After He Zhiyuan returned from Zhou Village, it was already the second half of the first month, and the weather began to warm up at this time. The people who built the walls had already arrived, and the construction of the walls began immediately. With a winter's reserve of building materials, the project progressed quickly, and 50,000 people worked together, and it is expected that the city wall will be completed in two months.

Since Zhao Yuhe and He Zhiyuan got into a relationship, taking advantage of the Chinese New Year, a large number of farmers have been recruited to recruit workers for the cement workshop that is about to open, and on the other hand, they are preparing to contract the project in Hejia Town. He knew that there were many projects in Hejia Town, and just after the New Year, he came to Hejia Town to find He Zhiyuan to contract the project.

So He Zhiyuan gave him all the projects of several workshops. He only needs to tell him the style and size of the factory, and he can't worry about other things, which saves worry and effort for He Zhiyuan.

By the middle of February, a factory covering an area of more than 1,500 square meters had been built, and there was a circle of walls around it, so that it looked like a factory area and was more in line with the needs of confidentiality. The manufacturing workload of the shuttle equipment is small, and it has already been done, and this simple equipment does not need He Zhiyuan to worry about anymore. The carpentry part of the loom has also entered the final stage, and more than 400 of the 500 looms have been completed, and it will be completed in a few days.

The next step is the construction of some ancillary buildings in the factory area, such as houses, management offices, finished product and raw material warehouses, etc. After that, it is the installation of the shuttle loom, due to the need for confidentiality, the installation of the loom is very simple, he directly transferred the craftsman who built the shuttle to install and fix it.

By the time all this was ready, it was late February, and there were still more than ten days before the disaster victims arrived in Juzhou.

The Academy of Sciences had already built more than a dozen steam pumps, and He Zhiyuan decided to send a dozen of them to the coal mine in Luoquanzhuang first, and at the same time send several craftsmen to help install them. He now urgently needs to drain the pits of these waterlogged mines, and when the victims arrive, he needs to send a large number of them to work in the mines.

On February 26, the looms of the textile mill had been fully installed, and the next day was the day of the delivery of the goods agreed with Liujiamian.

Liu Congjing was really very punctual, and the first batch of 500 quintals of cotton yarn arrived on time on the morning of the 27th. After dozens of carts unloaded the cotton yarn, He Zhiyuan asked Liu Congjing to rest at his home in Hejia Town and settle the silver taels. After all the delivery was completed, Liu Cong was full of praise and said: "He Gongzi, I asked the craftsman to install the bearing you sent and try it according to the method you said." Sure enough, it is very labor-saving, with the same cotton yarn, other cars need two horses, and that car only needs one horse to pull, and it is not very fast, if the whole fleet is equipped with bearings, it is estimated that half of the time can be saved on the road, so that the freight can be saved by half. I don't know what the price of He Gongzi's bearing is? ”

He Zhiyuan smiled slightly and said: "This kind of bearing is handmade, the output is very low, the price is not cheap, and a bearing is almost worth a car of silver." ”

Liu Congjing was also startled when he heard this: "This big car is more than ten taels of silver, is it possible that this bearing costs ten taels of silver?" ”

He Zhiyuan began to flicker: "That's true, don't look at this small bearing, it is made of good steel, tempered, after five or six processes of careful polishing can be completed, so the pass rate is also very low, it is good to build ten bearings can be one or two qualified, so his price is very expensive." ”

In fact, after almost two months of proficiency, these ten craftsmen are already very familiar with the production of bearings. They can now produce forty or fifty bearings a day, and the cost of a bearing is not even one or two silver, but bearings are high-tech products in this era, how to reflect its value if they are not sold more expensive? Besides, He Zhiyuan's stall is very large now, spending money every day like running water, and if the price of these high-tech products is not raised, how can he maintain the operation of this big stall?

Looking at Liu Congjing's painful appearance, He Zhiyuan then flickered: "Actually, it's not expensive, if you can save half of the freight if you install the bearing, you will save more than 100 taels of silver for a trip like this." And the bearings installed in your thirty-two cars are only three hundred taels of silver, and you will save the silver taels of the bearings on three trips. After calculating, it will be earned, so it is still cost-effective to install bearings. ”

Of course, Liu Congjing can also understand this account, he thought for a while and said: "He Gongzi's account is right, this time I will buy fifty bearings first, and install bearings on my family's big car." ”

After negotiating this deal, He Zhiyuan immediately instructed his family to get bearings for Liu Congjing. While waiting for tea, Liu Congjing said: "He Gongzi, after sending this 1,500 quintals of cotton yarn, I have to increase the price of the next batch of goods, and now the price of cotton yarn in the Zhoucun market has risen sharply, and I will lose money if I deliver it at the original price." ”

"Price increase? As far as I know, the cotton yarn market has been very stable, why is there a sudden increase in prices? He Zhiyuan asked suspiciously.

