The second day of the first month of March, the Qingming season.

Zhu Shun was busy with the ancestor worship activities of the Qingming Festival, and rode a little donkey to the county government of Liangxiang County, but did not show up directly, and spent a penny of silver to let a small official help him buy 20 acres of land on the other side of the Beijing Normal University Hall.

The factory building of Zhu's spinning mill used to lease the factory building of the new Wang Gong factory, after all, last year, the factory occupied by the new Wang Gong factory was a high-grade watered field, and where did Zhu Shun buy seventy or eighty acres of high-quality watered fields.

In just a few months, Zhu Shun successively pitted the Donglin Party, Jin Shang, and Jurchen, and also solved the biggest problem of the first industrial revolution.

Cheap land.

It is really not buried, the title of the youngest strategic scientist in the history of the Institute for Strategic Studies.

Now that the land is cheap, it is basically no different from picking up for nothing, Zhu Shun bought another ten acres of land along the riverbank, and asked the third uncle to find a group of carpenters.

From Chinese New Year's Eve to the first day of February, three Jenny spinning machines earned a total of 45 taels of silver, and two more hydraulic Jenny spinning machines were built, and the hydraulic Jenny spinning machines of Zhu's Spinning Mill expanded to five.

After the Jurchens retreated, Beizhili regained its former stability, and the factory building of the Zhu Spinning Factory was moved back to the Yongding River, occupying the newly purchased ten acres of high-quality watered fields.

Counting the twenty acres of high-quality watered fields purchased this time, the Zhu family now has a total of thirty acres of high-quality watered fields.

The third uncle, Zhu Zhongli, brought this group of carpenters over and handed them to Zhu Shun, looked left and right, and couldn't stop smiling: "Shun'er, although it is said that these lands can't grow food." ”

"But looking at such a large piece of land, it is still the endless high-quality water watering fields, which has become the ancestral property of our family, and the third uncle has two words in his heart."

"Comfortable."

Five water-powered Jenny spinning machines worked for a month and earned more silver, and Zhu Shun received a heavy amount of silver from the Song Weaving Factory, which expanded its production scale.

First of all, the monthly money of the female workers was paid off, and after the cotton money outside the weekly staff and miscellaneous expenses were removed, a full hundred taels of silver were left.

Zhu Shun got the one hundred taels of silver that the poor people could not earn in their lifetime, and did not continue to expand the scale of the Zhu spinning factory, first asked the third uncle to find a group of carpenters, and then went to Chongwenmen to contact a fir merchant.

The prices of fir wood, stone, and anthracite have always been high, and the biggest reason is that the freight is too expensive.

Fortunately, the new plant of Zhu's spinning mill is on the edge of the Yongding River, relying on the convenience of water transportation, Zhu Shun lowered the price by 30%.

On the wide surface of the Yongding River, a flat sand boat carrying cedar trees came over, and when the flat sand boat docked on the shore, the boat boss walked down.

After the third uncle Zhu Zhongli finished muttering the word comfort, he noticed the boat boss who came over, and asked suspiciously, "Who are you looking for?" ”

The boss of the ship just said hello to Zhu Zhongli and walked straight to Zhu Shun: "Ambassador Zhu, the fir wood has been shipped, please inspect the goods." ”

Zhu Shun waved his hand lightly and said flatly: "No need, your master is a friend of Uncle Zhang Shi, I can trust it." ”

The boat boss laughed, took out a wine bag from his arms, took a sip and said, "Haha, Ambassador Zhu is really a refreshing person." ”

"My lord said that when the timber is generally transported to the place, the people who buy the timber unload it themselves, and the lord said that for the sake of Mr. Zhang's face, not only today, but also in the future, he will help Ambassador Zhu unload the timber for free."

Zhu Shun said that it was for the sake of Uncle Zhang's face, and the fir merchant also said that it was for the sake of Zhang's face, which naturally brought the relationship between the two sides closer.

