalled the list, putting Zhang Jian in an embarrassing situation. Just as Guo Huamao mentioned the matter, Nishimura Matsubei came over, and Guo Huamao quickly stepped in to deal with it.Seeing this scene, Jiang Mengsheng was worried that Guo Huamao was secretly colluding with the Japanese. Zhang Jian felt that there was no need to worry. After all, it was understandable for businessmen to pursue profits. As long as their cotton mills were planned well enough and the benefits were generous enough, they would definitely bring Guo Huamao into the team.

Later, Guo Huamao visited Sheng Xuanhuai in person. His original intention was not to offend the Japanese or the No. 1 Scholar, but it turned out to be self-defeating.Sheng Xuanhuai gave Guo Huamao a few words of advice, meaning that China has been coveted by Japan many times since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, which is why the Sino-Japanese War of 1895-1895 occurred a thousand years later. As for promoting the trade layout in China, it will not happen overnight.Hearing this, Guo Huamao felt convinced that Japan's so-called investment and construction of factories were all vain. He wanted to invest in Zhang Jian, who was more reliable, and wait for the opportunity. When Japan had everything ready and only needed the east wind, he would try again.

Jiang Mengsheng returned to the store and complained angrily because of Guo Huamao's back-biting attitude. Shen Jingfu smiled and comforted them, then showed them the various spinning yarns sold in Tongzhou and asked Zhang Jian if he was determined to break out of the siege.Zhang Jian thought that he had gathered the right people at the right time and the right place, but reality gave him a blow. He spent more than a month raising shares but got nothing, and many directors in Shanghai asked to withdraw their shares. Fortunately, Tonghai cotton industry was famous all over the world. He planned to return to Tongzhou to visit the local gentry and sages, believing that he could solve the dilemma.

Soon, Zhang Jian convened everyone to discuss countermeasures and prepared to adopt a shareholding system. The so-called shareholding system was to split the 600,000 taels of silver used to build the factory into shares. Each 100 taels of silver was one share, and 6,000 shares could be recruited. Anyone could become a shareholder as long as they contributed 100 taels of silver.Because of Zhang Zhidong's oral instructions and the imperial approval of the Holy Emperor, everyone present had confidence in their hearts.

At this time, Guo Huamao came in from the outside and announced in public that they were willing to invest in the construction of the cotton mill with 4,000 shares.When other people heard this, they all offered to buy shares.Witnessed by Zhao Yingde and others, Zhang Jian signed a contract with the shareholders and named the spinning mill "Dasheng".

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Jian selected Taozhuba, a wasteland, and planned to build Dasheng Cotton Mill there. However, the problem was that the land belonged to a squire named Gu Shuji. If he wanted to rent the land, he had to negotiate with the other party as soon as possible.Gu Shuji was more cheerful and sold the land directly to Zhang Jian and others.Since there was an isolated grave on this land, a group of people came unexpectedly, claiming to be the descendants of the isolated grave. Their real surname was Chang. They claimed that some of their relatives were officials in the capital, and that their ancestor worship was a lie, just to get some benefits.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Yingde was in trouble again. It was not easy to offend Zhang Jian, but he could not offend the Chang family.Huang Mu thought of a way, that is, let the Chang family force Gu Shuji to increase the low price. They would split the extra part 50-50 with the manufacturer. If Zhang Jian refused, that would be fine. If he did, it would give them one more profit. Zhao Yingde readily agreed.