The Portuguese businessman Alves can help with the purchase, but the problem is that some time ago, in order to make huge profits, he personally sailed back to Europe.
In this way, even if the other party sells the goods and rushes back without stopping, it will be at least eight months later.
And it took a long time to transport the canvas back from Europe.
As a result, it is almost impossible to obtain canvas in a short time.
In the mid-17th century, the Mughal Empire in Tianzhu was in its golden age. Although the British built some commercial sites along the coast of Tianzhu and began to grow cotton, it was only short-staple cotton.
Therefore, Xinghai Kingdom can only use short-staple cotton shipped from Nanming as raw materials.
Well, later island long-staple cotton would not be discovered until more than a hundred years later.
Therefore, Fang Xiaoyue planned to develop his own machine to facilitate the use of short-staple cotton textile canvas.
But this is not something that a machine can handle.
The machines required by a textile factory include blowrooms, carding machines, combing machines, draw frames, roving frames, spinning frames, etc., so that cotton can be finally spun into canvas or other cloth.
However, there is not much information on textiles in the library of Xinghai Kingdom, only some brief introductions.
Fortunately, after asking, there was an aunt in Chuanzhong who had been a workshop director in a textile factory.
This aunt once received a certificate of honor as a textile expert. When it came to textiles, she spoke clearly and provided a lot of information to Fang Xiaoyue.
With the information provided by this aunt and the few materials in the library, Fang Xiaoyue began to restore the textile machines of later generations bit by bit.
Well, although the technical content of these textile machines is not high, it takes a long time due to the need for repeated testing to determine the relevant data.
While Fang Xiaoyue was busy developing textile machines, the Xinghai Kingdom had successfully taken over various parts of the Nanhai Island. After maintaining local security and other conditions, those former Nanming officials had to go to Xinghai City, enter the school, and accept the so-called Kun thieves'
Pre-job training.
At this time, the major departments of Xinghai Kingdom were also eager to send recruitment teams to various places to conduct recruitment activities.
No way, as the Nanhai Island is completely taken over and the farm system expands, a lot of manpower is first needed to build new farms.
In addition, each department also needs a large number of manpower to fill its subordinate units.
The Ministry of Military Affairs needs to recruit a large number of new soldiers, and the Ministry of Industrial Affairs and the Ministry of Construction Affairs need to recruit a large number of workers.
The Department of Tax Affairs also needs manpower to supplement tax departments in various places, and even the Department of Health Affairs needs a large number of nursing workers.
In short, the Xinghai Kingdom at this time is like a hungry giant beast that needs to constantly devour manpower and material resources to support its development.
Regarding the thieves who have turned into government officials, the natives on the South China Sea Island have different thoughts.
The yamen servants and officials in the yamen are basically worried and uneasy.
No way, I have heard before that after those thieves transformed into official lords, they are rectifying the administration of officials in many places. It is said that hereditary professions such as yamen and so on will be completely abolished and replaced by some kind of scripture.
This will cost these government officials and officials their lives.
You must know that under the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty, what was your father's occupation, and what was your occupation as well.
The children of military households will become soldiers when they grow up.
When the children of yamen servants grow up, they usually work as temporary workers in the yamen. When their father retires, they take over the full-time job.
It can be said that this livelihood has been passed down in many families for several generations, even more than ten generations.
It is said that the oldest family of government officials have been serving as government officials since the Yuan Dynasty.
There are smart people who responded to the Kun Thief's recruitment early. It is said that they went directly to that Xinghai City for training, and when they came back, they would be able to take up a position as that one's inspector.
There are some unsmart government officials who want to take advantage of the chaos that has just been handed over to the government to make some money.
Others gather to make trouble. After all, since the late Ming Dynasty, too many people have gathered to make trouble and even rebel.
Especially during the Nanming period, any bandit leader was recruited by the Nanming or Qing army and turned into a regular army.
These government officials may not have such a clever plan, but they always want to cause trouble. Those thieves have just secured their positions in the government, and I am afraid they will put aside their efforts to appease them.
But what those government officials who gathered to make trouble never expected was that instead of appeasing them, those damn thieves directly dispatched troops stationed near the county seat to suppress them!
That was probably the first time that the government officials and county residents saw the power of the bandit army.
The number of troops dispatched by the Kun thieves was not large, only more than 30 people, and they entered the county seat in three rows.
When they heard that the bandit army was entering the city, the government officials who were making trouble around the government office were still a little panicked.
However, before the troublemaking government officials could decide whether to leave or stay, the thieves' army pressed forward. When they saw them, the first row raised their rifles and squatted down to shoot.
At a distance of just tens of meters, there was no chance for the government officials to escape.
In the blink of an eye, with just one volley of gunfire, more than thirty government officials gathered together fell down on the spot.
After three volleys of gunfire, only two of the government officials were still standing. The rest were lying on the ground, either turned into corpses or crying out in pain.
This thunderous suppression instantly silenced the people in the county who were ready to make trouble.
No way, these thieves are too dark.
As the army took action, the turbulence that had arisen on the South China Sea Island was immediately suppressed.
Even those traditional family gentry, who used to be respected by even the county magistrate, had to honestly bring gifts to the city to pay tribute to the thieves who had just arrived in office.
Nanhai Island was originally composed of three states and ten counties.
In order to successfully take over the entire island, Zheng Xiangdong did not easily change its original organizational structure.
But for future convenience, the state was changed to a city.
Therefore, Xinghai Kingdom at this time changed from one city to four cities and ten counties.
These four cities are administrative regions similar to prefecture-level cities, including ten counties, but the places where the cities are located, which were the previous state capitals, have become urban areas with an administrative level slightly higher than half a county level.
Of course, since Xinghai City is the capital of the Xinghai Kingdom, its administrative level is half a level higher than other cities.
This time the Xinghai Kingdom took over the entire island of the South China Sea and it was a huge investment.
In those three cities and ten counties alone, more than 200 Chuanchu soldiers were sent to serve in official positions at all levels.
Don't underestimate these two hundred or so time-travelers.
You must know that departments such as the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Industrial Affairs, the Ministry of Medical Affairs, etc. absolutely do not allow the transfer of personnel. After all, the traversals trained by these departments are either technical personnel, medical personnel, or military officers.