According to Matsuura Zhenxin, Li Zhi bought a merchant house in Hirado, unloaded all the goods on the ship, and stored them in the warehouse of the merchant hall and sold them slowly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info If you are in a hurry to sell goods on the dock, you can't sell them at a good price, and you can only make a better profit if you sell them slowly in a shopping mall.

Li Zhi left Zheng Kaida and thirty sailors in Hirado to take care of the merchant house, while he himself led the Nova back to Tianjin.

Before returning home, Li Zhi bought a little Japanese goods, bought some of each, and went back to Tianjin to try the water to see how the sales were. Li Zhi's more optimistic commodity is copper, and the price of copper in Japan is cheap, and it is estimated that there will be a lot of profits when it is sold back to the Ming Dynasty.

On July 22, Li Zhi returned home with the nova.

The crew of the Nova paddled the boat and slowly walked out of the harbor in the channel. When they reached the deep water, the boatmen turned on the steam engines, and the nova made a loud whining sound and headed northwest.

Along the way, there was no incident, and the nova drove for six days and returned to Dagu.

Back in Tianjin, the first thing Li Zhi had to do was to expand his soap workshop and textile factory.

After this test voyage, Li Zhi knew that the most profitable sea trade commodities were his own soap and Li Jiajing cloth. If we expand the size of these two factories, we will be able to make a lot of money from Japan.

Li Zhi first went to visit Xue Yuanwai, who sold alkaline noodles, and wanted to buy more alkaline noodles with him. But the reply he got made Li Zhi stunned.

"Zuo Dudu, almost all the surplus output of the alkali noodle mine in Xiangyang has been bought by me and sold to you. If there is more, you can only raise the price to grab the supply from other alkaline noodle users, but then the price of alkaline noodles will rise, and it is more expensive than one penny or two, which is very not cost-effective. ”

"And even if you raise the price to buy it, you won't be able to grab much, after all, the total output is only so much."

Li Zhi was very disappointed. It seems that before the invention of the industrial alkali production method, it was impossible to use soda ash in large quantities, and the supply of raw materials could not keep up. However, with Li Zhi's current industrial base, large-scale industrial alkali production is still not possible. Li Zhi's soap workshop can't be expanded anymore.

Li Zhi thought about it and could only make money from the textile factory.

Today, there are 1,770 workers in the textile factory, and 31,000 pieces of cotton cloth are produced every month. It looks like it's quite large. But in the face of the huge maritime trade, this production is very insufficient. Li Zhi's Nova can hold 100,000 pieces of cloth in one ship, and the cotton cloth produced by the textile factory in a month is not even half a ship of the Nova Star. And the Nova can make a round trip from Japan once in twenty days.

Not to mention that Li Zhi still has a ship under construction.

Li Zhi decided to expand the textile factory significantly.

This is a huge project that cannot be accomplished overnight. First of all, Fanjiazhuang City has been built with all kinds of buildings, and it is impossible to build factories and dormitories. To hire more people, new cities must be built outside the city.

Li Zhi decided to expand the new city in the south of Fanjiazhuang, and the north of the new city and the south of the old city were connected together, and the scale was as large as the old city of Fanjiazhuang. Li Zhi sent people to make a plan for the measurement of the new city wall, and prepared to hire them to build the new city wall when the peasants were not farming.

On the planned site of the new city, roads, factories and dormitories were built first. Although there is no city wall to protect it for the time being, Li Zhi's tiger master is enough to deter the small chips and protect these new construction facilities.

Li Zhi hired more than 3,000 masons near Tianjin, and at the same time expanded his cement workshop, and began to build new factories and dormitories on a large scale.

At the same time, Li Zhi found more than 500 carpenters and blacksmiths to start producing parts for Jenny's spinning machine and flying shuttle loom, striving to form a batch of production capacity as soon as possible.

On August 20, a new factory building with a capacity of 1,000 people was built, and the first batch of looms, spinning machines, and ginning machines were in place, and Li Zhi began to recruit manpower.

