Because the Japanese were behind the scenes, the price of cotton yarn was extremely unstable, and Dasheng Cotton Mill could not receive any cotton at all.Boss Cai borrowed money to buy the goods and begged Jiang Mengsheng to be accommodating. Jiang Mengsheng was not moved at all, but Shen Jingfu was willing to help. The two had differences of opinion again and had a heated argument.

After Zhang Jian came back, he immediately went to Meng's house to understand the situation.Jiang Mengsheng felt aggrieved, thought he was not wrong, and even couldn't figure it out.Zhang Jian helped Jiang Mengsheng distinguish the interests, sorted out the clues and clearly understood the situation, and pointed out that someone was taking advantage of the chaos to hoard cotton and raise prices, but they were passive from the raw material side. If all the yarn merchants collapsed, Dasheng Cotton Factory would be attacked from both sides.

Therefore, in the face of this situation, Zhang Jian advocates that we should unite yarn merchants to deal with the outside world and avoid internal strife.While they were talking, Jiang Mengsheng's wife prepared a meal, and Shen Jingfu and others also came over. Jiang Mengsheng was enlightened by Zhang Jianyi and finally figured out many things.

In the middle of the night, Zhang Jian cooked the medicine and gave it to Xu Duan, and then went back to work.Xu Duan sat next to her while sewing. She looked at her husband frequently and swallowed the words several times.Early the next morning, everyone in the factory held a meeting to discuss the chaos in cotton prices in the market. Zhang Jian remained silent throughout the whole process, until he finally mentioned Nishimura's ambition to win the cotton pricing power, and asked Liangzu to go to Shanghai to investigate. Regardless of whether there was someone behind the scenes, they must consider the source of the raw material market and must not be strangled on this issue.

Then Zhang Jian and others went to find Father Ni and asked him whether cotton could be grown on the deserted beach.Mr. Ni believes that it is difficult to grow cotton on barren land, and it will definitely not take three or two years to cultivate fertile land on saline-alkali land. Moreover, when the tide comes, no matter whether it is a thousand acres of fertile land or brick houses and thatched houses, they will all be washed away into the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea.Zhang Jian listened to what Father Ni said and understood something else. As long as the saline-alkali land was turned into fertile farmland and then seawalls were built, there would be no problem. Everyone thought it could be done.

Soon, Liangzu came back from Shanghai and found out that the bank responsible for speculating on the price of Khmer cotton was the Sino-Russian Fuchang Bank. They had a long-term plan to control the cotton pricing power and targeted Tongtai Spinners, hoping to raise costs so that the spinners would be unable to repay the loans and then annex it.

During the meal, Jiang Mengsheng saw that everyone was in a low mood. Zhang Jian decided to reclaim the Lusi Wasteland and plant cotton. No matter what, he had to get the right to plant the raw materials in his own hands.Jiang Mengsheng was worried that the failure to improve the wasteland would be equivalent to investing a lot of money in vain. Doing so would chill the shareholders, so he left the meeting angrily.

The Japanese worked hard but still missed the opportunity. Tongtai Cotton Mill was sold to cotton merchant Wenzhenghao for 380,000 taels of silver, and it was now renamed Wenzheng Cotton Mill.For this reason, Nishimura and Yamamoto reported the situation to Shinnosuke Oda and asked him to give them some more time. Shinnosuke Oda was very disappointed and specially found Taro Ikoma. From now on, he arranged for him to be with Nishimura. It was for training and learning, but in fact he was responsible for surveillance.

Jiang Mengsheng was still losing his temper. Shen Jingfu planned to do ideological work for him and Zhang Jian, but this time Zhang Jian was resolute and insisted on cultivating cotton.Shen Jingfu felt that to reclaim such a large wasteland, to build a bottom to prevent moisture, to improve the soil and to grow cotton, it would definitely be necessary to set up a company, and there would be a shortage of manpower.Zhang Jian recommended several students from Jiangning Academy. Shen Jingfu suspected that these people needed time to familiarize themselves with the situation. If they were too young, it would be difficult to manage things. Instead, he thought of Zhang Jian coming back to help. Zhang Jian, on Shen Jingfu's suggestion, planned to write a letter to his third brother.

Nishimura introduced Taro Ikoma to Lan Zhiming, the assistant manager of the business group. Unexpectedly, Taro Ikoma was skeptical of Lan Zhiming because he was Chinese and asked to take over the most difficult task.Jiang Zhili, son of Jiang Mengsheng, liked Shen Lanjun. In order to win the beauty back, he discussed with Liangzu to help ease the relationship between several uncles.