Liu Congjing said helplessly: "A few days after He Gongzi left, the He family and the Zou family bought a large amount of cotton yarn in the market, and took the initiative to raise the price. Every year the amount of cotton yarn on the market is certain, and they accumulate in large quantities, resulting in a shortage in the market, and the price must rise. ”

He Zhiyuan understood the meaning of Liu Congjing's words, and it seems that the cause of the incident was the cotton yarn supply contract he signed with the Liu family. The purpose of the two of them to grab the goods is to suppress the Liu family, destroy the cooperation between them, and force He Zhiyuan to sign a supply contract with the two of them. ”

"Of course, it has risen, but the rise is not as urgent as cotton yarn, and it is not so big. Now the price of cotton yarn has risen by one percent, and cotton has also risen by half percent. Liu Congjing said.

He Zhiyuan thought for a while and said: "I heard that Shandong is not a major cotton-producing province, the real cotton production area is in the south of the Yangtze River, and Songjiang Mansion is a famous cotton cloth producing area in the country. The price of cotton in Shandong has risen, and Jiangnan may not rise, you can buy cotton from Jiangnan and spin it into cotton yarn. ”

Liu Congjing shook his head and said: "The rise in cotton is not because of the lack of cotton in the market, but entirely because of the rise in cotton yarn. The real reason for the rise in cotton yarn is the lack of cotton yarn production, and now the women of the peasant households spin cotton yarn in the Zhoucun area, and there are not many small workshops. Now the two of them have suddenly bought a large number of them, resulting in a lack of production, which has caused the increase. And they bought the cotton yarn and did not sell it, but piled it up, waiting for our contract to be unable to be reached, and then they took the opportunity to ship. ”

He Zhiyuan thought for a while, and then said to Liu Congjing: "After the supply of this thousand five hundred quintals of cotton yarn is finished, starting next month, you will buy cotton from the market, and I will buy cotton in bulk from you." What do you think? ”

Liu Congjing was taken aback, and said in his heart, could he continue to set up a spinning workshop? Then he asked: "Childe means that he will not buy cotton yarn, and spin and weave his own cloth in the future?" ”

He Zhiyuan smiled mysteriously, and then said, "Yes, that's it." Since the He family and the Zou family are willing to stock up cotton yarn, let them stock up. ”

Liu Congjing understood what he meant, smiled knowingly, and said, "Okay, I'll prepare after I go back." ”

After sending Liu Congjing away, He Zhiyuan immediately began to get busy again. The first thing he did was to ask Zhao Yuhe to build another similar factory next to the textile factory, which would be the factory area of the spinning mill.

Next, he selected more than a dozen young girls from his family from the soap workshop and transferred them to the textile factory to learn weaving, and these people were the backbone of the textile factory after they were trained.

Then a notice was put up and the recruitment of workers began. The treatment given by He Zhiyuan is similar to that of other workshops, it is still the bottom silver plus performance, the bottom silver is two C per month, and the more you weave, the more you perform. The factory was in charge of one meal, and each meal had meat and eggs, but this time only 500 women who could weave cloth were recruited, and men were not allowed.

As soon as this news spread, it exploded in Hejia Town. Women can also earn two or three taels of silver a month to support their families, which is rare in Hejia Town. In the past, the people who came to Hejia Town were all disaster victims, although each family had one or two male laborers working in the workshop, but it could only make the whole family no longer hungry and cold, if the women of the family could also go to the workshop to work and earn silver, the future life would be much more comfortable, maybe in a few years, the family would be able to build a new house, and the family would be able to live a good life of eating white flour buns every day.

So the women of the town came to apply one after another, and in three or four days, 14,500 people came to apply at once. More than a dozen people who were transferred from the soap shop were busy, and finally passed the on-the-spot interview and screening, and 500 people were selected.

Yu Deshui's family is the first batch of victims to move here from other places, their family of five, only Yu Deshui works in the soap workshop to earn money, with an income of three or four taels of silver a month, and his daughter-in-law Hou's spinning and weaving at home, with an income of less than one or two taels of silver a month. The whole family had no land, and lived on these four or five taels of silver. Although there is no problem with food and clothing, plus the two children go to school, all the food and drink expenses of the family have to come out of this bit of silver, and life is still very tense.

I heard that the He family's textile factory recruited female workers, Hou was the first to sign up for the job, and Hou passed the interview smoothly with his weaving skills in the past few years.

After returning home, after Hou told his father-in-law and husband the good news, the whole family was happy to close their mouths, Yu Deshui said: "Now it's okay, in the future, we will have an income of seven or eight taels of silver every month, as long as we save money, we can save fifty taels of silver a year, and we can buy a new house built in the village in two years." ”

Hou said happily: "The son of the He family said that as long as we work hard, if we can be elected as the team leader, each of us can get an extra two taels of silver, maybe it won't take two years for our family to buy a new house!" ”

Yu Deshui said in surprise: "There are such good things, then you have to work hard, the team leader of our soap shop has a salary of seven or eight taels a month, which is a lot more than us ordinary workers." You are the first to enter the factory, and there are many opportunities in the future. ”

Yu Deshui's father stroked his beard and said happily to the Deshui couple: "Okay, in the future, my daughter-in-law will go to work in the workshop to earn money, and I will cook at home and take care of the children in the future, and you don't have to worry about the affairs at home." It's still He Gongzi's science, if it weren't for science, how would we have a good life. ”

Even illiterate farmers in Hejia Town today know the word science, and although they don't know what science is, the benefits of science are real.

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