industrial lord

Chapter 513 This is the tablecloth
"Every time you buy a product from the Principality of Wesson today, the Wesson people will use part of the money to equip their troops. When the time is right, the money you spend buying Wesson goods will turn into bullets. your heart!"

Baron Turgot's hoarse shouts were drowned in the bilateral trade between the Principality of Wesson and the Kingdom of Gaul that exceeded one million gold coins.

Even for businessmen from the Kingdom of Gaul, nowadays everyone likes to discuss topics such as who signed another big contract, who opened a shop by himself, and so on. At the end of the conversation, everyone is scolding that person for being so lucky. You can change yourself.

The one they scolded the most was Da Franche. They didn't expect that this poor guy actually made a fortune by selling oysters. He could obviously do this kind of thing.

Some people followed Da Franche's example and went to the beach to purchase goods, but the survival rate of the oysters shipped back was too low to compete.

No one from the nobles from the Kingdom of Gaul listened to what Baron Turgot was saying.

Now that the men are fighting in the Kingdom of Tarago, Old Louis allows their wives to not pray in the church in the territory according to tradition and go to the Principality of Wesson to participate in the Universal Exposition.

Traditionally, when men go out to fight, wives praying in churches is a disguised form of house arrest, with the purpose of making men loyal. Now letting these ladies go to Weissenburg City to make money can make men more loyal. Old Louis will naturally make a choice.

There are very few opportunities to travel abroad these days, let alone to the legendary Castle Weissenburg. The ladies left their business to the butler and went shopping themselves.

By chance, they caught up with the first batch of products of the jacquard machine to be launched on the market.

Eugene returned to Weissenburg City at the end of August and is now forming a new unit. His mother Mancini wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to visit Weissenburg City to see her son. After the approval of the high command, Eugene was given three days. s holiday.

That day, Mancini personally cooked a sumptuous dinner for his son at Eugene's house. After dinner, when the mother and son chatted, Mancini was very satisfied that his son had tricked his father into getting his pocket watch. Eugene gave his mother a suitcase of Gifts, including new products obtained through channels.

When Mancini opened the box and took out the snow-white gift on the top, even though he was a member of a small group of nobles at the top of the Kingdom of Gaul and had seen many rare and exotic treasures, he was still so surprised that he could not close his mouth.

Today's lace is hand-woven bit by bit by skilled craftsmen. The price of the highest-end two-finger wide lace reaches one gold coin per meter. Sometimes the price of a dress is not as much as the price of the skirt, cuffs and collar. Lace.

Because of this, Frederick has been investing in people to tinker with steam jacquard machines. It took him ten years until he succeeded this year.

What Mancini picked up from the box was a round piece of colorful pure cotton lace cloth, more than one meter in diameter, with circles of various hollow floral patterns embroidered on it, and a circle of tassels on the edge.

In the past, lace fabrics were only used as decorative handkerchiefs at most, which was far inferior to this piece.

Eugene smiled to himself when he saw his mother's surprised look, and said casually: "I remember that the tablecloth on the tea table in your tea room was old, so I bought you a new tablecloth."

Mancini's hands that could break the legs of a piano trembled slightly, his expression gradually turned ferocious, and he screamed and asked his son: "What! You said this is just a tablecloth?!"

Using such a large and exquisite lace cloth as a tablecloth is like using an F1 car to pull bricks.

Eugene continued to say to his mother seriously: "Yes, there are some small pieces in it that can be used to cover the tea set to keep out dust. They can also be used to cover the stationery in the study. There are some larger pieces that can be used as curtains."

Mancini took a few deep breaths to calm down, otherwise he would be pissed off by this peony-chewing brat.

Eugene continued: "There are a few quilt covers under the box. I asked someone to put down quilt cores separately. They have two thicknesses, winter and spring. You can just put them on when the time comes."

Mancini carefully placed the white lace cloth on his knees, and sure enough he found several pieces of colorful cloth underneath.

She asked the servants to unfold them, and then frowned.

The red and blue cloth is woven with colorful patterns, which are common flower and bird patterns. Except for purple, all other colors are available. Just from the number of colors, you can see that it takes a lot of handwork, and it is not a problem to use it to make clothes. .

The problem is that these are really quilt covers. The inner layer is solid color, and there is an opening on the side for the quilt core. In Mancini's opinion, it is a waste of money.

"Didn't these cost a lot of money?" Mancini began to educate his son, "Your current income is not high, so don't spend it randomly, but save it."

"You are not young anymore. It's time to think about marriage. Do you have any girls you like here? If you don't have me, I can help you look for her in Gaul."

She paused and said, "It would be fine if she was a young widow with a lot of money."

Eugene shook his head slightly and said, "Now is the most critical moment in my career. I can't be distracted. Let's talk about it in two years."

Mancini heard the familiar excuse again, and angrily told him to go back to work on his own business early tomorrow morning instead of accompanying his mother.

