Act Eighty-Six: Even Tomorrow Will Be Lost
Although the cruise ships sailing offshore are full, it is not much when the cargo is unloaded.
Only ten wagons sent all the coal tar to Yale.
"Brother Doug, I heard you ordered a shipload of coal tar from someone else. Why do you want so much coal tar? Can you really make fuel, not ......" Drake didn't finish his words, he slashed at the wall with a match in his hand, lit his pipe.
Doug saw what he meant, and knew that he still thought he was going to use coal tar to set fire to a rival's entire factory.
Competitors go to heaven or hell, and there are no competitors.
Thinking of this, Doug suddenly felt that this was also a good solution.
DuPont, a pioneer in American chemical manufacturing, likes to treat its competitors in this way.
"Of course it can be turned into dye, I buy so much coal tar, is it just going to burn a factory, the cost performance is too low. Doug shook his head as he spoke, but in a moment he looked up with a smile on his face, "It may not be long before your ship can ship my dye out." ”
"Hope so, may the god of luck be with you. Drake took a puff of his pipe.
Leaving port, Doug returned to Yale.
He put the six barrels of dye that had been prepared in Tom's hut in a wagon, while he himself returned to the Claydon Printing and Dyeing Factory in another wagon.
In this era when there were no pneumatic rubber tires, riding in a horse-drawn carriage was not comfortable in any way.
He beckoned a few workers to unload the dye barrel and enter the workshop, where he found that the operating rate in the factory was not high, but only barely maintained.
In order to cope with the problem of dye shortage, Ross has asked all the female workers who consume more dye to stop first, and continue to work with more delicate female workers.
"Rose, come here!" Doug beckoned.
"Boss!"
"I've got a new batch of dyes here, and I'll show you how to use them. Doug didn't wait for Ross's feedback, and continued, "This bucket of dye can't be dissolved with water, so you need to use grease. This bucket can be dissolved with water. Other things to keep in mind are these ......"
Doug recounted in detail what he knew about the dyes.
At first, Rose's eyebrows were lifted, but when she saw three different bright colors from the past, she suddenly became happy.
Perhaps, female females are naturally sensitive to bright colors.
Seeing this scene, Doug suddenly thought of a scene in his memory.
On the other side of the distant plane, there is a United States and a republic.
When the Republic could not produce synthetic vitamin C, the companies led by the United States said that the synthetic vitamin C was better and purer, and that the natural vitamin C produced by the Republic had more impurities and was unsafe.
When the Republic successfully developed a synthetic vitamin C production line, the price of vitamin C was reduced to a few cents and 200 tablets.
The companies of the United States also say that natural is the best, and synthetic is unhealthy.
At this moment, Rose saw the bright color of the synthetic dye and loved it.
However, who can say that tomorrow she will accept the propaganda again, and think that the faint color of natural dyes is the most suitable?
"Let's experiment in small batches first, and if it's okay, the factory will resume production at full capacity. Doug said.
"Yes!" said Rose, who was quick to agree, but then she asked, "Boss, can you dye some cloth with this dye?" ”
Doug thought for a moment and said, "You can try it without delaying production." ”
The Clayden Printing and Dyeing Factory still bears the name of the printing and dyeing factory, and there is a full set of equipment for ignition, which is still placed there.
If synthetic dyes could dye beautiful cloth, Doug wouldn't refuse.
The capitalists only want profits, and the products are nothing more than surplus products in addition to profits.
Doug accepts everything that can make money, he doesn't have the slightest craftsmanship, he doesn't plan to wash rice and cook for the rest of his life, become a kind of show culture, and be used as a background wall to show off.
Rose, who got the promise, was very happy to complete the current production task.
Because when Doug was in Tom's cabin, he had already done a verified relationship.
Soon, Ross reported that, no problem, it could be mass-produced.
Doug's hanging heart finally fell back to the ground.
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For two days, two whole days, Gilbert was thinking about how to deal with Claydon's version of "Monopoly".
Do you want to stuff real bank bills in your own "Monopoly"?
No!
Of course not!
Initially Gilbert was reluctant to do this, and when he wanted to. He suddenly realized that he didn't have that much cash at all.
His plant, his workers, his materials, are all cobbled together in a way that borders on credit.
Although reluctantly, it is the norm in this day and age.
In the United States at this time, there was no official paper money system for the government. The development of finance and its derivatives also needs to be improved.
The vast majority of factories are not built on the basis of various relationships like Gilbert. It is the person who founded the factory, who used various means to accumulate a cash fortune and used it to invest in the construction of the factory. Like Winchester.
As for entrepreneurs like Doug, there are also entrepreneurs who borrow money from banks. But there are no entrepreneurs like Doug who are borrowing like crazy.
The account period of Doug's loan is densely packed with long queues.
He is now maintaining a high turnover trend, and must also maintain a high circulation.
As long as the money flows fast enough in a unit of time, he can sustain it. Be able to repay the old debts of the bank, pay salaries, buy raw materials, and continue to borrow again.
If the flow of funds comes to a standstill, the account is due. The account period will detonate like a landmine, and finally blow Doug to pieces.
However, the high risk is high and the reward is high.
If Doug can successfully use three bottle caps, and the caps on five bottles are not flawed, his wealth will expand rapidly. Accumulate wealth at a speed far beyond the conventional methods of this era.
Are people of this age stupid enough not to know how to do this?
Yes and no.
Yes, people in this era have no concept of cash flow and account period at all, and they still implement a conservative investment strategy, and they dare not dance on the tip of a needle like Doug, and they are not sure whether this dancing can be maintained.
No, they are definitely not stupid, and once Doug gets bigger because of this, they will also quickly imitate and follow suit, and push the US economy from decline to prosperity in a short period of time.
Until this borrowing-based boom collapsed and plunged into a deeper crisis.
The current economic crisis is simply the loss of the present.
And if you follow Doug's play, even tomorrow will be lost.