After dealing with the ushering in the officialdom, Li Zhi began to inspect his industry. It has been more than four months since the pen and fun pavilion www.biquge.info went to Ru 0 Prefecture to help suppress it, and Li Zhi was very worried that something would go wrong with his industry.

Li Zhi first went to the textile factory with the largest number of workers.

The textile factory was still the same, employing 1,770 people, and everywhere there was the sound of all kinds of machines rubbing against each other. The textile factory directly purchases coarse cotton and finally produces Li Jiajing cloth, which can complete the production of the entire industrial chain, with an output of about 31,000 pieces of cloth per month. These fine cloths were sold to the north and south of the river through the sales of the Dong family, and they could bring Li Zhi a profit of 8,400 taels per month.

The head of the textile factory is Li Zhi's uncle Zheng Yuan, and now he is the chief manager, very ambitious, and he speaks quickly and does not have the shy appearance he used to be. Zheng Yuan's management is not bad, Li Zhi checked in the factory, and found no problems, and there are no loopholes in the secrecy of the machinery.

Li Zhi went to the soap workshop again to check.

The soap workshop now has 200 workers, and the workshop is full of large jars and iron pots, and workers are constantly adding raw materials to the jars and iron pots, heating and stirring. Today, the soap workshop produces 700,000 pieces of soap every month, of which 500,000 pieces are sold to Xu Mince and sold to Jiangnan, 100,000 pieces are sold to Cui Wending and sold to Jingshi, and the remaining 100,000 pieces are sold in Tianjin at a price of 20 yuan.

The soap industry can bring Li Zhi a profit of 8,200 taels per month.

The second grandfather, Li Yousheng, is managing the soap workshop, Li Yousheng is in good health, and he is more than enough to be the manager of the soap workshop. Li Zhi chatted with him and found that the second grandfather was very tight in management.

Li Zhi went to look at other places again.

Cement mills have begun selling cement to masons in Gyeonggi. However, the unit price of cement is cheap, only three pennies per catty, and the main cost of selling to various places is in freight. A cement workshop produces 72,000 catties of cement every month, and the profit is only 160 taels.

In terms of rifle craftsmen, Li Zhi now has 195 craftsmen, and can produce nearly 200 mini rifles every month. Each gun costs ten taels, and Li Zhi spends two thousand taels of silver to produce a rifle every month. By the end of November of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Li Zhi already had more than 2,000 rifles.

With these rifles, the more than 600 recruits who stayed in Fanjiazhuang also practiced target shooting for several months, and they were considered qualified recruits. All 2,000 men were armed with rifles. With these two thousand soldiers, Li Zhi felt that his waist was straighter again.

Li Zhi's current strength has surpassed that of Tianjin's largest army of soldiers and horses, the 3,000-strong Zhenhai Battalion. Although Li Zhi did not show his strength, the garrison and soldiers were polite when they saw Li Zhi.

After all, this is a chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there are soldiers and horses with strength.

In terms of artillery workshops, eighty six-pounder guns have been produced in the past six months, which is enough for Li Zhi to use. The proportion of artillery could not be too high, and Li Zhi asked the workshop to stop producing six-pounder guns, and instead explored the production of eighteen-pounder guns as defensive artillery for the defense of Fanjiazhuang City.

The design of the 18-pounder cannon drawn by Li Zhi for the gunsmiths was based on a kind of heavy artillery called "standard cannon" by the English in this era: this kind of cannon weighed 3,700 catties, the caliber was 3.92 inches, the cannon was 10 feet long, and the direct firing range was 1,500 meters, and the projectile range was 6,000 meters. Li Zhi's gunsmiths used the iron-core copper body method to cast the cannon, which probably made the cannon much lighter.

Li Zhi asked the gunsmiths to explore the trial production, and they were not afraid of failure if they tried it a few more times, as long as it could be made in a few months.

Li Zhi finally inspected the glass workshop.

The glass workshop is Li Zhi's third more profitable industry, Li Zhi asked Li Xing to ask, and found that glass wine is now in short supply. The glass workshop can produce 250 sets of glass wine sets and 50 sets of glass tea sets every month. The glass tea set is okay, it can sell more than 30 sets every month. The colorless glass was a huge seller, selling out within a few days of being released.