The next day, when Mancini and the noble ladies from the Kingdom of Gaul went to the zoo, they folded the lace tablecloth in half and used it as a shawl. For a while, many visiting businessmen looked at her instead of the animals.

The prince's wife travels in a pompous manner. She is followed by a row of well-trained maids. The golden trays held by the maids hold tea sets, face handkerchiefs, several fans and perfume, all covered with white lace cloth. .

When it was time to rest, she asked the servants to spread the bed covers on the grass as a mat, then set up a shelf and hung up the lace curtains to block mosquitoes and other people's sight. Those Gallic noble ladies who had just become immune to lace shawls suddenly felt dizzy. There had never been such a large lace cloth in the world. This was no longer something that money could solve.

Some people can't help but wonder, is the prince's wife going to compete with the Wesson people for wealth?

Mancini never thought about fighting for wealth or anything, he just wanted to chat with other noble ladies about the gifts their sons gave him, and then mentioned that the family still lacked a daughter-in-law.

Eugene was not the eldest son in the family, and he was developing in the Principality of Wesson. There was no need to consider things like marriage when getting married.

Mancini's goal was achieved, and it also caused another person in the zoo to think.

A little boy of five or six years old asked his grandfather depressedly: "Grandpa, why do we have to go back early? I still want to see the orangutan who lost his things, and I didn't go to feed Mingxiao and Zhengyi."

The epic tailor Romon, who has served the Wesson family for decades, said to his grandson: "Grandpa came up with a good idea. I will take you to the castle to feed Dawn tomorrow, okay? No need to queue."

Romon was the main helper of Frederick's clothing reform. For eleven years, he continued to optimize clothing according to Frederick's requirements and became the founder of a genre in the clothing design world.

He took his grandson directly back to his workplace and asked his students to go to the textile factory to get some lace tablecloths and curtains. At the same time, he asked someone to send a message to the textile factory not to sell the new products yet.

With Romon's strength and reputation in the field of clothing, various fancy lace cloths were quickly sent from the textile factory, and Maria also came over.

The Eltar family has shares in the lace cloth business. She went to inspect the warehouse inventory today. She heard that Romon wanted these, so she came over to take a look at the situation.

When Romon saw Maria coming, he immediately said: "Miss Eltar is here just in time, please be a model for a while."

As he spoke, he cut a lace curtain directly into several pieces with the scissors in his hand. The circles of flowers on the colorful tablecloth were cut into lace, and finally fixed with paper clips.

A lace waistcoat was ready in a blink of an eye, with a circle of colorful lace on the cuffs and a circle of tassels on the hem.

Maria wore a pink dress suit today. After putting it on...

Later, Psyche complained to Frederick that this combination reminded her of her primary school teacher. Frederick complained that she only knew how to cover things with lace, just like an old grandmother.

But in this era, this lace waistcoat shows off your wealth more than two pounds of gold chains hanging around your neck.

Maria turned around in front of the full-length mirror, feeling in her heart that Teacher Psyche said that this kind of fabric could only be used as curtains and coverings. It was really a waste. It looked good when used to make clothes.

So Maria started to shake people, from Susan, Lilu, Knight Gu, to Katie, Tarot and Psyche, as well as girls and ladies from powerful and wealthy families in Weissenburg, they all came Romon makes a lace waistcoat or blouse here.

On the day of the World Exposition, all the upper-class ladies in the Principality of Wesson, except Psyche, wore lace clothes, which instantly set off the fashion trend.

At the same time, the price of lace cloth, which originally cost several silver coins per square meter, rose to several gold coins, turning it back into an out-and-out luxury item.

The ladies of the Gallic Kingdom thought that these lace cloths cost at least 60 gold coins per square meter, but they did not expect that the price was one-tenth of the psychological price, so they paid for them one after another.

The merchants in other places were also impressed and smashed out a lot of gold coins.

On the other side, Eugene looked at the documents in front of him with joy and confusion at the headquarters. He couldn't help but ask little Franz: "Why did you suddenly allocate two more companies of golden sticks and artillery to us?"

The most expensive weapon in the army is the 75mm-caliber Golden Rod Cannon, which is very powerful, but because of the price, there are only a small number of equipment.

Little Franz smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be better to give you more firepower?"

Eugene replied: "That's good, but there are only so many cannons. There will be problems if the other two divisions are gone."

The division he formed had lost 30% of its backbone, and it was already displeased by others. Now if he wants someone else's artillery, he might be in trouble in the future.

Little Franz said: "Don't worry, because you made the principality a lot of money, Miss Eltal said that she would reward you, so the high command made this decision."

Eugene scratched his head. He had been in the military camp recently and didn't know about the changes in fashion outside. He couldn't figure out where the money came from.

But this is not important. Since the headquarters dares to ask for it if it is given to them, no one in charge of the troops would think that their firepower is too strong.

(End of this chapter)