The captain said again that in the future, as long as it was the wood of Ambassador Zhu's house, all of it would be unloaded for free, which gave Zhu Shun enough face and attracted Zhu Shun as a guest.

Raw customers become regular customers.

Zhu Shun took out two taels of silver and gave it to Zhu Yu, and explained: "Seventh, you go to the market to buy a few catties of pork, and invite the boat boss to eat at noon." ”

The captain of the boat saw Zhu Shun arranging for someone to buy meat, and clenched his fists heavily: "Ambassador Zhu is worthy of being a person who does great things, which is interesting enough." ”

The boatmen cheered even more, and were much more careful with their hands and feet as they worked, so as not to damage the cedar trees.

The third uncle, Zhu Zhongli, saw that this boatload of fir trees was worth seventy or eighty taels of silver, and he was a little puzzled: "Shun'er, you don't need so much wood to build a spinning machine, why do you buy so many fir trees." ”

Now that the land is cheap and the money in hand is available to buy timber for the construction of the factory, the Zhu's spinning mill can no longer be nested in a shed as before, and needs to build a formal factory.

Zhu Shun bought this batch of timber in order to build a new factory, and it didn't make sense for the third uncle to say this, so he could only change the topic: "Third uncle, do you know the people of the lime kiln." ”

The third uncle, Zhu Zhongli, has been a tooth man for so many years, and the people of the five elements and eight works basically know: "The potters and stewards of the lime kiln, the third uncle knows some of them, and they want to buy lime?" ”

Zhu Shun nodded, and handed over the remaining ten taels of silver to the third uncle: "I don't need it for the time being, but from next month, the third uncle, you ask the people from the lime kiln to send us a hundred catties of lime every month." ”

The third uncle, Zhu Zhongli, knew that there was a reason why Zhu Shun made any decision, and he didn't ask the reason, so he went to the lime kiln near the capital to negotiate the price.

The new factory that Zhu Shun wants to build is a kind of hydraulic factory built on the water, that is, the factory built during the industrial revolution of Yingguo, which looks similar to the boat-shaped house of Qiongzhou Mansion.

The next day, the carpenters began to follow Zhu Shun's instructions, sawing the fir wood into sections of stakes, and propping up the boat to drive the stakes into the water.

Twenty-four meters along the bank of the river to the water, a sturdy wooden stake was driven at intervals.

This section of the Yongding River near Xishan is about 1,000 meters wide, and 24 meters is not even a fraction of the width of the Yongding River, but it is very wide when used as a factory.

According to Zhu Shun's idea, it is best to pour cement, but the cement has not yet been studied, so he can only use strong fir wood to drive piles first.

After the most time-consuming fir stakes have been laid, it is much easier to nail the fir wood to the stakes, lay it on the ground, and finally build the roof and wooden walls, and leave the windows for lighting.

According to Zhu Shun's requirements, a two-meter sink is reserved every three meters, and the flow of water can be clearly seen to be used to place hydraulic machines.

The width of the new building is 24 meters, and four hydraulic Jenny spinning machines can be placed in one row, and the remaining four meters are reserved aisles.

More than a month later, the third uncle Zhu Zhongli looked at the spectacular factory building on the water surface of the Yongding River, and his face was flushed with anxiety: "Third uncle, I usually know how to talk about it, but now I don't know how to describe this factory." ”

Zhu Shun looked at the hydraulic plant that had finally taken shape, and replied with a smile: "Regular." ”

The third uncle, Zhu Zhongli, slapped his thigh violently, and said with a smile: "Reading a book is different, but it's not formal." ”

Zhu Shun looked back at the third uncle Zhu Zhongli and said with a smile: "The third uncle will also change his name in the future, and change it to a more formal name." ”

Change your name? The third uncle, Zhu Zhongli, felt that his name was quite good, and he had to change it, but when he heard the words Zhu Shun said, he almost danced happily.

"Factory owner."