The first batch of people recruited by Li Zhi first faced the families of the workers in the workshops - many of the families of the old workers had not been looking for something to do outside, but were spinning and weaving at home. As a result, the incomes of these workers' families are limited, even less than that of Li Zhi's newly recruited tenant farmer families. Li Zhi wanted to liberate the families of these idle workers from the old-fashioned looms and spinning machines and join the ranks of large-scale industrial production.

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Gu Lao Er paced back and forth in the living room of the villa he shared with the He family, anxiously waiting for his daughter-in-law's message.

The daughter-in-law went to the expanded textile factory for an interview, but there was no news back.

Gu Lao Er is a worker in Li Zhi's textile factory, and Chongzhen has been working in Li Zhi's factory since seven years. Before entering Li Zhi's factory, his family was very poor, and he couldn't even open the pot. Two days before Gu Lao Er was recruited for an errand in the textile factory, the three members of the Gu family were hungry for two days. Later, it was Gu Lao Er who took his winter clothes to the pawnshop, so he bought rice and came back to eat.

But since Gu Lao Er entered the textile factory, the situation of the Gu family has changed greatly, not only has they eaten enough, but they have also shared a villa with people in Fanjiazhuang and lived a life of "upstairs and downstairs".

Over the years, Gu Lao Er has eaten meat for three meals in the factory canteen, and he is no longer the skinny monkey he was before. Now he is slightly fat, and his figure is very strong. At the age of twenty-six, he is well-organized in everything he says and does, and he looks very confident, and he is the backbone of the family.

Gu Lao Er was waiting there, and his eldest son Daxi ran out of the upstairs room with a piece of cow golden candy in his mouth. After lying on the side of the cradle and watching her sister for a while, Daxi decided to go and play with her father. He looked upstairs for a while, and when he saw that his father was downstairs, he was about to climb down the stairs.

Daxi is now three years old and is Gu Laoer's first child. In the past, Gu Lao'er's family was poor, and he didn't dare to share a house and have children after marrying a daughter-in-law. But since Gu Lao Er worked in the textile factory, Gu Lao Er has shared a room with his daughter-in-law. Not long after sharing a room, the Gu family's daughter-in-law became pregnant and gave birth to a big fat boy. Not only that, last year, the daughter-in-law of the Gu family gave birth to another daughter, and now Gu Lao Er is already a pair of children.

Gu Lao Er has two taels of monthly money in the factory, plus the money earned by the Gu family's daughter-in-law weaving at home, the Gu family has more than three taels of income every month. This money is enough to support three adults and two children, not to mention that Gu Lao Er is not eating at home, and the family of five lives a life of food and clothing.

The daughter-in-law of the Gu family is thrifty by nature, and she presides over the family not only to keep the family of four well fed and clothed, but also to save more than half a tael of silver every month. In the past four years, the Gu family has saved more than 30 taels of silver. More than thirty taels is a lot of money, and when he thinks of this savings, Gu Lao Er is very proud.

The only thing that worries Gu Lao Er is that his daughter-in-law is unwilling to rent a villa alone, so she insists on sharing a house with other families. The son is three years old and lives in a room with his grandmother, and the one-year-old daughter sleeps in the cradle and sleeps in Gu Lao'er's room. The family and the He family shared the living room, kitchen and thatched house, which was a bit crowded.

However, the daughter-in-law is thrifty, and it does make sense.

Seeing his son climbing on the stairs, Gu Lao Er hurriedly went up and hugged his son, patted his son's head and said, "Daxi, don't climb around, you will fall!" ”

Daxi looked at his father and said with sugar in his mouth, "Where did my mother go?" ”

Gu Lao Er smiled and said: "Your mother has gone to interview for a job in the factory, if your mother gets an errand, we will rent a whole villa!" After thinking about it, Gu Lao Er said: "Then you will have your own room!" ”

Daxi clapped his hands and said, "Daxi wants her own room, grandma snores at night, it's so loud!" (To be continued.) )