The sailors had just left and had already found their fun. Among the crowds on the shore, many women had squeezed in early. Among them were many well-behaved women. Maybe their husbands were working in the trenches on the front line.
The Confederacy was at war, but in order to make ends meet, they had to show up.
Anything brought by the sailors can be sold at a high price. Not to mention high-end goods such as silk and lace, even a pair of boots and a bottle of whiskey will cost several times the price if they change hands.
In order to obtain these things, women can be said to use their own magical powers, but one thing is certain, they will definitely sacrifice their own bodies, especially for some pretty women.
Maybe after a night of romance, in addition to selling the goods they brought with them, the sailors would also leave some "unexpected surprises" for the woman.
But in the end, the sailors would still exchange their money for cotton near the dock - it only cost 10 cents to buy a pound of cotton here, but it could be sold for 80 cents in Nanhua. This was several times the profit.
Two days later, when the ship set off again, everyone returned with a full load. In addition to the captain's "official cargo" of more than 5,000 bales of cotton, even the most ordinary sailors also received two bales of cotton, a total of 400 pounds.
Everyone can benefit from smuggling in the South. A bag of cotton in the South is only worth ten or twenty dollars, but can be sold for 160 yuan when shipped to Europe. The value of a ship of cotton can sometimes reach nearly one million dollars!
Although cotton is a crop.
But before the war broke out, the U.S. cotton farming industry ranked first in the world. At that time, cotton accounted for 60% of all U.S. exports. 77% of British cotton came from the United States, 90% of French cotton came from the United States, and 90% of Russian cotton came from the United States.
92% of it comes from the United States. Three-quarters of the world's cotton is produced in the United States.
The outbreak of the war and the northern blockade directly led to the global cotton raw material crisis, which not only led to the closure of a large number of cotton textile factories and thousands of people's unemployment, but also caused the skyrocketing price of cotton. The northern maritime blockade had a great impact on cotton merchants
It was a golden age where they could make profits and money through speculation.
Jack James was one of the many cotton merchants in London, and he was as familiar with the industry as anyone else. Although he was one of the bankrupts in the cotton crisis, when cotton mills in Manchester went bankrupt one after another, when he stood there
In front of this gentleman, who was already in poverty, his heart started to beat again.
From that time on, he became a trader. As a businessman, he never cared about where the American cotton of "Hart Trading Company" came from, but a stable supply of cotton could bring "his" company
There are hundreds of thousands of pounds in sales, but this is not his main business.
What is his main business?
Of course, among those companies that are bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy due to lack of raw materials, find suitable targets and give desperate people a glimmer of hope - buy their machines.
There is just one problem, that is, those machines must be the latest spinning machines and the latest looms.
The normal way is that he will visit those factories, look for an opportunity to interview the owner of that factory, see the other person's situation, and then put forward many suggestions to him... This is the normal way.
How can such a way reveal his ability?
Since life is not easy for those people right now, of course we should take advantage of the crisis and lower the price.
"You have to remember that in 1862, the import volume of British raw cotton dropped sharply to 4% of the same period before the war due to the naval blockade of the Northern Federal Army. Many factories in Manchester, the "cotton manufacturing center", were forced to close because of this. Now
, one out of every four factories goes bankrupt or closes down. We must lower the prices of factory equipment as much as possible. Remember, without cotton, their machines are just a pile of scrap metal..."
Smiling at Hansen, James said.
"Not only should they know this, but also the banking industry should know this. We should also communicate more with reporters and tell them to write more news about bankrupt factories. Only when the banking industry collects loans will those factory owners
Bankruptcy, only if they go bankrupt can we purchase those equipment at scrap metal prices."
After the factory went bankrupt, the equipment that was once worth tens of thousands of pounds was not even worth a thousand pounds. Such cheap equipment, if no one bought it, would only end up rusting a little in the factory. In Manchester, many colleagues in the past
, all think Jack is a very good guy, at least he has saved a lot of people, of course it would be better if he could sell cotton to them.
But in today's Britain, the extremely scarce cotton cannot be bought with money. Whenever cotton comes into Hong Kong for customs declaration, those powerful guys will buy all the cotton, and ordinary businessmen will have to close down and go bankrupt.
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"But sir, why did we buy all that equipment?"
Hansen was surprised. In the past two years, they had purchased more than 200,000 yarn looms and a large number of looms.
But even so, the boss is still acquiring equipment in large quantities.
"If those equipment cannot be sold, we will suffer a big loss."
"You don't have to worry about this. Our machines never worry about sales. "Hart Trading Company" will underwrite those machines..."
When James said these words, he did not know that "Hart Trading Company", like his company, was just a shell. There were dozens of similar companies in the UK, and some companies specialized in
Engaged in the "transportation" business to the United States, some companies specialize in purchasing various military supplies, some sell cotton, and some purchase factories.
These companies seem to have no connection on the surface, and even the smartest spies can't find out what connection they have. At best, they will find it a bit strange - the machinery and equipment of many bankrupt factories were eventually sold to
America Corporation.
But this is not a big deal at all. After all, American Company purchases a large amount of machinery and equipment in the UK every year. It is normal for them to purchase equipment from bankrupt factories.
What they didn't know was that when the British textile merchants were caught in the cotton crisis, thanks to the officially supported smuggling trade, several large-scale textile factories had been built in Nanhua. The cotton textile factories in the UK were unable to start production due to insufficient raw materials.
Nanhua's cotton cloth and other products have not only begun to be sold to various countries in South America, but there has even been a shortage of market supply. Nanhua's cotton cloth and cotton textiles have also been sold back to Europe, entering markets such as Germany and Russia...
After all, America Company is so far away from Europe that anyone would ignore its existence...