And the demand for glass wine vessels seems to be increasing. Not only did the people of the capital know about the benefits of glass drinking utensils, but also the various prefectures and counties of Gyeonggi also came to buy them, and even the wealthy merchants and gentry in the south also sent people to buy the goods.

A set of wine utensils sold by Li Zhi contains twenty colorless wine glasses, which can be used by two tables. For a set of thirty taels, an average wine glass sells for only one tael or five yuan. Compared with the colorless glasses sold by Western cargo ships across the ocean, the colorless glass glasses of the Li family are much cheaper, and it is no wonder that the rich businessmen have to rush to buy them.

Although the glass workshop can now earn Li Zhi a profit of 6 or 7,000 taels a month, it is clear that the profit potential of this product needs to be tapped.

Li Zhi immediately found Cai Huaishui and asked him to start building a new kiln next to the original glass kiln to expand the production capacity of glass. Of course, Cai Huaishui couldn't do it alone, so Li Zhi hired six more workers as employees of the second glass kiln to build the glass kiln with Cai Huaishui.

Cai Huaishui was familiar with the second kiln, and it only took more than 20 days to direct the workers to build the kiln. As soon as the second kiln was completed, Li Zhi asked the new kiln to fully produce glass wine vessels. The new kiln has one more crucible than the old one, expanding the total production capacity of glass wine vessels to 600 sets a month.

The signboard of glass wine vessels has been played, and now the market is in short supply, and Li Zhi has a new idea for the sale of wine vessels.

Li Zhi wants to hold an auction!

Selling glassware at auction maximizes the price of each batch of glassware and maximizes profits.

The object of the auction is, of course, the wealthy merchants in Tianjin. Tianjin is a transit station for north-south transportation, a place where merchants converge, and wealthy businessmen gather. These wealthy businessmen bought Li Zhi's colorless glasses, which could be resold to the north and south of the river, and the profit was higher than that of Li Zhi selling them in the store. Li Zhi will definitely be able to sell for a better price in the face of these wealthy businessmen auctioning glass and wine utensils.

Moreover, selling goods to these businessmen is actually giving them the opportunity to make money and expand their contacts.

After making up his mind, Li Zhi found Xu Mince and discussed with him about opening an auction.

Xu Mence was stunned when he heard the words "auction" and asked, "What does auction mean?" ”

"It's just for buyers to bid, and the highest bidder wins!"

"I see!"

Xu Mince had long heard that Li Zhi's newly developed colorless glass industry was making money, and when he heard that Li Zhi was going to open an auction to sell glass wine vessels, he said stupidly: "The business of the virtuous brother is getting bigger and bigger, and all kinds of ideas are emerging one after another, and the foolish brother can't keep up." ”

Li Zhi knew that Xu Mince wanted benefits, and said with a smile: "This time, I divided the six hundred sets of wine utensils per month into twelve shares, and ten of them were auctioned. I will supply the remaining two shares, that is, one hundred sets of wine vessels per month, to Brother Xu at the price of thirty or two sets, and let Brother Xu sell them to the south to make money, how about it? ”

Xu Mice was overjoyed when he heard this, and it is estimated that these 100 sets of wine utensils can be sold for 40 or 50 taels of silver when they go to Jiangnan, and after deducting freight, banknotes and labor costs, this 100 sets is a profit of more than 1,000 taels per month.

Xu Mince secretly said that Li Zhi was an interesting person, and it was not wrong to introduce him to the governor by himself.

However, Xu Mince pondered again: This colorless glass wine vessel is sold in large quantities, and the price of selling to fifty taels is also the limit, and when the time comes, he will definitely use his network in Jiangnan to publicize, and the more than 1,000 taels of silver is not as easy as buying and selling soap.

But it's always good to have so much money to make.

Li Zhi made concessions to Xu Mince and also had his own ideas. Xu Mice and Governor He Shishou are actually a family, and Xu Mice has a lot of say in He Shishou's governor's yamen, and giving benefits to Xu Mice is actually a way to deepen the relationship with the governor.

Xu Mence got the benefit, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Brother Xian, I will send a post to all the big businessmen in Tian0jin, and let them go to the Drunken Immortal Building to participate in the auction!" After a pause, Xu Mince asked again: "When is the time set?" ”

"It's the afternoon the day after tomorrow!"

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